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Thousand Acres, Jane
Smiley - 3.0
Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx - 2.0
Women of the Silk, Gail Tsukiyama - 4.3
The Notebook, Nicholas Sparks - 3.3
Message in a Bottle. Nicholas Sparks - 2.5
Deep End of the Ocean, Jacquelyn Mitchard - 4.0
Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver - 4.5
Joy School, Elizabeth Berg - 4.0
Durable Goods, Elizabeth Berg - 3.5
The Color of Water, James McBride - 4.0
She's
Come Undone, Wally Lamb - 3.5
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, John Berendt - 3.5
Midwives, Chris Bohjalian - 4.0
Tender Is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald - 2.5
Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden - 4.4
The Pilot's Wife, Anita Shreve - 3.8
The Language of Threads, Gail Tsukiyama - 4.5
A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson - 3.5
Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier - 4.0
The Road From Coorain, Jill Ker Conway - 3.5
Plainsong, Kent Haruf (not rated)
Chocolat, Joanne Harris - 3.7
The Orchid Thief, Susan Orlean - 2.5
Where the Heart Is, Billie Letts - 3.5
Diary of Mattie Spenser, Sandra Dallas - 4.0
Ahab's Wife, Sena Jeter Nasland - 3.5
Gap Creek, Robert Morgan - 3.0
Daughter of Fortune, Isabel Allende - 3.7
Samurai's Garden, Gail Tsukiyama - 4.7
Snow Falling On Cedars, David Guterson - 3.5
Divine Secrets of the Yaya Sisterhood, Rebecca
Wells - 4.0
Georgianna, Fay Logan - 2.5
Tara Road, Maeve Binchy - 4.0
Resistance, Anita Shreve - 4.0
House of Sand and Fog, Andre Dubus III - 4.0
Tender at the Bone, Ruth Reichl 3.0
These Is My Words, Nancy E. Turner (not rated)
The Red Tent, Anita Diamant - 4.2
Big Stone Gap, Adriana Trigiani - 3.3
The Weight of Water, Anita Shreve - 4.0
Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind, Ann Ross - 2.0
Sister of My Heart, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni - 5.0
Goodbye Without Leaving, Laurie Colwin (not rated)
Girl With a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier - 3.6
It's Not About the Bike: My Journev Back to Life, Lance Armstrong
- 4.7
The Bonesetter's Daughter, Amy Tan - 3.3
Cane River, Lalita Tademy - 4.8
Big Cherry Holler, Adriana Trigiani - 3.0
Seabiscuit - An American Legend, Laura Hillenbrand - 4.5
The Nanny Diaries, Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus - 3.2
Empire Falls, Richard Russo - 3.5
The Dive From Clausen's Pier, Ann Packer - 4.3
Good in Bed, Jennifer Weiner - 4.2
Bel Canto, Ann Patchett - 4.4
An Italian Affair, Laura Fraser (not rated)
Thousand Pieces of Gold, Ruthanne Lum McCunn (not rated)
Falling Angels, Tracy Chevalier - 3.0
Good Harbor, Anita Diamant - 2.5
Portrait in Sepia, Isabel Allende - 3.1
Savage Beauty, Nancy Milford (not rated)
In Her Shoes, Jennifer Weiner - 4.2
Stolen Lives, Malika Oufkir and Michele Fitoussi - 5.0
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd, Jim Fergus -
3.0
The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd - 3.7
How to Make an American Quilt, Whitney Otto - 3.0
City of Dreams, Beverly Swerling - 5.0
The Number One Ladies Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith -
2.3
Angry Housewives Eating Bonbons, Lorna Landvik - 3.7
True to Form, Elizabeth
Berg - 3.0
Dreaming Water, Gail Tsukiyama - 4.3
Kate Remembered, A.
Scott. Berg - 1.0
The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown - 4.5
The Red Hat Club, Haywood Smith - 2.7
La Cucina: A Novel of Rapture, Lily Prior - 4.0
Eat Cake, Jeanne Ray - 4.0
2004
Cork Boat, John Pollack - 5.0
Catching Heaven, Sands Hall (not rated)
The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson - 4.5
Virgin Blue, Tracy Chevalier - 2.5
My Sister's Keeper, Jodi Picoult - 5.0
The Pact, Jodi Picoult - 4.8
Saving Graces, Patricia Gaffney - 3.5
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon -
3.7
The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters,
Elizabeth Robinson - 4.0
Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi - 3.5
The Eight, Katherine Neville - 5.0
Life of Pi, Yann Martel - 3.8
The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck - 4.0
2005
Birth of Venus, Sarah Dunant - 4.0
Jane Austen in Boca, Paula Marantz Cohen - 3.0
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini - 5.0
The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger - 4.0
Bringing Down the House, Ben Mezrich - 4.0
Good Grief, Lolly Winston - 3.0
Autobiography of a Face, Lucy Grealy - 4.5
Truth & Beauty, Ann Patchett - 4.0
The Rule of Four, Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason - 3.0
The Secret Lives of the Sushi Club, Christy Yorke - 2.0
Year of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks - 4.0
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent, Julia Alvarez - 3.0
The
Ghost of Hannah Mendes, Naomi Ragen - 3.3
2006
The Distant Land
of My Father, Bo Caldwell - 5.0
Prep,
Curtis Sittenfeld - 3.8
A Million Little Pieces, James Frey - 4.4
The Emancipator's Wife, Barbara Hambly - 1.0
Mrs. Kimble, Jennifer Haigh - 3.0
Seven Degrees of Ambiguity, Elliot Perlman - 3.7
Paradise Park, Allegra Goodman - 2.3
In the Company of the Courtesan, Sarah Dunant - 4.0
The Memory Keeper's Daughter, Kim Edwards - 4.8
Last Days of Dogtown, Anita Diamant - 1.8
The Mermaid Chair, Sue Monk Kidd - 2.7
Mr. Darcy's Daughters, Elizabeth Aston - 2.3
The Bright Forever, Lee Martin (not rated)
I Feel Bad About My Neck, Nora Ephron - 2.3
2007
Saving Fish from Drowning, Amy Tan - 2.6
The Wild Girl, Jim Fergus - 3.0
The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri - 4.6
Broken for You, Stephanie Kallos - 3.8
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Lisa See - 4.8
The Tortilla Curtain, T. C. Boyle - 3.8
Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen - 4.8
Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin - 2.3
A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini - 4.7
The Glass Castle, Jeanette Walls - 4.4
Suite Francaise, Irene Nemirovsky - 2.3
Mao's Last Dancer, Li Cunxin - 5.0
2008
The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield - 3.3
Digging to America, Anne Tyler - 3.4
Friday Night Knitters' Club, Kate Jacobs - 3.3
Beautiful Boy, David Sheff - 5.0
Tweak, Nic Sheff - 5.0
People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks - 3.7
Love Walked In, Marisa de los Santos - 4.1
Free Food for Millionaires, Min Jin Lee - 3.1
Bright Shiny Morning, James Frey - 3.0
Loving Frank, Nancy Horan - 3.8
The Girls, Lori Lansens - 3.5
American Wife, Curtis Sittenfeld - 3.8
Run, Ann Patchett - 3.3
2009
The Soloist, Steve Lopez - 3.6
Shelter Me,
Juliette Fay - 4.8
Born on a Blue Day, Daniel Tammet - 3.2
Love and Other
Impossible Pursuits, Ayelet Waldman - 2.9
The Piano Teacher, Janice Y.K.
Lee - 2.8
Infidel, Ayaan Hirsi Ali - 4.4
The Street of a Thousand Blossoms, Gail Tsukiyama - 4.1
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Anne Fadiman - 4.0
Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout - 3.1
The Book Thief, Markus Zusak - 4.1
The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein - 4.5
Moloka'i, Alan Brennert - 4.6
2010
The Help, Kathryn Stockett - 4.9
Half Broke Horses, Jeannette Walls - 4.1
Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi - 4.1
The Elegance of the Hedgehog, by Muriel Barbery - 3.3
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson - 3.9
House Rules, by Jodi Picoult - 4.0
Little Bee, by Chris Cleave - 4.1
South of Broad, by Pat Conroy
- 3.8
The Lost Continent, by Bill Bryson - 3.3
Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese - 4.3
The Forgotten Garden, by Kate Morton - 3.9
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, by Jamie Ford - 4.4
2011
Half the Sky, by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wudunn - 4.4
Reading for February: Freedom, by Jonathan Franzen
Reading for March: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot |