You may be aware that my wife Susan Appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show back in 1998 to discuss Chris Bohjalian’s book Midwives The following are the other titles that have been selected:

1996

• September – The Deep End of the Ocean, by Jacquelyn Mitchard
• October – Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison
• November – The Book of Ruth, by Jane Hamilton
• December – She’s Come Undone, by Wally Lamb

1997

• February – Stones from the River, by Ursula Hegi
• April – The Rapture of Canaan, by Sheri Reynolds
• May – The Heart of a Woman, by Maya Angelou
• June – Songs In Ordinary Time, by Mary McGarry Morris
• September – The Meanest Thing To Say, by Bill Cosby
• September – A Lesson Before Dying, by Ernest J. Gaines
• October – A Virtuous Woman, by Kaye Gibbons
• October – Ellen Foster, by Kaye Gibbons
• December – The Treasure Hunt, by Bill Cosby
• December – The Best Way to Play, by Bill Cosby

1998

• January – Paradise, by Toni Morrison
• March – Here on Earth, by Alice Hoffman
• April – Black and Blue, by Anna Quindlen
• May – Breath, Eyes, Memory, by Edwidge Danticat
• September – What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day, by Pearl Cleage
• October – Midwives, by Chris Bohjalian
• December – Where the Heart Is, by Billie Letts

1999

• January – Jewel, by Bret Lott
• February – The Reader, by Bernhard Schlink
• April – I Know This Much Is True, by Wally Lamb
• May – White Oleander, by Janet Fitch
• June – Mother of Pearl, by Melinda Haynes
• September – Tara Road, by Maeve Binchy
• October – The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver
• November – Vinegar Hill, by A. Manette Ansay
• December – A Map of the World, by Jane Hamilton

2000

• January – Gap Creek, by Robert Morgan
• February – Daughter of Fortune, by Isabel Allende
• March – Back Roads, by Tawni O’Dell
• April – The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
• May – While I Was Gone, by Sue Miller
• June – River, Cross My Heart, by Breena Clarke
• August – Open House, by Elizabeth Berg
• September – Drowning Ruth, by Christina Schwarz
• November – House of Sand and Fog, by Andre Dubus III

2001

• January – We Were the Mulvaneys , by Joyce Carol Oates
• March – Icy Sparks, by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
• May – Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail, by Malika Oufkir
• June – Cane River, by Lalita Tademy
• September – The Corrections ,by Jonathan Franzen
• November – A Fine Balance, by Rohinton Mistry

2002

• January – Fall on Your Knees, by Ann-Marie MacDonald
• April – Sula, by Toni Morrison

2003

• June – East of Eden, by John Steinbeck
• September – Cry, The Beloved Country, by Alan Paton

2004

• January – One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez
• April – The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, by Carson McCullers
• May – Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy
• September – The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck

2005

• June – The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, by William Faulkner
• September – A Million Little Pieces, by James Frey

2006

• January – Night, by Elie Wiesel

2007

• January – The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography, by Sidney Poitier
• March – The Road, by Cormac McCarthy