2008 |
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| "Allez doucement... go slowly" |
| Evidence of Things Unseen |
Marianne Wiggins |
| Never Let Me Go |
Kazuo Ishaguro |
| Run |
Ann Patchett |
| "Devotion is a thing that demands motives" |
| The Photograph |
Penelope Lively |
| Thirteenth Tale |
Diane Setterfield |
| Light of Day |
Graham Swift |
|
After This |
Alice McDermott |
2007 |
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| Go Figure |
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| March |
Geraldine Brooks |
| The March |
E.L. Doctorow |
| The Feast of the Goat |
Mario Vargas Llosa |
| The Emperor’s Children |
Claire Messud |
| The Terrorist |
John Updike |
| Silas Marner |
George Eliot |
| Intuition |
Allegra Goodman |
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| Memento Mori |
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| The Known World |
Edward P. Jones |
| Devil in the White City |
Erik Larson |
| The Swallows of Kabul |
Yasmina Khadra |
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2006
| |
| “The family is the nucleus of civilization” |
| On Beauty |
Zadie Smith |
| Love Wife |
Gish Jen |
| Tender Bar |
J.R. Moehringer |
| |
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| "Passion is universal humanity.
Without it religion, history, romance and
art would be useless."
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| Birth of Venus |
Sarah Dunant |
| Book of Salt |
Monique Truong |
| The Master |
Colm Toibin |
| |
|
| "We do not discuss the members of
our family to their faces." |
Pearl
|
Mary Gordon |
East Side Story
|
Louis Auchincloss |
Saturday
|
Ian McEwan |
| Elizabeth Costello |
J. M. Coetzee |
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2005 |
|
| "They departed into their own country another
way" - St. Matthew c.2 v.12 |
| Brick Lane |
Monica Ali |
| When We Were Orphans |
Kazuo Ishiguro |
| The Piano Tuner |
Daniel Mason |
| Blackbird House |
Alice Hoffman |
| |
|
"I Don't Want to Talk Grammar. I Want to
Talk Like a Lady." |
| The True and Outstanding Adventures of the
Hunt Sisters |
Elisabeth Robinson |
| Eventide |
Kent Haruf |
| Case Histories |
Kate Atkinson |
| |
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| "La carriere ouverte aux talents" |
| "The tools to him that can handle them" |
| Old School |
Tobias Wolff |
| Pompeii |
Robert Harris |
| Aloft |
Chang-Rae Lee |
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2004 |
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| "We Have Corrected Thy Work and Have Founded
it Upon Miracle, Mystery and Authority." |
| The Seduction of Water |
Carol Goodman |
| The Dante Club |
Matthew Pearl |
| Empress Orchid |
Anchee Min |
| |
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| "A Minor Monument To a Time of Softly Turned
Pages" |
| Farewell to Arms |
Ernest Hemingway |
| Rabbit at Rest |
John Updike |
| Unless |
Carol Shields |
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2003 |
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| "Culture is not life in its entirety. But
just the moment of security, strength and clarity." |
| Last Girls |
Lee Smith |
| Don't Let's Go To the Dogs Tonight |
Alexandra Fuller |
| A Simple Habana Melody |
Oscar Hijuelos |
| |
|
| "Intelligence recognizes what has happened.
Genius recognizes what will happen." |
| The Member of the Wedding |
Carson McCullers |
| The Lobster Chronicles |
Linda Greenlaw |
| The Professor and the Madman |
Simon Winchester |
| |
|
| "Always forgive your enemies, nothing annoys
them so much." |
| The Siege |
Helen Dunmore |
| The Pickup |
Nadine Gordimer |
| Year of Wonders |
Geraldine Brooks |
| Atonement |
Ian McEwan |
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2002 |
|
| "A well-written life is almost as rare as
a well spent one." |
| Mornings on Horseback |
David McCullough |
| Death of Vishnu |
Manil Suri |
| Seabiscuit |
Lauren Hillenbrand |
| |
|
| "The story is just the spoiled child of
art." |
| Lying Awake |
Mark Salzman |
| Grand Complication |
Allen Kurzweil |
| Fourth Hand |
John Irving |
| |
|
| "The art of war is of vital importance to
the state." |
| Palace Walk |
Naguib Mahfouz |
| Kingdom of Shadows and World at Night |
Alan Furst |
| Regeneration and the Eye in the Door |
Pat Barker |
| Princess |
Jean P. Sasson |
| Stolen Lives |
Malika Oufkir |
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2001 |
|
| "He was not a man, he was a continent; he
contained whole crowds of men, entire landscapes." |
| Gesture Life |
Chang-Rae Lee |
| Undue Influence |
Anita Brookner |
| The House Gun |
Nadine Gordimer |
| |
|
| "We never know how high we are. Till we
are called to rise and then, if we are true
to plan, our statures touch the skies." |
| Colony of Unrequited Dreams |
Wayne Johnston |
| Half a Heart |
Rosellen Brown |
| Blindness |
Jose Saramago |
| Tomcat in Love |
Tim O'Brien |
| Time the Destroyer is Time the Preserver |
T. S. Eliot |
| Fortune's Rocks |
Anita Shreve |
| Disgrace |
J. M. Coetzee |
| Cry the Beloved Country |
Alan Paton |
| |
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2000 |
|
| All Happy Families Resemble One Another,
But Each Unhappy Family is Unhappy In Its Own
Way- Leo Tolstoy |
| Sights Unseen and The Occasion of My Last
Afternoon |
Kaye Gibbons |
| Wait Until Next Year. A Memoir |
Doris Kearns Goodwin |
| All Over But the Shoutin' |
Rick Bragg |
| Charming Billy |
Alice McDermott |
| Reading In the Dark |
Seamus Deane |
| Plainsong |
Kent Haruf |
| |
|
| "We have to distrust each other. It's our
only defense against betrayal" |
| Cavedweller |
Dorothy Allison |
| Things Fall Apart |
Chinua Achebe |
| Amsterdam |
Ian McEwan |
| Memoirs of a Geisha |
Arthur Golden |
| |
|
| "Man's inhumanity to man, makes countless
thousands mourn." |
| A Certain Justice |
P. D. James |
| Remembering Babylon |
David Malouf |
| We Were the Mulvaneys |
Joyce Carol Oates |
| East of the mountains |
David Guterson |
| Charlotte Gray |
Sebastian Faulks |
| |
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1999 |
|
| "There is no force so democratic as the
force of an ideal." |
| Native Speaker |
Chang-Rae Lee |
| Are You Somebody? |
Nuala O'Faolain |
| Unravelling |
Elizabeth Graver |
| A Cup of Tea |
Amy Ephron |
| October Sky (Rocket Boys) |
Homer H. Hickam, Jr. |
| Museum Guard |
Howard Norman |
| |
|
|
|
| "Ah Summer, What Power You Have to Make
Us Suffer and Like it" |
| Cider House Rules |
John Irving |
| Freedomland |
Richard Price |
| Cloudsplitter |
Russell Banks |
| The Alienist |
Caleb Carr |
| |
|
| The Refusal to Be Defeated is a Refusal
to Be Educated - Margaret Halsey |
| The Bookshop and The Blue Flower |
Penelope Fitzgerald |
| Riven Rock |
T. C. Boyle |
| Night Train |
Martin Amis |
| Farming of Bones |
Edwige Danticat |
| Martin Dressler |
Steven Millhauser |
| Last Orders |
Graham Swift |
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1998 |
|
| "Testimonials of delight will not suffice." |
| Tailor of Panama |
John LeCarre |
| Death in the Family |
James Agee |
| Birdsong |
Sebastian Faulks |
| Crystal Cave |
Mary Stewart |
| My Antonia |
Willa Cather |
| Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil |
John Berendt |
| |
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1997 |
|
| It's Only With Heart That One Can See Rightly, What
is Essential is Invisible to the Eye - Antoine
de Saint Exupery |
| I Was Amelia Earhart |
Jane Mendelsohn |
| Horse Whisperer |
Nicholas Evans |
| Sights Unseen |
Kaye Gibbons |
| In the Lake of the Woods |
Tim O?Brien |
| Tortilla Curtain |
T. C. Boyle |
| Paula |
Isabel Allende |
| |
|
| Dove sta memoria - Where memory is... |
| On Gold Mountain |
Lisa See |
| Liars Club |
Mary Karr |
| An American Requiem |
James Carroll |
| Accordion Crimes |
E. Annie Proulx |
| Beach Music |
Pat Conroy |
| |
|
| "Fate and character are the same conception." |
| Henry and Clara |
Thomas Mallon |
| The Wedding |
Dorothy West |
| The Buccaneers |
Edith Wharton |
| The Statement |
Brian Moore |
| Promise of Rest |
Reynolds Price |
| Rose |
Martin Cruz-Smith |
| |
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1996 |
|
| "Books are Humanity in Print." |
| Ladder of Years |
Anne Tyler |
| Thank You for Not Smoking |
Christopher Buckley |
| The Distinguished Guest |
Sue Miller |
| Another You |
Ann Beattie |
| Blue Afternoon |
William Boyd |
| Memoir from Antproof Case |
Mark Helprin |
| Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha |
Roddy Doyle |
| |
|
| Does the Punishment Fit the Crime? |
| Montana |
Lawrence Watson |
| Black Beauty |
Walter Mosley |
| Map of the World |
Jane Hamilton |
| Before and After |
Rosellen Brown |
| Saturday Morning Murder |
Batya Gur |
| Crossed Over |
Beverly Lowry |
| Paperboy |
Pete Dexter |
| |
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| International Voices |
|
| Heat and Dust |
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala |
| Black Box |
Amos Oz |
| Felicia's Journey |
William Trevor |
| Red Azalea |
Anchee Min |
| In the Time of the Butterflies |
Julia Alvarez |
| |
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1995 |
|
| "The sound of water is also very calming." |
| Waterworks |
E. L. Doctorow |
| Bird Artist |
Howard Norman |
| Spartina |
John Casey |
| Dream of Water |
Kyoko Mori |
| Shizuko's Daughter |
Kyoko Mori |
| Wide Sargasso Sea |
Jean Rhys |
| Middle Passage |
Charles Johnson |
| To the Lighthouse |
Virginia Woolf |
| |
|
| "A woman's whole life is a history of the
affections." |
| Lucy |
Jamaica Kincaid |
| Duplicate Keys |
Jane Smiley |
| Charms for the Easy Life |
Kaye Gibbons |
| Their Eyes Were Watching God |
Zora Neale Hurston |
| Consider This Senora |
Harriet Doerr |
| Dreaming in Cuban |
Crisitina Garcia |
| Pigs in Heaven |
Barbara Kingsolver |
| |
|
| "What is man, that thou art mindful of him." |
| Lesson Before Dying |
Ernest Gaines |
| Men and Angels |
Mary Gordon |
| Affliction |
Russell Banks |
| This Boy's Life |
Tobias Wolff |
| Lost Father |
Mona Simpson |
| Some Can Whistle |
Larry McMurtry |
| The Good Husband |
Gail Godwin |
| |
|
1994 |
|
| Parallel Lives |
|
| Parallel Lives |
Phyllis Rose |
| True Confessions |
John Gregory Dunne |
| Love Medicine |
Louise Erdrich |
| Play It As It Lays |
Joan Didion |
| Two-Part Invention |
Madeleine L'Engle |
| Yellow Raft in Blue Water |
Michael Dorris |
| |
|
| Psychodrama Along a Road Less Traveled |
| Is There No Place on Earth For Me? |
Susan Sheehan |
| Many Lives, Many Masters |
Brian Weiss |
| Black Water |
Joyce Carol Oates |
| Mystery Ride |
Robert Boswell |
| Nobody Nowhere |
Donna Williams |
| Strange Fits of Passion |
Anita Shreve |
| Girl Interrupted |
Susanna Kaysen |
| |
|
| Starting From Home: Explore a Writer's
Journey |
| Iron and Silk |
Mark Salzman |
| Wartime Lies |
Louis Begley |
| Empire of the Sun |
J. G. Ballard |
| Bone |
Fae Myenne Ng |
| A Family Madness |
Thomas Keneally |
| The House of Spirits |
Isabel Allende |
| |
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1993 |
|
| Explore the Transit of Venus |
|
| Transit of Venus |
Shirley Hazzard |
| Blue River |
Ethan Canin |
| That Night |
Alice McDermott |
| Disturbances in the Field |
Lynne Sharon Schwartz |
| Lies of Silence |
Brian Moore |
| Turtle Moon |
Alice Hoffman |
| |
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| What's Bred in the Bone |
|
| What's Bred in the Bone |
Robertson Davies |
| Latecomers |
Anita Brookner |
| The Hearts and Lives of Men |
Fay Weldon |
| The Heart is a Lonely Hunter |
Carson McCullers |
| |
|
| The Historical Novel |
|
| Time and Again |
Jack Finney |
| Sally Hemings |
Barbara Chase-Riboud |
| Brotherly Love |
Pete Dexter |
| Death Comes to the Archbishop |
Willa Cather |
| Hollywood |
Gore Vidal |
| |
|
1992 |
|
| Southern Exposure |
|
| Tongues of Angels |
Reynolds Price |
| Fair and Tender Ladies |
Lee Smith |
| Optimist's Daughter |
Eudora Welty |
| Summons to Memphis |
Peter Taylor |
| Coming Attractions (Daisy Fay) |
Fannie Flagg |
| |
|
| Carpe Diem |
|
| My Son's Story |
Nadine Gordimer |
| House of Mirth |
Edith Wharton |
| A Late Divorce |
A.B. Yehoshua |
| Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant |
Anne Tyler |
| |
|
| Beware, the Victim of Circumstance |
| The Assault |
Harry Mulisch |
| The Spectator Bird |
Wallace Stegner |
| Ship of Fools |
Katherine Anne Porter |
| Billy Bathgate |
E.L. Doctorow |
| The Good Mother |
Sue Miller |
| |
|
1991 |
|
| Weaving the Fabric of Family Relationships |
| Object Lessons |
Anna Quindlen |
| First Light |
Charles Baxter |
| Illumination Night |
Alice Hoffman |
| Sleeping Arrangements |
Laura Cunningham |
| |
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