One of my Tai Chi students asked me to create a book list for her. She wanted a list of good books, fiction and non-fiction, so she could explore authors she wasn't familiar with. She specifically asked that the choices be more family oriented, rather than dark or profane. I've passed the list out to several others, so I thought I'd post it here, too. Here's May's List:
109 East Palace, Jennet Conant
700 Sundays, Billy Crystal
A Three Dog Life, Abigail Thomas
Augusta Locke, William Haywood Henderson
Bastard Out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison
Behind the Scenes at the Museum ,Kate Atkinson
Blind Your Ponies Stanley, Gordon West
Chronicler of the Winds, Henning Mankell
Coal Run, Tawni O'Dell
Dating Dead Men, Harley Jane Kozak
Devil in the White City, Erik Larson
Dreams of my Father, Barack Osama
Evidence of Things Unseen, Marianne Wiggins
Forever, Pete Hamill
Friday Night Lights, H. G. Bissinger
Good Grief, Lolly Winston
In the Shadows of the Sun, Alexander Parsons
Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, Ayelet Waldman
Love Walked In, Marisa de los Santos
Marley and Me, John Grogan
My Antoinia, Willa Cather
One Thousand White Women, Jim Fergus
Peace Like a River, Leif Enger
Same Sweet Girls, Cassandra King
Sky Bridge, Laura Pritchett
Sky Burial, Xinran
Some Horses, Thomas McGuane
something borrowed, Emily Giffin
Stargirl, Jerry Spinelli
The Color of Water, James McBride
The God of Animals, Aryn Kyle
The Good Good Pig, Sy Montgomery
The Life and Time of the Thunderbolt Kid, A Memoir, Bill Bryson
The Memory of Running, Ron McLarty
The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
The Tender Bar, J.R. Moehringer
The Undomestic Goddess, Sophie Kensella
The Whistling Season, Ivan Doig
Turtle Warrior Mary, Relindes Ellis
Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen
non-fiction
