These are some of the books that I have read as part of a book club - I tried to recall as many as I could but some titles escape me. I have placed asterisks beside my very favourite ones. The books appear in alphabetical order rather than in the order they were read - blame the faulty memory.
- Adventure of the Christmas Pudding by Agatha Christie
- Atonement by Ian McEwan
- Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
- Best Friends Forever by Jennifer Weiner
- Cambodia: For People Who Find Television too Slow by Brian Fawcett
- The Christmas Box by Paul Evans
- Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire
- Day after Night by Anita Diamant
- The Five People You Will Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
- Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
- A Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier **
- The Golden Spruce by John Vaillant
- Good Grief by Lolly Winston
- A Good House by Bonnie Burnard **
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows ***
- The Help by Kathryn Stockett ***
- The Heretic’s Daughter by Kathleen Kent
- The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
- In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant
- Kit’s Law by Donna Morrissey ***
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini *** (difficult to read in parts but worth it)
- The Last Summer (of You and Me) by Ann Brashares
- The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean **
- Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson
- Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
- The Marriage Bureau for Rich People by Farahad Zama **
- Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
- Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson ***
- The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio by Terry Ryan
- Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd ***
- So Much Pretty by Cara Hoffman
- Star Girl by Jerry Spinelli ***
- Stoney Creek Woman: The Story of Mary John by Bridget Moran ***
- Three Junes by Julia Glass
- The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffennegger ***
- Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story by Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor ***
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith ***
- Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
- Twilight by Stephanie Meyers
- Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen ***
- The White Garden: A Novel of Virginia Woolf by Stephanie Barron
- Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks ***
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