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Margaret Atwood
  C Alias Grace
  A The Blind Assassin
  B Cat's Eye
Julian Barnes
  A Arthur & George
Maeve Binchy
  B Nights of Rain and Stars
Geraldine Brooks
  B People of the Book
Mark Childress
  A+ Crazy in Alabama
Susanna Clark
  F Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Paulo Coelho
  B The Alchemist
  D The Witch of Portobello
Hannah Crafts (edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.)
  B The Bondwoman's Narrative
Michael Crichton
  A Airframe
  B The Andromeda Strain
  A The Great Train Robbery
  B The Lost World
Daniel Defoe
  C Moll Flanders
Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant
 
A
 Far From the Tree
Anita Diamant
  C Good Harbor
  B The Red Tent
Lloyd C. Douglas
  A The Robe
Umberto Eco
  B The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
Clyde Edgerton
  C The Bible Salesman
  B Walking Across Egypt
Kim Edwards
  B The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Jeffrey Eugenides
  A Middlesex
  A The Virgin Suicides
Carrie Fisher
  D Surrender the Pink
F. Scott Fitzgerald
  B Before Gatsby - The First Twenty-Six Stories
Fannie Flagg
  F Standing in the Rainbow
  A Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!
Jonathan Franzen
  B The Corrections
Ernest J. Gaines
  A+ The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
  A+ A Lesson Before Dying
Paul Gallico
  A Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
Roberta Gately
  B The Bracelet
G.D. Gearino
  A Counting Coup
Arthur Golden
  A Memoirs of a Geisha
Olivia Goldsmith
  B The First Wives Club
Lauren Groff
  B The Monsters of Templeton
Sara Gruen
  B Water for Elephants
Joanne Harris
  B Chocolat
  C Five Quarters of the Orange
 
A
 Gentlemen & Players
Robert Hellenga
  C The Sixteen Pleasures
Khaled Hosseini
  A+ The Kite Runner
Kazuo Ishiguro
  A Never Let Me Go
  B The Remains of the Day
Susan Kay
  A Phantom
Daniel Keyes
  A+ Flowers for Algernon
Sue Monk Kidd
  B The Mermaid Chair
  A+ The Secret Life of Bees
Laurie R. King
  B Folly
Katrina Kittle
  A The Kindness of Strangers
Wally Lamb
  A She's Come Undone
Lorna Landvik
  A Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons
  A Oh My Stars
  A Patty Jane's House of Curl
  B 'Tis the Season
  C The View from Mount Joy
Gregory Maguire
  B Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
Yann Martel
  B Life of Pi
Cormac McCarthy
  B All the Pretty Horses
Colleen McCullough
  B The Thorn Birds
Ian McEwan
  B Saturday
  C Solar
Larry McMurtry
  B Buffalo Girls
  B The Evening Star
  B Terms of Endearment
     

 

 
 
Julia Lynn Moberg
  A Skies Over Sweetwater
Bernice Morgan
  B Random Passage aka Cape Random
Toni Morrison
  A Tar Baby
Haruki Murakami
  C After Dark
  B Kafka on the Shore
Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong'o
  B Wizard of the Crow
Joyce Carol Oates
  C Middle Age: a Romance
Brendan O'Carroll
  B The Mammy
Maggie O'Farrell
  B The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
Julie Otsuka
  C When the Emperor Was Divine
Arto Paasilinna
  B The Year of the Hare
Ann Patchett
  B The Magician's Assistant
Anna Quindlen
  A Black and Blue
Anne Rice
  A Interview with the Vampire
Salman Rushdie
 
B
 The Enchantress of Florence
   
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Richard Russo
 
B
 Bridge of Sighs
Erich Segal
  A The Class
Diane Setterfield
  A The Thirteenth Tale
Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
  A The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Olaf Stapledon
  C Odd John
Suzanne Strempek Shea
  B Becoming Finola
  B Selling the Lite of Heaven
Anita Shreve
  C Light on Snow
Carl Shuker
  B The Method Actors
Robert Silverberg
  B Dying Inside
Jane Smiley
  B A Thousand Acres
Alexander McCall Smith
  B The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Lee Smith
  A On Agate Hill
Zadie Smith
  C White Teeth
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  B One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Mary Stewart
  D The Stormy Petrel
Irving Stone
  A The Greek Treasure
Amy Tan
  C The Kitchen God's Wife
  B The Joy Luck Club
  D Saving Fish from Drowning
Elswyth Thane
  A+ Dawn's Early Light
  D This Was Tomorrow
Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong'o
  B Wizard of the Crow
Sandi Toksvig
  B Flying Under Bridges
   
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Susan Townsend
  B The Queen and I
Anne Tyler
  B The Accidental Tourist
  A The Amateur Marriage
  A The Clock Winder
  B Digging to America
  C Saint Maybe
Anne Ursu
  B Spilling Clarence
Kurt Vonnegut
  C Bluebeard
  B Cat's Cradle
Evelyn Waugh
  B Brideshead Revisited
Roberta Webb
  B The Dark and Bloody Ground
Rebecca Wells
  A+ Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Meg Wolitzer
  C The Ten-Year Nap
Patricia Wood
  A Lottery
Jason F. Wright
  B The Wednesday Letters
Steve Yarbrough
  B The Oxygen Man
Richard Yates
  B Revolutionary Road
Banana Yoshimoto
  A Kitchen
Danielle Younge-Ullman
  B Falling Under
   
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