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Blindness (Jose Saramago) (January 2008)
The Unknown Terrorist (December 2007)
Touchy Subjects (Emma Donoghe) (July 2007)
Finn (Jon Clinch) (June 2007)
My Antonia (Willa Cather) (February 2007)
"Brokeback Mountain" (Annie Proulx) (February 2007)
Special Topics in Calamity Physics (Marisha Pessl) (December 2006)
Basketcase (Carl Hiassen) (December 2006)
Skinny Dip (Carl Hiassen) (December 2006)
A Spot of Bother (Mark Haddon) (November 2006)
A Thousand Acres (Jane Smiley) (November 2006)
Blink (Malcolm Gladwell) (October 2006)
The Time Traveler's Wife (October 2006)
Case Histories (Kate Atkinson) (September 2006)
Mystic River (Dennis Lehane) (September 2006)
The Ruins (Scott Smith) (August 2006)
Diary (Chuck Palahniuk) (August 2006)
Amsterdam (Ian McEwan) (August 2006)
Saturday (Ian McEwan) (August 2006)
Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoir (Janice Erlbaum) (August 2006)
Freakonomics (Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner) (July 2006)
The Subtle Knife (Philip Pullman) (June 2006)
When We Were Orphans (Kazuo Ishiguro) (June 2006)
Dawn (Octavia E. Butler) (June 2006)
The Golden Compass (Philip Pullman) (May 2006)
White Teeth (Zadie Smith) (May 2006)
A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine l'Engle) (April 2006)
Beasts of No Nation (Unzodinma Iweala) (April 2006)
I Sailed With Magellan (Stuart Dybek) (April 2006)
Prep (Curtis Sittenfeld) (March 2006)
Running With Scissors (Augusten Burroughs) (March 2006)
Behind the Scenes at the Museum (Kate Atkinson) (February 2006)
On Beauty (Zadie Smith) (February 2006)
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Jonathan Safran Foer) (January 2006)
The Magician's Nephew (C.S. Lewis) (December 2005)
A Conspiracy of Paper (David Liss) (December 2005)
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (C.S. Lewis) (December 2005)
Big Stone Gap (Adriana Trigiani) (December 2005)
Jarhead (Anthony Swofford) (November 2005)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee) (November 2005)
Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year (Anne Lamott) (October 2005)
The Onion Field (Joseph Wambaugh) (October 2005)
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald) (October 2005)
American Taboo: Murder in the Peace Corps (Philip Weiss) (October 2005)
Fight Club (Chuck Pahlaniuk) (October 2005)
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (David Sedaris) (September 2005)
Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith (Anne Lamott) (September 2005)
Scribbling the Cat (Alexandra Fuller) (September 2005)
Lost in a Good Book (September 2005)
Moo (Jane Smiley) (September 2005)
The Secret Life of Bees (August 2005)
Lullaby (Chuck Palahniuk) (August 2005)
The DaVinci Code (Dan Brown) (August 2005)
Cold Sassy Tree (August 2005)
The Devil in the White City (Erik Larson) (August 2005)
King Leopold's Ghost (Adam Hochschild) (July 2005)
A Tribe Apart: A Journey Into the Heart of American Adolescence (Patricia Hersch) (July 2005)
The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini) (July 2005)
Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh) (July 2005)
Not the End of the World (Kate Atkinson) (July 2005)
The Coffee Trader (David Liss) (July 2005)
the first hundred pages of, like, five different books (June 2005)
Interpreter of Maladies (Jhumpa Lahiri) (May 2005)
The Tipping Point (Malcolm Gladwell) (April 2005)
The Village of Waiting (George Packer) (March 2005)
a bunch of short stories (March 2005)
The Birth of Venus (Sarah Dunant) (February 2005)
The Namesake (Jhumpa Lahiri) (February 2005)
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath) (February 2005)
The Known World (Edward P. Jones) (February 2005)
In Pharoah's Army (Tobias Wolff) (January 2005)
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America (Barbara Ehrenreich) (January 2005)
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (Susanna Clarke) (January 2005)
My Name Is Red (Orhan Pamuk) (January 2005)
This Boy's Life (Tobias Wolff) (December 2004)
What Should I Do With My Life? (Po Bronson) (December 2004)
The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold) (December 2004)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll) (December 2004)
All Tomorrow's Parties (William Gibson) (November 2004)
The House of Sand and Fog (Andre Dubus III) (November 2004)
What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal (Zoe Heller) (November 2004)
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Jon Krakauer) (November 2004)
The Dogs of Babel (Carolyn Parkhurst) (November 2004)
Bel Canto (Ann Patchett) (November 2004)
The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara (October 2004)
The History of the World in 10½ Chapters (Julian Barnes) (September 2004)
The Right Stuff (Tom Wolfe) (September 2004)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Mark Haddon) (September 2004)
The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway) (August 2004)
The Fourth Hand (John Irving) (August 2004)
The Nanny Diaries (Nicola Kraus & Emma McLaughlin) (August 2004)
The Swallows of Kabul (August 2004)
The Cold Six Thousand (by James Ellroy) (July 2004)
East is East (T. Coraghessan Boyle) (June 2004)
The Elements of Style (William Strunk, Jr., and E.B. White) (June 2004)
Cruddy (Lynda Barry) (June 2004)
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) (May 2004)
Summer Sisters (Judy Blume) (May 2004)
Reading Lolita in Tehran (Azar Nafisi) (May 2004)
Disgrace (J.M. Coetzee) (April 2004)
Pattern Recognition (William Gibson) (April 2004)
Cryptonomicon (Neal Stephenson) (March 2004)
Oryx and Crake (Margaret Atwood) (March 2004)
Friend of the Earth (T.C. Boyle) (February 2004)
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold (John LeCarre) (February 2004)
Five Quarters of the Orange (Joanne Harris) (February 2004)
In the Shadow of Man (Jane Goodall) (January 2004)
The White Album (Joan Didion) (January 2004)
Prague (Arthur Phillips) (January 2004)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Mark Haddon) (January 2004)
Quarantine (Jim Crace) (January 2004)
Snow Falling on Cedars (David Guterson) (December 2003)
Slouching Toward Bethlehem (Joan Didion) (November 2003)
A Passage to India (E.M. Forster) (November 2003)
Tears of the Giraffe (Alexander McCall Smith) (November 2003)
The Eyre Affair (Jasper Fforde) (November 2003)
Everything is Illuminated (Jonathan Safran Foer) (November 2003)
The Baron in the Trees (Italo Calvino) (November 2003)
Water Music (T.C. Boyle) (October 2003)
Mali Blues (Llieve Joris) (October 2003)
An Instance of the Fingerpost (Iain Pears) (October 2003)
The Crimson Petal and the White (Michel Faber) (September 2003)
The Dive From Clausen's Pier (Ann Packer) (August 2003)
Dangerous Angels: The Weetzie Bat Books (Francesca Lia Block) (July 2003)
Every Man for Himself (Beryl Bainbridge) (July 2003)
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Alexander McCall Smith) (May 2003)
Life of Pi (Yann Martel) (May 2003)
Mali: The Bradt Travel Guide (Ross Velton) (May 2003)
Plainsong (Kent Haruf) (April 2003)
The Cement Garden (Ian McEwan) (April 2003)
Anna Karenina [comic version] (Katya Metelitsa) (April 2003)
The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup (Susan Orlean) (April 2003)
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) (March 2003)
The Orchid Thief (Susan Orlean) (February 2003)
Coraline (Neil Gaiman) (February 2003)
The Autograph Man (Zadie Smith) (January 2003)
Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides) (January 2003)
The Little Friend (Donna Tartt) (December 2002)
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight (Alexandra Fuller) (December 2002)
Creating a Literary Life (Carolyn See) (November 2002)
Breakfast After Noon (Andi Watson) (November 2002)
Fraud (David Rakoff) (October 2002)
Lost (Gregory Maguire) (October 2002)
Slammerkin (Emma Donoghe) (October 2002)
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Jane Jacobs) (October 2002)
Hope (Glen Duncan) (October 2002)
The Last American Man (Elizabeth Gilbert) (October 2002)
Bilgewater (Jane Gardam) (September 2002)
The Ice Storm (Rick Moody) (September 2002)
The Ponds of Kalambayi (Mike Tidwell) (September 2002)
What'll You Take For It? (Annie Proulx) (September 2002)
Sarah (J.T. Leroy) (September 2002)
Mamaw: A Novel of an Outlaw Mother (Susan Dodd) (September 2002)
The Grand Complication (Allen Kurzweil) (August 2002)
The Golem's Mighty Swing (James Sturm) (August 2002)
Atonement (Ian McEwan) (July 2002)
Girl With a Pearl Earring (Tracy Chevalier) (July 2002)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Muriel Spark) (July 2002)
About a Boy (Nick Hornby) (July 2002)
Bel Canto (Ann Patchett) (July 2002)
Fast Food Nation (Eric Schlosser) (July 2002)
Sputnik Sweetheart (Haruki Murakami) (July 2002)
Beasts (Joyce Carol Oates) (July 2002)
We Were the Mulvaneys (Joyce Carol Oates) (June 2002)
How to Be Good (Nick Hornby) (June 2002)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (Michael Chabon) (June 2002)
As Nature Made Him (John Colapinto) (May 2002)
Becoming Madame Mao (Anchee Min) (May 2002)
The Woman Who Cut Off Her Leg at the Maidstone Club (Julia Slavin) (April 2002)
Moby Dick (Herman Melville) (March 2002)
Ahab's Wife (Sena Jeter Naslund) (February 2002)
The Return of the King (J.R.R. Tolkien) (January 2002)
The Two Towers (J.R.R. Tolkien) (January 2002)
Seabiscuit (Laura Hillenbrand) (December 2001)
Confessions of a Wicked Stepsister (Gregory Maguire) (November 2001)
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Haruki Murakami) (October 2001)
Cold Mountain (Charles Frazier) (September 2001)
Rules of the Wild (Francesca Marciano) (August 2001)
The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy) (July 2001)
Geek Love (Katherine Dunn) (June 2001)
The Shadow of the Sun (Ryszard Kapuscinski) (May 2001)
Cloudsplitter (Russell Banks) (April 2001)
Demonology (Rick Moody) (March 2001)
John Henry Days (Colson Whitehead) (February 2001)
Being Dead (Jim Crace) (January 2001)
On Boxing (Joyce Carol Oates) (December 2000)
For the Relief of Unbearable Urges (Nathan Englander) (November 2000)
The Archivist (Martha Cooley) (October 2000)
Black Water (Joyce Carol Oates) (September 2000)
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Dave Eggers) (August 2000)
Blonde (Joyce Carol Oates) (July 2000)
Close Range: Wyoming Stories (E. Annie Proulx) (June 2000)
Glamorama (Bret Easton Ellis) (May 2000)
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (Ernest Hemingway) (April 2000)
Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter (Adeline Yen Mah) (April 2000)
An Island Out of Time (April 2000)
The Dress Lodger (Sheri Holmes) (March 2000)
White Oleander (Janet Fitch) (March 2000)
Wicked (Gregory Maguire) (February 2000)
Geeks (February 2000)
Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert Heinlein) (February 2000)
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte) (January 2000)
Miss Wyoming (January 2000)
Ethan Frome (Edith Wharton) (January 2000)
My Kitchen Wars (October 1999)
The Last Life (September 1999)
Geographies of Home (March 1999)
The Alphabet Versus the Goddess (October 1998)
The Fall of a Sparrow (July 1998)