Nonfiction

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua
The Blessing of a B Minus by Wendy Mogel
The Blessing of a Skinned Knee by Wendy Mogel
Blood, Bones, and Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton
Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
Crashing Through: A True Story of Risk, Adventure, and the Man Who Dared to See by Robert Kurson
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson *
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
The Girls from Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Heaven is for Real by Todd Burpo
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Listening is an Act of Love edited by Dave Isay
Little Heathens by Mildred Kalish
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen
The Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids by Madeline Levine
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard
Skeletons on the Zahara by Dean King
Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder

Fiction

The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
The Alchemist by Paul Coelho
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb by Melanie Benjamin
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
Before I Go to Sleep by S. J. Watson
The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
Claude & Camille by Stephanie Cowell
Cleopatra's Daughter by Michelle Moran
The Commoner by John Burnham Schwartz
Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian
Dreams of Joy by Lisa See
Elizabeth Street by Laurie Fabiano
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
Every Last One by Anna Quindlen
A Fierce Radiance by Lauren Belfer
The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
Half-Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Homer & Langley by E. L. Doctorow
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
Labor Day by Joyce Maynard
The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
The Last Child by John Hart
The Last Time I Saw You by Elizabeth Berg
Left Neglected by Lisa Genova
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
Moloka'i by Alan Brennert
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
My Name is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira
Nemesis by Philip Roth
Nightwoods by Charles Frazier
Old Filth by Jane Gardam
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson
The Outside Boy by Jeanine Cummins
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
The Piano Teacher by Janice Y. K. Lee
The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Prep: A Novel by Curtis Sittenfeld
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
Rooftops of Tehran by Mahbod Seraji
Room by Emma Donoghue
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman
The Secret Between Us by Barbara Delinsky
The Shack by William P. Young
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
A Short History of Women by Kate Walbert
Sister of My Heart by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni *
Someone Knows my Name by Lawrence Hill
South of Broad by Pat Conroy
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
The Story of Beautiful Girl by Rachel Simon 
Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan C. Bradley
The Things they Carried by Tim O'Brien
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht
Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro
Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown
Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
While I Was Gone by Sue Miller
The White Tiger by Adiga Aravind
Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah

* Funding for these books was provided by the Friends of the Barrington Area Library.