--The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan (essays)

--Leaving Cheyenne by Larry McMurtry (fiction)

--The Bachelor's Dare by Shirley Jump (fiction)

--The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley (fiction)

--The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier (fiction)

--Children of God Go Bowling by Shannon Olson (fiction)

--Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right by Al Franken (nonfiction)

--Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott (essays)

--Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes (nonfiction)

--Coraline by Neil Gaimon (childrens)

--The Davinci Code by Dan Brown (fiction)

--The Virgin's Proposal by Shirley Jump (fiction)

--The Daddy's Promise by Shirley Jump (fiction)

--Fat! So?: Because You Don't Have to Apologize for Your Size by Marilyn Wann (nonfiction) re-read

--Mama Gena's School of Womanly Arts by Regena Thomashauer (nonfiction)

--Sappho's Leap by Erica Jong (fiction)

--The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett (fiction)

--Princess Diaries V: Princess in Pink by Meg Cabot (young adult fiction)

--The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares (young adult fiction)

--The Easy Way to Write a Novel by Rob Parnell (nonfiction)

--One Night by Marsha Qualey (young adult fiction), re-read

--The Bride Wore Chocolate by Shirley Jump, a Momwriter comrade (romantic comedy)

--Too Big a Storm by Marsha Qualey, a local MHL friend (young adult fiction)

--Writing as a Way of Healing by Louise DeSalvo. (nonfiction)

--The Second Summer of the Sisterhood by Anne Brashares (young adult fiction)

--No Plot, No Problem by Chris Baty, founder of National Novel Writing Month (funny nonfiction)

--The Last Time They Met by Anita Shreve (fiction): could not finish! Half way through I still didn't care about the characters. Sorry, Anita!

--Star Girl by Jerry Spinelli (juvenile fiction)

--Sahara Special by Esme Raji Codell (juvenile fiction)

--Time Off for Good Behavior by Lani Diane Rich (fiction)

--Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff (juvenile fiction)

--The Craggy Hole in My Heart and the Cat Who Fixed It: Over the Edge and Back with My Dad, My Cat and Me by Geneen Roth (nonfiction)

--The Great Failure: a Bartender, a Monk and My Unlikely Path to Truth by Natalie Goldberg (nonfiction)

--A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'engle (juvenile fiction), re-read outloud with younger DS

--Tracks by Louise Erdrich (ficiton)

--Betsy and the Great World (juvenile fiction, re-read) by Maud Hart Lovelace

--The Blue Jay's Dance (nonfiction) by Louise Erdrich