Top Books By Year

2018
FICTION:
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Circe by Madeline Miller
Far From The Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
The Last Ballad by Wiley Cash

NONFICTION:
A Short Guide To A Happy Life by Anna Quindlen

AUDIO:
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Frankenstein, or Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley
Heading Out To Wonderful by Robert Goolrick
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell



2017
FICTION:
Lincoln In The Bardo by George Saunders
News Of The World by Paulette Jules
Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Street
The Changeling by Victor LaValle
The Martian by Andy Weir
The Bones of Paradise by Jonis Agee
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrente

NONFICTION:
Shrill by Lindy West
Notorious RBG by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik
Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination by Elizabeth McCracken
We Were Eight Years In Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Victoria The Queen by Julia Baird

AUDIO:
Mr. Rosenblum Dreams In English by Natasha Solomon
Yes Please by Amy Poehler
Ruby by Cynthia Bond

HONORABLE MENTION:
The Woman In Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
The Talented Ribkins by Ladee Hubbard
Miss Burma by Charmaine Craig



2016
FICTION:
A Man Called Ove  by Fredrik Backman
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
Miller's Valley by Anna Quindlen
Everyone Brave Is Forgiven by Chris Cleve
Salvage The Bones by Jesmyn Ward
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
A Gentleman In Moscow by Amor Towles
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett

NONFICTION:
How To Be A Woman by Caitlyn Moran
Behind The Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
Butter: A Rich History by Elaine Khosrova
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

AUDIO:
Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day by Winifred Watson
And The Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
The Absolutist by John Boyne
The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown
West of Sunset by Stewart O'Nan



2015
FICTION:
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson - audio
Faithful Place by Tana French
The Girl On The Train by Paula Hawkins
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
Last Night At The Blue Angel by Rebecca Rotert
Light In August by William Faulkner
The Book of Night Women by Marlon James - audio
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
Kafka On The Shore by Haruki Murakami

NONFICTION:
Brain On Fire by Susannah Catalan
Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson
Tiger Heart by Katrell Christie



2014
FICTION:
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
Closed Doors by Lisa O'Donnell
You Know When The Men Are Gone by Siobhan Fallon
The Story Hour by Thrity Umrigar
What Is The What  by Dave Eggers (although this one falls somewhere between fiction and nonfiction)
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
One Plus One by Jojo Moyes
Love and Treasure by Ayelet Waldeman
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell


NONFICTION:
I Feel Bad About My Neck  by Nora Ephron
Liar Temptress Soldier Spy by Karen Abbott
Orange Is The New Black by Piper Kiernan
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway


2013
 FICTION:
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
City of Women by David Gillham
A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash
The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin
Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
Looking For Me by Beth Hoffman
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
The Gods of Heavenly Punishment by Jennifer Epstein
Night Film by Marisha Peitl

NONFICTION:
Moranthology by Caitlin Moran
Half The Sky by Nicholas Kristoff and Sheryl WuDunn
Prague Winter by Madeleine Albright
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 
This Is The Story of A Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett
Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake by Anna Quindlen
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

HONORABLE MENTION:
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
The Lost Lady by Willa Cather
The Painted Girls by Cathy Marie Buchanan
Under The Dome by Stephen King
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson


2012
FICTION:
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
The Cove by Ron Rash
The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty
Whatever You Love by Louise Doughty
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
Broken Harbor by Tana French
The World We Found by Thrity Umrigar
The Virgin Cure by Ami McKay
A Golden Age by Tahmima Amin

NON-FICTION
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloots
American Eve by Paula Uruburu
In My Father's Country by Saima Wahab

Honorable Mention:
The Only True Genius In The Family by Jennie Nash
The Book of Jonas by Stephen Dau
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck


2011
FICTION:
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
Safe From The Sea by Peter Geye
The Coffins of Little Hope by Timothy Shaffert
The March by E.L. Doctorow
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

NON-FICTION:
The Man In The Rockefeller Suit by Mark Seal
Cocktail Hour Under The Tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller
Instant City by Steve Inskeep
This Republic of Suffering by Drew Gilpin Faust
The Kitchen Counter Cooking School by Kathleen Flinn

Honorable Mention:
Every Last One by Anna Quindlen
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
Little Bee by Chris Cleeve
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Girl I Tnhe Garden by Kamala Nair

2010
The Weight of Heaven by Thrity Umrigar
The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli
The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff
The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
The Singer's Gun by Emily St. John Mandel
The Writing On My Forehead by Nafisi Haj
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Captivity by Deborah Noyes
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