2007 Booklist
- Housekeeping vs the Dirt - Nick Hornsby
- Blue Water - A Manette Ansay
- Digging to America - Anne Tyler
- Angel's Rest - Charles Davis
- An Alphabetical Life - Wendy Werris
- Scoop - Rene Gutteridge
- Posterchild - Emily Rapp
- The Grace that Keeps This World - Tom Bailey
- Summer of My Amazing Luck - Miriam Toews
- Gods in Alabama - Joshilyn Jackson
- The Double Bind - Chris Bohaljian
- Family Tree - Barbara Delinsky
- Window Across the River - Brian Morton
- 90 Minutes in Heaven - Don Piper
- Maisie Dobbs - Jacqueline Winspear
- Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
- I Feel Bad About My Neck - Nora Ephron
- The Bright Forever - Lee Martin
- Little Children - Tom Perotta
- In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
- The Sad Truth About Happiness - Anne Giardini
- The Sidewalk Artist - Buonaguro & Kirk
- Black Girl/White Girl - Joyce Carol Oates
- Arlington Park - Rachel Cusk
- Family & Other Accidents - Shari Golden
- A Most Uncommon Degree of Popularity - Kathleen Giles Siedel
- Blowing My Cover: My Life as a CIA Spy - Lindsay Moran
- The Post Birthday World - Lionel Shriver
- The Space Between Us - Thrity Umrigar
- Grace Eventually - Anne Lamott
- The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
- The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets - Eva Rice
- 1st to Die - James Patterson
- Gentlemen & Players - Joanne Harris
- Pardonable Lies (Maisie Dobbs mystery) - Jacqueline Winspear
- A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
- Dancing Girls of Lahore - Louise Brown
- The Penderwicks - Jeanne Birdsall
- The Golden Road - Caille Millner
- Murder 101 - Maggie Barbeiri
- The Knitting Circle - Ann Hood
- Washington Square - Henry James
- The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane - Kate DiCamillo
- Austenland - Shannon Hale
- Free Food for Millionaires - Min Jin Lee
- Twilight - Stephenie Meyer
- Love is a Mix Tape - Rob Sheffield
- The Higher Power of Lucky - Susan
- The Short Bus - Jonathan Mooney
- The Last Chinese Chef - Nicole Mones
- On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan
- The Violin Maker - John Marchese
- Black & White - Dani Shapiro
- Sweet Revenge - Diane Mott Davidson
- Notes on the Refrigerator Door - Alice Kuipers
- Heartsick - Chelsea Cain
- New Moon - Stephenie Meyer
- The Piano Shop on the Left Bank - Thad Carhart
- The Rest of her Life - Laura Moriarty
- If I Am Missing or Dead - Janine Latus
- The Careful Use of Compliments - Alexander McCall Smith
- Halfway House - Katherine Noel
- Forgive Me - Amanda Eyre Ward
- Agnes & the Hitman - Jennifer Crusie & Bob Mayer
- Heat - Bill Buford
- Diary of a Real Estate Rookie - Allison Rogers
- One Good Turn - Kate Atkinson
- Her Royal Spyness - Rhys Bowen
- Department of Lost and Found - Allison Winn Scotch
- House Lights- Leah Hager Cohen
- Save Me From Myself - Brian Welch
- Flower Children - Maxine Swann
- The End of the Alphabet - CS Richardson
- Run - Ann Patchett
- The Used World - Haven Kimmel
- Letter from Point Clear - Dennis McFadden
- Excellent Women - Barbara Pym
- Consequences - Peneolope Lively
- Up High in the Trees - Kiara Brinkman
- Ivy Briefs: - Martha Kimes
- The Maytrees - Annie Dillard
- Lulu Meets God and Doubts Him - Danielle Garek
- A Day at the Beach - Helen Shulman
- The Faraday Sisters - Monica McInerney
- How to Be Lost - Amanda Eyre Ward
- Casting with a Fragile Thread - Wendy Kann
- Rule #2 - Heidi Squier Kraft
- Beautiful Miscellaneous - Dominic Smith
- Promise Not to Tell - Jennifer McMahon
- Alexander and the Wonderful, Marvelous, Excellent, Terrific Ninety Days - Judith Viorst
- Mister Pip - Lloyd Jones
- The Attack - Yasmina Khadra
- The Abstinence Teacher - Tom Perotta
- A Class Apart - Alex Klein
- The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox - Maggie O'Farrell
- Keeping House: A Novel - Ellen Baker
2008 Booklist
- Oystercatchers - Susan Fletcher
- Last Night at the Lobster - Stewart O'Nan
- The Middle Place - Kelly Corrigan
- The Uncommon Reader - Alan Bennett
- Excellent Women - Barbara Pym
- The Gathering - Anne Enright
- The Great Expectations School - Dan Brown
- Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn
- The Birth House - Ami McKay
- Thirteen Reasons Why - Jay Archer
- Waiting to Surface - Emily Listfield
- The Book Thief - Marcus Zusak
- Matrimony - Joshua Henkin
- The Time it Takes to Fall - Margaraet Lazarus Dean
- The Sound of Language - Amulya Malladi
- The Senator's Wife - Sue Miller
- Someone Knows My Name - Lawrence Hill
- The Kept Man - Jami Attenberg
- Absolution - Caro Ramsay
- Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict - Laurie Viera Rigler
- The House of Happy Endings - Leslie Garis
- They Did it With Love - Kate Morgenroth
- Keeper and Kid - Edward Hardy
- People of the Book - Geraldine Brooks
- The House Where the Hardest Things Happened - Kate Young Caley
- The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Fifth Child - Doris Lessing
- The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears - Dinau Megestu
- Double Cross - James Patterson
- Madonnas of Leningrad - Debra Dean
- Her Last Death - Susannah Sonnenberg
- The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
- Autobiography of a Face - Lucy Grealy
- The God of Animals - Aryn Kyle
- Come Back - Claire & Mia Fontaine
- An Absolute Gentleman - R.M. Kinder
- Bulls Island - Dorothea Benton Frank
- Trick of the Eye - Jane Stanton Hitchcok
- And Sometimes Why - Rebecca Johnson
- Belong to Me - Marisa de los Santos
- Feathers - Jacqueline Woodson
- An Incomplete Revenge (Maisie Dobbs #5) - Jacqueline Winspear
- Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout
- So Brave, Young, and Handsome - Leif Enger
- Every Last Cuckoo - Kate Maloy
- These is My Words - Nancy E. Turner
- What is the What - Dave Eggers
- The Shack - William P. Young
- The Red Ant House (stories) - Ann Cummins
- Fieldwork - Mischa Berlinski
- Skeletons at the Feast - Chris Bohaljian
- Photographs, 1918 - Jeanette Ingsoll
- Once Upon a Day - Lisa Tucker
- The House at Riverton - Kate Morton
- What Remains - Carole Radziwell
- By Bread Alone - Sarah-Kate Lynch
- All the Way Home - David Giffels
- Little Heathens - Mildred Armstrong Kalish
- Summer Blowout - Claire Cook
- Wild Fire - Nelson DeMille
- Unaccustomed Earth - Jhumpa Lahiri
- Eva Moves the Furniture - Margot Livesay
- The Wednesday Sisters - Meg Waite Clayton
- Persepolis - Marjane Sartrapi
- The Legend of Colton H. Bryant - Alexandra Fuller
- Savvy - Ingrid Law
- Undiscovered Country - Lin Enger
- In the Woods - Tana French
- The Smart One & the Pretty One - Clare LeZebnik
- Child 44 - Tom Rob Smith
- In the Land of Invisible Women - Dr. Qanta Ahmed
- Nation of Wimps - Hara Estroff Marano
- Breaking Dawn - Stephenie Meyer
- Live a Little - Kim Green
- Puppy Chow is Better than Prozac - Bruce Goldstein
- After - Francine Prose
- Farewell, My Subaru - Doug Fine
- Bronte's Bookclub - Kristiana Gregory
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
- I Am Scout: A Biography of Harper Lee - Charles J. Shields
- We'll Always Have Paris & Provence - Walter & Patricia Wells
- Comfort Food - Kate Jacobs
- Shakespeare's Kitchen - Lore Segal
- The Likeness - Tana French
- The Commoner - John Burnham Schwarz
- The Heretic's Daughter - Kathleen Kent
- Mysterious Benedict Society - Trenton Lee Stewart
- Tomato Girl - Jayne Pupek
- What Was Lost - Catherine O'Flynn
- The Penderwicks of Gardam St. - Jeanne Birdsall
- The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted - Elizabeth Berg
- The Willoughbys - Lois Lowry
- The Miracle Girls - Anne Drayton & May Vanderbilt
- Comfort - Ann Hood
- Tethered - Amy Mackinnon
- Eating Heaven - Jennie Shortridge
- Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society - Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
- Wild Boy: My Life with Duran Duran - Andy Taylor
- Stargirl - Jerry Spinelli
- The Gifted Gabaldon Sisters - Lorraine Lopez
- The Condition - Jennifer Haigh
- The White Mary - Kira Salak
- The Writing Class - Jincy Willett
- Matters of Faith - Kristy Kiernan
- The Gargoyle - Andrew Davidson
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Steig Larsson
- Schooled - Gordon Korman
- No One You Know - Michelle Richmond
- Pemberley by the Sea - Abigail Reynolds
- Persepolis 2 - Marjane Sartrapi
- Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson
- Scrapbook mystery - Laura Childs
- The Girls - Lori Lansens
- If You Lived Here - Dana Sachs
- Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris
- Rules - Cynthia Lord
- Snoop - Sam Gosling, PhD
- The Mercy Rule - Perri Klass
- Two Weeks of Life - Eleanor Clift
- Wasted - Marya Hornbacher
- 39 Clues (The Maze of Bones) - Rick Riordan
- Chez Moi - Agnes Descartes
- The Hearts of Horses - Molly Gloss
- Monster of Florence - Douglas Preston
- The Boy in the Striped Pajamas - John Boyne
- The Green Glass Sea - Ellen Krages
- In the Time of Butterflies - Julia Alvarez
- The Whistling Season - Ivan Doig
- London is the Best City in America - Laura Dave
- An Offer You Can't Refuse - Jill Mansell (review to come in 2009)
- All Mortal Flesh - Julia Spencer Fleming
- The Book of Lost Things - John Connolly
- Secret Letters from 0 to 10 - Susie Morgenstern
- This One is Mine - Maria Semple
- The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
- Songs for the Missing - Stewart O'Nan
- Mrs. Mike - Benedict & Nancy Freedman
- Beyond Belief - Josh Hamilton
- America, America - Ethan Canin
- Called Out of Darkness - Anne Rice
2009 Booklist
- When Will There Be Good News? - Kate Atkinson
- Summer at Tiffany - Marjorie Hart
- Sarah's Key - Tatiana de Rosnay
- The Memorist - M.J. Rose
- The History of Love - Nicole Krauss
- A Cook's Tour - Anthony Bourdain
- Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates
- Pomegranate Soup - Marsha Mehran
- Ida B. - Katherine Hanagan (ya)
- Broken for You - Stephanie Kallos
- Love and Other Natural Disasters - Holly Shumas
- Still Alice - Lisa Genova
- The Collection - Gioia Diliberto
- Tamar - Mal Peet
- An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination - Elizabeth McCracken
- Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion - Sara Miles
- The Girl She Used to Be - David Cristofano
- The Magician's Book -Laura Miller
- The Laws of Harmony - Judith Ryan Hendricks
- Kill Me Again - Karen Rose
- The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery
- Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven - Susan Jane Gilman
- The Story of Jane - Catherine Cusset
- Sing Them Home - Stephanie Kallos
- A Northern Light - Jennifer Donnelly
- Coming of Age in Mississippi - Anne Moody
- You're Not You - Michelle Wildgen
- The Girl with No Shadow - Joanne Harris
- The Lost Hours - Karen White
- Beat the Reaper - Josh Bazell
- House & Home - Kathleen Cleary
- I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti - Giulia Melucci
- Cooking & Screaming - Adrienne Kane
- Names My Sisters Call Me - Megan Crane
- The Master Butcher's Singing Club - Louise Edrich
- Crossed Wires - Rosy Thornton
- The Sailor from Gibraltar - Marguerite Duras
- Waiting for the Apocalypse: A Memoir of Faith and Family - Veronica Chater
- Testimony - Anita Shreve
- A Golden Age - Tamima Aram
- Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese
- Living Dead Girl - Elizabeth Scott
- Love Stories in this Town - Amanda Eyre Ward
- The Spare Room - Helen Garner
- Sleepwalking in Daylight - Elizabeth Flock
- Persuader - Lee Child
- April & Oliver - Tess Callahan
- Among the Mad - Jacqueline Winspear
- Jane Austen Ruined My Life - Beth Patillo
- The Weight of Heaven - Thrity Umrigar
- Hotel at the Corner of Bitter & Sweet - Jamie Ford
- Little Bee - Chris Cleave
- In Hovering Flight - Joyce Hinnenfeld
- The Leopard Hat - Valerie Streiker
- The Well and the Mine - Gin Phillips
- Under the Table - Katherine Darling
- The School of Essential Ingredients - Erica Baumeister
- Tenderwire - Claire Kilroy
- The White Tiger - Arvind Adiga
- The Help - Kathryn Stockett
- The Forgotten Garden - Kate Morton
- The Unit - Ninni Holmqvist
- The Painter from Shanghai - Jennifer Cody Epstein
- The Writing on My Forehead - Nafisa Haji
- Shanghai Girls - Lisa See
- Columbine - Dave Cullen
- The Night Gardener - George Pelecanos
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