1. Love in the Driest Season: A Family Memoir

Foreign correspondent for the Washington Post Neely Tucker and his African-American wife, living in Zimbabwe, save the life of an abandoned baby girl and then formally adopt her--but only after a determined struggle with bureaucracy, racism, anti-Americanism, police harassment, and political upheaval.

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2. An Invitation to Sin (The Griffin Family, Book 2)

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3. Family in Transition (14th Edition)

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4. The African Prostitute

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5. Dear Senator: A Memoir By The Daughter Of Strom Thurmond

America was astonished when it learned that Strom Thurmond, the distinguished Senator from South Carolina--and staunch segregationist--had a mixed-race daughter whose existence he kept secret from the world for decades. In this memoir, Essie Mae Washington-Williams tells of how she learned that her father was the famous senator and her mother, Carrie Butler, had been a maid on the Thurmond estate while a teenager. Born in 1925, Essie May had been raised by her aunt and uncle, and only learned the truth in her teen years. Thurmond helped support Essie May, and he met with her on occasion, but he never acknowledged her publicly. Washington-Williams writes about their relationship, which she also kept secret, and also about what it was like to grow up in the South. Her stories, powerful in themselves, have even greater resonance because of her personal history.

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6. In the Beauty of the Lilies

John Updike's 17th novel is the absorbing saga of four generations of Wilmots, whose lives and occupations span huge portions of 20th-century America, running the gamut from preacher to encyclopedia salesman to movie star. The Wilmots' religious impulses take various forms: Clarence Wilmot is a traditional Presbyterian minister whose faith deserts him; his son, Teddy, is an atheist; his daughter, Essie, is a New Ager; and Essie's son is a Branch Davidian-style fanatic. Updike's lyrical exploration of the lives of middle-class Americans--achieved here with his usual grace and wit--is also a searching look at the place of religion in American life.

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7. The St George Cookery Book

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8. THE MATRIARCH

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9. Fault Lines

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10. The Lovely Bones: A Novel

Susie Salmon was raped and murdered in 1973, and, from her perch in heaven, she tells the story of what happened to her, watches her family back on earth as they go about their grief-stricken lives, and describes what it's like to be a kid in heaven. Alice Sebold's novel, which draws on some of her own experiences, became a runaway best-seller as soon as it was published. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.

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11. North and South

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12. If These Walls Had Ears: The Biography of a House

The author traces the history of his house, an 1890 craftsman bungalow in Little Rock, including a profile of each of the families who lived there before he moved in, and a detailed chronicle of its restoration.

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13. THE FOUNTAIN OF AGE

Betty Friedan debunks society's entrenched ideas regarding aging, using personal memoirs and her own research.

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14. A Pocketful Of Hope: A Book Of Devotions For The Family

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15. In The Beauty Of The Lilies - 1st Edition/1st Printing

John Updike's 17th novel is the absorbing saga of four generations of Wilmots, whose lives and occupations span huge portions of 20th-century America, running the gamut from preacher to encyclopedia salesman to movie star. The Wilmots' religious impulses take various forms: Clarence Wilmot is a traditional Presbyterian minister whose faith deserts him; his son, Teddy, is an atheist; his daughter, Essie, is a New Ager; and Essie's son is a Branch Davidian-style fanatic. Updike's lyrical exploration of the lives of middle-class Americans--achieved here with his usual grace and wit--is also a searching look at the place of religion in American life.

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16. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel (Oprah Book Club #62)

In this enchanting debut novel, a mute boy with the ability to communicate with dogs becomes suspicious of his uncle after the death of his father--a plot readers of HAMLET will find familiar. However, there is much more going on in this novel than merely a reenactment of Shakespeare's play: THE STORY OF EDGAR SAWTELLE is full of strange magic, lyrical prose, and a love of animals that are uniquely its own. Author David Wroblewski toiled on the novel for ten years, and the result is a rich and lovingly crafted book with a timeless classic quality. Selected as one of the 2008 Best Books of the Year by Publishers Weekly.

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