The names of a few of the books we’ve read over the last 30-plus years have been lost to the sands of time, but, thanks to Sue Rusie, we have most of them on record. Here they are—nearly everything between our founding in 1982-83 and now—listed alphabetically by author.
| Author | Title | ||
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| Achebe, Chinua | Things Fall Apart (2000-01) | ||
| Adams, Henry | The Education of Henry Adams (2013-14) | ||
| Adiga, Aravind | White Tiger (2009-10) | ||
| Agee, James | Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (2007-08) | ||
| Agee, Jonis | Weight of Dreams (2003-04) | ||
| Aldrich, Bess Streeter | A Lantern in Her Hand (1982-83) | ||
| Alexie, Sherman | Indian Killer (2007-08) | ||
| Allende, Isabel | A Long Petal of the Sea (2020-21) |
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| Allende, Isabel | Paula (1995-96) | ||
| Amis, Kingsley | Lucky Jim (2013-14) | ||
| Amis, Martin | The Information (1996-97) | ||
| Anaya, Rudolfo | Bless Me Ultima (2003-04) | ||
| Angelou, Maya | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1985-86) | ||
| Asinof, Eliot | Eight Men Out (1988-89) | ||
| Atwood, Margaret | Cat's Eye (1990-91) | ||
| Auel, Jean | Clan of the Cave Bear (1982-83) | ||
| Austen, Jane | Emma (1996-97) | ||
| Austen, Jane | Pride and Prejudice (2004-05) | ||
| Auster, Paul | The Book of Illusions (2024-25) | ||
| Azzopardi, Trezza | Remember Me (2004-05) | ||
| Bailey, Tom | The Grace That Keeps This World (2006-07) | ||
| Banville, John | The Untouchable (2016-2017) | ||
| Barnes, Julian | Arthur and George (2006-07) | ||
| Barnes, Julian | The Sense of An Ending (2012-13) | ||
| Barnstone, Aliki (ed.) | Book of Women Poets (1995-96) | ||
| Barrett, Andrea | Voyage of the Narwhal (1999-2000) | ||
| Barry, Sebastian | Secret Scripture (2009-10) | ||
| Barthelme, Donald | The King (1990-91) | ||
| Basbanes, Nicholas | Every Book Its Reader (2006-07) | ||
| Bayley, John | Elegy for Iris (1995-2000) | ||
| Beach, Sylvia | Shakespeare & Company (1992-93) | ||
| Benedict, Marie | The Only Woman in the Room (2019-20) | ||
| Best, Alfred | Stars My Destination (1997-1998) | ||
| Bly, Robert | Iron John (1991-92) | ||
| Boyle, T.C. | Tortilla Curtain (2007-08) | ||
| Bradbury, Ray | Fahrenheit 451 (2004-05) | ||
| Brittain, Vera | Testament of Youth (1984-85) | ||
| Bronsky, Alina | Barbara Isn't Dying (2024-25) | ||
| Brooks, David | How To Know a Person(2024-25) | ||
| Brooks, Geraldine | People of the Book (2009-10) | ||
| Brooks, Geraldine | Year of Wonders(2023-24) | ||
| Brown, Daniel James | Facing the Mountain(2022-23) | ||
| Brown, Rita Mae | Rubyfruit Jungle (1990-91) | ||
| Burns, Olive Ann | Cold Sassy Tree (1986-87) | ||
| Butler, Robert | Good Scent from a Strange Mountain (1993-94) | ||
| Byatt, A.S. | Possession (1994-95) | ||
| Camus, Albert | The Stranger (2015-16) | ||
| Canin, Ethan | Carry Me Across the Water (2001-02) | ||
| Carr, Caleb | The Alienist (1995-96) | ||
| Carroll, James | American Requiem (1997-98) | ||
| Carroll, James | Memorial Bridge (1997-98) | ||
| Carter, Forrest | The Education of Little Tree (1991-92) | ||
| Casey, John | Spartina (1990-91) | ||
| Cather, Willa | The Christmas Letter (1985-86) | ||
| Cather, Willa | The Song of the Lark (1985-86) | ||
| Chabon, Michael | The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay (2007-08) | ||
| Chang, Jung | Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (1994-95) | ||
| Chase, Joan | During the Reign of the Queen of Persia (1986-87) | ||
| Chrisman, Harry E. | The Ladder of Rivers (2019-20) | ||
| Christie, Agatha | The Murder of Roger Ackroyd 2018-19 | ||
| Coetzee, J.M. | Disgrace (2001-02) | ||
| Cohen, Joshua | 2024-25 | ||
| Collins, Wilke | The Moonstone (1984-85) | ||
| Connell, Evan | Son of the Morning Star (1987-88) | ||
| Conrad, Joseph | Heart of Darkness (1982-83) | ||
| Conroy, Frank | Stop-Time (1994-95) | ||
| Conroy, Pat | Prince of Tides (1987-88) | ||
| Cosse, Laurence | A Novel Bookstore (2015-16) | ||
| Coward, Noel | Pomp and Circumstance (1984-85) | ||
| Crane, Stephen | Red Badge of Courage (1983-84) | ||
| Croke, Vicki | Elephant Company 2016-2017 |
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| Crumey, Andrew | Mister Mee (2002-03) | ||
| Crumley, James | The Last Good Kiss (2020-21) |
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| Daoud, Kamel | The Meursault Investigation (2015-16) | ||
| Davies, Robertson | The Lyre of Orpheus (1996-97) | ||
| Davies, Robertson | What's Bred in the Bone (1989-90) | ||
| deAssis, Machado | Dom Casmurra (2007-08) | ||
| DeBernieres, Louis | Corelli's Mandolin (1997-98) | ||
| Dee, Jonathan | Liberty Campaign (1995-96) | ||
| deGrazia, Sebastian | Machiavelli in Hell (1990-91) | ||
| DeLillo, Don | White Noise (2006-07) | ||
| DeTocqueville, Alexis | Democracy in America (2001-02) | ||
| Dillard, Annie | Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1985-86) | ||
| Dinesen, Isak | Out of Africa (1982-83) | ||
| Doctorow, E.L. | Billy Bathgate (1989-90) | ||
| Doerr, Anthony | All the Light We Cannot See (2015-16) | ||
| Doig, Ivan | The Whistling Season (2008-09) | ||
| Dostoevsky, Fyodor | The Idiot (1991-92) | ||
| Doyle, Brian | Mink River (2020-21) | ||
| Dubus, Andre III | House of Sand and Fog (2000-01) | ||
| Duncan, David James | My Story as Told by Water (2010-11) | ||
| Eagleman, David | Livewired(2022-23) | ||
| Eco, Umberto | The Name of the Rose (1983-84) | ||
| Egan, Timothy | The Immortal Irishman (2022-23) | ||
| Egan, Timothy | The Worst Hard Time (2010-11) | ||
| Eggers, Dave | Zeitoun | ||
| Eliot, T.S. | The Waste Land (1999-2000) | ||
| Ellis, Bret Easton | Less Than Zero (1987-88) | ||
| Ephron, Nora | Heartburn (1982-83) | ||
| Erdrich, Louise | Love Medicine (1986-87) | ||
| Erdrich, Louise | Tales of Burning Love (2001-02) | ||
| Everett, Percival | Eugenides, Jeffrey | Middlesex: A Novel (2004-05) | |
| Fallada, Hans | Alone in Berlin (2013-14) | ||
| Farquhar, John | No Foreign Sky (2007-08) | ||
| Faulkner, William | As I Lay Dying (2013-14) | ||
| Fisher, M.F.K. | The Art of Eating (1992-93) | ||
| Fisher, M.F.K. | Sister Age (2014-15) | ||
| Fitzgerald, F. Scott | Tender is the Night (2007-08) | ||
| Flaubert, Gustave | Madame Bovary (1992-93) | ||
| Foer, Jonathan Safran | Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close | ||
| Fontane, Theodor | Effie Briest (2001-02) | ||
| Forster, E.M. | Maurice (1987-88) | ||
| Fowler, Karen Joy | We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (2014-15) | ||
| Franzen, Jonathan | The Corrections (2002-03) | ||
| Frazier, Charles | Cold Mountain (1997-98) | ||
| Gaitskill, Mary | The Mare 2016-2017 | ||
| Gardam, Jane | The Man in the Wooden Hat (2010-11) | ||
| Gawande, Atul | Being Mortal (2022-23) | ||
| Genova, Lisa | Still Alice (2009-10) | ||
| Genoways, Ted | This Blessed Earth (2019-20) | ||
| George, Margaret | The Autobiography of Henry VIII (1989-90) | ||
| Geyer, Georgie A. | Guerilla Prince (1992-93) | ||
| Giardina, Denise | Saints and Villains (2003-04) | ||
| Gilchrist, Ellen | Victory Over Japan (1987-88) | ||
| Giles, Janice Holt | The Believers (1998-99) | ||
| Goethe, Johann | Faust (1994-95) | ||
| Goldberg, Paul | The Yid (2018-19) | ||
| Golden, Arthur | Memoirs of a Geisha (1998-99) | ||
| Goodwin, Doris K. | No Ordinary Time (1995-96) | ||
| Gordon, Jaimy | The Lord of Misrule (2011-12) | ||
| Gospodinov, Georgi | TimeShelter(2023-24) | ||
| Grass, Gunter | The Tin Drum (2006-07) | ||
| Green, Graham | Our Man in Havana (1986-87) | ||
| Greenblatt, Stephen | The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (2012-13) | ||
| Guterson, David | Snow Falling on Cedars (1996-97) | ||
| Haddon, Mark | The Porpoise (2019-20) | ||
| Haddon, Mark | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2005-06) | ||
| Hannah, Kristin | The Nightingale 2016-2017 | ||
| Harding, Tinkers | Tinkers(2023-24) | ||
| Hardy, Thomas | Jude the Obscure (1982-83) | ||
| Harr, Jonathan | A Civil Action (1998-99) | ||
| Harrigan, Stephen | Remember Ben Clayton (2015-16) | ||
| Harris, Joanne | Chocolat: A Novel (2001-02) | ||
| Harris, Nathan | The Sweetness of Water (2022-23) | ||
| Harrison, Jim | Dalva (1991-92) | ||
| Hawkes, John | Sweet William (1995-96) | ||
| Hawking, Stephen | A Brief History of Time (1989-90) | ||
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The Scarlet Letter (1986-87) | ||
| Heilbrun, Carolyn | Writing a Woman's Life (1990-91) | ||
| Heinlein, Robert | Stranger in a Strange Land (1986-87) | ||
| Heller, Peter | Dog Stars (2020-21) | ||
| Helprin, Mark | Paris in the Present Tense (2020-21) | ||
| Hemingway, Ernest | A Farewell to Arms (1986-87) | ||
| Hillenbrand, Laura | Seabiscuit: An American Legend (2002-03) | ||
| Hoeg, Peter | Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997-98) | ||
| Hosseini, Khaled | The Kite Runner (2005-06) | ||
| Hulme, Keri | Bone People (1993-94) | ||
| Huneven, Michelle | Search (2022-23) | ||
| Hurston, Zora Neale | Their Eyes Were Watching God (1989-90) | ||
| Huston, Nancy | Mark of an Angel (2000-01) | ||
| Huxley, Aldous | Brave New World (1983-84) | ||
| Ishiguro, Kazuo | Never Let Me Go (2006-07) | ||
| Ishiguro, Kazuo | Remains of the Day (1991-92) | ||
| Ivo, Dandrie | Bosnian Chronicle (1993-94) | ||
| James, Henry | Portrait of a Lady (2000-01) | ||
| James, Henry | Daisy Miller (2015-16) | ||
| Japrisot, Sebastian | A Very Long Engagement (1997-98) | ||
| Jewett, Sarah Orne | Best Stories (1991-92) | ||
| Johnson, Adam | The Orphan Master's Son (2013-14) | ||
| Joyce, James | The Dubliners (1998-99) | ||
| Junger, Sebastion | The Perfect Storm(2023-24) | ||
| Kafka, Franz | Metamorphosis (1997-98) | ||
| Kaplan, Robert D. | The Revenge of Geography (2015-2016) | ||
| Kawabata, Yasunari | Snow Country (1998-99) | ||
| Kelton, Elmer | The Time It Never Rained (1988-89) | ||
| Kennedy, Frank | Iron Weed (1985-86) | ||
| Kerouac, Jack | On the Road (1998-99) | ||
| Kingsolver, Barbara | Bean Trees (1993-94) | ||
| Kingsolver, Barbara | Pigs in Heaven (1993-94) | ||
| Kingsolver, Barbara | The Poisonwood Bible (1999-2000) | ||
| Kline, Christina Baker | Orphan Train (2014-15) | ||
| Koestler, Arthur | Darkness at Noon (1982-83) | ||
| Kolker, Robert | Hidden Valley Road (2021-22) | ||
| Krakauer, Jon | Under the Banner of Heaven (2005-06) | ||
| Krauss, Nicole | History of Love (2008-09) | ||
| Kundera, Milan | Unbearable Lightness of Being (1993-94) | ||
| Kurlansky, Mark | Salt: A World History (2003-04) | ||
| Larson, Erik | In the Garden of Beasts (2011-12) | ||
| Larson, Erik | Dead Wake 2016-2017 | ||
| Laskin, David | The Children's Blizzard (2005-06) | ||
| Lawrence, D. H. | Sons and Lovers (2019-20) | ||
| Laxness, Halldor | Independent People (1997-98) | ||
| Leavitt, David | The Lost Language of Cranes (1988-89) | ||
| Lee, Harper | To Kill a Mockingbird (1985-86) | ||
| LeGuin, Ursula | The Left Hand of Darkness (1985-86) | ||
| Lessing, Doris | The Golden Notebook (1982-83) | ||
| LeTellier, Hervé | The Anomaly(2022-23) | ||
| Lethem, Jonathan | Motherless Brooklyn (2002-03) | ||
| Levi, Primo | The Periodic Table 2016-2017 | ||
| Lewis, Bernard | Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror (2003-04) | ||
| Lewis, Michael | Liar's Poker (2000-01) | ||
| Lewis, Michael | Moneyball (2006-07) | ||
| Lewycka, Marina | A Short History of Tractors in Unkranian (2010-11) | ||
| Lightman, Alan | Einstein's Dream (1994-95) | ||
| Limerick, Patricia | Legacy of Conquest (1993-94) | ||
| Liss, David | The Coffee Trader (2004-05) | ||
| Lowry, Lois | The Giver (1996-97) | ||
| Lurie, Alison | The Last Resort (2020-21) |
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| Machiavelli | The Prince (1990-91) | ||
| Macintyre, Ben | The Spy and the Traitor 2021-22 | ||
| Mackay, Charles | Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (2009-10) | ||
| Maclean, Norman | A River Runs Through It (1986-87) | ||
| Mahfouz, Naguib | Harafish (1998-99) | ||
| Makine, Andrei | Dreams of My Russian Summers (1999-2000) | ||
| Malone, Michal | First Lady (2002-03) | ||
| Manchester, William | Disturbers of the Peace (1994-95) | ||
| Manchester, William | The Last Lion (1988-89) | ||
| Marquez, Gabriel Garcia | One Hundred Years of Solitude(2023-24) | ||
| Matthiessen, Peter | Killing Mr. Watson (2009-10) | ||
| Mayle, Peter | A Year in Provence (1995-96) | ||
| McBride, James | Deacon King Kong 2021-22 | ||
| McCarthy, Cormac | All the Pretty Horses (1993-94) | ||
| McCullough, David | John Adams (2001-02) | ||
| McDermott, Alice | At Weddings and Wakes (1999-2000) | ||
| McEwan, Ian | Atonement (2007-08) | ||
| McInerney, Jay | Bright Lights, Big City (1986-1987) | ||
| McLean & Elkind | The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005-06) | ||
| McMillian, Terry | Waiting to Exhale (1992-93) | ||
| Meng, Jin | Little Gods (2021-22) | ||
| Milford, Nancy | Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay (2002-03) | ||
| Millard, Candice | Destiny of the Republic (2018-19) |
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| Millard, Candice | River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey (2012-13) | ||
| Miller, Walter Jr. | A Canticle for Leibowitz (1982-83) | ||
| Moire & Jessel | Brain Sex (1996-97) | ||
| Moorehead, Caroline | Iris Origo: Marchesa of Val D'orcia (2011-12) | ||
| Morgenstern, Erin | The Night Circus (2012-13) | ||
| Morris, Mary M. | A Dangerous Woman (1991-92) | ||
| Morris, Wright | The Home Place (2010-11) | ||
| Morris, Wright | Works of Love (1990-91) | ||
| Morrison, Toni | Beloved (1988-89) | ||
| Morrison, Toni | The Bluest Eye (2019-20) | ||
| Morrison, Toni | Song of Solomon (1982-83) | ||
| Morrow, Bradford | The Prague Sonata(2022-23) | ||
| Mortenson & Relin | Three Cups of Tea (2008-09) | ||
| Mulisch, Harry | The Assault (1992-93) | ||
| Munro, Alice | Open Secrets: Stories (2002-03) | ||
| Murakami, Haruki | Norwegian Wood (2015-16) | ||
| Murdoch, Iris | The Philosopher's Pupil (1985-86) | ||
| Marai, Sandor | Embers (2011-12) | ||
| Mller, Herta | The Land of Green Plums (2010-11) | ||
| Nabokov, Vladimir | Pnin (2005-06) | ||
| Nafisi, Aza | Reading Lolita in Tehran (2004-05) | ||
| Naylor, Gloria | Mama Day (1994-95) | ||
| Nelson, Ben | Death of the Senate (2021-22) | ||
| Ng, Celeste | Everything I Never Told You (2018-19) | ||
| Nichols, John | The Milagro Beanfield War (1987-88) | ||
| Obioma, Chigozie | The Fishermen 2016-2017 | ||
| O'Brien, Tim | In the Lake of the Woods (1996-97) | ||
| O'Connor, Flannery | A Good Man is Hard to Find (2015-16) | ||
| O'Hara, John | Appointment in Samarra (2010-11) | ||
| Obreht, Tea | The Tiger's Wife (2011-12) | ||
| Okrent, Daniel | Last Call: The Rise & Fall of Prohibition (2010-11) | ||
| Olsen, Tillie | Silences (1983-84) | ||
| Olsen, Tillie | Tell Me a Riddle (1983-84) | ||
| Olsen, Tillie | Yonondio (1983-84) | ||
| Olson, Lynne | Citizens of London (2013-14) | ||
| Olson, Lynne | Last Hope Island (2019-20) | ||
| Orwell, George | 1984 (1983-84) | ||
| Oshetsky, Claire | Chouette(2022-23) | ||
| Otsuka, Julie | The Buddha in the Attic (2012-13) | ||
| Owen, Howard | Littlejohn (1995-96) | ||
| Ozick, Cynthia | Cannibal Galaxy (1996-97) | ||
| Pamuk, Orhan | My Name is Red (2014-15) | ||
| Patchett, Ann | State of Wonder (2012-13) | ||
| Paton, Alan | Cry, the Beloved Country (1985-86) | ||
| Pears, Iain | An Instance of the Fingerpost (2000-01) | ||
| Penman, Sharon | Here Be Dragons (1996-97) | ||
| Percy, Walker | The Moviegoer (2004-05) | ||
| Petterson & Born | Out Stealing Horses | ||
| Pietrzyk, Leslie | Pears on a Willow Tree (2000-01) | ||
| Pirsig, Robert | Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1986-87) | ||
| Postman, Neil | Amusing Ourselves to Death(2022-23) | ||
| Powers, Charles | In the Memory of the Forest (1999-2000) | ||
| Powers, Kevin | The Yellow Birds (2013-14) | ||
| Price, Reynolds | Kate Vaiden (1989-90) | ||
| Proulx, E. Annie | The Shipping News (1994-95) | ||
| Purnell, Sonia | Clementine 2017-18 | ||
| Proust, Marcel | Swann's Way (1988-89) | ||
| Pym, Barbara | A Few Green Leaves (1982-83) | ||
| Rhys, Jean | The Wide Sargasso Sea (1985-86) | ||
| Richardson, Kim Michele | The Woman of Troublesome Creek (2020-21) | ||
| Richter, Conrad | Sea of Grass (2009-10) | ||
| Ridley, Matt | Genome (2001-02) | ||
| Robinson, Marilynne | Gilead (2005-06) | ||
| Robinson, Marilynne | Housekeeping (2005-06) | ||
| Rose, Phyllis | Parallel Lives (1989-90) | ||
| Roth, Philip | American Pastoral (1998-99) | ||
| Roth, Philip | The Plot Against America (2004-05) | ||
| Rowling, J.K. | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2000-01) | ||
| Rushdie, Salman | Midnight's Children (2008-09) | ||
| Russell, Jane Jarboe | The Train to Crystal City (2015-16) | ||
| Russell, Mary Doria | The Sparrow (1998-99) | ||
| Sagan, Carl | Dragons of Eden (1984-85) | ||
| Sandoz, Mari | Crazy Horse (2007-08) | ||
| Sandoz, Mari | Winter Thunder (1990-91) | ||
| Saramago, Joseph | The Cave (2003-04) | ||
| Sarton, May | Journal of a Solitude (1992-93) | ||
| Satrapi, Mariane | The Complete Persepolis (2008-09) | ||
| Schaffert, Timothy | The Swan Gondola (2014-15) | ||
| Schiff, Stacy | Vera (2005-06) | ||
| Schwartz, Joseph | Einstein for Beginners (1994-95) | ||
| Scot, Barbara | Prairie Reunion (1997-98) | ||
| Scruton, Roger | Notes from Underground (2021-22) | ||
| Sebald, W.G. | The Emigrants (2005-06) | ||
| Shaara, Michael | The Killer Angels (1990-91) | ||
| Shakespeare, William | Richard III (1991-92) | ||
| Shapiro, B.A. | The Art Forger 2018-19 | ||
| Shields, Carol | Swann (2020-21) |
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| Skloot, Rebecca | The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2011-12) | ||
| Smiley, Jane | Barn Blind (1994-95) | ||
| Smiley, Jane | A Thousand Acres (1992-93) | ||
| Smith, Zadie | White Teeth (2005-06) | ||
| Sobel, Dava | Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir (2001-02) | ||
| Solnit, Rebecca | Orwell's Roses(2023-24) | ||
| Sontag, Susan | In America (2008-09) | ||
| Soueif, Ahdaf | Map of Love (2003-040 | ||
| Sparks, Muriel | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie(2023-24) | ||
| Spencer, Elizabeth | Voices at the Back Door (1995-96) | ||
| Starita, Joe | A Warrior of the People(2023-24) | ||
| Starita, Joe | I Am a Man (2014-15) | ||
| Stefaniak, Mary Helen | The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia (2011-12) | ||
| Stegner, Wallace | Angels of Repose (1992-93) | ||
| Stegner, Wallace | Beyond the Hundredth Meridian (2018-19) | ||
| Steinbeck, John | Cannery Row (1982-83) | ||
| Steinbeck, John | East of Eden (2013-14) | ||
| Steinem, Gloria | Revolution from Within (1993-94) | ||
| Stowe, Harriet Beecher | Uncle Tom's Cabin (2012-13) | ||
| Swarthout, Glendon | The Homesman (2014-15) | ||
| Szabo, Magda | The Door (2018-19) | ||
| Taylor, Peter | A Summons to Memphis (1987-88) | ||
| Theroux, Paul | Riding the Iron Rooster (1989-90) | ||
| Thomas, Evan | First (2021-22) | ||
| Thomas, Lewis | Medusa and the Snail (1985-86) | ||
| Toibin, Colm | The Master (2015-16) | ||
| Toole, John | A Confederacy of Dunces (1990-91) | ||
| Towles, Amor | A Gentleman in Moscow | ||
| Toibin, Colm | Brooklyn (2012-13) | ||
| Tokarczuk, Olga | Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (2021-22) | ||
| Trollope, Anthony | Barchester Towers (1989-90) | ||
| Trollope, Anthony | The Warden (2019-20) | ||
| Turkel, Studs | Working (1982-83) | ||
| Twain, Mark | Innocents Abroad (1985-86) | ||
| Twain, Mark | Roughing It (2008-09) | ||
| Unset, Sigrid | Bridal Wreath Trilogy (1987-88) | ||
| Updike, John | The Rabbit Series (1982-83) | ||
| Verdelle, A.J. | The Good Negress (1998-99) | ||
| Voltaire, Francois-Marie | Candide (2003-04) | ||
| Von Drehle, David | Triangle: The Fire That Changed America (2004-05) | ||
| Vowell, Sara | Assasination Vacation (2009-10) | ||
| Walker, Alice | The Color Purple (1984-85) | ||
| Wallach, Janet | Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell (2006-07) | ||
| Warren, Robert Penn | All the King's Men (1988-89) | ||
| Weatherford, Jack | Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (2018-19) | ||
| Welty, Eudora | Delta Wedding (2010-11) | ||
| Welty, Eudora | The Optimist's Daughter (1984-85) | ||
| West, Nathanael | The Day of the Locust (2002-03) | ||
| Westover, Tara | Educated (2018-19) | ||
| Wharton, Edith | House of Mirth (1983-84) | ||
| Wharton, Edith | Summer (1983-84) | ||
| Wiesel, Elie and Marion | The Night Trilogy 2016-2017 | ||
| Williams, John | Augustus (2011-12) | ||
| Williams, John | Stoner (2012-13) | ||
| Williams, Tennessee | The Glass Menagerie (1984-85) | ||
| Winchester, Simon | The Professor and the Madman (1999-2000) | ||
| Winn, Marie | Red Tails in Love (2019-20) | ||
| Wohlleben, Peter | The Hidden Life of Trees (2021-22) | ||
| Wolfe, Tom | Bonfire of the Vanities (1988-89) | ||
| Wolitzer, Meg | The Wife: A Novel (2003-04) | ||
| Woolf, Virginia | Mrs. Dalloway (1991-92) | ||
| Woolf, Virginia | Orlando (1993-94) | ||
| Worrall, Simon | The Poet and the Murderer (2005-2006) | ||
| Wright, Richard | The Man Who Lived Underground(2023-24) | ||
| Zabor, Rafi | The Bear Comes Home (2000-01) | ||
| Zevin, Gabrielle | The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry (2014-15) | ||