tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71090227617740550962024-03-14T02:03:29.321-07:00Tri-B Book ListTri-Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03785843539627808381noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7109022761774055096.post-66799377040570212352012-09-05T06:21:00.000-07:002013-04-12T04:56:05.576-07:00Tri-B BookclubTri-B has been meeting regularly since September of 1995.Tri-Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03785843539627808381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7109022761774055096.post-82840543773821131632009-06-11T05:20:00.030-07:002024-03-12T17:46:44.993-07:00Reading ListHow to Make an American Quilt - Whitney Otto - 6.21<br />
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Snow Falling on Cedars - David Guterson - 7.5</div>
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True North - Jill Ker Conway - 7.5</div>
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1000 Acres - Jane Smiley - 5.88</div>
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Therapy - David Lodge - 6.00</div>
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The Bean Trees - Barbara Kingsolver - 8.67</div>
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Mazel - Rebecca Goldstein - 7.6</div>
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The Book of Ruth - Jane Hamilton - 6.71</div>
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How Stella got Her Groove Back - Terry McMillan - 3.28</div><div><br /></div>
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Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier - 7.7</div>
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Rapture of Canaan - Sheri Reynolds - 7.38</div>
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The Blue Afternoon - William Boyd - 4.83</div>
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In Troubled Waters - Beverly Cole - 8.83</div>
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Life and Death in Shanghai - Nien Cheng - 7.71</div>
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A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway - 5.56</div>
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Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks - 7.38</div>
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The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood - Rebecca Wells - 6.67</div>
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Martin Dressler - Steven Millhauser - 4.67</div><div><br /></div>
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In the Lake of the Woods - Tim O'Brien - 7.75</div>
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Are You Somebody? - Nuala O'Faolain - 6.13</div>
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What Girls Learn - Karin Cook - 4.89</div>
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The Red Tent - Anita Diamant - 8.28</div>
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The Fall of the Sparrow - Robert Hellenga - 7.1</div>
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Bird By Bird - Anne Lamott - 6.5</div>
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Foreign Correspondence - Geraldine Brooks - 7.67</div>
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The Sparrow - Maria Doria Russell - 8.89</div>
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Dakota - Kathleen Norris - 4.14</div><div><br /></div>
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To the Wedding - John Berger - 6.0</div>
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A Hope in the Unseen - Ron Suskind - 8.56</div>
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The Samurai's Garden - Gail Tsukiyama - 8.63</div>
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Galileo's Daughter - Dava Sobel - 5.89</div>
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Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur S. Golden - 7.88</div>
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Kitchen Table Wisdom - Rachel Naomi Remen - 9.0</div>
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The Color of Water - James McBride - 8.5</div>
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A Personal History - Katherine Graham - 5.63</div>
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Callings - Gregg Michael Levoy - 5.8</div><div><br /></div>
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Tales of the City (Vol. 1) - Armistead Maupin - 4.0</div>
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Sole Survivor - Derek Hansen - 8.75</div>
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See Jane Win - Sylvia Rimm - 5.22</div>
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Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri - 8.63</div>
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Choclat - Joanne Harris - 8.00</div>
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A Gesture Life - Chang-Rae Lee - 6.88</div>
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Plainsong - Kent Haruf - 4.67</div>
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House of Sand and Fog - Vadim Perelman - 6.0</div>
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A Lesson Before Dying - Ernest Gaines - 8.77</div><div><br /></div>
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The Hours - Michael Cunningham (read along with Mrs. Dalloway) - 8.75</div>
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Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee - 6.45</div>
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Ahab's Wife - Sena Jeter Naslund - 8.00</div>
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One Writer's Beginning - Eudora Welty - 7.00</div>
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Girl With a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier - 7.00</div>
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Zenzelle - J. Nozipo Maraire - 8.2</div>
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Stones from the River - Ursula Hegi - 8.5</div>
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Consolations of Philosophy - Alain de Botton - 8.9's </div>
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Martyr's Crossing - Amy Wilentz -7.9</div><div><br /></div>
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The Power of One - Bryce Courtenay - 8.05</div>
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Bel Canto - Ann Patchett - 8.41</div>
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In Harm's Way - Doug Stanton - 8.39</div>
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A Year of Wonders - Geraldine Brooks - 8.25</div>
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Back When We Were Grownups - Anne Tyler - 8.89</div>
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Atonement - Ian McEwan - 8.81</div>
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The Friendly Persuasion - Jessamyn West - 6.05</div>
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Raising Fences - Michael Datcher - 5.81</div>
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Pope Joan - Donna Woolfolk - 8.13</div><div><br /></div>
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A Kiss for Maddalena - Christopher Castellani - 5.65</div>
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Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe - 7.95</div>
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Life of Pi - Yann Martel - 8.69</div>
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The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk - 7.88</div>
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The Translator - John Crowley - 8.6</div>
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Women Who Risk - Marilyn Olsen</div>
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Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi - 7.63</div>
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Blue Latitudes - Tony Horwitz - 5.58</div>
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The All of It - Jeanette Haien - 7.7</div><div><br /></div>
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The Devil in the White City - Erik Larson - 7.3</div>
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Birth of Venus - Sarah Dunant - 7.78</div>
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The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri - 9.33</div>
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Taken In - Beverly Cole - 6.5</div>
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The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossenini - 9.38</div>
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Easter Island - Jennifer Vanderbes - 8.375</div>
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The Known World - Edward Jones - 7.56</div>
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The 6th Lamentation - William Brodrick - 8.23</div>
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Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith - Jon Krakauer - 5.35</div><div><br /></div>
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The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon - 6.35</div>
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The Pillow Book - 5.63</div>
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Broken For You - Stephanie Kallos - 8.5</div>
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The History of Love - Nicole Krauss - 8.56</div>
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The Tender Bar: A Memoir - J.R. Moehringer - 8.05</div>
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Snow Flower & the Secret Fan - 8.5</div>
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A Girl Named Zippy - Haven Kimmel - 8.08</div>
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Evidence of Things Unseen: A Novel - Marianne Wiggins - 8.17</div>
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Extremely Loud and Close - 8.25</div><div><br /></div>
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Mountain Beyond Mountains - 9.2</div>
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The Positions - 7.17</div>
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Water for Elephants - 8.78</div>
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The Memory Keeper's Daughter - 8.3</div>
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The Book Thief - 9.55</div>
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Night Watch - 9.0</div>
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His Excellency George Washington - 8.13</div>
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Banker to the Poor - Muhammad Yunus - 7.59</div>
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My Antonia - Willa Cather - 8.78</div><div><br /></div>
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In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden: A Novel - Kathleen Cambor - 8.5</div>
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Digging to America - Anne Tyler - 8.07</div>
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Bless Me, Ultima - Rudolfo Anaya - 7.0</div>
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Loving Frank - Nancy Horan - 7.86</div>
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The God of Animals - Ayrn Kyles - 7.68</div>
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz - 6.75</div>
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic and How It Changed Science, </div>
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Cities and the Modern World - Steven Johnson - 9.45</div>
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The Reluctant Fundmentalist - Mohsin Hamid - 8.1</div><div><br /></div>
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The Highest Tide - Jim Lynch - 8.59</div>
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The Spectator Bird - Wallace Stegner - 9.04</div>
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Sin in the Second City - Karen Abott - 7.28</div>
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Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout - 8.83</div>
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Stormy Weater - Paulette Jiles - 7.08</div>
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The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery - 8.58</div>
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Skeletons at the Feast - 6.95</div>
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The Help - Kathryn Stockett - 9.54</div>
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The Bridge at San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder - 8.09</div><div><br /></div>
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Jamesland - Michelle Hunever - 8.14</div>
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City of Thieves - David Benioff - 8.4</div>
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A Good Man is Hard to Find - Flannery O'Connor - 6.79</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">*Tri-B began rating before and after discussion</span></div>
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Strength in what Remains - Tracy Kidder - 7.33/7.63</div>
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Keeping Faith - Jodi Picoult - 6.95/7.3</div>
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot- 8.65 - no pre-vote as we heard her at DePauw University as part of the Ubben lecture series</div>
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The White Tiger: A Novel - Aravind Adiga- 6.33/7.17</div>
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The Little Bee- Chris Cleave - 7.73/7.82</div><div><br /></div>
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The Spare Room - Helen Garner - 8.39</div>
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Brooklyn - Colm Toibin -8.62</div>
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The Wives of Henry Oades - Johanna Moran - 6.46</div>
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Room - Emma Donoghue - 8.15</div>
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Hamlet's Blackberry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age - William Powers - 4.55 </div>
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Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand - 9.27</div>
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The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein - 8.77</div>
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The Paris Wife - Paula McLain - 7.5</div>
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State of Wonder - Ann Patchett - 8.04</div><div><br /></div>
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The Kitchen House - Kathleen Grissom -7.46</div>
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Life - Keith Richards - 6.0</div>
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Blue Nights - Joan Didion - 7.5</div>
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Rules of Civility - Amor Towles - 8.93</div>
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Queen of the Desert - Georgina Howell - 7.59</div>
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Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain - not rated<br />
The Tiger's Wife - Tea Obreht - 7.33<br />
Tell The Wolves I am Home - Carol Rifka Brunt - 9.5<br />
Destiny of the Republic - Candice Millard - 8.77</div><div><br />
Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake - Anna Quindlen - 7.92<br />
The Art of Fielding - Chad Harbach - 8.28<br />
Wild - Cheryl Strayed - 8.21<br />
Visit From the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan - 6.9 - Range from 3-10<br />
Me Before You - Jojo Moyes - 8.95<br />
The Aviator's Wife - Melanie Benjamin - 7.35<br />
The House Girl - Tara Conklin - 7.95<br />
The Light in the Ruins - Chris Bohjalian - 7.11<br />
The Fault In Our Stars - John Green - 8.65</div><div><br />
The Illusion of Separateness - Simon Van Booy - 8.21 (7-9.5)<br />
The Boys in the Boat - Daniel James Brown - 8.23 (7-9.5)<br />
The Feast of Love - Charles Baxter - 7.36 (5.5-8.5)<br />
The Lowland - Jhumpa Lahiri - 7.85 (6.5-9.5)<br />
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena - Anthony Marra - 7.6 (4-9)<br />
Life After Life - Kate Atkinson - 8.63<br />
All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr - 8.8<br />
Regeneration - Pat Barker - 7.65<br />
Delancy - Molly Wizenberg - 5.62<br />
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We Are Not Ourselves: A Novel - Matthew Thomas - 8.32<br />
Some Luck - Jane Smiley - 8.89<br />
The Art of Hearing Heartbeats - Jan-Philipp Sendker - 7.17<br />
Deep Down Dark - Hector Tobar - 7.44<br />
The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah - 8.38<br />
My Brilliant Friend - Elena Ferrante - 7.22<br />
A God in Ruins - Kate Atkinson - 7.59<br />
Negroland - Margo Jefferson - 6.0<br />
Circling The Sun -Paula McCain - 5.7</div><div><br />
After You - Jojo Moyes - 8.56<br />
Sisters In Law - Linda Hirshman - 6.06<br />
My Name is Lucy Barton - Elizabeth Strout - 8.02<br />
Fates and Furies - Lauren Groff - 7.00<br />
The Expatriates - Janice J.K. Lee - 7.68<br />Being Mortal - Atul Gawande - 9.09<br />
When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi - 8.58<br />
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The Girl Who Wrote in Silk - Kelli Estes - 7.06<br />
Where My Heart Used to Beat - Sebastian Faulks - 7.33</div><div><br />
The Nest - Cynthia Sweeney - 7.71<br />
The Underground Railroad - Coleson Whitehead - 8.55<br />
The Lilac Girls - Martha Hall Kelly -8.75<br />
Commonwealth - Ann Patchett - 7.77<br />
Homegoing - Yaa Gyasi - 7.0<br />
Exit West - Mohsin Hamid - 6.88<br />Hillbilly Elegy - J.D. Vance - 8.25<br />
Sing, Unburied, Sing - Jesmyn Ward - 8.05<br />
The Burning Girl: A Novel - Claire Messud - 7.77</div><div><br />
Less - Andrew Sean Greer - 8.44<br />
The Hello Girls - Elizabeth Cobbs - 7.88<br />
Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders - 8.38 (7-9.5)<br />
Before We Were Yours - Lisa Wingate - 7.72</div>
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Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng - 6.83 (4-9)</div>
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White Houses - Amy Bloom - 5.27</div>
<div>The Pastures of Heaven - John Steinbeck - 7.35</div>
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Varina - Charles Frazier - 8.41</div>
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Once We Were Brothers - Ronald Balson - 8.25</div><div><br /></div>
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The Great Alone - Kristen Hannah - 7.55</div>
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Becoming - Michelle Obama - 8.72 (range 6-9.5)</div>
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Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens - 7.14 (range 5-8)</div>
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Inheritance - Dani Shapiro - 8.11</div>
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The Only Woman in the Room - Marie Benedict - 6.67</div>
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Women Rowing North - Mary Pipher - 7.5</div>
<div>Washington Black - Esi Edugyan - 7.82</div><div>
The Secrets We Kept - Lara Prescott - 8.5<br />
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek - Kim Michele Richardson - 8.05</div><div><br />
The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas - 9.0<br />
The Nickel Boys x Colton Whitehead - 8.9<br />
The Island of Sea Women - Lisa See - 8.13<br />
News of the World - Paulette Jiles - 8.56<br />
Educated - Tara Westover - 8.2</div><div>The Dutch House - Ann Patchett - 8.25</div><div>Darkwater - W.E.B. DuBois</div><div>The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell: A Novel - Robert Dugoni - 8.8 </div><div>Small Fry - Lisa Brennan-Jobs - 7.22</div><div><br /></div><div>A Long Petal of the Sea: A Novel - Isabel Allende - 7.45</div><div>The Vanishing Half: A. Over - Brit Bennett - 7.2<br /></div><div>American Dirt - Jeanine Cummins - 8.56</div><div>We Begin at the End - Chris Whitaker - 6.14</div><div>The Trouble With Poetry - Billy Collins - 9.3</div><div>Anxious People - Fredrick Backman - 7.9</div><div>Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro - 8.1</div><div>The Kitchen Front - Jennifer Ryan - 7.9</div><div>The Lincoln Highway - Amor Towles- 9.0</div><div><br /></div><div>The Taste of Ginger - Mansi Shah - 7.22</div><div>Great Circle - Maggie Shipstead - 7.83</div><div>Going There - Katie Couric - 7.19</div><div>The People We Keep - Allison Larkin - 7.63</div><div>The Paris Library - Janet Skeslien Charles - 7.8</div><div>Nowhere Girl - Cheryl Diamond - 6.5</div><div>Ocean at the end of the Lane - Neil Gaiman - 6.6</div><div>Less Is Lost -Andrew Sean Greer - 8.25</div><div>The Personal Librarian - Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray - 8</div><div><br /></div><div>Lessons in Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus - 9</div><div>I’m Glad My Mom Died - Jennette McCurdy - 5.2</div><div>The Forest of Vanishing Stars - Kristin Harmel - 8.8</div><div>Remarkably Bright Creatures - Shelby Van Pelt -8.3</div><div>No Two Persons -EricaBauermeister - 8.2</div><div>A Fever In The Heartland - Timothy Egan - 8.9</div><div>The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store - James McBride - 7.7</div><div>Tom Lake -Ann Patchett - 8.6</div><div>Fellowship Point- Alice Elliot Dark - 8.3</div><div>The Wind Knows My Name - Isabelle Allende - 7.5</div><div>Lady Tan’s Circle of Women - Lisa See - 7.5</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>
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