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1994
January The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta
February In Custody by Anita Desai
March Palace Walk by Mafouz
April Middlemarch by George Eliot
May Immortality by Milan Kundara, The Sound and the Fury by Faulkner
June Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
July A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler
August The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell: Justine; Balthazar
September The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell: Mountolive; Clea
October News of the Universe by Robert Biy, Editor and The Sound and the Fury by Faulkner
November Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
December The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis
1995
January Earth Abides by George Stewart
February The Buddha of Suburbia by Harif Quereisha
March One True Thing by Anna Quindlen
April Having Our Say by Sarah and A. Elizabeth Delaney
May The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
June Blood Meridian by Cormack McCarthy
July Ishmael by Christopher Davis
August Mutant Message Down Under by Marlo Morgan
September Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
October Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
November Walden or Life in the Woods by Henry D. Thoreau
December On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry D. Thoreau
1996
January Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
February The Holy Sinner by Thomas Mann
March Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
April Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
May Long Walk to Freedom: Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
June The Plague by Albert Camus
July-August The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies
September The Tragedy of King Richard III by William Shakespeare
October The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendahl
November Ladder of Years by Anne Tyier -and- Dante's Inferno
December The Prince by Machiavelli
1997
February Aunt Dan and Lemon (a play) by Wallace Shawn, GB: Why War? by Sigmund Freud
March The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen, GB: The Melian Dialogue by Thucydides
April Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy, GB: The Social Me by William James
May We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
June The Best American Short Stories of 1996 Ed. John Edgar Wideman, GB: Rothschild's Fiddle by Anton Chekhov
July The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster, GB: Concerning the Division of Labor by Adam Smith
August After the Banquet by Yukio Mishima, GB: Chelkash by Maxim Gorky
September 0 Pioneers by Willa Cather, GB: How an Aristocracy May be Created by Industry by de Toqueville
October Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt, GB: Observation and Experiment, by Claude Bernard
November To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, GB: Everything That Rises Must Converge by F. O'Connor
December The Color of Water by James McBride, GB: An Essay in Aesthetics by Roger Fry
1998
Jan. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, GB: An Outpost of Progress by Joseph Conrad
Feb. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev, GB: On Studying by José Ortega y Gasset
March The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene, GB: Politics by Aristotle
April The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond, GB: Of Commonwealth by Thomas Hobbes
May House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul
June Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy, GB: Barn Burning by William Faulkner
July The Odyssey translated by Robert Fagles, GB: Of Civil Government by John Locke
August The Longest Journey by E.M. Forster, GB: In Exile by Anton Chekhov
September Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, GB: The Declaration of Independence: Interpretation
October Jack Maggs by Peter Carey, GB: Equality by Isaiah Berlin
November The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, GB: Sorrow-Acre Isak Dinesen
December Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer, GB: Why Americans Are Often So Restless by Alexis de Tocqueville
1999
Feb. Lord Jim Joseph Conrad, GB: After the Ball by Leo Tolstoy
March The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham, GB: Habit by William James
April Short Stories by Anton Chekhov, GB: The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol
May Prisoner of Grace by Joyce Cary
June L'Assommoir by Emile Zola, GB: On Happiness by Aristotle
July-August The Tale of Genji by Mirasaki Shikibu
September The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
Oct.-November War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
December The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama
2000
January The Clown by Heinrich Böll
February The Reader by Bernard Schlink, tr. Carol Brown Janeway
March The Hours by Michael Cunningham
April Enormous Changes at the Last Minute by Grace Paley
May Cracking India by Bapsi Sidhwa
June/July Black Rain by Masuji Ibuse
August The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
September Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
Oct./November Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth, Therapy by Steven Schwartz
December The Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant
2001
January The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
Feb./March Cousin Bette by Honore Balzac
April Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
May-June The Raj Quartet by Paul Scott: The Jewel in the Crown; The Day of the Scorpion; The Towers of Silence; A Division of the Spoils
July The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius
August Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
September Bound for Glory by Woody Guthrie
Oct.-November The Awakening by Kate Chopin
December Don Quixote by Cervantes (Vol. I)
2002
January Don Quixote by Cervantes (Vol. II)
February Henderson The Rain King by Saul Bellow
March White Teeth by Zadie Smith
April-May The Far Pavilions by M. M. Kaye
June Being Dead by Jim Crace
July Tristan by Gottfried Von Strassburg
August Sketches from a Hunter's Album by Ivan Turgenev
September The Iliad Homer
October Autobiography of Ben Franklin
November The Mahabharata: A Play by Jean-Claude Carriere
December Herself Surprised by Joyce Cary
2003
JanuaryTo Be a Pilgrim by Joyce Cary
February The Horse's Mouth by Joyce Cary
March Red Earth and Pouring Rain by Vikram Chandra
April The Sunflower by Simon Wiesenthal
May The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
June Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
July/August Confessions of Zeno by Itelo Svevo
September/October Quarantine by Jim Crace
November Eugene Onegin by Pushkin
December Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
2004
January Kabloona by Gontran De Poncins
February Henceforward... (a play) by Alan Ayckbourn
March Artist by Jan de Hartog
April The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
May Petals of Blood by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
June The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
July A Bend In the River by V. S. Naipaul
August The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
September One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
October Woman at Point Zero by Nawal el Saadawi
November-December The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta by Mario Vargas Llosa
2005
January Video by Meera Nair
February A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
March Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian
April-May Ring of Bright Water by Gavin Maxwell
June The Face of Battle by John Keegan
July Henry V by Shakespeare
August Goodby to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
September-October Underworld by Don DeLillo
November The Girl Who Played Go by Shan Sa
December The Once and Future King by T. H. White
2006
January The Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
February-March The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon and Thinking in Pictures by Temple Grandin
April Motoring with Mohammed: Journeys to Yemen and the Red Sea by Eric Hansen
May Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Sijie Dai, Ina Rilke, translator
June Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
July A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
August The Underdogs: A Novel of the Mexican Revolution by Mariano Azuela
September Saturday by Ian McEwan
October Southland by Nina Revoyr
November -December Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar, Grace Flick, translator
2007
January-February A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan
March Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
April Passionate Nomad: Life of Freya Stark by Jane Geniesee
May Everyman by Philip Roth
June-July The Devil's Highway: A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea
August Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
September Between Two Worlds: Growing Up In the Shadow of Saddam by Zainab Salbi
October The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
November Gonzalez and Daughter Trucking Co. by Maria Amparo Escandon
December Persepolis: The Story of Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
2008
January Seven Plays by Aeschylus
February Conservatives Without A Conscience by John Dean
March Runaway by Alice Munro
April The Inner Circle by T. C. Boyle
May The Bell by Iris Murdoch
June -July Vermeer in Bosnia: Cultural Comedies by Lawrence Weschler
August East of Eden by John Steinbeck
September Enrique's Journey by Sonia Nazario
October The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
November Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
December The Red and the Black by Stendhal
2009
January The Devil in the White City by Erik Larsen
February The Red and the Black by Stendahl
March Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan S. Foer
April Snow by Orhan Pamuk
May Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
June The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
July The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
August The Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea
September A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin
October Mothers and Sons by Colm Toibin
November The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
December Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun
2010
January A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
February A Question of Upbringing by Anthony Powell
March Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
April Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
May The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
June Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin or choose your own Darwin book
July The Giver by Lois Lowry
August - September Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood by Atwood if you like
October The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
November The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
2011
January Dreams of My Russian Summers by Andrei Makine
February Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
March The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes
April The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
May Amongst Women by John McGahern
June Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
July Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
August Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
September Original Sin by P.D. James
November Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
2012
January/February A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
April The Lonely Polygamist by Brady Udall
May Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
July The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
August A Short History of Tractors in the Ukraine by Marina Lewycka
September What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank by Nathan Englander
October What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Chandler
November A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
December In The Garden of Beasts by Erik Larsen
2013
January 1599: A Year In The Life of William Shakespeare by James Shapiro
February City of Thieves by David Benioff
March Just Kids by Patti Smith
April Just Enough Liebling by A. J. Liebling
May Transformations by Anne Sexton and Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm by Phillip Pullman
June Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
August Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
September Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje
October Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw
November The Thief and the Dogs by Naguib Mahfouz
2014
January The Hare With Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal
March The Patience Stone by Atiq Ramini
April The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman
May In The Shadow of the Banyon by Vaddey Ratner
July/August The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
September Dangerous Laughter by Steven Millhauser
October A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
November Little Failure by Gary Shteyngart
December We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
2015
January History of the Rain by Niall Williams
February Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
April Boy Kings of Texas: A Memoir by Domingo Martinez
May Plainsong by Kent Haruf
June Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
July Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope
September All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
October My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
November The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante
2016
JanuaryThose Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante
February The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante
March The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough
April The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher by Hilary Mantel
May The Wifeby Meg Wolitzer
June NWby Zadie Smith
July The Little Red Chairs by Edna O'Brian
AugustBehind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
September Paradise by A.L. Kennedy
October An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine
November My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
December Nutshell by Ian McEwan
2017
January An Imaginary Life by David Malouf
February Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
March Norwegian By Night by Derek Miller
April Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his years of pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
May The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
June The Vegetarian by Kong Han
July Uprooted by Naomi Novick
August The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
September His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet
October The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
November The Sellout by Paul Beatty
December A Gentleman In Moscow by Amor Towles
2018
January Lincoln In the Bardo George Saunders
February/March Beyond the Beautiful Forevers Katherine Boo
April Anything Is Possible Elizabeth Strout
June A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry
July The Last Report on the Miracle at Little No-Horse Louise Erdrich
August The Sociopath Next Door Martha Stout
September The Return Hisham Matar
October Pond Claire Louise Bennett
November A Manual for Cleaning Women Lucia Berlin
December Go, Went, Gone Jenny Erpenbeck
2019
January Eleanor Oliphant Gail Honeycutt
March In the Dark Room Susan Faludi
April Less Sean Andrew Greer
May Pnim Vladimir Nabokov
June Home Fire Kamila Shamsie
August The Secret History Donna Tartt
September Autumn Ali Smith
October Slade House David Mitchell
November The Library Book Susan Orlean
December Beautiful Ruins Jess Walter
2020
January Aunt Dan and Lemon (a play) by Wallace Shawn
February Warlight Michael Ondaatje
March/April A Little Life Hanyu Yanagihara
May Where the Crawdads Sing Delia Owens
June Beyond Words Carl Safina
July Place Like a River Leif Enger
August News of the World Paulette Jile
September In the Distance Hernan Diaz
October The Master & Margarita Mikhail Bulgokav
November White Rage Carol Anderson
December This is Happiness Niall Williams
2021
January/February Me & White Supremacy by Layla Saad
March H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald
April My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
May Mama Day by Gloria Naylor
June There There by Tommy Orange
July The Overstory by Richard Powers
August The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
September On Earth We Were Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
October The Famished Road by Ben Orki
November The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
December The City of Falling Angels by John Behrendt
2022
January Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
