YEAR 1997
A Thousand Acres, by Jane Smiley
The Road from Coorain, by Jill Ker Conway
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, by Anne Tyler
The Shawl, by Cynthia Ozick
Mutant Message Down Under, by Marlo Morgan
The Nine Tailors, by Dorothy L. Sayers
Montana 1948, by Larry Watson
Crazy in Alabama, by Mark Childress
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, by Fannie Flagg
Yellow Raft in Blue Water, by Michael Dorris
Dandelion Wine, by Ray Bradbury
YEAR 1998
The Thief of Always, by Clive Barker
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, by Oscar Hijuelos
Infernal Affairs, by Jane Heller
There are Mountains to Climb, by Jean Deeds
The Horse Whisperer, by Nicholas Evans
The First Deadly Sin, by Lawerence Sanders
The Robber Bride, by Margaret Atwood
Killing Orders, by Sara Paretsky
A is for Alibi, by Sue Grafton
The Pull of the Moon, by Elizabeth Berg
The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James
YEAR 1999
Cold Sassy Tree, by Olive Ann Burns
The Giant’s House, by Elizabeth McCracken
Slow Burn, by Eleanor Taylor Bland
O Pioneers!, by Willa Cather
The Bachelor Brothers’ Bed and Breakfast, by Bill Richardson
The Moonstone, by Wilkie Collins
The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
The Outermost House, by Henry Beston
Like Water for Chocolate, by Laura Esquival
I was Amelia Earhart, by Jane Mendelsohn
The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter, by Sharyn McCrumb
To Dance with the White Dog, by Terry Kay
YEAR 2000
The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, by Rebecca Wells
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, by John Berendt
Hanna's Daughters, by Mary Anne Fredriksson
The Bean Trees, by Barbara Kingsolver
The Bear Went Over the Mountain, by William Kotzwinkle
Pope Joan, by Donna Woolfolk Cross
The Inheritance, by Tom Savage
The Reader, by Bernhard Schlink
The Professor and the Madman, by Simon Winchester
Memoirs of a Geisha, by Arthur Golden
Welcome to the World, Baby Girl, by Fannie Flagg
Angela's Ashes, by Frank McCourt
Where the Heart Is, by Billie Letts
YEAR 2001
Tuesdays with Morrie, by Mitch Albom
The Power of One, by Bryce Courtenay
Midwives, by Chris Bohjalian
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, by J. K. Rowling
Cold Mountain, by Charles Frazier
The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank
Budding Prospects, by T. Coraghessan Boyle
The Cider House Rules, by John Irving
The Chosen, by Chaim Potok
The Red Tent, by Diamant
The Poisonwood Bible, by Kingsolver
Moo, by Jane Smiley
Year 2002
The Giver, by Lois Lowry
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to his White Mother, by James McBride
Wind Done Gone, by Alice Randall
The Club Dumas, by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Motherland: Beyond the Holocaust, A Mother-Daughter Journey to Reclaim the Past, by Fern Schumer Chapman
Second Hand, by Michael Zadoorian
Sister, by A. Manette Ansay
Into the Forest, by Jean Hegland
The Cape Ann, by Faith Sullivan
Corelli’s Mandolin, by Louis DeBernieres
My Name is Asher Lev, by Chaim Potok
Five Quarters of the Orange, by Joan Harris
Year 2003
The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
Waiting, by Ha Jin
Profiles in Courage, by John Kennedy
Night, by Elie Wiesel
Firestorm, by Nevada Barr
Galileo’s Daughter, by Sister Maria Celeste Galileo
Girl With a Pearl Earring, by Tracy Chevalier
A Separate Peace, by John Knowles
Rush Home Road, by Lori Lansens
Plainsong, by Kent Haruf
The Body in the Library, by Agatha Christie
Year 2004
The Clothes They Stood Up In, by Alan Bennett
Reasonable Doubt, by Phillip Friedman
Discovery of Chocolate, by James Runcie
Obstruction of Justice, by Perri O’Shaughnessy
The Dive from Clausen’s Pier, by Ann Packer
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith
The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd
Lust for Life, by Irving Stone
Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague, by Geraldine Brooks
A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens
Snow in August, by Pete Hamill
Skipping Christmas, by John Grisham
Year 2005
The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck
House of Sand and Fog, by Andre Dubus III
The Kitchen Boy, by Robert Alexander
The Eyre Affair, by Jasper Fforde
Nickel and Dimed On (Not) Getting By in America, by Barbara Ehrenreich
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, by Carson McCullers.
Tales of the South Pacific, by James A. Michener
Reading Lolita in Tehran, by Aza Nafisi
The Five People You Meet in Heaven, by Mitch Albom
The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown
The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
A Christmas Journey, by Anne Perry
Year 2006
Back When We Were Grownups, by Anne Tyler
The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America, by Erik Larsen
Mystic River, by Dennis Lehane
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail, by Bill Bryson
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, by Ann Brashares
The Crystal Cave, by Mary Stewart
On the Road, by Jack Kerouac
Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13, by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger
Big Stone Gap, by Adriana Trigiani
Inside the Kingdom, by Carmen Bin Ladin
Silver Bells, by Luanne Rice
Year 2007
700 Sundays, by Billy Crystal
The Time Traveler’s Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
Humboldt's Gift, by Saul Bellow
Fast Food Nation: the Dark Side of the All-American Meal, by Eric Schlosser
The Kitchen God’s Wife, by Amy Tan
Running with Scissors: A Memoir, by Augusten Burroughs
The Red Pony, by John Steinbeck
Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis, by Jimmy Carter
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: a Novel, by Mark Haddon
A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway
The Memory Keeper's Daughter, by Kim Edwards
The Christmas Thief, by Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark
Year 2008
Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher
Black Girl, White Girl by Joyce Carol Oates
How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life by Mameve Medwed
Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog by John Grogan
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas: a Fable by John Boyne
The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig
At Risk by Patricia Cornwell Daniels
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell
The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
Dream When You're Feeling Blue by Elizabeth Berg - To be discussed on December 13.