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May 2002
Compiled by Vicki Novak, of North Central Regional Library, Maricopa County Library District, Phoenix, AZ from contributions by the members of Fiction_L.

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Anderson, Laurie Halse - Speak

Atwood, Margaret - The Handmaid's Tale, The Blind Assassin

Barry, John - Rising Tide: the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927

Baxter, Charles - Feast of Love

Belfer, Lauren - City of Light

Bradbury, Ray - Fahrenheit 451

Chevalier, Tracy - The Girl with a Pearl Earring

Cross, Donna Woolfolk - Pope Joan

Diamant, Anita - The Red Tent

Dubus, Andre III - The House of Sand and Fog

Evans, Nicholas - The Horse Whisperer

Finney, Jack - Time and Again

Flaubert, Gustave - Madame Bovary

Goldberg, Myra - Bee Season

Golden, Arthur - Memoirs of a Geisha

Goodwin, Doris Kearns - No Ordinary Time

Grisham, John - A Painted House

Huston, Nancy - The Mark of the Angel

Irving, John - A Prayer for Owen Meany, A Widow for One Year

Jin, Ha - Waiting

Kerouac, Jack - On the Road

Kingsolver, Barbara - Animal Dreams, The Poisonwood Bible, Prodigal Summer

Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird

Leigh, Julia - The Hunter

Macdonald, Ann-Marie - Fall on Your Knees

Macdonald, Michael Patrick - All Souls

McDermid, Val - A Place of Execution

O'Brien, Tim - The Things They Carried, Going After Cacciato

Picoult, Jodi - Plain Truth

Potok, Chaim - My Name is Asher Lev

Pratt, James Michael - The Lighthouse Keeper

Russell, Mary Doria - The Sparrow

Saramago, Jose - Blindness

Smith, Zadie - White Teeth

Stegner, Wallace - Angle of Repose

Tan, Amy - The Bonesetter's Daughter

Tsukiyama, Gail - Women of the Silk, The Language of Threads

Vreeland, Susan - Girl in Hyacinth Blue

Weber, Christin Lore - Altar Music

Wells, Rebecca - Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Compiled from the following sources:

-Suggestions from the members of Fiction_L
-Reading Group Choices Top 12 Book Group Favorites of 2001 (http://www.readinggroupchoices.com )
-North Central Regional Library's best discussion books

Other favorites lists:

A previous list: Best Mysteries for for Book Discussions- http://www.webrary.org/rs/flbklists/bestmysteries.html
Last Thursday Book Club ranked list http://www.mike.blackledge.com/LTBC_ordered_ballot.htm
Amazon.com's Book Club Favorites http://www.amazon.com (click on Books tab, then click on Reading Groups link along the left side)

www.webrary.org/rs:flbklists/bestdiscussion.html
First published on the Web: 7/21/2003
Last updated: 7/21/2003