years past

2011:

1. Best Food Writing 2009, Holly Hughes, editor
2. Culture and Customs of Angola, Adebayo O. Oyebade
3. Strength in what Remains, Tracy Kidder 2/11
4. The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls 4/05
5. The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo, Steig Larson 4/20
6. Bossypants, Tina Fey 5/05
7. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down,  Anne Fadiman 05/17
8. Hands of My Father, Myron Uhlburg 06/01
9. Born to Run, Christopher McDougall 06/05
10. The Help, Kathryn Stockett 06/13
11. Blood, Bones and Butter, Gabrielle Hamilton 06/21
12. Born Round, The Secret History of a Full-time Eater, Frank Bruni 07/04
13. A Gate at the Stairs, Lorrie Moore 7/15
14. A Visit From the Good Squad, Jennifer Egan 10/20
15. Just Kids, Patti Smith 11/15

2010:

1. Comfort Me with Apples, Ruth Reichl (01/11/10)
2. Brief & Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz (01/21/10)
3. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows (02/19/10)
4. Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout (03/27/10)
5. Inside a US Embassy, edited by Shawn Dorman
6. Columbine, Dave Cullen (05/13/10)
7. Shakespeare’s Kitchen, Lore Segal (05/17/10)
8. Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin (6/15/10)
9. The Imperfectionists, Tom Rachman (6/25/10)
10. Water For Elephants, Sara Gruen (7/19/10)
11. Swimming to Angola, Christopher S. Blin (7/23/10)
12. Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami (8/18/10)
13. Half the Sky, Nicholas Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn (10/10)
14. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami (12/10)
15. The Shadow of the Sun, Ryszard Kapuscinski (12/10)

2009:

1. A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini (06/09)
2. Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri (07/09)
3. Abide with me, Elizabeth Strout (08/09)
4. My Life in France, Julia Child & Alex Prud”Homme (10/09)
5. Realities of Foreign Service Life, Patricia Linderman (09/09)
6. The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery (10/23/09)
7. Empire Falls, by Richard Russo (11/10/09)
8. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark (11/14/09)
9. Edible Adventures in Paris,  by Clothilde DuSoulier
10. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro (12/3/09)