2009:

January

• Without a Backward Glance, Kate Veitch
• Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman
• The Hour I First Believed, Wally Lamb
• Shelter Me, Juliette Fay
• Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, Anne Fadiman
• Looking for Alaska, John Green
• Trouble the Water, Nicole Seitz
• Eleanor of Aquitaine, Alison Weir
• An Abundance of Katherines, John Green
• Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
• The Year of Living Biblically, A.J. Jacobs (audio book)
• The Ha-Ha, Dave King
• Practical Magic, Alice Hoffman
• Thank You, Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse (audio book)

February

• Church of the Dog, Kaya McLaren
• How Right You Are Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse
• Dream Homes, Joyce Zonana
• Dreams Underfoot, Charles de Lint
• Stiff, Mary Roach
• Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin
• Fool, Christopher Moore
• Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
• a boy of good breeding, Miriam Toews
• Reading in the Dark, Seamus Deane
• Company of Liars, Karen Maitland
• Sarah’s Key, Tatiana de Rosnay

March

• The School of Essential Ingredients, Erica Bauermeister
• The Uncommon Reader, Alan Bennett
• Lies My Teacher Told Me, James Loewen (audio book)
• Cold Rock River, Jackie Lee Miles
• The Monsters of Templeton, Lauren Groff
• The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery
• Paper Towns, John Green
• The Laws of Harmony, Judith Ryan Hendricks
• In the Castle of the Flynns, Michael Raleigh
• Words in a French Life, Kristin Espinasse
• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Anne Fadiman
• The Onion Girl, Charles de Lint
• A Long Stone’s Throw, Alphie McCourt (audio book)
• The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop, Lewis Buzbee
• Open Me, Sunshine O’Donnell

April

• The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
• A Bad Case of Stripes, David Shannon
• Madapple, Christina Meldrum
• World Made by Hand, James Howard Kunstler
• Population: 485, Michael Perry
• Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson
• Precious, Sandra Novack
• Freakonomics, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner (audio book)
• A Thousand Voices, Lisa Wingate
• Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Adichie
• Through Black Spruce, Joseph Boyden

May

• Foreign Tongue, Vanina Marsot
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
• Shanghai Girls, Lisa See
• Caspian Rain, Gina Nahai
• First Comes Love, Then Comes Malaria, Eve Brown-Waite
• Fragile Eternity, Melissa Marr
• The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet, Reif Larsen
• Lipstick Jihad, Azadeh Moaveni
• The Flying Troutmans, Miriam Toews
• Firmin, Sam Savage
• The Gangster We Are All Looking For, le thi diem thuy
• The Lost Legends of New Jersey, Frederick Reiken
• Bound South, Susan Rebecca White
• The Lost Hours, Karen White

2008:

January

• Special Topics in Calamity Physics, Marisha Pessl
• Twinkle, Twinkle, Kaori Ekuni
• Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
• Sky Dancer, Witi Ihimaera
• People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks
• Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
• Garden Spells, Sarah Addison Allen
• The Heroines, Eileen Favorite
• From Heaven Lake, Vikram Seth

February

• Between, Georgia, Joshilyn Jackson
• Three Junes, Julia Glass
• Pomegranate Soup, Marsha Mehran
• The Whole World Over, Julia Glass
• Earthly Pleasures, Karen Neches
• New Moon, Stephenie Meyer

March

• Eclipse, Stephenie Meyer
• The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
• Peony in Love, Lisa See
• Scribbling the Cat, Alexandra Fuller
• I’jaam, Sinan Antoon
• Midnight in Garden of Good and Evil, John Berendt

April

• Tales of a Female Nomad, Rita Golden Gelman
• The Secret of Lost Things, Sheridan Hay
• The Geographer’s Library, Jon Fasman
• Belong to Me, Marisa de los Santos
• Keeper and Kid, Edward Hardy
• Daughter of Fortune, Isabel Allende
• Girls in Trucks, Katie Crouch
• A Box of Matches, Nicholson Baker

May

• Gods Behaving Badly, Marie Phillips
• Wicked Lovely, Melissa Marr
• The Virgin of Small Plains, Nancy Pickard
• The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, E. Lockhart
• Ink Exchange, Melissa Marr
• Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
• My Best Friend’s Girl, Dorothy Koomson
• Broken Paradise, Cecilia Samartin
• Apples are from Kazakhstan, Christopher Robbins
• The Society of S, Susan Hubbard

June

• Mrs. Lieutenant, Phyllis Zimbler Miller
• The Way Life Should Be, Christina Baker Kline
• Woman in Red, Eileen Goudge
• I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith
• Queen of the Road, Doreen Orion
• The Year of Disappearances, Susan Hubbard
• Rosewater and Soda Bread, Marsha Mehran
• Octavian Nothing, M.T. Anderson
• The Reincarnationist, M.J. Rose

July

• The Sugar Queen, Sarah Addison Allen
• Nice to Come Home To, Rebecca Flowers
• Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name, Vendela Vida
• The Palace of the Snow Queen, Barbara Sjoholm
• The Septembers of Shiraz, Dalia Sofer
• The Red Scarf, Kate Furnivall

August

• Ghostwalk, Rebecca Scott
• The Last Time I Was Me, Cathy Lamb
• Breaking Dawn, Stephenie Meyer
• When You Are Engulfed In Flames, David Sedaris
• Going to Bend, Diane Hammond
• The Lace Reader, Brunonia Barry
• Geek Love, Katherine Dunn
• In the Woods, Tana French
• Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami

September

• Run, Ann Patchett
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
• Suite Francaise, Irene Nemirovsky
• Love and Biology at the Center of the Universe, Jennie Shortridge
• Origin, Diana Abu-Jaber
• If on a winter’s night a traveler, Italo Calvino
• The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
• The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, David Wroblewski

October

• The Last Queen, C.W. Gortner
• Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
• Tethered, Amy MacKinnon
• Thank You for All Things, Sandra Kring
• The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson
• The Heretic’s Daughter, Kathleen Kent
• Who By Fire, Diana Spechler

November

• The Memorist, M.J. Rose
• The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein
• Coraline, Neil Gaiman
• Between the Tides, Patti Callahan Henry
• You Shall Know Our Velocity!, Dave Eggers
• The Last Days of Dogtown, Anita Diamant
• The Likeness, Tana French
• Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, Chuck Klosterman
• Life After Genius, M. Ann Jacoby
• Apart from the Crowd, Anna McPartlin
• Thirteen Reasons Why, Jay Asher
• Riding with the Queen, Jennie Shortridge
• Broken, Daniel Clay

December

• Fledgling, Octavia Butler
• Crescent, Diana Abu-Jaber
• Annie Dunne, Sebastian Barry
• Angelina’s Children, Alice Ferney
• Whistling in the Dark, Lesley Kagen
• Going Down South, Bonnie Glover
• Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Stout
• In the Country of Men, Hisham Matar
• The End of the Alphabet, CS Richardson

2007:

January

• The Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
• love walked in, by Marisa de los Santos
• Falling Palace, by Dan Hofstadter
• Paris to the Moon, by Adam Gopnik
• Ciao, America, by Beppe Severgnini

February/March (the few I remember)

• War in Val D’Orcia, Iris Origo
• The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield

April

• Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen
• The Caliph’s House, by Tahir Shah
• Dork Whore, by Iris Bahr
• The Reluctant Fundamentalist, by Mohsin Hamid
• The Bastard of Istanbul, by Elif Shafak
• eat pray love, by Elizabeth Gilbert

May

• Julia’s Chocolates, by Cathy Lamb
• The Inheritance of Loss, by Kiran Desai

June

• Beyond Ararat, by Bettina Selby
• A Year In Provence, by Peter Mayle
• Incidents In The Rue Laugier, by Anita Brookner

July

• A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini
• All Over Creation, by Ruth Ozeki
• Too Much Tuscan Sun, by Dario Castagno
• The Archivist, by Martha Cooley
• The Lost Continent, by Bill Bryson

August

• The Blood of Flowers, by Anita Amirrezvani
• Season of the Witch, by Natasha Mostert
• The Places In Between, by Rory Stewart
• When In Rome, by Penelope Green

September

• The Secret Book of Grazia dei Rossi, by Jacqueline Park

October

• The Saffron Kitchen, by Yasmin Crowther
• The Brothers K, by David James Duncan
• Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, by Alexandra Fuller
• A Year in the World, by Frances Mayes

November

• Sixpence House, by Paul Collins
• Mexican Days, by Tony Cohan
• Rain Village, by Carolyn Turgeon
• The Faraday Girls, by Monica McInerney
• The Other Side of the Bridge, by Mary Lawson
• The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, by Maggie O’Farrell

December

• Persian Girls, by Nahid Rachlin
• Any Bitter Thing, by Monica Wood
• North of Ithaka, by Eleni Gage
• When Madeline Was Young, by Jane Hamilton
• The Center of Everything, by Laura Moriarty
• Digging to America, by Anne Tyler