| 2016 |
| The Underground Railroad |
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Colson Whitehead
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| 2015 |
| Ruby |
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Cynthia Bend
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| 2014 |
| The Invention of Wings |
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Sue Monk Kidd
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| 2010 |
| Freedom |
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Jonathan Franzen
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| 2009 |
| Say Youre One of Them |
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Uwem Akpan
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| 2008 |
| A New Earth |
Eckhart Tolle
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| 2007 |
| Pillars of the Earth |
Ken Follett
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| 2007 |
| Love in the Time of Cholera |
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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| 2007 |
| Middlesex: A Novel |
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Jeffrey Eugenides
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| 2007 |
| The Road |
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Cormac McCarthy
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| 2006 |
| Night |
Elie Wiesel
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| 2005 |
| A Million Little Pieces |
James Frey
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| 2005 |
| As I Lay Dying |
William Faulkner
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| 2005 |
| The Sound and the Fury |
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William Faulkner
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| 2005 |
| Light in August |
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William Faulkner
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| 2004 |
| The Good Earth |
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Pearl Buck
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| 2004 |
| Anna Karenina |
Leo Tolstoy
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| 2003 |
| Cry, the Beloved Country |
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Alan Paton
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| 2003 |
| East of Eden |
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John Steinbeck
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| 2002 |
| Sula |
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Toni Morrison
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| 2002 |
| Fall on Your Knees |
Ann-Marie MacDonald
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| 2001 |
| A Fine Balance |
Rohinton Mistry
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| 2001 |
| The Corrections |
Jonathan Franzen
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| 2001 |
| Cane River |
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Lalita Tademy
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| 2001 |
| Icy Sparks |
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Gwyn Hyman Rubio
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| 2001 |
| We Were the Mulvaneys |
Joyce Carol Oates
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| 2000 |
| House of Sand and Fog |
Andre Dubus
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| 2000 |
| Drowning Ruth |
Christina Schwarz
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| 2000 |
| Open House |
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Elizabeth Berg
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| 2000 |
| The Poisonwood Bible |
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Barbara Kingsolver
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| 2000 |
| While I Was Gone |
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Sue Miller
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| 2000 |
| The Bluest Eye |
Toni Morrison
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| 2000 |
| Back Roads |
Tawni O'Dell
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| 2000 |
| Daughter of Fortune |
Isabel Allende
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| 1999 |
| Gap Creek |
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Robert Morgan
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| 1999 |
| A Map of the World |
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Jane Hamilton
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| 1999 |
| Vinegar Hill |
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A. Manette Ansay
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| 1999 |
| River, Cross My Heart |
Breena Clarke
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| 1999 |
| Tara Road |
Maeve Binchy
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| 1999 |
| Mother of Pearl |
Melinda Haynes
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| 1999 |
| The Pilot's Wife |
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Anita Shreve
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| 1999 |
| The Reader |
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Bernhard Schlink
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| 1999 |
| Jewel |
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Bret Lott
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| 1998 |
| Where the Heart Is |
Billie Letts
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| 1998 |
| Midwives |
Chris Bohjalian
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| 1998 |
| I Know This Much is True |
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Wally Lamb
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| 1998 |
| Breath, Eyes, Memory |
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Edwidge Danticat
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| 1998 |
| Black and Blue |
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Anna Quindlen
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| 1998 |
| Here on Earth |
Alice Hoffman
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| 1998 |
| Paradise |
Toni Morrison
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| 1997 |
| The Meanest Thing to Say |
Bill Cosby
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| 1997 |
| The Treasure Hunt |
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Bill Cosby
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| 1997 |
| The Best Way to Play |
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Bill Cosby
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| 1997 |
| Ellen Foster |
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Kaye Gibbons
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| 1997 |
| A Virtuous Woman |
Kaye Gibbons
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| 1997 |
| A Lesson Before Dying |
Ernest Gaines
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| 1997 |
| Songs in Ordinary Time |
Mary McGarry Morris
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| 1997 |
| The Heart of a Woman |
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Maya Angelou
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| 1997 |
| The Rapture of Canaan |
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Sheri Reynolds
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| 1997 |
| Stones from the River |
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Ursula Hegi
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| 1997 |
| She's Come Undone |
Wally Lamb
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| 1996 |
| The Book of Ruth |
Jane Hamilton
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| 1996 |
| Song of Solomon |
Toni Morrison
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| 1996 |
| The Deep End of the Ocean |
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Jacquelyn Mitchard
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