The Good Earth by Pearl Buck

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Sula by Toni Morrison

Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

Cane River by Lalita Tademy

Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail by Malika Oufkir

Icy Sparks by Gwyn Rubio

We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates

House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus

Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz

Open House by Elizabeth Berg

Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

While I Was Gone by Sue Miller

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Back Roads by Tawni O’Dell

Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende

Gap Creek by Robert Morgan

Map of the World by Jane Hamilton

Vinegar Hill by A. Manette Ansay

River, Cross My Heart by Breena Clarke

Tara Road by Maeve Binchy

Mother of Pearl by Melinda Haynes

White Oleander by Janet Fitch

The Pilot’s Wife by Anita Shreve

The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

Jewel by Bret Lott

Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts

Midwives by Chris Bohjalian

What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage

I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb

Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat

Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen

Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman

Paradise by Toni Morrison

Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons

A Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons

A Lesson before Dying by Ernest Gaines

Songs in Ordinary Time by Mary McGarry Morris

The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou

The Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds

Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi

She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb

The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton

Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard