2008

• The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty
• Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
• Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez
• The Jade Peony by Wayson Choy
• Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
• The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak
• English Passengers by Matthew Kneale

2007

• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
• Untouchables by Narendra Jadhav
• The Yokota Officers Club by Sarah Bird
• Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett & Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
• A Tale of Love and Desire by Amos Oz
• Small Island by Andrea Levy
• The Mark of the Lion by Suzanne Arruda
• Death of Innocence by Mamie Till-Mobley and Christopher Benson
• Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
• The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
• Uncommon Carriers by John McPhee
• The Measure of a Man by Sidney Poitier

2006

• Far and Beyond by Unity Dow
• The Ornament of the World by Maria Rosa Menocal
• Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America by Linda Hunt
• Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
• The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
• Bed of Red Flowers by Nelofar Pazira
• Geographer's Library by John Fasman
• Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
• Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
• Sugar by Bernice McFadden

2005

• The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
• The Master Butchers' Singing Club by Louise Erdrich
• Walking Across Egypt by Clyde Edgerton
• Seraph on the Suwanee by Zora Neale Hurston
• Hunger by Elise Blackwell
• Brick Lane by Monica Ali
• Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
• Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
• Enemy Women by Paulette Jiles
• My Antonia by Willa Cather

2004

• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
• The Things They Carried by Tim O‘Brien
• Caucasia by Danzy Senna
• Hidden in Plain View by Raymond G. Dobard and
  Jacqueline L. Tobin
• Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter Naslunch
• Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
• When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
• Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
• The Angel with One Hundred Wings by Daniel Horch
• Satellite Sisters: The Uncommon Senses

2003

• Tales of a Female Nomad by Rita Golden Gelman
• The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif
• The Dover House by Annabel Davis-Goff
• Louisiana Power and Light by John Dufresne
• Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
• Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende
• Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
• The Inn at Lake Devine by Elinor Lipman
• Cane River by Lalita Tademy

2002

• Persian Mirrors by Elaine Sciolino
• When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and a biography of Carroll
• The Leaf and the Cloud by Mary Oliver
• Bee Season: A Novel by Myla Goldberg
• Almost a Woman by Esmeralda Santiago
• The Peppered Moth by Margaret Drabble
• Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue
• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie

2001

• Motherkind: A Novel by Jayne Anne Phillips
• Darkness Peering by Alice Blanchard
• Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel
• White Teeth: A Novel by Zadie Smith
• Tender At the Bone by Ruth Reichl
• Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
• Talking it Over by Julian Barnes
• Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout
• Happy All the Time by Laurie Colwin
• Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

2000

• Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
• The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
• Plainsong by Kent Haruf
• On Gold Mountain by Lisa See
• Beaming Sonny Home by Cathie Pelletier
• The All True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton: A Novel by Jane Smiley
• The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
• Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres
• Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose
  (Optional: Sacajawea by Anna Lee Waldo)
• Native Speaker by Chang-Rae Lee

1999

• Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
• Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
• Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya
• The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser
• The Way I Found Her by Rose Tremain
• The Gate of Angels by Penelope Fitzgerald
• Roxanna Slade by Reynolds Price
• How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
• Bad Land by Jonathan Raban
• Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball
• Who Will Run the Frog Hospital by Lorrie Moore
• The Color of Water by James McBride

1998

• Staggerford by Jon Hassler
• Accordian Crime by Annie Proulx
• An Imaginative Experience by Mary Wesley