The Skeptic (A Life of H. L. Mencken) by Terry Teachout (January 2004)
I Will Bear Witness (1933-1941 and 1942-1945) by Victor Klemperer (February 2004)
Journalistic Fraud (How the New York Times Distorts the News and Why It Can No Longer Be Trusted) by Bob Kohn (March 2004)
The Commanding Heights (the Battle for the World Economy) by Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw (April 2004)
Under the Banner of Heaven: a Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer (May 2004)
The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s by Piers Brendon (June 2004)
The Battle of Hurtgen Forest by Charles Whiting (July 2004)
Colossus (the Price of America’s Empire) by Niall Ferguson (August 2004)
Idiot Proof: Deluded Celebrities, Irrational Power Brokers, Media Morons and the Erosion of Common Sense by Francis Wheen (September 2004)
Running on Empty by Peter G. Peterson (October 2004)
America (The Book): A Citizen’s Guise to Democracy Inaction by Jon Stewart, Ben Karlin, and David Javerbaum and Molvania: A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry by Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner and Rob Stitch (November 2004)
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss (December 2004)