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Month Title Author  
Mar-91 Joy Luck Club Amy Tan  
Apr-91 Love Medicine Louise Erdrich  
May-91 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith  
Jun-91 Beloved Toni Morrison  
Jul-91 To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee  
Aug-91 Remains of the day K. Ishiguro  
Oct-91 Kitchen God’s Wife Amy Tan  
Nov-91 Women’s Decameron Julia Voznesenskaya  
Jan-92 Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez  
Feb-92 Annie John Jamaica Kincaid  
Mar-92 Clear Light of Day Anita Desai  
Apr-92 Power of One Bryce Courtenay  
May-92 Lies of the Night Gesualdo Bufalino  
Jun-92 The Stuff of Heroes Miguel Delibes  
Jul-92 Floating in my Mother’s Palm Ursula Hagi  
Oct-92 The Firm John Grisham  
Nov-92 Jack Gance Ward Just  
Dec-92 King Lear William Shakespeare  
Jan-93 Thousand Acres Jane Smiley  
1-Feb Bailey’s Café Gloria Naylor  
Apr-93 Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen  
Mar-93 Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston  
1-May Jane and Prudence Barbara Pym  
Jun-93 The Moonstone Wilkie Collins  
Jul-93 Unnatural Causes P.D. James  
Oct-93 Night Manager John Le Carre  
Nov-93 Bean Trees Barbara Kingsolver  
Dec-93 Charms for the Easy Life Kay Gibbons  
Jan-94 Age of Innocence Edith Wharton  
Feb-94 Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Sing May Sarton  
Mar-94 Pray for Yourself Anne Calagno  
Apr-94 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury  
May-94 Orlando Virginia Wolf  
Jun-94 The Awakening Kate Chopin  
Jul-94 Stones for Ibarra Harriet Doerr  
Sep-94 Road from Coorain Jill Ker Conway  
Dec-94 symposium Muriel Spark  
Jan-95 Long Shot Dick Frances  
Feb-95 Death Comes for the Archbishop Willa Cather  
Mar-95 House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros  
Apr-95 To the White Sea James Dickey  
May-95 Bastard out of Carolina Dorothy Allison  
Sep-95 Made in America Bill Bryson  
Oct-95 Snow Falling on Cedars David Guterson  
Nov-95 The Stone Diaries Carol Shields  
Dec-95 The heart is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers  
Jan-96 House of Splendid Isolation Edna O’Brien  
Feb-96 Mutant Message Down Under Marlo Morgan  
Mar-96 Book of Ruth Jane Hamilton  
Apr-96 Joy Luck Club Marsha Hunt  
May-96 My Name is Asher Lev Chaim Potok  
Sep-96 Shell Seekers Rosamunde Pilcher  
Oct-96 Red Azelea Anchee Min  
Nov-96 Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil John Berendt  
Dec-96 Having Our Say Annie Elizabeth Delany  
Jan-97 Gaudy Night Dorothy Sayers  
Feb-97 Walking Across Egypt Clyde Edgerton  
Mar-97 Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow  
Apr-97 Moo Jane Smiley  
May-97 Arranged Marriage Chtra Baneerjee Divakaruni  
Sep-97 And Ladies of the Club Helen Hoover Santmyer  
Oct-97 Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir Frank McCourt  
Nov-97 The Tortilla Curtain t. Coraghessan Boyle  
Dec-97 This Year Will Be Different Maeve Binchy  
Jan-98 Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter Nozipo Maraire  
Feb-98 The Laws of Our Fathers Scott Turow  
Mar-98 The Future of Women Pamela McCourduck  
Apr-98 Crossing To Safety Wallace Earle Stegner  
May-98 Stones from the River Ursula Hegi  
Sep-98 The Horse Whisperer Nicholas Evans  
Oct-98 Ghost Country Sara Paretsky  
Nov-98 Dandelion Wine Ray Bradbury  
Dec-98 Where The Heart Is Billie Letts  
Jan-99 Breath Eyes Memory Edwidge Danticat  
Feb-99 Severed Wasp Madeleine L’Engle  
Mar-99 My Antonia Willa Cather  
Apr-99 God of Small Things Arundhati Roy  
Sep-00 Time to be in Earnest P.D. James  
Oct-00 Anna’s Book Barbara Vine  
Nov-00 Gap Creek Robert Morgan  
Dec-00 Patty Jane’s House of Curl by Lorna L  
Feb-01 Lesson Before Dying Ernest Gaines  
Mar-01 Honey Thief Elizabeth Graver  
Apr-01 The Jungle Upton Sinclair  
Sep-99 Buddenbrooks Thomas Mann  
Oct-99 Talking to the Dead Helen Dunmore  
Nov-99 Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden  
Jan-00 Jump Off Creek Molly Gloss  
Feb-00 Magician’s Assistant Ann Pratchett  
Mar-00 Price of Land in Shelby Laura Alberts  
Apr-00 Reader Bernhard Schink  
Sep-01 You Can’t Go Home Again Thomas Wolfe  
Oct-01 House of Sand and Fog Andre Dubus  
Nov-01 Inn at Lake Devine Elinor Lipman  
Dec-01 Hotel Du Lac Anita Brookner  
Jan-02 Kaaterskill Falls Allegra Goodman  
Feb-02 Painted House John Grisham  
Mar-02 Goodnight Nebraska Tom McNeal  
Apr-02 Motherless Brooklyn Jonathan Lethem  
Sep-02 White Teeth Zadie Smith  
Oct-02 Indian Killer Sherman Alexie  
Nov-02 Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd  
Dec-02 Bachelor Brothers Bed and Breakfast Bill Richardson  
Jan-03 Emma Jane Austen  
Feb-03 Equal Music Seth Vikram  
Mar-03 Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck  
Apr-03 Diagnosis Alan Lightman  
Sep-03 The Passion of Artemisis Susan Vreeland  
Oct-03 The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger  
Nov-03 Tree Junes Julia Glass  
Dec-03 Balsac and the Little Chinese Seamstress Dal Sijie  
Jan-04 Seabiscuit Laura Hillenbrand  
Feb-04 Bel Canto Ann Pratchett  
Mar-04 Cape Ann Faith Sullivan  
Apr-04 Abandon Pico Iyer  
May-04 Colony Anne Rivers Siddons  
Sep-04 Da Vinci Code Dan Brown  
Oct-04 One True Thing Anna Quindlen  
Nov-04 Magic of Ordinary Days Ann Howard Creel  
Dec-04 Lydia Cassatt Reading The Morning Paper Harriet Scott Chessman  
Jan-05 To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee  
Feb-05 Girl With A Pearl Earring Tracy Chevalier  
Mar-05 Galileo’s Daughter Dava Sobel  
Apr-05 Prodigal Summer Barbara Kingsolver  
May-05 Virgin’s Knot Holly Payne  
Sep-05 Southern Living Ad Hudler  
Oct-05 Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini  
Nov-05 Back When We Were Grown-ups Anne Tyler  
Dec-05 Two Old Women Velma Wallis  
Jan-06 Sister of My Heart Chita Divakaruni  
Feb-06 Good Earth Pearl S. Buck  
Mar-06 Year of Wonders Geraldine Brooks  
Apr-06 Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time Mark Haddon  
May-06 Birth of Venus Sarah Durant  
Sep-06 Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald  
Oct-06 Fried Green Tomatoes Fannie Flagg  
Nov-06 My Jim Nancy Rawlers  
Dec-06 When the Emperor Was Divine Julie Otsuka  
Jan-07 Tis: A Memoir Frank McCourt  
Feb-07 Chocolat Joanne Harris  
Mar-07 Weight of Water Anita Shreve  
Apr-07 Oh My Stars Lorna Landvik  
May-07 the Wedding Dorothy West  
Sep-07 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark  
Oct-07 Memory Keeper’s Daughter Kim Edwards  
Nov-07 Animal Farm George Orwell  
Dec-07 Trees, The Conrad Richter  
Jan-08 Snow Flower and The Secret Fan Lisa See  
Feb-08 Martha Washington Patricia Brady  
Mar-08 the Country of the Pointed Firs Sarah Orne Jewett  
Apr-08 Cold Sassy Tree Olive Burns  
May-08 To The Long Lighthouse Virginia Wolf  
Jun-08 Madonnas of Leningrad Debra Dean  
Jul-08 Water for Elephants Sara Gruen  
Aug-08 Kitchen God’s Wife Amy Tan  
Sep-08 Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini  
Oct-08 Like Water for Chocolate Laura Esquivel  
Nov-08 House of Abraham: Lincoln and the Todds Stephen Berry  
Dec-08 Family Tree Barbara Delinsky  
Jan-09 Notes From the Underground Fyodor Dostoevsky  
Feb-09 Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez  
Mar-09 A Room With A View E.M. Forster  
Apr-09 World Without End Ken Follet  
May-09 Gardens of Water Alan Drew  
Jun-09 The Cellist of Sarajevo Steven Galloway  
Jul-09 Geography of bliss Eric Winer  
Aug-09 Persuasion Jane Austen  
Sep-09 Pontoon Garrison Keillor  
Oct-06 One Hundred Years of Solitude Garbriel Garcia Marques  
Nov-09 The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Stieg Larsson  
Dec-09 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Mary Ann Shaffer  
Jan-10 Revolutionary Road Richard Yates  
Feb-10 A Case of Exploding Mangoes Mohammed Hanif  
Mar-10 A Long Way Down Nick Hornby  
Apr-10 The Story of Edgar Sawtelle David Wroblowski  
May-10 The Domino Men Jonathan Barnes  
Jun-10 Little Bee Chris Cleave  
Jul-10 The Elegance of the Hedgehog Muriel Barbery  
Aug-10 Mr Pip Lloyd Jones  
Sep-10 The Writing on My Forehead Nafisi Haji  
Oct-10 Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maugham  
Nov-10 Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet Jamie Ford  
Dec-10 I’m A Stranger Here myself Bill Bryson  
Jan-11 A Reliable Wife Robert Goolrick  
Feb-11 I Am The Messenger Markus Zusak  
Mar-11 Sag Harbor Colson Whitehead  
Apr-11 Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel  
May-11 Sarah’s Key Tatiana de Rosnay  
Jun-11 One Day David Nicholls  
Jul-11 The Piano Teacher Janice Y.K. Lee  
Aug-11 Loving Frank Nancy Horan  
Sep-11 Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand Helen Simonson  
Oct-11 The Lacuan Barbara Kingsolver  
Nov-11 Room Emma Donoghue  
Dec-11 The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton  
Jan-12 Parrot and Olivier in America Peter Carey  
Feb-12 Cleopatra Stacy Schiff  
Mar-12 Hangman’s Daughter Oliver Potzsch  
Apr-12 The Wives of Henry Oades Johanna Moran  
May-12 The Book Thief Marcus Suzak  
Jun-12 Paris Wife Paula McLain  
Jul-12 Before I Go To Sleep S.J. Watson  
Aug-12 The Leftovers Tom Perrota  
Sep-12 Moonwalking with Einstein Josh Foer  
Oct-12 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy  
Nov-12 Can’t Wait to Get to Heaven Fannie Flagg  
Dec-12 The Buddha in the Attic Julie Otsuka  
Jan-13 Pudd’nhead Wilson Mark Twain  
Feb-13 One Thousand White Women Jim Fergus  
Mar- 13 The Kitchen Daughter Jael McHenry  
April- 13 The Shoemaker’s Wife Adriana Trigiani  
May- 13 The Love of My Youth Mary Gordan  
June- 13 The Uninvited Guests Sadie Jones  
July- 13 Gone Girl Gillian Flynn  
Aug- 13 Leaving the World Douglas Kennedy  
Sept- 13 Wife 22 Melanie Gideon  
Oct- 13 The Hound of the Baskervilles Sir Arthur Conan Doyle  
Nov- 13 Where’d You Go, Bernadette? Maria Semple  
Dec- 13 The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde  
Jan- 14 Calling Invisible Women Jeanne Ray  
Feb- 14 The Longest Road Philip Caputo  
March-14 The 100-Year-Old-Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared Jonas Jonasson  
April-14 Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness Susannah Cahalan  
May-14 Sweet Tooth Ian McEwan  
June-14 The Fault in Our Stars John Green  
July-14 Me Before You Jojo Moyes  
Aug-14 The Round House Louise Erdrich  
Sept-14 Dear Life Alice Munro  
Oct-14 The Silent Wife A.S.A. Harrison  
Nov-14 And the Mountains Echoed Khaled Hosseini  
Dec-14 Justine Lawrence Durrell  
Jan-15 Schroder Amity Gaige  
Feb-15 The Husband's Secret Liane Moriarty  
March-15 The Hundred-Year House Rebecca Makkai  
April-15 Quiet: The Power of Introverts... Susan Cain  
May-15 The Goldfinch Donna Tartt  
June-15 The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry Gabrielle Zevin  
July-15 What the Lady Wants: a novel of Marshall Field and the Gilded Age Renee Rosen  
Aug-15 Everything I Never Told You Celeste Ng  
Sept-15 The Boys in the Boat Daniel James Brown  
Oct-15 The Dinner Herman Koch   
Nov-15 The Expats Chris Pavone  
Dec-15 Franny & Zooey J.D. Salinger  
Jan-16 Still Life with Bread Crumbs Anna Quindlen  
Feb-16 The Interestings Meg Wolitzer  
March-16 All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr  
April-16 The Girl on the Train Paula Hawkins  
May-16 The Invention of Wings Sue Monk Kidd  
June-16 The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend Katarina Bivald  
July-16 What She Left Behind Ellen Marie Wiseman  
Aug-16 Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie  
Sept-16 The School of Essential Ingredients Erica Bauermeister   
Oct-16 Remember Me This Way Sabine Durrant  
Nov-16 Babbitt Sinclair lewis  
Dec-16 What Was Mine Helen Klein Ross  
Jan-17 This Is How You Lose Her Junot Diaz  
Feb-17 Inside the O'Briens Lisa Genova  
March-17 The Storyteller Jodi Picoult  
April-17 The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath  
May-17 Fates and Furies Lauren Groff  
June-17 This Is How It Always Is Laurie Frankel   
July-17 It Can't Happen Here Sinclair Lewis  
Aug-17 A Man Called Ove Fredrik Backman  
Sept-17 Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine Gail Honeyman  
Oct-17 Norwegian by Night Derek B. Miller  
Nov-17 Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America Jill Leovy  
Dec-17 Fishbowl Bradley Somer  
Jan-18 Another Brooklyn Jacqueline Woodson  
Feb-18 Lucky Boy Shanthi Sekaran   
March-18 Commonwealth Ann Patchett  
April-18 The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead  
May-18 Shelter Jung Yun  
June-18 Turtles All The Way Down John Green  
Jul-18 The Woman in Cabin 10 Ruth Ware  
Aug-18 A Gentleman in Moscow Amor Towles   
Sept-18 Swing Time Zadie Smith   
Oct-18 Small Great Things Jodi Picoult  
Nov-18 The Immortalists Chloe Benjamin  
Dec-18 Stay With Me Ayobami Adebayo  
Jan-19 Little Fires Everywhere Celeste Ng  
Feb-19 Before We Were Yours Lisa Wingate  
Mar-19 The Woman in the Window A.J. Finn   
Apr-19 An American Marriage Tayari Jones  
May-19 The Hate U Give Angie Thomas  
June-19 Lilac Girls Martha Hall Kelly  
July-19 We Were Liars E. Lockhart  
Aug-19 Less Andrew Sean Greer  
Sep-19 Please Look After Mom Kyung-Sook Shin  
Oct-19 After Anna Lisa Scottoline  
Nov-19 The Mars Room Rachel Kushner  
Dec-19 Hunger Roxane Gay  
Jan-20 The Great Alone Kristin Hannah  
Feb-20 Educated  Tara Westover  
Mar-20 FoF canceled due to Covid     
April-20 FoF canceled due to Covid     
May-20 FoF canceled due to Covid     
June-20 FoF canceled due to Covid     
July 20 All You Can Ever Know Nicole Chung  
Aug-20 My Sister, The Serial Killer Oyinkan Braithwaite  
Sept-20 The Alice Network Kate Quinn  
Oct-20 The Silent Patient Alex Michaelides  
Nov-20 Maybe You Should Talk to Someone Lori Gottlieb  
Dec-20 The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros   
Jan-21 The Library Book Susan Orlean  
Feb-21 The Dutch House Ann Patchett  
Mar-21 Born a Crime Trevor Noah   
Apr-21 The Girl with the Louding Voice Abi Daré  
May-21 Dear Edward Ann Napolitano  
June-21 Miss Benson's Beetle Rachel Joyce   
July-21 The Japanese Lover Isabel Allende  
Aug-21 The Book of Lost Names Kristin Harmel   
Sept-21 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World Elif Shafak  
Oct-21 The Guest List Lucy Foly  
Nov-21 Anxious People Fredrik Backman  
Dec-21 Interior Chinatown Charles Yu  
Jan-22 Love After Love Ingrid Persaud   
Feb-22 Caste Isabel Wilkerson  
Mar-22 The Midnight Library Matt Haig  
Apr-22 The Vanishing Half Brit Bennett  
May-22 The Four Winds Kristin Hannah  
June-22 The Guncle Steven Rowley  
July-22 The Dictionary of Lost Words Pip Williams  
Aug-22 Somebody's Daughter Ashley C. Ford  
Sept-22 The Rose Code Kate Quinn  
Oct-22 The Last Thing He Told Me Laura Dave  
Nov-22 Razorblade Tears S.A. Cosby  
Dec-22 Crying in H Mart Michelle Zauner  
Jan-23 We Are the Brennans Tracey Lange  
Feb-23 The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo Taylor Jenkins Reid  
Mar-23 Harlem Shuffle Colson Whitehead  
Apr-23 The Island of Missing Trees Elif Shafak  
May-23 Fire Keeper's Daughter Angeline Boulley  
June-23 The Maid Nita Prose  
July-23 Last Summer on State Street Toya Wolfe  
Aug-23 Lessons in Chemistry  Bonnie Garmus  
Sept-23 Black Cake Charmaine Wilkerson  
Oct-23 The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle  Matt Cain  
Nov-23 The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot Marianne Cronin  
Dec-23 The Villa Rachel Hawkins  
Jan-24 Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow Gabrielle Zevin  
Feb-24 Our Missing Hearts Celeste Ng  
Mar-24 Killers of a Certain Age Deanna Raybourn  
Apr-24 Remarkably Bright Creatures Shelby Van Pelt  
May-24 Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingslover  

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