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2012
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January
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The
Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson |
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February
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Running
the Rift by Naomi Benaron |
Winner of
the 2010 Bellwether Prize |
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March
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What
We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank by Nathan
Englander |
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2011
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| January |
The
Fates Will Find Their Way by Hannah Pittard |
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| February |
Open
City by Teju Cole |
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| March |
West
of Here by Jonathan Evison |
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| April |
The
Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht |
Winner of
the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction |
| May |
Touch
by Alexi Zentner |
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| June |
State
of Wonder by Ann Patchett |
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| July |
Big
Girl Small by Rachel DeWoskin |
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| August |
We
the Animals by Justin Torres |
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| September |
The
Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern |
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| October |
The
Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach |
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| November |
The
Uninnocent by Bradford Morrow |
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| December |
The
Conference of the Birds by Peter Sis |
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2010
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| January |
Chronic
City by Jonathan Lethem |
named New
York Times one of the Ten Best Book of the Year |
| February |
Shadow
Tag by Louis Erdrich |
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| March |
The
Girl Who Fell From the Sky by Heidi Durrow |
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| April |
Beatrice
and Virgil by Yann Martel |
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| May |
The
Lonely Polygamist by Brady Udall |
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| June |
Matterhorn
by Karl Marlantes |
American
Booksellers Association Indies Choice Award, Adult Debut Book of
the Year |
| July |
What
is Left the Daughter by Howard Norman |
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| August |
Kings
of the Earth by Jon Clinch |
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| September |
Russian
Winter by Daphne Kalotay |
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| October |
Crooked
Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin |
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| November |
All
is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost by Lan Samantha Chang |
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| December |
How
to Read the Air by Dinaw Mengestu |
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2009
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| January |
Cutting
For Stone by Abraham
Verghese |
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| February |
Lark
and Termite by Jayne Anne
Phillips |
Finalist,
National Book Award, Finalist, National Book Critics' Circle
Award |
| March |
The
Writing on My Forehead by
Nafisa Haji |
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| April |
The
Color of Lightning by
Paulette Jiles |
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| May |
The
Weight of Heaven by
Thrity Umrigar |
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| June |
Last
Night in Montreal by
Emily St. John Mandel |
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| July |
Border
Songs by Jim Lynch |
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| August |
This
is Where I leave You by
Jonathan Tropper |
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| September |
Await
Your Reply by Dan Chaon |
A New
York Times Notable Book of the Year |
| October |
Going
Away Shoes by Jill
McCorkle |
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| November |
The
Year of the Flood by
Margaret Atwood |
A New
York Times Notable Book of the Year |
| December |
Crossers
by Philip Caputo |
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2008
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| January |
A
Golden Age by Tahmima
Anam |
2008
Commonwealth Prize, Best First Book |
| January
(Alternate Selection) |
The
Commoner by John Burnham Schwartz |
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| February |
People
of the Book by Geraldine Brooks |
Winner,
Australian Book Industry Book of the Year, 2008 |
| March |
The
Reserve by Russell Banks |
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| April |
Mudbound
by Hillary Jordan |
Winner,
Bellwether Prize for Fiction 2006 (manuscript) |
| May |
City
of Thieves by David Benioff |
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| June |
The
End of Manners by Francesca Marciano |
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| July |
The
Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski |
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| August |
The
Garden of Last Days by Andre Dubus III |
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| September |
City
of Refuge by Tom Piazza |
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| October |
The
Given Day by Dennis Lehane |
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| November |
Sea
of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh |
Nominated
for Man Booker Prize |
| December |
Songs
for the Missing by Stewart O'Nan |
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2007
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| January |
The
Lay of the Land by Richard Ford |
Finalist,
National Book Critics Circle Award, 2006 |
| February |
Like
Trees, Walking by Ravi Howard |
Finalist,
Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, 2008 |
| March |
The
Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian |
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| April |
Finn
by Jon Clinch |
Shortlisted,
John Sargent Jr. First Novel Prize, 2007 |
| May |
The
Folded World by Amity Gaige |
Winner,
ForeWord Magazine Editor's Choice 2008 |
| June |
Divisadero
by Michael Ondaatje |
Shortlisted,
Scotiabank Giller Prize for Fiction, 2007 |
| July |
On
Kingdom Mountain by Howard Frank Mosher |
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| August |
Free
Food For Millionaires by Min Jin Lee |
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| September |
The
Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz |
2008
Pulitzer Prize Winner; National Book Critics' Circle Award
Winner; John Sargent Jr. First Novel Prize Winner, 2007, |
| October |
Bridge
of Sighs by Richard Russo |
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| November |
The
Air We Breathe by Andrea Barrett |
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| December |
The
Pirate's Daughter by Margaret Cezair-Thompson |
Winner,
2008 Essence Literary Award for Fiction |
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2006
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|
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| January |
The
Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai |
Winner,
Man Booker Prize, 2006 |
| February |
The
Best People in the World by Justin Tussing |
Winner,
Oregon Book Award (Fiction), 2006 |
| March |
Brookland
by Emily Barton |
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| April |
Saving
the World by Julia Alvarez |
#1
Booksense Pick |
| May |
The
Pale Blue Eye by Louis Bayard |
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| June |
The
Whole World Over by Julia Glass |
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| July |
Talk
Talk by T.C. Boyle |
California
Book Award Silver Medal, Fiction |
| August |
The
Law of Dreams by Peter Behrens |
Winner,
Governor-General's Award for Fiction (Canada) |
| September |
The
Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen |
Winner,
James Fenimore Cooper Prize, 2007 |
| October |
The
Meaning of Night by Michael Cox |
Shortlisted,
Costa First Novel Award, 2006 |
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November
|
Half
of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
Finalist,
National Book Critics Circle Award, 2006
Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007 Winner |
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2005
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|
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| January |
Baker
Towers by Jennifer Haigh |
#1
Booksense Pick |
| February |
Towelhead
by Alicia Erian |
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| March |
The
Boy Who Loved Anne Frank by Ellen Feldman |
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| April |
Never
Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro |
Finalist,
National Book Critics Circle Award, 2005 |
| May |
Misfortune
by Wesley Stace |
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| June |
Responsible
Men by Edward Schwarzschild |
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| July |
We're
All In This Together by Owen King |
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| August |
Third
Girl from the Left by Martha Southgate |
Winner,
Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award,
Fiction, 2006 |
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September
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In
the Province of Saints By Thomas O'Malley |
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| October |
I'll
Never be Long Gone by Thomas Christopher Greene |
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| November |
The
Lost Painting by Jonathan Harr |
One of
New York Times' Ten Best Books of the Year. |
| December |
Seven
Lies by James Lasdun |
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2004
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| February |
Waterborne
by Bruce Murkoff |
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| March |
The
Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat |
Finalist
for: Book Sense Book of the Year Award and the National Book
Critics Circle Award |
| April |
Aloft
by Chang-Rae Lee |
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| June |
Between
Two Rivers by Nicholas Rinaldi |
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| July |
Country
of Origin by Don Lee |
Edgar
Award for Best First Novel |
| August |
The
Laments by George Hagen |
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| September |
The
Divine Husband by Francisco Goldman |
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| October |
Absent
Friends by S. J. Rozan |
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| November |
The
Fearless Man by Donald Pfarrer |
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| December |
Banishing
Verona by Margot Livesey |
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2003
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|
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| January |
Child
of My Heart by Alice McDermott |
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| February |
The
Master Butcher's Singing Club by Louise Erdrich |
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| March |
The
Coffee Trader by David Liss |
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| April |
The
Sixpence House by Paul Collins |
#1
Booksense Pick |
| May |
The
English Disease by Joseph Skibell |
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| June |
Getting
Mother's Body by Suzan-Lori Parks |
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| July |
Easter
Island by Jennifer Vanderbes |
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| August |
Hell
at the Breech by Tom Franklin |
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| September |
The
Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem |
|
| October |
Kartography
by Kamila Shamsie |
|
| November |
My
Life as a Fake by Peter Carey |
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| December |
Me
and Orson Welles by Robert Kaplow |
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2002
|
|
|
| January |
Good
as Any: Stories by Tim Westmorland |
|
| February |
For
Rouenna by Sigrid Nunez |
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| March |
The
Translator by John Crowley |
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| April |
Burning
Marguerite by Elizabeth Inness-Brown |
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| May |
Walk
Through Darkness by David Anthony Durham |
|
| June |
Wish
You Were Here by Stewart O'Nan |
|
| July |
Demon
of the Waters by Gregory Gibson |
|
| August |
Lost
Nation by Jeffrey Lent |
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| September |
Family
Matters by Rohinton Mistry |
2002
Booker Prize |
| October |
Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides |
2003
Pulitzer Prize |
| November |
Paradise
Alley by Kevin Baker |
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| December |
Out
of the Flames by Lawrence and Nancy Goldberger |
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2001
|
|
|
| May |
Empire
Falls by Richard Russo |
2002
Pulitzer Prize |
| June |
Good
People of New York by Thisbe Nissen |
|
| July |
John
Henry Days by Colson Whitehead |
2002
Pulitzer Finalist |
| August |
The
Hunters: Two Short Novels by Claire Messud |
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| September |
Days
of Awe by Achy Obejas |
2001
Lambda Award |
| October |
Creatures
of Habit by Jill McCorkle |
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| November |
Patience
and Fortitude by Nicholas Basbanes |
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| December |
This
Cold Heaven by Gretel Ehrlich |
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