| 2010-2011 | |||
| date | host | book | author |
| Oct 14 10 | Sue | Brooklyn | Colm Tóibín |
| Nov 11 10 | Carol | The Music Room | William Fiennes |
| Dec 9 10 | Kath | Olive Kitteridge | Elizabeth Strout |
| Jan 13 11 | Marilyn | The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet | David Mitchell |
| Feb 10 11 | Paulah | Things I Want my Daughters to Know | Elizabeth Noble |
| Mar 10 11 | Evelyn | Black Swan Green | David Mitchell |
| Apr 14 10 | Meg | Ordinary Thunderstorms | William Boyd |
| May 12 11 | Sandra | Nomad | Ayaan Hirsi Ali |
| Jun 9 11 | Angela | The Age of Water Lilies | Theresa Kishkan |
| Sep 9 11 | TBA | Book picks | |
| 2009-2010 | |||
| date | host | book | author |
| Sep 09 | Carol | Book picks | |
| Oct 8 09 | Carrie | No Great Mischief | Alistair MacLeod |
| Nov 12 09 | Sue | Run | Ann Patchett |
| Dec 10 09 | Paulah | The Secret Scripture | Sebastian Barry |
| Jan 14 10 | Meg | The History of Love | Nicole Krauss |
| Feb 11 10 | Francine | February | Lisa Moore |
| Mar 11 10 | Kath | The Lady and the Monk | Pico Iyer |
| Apr 8 10 | Sandra | Loving Frank | Nancy Horan |
| May 13 10 | Meg | Truth and Beauty | Ann Patchett |
| Jun 10 10 | Angela | Autobiography of a Face | Lucy Grealy |
| Sep 9 10 | Francine | Book picks | |
| 2007-2008 | |||
| date | host | book | author |
| Oct 24 08 | The Literary Cabaret at the Writers' Festival | ||
| Sep 12 08 | TBA | Book Pick Event | |
| Jun 12 08 | Angela | The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner | Alan Sillitoe (1960 Hawthornden) |
| May 8 08 | Carol | The Fixer | Bernard Malamud (Pulitzer 1967, National Book 1967) |
| Apr 10 08 | Francine | The Godfather | The Godfather (NYT Best Seller 1969) |
| Mar 8 08 | Meg | The Luck of Ginger Coffee | Brian Moore (Governor General 1960) |
| Feb 14 08 | Marilyn | Portnoy's Complaint | Philip Roth (NYT Best Seller 1969) |
| Jan 10 08 | Carrie | The Spy Who Came in From the Cold | John Le Carre (NYT Best Seller 1966 and Somerset Maugham 1964) |
| Dec 13 07 | Paulah | The Collected Short Stories | Katherine Anne Porter (National Book 1966 and Pulitzer 1966) |
| Nov 8 07 | Sandra | A Jest of God | Margaret Laurence (Governor General 1966) |
| 2006-2007 | |||
| date | host | book | author |
| Oct 11 07 | TBA | The Wings of the Dove | Henry James |
| Sep 13 07 | Jean | Book picks | |
| Jun 14 07 | Angela | The Golden Notebook | Doris Lessing |
| May 10 07 | Marilyn | Refugee Sandwich | Peter Showler |
| Apr 12 07 | Carol | Not Without Laughter | Langston Hughes |
| Mar 8 07 | Meg | The Professor and the Madman | Simon Winchester |
| Feb 8 07 | Francine | Specimen Days | Michael Cunningham |
| Jan 11 07 | Evelyn | To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee |
| Dec 14 06 | Paulah | The Time Traveller's Wife | Audrey Niffenegger |
| Nov 9 06 | Sandra | The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath |
| Oct 12 06 | Geraldine | Small Island | Andrea Levy |
| Sep 14 06 | Carrie | Book picks | |
| 2005-2006 | |||
| date | host | book | author |
| Jun | Angela | The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini |
| May | Geraldine | Grace and Grit | Ken Wilburn |
| Apr | Moira | The Good Earth | Pearl Buck |
| Mar | Meg | A Complicated Kindness | Miriam Toews |
| Feb | Dianne | Adultery | Richard Wright |
| Jan | Francine | Snow | Orhan Pamuk |
| Dec | Paulah | How to be Good | Nick Hornby |
| Nov | Meg | Housekeeping | Marilynne Robinson |
| Oct 13 05 | Carol | Birth of Venus | Sarah Dunant |
| 2004-2005 | |||
| date | host | book | author |
| Jun 9 05 | Angela | Middlesex | Jeffrey Eugenides |
| May 12 05 | Geraldine | White Teeth | Zadie Smith |
| Apr 14 05 | Carrie | Bel Canto | Ann Patchett |
| Mar 10 05 | Meg | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time | Mark Haddon |
| Feb 16 05 | Dianne | Ten Thousand Lovers | Edeet Ravel |
| Jan 13 05 | Kath | The Hanging Garden | Ian Rankin |
| Dec 9 04 | Paulah | Orlando | Virginia Woolf |
| Nov 11 04 | Francine | The Moviegoer | Walker Percy |
| Oct 14 04 | Dorothy | Family Matters | Rohinton Mistry |
| 2003-2004 | ||
| Jun-04 | Mrs. Dalloway | Virginia Woolf |
| May-04 | Islam: A Short History | Karen Armstrong |
| Apr-04 | Hey Nostradamus | Douglas Coupland |
| Mar-04 | Testament | Nino Ricci |
| Feb-04 | The Romantic | Barbara Gowdy |
| Jan-04 | Therapy | David Lodge |
| Dec-03 | Life of Pi | Yann Martel |
| Nov-03 | The Story of Lucy Gault | William Trevor |
| Oct-03 | Journey in Ladakh | Andrew Harvey |
| Oct-03 | Soul Mountain | Gao Xingjian |
| 2002-2003 | ||
| Jun-03 | Unless | Carol Shields |
| May | Couples | John Updike |
| Apr | The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay | Michael Chabon |
| Mar | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | James Joyce |
| Feb | Atonement | Ian McEwan |
| Jan | Clara Callan | Richard Wright |
| Dec | Red Plaid Shirt | Diane Schoemperlen |
| Nov | Crossing to Safety | Wallace Stegner |
| Oct | The Blind Assassin | Margaret Atwood |
| 2001-2002 | ||
| Jun | The Stone Carvers | Jane Urquhart |
| May | The Reader | Bernhard Schlink |
| Apr | Interpreter of Maladies | Jhumpa Lahiri |
| Mar | St. Urbain's Horseman | Mordecai Richler |
| Feb | The Optimist's Daughter | Eudora Welty |
| Jan | The Philosopher's Pupil | Iris Murdoch |
| Dec | Frankenstein | Mary Shelley |
| Nov | The Mark of the Angel | Nancy Huston |
| Oct | Angle of Repose | Wallace Stegner |
| 2000-2001 | ||
| Jun | The Map of Love | Ahdaf Soueif |
| May | Factotum | Charles Bukowski |
| Apr | The Violet Shyness of Their Eyes: notes from Nepal | Barbara J. Scot |
| Mar | The Colony of Unrequited Dreams | Wayne Johnston |
| Feb | Revolutionary Road | Richard Yates |
| Jan | The Power and the Glory | Graham Greene |
| Dec | The Hours | Michael Cunningham |
| Nov | The Underpainter | Jane Urquhart |
| Oct | Paper Shadows | Wayson Choy |
| 1999-2000 | ||
| Jun-00 | Traveling Mercies | Anne Lamott |
| May-00 | Maus | Art Spiegelman |
| Apr-00 | Memoirs of a Geisha | Arthur Golden |
| Mar-00 | A Fringe of Leaves | Patrick White |
| Feb-00 | Behind the Scenes at the Museum | Kate Atkinson |
| Jan-00 | Wuthering Heights | Emily Brontë |
| Dec-99 | A Walk in the Woods | Bill Bryson |
| Nov-99 | Morality Play | Barry Unsworth |
| Oct-99 | Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas | Tom Robbins |
| 1998-1999 | ||
| Jun-99 | The Reef | Edith Wharton |
| May-99 | Old Books, Rare Friends | Leona Rosenberg and Madeleine Stern |
| Apr-99 | The Improvised Woman | Marcelle Clements |
| Mar-99 | In the Beauty of the Lilies | John Updike |
| Feb-99 | Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov |
| Jan-99 | Birdsong | Sebastian Faulks |
| Dec-98 | Bridget Jones's Diary | Helen Fielding |
| Nov-98 | To the Wedding | John Berger |
| Oct-98 | Fall on Your Knees | Ann-Marie MacDonald |
| 1997-1998 | ||
| May-98 | The Cure for Death by Lightning | Gail Anderson-Dargatz |
| Apr-98 | Independence Day | Richard Ford |
| Mar-98 | Angela's Ashes | Frank McCourt |
| Feb-98 | Lady Chatterley's Lover | D.H. Lawrence |
| Jan-98 | The Englishman's Boy | Guy Vanderhaeghe |
| Dec-97 | The Liar | Stephen Fry |
| Nov-97 | Where She Has Gone | Nino Ricci |
| Oct-97 | Alias Grace | Margaret Atwood |
| 1996-1997 | ||
| Jun-97 | The Jade Peony | Wayson Choy |
| May-97 | The Piano Man's Daughter | Timothy Findley |
| Apr-97 | What Fresh Hell is This? | Marion Meade |
| Mar-97 | Portrait of a Lady | Henry James |
| Feb-97 | The Easy Way Out | Stephen McCauley |
| Jan-97 | The Enigma of Arrival | V.S. Naipaul |
| Dec-96 | Booked to Die | John Dunning |
| Nov-96 | All the Pretty Horses | Cormac McCarthy |
| Oct-96 | Possession | A.S. Byatt |
| 1995-1996 | ||
| Jun-96 | One True Thing | Anna Quindlen |
| May-96 | Dark Quartet: The Story of the Brontës | Lynne Reid Banks |
| Apr-96 | Away: A Novel | Jane Urquhart |
| Mar-96 | Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem | Gloria Steinem |
| Feb-96 | The Annunciation | Ellen Gilchrist |
| Jan-96 | Wedding Song | Naguib Mahfouz |
| Dec-95 | The Perfection of the Morning: An Apprenticeship in Nature | Sharon Butala |
| Nov-95 | Among Friends | M.F.K. Fisher |
| Nov-95 | Bachelor Brothers' Bed and Breakfast Pillow Book | Bill Richardson |
| Oct-95 | 1000 Acres | Jane Smiley |
| Sep-95 | A Son of the Circus | John Irving |
| 1994-1995 | ||
| Jun-95 | A Spy in the House of Love | Anaïs Nin |
| Jun-95 | The Lover | Marguerite Duras |
| May-95 | The Robber Bride | Margaret Atwood |
| Apr-95 | The Way We Are | Margaret Visser |
| Mar-95 | Intertidal Life | Audrey Thomas |
| Feb-95 | The Curve of Time | M. Wylie Blanchet |
| Jan-95 | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen |
| Jan-95 | Like Water for Chocolate | Laura Esquivel |
| Dec-94 | Portrait of a Marriage | Nigel Nicolson |
| Nov-94 | The Spanish Lover | Joanna Trollope |
| Oct-94 | The Shipping News | E. Annie Proulx |
| Sep-94 | The Bean Trees and Pigs in Heaven | Barbara Kingsolver |
| 1993-1994 | ||
| Jun-94 | Bachelor Brothers' Bed and Breakfast | Bill Richardson |
| May-94 | My Sister's Keeper | Nora Kelly |
| Apr-94 | Memories, Dreams, Reflections | Carl Jung |
| Mar-94 | The English Patient | Michael Ondaatje |
| Feb-94 | Beloved | Toni Morrison |
| Jan-94 | Changing Places | David Lodge |
| Dec-93 | The Stone Diaries | Carol Shields |
| Nov-93 | Pelagie | Antonine Maillet |
| Oct-93 | The Bridges of Madison County | Robert James Waller |
| Sep-93 | Italian Days | Barbara Grizzuti Harrison |
| 1992-1993 | ||
| Jun-93 | Alice in Wonderland | Charles Dodson |
| May-93 | The Ginger Tree | Oswald Wynd |
| Apr-93 | A Yellow Raft in Blue Water | Michael Dorris |
| Mar-93 | The Group | Mary McCarthy |
| Feb-93 | The Innocent Traveller | Ethel Wilson |
| Jan-93 | A Fairly Conventional Woman | Carol Shields |
| Dec-92 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Milan Kundera |
| Nov-92 | Vegetarian cookbooks | various |
| Oct-92 | Me | Katherine Hepburn |
| Sep-92 | Mr. Palomar | Italo Calvino |
| 1991-1992 | ||
| Jun-92 | The Mill on the Floss | George Eliot |
| May-92 | After the Fire | Jane Rule |
| Apr-92 | Lady's Maid | Margaret Forster |
| Mar-92 | Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert |
| Feb-92 | You Just Don't Understand | Deborah Tannen |
| Jan-92 | Remains of the Day | Kazuo Ishiguro |
| Dec-91 | Saint Maybe | Ann Tyler |
| Nov-91 | Murther and Walking Spirits | Robertson Davies |
last updated November 2010