2008 Selections

Alphabet Juice by Roy Blount, Jr.

Serena by Ron Rash

City of Refuge by Tom Piazza

The Given Day by Dennis Lehane

The Bible Salesman by Clyde Edgerton

Iodine by Haven Kimmel

The Garden of Last Days by Andre Dubus, III

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski

Legal Limit by Martin Clark

So Brave, Young and Handsome by Leif Enger

Dear American Airlines by Jonathan Miles

Peace by Richard Bausch

The View From the Seventh Layer by Kevin Brockmeier

The Konkans by Tony D’Souza

Mudbound by Hilary Jordan

Lush Life by Richard Price

Cadillac Orpheus by Timothy Solon Woodward

The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff

The Millionaires by Inman Majors (Bonus Selection)

2009 Selections

Devil’s Dream by Madison Smartt Bell

Hummingbirds by Josh Gaylord

A Separate Country by Robert Hicks

Going Away Shoes by Jill McCorkle

The Interrogative Mood by Padget Powell

Hell by Robert Olen Butler

Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon

Confederate General Rides Again by Amanda Gable

Black Water Rising by Attica Locke

The New Valley by Josh Weil

Far Bright Star by Robert Olmstead

Waveland by Frederick Barthelme

Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden

Lark & Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips

The Missing by Tim Gautreaux

Eat, Drink and Be From Mississippi by Nanci Kincaid

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Little Boy Blues by Malcolm Jones (Bonus Selection)

2010 Selections

What is Left the Daughter by Howard Norman

Mr. Peanut by Adam Ross

The Lonely Polygamist by Brady Udall

Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes

Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives by Brad Watson

An Unfinished Score by Elise Blackwell

Things We Didn’t See Coming by Steven Amsterdam

The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova

Bloodroot by Amy Greene

Safe From the Neighbors by Steve Yarbrough

Citrus County by John Brandon

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin

Travels in Siberia by Ian Frazier

The Typist by Michael Knight

My Hollywood by Mona Simpson

Bound by Antonya Nelson

The Wake of Forgiveness by Bruce Machart

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender

My Reading Life by Pat Conroy (Bonus Book)

2011 Selections

Swamplandia! by Karen Russell

The Illumination by Kevin Brockmeier 

Townie by Andre Dubus III

House of Prayer No. 2 by Mark Richard

Ghost Light by Joseph O'Connor 

Chinaberry Sidewalks by Rodney Crowell 

State of Wonder by Anne Patchett 

The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht 

The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson

The Night Train by Clyde Edgerton

Birds of Paradise by Diana Abu-Jaber

Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward 

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Nightwoods by Charles Frazier 

White Truffles in Winter by N.M. Kelby

The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides 

When She Woke by Hilary Jordan

 2012 Selections

The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson