1991-92
Cold Sassy Tree, Olive-Ann Burns
Saint Maybe, Ann Tyler
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
My Son’s Story, Nadine Gordimer
Crossing to Safety, Wallace Stegner
The Road from Coorain, Jill Ker Conway
1992-93
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, Susan Faludi
Beloved, Toni Morrison
Spartina, John Casey
O Pioneers!, Willa Cather
Up Island, Ann Rivers Siddons
Hunger of Memory, Richard Rodriguez
Father Melancholy’s Daughter, Gail Godwin
A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley
Eighth Moon, Betty Bao Lord
1993-94
Eleanor Roosevelt, Blanche Weisen Cook
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver
Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Bodhran Makers, John Keane
The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende
A Tidewater Morning, William Styron
1994-95
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
Fifty Russian Winters, Margaret Wettlin
Emma, Jane Austen
Saint Joan(Play), G.B. Shaw
The Lark(Play), Jean Anouilh
Foreign Affairs, Allison Lurie
Winesburg Ohio, Sherwood Anderson
The Robber Bride, Margaret Atwood
1995-96
May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons, Elizabeth Bumiller
Woman Hollering Creek, Sandra Cisneros
Red Azalea, Anchee Minn
An American Childhood, Annie Dillard
As You Like It(Play), William Shakespeare
One True Thing, Anna Quindlen
The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II, Doris Kerns Goodwin
Mutant Message Down Under, Marlo Morgan
1996-97
Frank Lloyd Wright, Meryl Secrest
To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterson
Hard Times, Charles Dickens
The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
Cat’s Eye, Margaret Atwood
Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages, Phyllis Rose
Poems, Naomi Shihab Nye
A Few Green Leaves, Barbara Pym
1997-98
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Stones from the River, Ursula Hegi
An Unquiet Mind: A Memory of Moods and Madness, Kate Redfield Jamison
Reflected Glory: The Life of Pamela Churchill Harriman, Sally Bedell Smith
The Bookshop, Penelope Fitzgerald
Washington Square, Henry James
Country Girls Trilogy, Edna O’Brien
Pleasant Valley(Visit Malabar Farm), Louis Bromfield
1998-99
Personal History, Katherine Graham
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neal Hurston
Larry’s Party, Carol Shields
A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
Ohio Town, Helen Hooven Santemayer
A House for Mr. Biswas, V.S.Naipal
An Ideal Husband, Oscar Wilde
1999-2000
Eminent Victorians, Lytton Strachey
Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea, Gary Kinder
Beaming Sonny Home, Cathy Pelletier
The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
Two Trains Running (play), August Wilson
In Her Own Words: Women’s Memoris from Australia, New Zealsnd, and the United States, Jill Ker Conway
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
2000-2001
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, Wayne Johnston
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, J.K. Rowling
Of Wakes and Weddings, Alice McDermott
Love Again, Doris Lessing
The Seagull (play), Anton Chekhov
Nine Parts of Desire, Geraldine Brooks
The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
Sula, Toni Morrison
2001-2002 – Theme for year: CHINA
China: Its History and Culture, W.Scott Morton
A Single Pebble, John Hersey
Falling Leaves, Adeline Yen Mah
Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee, Robert VanGulik, ed.
Waiting, Ha Jin
Women of the Silk, Gail Tsukiyama
River Town, Peter Hessler
2002-2003
An Anthropologist on Mars, Oliver Sacks
The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint, Brady Udall
The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
Mornings on Horseback, David McCullough
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America, Barbara Ehrenreich
Seabiscuit, Laura Hillenbrand
What Lips My Lips have Kissed, David A. Epstein
2003-2004
Moon Tiger, Penelope Lively
Life of Pi, Yann Martel
Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev
The Whore’s Child, Richard Russo
Kaaterskill Falls, Allegra Goodman
Mrs. Warren’s Profession, George Bernard Shaw
House of Sand and Fog, Andre Dubos
The Master Butcher’s Singing Club, Louise Erdrich
2004-2005
Can You Forgive Her?, Anthony Trollope
We Band of Angels, Elizabeth Norman
The Wapshot Chronicles, John Cheeveer
Year of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks
Thunder at Twilight, Frederick Morton
The Middle of Everywhere, Mary Pipher
She Stoops to Conquer, Oliver Goldsmith
The Beggar Maid, Alice Munro
2005-2006
The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family, Mary S. Lovell
Reason for Hope, Jane Goodall
Cane River, Lalita Tademy
Short Stories: Death by Landscape, Margaret Atwood; The Things they Carried, Tim O’Brien; Nineteen Fifty-five, Alice Walker
The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
All My Sons, Arthur Miller
The Magnificent Ambersons, Booth Tarkington
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
2006-2007
1776, David McCullough
Arms and the Man, George Bernard Shaw
Short Stories: Customs of the Country, Madison Smartt Bell; Rock Springs, Richard Ford; Girl, Jamaica Kincaid
Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin
Cairo Trilogy: Third Novel, Naguib Mahfouz
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, Kim Edwards
Pale Horse, Pale Rider, Katherine Anne Porter
The Plot Against America, Philip Roth
2007-2008
Suite Francaise, Irene Nimerovsky