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And the winners are:

  1. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
  2. Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
  3. Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
  4. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
  5. Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
  6. Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
  7. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
  8. The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
  9. Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
  10. A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr
  11. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
  12. A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
  13. The Color of Water by James McBride
  14. Corelli's Mandolin* by Louis de Bernieres
  15. Angle of Repose* by Wallace Stegner
  16. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
  17. A Thousand Acres* by Jane Smiley
  18. The God of Small Things by Arundati Roy
  19. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
  20. American Pastoral by Philip Roth
  21. Beloved* by Toni Morrison
  22. Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
  23. Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
  24. Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
  25. The Liar's Club* by Mary Karr
  26. Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler
  27. She's Come Undone* by Wally Lamb
  28. The Road from Coorain* by Jill Ker Conway
  29. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  30. Where the Heart Is* by Billie Letts
  31. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
  32. Bastard Out of Carolina* by Dorothy Allison
  33. In the Lake of the Woods* by Tim O'Brien
  34. The Tortilla Curtain by T. C. Boyle
  35. Birdsong* by Sebastian Faulks
  36. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil* by John Berendt
  37. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
  38. The Red Tent* by Anita Diamant
  39. Our Guys* by Bernard Lefkowitz
  40. Personal History by Katharine Graham
  41. Charming Billy* by Alice McDermott
  42. A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton
  43. All the Pretty Horses* by Cormac McCarthy
  44. Fugitive Pieces* by Anne Michaels
  45. I Know This Much Is True* by Wally Lamb
  46. Lolita* by Vladimir Nabokov
  47. Martin Dressler* by Steven Millhauser
  48. Pigs in Heaven* by Barbara Kingsolver
  49. Possession* by A. S. Byatt
  50. The Sparrow* by Mary Doria Russell

* Received the same number of votes as the title listed immediately above.

 

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  • Musicophilia
    Tales of Music and the Brain
    by Oliver Sacks

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER

    "Powerful and compassionate.... Illuminates the strange workings, and misfirings, of the human mind."
    --The New York Times