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Originally Posted by JazmenFlowers

^^^
I agree.

here's the Top 10.

1. Water for Elephants
By Gruen, Sara
An indie fave about a traveling circus comes to paperback. The 2007 Book Sense Book of the Year Fiction Winner.

2. The Kite Runner
By Hosseini, Khaled
A Book Sense Pick, now in paperback. A stunning, enlightening novel of friendship and Afghan culture and politics.

3. Suite Francaise
By Nemirovsky, Irene
Paris under the Germans, by an author exterminated at Auschwitz. A bestseller in hardcover too.

4. The Road
By Cormac McCarthy
A barren, post-apocalyptic landscape is the foreground, and background, for this Pulitzer Prize-winning Book Sense Book of the Year Honor Book and Oprah Book Club choice.

5. The Emperor's Children
By Messud, Claire
Stellar reviews accompanied this post-9/11 comedy of manners. A Book Sense (hardcover) Pick.

6. The Memory Keeper's Daughter
By Edwards, Kim
A tragic snap-decision about a handicapped baby, played out among the affected.

7. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
By See, Lisa
A #1 Book Sense Pick in hardcover, set in 19th-century rural China.

8. Middlesex
By Eugenides, Jeffrey
First a Book Sense Pick, then the Pulitzer Prize winner, now an Oprah choice.

9. The Inheritance of Loss
By Desai, Kiran
A rich Book Sense Notable and winner of the Man Booker Prize. Set in India on the eve of the Nepalese movement for an independent state.

10. The Alchemist (Updated)
By Coelho, Paulo
A boy's journey and metamorphosis, with new bonus material.

my personal suggestions were going to be Beloved by Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, something by Anne Rice, The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards, or Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty

I've read the bolded titles - not that it matters, I'd be willing to reread & participate in the discussion. I tried to read Their Eyes Were Watching God, but only got halfway through it. I could give it another go. And Delta Wedding sounds good - since Carrie's also interested, perhaps that should be our first pick? Y/N?