Books

Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann  ★

Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart

Canning for a New Generation by Lianna Krissoff

Peter Reinhart’s Artisan Breads every day by Peter Reinhart

The River Cottage Preserves Handbook, by Pam Corbin

A Good Fall, by Ha Jin ★

Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenberg

Somewhere Towards the End, by Diana Athill  ★

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part time Indian by Sherman Alexie  ★

Don’t Sleep There are Snakes by Daniel Everett

Lovely Bones by Alice Seebold

The Highest Tide, by Jim Lynch ★

A Short History of Women, by Kate Walbert  ★

Too Much Happiness, by Alice Munro

Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri

A Mountain of Crumbs by Elena Gorokhova  ★

The Chosen, by Chaim Potok  ★

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski  ★

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver  ★

The Way we Eat, Why Our Food Choices Matter by Peter Singer and Jim Mason

Committed, by Elizabeth Gilbert  ★

The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs

Into the Vietnamese Kitchen by Andrea Nguyen  ★

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides ★

Julie & Julia by Julie Powell  ★

Shadow Baby by Alison Mcghee  ★

FAVORITE KIDS BOOKS

Tree Ring Circus by Adam Rex

Not a Box by Antoinette Portis

Duck! Rabbit! by Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Little Oink or Little Hoot or Little Pea by Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Joey and Jet in Space by James Yang