Books we've read: Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient Ginu Kamani, Junglee Girl Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted Don Delillo, White Noise Paul Auster, Leviathan Jayne Anne Phillips, Fast Lanes Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of the Senses Nan Robertson, The Girls on the Balcony Eric Liu (Ed.), Next David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars Toni, Morrison Jazz Thomas L. Friedman, From Beirut to Jerusalem Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy Alice Walker, The Temple of My Familiar Ursula Hegi, Stones From the River John Dominie Crossman, Jesus Pamela Houston, Cowboys Are My Weakness Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera Albert Camus, The Plague Tracy Johnston, Shooting the Boh Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina Isabelle Allende, The House of the Spirits Thomas Cahill, How the Irish Saved Civilization A.S. Byatt, Possession Alan Isler, The Prince of West End Avenue Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild Jane Hamilton, The Book of Ruth Maya Angelou, All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes Edwidge Danticat, Breath, Eyes, Memory Jonathan Harr, A Civil Action Irving Yalom, Lying on the Couch John Berger, To the Wedding E. Annie Proulx, Accordion Crimes Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace Philip Roth, Sabbath's Theater Randy Shilts, The Mayor of Castro Street Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh David Sedaris, Naked Virginia Woolf, Orlando, and Colette, The Vagabond Gregory Maguire, Wicked John McPhee, Encounters with the Archdruid Ben Okri, The Famished Road Cristina Garcia, Dreaming in Cuban Sebastian Foulks, Birdsong Edward Ball, Slaves in the Family A.S. Byatt, Babel Tower Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha Andrea Barrett, Ship Fever Katharine Graham, Personal History J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Simon Winchester, The Professor and the Madman Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, and Lois Lowry, The Giver Nicole Mones, Lost in Translation Stephen Ambrose, Undaunted Courage Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein Susan Orlean, The Orchid Thief Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible Nick Hornby, About a Boy Jose Saramago, Blindness Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale Dava Sobel, Longitude David James Duncan, The River Why Louis de Bernieres, Corelli's Mandolin Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses Jonathan Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina Michael Dorris, A Yellow Raft in Blue Water Jane Austen, Persuasion Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind Keri Hulme, The Bone People Ursula Hegi, Tearing the Silence Susan Vreeland, Girl in Hyacinth Blue Karen Armstrong, The Battle for God Mikhail Bulgakov, sThe Master and Margarita