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Awards List

2023

The Covenant of Water (*)
Abraham Verghese

Jan-2023
/ Literary

Hello Beautiful (*)
Ann Napolitano

Mar-2023
/ Women's Fiction

Wellness (*)
Nathan Hill

Sep-2023
/ Literary

2022

Nightcrawling (*)
Leila Mottley

Jun-2022
/ Literary

2021

The Sweetness of Water (*)
Nathan Harris

Jun-2021
/ General Fiction

Bewilderment (*)
Richard Powers

Sep-2021
/ Literary

2020

American Dirt (*)
Jeanine Cummins

Jan-2020
/ General Fiction

Deacon King Kong (*)
James McBride

Mar-2020
/ General Fiction

2019

The Water Dancer (*)
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Sep-2019
/ Literary

Olive, Again (*)
Elizabeth Strout

Oct-2019
/ Literary

2018

An American Marriage (*)
Tayari Jones

Feb-2018
/ Literary

2016

Behold the Dreamers (*)
Imbolo Mbue

Aug-2016
/ Literary

The Underground Railroad (*)
Colson Whitehead

Sep-2016
/ Historical

2015

Ruby (*)
Cynthia Bond

May-2014
/ Historical

2014

The Invention of Wings (*)
Sue Monk Kidd

Jan-2014
/ Historical

2013

The Twelve Tribes of Hattie (*)
Ayana Mathis

Jan-2013
/ Literary

2010

Freedom (*)
Jonathan Franzen

Sep-2010
/ Literary

2009

Say You're One of Them (*)
Uwem Akpan

Jun-2008
/ General Fiction

2008

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (*)
David Wroblewski

May-2008
/ General Fiction

2007

Love in the Time of Cholera (*)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Mar-1988
/ General Fiction

The Pillars of the Earth (*)
Ken Follett

Aug-1989
/ Historical

Middlesex (*)
Jeffrey Eugenides

Sep-2002
/ General Fiction

2005

A Million Little Pieces (*)
James Frey

2003
/ General Fiction

2004

Anna Karenina (*)
Leo Tolstoy

1877
/ Historical

The Good Earth (*)
Pearl S. Buck

Mar-1931
/ Literary

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (*)
Carson Mccullers

Jun-1940
/ General Fiction

One Hundred Years of Solitude (*)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Jun-1970
/ Literary

2003

Cry, the Beloved Country (*)
Alan Paton

Jan-1940
/ General Fiction

East of Eden (*)
John Steinbeck

Sep-1952
/ General Fiction

2002

Sula (*)
Toni Morrison

1973
/ General Fiction

Fall on Your Knees (*)
Ann-Marie MacDonald

Jan-2002
/ General Fiction

2001

A Fine Balance (*)
Rohinton Mistry

Sep-1995
/ General Fiction

We Were the Mulvaneys (*)
Joyce Carol Oates

Sep-1996
/ General Fiction

Icy Sparks (*)
Gwyn Hyman Rubio

Jul-1998
/ Historical

Cane River (*)
Lalita Tademy

Apr-2001
/ Historical Romance

The Corrections (*)
Jonathan Franzen

Sep-2001
/ Literary

2000

The Bluest Eye (*)
Toni Morrison

Jun-1970
/ General Fiction

The Poisonwood Bible (*)
Barbara Kingsolver

Nov-1998
/ Historical

Gap Creek (*)
Robert Morgan

Jan-1999
/ General Fiction

House of Sand and Fog (*)
Andre Dubus

Feb-1999
/ General Fiction

While I Was Gone (*)
Sue Miller

Feb-1999
/ General Fiction

Daughter of Fortune (*)
Isabel Allende

Oct-1999
/ Historical Romance

Drowning Ruth (*)
Christina Schwarz

2000
/ General Fiction

Back Roads (*)
Tawni O'Dell

Apr-2000
/ General Fiction

Open House (*)
Elizabeth Berg

Jul-2000
/ General Fiction

1999

Jewel (*)
Bret Lott

1991
/ General Fiction

Vinegar Hill (*)
A. Manette Ansay

Sep-1994
/ General Fiction

The Reader (*)
Bernhard Schlink

1995
/ General Fiction

A Map of the World (*)
Jane Hamilton

Mar-1995
/ Suspense

The Pilot's Wife (*)
Anita Shreve

May-1998
/ General Fiction

Mother of Pearl (*)
Melinda Haynes

Jun-1999
/ General Fiction

Tara Road (*)
Maeve Binchy

Sep-1999
/ Contemporary Romance

River, Cross My Heart (*)
Breena Clarke

Oct-1999
/ General Fiction

White Oleander (*)
Janet Fitch

May-2000
/ General Fiction

1998

Breath, Eyes, Memory (*)
Edwidge Danticat

Apr-1994
/ General Fiction

Where the Heart Is (*)
Billie Letts

Jul-1995
/ General Fiction

Here on Earth (*)
Alice Hoffman

Sep-1997
/ Romance

What Looks Like Crazy On an Ordinary Day (*)
Pearl Cleage

Dec-1997
/ Contemporary Romance

Paradise (*)
Toni Morrison

Jan-1998
/ General Fiction

Black and Blue (*)
Anna Quindlen

Feb-1998
/ Suspense

I Know This Much Is True (*)
Wally Lamb

Jun-1998
/ General Fiction

Midwives (*)
Chris Bohjalian

Nov-1998
/ General Fiction

1997

Ellen Foster (*)
Kaye Gibbons

May-1987
/ Suspense

Lesson Before Dying (*)
Ernest J. Gaines

1993
/ General Fiction

Stones from the River (*)
Ursula Hegi

1994
/ Historical

Songs in Ordinary Time (*)
Mary McGarry Morris

Aug-1995
/ General Fiction

The Rapture of Canaan (*)
Sheri Reynolds

Jan-1996
/ General Fiction

A Virtuous Woman (*)
Kaye Gibbons

Jan-1997
/ General Fiction

The Meanest Thing to Say (*)
Bill Cosby

Sep-1997
/ General Fiction

1996

The Book of Ruth (*)
Jane Hamilton

Dec-1989
/ General Fiction

She's Come Undone (*)
Wally Lamb

Aug-1992
/ General Fiction

The Deep End of the Ocean (*)
Jacquelyn Mitchard

Jun-1996
/ General Fiction

Award Categories

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Today Show Book Club (Read with Jenna)

Award Years

2024