| 2009 |
| August |
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The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places |
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Eric Weiner |
| July |
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World Without End |
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Ken Follett |
| June |
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The Zookeeper's Wife |
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Diane Ackerman |
| May |
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The Magician's Assistant |
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Ann Patchett |
| April |
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War Surf |
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M.M.Buckner |
| March |
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Luncheon of the Boating Party |
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Susan Vreeland |
| February |
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Pontoon |
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Garrison Keillor |
| January |
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The God of Small Things |
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Arunhati Roy |
| 2008 |
| April |
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Big Stone Gap |
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Adriana Trigiani |
| March |
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Year of Wonders |
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Geraldine Brooks |
| February |
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The Winner |
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David Baldacci |
| January |
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The Thread that Runs so True |
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Jesse Stuart |
| 2007 |
| December |
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Marley and Me |
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John Gorgan |
| November |
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The World to Come |
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Dara Horn |
| October |
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Water for Elephants |
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Sara Gruen |
| September |
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Being Dead is No Excuse: The Official Southern Ladies Guide to Hosting the Perfect Funeral |
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Charlotte Hayes |
| August |
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Empire Falls |
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Richard Russo |
| July |
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress |
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Sijie Dai |
| June |
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Portrait in Sepia |
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Isabel Allende |
| May |
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Peace Like a River |
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Leif Enger |
| April |
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The Lady and the Panda: The True Adventures of the First American Explorer to Bring Back China's Most Exotic Animal |
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Vicki Croke |
| March |
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Woman at Washington Zoo |
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Warren St. John |
| February |
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The Illuminator |
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Brenda Vantrease |
| January |
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The Widow of the South |
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Robert Hicks |
| 2006 |
| December |
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Housekeeping |
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Marilynn Robinson |
| November |
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Time Traveler's Wife |
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Audrey Niffenegger |
| October |
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Tender is the Night |
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F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| September |
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The Life All Around Me by Ellen Foster |
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Kaye Gibbons |
| August |
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Liberating Paris |
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Linda Thomason |
| July |
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Runaway |
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Alice Munro |
| June |
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Year of Magical Thinking |
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Joan Didion |
| May |
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The Birth of Venus |
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Sarah Dunant |
| April |
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The Devil in the White City |
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Erik Larson |
| March |
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Emperor of Ocean Park |
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Stephen L. Carter |
| 2005 |
| April |
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The Amateur Marriage |
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Anne Tyler |
| May |
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The Five People You Meet in Heaven |
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Mitch Albom |
| June |
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All Over But The Shoutin'2007 |
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Rick Bragg |
| July |
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The Known World |
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Edward P. Jones |
| August |
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The Lovely Bones |
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Alice Sebold |
| September |
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The Passion of Artemisia |
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Susan Vreeland |
| October |
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The Kite Runner |
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Khaled Hosseini |
| November |
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Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life |
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Queen Noor |
| December |
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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency |
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Alexander McCall Smith |
