| April | Call it Sleep, by Henry Roth |
| May | The Bingo Palace, by Louise Erdrich |
| June | Beloved, by Toni Morrisson |
| July | Mona in the Promised Land, by Gish Jen |
| August | How the Irish Saved Civilization, by Thomas Cahill |
| September | Cathedral, by Raymond Carver |
| October | The Middle Ground, by Margaret Drabble |
| November | The Full Catastrophe, by David Carkeet |
| December | Bury Me Standing, by Isabel Forcesa |
| January | Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady, by Florence King |
| February | Fool's Progress, by Edward Abbey |
| March | Rum Punch, by Elmore Leonard |
| April | The Sparrow, by Mary Doria Russell |
| May | Love Warps the Mind a Little, by John DuFresne |
| June | Alias Grace, by Margaret Atwood |
| July | To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee |
| August | Ship Fever, by Andrea Barrett |
| September | The Good Husband, by Gail Godwin |
| October | Indian Killer, by Sherman Alexie |
| November | Bridget Jones' Diary, by Helen Fielding |
| December | Wicked, by Gregory Maguire |
| January | Cold Mountain, by Charles Frazier |
| February | Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood, by Rebecca Wells |
| March | The Collector Collector, by Tibor Fischer |
| April | Memoirs of a Geisha, by Arthur Golden |
| May | Duplicate Keys, by Jane Smiley |
| June | Cowboys Are My Weakness, by Pamela Houston |
| July | NO MEETING |
| August | Cloudsplitter, by Russell Banks |
| September | The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood,
by David Simon and Edward Burns |
| October | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, by J. K. Rowling |
| November | The Museum Guard, by Howard Norman |
| December | My Year of Meats, by Ruth Ozeki |
| January | The Reader, by Bernard Schlink |
| February | Their Eyes Were Watching God,
by Zora Neal Hurston |
| March | The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver |
| April | The Professor and the Madman, by Simon Winchester |
| May | American Pastoral, by Philip Roth |
| June | The Magician's Assistant¸ by Ann Patchett |
| July | Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, by Ken Kesey |
| August | Larry's Party, by Carol Shields |
| September | Bellwether, by Connie Wilson |
| October | Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of
1983, by Barbara Kingsolver |
| November | Edible Woman, by Margaret Atwood |
| December | House of Sand and Fog, by Andre Dubus III |
| January | Guns, Germs, and Steel, by Jared Diamond |
| February | The Sixteen Pleasures, by Robert Hellenga |
| March | Open Secrets, by Alice Munro |
| April | Riders of the Purple Sage, by Zane Grey |
| May | The Loved One, by Evelyn Waugh |
| June | The Hours, by Michael Cunningham |
| July | The Bee Season, by Myla Goldberg |
| August | King Leopold's Ghost, by Adam Hochschild |
| September | Norwegian Wood, by Haruki Murakami |
| October | Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury |
| November | A Widow for One Year, by John Irving |
| December | Ahab's Wife, by Sena Jeter Naslund |