2007

• The Road - by Cormac McCarthy
• The Measure of a Man:  A Spiritual Autobiography - by Sidney Poitier

2006

• Night - by Elie Wiesel

2005

• A Million Little Pieces - by James Frey
• As I Lay Dying - by William Faulkner
• Light in August - by William Faulkner
• The Sound and the Fury - by William Faulkner

2004

• One Hundred Years of Solitude - by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter - by Carson McCullers
• Anna Karenina - by Leo Tolstoy
• The Good Earth - by Pearl S. Buck

2003

• East of Eden - by John Steinbeck
• Cry, The Beloved Country - by Alan Paton

2002

• Sula - by Toni Morrison
• Fall on Your Knees - Ann-Marie MacDonald

2001

• A Fine Balance - by Robinton Mistry
• The Corrections - by Jonathan Franzen
• Cane River - by Lalita Tademy
• Stolen Lives:  20 years in a Desert Jail - by Malika Oufkir
• Icy Sparks - by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
• We Were the Mulvaneys - by Joyce Carol Oates

2000

• House of Sand and Fog - by Andre Dubus III
• Drowning Ruth - by Christina Schwarz
• Open House - by Elizabeth Berg
• The Poinsonwood Bible - by Barbara Kingsolver
• While I Was Gone - by Sue Miller
• The Bluest Eye - By Toni Morrison
• Back Roads - by Tawni O'Dell
• Daughter of Fortune - by Isabel Allende
• Gap Creek - by Robert Morgan

1999

• A Map of the World - by Jane Hamilton
• Vinegar Hill - by A. Manette Ansay
• River, Cross My Heart - by Breena Clarke
• Tara Road - by Maeve Binchy
• Mother of Pearl - by Melinda Haynes
• White Oleander - by Janet Fitch
• The Pilot's Wife - by Anita Shreve
• The Reader - by Bernhard Schlink
• Jewel - by Bret Lott

1998

• Where the Heart Is - by Billie Letts
• Midwives - by Chris Bohjalian
• What Looks LIke Crazy on an Ordinary Day - by Pearl Cleage
• I Know This Much Is True - by Wally Lamb
• Breath, Eyes, Memory - by Edwidge Danticat
• Black and Blue - by Anna Quindlen
• Here on Earth - by Alice Hoffman
• Paradise - by Toni Morrison

1997

• The Meanest Thing to Say - by Bill Cosby
• The Treasure Hunt - by Bill Cosby
• The Best Way to Play - by Bill Cosby
• Ellen Foster - By Kaye Gibbons
• A Virtuous Woman - by Kaye Gibbons
• A Lesson Before Dying - by Mary McGarry Morris
• Songs in Ordinary Times - by Mary McGarry Morris
• The Heart of a Woman - by Maya Angelou
• The Rapture of Canaan - by Sheri Reynolds
• Stones from the River - by Ursula Hegi
• She's Come Undone - by Wall Lamb

1996

• The Deep End of the Ocean - by Jacquelyn Mitchard
• Song of Solomon - by Toni Morrison
• The Book of Ruth - by Jane Hamilton