2001-2002
The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s by Brandon Piers
Stolen Continents: The 'New World' Through Indian Eyes by Ronald Wright
Henry VIII: The King and His Court by Alison Weir
The Waning of the Middle Ages by Johan Huizinga
Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid
Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of the Modern World by David Keys
The Spanish Civil War by Thomas Hugh

2002-2003
Five Days in London: May 1940 by John Lukacs
King Leopold's Ghost, A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild
The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution 1895-1980 by Jonathan D. Spence
Warriors of God: Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade by James Reston Jr.
First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country A World Power by Warren Zimmerman
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Michael B. Oren
Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World Margaret MacMillan
Liberators: Latin America's Struggle for Independence Robert Harvey
To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders Bernard Bailyn
Cromwell Antonia Fraser

2003-2004
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John Dower
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 by Simon Winchester
Seven Ages of Paris by Alistair Horne
On a Grander Scale: The Outstanding Life of Sir Christopher Wren by Lisa Jardine
Saving the Wind: The Seeds of Conflict in the Middle East by John Keay
The Peloponnesian War Donald Kagan
Crowded with Genius: The Scottish Enlightenment: Edinburgh's Moment of the Mind by James Buchan
Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany and the Winning of the Great War at Sea Robert Massie
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
Freedom at Midnight by Larry Collins & Dominique Lapierre
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling by Ross King

2004-2005
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
The First Venture Capitalist: George Doryot on Leadership, Capital Business Organization by Uddyan Gupta (Editor)
Fear: The History of a Political Idea Corey Robin
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution by Simon Schama
Stalin: The Man and His Era by Ulan Adam
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Montefiore
Makers of Rome by Plutarch
Fourteen Byzantine Rulers by Michael Psellus
The Ornament of the World by Maria Rosa Menocal
The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason by Charles Freeman
His Excellency George Washington by Joseph Ellis
Understanding China: A Guide to China's Economy, History and Political Structure by John Bryan Starr
The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
Lawrence and Oppenheimer by Noel Pharr Davis
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin

2005-2006
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West by Stephen Ambrose
Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950 by Mark Mazower
The Fate of Africa: From the Hope of Freedom to the Heart of Despair, A History of Fifty Years of Independence by Martin Meredith
Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition of 1838-1842 by Nathaniel Philbrick
The Great United States Exploring Expedition of 1838-1842 by William Stanton
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland
The Cold War: A New History by John Lewis Gaddis
On History by Fernand Braudel
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Time to the Present by Andrew Gordon
Gold and Iron: Bismark, Bleichröder, and the Building of the German Empire by Fritz Stern

2006-2007
John Marshall: Definer of a Nation by Jean Edward Smith
The First Crusade: A New History by Thomas Asbridge
The Assassin’s Gate: America in Iraq by George Parker
Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War by Nicholas Lemann
Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877 by Eric Foner
Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution by Victor Sebestyen
The Ottoman Centuries: The Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire by Baron Kinross
The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 by Antony Beevor
Near a Thousand Tables: A History of Food by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
France and the French: A Modern History by Rod Kenward
The Zimmermann Telegaram by Barbara Tuchman
Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West by Hampton Sides
God’s Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible  by Adam Nicolson

2007-2008
The Verneys: A True Story of Love, War, and Madness in Seventeenth Century England by Adrian Tinniswood
Iron Kingdom: the Rise and Downfall of Prussia by Christopher Clark
Simon Bolivar: A life by John Lynch
The  Great Arab Conquests: by Hugh Kennedy
Pursuit of Glory: Europe 1648-1814 by David Blanning
America's Three Regimes: A New Political History by Morton Keller
Britain in Iraq: Contriving King and Country by Peter Sluglett