I'm up to date on all the Jennifer Chiaverini books. The next one will be out soon. Yeah! Marie Bostwick has a great quilting series going also... A Single Thread, A Thread of Truth, and A Thread So Thin. The Help has been mentioned by several other members. It's so great! Movie coming out next summer. I picked up some older books at the library book sale a while back and got some good ones... The Red Tent by Anita Diamant (Awesome!) Object Lessons by Anna Quindlen, The Beach House by Jane Green, The Alchemist by I Forgot Who But It Was Really Good LOL The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls will make you feel normal no matter how dysfunctional you think you are.