The books are listed below. Click on a year to see the books that were read that year.
A Very Long Engagement
by: Sebastien Japrisot
publisher: Plume, released: September 1, 1994
Stones from the River
by: Ursula Hegi
publisher: Simon & Schuster, released: March 1, 1995
Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man
by: Fannie Flagg
publisher: Grand Central Publishing, released: September 1, 1992
Animal Dreams
by: Barbara Kingsolver
publisher: Harper Perennial, released: August 1, 1991
In My Mother’s House
by: Kim Chernin
publisher: Harper Perennial, released: May, 1994
The Road from Coorain
by: Jill Ker Conway
publisher: Vintage, released: August 11, 1990
True North: A Memoir
by: Jill Ker Conway
publisher: Vintage, released: August 15, 1995
Charms for the Easy Life
by: Kaye Gibbons
publisher: Avon, released: April 1, 1994
China Boy
by: Gus Lee
publisher: Plume, released: January 1, 1994
The Kitchen God’s Wife
by: Amy Tan
publisher: Ivy Books, released: April 22, 1992
Middle Heart
by: Inc. Bette Bao Lord Enterprises
publisher: Ballantine Books, released: July 14, 1997
A Year in Provence
by: Peter Mayle
publisher: Vintage, released: June 4, 1991
Thousand Acres
by: Jane Smiley
publisher: Ivy Books, released: September 30, 1996
China Men
by: Maxine Hong Kingston
publisher: Vintage, released: April 23, 1989
Into the Wild
by: Jon Krakauer
publisher: Anchor, released: January 20, 1997
Long Ago In France: The Years In Dijon
by: M.F.K. Fisher
publisher: Touchstone, released: February 15, 1992
The Invisible Circus: A Novel
by: Jennifer Egan
publisher: Picador, released: January 15, 1996
The Book of Ruth
by: Jane Hamilton
publisher: Anchor, released: December 1, 1989
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
by: Stephen Ambrose
publisher: Simon & Schuster, released: June 2, 1997
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
by: Michael Dorris
publisher: Warner Books, released: January, 1998
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: A Novel
by: Rebecca Wells
publisher: Perennial, released: May 7, 1997
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
by: Julia Alvarez
publisher: Plume, released: June 1, 1992
Cold Mountain: A Novel
by: Charles Frazier
publisher: Vintage, released: August 12, 1998
Consider This, Senora
by: Harriet Doerr
publisher: Harvest Books, released: August 15, 1994
The Samurai’s Garden: A Novel
by: Gail Tsukiyama
publisher: St. Martin's Griffin, released: May 4, 1996
All the King’s Men
by: Robert Penn Warren
publisher: Harvest Books, released: September 1, 1996
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
by: Doris Kearns Goodwin
publisher: Simon & Schuster, released: October 1, 1995
Other People’s Houses
by: Lore Segal
publisher: New Press, released: August, 1994
Crossing to Safety
by: Wallace Stegner
publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics), released: March 15, 1990
The Persian Pickle Club
by: Sandra Dallas
publisher: St. Martin's Press, released: September 15, 1996
West with the Night
by: Beryl Markham
publisher: North Point Press, released: January 1, 1982
The Sixteen Pleasures: A Novel
by: Robert Hellenga
publisher: Delta, released: May 1, 1995
Song of Solomon
by: Toni Morrison
publisher: Plume, released: September 1, 1987
Angels & Insects: Two Novellas
by: A.S. Byatt
publisher: Vintage, released: March 29, 1994
The All of It
by: Jeannette Haien
publisher: Harper Perennial, released: January 27, 1988
Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir
by: Frank McCourt
publisher: Simon & Schuster, released: May 25, 1999
Winter Wheat
by: Mildred Walker
publisher: Bison Books, released: December 1, 1992
The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother
by: James McBride
publisher: Riverhead Trade, released: February 1, 1997
The Remains of the Day
by: Kazuo Ishiguro
publisher: Vintage, released: September 12, 1990
Morality Play
by: Barry Unsworth
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, released: September, 1996
Three Came Home,
by: Agnes Keith
publisher: Little Brown & Company, released: September, 1947
Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel
by: Arthur Golden
publisher: Vintage, released: January 10, 1999
Crooked Little Heart: A Novel
by: Anne Lamott
publisher: Anchor, released: May 18, 1998
Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story
by: Amanda Vaill
publisher: Broadway, released: April 20, 1999
Fugitive Pieces: A Novel
by: Anne Michaels
publisher: Vintage, released: May 26, 1998
The God of Small Things
by: Arundhati Roy
publisher: Harper Perennial, released: May 1, 1998
The Magician’s Assistant
by: Ann Patchett
publisher: Harvest Books, released: September 17, 1998
Rector’s Wife
by: Joanna Trollope
publisher: Berkley, released: October 1, 1996
Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir
by: Doris Kearns Goodwin
publisher: Simon & Schuster, released: June 2, 1998
Tender Is the Night
by: F. Scott Fitzgerald
publisher: Scribner, released: July 1, 1995
Old Man And The Sea
by: Ernest Hemingway
publisher: Scribner, released: June 10, 1996
Chocolat
by: Joanne Harris
publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics), released: November 1, 2000
Silk
by: Alessandro Baricco
publisher: Vintage, released: August 25, 1998
An Instance of the Fingerpost
by: Iain Pears
publisher: Berkley, released: March 1, 1999
Corelli’s Mandolin: A Novel
by: Louis De Bernieres
publisher: Vintage, released: August 29, 1995
Brave New World
by: Aldous Huxley
publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, released: September 1, 1998
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
by: Anne Fadiman
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, released: September 28, 1998
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of The Oxford English Dictionary
by: Simon Winchester
publisher: Harper Perennial, released: August, 1999
The Poisonwood Bible
by: Barbara Kingsolver
publisher: Harper Perennial, released: October 1, 1999
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
by: Lewis Carroll
publisher: Signet Classics, released: December 1, 2000
Dreams Of My Russian Summers: A Novel
by: Andrei Makine
publisher: Touchstone, released: August 27, 1998
Caravans
by: James A. Michener
publisher: Fawcett, released: December 12, 1986
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women
by: Geraldine Brooks
publisher: Anchor, released: December 1, 1995
The Battle for God
by: Karen Armstrong
publisher: Ballantine Books, released: January 30, 2001
A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
by: Karen Armstrong
publisher: Ballantine Books, released: August 9, 1994
Holy War: The Crusades and Their Impact on Today’s World
by: Karen Armstrong
publisher: Anchor, released: November, 2001
Islam: A Short History
by: Karen Armstrong
publisher: Modern Library, released: August 6, 2002
Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia
by: Ahmed Rashid
publisher: Yale University Press, released: March 1, 2001
Ali and Nino: A Love Story
by: Kurban Said
publisher: Anchor, released: October 3, 2000
The Red Tent
by: Anita Diamant
publisher: Picador, released: September 15, 1998
The Hours: A Novel
by: Michael Cunningham
publisher: Picador, released: January 15, 2000
Mrs. Dalloway
by: Virginia Woolf
publisher: Harvest Books, released: September 24, 1990
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
by: Patrick Suskind
publisher: Vintage, released: February 13, 2001
Seabiscuit: An American Legend
by: Laura Hillenbrand
publisher: Random House, released: March 6, 2001
The White Nile
by: Alan Moorehead
publisher: Harper Perennial, released: October 1, 2000
The Dress Lodger
by: Sheri Holman
publisher: Ballantine Books, released: January 2, 2001
Personal History
by: Katharine Graham
publisher: Vintage, released: February 24, 1998
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
by: J.K. Rowling
publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks, released: October 1, 1999
Versailles: A Novel
by: Kathryn Davis
publisher: Back Bay Books, released: September 5, 2003
Empire Falls
by: Richard Russo
publisher: Vintage, released: April 12, 2002
Bel Canto
by: Ann Patchett
publisher: Harper Perennial, released: April 1, 2002
The Grapes of Wrath
by: John Steinbeck
publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics), released: January 8, 2002
Bee Season: A Novel
by: Myla Goldberg
publisher: Anchor, released: May 15, 2001
Daughters of Britannia: The Lives and Times of Diplomatic Wives
by: Katie Hickman
publisher: Harper Perennial, released: August 1, 2002
John Adams
by: David McCullough
publisher: Simon & Schuster, released: September 3, 2002
The Debt to Pleasure: A Novel
by: John Lanchester
publisher: Picador, released: December 7, 2001
English Passengers: A Novel
by: Matthew Kneale
publisher: Anchor, released: January 16, 2001
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death
by: Jean-Dominique Bauby
publisher: Vintage, released: June 23, 1998
Atonement: A Novel
by: Ian McEwan
publisher: Nan A. Talese, released: March 12, 2002
The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World
by: Michael Pollan
publisher: Random House, released: May 8, 2001
The Secret Life of Bees
by: Sue Monk Kidd
publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics), released: January 28, 2003
Gandhi’s Way: A Handbook of Conflict Resolution
by: Mark Juergensmeyer
publisher: University of California Press, released: February 4, 2002
Midnight’s Children
by: Salman Rushdie
publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics), released: January 1, 1991
The Bell Jar: A Novel
by: Sylvia Plath
publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, released: March 1, 2000
Fateless
by: Imre Kertesz, Christopher Wilson
publisher: Hydra Books, released: October 21, 1996
The Da Vinci Code
by: Dan Brown
publisher: Doubleday, released: March 18, 2003
Life of Pi
by: Yann Martel
publisher: Harvest Books, released: May 1, 2003
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
by: Eric Schlosser
publisher: Harper Perennial, released: January, 2002
Disgrace
by: J. M. Coetzee
publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics), released: November 1, 2000
Cry, the Beloved Country
by: Alan Paton
publisher: Scribner, released: September, 2003
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress: A Novel
by: Dai Sijie
publisher: Anchor, released: October 29, 2002
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
by: Margaret Macmillan
publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks, released: September 9, 2003
In This House of Brede
by: Rumer Godden
publisher: Amereon Limited, released: June, 1991
The Piano Tuner: A Novel
by: Daniel Mason
publisher: Vintage, released: August 19, 2003
The Known World: A Novel
by: Edward P. Jones
publisher: Amistad, released: June 1, 2004
Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life
by: Alison Weir
publisher: Ballantine Books, released: April 3, 2001
The Kite Runner
by: Khaled Hosseini
publisher: Riverhead Trade, released: April 27, 2004
My Invented Country: A Memoir
by: Isabel Allende
publisher: Harper Perennial, released: 2004
Madame Bovary
by: Gustave Flaubert
publisher: Penguin Classics, released: December 31, 2002
Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
by: Terry Tempest Williams
publisher: Vintage, released: September 1, 1992
Five Quarters of the Orange
by: Joanne Harris
publisher: Harper Perennial, released: June 1, 2002
The Good Earth
by: Pearl S. Buck
publisher: Washington Square Press, released: September 15, 2004
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
by: Tracy Kidder
publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks, released: August 31, 2004
A Moveable Feast
by: Ernest Hemingway
publisher: Scribner, released: May 29, 1996
The Plot Against America: A Novel
by: Philip Roth
publisher: Houghton Mifflin, released: September, 2004
Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters
by: Mark Dunn
publisher: Anchor, released: September 17, 2002
Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life
by: Queen Noor
publisher: Miramax, released: March 9, 2005
Gilead: A Novel
by: Marilynne Robinson
publisher: Picador, released: January 10, 2006
Red Azalea
by: Anchee Min
publisher: Berkley, released: June 1, 1995
Object of Virtue: A Novel
by: Nicholas B.A. Nicholson
publisher: Touchstone, released: April 6, 2004
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
by: Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
publisher: William Morrow, released: May 1, 2005
Zorro: A Novel
by: Isabel Allende
publisher: HarperCollins, released: May 1, 2005
An American Childhood
by: Annie Dillard
publisher: Harper Perennial, released: September 1, 1988
Pnin
by: Vladimir Nabokov
publisher: Everyman's Library, released: April 6, 2004
Middlesex: A Novel
by: Jeffrey Eugenides
publisher: Picador, released: September 16, 2002
Ten Thousand Lovers: A Novel
by: Edeet Ravel
publisher: Harper Perennial, released: September 1, 2003
Dreams Of Trespass: Tales Of A Harem Girlhood
by: Fatima Mernissi
publisher: Basic Books, released: September 3, 1995
Skinny Legs and All
by: Tom Robbins
publisher: Bantam, released: November 1, 1995
Natives and Exotics
by: Jane Alison
publisher: Harvest Books, released: April 10, 2006
The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life
by: Tom Reiss
publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks, released: March 14, 2006
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel
by: Lisa See
publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks, released: February 21, 2006
The Shadow of the Wind
by: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics), released: February 1, 2005
Churchill’s Folly: How Winston Churchill Created Modern Iraq
by: Christopher Catherwood
publisher: Basic Books, released: May 10, 2005
The World to Come: A Novel
by: Dara Horn
publisher: W. W. Norton, released: October 9, 2006
Gentlemen and Players: A Novel
by: Joanne Harris
publisher: Harper Perennial, released: January 1, 2007
Sister of My Heart: A Novel
by: Chitra Divakaruni
publisher: Anchor, released: January 18, 2000
Gift from the Sea: 50th Anniversary Edition
by: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
publisher: Pantheon, released: October 8, 1991
A Room of One’s Own
by: Virginia Woolf
publisher: Harvest Books, released: December 27, 1989
O Pioneers!
by: Willa Cather
publisher: Signet Classics, released: January 6, 2004
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
by: Michael Chabon
publisher: Picador, released: August 25, 2001
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
by: David Fromkin
publisher: Holt Paperbacks, released: September 1, 2001
The Devil’s Highway: A True Story
by: Luis Alberto Urrea
publisher: Back Bay Books, released: September 19, 2005
The Whistling Season
by: Ivan Doig
publisher: Harvest Books, released: May 7, 2007
Unless: A Novel
by: Carol Shields
publisher: Harper Perennial, released: January 1, 2006
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
by: Jack Weatherford
publisher: Three Rivers Press, released: March 22, 2005
Foreign Affairs: A Novel
by: Alison Lurie
publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks, released: November 14, 2006
March
by: Geraldine Brooks
publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics), released: January 31, 2006