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Title	Author	Month	Pick
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