Previous Years
All Iowa Reads Selections from Previous Years
2011 - Sing Them Home by Stephanie Kallos
2010 - Driftless by David Rhodes
2009 - The Rope Walk by Carrie Brown
2008 - Digging to America by Anne Tyler
2007 - Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio by Jeffrey Kluger
2006 - Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
2005 - The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich
2004 - Niagara Falls All Over Again by Elizabeth McCracken
2003 - Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
Discussion questions and other materials are available for all previous All Iowa Reads selections. Select the year desired from the left bar.
All Iowa Reads Runners Up from Previous Years
2012
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Doig, Ivan. Work Song, Riverhead Press, 2010.
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Hoover, Michelle. The Quickening. Other Press, 2010.
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Martin, Lee. River of Heaven. Three Rivers Press, 2008.
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OBrien, Dan. Stolen Horses, Bison Books, 2010.
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Olmstead, Robert. Coal Black Horse, Algonquin, 2008.
2011
- Lynch, Jim. Border Songs. Knopf, 2009.
- Gudenkauf, Heather. The Weight of Silence. MIRA, 2009.
- Cleave, Chris. Little Bee. Simon & Schuster, 2009.
- Martin, Lee. River of Heaven. Three Rivers Press, 2008.
- Sheers, Owen. Resistance. Talese/Doubleday, 2008.
- Barrett, Andrea. The Air We Breathe. WW Norton, 2007.
- Lodge, David. Deaf Sentence. Viking, 2008.
2010
- Choi, Susan. A Person of Interest.Viking, 2008.
- Canin, Ethan. America, America. Random House, 2008.
- Drew , Alan. Gardens of Water. Random House, 2008.
- Lovely, Stephen. Irreplaceable. Voice, 2009.
- Jordan, Hillary. Mudbound. Algonquin, 2009.
2009
- Brooks, Geraldine. People of the Book. New York, Viking, 2008.
- Danticat, Edwidge. Brother I'm Dying. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
- Harrison, Jim. Returning to Earth. New York, Grove Press, 2007.
- Petterson, Per. Out Stealing Horses. Saint Paul, Minn., Graywolf Press, 2007/ 2005.
- Quindlen, Anna. Rise and Shine. New York, Random House, 2006.
2008
- McCarthy, Cormac. The Road. New York, Vintage, 2007.
- McDermott, Alice. After This, New York, Farrar, Straus, $ Giroux, 2006.
- Pollen, Michael. Omnivore's Dilemma. New York, Penquin, 2007.
- Powers, Richard. Echo Maker. New York, Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2006.
- Zusak, Marcus. Book Thief. New York, Knopf, 2006.
2007
- Brooks, Geraldine. March. New York, Viking, 2005.Fisher,
- Karen. A Sudden Country. New York, Random House, 2005.
- Ishiguro, Kazuo. Never Let Me Go. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
- Hornby, Nick. A Long Way Down. New York, Riverhead Books, 2005.
- Oates, Joyce Carol. Missing Mom. New York, Ecco, 2005.
- Brooks, Geraldine. Year of Wonders; a Novel of the Plague. New York, Viking, 2001.
- Jones, Edward. The Known World. New York: Amistad, 2003.
- McLarty, Ron. The Memory of Running. New York: Viking, 2005.
- Spragg, Mark. An Unfinished Life. New York: Knopf, 2004.
- Haddon, Mark.The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. New York, Doubleday, 2003.
- Holman, Sheri. Mammoth Cheese. New York, Atlantic Monthly Press, 2003.
- Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner. New York, Riverhead Books, 2003.
- Niffenegger, Audrey. The Time Traveler’s Wife. San Francisco, MacAdam/Cage, 2003.
- Otsuka, Julie. When the Emperor was Divine. New York, Knopf, 2002.
- Quindlen, Anna. Blessings. New York, Random House, 2002.
2004
- Erdrich, Louise. The Master Butchers Singing Club. New York, HaperCollinsPublishers, 2003.
- Frazier, Charles. Cold Mountain. New York, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997.
- Hamilton, Jane. The Short History of a Prince. New York, Random House, 1998
- Hillenbrand, Laura. Seabiscuit: an American Legend. New York, Random House, 2001
- Martel, Yann. Life of Pi. New York, Harcourt, 2001.
- McMurtry, Larry. Sin Killer. New York, Simon & Schuster, 2002.
- Russo, Richard. Empire Falls. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2001.
