| 2006 | ||
| January |
Snow |
Ophan Pamuk |
| February |
Holy Fools |
Joanne Harris |
| March | Gilead | Marilynne Robinson |
| April | ||
| May | The Da Vinci Code | Dan Brown |
| June | Never Let Me Go | Kazuo Ishiguro |
| July | The Shadow of the Wind | Carlos Ruiz Zafon |
| August | A Long Way Down | Nick Hornby |
| September | Isabel's Bed | Elinor Lipman |
| October | ||
| November | ||
| 2005 | ||
| January | Cats Cradle | Kurt Vonnegut |
| February | The Namesake : A Novel | Juumpa Lahiri |
| March | Our Lady of the Forest | David Guterson |
| April | Middlesex | Jeffrey Eugenides |
| May | The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini |
| June | ||
| July | Waiting | Ha Jin |
| August | Strange but True | John Searles |
| October | Aloft | Chang-Rae-Lee |
| November | Cry the Beloved Country | Alan Paton |
| 2004 | ||
| January |
Crossing to Safety |
Wallace Stegner |
| February |
All is Vanity |
Christina Schwarz |
| March | Blessings: A Novel | Anna Quindland |
| April | Blue Shoe | Anne Lamont |
| May | Three Junes | Julia Glass |
| June | Wild Ginger | Anchee Min |
| July | A Girl Named Zippy | Haven Kimmel |
| August | One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel García Márquez |
| September | Foucault's Pendulum | Umberto Eco |
| October | The Time Traveler’s Wife | Audrey Niffenegger |
| November | ||
| 2003 | ||
| January |
Master and Margarita |
Michail Bulgikov |
| February |
How to be Good |
Nick Hornby |
| March | Sputnik Sweetheart | Haruki Murikami |
| April | I, Roger Williams | Mary Settle |
| May | Embers | Sándor Márai |
| June | Atonement | Ian McEwan |
| July | The Orchard Thief | Susan Orlean |
| August | Life of Pi | Yann Martel |
| September | The Eyre Affair | Jasper Fford |
| October | No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency | Alexander McCall Smith |
| November | Paradise Reclaimed | Haldor Laxness |
| 2002 | ||
| February |
Girl with a Pearl Earring |
Tracey Chevalier |
| March | Mr Spaceman | Robert Olin Butler |
| April | Shopgirl | Steve Martin |
| May | Lost Legends of New Jersey | Frederick Reiken |
| June |
Enduring Love |
Ian McEwan |
| July |
More Than You Know |
Beth Gutcheon |
| August | The Blind Assassin | Margaret Atwood |
| September | Five Quarters of the Orange | Joanne Harris |
| October | Things fall apart | Chinua Achebe |
| November | ||
| 2001 | ||
| January |
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsisterl |
Gregory McGuire |
| February | Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette |
Judith Thurman |
| March |
Galileo's Daughter |
Dava Sobel |
| April | Bluesman | Andre Dubus III |
| May | Daughter of Fortune | Isabel Allende |
| June | Underground : The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche | Haruki Murakami |
| July | The Red Tent | Anita Diamant |
| August | The Unbearable Lightness of Being. | Milan Kundera |
| September | Love in the time of Cholera | Gabriel Garcia Marquiz |
| October | The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Katz | Michael Chabon |
| November | John Adams | David McCullough |
| 2000 | ||
| January | The Optimist's Daughter |
Eudora Welty |
| February | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone |
J.K.Rowling |
| March | The Reader |
Bernhard Schlink |
| April | The Hours | Michael Cunningham |
| May | Innocents Abroad | Mark Twain |
| June | The Moor's Last Sigh | Salmon Rushdie |
| July | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | Benjamin Franklin |
| August | The Poisonwood Bible | Barbara Kingsolver |
| September | Timequake | Kurt Vonnegut |
| October | Rebel Angels | Robertson Davies |
| November | Reservation Blues | Sherman Alexie |
| 1999 | ||
| January | Cultural Biography of Pearl Buck The Good Earth |
Peter Conn Pearl Buck |
| February | Monkeys | Susan Minot |
| March | A Wild Sheep Chase : A Novel | Haruki Murakam |
| April | Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| May | The Volcano Lover : A Romance | Susan Sontag |
| June | Fools Progress | Edward Abbey |
| July | Empire of Ants | Bernard Werber, Margaret Rocques (Translator); |
| August | Cocaine Nights | J.G.Ballard |
| September | The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary | Simon Winchester |
| October | Pears on a Willow Tree | Leslie Pietrzyk |
| November | The Sacred Willow | Duong Van Mai Elliot |
1998 |
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| January | Short Stories - classic | William Faulkner |
| February | Memoirs of a Geisha | Arthur Golden |
| March | Cold Mountain | Charles Frazier |
| April | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - classic | James Joyce |
| May | Corelli's Mandolin | Louis DeBernieres |
| June | Jack London, A Life - biography Call of the Wild |
Alex Kershaw Jack London |
| July | The God of Small Things | Arundhati Roy |
| August | Wicked | Gregory McGuire |
| September | Vein of Iron - classic | Ellen Glasglow |
| October | Divine Secrets of the YaYa Sisterhood | Rebecca Wells |
| November | Talking to the Dead | Helen Dunmore |
| 1997 | ||
| January | The Trial - classic | Franz Kafka |
| February | All Souls Rising | Madison Smartt Bell |
| March | Practice of Writing | David Lodge |
| April | Independent People - classic | Halldor Laxness |
| May | True North - autobiography | Jill Ker Conway |
| June | Cloud Chamber | Michael Dorris |
| July | Blue Flower | Penelope Fitzgerald |
| August | Other Voices, Other Rooms mod. classic | Truman Capote |
| September | The Passion of Ayn Rand - biography | Barbara Branden |
| October | Women With Men | Richard Ford |
| November | Angela's Ashes | Frank McCourt |
| 1996 | ||
| January | Snow Falling on Cedars | David Gutterson |
| February | Middlemarch - classic | George Elliott |
| March | A Map of the World | Jane Hamilton |
| April | The Drowning Room | Michael Pye |
| May | The Country of the Pointed Firs - classic | Sarah Orne Jewett |
| June | The Man of the House | Stephen McCauley |
| July | Mason's Retreat | Christopher Tilghman |
| August | Call it Sleep - classic | Henry Roth |
| September | Bram Stoker - biography Dracula |
Barbara Belford Bram Stoker |
| October | Things Fall Apart - mod. classic | Chinua Achebe |
| November | Desert Queen - biography Filmed by CSPAN II |
Janet Wallach |
| 1995 | ||
| January | Having our Say | The Delaney Sisters |
| February | Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now | Maya Angelou |
| March | Son of the Circus | John Irving |
| April | From Time to Time | Jack Finney |
| May | Paperboy | Peter Dexter |
| June | The Promise of Rest | Reynolds Price |
| July | A Pale View of Hills | Kazuo Ishiquro |
| August | Deep River | Ahusaki Enco |
| September | Woodholme The Price of a Child |
DeWayne Wickham Lorene Cary |
| October | Galatea 2.2 | Richard Powers |
| November | The Chess Garden of the Twilight Letters of Gustau Uyterhoeven |
Brooks Hansen |
| 1994 | ||
| January | Palace Walk | Naquib Mahfouz |
| February | Ancestral Truths | Sara Maitland |
| March | Postcards | Anna Quindlen |
| April | Cry to Heaven | Ann Rice |
| May | Vindication | Frances Sherwood |
| June | Geek Love | Katherine Dunn |
| July | The Secret History | Donna Tartt |
| August | The Age of Innocence | Edith Wharton |
| September | Written on the Body | Jeanette Winterson |
| October | Orlando | Virginia Woolf |
| November | Having Our Say | The Delaney Sisters |
| 1993 | ||
| February | Bridges of Madison County | James Robert Waller |
| March | English Patient | Michael Ondaatje |
| April | Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil | John Berendt |
| May | Robber Bride | Margaret Atwood |
| June | The Master and Margarita | Mikhail Bulgakov |
| July | THe Alienist | Caleb Carr |
| August | The Cunning Man | Robertson Davies |
| September | Sophies World | Jostein Gaarder |
| October | Artistic Differences | Charlie Haucek |
| November | The Lost Diaries of Frans Halsd | Michael Kernan |