1997
Kingsolver, Barbara		Pigs in Heaven
Willis, Connie		Doomsday Book
Hamilton, Jane		The Book of Ruth
Letts, Billie		Where the Heart Is
Folsom, Alan		The Day After Tomorrow
Morrison, Toni		Beloved
Abraham, Pearl		The Romance Reader
Norman, Howard		The Bird Artist
Shields, Carol		The Stone Diaries
Wharton, Edith		Ethan Frome
Allende, Isabel		Paula
1998
Ondaatje, Michael		The English Patient
Fitzgerald, Penelope		The Bookshop
Sasson, Jean		Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia
Oates, Joyce Carol		We Were the Mulvaneys
Smith, Betty		A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Karon, Jan		At Home in Mitford
Trollope, Joanna		The Choir
Holden, Craig		The River Sorrow
Irving, John		A Prayer for Owen Meaney
Starhawk		The Fifth Sacred Thing
Gilman, Dorothy		A New Kind of Country
Balducci, David		The Winner
1999
Wells, Rebecca		The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
West, Dorothy		The Wedding
Finney, Jack		Time and Again
Trevor, William		Felicia's Journey
Sparks, Nicholas		The Notebook
Skibell, Joseph		A Blessing on the Moon
Michener, James		The Source
Robinson, Roxana		This is My Daughter
Johnson, Anne		Return to the Sea: Reflections on Anne Morrow
Nordstrom, Ursula		Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom
Nordstrom, Ursula		Lindbergh's Gift From the Sea
Reynolds, Sheri		A Gracious Plenty
2000
Patchett, Ann		The Magician's Assistant
Dunmore, Helen		Talking to the Dead
Gilchrist, Ellen		Sarah Conley
Gibbons, Kaye		Ellen Foster
Wolfe, Swain		Lake Dreams the Sky
Golden, Arthur		Memoirs of a Geisha
Lamb, Wally		I Know This Much is True
Pym, Barbara		Quartet in Autumn
Roy, Arundhati		The God of Small Things
Curtis, Christopher Paul		Bud, Not Buddy
Konigsburg, E. L.		The View From Saturday
Mayes, Frances		Under the Tuscan Sun
2001
Shields, Carol		Larry's Party
Metalious, Grace		Peyton Place
Driscoll, Jack		Lucky Man, Lucky Woman
Haruf, Kent		Plainsong
Mattison, Alice		The Book Borrower
O'Brien, Tim		In the Lake of the Woods
MacNeil, Robert		Burden of Desire
2002
Diament, Anita		The Red Tent
Wells, Rebecca		Little Altars Everywhere
Tyler, Anne		Patchwork Planet
Goldberg, Myla		The Bee Season
Landvik, Lorna		Your Oasis on Flame Lake
Vreeland, Susan		Girl in Hyacinth Blue
Belfer, Lauren		City of Light
Gibbons, Kaye		Charms for the Easy Life
Brooks, Geraldine		Year of Wonders
2003
Tolkien, J. R. R.		Fellowship of the Ring
Simmons, Dan		Darwin's Blade
Baxter, Charles		Feast of Love
Stegner, Wallace		Crossing to Safety
Allende, Isabel		Daughter of Fortune
Bohjalian, Chris		Midwives
Vreeland, Susan		The Girl in Hyacinth Blue
Belfer, Lauren		City of Light
Gibbons, Kaye		Charms of an Easy Life
Tyler, Anne		Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Schwarz, Christina		Drowning Ruth
Tan, Amy		Kitchen God's Wife
2004
Kidd, Sue Monk		Secret Life of Bees
Mason, Daniel		The Piano Tuner
Smolens, John		Cold
Yann, Martel		Life of Pi
Guterson, David		East of the Mountains
Woolf, Virginia		Mrs. Dalloway
Russell, Mary Doria		Sparrow
Zimmerman, David		Secondhand
Burns, Olive Ann		Cold Sassy Tree
Isaacson, Walter		Benjamin Franklin
2005
Nafisi, Azar		Reading Lolita in Tehran
Sijie, Dai		Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Niffeneger, Audrey		The Time Traveler's Wife
Schmidt, Gary		Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
Hoffman, Alice		Probable Future
Bellow, Saul		More Die of Heartbreak
Steinbeck, John		East of Eden
Ellis, David		Line of Vision
Provoost, Ann		In the Shadow of the Ark
Rand, Ayn		The Fountainhead
2006
Bryson, Bill		In a Sunburned Country
Laskin, David		The Children's Blizzard
Greenblatt, Stephen		Will in the World
Foer, Jonathan Safran		Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Gibbons, Kaye		Divining Women
Didion, Joan		The Year of Magical Thinking
Harris, Joanne		Blackberry Wine
Eco, Umberto		Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
Robinson, Marilynne		Housekeeping
Diamant, Anita		Last Days of Dogtown
Austen, Jane		Pride and Prejudice