"The Other Einstein" by Marie Benedict

 "Clementine: the life of Mrs Winston Churchill" by Sonia Purnell

 "Varina" By Frances Charles Frazier

"A Dairy from Dixie" by Mary Boykin Chestnut

 "The Christmas Train" by David Baldacci

 "Tangerine" by Christine Mangan

 Kate Atkinson books

"Where the Crawdads Sing" by Delia Owens

"Before We Were Yours" by Lisa Wingate

"The Color of Our Sky" by Amita Trasi

"The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra" by Vaseem Khan

"The Girls in the Picture" by Melanie Benjamin

"Jello Girls" by Ali Robottom

"Bluebird, Bluebird" by Attica Locke

"Ghost" by Jason Reynolds

CB:The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

"Under the Sardinian Sky" by Sara Alexander

CB: "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie

"Matchless, A Christmas Story" by Greg Maguire

"The Little Match Girl" by Hans Christian Anderson

"Caroline, Little House Revisited" by Sarah Miller

"The Little House in the Big Woods" by Louisa May Alcott

"Pachinko: by Min Jin Lee

"The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane" by Lisa See

"The Woman Who Smashed Codes" by Jason Fagone

"The Paris Spy" by Susan Elia MacNeal "Beartown" by Fredrik Backman

"Friday Nite Lights" by H.G. Bissinger "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

"Where'd you go Bernadette" by Maria Semple

"Duck and Cover: A Nuclear Family" by Kathie Farnell

"Lonesome Dreamer" by Tim Anderson

"Black Elk Speaks" by John G Neihardt

"Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

"Dead Wake: The Last crossing of the Lusitania" by Erik Larson

"The Nightengale" by Kristin Hannah

CB: "Murder in the Maris" by Cara Black

"The Soul of an Octopus" by Sy Montgomery

"The Swans of Fifth Avenue" by Melanie Benjamin

"Great Small Things" by Jodi Picault

CB"The Whistler" by John Grisham

"Embrace the Grim Reaper" by Judy Clemens

CB;"The Coronors Lunch' by Colin Cotterill

" Moonglow" by Michael Chabon;

"HomeGoing" by Yaa

"Gentleman In Moscow' by Amor Towles

"Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

CB: The Astronaut Wives Club by Lily Kottel

"The Healing" by Jonathan Odell

CB: "A Free Man of Color" by Barbara Hambly

"The Triumph of Seeds" by Thor Hanson

CB: "The Hidden Life of Trees" by Peter Wohleben

"The Pearl that Broke Its Shell" by Nadia Hashimi

CB: "Innocent Blood" by P.D.James

"Ravensbruck: Life and Death in Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women" by Sarah Helm

CB: "Lilac Girls" by Martha Hall Kelly

"Girl from Paradise Ballroom" by Alison Love

CB: "Willful Behavior" by Donna Leon

2016

"On Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End", by Atul Gawande

"Bettyville: A Memoir" by George Hodgman

"The Fishermen" by Chigozie Obia

"The Age of Desire" byJennie Fields

CB: "The House of Mirth" by Edith Wharton

"Island Beneath the Sea" by Isabel Allende

CB: "Claire of the Sea Light" by Edwidge Danticat

"The Witches, Salem 1692: by Stacy Schiff

CB: "The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane" by Katherine Howe

"The Lady and the Panda" by Vicki Constantine Croke

"The Firemaker" by Peter May

"The Meaning of Names" by Karen Shoemaker

CB: "Tallgrass" by Sandra Dallas

"Canada" by Richard Ford

CB: "Entry Island" by Peter May

"To Kill A Mockingbird" and

"Go Set a Watchman" by Harper Lee

"Station Eleven" by Emily St John Mandel

CB:"The Martian" by Andy Weir

2015

"The 13th Gift: A True Story of a Christmas Miracle"

by JoAnn Huist Smith

"Dollbaby" by Laura Lane McNeal

CB: "The Kitchen House" by Kathleen Grissom

"Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

CB: "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis

"The Language of Flowers" by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

CB:"Mr Churchill's Secret Agent" by Susan Ella MacNeal

"All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

CB:"The Girls of Atomic City" by Denise Kiernan

"Skull Mantra" by Elliott Pattinson

CB:"The Lotus Eaters" by Tatjana Soli

"Neanderthal Man:In Serch of Lost Genomes" by Svante Paabo

CB:"Shaman" by Kim Stanley Robinson

The Aviators Wife by Melanie Benjamin

CB:Gift From The Sea by Anne Morrow Lindburgh

Benediction by Kent Haruf

The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny

One Corpse Too Many by Ellis Peters

2014

Wheels of Justice and other Stories Les Williams

The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

Fallen Women by Sandra Dallas

(CB) Persion Pickle Club by Sandra Dallas

Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks

Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger

Clara and Mr Tiffany by Susan Vreeland

The Yard by Alex Grecian

(CB) Anatomists Apprentice by Tess Harris

The Forgotten by David Baldacci

The Invention of Wings by Sue Mott Kidd

The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier

The Dogs of Christmas by W. Bruce Cameron

The Twelve Clues of Christmas by Rhys Bowen

2013

Hunger Games Suzanne Collins

(CB)The Martian ChroniclesRay Bradbury

The Dovekeepers Alice Hoffman

While the Patient Slept Mignon G. Eberhart

(CB) Murder at the VicarageAgatha Christie

Orphan Masters SonAdam Johnson

The Jefferson KeySteve Berry

(CB)Thomas Jefferson: The Art of PowerJon Meacham

Mr Rosenbloom Dreams in English Natasha Solomons

Defending JacobWilliam Landay

(CB) We Need to Talk About KevinLionel Shriver

Light Between Oceans M L Stedman

(CB) Story of Beautiful Girl Rachel Simon

The Great Pearl Heist by Molly Cardwell Crosby

(CB) Provenance by Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo

"The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry" by Rachel Joyce

(CB)"The Round House" by Loiuse Erdrich

(CB)"The Sandcastle Girls" by Chris Bohjalian

"American Heiress" by Daisy Goodwin

"Paw Prints in the Moonlight" by Denis O'Connor

2012

Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand Helen Simonson

Acqua Alta Donna Leon

Still Life Louise Penney

Little Bee Chris Cleave

Thunder Dog Michael Hingson

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet Jamie Ford

Unbroken Laura Hillenbrand

One Book One Nebraska – Pick one

I Am A Man Joe Starita (winner)

Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen Bob Greene

The Tie That Binds Kent Haruf

Atticus: A Novel Ron Hansen

A Sandhills Ballad Ladette Randolph

Angry Housewives Eating BonBons Lorna Landvik

Naked Came the Manatee Carl Hiassen et al.

Pick one other book by another author of this book

House of the Spirits Isabelle Allende

The Tiger’s Wife Tea Obreht

Shane Jack Schaefer

Any other classic western

One Book One Lincoln – pick one

Destiny of the Republic Candace Millard (Winner)

Submission Amy Waldman

The Tower, the Zoo and the Tortoise Julia Stuart

A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens

2011

Playing for Pizza John Grisham

Cutting for Stone Abraham Vergese (later name winner of One Book One Lincoln)

Still Alice Lisa Genova

Madonnas of Leningrad Debra Dean

The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton

The Secret Garden Frances Hodgeson Burnett

The Postmistress Sarah Blake

Sarah’s Key Tatiana de Rosnay

The History of Love Nicole Krauss (One Book One Lincoln nominee)

Zeitoun Dave Eggers (One Book One Lincoln nominee)

The Last Kashmiri Rose Barbara Cleverly

A Passage to India E.M. Forester

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot

Any book by Barbara Kingsolver – possibilities:

Bean Trees and Pigs in Heaven

The Lacunae

Poisonwood Bible

High Tide in Tucson

The Bells Richard Harvell

Sacred Hearts Sarah Dunant

The Stupidest Angel Christopher Moore