Basil Readers Book List

1. (9/28/03) “Hotel of the Saints” by Ursula Hegi

2. (11/9/03) “This Day” by Joni B. Cole

3. (12/14/03) “The Secret Life of Bees” by Sue Monk Kidd

4. (1/25/04) “Otherwise Engaged” by Suzanne Finnamore

5. (3/7/04) “The Persian Pickle Club” by Sandra Dallas

6. (4/18/04) “Blessings” by Anna Quindlen

7. (6/13/04) “Martin Sloane” by Michael Redhill

8. (7/11/04) “Pink Institution” by Selah Saterstrom

9. (8/22/04) “Three Junes” by Julia Glass

10. (10/3/04) “Patty Jane’s House of Curl” by Lorna Landvik

11. (11/14/04) “The Fig Eater” by Jody Shields

12. (1/9/05) “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down” by Anne Fadiman

13. (2/20/05) “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time” by Mark Haddon

14. (4/3/05) “A Thousand Days in Venice” by Marlena De Vlasi

15. (5/15/05) “Summer Sisters” by Judy Blume

16. (6/26/05) “My Sister’s Keeper” by Jodi Picoult

17. (8/7/05) “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini

18. (9/18/05) “Year of Wonders” by Geraldine Brooks

19. (10/30/05) “Eventide” by Kent Haruf

20. (12/11/05) “The Ladies No. 1 Detective Agency” by Alexander McCall Smith

21. (1/22/06) “How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents” by Julia Alvarez

22. (3/5/06) “A Million Little Pieces” by James Frey

23. (4/23/06) “The Birth of Venus” by Sarah Dunant

24. (6/11/06) “How I Live Now” by Meg Rosoff

25. (7/16/06) “Reading Lolita in Tehran” by Azar Nafisi

26. (8/28/06) “Goodnight Nobody” by Jennifer Weiner

27. (10/8/06) “The Memory Keepers Daughter” by Kim Edwards

28. (11/19/06) “Marley & Me” by John Grogan

29. (1/15/07) “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan” by Lisa See

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30. (2/25/07) “The Glass Castle” by Jeannette Walls

31. (4/1/07) “Devil in the White City” by Erik Larson

32. (5/20/07) “Finding Laura Buggs” by Stanley Gordon West

33. (7/1/07) “Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim” by David Sedaris

34. (8/12/07) “Suite Francaise” by Irene Nemirovsky

35. (9/23/07) "How to be Lost” by Amanda Eyreward

36. (10/28/07) “Love in the Present Tense” by Catherine Ryan Hyde

37. (12/17/07) “The Ice Queen” by Alice Hoffman

38. (1/27/08) “Come Back” by Claire and Mia Fontaine

39. (3/9/08) “Eat Pray Love” by Elizabeth Gilbert

40. (4/27/08) “Water for Elephants” by Sara Gruen

41. (6/9/08) “Empire Falls” by Richard Russo

42. (7/21/08) “Twilight” by Stephanie Meyer

43. (8/24/08) “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee

44. (10/5/08) “The Year of Fog” by Michelle Richmond

45. (11/16/08) “Love Walked In” by Marisa de los Santos

46. (1/11/09) “The View From Mount Joy” by Lorna Landvik

47. (3/1/09) “Petal Pushers” by Laurie Lindeen

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