2010:
Reason for Hope by Jane Goodall
Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall and Denver Moore
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan

    2009:
What Is the What? by Dave Eggers
Wild Swans - Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

    2008:
Einstein by Walter Isaacson
Albert Einstein - Biography by Jurgen Neffe
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
The Gathering by Ann Enright
March by Geraldine Brooks
The March by E. L. Doctorow

    2007:
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
The Good, Good Pig by Sy Montgomery
Marley and Me by John Grogan
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
The Attack by Yasmina Khadra

    2006:
My Invented Country by Isabel Allende
Island by Allister McCloud
The Children of Willesden Lane by Mona Golabek
Love in the Driest Season by Neely Tucker
The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman

    2005:
Ben Franklin by Walter Isaacson
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Big House by George Howe Colt
Sunk Without a Sound by Brad Dimock
Grand Ambition by Lisa Michaels

    2004:
John Adams by David McCollough
Duty: A Father, His Son, and the Man Who Won the War by Bob Green
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Namesake by Jhumpa Lahari

    2003:
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland

    2002:
Painted House by John Grisham
Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea by Gary Kinder
Personal History of Kathryn Graham by Kathryn Graham
The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty

    2001:
My American Journey by Colin Powell
Waiting by Ha Jin
East of the Mountains by David Guterson