Literary Society Authors 2009-2022

2022
Chris Bohjalian, Hour of the Witch
Kristin Harmel, The Forest of Vanishing Stars
Laura Dave, The Last Thing He Told Me

2021
Alka Joshi, The Henna Artist
Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars
Ann Patchett, The Dutch House
Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

2020
Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing
Tara Westover, Educated
Andrew Gross, Button Man
Heather Morris, Tattooist of Auschwitz
Jeanine Cummins, American Dirt

2019
Michael Ondaatje, Warlight
Andrew Sean Greer, Less *
Kamila Shamsie, Home Fire

2018
J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Jillian Cantor, The Lost Letter
Amor Towels, A Gentleman in Moscow
Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad *

2017
Tracy Kidder, Truck Full of Money
Martha Hall Kelly, Lilac Girls
Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

2016
David McCullough, The Wright Brothers
Allison Pataki, The Accidental Empress
Alice Hoffman, The Marriage of Opposites

2015
Christina Baker Kline, Orphan Train
Sue Monk Kidd, The Invention of Wings
Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See *

2014
Colum McCann, Transatlantic
Nancy Horan, Under the Wide and Starry Skies
A.M. Homes, May We Be Forgiven

2013
Robert Massie, Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic
Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

2012
Jennifer Egan, A Visit From The Goon Squad *
Paula McLain, The Paris Wife
Erik Larson, In The Garden of Beasts

2011
Tom Rachman, The Imperfectionists
Tatiana de Rosnay, A Secret Kept
Paul Harding, Tinkers *

2010
Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge *
Joseph O’Neill, Netherland
Lisa See, Shanghai Girls

2009
Nancy Horan, Loving Frank
Chris Bohjalian, Skeletons at the Feast
Rick Bragg, The Prince of Frogtown

* Pulitzer Prize for Fiction