| 2008 | | August | | The Life of Pi
| | Yann Martel |
| | July | | The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
| | Maggie O'Farrell |
| | June | | A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
| | Ishmael Beah |
| | May | | Blessings
| | Anna Quindlen |
| | April | | The Boleyn Inheritance
| | Philippa Gregory |
| 2007 | | December | | The Professor and the Madman
| | Simon Winchester |
| | October | | Our Lady of Pain
| | Marion Chesney |
| | September | | The Pleasure of My Company
| | Steve Martin |
| | August | | The Constant Gardener
| | John le Carré |
| | July | | The Voyage of the Narwhal
| | Andrea Barrett |
| | June | | The Brief History of the Dead
| | Kevin Brockmeier |
| | May | | The Well of Lost Plots
| | Jasper Fforde |
| | April | | Gilead
| | Marilynne Robinson |
| | March | | The Secret Life of Bees
| | Sue Monk Kidd |
| | February | | When the Emperor Was Divine
| | Julie Otsuka |
| | January | | The Constant Princess
| | Philippa Gregory |
| 2006 | | November | | The Kite Runner
| | Khaled Hosseini |
| | October | | Wild Girl
| | Jim Fergus |
| | September | | Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
| | Sijie Dai |
| | August | | The Sunday Philosphy Club
| | Alexander McCall Smith |
| | July | | Saving Fish From Drowning
| | Amy Tan |
| | June | | The Quiet American
| | Graham Greene |
| | May | | The Devil in the White City
| | Erik Larson |
| | April | | In the Land of Second Chances
| | George Shaffner |
| | March | | Baker Towers
| | Jennifer Haigh |
| | February | | Cane River
| | Lalita Tademy |
| | January | | The Lady and the Unicorn
| | Tracy Chevalier |
| 2005 | | December | | Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons
| | Lorna Landvik |
| | November | | An Unfinished Season
| | Ward Just |
| | October | | The Dive from Clausen's Pier
| | Ann Packer |
| | September | | Travels with Charley
| | John Steinbeck |
| | August | | Falling Angels
| | Tracy Chevalier |
| | July | | The Pearl
| | John Steinbeck |
| | June | | The Da Vinci Code
| | Dan Brown |
| | May | | Shutter Island
| | Dennis Lehane |
| | April | | Poetry Selections
| | |
| | March | | Five Quarters of the Orange
| | Joanne Harris |
| | February | | Heaven, Texas
| | Susan E. Phillips |
| | January | | The Maltese Falcon
| | Dashiell Hammett |
| 2004 | | December | | The Book of Ruth
| | Jane Hamilton |
| | November | | Swimming to Antarctica
| | Lynne Cox |
| | October | | House of Sand and Fog
| | Andre Dubus III |
| | September | | Anil's Ghost
| | Michael Ondaatje |
| | August | | Pilot's Wife
| | Anita Shreve |
| | July | | Bel Canto
| | Ann Patchett |
| | June | | Samaritan
| | Richard Price |
| | May | | Tulip Fever
| | Deborah Moggach |
| | April | | Tender at the Bone: growing up at the table
| | Ruth Reichl |
| | March | | Four Letters of Love
| | Niall Williams |
| | February | | Three Junes
| | Julia Glass |
| | January | | Isaac's Storm: a man, a time, & the deadliest
hurricane in history
| | Erik Larson |
| 2003 | | December | | Vinegar Hill
| | A. Manette Ansay |
| | November | | The Sunday Wife
| | Cassandra King |
| | October | | Mystic River
| | Dennis Lehane |
| | September | | The Story of Lucy Gault
| | William Trevor |
| | August | | Blue Diary
| | Alice Hoffman |
| | July | | Hollywood Royalty: Hepburn, Davis, Stewart
& friends at the dinner party of the century
| | Gregory Speck |
| | June | | The Bridge of San Luis Rey
| | Thornton Wilder |
| | May | | Patchwork Planet | | Anne Tyler |
| | April | | Unless | | Carol Shields |
| | March | | October Suite | | Maxine Clair |
| | February | | Wild Life | | Molly Gloss |
| | January | | Year of Wonders | | Geraldine Brooks |
| 2002 | | December | | The Giver | | Lois Lowry |
| | November | | Orchid Thief | | Susan Orlean |
| | October | | Life Estates | | Shelby Hearon |
| | September | | Make Believe | | Joanna Scott |
| | August | | The Patron Saint of Liars | | Ann Patchett |
| | July | | Julie & Romeo | | Jeanne Ray |
| | May | | Our Town | | Thornton Wilder |
| | April | | Patty Jane's House of Curl | | Lorna Landvik |
| | March | | Empire Falls | | R. Russo |
| | February | | Rocket Boys: a memoir | | Homer Hickam |
| | January | | Big Stone Gap | | Adriana Trigiani |
| 2001 | | December | | Worthy's Town | | Sharon Rolens |
| | November | | During the Reign of the Queen of Persia | | Joan Chase |
| | October | | Tisha | | Robert Specht |
| | September | | Fasting, Feasting | | Anita Desai |
| | August | | Alice's Tulips | | Sandra Dallas |
| | July | | Bucking the Sun | | Ivan Doig |
| | June | | The Yearling | | Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings |
| | May | | Plainsong | | Kent Haruf |
| | April | | Reason for Hope | | Jane Goodall |
| | March | | Gap Creek | | Robert Morgan |
| | February | | Girl With A Pearl Earring | | Tracy Chevalier |
| | January | | Dandelion Wine | | Ray Bradbury |
| 2000 | | December | | Hanna's Daughters | | Marianne Fredriksson |
| | November | | Motherless Brooklyn | | Jonathan Lethem |
| | October | | This Rough Magic | | Mary Stewart |
| | September | | The Good Children | | Kate Wilhelm |
| | August | | All Over But the Shoutin' | | Rick Bragg |
| | July | | The Ginger Tree | | Oswald Wynd |
| | June | | Ticket to Die For | | David Walker |
| | May | | Chocolat | | Joanne Harris |
| | April | | Boy's Life | | Robert McCammon |
| | March | | Hank & Chloe | | Jo-Ann Mapson |
| | February | | Falling Leaves : the true story of
an unwanted Chinese daughter | | Adeline Yen Mah |
| | January | | 1984 | | George Orwell |
| 1999 | | December | | A Widow for One Year | | John Irving |
| | November | | Wives of the Fishermen | | Angela Huth |
| | October | | Wait Till Next Year | | Doris Kearns Goodwin |
| | September | | Rose's Garden | | Carrie Brown |
| | August | | Montana 1948 | | Larry Watson |
| | July | | Jack Maggs | | Peter Carey |
| | June | | A Walk in the Woods | | Bill Bryson |
| | May | | Lily White | | Susan Isaacs |
| | April | | "Favorite Book Discussion"
due to new computer system | | |
| | March | | Growing Up | | Russell Baker |
| | February | | Legends of the Fall | | Jim Harrison |
| | January | | Roxanna Slade | | Reynolds Price |
| 1998 | | December | | Jane Eyre | | Charlotte Bronte |
| | November | | The Perfect Storm | | Sebastian Junger |
| | October | | Burnt Offerings
| | Robert Marasco |
| | September | | The Stone Diaries | | Carol Shields |
| | August | | Walking Across Egypt | | Clyde Edgerton |
| | July | | The Remains of the Day | | Kazuo Ishiguro |
| | June | | Turtle Moon | | Alice Hoffman |
| | May | | The Weight of Water | | Anita Shreve |
| | April | | An American Childhood | | Annie Dillard |
| | March | | WLT - Cancelled due
to weather - library closed | | Garrison Keillor |
| | February | | Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery | | John Gregory Brown |
| | January | | I Was Amelia Earhart | | Jane Mendelsohn |
| 1997 | | December | | The Picture of Dorian Gray | | Oscar Wilde |
| | November | | Crazy in Alabama | | Mark Childress |
| | October | | The Killer Angels | | Michael Shaara |
| | September | | Charms for the Easy Life | | Kaye Gibbons |
| | August | | The Great Railway Bazaar | | Paul Theroux |
| | July | | Bang the Drum Slowly | | Mark Harris |
| | June | | At Home in Mitford | | Jan Karon |
| | May | | Tess of the D'Urbervilles | | Thomas Hardy |
| | April | | Mystery Ride | | Robert Boswell |
| | March | | Snow Falling on Cedars | | David Guterson |
| | February | | The Pull of the Moon | | Elizabeth Berg |
| | January | | Peckham's Marbles | | Peter DeVries |
| 1996 | | December | | Red Azalea | | Anchee Min |
| | November | | A Farewell to Arms | | Ernest Hemingway |
| | October | | The Truelove | | Patrick O'Brian |
| | September | | Littlejohn | | Howard Owen |
| | August | | The Choir | | Joanna Trollope |
| | July | | Midnight at the Garden of
Good and Evil | | John Berendt |
| | June | | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | | Mark Twain |
| | May | | Souls Raised from the Dead | | Doris Betts |
| | April | | True North | | Jill Ker Conway |
| | March | | Cry the Beloved Country | | Alan Paton |
| | February | | Time and Again | | Jack Finney |
| | January | | Tidings | | William Wharton |
| 1995 | | December | | The Road from Coorain | | Jill Ker Conway |
| | November | | Red Sky At Morning | | John Bradford |
| | October | | The Shipping News | | E. Annie Proulx |
| | September | | Hard Times | | Charles Dickens |
| | August | | The Widows' Adventures | | Charles Dickinson |
| | July | | A Lesson Before Dying | | Ernest G. Gaines |
| | June | | My Antonia | | Willa Cather |
| | May | | The Bingo Palace | | Louise Erdrich |
| | April | | Flowers for Algernon | | Daniel Keyes |
| | March | | The Light That Failed | | Rudyard Kipling |
| | February | | Smilla's Sense of Snow | | Peter Hoeg |
| | January | | Sense and Sensibility | | Jane Austen |
| 1994 | | December | | In Troubled Waters
| | Beverly Coyle |
| | November | | The Kitchen God's Wife | | Amy Tan |
| | October | | Cold Sassy Tree | | Olive Ann Burns |
| | September | | Larry Heinemann lecture | | |
| | August | | Paco's Story | | Larry Heinemann |
| | July | | Remembering Babylon
| | David Malouf |
| | June | | High Cotton | | Darryl Pinckney |
| | May | | Washington Square | | Henry James |
| | April | | Before and After | | Rosellen Brown |
| | March | | Winesburg, Ohio | | Sherwood Anderson |
| | February | | Young Men and Fire | | Norman MacLean |
| | January | | At Weddings and Wakes | | Alice McDermott |
| 1993 | | December | | The Count of Monte Cristo | | Alexandre Dumas |
| | November | | The Last Studebaker | | Robin Hemley |
| | October | | The Human Factor | | Graham Greene |
| | September | | The Risk Pool | | Richard Russo |
| | August | | The Age of Innocence | | Edith Wharton |
| | July | | A Thousand Acres | | Jane Smiley |
| | June | | Main Street | | Sinclair Lewis |
| | May | | The Sweet Hereafter | | Russell Banks |
| | April | | Bicycle Days | | John Burnham Schwartz |
| | March | | Howards End | | E. M. Forster |
| | February | | A Midnight Clear | | William Wharton |
| | January | | Animal Dreams | | Barbara Kingsolver |
| 1992 | | December | | The Ox-Bow Incident | | Walter Van Tilburg Clark |
| | November | | The World Around Midnight | | Patricia Browning Griffith |
| | October | | A Room with a View | | E. M. Forster |
| | September | | Frankenstein | | Mary Shelley |
| | August | | A Separate Peace | | John Knowles |
| | July | | Object Lessons | | Anna Quindlen |
| | June | | ------ | | |
| | May | | The Citadel | | A. J. Cronin |
| | April | | Saint Maybe | | Anne Tyler |
| | March | | The Heart is a Lonely Hunter | | Carson McCullers |
| | February | | Light a Penny Candle | | Maeve Binchy |
| | January | | Crossing to Safety | | Wallace Stegner |
| 1991 | | December | | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | | Betty Smith |
| | November | | Burger's Daughter | | Nadine Gordimer |
| | October | | Grand Opening | | Jon Hassler |
| | September | | A Bell for Adano | | John Hersey |
| | August | | Among Schoolchildren | | Tracy Kidder |
| | July | | Cimarron | | Edna Ferber |
| | June | | Love in the Time of Cholera | | Gabriel Carcia Marquez |
| | May | | How Green Was My Valley | | Richard Llewelyn |
| | April | | Family Linen | | Lee Smith |
| | March | | On The Beach
| | Nevil Shute |
| | February | | Charlie, Come Home | | R. F. Delderfield |
| | January | | Of Such Small Differences | | Joanne Greenberg |
| 1990 | | December | | Northanger Abbey | | Jane Austen |
| | November | | At Risk | | Alice Hoffman |
| | October | | Life Among the Savages
The Lottery | | Shirley Jackson |
| | September | | Laughing Boy | | Oliver LaFarge |
| | August | | Prince of Tides | | Pat Conroy |
| | July | | Mildred Pierce | | James M. Cain |
| | June | | The Joy Luck Club | | Amy Tan |
| | May | | Rebecca | | Daphne DuMaurier |
| | April | | Waltz in Marathon | | Charles Dickinson |
| | March | | Razor's Edge | | W. Somerset Maugham |
| | February | | Yellow Raft in Blue Water | | Michael Dorris |
| | January | | Tender is the Night | | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| 1989 | | December | | Songlines | | Bruce Chatwin |
| | November | | Lost Horizon | | James Hilton |
