Sandra’s Assigned Books For The Past 33 Years 1985 A LATE DIVORCE (A.B.Yehoshua); TOO FAR TO GO (John Updike); BEING THERE (Jerzy Kosinski) 1986 CONTINENTAL DRIFT (Russell Banks); HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS (Isabel Allende); ACCIDENTAL TOURIST (Anne Tyler); or STONES FOR IBARRA (Harriet Doer) 1987 WHITE NOISE (Don DeLillo); DUBIN’S LIVES (Bernard Malamud); THE HANDMAID’S TALE (Margaret Atwood) 1988 A SUMMONS TO MEMPHIS (Peter Taylor) or THE WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACE (Gloria Naylor); THE LONELY PASSION OF JUDITH HEARNE (Brian Moore); BELOVED (Toni Morrison) 1989 BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES (Tom Wolfe); LOVINGKINDNESS (Anne Roiphe); CROSSING TO SAFETY (Wallace Stegner) 1990 THE JOY LUCK CLUB (Amy Tan); BILLY BATHGATE (E.L.Doctorow); LOVE MEDICINE (Louise Ehrdrich) 1991 THE THINGS THEY CARRIED (Tim O’Brien); AFFLICTION (Russell Banks); FAMILY PICTURES (Sue Miller) 1992 BECAUSE IT IS BITTER, BECAUSE IT IS MY HEART (Joyce Carol Oats) RABBIT AT REST (John Updike); My SON’S STORY (NadineGordimer) 1993 PATRIMONY (Philip Roth); AT WEDDINGS AND WAKES (Alice McDermott) TALES OF THE MASTER RACE (Marci Hershman) 1994 BEFORE AND AFTER ( Rosellen Brown); THE REMAINS OF THE DAY (Kazuo Ishiguro); LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE (Laura Esquivel) 1995 THE ROBBER BRIDE (Margaret Atwood); HAPPENSTANCE (CarolShields); THE SHIPPING NEWS ( E.Annie Proulx) 1996 THE STONE DIARIES (Carol Shields); SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS (David Guterson); LADDER OF YEARS (Anne Tyler) 1997 THE SHADOW MAN (Mary Gordon); I WAS AMELIA EARHART(Jane Mendelsohn); THE DISTINGUISHED GUEST (Sue Miller) 1998 ANGELA’S ASHES ( Frank McCourt); FLOATING IN MY MOTHER’S PALM (Ursula Hegi); ALIAS GRACE ( Margaret Atwood) 1999 MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA (Arthur Golden); THE READER (Bernhard Schlink); THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS (Arundhati Roy) 2000 POISONWOOD BIBLE (Barbara Kingsolver); THE HOURS (Michael Cunningham); THE WEIGHT OF WATER (Anita Shreve) 2001 WAITING (Ha Jin); GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING (Tracy Chevalier); THE HUMAN STAIN (Philip Roth) 2002 THE BONESETTER’S DAUGHTER (Amy Tan); HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG (Andre Dubus III); EMPIRE FALLS (Richard Russo) 2003 ATONEMENT (Ian McEwan); THE SEAL WIFE (Kathryn Harrison); THE CORRECTIONS (Jonathan Franzen) 2004 CHILD OF MY HEART (Alice McDermott); MIDDLESEX (Jeffrey Eugenides); PROPERTY (Valerie Martin) 2005 THE NAMESAKE (Jhumpa Lahiri); ORCHARD (Larry Watson); WHEN THE EMPEROR WAS DIVINE (Julie Otsuka) 2006 MARCH (Geraldine Brooks); BAKER TOWERS (Jennifer Haigh); 1 RULES FOR OLD MEN WAITING ( Peter Pouncey) 2007 THE MASTER (Colm Toibin); INTUITION (Allegra Goodman); ON BEAUTY (Zadie Smith) 2008 BLACK AND WHITE (Dani Shapiro); IN THE COUNTRY OF MEN (Hashim Matar); OUT STEALING HORSES (Per Petterson) 2009 THE COMMONER (John Burnham Schwartz); THE LAZARUS PROJECT (Aleksandar Hemon); THE STORY OF A MARRIAGE (Andrew Sean Greer) 2010 THE HELP (Kathryn Stockett); INDIGNATION (Philip Roth); IMPORTANT ARTIFACTS AND PERSONAL PROPERTY OF LENORE DOOLAN AND HAROLD MORRIS INCLUDING BOOKS 2011 THE LAKE SHORE LIMITED by Sue Miller; THE IMPERFECTIONISTS by Tom Rachman; THE SOLITUDE OF PRIME NUMBERS by Paolo Giordano 2012 STATE OF WONDER by Ann Patchett THE LAST BROTHER by Natacha Appanah READING MY FATHER by Alexandra Styron 2013 HOW IT ALL BEGAN by Penelope Lively THE BARBARIAN NURSERIES by Hector Tobar THE LIFEBOAT by Charlotte Rogan 2014 SCHRODER by Amity Gaige HOW TO GET FILTHY RICH IN RISING ASIA by Mohsin Hamid NORWEGIAN BY NIGHT by Derek Miller 2015 EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU by Celeste Ng: THE WIVES OF LOS ALAMOS by TaraShea Nesbit: SOMEONE by Alice McDermott: 2016 FLORENCE GORDON by Brian Morton: ORHAN'S INHERITANCE by Aline Ohanesian: DEAR COMMITTEE MEMBERS by Julie Schumacher: 2017 MILLER’S VALLEY by Anna Quindlen: THE LAST PAINTING OF SARA DE VOS by Dominic Smith: IN THE LANGUAGE OF MIRACLES by Rajia Hassib: 2 .