by Michael Crichton, 1980
Category: Fiction
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Simon’s Family
by Marianne Fredriksson, 1999
The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini, 2003 Afghanistan–moving tale about two boys in Afghanistan at the time of the Russian invasion and then under the Taliban.
Catch 22
by Joseph Heller, 1961 I was not able to continue reading this book after the first chapter or so. Something turned me off so badly, I threw it away. (I had picked it up for free from a garage sale.) However, it is a Pulitzer Prize winner and classic, so maybe I need to give […]
Plain Language
by Barbara Wright, 2003 A younger woman marries an older man and helps him on his farm on the dry eastern plains of Colorado during the dust bowl.
While I Was Gone
by Sue Miller, 1999
Bel Canto
by Ann Patchett, 2001 Great book about a famous opera singer taken hostage with 200 others in a South American mansion.