Tara Road by Maeve Binchy

A Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons

Hard Eight by Janet Evanovich

The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood 

Do You Know How I Love You

Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Many Gods, Many Lives

The Other Side by Sylvia Brown

A Widow For One Year by John Irving 

The Persian Pickle Club by Sandra Dallas

The Diary of Maddie Spencer by Sandra Dallas

Welcome To The World Fannie Girl by Fannie Flagg

The World Below by Sue Miller

The Corrections by Jonathan Frazen

A Different Kind of Christmas by Alex Hailey

The Dive From Claussen's Pier by Ann Packer

Ice Bound by Jerri Neilson

The Color of Water by James McBride

Tis by Frank McCourt 

All Over But the Shoutin' By Rick Brag

Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende

Virtuous Woman By Ellen Forster

In The Time of Butterflies By Julia Alvarez

The Prodigal Summer By Barbara Kingsolver

Four Midwestern Sisters by Holly J. Burkhalter, Ruth Bosley, Kathy Lockard, Karol Crosbie

The Sweet Potato Queen's Book of Love by Jill Conner Browne

The Christmas Tree by Julie Salamon

The Christmas on Jane Street by Billy Romp with Wanda Urbansha

The Persian Pickle Club by Sandra Dallas

Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (geared toward teenagers)

Dying For Chocolate by Diane Mott Davidson

Plainsong by Kent Haruf

The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve