2016
My Brilliant Friend	Elena Ferrante
The Peabody Sisters of Salem	Louise Hall Tharp
A Backward Glance	Edith Wharton
A Movable Feast, The Paris Wife	Ernest Hemingway
The Little Paris Book Shop	Nina George
2015
The Goldfinch	Donna Tartt
Bring Up the Bodies	Hilary Mantel
What She Left Behind	Ellen Marie Wiseman
Quiet	Susan Cain
Being Mortal	Atul Gawande
Crow Lake	Mary Lawson
Except the Dying	Maureen Jennings
The Life Of Pi	Yann Martel
Angels & Insects	A. S. Byatt
The Sweet Hereafter	Russell Banks
2014
I Am Malala	Malala Yousafzai
Me Before You	Jojo Mayes
Short Stories	Alice Munro
Breath, Eyes, Memory	Edwidge Danticat
The Forgotten Garden	Kate Morton
The Spiral Staircase	Karen Armstrong
Traveling with Pomegranates	Sue Monk Kidd, Ann Kidd Taylor
After Her	Joyce Maynard
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?	Jeanette Winterson
The Orchardist	Amanda Coplin
2013
Wolf Hall	Hillary Mantel
Katherine	Anya Seton
Wild	Cheryl Strayed
The Buddha in the Attic	Julie Otsuka
White Dog Fell From the Sky	Eleanor Morse
Sophie's World	Jostein Gaarder
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie	Muriel Spark
The Shoemaker's Wife	Adriana Trigiani
Death Comes To Pemberly	P. D. James
Mary Coin	Marisa Silver
The Complete Stories	Flannery O'Connor
2012
The Island	Victoria Hislop
Every Last One	Anna Quindlan
Lady Blue Eyes: My Life with Frank	Barbara Sinatra
Maine	J. Courtney Sullivan
The Weird Sisters	Eleanor Brown
Caleb's Crossing	Geraldine Brooks
In the Garden of Beasts	Eric Larson
State of Wonder	Ann Patchett
Her Fearful Symetry	Audrey Niffenegger
Cutting for Stone	Abraham Verghese
To Kill a Mockingbird	Harper Lee
A Thousand Days in Venice	Marlena De Blasi
2011
Lady Killer	Lisa Scottoline
Strangers On a Train	Patricia Highsmith
The Long Loneliness	Dorothy Day
Sarah's Key	Tatiana de Rosnay
The Birth House	Ami McKay
Still Alice	Lisa Genova
Unbroken	Laura Hillenbrand
A Three Dog Life	Abigail Thomas
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	Rebecca Skloot
2010
Half Broke Horses	Jeanette Walls
The History of Love	Nicole Krauss
Vanishing Acts	Jodi Picoult
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	Rebecca Skloot
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn	Betty Smith
Warriors Don't Cry	Melba Pattillo Beals
The Help	Kathryn Stockett
The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society	Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
20 Years at Hull House	Jane Addams
House Rules: A Novel	Jodi Picoult
A Gate at the Stairs	Lorrie Moore
2009
A Name of Her Own	Jane Kirkpatrick
Lost and Found	Jacqueline Sheehan
Learning Joy From Dogs Without Collars	Lauralee Summer
Digging to America	Anne Tyler
People of the Book	Geraldine Brooks
The Lobster Chronicles: Life On a Very Small Island	Linda Greenlaw
Once Upon A Time on the Banks	Cathie Pelletier
Unaccustomed Earth	Jhumpa Lahiri
Olive Kitteridge	Elizbeth Strout
What Now	Ann Patchett
Jane Austen: A Life	Carol Shields
2008
The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel	Diane Setterfield
Suite Francaise	Irène Némirovsky
Cane River	Lalita Tademy
Mrs Jack	Louise Hall Tharp
Here If You Need Me	Kate Braestrup
My Life in France	Julia Child
Desert Queen	Janet Wallach
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan	Lisa See
Without a Map: A Memoir	Meredith Hall
All But My Life	Gerda Weissman Klein
Run	Ann Pachett
2007
On Beauty	Zadie Smith
The Glass Castle: A Memoir	Jeannette Walls
Left to Tell	Immaculee Ilibagiza
Rebecca	Daphne du Maurier
Prodigal Summer	Barbara Kingsolver
The Funeral Makers	Cathie Pelletier
Saving Graces	Elizabeth Edwards
Stiff	Mary Roach
Patron Saint of Liars	Ann Patchett
Water for Elephants	Sara Gruen
Sex Wars: A Novel of Gilded Age New York	Marge Piercy
2006
The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate: Two Novels	Nancy Mitford
The Mermaid Chair	Sue Monk Kidd
Ahab's Wife	Sena Jeter Naslund
Close Range: Wyoming Stories	Annie Proulx
Housekeeping	Marilyn Robinson
A Walk on the Beach	Joan Anderson
The Time Traveler's Wife	Audrey Niffenegger
Shutterbabe	Deborah Copaken Kogan
Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table	Ruth Reichl
The Year of Magical Thinking	Joan Didion
March	Geraldine Brooks
Memory Keeper's Daughter	Kim Edwards
2005
Bee Season	Myla Goldberg
The Pilot's Wife	Anita Shreve
The Amateur Marriage	Anne Tyler
Don't Lets Go To The Dogs Tonight	Alexandra Fuller
I Capture the Castle	Dodie Smith
The Pursuit of Alice Thrift	Eleanor Lipman
Summer's Child	Luanne Rice
Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation	Cokie Roberts
Breaking Free: Women of Spirit at Midlife and Beyond	Marilyn Sewell
Summer of Roses	Luanne Rice
The Other Boleyn Girl	Philippa Gregory
2004
A Diary from Dixie	Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut
Year Of Wonders	Geraldine Brooks
Three Junes	Julia Glass
Reading Lolita in Tehran	Azar Nafisi
The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories	Sarah Orne Jewett
A Thousand Acres	Jane Smiley
Bel Canto: A Novel	Ann Patchett
Murder on Astor Place	Victoria Thompson
Spiderweb	Penelope Lively
Children of Men	P. D. James
2003
The Blind Assassin	Margaret Atwood
In This Dark House	Louise Kehoe
Mrs. Dalloway	Virginia Woolf
Seabiscuit: An American Legend	Laura Hillenbrand
The Last Attachment: The Story of Byron & Teresa Guiccioli	Iris Origo
While I Was Gone	Sue Miller
The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixty	Carolyn Heilburn
The Lovely Bones	Alice Sebold
Bronx Primitive: Portraits in a Childhood	Kate Simon
The Secret Life of Bees	Sue Monk Kidd
2002
Patchwork Planet Breathing Lessons Ladder of Years Back When We Were Grownups	Anne Tyler
Girl with a Pearl Earring	Tracy Chevalier
The Inn at Lake Devine	Elinor Lipman
This Side Of Peace	Hanan Ashwari
Images & Shadows: Part of a Life	Iris Origo
Too Close to the Falls	Catherine Gildiner
The Body in the Basement	Katherine Hall Page
Pigs In Heaven	Barbara Kingsolver
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden world of Islamic Women	Geraldine Brooks
Sleeping with Cats: A Memoir The Longings Of Women	Marge Piercy
Unless: A Novel	Carol Shields
2001
Three Guineas	Virginia Woolf
Interpreter of Maladies	Jhumpa Lahiri
Galileo's Daughter	Dava Sobel
Where She Came From: A Daughter's Search for Her Mother's History	Helen Epstein
Possession: A Romance	A. S. Byatt
New And Selected Poems	Mary Oliver
Complete Stories of Dorothy Parker	Dorothy Parker
2000
Charming Billy	Alice McDermott
Yonnondio	Tillie Olsen
Poisonwood Bible	Barbara Kingsolver
Blackberry Winter	Margaret Mead
Drinking the Rain	Alix Kates Shulman
The Fountainhead	Ayn Rand
White Oleander	Janet Fitch
A Woman's Book of Life: The Biology, Psychology, and Spirituality of the Feminine Life Cycle	Joan Borysenko
1999
The God of Small Things	Arundhati Roy
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood	Rebecca Wells
Hotel du Lac	Anita Brookner
One Writer's Beginnings	Eudora Welty
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down	Anne Fadiman
The Red Tent	Anita Diamant
Circle of Friends	Maeve Binchy
War in Val d'Orcia	Iris Origo
1998
Under the Tuscan Sun	Frances Mayes
Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey	Lillian Schlissel
Rosie's Place: Offering Women Shelter and Hope	Andrea Cleghorn
Bird by Bird:Some Instructions on Writing and Life	Anne Lamott
Several Mysteries	P. D. James
Wheel of Life	Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
Black and Blue	Anna Quindlan
The Stone Angel	Margaret Laurence
1997
Alva Myrdahl	Sisela Bok
The Men and the Girls	Joanna Trollope
Century of Struggle	Eleanor Flexner
Pig Tales	Marie Darrieussecq
Stones From the River	Ursula Heigi
The Rapture of Canaan	Sheri Reynolds
The Family Markowitz	Allegra Goodman
Girl Interrupted	Susanna Kaysen
1996
The Art of Eating (Server It Forth and Consider the Oyster)	M.F.K. Fisher
Paula	Isabelle Allende
Ohitaka Woman	Mary Brave Bird
Liar's Club	Mary Karr
Autobiography of my Mother	Jamica Kincaid
Age of Innocence	Edith Wharton
The Orchard	Adele Crockett Robertson
Divided Lives	Elsa Walsh
1995
9 to 5	Deborah Tannen
The Golden Notebook	Doris Lessing
One True Thing	Anna Quindlan
Robber Bride	Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale	Margaret Atwood
Original Kin	Marian Sandmaier
No Ordinary Times	Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Stone Diaries	Carol Shields
1994
Deceptive Distinctions: Sex, Gender, and the Social Order	Cynthia Epstein
Beloved	Toni Morrison
Women Who Run With the Wolves	Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Toward A New Psychology of Women	Jean Baker Miller
Jane Eyre	Charlotte Bronte
A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard	Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
The Beardstown Ladies Investment Club
A New Kind of Country	Dorothy Gilman
Bastard Out of Carolina	Dorothy Allison
1993
Composing a Woman's Life	Mary Catherine Bateson
Women's Ways of Knowing	Belenky, Clinchy, Goldberger, & Tarule
Their Eyes Were Watching God	Zora Neale Hurston
To the Lighthouse	Virginia Woolf
Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America	Sara M. Evans
The Kitchen God's Wife	Amy Tan
9 to 5	Deborah Tannen