Bold titles are books I have read (I also own most of these)
A single asterisk denotes books on my personal reading lists
Double asterisks denote books I own, and obviously plan to read
The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton
She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Stones From the River by Ursula Hegi
The Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds
The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou
Songs in Ordinary Time by Mary McGarry Morris
The Meanest Thing to Say by Bill Cosby
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
A Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons
Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
The Treasure Hunt by Bill Cosby
The Best Way to Play by Bill Cosby
Paradise by Toni Morrison*
Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman
Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage
Midwives by Chris Bohjalian**
Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
Jewel by Brett Lott
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
The Pilot’s Wife by Anita Shreve
White Oleander by Janet Fitch*
Mother of Pearl by Melina Haynes
Tara Road by Maeve Binchy
River, Cross My Heart by Breena Clarke
Vinegar Hill by A. Manette Ansay
A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton
Gap Creek by Robert Morgan
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
Back Roads by Tawny O’Dell
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
While I Was Gone by Sue Miller
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver**
Open House by Elizabeth Berg
Drowning Ruth by Christina Schawrz
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail by Malika Oufkir
Cane River by Lalita Tademy
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen**
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Fall on Your Knees by Anne-Marie MacDonald
Sula by Toni Morrison*
East of Eden by John Steinbeck*
Cry, Beloved Country by Alan Paton
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez*
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner*
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner*
Light in August by William Faulkner
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey*
The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography by Sir Sidney Poitier
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez**
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
Say You’re One of them by Uwem Akpan
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen**
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens**
Ruby by Cynthia Bond**
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd**
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis**
Wild by Cheryl Strayed*
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Love Warrior by Glennon Doyle Menton
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue**
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton
Becoming by Michelle Obama
