2012-2013
backup books: Major Pettigrew / Cat’s Table
History
2011-2012
Still Alice / Lisa Genova
Hotel on The Corner of Bitter And Sweet / Jamie Ford
Regeneration / Pat Barker
Swan Thieves / Elizabeth Kostova
The Help / Kathryn Stockett
Half Broke Horses / Jeannette Walls
The Mistress of Nothing / Kate Pullinger
Unbroken : A WWII Story of Survival, Resilience & Redemption / Laura Hillenbrand
Mr. Shakespeare’s Bastard / Richard B. Wright
2010-2011
Fahrenheit 451 / Ray Bradbury
The Brutal Telling / Louise Penny
The Underpainter / Jane Urquhart
The Elegance of the Hedgehog / Muriel Barbery
The Postmistress / Sarah Blake
The Art of Racing in the Rain / Garth Stein
Winter Vault / Anne Michaels
South Riding / Winifred Holtby
2009-2010
Year of Wonders / Geraldene Brooks
The Book of Negroes /Lawrence Hill
Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden
The Cellist of Sarajevo /Steven Galloway
The White Tiger /Aravind Adiga
Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society / Mary Ann Shaffer
Through Black Spruce /Joseph Boyden
Loving Frank / Nancy Horan
2008-2009
Darkly Dreaming Dexter / Jeff Lindsay
Late nights on Air / Elizabeth Hay
People of the Book / Geraldine Brooks
A Rhinestone Button/ Gail Anderson-Dargatz
My Sister’s Keeper / Jodi Picoult
The Sparrow / Mary Doria Russell
The Thirteenth Tale / Diane Setterfield
A Thousand Splendid Suns / Khaled Hosseini
Water for Elephants / Sara Gruen
2007-2008
Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesan), Out of Africa
Yasmin Crowther, Saffron Kitchen
Charlotte Gray, The Reluctant Genius
Vincent Lam, Bloodletting and Other Miraculous Cures
Mary Lawson, The Other Side of the Bridge
Alistair MacLeod, No Great Mischief
Irene Numeronsky, Suite Francaise
Anita Shreve, Body Surfing
Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk about Kevin
2006 – 2007
Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
Kasuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
Hugh MacLennan, Two Solitudes
Ken McGoogan, Lady Franklin’s Revenge
James Michener, Caravans
Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
Janet Wallach, Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell, Adventurer, Advisor to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle
2005 – 2006
Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace
Anne Coleman, I’ll Tell You a Secret
Amy Ephron, A Cup of Tea
Kent Haruf, Plainsong
Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Frances Itani, Deafening
Anne Kingston, The Meaning of Wife
Ian McEwan, Saturday
Mark Miller, The Whaleboat House (formerly Amagansett)
2004 – 2005
Laura Esquinel, Like Water for Chocolate
Jeffrey Euginides, Middlesex
Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point
Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
Tom Harpur, The Pagan Christ
Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
Penelope Lively, The Photograph
Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose
Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
2003 – 2004
Andre Dubus, House of Sand and Fog
Ford Maddox Ford, The Good Soldier
Yann Martel, Life of Pi
Alice Munro, Hateship, Friendship, Loveship, Courtship, Marriage
Joyce Carol Oates, We Were The Mulvaneys
Ann B. Ross, Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind
Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
Cynthia Thayer, A Certain Slant of Light
Jan Wong, Red China Blues
Richard B. Wright, Clara Callan
2002 – 2003
Faulks, Birdsong
Mernissi, Dreams of Trespass
Laurence, The Stone Angel
Kogan, Shutter Babe
Diamant, The Red Tent
Shields, Unless
Stegner, Crossing to Safety
Gray, Mrs. King – The Life and Times of Isabel King
Lawson, Crow Lake
Trillin, Tepper Isn’t Going Out
2001 – 2002
Shreve, Fortune’s Rocks
Howatch, The Wonder Worker
Graham, Personal History
Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
Klein, No Logo
Anderson, A Year by the Sea
Gordon, Spending
Conroy, Body and Soul
Coetzee, Disgrace
Recommended Reads
A. S. Byatt, Possession
Louisde Bernieres,Birds Without Wings
Elizabeth Berg, A Year of Pleasures
Dennis Bock, The Ash Garden
Kate Chopin, The Awakening
Joan Didion, A Year of Magical Thinking
Hugh Garner, Cabbagetown
Malcolm Gladwell, Blink
Laurie Graham, The Great Husband Hunt
Infidel, Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Thompson Highway, Kiss of the Fur Queen
Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein
Donna Morrissey, Sylvanus Now
Starting out in the Evening, Brian Morton
Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
Mark Salzman, The Soloist
Ann Tyler, Saint Maybe
Jane Urquhart, The Stone Carvers
Lally Winston, Good Grief