Regular Print Book Discussion Kits Genre List Available at KDLA Updated 7/19/21
Biography/Autobiography/Memoir: 1864: Lincoln at the Gates of History by Charles Bracelen Flood Abigail Adams by Woody Holton Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston Below Stairs: the Classic Kitchen Maid's Memoir That Inspired Upstairs, Downstairs and Downton Abbey by Margaret Powell
Bone Black by bell hooks Boone, a Biography by Robert Morgan The Bourbon King by Bob Batchelor Clear Springs by Bobbie Ann Mason Cleopatra: a Life by Stacy Schiff The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs and Parenting by Michael Perry Don't Sing at the Table: Life Lessons from my Grandmothers by Adriana Trigiani Don't You Remember? A Memoir by George Ella Lyon Driving Over Lemons: an Optimist in Spain by Chris Stewart Emma's War by Deborah Scroggins Familiar Wilderness: Searching for Home on Daniel Boone’s Road by S. J. Dahlman The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls The Good Neighbor : the Life and Work of Fred Rogers by Maxwell King Grant and Twain: the Story of an American Friendship by Mark Perry Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure: the True Story of a Great American Road Trip by Matthew Algeo Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains by Cassie Chambers Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance An Hour before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood by Jimmy Carter House of Abraham: Lincoln and the Todds, a Family Divided by War by Stephen William Berry I Am Potential: Eight Lessons on Living, Loving, and Reaching Your Dreams by Patrick Henry Hughes I Choose to be Happy: a School Shooting Survivor's Triumph Over Tragedy by Missy Jenkins ; with William Croyle I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land, a Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad by Karolyn Smardz Frost The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Imperfect Endings: a Daughter's Tale of Life and Death by Zoe FitzGerald Carter Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm during the Great Depression by Mildred Armstrong Kalish Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter by Loretta Lynn; with George Vecsey Madam Belle by Maryjean Wall Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder Night by Elie Wiesel No Heroes: a Memoir of Coming Home by Chris Offutt Nothing Daunted: the Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West by Dorothy Wickenden Passing for Black, the Life and Careers of Mae Street Kidd by Wade Hall A Pearl in the Storm: How I Found My Heart in the Middle of the Ocean by Tori Murden McClure The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels: a Love Story by Ree Drummond Pontius Pilate by Ann Wroe Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail by Malika Oufkir and Michèle Fitoussi Team of Rivals, the Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin Tender at the Bone: Growing up at the Table by Ruth Reichl Then They Came for Me: a Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival by Maziar Bahari; with Aimee Molloy Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace-- One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson The Unbreakable Child: A Story about Forgiving the Unforgivable by Kim Michele Richardson Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington Wesley the Owl: the Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl by Stacey O'Brien Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
Christian Fiction: The Colonel's Lady: a Novel by Laura Frantz God's Gift by Dee Henderson Love Comes Softly by Janette Oke Saturday Morning by Lauraine Snelling The Song of Hannah: a Novel by Eva Etzioni-Halevy Sophie's Heart by Lori Wick The Storekeeper's Daughter by Wanda E. Brunstetter Stuck in the Middle: a novel by Virginia Smith Sweetwater Run by Jan Watson To Die For: a Novel of Anne Boleyn by Sandra Byrd Troublesome Creek by Jan Watson The Wednesday Letters: a Novel by Jason F. Wright
Christmas Call Me Mrs. Miracle by Debbie Macomber The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans The Christmas Bus by Melody Carlson A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Christmas Jars by Jason F. Wright A Christmas Memory; One Christmas; The Thanksgiving Visitor by Truman Capote Christmas Pearl by Dorothea Benton Frank The Christmas Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini Christmas Stories edited by Diana Secker Tesdell Christmas with Tucker by Greg Kincaid A Dog Named Christmas by Greg Kincaid Gideon's Gift by Karen Kingsbury Miracle on 34th Street by Valentine Davies Mischief of the Mistletoe by Lauren Willig A Mrs. Miracle Christmas by Debbie Macomber Peace: a Crittenden County Christmas Novel by Shelley Shelley Shepard Gray A Redbird Christmas by Fannie Flagg The Snow Globe by Sheila Roberts Unwrapping Christmas by Lori Copeland
Classics: 1984: a Novel by George Orwell The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie Animal Farm: a Fairy Story by George Orwell Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole The Crucible by Arthur Miller The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving Little Women by Louisa May Alcott The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick Mansfield Park by Jane Austen My Ántonia by Willa Cather Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen Persuasion by Jane Austen O Pioneers! by Willa Cather Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
General Fiction: Act of Contrition by Janice Holt Giles After You by Julie Buxbaum All the Living by C. E. Morgan Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler The Art of Fielding: a Novel by Chad Harbach The Art of Racing in the Rain: a Novel by Garth Stein At the Breakers by Mary Ann Taylor-Hall The Last Ballad by Wiley Cash The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder Calling Home by Janna McMahan Can't Wait To Get To Heaven: a novel by Fannie Flagg Clay’s Quilt by Silas House The Coal Tattoo by Silas House The Color Purple by Alice Walker Come Walk With Me by Joan Medlicott Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan Creekside: an Archaeological Novel by Kelli Carmean Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese Daughter of Fortune, a novel by Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden Dear John by Nicholas Sparks Deep Down True by Juliette Fay The Descendants: a Novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings A Dog’s Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron The Dollmaker by Harriette Arnow Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer The Enduring Hills by Janice Holt Giles Evening Class by Maeve Binchy Everything is Illuminated: a novel by Jonathan Safran Foer The Family Corleone by Ed Falco Family Linen by Lee Smith Far From Good by Stephen Van Zant Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver The Forgotten Garden: a Novel by Kate Morton Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café by Fannie Flagg A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore Gilead by Marilynne Robinson The Girl Who Fell From the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow The Gravedigger’s Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates Hannah Coulter: a novel by Wendell Berry The Hearts of Horses by Molly Gloss The History of Love by Nicole Krauss Home to Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani I Could Write a Book by Karen M. Cox Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason Innocent by Scott Turow Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines Life After Life by by Kate Atkinson The Life You've Imagined by Kristina Riggle The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman Little Black Dress by Susan McBride Live by Night by Dennis Lehane Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards The Memory of Old Jack by Wendell Berry Mildred Pierce by James M. Cain The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint: a novel by Brady Udall My Sister's Keeper: a novel by Jodi Picoult The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri Night Ride Home by Barbara Esstman Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout One Day by David Nicholls Our Kind: a novel by Kate Walbert Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson The Overstory by Richard Powers The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett Pawleys Island by Dorothea Benton Frank Peace Like A River by Leif Enger Pickering’s Mountain by Joseph G. Anthony Please Look After Mom by Kyŏng-suk Sin Plum Wine: a novel by Angela Davis-Gardner The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver The Poet of Tolstoy Park by Sonny Brewer Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman Prayers and Lies by Sherri Wood Emmons Prodigal Summer: a novel by Barbara Kingsolver Push: a Novel by Sapphire [basis for the movie Precious] The Queen of Kentucky by Alecia Whitaker The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis The Rest of Her Life by Laura Moriarty Revenge of the Middle-aged Woman by Elizabeth Buchan River of Earth by James Still Room by Emma Donoghue Runaway: Stories by Alice Munro Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda Shine by Mark Heinz Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick Sing You Home: a Novel by Jodi Picoult The Sisters by Nancy Jensen Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson The Sport of Kings by C.E. Morgan The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: a Novel by David Wroblewski Summer Rental by Mary Kay Andrews These Things Hidden by Heather Gudenkauf This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper Thistles by Charles L. Roe To Dance with the White Dog, a Novel of Life, Loss, Mystery, and Hope by Terry Kay The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise by Julia Stuart Up From the Blue by Susan Henderson Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult Velva Jean Learns to Drive by Jennifer Niven Walking Across Egypt by Clyde Edgerton We Need to Talk about Kevin: a Novel by Lionel Shriver The Wednesday Letters: a Novel by Jason F. Wright Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens Whiskey and Ribbons by Leesa Cross-Smith Winter's Bone: a Novel by Daniel Woodrell Wish You Well by David Baldacci
Historical Fiction: Ahab's Wife: Or, the Star-Gazer, a novel by Sena Jeter Naslund The Alice Network by Kate Quinn Atonement by Ian McEwan The Ballad of Tom Dooley by Sharyn McCrumb Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie; translated from the French by Ina Rilke Beneath a Marble Sky: a Love Story by John Shors Big Stone Gap, a novel by Adriana Trigiani The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks Chinaberry by James Still The Cypress House by Michael Koryta The Devil Amongst the Lawyers by Sharyn McCrumb The Dry Grass of August by Anna Jean Mayhew The Eight: a Novel by Katherine Neville Eli the Good by Silas House The English Patient: a novel by Michael Ondaatje Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada Four Spirits, a novel by Sena Jeter Naslund Gap Creek: a Novel by Robert Morgan Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier The Good Lord Bird by James McBride The Good Thief: a Novel by Hannah Tinti The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows Harriet and Isabella by Patricia O’Brien Honolulu by Alan Brennert The House at Riverton by Kate Morton The Irresistible Henry House by Lisa Grunwald The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom The Last Ballad by Wiley Cash Lucy's Story: Right Choices but Wrongs Still Left authored by Larry Hamilton; written by Christina DeLaet March by Geraldine Brooks Mudbound by Hillary Jordan One Drop a Slave! by Eddie Price Orphan Train by Christine Baker Kline People of the Book: a Novel by Geraldine Brooks The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett Pope Joan, a novel by Donna Woolfolk Cross The Queen of Palmyra by Minrose Gwin The Rebel Wife by Taylor M. Polites The River Wife by Jonis Agee Rose Island by Terry Chamber Rules of Civility by Amor Towles The Scourges of Heaven by David Dick Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill Sue Mundy, a Novel of the Civil War by Richard Taylor The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough The Typewriter Girl by Alison Atlee To Die For: a Novel of Anne Boleyn by Sandra Byrd Tracks: a Novel by Louise Erdrich Under the Wide and Starry Sky by Nancy Horan Walking to Gatlinburg: a Novel by Howard Frank Mosher Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen Widder’s Landing by Eddie Price Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Kentucky Authors or about Kentucky: A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton Act of Contrition by Janice Holt Giles Ahab's Wife: Or, the Star-Gazer, a novel by Sena Jeter Naslund All the Living by C. E. Morgan At the Breakers by Mary Ann Taylor-Hall The Bluegrass Conspiracy by Sally Denton Bone Black by bell hooks The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson Boone, a Biography by Robert Morgan Calling Home by Janna McMahan Chinaberry by James Still Clay’s Quilt by Silas House Clear Springs by Bobbie Ann Mason The Coal Tattoo by Silas House The Colonel's Lady: a Novel by Laura Frantz Cornbread Mafia: a Homegrown Syndicate's Code of Silence and the Biggest Marijuana Bust in American History by James Higdon Creekside: an Archaeological Novel by Kelli Carmean The Dollmaker by Harriette Arnow Don't You Remember? A Memoir by George Ella Lyon Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer Eli the Good by Silas House The Enduring Hills by Janice Holt Giles Familiar Wilderness: Searching for Home on Daniel Boone’s Road by S. J. Dahlman Far From Good by Stephen Van Zant Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver Hannah Coulter: a novel by Wendell Berry Hell and Ohio: Stories of Southern Appalachia by Chris Holbrook Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains by Cassie Chambers Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance House of Abraham, Lincoln and the Todds, a Family Divided by War by Stephen Berry I Am Potential: Eight Lessons on Living, Loving, and Reaching Your Dreams by Patrick Henry Hughes I Choose to be Happy: a School Shooting Survivor's Triumph Over Tragedy by Missy Jenkins ; with William Croyle I Could Write a Book by Karen M. Cox Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land, a Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad by Karolyn Smardz Frost Inside the Beverly Hills Supper Club Fire by Ron Elliott Isaac Murphy: I Dedicate This Ride: Poems by Frank X Walker Isabella Moon by Laura Benedict Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry A Jesse Stuart Reader, selected and introduced by Jesse Stuart Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter by Loretta Lynn; with George Vecsey Louisville's Alma Kellner Mystery by Shawn Herron Lucy's Story: Right Choices but Wrongs Still Left authored by Larry Hamilton; written by Christina DeLaet Madam Belle by Maryjean Wall Many Storied House by George Ella Lyon Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards The Memory of Old Jack by Wendell Berry Murder and Madness by Matthew G. Schoenbachler No Heroes: a Memoir of Coming Home by Chris Offutt Obedience, a novel by Will Lavender One Drop a Slave! by Eddie Price Passing for Black, the Life and Careers of Mae Street Kidd by Wade Hall The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett Pickering’s Mountain by Joseph G. Anthony The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver Prince of Sin City by Gary P. Walton Prodigal Summer: a novel by Barbara Kingsolver The Queen of Kentucky by Alecia Whitaker The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis River of Earth by James Still Rose Island by Terry Chamber The Scourges of Heaven by David Dick Shine by Mark Heinz The Sisters by Nancy Jensen The Sport of Kings by C.E. Morgan Stuck in the Middle: a novel by Virginia Smith Sue Mundy, a Novel of the Civil War by Richard Taylor Sweetwater Run by Jan Watson Thistles by Charles L. Roe Trapped!: the Story of Floyd Collins by Robert K. Murray and Roger W. Brucker Troublesome Creek by Jan Watson The Typewriter Girl by Alison Atlee The Unbreakable Child: A Story about Forgiving the Unforgivable by Kim Michele Richardson Weedeater by Robert Gipe Whiskey and Ribbons by Leesa Cross-Smith Widder’s Landing by Eddie Price Wild Ride: the Rise and Tragic Fall of Calumet Farm, Inc., America's Premier Racing Dynasty by Ann Hagedorn
Love Stories: Act of Contrition by Janice Holt Giles All the Living by C. E. Morgan Atonement by Ian McEwan The Ballad of Tom Dooley by Sharyn McCrumb Beneath a Marble Sky: a Love Story by John Shors Big Stone Gap, a novel by Adriana Trigiani Call Me Mrs. Miracle by Debbie Macomber Casting Off by Nicole R. Dickson The Colonel's Lady: a Novel by Laura Frantz Daughter of Fortune, a novel by Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden Dear John by Nicholas Sparks Evening Class by Maeve Binchy Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café by Fannie Flagg God's Gift by Dee Henderson I Could Write a Book by Karen M. Cox Juliet by Anne Fortier The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh The Longest Ride by Nicholas Sparks Love Comes Softly by Janette Oke Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Mischief of the Mistletoe: [a pink carnation Christmas] by Lauren Willig Night Ride Home by Barbara Esstman Nine Lives by Sharon Sala One Day by David Nicholls Our Kind: a novel by Kate Walbert Peace: a Crittenden County Christmas Novel by Shelley Shepard Gray Plum Wine: a novel by Angela Davis-Gardner Revenge of the Middle-aged Woman by Elizabeth Buchan The Snow Globe by Sheila Roberts Sophie's Heart by Lori Wick The Storekeeper's Daughter by Wanda E. Brunstetter Stuck in the Middle: a novel by Virginia Smith Summer Rental by Mary Kay Andrews The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise by Julia Stuart The Typewriter Girl by Alison Atlee Weekend Warriors by Fern Michaels
Mystery/Suspense: 15 Seconds by Andrew Gross A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton Absolution by Murder: a Sister Fidelma mystery by Peter Tremayne After the Storm by Linda Castillo Amagansett by Mark Mills And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie The Blessing Way by Tony Hillerman Bloodroot: a Novel by Amy Greene The Butterfly Sister by Amy Gail Hansen Casino Royale by Ian Fleming The Church of Dead Girls by Stephen Dobyns The Code of the Hills by Nancy Allen Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin The Cypress House by Michael Koryta Darkness, My Old Friend: a Novel by Lisa Unger The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware The Eight: a Novel by Katherine Neville The Family Corleone by Ed Falco Family Linen by Lee Smith Finger Lickin’ Fifteen by Janet Evanovich The Forgotten Garden: a Novel by Kate Morton The Gate House by Nelson DeMille The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter by Sharyn McCrumb The House at Riverton by Kate Morton I'd Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman In the Woods by Tana French Innocent by Scott Turow Isabella Moon by Laura Benedict Judge & Jury by James Patterson & Andrew Gross Juliet by Anne Fortier The Last Child by John Hart The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine Live by Night by Dennis Lehane The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton Murder on Music Row: a Music Industry Thriller by Stuart Dill Nine Lives by Sharon Sala No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy Obedience, a novel by Will Lavender Prince of Sin City by Gary P. Walton Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier The Reckoning by John Grisham Room by Emma Donoghue Step on a Crack by James Patterson These Things Hidden by Heather Gudenkauf Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carré The Virgin of Small Plains: a novel by Nancy Pickard Weekend Warriors by Fern Michaels The Wicked Girls by Alex Marwood
Non-Fiction: 1776 by David McCullough Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo Bloody Crimes: the Chase for Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant for Lincoln's Corpse by James L. Swanson The Botany of Desire: a Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan Cornbread Mafia: a Homegrown Syndicate's Code of Silence and the Biggest Marijuana Bust in American History by James Higdon Inside the Beverly Hills Supper Club Fire by Ron Elliott Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths by Karen Armstrong The Lost City of Z: a Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann Louisville's Alma Kellner Mystery by Shawn Herron Manhunt: The Twelve-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson Maphead by Ken Jennings Murder and Madness by Matthew G. Schoenbachler Nickel and Dimed: On (not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend by Susan Orlean Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand Secretariat by William Nack The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson Wild Ride: the Rise and Tragic Fall of Calumet Farm, Inc., America's Premier Racing Dynasty by Ann Hagedorn
Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith Artemis by Andy Weir Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Dracula by Bram Stoker Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett I am Legend by Richard Matheson Life After Life by by Kate Atkinson The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
Softer Selections: Can't Wait To Get To Heaven: a novel by Fannie Flagg The Colonel's Lady: a Novel by Laura Frantz Come Walk with Me by Joan Medlicott Dear John by Nicholas Sparks Don't Sing at the Table: Life Lessons from my Grandmothers by Adriana Trigiani God's Gift by Dee Henderson Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm during the Great Depression by Mildred Armstrong Kalish Love Comes Softly by Janette Oke The Memory of Old Jack by Wendell Berry Sophie's Heart by Lori Wick The Storekeeper's Daughter by Wanda E. Brunstetter Stuck in the Middle: a novel by Virginia Smith Troublesome Creek by Jan Watson
Westerns: Conagher by Louis L'Amour The Hearts of Horses by Molly Gloss Love Comes Softly by Janette Oke True Grit by Charles Portis