| 1901. | 6.9 | The End (2006) | GR AM KB | Daniel Handler |
| 1902. | 6.9 | Child of God (1973) | GR AM KB | Cormac McCarthy |
| 1903. | 6.9 | Nothing Lasts Forever (1979) | GR AM KB | Roderick Thorp |
| 1904. | 6.9 | Dragon Rider (1997) | GR AM KB | Cornelia Funke |
| 1905. | 6.9 | The Puppet Masters (1951) | GR AM KB | Robert A. Heinlein |
| 1906. | 6.9 | Arabian Nights | GR AM KB | |
| 1907. | 6.9 | Pensees | GR AM KB | Blaise Pascal |
| 1908. | 6.9 | Pericles | GR AM KB | William Shakespeare |
| 1909. | 6.9 | Superfudge (1980) | GR AM KB | Judy Blume |
| 1910. | 6.9 | A Good Man in Africa | GR AM KB | William Boyd |
| 1911. | 6.9 | The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904) | GR AM KB | L. Frank Baum |
| 1912. | 6.9 | Daughter of Fortune (1999) | GR AM KB | Isabel Allende |
| 1913. | 6.9 | Nice Work (1988) | GR AM KB | David Lodge |
| 1914. | 6.9 | My Cousin Rachel (1951) | GR AM KB | Daphne du Maurier |
| 1915. | 6.9 | Hideous Kinky (1992) | GR AM KB | Esther Freud |
| 1916. | 6.9 | Play It As It Lays (1970) | GR AM KB | Joan Didion |
| 1917. | 6.9 | Sacaramouche | GR AM KB | Rafael Sabatini |
| 1918. | 6.9 | The Boys (2006) | GR AM KB | |
| 1919. | 6.9 | The Story of Little Black Sambo (1899) | GR AM KB | Helen Bannerman |
| 1920. | 6.9 | The Gruffalo (1999) | GR AM KB | Julia Donaldson |
| 1921. | 6.9 | Arakawa Under the Bridge | GR AM KB | |
| 1922. | 6.9 | Wicked Lovely (2007) | GR AM KB | Melissa Marr |
| 1923. | 6.9 | Confessions of Zeno (1923) | GR AM KB | Italo Svevo |
| 1924. | 6.9 | Red Pony (1937) | GR AM KB | John Steinbeck |
| 1925. | 6.9 | Devil in a Blue Dress (1990) | GR AM KB | Walter Mosley |
| 1926. | 6.9 | The History of Mr Polly (1910) | GR AM KB | H.G. Wells |
| 1927. | 6.9 | Ruth (1853) | GR AM KB | Elizabeth Gaskell |
| 1928. | 6.9 | East Lynne | GR AM KB | Ellen Wood |
| 1929. | 6.9 | Castle Rackrent (1800) | GR AM KB | Maria Edgeworth |
| 1930. | 6.9 | The Machine-Gunners (1975) | GR AM KB | Robert Westall |
| 1931. | 6.9 | The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question? (1993) | GR AM KB | Dick Teresi |
| 1932. | 6.9 | The Devil's Dictionary (1911) | GR AM KB | Ambrose Bierce |
| 1933. | 6.9 | A Hero of Our Time (1840) | GR AM KB | Mikhail Lermontov |
| 1934. | 6.9 | Boy Meets Boy (2003) | GR AM KB | David Levithan |
| 1935. | 6.9 | The Boleyn Inheritance (2006) | GR AM KB | Philippa Gregory |
| 1936. | 6.9 | A Kestrel for a Knave (1968) | GR AM KB | Barry Hines |
| 1937. | 6.9 | Independent People (1935) | GR AM KB | Halldor Laxness |
| 1938. | 6.9 | Sounder (1969) | GR AM KB | William Howard Armstrong |
| 1939. | 6.9 | Lost Souls (1992) | GR AM KB | Poppy Z. Brite |
| 1940. | 6.9 | Alpha Flight | GR AM KB | |
| 1941. | 6.9 | Rant (2007) | GR AM KB | Chuck Palahniuk |
| 1942. | 6.9 | The 85 Ways to Tie a Tie (1999) | GR AM KB | Thomas Fink |
| 1943. | 6.9 | Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) | GR AM KB | Robert Burton |
| 1944. | 6.9 | The Friends of Eddie Coyle | GR AM KB | George V Higgins |
| 1945. | 6.9 | Gorky Park (1981) | GR AM KB | Martin Cruz Smith |
| 1946. | 6.9 | The Children of the New Forest | GR AM KB | Frederick Marryat |
| 1947. | 6.9 | Batman and Robin (2009) | GR AM KB | |
| 1948. | 6.9 | 2010: Odyssey Two (1982) | GR AM KB | Arthur C. Clarke |
| 1949. | 6.9 | Ghost Hunt | GR AM KB | |
| 1950. | 6.9 | The End of History and the Last Man (1992) | GR AM KB | Francis Fukuyama |
| 1951. | 6.9 | A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959) | GR AM KB | Walter M. Miller |
| 1952. | 6.9 | The Castafiore Emerald | GR AM KB | Georges Remi Herge |
| 1953. | 6.9 | The Woman in Black (1983) | GR AM KB | Susan Hill |
| 1954. | 6.9 | The MLA Style Manual (2008) | GR AM KB | |
| 1955. | 6.9 | Eugene Francois Vidocq | GR AM KB | |
| 1956. | 6.9 | Olive Kitteridge (2008) | GR AM KB | Elizabeth Strout |
| 1957. | 6.9 | Richard II | GR AM KB | William Shakespeare |
| 1958. | 6.9 | Goosebumps | GR AM KB | |
| 1959. | 6.9 | Venus in Furs (1870) | GR AM KB | Leopold von Sacher-Masoch |
| 1960. | 6.9 | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (1922) | GR AM KB | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| 1961. | 6.9 | Lone Wolf and Cub | GR AM KB | |
| 1962. | 6.9 | The Mists of Avalon (1983) | GR AM KB | Marion Zimmer Bradley |
| 1963. | 6.9 | Quotations from Chairman Mao (1964) | GR AM KB | Mao Zedong |
| 1964. | 6.9 | The Turner Diaries (1978) | GR AM KB | William Luther Pierce |
| 1965. | 6.9 | Birds of America (1838) | GR AM KB | John James Audubon |
| 1966. | 6.9 | Institutes of the Christian Religion | GR AM KB | Jean Calvin |
| 1967. | 6.9 | Pamela (1740) | GR AM KB | Samuel Richardson |
| 1968. | 6.9 | Skellig (1998) | GR AM KB | David Almond |
| 1969. | 6.9 | At Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept | GR AM KB | Elizabeth Smart |
| 1970. | 6.9 | 30 Days of Night (2002) | GR AM KB | |
| 1971. | 6.9 | The Post-American World (2011) | GR AM KB | Fareed Zakaria |
| 1972. | 6.9 | Hardcover | GR AM KB | |
| 1973. | 6.9 | The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game (2006) | GR AM KB | Michael Lewis |
| 1974. | 6.9 | Point Blanc (2001) | GR AM KB | Anthony Horowitz |
| 1975. | 6.9 | Under Western Eyes (1911) | GR AM KB | Joseph Conrad |
| 1976. | 6.9 | Rogue Male | GR AM KB | Geoffrey Household |
| 1977. | 6.9 | A Voyage to Arcturus (1920) | GR AM KB | David Lindsay |
| 1978. | 6.9 | Enigma | GR AM KB | Robert Harris |
| 1979. | 6.9 | Call the Midwife (2007) | GR AM KB | Jennifer Worth |
| 1980. | 6.9 | First They Killed My Father (2000) | GR AM KB | Loung Ung |
| 1981. | 6.9 | The Bone People (1984) | GR AM KB | Keri Hulme |
| 1982. | 6.9 | Season of Migration to the North (1966) | GR AM KB | Tayeb Salih |
| 1983. | 6.9 | The Infinity Gauntlet (1991) | GR AM KB | |
| 1984. | 6.9 | The Wave (1981) | GR AM KB | Todd Strasser |
| 1985. | 6.9 | Witch and Wizard (2009) | GR AM KB | Gabrielle Charbonnet |
| 1986. | 6.9 | Brian's Hunt (1999) | GR AM KB | Gary Paulsen |
| 1987. | 6.9 | Titus Groan (1946) | GR AM KB | Mervyn Peake |
| 1988. | 6.9 | The Dark Phoenix Saga (1980) | GR AM KB | |
| 1989. | 6.9 | Rules for Radicals (1971) | GR AM KB | Saul Alinsky |
| 1990. | 6.9 | Eclipse (2007) | GR AM KB | Stephenie Meyer |
| 1991. | 6.9 | Rage (1977) | GR AM KB | Richard Bachman |
| 1992. | 6.9 | Xenotransplantation | GR AM KB | |
| 1993. | 6.9 | Troilus and Criseyde | GR AM KB | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 1994. | 6.9 | The Return of the Soldier (1918) | GR AM KB | Rebecca West |
| 1995. | 6.9 | The Young Lions (1948) | GR AM KB | Irwin Shaw |
| 1996. | 6.9 | The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980) | GR AM KB | Douglas Adams |
| 1997. | 6.9 | Tatya Tope (1863) | GR AM KB | Caleb Wright |
| 1998. | 6.9 | The Paperboy (1995) | GR AM KB | Pete Dexter |
| 1999. | 6.9 | X-Factor | GR AM KB | |
| 2000. | 6.9 | The Clique | GR AM KB | Lisi Harrison |