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March, by Geraldine Brooks - about the father in the Louisa May Alcott family, (won the Pulitzer for fiction)
The March: A Novel, by E. L. Doctorow - Sherman's Civil War March
Stones from the River, by Ursula Hegiskip - amazing story
The Last Templar, by Raymound Khoury (just for the sheer fun of it!)
Spy, by Ted Bell ( a fast-paced spy novel where the bad guys are run by technology!)
Digging To America, by Anne Tyler (she captures the Baltimore Roland Park set remarkably while sharing a world in which
relationships are fragile and in need of great attention)
- anything else by Anne Tyler. The books are all set in Baltimore and speak to the small yet important moments in life.
No Good Deeds - Laura Lippman (Baltimore based mystery novelist - always a delight!)
The Plot Against America, by Philip Roth (Roth envisions a nazi plot right here in America. An exciting read!)
The Name of the Rose: including Postscript to the Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco, William Weaver (Translator) (Middle
Ages mystery)
Sunday at the Pool in Kigali, by Gil Courtemanche, Patricia Claxton (Translator) (book about the Rwandan genocide - stays
with you long after you have put it down)
Hard Revolution, by George Pelecanos (about the 1968 race riots in Washington D.C.)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by
Mark Haddon
Daughter of Fortune, by Isabel Allende, Margaret Sayers Peden (Translator)
Beloved, by Toni Morrison
The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
The Mists of Avalon, by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Bel Canto, by Ann Patchett - one of my favorite all-time books
Crime School, by Carol O'Connell (hard-core mystery)
The Devil's Feather, by Minette Walters (another hard-boiled mystery)
Fox Evil, by Minette Walters
Breath, Eyes, Memory, by Edwina Dandicat (about a young woman's hard life in Dandicat's native Haiti)
Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe (Africa tribal customs and rituals)
Exile, by Richard North Patterson (spy thriller)
The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver (novel about African colonialism)
The Bean Trees, by Barbara Kingsolver (part of a trio that deals with a native American child - really terrific)
Animal Dreams and Pigs in Heaven, by Barbara Kingsolver (the other two in the trio.)
Relic, by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child (a little horror just for fun!)
In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez (Life in Dominican Republic's Trujillo Dictatorship - based on the Mirabel
sisters who were brave freedom fighters)
The Queen of the South, by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Andrew Hurley (Translator) *This is one of my all-time favorite books*
(A woman grows from a timid girl-friend to running an entire drug cartel in South America. A real page-turner)
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