Some of my favorites
The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
Jubilee by Margaret Walker
The Asylum by John Harwood
Sister of My Heart by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani
The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Before I Go To Sleep by S J Watson
Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Shack by William P. Young
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
Year of Wonder by Geraldine Brooks
Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross
Sarah’s Key by Tatiana Rosnay
Galileo’s Daughter by Dava Sobel
DaVinci’s Swan by Karen Essex
The Agony & the Ecstasy by Irving Stone
Ahab’s Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund
Beach Music, South of Broad by Pat Conroy
The Emancipators Wife by Barbara Hambly
Five Quarters of an Orange by Joanne Harris
Ladies #1 Detective series by Alaxander McCall Smith
The Other Boelyn Girl by Phillipa Gregory
The Virgin Blue, Girl with the Pearl Earing, Fallen Angels by Tracy Chevalier
Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Snowflower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner
Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Mitford series by Jan Karon
Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon
Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
The Reader by Bernard Schlink
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
Time Travelers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus
Daughter of Fortune, Portrait in Sepia, Zoro by Isabel Allende
Plain Truth by Jodi Piccoult
Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Sarah by Mark Halter
Roberts Lady by Nicole Byrd
Ya Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
The DaVinci Code, Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
Mary Named Magdeline by Margaret George
Cane River by Lalita Tademy
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Fall on Your Knees by Ann Marie MacDonald
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Fortune’s Rock, Weight Of Water by Anita Shreves
Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Secret Life of Bee’s by Sue Monk Kid
Stones of Light series by Christian Jacq
Angle of Repose, Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik
The Illuminator by Brenda Rickman Vantrease
Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Veate Hur
Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl
The Many Lives and Secrets of Josephine B by Sandra Gulland
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Trail of Crumbs by Kim Sunee