2006
Birds of America by Lorrie Moore
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Close Range: Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx
2005
Dolce Agonia (Sweet Agony) by Nancy Huston
A Room With A View by E.M. Forster
Freakonimics by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
Dangerous Liaisons by Choderlos de Laclos
The Naked Civil Servant by Quentin Crisp
The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan
Tales of the City, Armistead Maupin
Vineland by Thomas Pynchon
Pride and Prejudice, J Austen
2004
Spring Snow by Mishima
Interpreter of Maladies,Jhumpa Lahiri
Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nifisi
Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
Driving Mr. Albert, Michael Paterniti
Cold Mountain, by Charles Frazier
Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides
Slaughterhouse 5, Kurt Vonnegut
2003
A Heart-breaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers
Bel Canto by Anne Patchett
Nickeled and Dimed:on (not) getting by in America, Barbara Ehrenreich
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
2002
"Naked" by David Sedaris
Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling
Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood by Fatima Mernissi
Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles and Momentous Discoveries by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne