2008

• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
• Leonardo’s Swans by Karen Essex
• Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz
• The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
• The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
• A Respectable Trade by Philippa Gregory
• March by Geraldine Brooks
• American Vertigo by Bernard-Henri Levy

2007

• Three Weeks with My Brother by Nicholas Sparks
• Wild Swans by Jung Chang
• Will in the World by Stephen Greenblatt
• Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult
• The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• The Passion of Artemisia by Susan Vreeland
• Love Walked In: A Novel by Marisa de los Santos
• The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
• One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus
• The Last Empress by Anchee Min
• The History of Love by Nicole Krauss

2006

• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon
• A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
• Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross
• The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
• Tending Roses by Lisa Wingate
• The Known World by Edward P. Jones
• The Magician’s Assistant by Ann Patchett
• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
• The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
• The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
• Gilead by Marilynne Robinson