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    2025

    • The Sister's Curse by Nicola Solvinic
    • The Vanishing Place by Zoë Rankin
    • Play Nice by Rachel Harrison
    • The Possession of Alba Díaz by Isabel Cañas
    • Too Old for This by Samantha Downing
    • The Magician of Tiger Castle by Louis Sachar
    • L.A. Women by Ella Berman
    • The World's Greatest Detective and Her Just Okay Assistant by Liza Tully
    • Angelica by Molly Beer
    • The Original by Nell Stevens
    • The Lost Story of Eva Fuentes by Chanel Cleeton
    • The Whyte Python World Tour by Travis Kennedy
    • Ordinary Love by Marie Rutkoski
    • Making Friends Can Be Murder by Kathleen West
    • Songs of Summer by Jane L. Rosen
    • Erased by Anna Malaika Tubbs
    • Awake in the Floating City by Susanna Kwan
    • The Original Daughter by Jemimah Wei
    • Serial Killer Games by Kate Posey
    • Ginseng Roots by Craig Thompson
    • The Seven O'Clock Club by Amelia Ireland
    • One Death at a Time by Abbi Waxman
    • The Fairbanks Four by Brian Patrick O’Donoghue
    • Happy Land by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
    • Jane and Dan at the End of the World by Colleen Oakley
    • The Antidote by Karen Russell
    • Girl Falling by Hayley Scrivenor
    • The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami
    • Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton
    • Fagin the Thief by Allison Epstein
    • Three Days in June by Anne Tyler
    • Harlem Rhapsody by Victoria Christopher Murray
    • Beast of the North Woods by Annelise Ryan
    • Going Home by Tom Lamont
    • The Secret History of the Rape Kit by Pagan Kennedy

    2024

    • Pony Confidential by Christina Lynch
    • Libby Lost and Found by Stephanie Booth
    • The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister
    • The Naming Song by Jedediah Berry
    • In the Garden of Monsters by Crystal King
    • We'll Prescribe You a Cat by Syou Ishida
    • Follow the Stars Home by Diane C. McPhail
    • Everything We Never Knew by Julianne Hough
    • The Fertile Earth by Ruthvika Rao
    • The Very Long, Very Strange Life of Isaac Dahl by Bart Yates
    • Smothermoss by Alisa Alering
    • Bright and Tender Dark by Joanna Pearson
    • This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud
    • The Stolen Child by Ann Hood
    • Daughters of Shandong by Eve J. Chung
    • The Funeral Cryer by Wenyan Lu
    • The Flower Sisters by Michelle Collins Anderson
    • The House on Biscayne Bay by Chanel Cleeton
    • The Stone Home by Crystal Hana Kim
    • The Divorcees by Rowan Beaird
    • The Day Tripper by James Goodhand
    • Bad Animals by Sarah Braunstein
    • The Mystery Writer by Sulari Gentill
    • Becoming Madam Secretary by Stephanie Dray
    • Help Wanted by Adelle Waldman
    • Strong Passions by Barbara Weisberg
    • Leaving by Roxana Robinson
    • The Adversary by Michael Crummey
    • The Cleaner by Brandi Wells
    • The Waters by Bonnie Jo Campbell
    • Wild and Distant Seas by Tara Karr Roberts

    2023

    • Day by Michael Cunningham
    • Above the Salt by Katherine Vaz
    • The Witches at the End of the World by Chelsea Iversen
    • Alfie and Me by Carl Safina
    • The Roaring Days of Zora Lily by Noelle Salazar
    • This Is Salvaged by Vauhini Vara
    • Devil Makes Three by Ben Fountain
    • The Wren, the Wren by Anne Enright
    • All You Have to Do Is Call by Kerri Maher
    • Digging Stars by Novuyo Rosa Tshuma
    • The September House by Carissa Orlando
    • The Continental Affair by Christine Mangan
    • A Council of Dolls by Mona Susan Power
    • The Montevideo Brief by J. H. Gelernter
    • Delicate Condition by Danielle Valentine
    • King of the Armadillos by Wendy Chin-Tanner
    • Mrs. Plansky's Revenge by Spencer Quinn
    • Do Tell by Lindsay Lynch
    • The Long Ago by Michael McGarrity
    • Banyan Moon by Thao Thai
    • The Little Italian Hotel by Phaedra Patrick
    • Innards by Magogodi oaMphela Makhene
    • Pieces of Blue by Holly Goldberg Sloan
    • Paper Names by Susie Luo
    • Hotel Cuba by Aaron Hamburger
    • Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati
    • The Gifts by Liz Hyder
    • The Wager by David Grann
    • Sisters of the Lost Nation by Nick Medina
    • Last House Before the Mountain by Monika Helfer
    • Panther Gap by James A. McLaughlin
    • The All-American by Joe Milan Jr.
    • The Mostly True Story of Tanner & Louise by Colleen Oakley
    • The Last Russian Doll by Kristen Loesch
    • Once We Were Home by Jennifer Rosner
    • The Lost English Girl by Julia Kelly
    • The God of Endings by Jacqueline Holland
    • Zig-Zag Boy by Tanya Frank
    • Homestead by Melinda Moustakis
    • Iron Curtain by Vesna Goldsworthy
    • The Critic's Daughter by Priscilla Gilman
    • Stealing by Margaret Verble
    • Exiles by Jane Harper
    • River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer
    • Margot by Wendell Steavenson
    • This Other Eden by Paul Harding
    • Wade in the Water by Nyani Nkrumah
    • Ghost Season by Fatin Abbas
    • The Nazi Conspiracy by Brad Meltzer & Josh Mensch
    • Moonrise Over New Jessup by Jamila Minnicks
    • In the Time of Our History by Susanne Pari

    2022

    • Scatterlings by Resoketswe Martha Manenzhe
    • Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet
    • Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
    • Honor by Thrity Umrigar
    • Natural History by Andrea Barrett
    • The Family Izquierdo by Rubén Degollado
    • Widowland by C. J. Carey
    • Dirt Creek by Hayley Scrivenor
    • Some of It Was Real by Nan Fischer
    • The Empire of Dirt by Francesca Manfredi
    • The Poet's House by Jean Thompson
    • Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden by Zhuqing Li
    • The Lies I Tell by Julie Clark
    • Jackie & Me by Louis Bayard
    • One's Company by Ashley Hutson
    • Fruiting Bodies by Kathryn Harlan
    • Good Husbands by Cate Ray
    • Morningside Heights by Joshua Henkin
    • Metropolis by B. A. Shapiro
    • Fly Girl by Ann Hood
    • The Immortal King Rao by Vauhini Vara
    • Housebreaking by Colleen Hubbard
    • Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
    • Activities of Daily Living by Lisa Hsiao Chen
    • Two Storm Wood by Philip Gray
    • Peach Blossom Spring by Melissa Fu
    • Fencing with the King by Diana Abu-Jaber
    • On a Night of a Thousand Stars by Andrea Yaryura Clark
    • How to Find Your Way Home by Katy Regan
    • The Last Grand Duchess by Bryn Turnbull
    • The Family Chao by Lan Samantha Chang
    • Heartbreak by Florence Williams
    • The Fields by Erin Young
    • Free by Lea Ypi
    • The Paris Bookseller by Kerri Maher
    • The Latinist by Mark Prins
    • Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia

    2021

    • True Crime Story by Joseph Knox
    • Beasts of a Little Land by Juhea Kim
    • New York, My Village by Uwem Akpan
    • Sisters of the Great War by Suzanne Feldman
    • Flesh & Blood by N. West Moss
    • Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian
    • The Lost Notebook of Edouard Manet by Maureen Gibbon
    • The Last Chance Library by Freya Sampson
    • A Million Things by Emily Spurr
    • Mrs. March by Virginia Feito
    • Blind Man's Bluff by James Tate Hill
    • Appleseed by Matt Bell
    • Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
    • Yale Needs Women by Anne Gardiner Perkins
    • The Temple House Vanishing by Rachel Donohue
    • The Forest of Vanishing Stars by Kristin Harmel
    • The Sunset Route by Carrot Quinn
    • Lady Sunshine by Amy Mason Doan
    • The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
    • All the Water I've Seen Is Running by Elias Rodriques
    • At the Chinese Table by Carolyn Phillips
    • Palace of the Drowned by Christine Mangan
    • Footnotes by Caseen Gaines
    • A Theater for Dreamers by Polly Samson
    • Ariadne by Jennifer Saint
    • Everybody by Olivia Laing
    • Crossing the River by Carol Smith
    • The Funny Thing About Norman Foreman by Julietta Henderson
    • The Widow Queen by Elzbieta Cherezinska
    • Raft of Stars by Andrew J. Graff
    • Miss Austen by Gill Hornby
    • The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World by Laura Imai Messina
    • The Northern Reach by W.S. Winslow
    • The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
    • Black Widows by Cate Quinn
    • The Last Tiara by M.J. Rose
    • Smalltime by Russell Shorto
    • The Three Mothers by Anna Malaika Tubbs
    • The Narrowboat Summer by Anne Youngson
    • At the Edge of the Haight by Katherine Seligman
    • The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr.
    • The Fortunate Ones by Ed Tarkington

    2020

    • The Mystery of Mrs. Christie by Marie Benedict
    • Big Girl, Small Town by Michelle Gallen
    • The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar
    • Stories from Suffragette City by M.J. Rose & Fiona Davis (editors)
    • The Blind Light by Stuart Evers
    • Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
    • A Girl is A Body of Water by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
    • Ruthie Fear by Maxim Loskutoff
    • The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste
    • The Smallest Lights in the Universe by Sara Seager
    • The Patron Saint of Pregnant Girls by Ursula Hegi
    • With or Without You by Caroline Leavitt
    • Hieroglyphics by Jill McCorkle
    • The Woman Before Wallis by Bryn Turnbull
    • He Started It by Samantha Downing
    • The Last Train to Key West by Chanel Cleeton
    • The Stone Girl by Dirk Wittenborn
    • The Voyage of the Morning Light by Marina Endicott
    • The Madwoman and the Roomba by SandraTsing Loh
    • The Prisoner's Wife by Maggie Brookes
    • Daughter of the Reich by Louise Fein
    • Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas
    • The Paris Hours by Alex George
    • The Secrets of Love Story Bridge by Phaedra Patrick
    • The Women with Silver Wings by Katherine Sharp Landdeck
    • The Big Finish by Brooke Fossey
    • Afterlife by Julia Alvarez
    • I Want You to Know We're Still Here by Esther Safran Foer
    • The Mountains Sing by Nguyen Phan Que Mai
    • And They Called It Camelot by Stephanie Marie Thornton
    • The Yellow Bird Sings by Jennifer Rosner
    • Actress by Anne Enright
    • The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
    • Red Letter Days by Sarah-Jane Stratford
    • The Girl in White Gloves by Kerri Maher
    • The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James
    • Cartier's Hope by M. J. Rose
    • Remembrance by Rita Woods
    • Small Days and Nights by Tishani Doshi
    • American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
    • Father of Lions by Louise Callaghan
    • The Lost Man by Jane Harper
    • Creatures by Crissy Van Meter
    • You Were There Too by Colleen Oakley
    • Welcome to the Pine Away Motel and Cabins by Katarina Bivald
    • Lady Clementine by Marie Benedict

    2019

    • Mighty Justice by Dovey Johnson Roundtree & Katie McCabe
    • Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
    • The Seine by Elaine Sciolino
    • The In-Betweens by Mira Ptacin
    • Ordinary Girls by Jaquira Díaz
    • Motherhood So White by Nefertiti Austin
    • The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott
    • Ellie and the Harpmaker by Hazel Prior
    • Never Have I Ever by Joshilyn Jackson
    • Beirut Hellfire Society by Rawi Hage
    • The Last List of Miss Judith Kratt by Andrea Bobotis
    • The Last Collection by Jeanne Mackin
    • The Volunteer by Jack Fairweather
    • Travelers by Helon Habila
    • More News Tomorrow by Susan Richards Shreve
    • Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn
    • The Guest Book by Sarah Blake
    • Courting Mr. Lincoln by Louis Bayard
    • D-Day Girls by Sarah Rose
    • When We Left Cuba by Chanel Cleeton
    • Greek to Me by Mary Norris
    • The Affairs of the Falcóns by Melissa Rivero
    • My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing
    • The Last Year of the War by Susan Meissner
    • A People's History of Heaven by Mathangi Subramanian
    • American Princess by Stephanie Marie Thornton
    • Fly Girls by Keith O'Brien
    • The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray
    • The Last Romantics by Tara Conklin
    • The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo
    • Sounds Like Titanic by Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman
    • House of Stone by Novuyo Rosa Tshuma
    • Golden Child by Claire Adam
    • At the Wolf's Table by Rosella Postorino
    • Women Rowing North by Mary Pipher

    2018

    • A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne
    • The Kinship of Secrets by Eugenia Kim
    • Paris Echo by Sebastian Faulks
    • The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa
    • Listen to the Marriage by John Jay Osborn
    • Strangers in Budapest by Jessica Keener
    • The Kennedy Debutante by Kerri Maher
    • Gone So Long by Andre Dubus III
    • The Twelve-Mile Straight by Eleanor Henderson
    • Sold on a Monday by Kristina McMorris
    • French Exit by Patrick deWitt
    • Red, White, Blue by Lea Carpenter
    • Vox by Christina Dalcher
    • The Devoted by Blair Hurley
    • Meet Me at the Museum by Anne Youngson
    • Our House by Louise Candlish
    • So Much Life Left Over by Louis de Bernieres
    • America for Beginners by Leah Franqui
    • The Family Tabor by Cherise Wolas
    • Clock Dance by Anne Tyler
    • The Summer Wives by Beatriz Williams
    • Me, Myself and Them by Dan Mooney
    • A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza
    • Motherhood by Sheila Heti
    • The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya & Elizabeth Weil
    • Other People's Houses by Abbi Waxman
    • Anatomy of a Miracle by Jonathan Miles
    • Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney
    • The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea
    • Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions by Mario Giordano
    • The French Girl by Lexie Elliott
    • Only Child by Rhiannon Navin
    • Force of Nature by Jane Harper
    • As Bright as Heaven by Susan Meissner
    • Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton
    • Mothers of Sparta by Dawn Davies
    • Our Lady of the Prairie by Thisbe Nissen
    • Eternal Life by Dara Horn
    • The Milk Lady of Bangalore by Shoba Narayan
    • The Chalk Man by C. J. Tudor
    • The Days When Birds Come Back by Deborah Reed

    2017

    • The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg
    • Wonder Valley by Ivy Pochoda
    • Seven Days of Us by Francesca Hornak
    • Never Coming Back by Alison McGhee
    • All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood
    • Love and Other Consolation Prizes by Jamie Ford
    • The Resurrection of Joan Ashby by Cherise Wolas
    • Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin
    • Stay with Me by Ayobami Adebayo
    • The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
    • Cruel Beautiful World by Caroline Leavitt
    • Happiness by Heather Harpham
    • The Almost Sisters by Joshilyn Jackson
    • The Necklace by Claire McMillan
    • News of the World by Paulette Jiles
    • The People We Hate at the Wedding by Grant Ginder
    • The Gypsy Moth Summer by Julia Fierro
    • The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish
    • The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
    • Extraordinary Adventures by Daniel Wallace
    • The Scribe of Siena by Melodie Winawer
    • The Book of Summer by Michelle Gable
    • The Garden of Small Beginnings by Abbi Waxman
    • The Stars Are Fire by Anita Shreve
    • Manderley Forever by Tatiana de Rosnay
    • If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio
    • No One Is Coming to Save Us by Stephanie Powell Watts
    • Tell Me How This Ends Well by David Samuel Levinson
    • My Last Lament by James William Brown
    • Castle of Water by Dane Huckelbridge
    • The Half Wives by Stacia Pelletier
    • Our Short History by Lauren Grodstein
    • Lola by Melissa Scrivner Love
    • Mercies in Disguise by Gina Kolata
    • Before the War by Fay Weldon
    • The Barrowfields by Phillip Lewis
    • Edgar and Lucy by Victor Lodato
    • The Typewriter's Tale by Michiel Heyns
    • I See You by Clare Mackintosh
    • A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline
    • Caught in the Revolution by Helen Rappaport
    • Home Sweet Home by April Smith
    • The Fifth Petal by Brunonia Barry
    • Rise by Cara Brookins
    • The Girl Before by JP Delaney
    • Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney
    • The Second Mrs. Hockaday by Susan Rivers

    2016

    • Victoria by Daisy Goodwin
    • Les Parisiennes by Anne Sebba
    • The Next by Stephanie Gangi
    • The Comet Seekers by Helen Sedgwick
    • The Opposite of Everyone by Joshilyn Jackson
    • North of Crazy by Neltje
    • Darling Days by iO Tillett Wright
    • The Tea Planter's Wife by Dinah Jefferies
    • Karolina's Twins by Ronald H. Balson
    • The Secret Ingredient of Wishes by Susan Bishop Crispell
    • The Six by Laura Thompson
    • Lady Cop Makes Trouble by Amy Stewart
    • Ashes of Fiery Weather by Kathleen Donohoe
    • The Book That Matters Most by Ann Hood
    • The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko by Scott Stambach
    • The Imperial Wife by Irina Reyn
    • Falling by Jane Green
    • The Secret Language of Stones by M. J. Rose
    • Miss Jane by Brad Watson
    • All Is Not Forgotten by Wendy Walker
    • Amour Provence by Constance Leisure
    • Underground Airlines by Ben Winters
    • A Certain Age by Beatriz Williams
    • The Life of the World to Come by Dan Cluchey
    • Since She Went Away by David Bell
    • If I Forget You by Thomas Christopher Greene
    • Security by Gina Wohlsdorf
    • Circling the Sun by Paula McLain
    • The Children by Ann Leary
    • The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick
    • Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart
    • The Alaskan Laundry by Brendan Jones
    • The Dark Lady's Mask by Mary Sharratt
    • The Midnight Watch by David Dyer
    • The Railwayman's Wife by Ashley Hay
    • Tuesday Nights in 1980 by Molly Prentiss
    • Far From True by Linwood Barclay
    • Shelter by Jung Yun
    • The Last Confession of Thomas Hawkins by Antonia Hodgson
    • The Return of the Witch by Paula Brackston
    • Crazy Blood by T. Jefferson Parker
    • The Two-Family House by Lynda Cohen Loigman
    • What Lies Between Us by Nayomi Munaweera
    • The Widow by Fiona Barton
    • I'll See You in Paris by Michelle Gable
    • Every Anxious Wave by Mo Daviau
    • The Forgetting Time by Sharon Guskin
    • The Language of Secrets by Ausma Zehanat Khan
    • The Swans of Fifth Avenue by Melanie Benjamin
    • The Paris Winter by Imogen Robertson
    • The Things We Keep by Sally Hepworth
    • Hunters in the Dark by Lawrence Osborne
    • Fallen Land by Taylor Brown
    • The Sound of Gravel by Ruth Wariner

    2015

    • The Secrets of Midwives by Sally Hepworth
    • Home by Nightfall by Charles Finch
    • The Good Neighbor by Amy Sue Nathan
    • The Devil in Jerusalem by Naomi Ragen
    • We That Are Left by Clare Clark
    • Frank & Ava by John Brady
    • The War Reporter by Martin Fletcher
    • The Perfect Comeback of Caroline Jacobs by Matthew Dicks
    • Fear of Dying by Erica Jong
    • Jade Dragon Mountain by Elsa Hart
    • A Good Family by Erik Fassnacht
    • Everybody Rise by Stephanie Clifford
    • Still Life Las Vegas by James Sie
    • Make Your Home Among Strangers by Jennine Capó Crucet
    • Trust No One by Paul Cleave
    • Fishbowl by Bradley Somer
    • Lamp Black, Wolf Grey by Paula Brackston
    • The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes by Anna McPartlin
    • Broken Promise by Linwood Barclay
    • When the Moon Is Low by Nadia Hashimi
    • Between the Tides by Susannah Marren
    • Maud's Line by Margaret Verble
    • The Wild Girl by Kate Forsyth
    • Maybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid
    • What Doesn't Kill Her by Carla Norton
    • The Book of Speculation by Erika Swyler
    • The Shore by Sara Taylor
    • Letters to the Lost by Iona Grey
    • The Sweetheart Deal by Polly Dugan
    • The Well by Catherine Chanter
    • Little Black Lies by Sharon Bolton
    • The Art of Baking Blind by Sarah Vaughan
    • Dangerous When Wet by Jamie Brickhouse
    • A Passion for Paris by David Downie
    • The Silver Witch by Paula Brackston
    • Her Name Is Rose by Christine Breen
    • House of Echoes by Brendan Duffy
    • Three Many Cooks by Pam Anderson, Maggy Keet & Sharon Damelio
    • Whispering Shadows by Jan-Philipp Sendker
    • Shocking Paris by Stanley Meisler
    • The Fortune Hunter by Daisy Goodwin
    • The Last Flight of Poxl West by Daniel Torday
    • The Witch of Painted Sorrows by M. J. Rose
    • A Fireproof Home for the Bride by Amy Scheibe
    • All the Old Knives by Olen Steinhauer
    • The Life I Left Behind by Colette McBeth
    • The Headmaster's Wife by Thomas Christopher Greene
    • Irritable Hearts by Mac McClelland
    • Lusitania by Greg King & Penny Wilson
    • He Wanted the Moon by Mimi Baird with Eve Claxton
    • The Rebellion of Miss Lucy Ann Lobdell by William Klaber
    • Blue Stars by Emily Gray Tedrowe
    • The Last Good Paradise by Tatjana Soli
    • The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
    • A Kim Jong-Il Production by Paul Fischer
    • The Same Sky by Amanda Eyre Ward
    • First Frost by Sarah Addison Allen
    • The Rabbit Back Literature Society by Pasi Ilmari Jaaskelainen
    • Descent by Tim Johnston
    • Her by Harriet Lane

    2014

    • Vanessa and Her Sister by Priya Parmar
    • Five by Ursula Archer
    • Backyard by Norman Draper
    • The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber
    • Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis by Barbara Leaming
    • Bitter Greens by Kate Forsyth
    • Juliet's Nurse by Lois Leveen
    • Accidents of Marriage by Randy Susan Meyers
    • Island of a Thousand Mirrors by Nayomi Munaweera
    • The House We Grew Up In by Lisa Jewell
    • Small Blessings by Martha Woodroof
    • Mating for Life by Marissa Stapley
    • The Quick by Lauren Owen
    • The Devil in the Marshalsea by Antonia Hodgson
    • Brutal Youth by Anthony Breznican
    • That Summer by Lauren Willig
    • The Romanov Sisters by Helen Rappaport
    • Enduring Courage by John F. Ross
    • The Hollow Ground by Natalie S. Harnett
    • A Paris Apartment by Michelle Gable
    • Mimi Malloy, At Last! by Julia MacDonnell
    • In Praise of Hatred by Khaled Khalifa
    • The Venetian Bargain by Marina Fiorato
    • I Am Livia by Phyllis T. Smith
    • The Cairo Affair by Olen Steinhauer
    • City of the Sun by Juliana Maio
    • Precious Thing by Colette McBeth
    • Safe with Me by Amy Hatvany
    • Where Monsters Dwell by Jørgen Brekke
    • Glitter and Glue by Kelly Corrigan
    • Girl on the Golden Coin by Marci Jefferson
    • Doing Harm by Kelly Parsons
    • The Deepest Secret by Carla Buckley
    • The Race Underground by Doug Most
    • The Last Enchantments by Charles Finch
    • Under the Wide and Starry Sky by Nancy Horan
    • House of Bathory by Linda Lafferty
    • Soy Sauce for Beginners by Kirstin Chen

    2013

    • The Housemaid's Daughter by Barbara Mutch
    • Through the Evil Days by Julia Spencer-Fleming
    • Bellman & Black by Diane Setterfield
    • Buying In by Laura Hemphill
    • Where the Moon Isn't by Nathan Filer
    • Henry and Rachel by Laurel Saville
    • How to Be a Good Wife by Emma Chapman
    • Lost Luggage by Jordi Punti
    • Jacob's Oath by Martin Fletcher
    • Last Train to Istanbul by Ayse Kulin
    • Once We Were Brothers by Ronald H. Balson
    • The Spirit Keeper by K. B. Laugheed
    • A Man of His Own by Susan Wilson
    • Songs of Willow Frost by Jamie Ford
    • The Edge of Normal by Carla Norton
    • Bitter River by Julia Keller
    • The Drowning Guard by Linda Lafferty
    • How the Light Gets In by Louise Penny
    • The Affairs of Others by Amy Grace Loyd
    • The Disenchanted Widow by Christina McKenna
    • Three Things You Need to Know About Rockets by Jessica A. Fox
    • A Hundred Flowers by Gail Tsukiyama
    • The Forgetting Tree by Tatjana Soli
    • Lookaway, Lookaway by Wilton Barnhardt
    • The Daughters of Mars by Thomas Keneally
    • Song of the Spirits by Sarah Lark
    • The Scavenger's Daughters by Kay Bratt
    • Close My Eyes by Sophie McKenzie
    • The Good Luck Girls of Shipwreck Lane by Kelly Harms
    • Amy Falls Down by Jincy Willett
    • Letters from Skye by Jessica Brockmole
    • To the Moon and Timbuktu by Nina Sovich
    • The Mouse-Proof Kitchen by Saira Shah
    • Her Last Breath by Linda Castillo
    • Children of the Jacaranda Tree by Sahar Delijani
    • Crime of Privilege by Walter Walker
    • The Lion in the Lei Shop by Kaye Starbird
    • Flat Water Tuesday by Ron Irwin
    • The Caretaker by A .X. Ahmad
    • The Last Girl by Jane Casey
    • Golden Boy by Abigail Tarttelin
    • A Dual Inheritance by Joanna Hershon
    • The Laws of Gravity by Liz Rosenberg
    • The Jericho Deception by Jeffrey Small
    • Peking to Paris by Dina Bennett
    • The Sisterhood by Helen Bryan
    • Walk Me Home by Catherine Ryan Hyde
    • A Murder at Rosamund's Gate by Susanna Calkins
    • Where You Can Find Me by Sheri Joseph
    • Palisades Park by Alan Brennert
    • A Nearly Perfect Copy by Allison Amend
    • The Edge of the Earth by Christina Schwarz
    • All You Could Ask For by Mike Greenberg
    • Rage Against the Dying by Becky Masterman
    • Fever by Mary Beth Keane
    • Eighty Days by Matthew Goodman
    • With or Without You by Domenica Ruta
    • A Thousand Pardons by Jonathan Dee
    • One Minus One by Ruth Doan MacDougall
    • Ghostman by Roger Hobbs
    • Calling Me Home by Julie Kibler
    • The House Girl by Tara Conklin
    • Indiscretion by Charles Dubow
    • The Imposter Bride by Nancy Richler
    • The Hour of Peril by Daniel Stashower
    • The Starboard Sea by Amber Dermont
    • The Aviator's Wife by Melanie Benjamin
    • The Good House by Ann Leary

    2012

    • Bone River by Megan Chance
    • The Art Forger by B. A. Shapiro
    • How to Love Wine by Eric Asimov
    • Illuminations by Mary Sharratt
    • Salvation of a Saint by Keigo Higashino
    • Live by Night by Dennis Lehane
    • The Sisters by Nancy Jensen
    • My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
    • The White Forest by Adam McOmber
    • The Bloodletter's Daughter by Linda Lafferty
    • The Spy Lover by Kiana Davenport
    • The Devil in Silver by Victor LaValle
    • Sharp by David Fitzpatrick
    • The Roots of the Olive Tree by Courtney Miller Santo
    • And When She Was Good by Laura Lippman
    • The Headmaster's Wager by Vincent Lam
    • Sentinel by Matthew Dunn
    • The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
    • The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
    • Shine Shine Shine by Lydia Netzer
    • Have Mother, Will Travel by Claire & Mia Fontaine
    • 15 Seconds by Andrew Gross
    • The Woman at the Light by Joanna Brady
    • The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
    • The Queen's Lover by Francine du Plessix Gray
    • Niceville by Carsten Stroud
    • The Innocents by Francesca Segal
    • Beneath the Shadows by Sara Foster
    • An Unmarked Grave by Charles Todd
    • Wife 22 by Melanie Gideon
    • A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar by Suzanne Joinson
    • The Secrets of Mary Bowser by Lois Leveen
    • The Voluntourist by Ken Budd
    • A Simple Murder by Eleanor Kuhns
    • All Woman and Springtime by Brandon Jones
    • Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake by Anna Quindlen
    • The First Warm Evening of the Year by Jamie M. Saul
    • Afterwards by Rosamund Lupton
    • A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash
    • The House of Velvet and Glass by Katherine Howe
    • Cloudland by Joseph Olshan
    • Paris in Love by Eloisa James
    • Sacre Bleu by Christopher Moore
    • Bloom by Kelle Hampton
    • The Red Book by Deborah Copaken Kogan
    • The Land of Decoration by Grace McCleen
    • The Good Father by Noah Hawley
    • A Partial History of Lost Causes by Jennifer duBois
    • Arcadia by Lauren Groff
    • Losing Clementine by Ashley Ream
    • The Mark Inside by Amy Reading
    • Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
    • That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott
    • Before the Poison by Peter Robinson
    • The Dressmaker by Kate Alcott
    • King Peggy by Peggielene Bartels & Eleanor Herman
    • Accidents of Providence by Stacia Brown
    • Until the Next Time by Kevin Fox
    • No Mark Upon Her by Deborah Crombie
    • A Good American by Alex George
    • Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
    • Three Weeks in December by Audrey Schulman
    • Defending Jacob by William Landay
    • The Look of Love by Mary Jane Clark
    • Wayward Saints by Suzzy Roche
    • The Face Thief by Eli Gottlieb
    • The Winter Palace by Eva Stachniak
    • The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
    • The Darkening Field by William Ryan

    2011

    • All the Flowers in Shanghai by Duncan Jepson
    • A Simple Act of Gratitude by John Kralik
    • Oxford Messed Up by Andrea Kayne Kaufman
    • Proof of Heaven by Mary Curran Hackett
    • Tides of War by Stella Tillyard
    • The Lost and Forgotten Languages of Shanghai by Ruiyan Xu
    • Falling Together by Marisa De Los Santos
    • Across Many Mountains by Yangzom Brauen
    • The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
    • Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
    • Loose Diamonds by Amy Ephron
    • A Bitter Truth by Charles Todd
    • The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta
    • A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny
    • The Most Dangerous Thing by Laura Lippman
    • The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
    • Little Black Dress by Susan McBride
    • Low Town by Daniel Polansky
    • Before Ever After by Samantha Sotto
    • In Search of the Rose Notes by Emily Arsenault
    • Next to Love by Ellen Feldman
    • The Memory of All That by Katharine Weber
    • The Homecoming of Samuel Lake by Jenny Wingfield
    • The Things We Cherished by Pam Jenoff
    • Original Sin by Beth Mcmullen
    • A Good Hard Look by Ann Napolitano
    • Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante
    • Things We Didn't Say by Kristina Riggle
    • Heat Wave by Nancy Thayer
    • Folly Beach by Dorothea Benton Frank
    • Jamrach's Menagerie by Carol Birch
    • The Borgia Betrayal by Sara Poole
    • The Art of Saying Goodbye by Ellyn Bache
    • Ten Thousand Saints by Eleanor Henderson
    • Sister by Rosamund Lupton
    • The Tender Mercy of Roses by Anna Michaels
    • The Sweetness of Tears by Nafisa Haji
    • The Daughter of Siena by Marina Fiorato
    • Prophecy by S.J. Parris
    • The Summer Without Men by Siri Hustvedt
    • The Kitchen Daughter by Jael McHenry
    • Minding Ben by Victoria Brown
    • Friendship Bread by Darien Gee
    • A Lesson in Secrets by Jacqueline Winspear
    • My Jane Austen Summer by Cindy Jones
    • Outside Wonderland by Lorna Jane Cook
    • The Beauty of Humanity Movement by Camilla Gibb
    • The Trinity Six by Charles Cumming
    • The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
    • Snowdrops by A.D. Miller
    • The Philosophical Breakfast Club by Laura J. Snyder
    • Wrecker by Summer Wood
    • Agent X by Noah Boyd
    • Ever By My Side by Nick Trout
    • Radio Shangri-La by Lisa Napoli
    • The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino
    • A Box of Darkness by Sally Ryder Brady
    • The Tudor Secret by C. W. Gortner
    • Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer by Wesley Stace
    • Little Princes by Conor Grennan
    • The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul by Deborah Rodriguez
    • Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua
    • A Lonely Death by Charles Todd
    • The Girl in the Green Raincoat by Laura Lippman
    • Three Seconds by Anders Roslund & Borge Hellstrom

    2010

    • The Discovery of Jeanne Baret by Glynis Ridley
    • The True Memoirs of Little K by Adrienne Sharp
    • An Amish Christmas by Cynthia Keller
    • The Tenth Song by Naomi Ragen
    • Solomon's Oak by Jo-Ann Mapson
    • The False Friend by Myla Goldberg
    • Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
    • Adam & Eve by Sena Jeter Naslund
    • Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny
    • Your Republic Is Calling You by Young-ha Kim
    • City of Tranquil Light by Bo Caldwell
    • The Wave by Susan Casey
    • Man in the Woods by Scott Spencer
    • Juliet by Anne Fortier
    • Bad Boy by Peter Robinson
    • The Tower, The Zoo, and The Tortoise by Julia Stuart
    • The Stuff That Never Happened by Maddie Dawson
    • Stash by David Matthew Klein
    • The Clouds Beneath the Sun by Mackenzie Ford
    • The Doctor and the Diva by Adrienne McDonnell
    • The Blind Contessa's New Machine by Carey Wallace
    • The Ghost of Milagro Creek by Melanie Sumner
    • The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives by Lola Shoneyin
    • Learning to Lose by David Trueba
    • The Lovers by Vendela Vida
    • The Nobodies Album by Carolyn Parkhurst
    • After the Fall by Kylie Ladd
    • The Confessions of Catherine de Medici by C.  W. Gortner
    • The Map of True Places by Brunonia Barry
    • An Eagle Named Freedom by Jeff Guidry
    • Losing My Cool by Thomas Chatterton Williams
    • Ten Minutes from Home by Beth Greenfield
    • Romancing Miss Bronte by Juliet Gael
    • The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors by Michele Young-Stone
    • The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell
    • Daughters of the Witching Hill by Mary Sharratt
    • The Swimming Pool by Holly LeCraw
    • The Scent of Rain and Lightning by Nancy Pickard
    • Beautiful Assassin by Michael C. White
    • A Thread of Sky by Deanna Fei
    • Pearl of China by Anchee Min
    • The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli
    • The Language of Secrets by Dianne Dixon
    • Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child
    • The Queen's Lover by Vanora Bennett
    • Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
    • Arcadia Falls by Carol Goodman
    • Still Life by Melissa Milgrom
    • The Journal Keeper by Phyllis Theroux
    • Making Toast by Roger Rosenblatt
    • Heresy by S.J. Parris
    • The Wives of Henry Oades by Johanna Moran
    • The Man From Saigon by Marti Leimbach
    • The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow
    • The Things That Keep Us Here by Carla Buckley
    • The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight by Gina Ochsner
    • Savage Lands by Clare Clark
    • The Fifth Servant by Kenneth Wishnia
    • The Bricklayer by Noah Boyd
    • Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin
    • The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths
    • The Secret of Everything by Barbara O'Neal

    2009

    • The Book of Illumination by Mary Ann Winkowski
    • State by State by Matt Weiland & Sean Wilsey (editors)
    • Serena by Ron Rash
    • The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
    • Cleopatra's Daughter by Michelle Moran
    • The Possibility of Everything by Hope Edelman
    • The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville
    • Dragon House by John Shors
    • The Private Papers of Eastern Jewel by Maureen Lindley
    • Under This Unbroken Sky by Shandi Mitchell
    • Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
    • Baking Cakes in Kigali by Gaile Parkin
    • South of Broad by Pat Conroy
    • Sweeping Up Glass by Carolyn D. Wall
    • The Elephant Keeper by Christopher Nicholson
    • The Last Bridge by Teri Coyne
    • A Girl Made of Dust by Nathalie Abi-Ezzi
    • Gifts of War by Mackenzie Ford
    • The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    • A Short History of Women by Kate Walbert
    • The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan
    • The Walking People by Mary Beth Keane
    • An Edible History of Humanity by Tom Standage
    • The New Global Student by Maya Frost
    • The Book of God and Physics by Enrique Joven
    • Valeria's Last Stand by Marc Fitten
    • Water, Stone, Heart by Will North
    • Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie
    • Night Navigation by Ginnah Howard
    • Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing by Charles Bowden
    • The Last Secret by Mary Mcgarry Morris
    • The Secret Keeper by Paul Harris
    • The Air Between Us by Deborah Johnson
    • A Pearl in the Storm by Tori Murden Mcclure
    • Palace Circle by Rebecca Dean
    • The Weight of a Mustard Seed by Wendell Steavenson
    • While My Sister Sleeps by Barbara Delinsky
    • Valley of the Lost by Vicki Delany
    • The Music Teacher by Barbara Hall
    • How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer
    • The Spare Room by Helen Garner
    • Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
    • Stuffed by Hank Cardello & Doug Garr
    • Something Like Beautiful by Asha Bandele
    • Eve by Elissa Elliott
    • Murderers in Mausoleums by Jeffrey Tayler
    • It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time by Moira Hodgson
    • Murder in Mykonos by Jeffrey Siger
    • The Book of Unholy Mischief by Elle Newmark

    2008

    • Lima Nights by Marie Arana
    • Greasing the Piñata by Tim Maleeny
    • The Sweet In Between by Sheri Reynolds
    • Blacklight Blue by Peter May
    • Kissing Games of the World by Sandi Kahn Shelton
    • Time of My Life by Allison Winn Scotch
    • Shoot the Lawyer Twice by Michael Bowen
    • To Siberia by Per Petterson
    • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
    • The Toss of a Lemon by Padma Viswanathan
    • The Crow Road by Iain Banks
    • Green Monster by Rick Shefchik
    • The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti
    • Tethered by Amy Mackinnon
    • The White Mary by Kira Salak
    • Holding My Breath by Sidura Ludwig
    • The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
    • How Far Is the Ocean from Here by Amy Shearn
    • Findings by Mary Anna Evans
    • Sweet Mandarin by Helen Tse
    • Stealing Athena by Karen Essex
    • Heavenly Pleasures by Kerry Greenwood
    • How to Build a House by Dana Reinhardt
    • The Marriage of True Minds by Stephen Evans
    • A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif
    • Evening Is the Whole Day by Preeta Samarasan
    • Madapple by Christina Meldrum
    • The Fisher Boy by Stephen H. Anable
    • Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian
    • Can't Remember What I Forgot by Sue Halpern
    • The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
    • Seven for a Secret by Mary and Eric Mayer Reed
    • How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman
    • Killer Heat by Linda Fairstein
    • Dervishes by Beth Helms
    • Resistance by Owen Sheers
    • Desert Cut by Betty Webb
    • The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
    • The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt
    • An Incomplete Revenge by Jacqueline Winspear
    • Talk of the Town by Lisa Wingate
    • Life Class by Pat Barker
    • The Commoner by John Burnham Schwartz
    • A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam

    2007

    • The Critic by Peter May
    • Signed Mata Hari by Yannick Murphy
    • Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill
    • The Quiet Girl by Peter Hoeg
    • Gomorrah by Roberto Saviano, translated by Virginia Jewiss
    • Cheating at Canasta by William Trevor
    • Soldier's Heart by Elizabeth D. Samet
    • The Pirate's Daughter by Margaret Cezair-Thompson
    • Mozart's Sister by Rita Charbonnier
    • Broken Colors by Michele Zackheim
    • Before I Die by Jenny Downham
    • The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
    • The View From Mount Joy by Lorna Landvik
    • Red Rover by Deirdre McNamer

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