The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard
Announced on September 17, 1996
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Announced on October, 18, 1996
The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton
Announced in October 10, 1996
She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Announced January 22, 1997
Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
Announced on February 28, 1997
The Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds
Announced on April 8, 1997
The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou
Announced on May 9, 1997
Songs in Ordinary Time by Marry McGarry Morris
Announced on June 18,1997
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
Announced on September 22, 1997
A Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons
Announced on October 27, 1997
Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
Announced on October 27, 1997
The Best Way to Play by Bill Cosby
The Treasure Hunt by Bill Cosby
The Meanest Thing to Say by Bill Cosby
Announced on December 8, 1997
Paradise by Toni Morrison
Announced January 16, 1998
Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman
Announced on March 6, 1998
Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen
Announced on April 9, 1998
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
Announced June 12, 1998
I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
Announced June 18, 1998
What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage
Announced September 25, 1998
Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
Announced October 28, 1998
Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
Announced December 7, 1998
Jewel by Bret Lott
Announced on January 19, 1999
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
Announced on February 26, 1999
The Pilot’s Wife by Anita Shreve
Announced on March 31, 1999
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
Announced May 6, 1999
Mother of Pearl by Melinda Haynes
Announced June 15, 1999
Tara Road by Maeve Binchy
Announced September 9, 1999
River, Cross My Heart by Breena Clarke
Announced on October 14, 1999
Vinegar Hill by A. Manette Ansay
Announced November 10, 1999
A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton
Announced on December 3, 1999
Gap Creek by Robert Morgan
Announced on January 18, 2000
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
Announced on February 17, 2000
Back Roads by Tawni O’Dell
Announced on March 28, 2000
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Announced April 27, 2000
While I Was Gone by Sue Miller
Announced on May 26, 2000
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Announced June 23, 2000
Open House by Elizabeth Berg
Announced August 23, 2000
Drowning Ruth By Christina Schwarz
Announced September 27, 2000
House of Sand and Fog By Andre Dubus III
Announced November 16, 2000
We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
Announced January 24, 2001
Icy Sparks By Gwyn Hyman Rubio
Announced March 8, 2001
Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail by Malika Oufkir
Announced May 16, 2001
Cane River by Lalita Tademy
Announced June 20, 2001
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Announced September 24, 2001
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Announced November 30, 2001
Fall on Your Knees By Ann-Marie MacDonald
Announced January 24, 2002
Sula by Toni Morrison
Announced April 5, 2002
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Announced June 18, 2003
Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Announced September 9, 2003
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Announced January 28, 2004
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Announced April 14, 2004
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Announced May 31, 2004
The Good Earth by Pearl Buck
Announced September 15, 2004
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Light in August by William Faulkner
Announced June 3, 2005
A Million Little Pieces: A Memoir by James Frey
Announced September 22, 2005
Night by Elie Wiesel
Announced January 16, 2006
The Measure of a Man by Sidney Poitier
Announced January 26, 2007
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Announced March 28, 2007
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Announced June 5, 2007
Love In The Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Announced October 5, 2007
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Announced November 14, 2007
A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
Announced January 30, 2008
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
Announced September 19, 2008
Say You’re One of Them by Uwem Akpan
Announced September 18, 2009
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
Announced September 17, 2010
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Announced December 6, 2010