"Mom & Me & Mom" By Maya Angelou(01 of40)
Open Image Modal"Dear Life" By Alice Munro (02 of40)
Open Image Modal"The Complete Poems, 1927 - 1979" By Elizabeth Bishop (03 of40)
Open Image Modal"Bossypants" By Tina Fey (04 of40)
Open Image Modal"The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals" By Michael Pollan (05 of40)
Open Image ModalHow to eat better, tack a few extra years onto your lifespan and save the planet, all in one paperback.This book -- a look at the megafood industrial complex -- completely changed the way I eat. It shattered me! I'm not going to say that it made my life easier -- it made my life tremendously more difficult -- but it's been worth it.-- Samantha Bee
"Personal History" By Katharine Graham (06 of40)
Open Image Modal"Salvage the Bones" By Jesmyn Ward (07 of40)
Open Image ModalThe novel that helps you remember all those sweeping, real-life tragedies on the television news -- long after the cameras have moved on to other stories.Esch Batiste is the only female in the Pit, a hardscrabble patch of bayou country she has shared with her father and three brothers since their mother died in childbirth. "Sometimes I think [Daddy] forgets that I am a girl," she muses. But 14-year-old Esch is obviously on the cusp of womanhood; she's pregnant by Manny, a neighbor. As Hurricane Katrina gathers strength in the Gulf of Mexico, Esch's besieged, down-on-its-luck family veers toward disaster. Daddy, who is rarely around, and even more rarely sober, struggles to prepare for the storm, which the others insist will never arrive. Randall, the eldest, jumps and shoots and sweats for a basketball scholarship that hangs tantalizingly close. And Skeetah pins his dreams on his beloved China, a killer pit bull whose pups he hopes will bring cash. In the world of Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones (Bloomsbury USA), brutality is the way to success, and tenderness is found only in memories, which throb like the "phantom pain" Esch imagines Daddy feeling after losing three fingers in an accident. If Ward's prose is occasionally overripe, the novel's hugeness of heart and fierceness of family grip and hold on like Skeetah's pit bull. -- Ellen Feldman
"Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar" By Cheryl Strayed (08 of40)
Open Image Modal"State of Wonder" By Ann Patchett (09 of40)
Open Image Modal"Lit" By Mary Karr (10 of40)
Open Image Modal"The House of Mirth" By Edith Wharton (11 of40)
Open Image Modal"Oak: One Tree, Three Years, Fifty Paintings" By Stephen Taylor (12 of40)
Open Image Modal"Song of Solomon" By Toni Morrison (13 of40)
Open Image Modal"The Fault in Our Stars" By John Green (14 of40)
Open Image Modal"A New Earth" By Eckhart Tolle (15 of40)
Open Image Modal"The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" By Carson McCullers(16 of40)
Open Image Modal"Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking" By Susan Cain (17 of40)
Open Image Modal"The Portrait of A Lady" By Henry James (18 of40)
Open Image Modal"The Feminine Mystique (50th Anniversary Edition)" By Betty Friedan(19 of40)
Open Image Modal"Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead" By Sheryl Sandberg (20 of40)
Open Image Modal"The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson" By Emily Dickinson (21 of40)
Open Image Modal"Great Expectations" By Charles Dickens (22 of40)
Open Image Modal"Say You're One of Them" By Uwem Akpan (23 of40)
Open Image Modal"Blue Nights" By Joan Didion (24 of40)
Open Image Modal"Swimming Studies" By Leanne Shapton (25 of40)
Open Image Modal"Daring Greatly" By Brené Brown, PhD (26 of40)
Open Image Modal"Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book, 5th Edition" By Susan M. Love, MD, and Karen Lindsey (27 of40)
Open Image Modal"A Long Way Gone" By Ishmael Beah (28 of40)
Open Image Modal"Mastering the Art of French Cooking" By Julia Child(29 of40)
Open Image Modal"NW" By Zadie Smith (30 of40)
Open Image Modal"Bird by Bird" By Anne Lamott (31 of40)
Open Image Modal"Saint Maybe" By Anne Tyler (32 of40)
Open Image Modal"Just Kids" By Patti Smith (33 of40)
Open Image Modal"The Middlesteins" By Jami Attenberg (34 of40)
Open Image Modal"The Inheritance of Loss" By Kiran Desai (35 of40)
Open Image Modal"The Museum of Innocence" By Orhan Pamuk (36 of40)
Open Image Modal"Making Marriage Simple" By Harville Hendrix, PhD, and Helen LaKelly Hunt, PhD (37 of40)
Open Image ModalMonkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety By Daniel Smith (38 of40)
Open Image Modal"Crazy Salad: Some Things About Women" By Nora Ephron (39 of40)
Open Image Modal"Beautiful Ruins" By Jess Walter (40 of40)
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