Book Lists from Kalmia Book Night

The book list for 2025 will be posted after the January meeting.

Beartown by Fredrik Backman

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doer

Confessions on the 7:45 by Lisa Unger

Dead Weight by Emmeline Clein

Devotions by Mary Oliver

Happiness Falls by Angie Kim

Horse by Geraldine Brooks

How to Keep House While Drowning by KC Davis

How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair

I Did Not Miss The Boat by Lea Tran

Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy

Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe

Skinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen

The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters

The Dress Diaries by Kate Strasdin

The Hundred-Year House by Rebecca Makkah

The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama

The Lions of 5th Avenue by Fiona Davis

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

Trust by Hernan Diaz

You Have Reached Your Destination by Louise Marburg

Benedict, Marie – The Only Woman in the Room

Benedict, Marie and Victoria Christopher Murray – The Personal Librarian

Bono – Surrender

Buck, Pearl S. – The Good Earth

Capote, Truman – Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

Dark, Alice Elliott – Fellowship Point

De Grasse Tyson, Neil - Starry Messenger

DeLuise, Dom – Eat This

Doerr, Anthony – Cloud Cuckoo Land

Gilbert, Elizabeth – Big Magic

Haig, Matt – The Midnight Library

Higgins-Krais, Susan – It’s About Time – A Bittersweet Story About Second Chances

Kalfus, Ken - 2 A.M in Little America

Kelly, Martha Hall - The Lilac Girls

Krueger, William Kent – This Tender Land

Larson, Erik – Isaac’s Storm

Lyden, Jacki – Daughter of the Queen of Sheba

Miles, Tiya – All That She Carried

Monk-Kidd, Sue – The Book of Longings

Raven, Catherine - Fox and I: An Uncommon Friendship

Rimmer, Kelly – German Wife

Rosenthal, Joshua – Integrative Nutrition

Rowe, Mickey – Fearlessly Different

Strout, Elizabeth - Lucy By The Sea

Tallamy, Doug – The Nature of Oaks

Wilkinson, Charmaine – Black Cake

American Dirt, by Jeanine Cummins

Dead Wake, by Erik Larson

Four Seasons in Rome, by Anthony Doerr

Kitchen Confidential, by Anthony Bourdain

Mayflower, by Nathaniel Philbrick

Miss Kopp Investigates, by Amy Stewart

Seating Arrangements, by Maggie Shipstead

The Architect’s Apprentice, by Elif Shafak

The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson

The Four Winds, by Kristin Hannah

The Ignorance of Bliss, by Sandy Hanna

The Lincoln Highway, by Amor Towles

The Rose Code, by Kate Quinn

The Stranger in the Lifeboat, by Mitch Albom

The Vanishing Half, by Brit Bennett

The War I Finally Won, by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Thunderstruck, by Erik Larson

A Wealth of Pigeons, by Steve Martin and Harry Bliss

All The Devils Are Here, by Louise Penny

Anxious People, by Fredrik Backman

Educated, by Tara Westover

How To Be An Anti Racist, by Ibram X. Kendi

Into The Beautiful North, by Luis Alberto Urea

Ordinary Grace, by William Kent Krueger

Rules for Visiting, by Jessica Francis Kane

The Bear and The Nightingale, by Katherine Arden

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon

The Education of an Idealist, by Sam Power

The Falls, by Joyce Carol Oates

The Feminine Mystique, by Betty Friedan

The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise, by Dan Gemeinhart

The Water Dancer, by Ta-Nehisi Coates

A Fire Sparkling, Julianne Maclean

Andy Carpenter Series, David Rosenfelt

Beautiful as the Sky, K.M. del Mara

Becoming, Michelle Obama

Becoming, Michelle Obama

Before We Were Yours, Lisa Wingate

Behind Her Eyes, Sarah Pinborough

Braving the Wilderness, Brene Brown

Concierge Confidential, Michael Fazio & Michael Malice

Dealing with the Elephant in the Room, Dr. Mike Bechtle

Dombey and Son, Charles Dickens

Draft No. 4, John McPhee

Educated, Tara Westover

Great Ikea, A Brand for all the People, Elen Lewis

Inspector Gamache novels, Louise Penny

Just Kids, Patti Smith

M Train, Patti Smith

Solar Bones, Mike McCormack

Testament, Margaret Atwood

The Dutch House, Ann Patchett

The Giver of Stars, JoJo Moyes

The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt

The Great Alone, Kristin Hannah

The Great Alone, Kristin Hannah

The Last Anniversary, Lian Moriarty

The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Leguin

The Satapur Moonstone, Sujata Massey

The Water’s Wide: A Memoir, Pat Conro

Three Daughters of Eve, Elif Shafak

Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen

Winter Night Trilogy; three books, Katherine Arden

Not available

Alcott, Kate. The Dressmaker. 2013.

Backman, Fredrik, and Henning Koch. Britt-Marie Was Here. 2016.

Bradley, Marion Zimmer. The Mists of Avalon. 1982.

Burton, Jessie. The Miniaturist. 2015.

Burton, Jessie. The Muse. 2016.

Byler, Linda. The Homestead: The Dakota Series, Book 1. 2017.

Cameron, W. Bruce. A Dog’s Purpose: A Novel for Humans. 2016.

Carlson, Julie, and Margot Guralnick. Remodelista: The Organized Home: Simple, Stylish

Storage Ideas for All Over the House. 2017.

Hahn, Laura Matson. The Heart Code. 2013.

Isenberg, Nancy. White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America. 2017.

Lee, Min Jin. Pachinko. 2017.

Millard, Candice. Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill. 2017.

The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey. 2006.

Misencik, Paul R. Sally Townsend, George Washington’s Teenage Spy. 2015.

Moore, Graham. The Last Days of Night. 2016.

Naylor, Hattie, and Sarah Waters. The Night Watch. 2016.

Picoult, Jodi. Small Great Things. 2016.

Rosnay, Tatiana de. Sarah’s Key. 2007.

Semple, Maria. Where’d You Go, Bernadette. 2013.

Shaara, Michael. The Killer Angels, 2004.

Shlain, Leonard. The Alphabet versus the Goddess: The Conflict between Word and Image. 2013.

Szabo, Magda, and Ali Smith. The Door. Translated by Len Rix. 2015.

Tallent, Gabriel. My Absolute Darling, 2017.

Towles, Amor. A Gentleman in Moscow, 2016.

Vance, J. D. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis. 2016.

Waters, Sarah. Fingersmith. 2002

A Man Called Ove, Fredrik Backman

Ahab’s Wife, Sena Jeter Aslund

Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year, Carlo Levi

Dandelion Wine, Ray Bradbury

Go Tell a Watchman, Harper Lee

Jane Steele, Lyndsay Faye

Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Marie Kondo

Me Before You, JoJo Moyes

Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

Rocket Girl, George D. Morgan

The Fortune Hunter, Daisy Goodwin

The Island House, Nancy Thayer

The Last Painting of Sara deVos, Dominic Smith

The Lincoln Myth, Steve Berry

The Miniaturist, Jessie Burton

The Nightingale, Kristin Hannah

The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey, Rinker Buck

The Wells Landing Series (six books), Amy Lillard

Not available

All the Light we Cannot See, Anthony Dorre

Beautiful Ruins, Jess Walter

Behind the Ivy Walls, Hal English

Big Little Lies, Liane Moriarty

Bitter Greens, Kate Forsyth

Brain on Fire, Susannah Cahalan

Can’t we Talk About Something More Pleasant, Roz Chast

Edge of Eternity, Ken Follet

Everything I Never Told You, Celeste Ng

Filthy Rich Asians, Kevin Kwan

Heft, Liz Moore

Heir to a Prophecy, Mercedes Rochelle

Longbourn, Jo Baker

Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Francine Prose

Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline

Scorpio Races, Maggie Stiefvater

Some Luck, Jane Smiley

Swamp Team Three, Jana DeLeon

The Boys in the Boat, Daniel James Brown

The Girl Who Fell From the Sky, Heidi Durrow

The Language of Flowers, Vanessa Diffenbaugh

The Pearl That Broke its Shell, Nadia Hashim

The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Rachel Joyce

What Alice Forgot, Liane Moriarty

The Anatomist’s Wife and Mortal Arts (both Lady Darby Mysteries), by Anna Lee Huber

All of the Maisie Dobbs Mysteries, by Jacqueline Winspear

Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, by Walter Isaacson

Capital Hill Haunts (Haunted America), by Tim Krepp

Country Girl, by Edna O’Brien

Crazy Rich, by Jerry Oppenheimer

Feed Your Hunger for Health and Happiness, by Joshua Rosenthal

Grain Brain, by David Perlmutter

Gun, with Occasional Music, by Jonathan Lethem

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, by Alice Monro

In Defense of Food, by Michael Pollan

In the Garden of Beasts, by Erik Larson

Is Paris Burning?, by Collins Lapierre

Judgement Call (Joanna Brady Mystery), by J. A. Jance

Lamb, by Christopher Moore

Lean In, by Sheryl Sandberg

My Beloved World, by Sonia Sotomayor

My Beloved World, on Audible Book, read by Rita Moreno

On Writing, by Stephen King

Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follett

Roadside Picnic, by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

The Aquariums of Pyongyang, by CholRHwan, Kang and Rigoulot, Pierre

The Art Forger, by B.A. Shapiro

The Color of Water, by James McBride

The Giver, by Lois Lowry

The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt

The Hangman’s Daughter, by Oliver Potzsch

The Historian, by Elizabeth Kostova

The Innocent, a Vanessa Michael Munroe Novel, by Taylor Stevens

The Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, available on Net Flicks, Blue Ray and DVD

The New York Nobody Knows, by William B. Helmreich

The Omnivore’s Dilemma, by Michael Pollan

The Sense of an Ending, by Julian Barnes

Three Pines Mysteries (Inspector Gomash), by Louise Penny

Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand

Wheat Belly, by William Davis, MD

Americaʼs Test Kitchen - the Science of Good Cooking, The Editors of Americaʼs Test

Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel

Bystanders: Conscience & Complicity During the Holocaust, Victoria Barnett

Doll Bones (YA fiction), Holly Black

Driving the Saudis, Jane Amelia Larson

Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder, David Weinberg

Everything on a Waffle (YA), Polly Horvath

Ghost Ship, Sharon Lee & Steve Miller

Haunting Jordan, P.J. Alderman

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Jamie Ford

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, Charles Yu

Kitchen

New York, the Novel, Edward Rutherford

Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife, Eben Alexander III, MD

Second Nature, Michael Pollan

Small Island, Andrea Levy

Swamplandia, Karen Russell

The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkein

The Invisible Bridge, Julie Orringer

The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle, the Countess of Carnavon

The Mayo Clinic Guide to Pregnancy

The Mitford Sisters: the Saga of the Mitford Family, Mary S. Lovell

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith

Blood, Bones and Butter, by Gabrielle Hamilton

Death Comes to Pemberly, by P.D. James

Fragile Beasts, by Tawni O'Dell

Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson

Haunting Jordan, by P.J. Alderman

Housekeeping, by Marilyn Robinson

In the Garden of Beasts, by Erik Larson

Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years

Maisie Dobbs series, by Jacqueline Winspear

Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides

Monopoly on Salvations, by Jeannine Hill Fletcher

My Stroke of Insight, by Jill Bolte Taylor

Saving Fish from Drowning, by Amy Tan

Stones From the River, by Ursula Hegi

The Buddha in the Attic, by Julie Otsuka

The Paris Wife, by Paula McClain

To the End of the Land, by David Grossman

Tolstoy and the Purple Chair, by Nina Sankovitch

True Grit, by Charles Portis

Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand

We the Animals: A Novel, by Justin Torres

When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present, by Gail Collins

Not available

Not available

Beowulf on the Beach: What to Love and What to Skip in Literature’s 50 Greatest Hits – Jack Murnighan

Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition) – Seamus Heaney

Brooklyn: A Novel – Colm Toibin

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage – Elizabeth Gilbert

Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest’s Most Controversial Season – Nick Heil

Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair that Changed America – Erik Larson

Edge of the Jungle – William Beebe

Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel – Jeannette Walls

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet – Jamie Ford

IBM and the Holocaust – Edwin Black

Infidel – Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Interpreter of Maladies – Jhumpa Lahiri

Isabella – Norman Prady

Keturah and Lord Death – Martine Leavitt

Let It Be Morning – Sayed Kashua and Miriam Shlesinger

Maisie Dobbs – Jacqueline Winspear

People of the Book: A Novel – Geraldine Brooks

River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey – Candice Millard

Seabiscuit: An American Legend – Laura Hillenbrand

Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II – Robert Kurson

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Diaz

The Four Agreements – Don Miguel Ruiz

The Grass Dancer – Susan Power

The Help – Kathryn Stockett

The Housekeeper and Professor – Yoko Ogawa

The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals – Michael Pollan

The Space Between Us: A Novel – Thrity Umrigar

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox – Maggie O’Farrell

The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR’s Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience – Kirstin Downey

The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story – Diane Ackerman

This Is Where I Leave You – Jonathan Tropper

Unaccustomed Earth: Stories – Jhumpa Lahiri

Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte

A Concise History of the World, J. M. Roberts

A Spot of Bother, Mark Haddon

A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini

A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton, by Carl Bernstein

Black Like Me, John Howard Griffin

Breakfast with Buddha: A Novel, by Roland Merullo

Chicken Soup for the Horse Lover's Soul, by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Marty Becker, and Gary Seidler

Coming into the End Zone: A Memoir, Doris Grumbach

Digging to America: A Novel, Anne Tyler

Dr. Pitcairn's Complete Guide to Natural Health for Dogs & Cats, Richard H. Pitcairn and Susan Hubble Pitcairn

Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia, Elizabeth Gilbert

Garden Spells, Sarah Addison Allen

Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World, Bill Clinton

Here on Earth, Alice Hoffman

Honey Mud Maggots and Other Medical Marvel, Robert Scott Root-Bernstein and Michele Root-Bernstein

I Feel Bad About My Neck, Nora Ephron

Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil, Deborah Rodriguez and Kristin Ohlson

Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life, Martin E. Seligman

Loving Frank: A Novel, Nancy Horan

My Life in France, by Julia Child and Alex Prud'Homme

Never Check E-Mail In the Morning: And Other Unexpected Strategies for Making Your Work Life Work, Julie Morgenstern

Saturday, Ian McEwan

Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd

Suite Francaise, Irene Nemirovsky

The Best Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon, Donald Hall

The Body Has a Mind of Its Own: How Body Maps in Your Brain Help You Do (Almost) Everything Better, Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee

The Glass Castle: A Memoir, Jeannette Walls

The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini

The Liars' Club: A Memoir , by Mary Karr

The Memory Keeper's Daughter, Kim Edwards

The Notebook, Nicholas Sparks

The Paula Dean Autobiography, Paula Dean

The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School, Kathleen Flinn

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors and the Collision of Two Cultures, by Anne Fadiman

The Uncommon Reader, by Alan Bennett

The Way the Crow Flies: A Novel, Ann-Marie MacDonald

Water for Elephants: A Novel, Sara Gruen

A Brush With God, Peter Pearson

American Pastoral, Philip Roth

Assassination Vacation, Sarah Vowell

Back When We Were Grownups, Anne Tyler

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Dai Sijie

Beloved, Toni Morrison

Conservatives Without Conscience, John Dean

Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert

Going with the Grain, Susan Seligson

Gwen Raverat, Frances Spalding

I Like You - Hospitality Under the Influence, Amy Sedaris

In Search of Memory, Eric Candel

Inventing a Nation, Gore Vidal

Julia and Julie, Julie Lowell

Kabloona, Gontran de Poncins

My Life in France, Julia Child & Alex Prud'Homme

Practicing Peace in Times of War, Pema Chodron

Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen

Road From Coorain, Jill Ker Conway

Social Intelligence (non-Fiction), Daniel Golemen

Suite Francaise, Irene Nemerovsky

The Balkan Trilogy, Olivia Manning

The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom

The Glass Castle, Jeanette Walls

The House on Beartown Road, Elizabeth Cohen

The Innocent Man, John Grisham

The Inward Garden, Julie Moir Messervy

The Jokes My Father Never Told Me, Cathy Crimmins (daughter of member Betty Lancaster)

The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini

The Memory Keeper's Daughter, Kim Edwards

The Saturday, Ian McEwen

The Seasons of Lillian Dawes, Katherine Mosby

The Tender Bar, J. R. Mohr

The Tortilla Curtain, J. C. Boyle

The World to Come, Dara Horn

Time and Again, Jack Finney

Washington's Crossing, Fischer

Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen

A Million Little Pieces, by James Frey

Atonement, by Ian McEwan

Born Fighting, by James Webb

Island, by Aldous Huxley

Judgment Day, by Penelope Lively

Life of Pi, by Yann Martel

Love Life, by Gist Chin

Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro

New Hope for American Art, (available at Jim's of Lambertville, located on 6 Bridge Street)

Nickel and Dimes: On Not Getting By in America, by Barbara Ehrenreich

On Persephone’s Island, A Sicilian Journey, by Mary Taylor Semeti

Runaway, by Alice Munro

Shadow Divers, by Roberst Kurson

Teacher Man, by Frank McCourt

The Dark is Rising, by Susan Cooper

The Final Confession of Mabel Stark, by Robert Hough

The Last Gift of Time, by Caroline G. Heilbrun

The Lymond Chronicles, by Dorothy Dunnett

The Majesty of the Law, by Sandra Day O’connor

The Master Butchers Singing Club, by Louise Erdich

The No Cry Sleep Solution, by Elizabeth Pantley and William Sears

The Notebook, by Nicololas Sparks

The Remarkable Life of William Beebe, by Carol Grant Gould

The Stone Diaries, by Carol Shields

The Wedding, by Nicololas Sparks

Waiting for Birdy, by Catherine Newman

War in the Val D'orcia: An Italian War Diary, by Iris Origo

West with the Night, by Beryl Markham

A Gesture Life Chang-Rae Lee

A Thousand Days in Venice Marlene De Blasi

Ahab's Wife Sena Jeter Naslund

All He Ever Wanted Anita Shreve

Atonement Ian McEwan

Back When We Were Grown Ups Ann Tyler

Bastard of the Carolinas Dorothy Allison

Biography of Bobby Kennedy Arnold Schlessinger

Borrowed Finery Paula Fox

Brandvagg Henning Mankell

Civil War Shelby Foot

Dalziel and Pascoe Mystery Series Reginald Hill

Down in Botswana Alexander Paul Smith

English Creek Ivan Doig

Eva Moves the Furniture Margot Livesay

Fingersmith Sarah Waters

Fork It Over Alan Richman

God's Bestseller Brian Moynahan

In the Heart of the Sea Nat Philbrick

Into the Wild Jon Krakauer

Into Thin Air Jon Krakauer

La Magdalena William Valtos

Let's Roll Lisa Beemer

Moll Flanders Daniel Defoe

Murder In the Bastille Cara Black

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All Allan Gurganus

Portrait of a Marriage Nigel Nicolson

Purple Hibiscus Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Reading Lolita in Tehran Azar Nafisi

Sabbath Wayne Muller

Sammy's Hill Kristin Gore

Sissinghurst: Portrait of a Garden Jane Brown

Sissinghurst: The Making of a Garden Anne Scott-James

Skipping Christmas John Grisham

The Birth of Venus Sarah Dunant

The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night-Time Mark Haddon

The Devil in the White City Eric Larson

The Fiery Cross Dianna Gabaldon

The Good Earth Pearl S. Buck

The Joy of Cooking Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker

The Library Sarah Stewart

The Lords of Discipline Pat Conroy

The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold

The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri

The Power Broker Robert A. Caro

The Purpose Driven Life Rick Warne

The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd

The Session A. W. Gottschalk

The Sunday Philosophy Club Alexander Paul Smith

The Three Miss Margarets Louise Shaffer

The Time Traveller's Wife Audrey Niffenegger

The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill Mark Bittner

Triangle: The Fire That Changed America David Von Drehle

Under the Banner of Heaven Jon Krakauer

When the Emperor Was Divine Julie Otsuka

Who In Hell Is Wanda Fuca? by GM Ford

Who's the Matter With Me? Alice Steadman

A Mighty Heart by Mary Pearl

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson

Blessings by Anna Quindlan

Cabinet of Curiosities by D Preston and L Child

Cane River by Lalita Tademay

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende

Death Comes to the Archbishop by Willa Cather

Disgrace by JM Coetzee

Empire Falls by Richard Russo

Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel

Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

Green Grass by Grace Shawn McBride

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling

House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

Kate Remembered by A. Scott Berg

Let's Roll by Lisa Beemer

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Making Things Better by Anita Brookner

Master and Commander Series by Patrick O'Brian

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem

Mysteries by Ian Rankin

Nobody's Fool by Richard Russo

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

Perfume by Patrick Suskind

Sister of My Heart by Chitra Divakaruni

Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi

Sylvia Plath; A Literary Life by Linda Wagner-Martin

The #1 Ladies Detectives Agency by Alexander McCall Smith (listen to it on tape)

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by M. Chabon

The Biography of Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Bone Vault by Linda Fairstein

The Davinci Code by Dan Brown

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

The Dress Lodger by Sheri Holman

The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

The Great White South by Herbert Ponting

The History of Saturday Night Live by J Miller and T Shales

The Lost Angel by Mary Higgins Clark

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

The Nanny Diaries by E McLaughlin and N Kraus

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

The Sacred Grove by Dillon Ripley

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

The Vine of Desire by Chitra Divakaruni

The Virgin's Knot by Holly Payne

This Is My Daughter by Roxanna Robinson

Three Junes by Julia Glass

Touch the Dragon by Karen Connelly

Who In Hell Is Wanda Fuca? by GM Ford

Lazy B by Sandra Day O’Connor,

Object Lessons by Anna Quindlen,

The Long Loneliness by Dorothy Day

Excellent Women by Barbara Pym