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
2025
- Tenth of December by George Saunders
- The Great Bridge by David McCullough
- The Fire Keeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
- This Other Eden by Paul Harding
- Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
- My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
- I Married Adventure by Osa Johnson
- Becoming Madame Secretary by Stephanie Dray
- On Animals by Susan Orleans
- Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
- North Woods by Daniel Mason