Good Reads from our December 4th Title Swap:

Ackerman, Diane The Zookeeper's Wife (World War II holocaust memoir about sheltering Jews)

Albom, Mitch For One More Day (Depressed man is helped by his mother's ghost)

Barry, Dan Pull Me Up (Memoir of growing up Irish Catholic on Long Island in the 1950's)

Boyle, T.C. Drop City (Counter-culture California commune set in the 1970's)

Butler, Octavia Parable of the Sower (Hopeful tale set in a dystopian future United States)

Chang, Jung Wild Swans (Non-Fiction account of three generations of women in China)

Conroy, Pat Prince of Tides (Southern family secrets come home to roost)

Dillard, Annie The Maytrees (Historical fiction about a marriage following World War II)

Follett, Ken Pillars of the Earth (Historical fiction set in the 12 th century)

Grant, Ulysses S. Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs and Selected Letters 1839 – 1865 (Grant's correspondence and personal memoir)

Jin, Ha A Free Life (Chinese immigrant family's odyssey in America)

Hamid, Mohsin The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Narrative of a young man's formulation of political beliefs)

Horan, Nancy Loving Frank (Fictional account of Frank Lloyd Wright's love affair)

Hosseini, Khaled A Thousand Splendid Suns (Two generations of women in Afghanistan)

Moriarty, Laura The Rest of Her Life (Less than perfect mother narrates the story of her relationship with her daughter)

McEwan, Ian On Chesil Beach (the marriage night of a mis-matched couple set in 1962)

Mendelsohn, Daniel The Lost (Deeply personal account of a man's search for relatives killed in the Holocaust)

Mortenson, Greg Three Cups of Tea (Non-Fiction account of one man's mission to build schools in Pakistan)

Oates, Joyce Carol The Gravedigger's Daughter (Psychological suspense involving the life of Rebecca Schwartz)

O'Farrell, Maggie The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox (Family secrets involving an institutionalized aunt)

Olsson, Linda Astrid and Veronica (Two women strike up a friendship based on loss and grief)

Patterson, Richard N. Exile (Thriller focused on Israeli-Palestinian conflict)

Picoult, Jodi Nineteen Minutes (The consequences of a small-town high school shooting)

Richmond, Michelle The Year of Fog (Photographer Abby Masson's year after she loses her fiance's young daughter)

Rosen, Jonathan Joy Comes in the Morning (Holocaust Fiction)

Roth, Philip The Exit Ghost (Ninth in the fiction series of the life of Nathan Zuckerman)

Russo, Richard Empire Falls (Intersecting lives of small town residents)

Shaara, Michael The Killer Angels (Historical fiction about the Battle of Gettysburg)

See, Lisa Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Female relationships in Ancient China)

Shors, John Beneath a Marble Sky (Fictionalized story of the eldest daughter of the emperor who built the Taj Mahal)

Sofer, Dalia The Septembers of Shiraz (A Jewish family's experience in post-revolutionary Iran)

Trigiani, Adriana Lucia, Lucia (The experiences of a beautiful Italian-American daughter in 1950's Greenwich Village)

Updike, John The Terrorist (18-year old Ahmad Mulloy Ashmawy becomes disenchanted with American culture)

Wenger, Shavunda The Book Lover's Cookbook (Recipes inspired by celebrated works of literature)

Yezierska, Anzia Bread Givers (Early twentieth-century Jewish family immigrate to the United States from Poland)