Arrangement
The collection is arranged chronologically by year.
- 2001: Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- 2002: Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- 2003: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- 2004: Walden by Henry David Thoreau
- 2005: Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
- 2006: The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
- 2007: On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- 2008: Night by Elie Wiesel
- 2009: Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- 2010: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- 2011: Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
- 2012: Their Eye Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- 2013: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
- 2014: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- 2015: Native Son by Richard Wright
- 2016: In Cold Bloos by Truman Capote
- 2017: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
- 2018: Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver
- 2019: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- 2020: The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
- 2021: The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pitman by Ernest Gaines
- 2022: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
- 2023: My Son's Story by Nadine Gordimer
- 2024: The Street by Ann Petry