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MONTH TITLE AUTHOR
2009-2010    
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