2024
These Precious Days by Ann Patchett
The Story of More by Hope Jahren
Deacon King Kong by James McBride
The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich
Remarkedly Bright Creatures by Shelby VanPelt
The Scarlett Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
The 100 years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin
The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
The Wager by David Grann
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kinsolver
2023:
The Paris Library by Janet Skelslien
The Nature of Fragile Things by Susan Meissner
Double Blind by Chris Bohjalian
The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vandera
The Wright Brothers by David McCullogh
The People We Keep by Allison Larkin
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Horse by Geraldine Brooks
Unexampled Courage by Robert Gergel
Pompeii by Robert Harris
2022:
The Splendid and the Vile by Eric Larson
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
This is Happiness by Niall Williams
Stone Mattress:Nine Tales by Margaret Atwood
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
The Last Train to Key West by Chanel Cheeton
Nomadland by Jessica Bruder
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
The Boys by Ron Howard and Clint Howard
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge
Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
2021:
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
This Must be the Place by Maggie OFarrell
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kid
Whistling Past the Graveyard by Susan Crandall
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram
2020:
The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness by Paula Poundstone
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
The Moment of Lift by Melinda Gates
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant
The Whole Town's Talking by Fannie Flagg
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud by Ann Helen Peterson
Station Eleven by Emily St John Mande
The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict
Caroline: Little House, Revisited by Sarah Miller
2019:
Winter's Solstice by Rosamude Pilcher
The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea
Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth
Eleanor and Hick by Susan Quinn
Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owen
Be Frank with Me by Julie Claiborne Johnson
Eunice - The Kennedy who Changed the World by Eileen McNamara
Educated by Tara Westover
Becoming by Michelle Obama
The Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
2018:
Miss Petttigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
Unmentionable: The Victorian Ladies Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners by Therese Oneill
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
The Orphan Masters Son by Adam Johnson
Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J.Ryan Stradal
Devil in the Grove by Gilbert King
The Americans First Daughter by Stephanie Dray
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
The Worst Hard Times by Timothy Egan
The Bookshop of Yesterdays by Amy Meyerson
2017:
The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Following Atticus by Tom Ryan
I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C.Guynne
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zeorin
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty
Wait till Next Year by Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Monuments Men by Robert M Edsel
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
2016:
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
All the Light We Can Not See by Anthony Doerr
The Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard
The Martian by Andy Weir
Runaway by Alice Munro
In Broad Daylight by Harry MacLean
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
The Chosen by Chaim Potok
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
Sister's In Law by Linda Hirsman
Being Dead is No Excuse by Gayden Metcalfe
2015:
Inferno by Dan Brown
A Dog's Purpose by W Bruce Cameron
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
Mrs Lincoln's Dressmaker by Jennifer Chiaverini
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
The Maid's Version by Daniel Woodrell
Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure:The True Story of a Great American Road Trip by Mathew Algeo
Girl In Reverse by Barbara Stuber
Sons of Wichita by Daniel Shulman
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Dear Committee Members by Julia Schumacher
2014:
War Horse by Michael Mopugo
Jacqueline Kennedy:Historical Conversations on Life with John Kennedy by Caroline Kennedy
Sweet Thunder by Ivan Doig
Little Bee by Chis Cleave
The Dirty Life:A Memoir of Farming, Food and Love by Kristin Kimball
Tigers in Red Weather by Liza Klaussmann
In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
Notorious Victoria:The Life of Victoria Woodhull by Mary Gabriel
Bossypants by Tina Fey
David and Goliath:Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell
The All-Girls Filling Station's Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg
In the Garden of the Beasts:Love Terror and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson
2013:
The Christmas Wedding by James Patterson
Molokai by Alan Brennert
My Stroke of Insight by Dr Jill Bolte Taylor
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
Freakanomics by Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner
Elizabeth Street by Laurie Fabiano
My Life in France by Julia Child
Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
Dove Keepers by Alice Hoffman
Hate List by Jennifer Brown
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis
Tenth of December by George Saunders
2012:
This Year It Will Be Different by Mauve Binchy
Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown
Sarahs Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
Daddy Long Legs by Jean Webster
The Girl in the Blue Beret by Bobbie Ann Mason
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
2011:
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner
Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
The Moonflower Vine by Jetta Carleton
Room With A View by Edward Morgan Forster
Cleopatra:A Life by Stacy Schiff
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Typist by Michael Knight
State of Jones by Sally Jenkins
Truth and Beauty:A Friendship by Ann Patchett
Just Kids by Patti Smith
2010:
Hot Flash Holidays by Nancy Thayer
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
The True confessions of Charlotte Doyle by AVI
Founding Mothers:The Woman Who Raised Our Nation by Cokie Roberts
City of Thieves by David Benioff
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
South of Broad by Pat Conroy
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
Half Broke Horses by Jeanette Walls
2009:
A Redbird Christmas by Fannie Flagg
Rise and Shine by Anna Quindlen
Flight by Sherman Alexie
A Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
What Is the What by Dave Eggers
The Faith Club by Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, and Priscilla Warner
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
The River Wife by Jonis Agee
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
The Center of the World by Laura Moriarty
2008:
A Christmas Journey by Anne Perry
The Things They Carried by Tim Obrien
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin
Marley and Me by John Grogan
A Bell for Adano by John Hersey
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
Flying Crow by Jim Lehrer
In America by Susan Sontag
Holes by Louis Sachar
Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
2007:
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
March by Geraldine Brooks
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Paris Trout by Pete Dexter
Three Junes by Julia Glass
Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Waiting by Ha Jin
River of Doubt:Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard
2006:
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Girl in Hyicyth Blue by Susan Vreeland
The Good Earth by Pearl S Buck
Love in the Dryest Season by Neely Tucker
Atonement by Ian McEwan
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
The Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst
The Known World by Edward P Jones
The King of King's County by Whitney Terrell
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Night by Elie Wiesel
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
2005:
Tepper Isn't Going Out by Calvin Trillin
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Enemy Women by Paulette Jiles
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Life Of Pi by Yann Martel
DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Alchemist by Paulo Coehloo
Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
2004:
To Dance With the White Dog by Terry Kay
Seabisuit by Laura Hillenbrand
The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows Of Josephine B by Sandra Gulland
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
Peace Like A River by Leif Enger
First Ladies by Margaret Truman
The Year the Colored Sisters Came to Town by Jacqueline Guidry
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar
The No.1. Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
2003:
Sweet Potato Queen’s Book of Love by Jill Conner Browne
John Adams by David McCullough
Standing In The Rainbow by Fannie Flagg
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
Anatomy Lesson by Philip Roth
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
Blessings by Anna Quindlen
Fortune’s Rock by Anita Shreve
Years of Wonder by Geraldine Brooks
The Secret Life Of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
2002:
The President’s Lady by Irving Stone
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Chocolat by Joanne Harris
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan
Daughter’s of Fortune by Isabel Allende
Possession by A S Byatt
Bridget Jones’ Diary by Helen Fielding
Plainsong by KentHaruf
Never Change by Elizabeth Berg
The Shape of Snakes by Minette Walkers
Skipping Christmas by John Grisham
2001:
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
Out of Place by Edward W. Said
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Pope Joan by Donna W. Cross
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
Fellowship of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Man in Full by Tom Wolfe
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill
Mother of Pearl by Melinda Haynes
Rocket Boys/October Skys by Homer Hickam Jr
Into the Forest by Jean Hegland
2000:
Midwives by Christopher Bohjalian
God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
All the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Hanna’s Daughters by Marianne Fredriksson
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
Cider House Rules by John Irving
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
1999:
At Home in Mitford(Jan Karon) &/or The Persian Pickle Club by Sandra Dallas
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
The Color of Water by James McBride
Trinity by Leon Uris
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
Spending by Mary Gordon
Little Big Man by Thomas Berger
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose
1998:
Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
The Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds
The Story of B by Daniel Quinn
A Winter’s Tale by Mark Helprin
Contact by Carl Sagan
No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Independence Day by Richard Ford
The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
Possessing the Secrets of Joy by Alice Walker
Truman by David McCullough
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
1997:
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
Moo by Jane Smiley
True Crime by Andrew Klavan
This Boy’s Life by Tobias Wolff
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb
1996:
Mutant Message Down Under by Marlo Morgan
Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady by Florence King
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
The Education of Little Tree by Forrest Carter
My Antonia by Willa Cather
The Sweeter the Juice by Shirlee Haizlip
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
The Natural by Bernard Malamud and/or Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
The Day After Tomorrow by Allan Folsom
1995:
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
Mama Makes Up Her Mind by Bailey White
A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean
Daisy Miller and/or Washington Square by Henry James
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
The Revolution of Little Girls by Blanche Boyd
A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor
House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Oleana by David Mamet
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
1994:
Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
The Heidi Chronicles by Wendy Wasserstein
Maria Montessori by Rita Kramer
Lincoln by Gore Vidal and/or Love is Eternal by Irving Stone
The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus by John Gray
Clover by Dori Sanders
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years by Sarah and A. Elizabeth Delany)
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
1993:
A Christmas Story by Truman Capote
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Backlash by Susan Faludi
Beloved by Toni Morrison
anything by Agatha Christie
Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
Mixed Blessings by Danielle Steel
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dearest Friend by Lynne Withey
Man of the House by Tip O’Neill
The Bridges of Madison County by Robert Waller
1992:
Too Many Cooks by Rex Stout
Love Letters by A.R. Gurney
The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone
What I Saw at the Revolution by Peggy Noonan
One by Richard Bach
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
How to Make an American Quilt by Whitney Otto
Scarlett by Alexandra Ripley
September by Rosamund Pilcher
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
Rising Sun by Michael Crichton
1991:
Seventrees by Janice Young Brooks
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Going Within by Shirley MacClaine
Not Without My Daughter by Betty Mahmoody
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulker
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
A Place for Us by Nicholas Gage
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
This Perfect Day by Ira Levin
Interview with a Vampire by Ann Rice
1990:
Everything I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum
Mr. Bridge / Mrs. Bridge by Evan Connell
It’s Always Something by Gilda Radner
The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley