BOOKS READ BY JILL -- in addition to Book Club selections
    *  denotes Book Club selection

*Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese J
Let's Take the Long Way Home by Gail Caldwell
Juliet: A Novel by Anne Fortier
*Little Bee by Chris Cleave
*The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University by Kevin Roose JJ
The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal by Lily Koppel
Room by Emma Donoghue J
*Five Smooth Stones by Ann Fairbairn JJ
Still Alice by Lisa Genova JJ
*House Rules by Jodi Picoult
When Skateboards Will Be Free: A Memoir of a Political Childhood by Said Sayrafiezadeh
For One More Day by Mitch Albom
Catching Genius by Kristy Kiernan
*The Help by Kathryn Stockett JJ
Stillwatch by Mary Higgins Clark
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
Midwife's Tale by Gretchen Laskas
Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Two Little Girls in Blue by Mary Higgins Clark
A New Christianity for a New World by John Spong
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
Raising Jake by Charlie Carillo
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
Until They Bring the Streetcars Back by Stanley Gordon West
*Years of Wonder by Geraldine Brooks J
*A Woman of Independent Means by Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
*So Brave, Young, and Handsome by Leif Enger
Eat Your Way to Happiness by Elizabeth Somer L 
*Jesus for the Non-Religious by John Spong
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
How Starbucks Saved My Life by Michael Gates Gill
The Evolution of God by Robert Wright
Breakfast with Buddha by Roland Merullo
The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
The Kommanant's Girl by Pam Jenoff
The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow
The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin J
Stones into Schools by Greg Mortensen
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
Things I've Been Silent About by Azar Nafisi
The Spiritualist by Megan Chance
When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals by Jeffrey Masson
Modoc by Ralph Helfer J
Alex and Me by Irene Pepperberg
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay J
A Cry in the Night by Mary Higgins Clark
*The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver J
Toward a True Kinship of Faiths: How the World's Religions Can Come Together by Dalai Lama
Angle of Repose  by Wallace Stegner J
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
Testimony: A Novel by Anita Shreve
Letter to My Daughter by Maya Angenou
*The Shack by William P. Young
Same Kind of Different As Me by Ron Hall J
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink J
Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's by John Elder Robinson
Born on a Blue Day by Daniel Tammet
Dancing With Max by Emily Colson
*Faith Club by Suzanne Oliver
Run by Ann Patchett
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman
The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry
Twilight (The Twilight Saga, Book 1) by Stephanie Meyer

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come by John Fox
A New Earth by Eckhard Tolle
*Plum Wine by Angela Davis-Gardner
Postcards by Annie Proulx
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron
The Book Thief by Markus Zusask
*Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
*Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
Riding Lessons by Sara Guren
*Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Peony in Love by Lisa See
*Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress by Susan Jane Gilman
Atonement by Ian Mcewan L 
*Moloka'i by Alan Brennert
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer J
*The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski (my first Kindle book) J

Night by Ellie Wiesel !
Waiting for Birdy: A Year of Frantic Tedium, Neurotic Angst, and the Wild Magic of Growing a Family by Catherine Newman
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich
Uprising by Dean Urdahl
*Rise and Shine by Anna Quindlen
*Tell No One by Harlan Coben
The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell
*Oh My Stars by Lorna Landvik J
Pilots Wife by Anita Shreve J
Outlander by Diana Gabalden J
Our Lady of the Forest by David Guterson
First Light by Charles Baxter
Ursula, Under by Ingrid Hill (good, but too long)
Never Have Your Dog Stuffed by Alan Alda L
In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant (author of Birth of Venus) J
Keeping Faith by Jodi Piccoult J
The Last Time They Met by Anita Shreve
Hot Zone by Richard Preston
Light from Heaven by Jan Karon (last book in the Mitford series)
Birth: A History by Tina Cassidy (non-fiction) J J
Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage by Stephanie Coontz (non-fiction) J
Sams Letters to Jennifer by James Patterson L
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore J J

*Marley and Me by John Grogon J J
Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
Vanishing Act by Kaye Gibbons L
*Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdich
The Sunday Philosophy Club: An Isabel Dalhousie Mystery by Alexander McCall Smith
Housekeeping by Marilyn Robinson L
Animals in Transition by Temple Grandin J (autistic author)
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Macguire
Mermaid Chair by Kidd
Gnostic Gospels by Pagel
The Rescue by Nicolas Sparks
The Staggerford Murders and Nancy Clancy's Nephew by Jon Hassler
The Family Tree by Carole Cadwalladr
Best Friends by Martha Moody
The Girlfriends' Guide to Toddlers  by Vicki Iovine (all hers are great)
If you Lived Here Id Know Your Name by Heather Lende J
The Spiral Staircase by Karen Armstrong (former nun's spiritual path)
A Short History of Myth by Karen Armstrong
Tiny Tenacious Thilda by Mildred Olson. (memories of the authors mother in French Lake.)
Winkie by Clifford Chase (stuffed bear comes alive ...different)
Eventide by Kent Haruf (same author as Plainsong, not as good as, but good)
The Testament by John Grisham
Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy (true story)
My Left Foot by Christy Brown
Cane River by Lalita Tademy  (fictionalized story of the authors actual slave ancestors)
The Last Girls by Lee Smith (four classmates trip down the Mississippi)
At First Site by Nicholas Sparks
Drenched in Light by Lisa Wingate
*Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls (a memoir, compared to Frank McCourt)
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See J 
Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
The Final Solution by Michael Chabon L
The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander J
*A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Moreland Indiana by Haven KimmelJ
*Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
She Got Up Off the Couch by Haven Kimmel JJ
Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism by Temple Grandin
Emergence: Labeled Autistic by Temple Grandin (autistic author)
*Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen J J
The Mommy Club by Sarah Bird (surrogate mother changes her mind)
Stop Breathing My Air by Courtney Davidson
Take Me Out of the Bathtub by Alan Katz (humorous original poems to children's music) J
Im Still Here in the Bathtub by Alan Katz (humorous original poems to children's music)
*The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

*Whale Caller by Zakes Mda
Passing for Thin by Frances Kuffel
*Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides J
Shelf Life by Shea
Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey Through Autism by Dawn Prince-Hughs
*The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Father Joe: The Many Who Saved My Soul  by Tony Hendra J
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to his White Mother by James McBride
Series:  The #1 Ladies Detective Agency
*One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus J
Snow by Orhan Pamuk
The Jefferson s Bible by Thomas Jefferson  
*Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons

    *  denotes Book Club selection