Title Author Year What We Keep Elizabeth Berg Apr-03 Seabiscuit Laura Hillenbrand May Beekeeper's Apprentice Laurie King June Big Stone Gap Adriana Trigiani July Plainsong Kent Haruf August The Book Club Mary Alice Monroe September Atonement Ian Mc Ewan October Girl with a Pearl Earring Tracy Chevalier November The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd December Cold Mountain Charles Frazier Jan-04 The Red Tent Anita Diamant February The Five People We Meet in Heaven Mitch Albom March The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown April Playing for the Ashes Elizabeth George May The Grapes of Wrath John Steinback June The Guardian Nicholas Sparks July Katharine Graham (Autobiography) August Samurai's Garden Gail Tsukiyama September Stones From The River Ursula Hegi October Standing in the Rainbow Fannie Flagg November A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith December Bel Canto Ann Patchett Jan-05 Blessings Anna Quindlen February Good Harbor Anita Diamant March Lunch at the Picadilly Clyde Edgerton April The Vagabonds Nicholas Delbanco May Garden of Good and Evil John Berendt June Sisterhood of Traveling Pants Ann Brashares July The Mermaid Chair Sue Monk Kidd August Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini September Romanov Prophecy Steve Berry October My Antonia Willa Cather November Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden December The Reader Bernard Schlink Jan-06 The Virgin's Lover Philippa Gregory February Glass Castle Jeannette Walls March Reading Lolita in Tehran Azar Nafisi April Ordinary Heroes Scott Turow May Jane Austin Book Club Karen Joy Fowler June My Sister's Keeper Jodi Picoult July The Painted House John Grisham August Snow Falling on Cedars David Guterson September Cider House Rules John Irving October Songs in Ordinary Times Mary Mc Garry Morris November The #1 Ladies Detective Agency Alexander Mc Call Smith December Other People's Children Joanna Trollope Jan-07 The Lady and the Unicorn Tracy Chevalier February The Camel Club David Baldacci March Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte April The Memory Keeper's Daughter Kim Edwards May Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Lisa See June Year of Wonders Geraldine Brooks July Water for Elephants Sara Gruen August The Elegant Gathering of White Snows Kris Radish September 1000 White Women Jim Fergus October Smilia's Sense of Snow Peter Hoeg November Linnet Bird / Moonlit Cage Linda Holman December Manhunt James Swanson Jan-08 The Tortilla Curtain T. 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Boyle February A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini March Back When We Were Grownups Anne Tyler April The River Wife Jonis Agee May The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri June The Street of a Thousand Blossoms Gail Tsukiyama July On Agate Hill Lee Smith August Suite Francaise Irene Nemirovsky September Garlic and Sapphire Ruth Reich October Digging to America Anne Tyler November Those Who Save Us Jenna Blum December Loving Frank Nancy Horan Jan-09 The Reading Group Elizabeth Noble February Rebecca Daphne du Maurier March No Graves as Yet Ann Perry April Three Cups of Tea Greg Mortenson May The Devil in the White City Erik Larson June East of Eden John Steinbeck July Eat, Pray and Love Elizabeth Gilbert August Cutting for Stone Abraham Verghese September Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Society Mary Ann Shaffer October Olive Kitteridge Elizabeth Strout November The Bridge Doug Marrett December Ellen Foster Kaye Gibbons Jan-10 Plot Against America Philip Roth February Saving a Fish From Drowning Amy Tan March Shanghi Girls Lisa See April Facing Down Evil Clint Van Zandt June Last Night at the Lobster Stuart O' Nan July Sarah's Key Tatiana de Rosnay August Ahab's Wife Sena Jeter Naslund September The Help Kathryn Stockett November Major Pettigrew's Last Stand Helen Simonson December The Mennonite in a Little Black Dress Rhoda Janzen Jan-11 Little Bee Chris Cleave March Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz-Zafon April The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton May Invisible Bridge Julie Orringer June Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet Jamie Ford July The Good Earth Pearl S. Buck August South of Broad Pat Conroy September Let the Great World Spin Colum Mc Cann October Outliers Malcolm Gladwell November Luncheon of the Boating Party Susan Vreeland December Unbroken Laura Hillenbrand Jan-12 Lucy Ellen Feldman March Island Beneath the Sea Isabel Allende April At Home Bill Bryson May Language of Flowers Vanessa Diffenbaugh June Paris Wife Paula Mc Lain July A Secret Kept Tatiana de Rosnay August In the Garden of Beasts Eric Larson October Remains of the Day Kazvo Ishiquro November Killing Lincoln Bill O'Reilly December Secrets of Mary Bowser Lois Leveen Jan-13 Every Last One Anna Quindlen February Her Fearful Symmetry Audrey Niffenegger March Caleb's Crossing Geraldine Brooks April A Light Between Oceans M. L. Stedman May Buddha in the Attic Julie Otsuka June Warmth of Other Suns Isabel Wilkerson August Defending Jacob William Landay September Isaac's Storm Eric Larson October Prague Winter Madeleine Albright November The Sunday Wife Cassandra King December The House I Loved Tatiana de Rosnay Jan-14 Lace Reader Brunonia Barry March Lake of Dreams Kim Edwards April Songs of Willow Frost Jamie Ford May Kim Rudyard Kipling June And the Mountains Echoed Khaled Hosseini July Orphan Train Christina Baker Kline August Day After Night Anita Diamant September A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway October Winter Garden Kristin Hannah November The Postmistress Sarah Blake December The Invention of Wings Sue Monk Kidd Feb. - 15 The Burgess Boys Elizabeth Strout April The Skeletons at the Feast Chris Bohjalian May The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver June March Geraldine Brooks July The Boys in the Boat Daniel James Brown August Gray Mountain John Grisham September Flight Behavior Barbara Kingsolver October Leaving Time Jodi Picoult November The Hundred Year Old Man Jonas Janasson December Room Emma Donoghue Feb. - 16 The Uncommon Reader Alan Bennett March A Walk in the Woods Bill Bryson April Me Before You JoJo Moyes May The Nightingale Kristin Hannah June The Shoemaker's Wife Adriana Trigiani July The Storied Life of A J Fikry Gabrielle Zevin August Dead Wake Erik Larson September The Turner House Angela Flourney October Blue Orchid Jackson Taylor November My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante December The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry Rachel Joyce Feb. - 17 Everything I Never Told You Celeste Ng March George Washington's Secret Six Brain Kilmeade April An Invisible Thread Laura Schroff May All The Girls Filling Station Reunion Fannie Flagg June Circling The Sun Paula Mc Lain July A Man Called Ove Fredrick Bachman August The House Girl Tara Conklin September Hidden Figures Margot Lee Shetterly October The Little Coffee Shop in Kabul Deborah Rodriguez November Big Little Lies Liane Moriarity December Marley and Me John Grogan Feb. - 18 The Book Thief Markus Zusak March Fragile Lisa Unger April The Rosie Project Graeme Simsion May The Rosie Effect Graeme Simsion June Maisie Dobbs Jacqueline Winspear July Change of Heart Jodi Picoult August The Curious Incident of the Dog in Night Mark Haddon September Hillbilly Elegy J D Vance October What Alice Forgot Liane Moriarity November A Gentleman in Moscow Amor Towles December Killers of the Flower Moon David Grann Feb. - 19 Pachinko Min Jin Lee March A Piece of the World Christina Baker Kline April Lilac Girls Martha Hall Kelly May Beneath a Scarlet Sky Mark Sullivan June Miller's Valley Anna Quindlen July The Pearl That Broke Its Shell Nadia Hashimi August Before We Were Yours Lisa Wingate September Behold the Dreamers Imbolo Mbue October The Summer Before The War Helen Simonson November Small Great Things Jody Picoult December