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This Year's Books
2024 List
| On the brink of everything: grace, gravity, and getting old by Parker J. Palmer |
| The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck |
| The Fraud by Zadie Smith |
| Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys |
| The Women by Kristin Hannah |
| The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb |
| The Tenth Gift: a novel by Jane Johnson |
| In the Kingdom of Ice: the Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette by Hampton Sides |
| The Family Izquierdo: a novel by Rubén Degollado |
| Remarkably Bright Creatures: a novel by Shelby Van Pelt |
| The Covenant of Water: a novel by Abraham Verghese |
2023 List
| Fiction | Non-Fiction |
| The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman |
The Book of Hope by Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams |
| The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate | No Bone Unturned by Jeff Benedict |
| West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge | Riverman: an American Odyssey by Ben McGrath |
| Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell | On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity, and Getting Old by Parker J. Palmer |
| The Maid by Nita Prose | The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man by Paul Newman |
| Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus | Dinners With Ruth by Nina Totenberg |
| Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson | |
| The Japanese Lover by Isabell Allende | |
| Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult | |
| The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell | |
2022 List
| Fiction | Non-Fiction |
| City of Thieves by David Benioff | Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth |
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The Zookeepers Wife by Diane Ackerman |
Address Unknown by Katherine Kressmann |
| Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver | Breakfast with Buddha by Roland Merullo |
| Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng | Presidents of War by Michael Beschloss |
| The Lincoln Highway by Amor Toles | The Overstory by Richard Powers |
| Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline | Forget the Alamo by Bryan Burrough |
| The Dutch House by Ann Patchett | Devil in the White City by Erik Larson |
| Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue | Founding Mothers by Cokie Roberts |
| Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart | The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston |
| American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins | Catherine the Great by Robert K. Massie. |
| The Chanel Sisters by Judithe Little | The Color of Water by James McBride |
2021 List
| Wicked Woman by Jack London | Same Kind of Different As Me by Ron Hall and Denver Moore |
| The Dancing Partner by Jerome K Jerome | Island of Sea Women by Lisa See |
| Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glasspell | End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe |
| Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving | This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger |
| The Awakening by Kate Chopin | The Library Book by Susan Orlean |
| The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah | The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali |
| Things You Would Know if You Grew Up Around Here by Nancy Wayson Dinan | |
| What Unites Us by Dan Rather and Elliot Kirschner | |
| Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell | |
| The Paris Wife by Paula McClain | |
| The Midnight Assassin by Skip Hollandsworth |
2020 List
| Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Ownes |
| My Antonia by Willa Cather |
| Nothing Daunted by Dorothy Wickenden |
| The Pioneers by David McCullough |
| We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter |
| Giver of the Stars by Jojo Moyes |
| Radium Girls by Kate Moore |
| Sea of Memories by Fiona Valpy |
2019 List
| The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens |
| A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza |
| The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak |
| The Art Forger by B.A.Shapiro |
| The Freedom Writer’s Diary by Erin Gruwell |
| Harry’s Trees by Jon Cohen |
| The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton |
| The Way of Being Lost by Victoria Price |
| A Fall of Marigolds by Susan Meissner |
| Educated by Tara Westover |
2018 List
| Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks |
| News of the World by Paulette Jiles |
| Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance |
| My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult |
| The Postmistress by Sarah Blake |
| Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward |
| Killer Stuff and Tons of Money by Maureen Stanton |
| Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow |
| Happy All the Time by Laurie Colwin |
| My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout |
| Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout |
| A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles |
2017 List
| Stars at Night by Paula D’Arcy |
| The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead |
| Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain |
| What It is Like to Go to War by Karl Marlantes |
| You Know When the Men are Gone by Siobhan Fallon |
| The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin |
| The Round House by Louise Erdrich |
| A Piece of the World by Cristina Baker Kline |
| Lucky Boy by Shanthi Sekaran |
| The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah |
| Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman |