| As of February 2010 | | |
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| James Agee | A Death in the Family | Emily |
| Mitch Albom | Tuesdays with Morrie | Eric |
| The Five People You Meet in Heaven | Jerry |
| Monica Ali | Alentejo Blue | Emily |
| Max Apple | Roommates | John |
| Paul Auster | The Brooklyn Follies | John |
| Jane Austin | Persuasion | Frank |
| John Berendt | Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil | Mickey |
| Stephen Bloom | Postville | Mark |
| Chris A. Bohjalian | Midwives | Eric |
| William Boyde | Brazosville Beach | Eric |
| T. Coraghessan Boyle | East is East | Ronnie |
| Ray Bradbury | The Martian Chronicles | Jerry |
| John Brock | If I Ever Get Back | Wayne |
| Geraldine Brooks | March | Sue |
| Christopher Buckley | The White House Mess | John |
| Truman Capote | Answered Prayers | John |
| Thaddeus Carhart | The Piano Shop on the Left Bank | Sue |
| John Casey | Spartina | Ronnie |
| Willa Cather | Death Comes to the Archbishop | Kathy |
| My Antonia | Jerry |
| John Cheever | The World of Apples | John |
| Tracy Chevalier | The Girl with the Pearl Earring | Sue |
| Michael Collins | The Keepers of the Truth | Wayne |
| Avery Corman | 50 | John |
| J.M. Coetzee | Disgrace | Lois |
| Michael Crighton | The Rising Sun | Sue |
| Disclosure | Lynn |
| Delaney Sisters | Having Our Say | Lois |
| Pete Dexter | The Paperboy | Lynn |
| Chitra Divakaruni | Sister of my Heart | Kathy |
| Ivan Doig | Ride With Me, Mariah Montana | Eric |
| Michael Dorris | Cloud Chamber | Emily |
| Joseph Ellis | Founding Brothers | Lois |
| Barbara Ehrenreich | Nickel and Dimed | John |
| Louise Erdrich | The Four Souls | Jack |
| The Antelope Wife | Ronnie |
| Nicholas Evans | The Horse Whisperer | Eric |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | The Great Gatsby | Emily |
| Flashman | Flashman Jack | Jack |
| Fannie Flagg | Fried Green Tomatoes | Kathy |
| Giles Foden | The Last King of Scotland | Mark |
| Ken Follett | Paper Money | Mickey |
| Ford Maddox Ford | The Good Soldier | Lois |
| Jaime Ford | The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter & Sweet | Lynne |
| Charles Frazier | Cold Mountain | Ronnie |
| Mary Gaitskill | Veronica | Mark |
| Jane Gardam | Old Filth | Mark |
| Alex Garland | The Tesseract | Kathy |
| Kay Gibson | Sights Unseen | Wayne |
| Marc Gellman and Thomas Hartman | How Do You Spell God | Jerry |
| Newt Gingrich & William Forstchen | Pearl Harbor | Jack |
| Myla Goldberg | Bee Season | Lynn |
| Mark Haddon | The Curious Incident of the Dog | Wayne |
| in the Night-Time | | |
| John Grishom | The Firm | Jerry |
| David Guterson | Snow Falling on Cedars | Lois |
| Pete Hamill | Snow in August | Sue |
| North River | Lynne |
| Jane Hamilton | The Book of Ruth | Kathy |
| Dashiel Hammett | The Thin Man | Emily |
| Ron Hansen | Atticus | Mark |
| John Hawkes | Sweet William | Mark |
| Kent Haruf | Plainsong | Kathy |
| Nancy Horan | Loving Frank | Ronnie |
| Khaled Hosseini | The Kite Runner | Ronnie |
| Kuzuo Ishiguro | The Remains of the Day | Ronnie? |
| Charles Johnson | The Middle Passage | Rose |
| Lloyd Jones | Mr. Pip | Sue |
| Sebastian Junger | The Perfect Storm | Jack |
| Doris Kearns | Wait Till Next Year | John |
| Douglas Kelley | The Captain's Wife | Jack |
| Barbara Kingsolver | The Bean Tree | Kathy |
| The Poisonwood Bible | Lynn |
| Nicole Krauss | The History of Love | Kathy |
| Imre Kertesz | Fateless | Ronnie |
| Jhumpa Lahiri | The Namesake | Jack |
| Erik Larson | Isaac's Storm | Lois |
| The Devil in the White City | Lois |
| Mary Lawson | Crow Lake | Emily |
| Penelope Lively | Moon Tiger | Mark |
| Naguib Mahfuz | Autumn Quail | Lois |
| Thomas Mallon | Henry and Clara | Lois |
| Henning Mankell | Faceless Killers | Kathy |
| Beryl Markham | West With the Night | Ronnie |
| N. Scott Manaday | House Made of Dawn | Jack |
| Daniel Mason | The Piano Tuner | Emily |
| James McBride | The Color of Water | Ronnie |
| Larry McMurtry | Roads | John |
| Cormac McCarthy | All the Pretty Horses | Eric? |
| Frank McCourt | Angela's Ashes | Jack |
| 'Tis | Jerry |
| Alice McDermott | Charming Billy | Lois |
| After This | Mark |
| Ian McEwan | Atonement | Sue |
| Amsterdam | ? |
| Jay McInerey | Bright Lights, Big City | John/Wayne |
| Herman Melville | Billy Bud | Eric |
| Jane Mendelsohn | I Was Ameila Earhart | Lynne |
| Ben Mezrich | Bringing Down the House | John |
| Sue Miller | While We Were Gone | Emily |
| Robert Morgan | Gap Cree | Wayne |
| Thomas Mullen | The Last Town on Earth | Wayne |
| V. S. Naipaul | Half a Life | Kathy |
| Irene Nemirovsky | Fire in the Blood | John |
| Joyce Carol Oates | We Were the Mulvaneys | Lynn |
| Michael Ondaatje | The English Patient | Emily |
| Amos Oz | Rhyming Life and Death | Jack |
| Robert Parker | Mortal Stakes | Mickey |
| Tim Parks | Italian Neighbors | Mickey |
| Anne Perry | Southhampton Row | Kathy |
| Per Petterson | Out Stealing Horses | Lois |
| E. Annie Proulx | Shipping News | Wayne |
| Anna Quindlen | One True Thing | Ronnie |
| James Redfield | The Celestine Prophecy | Kathy |
| Ruth Reichl | Tender at the Bone | John |
| Erich Maria Remarque | All Quiet on the Western Front | Jerry |
| Marilynne Robinson | Gideon | Wayne |
| J.K. Rowling | Harry Potter | Jack |
| Arundhati Roy; | The God of Small Things | Mark |
| Mark Salzman | The Soloist | Jerry |
| Bernhard Schlink | The Reader | Wayne |
| Anita Shreve | Pilot's Wife | Jerry |
| Jane Smiley | A Thousand Acres | Emily |
| Dava Sobel | Longitude | Emily |
| Wallace Stegner | Crossing to Safety | Emily |
| " | Angel of Repose | Sue |
| Elizabeth Strout | Olive Kitteridge | Frank |
| William Styron | A Tidewater Morning | John |
| Graham Swift | Last Orders | Sue |
| The Light of Day | Lynne |
| Jeff Talarigo | The Pearl Diver | Lynn |
| Amy Tan | The Joy Luck Club | Jack |
| Dylan Thomas | Portrait of An Artist as a Young Dog | Emily |
| Calvin Trilling | Travels with my Aunt | Eric |
| Monique Truong | The Book of Salt | Kathy |
| Nancy Turner | These is My Words | Ronnie |
| Anne Tyler | Breathing Lessons | |
| The Accidental Tourist | |
| Digging to America | Kathy |
| John Updike | Rabbit Run | John |
| Susan Vreeland | Girl in Hyacinth Blue | Kathy |
| Robert Waller | Bridges of Madison County | Jerry |
| Jeannette Walls | The Glass Castle | Sue |
| Brad Watson | The Heaven of Mercury | Wayne |
| Larry Watson | Montana, 1948 | Mickey |
| Alan Weisman | The World Without Us | Jerry |
| Eudora Welty | The Optimist's Daughter | Emily |
| Sloan Wilson | The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit | John |
| Edith Wharton | Age of Innocence | Kathy |
| Virginia Woolf | To the Lighthouse | Emily/Lynn |
| Rebecca Wells | Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood | Emily |
| Aborigines? | Jack |
| Eudora Welty | The Optimist's Daughter | Emily |
| William Young | The Shack | Frank |
| Questionable…. | | |
| Sarah Dunant | The Birth of Venus | ? |
| Weekend in the Hamptons | Eric |
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