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2008 Books |
Link to Listology's "1001 Books to Read before you Die" Link to "What to Read" Link to "Literature Map" |
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| number | title | author | comments |
| 63 | Death and Judgement | Donna Leon | Another mystery set in Venice. |
| 62 | Friends, Lovers, Chocolate | Alexander McCall Smith | I like his books, this is one with Isabel Dalhousie in Scotland. |
| 61 | The Toynbee Convector | Ray Bradbury | Short stories, pretty good. |
| 60 | Anil's Ghost | Michael Ondaatje | Wonderful writing, strange book about Sri Lanka and political killings. |
| 59 | The Group | Mary McCarthy | One of the best books of my year. |
| 58 | Put Profit on the Menu | Leo Dardarian | My father's 1959 book about the restaurant business and developing menus. |
| 57 | Blood from a Stone | Donna Leon | Excellent mystery set in Venice. |
| 56 | Memoir from Antproof Case | Mark Helprin | What an absolutely wonderful book, I am now on a mission to read everything he has written. |
| 55 | The Hours | Michael Cunningham | A gloomy book but ultimately I liked it. Surprising. |
| 54 | One Last Look | Susanna Moore | The diary of a woman who goes to India with her brother, the new Governor-General and her sister as the official hostess. Incredible. |
| 53 | An Italian Affair | Laura Fraser | American meets Parisian in Italy story. |
| 52 | The Stone Diaries | Carol Shields | A very interesting family saga. |
| 51 | Anabasis | Ellen Gilchrist | Novel about a slave woman during the end of the Golden Age of Greece. |
| 50 | In the Skin of a Lion | Michael Ondaatje | Strange and wonderful book |
| 49 | Animal, Vegetable, Miracle | Barbara Kingsolver | Wonderful book about growing food, evaluating choices, and eating well. |
| 48 | Playing for Pizza | John Grisham | The only semi acceptable book at the airport....not my type. |
| 47 | The Christmas Train | David Baldacci | Cute book, very light reading |
| 46 | Handyman | Linda Nichols | Chick-lit I am almost embarrassed |
| 45 | Breath, Eyes, Memory | Edwidge Danicat | Haitian women in New York and Haiti |
| 44 | Chicago Days/Hoboken Nights | Daniel Pinkwater | NPR guy with funny essays |
| 43 | No Great Mischief | Alistair MacLeod | Wonderful story about a Scottish family in Canada |
| 42 | Lean Mean Thirteen | Janet Evanovich | Don't we all have a thing for Morelli and Ranger? |
| 41 | The Thin Woman | Dorothy Cannell | Very funny mystery set in England. |
| 40 | The Street of a Thousand Blossoms | Gail Tsukiyama | Family saga from 1930's Japan through the 1970's. Very interesting. |
| 39 | Bound Feet & Western Dress | Pang-Mei Natasha Chang | Pang-Mei tells the true story of her aunt's life |
| 38 | NTC's Dictionary of Mexican Cultural Code Words | Boye Lafayette De Mente | Sometimes entertaining, sometimes dry as toast. But a good thing to read if you live in Mexico! |
| 37 | The Namesake | Jhumpa Lahiri | Wonderful novel about an Indian family in the US |
| 36 | The Seven Sisters | Margaret Drabble | I expected this book to be somewhat depressing but isn't - it is a very good book, introspective but uplifting and optimistic. |
| 35 | True History of the Kelly Gang | Peter Carey | I love books about Australia but the development of a murderer and criminal probably was not my favorite topic. |
| 34 | Fair Warning | Robert Olen Butler | Wonderful book by one of my favorite authors. |
| 33 | Interpreter of maladies | Jhumpa Lahiri | Awesome Indian themed short stories - won the Pulitzer. |
| 32 | Barn Blind | Jane Smiley | Disturbing book about a horse crazy family |
| 31 | The Poisonwood Bible | Barbara Kingsolver | Incredible book on a missionary family who move to the Congo. |
| 30 | Prodigal Summer | Barbara Kingsolver | A really good book with a farming and environmental theme. |
| 29 | Loving Pedro Infante | Denise Chávez | Funny Mexican/American woman saga. Good way to learn Spanish swear words! |
| 28 | A Thousand Acres | Jane Smiley | Iowa farm family comes apart at the seams - Pulitzer & Nat'l Book award winner. Surprising, excellent book |
| 27 | The Land Girls | Angela Huth | Novel about three girls in the UK who join the Land Girls to assist on farms when the men were in the armed services. Very enjoyable. |
| 26 | Nature Girl | Carl Hiaasen | Beach fiction |
| 25 | All that Matters | Wayson Choy | A Chinese family in the '30's and '40's Vancouver BC |
| 24 | Kissing the Virgin's Mouth | Donna Gershten | Fictional Mazatlán, a very good story. |
| 23 | The Elephant Vanishes | Haruki Muralkami | Short stories by my favorite author. Strange as usual. |
| 22 | Preston Falls | David Gates | An aggravating guy and his family - midlife crisis etc. |
| 21 | Zorro | Isabel Allende | Very enjoyable look into relations between Mezistos and Spaniards |
| 20 | I know this much is true | Wally Lamb | Loved this book, 900 pages of a crazy family |
| 19 | Transgressions | Sarah Dunant | Sexy, scary but good book |
| 18 | The Whole World Over | Julia Glass | Wonderful book by the author of The Three Junes |
| 17 | The All-True Adventures of Lidie Newton | Jane Smiley | Excellent book about the Kansas Territory in 1855 |
| 16 | Stones of the Dalai Lama | Ken Mitchell | Don't remove relics from Tibet. |
| 15 | Flower Net | Lisa See | Mystery set in China |
| 14 | A Map of the World | Jane Hamilton | Trouble hits a farm family |
| 13 | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Betty Smith | Wonderful book, a classic. |
| 12 | Skylight Confessions | Alice Hoffman | Three generations |
| 11 | Under my Skin | Sarah Dunant | Excellent |
| 10 | We have always lived in the castle | Shirley Jackson | Really bizarre novel |
| 9 | South of the Border, West of the Sun | Haruki Murakami | Read Him, I mean it. |
| 8 | Typical American | Gish Jen | Chinese family saga in America |
| 7 | Homeland | Barbara Kingsolver | Wonderful short story collection |
| 6 | The Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World | Haruki Murakami | Unforgettable. |
| 5 | The Wild Sheep Chase | Haruki Murakami | I will die when I have finished all his books. |
| 4 | The Ice Queen | Alice Hoffman | Excellent story about suicide, children left behind, and people hit by lightning. |
| 3 | Mama Makes up her Mind | Bailey White | Humorous Southern short stories. |
| 2 | The Disapparation of James | Anne Ursu | A child disappears during a magic trick |
| 1 | An American Zen Failure in Japan | David Chadwick | An American Buddhist goes to Japan to live and work in a Zen Monastery |
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2007 Books |
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| number | title | author | comments |
| 57 | Animal Dreams | Barbara Kingsolver | Really good book |
| 56 | Cloudstreet | Tim Winton | One of my favorite authors in the world |
| 55 | Confederates in the Attic | Tony Horwitz | Dispatches from the unfinished civil war |
| 54 | After Dark | Haruki Murakami | Wonderful as always |
| 53 | Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan | John Lloyd Stephens | Wonderful book written in the 1840's by one of the first explorers in the area. |
| 52 | Saving Fish from Drowning | Amy Tan | Wonderful book |
| 51 | Nickel and Dimed | Barbara Ehrenreich | Experiment on living on minimum wage |
| 50 | Kate Vaiden | Reynolds Price | Family saga |
| 49 | Waiting | Ha Jin | Mixed up people in China |
| 48 | Elephant to Water | Sarah Gruen | Fabulous book |
| 47 | A Sudden Country | Karen Fisher | Wonderful book on the 1847 Oregon migration |
| 46 | The Devil and Miss Prym | Paulo Coelho | Good and evil do battle |
| 45 | Letters of a woman homesteader | Elinore Pruitt Stewart | Excellent book by a woman homesteader |
| 44 | That eye, the sky | Tim Winton | One of my very favorite authors. |
| 43 | La Cucina | Lily Prior | Basically a romance novel set in Sicily. Lots of good food descriptions. |
| 42 | Brick Lane | Monica Ali | Great book of a Bangladesh family in London |
| 41 | The Jump-Off Creek | Molly Gloss | Excellent book about a woman homesteader |
| 40 | The Fabulous Life of Diego Rivera | Bertram D. Wolfe | Great book - and an amazing man. |
| 39 | The Office of Desire | Martha Moody | Hmm, hard to describe. Good. |
| 38 | A Spot of Bother | Mark Haddon | WONDERFUL book |
| 37 | The Buddha & the Terrorist | Satish Kumar | Buddha fable |
| 36 | Blueback a contemporary fable | Tim Winton | Australia. Wonderful |
| 35 | Heat | Bill Buford | An amateur's apprenticeships as a line cook, pasta maker, etc. |
| 34 | Star Witness | Lia Matera | I love her mysteries |
| 33 | Good Hope Road | Lisa Wingate | Kansas story |
| 32 | 12 Sharp | Janet Evanovich | Mystery |
| 31 | Diamond in the Buff | Susan Dunlap | Mystery |
| 30 | The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor | Gabriel Garcia Marquez | Awesome as always |
| 29 | Gringos in Paradise | Barry Golson | A couple moves from NY to Sayulita and builds a house. |
| 28 | The Turning:Stories | Tim Winton | Loved Dirt Music and am already loving this one. I plan on reading everything I can get my hands on of his. |
| 27 | Saving the World | Julia Alvarez | Double story of a Spanish expedition to eradicate smallpox and a Vermont writer and her family - partly in the Dominican Republic |
| 26 | Slammerkin | Emma Donoghue | Wonderful book - whores, dressmaking and murder in 1750's England |
| 25 | Cellophane | Marie Arana | Family saga of making paper & cellophane in the Peruvian rain forest |
| 25 | Touchy Subjects | Emma Donoghue | Very funny, touching, sad, sexy |
| 24 | Alentejo Blue | Monica Ali | Wonderful book. Portugal. Characters. |
| 23 | Enrique's Journey | Sonia Nazario | The story of a Honduran boy and his dangerous journey to the US to be with his mother. |
| 22 | The Zahir | Paolo Coelho | I like his books...they make you think about your life in new ways |
| 21 | French by Heart | Rebecca S. Ramsey | A family moves to France. |
| 20 | Back on Blossom Street | Debbie Macomber | Knitting story, pretty silly but kept me amused while I weeded the garden. |
| 19 | Closing Costs | Seth Margolis | Buying and selling in New York |
| 18 | Lost and Found | Carolyn Parkhurst | Reality tv in a book |
| 17 | Possible Side Effects | Augusten Burroughs | Funny! |
| 16 | The House of Paper | Carlos Maria Dominguez | If you love books, read it. |
| 15 | Pigs in Heaven | Barbara Kingsolver | Loved it. |
| 14 | Eleven on Top | Janet Evanovice | Light and funny |
| 13 | Dirt Music | Tim Winton | Awesome story - Australia |
| 12 | Adriane on the Edge | Paul Mandelbaum | A wonderful book |
| 11 | The Old Wine Shades | Martha Grimes | A mystery with a dog that returns after 8 months |
| 10 | The Boss Dog | M.F.K. Fisher | I love love love her |
| 9 | Little Altars Everywhere | Rebecca Wells | One of those books Paul brought with him I finally got around to reading...very good Louisiana dysfunctional family story |
| 8 | The Bean Trees | Barbara Kingsolver | Loving it. |
| 7 | Zen Attitude | Sujata Massey | Very good book |
| 6 | The Dogs of Bedlam Farm | Jon Katz | An adventure with sixteen sheep, 3 dogs, 2 donkeys, and me |
| 5 | What We keep: a novel | Elizabeth Berg | Pretty good vacation read |
| 4 | Three Junes | Julia Glass | Really good |
| 3 | Dance Dance Dance | Haruki Murakami | Excellent |
| 2 | Freakonomics | Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner | A rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything. |
| 1 | Home to Big Stone Gap | Adriana Trigiani | Life in Cracker Neck Holler |
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2006 Books |
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How to Learn Any Language | Barry Farber | I am working on my Spanish! |
| 76 | A Complicate Kindness | Miriam Toews | Wonderful book. |
| 75 | About Grace | Anthony Doerr | Yikes |
| 74 | Wickett's Remedy | Myla Goldberg | Wonderful story by the author of Bee Season |
| 73 | Malinche | Laura Esquivel | How Hernan Cortes conquered Montezuma |
| 72 | Over the Moon at the Big Lizard Diner | Lisa Wingate | Texas |
| 71 | Knitting Under the Influence | Claire LaZebnik | Chick-lit with knitting. |
| 70 | Breadfruit | Celestine Vaite | Second book of hers I have read - set in Tahiti |
| 69 | Murder, She Wrote | Jessica Fletcher & Donald Bain | Murder mystery set in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico |
| 68 | Lucky Girls | Nell Freudenberger | Set in SE Asia & India |
| 67 | Big Stone Gap | Adriana Trigiani | Blue Ridge Mountains story |
| 66 | Lone Star Cafe | Lisa Wingate | Magazine editor assigned to a rural area |
| 65 | Mexican Days | Tony Cohan | Life in Oaxaca |
| 64 | The Night Journal | Elizabeth Crook | Mew Mexico mystery takes place at the turn of the last century |
| 63 | Lovesick Blues | Paul Hemphill | Biography of Hank Williams |
| 62 | The Testing of Luther Albright | MacKenzie Bezos | Sort of psycho guy sorts it out |
| 61 | The Lady and the Panda | Vicki Constantine Croke | Pandas in China |
| 60 | The Seduction of Water | Carol Goodman | Writng/Hotels/Catskills/Romance |
| 59 | The Secret River | Kate Grenville | Australian felon story, up for the Man Booker prize |
| 58 | Black Swan Green | David Mitchell | WONDERFUL |
| 57 | Veronika Decides to Die | Paulo Coelho | Very interesting! |
| 56 | The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio | Terry Ryan | How her mother raised 10 kids on 25 words or less |
| 55 | Love and Other Near-Death Experiences | Mil Millington | Funny with a weird premise |
| 54 | A Thousand Days in Tuscany | Marlena De Blasi | Couple moves from Venice to Tuscany to enjoy the rural life |
| 53 | The Jane Austen Book Club | Karen Joy Fowler | Funny, nice book. |
| 52 | Dry. | Augusten Burroughs | Alcoholic recovery story |
| 51 | Fire Sale | Sara Paretsky | Mystery that takes place in Chicago with a woman PI. |
| 50 | What to Eat | Marion Nestle | An "aha" book about the food industry |
| 49 | The Bookwoman's Last Fling | John Dunning | Book collector mystery novel |
| 48 | A Boy of Good Breeding | Miriam Toews | Recommended by 50 books |
| 47 | The Crucible | Arthur Miller | Audio book performed by amazing actors |
| 46 | The Darwin Conspiracy | John Darnton | Fictionalized story of Darwin. |
| 45 | The Diary of Samuel Pepys | Samuel Pepys | The 1660's were a crazy time. |
| 44 | Kicked, Bitten and Scratched | Amy Sutherland | Life lessons at the world's premier school for exotic animal trainers |
| 43 | Norweigan Wood | Haruki Murakami | Wowee |
| 42 | Gilead | Marilynne Robinson | Grabbed me right off the bat |
| 41 | To See Every Bird on Earth | Dan Koeppel | A Father, a Son & a lifelong obsession. |
| 40 | Magical Mind, Magical Body | Deepak Chopra | I'm a Pitta |
| 39 | Sputnik Sweetheart | Haruki Murakami | Wow. Another masterpiece. |
| 38 | Home to Italy | Peter Pezzelli | Improbable story about some people that restore an old hotel in Italy and find love, too. |
| 37 | Cesar's Way | Cesar Millan | A first book by the Dog Whisperer! |
| 36 | Hitching Rides with Buddha | Will Ferguson | Funny/interesting/nice guy hitchhikes from one end of Japan to the other |
| 35 | Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | Wonderful, excellent, fabulous book. |
| 34 | Chew on This | Eric Schlosser & Charles Wilson | Another by the author of Fast Food Nation |
| 33 | After the Quake | Haruki Murakami | Stories that all take place after the Kobe earthquake. Classic Murakami excellence |
| 32 | The Hummingbird's Daughter | Luis Alberto Urrea | A book that takes you to long ago Mexico |
| 31 | Pompeii | Robert Harris | I've always been fascinated with Pompeii, and this book was interesting and well done, |
| 30 | Mapping the Edge | Sarah Dunant | Book about a woman who disappears, leaving her young daughter...and what her best friends do to hold her world together. |
| 29 | The Wind Up Bird Chronicles | Haruki Murakami | The best book in a long time |
| 28 | Housekeeping | Marilynne Robinson | Strange and beautiful |
| 27 | Farenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury | I'd read this in about 8th grade, it is an extremely powerful and currently applicable book |
| 26 | The Ponder Heart | Eudora Welty | Funny Southern stories |
| 25 | Cry, the Beloved Country | Alan Paton | South Africa classic I somehow missed |
| 24 | The Parrot Who Owns Me | Joanna Burger | Interesting if you love parrots |
| 23 | The Hungry Years | William Leith | Confessions of a food addict. |
| 22 | Summer Crossing | Truman Capote | Really good. |
| 21 | In the Company of Cheerful Ladies | Alexander McCall Smith | Probably the last McCall-Smith I'll read, but nice. |
| 20 | Kafka on the Shore | Haruki Murakami | A favorite of Paul's |
| 19 | The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho | Wonderful story about following your "personal legend." |
| 18 | The Writing Life | Annie Dillard | How she writes |
| 17 | The Snow Flower and the Secret Fan | Lisa See | China in about 1880 |
| 16 | Frangipani | Celestine Vaite | Tahitian mother & daughter relationship |
| 15 | Snowstorms in a Hot Climate | Sarah Dunant | Friendship, love, cocaine |
| 14 | A Christmas Memory, One Christmas & The Thanksgiving Visitor | Truman Capote | Three wonderful short stories |
| 13 | An Alphabet for Gourmets | MFK Fisher | A humorous and engaging Alphabet. |
| 12 | The Sound and the Fury | William Faulkner | A complicated, emotional family saga |
| 11 | The Gastronomical Me | MFK Fisher | A wonderful book on her life, loves and adventures |
| 10 | How to Cook a Wolf | MFK Fisher | How to have a positive outlook in the face of adversity - namely wartime rationing, blackouts and shortages |
| 9 | Consider the Oyster | MFK Fisher | Everything oysters |
| 8 | Serve it Forth | MFK Fisher | Wonderful food |
| 7 | The Geographer's Library | Jon Fasman | Historical suspense novel - a bit unbelievable, but good. |
| 6 | Bee Season | Myla Goldberg | One of Paul's favorite books from last year - a mind blowing book. |
| 5 | Music for Chameleons | Truman Capote | A delightful book of short stories. |
| 4 | Chronicles: Volume 1 | Bob Dylan | Mostly interesting book, although it had many boring parts. The beginning, when he discusses his exposure to literature and music, is very good. |
| 3 | Bird by Bird | Anne Lamott | Very funny, very memorable and helpful book on writing fiction |
| 2 | On Writing | Stephen King | Very informative book on how to write fiction |
| 1 | The Birth of Venus | Sarah Dunant | Florence in 1494 |
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2005 and before |
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title | author | comments |
| Broken for You | Stephanie Kallos | Excellent book by a Seattle writer | |
| S is for Silence | Sue Grafton | Mystery | |
| Bangkok 8 | John Burdett | Thailand | |
| The Tattoo Artist | Jill Ciment | 1940's surprise | |
| Cottage for Sale, Must be Moved | Kate Whouley | Fun book about moving a cottage in New England | |
| The Sign of the Book | John Dunning | Booksellers mystery | |
| Julie & Romeo Get Lucky | Jeanne Ray | Old people/florists get married | |
| Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell | Susanna Clark | About magic in England about 1800 | |
| Bangkok Tattoo | John Burdett | Thai mystery involving tattoos | |
| The Good Earth | Pearl S. Buck | China | |
| Never Let Me Go | Kazuo Ishiguro | Just read it | |
| The Bookman's Promise | John Dunning | Mystery about booksellers | |
| The Miracles of Santo Fico | DL Smith | Italy | |
| When We Were Orphans | Kazuo Ishiguro | China | |
| Manana Manana | Peter Kerr | Mallorca | |
| The Shop on Blossom St. | Debbie Macomber | Knitting | |
| Nice Big American Baby | Judy Budnitz | Strange stories | |
| The Big Year | Mark Obmascik | about birds | |
| Coyote Moon | John Miller | people in the desert/baseball | |
| The Confessions of Max Tivoli | Andrew Sean Greer | he's born old, gets younger | |
| The Center of Everything | Laura Moriarty | Kansas girl makes good | |
| Kitchen Confidential | Anthony Bourdain | a chef tells all | |
| The Dog Listener | Jan Fennell | dog psychology | |
| The Sunday Philosophy Club | Alexander McCall Smith | Scottish philosopher | |
| Miles from Nowhere | Barbara Savage | bicycling around the world | |
| Hotel Pastis | Peter Mayle | Novice buys a hotel in Provence | |
| The Full Cupboard of Life | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| Blindsided | Richard Cohen | The reality of MS | |
| Ten Big Ones | Janet Evanovich | ||
| Dress your family in Corduroy & denim | David Sedaris | Funny | |
| Polly's Ghost | Abby Frucht | Wonderful author | |
| Eats, Shoots & Leaves: the zero tolerance approach to punctuation - | Lynne Truss | ||
| Sleeping with Schubert | Bonnie Marson | Woman shares a body with Schubert | |
| Oaxaca Journal | Oliver Sacks | Fern gathering in Oazaca | |
| Licorice | Abby Frucht | ||
| Trojan Gold | Elizabeth Peters | ||
| Dark Star Safari | Paul Theroux | ||
| A short History of nearly everything | Bill Bryson | ||
| The Lost Continent | Bill Bryson | ||
| Metro Girl | Janet Evanovich | ||
| Empress Orchid | Anchee Min | ||
| Adapter Kit - Mexico | Ken Luboff | ||
| Dude, Where's My Country | Michael Moore | ||
| The People's Guide to Mexico | Carl Franz | ||
| Under the Tabachin Tree | Celia Wakefield | Novel set in Colima, Mexico | |
| The Master Butchers Singing Club | Louise Erdrich | ||
| The Probable Future | Alice Hoffman | ||
| The Reivers | William Faulkner | ||
| Fatima's Good Fortune | Joanne and Gerry Dryansky | ||
| Cold Sassy Tree | Olive Ann Burns | ||
| Prey | William Crichton | ||
| Courting Trouble | Lisa Scottoline | ||
| Full Tilt | Janet Evanovich | ||
| Finding Caruso | Kim Barnes | ||
| The Secret Life of Cowboys | Tom Groneberg | ||
| The 5 People you meet in Heaven | Mitch Albom | ||
| Go Down, Moses | William Faulkner | ||
| The Emperor of Scent | Chandler Burr | ||
| Pastries - | Bharti Kirchner | ||
| Shiva Dancing | Bharti Kirchner | ||
| Darjeeling | Bharti Kirchner | ||
| Waxwings | Jonathan Raban | ||
| Dog is my Co Pilot | Bark Editors | ||
| The Da Vinci Code | Dan Brown | ||
| The Diaries of Adam & Eve | Mark Twain | ||
| Visions of Sugar Plums | Janet Evanovich | ||
| The Reader | Bernhard Schlink | ||
| The Light in August | William Faulkner | ||
| Swimming At Suppertime | Carol Wasserman | ||
| East of the Mountains | David Guterson | ||
| Who says Elephants can't dance | Lou Gerstner | ||
| A Walk in the Woods | Bill Bryson | ||
| Home Town | Tracy Kidder | ||
| The Birdhouse Chronicles - | Cathleen Miller | ||
| Talking in Bed | Antonya Nelson | ||
| Timeline | Michael Crichton | ||
| Memoirs of a Geisha | Arthur Golden | ||
| Taking Care of yourself | Andrew Weil | ||
| Daughter of Fortune | Isabelle Allende | ||
| Bambi | Feliz Saten | ||
| Portrait in Sepia | Isabelle Allende | ||
| It's always something | Gilda Radner | ||
| Strip City | Lily Burana | ||
| The Perfect Store | Adam Cohen | ||
| 21 Dog Years | Mike Daisey | ||
| The Nanny Diaries | Emma McLaughlin | ||
| A Mind at a Time | Mel Levine | ||
| Hard Eight | Janet Evanovich | ||
| Good to Great | Jim Collins | ||
| A Painted House | John Grisham | ||
| Black Dog of Fate | Peter Balakian | ||
| Nobody's Girl | Antonya Nelson | ||
| A Dog's Life | Peter Mayle | ||
| Chasing Cezanne | Peter Mayle | ||
| A year in Provence | Peter Mayle | ||
| French Lessons | Peter Mayle | ||
| On Mexican Time | Tony Cohen | ||
| The Shell Collector | Anthony Doerr | ||
| Angela's Ashes | Frank McCort | ||
| 'Tis | Frank McCort | ||
| How to Speak Dog | Stanley Coren | ||
| The Solution | Laurel Mellin | ||
| Life of Pi | Yann Martel | ||
| Swan | Frances Mayes | ||
| Quite a year for Plums | Bailey White | ||
| The Bonesetter's Daughter | Amy Tan | ||
| The Girl in Hyacinth Blue | Susan Vreeland | ||
| The Optimist's Daughter | Eudora Welty | ||
| The Wailing Wind | Tony Hillerman | ||
| Bel Canto | Ann Patchett | ||
| Female Trouble | Antonya Nelson | ||
| Raising Ourselves | Velma Wallis | ||
| On Death & Dying | Eliz. Kubler-Ross | ||