Past Selections

The Doorman by Chris Pavone

2026

On Fire Island by Jane L. Rosen

2025

Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World by Christian Cooper

2024

A Speck in the Sea: A Story of Survival and Rescue by John Aldridge and Anthony Sosinski

2023

The Living and the Lost by Ellen Feldman

2022

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

2021

Light From Other Stars by Erika Swyler

2020

The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer

2019

Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe by Mike Massimino

2018

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson

2017

Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult

2016

The Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman

2015

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

2014

Sutton by J.R. Moehringer

2013

The Lost Wife by Alyson Richman

2012

Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead

2011

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

2010

Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir by Doris Kearns Goodwin

2009

Aloft by Chang-Rae Lee

2008

The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride

2007

Amagansett by Mark Mills

2006

Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck

2005

Snow in August by Pete Hamill

2004

How the García Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez

2003

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerlad

2002