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

Moo - Jane Smiley

The Emperor of Ocean Park - Stephen Carter

Oral History - Lee Smith

Under The Tuscan Sun - Frances Mayes

Alice Waters and Chez Panisse: The Romantic, Impractical, Often Eccentric, Ultimately Brilliant Making of a Food Revolution - Thomas McNamee

The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman

The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman

The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman

Life on the Mississippi - Mark Twain

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life - Barbara Kingsolver

This Organic Life: Confessions of a Suburban Homesteader - Joan Dye Gussow

Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Lawn into a Garden and Your Neighborhood into a Community - H.C. Flores

Mansfield Park - Jane Austen

One Big Damn Puzzler - John Harding

Pledged: The Secret Lives of Sororities - Alexandra Robbins

Pitch Perfect: The Quest For Collegiate A Capella Glory - Mickey Rapkin

Food Politics - Marion Nestle

Persuasion - Jane Austen

The Wonder Spot - Melissa Bank

Closing the Food Gap - Mark Winne

Prodigal Summer - Barbara Kingsolver

Gentlemen and Players - Joanne Harris

A Sundial in a Grave: 1610 - Mary Gentle

The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

Fair and Tender Ladies - Lee Smith

Eve Green - Susan Fletcher

Notes From a Small Island - Bill Bryson

Music and Silence - Rose Tremain

Music Through the Floor - Eric Puchner

The Tenth Circle - Jodi Picoult

A Revolution in Eating: How the Quest for Food Shaped America - James McWilliams

The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane

The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield

Moveable Feasts: From Ancient Rome to the 21st Century, the Incredible Journeys of the Food We Eat - Sarah Murray

Fast Food Nation - Eric Schlosser

The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities -- From Italy's Tomb Raiders to the World's Greatest Museums - Peter Watson and Cecelia Todeschini

Empire Falls - Richard Russo

The Omnivore's Dilemma - Michael Pollan

Emma - Jane Austen

Onward!: 25 Years of Advice, Exhortation, and Inspiration from America's Best Commencement Speeches - Peter Smith

The Darwin Conspiracy - John Darnton

A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson

Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

I Am Charlotte Simmons - Tom Wolfe

Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen

The Road - Cormac McCarthy

The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy

The Art of Mending - Elizabeth Berg

No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories - Miranda July

Old Creole Days - George W. Cable

Ten Days in the Hills - Jane Smiley

Cities of the Plain - Cormac McCarthy

Nature Girl - Carl Hiaasen

Labyrinth - Kate Mosse

Mystic River - Dennis Lehane

Walden - Henry David Thoreau

The Ethical Assassin - David Liss

Ahab's Wife - Sena Jeter-Nasland

The Meadow - James Galvin

The Devil Wears Prada - Lauren Weisberger

Kaaterskill Falls - Allegra Goodman

Small Island - Andrea Levy

The Crossing - Cormac McCarthy

Gilgamesh - Joan London

The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho

Three Wishes - Liane Moriarty

Ishmael - Daniel Quinn

The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell

Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell

The Birth of Venus - Sarah Dunant

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West - Gregory Maguire

Basket Case - Carl Hiaasen

Chocolat - Joanne Harris

The Quilter's Apprentice - Jennifer Chiaverini

L'Affaire - Diane Johnson

The Cider House Rules - John Irving

Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe

Tortilla Flat - John Steinbeck

Cannery Row - John Steinbeck

Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

The Robber Bride - Margaret Atwood

Trading Up - Candace Bushnell

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed - Jared Diamond

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon