Stories About Women and Women's Friendships

Hardcover
And Sometimes Why by Rebecca Johnson (ISBN: 9780399154522)
The Cure for Modern Life by Lisa Tucker (ISBN: 9780743492799)
Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult (ISBN: 9780743496742)
Deep Dish by Mary Kay Andrews (ISBN: 9780060837365)
Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah (ISBN: 9780312364083)
Searching for Paradise in Parker, PA by Kris Radish (ISBN: 9780553805307)
Songs without Words by Ann Packer (ISBN: 9780375412813)
Souvenir by Therese Fowler (ISBN: 9780345499684)
The Rest of Her Life by Laura Moriarty (ISBN: 9781401302719)
The Senator’s Wife by Sue Miller (ISBN: 9780307264206)
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan (ISBN: 9780345494993)

Paperback Fiction
Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik (ISBN: 9780345442826)
Astrid and Veronika by Linda Olsson (ISBN: 9780143038078)
The Big Stone Gap Series by Adriana Trigiani: Big Stone Gap (ISBN: 9780345438324), Big Cherry Holler (ISBN: 9780345445841), Milk Glass Moon (ISBN: 9780345445858) and Home to Big Stone Gap (ISBN: 9780812967821)
Crow Lake by Mary Lawson (ISBN: 9780385337632)
The Divide by Nicholas Evans (ISBN: 9780451219299)
The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs (ISBN: 9780425219096)
Lucia Lucia by Adriana Trigiani (ISBN: 9780812967791)
The Reading Group by Elizabeth Noble (ISBN: 9780060760441)
Savannah Breeze by Mary Kay Andrews (ISBN: 9780060564674)

Paperback Nonfiction
The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth about Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage, edited by Cathi Hanauer (ISBN: 9780060936464)
I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman by Nora Ephron (ISBN: 9780307276827)
Love You, Mean It: A True Story of Love, Loss, and Friendship by Patricia Carrington, Julia Collins, Claudia Gerbasi, and Ann Haynes
Truth and Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett (ISBN: 9780641726446)

Upcoming
Stone Creek by Victoria Lustbader (Paperback/May 2008/ ISBN: 9780061369216)

Books Set in Foreign Locales

Hardcover Fiction
The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani (ISBN: 9780316065764)
The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak (ISBN: 9780670038343)
Gardens of Water by Alan Drew (ISBN: 9781400066872)
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (ISBN: 9781594489501)

Paperback Fiction
The Camel Bookmobile by Masha Hamilton (ISBN: 9780061173493)
Inés of My Soul by Isabel Allende (ISBN: 9780061161544)
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (ISBN: 9781594480003)
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri (ISBN: 9780618733965)
Peony in Love by Lisa See (ISBN: 9780812975222)
The Rug Merchant by Meg Mullins (ISBN: 9780143112099)
Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra (ISBN: 9780061130366)
The Saffron Kitchen by Yasmin Crowther (ISBN: 9780143112747)
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See (ISBN: 9780812968064)
The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar (ISBN: 9780060791568)
Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb (ISBN: 9780143038726)

Paperback Nonfiction
The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo by Paula Huntley (ISBN: 9781585422937)
In The Hot Zone: One Man, One Year, Twenty Wars by Kevin Sites (ISBN: 9780061228759)
Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez (ISBN: 9780812976731)
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi (ISBN: 9780812971064)
Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace…One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson (ISBN: 9780143038252)

Memoirs

Hardcover
Confessions of a Prep School Mommy Handler by Wade Rouse (ISBN: 9780307382702)
The Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan (ISBN: 9781401303365)
Soldier’s Heart: Reading Literature through Peace and War at West Point by Elizabeth D. Samet (ISBN: 9780374180638)

Paperback
Come Back: A Mother and Daughter’s Journey through Hell and Back by Claire Fontaine and Mia Fontaine (ISBN: 9780060859718)
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert (ISBN: 9780143038412)
Family Romance: A Love Story by John Lanchester (ISBN: 9780143112952)
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (ISBN: 9780743247542)
The Golden Road: Notes on My Gentrification by Caille Millner (ISBN: 9780143112976)
Have You Found Her by Janice Erlbaum (ISBN: 9780812974577)
Honeymoon with My Brother by Franz Wisner (ISBN: 9780312340841)
Hope's Boy by Andrew Bridge (ISBN: 9781401303228)
The Liars’ Club by Mary Karr (ISBN: 9780143035749)
My Father's Secret War by Lucinda Franks (ISBN: 9781401309336)
Not Fade Away: A Short Life Well Lived by Laurence Shames and Peter Barton (ISBN: 9780060737313)
Stealing Buddha's Dinner by Bich Minh Nguyen (ISBN: 9780143113034)
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (ISBN: 9781400078431)

Books and Movies

Truman Capote and Harper Lee

• Read In Cold Blood (ISBN: 9780679745587), Truman Capote’s 1966 true crime account of the murder of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, in 1959.
• Watch the 2006 film Capote, which focuses on the research and writing of In Cold Blood.
• Read To Kill a Mockingbird (ISBN: 9780061120084), in which Harper Lee based the character of Dill on Truman Capote.
• Read Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee (ISBN: 9780805083194) by Charles J. Shields, which Bookreporter.com called “an informative biography of an enigmatic but truly influential writer.”
• Watch To Kill a Mockingbird, the Academy Award-winning 1962 movie starring Gregory Peck.