Books by Date- Last 18 Years

2022
Last Boat Out of Shanghai
Why Fish Don't Exist
When We Were Young and Brave
Brigid of Kildare
The Nature of Fragile things

2021
Born a Crime
The Book of Longings
American Dirt
The Island of Sea Women
Dreaming in French -
Water From My Heart -
The Daughter's Tale -
That Churchill Woman
Say Nothing -

2020
The Other Einstein -
The Giver of Stars -
Midnight in Chernobyl -
The Story of More -
Where the Crawdads Sing -
The Girl With Seven Names -
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Finee -
Inheritance - Dani Shapiro
White Rage -

2019

Behold the Dreamers - Imbolo Mbue
Before We Were Yoursy - Lisa Wingate
Killers of the Flower Moon - David Grann
Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng
Same Kind of Different As Me - Ron Hall and Denver Moore
Bound for the Promised Land -
Hank and Chloe -
Empire of the Summer Moon -
Educated -

2018

The Women in the Castle - Jessica Shattuck
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry - Rachel Joyce
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane - Lisa See
The Atomic City Girls - Janet Beard
Finding Nouf - Zoe Ferraris
The Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles
Rosemary, The Hidden Kennedy Daughter - Kate Clifford Larson
In the Unlikely Event - Judy Blume
My Wish List - Gregoire Delacourt

2017
The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins
The Wandering Gene and the Indian Prince - Jeff Wheelwright
The Aviator's Wife - Melanie Benjamin
The Lowland - Jhumpa Lahiri
When Breath Becomes Air - Kalanithi, Paul
The Soloist - Lopez, Steve
The Last Bus to Wisdom - Doig, Ivan
A Man Called Ove - Backman, Fredrick
The Half Has Never Been Told - Baptist, Edward E.

2016
How It All Began - Lively, Penelope
The Nightingale - Hannah, Kristin
The Wright Brothers - McCullough, David
Hamilton - Miranda, Lin-Manuel
Skinner's Drift - Fugard, Lisa
Calling Me Home - Kibler, Julie
Me Before You - Moyes, JoJo
The Ghost Map - Johnson, Steven

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry - Zevin,Gabrielle

2015
A Tale for the Time Being - Ozeki, Ruth
Being Mortal - Gawande, Atul
The Piano Teacher - Lee, Y. K.
Breakfast At Sally's - LeMieux,Richard
Hidden America - Laskas, Jeanne Marie
The Rosie Project - Graeme, Simison C
Invention of Wings - Kidd, Sue Monk
The Europeans - James, Henry
The Boys In The Boat - Brown, Daniel James

2014
The Art Forger - Shapiro, B. A.
Orphan Train - Baker Kline, Christina
The Perfume Collector - Tessare, Katheen
The Emperor of All Maladies - Mukherjee, Suddharta
My Beloved World - Sotomayor , Sonia
Proof of Heaven - Alexander,  Eben
Russian Winter - Kalotay,  Daphne
The Light Between Oceans - Stedman,  M.L.
The Lost Wife -  Richman,  Alyson

2013
Caleb's Crossing Brooks, Geraldine
Innocents Abroad  - Twain,  Mark
One Amazing Thing Divakaruni, Chitra
River of Doubt Millard, Candice
The Healing of America -Reid  T.R.
The Language of Flowers - Diffenbaugh,  Vanessa
The Paris Wife McLain, Paula
The Tenth Gift Johnson, Jane
Wild -Strayed,  Cheryl

2012
A Reliable Wife Goolrick, Robert
Farm City Carpernter, Novella
Half Broke Horses Walls, Jeannette
Mao's Last Dancer Cunxin , Li
Noah's Compass Tyler, Anne
Tattoos on the Heart Boyle, Gregory
The Art of Racing in the Rain Stein , Garth
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Skloot , Rebecca
Too Close to the Falls Gildiner, Catherine

2011
Cutting for Stone Verghese , Abraham
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand Simonson, Helen
My Family & Other Animals Durrell,Gerald
Olive Kitteridge Strout, Elizabeth
Still Alice Genova, Lisa
The Emigrants Moberg, Vilhelm
The Help Stockett, Kathryn
The Painted Veil Maugham, W. Somerset
The Whistling Season Doig, Ivan

2010
Cry, the Beloved Country Paton, Alan
Howards End Forster, E.M.
Hunting and Gathering Gavalda, Anna
People of the Book Brooks, Geraldine
Strength in What Remains Kidder, Tracy
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Larsson, Stieg
The Necklace Jarvis, Cheryl 2010
The Samurai's Garden Tsukiyama, Gail
The Scalpel and the Silver Bear Van Pelt, Elizabeth

2009
A Thousand Splendid Sons Hosseini, Khaled
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle Kingsolver, Barbara
Astrid and Veronika Olsson, Linda
Away Bloom, Amy
Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet Lappe, Frances Moore & Anna
River Town Hessler, Peter
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Barrows, Annie
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Shaffer, Mary Ann
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story Ackerman,Diane
White Teeth Smith, Zadie

2008
Exile Patterson, Richard North
House of Mirth Wharton, Edith
Leaving Mother Lake Erche, Namu Yang
Memory Keeper's Daughter Edwards, Kim
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan See, Lisa
The Devil in the White City Larson, Erik
The Widow's War Gunning, Sally
Water for Elephants Gruen, Sara
We Are All Welcome Here Berg, Elizabeth

2007
Blink Gladwell, Malcolm
Dreams from My Father Obama, Barack
Fall on Your Knees  McDonold, Ann
Kill Me White, Stephen
Mountains Beyond Mountains Kidder, Tracy
Power of One Courtney, Brice
Run With the Horsemen Sams, Ferrol
The Bookseller of Kabul Seierstad, Asne
Three Cups of Tea Mortenson, Greg

2006
A Good Scent from Strange Mountain Butler, Robert
Anna Karennia Tolstoy, Leo
Desert Flower Dirie, W.
Gilead  Robinson, Marilyn
It's Always Something Radner, Gilda
Price of Honor Goodwin, J.
Their Eyes Were Watching God Hurston, Zora Neale
Thinking in Pictures Grandin, Temple
Truth and Beauty Patchett, Ann

2005
Alias Grace Atwood, Margaret
Kite Runner Hosseini, Kahled
Max Perkins Editor of Genius Berg, A.S.
Pride & Prejudice Austen, Jane

 

 

 

 

 

 

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