Books Selected, 2014

2014

• World Made By Hand == James Howard Kunstler
• Garden of the Finzi-Continis == Giorgio Bassani
• Nothing Daunted == Dorothy Wickenden
• The Paris Wife == Paula McLain
• A Partial History of Lost Causes == Jennifer DuBois
• Catwalk == Jennifer DuBois
• Main Street == Sinclair Lewis
• The Snow Child == Eowyn Ivey
• Peace Like a River == Leif Enger
• Still Alice == Lisa Genova
• The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet == Reif Larsen
• Cookbooks/Food themes == Christmas party

Books Selected, 2013

2013
• The White Tiger == Aravind Adiga
• Waiting for Snow in Havana == Carlos Eire
• Faith Bass Darling's Last Garage Sale == Lynda Rutledge
• In The Woods == Tana French
• The Forgotten Garden == Kate Morton
• Picture of Dorian Gray == Oscar Wilde
• The Lemon Tree == Sandy Tolan
• Defending Jacob == William Landay
• Gang Leader for a Day == Sudhir Venkatesh
• Ready Player One == Ernest Cline (and his DeLorean)
• 11/22/63 == Stephen King

Books Selected, 2012

2012
• Author visit == Jim Hornfischer
• Into Thick Air == Jim Malusa
• Moloka'i == Alan Brennert
• An American Tragedy == Theodore Dreischer
• Einstein's Dreams == Alan Lightman
• Welcome to Utopia == Karen Valby
• In the Garden of Beasts == Erik Larson
• Mystery == Jonathon Kellerman
• Olive Kitteridge == Elizabeth Strout
• The End of Overeating == David A. Kessler
• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle == Barbara Kingsolver
• The Worst Hard Time == Timothy Egan

Books Selected, 2011

2011

• Go Down Together == Jeff Guinn
• The Help == Kathryn Stockett
• Behind Enemy Lines == Martha Cohn
• The Power of One == Bryce Courtenay
• Woodsburner == John Pipkin
• The Hummingbird's Daughter == Luis Alberto Urrea
• The Alchemist == Paulo Coelho
• Lacuna == Barbara Kingsolver
• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet == Jamie Ford
• Infidel == Ayaan Hirsi Ali
• Straight Man == Richard Russo

Books Selected, 2010

2010

• Isaac's Storm == Erik Larson
• Girl With the Dragon Tattoo == Steig Larsson
• Jude the Obscure == Thomas Hardy
• My Invented Country == Isabel Allende
• Ghost: Confessions of a Counterterrorist == Fred Burton
• The People of the Book == Geraldine Brooks
• any choice == Jim Thompson
• The Guernsey Library and Potato Peel Pie Society == Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
• Tales of the South Pacific == James Michener
• My Name is Falon == Kim Wiese
• Wishin' and Hopin' == Wally Lamb

Books Selected, 2009

2009

• Travels With Charley == John Steinbeck,
• Forgive Me == Amanda Ayre Ward
• And Then There Were None == Agatha Christie
• Dan Moody: Crusader For Justice == Ken Anderson
• A Short History of a Small Place == T.R. Pearson
• Team of Rivals == Doris Kearns Goodwin
• Ada == Vladimir Nabokov
• Never Let Me Go == Kazuo Ishiguro
• My Antonia == Willa Cather
• Author visit == Amanda Ayre Ward
• Pillars of the Earth == Ken Follett

Books Selected, 2008

2008

• Confederacy of Dunces ==John Kennedy Toole
  
• Atonement ==Ian McEwan
  
• The Virginian ==Owen Wister
  
• American Shaolin ==Matthew Polly
  
• Giant ==Edna Ferber
  
• Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close ==Jonathan Safran Foer
  
• The Thirteenth Tale ==Diane Setterfield
  
• Julie & Julia ==Julie Powell
  
• Evacuation Plan: A Novel from the Hospice ==Joe M. O’Connell
  
• Ahab’s Wife: Or the Star Gazer ==Sena Jeter Naslund
  
• My Name is Red ==Orhan Pamuk
  

Books Selected, 2005-2007

2007

• Noah’s Ride ==Elmer Kelton et al
  
• The Songcatcher ==Sharyn McCrumb
  
• Pride & Prejudice ==Jane Austen
  
• Stones From a River ==Ursula Hegi
  
• Murder on the Rocks/Dead & Berried ==Karen MacInerney
  
• Water for Elephants ==Sara Gruen
  
• The Coffee Trader ==David Liss
  
• The Devil’s Highway ==Luis Alberto Urrea
  
• Fast Food Nation ==Eric Schlosser
  
• Polio ==David Oshinsky
  

2006

• The Human Stain ==Philip Roth
  
• Buck Fever ==Ben Rehder
  
• Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister ==Gregory Maguire
  
• The Giant’s House ==Elizabeth McCracken
  
• Second Coming of Lucy Hatch OR Last of the Honky Tonk Angels ==Marsha Moyer
  
• The Good Earth ==Pearl S. Buck
  
• The Time Traveler’s Wife ==Audrey Niffenegger
  
• All is Vanity ==Christina Schwartz
  
• Women in Love ==D.H. Lawrence
  
• Alibi ==Joseph Kanon
  

2005

• The Wailing Wind ==Tony Hillerman
  
• The Girl With a Pearl Earring ==Tracy Chevalier
  
• The Speed of Dark ==Elizabeth Moon
  
• Middlesex ==Jeffrey Eugenides
  
• Nickel & Dimed ==Barbara Ehrenreich
  
• 24 Hours ==Greg Iles
  
• In the Fall ==Jeffrey Lent
  
• Devil in the White City ==Erik Larson
  
• The Life of Charlotte Bronte ==Elizabeth Gaskell
  
• A Short History of Nearly Everything ==Bill Bryson
  
• The Kite Runner ==Khaled Hosseini
  

Books Selected, 2002-2004

2004

• The Age of Gold ==H.W. Brands
  
• Payment in Blood ==Elizabeth George
  
• Year of Wonders ==Geraldine Brooks
  
• Alamo House ==Sarah Bird
  
• Angels & Demons ==Dan Brown
  
• All Over But the Shoutin’ ==Rick Bragg
  
• Reading Lolita in Tehran ==Azar Nafisi
  
• East of Eden ==John Steinbeck
  
• The Great Gatsby ==F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
• Bel Canto ==Ann Patchett
  
• Stand Proud ==Elmore Kelton
  

2003

• Blind Assassin ==Margaret Atwood
  
• Lovely Bones ==Alice Sebold
  
• Breaking Point ==Suzy Spencer
  
• Mrs. Dalloway ==Virginia Woolf
  
• The Secret Life of Bees ==Sue Monk Kidd
  
• Life of Pi ==Yann Martel
  
• Seabiscuit ==Laura Hillenbrand
  
• In Sunlight in a Beautiful Garden ==Kathleen Cambor
  
• Wonder Boys ==Michael Chabon
  
• Carter Beats the Devil ==Glen David Gold
  
• Then She Found Me ==Elinor Lipman
  

2002

• Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay ==Michael Chabon
  
• Daughter of Fortune ==Isabel Allende
  
• A Painted House ==John Grisham
  
• A Prayer for Owen Meany ==John Irving
  
• Lonesome Dove ==Larry McMurtry
  
• True Women ==Janice Woods Windle
  
• John Adams ==David McCullough
  
• Time and Again ==Jack Finney
  
• Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas ==James Patterson
  

Books Selected, 1999-2001

2001

• The Poisonwood Bible ==Barbara Kingsolver
  
• The Red Tent ==Anita Diamant
  
• Death in a Tenured Position ==Amanda Cross
  
• Galileo’s Daughter ==Dava Sobel
  
• Faster ==James Glieck
  
• Virgin of the Rodeo ==Sarah Bird
  
• Another World ==Pat Barker
  
• Babbitt ==Sinclair Lewis
  
• The Seamstress ==Sara Tuvel Bernstein
  
• In the Lake of the Woods ==Tim O’Brien
  
• 1,000 White Women ==Jim Fergus
  

2000

• Tara Road ==Maeve Binchy
  
• The Greatest Generation ==Tom Brokaw
  
• The Inner Life of Objects ==Maxine Combs
  
• Hometown ==Tracy Kidder
  
• The Hours ==Michael Cunningham
  
• Turnip Blues ==Helen Campbell
  
• The Glass Lake ==Maeve Binchy
  
• The Awakening ==Kate Chopin
  
• The Pilot’s Wife ==Anita Shreve
  
• Orley Farm ==Anthony Trollope
  
• Hummingbird House ==Patricia Henley
  

1999

• A Civil Action ==Jonathan Harr
  
• High Tide in Tucson ==Barbara Kingsolver
  
• Madame Bovary ==Gustave Flaubert
  
• Memoirs of a Geisha ==Arthur Golden
  
• Numbered Account ==Christopher Reich
  
• Ember from the Sun ==Mark Canter
  
• Reasonable Doubt ==Friedman
  
• Angela’s Ashes ==Frank McCourt
  
• The Wind Up Bird Chronicle ==Haruki Murakami
  
• A Thousand Acres ==Jane Smiley
  
• The Book of Ruth ==Jane Hamilton