2011 |
January
Heroes For My Son
by Brad Meltzer
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February
Plainsong by Kent Haruf
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March
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot |
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2010 |
January
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
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July
Open by Andre Agassi |
February
The Indifferent Stars Above by
Daniel James Brown
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August
Extremely Lound and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer |
March
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
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September
Flight by Sherman Alexie |
April
Spooner by Pete Dexter |
October
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
by Helen Simonson
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May
Pictures at a Revolution
by Mark Harris |
November
The Passage by Justin Cronin
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June
Bloodroot by Amy Greene |
December
Everything I Need To Know I Learned From A Children's Book
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2009 |
January
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle |
July
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer |
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February
Escape by Carolyn Jessop |
August
When Will There Be Good News? |
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March
The Know-it-all by A. J. Jacobs |
September
Olive Kitteredge by Elizabeth Strout |
April
Down the Nile: Alone In a Fisherman's Skiff by Rosemary Mahoney |
October
The Shipping News by Annie Proulx |
May
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich |
November
The Piano Teacher by Janice Y. K. Lee |
June
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga |
December
The Power of Art by Sidney Schama |
2008 |
January
Five Skies by Ron Carlson |
July
Beginner's Greek by James Collins |
February
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
by Mohsin Hamid |
August
Person of Interest by Susan Choi |
March
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks |
September
The Complete Persepolis
by Marjane Satrapi |
April
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen |
October
Gone Baby Gone by Dennis Lehane |
May
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak |
November
Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell |
June
The Girls by Lori Lansens |
December
What Is the What by Dave Eggers |
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January
Lisey's Story by Stephen King |
July
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
by Muriel Spark |
February
Skinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen |
August
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut |
March
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult |
September
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides |
April
One for the Money by Janet Evanovich |
October
A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini |
May
O Pioneers by Willa Cather |
November
The Road by Cormac McCarthy |
June
Lost Horizon by James Hilton |
December
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen |
2006 |
January
Different Seasons by Stephen King |
July
Something Wicked This Way Comes
by Ray Bradbury |
February
Little Big Man by Thomas Berger |
August
Blessings by Anna Quindlan |
March
The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler |
September
Life of Pi by Yann Martel |
April
The Princess Bride by William Goldman |
October
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
May
84, Charing Cross Road by Helen Hanff |
November
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson |
June
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini |
December
Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories by Jean Shepherd |
2005 |
January
The Mystery of Nancy Drew |
July
Time and Again by Jack Finney |
February
The Bear's House by Marilyn Sachs |
August
Timeline by Michael Crichton |
March
The Sword In the Stone by T. H. White |
September
The Water Is Wide by Pat Conroy |
April
Share-a-Book |
October
Generation Kill by Evan Wright |
May
Kindred by Octavia Butler |
November
The Glass Castle: A Memoir
by Jeannette Walls |
June
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon |
December
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain |
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January
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King |
July
Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz |
February
An Open Book: Coming of Age in the Heartland by Michael Dirda |
August
The River Why by David James Duncan |
March
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde |
September
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown |
April
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire |
October
False Images by Catherine Dunbar |
May
Home Town by Tracy Kidder |
November
The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell |
June
A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul |
December
A Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss |
2003 |
January
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon |
July
Mortal Stakes by Robert B. Parker
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February
Reversible Errors by Scott Turow |
August
White Teeth by Zadie Smith |
March
Skinwalkers by Tony Hillerman |
September
Reading Lolita in Teheran by Azar Nafisi |
April
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd |
October
Handling Sin by Michael Malone |
May
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency
by Alexander McCall Smith |
November
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon |
June
The Good German by Joseph Kanon |
December
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson |
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September
Empire Falls by Richard Russo |
October
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
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November
Carter Beats the Devil
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