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