2018

Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger – November 2018
Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson – Black Rock 2018
In the Midst of Winter by Isabel Allende – July 2018
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn – May 2018
Ahab’s Wife: Or, The Star-Gazer by Sena Jeter Naslund – March 2018
Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf – January 2018

2017

Gonzalez and Daughter Trucking Co.: A Road Novel with Literary License by Maria Amparo Escandon – November 2017
The Leavers by Lisa Ko – Black Rock 2017
The Patriots by Sana Krasikov – July 2017
The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman – May 2017
Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea – March 2017
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Culture and Family in Crisis by J. D. Vance – January 2017

2016

Disgruntled by Asali Solomon – November 2016
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman – Black Rock 2016
The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks – July 2016
Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People by Nadia Bolz-Weber – June 2016
The Truth According to Us by Annie Barrows – April 2016
The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker – January 2016

2015

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – November 2015
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee – Black Rock 2015
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee – Black Rock 2015
God Help the Child by Toni Morrison – August 2015
China Dolls by Lisa See – May 2015

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo – March 2015
The Testament by John Grisham – January 2015

2014

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt – November 2014
Chasing Fireflies by Charles Martin – Black Rock 2014
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou – July 2014
Wonder by R.J. Palacio – May 2014
Surprised by Oxford Carolyn Webber – April 2014
The World we Found by Thrity Umrigar – February 2014

2013

When Women were Birds By Terry Tempest Williams – November 2013
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini – Black Rock 2013
Bone River by Megan Chance – July 2013
She Matters: A Life in Friendships by Susanna Sonnenberg – May 2013
Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver – March 2013
11/22/63 by Stephen King – January 2013

2012

The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian – November 2012
Arcadia by Lauren Groff – Black Rock 2012
The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins – July 2012
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer – May 2012
The Mighty Queens of Freeville by Amy Dickinson – March 2012
Sing you Home by Jodi Picoult – January 2012

2011

Watership Down by Richard Adams – November 2011
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand – Black Rock 2011
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford –July 2011
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein – May 2011
The Distant Hours by Kate Morton – March 2011
A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L’Engle – January 2011

2010

The Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende – November 2010
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese – Black Rock 2010
Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story By Sue Monk Kidd And Ann Kidd Taylor – July 2010
Little Bee by Chris Cleave – June 2010
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer – March 2010
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver – January 2010

2009

The Help by Kathryn Stockett – November 2009
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell – Black Rock 2009
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood – August 2009
Beachcombing for a Shipwrecked God by Joe Coomer – June 2009
The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb – March 2009
The Shack by William Young – January 2009

2008

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah – November 2008
The Soloist by Steve Lopez – Black Rock 2008
Proverbs of Ashes by Rita Nakashima Brock and Rebecca Ann Parker – July 2008
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen – May 2008
Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace -One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin – March 2008
The Used World by Haven Kimmel – January 2008

2007

The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls – November 2007
Waiting for Snow in Havana by Carlos Eire – Black Rock 2007
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez – July 2007
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss – May 2007
The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman’s Journey from Christian Tradition by Sue Monk Kidd – March 2007
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole – January 2007

2006

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides – November 2006
Zorro by Isabel Allende – Black Rock 2006
Any Place I Hang My Hat by Susan Isaacs – August 2006
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel – June 2006
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini – April 2006
Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt by Anne Rice – February 2006

2005

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire – December 2005
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving – Black Rock 2005
March by Geraldine Brooks – July 2005
The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru – May 2005
The Known World by Edward P. Jones – March 2005
Circle of Grace by Penelope J. Stokes – January 2005

2004

Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi – November 2004
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers – September 2004
Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor – July 2004
Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik – May 2004
The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride – March 2004
Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros – January 2004

2003

Blue Shoe by Anne Lamott – November 2003
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd – September 2003
Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris – July 2003
The Price of a Child by Lorene Cary – May 2003
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger – March 2003
A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel – January 2003

2002

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant – October 2002
Unless by Carol Shields – July 2002
The Ladies Auxiliary by Tova Mirvis – May 2002