2001
Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
John Adams by David McCullough
Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2002
The Coalwood Way by Homer Hickam
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Murder at Monticello by Jane Langton
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
You Can't Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe
The Passion of Artemisia by Susan Vreeland
A Painted House by John Grisham
Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinore Pruitt Stewart
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Baghdad Without a Map by Tony Horwitz
The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn by Robin Maxwell
2003
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
Truman by David McCullough
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
selected works by Stephen E. Ambrose
Greetings from the Golden State by Leslie Brenner (special discussion with the author)
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Dubliners by James Joyce
2005
Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life by Queen Noor
Deep in the Shade of Paradise by John Dufresne
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
California Uncovered: Stories for the 21st Century by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, ed.
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
The Soloist by Mark Salzman
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
2006
Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table
by Ruth Reichl
The
Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
Ramona,
A Story by Helen Hunt Jackson
Beethoven's Hair by
Russell Martin
The
Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
The Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith
In
a Sunburned Country by Bill
Bryson
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula Le Guin
The Way West by A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles by
Catherine Mulholland
Pale
Horse, Pale Rider: Three Short Novels by
Katherine Ann Porter
My
Invented Country: by Isabel
Allende
2007
March: by Geraldine Brooks
Little Women:
by Louisa May Alcott
Pilgrim
at Tinker Creek:
by Annie Dillard
Grand Ambition: A Novel: by Lisa Michaels
Heartburn: by Nora Ephron
One
Thousand White Women: The Journals Of Mary Dodd:
by
Jim
Fergus
The
Handyman: By
Carolyn See
Heartburn: by Nora Ephron
Zorro:
by Isabel Allende
American Bloomsbury; by Susan
Cheever
A Thousand Splendid Suns; by Khaled Hosseini
Good Earth, by Pearl Buck
2008
The Painted Veil, by Somerset Maugham
The Oaks, by Rip Rense
A Short History of Everything, by Bill Bryson
Pompeii: a novel, by Robert Harris
Will In The World, by Stephen Greenblatt
As You Like It, by William Shakespeare
Eat, Pray, Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert
Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follett
Bless Me Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsk
2009
The Hearts of Horses by Molly Gloss
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver
Relin
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women
by Geraldine Brooks
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult