2011 |
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| January | How to Cook a Wolf and Gastronomical me | MFK Fisher |
| February | The Hiding Place | Trezza Azopardi |
| April | Bitter in the Mouth | Monica Truong |
| May | Remarkable Creatures | Tracy Chevalier |
| June | Just Kids | Patti Smith |
| August | Case Histories | Kate Atkinson. |
| September | Digging to America | Anne Tyler |
| October | Foreign Bodies | Cynthia Ozick |
| November | First Desire | Nancy Reisman |
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2010 |
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| January | The Little Stranger | Sarah Waters |
| February | The Red Queen | Margaret Drabble |
| March | The Confessions of Edward Day | Valerie Martin |
| April | The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks | Rebecca Skloot |
| May | Small Island | Andrea Levy |
| June | The Idea of Perfection | Kate Grenville |
| August | The Space Between Us | Thrity Umrigar |
| September | The Line | Olga Grushin |
| October | Shadow Tag | Louise Erdrich |
| November | Age of Innocence | Edith Wharton's |
2009 |
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| February | Plum Wine | Angela Davis Gardner |
| March | We Need to Talk About Kevin | Lionel Shriver |
| April | People of the book | Geraldine Brooks |
| May | A hole in the Universe | Mary McGarry Morris |
| August | Fault Lines and The Guernsey Literary + Potato Peel Pie Society |
Nancy Huston Mary Ann Shaffer |
| September | Hummingbird's Daughter | Luis Alberto Urrea |
| October | Laura Rider's Masterpiece (planned) | Jane Hamilton |
| December | Plague of Doves | Louise Erdrich |
2008 |
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| January | Half of a Yellow Sun | Adichie, Chimamanda Ngoz |
| February | Special Topics in Calamity Physics | Marisha Pessl |
| March | Martha Quest | Doris Lessing |
| April | Madame Mao | Anchee Min |
| May | Origin | Diana Abu-Jaber |
| July | Astrid and Veronika | Linda Olsson |
| August | The Book Thief | Markus Zusak |
| October | The Tenderness of Wolves | Steph Penney |
| November | Land f No Right Angles | Daphne Beal |
| December | The Gardens of Kyoto | Kate Walbert |
2007 |
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| January | Soldiers Don't Go Mad | Mary Rodriguez |
| February | Wickett's Remedy | Myla Goldberg |
| March | The Inheritance of Loss | Kiran Desai |
| April | How the Light Gets In | MJ Hyland |
| May | Sex Wars | Marge Piercy |
| July | The Year of Magical Thinking | Joan Didion |
| August | The Thirteenth Tale | Diane Setterfield |
| September | Fruit of the Lemon | Andrea Levy |
| October | On Beauty | Zadie Smith |
| November | Queen of the Tambourine | Jane Gardam |
2006 |
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| January | The Position | Meg Wolitzer |
| March | A Thread of Grace | Mary Doria Russell |
| April | Truth and Beauty | Anne Patchett |
| May | Time Traveler’s Wife | Audrey Niffenegger |
| June | She’s not There | Jennifer Finney Boylan |
| July | Memento Mori | Muriel Spark |
| August | Interpreter of Maladies | Jhumpa Lahiri |
| September | March | Geraldine Brooks |
| October | Memory Keeper’s Daughter | Kim Edwards |
| November | Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel | Lisa See |
| December | Master Butcher’s Singing Club | Louise Erdrich |
2005 |
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| January | The Summer before the Dark | Doris Lessing |
| February | Purple Hibiscus | Chimamanda Ngoz Adichie |
| March | Cassandra at the Wedding | Dorothy Baker |
| April | The Storyteller's Daughter | Saira Shah |
| June | The Radiant Way | Margaret Drabble |
| July | My Sister’s Keeper | Jodi Picoult |
| August | Optimist’s Daughter | Eudora Welty |
| September | The Other Boleyn Girl | Phillipa Gregory |
| October | Affinity | Sarah Waters |
| November | Crazy in the Kitchen | Louise DeSalvo |
2004 |
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| January | When the Elephants Dance | Tess Uriza Holthe |
| February | Middlesex | Jeffery Eugenides |
| March | Three Junes | Julia Glass |
| April | Reading Lolita in Tehran | Azar Nafisi |
| May | Look at Me | Jennifer Egan |
| June |
Dining Out: Secrets from America's Leading Critics, Chefs, and Restaurateurs |
Andrew Dornenburg & Karen Page |
| July | Little Friend | Donna Tart |
| August | The Photograph | Penelope Lively |
| September | Leaving Mother Lake | Yang Erche Namu & Christine Mathieu |
| October | Changing Planes | Ursala K LeGuinn |
| November | Mistress of Spices | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni |
2003 |
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| January | The Bone People | Keri Hulme |
| February | Unless | Carol Shields |
| March | The Lovely Bones | Alice Seybold |
| April | 5 Quarters of the Orange | Joann Harris |
| June | The Book of Salt | Monique Truong |
| June | The Secret Life of Bees | Sue Monk Kidd |
| August | Atonement | Ian McEwan |
| September | Sights Unseen | Kaye Gibbons |
| October | Twilight Sleep | Edith Wharton |
| November | Seabiscuit | Laura Hillenbrand |
2002 |
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| January | Ahab’s Wife | Sina Jeter Naslund |
| February | Comfort me with Apples | Ruth Reichel |
| March | Kaaterskill Falls | Allegra Goodman |
| April | The Lucky Gourd Shop | Joanna C. Scott |
| May | Don’t Let’s go to the Dogs Tonight | Alexandra Fuller |
| June | Pope Joan | Donna Woolfolk Cross |
| July | Bel Canto | Ann Patchet |
| August | American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood | Marie Arana |
| September | Dreaming in Cuban | Cristina Garcia |
| October | The Map of Love | Addaf Soueif |
2001 |
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| January | Chocolat | Joanne Harris |
| February | Strong for Potatoes | Cynthia Thayer |
| March | The Red Tent | Anita Diamant |
| April | Tipping the Velvet | Sarah Waters |
| May | Girl with a Pearl Earring | Tracy Chevalier |
| June | The Doctor | |
| July | Icy Sparks | Gwyn Hyman Rubio |
| August | Confessions of an Ugly Step Sister | Gregory Maguire |
| September | In the Name of Salome | Julia Alvarez |
| October | Nickel and Dimed | Barbara Ehrenreich |
| November | Stolen Lives: 20 years in a desert jail | Malika Oufkir |
2000 |
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| January | Peyton Place | Grace Metalious |
| February | What We Keep (and) Joy School | Elizabeth Berg |
| March | NP (and) Kitchen | Banana Yoshimoto |
| April | All True Adventures of Lidie Newton | Jane Smiley |
| May | The Chinchilla Farm | Judith Freeman |
| July | Handyman | Carolyn See |
| August | Bee Season | Myla Goldberg |
| September | While I was Gone | Sue Miller |
| October | Keeping Faith | Jodi Picault |
| November | Oyster | Janette Turner Hospital |
1999 |
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| December | Alias Grace | Margaret Atwood |
| November | Memoirs of a Geisha | Arthur Golden |
| October | Written on the Body | Jeanette Winterson |
| September | Sister of My Heart | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni |
| Magician’s Assistant | Anne Patchett | |
| June | Empty Without you | Rodger Streitmatter (Editor) |
| May | Autobiography of a Face | Lucy Grealy |
| April | Where the Heart is | Billy Letts |
| March | Yo | Julia Alvarez |
| February | What looks like Crazy on an Ordinary Day | Pearl Cleage |
| January | Poisonwood Bible | Barbara Kingsolver |
1998 |
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| November | Love Again | Doris Lessing |
| October | The God of Small Things | Arundhati Roy |
| September | Short History of a Prince | Jane Hamilton |
| August | Crooked Little Heart | Anne LaMott |
| July | The Golden Rope | Susan Fromberg Shaffer |
| June | Divine Secrets of the YaYa Sisterhood | Rebecca Wells |