If you have read a REALLY GOOD BOOK, we’d love to add it to our list of Recommended Books (please rate A or B and send book title and author to randy@randygreen.com ). These are books selected and read by our Book Club:

Rated: A

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Shadow Baby by Alison McGhee
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
Crow Lake by Mary Lawson

A Widow for One Year by John Irving

The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

Providence of a Sparrow by Chris Chester

Riven Rock (or anything else) by T.C. Boyle

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon

Running with Scissors and Dry by Augusten Burroughs

The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks

Secret Life of Bees and The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd

The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Bee Season by Myla Goldbert

The Twentieth Wife by Indu Sundaresan

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

I Know this Much is True I and She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb

The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl

Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris

The Feast of Love by Charles Baxter

In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje

Ship Fever by Andrea Barrett

Empress of the Splendid Season by Oscar Hijuelos

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy 

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

The Ventriloquist's Tale by Pauline Melville

The Valley of the Assassins by Freya Stark

Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter

Wicked by Gregory Maguire

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eudenides

Empire Falls by Richard Russo

The DaVinci Code and Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
Life & Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Little Children by Tom Perrotta
The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
Pilot’s Wife by Anita Shreve
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Midwives by Chris Bojhlian
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon  Krakauer
Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

City of Light by Lauren Belfer

The Prize Winner of Defiance Ohio by Terry Ryan

Love in the Time of Cholera by Garcia-Marquez

Big Stone Gap by Trigiani

Devil in the White City by Erik Larson by Erik Larson
The Hungry Ocean by Linda Greenlaw

Standing in the Rainbow by Fannie Flagg

The Botony of Desire by Michael Pollan

Memorial Day by Vince Flynn

Orbital Burn by KA Bedford
Broken for You by Stephanie Kallos

How to Fall by Edith Pearlman

The Pearl Diver by Jeff Talarigo

The Group by Mary McCarthy

Night of Many Dreams by Gail Tsukiyama

The Average Human by Ellen Toby-Potter

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant

A Million Little Pieces by James Frey

Teacher Man: A Memoir by Frank McCourt

Make Believe by Joanna Scott

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

Body and Soul by Frank Conroy

Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia

The Fisherman's Son by Joseph Orlando

The Flamingo Rising by Larry Baker

Sand in My Bra, Edited by Jennifer L. Leo

Moghul Buffet by Cheryl Benard

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

Gonzalez and Daughter Trucking Co. by Maria Amparo Escandon

Rated: B

The Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst
The Dive from Clausen’s Pier by Ann Packer

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

River Town by Peter Hessler

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

Atonement by Ian McEwan

The Human Stain by Philip Roth

Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende

Prague by Arthur Phillips

Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

Three Junes by Julia Glass

Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks

Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand

Carry Me Across the Water by Ethan Canin

Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

The Secret Book of Grazia dei Rossi by Jacqueline Park

Among the Missing by Dan Chaon

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire

The Fig Eater by Jody Shields

Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes

Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi

The Great Pretender by Millenia Black

Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell

Rated C and lower are not noted, though I’d certainly list 100 Years of Solitude if we were to pick books which were horribly painful to read, ha, ha, ha!