Past Fiction Titles

2007:
The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
Out by Natsuo Kirino
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor
After Dark by Haruki Murakami
The Echoing Grove by Rosamond Lehmann
Good Behaviour by Molly Keane
Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark
Manservant and Maidservant by Ivy Compton-Burnett
Babel Tower by A. S. Byatt
The Red Queen: A Transcultural Tragicomedy by Margaret Drabble
The American by Henry James

2006:
The Green Knight by Iris Murdoch
Time After Time by Molly Keane
The Fountain Overflows by Rebecca West
The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
The Untouchable by John Banville
Fraud by Anita Brookner
Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Still Life by A. S. Byatt
Islands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway
Saturday by Ian McEwan

2005:
The Seven Sisters by Margaret Drabble
The Rings of Saturn by Winfried Georg Sebald
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
The Virgin in the Garden by A. S. Byatt
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
The Sandcastle by Iris Murdoch
Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman
Forgetting Elena by Edmund White
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Waterland by Graham Swift

2004:
The Good Apprentice by Iris Murdoch
Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
V. by Thomas Pynchon
Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Tender is the Night by F. Scott FitzGerald
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Atonement by Ian McEwan

2003:
A Fairly Honourable Defeat by Iris Murdoch
When We Were Orphans by Kazou Ishiguro
Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth
Dolly by Anita Brookner
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee 
Betrayal by Harold Pinter 
The Innocent by Ian McEwan
The Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemmingway
The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Shuttlecock by Graham Swift
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

Past Nonfiction Titles

2007:
The Girl with the Gallery: Edith Gregor Halpert and the Making of the Modern Art Market by Lindsay Pollock
Glory in a Line: A Life of Foujita by Phyllis Birnbaum
The Lost Painting by Jonathan Harr
Hons and Rebels by Jessica Mitford
Diane Arbus by Patricia Bosworth
Five Sisters: The Langhornes of Virginia by James Fox
The Age of Conversation by Benedetta Craveri
The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life by Tom Reiss
The Viceroy's Daughters: The Lives of the Curzon Sisters by Anne de Courcy
Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King by Antonia Fraser

2006:
New Art City by Jed Pearl
The Disastrous Mrs. Weldon: The Lives, Loves, and Lawsuits of a Legendary Victorian by Brian Thompson
740 Park: The Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building by Michael Gross
Capote: A Biography by Gerald Clarke
Lee Miller: A Life by Carolyn Burke
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Portrait of a Marriage by Nigel Nicolson
The Quest for Corvo: An Experiment in Biography by A. J. A. Symons
Them: A Memoir of Parents by Francine du Plessix Gray

2005:
Anne Sexton: A Biography by Diane Wood Middlebrook
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman
Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby by Geoffrey Wolff
The Rare and the Beautiful: The Art, Loves and Lives of the Garman Sisters by Cressida Connolly
February House by Sherrill Tippins
Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living, 1900-1939 by Virginia Nicholson
The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell by Hilary Spurling
Eminent Victorians: Cardinal Manning, Dr. Arnold, Florence Nightingale, General Gordon by Lytton Strachey

2004:
Mark Rothko: A Biography by James E. B. Breslin
Haunts of the Black Masseur: The Swimmer as Hero by Charles Sprawson
The Sitwells: A Family Biography by John Pearson
Making the Mummies Dance by Thomas Hoving
Lives of the Muses: Nine Women and the Artists They Inspired by Francine Prose
Her Husband: Hughes and Plath--a Marriage by Diane Middlebrook
Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje
Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) by Stacy Schiff
Madame de Pompadour by Nancy Mitford

2003:
Dangerous Muse: The Life of Lady Caroline Blackwood
by Nancy Schoenberger
The Last of the Duchess by Caroline Blackwood
Milking the Moon: A Southerner's Story of Life on this Planet by Katherine Clark
Everybody Was So Young: Gerald Murphy & Sara Murphy, a Lost Generation Love Story
by Amanda Vaill
Living Well is the Best Revenge by Calvin Tomkins
With Chatwin: Portrait of a Writer by Susannah Clapp
The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Picasso, Provence, & Douglas Cooper by John Richardson
D.V. by Diana Vreeland
The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family
by Mary S. Lovell
Elegy for Iris by John Bayley