Big Breasts and Wide Hips
by Mo Yan | 
The Help
by Kathryn Stockett | 
A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini | 
Beneath a Scarlet Sky
by Mark Sullivan | 
The Great Alone
by Kristin Hannah | 
The Secret Life of Bees
by Sue Monk Kidd | 
Before We Were Yours
by Lisa Wingate | 
And the Mountains Echoed
by Khaled Hosseini | 
America's First Daughter
by Stephanie Dray | 
The Book Of Negroes
by Lawrence Hill | 
I Am Livia
by Phyllis T. Smith | 
The Forty Rules of Love
by Elif Shafak | 
The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
by Robert Dugoni | 
The Rent Collector
by Camron Wright | 
The Midwife's Revolt
by Jodi Daynard | 
Necessary Lies
by Diane Chamberlain | 
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
by Heather Morris | 
Commonwealth
by Ann Patchett | 
Underworld
by Don DeLillo | 
Cane River
by Lalita Tademy |
Spanning three generations, this novel of family and myth is told through a series of flashbacks that depict events of staggering horror set against a landscape of gemlike beauty, as the Chinese battle both Japanese invaders and each other in the turbulent 1930s. A legend in China, where it won major literary awards and inspired an Oscar-nominated film, Red Sorghum is a book in which fable and history collide to produce fiction that is entirely new and unforgettable.