Best Fiction
Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
The Giver by Louis Lowery
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Into the Forest by Jean Hegland
Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
City of Thieves by David Benioff
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Elegance of a Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
All the Light We Can Not See by Anthony Doerr
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Table for Two by Amor Towles
Best Non-Fiction
The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
Seabisuit by Laura Hillenbrand
Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
The Education of Little Tree by Forrest Carter
Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam, Jr.
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Nomadland by Jessica Bruder
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Sister's In Law by Linda Hirsman
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
Local Kansas City Authors
Seventrees by Janice Young Brooks
Mutant Message Down Under by Marlo Morgan
Tepper Isn't Going Out by Calvin Trillin
The King of King's County by Whitney Terrell
River of Doubt:Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard
The Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard
The Hate List by Jennifer Brown
Girl in Reverse by Barbara Stuber
A Dog's Purpose by W Bruce Cameron
Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram
Best Classics
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
The Good Earth by Pearl S Buck
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Best Humor
Mama Makes Up Her Mind by Bailey White
Little Big Man by Thomas Berger
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Sweet Potato Queen's Book of Love by Jill Conner Browne
Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Skipping Christmas by John Grisham
Marley and Me by John Grogan
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simpson
Best History - Non-Fiction
No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Truman by David McCullough
John Adams by David McCullough
All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
Dearest Friend: A Life of Abigail Adams by Lynne Withey
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Founding Mothers by Cokie Roberts
In the Garden of the Beasts:Love, Terror and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson
Jacqueline Kennedy:Historical Conversations on Life with John Kennedy by Caroline Kennedy
The Wright Brothers by David McCullogh
Best Historical Fiction
The Agony and the Ectasy by Irving Stone
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Pope Joan by Donna W. Cross
Trinity by Leon Uris
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
March by Geraldine Brooks
The Things They Carried by Tim Obrien
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
A Bell for Adono by John Hersey
The Maids Version by Daniel Woodrell
The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman
West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge
Horse by Geraldine Brooks
Pompeii by Robert Harris
Best Fantasy
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
This Perfect Day by Ira Levin
Least Favorite
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
The Shape of Snakes by Minette Walkers
100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
She's come Undone by Wally Lamb
The Bridges of Madison County by Robert Waller
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Cold Mountain by Charles Fraizer
The River Wife by Jonis Agee
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Hot Flash Holidays by Nancy Thayer
The Girl with the Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
River of Doubt by Candice Millard
The Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst
The Christmas Wedding by James Patterson
Inferno by Dan Brown
Pulitzer Prize Winners for Novel/Fiction
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Runaway by Alice Munro
Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
All the Light We Can Not See by Anthony Doerr
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Independence Day by Richard Ford
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
Beloved by Toni Morrison
A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
March by Geraldine Brooks
A Bell for Adano by John Hersey