My last three books: Andrew Soltis "How to choose a chess move", Viktor Moskalenko "La estrategia en el ajedrez" & Jeremy Silman "How to reassess your chess 4th ed." I think it's nice that eveybody seems to have a vote at Chesscafe but wouldn't the result be more fair if all voters should know all the candidate books? How can one vote the book of the year if she/he hasn't read them all =)
imagine how cool it would be if instead of showing a politician looking for election on TV, they would show a chess book writer campaigning for her/his book =D