Adam Higginbotham - Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
Claire Messud - This Strange Eventful History
Harriet Constable -The Instrumentalist
2024-2025
Safiya Sinclair - How to Say Babylon Alice McDermott - Absolution
Mona Susan Power – A Council of Dolls Leah Redmond Chang – Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power
Angie Kim – Happiness Falls
2023-2024
Geraldine Brooks – Horse
Anthony Marra– Mercury Pictures Presents TJ English – Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld
Hernan Diaz – Trust
Maggie O'Farrell – The Marriage Portrait
2022-2023
Maggie Shipstead – You Have a Friend in 10A&Great Circle
Ash Davidson – Damnation Spring
Diana Abu-Jaber – Fencing with the King
Katie Kitamura – Intimacies
Patrick Radden Keefe – Empire of Pain&Rogues
2021-2022
Brit Bennett – The Vanishing Half
Imbolo Mbue – How Beautiful We Were
Paulina Bren – The Barbizon
C. Pam Zhang – How Much of These Hills is Gold
Colum McCann – Apeirogon
2020-2021
Lily King – Writers & Lovers
Patrick Radden Keefe – Say Nothing
Esi Edugyan – Washington Black
Margaret Leslie Davis – The Lost Gutenberg
Lisa Wingate – The Book of Lost Friends
Richard Ford – Sorry for Your Trouble
2019-2020
Daniel Mason – The Winter Soldier
David Blight – Frederick Douglas: Prophet of Freedom
Delia Owens – Where the Crawdads Sing
Marie Benedict – Lady Clementine
Victoria Johnson – American Eden
2018-2019
Charmaine Craig – Miss Burma
Tayari Jones – An American Marriage
Susan Orlean – The Library Book
Madeline Miller – Circe
Willy Vlautin – Don’t Skip Out on Me
Evan Thomas – First: Sandra Day O’Connor: An Intimate Portrait of the First Woman Supreme Court Judge
2017-2018
Kate Moore – The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
Tracy Kidder – A Truck Full of Money: One Man’s Quest to Recover from Great Success
Joshua Hammer – The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts
Ellen Umansky – The Fortunate Ones: A Novel
Ronald White – American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
Victor Lodato - Edgar & Lucy
2016-2017
Anthony Marra – The Tsar of Love and Techno
Ann Goldstein translated for Elena Ferrante – Frantumaglia: A Writer’s Journey
Paula McClain – Circling the Sun
Douglas Waller – Disciples: The World War II Missions of the CIA Directors Who Fought for Wild Bill Donovan
Allison Pataki – Sisi: Empress on Her Own
Janice Nimura – Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back
2015-2016
Karen Joy Fowler – We are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Eric Foner – Gateway to Freedom: Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
Greg O’Brien – On Pluto: Inside the Mind of Alzheimer’s
Aline Ohanesian – Orhan’s Inheritance
Dean Jobb - Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler
Elizabeth Berg – The Dream Lover
2014-2015
Meg Wolitzer – The Interestings
Peter Heller – The Painter
Melanie Benjamin – The Aviator’s Wife
Laila Lalami – The Moor’s Account
Scott Anderson – Lawrence in Arabia
2013-2014
Mark Helprin – In Sunlight and in Shadow
Colum McCann – The Transatlantic: A Novel
Sena Jeter Naslund – The Fountain of Saint James Court
Vaddey Ratner – In the Shadow of the Banyon
B.A. Shapiro – The Art Forger
2012-2013
Amor Towles – Rules of Civility
Tatjana Soli – The Forgetting Tree
Geraldine Brooks – Caleb’s Crossing
Robert Massie – Catherine the Great
Luis Alberto Urrea – Queen of America
2011-2012
Jennet Conant – A Covert Affair
Thrity Umrigar – The Space Between Us
Arthur Phillips – The Tragedy of Arthur
James Robertson – The Untold Civil War
Alexandra Fuller – Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
2010-2011
Paul Harding – Tinkers
Paul Therous – A Dead Hand
Billy Collins – Ballistics
Alice Hoffman – The Red Garden
Daniel Okrent – Last Call
2009-2010
Nancy Horan – Loving Frank
Vince Flynn – Pursuit of Honor
Elizabeth Strout – Olive Kitteridge
Michael Gross – Rogues Gallery
Julia Glass – I See You Everywhere
Pictured: Author Patrick Radden Keefe mingles with Literary Society members at a private event following his presentation on the book, Empire of Pain.
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