| 2005-2006 | |||
| Selected | |||
| The Five People You Meet In Heaven | Mitch Albom | ||
| The Devil in the White City | Erik Larson | ||
| Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| The Bookseller of Kabul | Asne Seierstad | ||
| Mrs. Kimble | Jennifer Haigh | ||
| Birds Without Wings | Louis de Bernieres | ||
| The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of F | Simon Wiesenthal | ||
| Cold Sassy Tree | Olive Ann Burns | ||
| Truth & Beauty: A Friendship | Ann Patchett | ||
| Gilead | Marilynne Robinson | ||
| A Thread of Grace | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| Also considered | |||
| Reading Lolita in Tehran | Azar Nafisi | ||
| Mountains Beyond Mountains: Healing the World: | Tracy Kidder | ||
| Daughter of Fortune | Isabel Allende | ||
| Infinite Plan | Isabel Alende | ||
| Gut Symmetries | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| No Great Mischief | Alistair MacLeod | ||
| Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| Henderson The Rain King | Saul Bellow | ||
| Brideshead Revisited | Evelyn Waugh | ||
| 2006-2007 | |||
| Selected | |||
| The Dive From Clausen's Pier | Ann Packer | ||
| Wicked | Gregory Maguire | ||
| The Color of Water | James McBride | ||
| A Confederacy of Dunces | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| Little Women | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| Daughter of Persia | Sattareh Farman Farmaian | ||
| The Master Butchers Singing Club | Louise Erdych | ||
| Fidelity | Wendell Berry | ||
| The Audacity of Hope | Barack Obama | ||
| The Historian | Elizabeth Kostova | ||
| And Then There Were None | Agatha Christie | ||
| Also considered | |||
| Bad Blood | Lorna Sage | ||
| March | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| Inheritance of Loss | Kiran Desai | ||
| Angle of Repose | Wallace Stegner | ||
| Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close | Jonathan Safran Froer | ||
| The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| [Sorry -- I didn't get the title] | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| Palace of Desire | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| Rock and Roll Radical | Chuck Laszevsky | ||
| Biography of a Face | Lucy Grealy | ||
| Facts Behind Helsinki… | Yann Martell | ||
| 2007-2008 | |||
| Selected | |||
| Eat, Pray, Love | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| A Canticle for Liebowitz | Walter M. Miller, Jr. | ||
| Snow Flower and the Secret Fan | Lisa See | ||
| Matrimony | Joshua Henkin | ||
| Seduction of Water | Carol Goodman | ||
| The Sparrow | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| The Wild Birds | Wendell Berry | ||
| Interpreter of Maladies | Jhumpa Lahiri | ||
| Water for Elephants | Sara Gruen | ||
| Small Island | Andrea Levy | ||
| Reluctant Fundamentalist | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| Also considered | |||
| A Thousand Splendid Suns | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| Bel Canto | Ann Patchett | ||
| My Antonia | Willa Cather | ||
| House of Sand and Fog | Andre Dubus III | ||
| Atonement | Ian McEwan | ||
| Temple of My Familiar | Alice Walker | ||
| A Fine Balance | Rohinton Mistry | ||
| Why Gender Matters | Leonard Sax | ||
| Deadwood Beetle | Mylene Dressler | ||
| Time Travelers Wife | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| Suite Francaise | Irene Nemirovsky | ||
| 2008-2009 (All Award Winners) | |||
| Selected | |||
| Classic | |||
| Watership Down | Richard Adams | ||
| General | |||
| The Human Stain | Philip Roth | ||
| All the King's Men | Robert Penn Warren | ||
| Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay | Michael Chabon | ||
| One of Ours | Willa Cather | ||
| Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell | Susanna Clark | ||
| Echo Maker | Richard Powers | ||
| The Old Man and the Sea | Hemingway | ||
| The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts | Louise de Bernieres | ||
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | ||
| Snow Falling on Cedars | David Guterson | ||
| Also considered | |||
| General | |||
| The Real Thing | |||
| Godless | |||
| The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian | |||
| The Green Grass Sea | |||
| Tree of Smoke | |||
| The Janissary Tree | |||
| A Thousand Acres | |||
| The Year of Magical Thinking | |||
| What the Thunder Said | |||
| Ironweed | |||
| Amsterdam | |||
| For the Classics slot | |||
| One of Ours | |||
| To Kill a Mockingbird | |||
| Wuthering Heights | |||
| Old Man and the Sea | |||
| Mentioned (but not put up for voting) | |||
| Celestine Prophecy | |||
| Cold Mountain | |||
| This Republic of Suffering | |||
| 2009-2010 | |||
| Selected | |||
| Classic | |||
| Dracula | Bram Stoker | ||
| Award Winners | |||
| The Emperor's Children | Claire Messud | ||
| Unaccustomed Earth | Jhumpa Lahiri | ||
| Olive Kitteridge | Elizabeth Strout | ||
| Bel Canto | Ann Patchett | ||
| General | |||
| Dreamers of the Day | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| Sula | Toni Morrison | ||
| Yiddish Policeman's Union | Michael Chabon | ||
| The Story of Edgar Sawtelle | David Wroblewski | ||
| Three Novels: Nathan + 2 others | Wendell Berry | ||
| An American Childhood | Anne Dillard | ||
| Also considered | |||
| Classic | |||
| Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck | ||
| Brothers Karamazov | Dostoyevsky | ||
| Cousin Bette | Balzac | ||
| Award winners | |||
| Disgrace | J.M. Coetzee | ||
| Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks | E. Lockhart | ||
| Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | Junot Diaz | ||
| Home | Marilynne Robinson | ||
| Plague of Doves | Louise Erdrich | ||
| Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress | Dai Siijie | ||
| The Great Man | Kate Christensen | ||
| General | |||
| Out Stealing Horses | Per Patterson | ||
| So Long, See You Tomorrow | William Maxwell | ||
| The Janissary Tree | Jason Goodwin | ||
| Inez of My Soul | Isabelle Allende | ||
| I Am the Messenger | Markus Zusak | ||
| Lost City of Z | David Grann | ||
| What is the What | Dave Eggers | ||
| Known World | Edward P. Jones | ||
| America, America | Ethan Canin | ||
| 2010-2011 | |||
| Selected | |||
| Classic | |||
| Madame Bovary | Flaubert | ||
| General | |||
| A Short History of Nearly Everything | Bill Bryson | ||
| Little Bee | Chris Cleeve | ||
| The Brothers Karamazov | Dostoyevsky | ||
| Alias Grace | Margaret Atwood | ||
| Out Stealing Horses | Per Patterson | ||
| My Antonia | Willa Cather | ||
| I'm Not Scared | Niccolo Ammaniti | ||
| Pillars of the Earth | Ken Follett | ||
| Hunger Games | Suzanne Collins | ||
| Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| Also Considered | |||
| Cutting for Stone | Abraham Verghese | ||
| Zertoun | Dave Eggers | ||
| The Dog Says How | Kevin Kling | ||
| Pass the Polenta | Teresa Lust | ||
| The Farming of Bone | Edwidge Danticat | ||
| Founding Mothers | Coki Roberts | ||
| Kitchen Confidential | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| The Glass Castle: A Memoir | Jeanette Walls | ||
| One Good Turn | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 2011-2012 | |||
| Selected | |||
| Classic | |||
| Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens | ||
| General | |||
| The Elegance of the Hedgehog | Muriel Burbery | ||
| Ordinary Wolves | Seth Kantner | ||
| Murder in the Cathedral | T.S. Eliot | ||
| Links | Nuruddin Farah | ||
| The Maples Stories | John Updike | ||
| Death Comes for the Archbishop | Willa Cather | ||
| The History of Love | Nicole Krauss | ||
| Cleopatra | Stacy Schiff | ||
| Never Let Me Go | Kazuo Ishiguro | ||
| Cutting for Stone | Abraham Verghese | ||
| Also Considered | |||
| The Good Earth | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| Angle of Repose | Wallace Stegner | ||
| Middlemarch | George Eliot | ||
| State of Wonder | Ann Patchett | ||
| Road from Coorain | Jill Ker Conway | ||
| The Art of Racing in the Rain | Garth Stein | ||
| Blindness | Jose Saramago | ||
| Atonement | Ian McEwan | ||
| The Tiger's Wife | Tea Obreht | ||
| Freedom | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| Hummingbird's Daughter | Luis Alberto Urrea | ||
| God of Carnage | Yasmina Reza | ||
| A Novel Bookstore | Laurence Cossa and Alison Anderson | ||
| Zeitoun | Dave Eggers | ||
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