Some Books I've Enjoyed:
Mainstream Fiction, Nonfiction
Mainstream and literary fiction:
Barbara Kingsolver
Animal Dreams
The Bean Trees
Pigs in Heaven
The Poisonwood Bible
Alice Hoffman
Turtle Moon
Practical Magic
Probable Future
The Drowning Season
Here on Earth
The River King
Blackbird House
Seventh Heaven
Jane Hamilton
When Madeline Was Young
The Short History of a Prince
Disobedience
A Map of the World
The Book of Ruth
Toni Morrison
Beloved
Song of Solomon
Tar Baby
The Bluest Eye
Sue Monk Kidd
The Secret Life of Bees
The Mermaid Chair
Alexander McCall Smith
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency
Tears of the Giraffe
Morality for Beautiful Girls
The Kalahari Typing School for Men
The Full Cupboard of Life
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies
Donna Andrews
Murder with Peacocks
Murder with Puffins
Eric Jerome Dickey
Pleasure
Sleeping with Strangers
Pearl Cleage, What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day
Mary Lawson, Crow Lake
Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells
Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Louise Erdrich, The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars
Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
Alice Walker, The Color Purple
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
Wally Lamb, I Know This Much Is True
Olive Ann Burns, Cold Sassy Tree
Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses
Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits Christopher A. Bohjalian, Midwives: a Novel
John Burdett, Bangkok 8
Octavia E. Butler, Fledgling
Michael Dorris, A Yellow Raft on Blue Water
John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Nonfiction:
Firoozeh DuMas, Funny in Farsi Sharon Lovejoy, Sunflower Houses:
Inspiration From the Garden Barbara Kingsolver, High Tide in
Tucson
Anne Lamott
Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First
Year
Bird by Bird Adam Mastoon
The Shared Heart
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