Other Highly Recommended Nominations from the Community

• Anil's Ghost , Michael Ondaatje
• Behind the Scenes at the Museum , Kate Atkinson
• Caucasia , Danzy Senna
• Digging to America , Anne Tyler
• Doomsday Book ,  Connie Willis
• Frankenstein , Mary Shelley
• The Historian , Elizabeth Kostova
• Ironweed , William Kennedy
• The Known World , Edward P. Jones
• Life of Pi , Yann Martel
• My Year of Meats , Ruth Ozeki
• The Namesake , Jhumpa Lahiri
• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan , Lisa See
• The Sparrow , Maria Doria Russell
• The Sweet Hereafter , Russell Banks
• Things Fall Apart , Chinua Achebe
• Thirteen Moons , Charles Frazier
• To Kill a Mockingbird , Harper Lee