The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men - James Agee & Walker Evans

The Jane Austen Book Club - Karen Joy Fowler

Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World - Tracy Kidder

A Fortunate Age - Joanna Smith-Rakoff

The Awakening - Kate Chopin

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything - Steven D Levitt

In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto - Michael Pollan

Who Is Mark Twain? - Mark Twain

Twice-Told Tales - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Snow Falling on Cedars - David Guterson

The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus - Margaret Atwood

Kiss/Kiss - Roald Dahl

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Mermaid Chair - Sue Monk Kidd

Baptism By Fire: Eight Presidents Who Took Office in Times of Crisis - Mark K. Updegrove

Miracle at St Anna - James McBride

A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail - Bill Bryson

The Way I Found Her - Rose Tremain

Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides

Shoe Addicts Annonymous - Beth Harbison

The Map of Love - Soueif Ahdaf

Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia - Elizabeth Gilbert

The Last Girls - Lee Smith

The Piano Tuner - Daniel Mason

The Known World - Edward P. Jones