Books read/reviewed are in bold:

2011: A Visit From The Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
2010: Tinkers by Paul Harding
2009: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
2008: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
2007: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
2006: March by Geraldine Brooks
2005: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
2004: The Known World by Edward P. Jones
2003: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
2002: Empire Falls by Richard Russo
2001: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
2000: Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
1999: The Hours by Michael Cunningham
1998: American Pastoral by Philip Roth
1997: Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhouser
1996: Independence Day by Richard Ford
1995: The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
1994: The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
1993: A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler
1992: A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
1991: Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
1990: The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
1989: Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
1988: Beloved by Toni Morrison
1987: A Summons To Memphis by Peter Taylor
1986: Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
1985: Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
1984: Ironweed by William Kennedy
1983: The Color Purple by Alice Walker
1982: Rabbit is Rich  by John Updike
1981: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
1980: The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer
1979: The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
1978: Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson
1976: Humboldt’s Gift by Saul Bellow
1975: The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
1973: The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty
1972: Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
1970: Collected Stories by Jean Stafford
1969:  House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
1968:  The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
1967: The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
1966: Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
1965: The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau
1963: The Reivers by William Faulkner
1962: The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O’Connor
1961: To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
1960: Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
1959: The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor
1958: A Death in the Family by James Agee
1956: Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
1955: A Fable by William Faulkner
1953: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
1952: The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
1951: The Town (Richter)
1950: The Way West by A.B. Guthrie
1949: Guard of Honor (Cozzens)
1948: Tales of the South Pacific by James Michener
1947: All The King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
1945: A Bell For Adano by John Hersey
1944: Journey in the Dark (Flavin)
1943: Dragon’s Teeth by Upton Sinclair
1942: In This Our Life (Glasgow)
1940: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
1939: The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
1938: The Late George Apley (Marquand)
1937: Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
1936: Honey in the Horn (Davis)
1935: Now in November (Johnson)
1934: Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller
1933: The Store (Stribling)
1932: The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
1931: Years of Grace (Barnes)
1930: Laughing Boy (Lafarge)
1929: Scarlet Sister Mary (Peterkin)
1928: The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
1927: Early Autumn (Bromfield)
1926: Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
1925: So Big by Edna Ferber
1924: The Able McLauglins (Wilson)
1923: One of Ours by Willa Cather
1922: Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington
1921: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
1919: The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
1918: His Family (Poole)