1998-1999

• The Samurai’s Garden by Gail Tsukiyama
• The Color of Water by James McBride
• Wild Swans by Jung Chang
• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
• Notorious Victoria by Mary Gabriel

1999-2000

Group 1

• Wait until Next Year by Doris Kearns Goodwin
• The Art of Happiness by Dalai Lama
• Truman by David McCullough
• God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
• I know this much is true by Wally Lamb
• The New New Thing by Michael Lewis
• Snow in August by Pete Hamill
• The Hairstons by Henry Wiencek
• Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende

Group 2

• Princess by Jean Sasson
• Living with our Genes by Dean Hamer and Peter Copeland
• Lady Chatterley’s Lover and The Story of O
• The Golden Rope by Susan Schaffer
• Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
• The Pilot’s Wife by Anita Shreve
• The Underpainter by Jane Urquhart
• Mutant Message by Marlo Morgan

2000-2001

• Where the Heart is by Billie Lett
• Ahab’s Wife: Or a Stargazer by Sena Jeter Nasland
• The Willow Tree by Herbert Selby
• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
• Falling Leaves by Adeline Mah
• Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
• House of Sand and Fog by André Dubus
• An Equal Music by Vikram Seth
• The Secret Book of Gracia del Rossi by Jacqueline Parks
• The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

2001-2002

• Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernières
• Losing Julia by Jonathan Hull
• Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
• Season of Sun and Rain by Marjorie Dorner
• Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik
• Personal History by Katharine Graham
• The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan
• Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
• The Desert Queen by Janet Wallace
• Empress of the Splendid Season by Oscar Hijuleos
• Sandman by Bob Drews

2002-2003

• John Adams by David McCullough
• Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpra Lahiri
• From Heavenly Lake by Vikram Seth
• Hanna’s Daughters by Marianne Fredriksson
• Travels with Charlie – In Search of America by John Steinbeck
• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
• The Nanny Diaries by E. Mc Laughlin and N. Kraus
• The Spirit Catches you and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
• Speed of Light by Elizabeth Rosner

2003-2004

• Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
• Leap of Faith by Queen Noor of Jordan
• Hunger of Memory – The Education of Richard Rodriguez by Richard Rodriguez
• Ciao America by Beppe Severgnini
• A Thousand Days in Venice by Marlena de Blasi
• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
• Last Jew by Noah Gordon
• Passion of Artemisa by Susan Vreeland
• Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

2004-2005

• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
• Turbulent Souls by Stephen Dubner, Non-Fiction
• Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx, Fiction
• Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafiss, Non-Fiction
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, Fiction
• The Book Seller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad, Non-Fiction
• The Namesake by Jumpa Lahiri, Fiction
• Lost in America by Sherwin Nuland, Non-Fiction
• The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler, Fiction
• Madame Secretary by Madeline Albright, Non-Fiction

2005-2006

• Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald (fiction)
• The Barbary Plague by Marilyn Chase (non-fiction)
• The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle (fiction)
• Home Town by Tracy Kidder (non-fiction)
• Song of the Exile by Kiana Davenport (fiction)
• Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer (non-fiction)
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (fiction)
• Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser (non-fiction)
• Searching for Hassan: A Journey to the Heart of Iran by Terence Ward (non-fiction)

2006-2007

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2007-2008

• The Inheritance of Loss, by Kiran Desai (fiction).
• A Year in The World (Journey of a Passionate Traveler), by Frances Mayes (non-fiction).
• Suite Française, by Irene Nemirovsky (historical fiction).
• Funny in Farsi, by Firoozeh Dumas (non-fiction).
• The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, by Kim Edwards (fiction).
• Three Cups of Tea, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (non-fiction).
• The Big Rock Candy Mountain, by Wallace Stegner (fiction).
• The Beak of The Finch, by Jonathan Weiner (non-fiction).
• Snow Flower and The Secret Fan, by Lisa See (fiction).
• I Feel Bad About My Neck, and Other Thoughts On Being A woman, by Nora Ephron (non-fiction).

2008-2009

• Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, by Edmund Morris (non-fiction)
• A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khalid Hosseini (fiction)
• The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, by Lawrence Wright (non-fiction)
• His Excellency: George Washington, by Joseph J Ellis (non-fiction)
• Little Heathens – Hard times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression, by Mildred Armstrong Kalish (memoir)
• Recapitulation, by Wallace Stegner (fiction)
• Desert Queen, by Janet Wallach (non-fiction)
• Water For Elephants, by Sara Gruen (fiction)
• The Zookeeper’s Wife, by Diane Ackerman (non-fiction)
• Unaccustomed Earth, by Jhumpa Lahiri (fiction)

2009-2010

• Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Dorothy Kearns Goodwin (non-fiction, 754 pp)
• Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay (fiction, 294 pp)
• Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky (fiction, 288pp)
• A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini & Richard Lannon (non-f, 260 pp)
• The Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell (non-fiction, 320 pp)
• Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (professor of internal medicine at Stanford University) (fiction, 541 pp)
• Leaving Mother Lake : A Girl at the End of the World, by Yang Erche Namu and Christine Mathieu (non-fiction, 293 pp)
• The House Of Mondavi by Julia Flynn Siler (non-fiction, 452 pp)
• The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga, (fiction, 276 pp)
• Ten Discoveries That Rewrote History by Patrick Hunt, Stanford University Archaeologist (non-fiction, 226 pp)
• Saint Joan of Arc by Vita Sackville-West (non-fiction, 342 pp)

2010-2011

• The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson (fiction, 608 pages)
• Big Short by Michael Lewis (non-fiction, 266 pages)
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (fiction, 290 pages)
• The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer (fiction, 195 pages)
• Half the Sky by Nicholas Kristoff & Sheryl WuDunn (non-fiction., 253 pages)
• Mao’s Last Dancer by Li Cunxin (fiction, 444 pages)
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett (fiction, 444 pages)
• In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin (fiction, 256 pages)
• Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (fiction, 270 pages)
• The New Earth: Create a Better Life by Elkhart Tolle (non-fiction, 336 pages)
• The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein (fiction, 336 pages)

2011-2012

• Fall of Giants (2010) by Ken Follett.
• Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
• The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
• Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson
• Love by Toni Morrison
• The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
• The Speed of Light by Elizabeth Rosner
• Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
• Unbroken, A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
• Out of Egypt : A Memoir by Andre Aciman

2012-2013

• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson (NF)
• Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks (F)
• Defending Jacob by William Landay (F)
• Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake by Anna Quindlen (NF)
• The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy in Wartime by Jennet Conant (NF)
• Winter of the World by Ken Follett (F)
• Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman (NF)
• THe 19th Wife by David Ebershoff (F)
• Rules of Civility by Amor Towles (F)
• 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles Mann (NF)
• The Mitford Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family by Mary S. Lowell (NF)

2013-2014

• New York by Edward Rutherford
• Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable
• Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden
• And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
• Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg
• The Round House by Louise Erdrich
• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t
• Stop Talking by Susan Cain
• Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende
• The Art of Happiness by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
• American Tapestry: The Story of the Black, White and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama by Rachel L. Swarns

2014-2015

• The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
• Let’s Don’t Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
• Under the Wide & Starry Sky: A Novel by Nancy Horan
• Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
• The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro
• Mellon: An American Life by David Cannadine
• Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross
• The Light Between Oceans by M.L.Stedman
• Boys in the Boat by Daniel Brown
• The Gravity of Birds by Tracy Guzeman
• Edge of Eternity: Book Three of The Century Trilogy by Ken Follet

2015-2016

Group 1

• First Mothers: The Women who Shaped the Presidents by Bonnie Angelo
• The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
• The Rosie Project by Graeme Simon
• Being Mortal by Atal Gawande
• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondo
• Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
• The Elements of Eloquence: Secrets of the Perfect Turn of Phrase by Mark Forsyth
• Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
• The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown

Group 2

• Pope Joan: A Novel by Donna Woolfolk Cross
• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
• Elon Musk (biography of Tesla founder) by Ashley Vance
• The Zealot (the story of the historical Jesus ) by Reza Aslan
• And Then All Hell Broke Loose – Two Decades in the Middle East by Richard Engle
• Gellhorn: A Twentieth Century Life by Caroline Moorehead,
• A Better Financial Life by Craig Birk

2016-2017

Group 1

• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
• The Road to Character by David Brooks
• Elizabeth Street by Laurie Fabiano
• The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende
• When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
• My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
• Tangled Vines: Greed, Murder, Obsession, and an Arsonist in the Vineyards of California by Frances Dinkelspiel
• Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
• And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East by Richard Engle
• Orhan’s Inheritance by Aline Ohanesian
• Circling the Sun by Paula McLain

Group 2

• Midnight in Broad Daylight: a Japanese American Family Caught between Two Worlds, by Pamela Rotner Sakamoto
• An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy by Rick Atkinson
• The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
• Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
• Dear Leader: My Escape from North Korea by Jang Jin-sung
• Dungeon, Fire and Sword: The Knights Templar in the Crusades, by John J. Robinson
• Great Again: How to Fix Our Crippled America, by Donald J. Trump
• Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip, by Peter Hessler
• Quiet: the Power of Introverts In a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
• The Book That Changed America: How Darwin’s Theory of Evolution Changed a Nation by Randall Fuller
• The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone
• No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance by Glenn Greenwald

2017-2018

Group 1

• America’s First Daughter by Stephanie Dray & Laura Kamoie
• Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism and Michael Rockafeller’s Tragic Quest for Primitive Art by Carl Hoffman
• The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak
• Miller’s Valley, by Anna Quindlen
• The Five Forty Five to Cannes by Tess Uriza Holthe
• Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance
• Dictionary Of Mutual Understanding by Jackie Copelton
• Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
• A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Blackman
• A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towle
• Across Many Mountains by Yangzom Brauen

Group 2

• The United States Constitution: What it Says, What it Means: A Hip Pocket Guide by the Founding Fathers and JusticeLearning.org
• The Death of Expertise by Tom Nichols
• The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (Volume Two of The Liberation Trilogy, by Rick Atkinson
• Andrew Mellon: An American Life by David Cannadine
• Beyond the Messy Truth, by Van Jones
• Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice, by Bill Browder
• Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, by Atul Gawande
• Recommended additional reading: How We Die: Reflections of Life’s Final Chapter by Sherwin Nuland

2018-2019

Group 1

• Seven Types of Ambiguity by Elliot Perlman
• Why we sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew P. Walker
• The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Liz See
• My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrick Backman
• The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korea Defector’s Story by Hyeonseo Lee
• The Woman in the Window by A/J. Finn
• The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
• Educated by Tara Westover
• Americanah by Chimannanda Ngozo Adichie
• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
• Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman’s Awakening by Manal Al-Sharif

Group 2

• The United States Constitution: What it Says, What it Means: A Hip Pocket Guide, by the Founding Fathers and JusticeLearning.org
• The Death of Expertise by Tom Nichols
• The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (Volume Two of The Liberation Trilogy, by Rick Atkinson
• Andrew Mellon: An American Life by David Cannadine
• Beyond the Messy Truth, by Van Jones
• Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice, by Bill Browder
• Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, by Atul Gawande
• Recommended additional reading: How We Die: Reflections of Life’s Final Chapter by Sherwin Nuland

2019-2020

• The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
• Bad Blood:Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
• The Island of Sea Women by Lisa SeeThe Lemon Tree: An Arab, A Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan
• The Other Americans by Laila Lalami
• Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
• The Lost Girls of Paris by Pam Jenoff
• The Disappearing Earth by Julia Philips
• The Prague Sonata by Bradford Morrow
• Becoming by Michelle Obama

2022-2023

• Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
• A Paris Apartment by Michelle Gable
• This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
• The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan
• It Girl by Ruth Ware
• Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps that Explain Everything about the World by Tim Marshall
• The Lincoln Highway  by Amor Towles
• Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
• Who killed Jane Stanford? by Richard White
• The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill
• The Magnolia Palace by Fiona Davis
• Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Putin’s Wrath by Bill Browder
• The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson

2023-2024

• The Magnolia Palace by Fiona Davis
• The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post by Allison Pataki
• Happy Place by Emily Henry
• Burnt: a Memoir of Fighting Fire by Clare Frank
• West with Giraffes by Linda Ruthledge
• Empire Builder: John D. Spreckles and the Making of San Diego by Sandra Bonura
• The Johnston Flood
• Demon Copperhead by Barbara KIngsolver
• Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane
• Horse by Geraldine Brooks
• The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
• Simple Lies by David Baldacci
• Empire of Pain: the Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe

2024-2025

• Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Raphael Affair by Iain Pears
• Between Two Kingdoms : A Memoir of a Life Interrupted Trust by Suleika Jaouad
• Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
• The Last Animal by Ramona Ausubel
• The Women by Kristin Hannah
• The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict
• The Stolen Coast by Dwyer Murphy
• All you have to do is call by Kerru Maher
• Inheritance: A Memoir, Genealogy, Paternity, and Love by Dani Shapiro
• The Little Liar by Mitch Albom

2025-2026

• A Death in Venice by Frank Tallis
• Self-Made Man by Norah Vincent
• No Two Persons by Erica Baumeister