Stieg Larsson - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Lisa Scottoline - Look Again
Kathryn Stockett - The Help
Jamie Ford - Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Simon Sebag Montefiore - Sashenka
Carlos Ruiz Zafón and Lucia Graves - The Shadow of the Wind

2009

Rich Cohen - Sweet and Low: A Family Story
Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows - Guernsey Literary
     and Potato Peel Pie Society
Geraldine Brooks - March
Barack Obama - Dreams From My Father
Markus Zusak - The Book Thief
Nancy Horan - Loving Frank: A Novel
Daniel Silva - The Kill Artist
Ken Follett - World Without End

2008

Elizabeth Gilbert - Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search
     for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
William Faulkner - Light in August
Geraldine Brooks - People of the Book: A Novel
Ken Follett - Pillars of the Earth
Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin - Three Cups of Tea:
     One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School
     at a Time
Marilynne Robinson - Gilead
Zadie Smith - On Beauty
T.C. Boyle - Talk Talk
Khaled Hosseini - A Thousand Splendid Suns

2007

Edward P. Jones - The Known World
Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex
Jeannette Walls - The Glass Castle: a Memoir
Sara Gruen - Water for Elephants, a Novel
Khaled Hosseini - Kite Runner
Jhumpa Lahiri - The Namesake
Rohinton Mistry - Family Matters
Katharine Graham - Personal History
Kim Edwards - Memory Keeper's Daughter

2006

Erik Larson - The Devil in the White City:
     Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair
     that Changed America
Lisa See - Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
T. C. Boyle - Tortilla Curtain
Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go
Elie Wiesel - "The Night Trilogy," i.e. Night,
     Dawn, and Day (aka The Accident)