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| Title | Author | Month | Pick |
| From Here to the Great Unknown | Lisa Marie Presley & Riley Keough | October 2024 | 106 |
| Familiaris | David Wroblewski | June 2024 | 105 |
| The Many Lives of Mama | Lara Love Hardin | March 2024 | 104 |
| Let Us Descend | Jesmyn Ward | October 2023 | 103 |
| Wellness | Nathan Hill | September 2023 | 102 |
| The Covenant of Water | Abraham Verghese | May 2023 | 101 |
| Hello Beautiful | Ann Napolitano | March 2023 | 100 |
| Bittersweet | Susan Cain | February 2023 | 99 |
| Demon Copperhead | Barbara Kingsolver | October 2022 | 98 |
| That Bird Has My Wings | Jarvis Jay Masters | September 2022 | 97 |
| Nightcrawling | Leila Mottley | June 2022 | 96 |
| Finding Me | Viola Davis | March 2022 | 95 |
| The Way of Integrity | Martha Beck | February 2022 | 94 |
| Bewilderment | Richard Powers | September 2021 | 93 |
| The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois | Honoree Fanonne Jeffers | August 2021 | 92 |
| The Sweetness of Water | Nathan Harris | 2021 | 91 |
| Gilead | Marilynne Robinson | March 2021 | 90 |
| Home | Marilynne Robinson | March 2021 | 89 |
| Lila | Marilynne Robinson | March 2021 | 88 |
| Jack | Marilynne Robinson | March 2021 | 87 |
| Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents | Isabel Wilkerson | November 2020 | 86 |
| Deacon King Kong | James McBride | June 2020 | 85 |
| Hidden Valley Road | Robert Kolker | April 2020 | 84 |
| American Dirt: A Novel | Jeanine Cummins | 2020 | 83 |
| Olive, Again | Elizabeth Strout | November 2019 | 82 |
| The Water Dancer | Ta-Nehisi Coates | September 2019 | 81 |
| Becoming | Michelle Obama | November 2018 | 80 |
| The Sun Does Shine | Anthony Ray Hinton | June 2018 | 79 |
| An American Marriage | Tayari Jones | February 2018 | 78 |
| Behold the Dreamers | Imbolo Mbue | June 2017 | 77 |
| Love Warrior | Glennon Doyle Melton | September 2016 | 76 |
| The Underground Railroad | Colson Whitehead | August 2016 | 75 |
| Ruby | Cynthia Bond | February 2015 | 74 |
| The Invention of Wings | Sue Monk Kidd | January 2014 | 73 |
| The Twelve Tribes of Hattie | Ayana Mathis | December 2012 | 72 |
| Wild | Cheryl Strayed | June 2012 | 71 |
| A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens | December 2010 | 70 |
| Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | December 2010 | 69 |
| Freedom | Jonathan Franzen | September 2010 | 68 |
| Say You’re One of the Them | Uwem Akpan | September 2009 | 67 |
| The Story of Edgar Sawtelle | David Wroblewski | September 2008 | 66 |
| A New Earth | Eckhart Tolle | January 2008 | 65 |
| The Pillars of the Earth | Ken Follet | November 2007 | 64 |
| Love in the Time of Cholera | Gabriel Garcia Marquez | October 2007 | 63 |
| Middlesex | Jeffrey Eugenides | June 2007 | 62 |
| The Road | Cormac McCarthy | March 2007 | 61 |
| The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography | Sir Sidney Poitier | January 2007 | 60 |
| Night | Elie Wiesel | January 2006 | 59 |
| A Million Little PIeces | James Frey | September 2005 | 58 |
| Light in August | William Faulkner | June 2005 | 57 |
| The Sound and the Fury | William Faulkner | June 2005 | 56 |
| As I Lay Dying | William Faulkner | June 2005 | 55 |
| The Good Earth | Pearl S Buck | September 2004 | 54 |
| Anna Karenina | Leo Tulstoy | May 2004 | 53 |
| The Heart is a Lonely Hunter | Carson McCullers | April 2004 | 52 |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel Garcia Marquez | January 2004 | 51 |
| Cry, The Beloved Country | Alan Paton | September 2003 | 50 |
| East of Eden | John Steinbeck | June 2003 | 49 |
| Sula | Toni Morrison | April 2002 | 48 |
| Fall on Your Knees | Ann-Marie MacDonald | January 2002 | 47 |
| A Fine Balance | Rohinton Mistry | November 2001 | 46 |
| The Corrections | Jonathan Franzen | September 2001 | 45 |
| Cane River | Lalita Tademy | June 2001 | 44 |
| Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail | Malika Oufkir | May 2001 | 43 |
| Icy Sparks | Gwyn Hyman Rubio | March 2001 | 42 |
| We Were the Mulvaneys | Joyce Carol Oates | January 2001 | 41 |
| House of Sand and Fog | Andre Dubus III | November 2000 | 40 |
| Drowning Ruth | Christina Schwarz | September 2000 | 39 |
| Open House | Elizabeth Berg | August 2000 | 38 |
| The Poinsonwood Bible | Barbara Kingsolver | June 2000 | 37 |
| While I Was Gone | Sue Miller | May 2000 | 36 |
| The Bluest Eye | Toni Morrison | April 2000 | 35 |
| Back Roads | Tawni O’Dell | March 2000 | 34 |
| Daughter of Fortune | Isabel Allende | February 2000 | 33 |
| Gap Creek | Robert Morgan | January 2000 | 32 |
| A Map of the World | Jane Hamilton | December 1999 | 31 |
| Vinegar Hill | A. Manette Ansay | November 1999 | 30 |
| River, Cross My Heart | Breena Clarke | October 1999 | 29 |
| Tara Road | Maeve Binchy | September 1999 | 28 |
| Mother of Pearl | Melinda Haynes | June 1999 | 27 |
| White Oleander | Janet Fitch | May 1999 | 26 |
| The Pilot’s Wife | Anita Shreve | March 1999 | 25 |
| The Reader | Bernhard Schlink | February 1999 | 24 |
| Jewel | Bret Lott | January 1999 | 23 |
| Where the Heart Is | Billie Letts | December 1998 | 22 |
| Midwives | Chris Bohjalian | October 1998 | 21 |
| What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day | Pearl Cleage | September 1998 | 20 |
| I Know This Much is True | Wally Lamb | June 1998 | 19 |
| Breath, Eyes, Memory | Edwidge Danticat | May 1998 | 18 |
| Black and Blue | Anna Quindlen | April 1998 | 17 |
| Here on Earth | Alice Hoffman | March 1998 | 16 |
| Paradise | Toni Morrison | January 1998 | 15 |
| The Meanest Thing to Say | Bill Cosby | December 1997 | 14 |
| The Treasure Hunt | Bill Cosby | December 1997 | 13 |
| The Best Way to Play | Bill Cosby | December 1997 | 12 |
| A Virtuous Woman | Kaye Gibbons | October 1997 | 11 |
| Ellen Foster | Kaye Gibbons | October 1997 | 10 |
| A Lesson Before Dying | Ernest J Gaines | September 1997 | 9 |
| The Heart of a Woman | Maya Angelou | June 1997 | 8 |
| Songs in Ordinary Time | Mary McGarry Morris | May 1997 | 7 |
| The Rapture of Canaan | Sheri Reynolds | April 1997 | 6 |
| Stones From the River | Ursula Hegi | February 1997 | 5 |
| She’s Come Undone | Wally Lamb | December 1996 | 4 |
| The Book of Ruth | Jane Hamilton | November 1996 | 3 |
| Song of Solomon | Toni Morrison | October 1996 | 2 |
| Deep End of the Ocean | Jacquelyn Mitchard | September 1996 | 1 |