1976 William Styron Sophie’s Choice
1978 John Irving The
World According to Garp
1979 Norman Mailer The Executioner’s Song
1978 William Wharton Birdy
1978 John Cheever The Stories of John Cheever
1979 Phillip Roth The Ghost Writer
1979 William Maxwell So Long, See You Tomorrow
1980 Shirley Hazzard The Transit of Venus
1980 Thomas Berger Neighbors
1980 Judith Krantz Princess Daisy
1980 Wright Morris Plains Song: For Female Voices
1980 John Kennedy Toole A Confederacy of Dunces
1980 Marilynne Robinson Housekeeping
1980 Umberto Eco The
Name of the Rose
1981 John Updike Rabbit
is Rich
1981 Salman Rushdie Midnight’s Children
1981 Russel Banks Trailerpark
1981 John Irving The
Hotel New Hampshire
1981 Robert Stone A Flag For Sunrise
1982 Stanley Elkin George Mills
1982 Alice Walker The Color Purple
1982 Thomas McGuane Nobody’s Angel
1982 Jeffery Archer The Prodigal Daughter
1982 Anne Tyler Dinner
at the Homesick Restaurant
1982 Hellen Hoover Santmyer …And Ladies of the Club
1983 William Kennedy Ironweed
1983 Frank Miller Ronin
1983 Norman Mailer Ancient Evenings
1983 Thomas Berger The Feud
1983 Raymond Carver Cathedral
1984 Ellen Gilchrist Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories
1984 Louise Erdrich Love Medicine
1984 Josephine Humphreys Dreams of Sleep
1984 Danielle Steel Full Circle
1984 Alison Lurie Foreign Affair
1984 Douglas Unger Leaving the Land
1985 Don DeLillo White
Noise
1985 Anne Tyler The
Accidental Tourist
1985 Margaret Attwood The Handmaid’s Tale
1985 John Irving The
Cider House Rules
1985 Russell Banks Continental Drift
1985 Garrison Keillor Lake Wobegon Days
1985 E.L. Doctorow World’s Fair
1985 Reynolds Price Kate Vaiden
1985 Larry McMurtry Lonesome Dove
1986 Mona Simpson Anywhere But Here
1986 Danielle Steel Wanderlust
1986 Larry Heinemann Paco’s Story
1986 Phillip Roth The Counterlife
1986 Peter Taylor A Summons to Memphis
1986 Norman Rush Whites
1987 Toni Morrison Beloved
1987 Paul Aster The
New York Trilogy
1987 T.C. Boyle World’s
End
1987 Tom Clancy Patriot
Games
1987 Alice McDermott That Night
1987 Tom Wolfe The
Bonfire of Vanities
1988 Toni Morrison Paradise
1988 Peter Dexter Paris Trout
1988 Diane Johnson Persian Nights
1988 Paulo Coelho The Alchemist
1988 Bharati Mukherjee The Middleman and
Other Stories
1988 Thomas Berger The Houseguest
1988 Carolyn Chute Letourneau’s Used Auto Parts
1988 Anne Tyler Breathing
Lessons
1988 Raymond Carver Where I’m Calling From: New and Selected Stories
1988 David Foster Wallace Girl With Curious Hair
1989 John Casey Spartina
1989 E.L. Doctorow Billy Bathgate
1989 Amy Tan The
Joy Luck Club
1989 Dean Koontz Midnight
1989 Oscar Hijuelos The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
1990 John Updike Rabbit
at Rest
1990 Charles Johnson Middle Passage
1990 Tim O’Brien The
Things They Carried
1990 Joyce Carol Oats Because It Is Bitter, And Because It Is My Heart
1990 John O’Brien Leaving Las Vegas
1990 Scott Turow Burden
of Proof
1990 Linda Hogan Mean
Spirit
1990 Thomas Pynchon Vineland
1991 Norman Rush Mating
1991 Jane Smiley A
Thousand Acres
1991 Bret Easton Ellis American Psycho
1991 Amy Tan The
Kitchen God’s Wife
1991 Julia Alvarez How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent
1991 Douglas Coupland Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
1991 Don DeLillo Mao
II
1991 David Gates Jernigan
1991 Robert M. Pirsing Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
1992 Cormac McCarthy All the Pretty Horses
1992 Michael Ondaatje The English Patient
1992 Thomas Berger Meeting Evil
1992 Douglas Coupland Shampoo Planet
1992 Dean Koontz Hideaway
1992 Anne Rice The
Tale of the Body Thief
1992 Robert Olen Butler A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
1992 Alice McDermott At Weddings and Wakes
1992 Joyce Carol Oates Black Water
1992 Robert James Waller The Bridges of Madison County
1993 Annie Proulx The Shipping News
1993 Earnest J. Gaines A Lesson Before Dying
1993 Jeffrey Eugenides The Virgin Suicides
1993 D.M. Thomas Pictures
at an Exhibition
1993 Carol Shields The Stone Diaries
1993 Reynolds Price The Collected Stories
1993 Phillip Roth Operation Shylock: A Confession
1994 William Gaddis A Frolic of His Own
1994 Charles Frazier Cold Mountain
1994 David Guterson Snow Falling on Cedars
1994 Michael Ventura Zoo Where You’re Fed to God
1994 Tom Drury The
End of Vandalism
1994 Bret Easton Ellis The Informers
1994 Edwidge Danticant Breath, Eyes, Memory
1994 Michael Crichton Disclosure
1994 James Finn Garner Politically Correct Bedtime Stories
1994 Joyce Carol Oats What I Lived For
1994 Grace Paley The
Collected Stories
1995 Phillip Roth Sabbath’s Theater
1995 Stanley Elkin Mrs. Ted Bliss
1995 Bernhard Schlink The Reader
1995 William H. Gass The Tunnel
1995 Christopher Priest The Prestige
1995 Barack Obama Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
1995 Pat Conroy Beach
Music
1995 Richard Ford Independence Day
1995 Oscar Hijuelos Mr. Ives’ Christmas
1995 David Foster Wallace Infinite Jest
1995 Penelope Fitzgerald The Blue Flower
1996 Andrea Barrett Ship Fever and Other Stories
1996 Gina Berriault Women in Their Beds: New and Selected Stories
1996 Jack Krakauer Into the Wild
1996 Joyce Carol Oates We Were The Mulvaneys
1996 Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club
1996 Joe Klein Primary
Colors: A Novel of Politics
1996 Jacquelyn Michard The Deep End of the Ocean
1996 Stephen Millhauser Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
1996 Ursula K. Le Guin Unlocking the Air and Other Stories
1997 Phillip Roth American Pastoral
1997 Annie Proulx Brokeback Mountain
1997 David Foster Wallace Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
1997 Patricia Cromwell Unnatural Exposure
1997 Alice McDermott Charming Billy
1997 Don DeLillo Underworld
1997 Robert Stone Bear and His Daughter
1998 Alice Munro The
Love of a Good Woman
1998 Barbara Kingslover The Poisonwood Bible
1998 Michael Cunningham The Hours
1998 Robert Coover Ghost Town
1998 Wally Lamb I
Know This Much is True
1998 Russel Banks Cloudsplitter
1999 Zadie Smith White
Teeth
1999 Ha Jin Waiting
1999 Jonathan Lethem Motherless Brooklyn
1999 J.M. Coetzee Disgrace
1999 Stephen Chbosky The Perks of Being a Wallflower
1999 Janet Finch White
Oleander
1999 Thomas Harris Hannibal
1999 Susan Sontag In America
1999 Jim Grace Being
Dead
1999 Jhumpa Lahiri Interpreter of Maladies
1999 Annie Proulx Close Range
2000 Michael Chabon The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
2000 Margaret Attwood The Blind Assassin
2000 Phillip Roth The Human Stain
2000 Janet Ivanovich Hot Six
2000 Rosamunde Pilcher Winter Solstice
2000 Joyce Carol Oates Blonde
2001 W.G. Sebald Austerlitz
2001 Johnathan Franzen The Corrections
2001 Neil Gaiman American
Gods
2001 Sue Monk Kidd The Secret Life of Bees
2001 Richard Russo Empire Falls
2001 Douglas Coupland All Families Are Psychotic
2001 Alice Munro Hateship,
Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories
2001 Meghan Daum My
Misspent Youth
2001 John Irving The
Fourth Hand
2001 Nelson DeMille Night Fall
2001 Ian McEwan Atonement
2001 Colson Whitehead John Henry Days
2002 Julia Glass Three
Junes
2002 Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner
2002 Jeffery Eugenides Middlesex
2002 Craig Clevenger The Contortionist’s Handbook
2002 Neil Gaiman Coraline
2002 Denis Johnson Train Dreams
2002 Augusten Burroughs Running With Scissors
2002 Alice Sebold The Lovely Bones
2002 Adam Haslett You Are No Stranger Here
2002 Andrea Barratt Servants of the Map
2003 Shirley Hazzard The Great Fire
2003 Edward P. Jones The Known World
2003 Don DeLillo Cosmopolis
2003 John Krakauer Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
2003 M.J. Hyland How
The Light Gets In
2003 Mitch Albom The
Five People You Meet in Heaven
2003 Susan Choi American
Woman
2003 Marianne Wiggins Evidence of Things Unseen
2003 Jonathan Franzen How to be Alone: Essays
2004 Lilly Tuck The
News From Paraguay
2004 Marilynne Robinson Gilead
2004 David Mitchell Cloud Atlas
2004 Meg Rosoff How
I Live Now
2004 Johnathan Trigell Boy A
2004 Anne Tyler The
Amateur Marriage
2004 Roberto Bolano 2666
2004 John Barth The
Book of Ten Nights and a Night: Eleven Stories
2004 Ha Jin War
Trash
2004 Ward Just An
Unfinished Season
2004 Michael Jaime-Becerra Every Night Is Ladies’ Night: Stories
2004 E.L. Doctorow The March
2005 William T. Vollmann Europe Central
2005 John Green Looking
for Alaska
2005 Jeanette Walls The Glass Castle
2005 Michael Connelly The Lincoln Lawyer
2005 Kiran Desai The
Inheritance of Loss
2005 Geraldine Brooks March
2005 Lee Martin The
Bright Forever
2006 Max Brooks World
War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
2006 Richard Powers The Echo Maker
2006 Cormac McCarthy The Road
2006 Khaled Hosseini A Thousand Splendid Suns
2006 Ned Vizzini It’s
Kind of a Funny Story
2006 Anne Tyler Digging
to America
2006 Muriel Barbery The Elegance of the Hedgehog
2006 Kevin Brockmeier The Brief History of the Dead
2006 Monica Drake Clown Girl
2006 Stephen King Cell
2006 Alice McDermott After This
2007 Denis Johnson Tree of Smoke
2007 Junot Diaz The
Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
2007 Sherman Alexie The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
2007 Don DeLillo Falling
Man
2007 Ken Follett World
Without End
2007 Lore Segal Shakespeare’s
Kitchen
2007 Elizabeth Strout Olive Kitteridge
2008 Peter Matthiessen Shadow Country
2008 Aravind Adiga The White Tiger
2008 Joseph O’Neill Netherland
2008 Jennifer Storm Blackout Girl: Growing Up and Drying Out in America
2008 Brad Thor The
Last Patriot
2008 David Wroblewski The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
2008 Louise Erdrich The Plague of Doves
2008 Christine Schutt All Souls
2008 Paul Harding Tinkers
2009 Colum McCann Let the Great World Spin
2009 Hilary Mantel Wolf Hall
2009 Katheryn Stockett The Help
2009 Haruki Murakami IQ84
2009 Lydia Millet Love in Infant Monkeys
2009 Daniyal Mueenuddin In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
2009 Dave Eggers Zeitoun
2009 Nick Cave The
Death of Bunny Munro
2009 Laurell K. Hamilton Skin Trade
2009 Dean Koontz Relentless
2009 Pat Conroy South
of Broad
2009 Dan Chaon Await
Your Reply
2009 Glen Beck The
Overton Window
2010 David Mitchell The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
2010 Jaimy Gordon Lord of Misrule
2010 Jennifer Egan A Visit From the Goon Squad
2010 Jonathan Franzen Freedom
2010 Jesmyn Ward Salvage
the Bones
2010 Tea Obreht The
Tiger’s Wife
2010 Nicholas Sparks The Best of Me
2010 Jonathan Dee The Privileges
2011 Edith Pearlman Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories
2011 Julian Barnes The Sense of an Ending
2011 Chad Harbach The Art of Fielding
2011 S.J. Watson Before
I Go To Sleep
2011 Karen Russell Swamplandia!
2011 Anne Patchett State of Wonder
2011 Eowyn Ivy The
Snow Child
2011 E.L. James Fifty
Shades of Grey
2011 Teju Cole Open
City
2011 Amy Waldman The
Submission
2011 Jeffrey Eugenides The Marriage Plot
2011 David Foster Wallace The Pale King
2011 Maureen F. McHugh After the Apocalypse
2012 Gillian Flynn Gone Girl
2012 Louise Erdrich The Round House
2012 Ben Fountain Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
2012 John Green The
Fault in Our Stars
2012 Carol Rifka Brunt Tell the Wolves I’m Home
2012 Kevin Powers The Yellow Birds
2012 Chris Ware Building
Stories
2012 Robert Crais Taken
2012 Adam Johnson The Orphan Master’s Son
2012 Nathan Englander What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank: Stories
2012 Philipp Meyer The Son
2013 James McBride The Good Lord Bird
2013 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Americanah
2013 Donna Tartt The
Goldfinch
2013 Karen Joy Fowler We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
2013 Ruth Ozeki A
Tale for the Time Being
2013 Elizabeth Graver The End of the Point
2013 Thomas Pynchon Bleeding Edge
2013 Jonathan Lethem Dissident Gardens
2013 George Saunders Tenth of December
2013 John Grisham Sycamore Row
2013 Richard Castle Storm Front
2013 Bob Shacochis The Woman Who Lost Her Soul
2013 Caleb Crain Necessary
Errors
2014 Phil Klay Redeployment
2014 Liane Moriarty Big Little Lies
2014 Celeste Ng Everything
I Never Told You
2014 Emily St. John Mandel Station Eleven
2014 Tom Rachman The
Rise and Fall of Great Powers
2014 Molly Antopol The Unamericans: Stories
2014 Anthony Doer All The Light We Cannot See
2014 Dave Eggers Your
Fathers. Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?
2014 Eden Lepucki California
2014 Chang-rae Lee On Such a Full Sea
2014 Jenny Offill Dept. of Speculation
2014 Nora Roberts The Collector
2014 John Grisham Gray Mountain
2014 James Patterson Hope to Die
2015 Greer Macallister The Magician’s Lie
2015 Paolo Bacigalupi The Water Knife
2015 Paula Hawkins The Girl on the Train
2015 N.M. Catalano Switch
2015 Mia Sheridan Kyland
