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List:  Vintage Books List of the Best Reading Group Books


Possession: A Romance (1990) - A.S. [Antonia Susan] Byatt (8/24/1936 -)  (Grade:A+)

The Road from Coorain (1989) - Jill Ker Conway (1934-)  (Grade:C)

Snow Falling on Cedars (1994) - David Guterson (5/04/1956 -)  (Grade:C-)

The Poisonwood Bible (1999) - Barbara Kingsolver ( -4/08/1955)  (Grade:F)

To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) - Harper Lee (4/28/1926 -2/19/2016)  (Grade:A+)

Angela's Ashes : A Memoir (1996) - Frank McCourt (8/19/1930 -7/19/2009)  (Grade:B+)

Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer (1996) - Steven Millhauser (8/03/1943 -)  (Grade:A+)

A Fine Balance (1996) - Rohinton Mistry (1952-)  (Grade:A-)

Lolita (1955) - Vladimir Nabokov (4/22/1899 -7/02/1977)  (Grade:A)

The English Patient (1992) - Michael Ondaatje (9/12/1943 -)  (Grade:C)

American Pastoral (1997) - Phillip Roth (3/19/1933 -5/22/2018)  (Grade:B+)

1)   Memoirs of a Geisha (1997) - Arthur Golden (-)  (Grade:C)

2)   Midwives: A Novel (1997) - Chris Bohjalian (-)  (Grade:C)

3)   Cold Mountain (1997) - Charles Frazier (11/04/1950 -)  (Grade:C)

4)   The Reader (1999) - Bernhard Schlink (1944-)  (Grade:F)

8)   The Shipping News (1993) - E. Annie Proulx (8/22/1935 -)  (Grade:C-)

9)   Stones from the River (1994) - Ursula Hegi (1946-)  (Grade:D)

10)   A Civil Action (1995) - Jonathan Harr (-)  (Grade:C+)

12)   A Lesson Before Dying (1993) - Ernest J. Gaines (1933-)  (Grade:A)

13)   The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother (1996) - James McBride ( -)  (Grade:B)

14)   Corelli's Mandolin (1994) - Louis De Bernieres (1954 -)  (Grade:C)

15)   Angle of Repose (1971) - Wallace Stegner (1909-1993)  (Grade:C)

16)   A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989) - John Irving (3/02/1942 -)  (Grade:C)

17)   A Thousand Acres (1991) - Jane Smiley (9/26/1949 -)  (Grade:C-)

18)   The God of Small Things (1997) - Arundhati Roy (11/24/1961 -)  (Grade:C)

21)   Beloved (1987) - Toni Morrison (2/18/1931 -8/05/2019)  (Grade:F)

31)   Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and a Last Great Lesson (1997) - Mitch Albom (-)  (Grade:C-)

34)   The Tortilla Curtain (1995) - T. Coraghessan Boyle (1948-)  (Grade:C-)

36)   Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: a Savannah Story (1994) - John Berendt (-)  (Grade:C-)

41)   Charming Billy (1998) - Alice McDermott (1953 -)  (Grade:C-)

43)   All the Pretty Horses (1992) - Cormac McCarthy (07/20/1933 -06/13/2023)  (Grade:A+)

45)   I Know This Much is True (1998) - Wally Lamb (-)  (Grade:F)

50)   The Sparrow (1996) - Mary Doria Russell (-)  (Grade:B+)