2025 |
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| January | The Vanishing Half | Brit Bennett |
| February | The Sun Walks Down | Fiona McFarlane |
| April | The Cemetary of Untold Stories | Julia Alvarez |
| May | Absolution | Alice McDermot |
| June | Disoriental | Negar Djavadi |
| July | The Last Laugh | Lynn Freed |
| August | 33 Place Burgman | Alice Austen |
| September | The Spoon Stealer | Lesley Crewe |
| October | Quartet in Autumn | Barbara Pym |
| November | Fencing with the King | Abu-Jaber, Diana |
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2024 |
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| January | Odd Child Out | Gilly Macmillan |
| February | Sorrow and Bliss | Meg Mason |
| March | The Book of Lost Friends | Lisa Wingate |
| April | The Snow Child | Eowyn Ivey |
| May | Becoming Duchess Goldblatt | Anonymous |
| June | Unsettled | Anya Mathis |
| July | Someone | Alice McDermott |
| August | Celestial Bodies | Jokha Alharthi |
| September | Shrines of Gaiety | Kate Atkinson |
| October | Anita De Monte Laughs Last | Xochitl Gonzalez |
| November | Please Look After Mom | Kyung-Sook Shin |
| December | The Vanishing Half | Bennett, Brit |
2023 |
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| January | Winter | Ali Smith |
| February | Black River | S.M. Hulse |
| March | Rules for Visiting | Jessica Francis Kane |
| May | Band of Sisters | Lauren Willig |
| June | The Marriage Portrait | Maggie O'Farrell |
| July | Lucy by the Sea | Elizabeth Strout |
| August | No Fond Return of Love | Barbara Pym |
| September | The Great Believers | Rebecca Makkai |
| October | Our Missing Hearts | Celeste Ng |
| November | Arcadia | Lauren Groff |
| December | The Dictionary of Lost Words | Pip Williams |
2022 |
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| January | American Dirt | Jeanine Cummins |
| February | The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek | Kim Michele Richardson. |
| March | Fight Night | Mariam Toews |
| April | The Sentence | Louis Erdrich |
| May | Standard Deviation | Katherine Heiny |
| June | Bird Cloud | Annie Proulx |
| July | The Girl with the Louding Voice | Abi Daré |
| August | Oh William! | Elizabeth Strout |
| September | Matrix | Lauren Groff |
| October | The Seed Keeper | Diane Wilson |
| November | The Mercies | Kiran Millwood Hargrave |
| December | The Kitchen Front | Jennifer Ryan |
2021 |
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| January | Hum if You Don't Know the Words | Bianca Marais |
| March | The Night Watchman | Louis Erdrich |
| April | A Long Petal of the Sea | Isabelle Allende |
| May | Girl, Women, Other | Bernadine Everaisto |
| June | Summer of '69 | Elin Hilderbrand |
| July | Afterlife | Julia Alvarez |
| August | Weight of Ink | Rachel Kadish |
| September | Daughters of Yalta | Catherine Grace Katz |
| October | Hamnet | Maggie O'Farrell |
| December | Transcendant Kingom | Yaa Gyasi |
2020 |
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| January | Cantoras | Carolina De Robertis |
| February | The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane | Lisa See |
| March | Provence, 1970: M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the Reinvention of American Taste | Luke Barr |
| April | The Dutch House | Ann Patchett |
| May | Olive, Again | Elizabeth Strout |
| July | The Island of Sea Women | Lisa See |
| August | Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead | Olga Tokarczuk |
| September | Himself | Jess Kidd |
| October | Before We Were Yours | Lisa Wingate |
| November | Feast Your Eyes | Myla Goldberg |
| December | The Body in Question | Jill Ciment |
2019 |
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| January | NW | Zadie Smith |
| February | Ninth Hour | Alice McDermot |
| March | Shell Seekers | Rosemunde Pilcher |
| May | An American Marriage | Tayarii Jones |
| June | Animals Strike Curious Poses | Elena Passarello |
| July | Once Upon a River | Diane Setterfield |
| August | White Houses | Amy Bloom |
| September | God Help the Child | Toni Morrison |
| October | The Trouble with Goats and Sheep | Joanna Cannon |
| November | Mr. Loverman | Evaristo, Bernardine |
| December | Home Fire | Kamila Shamsie |
2018 |
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| January | My Brilliant Friend | Elena Ferrante |
| February | Music of the Ghosts | Vaddey Ratner |
| March | Lavinia | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| April | Some Sing, Some Cry | Ntozake Shange & Ifa Bayeza |
| May | A Spool of Blue Thread | Anne Tyler |
| June | Moon Tiger | Penelope Lively |
| August | Sing Unburied Sing | Jesmyn Ward |
| September | A Complicated Kindness | Mariam Toews |
| October | Beet Queen | Louise Erdrich |
| December | Little Fires Everywhere | Celeste Ng |
2017 |
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| January | The Door | Magda Szabo |
| February | LaRose | Louise Erdrich |
| March | The Sound of Gravel | Ruth Wariner |
| April | A Thin Bright Line | Lucy Jane Bledsoe |
| May | Last Friends | Jane Gardam |
| June | Ru | Kim Thuy |
| August | The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty | Vendela Vida |
| September | Idaho | Emily Ruskovich |
| October | Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self | Danielle Evans |
| November | Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? | Roz Chast |
| December | A Week in Winter | Maeve Binchey |
2016 |
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| January | Elizabeth is Missing | Emma Healey |
| February | West with the Night | Beryl Markham |
| March | Winner of the National Book Award | Jincy Willett |
| April | The Marriage of Opposites | Alice Hoffman |
| May | Caramelo | Sandra Cisneros |
| June | Persuasion | Jane Austen |
| July | The Turner House | Angela Flournoy |
| September | The Tale of Murasaki | Liza Dalby |
| October | The Vegetarian | Han Kang |
| November | The Tenth Gift | Jane Johnson |
2015 |
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| January | The Pure Gold Baby | Margaret Drabble |
| February | All the Birds Singing | Evie Wyld |
| March | The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox | Maggie O'Farrell |
| April | The Man In the Wooden Hat | Jane Gardam |
| June | The Paying Guests | Sarah Waters |
| July | Euphoria | Lily King |
| August | The Professor's House | Willa Cather |
| September | The Light Between Oceans | M.L. Stedman |
| October | The Stone Carvers | Jane Urquhart |
| November | Falling In Love | Donna Leon |
2014 |
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| January | Old Filth | Jane Gardam |
| February | Olive Kitteridge | Elizabeth Strout |
| March | When Women Were Birds | Terry Tempest Williams |
| April | Americanah | Ngozi Adichie |
| May | All the Little Live Things |
Wallace Stegner |
| June | The Interestings | Meg Wolitzer |
| July | Rebecca | Daphne Du Maurier |
| August | The Secret River | Kate Grenville |
| September | The Lowlands | Jhumpa Lahiri |
| October | The Tiger’s Wife | Téa Obreht |
| December | Are You My Mother | Alison Bechdel |
2013 |
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| January | Composed | Roseanne Cash |
| February | The Round House | Louise Erdrich |
| March | Inheritance | Lan Samatha Chang |
| April | A Changed Man | Francine Prose |
| May | Coastliners | Joanne Harris |
| July | Maya's Notebook | Isabel Allende |
| August | The Orchardist | Amanda Coplin |
| September | Run | Ann Patchett |
| October | A Tale for the Time Being | Ruth Ozeki |
2012 |
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| January | A Visit from the Good Squad | Jennifer Egan |
| February | Major Pettigrew's Last Stand | Helen Simonson |
| April | State of Wonder | Ann Patchett |
| May | What I Loved | Siri Hustvedt |
| June | The Year We Left Home | Jean Thompson |
| July | Swamplandia! | Karen Russell |
| August | Silver Sparrow | Tayari Jones |
| September | The Other Side of the Bridge | Mary Lawson |
| October | The Warmth of Other Suns | Isabel Wilkerson |
| November | The Long-Shining Waters | Danielle Sosin |
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 | Monique 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 |
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 | 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 | Ann 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 Picault |
| 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 | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| 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 | Ann 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 |