2002

• Lumber Queen, Ellen C. Anderson
• 50 Russian Winters, Margaret Wetzler
• Friend of My Youth, Alice Munro
• Refuge, Terry Tempest Williams
• Otherwise, Jane Kenyon
• The Red Tent, Anita Diament
• In the Fall, Jeffrey Lent
• The Old American, Ernest Hebert
• Bee Season, Myla Goldberg

2003

• The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Rebecca Wells
• Celestine Prophecy, James Redfield
• Nanny Diaries, Emma McLaughlin, Mary Poppins, P.L. Travers
• The Golden Compass, Phillip Pullman
• Still Alive: a Holocaust Girlhood Remembered, Ruth Kluger
• O’ Artful Death, Sarah Stewart Taylor
• The Lone Woman, Bernardo Atxaga
• East of Eden, John Steinbeck
• To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

2004

• Coming of Age in Mississippi, Ann Moody, Birmingham Jail Speech, M.L.K.
• The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
• The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
• Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris
• The Art of Happiness, Dalai Lama
• Beekeeper’s Apprentice, Laurie King
• Elegance, Kathleen Tessaro, Elegance, Genevieve Antoine Dariaux
• Ahab’s Wife, Sena Jeter Naslund
• Helen Keller, Helen Keller, excerpts from Lies My Teacher Told Me
• The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
• Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn
• Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom

2005

• The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
• How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Julia Alvarez
• Kitchen God’s Wife, Amy Tan
• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, Barbara Ehrenreich
• My Sister’s Keeper, Jodi Picoult
• The Ladies Auxillary, Tova Mirvis
• There is Room For You, Charlotte Bacon
• The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Ann BrasharesQueen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip,
• Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence, Rosalind Wiseman
• The House of Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini

2006

• Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterson
• Stark Decency, Allen Koop
• Thurber Carnival, James Thurber
• Clay’s Quilt, Silas House
• Pudd’n Head Wilson, Mark Twain
• The Optimist’s Daughter, Eudora Welty
• Outlander, Diana Galbadon
• Night, Elie Weisel
• Our Endangered Values, Jimmy Carter
• Losing the Garden, Laura Waterman
• The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis

2007

• Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
• Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Bel Canto, Ann Patchett
• When The Spirit Catches You, You Fall Down, Anne Fadiman
• Burning Margueritte, Elizabeth Inness-Brown
• Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
• Atonement, Ian McEwan
• Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
• Witch of Blackbird Pond, Elizabeth George Speare
• Gift of the Magi, O. Henry

2008

• Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert
• Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen
• Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
• Year of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks
• The Dress Lodger, Sheri Holman
• Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
• The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
• The American Band, Kristin Laine
• The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafan
• Born Confused, Tanuja Desai Hidier
• For One More Day, Mitch Albom (bumped to 2009)
• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Sijie Dai (bumped to 2009)

2009

• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
• The Last Best League: One Summer, One Season, One Dream by Jim Collins
• My Mother, Your Mother: Embracing “Slow Medicine,” the
• Compassionate Approach to Caring for Your Aging Loved Ones by
• Dennis Mccullough
• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
• The Magician’s Assistant by Ann Patchett
• The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve
• Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
• Digging to America by Anne Tyler
• The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
• Holes by Louis Sachar
• Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a
• Time by Greg Mortenson

2010

• The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
• March by Geraldine Brooks
• The Unthinkable by Amanda Ripley
• Ship of Gold and the Deep Blue Sea by Gary Kinder
• Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Stout
• The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
• Coyote Waits by Tony Hillerman
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo
• Mutant Message by Marlo Morgan
• My Losing Season by Pat Conroy
• Anthem by Ayn Rand
• Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote

2011

• Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• Bess W. Truman by Margaret Truman
• A Year on Lady Bug Farm by Donna Ball
• The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
• Accordian Crimes by Annie Proulx
• Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
• Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough

2012

• Faithful Place by Tana French
• The Giant’s House by Elizabeth McCraken
• Moloka’i by Alan Brennert
• Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
• Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan
• White Oleander by Janet Fitch
• The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba
• No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: the Homefront in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin
• One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus
• Postmistress by Sarah Blake
• Fun Home: a Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

2013

• Hay Fever:  how chasing a dream on a Vermont Farm . . .  by Angela Miller
• Gentlemen and Players by Joanne Harris
• The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
• The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty
• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
• One Good Dog by Susan Wilson
• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
• Two Old Coots in a Canoe by David Morine
• Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• Lit by Mary Karr
• Still Alice by Lisa Genova

2014

• Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• Talk Funny Girl by Roland Merulto
• Cup of Tea by Amy Ephron
• Sarah’s Key by Tatiana De Rosnay
• Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
• Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan Philipp Sendker
• Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin
• Christy by Catherine Marshall
• Merle’s Door by Ted Kerasole
• Here If You Need Me by Kate Braestrup

2015

• Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
• The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
• My Antonia by Willa Cather
• They Came to Baghdad by Agatha Christie
• Patty Jane’s House of Curl by Lorna Landvik
• Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
• My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor
• Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
• Norwegian by Night by Derek Miller
• Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant by Roz Chast

2016

• Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
• Plainsong by Kent Haruf
• Desert Queen by Janet Wallach
• Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
• Many Lives, Many Masters by Brian Weiss
• The Road Unsalted by Sonja Hakala
• Persuasion by Jane Austen
• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
• Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
• Lying Awake by Mark Salzman
• Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Book Store by Robin Sloan

2017

• The Last Child by John Hart
• Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper
• Stardust by Neil Gaiman
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisis Coates
• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
• Mystery on the Isles of Shoals by J. Dennis Robinson
• The Light Between Us by Laura Lynne Jackson
• The Road to Character by David Brooks
• The Soloist by Steve Lopez
• Duane’s Depressed by Larry McMurtry
• Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance

2018

• A Trail of Heart’s Blood Where Ever We Go by Robert Olmstead
• The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivy
• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantell
• Wonder by J.L. Palacio
• The Elephant Whisperer by Graham Spence
• The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff
• The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
• A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
• Left Neglected by Lisa Geneva
• Girlchild by Tupelo Hassman
• Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

2019

• Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
• The Hotel on Place Vendome by Tilar J. Mazzeo
• Life in a Jar: the Irene Sendler Project by Jack Mayer
• The Dinosaur Club by William Heffernan
• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
• Thunder Dog by Michael Hingson and Susy Flory
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• Light to My Path by Lynn Austin
• Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
• Killers of the Flower Moon by David Green
• The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson

2020

• Barkskins by Annie Proulx
• Between the Lines by Samantha van Leer & Jodi Picoult
• Trans-Sister Radio by Chris Bohjalian
• Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
•  Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
• Educated: a Memoir by Tara Westover
• LaRose by Louise Erdrich
• Storyteller by Jodi Picoult

2021

• Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery
• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
• To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
• Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan
• Sourdough by Robin Sloan
• The World to Come by Dara Horn
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes AND The Bookwomen of Troublesome Creek by Kim Richardson
• Just Mercy: a Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
• The Orphan Tale by Pam Jenoff
•  The Lost Man by Jane Harper

2022

• The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware
• The Visionist by Rachel Urquhart
• Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• The Invisible Husband of Frick Island by Colleen Oakley
• The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck
• The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
• The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
• The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict
• One-in-a-Million Boy by Monica Wood
• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

2023

• They Called Us Enemy by George Takei
• Frederick Douglas: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight
• Beartown by Fredrik Backman
• 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
• For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
• The Last Traverse: Tragedy and Resilience in the Winter Whites by Ty Gagne
• The 2nd Life of Mirielle West by Amanda Skenandore
• The Girls of August by Ann Rivers Siddon
• Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmish
• Horse by Geraldine Brooks
• Skipping Christmas by John Grisham

2024

• Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
• The Art Thief by Michael Finkel
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
• The Endless Steppe: Growing up in Siberia by Esther Hautzig
• Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcom Gladwell
• The Zookeeper’s Wife by Dianne Ackerman
• Spartina by John Casey
• These Precious Days by Anne Patchett
• True Biz by Sara Novic
• Across That Bridge by John Lewis