• disgrace // jm coetzee
• cold mountain
• the lover // duras
• beloved / toni morrison
• telegraph avenue / michael chabon
• a widow's story / joyce carol oates
• the year of magical thinking / joan didion
• the brief and wondrous life of oscar wao / junot diaz
• the optimist's daughter / eudora welty
• piano lessons / noah adams
• the tenant of whitefeld hall / ann bronte
• dr. zhivago / pasternak

march

• anna karenina / leo tolstoy

february

• a short, sharp shock / kim stanley robinson
• life on the mississippi / mark twain
• slouching towards bethlehem / joan didion

january

• the ambassadors / henry james
• the fifth child / doris lessing
• blood meridian / cormac macarthy
• the house of mirth / edith wharton