Superlatives (1995 – 2006)

Rank	Title	Author		Year
Worst
4	Color of Water		James McBride	1997
1	Welcome to the World, Baby Girl		Fannie Flagg	1998
2	Ahab’s Wife		Sena Jeter	2001
3	Shadow Baby		Alison McGhee	2003
5	The Memory Keeper’s Daughter		Kim Edwards	2006
Weirdest
3	Mutant Message Down Under		Mario Morgan	1995
2	Puttermesser Papers		Cynthia Ozick	1999
1	Blindness		Jose Saramago	2001
4	Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close		Jonathan Safran Foer	2005
Most Unique
3	The Passion		Jeanette Winterspoon	1998
1	The Giant’s House		Elizabeth McCracken	1998
2	Lambs of God		Marele Day	1999
4	Kindred		Olivia Butler	2001
5	Replay		Ken Grimwood	2004
Best Historical
2	Wild Swans		Jung Chang	1998
1	The Known World		Edward P Jones	2003
3	The Day the World Came to Town		Jim DeFede	2004
4	The Dress Lodger		Sheri Holman	2005
Best Overall
4	In the Time of the Butterflies		Julia Alvarez	1996
3	Tortilla Curtain		TC Boyle	1995
1*tie	Angle of Repose		Wallace Stegner	1997
1*tie	Cry the Beloved Country		Alan Paton	1997
2	Middlesex		Jeffrey Eugenides	2004
6	Plainsong		Kent Haruf	2000
5	The Kite Runner		Khaled Hosseini	2005
Best to Make into a Movie
2	Tortilla Curtain		Julia Alvarez	1996
6	Poisonwood Bible		Barbara Kingsolver	1999
4	Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith		Gina B Nahai	2000
5	The True Story of Hansel and Gretel		Louise Murphy	2003
3	The Kiterunner		Khaled Hosseini	2005
1	Snowflower and the Secret Fan		Lisa See	2006