The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton

Ahab's Wife, Or The Star-Gazer, Sena Jeter Naslund

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon

Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt

Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner

Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy

Atonement, Ian McEwan

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Dai Sijie

Bee Season, Myla Goldberg

Bel Canto, Ann Patchett

The Bonesetter's Daughter, Amy Tan

Cane River, Lalita Tademy

Chocolat, Joanne Harris

The Coldest Winter Ever, Sister Souljah

The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother, James McBride

Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernières

The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown

Daughter of Fortune, Isabel Allende

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

The Devil Wears Prada, Lauren Weisberger

Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee

The Dive From Clausen's Pier, Ann Packer

Douglass Women, Jewell Parker Rhodes

The Emperor of Ocean Park, Stephen L. Carter

Empire Falls, Richard Russo

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, Alfred Lansing

Fair and Tender Ladies, Lee Smith

A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry

Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love, Dava Sobel

Getting Mother's Body, Suzan-Lori Parks

Girl With a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier

The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy

The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck 

The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, J.K. Rowling

Having our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years, Sarah Louise Delany and A. Elizabeth Delany

A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League, Ron Suskind

The Hours, Michael Cunningham

House of Sand and Fog, Andre Dubus III

I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith

Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri

Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë

The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara

The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini

Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life, Queen Noor

A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest Gaines

Life of Pi, Yann Martel

Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Mama Day, Gloria Naylor

Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden

Middlemarch, George Eliot

Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides

Milk in My Coffee, Eric Jerome Dickey

Motherless Brooklyn, Jonathan Lethem

My Antonia, Willa Cather

My Soul to Keep, Tananarive Due

Mystic River, Dennis Lehane

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, Barbara Ehrenreich

Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women, Geraldine Brooks

No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II, Doris Kearns Goodwin

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith

October Suite, Maxine Clair

One Thousand White Women, Jim Fergus

The Optimist's Daughter, Eudora Welty

Palace Walk, Naguib Mahfouz

Peace Like a River, Leif Enger

The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea, Sebastian Junger

Personal History, Katharine Graham

Plainsong, Kent Haruf

The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver

Pope Joan, Donna Woolfolk Cross

A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, Azar Nafisi

The Red Tent, Anita Diamant

A River Sutra, Gita Mehta

The Road from Coorain, Jill Ker Conway

The Samurai's Garden, Gail Tsukiyama

Seabiscuit, Laura Hillenbrand

The Secret History, Donna Tartt

The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd

Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterson

The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell

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

Stones from the River, Ursula Hegi

Sugar, Bernice McFadden

Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston

A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley

Three Junes, Julia Glass

To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

The Tortilla Curtain, T. Coraghessan Boyle

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith

Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson, Mitch Albom

Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West, Stephen Ambrose

Waiting, Ha Jin

A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail, Bill Bryson

The Weight of Water, Anita Shreve

Where the Heart Is, Billie Letts

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, Jung Chang

Winter Wheat, Mildred Walker

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