| MONTH |
TITLE |
AUTHOR |
| 2009-2010 |
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| April |
Columbine |
Dave Cullen |
| March |
Final Breath |
Kevin O'Brien |
| February |
Picking Cotton |
Jennifer Thompson-Cannino |
| January |
The Hunger Games |
Suzanne Collins |
| December |
Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life |
Amy Krouse Rosenthal |
| November |
Say You're One of Them |
Uwem Akpan |
| October |
In Defense of Food |
Michael Pollan |
| September |
The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian |
Sherman Alexie |
| 2008-2009 |
|
|
| April |
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down |
Anne Fadiman |
| March |
Suite Française |
Irène Némirovsky |
| February |
Watchmen |
Alan Moore |
| January |
Someone Knows My Name |
Lawrence Hill |
| December |
The Picture of Dorian Gray |
Oscar Wilde |
| November |
Better |
Atul Gawande |
| October |
The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao |
Junot Diaz |
| September |
The Center of Everything |
Laura Moriarty |
| 2007-2008 |
|
|
| May |
A Long Way Gone |
Ishmael Beah |
| April |
The Audacity of Hope |
Barack Obama |
| March |
Come Back |
Claire and Mia Fontaine |
| February |
The Book Thief |
Markus Zusak |
| January |
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid |
Bill Bryson |
| December |
What is the What |
Dave Eggars |
| November |
Imperial Life in the Emerald City |
Rajiv Chandrasekaran |
| Sept./Oct. |
Water For Elephants |
Sara Gruen |
| 2006-2007 |
|
|
| May |
Eat, Pray, Love |
Elizabeth Gilbert |
| April |
The Falls |
Joyce Carol Oates |
| March |
The Known World |
Edward P. Jones |
| February |
The Road |
Carmac McCarthy |
| January |
Courtroom 302 |
Steve Bogira |
| Nov./Dec. |
Saturday |
Ian McEwan |
| October |
The Tender Bar |
J.R. Moehringer |
| September |
The Glass Castle |
Jeannette Walls |
| 2005-2006 |
|
|
| May |
A Million Little Pieces |
James Frey |
| March |
The Know-It-All |
A.J. Jacobs |
| February |
The Year of Magical Thinking |
Joan Dideon |
| January |
Little Children |
Tom Perrotta |
| December |
The Last True Story I’ll Ever Tell |
John Crawford |
| November |
The Namesake |
Jhumpa Lahiri |
| 2004-2005 |
|
|
| April |
Little Scarlet |
Walter Mosley |
| March |
True Notebooks |
Mark Salzman |
| February |
Our Kind: a Novel in Stories |
Kate Walbert |
| January |
The Kite Runner |
Khaled Hosseini |
| Nov./Dec. |
A Short History of Nearly Everything |
Bill Bryson |
| October |
The Secret Life of Bees |
Sue Monk Kidd |
| September |
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs |
Chuck Klosterman |
| 2003-2004 |
|
|
| May |
The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living |
Martin Clark |
| April |
Running With Scissors |
Augusteen Burroughs |
| March |
Reading Lolita in Tehran |
Azar Nafisi |
| February |
Middlesex |
Jeffrey Eugenides |
| January |
The Human Stain |
Philip Roth |
| December |
Life of Pi |
Yann Martel |
| November |
The Policy |
Bentley Little |
| October |
Nickel and Dimed |
Barbara Ehrenreich |
| 2002-2003 |
|
|
| April |
Complications |
Atul Awande |
| March |
Atonement |
Ian McEwan |
| February |
Woodcuts of Women |
Dagoberto Gilb |
| January |
The Lovely Bones |
Alice Sebold |
| December |
The Corrections |
Jonathan Franzen |
| November |
Traveling Mercies |
Anne Lamott |
| October |
Peace Like a River |
Leif Enger |
| September |
The Scandalous Summer of Sissy LaBlanc |
Loraine Despres |
| 2001-2002 |
|
|
| April |
And Still We Rise |
Miles Corwin |
| March |
The Blind Assassin |
Margaret Atwood |
| February |
Fast Food Nation |
Eric Schlosser |
| January |
Beachcombing for a Shipwrecked God |
Joe Coomer |
| Nov./Dec. |
The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay |
Michael Chabon |
| October |
Endurance |
Alfred Lansing |
| September |
Me Talk Pretty One Day |
David Sadaris |
| 2000-2001 |
|
|
| June |
Bad Haircut: Stories of the 70s |
Tom Perrotta |
| May |
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius |
Dave Eggers |
| April |
Farmer |
Jim Harrison |
| March |
The Lives of a Cell |
Lewis Thomas |
| February |
Plainsong |
Kent Haruf |
| January |
L.A. Requiem |
Robert Crais |
| December |
The Story of a Million Years |
David Huddle |
| Oct./Nov. |
The Poisonwood Bible |
Barbara Kingsolver |
| September |
Zodiac |
Robert Graysmith |
| 1999-2000 |
|
|
| May |
The Hours |
Michael Cunningham |
| April |
Ship of Gold |
Gary Kinder |
| March |
Fade Away |
Harlan Coben |
| February |
Face of a Hero |
Louis Falstein |
| January |
The Cider House Rules |
John Irving |
| December |
Einstein’s Dreams |
Alan Lightman |
| November |
Memoirs of a Geisha |
Arthur Golden |
| October |
The Hot Zone |
Richard Preston |
| September |
The Reader |
Bernard Schlink |
| 1998-1999 |
|
|
| May |
Victims of Justice |
John Frisbie |
| April |
Animal Husbandry |
Laura Zigman |
| March |
The Measure of Our Days |
Jerome Groopman |
| Jan./Feb. |
Wobegon Days |
Garrison Keillor |
| Nov./Dec. |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest |
Ken Kesey |
| October |
Lucky You |
Carl Hiassen |
| September |
Cold Mountain |
Charles Frazier |
| 1997-1998 |
|
|
| June |
Into Thin Air |
Jon Krakauer |
| May |
The Killing Season |
Miles Corwin |
| April |
The Names of the Dead |
Stewart O’Nan |
| March |
Farewell, I’m Bound to Leave You |
Fred Chappell |
| February |
Montana 1948 |
Larry Watson |
| Dec./Jan. |
Of Lust and Dust |
Ernest J. Gaines |
| November |
A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain |
R.O. Butler |
| October |
A Civil Action |
Jonathan Harr |
| September |
The Giant’s House |
Susan McCracken |
| 1996-1997 |
|
|
| May |
Floaters |
Joseph Wambaugh |
| April |
A Confederacy of Dunces |
John Kennedy Toole |
| March |
The Book of Ruth |
Jane Hamilton |
| Jan./Feb. |
Suburban Guerillas |
Joseph Freda |
| December |
Under the Feet of Jesus |
Helena Maria Viramontes |
| November |
Bailey’s Café |
Gloria Naylor |
| October |
The Magic of Blood |
Dagoberto Gilb |
| 1995-1996 |
|
|
| June |
The Day After Tomorrow |
Allan Folsom |
| May |
Those Same Long Bones |
Gwendolyn Parker |
| April |
The Stone Diaries |
Carol Shields |
| March |
A Long Line of Dead Men |
Lawrence Block |
| February |
Snow Falling on Cedars |
David Guterson |
| January |
Stones From the River |
Ursula Hegi |
| Nov./Dec. |
In the Lake of the Woods |
Tim O’Brien |
| October |
So Far From God |
Ana Castillo |
| 1994-1995 |
|
|
| June |
The Celestine Prophesy |
James Redfield |
| June |
A Lesson Before Dying |
Ernest J. Gaines |
| May |
I am One of You Forever |
Fred Chappell |
| April |
Farewell, I’m Bound to Leave You |
Fred Chappell |
| March |
The Angle of Repose |
Wallace Stegner |
| February |
Smilla’s Sense of Snow |
Peter Hoeg |
| January |
The Shipping News |
E. Annie Proulx |
| December |
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? |
Peter Hedges |
| November |
The Bean Trees |
Barbara Kingsolver |
| October |
Jazz |
Toni Morrison |
| 1993-1994 |
|
|
| May |
A Thousand Acres |
Jane Smiley |
| April |
Bastard Out of Carolina |
Dorothy Allison |
| March |
The Things They Carried |
Tim O’Brien |
| February |
Children Of Men |
P.D. James |
| January |
Loves Music, Loves to Dance |
Mary Higgins Clark |
| December |
The Remains of the Day |
Kazuo Ishiguro |
| November |
Mama Day |
Gloria Naylor |
| October |
The Joy Luck Club |
Amy Tan |