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Dear America Jose Antonio Vargas 23/24
Five Little Indians Michelle Good 23/24
Horse Geraldine Brooks 23/24
Lucy by the Sea Elizabeth Strout 23/24
Oh, William! Elizabeth Strout 23/24
Strange Flowers Donal Ryan 23/24
The Diamond Eye Katie Quinn 23/24
The Dictionary of Lost Words Pip Williams 23/24
The Japanese Lover Isabel Allende 23/24
The Night Watchman Louise Erdrich 23/24
American Dirt Jeanine Cummins 22/23
Circe Madeline Miller 22/23
Hold Still Sally Mann 22/23
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Harriet Jacobs 22/23
Klara and The Sun Kazuo Ishiguro 22/23
Lessons in Chemistry Bonnie Garmus 22/23
The Lincoln Highway Amor Towles 22/23
The Rose Code Kate Quinn 22/23
Varina Charles Frazier 22/23
Deacon King Kong James McBride 21/22
East of Eden John Steinbeck 21/22
Freckled T W Neal 21/22
Hamnet Maggie O'Farrell 21/22
Monuments Men Robert Edsel 21/22
Sold on a Monday Kristina McMorris 21/22
Switcheroo Aaron Elkins 21/22
The Bookwoman of Troublesome Kim Michele Richardson 21/22
The Hate U Give Angie Thomas 21/22
The Warmth of Other Suns Isabel Wilkerson 21/22
A Woman Is No Man Etaf Rum 20/21
By Its Cover Donna Leon 20/21
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine Gail Honeyman 20/21
Embers Sandor Marai 20/21
Inland Tea Obreht 20/21
Island of Sea Women, The Lisa See 20/21
Little Scarlet Walter Mosley 20/21
Lying Game, The Ruth Ware 20/21
Neither Wolf Nor Dog Kent Nerburn 20/21
Alice Network, The Kate Quinn 19/20
Beloved Toni Morrison 19/20
Born a Crime Trevor North 19/20
Botany of Desire, The Michael Pollan 19/20
City of Thieves David Benioff 19/20
Kindred Octavia Butler 19/20
Lying Game, The Ruth Ware 19/20
Snow Child, The Eowyn Ivey 19/20
Soul of an Octopus, The Sy Montgomery 19/20
Best We Could Do, The Thi Bui 18/19
Displaced, The Viet Thanh Nguyen 18/19
Gentleman in Moscow, A Amor Towles 18/19
Homegoing Yaa Gyasi 18/19
I Will always Write Back Martin, Caitlin Ganda, Alifirenka 18/19
Invention of Wings, The Sue Monk Kidd 18/19
Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier 18/19
Sacre Bleu Christopher Moore 18/19
This Is How It Always Is Laurie Frankel 18/19
To the Bright Edge of the World Eowyn Ivey 18/19
Children of the Stone Sandy Tolan 17/18
Commonwealth Ann Patchett 17/18
Etta and Otto and Russell and James Emma Hooper 17/18
Man Called Ove, A Fredrik Backman 17/18
News of the World Paulette Jiles 17/18
Nutshell Ian McEwan 17/18
Tea Time For the Traditionally Built Alexander McCall Smith 17/18
Thunderstruck Erik Larson 17/18
Year of Wonder Geraldine Brooks 17/18
Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi  Adichie 16/17
Aviator's Wife, The Melanie  Benjamin 16/17
Behind the Beautiful Forevers Katherine Boo 16/17
Buddha in the Attic, The  Julie  Otsuka 16/17
Imperfect Birds Anne Lamont 16/17
Nightingale, The  Kristin  Hannah 16/17
Spymistress: A Novel Jennifer  Chiaverini 16/17
Thin Man, The Dashiell  Hammett 16/17
West With the Night   Beryl Markham 16/17-89/90
When Breath Becomes Air Paul Kalanithi 16/17
All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr 15/16
Autobiography of a Face Lucy Grealy 15/16
Case Histories Kate Atkinson 15/16
Hanna Eisfelder Grunwald Reinhard Otto 15/16
Marjorie Morningstar Hermann Wouk 15/16
One Summer America, 1927 Bill Bryson 15/16
Orphan Train Christina  Kline 15/16
Truth and Beauty Ann Patchett 15/16
White, The Deborah Larsen 15/16
Accordion Crimes Annie Proulx 14/15
Cellist of Sarajevo, The Steven  Galloway 14/15
Gulp Mary Roach 14/15
La Brava Elmore Leonard 14/15
Light Between Oceans, The M.L. Stedman 14/15
Me Before You Jojo Moyes 14/15
Painted Girls, The Cathy Marie Buchanan 14/15
Stream, The A.R. Silverberry 14/15
Tiger's Wife, The Tea Obreht 14/15
Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips Michael Morpurgo 13/14
Bridge of San Luis Rey, The Thornton Wilder 13/14
In Cold Blood Truman Capote 13/14
Map of Love, The Ahdaf Soueif 13/14
March Geraldine Brooks 13/14
Mission to Paris Alan Furst 13/14
Oh My Stars: A Novel Lorna Landvik 13/14
Thousand Splendid Suns, A Khaled Hosseini 13/14
War Horse Michael Morpurgo 13/14
Wonder Boys: A Novel Michael Chabon 13/14
Art of Racing in the Rain, The Garth Stein 12/13
Book of Salt, The Monique Truong 12/13
Night Circus, The Erin Morgenstern 12/13
No One is Here Except All of Us Ramona Ausubel 12/13
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austin 12/13
State of Wonder Ann Patchett 12/13
Too Much Happiness Alice Munro 12/13
Walk in the Woods, A Bill Bryson 12/13
White Teeth Zadie Smith 12/13
Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao, The Junot Diaz 11/12
Crossing to Safety Wallace Stegner 11/12
Female Brain, The Louann Brizendine 11/12
Help, The Kathryn Stockett 11/12
Historian, The Elizabeth Kostova 11/12
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, The Rebecca Skloot 11/12
Little Bee Chris Cleave 11/12
Northern Light, A Jennifer Donnelly 11/12
Portrait of a Lady, The Henry James 11/12
Cutting For Stone Abraham Verghese 10/11
Dreamers of the Day Mary Doria Russell 10/11
Five Quarters of the Orange Joanne Harris 10/11
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Steig Larsson 10/11
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet Jamie Ford 10/11
Lacuna, The Barbara Kingsolver 10/11
Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro 10/11
Olive Kitteridge Elizabeth Stout 10/11
Tortilla Curtain, The T.C. Boyle 10/11
Beautiful Boy David Sheff 09/10
Bold Spirit: Helga Estby’s Forgotten Walk Linda Lawrence Hunt 09/10
Book Thief, The Markus Zusak 09/10
Close Range: Wyoming Stories Annie Proulx 09/10
Guernsey Literary and Potato Pie Society, The Mary Ann Barrows 09/10
Omnivore’s Dilemma, The Michael Pollan 09/10
Run: A Novel Ann Patchett 09/10
Time Traveler’s Wife, The Audrey Niffenegger 09/10
To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee 09/10
Tweak Nic Sheff 09/10
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West Gregory Maguire 09/10
Donkey Baby Sonia Song 08/09
Double Bind, The Chris Bohjalian 08/09
Inheritance of Loss, The Kiran Desai 08/09
Loving Frank Nancy Horan 08/09
Night of Many Dreams Gail Tsukiyama 08/09
Scandalous Life, A Mary Lovell 08/09
Suite Francaise Irene Nemirovsky 08/09
Three Cups of Tea Greg Mortenson 08/09
Vilvaldi’s Virgins Barbara  Quick 08/09
Birth of Venus, The Sarah Dunant 07/08
Down by the River Edna O'Brien 07/08
Eat, Pray, Love Elizabeth Gilbert 07/08
Fasting, Feasting Anita Desai 07/08
Glass Castle, The Jeannette Walls 07/08
Nine Parts of Desire Geraldine Brooks 07/08
Rise and Shine Anna Quindlen 07/08
Water for Elephants Sara Gruen 07/08
Zorro Isabel Allende 07/08
Ahab’s Wife: Or, The Star-Gazer; A Novel Sena Jeter Naslund 06/07
DaVinci Code, The Dan Brown 06/07
Devil in the White City, The Erik Larson 06/07
Disobedience: A Novel Jane Hamilton 06/07
Mermaid Chair, The Sue Monk Kidd 06/07
Middlesex; A Novel Jeffrey Eugenides 06/07
Moloka’I Alan Brennert 06/07
Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood Benjamin Alire Saenz 06/07
Thread of Grace, A Mary Doria Russell 06/07
Beekeeper’s Apprentice, The Laurie R. King 05/06
Before You Know Kindness Chris Bohjalian 05/06
Confessions of Max Tivoli, The Andrew Sean Greer 05/06
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The Mark Haddon 05/06
Ice Queen, The Alice Hoffman 05/06
Known World, The Edward P. Jones 05/06
Reader, The Bernhard Schlink 05/06
Shadow of the Wind, The Carlos Ruiz Zafon 05/06
Snow Orhan Pamuk 05/06
Amsterdam Ian McEwan 04/05
Bel Canto Ann Patchett 04/05
Cantora: A Novel Sylvia Lopez-Medina 04/05
Cure for Death by Lightning, The Gail Anderson-Dargatz 04/05
Great Fire, The Shirley Hazzard 04/05
Kite Runner, The Khaled Hosseini 04/05
Lovely Bones, The Alice Sebold 04/05
Reading Lolita in Tehran Azar Nafisi 04/05
Tears of the Giraffe Alexander McCall Smith 04/05
Atonement Ian McEwan 03/04
Blind Assassin, The Margaret Atwood 03/04
Family Pictures: A Novel Sue Miller 03/04
Life of Pi Yann Martel 03/04
Passage Connie Willis 03/04
Piano Tuner, The Daniel Mason 03/04
Prodigal Summer: A Novel Barbara Kingsolver 03/04
Seabiscuit Laura Hillenbrand 03/04
Secret Life of Bees, The Sue Monk Kidd 03/04
Anil's Ghost Michael Ondaatje 02/03
Back When We Were Grownups Anne Tyler 02/03
Blackberry Wine: A Novel Joanne Harris 02/03
Daughter of the Forest Juliet Marillier 02/03
Egg and I, The Betty MacDonald 02/03
Empire Falls Richard  Russo 02/03
Grapes of Wrath, The John Steinbeck 02/03
My Dream of You Nuala O'Faolain 02/03
Rose Martin Cruz Smith 02/03
Angle of Repose Wallace Stegner 01/02
Chocolat Joanne Harris 01/02
Corelli’s Mandolin Louis De Bernieres 01/02
Daughter of Fortune Isabel Allende 01/02
Galileo’s Daughter Dava Sobel 01/02
Into the Forest Jean Hegland 01/02
Midwives Chris Bohjalian 01/02
Sparrow, The Mary Doria Russell 01/02
Voyage of the Narwhal, The Andrea Barrett 01/02
Eucalyptus Murray Bail 00/01
Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing, The Melissa  Bank 00/01
Letters from Yellowstone Diane Smith 00/01
Object Lessons Anna Quindlen 00/01
Plainsong Kent Haruf 00/01
Poisonwood Bible, The Barbara Kingsolver 00/01
Sister of My Heart Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni 00/01
Vintner’s Luck, The Elizabeth Knox 00/01
White Oleander Janet Fitch 00/01
Behind the Scenes at the Museum Kate Atkinson 99/00
Contact Carl Sagan 99/00
Fall of a Sparrow, The Robert Hellenga 99/00
Gracious Plenty, A Sheri Reynolds 99/00
Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez 99/00
Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden 99/00
Paradise Toni Morrison 99/00
Short History of a Prince, The Jane Hamilton 99/00
Snow Falling on Cedars David Guterson 99/00
Cold Mountain Charles Frazier 98/99
Divine Secrets of the Ya -Ya Sisterhood Rebecca Wells 98/99
God of Small Things, The Arundhati Roy 98/99
In the Memory of the Forest Charles Powers 98/99
Prince of West End Avenue, The Alan Isler 98/99
Redemption Leon Uris 98/99
Samurai’s Garden, The Gail Tsukiyama 98/99
Sweetheart Season, The Karen Jay Fowler 98/99
Under the Tuscan Sun Frances Mayes 98/99
Babel Tower   A.S. Byatt 97/98
Gone to Soldiers Marge Piercy 97/98
Original Sin   P.D. James 97/98
Orlando    Virginia Woolf 97/98
She’s Come Undone Wally Lamb 97/98
Stones From the River   Ursula Hegi 97/98
Trinity   Leon Uris  97/98, 85/86
Winter Wheat   Mildred Walker 97/98
Emma   Jane Austin 96/97
English Patient, The    Michael Ondaatje  96/97
High Tide in Tucson    Barbara Kingsolver 96/97
Horse Whisperer, The  Nicholas Evans 96/97
Ladder of Years  Anne Tyler  96/97
Living is Easy, The Dorothy West 96/97
Moo   Jane Smiley 96/97
Wedding, The  Dorothy West 96/97
Circle of Friends Maeve Binchy 95/96
Cry To Heaven   Anne Rice  95/96
Day After Tomorrow , The Alan Folson 95/96
Leaving Cold Sassy Olive Ann Burns 95/96
Robber Bride, The Margaret Atwood 95/96
Skinny Legs and All   Tom Robbins 95/96
Stone Diaries    Carol Shields 95/96
Sudden Fearful Death, A Anne Perry 95/96
Time and Again   Jack Finney 95/96
After All These Years   Susan Isaacs 94/95
All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy 94/95
Dangerous Mourning, A   Anne Perry 94/95
Defend and Betray Anne Perry 94/95
Dubliners, The James Joyce 94/95
Interview with the Vampire  Anne Rice 94/95
Mama Makes Up Her Mind    Bailey White   94/95
Pigs in Heaven   Barbara Kingsolver 94/95
Animal Dreams  Barbara Kingsolver 93/94
Bastard Out of Carolina   Dorothy Allison 93/94
Every Living Thing    James Herriot 93/94
Face of a Stranger, The Anne Perry 93/94
Infinite Plan, The Isabel Allende 93/94
Jazz   Toni Morrison 93/94
Kitchen   Banana Yoshimoto 93/94
Like Water For Chocolate   Laura Esquivel 93/94
Pelican Brief  John Grisham 93/94
Thousand Acres, A   Jane Smiley 93/94
Crown of Columbus, The  Michael Dorris and Louise Erdrich 92/93
Ginger Tree   Oswald Wynd 92/93
How to Make An American Quilt: A Novel    Whitney Otto 92/93
Just Cause   John Katzenbach 92/93
Kitchen God's Wife, The Amy Tan  92/93
Lady's Maid   Margaret Forster 92/93
Middlemarch George Eliot 92/93
Possession A.S. Byatt 92/93
Time to Kill, A John Grisham 92/93
Turtle Moon   Alice Hoffman 92/93
Cat's Eye     Margaret Atwood 91/92
Education of Little Tree, The    Forest Carter 91/92
Eva Luna  Isabel Allende 91/92
Frankenstein    Mary Shelley 91/92
Jane Eyre  Charlotte Bronte 91/92
John Dollar    Marianne Wiggins  91/92
Palace Walls   Naquid Mahfouz 91/92
Wide Sargasso Sea   Jean Rhys  91/92
Year In Provence, A    Peter Mayle 91/92
Annie John    Jamaica Kincaid 90/91
Bean Tree, The   Barbara Kingsolver 90/91
Depths of Glory   Irving Stone 90/91
Joy Luck Club   Amy Tan 90/91
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All  Alex Gurganus 90/91
Sands of Time   Sidney Sheldon 90/91
Shell Seekers, The  Rosamunde Pilcher 90/91
Tripmaster Monkey    Maxine Hong Kingston 90/91
Yellow Raft on Blue Water  Michael Dorris 90/91
Accidental Tourist   Anne Tyler  89/90
Cardinal in the Kremlin  Tom Clancy 89/90
Eight, The   Katherine Neville 89/90
House of Spirits  Isabel Allende 89/90
Life and Death in Shanghai Ninen Cheng 89/90
My Life As A Gal  Alice Kahn 89/90
Only Children   Rafael Yglesias  89/90
Sister Age   M.F.K. Fisher 89/90
Bonfires of the Vanities    Tom Wolfe 88/89
Cashelmara  Susan Howatch 88/89
Her Mother's Daughter  Marilyn French 88/89
Housekeeping    Marilynne Robinson 88/89
Hunt for Red October, The Tom Clancy 88/89
Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtrie 88/89
Presumed Innocents  Scott Turow   88/89
Song of Soloman   Toni Morrison 88/89
Southern Family, A    Gail Godwin 88/89
And So It Goes  Linda Ellerby 87/88
Bone People, The  Keri Hulme 87/88
Confederacy of Dunces, A   John Kennedy Toole  87/88
Freedom At Midnight    Larry Collins 87/88
Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood 87/88
Prince of Tides Pat Conroy 87/88
Proof  Dick Francis 87/88
Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe, The Lilly Tomlin  87/88
Tender is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald 87/88
Balthazar Lawrence Durrell 86/87
Celestial Navigator    Anne Tyler  86/87
Choice of Heros, A   Mark Gerzon 86/87
Hold the Dream Barbara Taylor Bradford 86/87
House    Tracy Kidder 86/87
Woman's Reality   Anne Wilson Schaef 86/87
Zelda   Nancy Milford 86/87
Out on a Limb Shirley McClane 85/86
Great Gatsby, The F. Scott Fitzgerald 84/85
Heat and Dust   Ruth Prawler Jhabvala 84/85
Long Days Journey Into Night, A   Eugene O'Neil 84/85
Mists of Avalon, The  Marion Zimmer Bradley 84/85
Passage to India E.M. Forster 84/85
Absalom, Absalom William Faulkner 83/84
Agony and The Ecstasy, The  Irving Stone 83/84
Fifth Business   Robertson Davis 83/84
Hotel New Hampshire, The   John Irving 83/84
Left Hand of Darkness   Ursula Le Guin 83/84
My Name is Asher Lev   Chaim Potok 83/84
Once and Future King, The T.H. White  83/84
Valley of the Horses Jean Auel 83/84
War and Remembrance   Hermann Wouk 83/84
Women in Love    D.H. Lawrence 83/84
Awakening, The Kate Chopin 82/83
Clan of the Cave Bear Jean Auel 82/83
Marriages Between Zones 3,4,5    Doris Lessing 82/83
Rabbitt is Rich   John Updike 82/83
Semi-Attached Couple and the Semi Detached House Emily Eden 82/83
Shibumi   Trevanian  82/83
Sophie's Choice   William Styron 82/83
Spring Moon   Bette Bao Lord 82/83
Tai pan James Clavell 82/83
Winds of War   Hermann Wouk 82/83
Covenant, The  James Michener 81/82
Final Payment   Mary Gordon 81/82
Gorky Park   Martin Cruz Smith 81/82
Kane and Abel  Jeffrey Archer 81/82
Last Convertible, The  Anton Myer 81/82
Lucifer's Hammer    L. Niven and J. Pournelle 81/82
Noble House James Clavell 81/82
Woman of Independent Means, A   Elizabeth Hailey 81/82
Key to Rebecca  Ken Follett 80/81
Ordinary People Judith Guest 80/81
Shogun James Clavell 80/81
Woman of Substance, A Barbara Taylor Bradford 80/81
Dune   Frank Herbert 75/76
Ebony Tower , The   John Fowles 75/76
Fear of Flying   Erica Jong 75/76
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou 75/76
One Hundred Years of Solitude    Gabriel Garcia Marquez 75/76
Pentimento  Lillian Hellman 75/76
When I Say No I Feel Guilty    Manuel Smith 75/76
And the Ladies of the Club   Helen Mooven Santmyer
Ashes in the Wind   Kathleen Woodiwiss
Basil and Josephine Stories, The    F. Scott Fitzgerald
Bell Jar, The   Sylvia Plath
Brave New World  Aldous Huxley
Camerons, The   Robert Crichton
Caravans   James Michener
Centennial    James Michener
Chariots of the Gods?    Erich Von Daniken
Chronicle of a Death Foretold    Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Cold Sassy Tree Olive Ann Burns
Color Purple, The   Alice Walker
Descent of Woman, The  Elaine Morgan
Far Pavilions, The M.M. Kaye
French Lieutenant's Woman, The John Fowles
Gift from the Sea    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Harvest Home   Thomas Tryon
Implosion Conspiracy, The   Louis Nizer
Justine Lawrence Durrell
Little Prince, The Antoine DeSaintExupery
Sacajawea    Anna Lee Waldo
Shadow of the Moon   M.M. Kaye
Stones for Ibarra   Harriet Doerr
Thorn Birds, The Colleen McCullough
Tiger's Daughter, The  Bharati Mukherjee
Walden   Henry David Thoreau
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