(In reverse chronological order.)
2020
The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantú
There There by Tommy Orange
There There by Tommy Orange
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
2019
Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck
One Station Away by Olaf Olafsson
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
Nomadland by Jesssica Bruder
The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
One Station Away by Olaf Olafsson
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
Nomadland by Jesssica Bruder
The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund
Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
The Book That Matters Most by Ann Hood
Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
The Book That Matters Most by Ann Hood
2018
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Golden Hill: A Novel of Old New York by Francis Spufford
The Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota
Lincoln in the Bardo by George SaundersThe Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez
2017
The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman
Sycamore Row by John Grisham
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrSycamore Row by John Grisham
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
The Turner House by Angela Flournoy
Daughters of the Samurai by Janice P. Nimura
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman
Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat
The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
The Green Road by Anne Enright
2016
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
How to Be Both by Ali Smith
Mislaid by Nell Zink
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
The Maid's Version by Daniel Woodrell
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
2015
Love and Treasure by Ayelet Waldman
Belle Cora by Phillip Margulies
Provence, 1970 by Luke Barr
Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi.
The Shelf: From LEQ to LES: Adventures in Extreme Reading by Phyllis Rose
One Summer: America 1927 by Bill Bryson.
Oleander Girl by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.
Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea.
The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin.
Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Provence, 1970 by Luke Barr
Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi.
The Shelf: From LEQ to LES: Adventures in Extreme Reading by Phyllis Rose
One Summer: America 1927 by Bill Bryson.
Oleander Girl by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.
Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea.
The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin.
Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
2014
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn.
The Poisoner's Handbook by Deborah Blum.
My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor.
Dear Life by Alice Munro.
Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon.
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed.
The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop talking by Susan Cain.
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri.
Kindred by Octavia Butler.
2013
Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple.
The Round House by Louise Erdrich.
Gods Without Men by Hari Kunzru.
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter.
Life Itself by Roger Ebert.
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel.
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller.
The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje.
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain.
Moby Duck by Donovan Hohn.
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston.
Swamplandia by Karen Russell
Never in My Wildest Dreams by Belva Davis and Vicki Haddock
Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carré
Assumption: A Novel by Percival Everett
Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
The Great House: A Novel by Nicole Krauss
The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
Sun, Stone, and Shadows: 20 Great Mexican Short Stories compiled by Jorge Hernandez
Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen
2011The Round House by Louise Erdrich.
Gods Without Men by Hari Kunzru.
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter.
Life Itself by Roger Ebert.
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel.
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller.
The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje.
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain.
Moby Duck by Donovan Hohn.
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston.
Swamplandia by Karen Russell
2012
The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsNever in My Wildest Dreams by Belva Davis and Vicki Haddock
Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carré
Assumption: A Novel by Percival Everett
Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
The Great House: A Novel by Nicole Krauss
The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
Sun, Stone, and Shadows: 20 Great Mexican Short Stories compiled by Jorge Hernandez
Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen
The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
City of Thieves by David Benioff
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon.
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tam.
1906: A Novel by James Dalessandro.
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
City of Thieves by David Benioff
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon.
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tam.
1906: A Novel by James Dalessandro.
2010
Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn.
Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer by Novella Carpenter.
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
The Collaborator of Bethlehem by Matt Benyon Rees
The People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Schaeffer and Annie Barrows
2009
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
Olive Kittridge by Elizabeth Strout
Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barberry
American Lion by Jon Meacham
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Lush Life by Richard Price
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
My Life in France by Julia Child
White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
The Vanishing Act of Esmie Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
2008
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb
Climbing the Mango Trees by Madhur Jaffrey
Mistress of the Art of Death by Araina Franklin
San Francisco's Chinatown by Judy Yung
Dancing to Almendra by Mayra Montero
Half a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Philadelphia Fire by John Edgar Wideman
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
2007
Slaughter-House Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Heaven Lake by John Dalton
Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer
Zorro by Isabel Allende
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
2006
Masie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd: A Novel by Jim Fergus
Saturday by Ian McEwan
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
2005
Leap of Faith by Queen Noor
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
Prairie Nocturne by Ivan Doig
The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra
The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler
The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
Finding Fish by Antwone Fisher
2004
Our Father Who Art in a Tree by Judy Pascoe
Big Fish by Daniel Wallace
The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
Listen to the Silence by Marcia Muller
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
When the Emperor Was Divine by Julia Otsuka
The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin
Three Junes by Julia Glass
Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
2003
Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Murphy's Law by Rhys Bowen
The Wailing Wind by Tony Hillerman
The Golden One by Elizabeth Peters
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
How to Be Good by Nick Hornby
On her Own Ground by A'Leila Perry Bundles
We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
2002
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
The Ballad of Frankie Silver by Sharon McCrumb
In the Country of the Young by Lisa Carey
White Teeth by Zaidie Smith
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
Losing Julia by Jonathan Hull
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
2001
House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Julie and Romeo by Jeanne Ray
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Talk Before Sleep by Elizabeth Berg
Sister by A. Manette Ansay
Lamb in Love by Carrie Brown
2000
Chocolat by Joanne Harris
Evensong by Gail Godwin
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
A Celibate Season by Carol Shields and Blanche Howard
Singing in the Comeback Choir by Bebe Moore Campbell
The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Native Speaker by Chang-Rae Lee
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
1999
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? by Lorrie Moore
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
A World Lost by Wendell Berry
One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
What Looks like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage
One True Thing by Anna Quindlen
Rosie by Annie Lamott
Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
1998
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
White Rabbit by Kate Phillips
Snow in August by Pete Hamill
Evening Class by Maeve Binchy
Dewey Defeats Truman by Thomas Mallon
Oscar & Lucinda by Peter Carey
Atticus by Ron Hansen
A Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons
1997
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Accordion Crimes by E. Annie Proulx
Color of Water by James McBride
Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Volcano Lover by Susan Sontag
