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| 2010
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August 19 Alice Munro's Too Much Happiness (short stories) |
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June 17 Robert Goolrick's A Reliable Wife |
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May 20 Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart |
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April 15 Abraham Verghese's Cutting for Stone |
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March 18 Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird |
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February 18 Charles J. Shields' Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee |
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January 21 Tom Vanderbilt's Traffic: Why we Drive the Way we Do (& what it says about us) |
2009
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November 19 Naguib Mahfouz's Palace Walk |
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October 15 Jane Austen's Persuasion |
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September 17 Lee Smith's Fair and Tender Ladies |
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August 20 Gore Vidal's Lincoln |
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June 18 Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf |
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May 21 Jonathan Lethem's The Fortress of Solitude |
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April 16 Jeffrey Toobin's The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court |
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March 19 Brian Hall's I Should be Extremely Happy in Your Company: A Novel of Lewis & Clark |
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February 19 Diane C. Thomas' The Year The Music Changed: The Letters of Achsa McEachern-Isaacs & Elvis Presley |
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January 15 Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway |
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2008 |
| November 20 Susan Vreeland's Luncheon of the Boating Party |
| October 16 Steven Johnson's The Ghost Map |
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September 18 Charles Baxter's The Feast of Love |
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August 21 Denis Johnson's Tree of Smoke |
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June 19 David Quammen's The Reluctant Mr. Darwin |
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May 15 George Eliot's Middlemarch |
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April 17 Lisa See's Snow Flower and the Secret Fan |
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March 20 Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policeman's Union |
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February 21 Greg Mortenson's Three Cups of Tea |
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January 17 Anna Quindlen's Black and Blue |
2007
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November 15 Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine |
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October 11 Philip Roth's American Pastoral |
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September 20 Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time |
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August 16 David McCullough's 1776 |
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May 17 Ann Packer's The Dive from Clausen's Pier |
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April 19 Julia Glass' Three Junes |
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March 15 Mary Shelley's Frankenstein |
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February 15 Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking |
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January 18 Robertson Davies' Fifth Business |
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2006 |
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November 16th Jon Hassler's The Staggerford Flood: A Novel |
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October 19th Henry James' The Turn of the Screw |
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September 21st Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls |
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August 17th Richard Price's Samaritan |
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June 15th John Saul's The Unloved |
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May 18th David Sedaris' Dress Your Family in Corduroy & Denim |
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April 20th Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice |
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March 16th Patricia Cornwell's Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper -- Case Closed |
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February 16th Neil Gaiman's The Sandman Series and Art Spiegelman's Maus |
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January 19th Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran |
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2005 |
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November 17th Isabel Fonseca's Bury Me Standing: the Gypsies and Their Journey |
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October 20th Roddy Doyle's Barrytown Trilogy (The Commitments, The Snapper, The Van) |
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September 15th Charles Seife's Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea |
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August 18th Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay |
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June 16th Reader's Choice: Roger's Version, S, or A Month of Sundays by John Updike |
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May 19th Yann Martel's Life of Pi |
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April 21st Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint |
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March 17th Rick Moody's Garden State |
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February 17 Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game |
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January 20 Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence |
2004
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November 18 Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn |
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October 21 Richard Russo's Empire Falls |
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September 23 Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre |
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August 19 Anita Diamant's The Red Tent |
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June 17 Booth Tarkington's The Magnificent Ambersons |
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May 20 Caleb Carr's The Alienist |
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April 15 Vassily Aksyonov's Generations of Winter |
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March Gustav Flaubert's Madame Bovary |
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February Nick Hornby's About a Boy |
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January Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak |
2003
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November Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich |
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October An Hour Before Daylight by Jimmy Carter |
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September Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie |
August Ahab's Wife, Moby Dick by Sena Jeter, Herman Melville |
June Holes by Louis Sachar |
May Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky |
April Look at Me by Jennifer Egan |
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March A Passage to India by E. M. Forster |
February Dreams of My Russian Summers by Andrei Makine |
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January Bel Canto by Ann Patchett |
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2002 |
| November Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand |
| October Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende |
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September The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan |
August Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks |
June Iron and Silk by Mark Salzman |
May Bee Season by Myla Goldberg |
April West with the Night by Beryl Markham |
March Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner |
February A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving |
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January I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith |
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2001 |
November Plainsong by Kent Haruf |
October The Honey Thief, Ethan Frome by Elizabeth Graver, Edith Wharton |
| September Guns, Germs & Steel, Of Mice & Men by Jared M. Diamond, John Steinbeck |
| August Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys |
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July Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson |
| June Girl With a Pearl Earring, The Man Who Was Thursday by Tracy Chevalier, G. K. Chesterton |
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May I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb |
| April Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres |
| March What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage |
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February All the Pretty Horses by Carmac McCarthy |
| January The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver |
2000
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November The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler |
| October Charms for the Easy Life by Kaye Gibbons |
| September Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid |
August Possession: A Romance by A. S. Byatt |
July The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy |
June Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather |
May How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez |
April The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver |
March Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett |