Green Apple Books bookstore

♔ owned ; ❤ loved ; $ buy

• 1967: The Master and Margarita by Mijaíl Bulgákov $
• 1968: Dessert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
• 1969: Portnoy's Complaint by Phillip Roth
• 1970: Burn my Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
• 1971: Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines
• 1972: Ways of Seeing by John Berger $
• 1973: The Gulag Archipiélago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• 1974: All the President's Men Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
• 1975: For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange
• 1976: Speedboat by Renata Adler ♔
• 1977: The Shining by Stephen King $
• 1978: The World According to Carp by John Irving
• 1979:
• 1980: The Name of The Rose by Umberto Eco ♔
• 1981:
• 1982: Further Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin (third part of a series)
• 1983: The Loser by Thomas Bernhard
• 1984: Neuromancer by William Gibson
• 1985: Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
• 1986: Fences by August Wilson
• 1987: And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts $
• 1988:
• 1989: The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
• 1990: Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
• 1991:
• 1992: Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
• 1993: Transporting by Irving Welsh ♔/❤
• 1994: Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
• 1995:
• 1996: Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk ♔/❤
• 1997: Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
• 1998: The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño dnf
• 1999: Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
• 2000: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
• 2001: Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser $
• 2002: Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
• 2003: Brick Lane by Monica Ali
• 2004: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
• 2005: Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami ♔
• 2006: Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• 2007: The Reluctant Fundamental by Mohsin Hamid
• 2008:
• 2009: A Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit
• 2010: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
• 2011: Rules of Civility by Amor Towles ♔/❤
• 2012: Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookshop by Robin Sloan
• 2013: The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
• 2014: Bad Feminist by Roxanne Gay
• 2015: A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara ♔
• 2016: Homecoming by Yaa Gyassi
• 2017: Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh
• 2018: There There by Tommy Orange
• 2019: to be determined...