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Read in 2009:

History of Love - Krauss
King, Queen, Knave - Nobokov
Revolutionary Road - Yates
On Beauty - Smith
Map of the World - Hamilton
Enchantress of Florence - Rushdie *
The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Hamid *
The Reader - Schlink
I Claudius - Graves
Netherland - O'Neil
Run - Patchett
Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Bauby
Olive Kitteridge - Strout *
Not Quite What I was Expecting - Smith
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All -
South of Broad - Conroy
Tree of Smoke - Johnson *
The Discomfort Zone - Franzen
The Garden of Last Days - Dubus
Housekeeping - Robinson

Read in 2010:

The Brooklyn Follies - Auster
The Bluest Eye - Morrison*
Let the Great World Spin - McCann *
Too Much Happiness - Munro
Cutting for Stone - Verghese *
Wolf Hall - Mantel
Jazz - Morrison *
The God of Small Things *
Kate Vaiden - Reynolds Price
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Larsson
The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Barbery *
On Chisel Beach - McEwan
A Friend of the Family - Grodstein
Freedom - Franzen *
A Mercy - Morrison *
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle - Wroblewski
Sold - McCormick
Tinkers - Harding
Cockeyed - Knightly

Read in 2011

War and Peace - Tolstoy *
Shadow Tag - Erdrich
We Were the Mulvaneys - Oates
Last Night at the Lobster - O'Nan
City of Thieves - Benioff *
That Old Cape Magic - Russo
A Visit from the Goon Squad - Egan *
Cloud Atlas - Mitchell
State of Wonder - Patchett *
The Help - Stockett
The Boardwalk Empire - Nelson Johnson
The Art of Fielding - Chad Hardbach
The Marriage Plot - Jeffrey Eugenides *
Midnight's Children - Rusdie *

Read in 2012

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Foer
The Hunger Games - Collins
The Tiger's Wife - OBreht *
Love - Toni Morrison
Chango Beads and Two Toned Shoes - William Kennedy *
Open City - Cole
Last Days of Summer - Kluger
Legs - Kennedy
The Tender Bar - Moehringer
Paradise - Morrison *
Caleb's Crossing - Geraldine Brooks
White Teeth - Zadie Smith *
Salvage the Bones - Jess Ward

Read in 2013

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk - Ben Fountain*
The Yellow Birds - Kevin Powers *
Behind the Beautiful Forevers - Katherine Boo
First Love - Ivan Turgenev
Round House - Erdrich
A Fine Balance - Mistry *
The Terrorist. - Updike
And the Mountains Echoed - Hossini
The Shape of Water
Transatlantic - McCann
The Orphan Master's Son - Johnson*
The Burgess Boys - Strout
The Room - Donahue
Amy and Isabelle - Strout
The Art of Racing in the Rain - Stein
Americanah - Adichie *

Read in 2014

The Circle - Eggers
Middlemarch - Eliot
The Good Lord Bird - McBride
Rules of Civility - Towles
Life after Life - Atkinson
The Goldfinch - Tartt*
The Son - Meyer*
Tenth of December - Saunders n
Memories of My Melencholy Whores - Marques
Nine years Under - Booker
Gone Girl - Flynn *
Persuasion - Austen
All the Light We Cannot See - Doerr*
Unbroken - Hilldibrand

Read in 2015

The Women Who Lost Her Soul - Shacochis*
A Reliable Wife - Goolrick
We Are Not Ourselves - Thomas
Canada - Ford
This Is How You Lose Her - Diaz
Redeployment - Klay *
The Paris Wife - McLain
Legends of the Fall - Harrison
In the Shade of the Banyan - Ratner
No Country for Old Men - McCarthy *
The Lowland - Lahiri *
The Budda in the Attic - Julie Otsuka
The Wide and Starry Sky - Horan
The Adventures of Augie March - Bellow
The Song of Achilles - Miller
Preparation for the Next Life - Lish
Sharp Objects - G. Flynn
The Narrow Road to the Deep North - Flanagan*
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - Ford
The Paying Guests - Waters
Our Souls at Night - Haruf *
Slade House - Mitchell
Fates and Furies - Groff *
The Light Between Oceans - Stedman
Did You Ever Have a Family - Clegg *

2016

The Harder They Come - Boyle
Everything I Never Told You - Ng
The Secret Chord. - Brooks
Portrait of a Lady. - James
The Women Upstairs - Messud
Loving Frank - Horan
To Rise Again at a Decent Hout - Ferris
God Save the Child - Morrison
A Man Called Ove - Backman *
My Name is Lucy Barton - Strout *
A Spool of Blue Thread - Tyler *
All the Little Live Things - Stegner
All Things Cease To Appear - Brundage
H Is for Hawk - McDonald
The Sympathizer. - Nang *
Everybody's Fool. - Russo*
LaRose. - Erdrich *
Cold Spring Harbor - Yeats
The Little Red Chairs. - O'Brien
Heat and Light - Haigh
Barkskins. - Prouix
Claire of the Sea Light - Dandicut *
The Turner House - Flournoy
The Sellout. - Beatty
Not All Bastards Are from Vienna - Molesini
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love - Hijuelos
The Nest - D'Aprix - Sweeney
Benediction - Hurff
Another Brooklyn - Woodson *
The Undergroung Railroad - Whitehead
Swamplandia! - Russell
The Cat's Table - Ondaatje

2017
The Nightingale - Hanna
The Sense of an Ending - Barnes
The Girls - Cline
Moonglow - Chabon *
A Constellation of Vital Phenonenon - Marra *
Swing Time. - Smith
A Partial History of Lost Causes. - DuBois
A Super Sad True Love Story - Shteyngart
Hillbilly Elegy- Vance
Britt-Marie Was Here - Bachman
Ordinary Grace. - Krueger
Commonwealth. - Patchett *
The Wangs vs the World - Wang
News of the World - Jiles
Best Boy - Gotlieb
Let Me be Frank with You - Ford
The High Mountains of Portugal - Martell
The Sport of Kings - Morgan
Mohawk - Russo
Night Film - Pessi
Imagine Me Gone - Haslett
The Good Luck of Right Now - Quick
Night Train to Lisbon - Mercier
The Wonder - Donaghue
Love May Fail - Quick
Anything Is Possible - Stroud *
The Widow - Barton
The Girl on the Train - Hawkins
Beartown - Bachman
A Confederacy of Dunces - Toole
A Piece of the World - Kline
Mrs. Fletcher - Perrotta

2018
Orphan Train - Kline
Sing, Unburied, Sing - Ward *
Norse Mythology - Gaiman
Foreign Affairs - Laurie
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine - Honeyman
The Cove - Rash
The Golden House - Rushdie
Manhattan Beach - Egan
Turtles All the Way Down - Green
Killer of the Flower Moon - Grann*
Sag Harbor - Whitehead
The Woman in the Window - Finn
Little Fires Everywhere - Ng*
Challenger Deep -Shusterman
Behold the Dreamers - Mbue
Pachinko - Lee*
Bark - Moore
The Blue Guitar - Banville
Am American Marriage - Jones
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - Berendt
Exit West - Hamid
Less - Greer
The Excellent Lombards - Hamilton
Sweetbitter - Danler
The Nix - Hill*
The Alice Network - Quinn
Warlight - Ondaatje
Never Let Me Go - Ishiguro
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh - Chabon
Brown Girl Dreaming - Woodson
The Mars Room - Kushner*
The Spectator Bird - Stegner*
A Plague of Doves - Erdrich *
The Fifth Risk - Lewis
Eleanor and Park - Rowell
Lincoln in the Bardo - Saunders
Unsheltered - Kingsolver

2019

The Library Book - Orlean
Gumption- Offerman
Transcription- Atkinson
Educated - Westover *
A Beginner's Goodbye - Tyler
The German Girl - Correa
East of Eden -Steinbeck *
The Vegetarian-Kang
Serena - Rash
Days without End - Barry
The Italian Teacher - Rachman *
Where the Crawdads Sing - Owens
The Year of Wonders - Brooks
The Moor's Account- Lalami
Half a Yellow Sun - Adichie *
Get in Trouble- Link
Selection Day - Adiga
The Friend - Nunez
The Water's Edge - Gruen
The Nickel Boys - Whitehead *
Beautiful Ruins - Walters
Chances Are - Russo
The Hate U Give - Thomas *
The Dutch House - Patchett
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Tocarczuk*
Inland - Obreht
Olive Again - Strout *
Disappearing Earth - Phillips *
Nothing to See Here - Wilson
The Water Dancer - Coates
2020
Fleishman in Trouble- Brodesser-Ackner
Nothing Gold Can Stay - Rash *
Akin - Donoghue
Red at the Bone - Woodson*
The Overstory - Powers*
An Unnecessary Woman - Alameddine
American Dirt - Cummings
Girl, Woman, Other - Evaristo*
Weather - Offill
Writers and Lovers - King*
In the Midst of Winter - Allende
American Woman - Choi
With the Fire on High - Acevedo
The Glass Hotel - Mandel*
The Night Watchman - Erdrich
Trust Exercise - Choi*
The Topeka School - Learner
Lost Children Archive - Luiselli
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous - Vuong*
This Is Where I Leave You - Tropper
Everything Inside - Dandicat
Sea Monsters - Aridjis
There There - Orange*
Hark - Lipsyte
Normal People - Rooney

* = favorites

Not much to know. I like to read good books and usually pick them from the lists of fiction award winners.