Smonk
by Tom Franklin | 
The Summer We Got Saved
by Pat Cunningham Devoto | 
Heartbreak Hotel
by Anne Rivers Siddons | 
I Still Dream About You
by Fannie Flagg | 
The Turmoil
by Booth Tarkington | 
The Eyes of the World
by Harold Bell Wright | 
Samedi the Deafness
by Jesse Ball | 
The Half-life of Happiness
by John Casey | 
Wolf In White Van
by John Darnielle | 
The Subject Steve
by Sam Lipsyte | 
Trumpet
by Jackie Kay | 
Ordinary Love and Good Will
by Jane Smiley | 
Lost in the Forest
by Sue Miller | 
The Pursuit of Alice Thrift
by Elinor Lipman | 
The Invisible Circus
by Jennifer Egan | 
An Inconvenient Woman
by Dominick Dunne | 
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 |
In an Alabama town in the early 1950s during the last polio summer before the Salk vaccine, ten-year-old Tabitha "Tab" Rutland is about to have the time of her life. Although movie theaters and pools have been closed to stem the epidemic, Tab, a tomboy with a passion for Roy Rogers, still seeks adventure with her best friend Maudie May, "the lightest brown colored person" she knows. Now as they meddle with the local bootlegger, Mr. Jake, row out on the Tennessee River to land the biggest catfish ever, and snoop into the town's darkest secrets, Tab sets out to be a hero...and comes of age in an unforgettable confrontation with human frailty, racial injustice, and the healing power of love.