Books I've Read Since 2009
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2025
Swamp Story by Dave Barry
The Briar Club by Kate Quinn
The Wedding People by Alison Espach
Heating and Cooling by Beth Ann Fennelly
Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout
Nobody Will Tell You This But Me by Bess Kalb (re-read)
We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman (re-read)
Heartburn by Nora Ephron (re-read)
I Feel Bad About My Neck (re-read)
Blank by Zibby Owens
The One-in-a-Million Boy by Monica Wood
Piglet by Lottie Hazell
Back After This by Linda Holmes
Sisters Under the Rising Sun by Heather Morris
I’ll Show Myself Out by Jessi Klein (re-read)
How to Fly by Barbara Kingsolver
Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Ina Garten
Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty
Same Time Next Summer by Annabel Monaghan
First-time Caller by B.K. Borison
Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
Mrs Quinn’s Rise to Fame by Olivia Ford (re-read)
Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry
Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall
Consider Yourself Kissed by Jessica Stanley
It’s a Love Story by Anabel Monaghan
Tilt by Emma Pattee
2024
Five Tuesdays in Winter by Lily King
This is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett
Mrs. Nash’s Ashes by Sarah Adler
Silver Alert by Lee Smith
No Two Persons by Erica Bauermeister
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (re-read)
Late Migrations by Margaret Renkl
Good Company by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin
Hope by Andrew Ridker
After Annie by Anna Quindlen
Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid (re-read)
The World’s Largest Man by Harrison Scott Key
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker
Mrs. Quinn’s Rise to Fame by Olivia Ford
Funny Story by Emily Henry
The Life Council by Laura Tremaine
Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera
The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
Why We Cook by Lindsay Gardner
The Ensemble by Aja Gabel
The Guncle by Steven Rowley
Good Material by Dolly Alderton
Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville
Community Board by Tara Conklin
How to Keep House While Drowning by KC Davis
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See
Separation Anxiety by Laura Zigman
The Husbands by Holly Gramazio
Homegoing (reread) by Yaa Gyasi
A Man Called Ove (reread) by Fredrik Backman
The Many Lives of Mama Love by Lara Love Hardin
Real Americans by Rachel Khong
The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
Long Island by Colm Tóibín
Shark Heart by Emily Habeck
Summer Romance by Annabel Monaghan
The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl
Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan (reread)
I Hope This Finds You Well by Natalie Sue
One Star Romance by Laura Hankin
Self Care by Leigh Stein
The Most by Jessica Anthony
The Women by Kristin Hannah
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty (reread)
Splinters by Leslie Jamison
How to Read a Book by Monica Wood
The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers by Samuel Burr
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
Nobody Will Tell You This But Me by Bess Klab (reread)
The Funeral Ladies of Ellerie County by Claire Swinarski
These Precious Days by Ann Patchett (reread)
Big in Sweden by Sally Franson
Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng (reread)
Slow Dance by Rainbow Rowell
A Reason to See You Again by Jami Attenberg
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
2023
Love & Saffron by Kim Fay
Catastrophic Happiness by Catherine Newman
The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston
Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro
West With Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge
Writers and Lovers by Lily King
Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
Inheritance by Dani Shapiro
We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman
We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza
The Summer of Broken Rules by K. L. Walther
Create Anyway by Ashlee Gadd
Tell the Machine Goodnight by Katie Williams
In the Valley by Ron Rash
Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
Life And Other Love Songs by Anissa Gray
Gluing the Cracks by Katie Blackburn
All My Knotted-Up Life by Beth Moore
Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson
You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith
Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittinfield
A Heart That Works by Rob Delaney
Now You See Us by Balli Kaur Jaswal
Happy Place by Emily Henry
A Quiet Life by Ethan Joella
Two Steps Forward by Anne Buist and Graeme Simsion
Earth’s the Right Place for Love by Elizabeth Berg
Late Bloomers by Deepa Varadarajan
Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
Little Monsters by Adrienne Brodeur
How to Stay Married by Harrison Scott Key
Homecoming by Kate Morton
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
Once I Was Cool by Megan Stielstra
The End of Your Life Book Club (reread)
Atomic Habits by James Clear
You Are Here by Karin Kin-Greenberg
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Textbook by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Congratulations, Who Are You Again? by Harrison Scott Key
The Book of Delights by Ross Gay
Talking to Strangers (reread) by Malcolm Gladwell
The Prince of Frogtown by Rick Bragg
Happiness Falls by Angie Kim
Talking at Night by Claire Daverley
Babel by R.F. Kuang
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
2022
Just Like That by Gary D. Schmidt
These Precious Days by Ann Patchett
Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake by Anna Quindlen
Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott
The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher (reread)
The Maid by Nita Prose
The People We Keep by Allison Larkin
No Cure for Being Human (and Other truths I Need to Hear) by Kate Bowler
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Rules for Visiting by Jessica F. Kane
Maid by Stephanie Land
The Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
Tomorrow Will Be Better by Betty Smith
Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney
French Braid by Anne Tyler
The Chicken Sisters by KJ Dell'Antonia
Bomb Shelter by Mary Laura Philpott
I Guess I Haven’t Learned that Yet by Shauna Niequist
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
After I Do by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir by Ruth Reichl
I’ll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood by Jessi Klein
Nora Goes off Script by Annabel Monaghan
Good Eggs by Rebecca Hardiman
Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes (reread)
Forty Acres and a Poodle by Jeanne Marie Laskas
Whose Waves These Are by Amanda Dykes
Sea Wife by Amity Gaige
Book Lovers by Emily Henry
The Speckled Beauty by Rick Bragg
It All Comes Down to This by Anne Fowler
Flying Solo by Linda Holmes
Lucie Yi Is Not a Romantic by Lauren Ho
The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan
Iona Iverson’s Rules for Commuting by Clare Pooley
Mika in Real Life by Emiko Jean
Meet Me in the Margins by Melissa Ferguson
The Swimmers by Julia Otsuka
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Day the World Came to Town by Jim DeFede
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
Open by Andre Agassi
The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley
Funny Farm by Laurie Zaleski
The Messy Lives of Book People by Phaedra Patrick
All Over but the Shoutin’ by Rick Bragg
The Measure by Nikki Erlick
The Revivalists by Christopher M. Hood
Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher (reread)
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Matilda by Roald Dahl
Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout
The BFG by Roald Dahl
2021
Transcendent Kingdom
Anxious People
Nobody Will Tell You This But Me
The Bright Hour (reread)
Sleeping Tiger (reread)
Voices in Summer (reread)
The Personal History of Rachel Dupree (reread)
What Kind of Woman
Commonwealth
The Queen's Gambit
Educated (reread)
The Lazy Genius Way
Attachments
The Lightest Object in the Universe
Dusk Night Dawn
28 Summers
Crying in H Mart
The Midnight Library
The Blue Bedroom (re-read)
The Opposite of Loneliness (re-read)
I Miss You When I Blink
Meet Me at the Museum
Attachments
Deacon King Kong
Project Hail Mary
The Dearly Beloved
Another Brooklyn
The Rosie Project (reread)
The Rosie Result
The Kite Runner (reread)
Daisy Jones and the Six
Winter Garden
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
The Hunger Games (reread)
Catching Fire (reread)
Mockingjay (reread)
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone (reread)
The Overdue Life of Amy Byler
Florence Adler Swims Forever
2020
Olive, again
Nothing to See Here
Winter’s Bone
Winter Solstice (re-read)
Such a Fun Age
Outliers (reread)
The Diary of Anne Frank (re-read)
In Five Years
Nothing Gold Can Stay (re-read)
Something Rich and Strange (re-read)
The Choice
Man’s Search for Meaning
Risen Motherhood
The Beekeeper of Aleppo
Dear Edward
The Light We Lost
Homegoing
The Only Plane in the Sky
The Second Chance Supper Club
September (re-read)
Bird by Bird (re-read)
The Vanishing Half
Wild + Free
The Sound of Gravel
Red at the Bone
The Stranger in the Woods
Kindred
Forever Friends
Mindset
The Bookshop on the shore
The Vanishing Sky
Every Note Played
The Giver of Stars
Call Your Daughter Home
The Mothers
In the Valley
Joy in the Morning
A Thousand Acres
500 Miles From You
The Liars Club
The Lazy Genius Way
The Sunlit Night
The New Wilderness
2019
Unaccustomed earth (re-read)
The war that set me free
The Gospel-Centered Mom
Where the Crawdads sing
The faraway brothers
Becoming
Maybe you should talk to someone
Goodbye for now
Ask again yes
The queen of hearts
Marry Him
Wild (re-read)
That kind of mother
Us against you
Clock dance
The flatshare
Secret life of bees
Grace after henry
The almost sisters
Waiting for Tom Hanks
Evvie Drake Starts Over
The Testaments Margaret Atwood
The Dutch House
Coming Home (re-read)
Talking to Strangers
The Last Romantics
The Gifted School
The Carousel
Just Mercy
2018
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (re-read)
The Help (re-read)
A Simplified Life
Beartown
This is Where You Belong
tell me three things
Of mess and moxie
Daring to hope
The road back to you
Four Seasons in Rome
Eat pray love (re-read)
Everything happens for a reason
The year of less
Educated
Liturgy of the ordinary
Girl, Wash Your Face
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger (re-read)
Station Eleven
Bel canto (re-read)
An American marriage
The Hate U Give
The secret between us
The Great Alone
Where’d you go Bernadette (re-read)
The Warmth of Other Suns
Small Great Things
When Life Gives You Lululemons
The Middle Place
Mr Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore
The Last Anniversary
A Place For Us
We were the lucky ones
The Hiding Place (re-read)
Hillbilly Elegy
Nothing to Prove
Beneath a Scarlet Sky
The Guernsey Literary Potato Peel Pie Society (re-read)
Remember God
All the Light We Cannot See (re-read)
One day in December
Silver Sparrow
The God of Small Things
This is How It Always Is
2017
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher (re-read)
Wild Mountain Thyme by Rosamunde Pilcher (re-read)
Voices in Summer by Rosamunde Pilcher (re-read)
The Carousel by Rosamunde Pilcher (re-read)
Sleeping Tiger by Rosamunde Pilcher (re-read)
The End of Summer by Rosamunde Pilcher (re-read)
Grace Not Perfection by Emily Ley
Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman
Bringing Up Bébé by Pamela Druckerman
The Gifts Of Imperfection by Brené Brown
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
The End of Your Life Book Club (re-read)
Big Little Lies
Hands-Free Mama by Rachel Macy Stafford
What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
God and Jetfire by Amy Seek
The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
Chasing Slow by Erin Loechner
Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty
The Bright Hour by Nina Riggs
The Glass Castle (re-read) by Jeannette Walls
The Unexpected Kind of Hero by Andrea Moore
Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple
Landline by Rainbow Rowell
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
Wonder by R.J. Palacio
The New Old Me by Merideth Maran
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
No Drama Discipline by Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
At Home in the World by Tsh Oxenreider
Good Morning Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton
The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott
2016
Above the Waterfall by Ron Rash
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
My Kitchen Year by Ruth Reichl
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
In Falling Snow by Mary-Rose MacColl
When Will There Be Good News? by Kate Atkinson
The Opposite of Loneliness by Marina Keegan
Lila by Marilynne Robinson
Heart and Soul by Maeve Binchy
Babywise
My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
The Blue Bedroom by Rosamunde Pilcher (re-read)
Modern Lovers by Emma Straub
The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson
Present Over Perfect by Shauna Niequist
Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier
The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher (re-read)
The Magnolia Story by Chip Gaines, Joanna Gaines, and Mark Dagostino
It Sucked and Then I Cried by Heather Armstrong (re-read)
2015
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
The House at Tyneford by Natasha Solomons
Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron
Still by Lauren Winner
I Remember Nothing by Nora Ephron
Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott
Nothing Gold Can Stay by Ron Rash
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
The Same Sky by Amanda Eyre Ward
Memory Wall by Anthony Doerr
The Shell Collector by Anthony Doerr
Something Rich and Strange by Ron Rash
Nightwoods by Charles Frazier
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
The Last Letter From Your Lover by Jojo Moyes
The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion
The Silver Star by Jeannete Walls
Open House by Elizabeth Berg
The Likeness by Tana French
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
Thrive by Arianna Huffington
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery
The Martian by Andy Weir
Anything by Jennie Allen
Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant
All There Is by Dave Isay
Ties that Bind by Dave Isay
Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling
The World Made Straight by Ron Rash
About Grace by Anthony Doerr
In the Woods by Tana French
At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon
Listening Is an Act of Love by Dave Isay
After You by Jojo Moyes
Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
2014
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
Exodus by Leon Uris
The Invisible Thread by Laura Schroff
The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Coming Home by Rosamunde Pilcher (re-read)
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
The Lowlands by Jhumpa Lahiri
Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
Restless by Jennie Allen
Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (re-read)
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (re-read)
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (re-read)
War Brides by Helen Bryan
Peony in Love by Lisa See
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (re-read)
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar (re-read)
The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenberg
Delancey by Molly Wizenberg
A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
Divergent by Veronica Roth
Insurgent by Veronica Roth
Allegiant by Veronica Roth
The Rosie Project by Graeme C. Simsion
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt
Love Does by Bob Goff
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
The Three Weissmans of Westport by Cathleen Schine
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (re-read)
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
German Boy by Wolfgang Samuel
The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks
The Giver by Lois Lowry (re-read)
Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
The Messenger by Lois Lowry
Son by Lois Lowry
Blue Nights by Joan Didion
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories by B. J. Novak
Bread and Wine by Shauna Niequist
One Plus One by Jojo Moyes
How to Love by Katie Cotugno
The Girl You Left Behind by Jojo Moyes
Find a Stranger, Say Goodbye by Lois Lowry
All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman
Yes Please by Amy Poehler
Dollbaby by Laura Lane McNeal
The Piano Teacher by Janice Y. K. Lee
2013
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (re-read)
The Personal History of Rachel DuPree by Ann Weisgarber
The Memory Palace by Mira Bartok
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (re-read)
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (re-read)
The Carousel by Rosamunde Pilcher (re-read)
Voices in Summer by Rosamunde Pilcher (re-read)
Another View by Rosamunde Pilcher (re-read)
Wild Mountain Thyme by Rosamunde Pilcher (re-read)
September by Rosamunde Pilcher (re-read)
The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
Heart in the Right Place by Carolyn Jourdan
Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher (re-read)
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
Okay For Now by Gary D. Schmidt
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Keeping the Feast by Paula Butturini
Where’d You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling
The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
Serena by Ron Rash
The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
Dad is Fat by Jim Gaffigan
March by Geraldine Brooks
2012
Love Walked In by Marisa De los Santos
Kisses from Katie by Katie Davis
Say You’re One of Them by Uwem Akpan
The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Expecting Adam by Martha Beck
Home by Marilynne Robinson
Great House by Nicole Krauss
The Nanny Diaries (re-read) by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett
The Know It All by AJ Jacobs (re-read)
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller
Don’t Let’s Go to the Dog’s Tonight by Alexandra Fuller (re-read)
Room by Emma Donoghue
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
Homecoming by Bernard Schlink
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
I’m A Stranger Here Myself by Bill Bryson
Little Princes by Conor Greenan
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (re-read)
Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith
2011
100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
The Elegance of a Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Tara Road by Maeve Binchy
The Ha-ha by Dave King
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
My Life in France by Julia Child and Alex Prud'Homme
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Bed and Breakfast by Lois Battle
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
Love Walked In by Marisa De los Santos
2010
The Guinea Pig Diaries by AJ Jacobs
Wild Mountain Thyme by Rosamunde Pilcher (re-read)
The Empty House by Rosamunde Pilcher (re-read)
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (re-read)
The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands by Dr. Laura Schlessinger
The Same Kind of Different As Me by Ron Hall and Denver Moore
Blessings by Anna Quindlen
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Twenty Chickens for a Saddle by Robyn Scott
Lost in the City by Edward P. Jones
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Return Journey by Maeve Binchy
It Sucked and Then I Cried by Heather Armstrong
Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
Summer Sisters by Judy Blume
The Legend of Colton H. Bryant by Alexandra Fuller
Let Me Be a Woman by Elisabeth Elliot
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
The Condition by Jennifer Haigh
The Poet of Baghdad by Jo Tatchell
Belong to Me by Marisa De Los Santos
The Beach House by Jane Green
Mrs. Kimble by Jennifer Haigh
If You Lived Here by Dana Sachs
In the Fall by Jeffrey Lent
The Carousel by Rosamunde Pilcher
Voices in Summer by Rosamunde Pilcher
Gods and Generals by Jeffrey Shaara
Abide With Me by Elizabeth Strout
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
2009
The Girls by Lori Lansens
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Julie and Julia by Julie Powell
Scribbling the Cat by Alexandra Fuller
Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
From Heaven Lake by Vikram Seth
Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
They Poured Fire On Us From the Sky by Benson and Alephonsion Deng + Benjamin Ajak
The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer
My Antonia by Willa Cather
The King's Rifle by Biyi Bandele
The Blue Bedroom by Rosamunde Pilcher
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Novel Without a Name by Duong Thu Huong
The Natural History of Uncas Metcalfe by Betsey Osborne
Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell
47 Roses by Peter Sheridan
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer + Annie Barrows
The Courtyard by Marcia Willett
An Ordinary Man by Paul Rusesabagina
What Remains by Carol Radziwill
Girl Meets God by Lauren Winner
The Invisible Wall by Harry Bernstein
The Groom to Have Been by Saher Alam
Real Sex by Lauren Winner
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
The Aquariums of Pyongyang by Chol-hwan Kang
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout