Here’s a list of the books I’m reading, thanks to you. I took all your suggestions, read through Amazon reviews, added a few of my own, and came up with this:

• Straight Up by Lisa Samson
• The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
• The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffengegger
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• Saint Maybe by Anne Tyler
• The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham
• Life Expectancy by Dean Koontz
• Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
• The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien
• A Thousand Acres: A Novel by Jane Smiley
• The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
• This Heavy Silence by Nicole Mazzarella
• Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry