| | In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust - 2800+ |
| | Insight by Bernard Lonergan, S.J. - 1600 |
| | Les miserables by Victor Hugo - 1492 |
| | The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro - 1246 |
| | Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro - 1167 |
| | The Stand by Stephen King - 1153 |
| | Truman by David G. McCullough - 1117 |
| | Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand - 1084 |
| | Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace - 1079 |
| | The Power That Be by David Halberstam - 1071 |
| | Parting the Waters: America in the King years 1954-63 by Taylor Branch - 1064 |
| | At Canaan's Edge: America in the King years, 1965-68 by Taylor Branch - 1059 |
| | The Witching Hour by Anne Rice - 1043 |
| | Northern Lights by Philip Pullman - 1016 |
| | Liberty and Sexuality: the right to privacy and the making of Roe v. Wade by David J. Garrow - 981 |
| | My Life by Bill Clinton - 957 |
| | The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes - 886 |
| | The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris - 886 |
| | The Prize: the epic quest for oil, money, and power by Daniel Yergin - 885 |
| | The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro - 882 |
| | Harry Potter 5 by J.K. Rawling - 870 |
| | A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan - 861 |
| | The Leatherstocking Tales. Vol. I by James Fenimore Cooper - 833 |
| | The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir - 814 |
| | Girls Lean Back Everywhere: the law of obscenity and the assault on genius by Edward De Grazia - 814 |
| | The House of Morgan: an American banking dynasty and the rise of modern finance by Ron Chernow - 812 |
| | The Illuminatus! trilogy by Robert Shea - 805 |
| | Secrets of the Temple: how the Federal Reserve runs the country by William Greider - 798 |
| | Credo by Melvyn Bragg - 788 |
| | The Reckoning by David Halberstam - 786 |
| | Conduct unbecoming: lesbians and gays in the U.S. military: Vietnam to the Persian Gulf by Randy Shilts - 784 |
| | Godel, Escher, Bach: an eternal golden braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter - 777 |
| | Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris - 772 |
| | Gravity's rainbow by Thomas Pynchon - 760 |
| | No ordinary time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: the home front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin - 759 |
| | Pillar of fire: America in the King years, 1963-65 by Taylor Branch - 746 |
| | Bryan: a political biography of William Jennings Bryan by Louis William Koenig - 736 |
| | John Marshall: definer of a nation by Jean Edward Smith - 736 |
| | QED and the men who made it: Dyson, Feynman, Schwinger, and Tomonaga by S. S. Schweber - 732 |
| | Dark sun: the making of the hydrogen bomb by Richard Rhodes - 731 |
| | The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand - 727 |
| | Body of secrets: anatomy of the ultra-secret National Security Agency: from the Cold War through the dawn of a new century by James Bamford - 721 |
| | Einstein: the life and times by Ronald William Clark - 718 |
| | 28 Barbary Lane: the Tales of the city omnibus volume I by Armistead Maupin - 713 |
| | East of Eden by John Steinbeck - 691 |
| | The Oath by Frank Peretti 545 |