BOOKS READ SINCE 2001
2001
1. Stolen Lives: 20 Years in a Desert – Malika Oufkir
2. Icy Sparks - Gwyn Hyman Rubio
3. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
4. John Adams – David McCullough
2002
1. Girl with a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier
2. The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
3. Abe – Richard Slotkin
4. Peace Like a River – Leif Enger
5. White Teeth – Zadie Smith
6. Martyr’s Crossing – Amy Wilentz
7. The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
9. My Antonia – Willa Cather
10. The Good German - Joseph Kanon
2003
1. Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages that Shaped Our History - Kati Marton
2. Embers – Sandor Marai
3. The Hours – Michael Cunningham
4. Reversible Errors – Scott Turow
5. Bel Canto - Ann Patchett
6. The Killer Angels – Jeff Shaara
7. Atonement – Ian McEwan
8. The Life of Pi - Yann Martel
9. Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life - Queen Noor
10. Our Town—Thornton Wilder
11. East of Eden-John Steinback
2004
1. The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. – Sandra Gulland
2. Emma – Jane Austen
3. Secrets of the Tomb: Skull and Bones, the Ivy League and Hidden Paths to Power – Alexandra Robbins
4. Year of Wonder: A Novel of the Plague – Geraldine Brooks
5. Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
6. The Water is Wide – Pat Conroy
7. The Amateur Marriage – Anne Tyler
8. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
9. Into the Forest - Jean Heglund
10. Reading Lolita in Tehran – Azar Nafisi
11. Lolita – Vladimir Nabakov
12. Shadow Divers – Robert Kurson
2005
1. Lady of the Forest – David Guterson
2. Waiting for Snow in Havana – Carlos Eire
3. Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas – Elaine Pagels
4. Remains of the Day- Kazuo Ishiguro
5. The Known World – Edward Jones
6. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
7. The Perfect Hour - James L. W. Watt
8. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Hurston
9. Come Ye Back - Beth Lordan
10. Henderson, the Rain King – Saul Bellow
11. 1776 – David McCullough
12. Housekeeping – Marilynne Robinson
2006
1. The Samurai Garden – Gail Tsukiayama
2. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln – Doris Kearns Goodwin
3. When the Emperor Was Divine- Julie Otsuka
4. Teacher Man - Frank McCourt
5. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
6. The Glass Castle: A Memoir - Jeannette Walls
7. Snow and the Secret Fan - Lisa See
8. Nicholas and Alexandra - Robert Massie
9. Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
10. Saturday – Ian McEwan
11. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
12. The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
2007
1. Under the Banner of Heaven – Jon Karkauer
2. The Painted Drum – Louise Erdrich
3. Elements of Style: A Novel – Wendy Wasserstein
4. I Feel Bad About My Neck – Nora Ephron
5. Suite Francais -Irene Nemirovsky
6. Palestine Peace Not Apartheid – Jimmy Carter
7. Water for Elephants — Sara Gruen
8. The Devil in White City – Erik Larson
9. The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
10. On the Road – Jack Kerouac
11. On Chesil Beach – Ian McEwan
2008
1. No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II – Doris Kearns Goodwin
2. Emperor’s Children – Clare Messud
3. Loving Frank – Nancy Horan
4. Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortensen
5. The March - E. L. Doctorow
6. Hummingbird's Daughter - Luis Alberto Urrea
7. Boom! - Tom Brokaw
8. The Commoner: A Novel - John Burnham Schwartz
9 Mr. Pip - Lloyd Jones
10. The Welch Girl - Peter Ho Davies
11. Out Stealing Horses - Per Petterson
12. Peony in Love - Lisa See
2009
1. Anna Karenina - Lev Tolstoy
2. The Lemon Tree - Sandy Tolan
3. American Jennie: The Remarkable Life of Lady Randolph Churchill
- Anne Sebba
4. The Soloist - Mark Salzman
5. Unaccustomed Earth - Jhumpa Lahiri
6. Empire Falls - Richard Russo
7. The Year of Pleasures - Elizabeth Berg
8. Netherland - Jospeh O'Neill
9. The Madonnas of Leningrad - Debra Dean
10. Crashing Through - Robert Kurson
11. Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout
2010
1. The Help - Kathryn Stockett
2. My Life in France - Julia Child
3. A Reliable Wife - Robert Goolrick
4. The Museum of Innocence - Orhan Pamuk
5. A Man without a Country - Kurt Vonegut
6. The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
7. We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals - Gillian Gill
8. The Irresistible Henry House - Lisa Grunwald
9. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
10. Dewey -Vicky Myron
11. Island Beneath the Sea - Isabel Allende
2011
1. A Long Way Home - Laura Caldwell
2. Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese
3. The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - Jamie Ford
4. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
5. Cleopatra: A Life - Stacey Schiff
6. Almost French: Love and a New Life in Paris - Sarah Turnbull
7. Claude and Camille: A Novel of Monet - Stephanie Cowell
8. You Know When the Men Are Gone - Siobhan Fallon
9. Consequences - Penelope Lively
10. Louisa May Alcott: A Personal Biography - Susan Cheever
11. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott (optional)
12. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand - Helen Simonson
2012
1. A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
2. The Tennis Partner - Abraham Verghese
3. Buddha in the Attic - Julie Otsuka
4. The Double Bind - Chris Bohjalian
5. Catherine the Great - Robert Massie
6. The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes
7. Steve Jobs - Walter Issacson
8. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption -
Laura Hillenbrand
9. Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community and War - Nathaniel Philbrick
10. The Prophet - Kahil Gibron
11. This Man from Lebanon - Barbara Young
2013
1. The Chocolate Money - Ashley Prentice Norton
2. The Piano Tuner - Daniel Mason
3. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Coast - Cheryl Strayed
4. The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller
5. Sweet Tooth - Ian McEwan
6. The Language of Flowers - Vanessa Diffenbaugh
7. The Snow Child - Eowyn Ivey
8. Washington Square - Henry James
9. The Comedians - Graham Greene
10. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Kholen Hossani
2014
1. The Real Downton Abbey and the Countess of Carnavon - The Countess of Carnavon
2. Defending Jacob - William Landay
3. David and Goliath - Malcolm Gladwell
4. Going Clear - Lawrence Wright
5. In the Garden of Beasts - Erik Larson
6. The Boys in the Boat - Daniel James Brown
7. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
8. Canada - Richard Ford
9. Lowlands - Jhumpa Lahiri
10. West to the Night - Beryl Markham
2015
1. In the Heart of the Sea - Nathaniel Philbrick
2. Lila - Marylynne Robinson
3. Whose Names Are Unknown - Sanora Babb
4. Me Before You - JoJo Moyes
5. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania - Eric Larsen
6. Out of Africa - Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)
7. The Invention of Wings - Sue Monk Kidd
8. The Children Act - Ian McEwan
9. Mountains Beyond Mountains - Tracy Kidder
2016
1. A Hope in the Unseen - Ron Suskind
2. The Wright Brothers - David McCullough
3. Brooklyn - Colm Toibin
4. All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
5. Alexander Hamilton - Ron Chernow
6. The Second Time We Met - Leila Cobo
7. Native Speaker - Chang-Rae Lee
8. The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry - Gabrielle Zevin
9. Change of Heart - Jeanne Bishop
2017
1. Hillbilly Elegy - J. D. Vance
2. The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss - Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt
3. A Few of the Girls - Maeve Binchy
4. The Great Bridge - David McCullough
5. Mothering Sunday - Graham Swift
6. What a Lady Wants - Renee Rosen
7. A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman
8. The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead
9. An Uncommon Reader - Alan Bennett
10. The Blue Between Sky and Water - Susan Abalhawa
11. Commonwealth - Ann Patchett
2018
1. The Confusion of Languages - Siobham FallonT
2. The Elephant Whisperer: My Life with the Herd in the African Wild - Lawrence Anthony
3. Before We Were Yours: A Novel - Lisa Wingate
4. The Cuban Affair - Nelson DeMille
5. Stoner - John Williams
6. A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles
7. Dear Life - Alice Munro
8. Exit West - Mohsid Hamid
9. The House by the Dvina: A Russian Childhood - Eugenie Fraser
10. Little Fires Everywhere - Christine Ng
2019
1. Just Mercy, A Story of Justice and Redemption - Bryan Stevenson
2. Nine Perfect Strangers - Liane Moriarty
3. Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
4. Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo
5. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
6. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
7. The Husband Hunters: American Heiresses Who Married into the British Aristocracy by Anne de Courcy
8. Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
9. Becoming by Michelle Obama
2020
1. Educated by Tara Westover
2. The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng
3. The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
4. The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
2021
1. This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
2. Eight Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson
3. The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
4. This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
5. The Great Alone - Kristin Hannah
6. Anxious People - Fredrik Backman
7. The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine - Janice P. Nimura
8. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
2022
1. Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell
2. The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War - Catherine Grace Katz
3. The Geography of Bliss - Eric Weiner
4. Passing - Nella Lawson
5. The Paris Library - Janet Skeslien Charles
6. My Life in Full - Indra Nooyi
7. The Lincoln Highway - Amor Towles
8. Hollowed Out: A Warning About America's Next Generation - Jeremy Adams
2023
1. Wish You Were Here by Jody Picoult
2. Elon Musk: Tesla, Space X, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance
3. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
4. I'll Be Seeing You by Elizabeth Berg
5. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
6. Spare by Prince Harry
7. Foster by Clare Keegan
8.Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano