2008
Love Walked In - Marisa del los Santos
The Echo Maker - Richard Powers
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
Unaccustomed Earth - Jhumpa Lahiri
Montana Gardener’s Companion - Bob Gough
2007
Digging to America - Anne Tyler
Happiness Sold Separately - Lolly Winston
The Abstinence Teacher - Tom Perotta
Bel Canto - Ann Patchett
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
The Myth of You and Me - Leah Stewart
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Barbara Kingsolver
Special Topics in Calamity Physics - Marisha Pessl
Grace (Eventually) - Anne Lamott
I Feel Bad About My Neck - Nora Ephron
We the Living - Ayn Rand
On Beauty - Zadie Smith
Succulent Wild Woman - Sark
Tell Me Everything - Sarah Salway
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Under the Banner of Heaven - Jon Krakauer
The Female Brain - Louann Brezendine, MD
O Pioneers - Willa Cather
The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri
2006
Little Children - Tom Perotta
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter - Kim Edwards
Writing Down the Bones - Natalie Goldberg
The Alchemist - Paulo Coehlo
The Nanny Diaries - Emma McLaughlin
Bird by Bird - Anne Lamott
The Tenth Circle - Jodi Picoult
Veronica - Mary Gaitskill
I Am Charlotte Simmons - Tom Wolfe
The Inner Circle - T.C. Boyle
Cat’s Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The World is Flat - Thomas L. Friedman
The Tortilla Curtain - T.C. Boyle
Freakonomics - Levitt and Dubner
Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
The Journals of Lewis and Clark - edited by Bernard Devoto
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
Vanishing Acts - Jodi Picoult
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
The Dark Tower - Stephen King
Song of Susannah - Stephen King
Wolves of the Calla - Stephen King
Wizard and Glass - Stephen King
The Waste Lands - Stephen King
The Drawing of the Three - Stephen King
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
Della Raye - Gary Penley
Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer
The Pact - Jodi Picoult
Salem Falls - Jodi Picoult
My Sister’s Keeper - Jodi Picoult
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Good Grief - Lolly Winston
2005
The Life of Pi - Yann Martel
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Eiger Dreams - Jon Krakauer
The Gunslinger - Stephen King
Tortilla Flat - John Steinbeck
Nickel and Dimed - Barbara Ehrenreich
Plainsong - Kent Haruf
The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time - Mark Haddon
Rain of Gold - Victor Villasenor
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
Blindness - Jose Saramago
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories - Flannery O’Connor
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver






December 14, 2007 at 5:19 am
Did you like Bel Canto? I love Patchett. Just checked out her new one, Run. But I don’t think I am going to get to it. Ack!!