| 2002–2004 (author) | 2002–2004 (date) | 2005–2006 (author) | 2005–2006 (date) |
Non-fiction titles are in Bold.
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| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi | Half of a Yellow Sun |
| Aswany, Alaa Al | Yacoubian Building |
| Belli, Gioconda | The Country Under My Skin |
| Berendt, John | The City of Falling Angels |
| Byatt, A. S. | Angels and Insects |
| Díaz, Junot | The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao |
| Dickens, Charles | Great Expectations |
| Dreiser, Theodore | Sister Carrie |
| Follett, Ken | The Pillars of the Earth |
| Gladwell, Malcolm | Tipping Point |
| Glass, Julia | The Whole World Over |
| Goodwin, Rebecca | Keeper of the House |
| Hosseini, Kaled | A Thousand Splendid Suns |
| Kertzer, David | The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara |
| Kingsolver, Barbara | Prodigal Summer |
| Lessing, Doris | Fifth Child |
| Oz, Amos | A Tale of Love and Darkness |
| Pollen, Michael | The Omnivore's Dilemma |
| Powers, Richard | Echo Maker |
| Saramago, Jose | Blindness |
| See, Lisa | Snow Flower and the Secret Fan |
| Shreve, Anita | Body Surfing |
| Walls, Jeanette | The Glass Castle |
| Zusak, Markus | The Book Thief |
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Amirrezvani, Anita | Blood of Flowers |
| Black, Benjamin | Christine Falls |
| Boyle, T.C. | Tortilla Curtain |
| Collins, Wilkie | The Moonstone |
| Gardham, Jane | Old Filth |
| Gruen, Sara | Water For Elephants |
| Hicks, Robert | Widow of the South |
| Jin, Ha | A Free Life |
| Leitner, Isabella | Fragements of Isabella |
| McEwan,Ian | Atonement |
| Mortenson, Greg | Three Cups of Tea |
| Némirovsky, Irène | Suite Française |
| Obama, Barack | The Audacity of Hope |
| Roth, Joseph | Radetzky March |
| See, Lisa | Snow Flower and the Secret Fan |
| Smiley, Jane | Horse Heaven |
| Stewart, Chris | Driving Over Lemons |
| Toole, John Kennedy | Confederacy of Dunces |
| Updike, John | Terrorist |
| Vickers, Salley | Miss Garnet's Angel |
| Voltaire | Candide |
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Adichie, Chimamanda Nqozi | Purple Hibiscus |
| Allende, Isabel | Inés of My Soul |
| Brooks, Geraldine | Year of Wonders |
| Conroy, Frank | Body and Soul |
| Dean, Debra | The Madonnas of Leningrad |
| Desai, Kiran | Inheritance of Loss |
| Díaz, Junot | Drown |
| Eliot, T.S. | Murder in the Cathedral |
| Faulkner, William | Light in August |
| Hamid, Mohsin | The Reluctant Fundamentalist |
| Hazzard, Shirley | The Great Fire |
| Lovell, Mary S. | Sisters: the Saga of the Mitford Family |
| McDermott, Alice | After This |
| Millard, Candice | River of Doubt |
| Obama, Barack | The Audacity of Hope |
| Robison, John Elder | Look Me in the Eye |
| Satrapi, Marjane | Persepolis |
| Shafak, Elif | The Bastard of Istanbul |
| Shreve, Anita | A Wedding in December |
| Stegner, Wallace | Angle of Repose |
| Tolstoy, Leo | The Death of Ivan Ilyich |
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Cather, Willa | Sapphira and the Slave Girl |
| Eggers, Dave | What is the What |
| Ellison, Ralph | Juneteenth |
| Grisham, John | The Innocent Man |
| Gross, Gwendolen | The Other Mother |
| Krakauer, Jon | Under the Banner of Heaven |
| Mailer, Norman | Tough Guys Don't Dance |
| Maynard, Joyce | At Home in the World |
| Nemirovsky, Irene | Suite Française |
| Peace, David | Tokyo Year Zero |
| Pessl, Marisha | Special Topics in Calamity Physics |
| Soueif, Ahdaf | The Map of Love |
| Strout, Elizabeth | Abide With Me |
| Tóibin, Colm | The Master |
| Tyler, Anne | Amateur Marriage |
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Allende, Isabel | Ines of my soul |
| Alverez, Julia | Saving the World |
| Brennert, Alan | Molokai |
| Brookner, Anaita | The Rules of Engagement |
| Brown, Tina | Diana Chronicles |
| Carey, Peter | Oscar and Lucinda |
| Cather, Willa | Sapphira and the Slave Girl |
| Dean, Debra | Madonnas of Leningrad |
| Dumas, Alexander | The Count of Monte Cristo |
| Garcia Marquez, Gabriel | Love in the Time of Cholera |
| Jones, Edward | Known World |
| Lash, Joseph | Eleanor: The Years Alone |
| McEwan, Ian | On Chesil Beach |
| Moehringer, J. R. | The Tender Bar |
| Nattel, Lilian | The Singing Fire |
| Nemirovsky, Irene | Suite Française |
| O'Brien, Edna | The Light of Evening |
| Shriver, Lionel | We Need To Talk About Kevin |
| Stewart, Rory | The Places in Between |
| Teresa, Mother | Come Be My Light |
| Urban, Linda | Crooked Kind of Perfect |
| Xinran | Sky Burial |
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Albom, Mitch | The Five People You Meet in Heaven |
| Courtenay, Bryce | Power of One |
| DeLillo, Don | Libra |
| Didion, Joan | Where I Was From |
| Englander, Nathan | Ministry of Special Cases |
| Fergus, Jim | One Thousand White Women |
| Hanauer, Cathi (ed.) | The Bitch in the House |
| Hurston, Zora Neale | Their Eyes were Watching God |
| King, Florence | Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady |
| Kingslover, Barbara | Animal Dreams |
| Lessing, Doris | Love Again |
| Maynard, Joyce | At Home in the World |
| Murakami, Haruki | After the Quake: Stories |
| Nemirovsky, Irene | Suite Française |
| Penny, Stef | Tenderness of Wolves |
| Shriver, Lionel | Post-Birthday World |
| Stegner, Wallace | The Spectator Bird |
| Steinbeck, John | The Winter of Our Discontent |
| Trevor, William | The Story of Lucy Gault |
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Alderman, Naomi | Disobedience |
| Amis, Kingsley | Lucky Jim |
| Austen, Jane | Northanger Abbey |
| Boyle, T. Coraghessan | Tortilla Curtain |
| Brennert, Alan | Moloka'i |
| Brooks, Geraldine | March |
| Dean, Debra | The Madonnas of Leningrad |
| Donohue, Keith | The Stolen Child |
| Haigh, Jennifer | Mrs. Kimble |
| Hijuelos, Oscar | The Mambo King Plays Songs of Love |
| Kennedy, William | Legs |
| Moehringer, J.R. | The Tender Bar |
| Murakami, Haruki | After the Quake: Stories |
| Rybczynski, Witold | A Clearing in the Distance |
| Schwartz, Lynne Sharon | Disturbances in the Field |
| Shteyngart, Gary | Absurdistan |
| Tsukiyama, Gail | Samurai's Garden |
| Vonnegut, Kurt | Slaughterhouse Five |
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Brooks, Geraldine | March |
| George, Elizabeth | For the Sake of Elena |
| Gordon, Mary | Pearl |
| Lahiri, Jhumpa | Interpreter of Maladies |
| Lamb, Wally | Couldn't Keep It To Myself |
| McGovern, Cammie | Eye Contact |
| Messud, Claire | The Emperor's Children |
| Messud, Claire | The Last Life |
| Moehringer, J.R. | Tender Bar |
| Niffenegger, Audrey | Time Traveler's Wife |
| Smith, Zadie | On Beauty |
| Stegner, Wallace | Angle of Repose |
| Yates, Richard | Revolutionary Road |
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Desai, Kiran | The Inheritance of Loss |
| O'Brian, Patrick | Master and Commander |
| Pamuk, Orhan | Snow |
| Twain, Mark | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
| Tyler, Anne | Digging to America |
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Auster, Paul | Brooklyn Follies |
| Bulgakov, Mikhail | The Master and Margarita |
| Hijuelos, Oscar | The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love |
| Miyamoto, Teru | Autumn Brocade=Kinshue |
| Reichl, Ruth | Garlic and Sapphires |
| Roth, Philip | The Plot Against America |
| Sedaris, David | Me Talk Pretty One Day |
| Vonnegut, Kurt | Cat's Cradle |
| Wilson, Robert | A Small Death in Lisbon |
| Wolff, Tobias | Old School |
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Babel, Isaac | Complete Works of Isaac Babel |
| Butler, Robert Olen | They Whisper |
| Davis, Jill A. | Ask Again Later |
| Gaiman, Neil | American Gods |
| Gien, Pamela | The Syringa Tree |
| Ishiguro, Kazuo | Never Let Me Go |
| Larson, Erik | The Devil in the White City |
| McCall Smith, Alexander | The Sunday Philosophy Club |
| McCarthy, Cormac | All the Pretty Horses |
| Munro, Alice | Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories |
| Murphy, Louise | The True Story of Hansel and Gretel |
| Pamuk, Orhan | My Name is Red |
| Pamuk, Orhan | Snow |
| Schine, Cathleen | She is Me |
| Steinbeck, John | The Winter of Our Discontent |
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Adams, Richard | Watership Down |
| Albright, Madeleine | The Mighty and the Almighty |
| Clark, Robert | Mr. White's Confession |
| Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee | Siser of My Heart |
| Dunant, Sarah | The Birth of Venus |
| Frayn, Michael | Copenhagen |
| Kundera, Milant | The Unbearable Lightness of Being |
| Obama, Barack | Dreams of My Father |
| Saramago, José | All the Names |
| Saramago, José | Blindness |
| Stegner, Wallace | The Big Rock Candy Mountain |
| Vonnegut, Kurt | Cat's Cradle |
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Angelou, Maya | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
| Auster, Paul | The Book of Illusions |
| Brooks, Geraldine | March |
| Buck, Pearl | The Good Earth |
| Coetzee, J.M. | Disgrace |
| DuMaurier, Daphne | Rebecca |
| Edwards, Kim | The Memory Keeper's Daughter |
| Goodman, Allegra | Kaaterskill Falls |
| Hardy, Thomas | The Return of the Native |
| Khadra, Yasmina | The Swallows of Kabul |
| Mayle, Peter | A Good Year |
| McBride, James | The Color of Water |
| McPhee, John | Basin and Range |
| Irène Nemirovsky | Suite Française |
| Ozick, Cynthia | Heir to the Glimmering World |
| Robinson, Marilynne | Gilead |
| Tremain, Rose | Music and Silence |
| Trevor, William | The Story of Lucy Gault |
| Whitaker, Robert | The Mapmaker's Wife |
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Alcott, Louisa May | Little Women |
| Auster, Paul | The Brooklyn Follies |
| Banville, John | The Sea |
| Boyd, William | The Blue Afternoon |
| Brooks, Geraldine | March |
| Buck, Pearl | The Good Earth |
| Canin, Ethan | Carry Me Across the Water |
| Conway, Jill K. | The Road From Coorain |
| DeBerières, Louis | Birds Without Wings |
| Desai, Anita | Clear Light of Day |
| Desai, Anita | Journey to Ithaca |
| Goldreich, Gloria | Walking Home |
| Gray, Francine du Plessix | Them |
| Harr, Jonathan | The Lost Painting |
| Harrison, Kathryn | The Kiss |
| Jin, Ha | Crazed |
| Jong, Erica | Fear of Flying |
| Maugham, W. Somerset | Of Human Bondage |
| McCullers, Carson | The Heart is a Lonely Hunter |
| McEwan, Ian | Saturday |
| Moehringer, J.R. | The Tender Bar |
| Parker, Robert B. | Cold Service |
| Roth, Philip | The Human Stain |
| Zindel, Paul | The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man–in–the–moon Marigolds |
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Austen, Jane | Northanger Abbey |
| Barnes, Julian | A History of the World in 10½ Chapters |
| Fergus, Jim | One Thousand White Women |
| Fessler, Ann | The Girls Who Went Away |
| Frazier, Ian | On the Rez |
| Fuentes, Carlos | The Old Gringo |
| Gordon, Mary | Final Payments |
| Gregory, Philippa | The Other Boleyn Girl |
| Hurston, Zora Neale | Their Eyes Were Watching God |
| Idliby, Ranya | The Faith Club |
| Jones, Edward P. | The Known World |
| Lawson, Mary | Crow Lake |
| Mann, Thomas | Death in Venice |
| Maynard, Joyce | At Home in the World |
| McCullough, David G. | 1776 |
| Pamuk, Orhan | The New Life |
| Robinson, Marilynne | Housekeeping |
| Toibin, Colm | The Master |
| Truong, Monique T.D. | The Book of Salt |
| Updike, John | Rabbit, Run |
| Waldman, Ayelet | Love and Other Impossible Pursuits |
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Allende, Isabel | The Infinite Plan |
| Allende, Isabel | Portrait In Sepia |
| Boyle, T. Coraghessan | World's End |
| Danticat, Edwidge | Breath, Eyes, Memory |
| Doig, Ivan | Dancing at the Rascal Fair |
| Dunmore, Helen | The Siege |
| Elderkin, Susan | Sunset over Chocolate Mountains |
| Foer, Jonathan Safran | Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close |
| Forster, E. M. | A Passage to India |
| Fuller, Alexandra | Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight |
| Greene, Graham | The Tenth Man |
| Hamilton, Jane | When Madeline was Young |
| Harrison, Kathryn | The Kiss |
| Harrison, Kathryn | The Seal Wife |
| Levy, Andrea | Small Island |
| Niemi, Mikael | Popular Music From Vittula |
| Pamuk, Orhan | Istanbul |
| Philbrick, Nathaniel | Mayflower |
| Shriver, Lionel | We Need to Talk About Kevin |
| Silber, Joan | Lucky Us |