| December 2006 |
Eudora Welty: The Complete Novels
recommended by Susan Garrett |
| November 2006 |
Izzy's Fire: Finding Humanity in the Holocaust by Nancy Wright Beasley
recommended by Sharon Baldacci |
| October 2006 |
Self-Help by Lorrie Moore
recommended by Kurt Rheinheimer |
| September 2006 |
The World As I Found It by Bruce Duffy
recommended by Judith Viorst |
| August 2006 |
Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry
recommended by Jennifer Riesmeyer Elvgren |
| July 2006 |
The Best of Enemies by Osha Gray Davidson
recommended by Rudy Abramson |
| June 2006 |
Blessing the Boats by Lucille Clifton
recommended by Camille Dungy |
| May 2006 |
Combat Officer by Charles H. Walker
recommended by William H. Bartsch |
| April 2006 |
Suspects by David Thomson
recommended by Benjamin Schutz |
| March 2006 |
An American Homeplace by Donald McCaig
recommended by Geraldine Brooks |
| February 2006 |
Good Grief by Lolly Winston
recommended by Cathy Maxwell |
| January 2006 |
Some People, Some Other Place by J. California Cooper
recommended by Stacy Hawkins Adams |
| December 2005 |
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
recommended by Sharyn McCrumb |
| November 2005 |
Breathing In, Breathing Out by Fleda Brown
recommended by Dabney Stuart |
| October 2005 |
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
recommended by Hannah Danielle Pierce |
| September 2005 |
The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy
recommended by Michael Pearson |
| August 2005 |
Sweet Tea and Jesus Shoes by Donna Ball, Sandra Chastain, Debra Dixon, Virginia Ellis, Deborah Smith, and Nancy Knight
recommended by Tracy Dunham |
| July 2005 |
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
recommended by Brady Earnhart |
| June 2005 |
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
recommended by Edward Cline |
| May 2005 |
Natasha and Other Stories by David Bezmozgis
recommended by Erika Meitner |
| April 2005 |
Blindness by Jose Saramago
recommended by Peter Manseau |
| March 2005 |
The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis by Caroline Kennedy
recommended by Janet Cheeseman |
| February 2005 |
Brightwood by R. T. Smith
recommended by Claudia Emerson |
| January 2005 |
Davita's Harp by Chaim Potok
recommended by Gretchen Moran Laskas |
| December 2004 |
Nixon Under the Bodhi Tree and Other Works of Buddhist Fiction edited by Kate Wheeler
recommended by Jeanne Larsen |
| November 2004 |
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
recommended by Sharon Leiter |
| October 2004 |
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
recommended by Beverly Van Hook |
| September 2004 |
Double Vision by George Garrett
recommended by Kelly Cherry |
| August 2004 |
the curious incident of the dog in the night-time by Mark Haddon
recommended by Sophy Burnham |
| July 2004 |
How to Deal With Emotionally Explosive People by Albert J. Bernstein, Ph.D.
recommended by Éric L. Farrell |
| June 2004 |
Miracle Fruit by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
recommended by Susan R. Williamson |
| May 2004 |
Little Black Book of Stories by A.S. Byatt
recommended by Alan Cheuse |
| April 2004 |
Shadow of Heaven by Ellen Bryant Voigt
recommended by Jon Pineda |
| March 2004 |
Saving Grace by Priscilla Cummings
recommended by Kelly Mulquin |
| February 2004 |
Just Us Women by Jeannette Caines; Castaways: Stories of Survival by Gerald Hausman; Surviving Jamestown: The Adventures of Young Sam Collier
recommended by Susan Coleman |
| January 2004 |
Country of the Heart by Deborah Bird Rose, et al.
recommended by Margaret Smith |
| December 2003 |
The Midwife's Tale by Gretchen Moran Laskas
recommended by Janis Jaquith |
| November 2003 |
The Stories of Richard Bausch by Richard Bausch
recommended by Ted Genoways |
| October 2003 |
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
recommended by Brittany L. Dick |
| September 2003 |
The Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis
recommended by Pablo J. Davis |
| August 2003 |
Ruled Britannia by Harry Turtledove
recommended by Steve White |
| July 2003 |
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
recommended by R. T. Smith |
| June 2003 |
Waiting by Ha Jin
recommended by Sarah Kennedy |
| May 2003 |
Seven Houses by Alev Lytle Croutier
recommended by Katherine Neville |
| April 2003 |
The Land Between by Cathryn Hankla
recommended by Julia Johnson |
| March 2003 |
Gorgeous Lies by Martha McPhee and Shelter from the Storm by Michael Mewshaw
recommended by Avery Chenoweth |
| February 2003 |
Wild Thorn by William Hoffman
recommended by Kathleen Hofman |
| January 2003 |
Brutal Imagination by Cornelius Eady
recommended by Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon |
| December 2002 |
Insect Dreams by Marc Estrin
recommended by Nancy Damon |
| November 2002 |
Going to See the Elephant by George Garrett recommended by Thorpe Moeckel |
| October 2002 |
Winter Run by Robert Ashcom
recommended by George Garrett |
| September 2002 |
The Misfits by James Howe
recommended by Alex Sanchez
|
| August 2002 |
The novels of Iris Murdoch
recommended by Carrie Brown
|
| June 2002 |
Barbara Kingsolver's Prodigal Summer
recommended by Amanda Cockrell
|
| May 2002 |
William Hoffman's Tidewater Blood
recommended by Andy Straka
|
| April 2002 |
Michael Shaara's The Killer Angels
recommended by Ronald Hoffman
|
| March 2002 |
Joyce Allan's Because I Love You
recommended by Roberta Culbertson
|
| February 2002 |
Trisha R. Thomas' Nappily Ever After
recommended by Teresa Dowell-Vest
|
| January 2002 |
Charles Wright's Negative Blue
recommended by Eric Pankey
|
| December 2001 |
Holiday Childrens' Books
recommended by Joan Kindig
|
| November 2001 |
Gergory Orr's Orpheus and Eurydice
recommended by Lisa Russ-Spaar
|
| October 2001 |
Gail Tsukiyama's The Samurai's Garden
recommended by Stephen Cushman
|
| July 2001 |
Alan Lomax's Folksongs of North America
recommended by Susan Hitchcock
|
| June 2001 |
Richard North Patterson's Protect and Defend
recommended by Katherine McNamara
|
| May 2001 |
William Steig's Amos and Boris
recommended by Kathy L. May
|
| February 2001 |
John Banville's The Untouchable
recommended by Boyd Zenner
|
| January 2001 |
Christopher Tilghman's Mason's Retreat
recommended by Henry Wiencek
|
| December 2000 |
Francis Hodgson Burnett's The Little Princess
recommended by Phyllis Theroux
|
| November 2000 |
William Styron's Sophie's Choice
recommended by David Baldacci |
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