| 2002 |
John Grisham |
The Summons |
| 2001 |
Jerry B. Jenkins, Tim LaHaye |
Desecration |
| 2000 |
John Grisham |
The Brethren |
| 1999 |
John Grisham |
The Testament |
| 1998 |
John Grisham |
The Street Lawyer |
| 1997 |
John Grisham |
The Partner |
| 1996 |
John Grisham |
The Runaway Jury |
| 1995 |
John Grisham |
The Rainmaker |
| 1994 |
John Grisham |
The Chamber |
| 1993 |
Robert James Waller |
The Bridges of Madison County |
| 1992 |
Stephen King |
Dolores Claiborne |
| 1991 |
Alexandra Ripley |
Scarlett: The Sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind |
| 1990 |
Jean M. Auel |
The Plains of Passage |
| 1989 |
Tom Clancy |
Clear and Present Danger |
| 1988 |
Tom Clancy |
The Cardinal of the Kremlin |
| 1987 |
Stephen King |
The Tommyknockers |
| 1986 |
Stephen King |
It |
| 1985 |
Jean M. Auel |
The Mammoth Hunters |
| 1984 |
Stephen King & Peter Straub |
The Talisman |
| 1983 |
Joan D. Vinge (Adapted by) |
Return of the Jedi Storybook |
| 1982 |
William Kotzwinkle |
E. T. The Extra-Terrestrial Storybook |
| 1981 |
James Clavell |
Noble House |
| 1980 |
James A. Michener |
The Covenant |
| 1979 |
Robert Ludlum |
The Matarese Circle |
| 1978 |
James A. Michener |
Chesapeake |
| 1977 |
J. R. R. Tolkien |
The Silmarillion |
| 1976 |
Leon Uris |
Trinity |
| 1975 |
E. L. Doctorow |
Ragtime |
| 1974 |
James A. Michener |
Centennial |
| 1973 |
Richard Bach |
Jonathan Livingstone Seagull |
| 1972 |
Richard Bach |
Jonathan Livingstone Seagull |
| 1971 |
Arthur Hailey |
Wheels |
| 1970 |
Erich Segal |
Love Story |
| 1969 |
Philip Roth |
Portnoy's Complaint |
| 1968 |
Arthur Hailey |
Airport |
| 1967 |
Elia Kazan |
The Arrangement |
| 1966 |
Jacqueline Susann |
Valley of the Dolls |
| 1965 |
James A. Michener |
The Source |
| 1964 |
John Le Carre |
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold |
| 1963 |
Morris L. West |
The Shoes of the Fisherman |
| 1962 |
Katherine Anne Porter |
Ship of Fools |
| 1961 |
Irving Stone |
The Agony and the Ecstasy |
| 1960 |
Allen Drury |
Advise and Consent |
| 1959 |
Leon Uris |
Exodus |
| 1958 |
Boris Pasternak |
Doctor Zhivago |
| 1957 |
James Gould Cozzens |
By Love Possessed |
| 1956 |
William Brinkley |
Don't Go Near the Water |
| 1955 |
Herman Wouk |
Marjorie Morningstar |
| 1954 |
Morton Thompson |
Not as a Stranger |
| 1953 |
Lloyd C. Douglas |
The Robe |
| 1952 |
Thomas B. Costain |
The Silver Chalice |
| 1951 |
James Jones |
From Here to Eternity |
| 1950 |
Henry Morton Robinson |
The Cardinal |
| 1949 |
Mika Waltari |
The Egyptian |
| 1948 |
Lloyd C. Douglas |
The Big Fisherman |
| 1947 |
Russell Janney |
The Miracle of the Bells |
| 1946 |
Daphne du Maurier |
The King's General |
| 1945 |
Kathleen Winsor |
Forever Amber |
| 1944 |
Lillian Smith |
Strange Fruit |
| 1943 |
Lloyd C. Douglas |
The Robe |
| 1942 |
Franz Werfel |
The Song of Bernadette |
| 1941 |
A. J. Cronin |
The Keys of the Kingdom |
| 1940 |
Richard Llewellyn |
How Green Was My Valley |
| 1939 |
John Steinbeck |
The Grapes of Wrath |
| 1938 |
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings |
The Yearling |
| 1937 |
Margaret Mitchell |
Gone With the Wind |
| 1936 |
Margaret Mitchell |
Gone With the Wind |
| 1935 |
Lloyd C. Douglas |
Green Light |
| 1934 |
Hervey Allen |
Anthony Adverse |
| 1933 |
Hervey Allen |
Anthony Adverse |
| 1932 |
Pearl S. Buck |
The Good Earth |
| 1931 |
Pearl S. Buck |
The Good Earth |
| 1930 |
Edna Ferber |
Cimarron |
| 1929 |
Erich Maria Remarque |
All Quiet on the Western Front |
| 1928 |
Thornton Wilder |
The Bridge of San Luis Rey |
| 1927 |
Sinclair Lewis |
Elmer Gantry |
| 1926 |
John Erskine |
The Private Life of Helen of Troy |
| 1925 |
Arthur Hamilton Gibbs |
Soundings |
| 1924 |
Edna Ferber |
So Big |
| 1923 |
Gertrude Horn Atherton |
Black Oxen |
| 1922 |
A. S. M. Hutchinson |
If Winter Comes |
| 1921 |
Sinclair Lewis |
Main Street |
| 1920 |
Zane Grey |
The Man of the Forest |
| 1919 |
Vicente Blasco-Ibanez |
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse |
| 1918 |
Zane Grey |
The U. P. Trail |
| 1917 |
H. G. Wells |
Mr. Britling Sees It Through |
| 1916 |
Booth Tarkington |
Seventeen |
| 1915 |
Booth Tarkington |
The Turmoil |
| 1914 |
Harold Bell Wright |
The Eyes of the World |
| 1913 |
Winston Churchill |
The Inside of the Cup |
| 1912 |
Gene Stratton Porter |
The Harvester |
| 1911 |
John Jeffery Farnol |
The Broad Highway |
| 1910 |
Florence Charlesworth Barclay |
The Rosary |
| 1909 |
Basil King (Anonymous) |
The Inner Shrine |
| 1908 |
Winston Churchill |
Mr. Crewe's Career |
| 1907 |
Frances Little |
The Lady of the Decoration |
| 1906 |
Winston Churchill |
Coniston |
| 1905 |
Mary Augusta Ward |
The Marriage of William Ashe |
| 1904 |
Winston Churchill |
The Crossing |
| 1903 |
Mary Augusta Ward |
Lady Rose's Daughter |
| 1902 |
Owen Wister |
The Virginian |
| 1901 |
Winston Churchill |
The Crisis |
| 1900 |
Mary Johnston |
To Have and to Hold |