• the laramie project, moisés kaufman and the members of tectonic theater project
• sweethearts, sara zarr
• avalon high, meg cabot
• after you'd gone, maggie o'farrell
• smashed: story of a drunken girlhood, koren zailckas
• into the wild, jon krakauer
• overachievers, alexandra robbins
• a northern light, jennifer donnelly
• mind of the raven, bernd heinrich
• the tipping point, malcolm gladwell
• sula, toni morrison
• bless me, ultima, rudolfo anaya
• nineteen minutes, jodi picoult
• the tenth circle, jodi picoult
• second glance, jodi picoult
• the pact, jodi picoult
• the bluest eye, toni morrison
• acceptance, susan coll
• running with scissors, augusten burroughs
• plain truth, jodi picoult
• my sister's keeper, jodi picoult
• gossip girl, cecily von ziegesar
• harvesting the heart, jodi picoult
• a gathering of old men, ernest j. gaines
• one flew over the cuckoo's nest, ken kesey

(summer)

• the memory keeper's daughter, kim edwards
• salem falls, jodi picoult
• dr. tatiana's sex advice to all creation, olivia judson
• the mermaid chair, sue monk kidd
• when you are engulfed in flames, david sedaris
• prep, curtis sittenfeld
• change of heart, jodi picoult
• the virgin suicides, jeffrey eugenides
• elsewhere in the land of parrots, jim paul
• the bell jar, sylvia plath
• middlesex, jeffrey eugenides
• the historian, elizabeth kostova

(fall semester)

• half the house, richard hoffman
• rita hayworth and the shawshank redemption, stephen king
• the tales of beetle the bard, j.k. rowling
• the graveyard book, neil gaiman
• perfume (story of a murderer), patrick suskind