Jo's suggestions:
- I'm Perfect, You're Doomed, by Kyria Abrahamson
- Day After Night, by Anita Diamant (author of The Red Tent)
- The Pearl Diver, by Jeff Talarigo
- Push, by Sapphire
- The Blind Side, by Michael Lewis
- The Poet of Baghdad, by Jo Tatchell
Pat:
- The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun by Gretchen Rubin
Robin:
- Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follett (has a movie; was an Oprah pick)
- World without End, by Ken Follett
- Joy in the Morning, by Betty Smith (author of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)
- The Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver
- O Pioneers! or My Antonía by Willa Cather (CLASSIC)
- Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
- Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey (CLASSIC)
Jackie:
- House Rules by Jodi Picoult
Cheryl:
- The God of Small Things by Arundahti Roy
- The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexei (short stories)
- The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
Nancy B:
- The Postmistress by Sarah Blake (still in hardcover)
- A Voyage Long and Strange by Tony Horwitz
- The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett
- A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
Nancy R:
- Room by Emma Donohue (still in hardcover)
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (still in hardcover)
- Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Linda:
- The Outlander, by Gil Adamson
- Drop City by T.C. Boyle
Debbie:
- South of Broad by Pat Conroy
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Other suggestions that hadn't been read by anyone yet:
- Moral Ground by Kathleen Dean Moore (Pat)
- Wild Comfort: The Solace of Nature by Kathleen Dean Moore (Pat)
- Too Close to the Falls, A Memoir by Catherine Gildiner (Janet)
- Hotel on the Corner of Bitter & Sweet by Jamie Ford (Elene)
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