Proposed Reading List – 2013
Sugg. by Book Author Rating
1 CM A Grown Up Kind of Pretty Joshilyn Jackson 4.25
2 LR And Ladies of the Club Helen Hooven Santmyer 4.25
3 CM Arcadia Lauren Groff 4
4 CM Beautiful Ruins: A Novel Jess Walter 4
5 LR Captains and the Kings Taylor Caldwell 5
6 SL Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman Robert K. Massie 4.25
7 JA Dear Life Alice Munro
8 LR Empire Falls Richard Russo 4
9 JA Flight Behavior Barbara Kingsolver 4.25
10 AR Franny and Zooey J. D. Salinger 4
11 CM Garden of Evening Mists Tan Twan Eng 4.25
12 CM Gone Girl Gillian Flynn 3.25
13 SL Half the Sky:Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women
Sheryl WuDunn, Nicholas D. Kristof 5
14 SB House Rules Jodi Picoult 3.5
15 SB Killing Lincoln Bill O’Reilly 3.5
16 JA La Seduction Elaine Sciolino 4
17 SL Learning to Swim Sara J. Henry 4
18 LG Maude Brown’s Baby Richard Cunningham 5
19 LF Peace Like a River Leif Enger 4.3
20 AR Player Piano Kurt Vonnegut 4
21 SB Rainwater Sandra Brown 4.25
22 SB Savannah Blues Mary Kay Andrews 4.25
23 SB South of Broad Pat Conroy 3.25
24 SL State of Wonder Ann Patchett 3.25
25 SL Sweet Tooth Ian McEwan 4
26 LF The Almond Picker Simonetta Agnello Hornby 4.4
27 SB The Boy Who Became Mark Twain Harold Holbrook 4
28 SL The Casual Vacancy J. K. Rowling 3
29 SB The Choice Nicholas Sparks 4
30 LG The Diary of Mattie Spenser Sandra Dallas 4.25
31 LR The Far Pavilions M.M. Kaye 5
32 LG The Good Dream Donna VanLiere 5
33 LG The Kitchen House Kathleen Grissom 4.5
34 LG, LR The Language of Flowers Vanessa Diffenbaugh 4.5
35 LG, SL The Light Between Oceans M. L. Stedman 4.25
36 AR The Metamorphosis Frank Kafka 4
37 JA The Prizefighter and the Playwright Jay R. Tunney & Christopher Newton 4.25
38 LR The School of Essential Ingredients Erica Bauermeister 4.25
39 CM The Secret Keeper Kate Morton 4.25
40 LF The Space Between Us Thrity Umrigar 4.3
41 JA The Stockholm Octavo Karen Engelmann 4.25
42 JA The Swerve Stephen Greenblatt 4
43 LF Time of My Life Allison Winn Scotch 4
44 LR Watership Down Richard Adams 4.25
45 LF When We Were the Kennedys Monica Wood 4.7