2024 Bitch: On the Female of the Species (Lucy Cooke), The Covenant of Water (Abraham Verghese), Matrix (Lauren Groff), Enrique’s Journey (Sonia Nazario), Hello Beautiful (Ann Napolitano), A Fever in the Heartland (Timothy Egan), The Henna Artist (Alka Joshi), Lessons in Chemistry (Bonnie Garmus), The Measure (Nikki Erlick), I Have Some Questions For You (Rebecca Makkai), The Night Ship (Jess Kidd), The Rachel Incident (Caroline O'Donoghue)
2023 Being Mortal (Atul Gawande), Cloud Cuckoo Land (Anthony Doerr), Grandma Gatewood’s Walk (Ben Montgomery), The Second Mrs. Astor (Shana Abe), The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times(Jane Goodall, Douglas Abrams and Gail Hudson), Lilac Girls (Martha Hall Kelly), The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Taylor Jenkins Reid), The Four Winds (Kristin Hannah), Women in White Coats (Olivia Campbell), Hour of the Witch (Chris Bojalian), Switchboard Soldiers (Jennifer Chiaverini), The Personal Librarian (Marie Benedict & Victoria Christopher Murray)
2022 Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service (Carol Leonnig), Madame (Phoebe Wynne), Madame Fourcade's Secret War (Lynne Olson), The Engineer’s Wife (Tracey Wood), All the Little Hopes (Leah Weiss), Somebody’s Daughter (Ashley C Ford), Anxious People (Frederick Backman), One Two Three (Laurie Frankel), The Book of Lost Names (Kristin Harmel), The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (V.E. Schwab), The Last Thing He Told Me (Laura Dave), Sparks like Stars (Nadia Hashimi)
2021 Caste: The Origins of our Discontents (Isabel Wilkerson), Valentine (Elizabeth Wetmore), The Women of the Copper Country (Mary Doria Russell), The Vanishing Half (Brit Bennett), The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Agatha Christie), Hidden Valley Road (Robert Kolker), The Patron Saint of Liars (Ann Patchett), The Water Dancer (Ta-Nehisi Coates), City of Girls (Elizabeth Gilbert, The Sympathizer (Viet Thanh Nguyen), Unorthodox (Deborah Feldman), The Bookwoman of Troublesome Creek (Kim Michele Richardson)
2020 Cutting for Stone (Abraham Verghese), The Testaments (Margaret Atwood), Pachinko (Min Jin Lee), An American Marriage (Tayari Jones), Churchill and Orwell (Thomas E. Ricks), Mrs. Lincoln’s Rival (Jennifer Chiaverini), My Sister, the Serial Killer (Oyinkan Braithwaite), Where The Crawdads Sing (Delia Owens), Educated (Tara Westover), This Is How It Always Is (Laurie Frankel), The Only Woman In the Room (Marie Benedict), Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine (Gail Honeyman)
2015 Conversion (Katherine Howe), Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Cheryl Strayed), Under the Wide and Starry Sky (Nancy Horan), The Ghost Bride (Yangsze Choo), Natchez Burning (Greg Iles), Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison), The Children Act (Ian McEwan), The Martian (Andy Weir), Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood & the Prison of Belief (Lawrence Wright), The Cove (Ron Rash), Rena’s Promise: Two Sisters in Auschwitz (Rena Kornreich & Heather Macadam), The Bone Clocks (David Mitchell)
2016 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Rebecca Skloot), The Beekeepers Apprentice (Laurie R King), The Nightingale (Kristin Hannah), The Pope & Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI & the Rise of Fascism in Europe (David I Kertzer), Dangerous Women (Edited by George R. R. Martin), Far From the Madding Crowd (Thomas Hardy), Skippy Dies (Paul Murray), The Invention of Wings (Sue Monk Kidd), Dead Wake (Erik Larson), Everything I Never Told You (Celeste Ng), The Girl in the Spider’s Web (David Lagercrantz), The Husband’s Secret (Liane Moriarty)
2017 The Man Called Ove (Fredrik Backman), The Girls of Atomic City (Denise Kiernan), A God in Ruins (Kate Atkinson), American Heiress (Jeffrey Toobin), The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047 (Lionel Shriver), With Love from the Inside (Angela Pisel), Eligible (Curtis Sittenfeld), The Truth According to Us (Annie Barrows), The Girls (Emma Cline), Ghost Story (Peter Straub), Underground Airlines (Winters), Today Will Be Different (Maria Semple)
2018 The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood), The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane (Lisa See), The Last Ballad (Wiley Cash), Origin (Dan Brown), The Last Castle (Denise Kiernan), Ink (Sabrina Vourvoulias), A Gentleman in Moscow (Amor Towles), Killers of the Flower Moon (David Grenn), Rainbow’s End (Vernor Vinge), White Trash (Nancy Isenberg), A Piece of the World (Christina Baker Kline), Our Endless Numbered Days (Claire Fuller)
2019 Before We Were Yours (Lisa Wingate), The Alice Network (Kate Quinn), Dreamland (Sam Quinones), The Throwaway Children (Diney Costeloe), The Great Alone (Kristin Hannah), The Island at the Center of the World (Russell Shorto), The Stolen Marriage (Diane Cham), Circe (Madeline Miller), The Hidden Life of Trees (Peter Wohlle), Next Year in Havana (Chanel Cleeton), Clock Dance (Anne Tyler), The Hate U Give (Angie Thomas)
2010 American Gods (Neil Gaiman), In Defense of Food (Michael Pollan), Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace…One School at a Time (Greg Mortenson), MOO (Jane Smiley), The Diaries of Adam and Eve (Mark Twain), The Book Thief (Markus Zusak), The Guernsey Literary and Potato Pie Society (Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows), Still Alice (Lisa Genova), A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Bill Bryson), The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair that Changed America (Erik Larson), The Worst Hard Time (Timothy Egan), The Autobiography of Santa Claus (Jeff Guinn)
2011 Little Bee (Lisa See), The Jungle (Upton Sinclair), Loving Frank (Nancy Horan), Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (Tom Franklin), Heretic’s Daughter (Kathleen Kent), The Day the Falls Stood Still (Cathy Marie Buchanan, Water for Elephants (Sara Gruen), Breakfast with Buddha (Roland Marullo), Half-Broke Horses (Jeannette Walls), Big Stone Gap (Adriana Trigiani), Possibility of Everything (Hope Edelman), Shanghai Girls (Lisa See)
2012 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Jonathan Safran Foer), In the Time of the Butterflies (Julia Alvarez), The Kitchen House (Kathleen Grissom), Garden of the Beasts: Love, Terror and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin (Erik Larson), The Art of Racing in the Rain (Garth Stein), Stoner (John Williams), Zeitoun (Doug Eggers), Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival and My Journey from Homelessness to Harvard (Liz Murray), Tallgrass (Sandra Dallas), Language of Flowers (Vanessa Diffenbaugh), Mudbound (Hillary Jordan), Snow in August (Pete Hamill)
2013 Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell), The Harbormasters Daughter (Heidi Jon Schmidt), The Tiger's Wife (Tea Obreht), Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Katherine Boo), Defending Jacob (William Landay), The 19th Wife (David Ebershoff), Story of a Beautiful Girl (Rachel Simon), The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton), The Snow Child (Eowyn Ivey), In the Shadow of the Banyon (Vaddey Ratner), The Coal Black Horse (Robert Olmstead), In the Fall (Jeffrey Lent)
2014 Think: Straight Talk for Women to Stay Smart in a Dumbed Down World (Lisa Bloom), The Group (Mary McCarthy), The Round House (Louise Erdrich), Life After Life (Kate Atkinson), The Fever Tree ( Jennifer McVeigh), Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety (David Smith), Where’d You Go, Bernadette (Maria Semple), Devil in the Grove (Gilbert King), A Constellation of Vital Phenomenon (Anthony Marra), And the Mountains Echoed (Khaled Hosseini), All That I Am (Anna Funder), Lookaway Lookaway (Wilton Barnhardt)
2005 The Time Traveler’s Wife (Audrey Niffenegger), The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd), The Bonesetter’s Daughter (Amy Tan), Sullivan’s Island (Dorothea Benton Frank), Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella), An American Childhood (Annie Dillard), Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe), Meant to Be: The True Story of a Son Who Discovers He Is His Mother’s Deepest Secret (Walter Anderson), Slow Way Home (Michael Morris), Oyster: A Novel (John Biguenet), Maggie Sweet (Judith Mithorn Stacy)
2006 Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Eric Schlosser), The Dogs of Babel (Carolyn Parkhurst), Minaret (Leila Aboulela), The Seduction of Water (Carol Goodman), The Road to Wellville (T.C. Boyle), Valley of the Dolls (Jacqueline Susann), Candide (Voltaire), Behind the Scenes at the Museum (Kate Atkinson), Waiting for Snow in Havana (Carlos Eire), Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found (Suketu Mehta), The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay
2007 Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Gregory Maguire), The Darwin Conspiracy (John Darnton), Little Children (Tom Perrotta), Saving Fish from Drowning (Amy Tan), The Sense of Paper (Taylor Holden), Random Family—Love, Drugs, Trouble and Coming of Age in the Bronx (Adrian Nicole Leblanc), How to Be Good (Nick Hornby), The Green Age of Asher Witherow (M. Allen Cunningham), The Singing and Dancing Daughters of God (Timothy Schaffert), From Beirut to Lebanon (Thomas L. Friedman), The Lost Mother (Mary McGarry Morris), The Memory Keeper’s Daughter (Kim Edwards)
2008 The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky), The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho), The Ghost at the Table (Suzanne Berne), Blink (Malcolm Gladwell), The Thirteenth Tale (Diane Setterfield), Born on a Blue Day (Daniel Tammet), The Glass Castle (Jeannette Walls), Me Talk Pretty One Day (David Sedaris), Atonement (Ian McEwan), Digging to America (Anne Tyler), Garden Spells (Sarah Addison), The Vanishing Act of Esme Lenox (Maggie O’Farrell)
2009 JayBer Crow (Wendell Berry), Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Stieg Larsson), The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (David Wroblowski), Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger), Eat, Pray, Love – One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia (Elizabeth Gilbert), Mohawk (Richard Russo), Third Degree (Greg Iles), Under the Tuscan Sun (Frances Mayes), Thousand Splendid Suns (Khaled Hosseini), The Ten-Year Nap (Meg Wolitzer), The Gift (Richard Paul Evans), Out Stealing Horses (Per Petterson)
2000 The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver), How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (Julia Alvarez), The Reader (Bernhardt Schlink), A Farewell To Arms (Ernest Hemingway), Saving Grace (Lee Smith), I Know This Much Is True (Wally Lamb), Crossing To Safety (Wallace Stegner), East of Eden (John Steinbeck), Charming Billy (Alice McDermott), Mother of Pearl (Melinda Haynes), Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)
2001 The House of the Spirits (Isabelle Allende), Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden), The End of the Affair (Graham Greene), Yellow Raft in Blue Water (Michael Dorris), Emma (Jane Austen), Song of Solomon (Toni Morrison), Protecting the Gift (Gavin DeBecker), The Stand (Stephen King), A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving), Dracula (Bram Stoker), Change Me Into Zeus’ Daughter (Barbara Robinette Moss), My Grandfather’s Blessings (Rachel Naomi Remen)
2002 Personal History (Katharine Graham), The Red Tent (Anita Diamant), Falling Leaves (Adeline Yen Mah), Bastard Out of Carolina (Dorothy Allison), Riding in Cars with Boys (Beverly Donofrio), Ishmael (Daniel Quinn), Walden (Henry Thoreau), Blind Assassin (Margaret Atwood), Nowhere Else on Earth (Josephine Humphries), Girl With a Pearl Earring (Tracy Chevalier), Turnip Blues (Helen Campbell), The Corrections (Jonathan Franzen)
2003 Empire Falls (Richard Russo), The Water is Wide (Pat Conroy), Seabiscuit (Lauren Hillanbrand), Ahab’s Wife, (Sena Jeter Naslund), Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind (Ann Ross), Good in Bed (Jennifer Weiner), Pope Joan (Donna Cross), Blue Bottle Club (Penelope Stokes), How Green Was My Valley (Richard Llewellyn), Five Quarters of the Orange (Joanne Harris), Ladies with Options (Cynthia Hartwich), Honk & Holler Opening Soon (Billie Letts)
2004 Life of Pi (Yann Martel), Last Call (Laura Pederson), The White (Deborah Larson), Long Days Journey Into Night (Eugene O’Neill), Family Matters (Rohinton Mistry), Ella Minnow Pea (Mark Dunn), Angry Housewives Eating Bonbons (Lorna Landvik), A Widow for One Year (John Irving), The Sunday Wife (Cassandra King), The Gospel of Judas (Simon Mawer), Little Bitty Lies (Mary Kay Andrews), The Christmas Box (Richard Paul Evans)
1995 To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee), Little Women (Louisa May Alcott), Body of Evidence (Patricia Cornwell), The Last Day the Dogbushes Bloomed (Lee Smith), Remember Me (Mary Higgins Clark), Echoes (Maeve Binchy), The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco), The Alienist (Caleb Carr), Old Dogs and Children (Bob Inman), Interview With the Vampire (Anne Rice), Bridges of Madison County (Robert Jones Waller), A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)
1996 The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne), The Shipping News (E. Annie Proulx), The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro), The Good Earth (Pearl Buck), The Good Mother (Sue Miller), Kate Vaiden (Reynolds Price), Beloved (Toni Morrison), Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (Tom Robbins), Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (John Berendt), My Antonia (Willa Cather), The Giver (Lois Lowry)
1997 Joshua (Joseph Girzone), Snow Falling on Cedars (David Guterson), Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert), Run With the Horsemen (Ferrol Sams), The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner), The Persian Pickle Club (Sandra Dallas), The Liar’s Club (Mary Karr), The Orchard (Adele Crockett Robertson), The Horse Whisperer (Nicholas Evans), To Dance With the White Dog (Terry Kay), A Woman of Independent Means (Elizabeth Hailey)
1998 The Book of Ruth (Jane Hamilton), Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen), One True Thing (Anna Quindlen), West With the Night (Beryl Markham), Birdsong (Sebastian Faulks), A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith), Prince of Tides (Pat Conroy), The Color of Water (James McBride), Cold Mountain (Charles Frazier), Crazy in Alabama (Mark Childress), Christmas Gift! (Ferrol Sams)
1999 Ellen Foster (Kay Gibbons), Night (Elie Wiesel), At Home at Mitford (Jan Karon), The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand), The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (Rebecca Wells), Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck), Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier), Message in a Bottle (Nicholas Sparks), Look Homeward, Angel (Thomas Wolfe), Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt), Cheaper by the Dozen (Frank B. Gilbreth)
1993 Raney (Clyde Edgerton), Cold Sassy Tree (Olive Ann Burns), The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgeson Burnett), Ponder Heart (Eudora Welty), Women on Top (Nancy Friday), Waiting to Exhale (Terry McMillan), The Kitchen God’s Wife (Amy Tan), Light a Penny Candle (Maeve Binchy), Autobiography of Malcolm X (Malcolm X & Alex Haley), Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte), The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (Barbara Robinson)
1994 The Joy Luck Club (Amy Tan), The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton), The Education of Little Tree (Forrest Carter), Outer Banks (Anne Rivers Siddon), Father Melancholy’s Daughter (Gail Godwin), A Season in Purgatory (Dominick Dunne), Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Secret History (Donna Tartt), Frankenstein (Mary Shelley), The Cat Who Wasn’t There (Lillian Jackson Brown), Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man (Fannie Flagg)
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