1989
Cider House Rules – John Irving
And the Band Played On – Randy Shilts
Life and Death in Shanghai – Nien Cheng
The Remains of the Day – Kazu Ishiguro
I See By My Outfit – Peter S. Beagle
Lady’s Maid – Margaret Forster
Green City in the Sun – Barbara Wood
Crossing to Safety – Wallace Stegner
Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
Ponderheart – Eudora Welty
1990
West With The Night – Beryl Markham
Straight On Till Morning – Mary S. Lovell
Peace, Love and Healing – Dr. Bernie Seigel
The Shell Seekers – Rosamunde Pilcher
Circle of Quiet – Madeleine L’Engle
Handmaids’ Tale – Margaret Atwood
Stones for Ibarra – Harriet Doer
Cold Sassy Tree – Olive Ann Burns
Joy Luck Club – Amy Tam
Bean Trees – Barbara Kingsolver
Song Lines – Bruce Chatwin
Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
1991
The Cape Ann – Faith Sullivan
The Shining Hour – Susan Issac
Travels With Charlie – John Steinbeck
A Vision of Light – Judith Murkel Riley
Buffalo Nickel – Charles Smith
Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
Yellow Raft in Blue Water – Michael Dorris
Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café – Fannie Flagg
A Mother and Two Daughters – Gail Godwin
Education of Little Tree – Forrest Carter
Road from Coorain – Jill Kerr Conway
1992
Palace Walk – Naguib Mahfouz
Animal Dreams – Barbara Kingsolver
Broken Cord – Michael Dorris
House of Spirits – Isabel Allende
Bed by the Window – M. Scott Peck
Outer Banks – Anne Rivers Siddon
Into the Heart – Kenneth Good
1993
Father Melancholy’s Daughter – Gail Godwin
Composing a Life – Mary Katherine Bateson
Plain and Simple – Sue Bender
How to Make an American Quilt – Whitney Otto
Rising Sun – Michael Crichton
Acts of Faith – Eric Siegel
Waiting to Exhale – Terry McMillan
Wallace Stegner’s books
Maya Angelou’s books
The Living – Annie Dillard
1994
Toni Morrison’s books
Among Schoolchildren – Tracy Kidder
At Paradise Gate – Jane Smiley
Tony Hillerman’s books
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
Wild Swans – Three Daughters of China – Jung Chang
Girls with the Grandmother Faces – Frances Weaver
The Sacred Journey – Frederick Buechner
1995
Refuge – Terry Tempest Williams
Mutant Message From Down Under – Marlo Morgan
Pat Conroy’s books
Pillars of the Earth – Ken Follett
Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
Possession – J.S. Byatt
The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields
Till We Have Faces – C. S. Lewis
The 16 Pleasures – Robert Hellenga
Charms for the Easy Life – Kay Gibbons
Written by Herself – Jill Kerr Conway
1996
To Dance With the White Dog – Terry Kay
Serving in Silence – Margarethe Cammermeyer
84 Charing Cross Road – Eleanor Hanff
A Gathering of Old Men – Ernest Gaines
Shipping News – Annie Proulx
Dead Man Walking – Sister Helen Prejean
Snow Falling on Cedars – David Guterson
Winter Wheat – Mildred Walker
Montana 1948 – Larry Watson
A Frontier Lady – Sarah Royce
These Same Long Bones – Gwendolyn Parker
Reviving Ophelia – Mary Pipher
1997
Libby – Betty John
Ellen Foster – Kaye Gibbons
Bird by Bird – Anne Lamott
English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
The Horse Whisperer – Nicholas Evans
How the Irish Saved Civilization – Thomas Cahill
The Long Walk – Slavomir Rawicz
Smell of Apples – Mark Behr
She’s Come Undone – Wally Lamb
Bucking the Sun – Ivan Doig
The Gift of Pain – Paul Brand
1998
Undaunted Courage – Stephen E. Ambrose
Into Thin Air – Jon Krakauer
Eight Feet in the Andes – Dervla Murphy
Cold Mountain – Charles Frazier
A Civil Action – Jonathan Harr
A Change of Heart – Clair Sylvia
Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt
A Perfect Storm – Sebastian Junger
Arranged Marriage – Chirta Banerjae Diva Karuai
The Divine Secrets of the YaYa Sisterhood – Rebecca Wells
2009
The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
Bridge of Sighs – Richard Russo
Cider House Rules – John Irving
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Diaz
The Mascot: Unraveling the Mystery of My Jewish Father's Nazi Boyhood - Mark Kurzem
And the Waters Turned to Blood - Rodney Barker
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life - Barbara Kingsolver
The Elegance of the Hedgehog – Muriel Barbery
Where Light Takes Its Color From the Sea – James Houston
The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemmingway
Isaac’s Storm – Erik Larson
2010
Company of Liars – Karen Maitland
The Believers – Zoe Heller
Stones for Schools – Greg Mortenson
Olive Kitteridge – Elizabeth Strout
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet – Jamie Ford
People of the Book – Geraldine Brooks
Cutting For Stone – Abraham Verghese
The Help – Kathryn Stockett
