BOOKS READ BY JILL -- in addition to Book Club selections
    *  denotes Book Club selection

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
A New Earth by Eckhard Tolle
Plum Wine by Angela Davis-Gardner
The Book Thief by Markus Zusask
Riding Lessons by Sara Guren
Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Peony in Love by Lisa See
Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress by Susan Jane Gilman
Atonement by Ian Mcewan L 

Night by Ellie Wiesel !
Waiting for Birdy: A Year of Frantic Tedium, Neurotic Angst, and the Wild Magic of Growing a Family by Catherine Newman
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich
Uprising by Dean Urdahl
Rise and Shine by Anna Quindlen
The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell
Oh My Stars by Lorna Landvik J
Pilot’s Wife by Anita Shreve J
Outlander by Diana Gabalden J
Our Lady of the Forest by David Guterson
First Light by Charles Baxter
Ursula, Under by Ingrid Hill (good, but too long)
Never Have Your Dog Stuffed by Alan Alda L
In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant (author of Birth of Venus) J
Keeping Faith by Jodi Piccoult J
The Last Time They Met by Anita Shreve
Hot Zone by Richard Preston
Light from Heaven by Jan Karon (last book in the Mitford series)
Birth: A History by Tina Cassidy (non-fiction) J J
Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage by Stephanie Coontz (non-fiction)
Sam’s Letter’s to Jennifer by James Patterson L
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore J J

*Marley and Me by John Grogon J J

Bee Season by Myla Goldberg

A Million Little Pieces by James Frey

Vanishing Act by Kaye Gibbons L

*Master Butcher’s Singing Club by Louise Erdich

The Sunday Philosophy Club: An Isabel Dalhousie Mystery by Alexander McCall Smith

Housekeeping by Marilyn Robinson L

Animals in Transition by Temple Grandin J (autistic author)

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Macguire

Mermaid Chair by Kidd

Gnostic Gospels by Pagel

The Rescue by Nicolas Sparks

The Staggerford Murders and Nancy Clancy's Nephew by Jon Hassler

The Family Tree by Carole Cadwalladr

Best Friends by Martha Moody

The Girlfriends' Guide to Toddlers  by Vicki Iovine (all hers are great)

If you Lived Here I’d Know Your Name by Heather Lende J

The Spiral Staircase by Karen Armstrong (former nun's spiritual path)

A Short History of Myth by Karen Armstrong

Tiny Tenacious Thilda by Mildred Olson. (memories of the author’s mother in French Lake.)

Winkie by Clifford Chase (stuffed bear comes alive ...different)

Eventide by Kent Haruf (same author as Plainsong, not as good as, but good)

The Testament by John Grisham

Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy (true story)

My Left Foot by Christy Brown

Cane River by Lalita Tademy  (fictionalized story of the author’s actual slave ancestors)

The Last Girls by Lee Smith (four classmates trip down the Mississippi)

At First Site by Nicholas Sparks

Drenched in Light by Lisa Wingate

*Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls (a memoir, compared to Frank McCourt)

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See J 

Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

The Final Solution by Michael Chabon L

The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander J

*A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Moreland Indiana by Haven KimmelJ

*Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards

She Got Up Off the Couch by Haven Kimmel JJ

Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism by Temple Grandin

Emergence: Labeled Autistic by Temple Grandin (autistic author)

*Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen J J

The Mommy Club by Sarah Bird (surrogate mother changes her mind)

Stop Breathing My Air by Courtney Davidson

Take Me Out of the Bathtub by Alan Katz (humorous original poems to children's music)

I’m Still Here in the Bathtub by Alan Katz (humorous original poems to children's music)

*The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

*Whale Caller by Zakes Mda

Passing for Thin by Frances Kuffel

*Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Shelf Life by Shea

Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey Through Autism by Dawn Prince-Hughs

*The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

Father Joe: The Many Who Saved My Soul  by Tony Hendra J

The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to his White Mother by James McBride

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One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus

Snow by Orhan Pamuk

The Jefferson ’s Bible by Thomas Jefferson  

*Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons

    *  denotes Book Club selection