SPRING 2023

NON-FICTION

A Speck In The Sea by John Aldridge and Anthony Sosinski

SPRING 2022

FICTION

The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah

NON-FICTION

Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive by Stephanie Land

WINTER 2022

FICTION

The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams

SPRING/SUMMER 2020

NON-FICTION

Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar

FALL 2019/WINTER 2020

FICTION

The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict

NON-FICTION

Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

Inheritance by Dani Shapiro

WINTER/SPRING 2019

FICTION

A Place For Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza

The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore

The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer

NON-FICTION

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou

The Library Book by Susan Orlean

FALL 2018

FICTION

Waking Lions by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen

The Secrets Between Us by Thrity Umrigar

NON-FICTION

Educated by Tara Westover

SPRING 2018

FICTION

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

The Plot Against America by Philip Roth

Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark T. Sullivan

FALL 2017

FICTION

News of the World by Paulette Jiles

Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue

The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See

SPRING/SUMMER 2017

FICTION

The Hours Count by Jillian Cantor

1984 by George Orwell

NON-FICTION

Dead Wake by Erik Larson

FALL 2016 

FICTION

The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

SPRING 2016

FICTION

The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman

Circling the Sun by Paula McLain

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

NON-FICTION

The Boys in the Boat by Daniel Brown

FALL/WINTER 2015-2016

FICTION

Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf

Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

NON-FICTION

Hissing Cousins:  The Untold Story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth by Marc Peyser and Timothy Dwyer

WINTER/SPRING 2015

FICTION

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

The Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman (Long Island Reads Title)

By Blood by Ellen Ullman

NON-FICTION

50 Children by Steven Pressman

SPRING 2014

FICTION

The Middlesteins by Jami Attenberg

The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker

NON-FICTION

Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink

The Manor: Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island by Mac Griswold

FALL 2013

FICTION

The Round House by Louise Erdrich

Z by Therese Fowler

NON-FICTION

My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor

Island of Vice by Richard Zacks

SPRING 2013

FICTION

11/22/63 by Stephen King

The Secrets of Mary Bowser by Lois Leveen

Sutton by J.R. Moehringer

The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman

FALL 2012

FICTION

Still Alice by Lisa Genova

NON-FICTION

Unorthodox by Deborah Feldman

Woman Who Wasn’t There by Robin Gaby Fisher

Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard

SPRING 2012

FICTION

The Paris Wife by Paula McLain

The Lost Wife by Alyson Richman

NON-FICTION

Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark by Brian Kellow

In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson

FALL 2011

FICTION

Mudbound by Hillary Jordan

Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer

NON-FICTION

Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

SPRING 2011

FICTION

Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann

Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead

NON-FICTION

Zeitoun by Dave Eggers

Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff

FALL 2010

FICTION

Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin

The Commoner by John Burnham Schwartz

NON-FICTION

Columbine by Dave Cullen

Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

SPRING 2010

FICTION

South of Broad by Pat Conroy

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

NON-FICTION

River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey by Candice Millard

Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women by Harriet Reisen

FALL 2009

FICTION

White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

SPRING 2009

FICTION

Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri

The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer

NON-FICTION

Wait Till Next Year by Doris Kearns Goodwin

American Eve by Paula Uruburu

FALL 2008

FICTION

People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

Loving Frank by Nancy Horan

NON-FICTION

Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson

The World Without Us by Alan Weisman

SPRING 2008

FICTION

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Aloft by Chang-rae Lee

After This by Alice McDermott

NON-FICTION

Write It When I’m Gone by Thomas M. DeFrank

FALL 2007

FICTION

Emma by Jane Austen

Ghost At the Table by Suzanne Berne

Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar

NON-FICTION

Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah

SPRING 2007

FICTION

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky

NON-FICTION

Color of Water by James McBride

Manhunt: The Twelve Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer by James L. Swanson

FALL 2006

FICTION

Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards

History of Love by Nicole Krauss

The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason

NON-FICTION

Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama

SPRING 2006

FICTION

Kitchen Boy by Robert Alexander

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Amagansett by Mark Mills

NON-FICTION

Night by Elie Wiesel

FALL 2005

FICTION

Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka

The Plot Against America by Philip Roth

NON-FICTION

Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt

SPRING 2005

FICTION

Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks

Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

NON-FICTION

Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All American Meal by Eric Schlosser

Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck

FALL 2004

FICTION

Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

The Known World by Edward P. Jones

The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

NON-FICTION

Triangle: The Fire That Changed America by Dave Von Drehle

SPRING 2004

FICTION

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Snow in August by Pete Hamill

Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris

NON-FICTION

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nat Philbrick

FALL 2003

FICTION

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Crow Lake by Mary Lawson

NON-FICTION

The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw

Stolen Lives by Malika Oufkir

SPRING 2003

FICTION

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez

The Book of Daniel by E.L. Doctorow

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

NON-FICTION

Founding Brothers by Joseph J. Ellis

FALL 2002

FICTION

The Human Stain by Philip Roth

Empire Falls by Richard Russo

NON-FICTION

Falling Leaves by Adeline Yen Mah

Nine Parts of Desire by Geraldine Brooks

SPRING 2002

FICTION

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

NON-FICTION

Seabiscuit: an American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich

FALL 2001

FICTION

Plainsong by Kent Haruf

Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee

House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III

When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro

SPRING 2001

FICTION

The Alienist by Caleb Carr

Waiting by Ha Jin

NON-FICTION

Isaac’s Storm by Erik Larson

Galileo’s Daughter by Dava Sobel

FALL 2000

FICTION

The Archivist by Martha Cooley

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

American Pastoral by Philip Roth

Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout

SPRING 2000

FICTION

Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Weight of Water by Anita Shreve

NON-FICTION

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman

Turbulent Souls by Stephen J. Dubner

FALL 1999

FICTION

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Possession by A.S. Byatt

Time and Again by Jack Finney

NON-FICTION

The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester

SPRING 1999

FICTION

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

Charming Billy by Alice McDermott

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells

FALL 1998

FICTION

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

About Schmidt by Louis Begley

In the Deep Midwinter by Robert Clark

NON-FICTION

Personal History by Katharine Graham

SPRING 1998

FICTION

Snow in August by Peter Hamill

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

NON-FICTION

A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr

Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt

FALL 1997

FICTION

A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton

Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres

NON-FICTION

Fruitful by Anne Roiphe

The Haunted Land by Tina Rosenberg

SPRING 1997

FICTION

In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O’Brien

Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi

NON-FICTION

Wild Swans by Jung Chang

The Color of Water by James McBride

FALL 1996

FICTION

Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler

The Paperboy by Pete Dexter

Independence Day by Richard Ford

NON-FICTION

Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman

SPRING 1996

FICTION

Felicia’s Journey by William Trevor

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

NON-FICTION

No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin

The Catcher Was a Spy by Nicholas Dawidoff

FALL 1995

FICTION

The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields

The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata

NON-FICTION

Motherless Daughters by Hope Edelman

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

SPRING 1995

FICTION

Paddy Clarke, Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle

The Men and the Girls by Joanna Trollope

NON-FICTION

A Drinking Life by Pete Hamill

The Fountain of Age by Betty Friedan

Contact our Reader Services Department at readers@eastmeadow.info.