
2000 September The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver October Sisters of My Heart by Chitra Divakaruni November While I Was Gone by Sue Miller December 10 Things You Should Know Before Going Into the Real World by Maria Shriver 2001 Jan/Feb The Saving Graces by Patricia Gaffney March House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus April Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden May Warrant to Kill by Kathryn Casey June Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire July The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell August Hanna's Daughters by Marianne Fredriksson September How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez October Girl with the Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier Nov/Dec Personal History by Kathryn Graham 2002 January The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan February Nine Parts of Desire by Geraldine Brooks March The Red Tent by Anita Diamant April Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald May Yesterday I Cried by Iyanla Vanzant July The Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells August A Widow for One Year by John Irving September The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham October White Oleander by Janet Fitch December Gifts From the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh 2003 January This House of Sky by Ivan Doig February Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides March I Thought My Father Was God by Paul Auster (Editor) April White Rose by Amy Ephron May Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson June Desert Queen by Janet Wallach July The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall August Caine River by Lalita Tadmy September Sea Buiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand October Le Divorce by Diane Johnson November The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold December Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie 2004 January The Awakening by Kate Chopin February Barbara Jordan, American Hero by Mary Beth Rogers March The Rector's Wife by Joanne Trollope April Mr. Vertigo by Paul Auster May The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd June The Three Junes by Julia Glass July Blue Diary by Alice hoffman August Life of Pi by Yann Martel September Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks October Empire Falls by Richard Russo November A Painted House by John Grisham December Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner 2005 January One-Way: A Novel by Didier Van Cauwelaert February Robert Kennedy: His Life by Evan Thomas March Planning Meeting April Ball of Fire: The Tumultuous Life and Comic Art of Lucille Ball by Stefan Kanfer May Brick Lane by Monica Ali June My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult July Eleanor Roosevelt: 1884-1933 by Blanche Wiesen Cook August Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler September The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini October A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving November The Plot Against America by Philip Roth December Tending Roses by Lisa Wingate 2006 January She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan February Planning Meeting March Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy April The Girl Watchers Club by Harry Stein May March by Geraldine Brooks June Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer July The Poet of Tolstoy Park by Sonny Brewer August Unveiled: The Hidden Lives of Nuns by Cheryl L. Reed September Lucky by Alice Seybold October Gilead by Marilynne Robinson November Planning Meeting December Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult |