Evening Books Interest Group – Reading History
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| Author | Title | Theme or Sub-Title | Month | Year | F/NF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cather, Willa | My Antonia | 3 | 2024 | F | |
| Frankel, Laurie | This is How it Always Is | 3 | 2024 | F | |
| Bloom, Amy | In Love | 2 | 2024 NF | NF | |
| Nie, Rebecca; Levitt, Peter | Yin Mountain | The Immortal Poetry of Three Daoist Women | 2 | 2024 | Poetry |
| Schwab, V.E. | Invisible Life of Addie LaRue | 1 | 2024 | F | |
| Hustvedt, Siri | Blazing World, The | 1 | 2024 | F | |
| Mifflin, Margot | Blue Tattoo, The | The Life of Olive Oatman | 11 | 2023 | NF |
| Dedderer, Claire | Monsters | A Fan's Dilemma | 11 | 2023 | NF |
| Cha, Frances | If I Had Your Face | 10 | 2023 | F | |
| Groff, Lauren | Matrix | 10 | 2023 | F | |
| Winn, Raynor | The Salt Path | A Memoir | 9 | 2023 | NF |
| Hayhoe, Katherine | Saving Us | A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World | 9 | 2023 | NF |
| Mirza, Fatima Farheen | Place for Us, A | 8 | 2023 | F | |
| Nagendra, Harini | Bangalore Detectives Club, The | 8 | 2023 | F | |
| Butler, Octavia | Kindred | 6 | 2023 | F | |
| Jetnil-Kijner, Kathy | Iep Jaltok | Poems from a Marshallese Daughter | 6 | 2023 | Poetry |
| Salh, Shugri Said | Last Nomad, The | Coming of Age in the Somali Desert | 5 | 2023 | NF |
| Moaveni, Azadeh | Guest House for Young Widows | Amonth the Women of ISIS | 5 | 2023 | NF |
| Darznik, Jasmin | Bohemians, The | 4 | 2023 | F | |
| Novic, Sara | True Biz | 4 | 2023 | F | |
| Wang, Qian Julie | Beautiful Country | A Memoir | 3 | 2023 | NF |
| Girma, Haben | Haben | The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered harvard Law | 3 | 2023 | NF |
| Ozeki, Ruth | Book of Form and Emptiness, The | 2 | 2023 | F | |
| McConaghy, Charlotte | Migrations | 2 | 2023 | F | |
| Kingston, Maxine Hong | Woman Warrior, The | 1 | 2023 | NF | |
| Orczy, Baroness Emma | Scarlet Pimpernel, The | 1 | 2023 | F | |
| Garcia, Gabriela | Of Women and Salt | 11 | 2022 | F | |
| Mbue, Imbolo | How Beautiful We Were | 11 | 2022 | F | |
| Simard, Suzanne | Finding the Mother Tree | Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest | 10 | 2022 | NF |
| Haupt, Lyanda Lynn | Crow Planet | Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness | 10 | 2022 | NF |
| Blake, Sarah | Naamah | 9 | 2022 | F | |
| Williams, Eley | Liar's Dictionary, The | 9 | 2022 | F | |
| Clark, Heather | Red Comet | The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath | 8 | 2022 | NF |
| Plath, Sylvia | Ariel | Poetry | 8 | 2022 | Poetry |
| Plath, Sylvia | Bell Jar, The | 8 | 2022 | F | |
| Harjo, Joy | American Sunrise, An | Poetry | 8 | 2022 | Poetry |
| Harjo, Joy | Crazy Brave | A Memoir | 8 | 2022 | NF |
| Mones, Nicole | Last Chinese Chef, The | 6 | 2022 | F | |
| Millet, Lydia | Children's Bible, A | 6 | 2022 | F | |
| Miller, Lulu | Why Fish Don't Exist | A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life | 5 | 2022 | NF |
| Field, Sally | In Pieces | 5 | 2022 | NF | |
| Kline, Christina Baker | Exiles, The | 4 | 2022 | F | |
| Bennett, Brit | Vanishing Half, The | 4 | 2022 | F | |
| Hudes, Quiara Alegria | My Broken Language | A Memoir | 3 | 2022 | NF |
| Attisha, Dr. Mona Hanna | What the Eyes Don't See | A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City | 3 | 2022 | NF |
| O'Farrel, Maggie | Hamnet | 2 | 2022 | F | |
| Miller, Madeline | Circe | 2 | 2022 | F | |
| Abrams, Stacy | Our Time is Now | Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America | 1 | 2022 | NF |
| Wilkerson, Isabel | Caste | The Origins of our Discontents | 1 | 2022 | NF |
| Nimura, Janice P. | Doctors Blackwell, The | How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine | 11 | 2021 | NF |
| Lefteri, Christy | Beekeeper of Aleppo, The | 11 | 2021 | F | |
| Hinton, Anthony Ray and Hardin, Lara Love | Sun Does Shine, The | How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row | 10 | 2021 | NF |
| Gottlieb, Lori | Maybe You Should Talk to Someone | A Therapist, HER Therapist, and a Life Rvealed | 10 | 2021 | NF |
| Brown, Janelle | Pretty Things | 9 | 2021 | F | |
| Smathers, Mary | In This Land of Plenty | A Memoir | 9 | 2021 | F |
| Westover, Tara | Educated | 8 | 2021 | NF | |
| du Maurier, Daphne | Rebecca | 8 | 2021 | F | |
| du Maurier, Daphne | Birds, The | 8 | 2021 | F | |
| de Rosnay, Tatiana | Manderley Forever | A Biography of Daphne du Maurier | 8 | 2021 | NF |
| Lurie, Alison | Foreign Affairs | 6 | 2021 | F | |
| Solomon, Anna | Little Bride, The | 6 | 2021 | F | |
| Philpott, Mary Laura | I Miss You When I Blink | Essays | 5 | 2021 | NF |
| Silman, Leila | Sex and Lies | True Stories of Women's Intimate Lives in the Arab World | 5 | 2021 | NF |
| Phillips, Julia | Disappearing Earth | 4 | 2021 | F | |
| Wilkinson, Laura | American Spy | 4 | 2021 | F | |
| DiAngelo, Robin | White Fragility | Why Its So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism | 3 | 2021 | NF |
| Gay, Roxane | Hunger | A Memoir of My Body | 3 | 2021 | NF |
| Min, Anchee | Pearl of China | 2 | 2021 | F | |
| Buck, Pearl | Good Earth, The | 2 | 2021 | F | |
| Smith, Betty | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | 2 | 2021 | F | |
| Lepore, Jill | These Truths | A History of the United States | 1 | 2021 | NF |
| Hannah, Kristin | Great Alone, The | 11 | 2020 | F | |
| Owens, Delia | Where the Crawdads Sing | 11 | 2020 | F | |
| Bjornerud, Marcia | Timefulness | How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Change the World | 10 | 2020 | NF |
| Morisseau, Dominique | Detroit 67 | A Play | 10 | 2020 | play |
| Lewycka, Marina | Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, A | 9 | 2020 | F | |
| Benedict, Marie | Only Woman in the Room, The | 9 | 2020 | F | |
| Hegar, Mary Jennings | Shoot Like A Girl | One Woman's Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan | 8 | 2020 | NF |
| Bartels, Pegglelene and Herman, Eleanor | King Peggy | An American Secretary, Her Royal Destiny, and the Inspiring Story of How She Changed an African Village | 8 | 2020 | NF |
| Cobbs, Elizabeth | Tubman Command, The | 6 | 2020 | F | |
| Kim, Angie | Miracle Creek | 6 | 2020 | F | |
| Levy, Debbie and Baddeley, Elizabeth | I Dissent | Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark (Read any book about Ruth Bader Ginsburg) | 5 | 2020 | NF |
| de Hart, Jane Sherron | Ruth Bader Ginsburg | A Life (Read any book about Ruth Bader Ginsburg) | 5 | 2020 | NF |
| Ginsburg, Ruth Bader and Hartnett, Mary and Williams, Wendy | My Own Words | Read any book about Ruth Bader Ginsburg | 5 | 2020 | NF |
| Carmon, Irin and Knizhnik, Shana | Notorious RBG | The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Read any book about Ruth Bader Ginsburg) | 5 | 2020 | NF |
| Finamore, Barbara | Will China Save the Planet? | 5 | 2020 | NF | |
| Thomas, Angie | The Hate U Give | 4 | 2020 | F | |
| Sayer, Dorothy | Gaudy Night | 4 | 2020 | F | |
| Hurston, Zora Neal | Barracoon | The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" | 3 | 2020 | NF |
| Weiss, Elaine | The Woman's Hour | The Great Fight to Win the Vote | 3 | 2020 | NF |
| Alharthi, Jokha | Celestial Bodies | 2 | 2020 | F | |
| Kadish, Rachel | Weight of Ink, The | 2 | 2020 | F | |
| Orlean, Susan | Library Book, The | 1 | 2020 | NF | |
| Stempel, Joan | Closing Chapters | Reminiscences of a Hospice Nurse | 1 | 2020 | NF |
| French, Tana | Witch Elm, The | 11 | 2019 | F | |
| Fowler, Karen | We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves | 11 | 2019 | F | |
| Felt, Hali | Soundings | The Story of the Remarkable Woman Who Mapped the Ocean Floor | 10 | 2019 | NF |
| Woodson, Jacqueline | Brown Girl Dreaming | 10 | 2019 | NF | |
| Desai, Kiran | Inheritance of Loss, The | 9 | 2019 | F | |
| Franklin, Ariana | Mistress of the Art of Death | 9 | 2019 | F | |
| Stamper, Kory | Word by Word | The Secret Life of Dictionaries | 8 | 2019 | NF |
| al-Sharif, Manal | Daring to Drive | A Saudi Woman's Awakening | 8 | 2019 | NF |
| Gabaldon, Diana | Outlander | Book 1 | 6 | 2019 | F |
| Rooney, Kathleen | Lilian Boxfish Takes a Walk | 6 | 2019 | F | |
| Dean, Michelle | Sharp | The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion | 5 | 2019 | NF |
| Fitzgerald, Holly | Ruthless River | Love and Survival by Raft on the Amazon's Relentless Madre de Dios | 5 | 2019 | NF |
| Acevedo, Chantel | Distant Marvels, The | 4 | 2019 | F | |
| Shelley, Mary | Frankenstein | New edition annotated for scientists, engineers & creators | 4 | 2019 | F |
| Gillibrand, Kirsten | Off the Sidelines | Speak Up, Be Fearless, and Change Your World | 3 | 2019 | NF |
| Randolph, Sherie M. | Florynce "Flo" Kennedy | The Life of a Black Feminist Radical | 3 | 2019 | NF |
| Ng, Celeste | Little Fires Everywhere | 2 | 2019 | F | |
| Rao, Shobba | An Unrestored Woman | 2 | 2019 | F | |
| Millard, Candice | Hero of the Empire | The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill | 1 | 2019 | NF |
| Rosner, Elizabeth | Survivor Café | The Legacy of Trama and the Labyrinth of Memory | 1 | 2019 | NF |
| Lee, Min Jin | Pachinko | 11 | 2018 | F | |
| Massey, Sujata | Widows of Malabar Hills, The | 11 | 2018 | F | |
| Moore, Kate | Radium Girls, The | The Dark Story of America's Shining Women | 10 | 2018 | NF |
| Waldman, Ayelet | Really Good Day, A | How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life | 10 | 2018 | NF |
| Clayton, Meg Walte | Race for Paris, The | 9 | 2018 | F | |
| Perry, Sarah | Essex Serpent, The | 9 | 2018 | F | |
| Marshall, Megan | Peabody Sisters, The | Three Women Who Ignited Americn Romanticism | 8 | 2018 | NF |
| Slater, Dashka | The 57 Bus | A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives | 8 | 2018 | NF |
| Giles, Paulette | News of the World | 6 | 2018 | F | |
| Jhabval, Ruth Prawer | Heat and Dust | 6 | 2018 | F | |
| Dinkelspiel, Frances | Tangled Vines | Greed, Murder, Obsession, and an Arsonist in the Vineyards of California | 5 | 2018 | NF |
| Isenberg, Nancy | White Trash | The 400-Year Untold Story of Class in America | 5 | 2018 | NF |
| Hood, Ann | Obituary Writer, The | 4 | 2018 | F | |
| MacKeen, Dawn Anahid | Hundred Year Walk, The | An Armenian Odyssey | 3 | 2018 | NF |
| Marshall, Megan | Margaret Fuller | A New American Life | 3 | 2018 | NF |
| Edson, Margaret | Wit | A Play | 2 | 2018 | play |
| Kumin, Maxine | Where I Live | New & Selected Poems 1990-2010 | 2 | 2018 | F/NF |
| Shapiro, B.A. | Muralist, The | 2 | 2018 | F | |
| Kahn, Mara | Vegan Betrayal | Love, Lies, and Hunger in a Plants-Only World | 1 | 2018 | NF |
| Wulf, Andrea | Invention of Nature, The | Alexander von Humboldt's New World | 1 | 2018 | NF |
| Gyasi, Yaa | Homegoing | 11 | 2017 | F | |
| Hamilton, Jane | Excellent Lombards, The | 11 | 2017 | F | |
| Hirshman, Linda | Sisters In Law | How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World | 10 | 2017 | NF |
| Wilkerson, Isabel | Warmth of Other Suns, The | The Epic Story of America's Great Migration | 10 | 2017 | NF |
| Simonson, Helen | Summer Before the War, The | 9 | 2017 | F | |
| Winspear, Jacqueline | Maise Dobbs | 9 | 2017 | F | |
| Lahren, Hope | Lab Girl | 8 | 2017 | NF | |
| Lovell, Mary | Straight on Till Morning | The Biography of Beryl Markham | 8 | 2017 | NF |
| Markham, Beryl | West With the Night | 8 | 2017 | NF | |
| McLain, Paula | Circling the Sun | 8 | 2017 | F | |
| Benjamin, Melanie | Swans of Fifth Avenue, The | 6 | 2017 | F | |
| Stewart, Amy | Girl Waits With Gun | 6 | 2017 | F | |
| Macdonald, Helen | H is for Hawk | 5 | 2017 | NF | |
| Ung, Loung | First They Killed My Father | A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers | 5 | 2017 | NF |
| Joyce, Rachel | Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy, The | 4 | 2017 | F | |
| Joyce, Rachel | Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, The | 4 | 2017 | F | |
| Blum, Deborah | Poisoner's Handbook, The | Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York | 3 | 2017 | NF |
| Murgatroyd, Sarah | Dig Tree, The | A True Story of Bravery, Insanity, and the Race to Discover Australia's Wild Frontier | 3 | 2017 | NF |
| Atkinson, Kate | Life After Life | 2 | 2017 | F | |
| Atkinson, Kate | God in Ruins, A | 2 | 2017 | F | |
| Leveen, Lois | Secrets of Mary Bowser, The | 2 | 2017 | F | |
| Cain, Susan | Quiet | The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking | 1 | 2017 | NF |
| Steinem, Gloria | My Life on the Road | 1 | 2017 | NF | |
| King, Lily | Euphoria | 11 | 2016 | F | |
| Sittenfeld, Curtis | Eligible | A Modern Retelling of Pride & Prejudice | 11 | 2016 | F |
| Gordon, Linda | Great Arizona Orphan Abduction, The | 10 | 2016 | NF | |
| Nawaz, Zarqa | Laughing All the Way to the Mosque | 10 | 2016 | NF | |
| Hurston, Zora Neal | Their Eyes Were Watching God | 9 | 2016 | F | |
| Lansens, Lori | Girls, The | 9 | 2016 | F | |
| Addario, Lynsey | It's What I Do | A Photographer's Life of Love and War | 8 | 2016 | NF |
| Kolbert, Elizabeth | Sixth Extinction, The | An Unnatural History | 8 | 2016 | NF |
| Soli, Tatjana | Lotus Eaters, The | 8 | 2016 | F | |
| Du Maurier, Daphne | My Cousin Rachel | 6 | 2016 | F | |
| Kidd, Sue Monk | Invention of Wings, The | 6 | 2016 | F | |
| Martin, Wednesday | Primates of Park Avenue | A Memoir | 5 | 2016 | NF |
| Schnall, Marianne | What Will it Take to Make a Woman President | Conversations About Women, Leadership and Power | 5 | 2016 | NF |
| Denfield, Rene | Enchanted, The | 4 | 2016 | F | |
| Kent, Hannah | Burial Rites | 4 | 2016 | F | |
| Downey, Kristin | Woman Behind the New Deal, The | The Life and Legacy of Francis Perkins | 3 | 2016 | NF |
| Warren, Elizabeth | Fighting Chance, A | 3 | 2016 | NF | |
| Fowler, Theresa Anne | Z | A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald | 2 | 2016 | F |
| Novic, Sara | Girl at War | 2 | 2016 | F | |
| Kondo, Marie | Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up, The | The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing | 1 | 2016 | NF |
| Robinson, Jo | Eating on the Wild Side | The Missing Link to Optimal Health | 1 | 2016 | NF |
| Ng, Celeste | Everything I Never Told You | 11 | 2015 | F | |
| Wecker, Helene | Golem and the Jinni, The | 11 | 2015 | F | |
| Abbott, Karen | Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy | Four Women Undercover in the Civil War | 10 | 2015 | NF |
| Chast, Roz | Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant | 10 | 2015 | NF | |
| Kline, Christina Baker | Orphan Train | 9 | 2015 | F | |
| Stedman, M.L. | Light Between Oceans, The | 9 | 2015 | F | |
| Goodwin, Doris Kearns | Bully Pulpit, The | Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism | 8 | 2015 | NF |
| Stein, Gertrude | Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, The | 8 | 2015 | F | |
| Baker, S. Josephine | Fighting for Life | 6 | 2015 | NF | |
| Cahalan, Susannah | Brain on Fire | My Month of Madness | 6 | 2015 | NF |
| McCullers, Carson | Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The | 5 | 2015 | F | |
| Virginia Woolf | Mrs. Dalloway | 5 | 2015 | F | |
| Hamilton, Gabrielle | Blood, Bones & Butter | The Inaadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef | 4 | 2015 | NF |
| Sandburg, Sheryl | Lean In | Women, Work, and the Will to Lead | 4 | 2015 | NF |
| Henriquez, Cristina | Book of Unknown Americans, The | 3 | 2015 | F | |
| Hoffman, Alice | Seventh Heaven | 3 | 2015 | F | |
| Albright, Madeline | Prague Winter | 2 | 2015 | NF | |
| Roy, Arundhati | Walking With the Comrades | 2 | 2015 | NF | |
| Adichie, Ngozi | Americanah | 1 | 2015 | F | |
| Goodwin, Gail | Flora | 1 | 2015 | F | |
| Coates, Karen | This Way More Better | Stories & Photos from Asia's back Roads | 11 | 2014 | NF |
| Johnson, Tracy | Shooting the Boh | A Woman's Voyage Down the Wildest River in Borneo | 11 | 2014 | NF |
| Coplin, Amanda | Orchardist, The | 10 | 2014 | F | |
| Strout, Elizabeth | Burgess Boys, The | 10 | 2014 | F | |
| Beach, Sylvia | Shakespeare and Company | 9 | 2014 | NF | |
| Sotomayor, Sonya | My Beloved World | 9 | 2014 | NF | |
| Berman, Sabina | Me Who Dove into the Heart of the World | 8 | 2014 | F | |
| Rosenfeld, Jordan | Forged in Grace | 8 | 2014 | F | |
| Boo, Katherine | Behind the Beautiful Forevers | Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity | 6 | 2014 | NF |
| McMillan, Tracie | American Way of Eating, The | Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table | 6 | 2014 | NF |
| Erdrich, Louise | Round House | 5 | 2014 | F | |
| Shriver, Lionel | Big Brother | 5 | 2014 | F | |
| Coontz, Stephanie | Strange Stirring, A | The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s | 4 | 2014 | NF |
| Kiernan, Denise | Girls of Atomic City | The Untold Story of the Women who Helped Win WWII | 4 | 2014 | NF |
| Diffenbaugh, Vanessa | Language of Flowers, The | 3 | 2014 | F | |
| Wein, Elizabeth | Code Name Verity | 3 | 2014 | F | |
| Chua, Amy | Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother | 2 | 2014 | NF | |
| Druckerman, Pamela | Bringing Up Bébé | One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting | 2 | 2014 | NF |
| LaPlante, Eve | Marmee and Louisa | The Untold Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Mother | 2 | 2014 | NF |
| Eliot, George | Middlemarch | 1 | 2014 | F | |
| Murdoch, Iris | Black Prince, The | 1 | 2014 | F | |
| Graham, Katherine | Personal History | 11 | 2013 | NF | |
| Milford, Nancy | Savage Beauty | The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay | 11 | 2013 | NF |
| Kingsolver, Barbara | Flight Behavior | 10 | 2013 | F | |
| Semple, Maria | Where'd You Go, Bernadette? | 10 | 2013 | F | |
| Klein, Naomi | Shock Doctrine, The | The Rise of Disaster Capitalism | 9 | 2013 | NF |
| Tomain, Claire | Samuel Pepys | The Unequalled Self | 9 | 2013 | NF |
| McLain, Paula | Paris Wife, The | 8 | 2013 | F | |
| Tanner, Haley | Vaclav and Lena | 8 | 2013 | F | |
| McDonald, Sarah | Holy Cow! | An Indian Adventure | 6 | 2013 | NF |
| Quindlen, Anna | Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake | A Memoir of a Woman's Life | 6 | 2013 | NF |
| Bender, Aimee | Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, The | 5 | 2013 | F | |
| Glass, Julia | Widower's Tale, The | 5 | 2013 | F | |
| Kolbert, Elizabeth | Field Notes from a Catastrophe | Man, Nature, and Climate Change | 4 | 2013 | NF |
| Strayed, Cheryl | Wild | From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail | 4 | 2013 | NF |
| Bronte, Anne | Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The | 3 | 2013 | F | |
| Bronte, Charlotte | Villette | 3 | 2013 | F | |
| Munro, Alice | Runaway | 3 | 2013 | F | |
| Fuller, Alexandra | Don't Let's Go To the Dogs Tonight | An African Childhood | 2 | 2013 | NF |
| Smith, Patti | Just Kids | 2 | 2013 | NF | |
| Dean, Debra | Madonnas of Leningrad, The | 1 | 2013 | F | |
| Patchett, Ann | State of Wonder | 1 | 2013 | F | |
| Armstrong, Karen | Spiral Staircase, The | My Climb Out of Darkness | 11 | 2012 | NF |
| Atwood, Margaret | Alias Grace | 11 | 2012 | F | |
| Sullivan, J. Courtney | Maine | 10 | 2012 | F | |
| Ward, Jesmyn | Salvage the Bones | 10 | 2012 | F | |
| Demick, Barbara | Nothing to Envy | Ordinary Lives in North Korea | 9 | 2012 | NF |
| Wallach, Janet | Desert Queen | The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell | 9 | 2012 | NF |
| Amirrezvani, Anita | Blood of Flowers | 8 | 2012 | F | |
| Chau, Angie | Quiet as They Come | 8 | 2012 | F | |
| Hillenbrand, Laura | Unbroken | A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption | 6 | 2012 | NF |
| Scottoline, Lisa | Why My 3rd Husband Will Be a Dog | The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman | 6 | 2012 | NF |
| French, Tana | Faithful Place | 5 | 2012 | F | |
| James, P.D. | Taste For Death, A | 5 | 2012 | F | |
| Davis, Belva and Haddock, Vicki | Never in My Wildest Dreams | A Black Woman's Life in Journalism | 4 | 2012 | NF |
| Roach, Mary | Packing for Mars | The Curious Science of Life in the Void | 4 | 2012 | NF |
| Jewitt, Sarah Orne | Country of the Pointed Firs, The | 3 | 2012 | F | |
| Noonan, C.J. | House on Harrigan's Hill, The | 3 | 2012 | F | |
| Ali-Karamali, Sumbul | Muslim Next Door, The | 2 | 2012 | NF | |
| Kristof, Nicholas and Wudunn, Sheryl | Half the Sky | Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide | 2 | 2012 | NF |
| Krauss, Nicole | Great House | 1 | 2012 | F | |
| Shields, Carol | Unless | 1 | 2012 | F | |
| Angier, Natalie | Canon, The | A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science | 11 | 2011 | NF |
| Brooks, Geraldine | Nine Parts of Desire | The Hidden World of Islamic Women | 11 | 2011 | NF |
| Donoghue, Emma | Room | 10 | 2011 | F | |
| Phillips, Jayne Anne | Lark and Termite | 10 | 2011 | F | |
| Fadiman, Anne | Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, The | A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures | 9 | 2011 | NF |
| Skloot, Rebecca | Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, The | 9 | 2011 | NF | |
| Genova, Lisa | Still Alice | 8 | 2011 | NF | |
| Strauch, Barbara | Secret Life of the Grown-up Brain, The | The Surprising Talents of the Middle-Aged Mind | 6 | 2011 | NF |
| Stockett, Kathryn | Help, The | 5 | 2011 | F | |
| Gelman, Rita Golden | Tales of a Female Nomad | Living at Large in the World | 4 | 2011 | NF |
| Nemirovsky, Irene | Suite Française | 3 | 2011 | F | |
| Sanders, Lisa | Every Patient Tells a Story | Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis | 2 | 2011 | NF |
| Lee, Harper | To Kill a Mockingbird | 1 | 2011 | F | |
| Meloy, Ellen | Anthropology of Turquoise | Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky | 11 | 2010 | NF |
| See, Lisa | Shanghai Girls | 10 | 2010 | F | |
| Satrapi, Marjane | Persepolis | The Story of a Childhood | 9 | 2010 | NF |
| Barry, Brunonia | Lace Reader, The | 8 | 2010 | F | |
| Johnson-Sirleaf, Ellen | This Child Will be Great | Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President | 6 | 2010 | NF |
| Robinson, Marilynne | Gilead | 5 | 2010 | F | |
| Robinson, Marilynne | Home | 5 | 2010 | F | |
| Faust, Drew Gilpin | Republic of Suffering, This | Death and the American Civil War | 4 | 2010 | NF |
| Barbery, Muriel | Elegance of the Hedgehog | 3 | 2010 | F | |
| Braestrap, Kate | Here if You Need Me | A True Story | 2 | 2010 | NF |
| Wharton, Edith | Age of Innocence, The | 1 | 2010 | F | |
| Taylor, Jill Bolte | My Stroke of Insight | A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey | 11 | 2009 | NF |
| Brooks, Geraldine | People of the Book | 10 | 2009 | F | |
| Goodwin, Doris Kearns | No Ordinary Time | Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II | 9 | 2009 | NF |
| Wiggins, Marianne | Evidence of Things Unseen | 8 | 2009 | F | |
| Greenburg, Jan Crawford | Supreme Conflict | The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court | 6 | 2009 | NF |
| Ali, Monica | Brick Lane | 5 | 2009 | F | |
| Any author | any book | Poetry | 4 | 2009 | Poetry |
| Baingana, Doreen | Tropical Fish | Tales from Entebbe | 3 | 2009 | F |
| Stowe, Harriet Beecher | Uncle Tom's Cabin | 2 | 2009 | F | |
| Smith, Dodie | I Capture the Castle | 1 | 2009 | F | |
| Kingsolver, Barbara | Animal, Vegetable, Miracle | A Year of Food Life | 11 | 2008 | NF |
| Setterfield, Diane | Thirteenth Tale, The | 10 | 2008 | F | |
| Ali, Ayaan Hirsi | Infidel | 9 | 2008 | NF | |
| Horan, Nancy | Loving Frank | 8 | 2008 | F | |
| Lovell, Mary | Sisters, The | The Saga of the Mitford Family | 6 | 2008 | NF |
| Quindlen, Anna | Rise and Shine | 5 | 2008 | F | |
| Millard, Candice | River of Doubt, The | Theodore Roosevelts Darkest Journey | 4 | 2008 | NF |
| Caldwell, Bo | Distant Land of My Father, The | 3 | 2008 | F | |
| Williams, Marjorie | Women at the Washington Zoo | Writings on Politics, Family, and Fate | 2 | 2008 | NF |
| Alvarez, Julia | Saving the World | 1 | 2008 | F | |
| Paternostro, Silvana | In the Land of God and Man | A Latin Woman's Journey | 11 | 2007 | NF |
| Gruen, Sara | Water for Elephants | 10 | 2007 | F | |
| Levine, Judity | Not Buying It | My Year Without Shopping | 9 | 2007 | NF |
| Perle, Liz | Money | A Memoir | 9 | 2007 | NF |
| Any author | any book | Pride & Prejudice themed novel | 8 | 2007 | F |
| Austen, Jane | Pride & Prejudice | 8 | 2007 | F | |
| Goodwin, Doris Kearns | Team of Rivals | The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln | 5 | 2007 | NF |
| Krauss, Nicole | History of Love, The | 4 | 2007 | F | |
| Bourke-White, Margaret | Portrait of Myself | 3 | 2007 | NF | |
| Brooks, Geraldine | March | 2 | 2007 | F | |
| Zeppa, Jamie | Beyond the Sky and the Earth | A Journey into Bhutan | 1 | 2007 | NF |
| Oates, Joyce Carol | Missing Mom | 11 | 2006 | F | |
| Didion, Joan | Year of Magical Thinking, The | 10 | 2006 | NF | |
| Gregory, Phillipa | Other Boleyn Girl, The | 9 | 2006 | F | |
| Grealy, Lucy | Autobiography of a Face | 8 | 2006 | NF | |
| Patchett, Ann | Truth and Beauty | 8 | 2006 | NF | |
| Russell, Mary Doria | Thread of Grace, A | 6 | 2006 | F | |
| Friedan, Betty | any book | 5 | 2006 | NF | |
| Kallos, Stephanie | Broken For You | 4 | 2006 | F | |
| Walls, Jeannette | Glass Castle, The | A Memoir | 3 | 2006 | NF |
| Houston, Jeanne Watsuki & James D. | Farewell to Manzanar | 2 | 2006 | NF | |
| Otsuko, Julie | When the Emperor was Divine | 2 | 2006 | F | |
| Roach, Mary | Stiff | The Curious Life of Human Cadavers | 1 | 2006 | NF |
| Abu-Jaber, Diane | Crescent | 11 | 2005 | F | |
| Geniesse, Jane Fletcher | Passionate Nomad | The Life of Freya Stark | 10 | 2005 | NF |
| Lahiri, Jhumpa | Namesake, The | 9 | 2005 | F | |
| Albright, Madeline | Madame Secretary | 8 | 2005 | NF | |
| Mattison, Alice | Book Borrower, The | 6 | 2005 | F | |
| Roberts, Cokie | Founding Mothers | The Women Who Raised Our Nation | 5 | 2005 | NF |
| Niffenegger, Audrey | Time Traveler's Wife, The | 4 | 2005 | F | |
| Sontag, Susan | any book | 3 | 2005 | NF | |
| Tart, Donna | Little Friend, The | 2 | 2005 | F | |
| Didion, Joan | Where I Was From | 1 | 2005 | NF | |
| Atwood, Margaret | Oryx and Crake | 11 | 2004 | F | |
| Power, Samantha | Problem From Hell, A | America in the Age of Genocide | 10 | 2004 | NF |
| Hamilton, Jane | Short History of a Prince, The | 9 | 2004 | F | |
| Bohrer, Melissa Lukeman | Glory, Passion, and Principle | The Story of 8 Remarkable Women at the Core of the American Revolution | 8 | 2004 | NF |
| Erdrich, Louise | Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, The | 6 | 2004 | F | |
| Nafisi, Azar | reading Lolita in Terhan | A Memoir in Books | 5 | 2004 | NF |
| Freeman, Judith | Red Water | 4 | 2004 | F | |
| Blunt, Judy | Breaking Clean | 3 | 2004 | NF | |
| Kidd, Sue Monk | Secret Life of Bees, The | 2 | 2004 | F | |
| Steinbach, Alice | Without Reservations | The Travels of an Independent Woman | 1 | 2004 | NF |
| Shields, Carol | Unless | 11 | 2003 | F | |
| Greenlaw, Linda | Hungry Ocean, The | A Swordboat Captain's Journey | 10 | 2003 | NF |
| Greenlaw, Linda | Lobster Chronicles, The | Life on a Very Small Island | 10 | 2003 | NF |
| Lawson, Mary | Crow Lake | 9 | 2003 | F | |
| Ackerman, Diane | Cultivating Delight | A Natural History of My Garden | 8 | 2003 | NF |
| Packer, Ann | Dive from Clausen's Pier, The | 6 | 2003 | F | |
| Smith, Diane | Letters from Yellowstone | 5 | 2003 | F | |
| Hillenbrand, Laura | Seabiscuit | An American Legend | 4 | 2003 | NF |
| O'Faolain, Nuala | My Dream of You | 3 | 2003 | F | |
| Ryan, Terry | Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio, The | How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less | 2 | 2003 | NF |
| Murdoch, Iris | any book | 1 | 2003 | F | |
| Tyler, Anne | Back When We Were Grownups | 11 | 2002 | F | |
| Ehrenreich, Barbara | Nickel and Dimed | On Not Getting By in America | 10 | 2002 | NF |
| Patchett, Ann | Bel Canto | 9 | 2002 | F | |
| Michaels, Anne | Fugitive Pieces | 7 | 2002 | F | |
| Alvord, Lori Arviso | Scalpel and the Silver Bear, The | 6 | 2002 | F | |
| Meads, Kat | Born Southern and Restless | Emerging Writers in Creative Nonfiction | 5 | 2002 | NF |
| Meads, Kat | Not Waving | 5 | 2002 | NF | |
| Hathaway, Katharine Butler | Little Locksmith, The | A Memoir | 4 | 2002 | NF |
| Atwood, Margaret | Blind Assassin, The | 3 | 2002 | F | |
| Fisher, M.F.K. | any book | 2 | 2002 | NF | |
| Hegland, Jean | Into the Forest | 1 | 2002 | F | |
| Goldberg, Myla | Bee Season, The | 12 | 2001 | F | |
| Fadiman, Anne | Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, The | A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures | 11 | 2001 | NF |
| Peacock, Nancy | Home Across the Road | 10 | 2001 | F | |
| Min, Anchee | Becoming Madame Mao | 9 | 2001 | F | |
| King, Florence | Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady | 8 | 2001 | NF | |
| Naslund, Sena Jeter | Ahab's Wife or The Star Gazer | 7 | 2001 | F | |
| Fussell, Betty | My Kitchen Wars | A Memoir | 6 | 2001 | NF |
| Chevalier, Tracy | Girl with a Pearl Earring | 5 | 2001 | F | |
| Vreeland, Susan | Girl in Hyacinth Blue | 5 | 2001 | F | |
| Rosen, Ruth | World Split Open, The | How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America | 4 | 2001 | NF |
| Harris, Joanne | Chocolat | 3 | 2001 | F | |
| Any author | any book | Abigail Adams | 2 | 2001 | NF |
| Diament, Anita | Red Tent, The | 1 | 2001 | F | |
| Lisle, Laurie | Portrait of an Artist | A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe | 12 | 2000 | NF |
| James, P.D. | any book | 11 | 2000 | F | |
| Angier, Natalie | Woman | An Intimate Georgraphy | 10 | 2000 | NF |
| Shields, Carol | Larry's Party | 9 | 2000 | F | |
| Ivins, Molly | Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She? | 8 | 2000 | NF | |
| Pipher, Mary | Another Country | Navigating the Emotional Terrain of Our Elders | 6 | 2000 | NF |
| Lippi, Rosina | Homestead | 5 | 2000 | F | |
| Goldstone, Lawrence and Nancy | Used and Rare | Travels in the Book World | 4 | 2000 | NF |
| Kingsolver, Barbara | Poisonwood Bible, The | 3 | 2000 | F | |
| Farmaian, Sattareh Farman | Daughter of Persia | A Woman's Journey from Her Father's Harem Through the Islamic Revolution | 2 | 2000 | NF |
| Russell, Mary Doria | Sparrow, The | 1 | 2000 | F | |
| Chang, Jung | Wild Swans, The | 12 | 1999 | F | |
| O'Faolain, Nuala | Are You Somebody? | The Accidential Memoir of a Dublin Woman | 10 | 1999 | NF |
| Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee | Mistress of Spices, The | 9 | 1999 | F | |
| Paul, Caroline | Fighting Fire | 8 | 1999 | NF | |
| Tyler, Anne | Patchwork Planet | 7 | 1999 | F | |
| Karr, Mary | Liar's Club, The | A Memoir | 6 | 1999 | NF |
| Pelletier, Cathie | Funeral Makers, The | 5 | 1999 | F | |
| Quindlen, Anna | How Reading Changed My Life | 4 | 1999 | NF | |
| Smiley, Jane | All True Adventures of Miss Liddy Newton, The | 3 | 1999 | F | |
| Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne | Red Dirt | Growing Up Okie | 2 | 1999 | NF |
| Harvey, Brett | Fifties | A Woman's Oral History | 5 | 1997 | NF |
| Any author | any book | Ethics | 1 | 1997 | NF |
| Hunter-Gault, Charlyne | In My Place | 12 | 1996 | NF | |
| King, Florence | When Sisterhood Was in Flower | 11 | 1996 | NF | |
| Proulz, E. Annie | Shipping News, The | 9 | 1996 | F | |
| Gerzena, Gretchen Holbrook | Carrington | A Life | 6 | 1996 | F |
| Smiley, Jane | Moo | 5 | 1996 | F | |
| Rose, Phyllis | Parallel Lives | 5 Victorian Marriages | 4 | 1996 | NF |
| Evans, Elizabeth | Blue House, The | 3 | 1996 | F | |
| Egli, Ida Rate, ed | No Rooms of Their Own | Women Writers of Early California | 12 | 1995 | NF |
| Dillard, Annie | American Childhood, An | 5 | 1990 | NF | |
| Tan, Amy | Joy Luck Club, The | 4 | 1990 | F | |
| Atwood, Margaret | Cat's Eye | 1 | 1990 | F | |
| Allende, Isabel | House of Spirits | F | |||
| Alvarez, Julia | How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents | F | |||
| Angelou, Maya | I know Why the Caged Bird Sings | F | |||
| Any author | any biography | First ladies | NF | ||
| Atwood, Margaret | Handmaid's Tale, The | F | |||
| Atwood, Margaret | Robber Bride, The | F | |||
| Bateson, Mary Catherine | Composing a Life | NF | |||
| Bauermeister, Erica, Larsen, Jesse, and Smith, Holly, ed | any book | 500 Great Books by Women | F | ||
| Beals, Melba Patillo | Warriors Don't Cry | A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High | NF | ||
| Byatt, A.S. | Possession | F | |||
| Cather, Willa | Death Comes for the Archbishop | F | |||
| Cather, Willa | My Antonia | F | |||
| Cather, Willa | O, Pioneers! | F | |||
| Chopin, Kate | Awakening, The | F | |||
| Cisneros, Sandra | House on Mango Street, The | F | |||
| Conway, Jill Ker | Road from Coorain, The | NF | |||
| Conway, Jill Ker | Written by Herself | Autobiographies of American Women: An Anthology | NF | ||
| Delany, Sarah and Elizabeth | Having Our Say | The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years | NF | ||
| Erdrich, Louise | Love Medicine | F | |||
| Faludi, Susan | Backlash | The Undeclared War Against American Women | NF | ||
| Fraser, Antonia | Weaker Vessel, The | Women's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England | NF | ||
| Gibbons, Kaye | Ellen Foster | F | |||
| Heilbrunn, Carolyn G. and Politt, Katha | Writing a Woman's Life | NF | |||
| Jen, Gish | Typical American | F | |||
| Kennedy, Caroline and Alderman, Ellen | In Our Defense | The Bill of Rights in Action | NF | ||
| King, Laurie R. | Beekeeper's Apprentice, The | F | |||
| Kingsolver, Barbara | Animal Dreams | F | |||
| Kingston, Maxine Hong | Woman Warrior, The | Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts | NF | ||
| Kusz, Natalie | Road Song | NF | |||
| Leffland, Ella | Rumors of Peace | NF | |||
| Markham, Beryl | West With the Night | NF | |||
| Mayes, Frances | Under the Tuscan Sun | At Home in Italy | NF | ||
| Morrison, Toni | Beloved | F | |||
| Morrison, Toni | Paradise | F | |||
| Mukherjee, Bharati | Jasmine | F | |||
| Norris, Kathleen | Cloister Walk, The | NF | |||
| Orenstein, Peggy | Schoolgirls | Young Women, Self Esteem, and the Confidence Gap | NF | ||
| Pipher, Mary | Reviving Ophelia | Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls | NF | ||
| Proulz, E. Annie | Postcards | F | |||
| Sagan, Francoise | Bonjour Tristesse | F | |||
| Schlissel, Lillian | Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey | NF | |||
| Shields, Carol | Stone Diaries, The | F | |||
| Smiley, Jane | Thousand Acres, A | F | |||
| Sobel, Dava | Longitude | The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time | NF | ||
| Tannen, Deborah | You Just Don't Understand | NF | |||
| Tart, Donna | Secret History, The | F | |||
| Tepper, Sheri | Gate to Women's Country, The | F | |||
| Wells, Rebecca | Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, The | F | |||
| Welty, Eudora | Losing Battles | F | |||
| Wesley, Mary | Vacilations of Poppy Carew, The | F | |||
| Wharton, Edith | House of Mirth, The | F | |||
| Williams, Terry Tempest | Refuge | An Unnatural History of Family and Place | NF |