---

Past Selections

2024 – Buttermilk Graffiti by Edward Lee

2023 – The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray

2022 – The Book of Harlan by Bernice L. McFadden

2021 – A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum

2021 – The Distance Between Us by Reyna Grande

2020 – A Dog Called Hope by Jason Morgan

2019 – The Long Haul by Finn Murphy

2019 – This is Where You Belong by Melody Warnick

2018 – South of Superior by Ellen Airgood

2017 – The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens

2017 – Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker by Jennifer Chiaverini

2016 – Safe from the Sea by Peter Geye

2016 – Delicious! by Ruth Reichl

2015 – A Secret Gift by Ted Gup

2015 – Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline

2014 – The Leisure Seeker by Michael Zadoorian

2014 – An Invisible Thread by Laura Schroff

2013 – The Day the World Came to Town by Jim DeFede

2013 – The Eighty-Dollar Champion by Elizabeth Letts

2013 – The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

2013 – The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach

2012 – Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson

2012 – Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford

2011 – The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

2010 – The Soloist by Steve Lopez

2009 – How Starbucks Saved My Life by Michael Gates Gill

2008 – The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

2007 – Peace Like a River by Leif Enger

2006 – Pay it Forward by Catherine Ryan Hyde