2008
September - Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, by Edmund Morris (non-fiction)

October - A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khalid Hosseini (fiction)

November - The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, by Lawrence Wright (non-fiction)

December - His Excellency: George Washington, by Joseph J Ellis (non-fiction)


2009
January - Little Heathens - Hard times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression, by Mildred Armstrong Kalish (memoir)

February - Recapitulation, by Wallace Stegner (fiction)

March - Desert Queen, by Janet Wallach (non-fiction)

April - Water For Elephants, by Sara Gruen (fiction)

May - The Zookeeper's Wife, by Diane Ackerman (non-fiction)

June - Unaccustomed Earth, by Jhumpa Lahiri (fiction)