Books read between 1996-2001
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
Duplicate Keys by Jane Smiley
Midnight in the Garden of Good
and Evil by John Berendt
The Color of Water by James McBride
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca
Wells
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Jewel by Bret Lott
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Tender At the Bone: Growing Up at the Table by Ruth
Reichl
Girl with Pearl Earring
by Tracy Chevalier
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
Expecting Adam by Martha Beck
Victoria’s Daughters by Jerrold M. Packard
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
Fruitful: Living the Contradictions: A Memoir of Modern
Motherhood by Anne Roiphe
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
Tisha: The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaska Wilderness by
Robert Specht
Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
The Spirit Catches You and
You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
A Woman of Independent Means by Elizabeth
Forsythe Hailey
The Story of the Trapp
Family Singers by Maria Augusta Von Trapp
Where the Heart Is by
Billie Letts
The Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds
The Great Divorce by C.
S. Lewis
How the Irish Saved
Civilization by Thomas Cahill
Jeptha’s Daughter by
Naomi Ragen
Ravished by Amanda Quick
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Angela’s Ashes by Frank
McCourt
The Alienist by Caleb
Carr
At Home in Mitford by
Jan Karon
Into Thin Air by Jon
Krakauer
The Tree of Hands by
Ruth Rendell
Cold Comfort Farm by
Stella Gibbons
Humboldt’s Gift by Saul
Bellow
Saint Maybe by Anne
Tyler
The Hundred Secret Senses
by Amy Tan
The Moonstone by Wilkie
Collins
The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
When Bad Things Happen to
Good People by Harold S. Kushner
Reviving Ophelia by Mary
Pipher
The Killer Angels by
Michael Shaara
The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro