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
The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
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
Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese
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
Empire Falls, Richard Russo
Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage, Alfred Lansing
A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
Freedom, Jonathan Franzen
Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millenium Trilogy, Book 1), Stieg Larsso
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
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel, Jeanette Walls
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, J.K. Rowling
The Help, Kathryn Stockett
The Hours, Michael Cunningham
House of Sand and Fog, Andre Dubus III
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
Infidel, Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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
Little Bee, Chris Cleave
Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand, Helen Simonson
Mama Day, Gloria Naylor
Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
Middlemarch, George Eliot
Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
Motherless Brooklyn, Jonathan Lethem
My Ántonia, Willa Cather
My Sister’s Keeper, Jodi Picoult
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
Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout
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
Room, Emma Donoghue
The Samurai’s Garden, Gail Tsukiyama
Sarah’s Key, Tatiana de Rosnay
Seabiscuit, Laura Hillenbrand
The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterson
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Lisa See
South of Broad, Pat Conroy
The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell
Stones from the River, Ursula Hegi
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
Three Junes, Julia Glass
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
The Tortilla Curtain, T. Coraghessan Boyle
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West, Stephen Ambrose
A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan
Waiting, Ha Jin
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail, Bill Bryson
Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen
The Weight of Water, Anita Shreve
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, Jung Chang