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1776 by David McCullough

A

Accordion Crimes by Annie Proulx

Ahab’s Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund

Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid

Art of Racing in the Rain, The by Garth Stein

B

Bastard out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison

Beet Queen, The by Louise Erdrich

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

Blue Diary by Alice Hoffman

Book Thief, The by Markus Zuzak

Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat

Brick Lane by Monica Ali

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C

Cavedweller by Dorothy Allison

Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

Charming Billy by Alice McDermott

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, A by Xiaolu Guo

Conquest by Yxta Maya Murray

Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis DeBernieres

Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner

Crows over Wheatfields by Paula Sharpe

Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton

Cup of Light, A by Nicole Mones

Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night by Mark Haddon

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

D

Daughters of the Dust by Julie Desh

DaVinci Code, The by Dan Brown

Dive from Clausen’s Pier by Anne Packer

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells

Do Try to Speak as We Do by Marjorie Ford

Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller

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E

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

Eight, The by Katherine Neville

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

Empire Falls by Richard Russo

English Patient , The by Michael Ondaatje

Esperanza’s Book of Saints by Maria Escandon

Eyre Affair, The by Jasper Fforde

F

Fall of the Sparrow by Robert Hellenga

Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry

G

Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl

Gilead by Marilyn Robinson

Girl in Hyacinth Blue, by Susan Vreeland

Glass Castle, The by Jeannette Walls

Gracious Plenty by Sheri Reynolds

Golden Compass, The by Phillip Pullman

Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, The by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

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H

Half-Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling

Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The by Carson McCuller

Help, The by Kathryn Stockett

Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

Honk and Holler Café Opening Soon by Billie Letts

Hours, The by Michael Cunningham

House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus

House of Spirits by Isabel Allende

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez

Human Being Died that Night, A by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

The Hummingbird’s Daughter by Luis Urrea

I

I Know this Much is True by Wally Lamb

Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi

Inheritance of Loss, The by Kiran Desai

In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant

In the Distant Land of My Father by Bo Caldwell

In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez

Into the Forest by Jean Heglund

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J

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Joy School by Elizabeth Berg

K

Kite Runner, The by Khaled Hosseini

Known World, The by Edward Jones

L

Lacuna, The by Barbara Kingsolver

Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler

Lemon Tree, The by Sandy Tolan

Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson

Little Bee by Chris Cleave

Lost: A Novel by Gregory Maguire

Lovely Bones, The by Alice Sebold

Lying Awake by Mark Salzman

M

Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington

March: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards

Mermaid’s Chair by Sue Monk Kidd

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Midwives by Chris Bohjalian

Miss Stephens Hears the Mermaid Singing by May Sartin

Mistress of Spices, The by Chitra Bannerjee Divakaruni

Monkey Hunting by Christina Garcia

My Grandfather’s Blessings by Rachel Naomi Remen

My Life in France by Julia Child

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N

Native Speaker by Chang-rae Lee

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

O

Obasan by Joy Kogawa

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

P

Pact by Jodie Picoult

Patron Saint of Liars, The by Ann Patchett

Peace Like a River by Leif Enger

People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

Pilot’s Wife, The by Anita Shreve

Plain Song by Kent Haruf

Poisonwood Bible, The by Barbara Kingsolver

Possession by A. S. Byatt

Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver

Pull of the Moon by Elizabeth Berg

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R

Range of Motion by Elizabeth Berg

Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

Red Tent, The by Anita Diamante

Return to Paris by Camille Rossant

Rhetoric of Death, The by Judith Rock

Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood

S

Saint Maybe by Anne Tyler

Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay

Saturday by Ian McEwan

Say You’re One of Them by Uwem Akpan

Shipping News by Annie Proulx

Silence by Shusako Endo

Singing in the Comeback Choir by Bebe Campbell

Sister of My Heart by Chitra Divakaruni

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Gutterson

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

Snow in August by Pete Hamill

So Far from God by Ana Castillo

Solar Storms by Linda Hogan

Sparrow, The by Mary Doria Russell

Spirit Catches You and Then You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman

Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky

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T

Thirteenth Tale, The by Diane Setterfield

Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson

Time Traveler’s Wife, The by Audrey Niffenberger

Trans-Sister Radio by Chris Bohjalian

U

Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer

Unless by Carol Shields

W

Water for Elephants by Sarah Gruen

Where the Heart is by Billie Letts

White Teeth by Zadie Smith

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

Worst Hard Time, The: The untold story of those who survived the great american dust bowl by Timothy Egan

Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson

Y

Year of Magical Thinking, The by Joan Didion

Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks

Yo! by Julia Alvarez

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