| 2020 |
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| February |
Alcott, Louisa May |
Little Women |
| March |
Atwood, Margaret |
The Handmaid’s Tale |
| 2019 |
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| January |
Wein, Elizabeth |
Code Name Verity |
| February |
Rivers, Susan |
The Second Mrs. Hockaday |
| March |
Hannah, Kristin |
The Great Alone |
| April |
Box, C. J. |
Open Season |
| May |
Chast, Roz |
Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant |
| June |
Bates, Laura |
Shakespeare Saved My Life |
| July |
Wood, Monica |
The One-in-a-Million Boy |
| August |
Johnson, Steven |
The Ghost Map |
| September |
Picoult, Jodi |
Small Great Things |
| October |
Kohler, Sheila |
Once We Were Sisters |
| November |
Patrick, Phaedra |
The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper |
| December |
Higson, Charlie |
Silver Fin |
| 2018 |
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| January |
Brown, Daniel James |
The Boys in the Boat |
| February |
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins |
The Yellow Wallpaper |
| March |
Gyasi, Yaa |
Homegoing |
| April |
Vance, J. D. |
Hillbilly Elegy |
| May |
Moriarty, Liane |
The Husband’s Secret |
| June |
Noah, Trevor |
Born a Crime |
| August |
Baume, Sara |
Spill Simmer Falter Wither |
| September |
Philbrick, Nathaniel |
Mayflower |
| October |
Sweeney, Cynthia D’Aprix |
The Nest |
| November |
Ferraris, Zoe |
Finding Nouf |
| December |
Griffiths, Elly |
The Crossing Places |
| 2017 |
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| January |
Hooper, Emma |
Etta and Otto and Russell and James |
| February |
Hunt, Laird |
Neverhome |
| March |
Watson, Larry |
Montana 1948 |
| April |
Patchett, Ann |
The Patron Saint of Liars |
| May |
Mosher, Howard Frank |
Northern Borders |
| June |
Fisher, Carrie |
Postcards from the Edge |
| August |
Alvarez, Julia |
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents |
| September |
Strout, Elizabeth |
My Name is Lucy Barton |
| October |
Doctorow, E. L. |
Ragtime |
| November |
Morton, Kate |
The Distant Hours |
| December |
Towles, Amor |
Rules of Civility |
| 2016 |
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| January |
Kincaid, Jamaica |
My Garden (Book) |
| February |
Yousafzai, Malala |
I Am Malala |
| March |
Carter, Forrest |
The Education of Little Tree |
| April |
Backman, Fredrik |
A Man Called Ove |
| May |
Haruf, Kent |
Our Souls at Night |
| June |
Lee, Harper |
Go Set a Watchman |
| July |
Zevin, Gabrielle |
Storied Life of A. J. Fikry |
| August |
Meyer, Philipp |
The Son |
| September |
Wiesel, Elie |
Night |
| October |
Kline, Christina Baker |
Orphan Train |
| November |
Merullo, Roland |
Breakfast with Buddha |
| December |
Oliveira, Robin |
My Name is Mary Sutter |
| 2015 |
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| January |
Morrell, David |
Murder as a Fine Art |
| February |
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A winter tale – Reader’s choice |
| March |
Frasier, Charles |
Nightwoods |
| April |
Sendker, Jan-Phillipp |
The Art of Hearing Heartbeats |
| May |
Rasmussen, Rebecca |
The Bird Sisters |
| June |
Rendell, Ruth |
The Girl Next Door |
| July |
Chevalier, Tracy |
Remarkable Creatures |
| August |
Kidd, Sue Monk |
The Invention of Wings |
| September |
Lamb, Wally |
We Are Water |
| October |
Gladwell, Malcolm |
The Tipping Point |
| November |
Penny, Louise |
Still Life |
| December |
Kingsolver, Barbara |
Flight Behavior |
| 2014 |
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| January |
Petterson, Per |
Out Stealing Horses |
| February |
Ryan, Tom |
Following Atticus |
| March |
Collins, Suzanne |
Hunger Games |
| April |
Smith, Lee |
Guests on Earth |
| May |
London, Jack |
Call of the Wild |
| June |
Landay, William |
Defending Jacob |
| July |
Strout, Elizabeth |
The Burgess Boys |
| August |
Joyce, Rachel |
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry |
| September |
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| October |
Hillenbrand, Laura |
Unbroken |
| November |
Erdrich, Louise |
The Round House |
| December |
Doig, Ivan |
The Bartender’s Tale |
| 2013 |
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| January |
Waldman, Ayelet |
Red Hook Road |
| February |
Hall, Meredith |
Without a Map: A Memoir |
| March |
Watson, Steven J. |
Before I Go to Sleep |
| April |
Morgenstern, Erin |
The Night Circus |
| May |
Martel, Yan |
The Life of Pi |
| June |
Simonson, Helen |
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand |
| July |
DuMaurier, Daphne |
Rebecca |
| August |
Obreht, Tea |
The Tiger’s Wife |
| September |
Russo, Richard |
The Risk Pool |
| October |
Pavone, Chris |
The Expats |
| November |
Foer, Jonathan Safran |
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close |
| December |
Neville, Stuart |
Ratlines |
| 2012 |
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| January |
Ellroy, James |
Black Dahlia |
| February |
Perkins-Valdez, Dolen |
Wench |
| March |
Stuart, Julia |
The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortise |
| April |
Rachman, Tom |
The Imperfectionists |
| May |
Franklin, Tom |
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter |
| June |
Portis, Charles |
True Grit |
| July |
McCourt, Frank |
Teacher Man |
| August |
Cather, Willa |
Death Comes for the Archbishop |
| September |
Diffenbaugh, Vanessa |
The Language of Flowers |
| October |
Clark, Edie |
The Place He Made |
| November |
Brown, Eleanor |
The Weird Sisters |
| December |
Stockett, Kathryn |
The Help |
| 2011 |
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| January |
Alvord, Lori Arviso |
The Scalpel and the Silver Bear |
| February |
Lehane, Dennis |
The Given Day |
| March |
McLarty, Ron |
The Memory of Running |
| April |
Tsukiyama, Gail |
The Samurai’s Garden |
| May |
Hoffman, Alice |
The Story Sisters |
| June |
Rhodes, David |
Driftless |
| July |
Cleave, Chris |
Little Bee |
| August |
Doctorow, E. L. |
Homer and Langley |
| September |
Kristof, Nicholas D. |
Half the Sky |
| October |
Horan, Nancy |
Loving Frank |
| November |
Genova, Lisa |
Still Alice |
| December |
Ford, Jamie |
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter & Sweet |
| 2010 |
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| January |
O’Nan, Stewart |
Last Night at the Lobster |
| February |
Russell, Mary Doria |
The Sparrow |
| March |
Harrison, Colin |
The Finder |
| April |
Harrison, Jim |
True North |
| May |
Proulx, Annie |
Just the Way It Is |
| June |
Salinger, J.D. |
Catcher in the Rye |
| July |
Barry, Brunonia |
The Lace Reader |
| August |
Brooks, Geraldine |
People of the Book |
| September |
Schaffer, Mary Ann |
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society |
| October |
Robinson,Marilynne |
Gilead |
| November |
Wroblewski, David |
Edgar Sawtelle |
| December |
Greer, Andrew Sean |
The Story of a Marriage |
| 2009 |
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| January |
Bohjalian, Chris |
Before You Know Kindness |
| February |
Russell, Mary Doria |
A Thread of Grace |
| March |
Wood, Monica |
Any Bitter Thing |
| April |
Russo, Richard |
Bridge of Sighs |
| May |
Braestrup, Kate |
Here If You Need Me |
| June |
Krauss, Nicole |
The History of Love |
| July |
Revoyr, Nina |
The Age of Dreaming |
| August |
Lott, Brett |
A Song I Knew By Heart |
| September |
Fergus, Jim |
The Wild Girl |
| October |
King, Laurie |
The Beekeeper’s Apprentice |
| November |
Mosher, Howard Frank |
Waiting for Teddy Williams |
| December |
Pelletier, Cathie |
Nbeaming Sonny Home |
| 2008 |
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| January |
McCarthy, Cormac |
The Road |
| February |
Tyler, Anne |
Digging to America |
| March |
Haddon, Mark |
A Spot of Bother |
| April |
Montgomery, Sy |
The Good, Good pig |
| May |
Goodman, Carol |
The Seduction of Water |
| June |
Divakaruni, Chitra |
Sister of My Heart |
| July |
O’Brien, Tim |
The Things They Carried |
| August |
Kurson, Robert |
Crashing Through |
| September |
Kingsolver, Barbara |
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle |
| October |
Bloom, Amy |
Away |
| November |
Fowler, Therese |
Souvenir |
| December |
McCrumb, Sharyn |
The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter |
| 2007 |
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| January |
Sheldon, Sydney |
Morning, Noon, and Night |
| February |
Coben, Harlan |
No Second Chance |
| March |
Morrissey, Bill |
Edson |
| April |
Hahn, Mary |
The Old Wills Place |
| May |
McCullers, Carson |
Member of the Wedding |
| June |
Gruen, Sarah |
Water for Elephants |
| July |
Picoult, Jodi |
My Sister’s Keeper |
| August |
Davis, Cindy |
Voice from the Ashes |
| September |
McEwan. Ian |
Atonement |
| October |
Bradbury, Ray |
Fahrenheit 451 |
| November |
DeMille, Nelson |
The Charm School |
| December |
Brooks, Geraldine |
A Year of Wonders |
| 2006 |
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| January |
Foer, Jonathan Safran |
Everything Is Illuminated |
| February |
Hosseini, Khaled |
The Kite Runner |
| March |
Bacon, Charlotte |
There is Room for You |
| April |
Orwell, George |
1984 |
| May |
Lent, Jeffrey |
In the Fall |
| June |
Haddon, Mark |
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time |
| July |
Larson, Erik |
The Devil in the White City |
| August |
Niffenegger, Audrey |
The Time Traveler’s Wife |
| September |
Tryon, Thomas |
Lady |
| October |
Goodman, Ellen |
Value Judgements |
| November |
Mayor, Archer |
St. Alban’s Fire |
| December |
Albom, MItch |
Five People You Meet In Heaven |
| 2005 |
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| January |
Winchester, Simon |
The Professor and the Madman |
| February |
Clark, Mary Higgins |
Loves Music, Loves to Dance |
| March |
Shelton, Peter |
Climb to Conquer |
| April |
Hearn, Lian |
Across the Nightingale Floor |
| May |
Hegi, Ursula |
Stones from the River |
| June |
Lehane, Dennis |
Shutter Island |
| July |
Kincaid, Nanci |
As Hot as It Was You Ought to Thank Me |
| August |
Child, Lee |
Killing Floor |
| September |
Danticat, Edwidge |
Dew Breaker |
| October |
MacDonald, Ann-Marie |
The Way the Crow Flies |
| November |
Paley, Grace |
Later the Same Day |
| December |
Bohjalian, Chris |
Trans-Sister Radio |
| 2004 |
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| January |
Norden, Lewis |
Wolf Whistle |
| February |
Lehane, Dennis |
Mystic River |
| March |
Sebold, Alice |
The Lovely Bones |
| April |
Watson, Larry |
Montana 1948 |
| May |
Dubus, Andre, III |
The House of Sand and Fog |
| June |
Mayle, Peter |
A Year in Provence |
| July |
Mistry, Rohinton |
A Fine Balance |
| August |
Pedersen, Laura |
Last Call |
| September |
Hawthorne, Nathaniel |
The Scarlet Letter |
| October |
Simic, Charles |
A Fly in the Soup |
| November |
Picoult, Jodi |
Second Glance |
| December |
Casey, John |
Spartina |
| 2003 |
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| January |
Bryson, Bill |
I’m a Stranger Here Myself |
| February |
Llywelyn, Morgan |
1916: A Novel |
| March |
Michael C. White |
A Brother’s Blood |
| April |
Irving, John |
A Prayer for Owen Meany |
| May |
Frazier, Charles |
Cold Mountain |
| June |
Enger, Lief |
Peace Like a River |
| July |
Kidd, Sue Monk |
The Secret Life of Bees |
| August |
Dexter, Pete |
Paris Trout |
| September |
Parini, Jay |
Benjamin’s Crossing |
| October |
Brown, Rosellen |
Before and After |
| November |
Gardiner, John |
Grendel |
| December |
Grisham, John |
Skipping Christmas |
| 2002 |
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| January |
Edgerton, Clyde |
Raney |
| February |
Rich, Louise Dickinson |
We Took to the Woods |
| March |
Rowling, J.K. |
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s |
| April |
Proulx, E. Annie |
The Shipping News |
| May |
Erdrich, Louise |
The Bingo Palace |
| June |
Chevalier, Tracy |
Girl With a Pearl Earring |
| July |
Lansdale, Joe R. |
The Bottoms |
| August |
Diamant, Anita |
The Red Tent |
| September |
Hebert, Ernest |
The Old American |
| October |
Pullman, Philip |
The Golden Compass |
| November |
Collins, Wilkie |
The Woman in White |
| December |
Mayor, Archer |
Open Season |
| 2001 |
|
|
| January |
McBain, Ed |
Ghosts |
| February |
Bohjalian, Chris |
Water Witches |
| March |
Hillerman, Tony |
Skinwalkers |
| April |
Bank, Melissa |
The Girl’s Guide to Hunting and Fishing |
| May |
Baldacci, David |
Wish You Well |
| June |
MacDonald, Ann- Marie |
Fall on Your Knees |
| July |
Goodwin, Doris Kearns |
Wait Til Next Year |
| August |
Haruf, Kent |
Plainsong |
| September |
O’Brien, Tim |
In the Lake of the Woods |
| October |
Shreve, Anita |
Weight of Water |
| November |
Busch, Frederick |
Closing Arguments |
| December |
Schlink, Bernard |
The Reader |
| 2000 |
|
|
| January |
Patterson, Richard North |
The Final Judgment |
| February |
Bradford, Richard |
Red Sky at Morning |
| March |
Lipman, Elinor |
The Inn at Lake Devine |
| April |
Bragg, Rick |
All Over But The Shoutin’ |
| May |
Golden, Arthur |
Memoirs of a Geisha |
| June |
Kingsolver, Barbara |
The Poisonwood Bible |
| July |
Grisham, John |
A Time to Kill |
| August |
Ayn Rand |
The Fountainhead |
| September |
Parker, Robert |
The Spencer Novels |
| October |
Jenkins, Dan |
Semi-tough |
| November |
Grisham, John |
A Civil Action |
| December |
Lipman, Elinor |
Ladies Man |
| 1999 |
|
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| January |
Chandler, Raymond |
The Big Sleep |
| February |
Hall, Donald |
String too Short to Be Saved |
| February |
Kenyon, Jane |
A Boat of Quiet Hours: Poems |
| March |
Gibbons, Kaye |
Charms for the Easy Life |
| April |
Bohjalian, Chris |
Midwives |
| May |
Albom, Mitch |
Tuesdays with Morrie |
| June |
Guterson, David |
Snow Falling on Cedars |
| July |
Francis, Dick |
To the Hilt |
| August |
Bryson, Bill |
A Walk in the Woods |
| September |
Kingsolver, Barbara |
Pigs in Heaven |
| October |
Banks, Russell |
The Sweet Hereafter |
| November |
Block, Lawrence |
The Burglar In the Closet |
| December |
Junger, Sebastian |
The Perfect Storm |
| 1998 |
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| January |
Conway, Jill Ker |
The Road From Coorain |
| February |
Doyle, Roddy |
The Woman Who Walked Into Doors |
| March |
Burke, James Lee |
Heaven’s Prisoners |
| April |
Evanovich, Janet |
One for the Money |
| May |
Mosher, Howard Frank |
A Stranger in the Kingdom |
| June |
Rule, Rebecca |
The Best Revenge |
| July |
Bush, Barbara |
Barbara Bush Story |
| August |
Kidder, Tracy |
Among School Children |
| September |
Brown, Sam |
Crime of Coy Bell |
| October |
Smith, Lee |
Family Linen |
| November |
King, Tabitha |
Pearl |
| December |
Hubbel, Sue |
A Country Year |
| 1997 |
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| November |
Reynolds, Sheri |
Rapture in Canaan |
| December |
Sparks, Nicholas |
The Notebook |
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