1
A
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie (5/2009)
- An Abundance of Katherines, John Green (1/2009)
- The Adventure of English, Melvin Bragg (11/2009)
- Affinity, Sarah Waters (4/2011)
- The Age of Orphans, Laleh Khadivi (1/2010)
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll (6/2011)
- All Over Creation, by Ruth Ozeki (7/2007)
- All the Living, C. E. Morgan (2/2010)
- American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis (9/2012)
- Amglish, Arthur Rowse (9/2012)
- Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman (1/2009)
- Angelina’s Children, Alice Ferney (12/2008)
- The Angel’s Game, Carlos Ruiz Zafon (7/2009)
- Annie Dunne, Sebastian Barry (12/2008)
- The Anthologist, Nicholson Baker (8/2010)
- Any Bitter Thing, by Monica Wood (12/2007)
- Apart from the Crowd, Anna McPartlin (12/2008)
- Apples are from Kazakhstan, Christopher Robbins (5/2008)
- The Appointment, Herta Muller (5/2010)
- April and Oliver, Tess Callahan (7/2010)
- Arabian Jazz, Diana Abu-Jaber (12/2011)
- Arcadia, Lauren Groff (3/2012)
- The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein (11/2008)
- Assassination Vacation, Sarah Vowell (4/2010)
- Asta in the Wings, Jan Elizabeth Watson (10/2010)
- Astrid and Veronika, Linda Olsson (1/2010)
- The Awakening, Kate Chopin (6/2011)
B
- A Bad Case of Stripes, David Shannon (4/2009)
- Backseat Saints, Joshilyn Jackson (7/2010)
- Baking Cakes in Kigali, Gaile Parkin (10/2009)
- The Bastard of Istanbul, by Elif Shafak (4/2007)
- Beat the Reaper, Josh Bazell (6/2011)
- The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, Dinaw Mengestu (7/2009)
- The Beauty of Humanity Movement, Camilla Gibb (3/2011)
- Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw, Will Ferguson (6/2010)
- Belong to Me, Marisa de los Santos (5/2008)
- Beneath the Lion’s Gaze, Maaza Mengiste (4/2010)
- Between, Georgia, Joshilyn Jackson (2/2008)
- Between the Tides, Patti Callahan Henry (11/2008)
- Billy, IKEA (5/2010)
- Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott (9/2009)
- Birds of Paradise, Diana Abu-Jaber (10/2011)
- Bitten, Kelley Armstrong (Women of the Otherworld #1) (7/2012)
- Bitter Sweets, Roopa Farooki (8/2009)
- Bitterblue, Kristin Cashore (6/2012)
- The Black Nile, Dan Morrison (2/2011)
- The Blind Contessa’s New Machine, Carey Wallace (8/2010)
- Blink, Malcolm Gladwell (7/2010)
- Blood Bound, Patricia Briggs (1/2011)
- The Blood of Flowers, by Anita Amirrezvani (8/2007)
- Bloodroot, Amy Greene (1/2010)
- Bone Crossed, Patricia Briggs (1/2011)
- The Book of Salt, Monique Truong (12/2011)
- The Book Thief, Markus Zusak (8/2009)
- The Borrower, Rebecca Makkai (6/2011)
- Bound South, Susan Rebecca White (9/2007)
- A Box of Matches, Nicholson Baker (5/2008)
- a boy of good breeding, Miriam Toews (3/2009)
- Brave New World, Aldous Huxley (10/2011)
- Breaking Dawn, Stephenie Meyer (8/2008)
- The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz (10/2008)
- Broken, Daniel Clay (1/2008)
- Broken, Kelley Armstrong (Women of the Otherworld #6) (7/2012)
- Broken for You, Stephanie Kallos (8/2010)
- Broken Glass Park, Alina Bronsky (6/2010)
- Broken Paradise, Cecilia Samartin (5/2008)
- Brooklyn, Colm Toibin (1/2010)
- Brother, I’m Dying, Edwidge Danticat (7/2009)
- The Brothers K, by David James Duncan (10/2007)
- The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky (10/2010)
- The Bucolic Plague, Josh Kilmer-Purcell (5/2010)
- The Buddha in The Attic, Julie Otsuka (10/2011)
C
- C, Tom McCarthy (1/2011)
- The Caliph’s House, by Tahir Shah (4/2007)
- The Call of Cthulhu, H.P. Lovecraft (9/2011)
- The Calligrapher’s Daughter, Eugenia Kim (8/2008)
- Camp Nine, Vivienne Schiffer (12/2011)
- Canada, Richard Ford (10/2012)
- Candy Freak, Steve Almond (6/2011)
- Caspian Rain, Gina Nahai (5/2009)
- Catch-22, Joseph Heller (5/2012)
- The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger (2/2010)
- Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins (9/2009)
- Cat’s Eye, Margaret Atwood (5/2011)
- The Cellist of Sarajevo, Steven Galloway (7/2009)
- The Center of Everything, by Laura Moriarty (12/2007)
- Centuries of June, Keith Donohue (6/2011)
- Chef, Jaspreet Singh (12/2010)
- Children and Fire, Ursela Hegi (6/2011)
- Children of Dust, Ali Eteraz (12/2009)
- A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens (12/2009)
- Church of the Dog, Kaya McLaren (2/2009)
- Ciao, America, by Beppe Severgnini (1/2007)
- City of Ashes, Cassandra Clare (12/2012)
- City of Bones, Cassandra Clare (12/2012)
- City of Fallen Angels, Cassandra Clare (12/2012)
- City of Glass, Cassandra Clare (12/2012)
- Cleopatra, Stacy Schiff (1/2011)
- A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess (4/2011)
- Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell (3/2012)
- Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons (10/2010)
- Cold Rock River, Jackie Lee Miles (3/2009)
- Come In and Cover Me, Gin Phillips (2/2012)
- Company of Liars, Karen Maitland (3/2009)
- Coop, Michael Perry (8/2010)
- Coraline, Neil Gaiman (11/2008)
- The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas (12/2012)
- The Cradle, Patrick Somerville (1/2010)
- Crescent, Diana Abu-Jaber (12/2008)
- Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, Tom Franklin (11/2010)
- Crossing Washington Square, Joanne Rendell (3/2010)
- Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese (6/2010)
D
- Daddy Long-Legs, Jean Webster (1/2010)
- Daughter of Blood, Anne Bishop (7/2012)
- Daughter of Fortune, Isabel Allende (4/2008)
- Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Laini Taylor (12/2012)
- Daughters of the Witching Hill, Mary Sharratt (8/2011)
- Day for Night, Frederick Reiken (7/2010)
- Days of Blood and Starlight, Laini Taylor (12/2012)
- Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather (12/2010)
- Deep Down True, Juliette Fay (4/2011)
- Destiny of the Republic, Candice Millard (10/2011)
- Digging to America, by Anne Tyler (12/2007)
- The Dirty Life, Kristin Kimball (11/2010)
- The Disappeared, Kim Echlin (3/2010)
- A Discovery of Witches, Deborah Harkness (2/2011)
- A Disobedient Girl, Ru Freeman (9/2009)
- The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, E. Lockhart (5/2008)
- Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, by Alexandra Fuller (10/2007)
- Doomsday Book, Connie Willis (12/2012)
- Dork Whore, by Iris Bahr (4/2007)
- Dr. Zhivago, Boris Pasternak (12/2010)
- Dracula, Bram Stoker (10/2009)
- Dragon House, John Shors (3/2010)
- Dragonfly in Amber, Diana Gabaldon (5/2012)
- Dream Homes, Joyce Zonana (3/2009)
- Dreaming in Cuban, Cristina Garcia (4/2010)
- Dreams Underfoot, Charles de Lint (2/2009)
- Drums of Autumn, Diana Gabaldon (5/2012)
E
- The Earth Hums in B Flat, Mari Strachan (8/2009)
- Earthly Pleasures, Karen Neches (2/2008)
- East of Eden, John Steinbeck (1/2010)
- eat pray love, by Elizabeth Gilbert (4/2007)
- Eclipse, Stephenie Meyer (3/2008)
- Eleanor of Aquitaine, Alison Weir (1/2009)
- Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1933, Blanche Wiesen Cook (12/2009)
- The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery (3/2009)
- Embroideries, Marjane Satrapi (6/2010)
- Emotional Geology, Linda Gillard (11/2009)
- The End of the Alphabet, CS Richardson (1/2009)
- Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton (11/2010)
- Every Book Its Reader, Nicholas Basbanes (9/2010)
- Everything Beautiful Began After, Simon Van Booy (12/2011)
- Everything Happens Today, Jesse Browner (10/2011)
- Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, Anne Fadiman (1/2009)
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer (1/2012)
F
- Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury (8/2010)
- Fair Game, Patricia Briggs (Alpha and Omega #3) (7/2012)
- The Faith Club, Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, and Priscilla Warner (4/2011)
- Falling Palace, by Dan Hofstadter (1/2007)
- Falling Together, Marisa de los Santos (10/2011)
- The False Friend, Myla Goldberg (7/2010)
- The Family Fang, Kevin Wilson (9/2012)
- The Faraday Girls, by Monica McInerney (11/2007)
- A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway (5/2010)
- The Fates Will Find Their Way, Hannah Pittard (9/2011)
- The Fault in Our Stars, John Green (3/2012)
- Fault Lines, Nancy Huston (2/2010)
- The Favorites, Mary Yukari Waters (8/2009)
- The Female Brain, Louann Brizendine (9/2010)
- Finding George Orwell in Burma, Emma Larkin (4/2011)
- Fingerprints of You, Kristen-Paige Madonia (9/2012)
- Finny, Justin Kramon (7/2010)
- Firmin, Sam Savage (6/2009)
- First Comes Love, Then Comes Malaria, Eve Brown-Waite (6/2009)
- Fledgling, Octavia Butler (12/2008)
- The Flight of Gemma Hardy, Margot Livesey (6/2012)
- The Flying Troutmans, Miriam Toews (6/2009)
- Fool, Christopher Moore (5/2009)
- Foreign Tongue, Vanina Marsot (2/2009)
- The Forty Rules of Love, Elif Shafak (4/2010)
- Four Seasons in Rome, Anthony Doerr (10/2009)
- Fragile Eternity, Melissa Marr (6/2009)
- Frankenstein, Mary Shelley (10/2009)
- Freakonomics, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner (4/2009)
- French Leave, Anna Gavalda (11/2011)
- French Milk, Lucy Knisley (12/2009)
- Friendship Bread, Darien Gee (8/2011)
- From Heaven Lake, Vikram Seth (1/2008)
- Frostbitten, Kelley Armstrong (Women of the Otherworld #10) (7/2012)
- Fugitive Pieces, Anne Michaels (2/2010)
- Fugitives and Refugees, Chuck Palahniuk (5/2010)
G
- Game of Secrets, Dawn Tripp (8/2011)
- A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin (1/2012)
- Gang Leader for a Day, Sudhir Venkatesh (10/2009)
- The Gangster We Are All Looking For, le thi diem thuy (7/2009)
- The Garden of Happy Endings, Barbara O’Neal (4/2012)
- Garden Spells, Sarah Addison Allen (1/2008)
- Geek Love, Katherine Dunn (8/2008)
- The Geographer’s Library, Jon Fasman (5/2008)
- The Geography of Bliss, Eric Weiner (11/2010)
- Ghostwalk, Rebecca Scott (8/2008)
- The Gilly Salt Sisters, Tiffany Baker (4/2012)
- Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin (3/2009)
- Girl Overboard, Justina Chen Headley (7/2009)
- The Girl Who Chased the Moon, Sarah Addison Allen (4/2010)
- The Girl Who Fell From the Sky, Heidi Durrow (12/2011)
- The Girl Who Played with Fire, Stieg Larsson (12/2009)
- The Girl Who Stopped Swimming, Joshilyn Jackson (12/2009)
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson (9/2009)
- A Girl’s Guide to Modern European Philosophy, Charlotte Greig (5/2010)
- Girlchild, Tupelo Hassman (6/2012)
- Girls in Trucks, Katie Crouch (4/2008)
- The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls (3/2008)
- The God of War, Marisa Silver (6/2009)
- Gods Behaving Badly, Marie Phillips (5/2008)
- Going Down South, Bonnie Glover (12/2008)
- Going to Bend, Diane Hammond (8/2008)
- Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn (7/2012)
- Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell (10/2011)
- The Good Muslim, Tahmima Anam (9/2011)
- Graceling, Kristin Cashore (6/2010)
- Grant’s Final Victory, Richard Bracelen Flood (11/2011)
- Graveminder, Melissa Marr (5/2011)
- The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman (10/2008)
- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (2/2011)
- Great House, Nicole Krauss (1/2011)
- Great Plains, Ian Frazier (4/2010)
- Grounded, Seth Stevenson (12/2010)
- A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty, Joshilyn Jackson (6/2012)
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (9/2008)
H
- The Ha-Ha, Dave King (2/2009)
- Half World, Hiromi Goto (9/2012)
- Half Broke Horses, Jeannette Walls (8/2011)
- Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Adichie (5/2009)
- Ham on Rye, Charles Bukowski (7/2011)
- Hamlet’s BlackBerry, William Powers (11/2010)
- The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors, Michele Young-Stone (6/2010)
- The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood (8/2011)
- The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson (11/2009)
- Have a Little Faith, Mitch Albom (11/2010)
- Heading Out to Wonderful, Robert Goolrick (7/2012)
- The Help, Kathryn Stockett (8/2009)
- Heir of Shadows, Anne Bishop (7/2012)
- Her Fearful Symmetry, Audrey Niffenegger (11/2009)
- The Heretic’s Daughter, Kathleen Kent (11/2008)
- Herland, Charlotte Perkins Gilman (6/2011)
- The Heroines, Eileen Favorite (1/2008)
- The Heroine’s Bookshelf, Erin Blakemore (11/2010)
- The Hiding Place, Trezza Azzopardi (4/2010)
- The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien (audio book) (10/2012)
- The History of History, Ida Hattemer-Higgins (2/2011)
- The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine, Alina Bronsky (7/2011)
- The Hour I First Believed, Wally Lamb (1/2009)
- House of Leaves, Mark Danielewski (2/2010)
- The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros (4/2010)
- The Housekeeper and the Professor, Yoko Ogawa (8/2009)
- How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming, Mike Brown (audio book) (4/2012)
- How Right You Are Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse (2/2009)
- How I Live Now, Meg Rosoff (10/2009)
- How to Bake a Perfect Life, Barbara O’Neal (6/2011)
- Howards End is on the Landing, Susan Hill (12/2009)
- The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins (7/2009)
- Hunting Ground, Patricia Briggs (Alpha and Omega #2) (7/2012)
I
- I Am Hutterite, Mary-Ann Kirkby (7/2010)
- I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith (6/2008)
- If on a winter’s night a traveler, Italo Calvino (9/2008)
- I’jaam, Sinan Antoon (3/2008)
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot (2/2010)
- The Imperfectionists, Tom Rachman (2/2011)
- In Siberia, Colin Thubron (12/2010)
- Incidents In The Rue Laugier, by Anita Brookner (6/2007)
- In Cold Blood, Truman Capote (audio book) (2/2012)
- In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan (9/2010)
- In Hovering Flight, Joyce Hinnefeld (2/2010)
- In the Castle of the Flynns, Michael Raleigh (3/2009)
- In the Country of Men, Hisham Matar (1/2009)
- In the Garden of Beasts, Erik Larson (12/2011)
- In the Woods, Tana French (8/2008)
- In Zanesville, Jo Ann Beard (4/2011)
- Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer (8/2010)
- Ink Exchange, Melissa Marr (5/2008)
- Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpha Lahiri (12/2011)
- Into the Beautiful North, Luis Alberto Urrea (7/2009)
- Iron Kissed, Patricia Briggs (1/2011)
- The Island of Dr. Moreau, H.G. Wells (9/2011)
- IT, Stephen King (9/2012)
- Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy (audio book) (1/2012)
- Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë (3/2011)
- Jellicoe Road, Melina Marchetta (12/2012)
- Joy for Beginners, Erica Bauermeister (6/2011)
- Judging a Book by Its Lover, Lauren Leto (10/2012)
K
- Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami (8/2008)
- Kamchatka, Marcelo Figueras (4/2011)
- Keeper and Kid, Edward Hardy (4/2008)
- Keeping the Feast, Paula Butturini (1/2010)
- The King’s English, Betsy Burton (12/2009)
- The King’s Speech, Mark Logue and Peter Conradi (12/2011)
- Kinky Gazpacho, Lori Tharps (8/2009)
- The Kitchen Daughter, Jael McHenry (6/2011)
- Knots, Nuruddin Farah (1/2010)
- Kristin Lavransdatter, Sigrid Undset (The Wreath, The Wife, The Cross) (10/2009)
L
- The Lace Reader, Brunonia Barry (8/2008)
- The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver (12/2009)
- Lady Chatterley’s Lover, D.H. Lawrence (10/2010)
- The Language of Trees, Ilie Ruby (7/2010)
- The Lantern, Deborah Lawrenson (10/2011)
- Lark and Termite, Jayne Anne Phillips (3/2010)
- The Last Beach Bungalow, Jennie Nash (7/2009)
- The Last Brother, Nathacha Appanah (2/2011)
- The Last Days of Dogtown, Anita Diamant (11/2008)
- Last Night in Montreal, Emily St. John Mandel (9/2009)
- The Last Queen, C.W. Gortner (10/2008)
- The Last Time I Was Me, Cathy Lamb (8/2008)
- The Last Werewolf, Glen Duncan (10/2012)
- The Laws of Harmony, Judith Ryan Hendricks (3/2009)
- Le Road Trip, Vivian Swift (4/2012)
- Lean on Pete, Willy Vlautin (6/2010)
- Leaving Unknown, Kerry Reichs (6/2010)
- The Leftovers, Tom Perrotta (10/2011)
- Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name, Vendela Vida (7/2008)
- Life After Genius, M. Ann Jacoby (12/2008)
- Life in Miniature, Linda Schlossberg (10/2011)
- Lies My Teacher Told Me, James Loewen (3/2009)
- The Lighthouse Road, Peter Geye (12/2012)
- The Likeness, Tana French (12/2008)
- Lipstick Jihad, Azadeh Moaveni (6/2009)
- Lit, Mary Karr (7/2010)
- Little Bee, Chris Cleave (7/2009)
- Little Princes, Conor Grennan (7/2011)
- The Little Stranger, Sarah Waters (10/2009)
- Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (2/2009)
- Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (audio book) (1/2011)
- A London Child of the 1870s, Molly Hughes (12/2009)
- The London Scene, Virginia Woolf (11/2009)
- A Long Stone’s Throw, Alphie McCourt (4/2009)
- Looking for Alaska, John Green (1/2009)
- The Lost Recipe for Happiness, Barbara O’Neal (6/2011)
- love walked in, by Marisa de los Santos (1/2007)
- The Lost Hours, Karen White (6/2009)
- The Lost Legends of New Jersey, Frederick Reiken (6/2009)
- Love and Biology at the Center of the Universe, Jennie Shortridge (11/2008)
M
- Macbeth: A Novel (audio book), A.J. Hartley and David Hewson (1/2012)
- Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert (8/2011)
- Madapple, Christina Meldrum (4/2009)
- Madre, Liza Bakewell (5/2011)
- The Magicians, Lev Grossman (9/2009)
- Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand, Helen Simonson (12/2010)
- Making It Up, Penelope Lively (10/2009)
- Manhood for Amateurs, Michael Chabon (6/2010)
- Manolito Four-Eyes, Elvira Lindo (6/2010)
- A Map of Home, Randa Jarrar (9/2009)
- Mattaponi Queen, Belle Boggs (6/2010)
- The Map of True Places, Brunonia Berry (6/2010)
- The Marriage Plot, Jeffrey Eugenides (10/2011)
- Maus I, Art Spiegelman (4/2010)
- Measuring Time, Helon Habila (1/2011)
- Medium Raw, Anthony Bourdain (11/2011)
- The Memorist, M.J. Rose (11/2008)
- The Memory of Love, Aminatta Forna (1/2012)
- Mexican Days, by Tony Cohan (11/2007)
- The Middle Place, Kelly Corrigan (9/2009)
- Midnight in Garden of Good and Evil, John Berendt (3/2008)
- The Mind’s Eye, Oliver Sacks (12/2010)
- Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Ransom Riggs (9/2011)
- Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins (8/2010)
- The Monsters of Templeton, Lauren Groff (3/2009)
- Moon Called, Patricia Briggs (1/2011)
- Mornings in Jenin, Susan Abulhawa (7/2010)
- The Mother Tongue, Bill Bryson (2/2012)
- Mountains Beyond Mountains, Tracy Kidder (2/2011)
- A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway (11/2009)
- The Most Beautiful Book in the World, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (6/2010)
- Mr. Toppit, Charles Elton (7/2010)
- Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf (3/2009)
- Mrs. Lieutenant, Phyllis Zimbler Miller (6/2008)
- Mudbound, Hillary Jordan (8/2009)
- My Ántonia, Willa Cather (10/2011)
- My Best Friend’s Girl, Dorothy Koomson (5/2008)
- My First New York, from the editors of New York Magazine (10/2010)
- My Name is Memory, Ann Brashares (6/2010)
- My Reading Life, Pat Conroy (2/2011)
N
- Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro (1/2010)
- New Moon, Stephenie Meyer (3/2008)
- New York, Edward Rutherfurd (3/2010)
- New York Sawed in Half, Joel Rose (5/2010)
- Nice to Come Home To, Rebecca Flowers (7/2008)
- The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern (9/2011)
- The Night Villa, Carol Goodman (9/2009)
- North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell (week 1, week 2, week 3, week 4) (8/2012)
- North of Beautiful, Justina Chen Headley (7/2009)
- North of Ithaka, by Eleni Gage (12/2007)
- Not Quite Paradise, Adele Barker (1/2010)
O
- Octavian Nothing, M.T. Anderson (7/2008)
- The Odyssey, Homer (week 1, week 2, week 3, week 4) (11/2010)
- Of Bees and Mist, Erick Setiawan (11/2010)
- Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Stout (12/2008)
- On an Irish Island, Robert Kanigel (4/2012)
- On Writing, Stephen King (12/2009)
- One Amazing Thing, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (3/2010)
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn (12/2010)
- One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez (2/2012)
- The Onion Girl, Charles de Lint (6/2009)
- The Only True Genius in the Family, Jennie Nash (7/2009)
- Open Me, Sunshine O’Donnell (4/2009)
- The Open Road, Pico Iyer (12/2010)
- The Optimist’s Daughter, Eudora Welty (1/2010)
- Origin, Diana Abu-Jaber (9/2008)
- Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood (8/2009)
- The Other, Ryszard Kapuscinski (11/2009)
- The Other Side of the Bridge, by Mary Lawson (11/2007)
- Outlander, Diana Gabaldon (5/2012)
- The Outside Boy, Jeanine Cummins (6/2010)
P
- Packing for Mars, Mary Roach (10/2010)
- The Palace of the Snow Queen, Barbara Sjoholm (7/2008)
- Paper Towns, John Green (3/2009)
- Paris In Love, Eloisa James (4/2012)
- Paris to the Moon, by Adam Gopnik (1/2007)
- The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, Aimee Bender (7/2010)
- The Passage, Justin Cronin (8/2011)
- The Peach Keeper, Sarah Addison Allen (4/2011)
- Pearl of China, Anchee Min (4/2010)
- The Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood (1/2010)
- Peony in Love, Lisa See (3/2008)
- People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks (1/2008)
- Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (1/2009)
- Persian Girls, by Nahid Rachlin (12/2007)
- Persuasion, Jane Austen (2/2012)
- The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, Katherine Howe (6/2009)
- The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde (10/2010)
- The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wilde, Edginton, and Culbard (10/2010)
- The Places In Between, by Rory Stewart (8/2007)
- Pomegranate Soup, Marsha Mehran (2/2008)
- Population: 485, Michael Perry (5/2009)
- Poser, Claire Dederer (2/2011)
- Practical Magic, Alice Hoffman (2/2009)
- A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving (8/2009)
- Precious, Sandra Novack (5/2009)
- The Promised World, Lisa Tucker (9/2009)
- The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran (9/2011)
- Purge, Sofi Oksanen (6/2010)
Q
- Queen of Darkness, Anne Bishop (7/2012)
- The Queen of Palmyra, Minrose Gwin (5/2010)
- Queen of the Road, Doreen Orion (6/2008)
R
- Radio Shangri-La, Lisa Napoli (1/2012)
- Rain Village, by Carolyn Turgeon (11/2007)
- Reading in the Dark, Seamus Deane (3/2009)
- Ready Player One, Ernest Cline (10/2011)
- Reamde, Neal Stephenson (11/2011)
- Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier (10/2011)
- Red Dragon, Thomas Harris (9/2012)
- The Red Scarf, Kate Furnivall (8/2008)
- The Reincarnationist, M.J. Rose (7/2008)
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist, by Mohsin Hamid (4/2007)
- The Rest of Her Life, Laura Moriarty (8/2009)
- Rez Life, David Treuer (2/2012)
- Riding with the Queen, Jennie Shortridge (12/2008)
- The Rights of the Reader, Daniel Pennac (10/2010)
- Rooftops of Tehran, Mahbod Seraji (1/2012)
- Room, Emma Donoghue (6/2010)
- Rosewater and Soda Bread, Marsha Mehran (6/2008)
- Run, Ann Patchett (9/2008)
- Running the Rift, Naomi Benaron (10/2011)
- Running with Scissors, Augusten Burroughs (7/2009)
S
- Safe from the Sea, Peter Geye (1/2011)
- The Saffron Kitchen, by Yasmin Crowther (11/2007)
- Sarah’s Key, Tatiana de Rosnay (3/2009)
- Saturday, Ian McEwan (3/2012)
- Say Everything, Scott Rosenberg (12/2009)
- The Scent of Rain and Lightning, Nancy Pickard (6/2010)
- The School of Essential Ingredients, Erica Bauermeister (3/2009)
- Scout, Atticus and Boo, Mary McDonagh Murphy (7/2010)
- The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt, Caroline Preston (11/2011)
- Scribbling the Cat, Alexandra Fuller (3/2008)
- The Seamstress, Frances de Pontes Peebles (4/2010)
- The Secret Book of Grazia dei Rossi, by Jacqueline Park (9/2007)
- The Secret of Chanel No. 5, Tilar Mazzeo (1/2011)
- The Secret of Everything, Barbara O’Neal (6/2011)
- Secret Lives of People in Love, Simon Van Booy (3/2010)
- The Secret of Lost Things, Sheridan Hay (4/2008)
- See You a Hundred Years, Logan Ward (12/2009)
- The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet, Reif Larsen (5/2009)
- The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes (3/2012)
- A Sense of Direction, Gideon Lewis-Kraus (9/2012)
- The Septembers of Shiraz, Dalia Sofer (7/2008)
- Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, Chuck Klosterman (12/2008)
- Shadow Baby, Alison McGhee (11/2009)
- Shadow of Night, Deborah Harkness (7/2012)
- The Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (1/2007)
- Shanghai Girls, Lisa See (5/2009)
- Sharp Objects, Gillian Flynn (9/2012)
- Shelf Life, Suzanne Strempek Shea (7/2011)
- Shelter Me, Juliette Fay (1/2009)
- A Short History of Women, Kate Walbert (5/2010)
- The Shortest Way Home, Juliette Fay (12/2012)
- Silver Borne, Patricia Briggs (1/2011)
- Silver Sparrow, Tayari Jones (4/2012)
- The Sisters Brothers, Patrick DeWitt (11/2011)
- Sixpence House, by Paul Collins (12/2007)
- Sky Dancer, Witi Ihimaera (1/2008)
- Slaughterhouse 5, Kurt Vonnegut (9/2010)
- A Small Place, Jamaica Kincaid (2/2010)
- Small Town Odds, Jason Headley (8/2009)
- Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson (11/2011)
- Somebody Else’s Daughter, Elizabeth Brundage (12/2009)
- The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller (3/2012)
- Sonata for Miriam, Linda Olsson (2/2010)
- The Sound of Waves, Yukio Mishima (10/2010)
- The Space Between Us, Thrity Umrigar (3/2010)
- Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson (5/2009)
- Special Topics in Calamity Physics, Marisha Pessl (1/2008)
- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Anne Fadiman (4/2009)
- The Stand, Stephen King (see also, this and this) (6/2012)
- Star Gazing, Linda Gillard (10/2009)
- Stiff, Mary Roach (2/2009)
- Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson (11/2011)
- The Story of Beautiful Girl, Rachel Simon (5/2011)
- The Story of a Marriage, Andrew Sean Greer (5/2010)
- The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, David Wroblewski (10/2008)
- Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Lewis Stevenson (9/2010)
- The Stranger, Albert Camus (1/2012)
- Stranger Here Below, Joyce Hinnefeld (6/2010)
- Stolen, Kelley Armstrong (Women of the Otherworld #2) (7/2012)
- The Subtle Body, Stefanie Syman (8/2010)
- The Sugar Queen, Sarah Addison Allen (7/2008)
- Suite Francaise, Irene Nemirovsky (9/2008)
- Summertime, J.M. Coetzee (1/2010)
- Surviving Paradise, Peter Rudiak-Gould (1/2010)
- The Swan Thieves, Elizabeth Kostova (2/2010)
- Sweetness and Blood, Michael Scott Moore (8/2010)
T
- Take the Cannoli, Sarah Vowell (1/2012)
- The Taker, Alma Katsu (9/2011)
- Tales of a Female Nomad, Rita Golden Gelman (4/2008)
- The Taste of Dreams: An Obsession with Caviar and Russia, Vanora Bennett (11/2009)
- Tell Me Something True, Leila Cobo (11/2009)
- Tell the Wolves I’m Home, Carol Rifka Brunt (8/2012)
- Tethered, Amy MacKinnon (10/2008)
- Thank You for All Things, Sandra Kring (10/2008)
- Thank You, Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse (2/2009)
- Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston (10/2008)
- Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe (1/2008)
- Thirteen Reasons Why, Jay Asher (12/2008)
- This Book is Overdue!, Marilyn Johnson (2/2010)
- A Thousand Voices, Lisa Wingate (5/2009)
- Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (5/2008)
- Three Junes, Julia Glass (2/2008)
- Through Black Spruce, Joseph Boyden (5/2009)
- Thumbing Through Thoreau: A Book of Quotations by Henry David Thoreau (9/2010)
- A Time to Keep Silence, Patrick Leigh Formor (12/2009)
- The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, hitRECord and Joseph Gordon-Levitt (12/2011)
- The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell (audio book) (9/2009)
- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee (7/2010)
- To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf (12/2011)
- Tokyo Fiancee, Amelie Nothomb (6/2010)
- Tolstoy and the Purple Chair, Nina Sankovitch (12/2011)
- Tomorrow River, Lesley Kagen (5/2011)
- To Timbuktu, Casey Scieszka and Stephen Weinberg (9/2012)
- Too Much Tuscan Sun, by Dario Castagno 7/2007)
- The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise, Julia Stuart (8/2010)
- Travels with Charley, John Steinbeck (1/2012)
- The Tricking of Freya, Christina Sunley (6/2010)
- Trouble the Water, Nicole Seitz (1/2009)
- True Pleasures, Lucinda Holdforth (11/2009)
- The Twelve, Justin Cronin (10/2012)
- Twilight, Stephenie Meyer (1/2008)
- Twinkle, Twinkle, Kaori Ekuni (1/2008)
U
- Ulysses, James Joyce (3/2011)
- The Uncommon Reader, Alan Bennett (3/2009)
- The Uncoupling, Meg Wolitzer (4/2011)
- Under the Banner of Heaven, Jon Krakauer (9/2011)
- Under the Dome, Stephen King (audio book) (11/2012)
- Under This Unbroken Sky, Shandi Mitchell (9/2010)
- Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven, Susan Jane Gilman (2/2010)
- Unfamiliar Fishes, Sarah Vowell (audio book) (3/2012)
- The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Rachel Joyce (8/2012)
- The Unnamed, Joshua Ferris (1/2010)
- Up from the Blue, Susan Henderson (7/2010)
V
- The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, by Maggie O’Farrell (11/2007)
- Vanishing America, James Conaway (2/2010)
- Shelf Life, Suzanne Strempek Shea (7/2011)
- Venetia Kelly’s Traveling Show, Frank Delaney (3/2010)
- The Violets of March, Sarah Jio (7/2011)
- The Virgin of Small Plains, Nancy Pickard (5/2008)
- A Voyage Long and Strange, Tony Horwitz (3/2010)
W
- Waiting for Columbus, Thomas Trofimuk (12/2009)
- The Walking People, Mary Beth Keane (7/2009)
- The Wave, Susan Casey (4/2012)
- The Way Life Should Be, Christina Baker Kline (6/2008)
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson (11/2008)
- The Weight of Silence, Heather Gunderkauf (8/2009)
- The Weird Sisters, Eleanor Brown (5/2011)
- Welcome to Utopia, Karen Valby (5/2011)
- The Well and the Mine, Gin Phillips (8/2009)
- Wench, Dolen Perkins-Valdez (1/2010)
- When Everything Changed, Gail Collins (1/2010)
- When In Rome, by Penelope Green (8/2007)
- When She Woke, Hillary Jordan (9/2011)
- When She Flew, Jennie Shortridge (12/2009)
- When the Emperor Was Divine, Julie Otsuka (9/2010)
- When Wanderers Cease to Roam, Vivian Swift (6/2012)
- When You Are Engulfed In Flames, David Sedaris (8/2008)
- Wherever Grace Is Needed, Elizabeth Bass (1/2012)
- Whistling in the Dark, Lesley Kagen (12/2008)
- White is for Witching, Helen Oyeyemi (6/2010)
- Who By Fire, Diana Spechler (11/2008)
- Who Fears Death, Nnedi Okorafor (8/2010)
- The Whole World Over, Julia Glass (2/2008)
- Wicked Lovely, Melissa Marr (5/2008)
- Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys (4/2011)
- The Widow Clicquot, Tilar Mazzeo (12/2009)
- The Widower’s Tale, Julia Glass (10/2010)
- The Widow’s Season, Laura Brodie (7/2009)
- Wild, Cheryl Strayed (6/2012)
- Wild Thing, Josh Bazell (audio book) (2/2012)
- Woman in Red, Eileen Goudge (6/2008)
- The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins (11/2009)
- The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston (1/2010)
- The Woman Who Fell From the Sky, Jennifer Steil (6/2010)
- The Women Jefferson Loved, Virginia Scharff (12/2010)
- Words in a French Life, Kristin Espinasse (4/2009)
- The World in Half, Cristina Henriquez (8/2209)
- World Made by Hand, James Howard Kunstler (4/2009)
- Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte (5/2010)
Y
- A Year in Japan, Kate Williamson (12/2009)
- A Year in the World, by Frances Mayes (10/2007)
- The Year of Disappearances, Susan Hubbard (6/2008)
- The Year of Living Biblically, A.J. Jacobs (1/2009)
- The Year of the Flood, Margaret Atwood (2/2010)
- The Year of the Goat, Margaret Hathaway (1/2010)
- Year of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks (1/2010)
- The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop, Lewis Buzbee (7/2009)
- You Shall Know Our Velocity!, Dave Eggers (11/2008)
