Text Box: Hypatia’s Eclectic Reading Society

What We’ve Read and What We Thought!

Rating

Title

Author

 

Things Fall Apart

Chinua Achebe

 

Watership Down

Richard Adams

 

Paula

Isabelle Allende

 

Daughter of Fortune

Isabelle Allende

8 / 6

House of Spirits

Isabelle Allende

 

Brick Lane

Monica Ali

 

Alias Grace

Margaret Atwod

 

The Blind Assassin

Margaret Atwood

 

The Handmaid’s Tale

Margaret Atwood

 

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

 

Same Difference

Rosalind Barrett

 

Seize the Day

Saul Bellow

 

Midwives

Chris Bojalian

 

Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

 

All Over But the Shoutin’

Rick Bragg

 

The Da Vinci Code

Dan Brown

 

Riding Shotgun

Rita Mae Brown

 

Cold Sassy Tree

Olive Ann Burns

 

The Stranger

Albert Camus

3

The Emperor of Ocean Park

Stephen L. Carter

 

My Antonia

Willa Cather

 

Girl with a Pearl Earring

Tracy Chevalier

 

The Awakening

Kate Chopin

6

The Resurrectionists

Michael Collins

 

The Price of Motherhood

Anne Crittendon

 

Pope Joan

Donna Cross

 

The Second Sex

Simone de Beauvoir

 

The Mists of Avalon

Marion Zimmer Bradley

 

The Red Tent

Anita Diament

 

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens

 

An American Childhood

Annie Dillard

 

Ohitika Woman

Mary Crow Dog

5.2

Slammerkin

Emma Donoghue

 

The Brothers Karamozov

Fyodor Dostoevsky

4

Motherless Daughters

Hope Edelman

 

AHWOSG

Dave Eggers

8.5

Nickel and Dimed

Barbara Ehrenreich

 

The Chalice and the Blade

Riane Eiseler

 

Founding Brothers

Joseph Ellis

 

Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison

 

Like Water for Chocolate

Laura Esquivel

6 / 8

Middlesex

Jeffrey Eugenides

 

The Spirit Catches You and then  You Fall Down

Anne Fadiman

 

Backlash

Susan Faludi

6.3

Bridget Jones’ Diary

Helen Fielding

 

 

 

Rating

Title

Author

 

 

 

 

Ten Thousand Sorrows

Elizabeth Kim

8

The Harlot by the Side of the Road

Jonathan Kirsch

 

The Grand Complication

Allen Kurzweil

 

She’s Come Undone

Wally Lamb

8 / 6

Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons

Lorna Landvik

 

Sons and Lovers

D.H. Lawrence

 

Uppity Women of Ancient Times

Vicki Leon

 

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

 

Motherless Brooklyn

Jonathan Letham

 

Where the Heart Is

Billy Letts

 

Till We Have Faces

C.S. Lewis

 

Arrowsmith

Sinclair Lewis

7

Lies My Teacher Told Me

James Loewen

8

The Giver

Lois Lowry

 

The Assistant

Bernard Malamud

7 / 8

The Life of Pi

Yann Martel

 

One Hundred Years of Solitude

GG Marquez

 

Angela’s Ashes

Frank McCourt

 

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Carson McCullers

4

Atonement

Ian McEwan

 

Enduring Love

Ian McEwan

 

Wicked

Gregory McGuire

 

Patience and Sarah

Isabel Miller

 

A Canticle for Leibowitz

Walter Miller

 

The Piano Tuner

Daniel Mason

 

Beloved

Toni Morrison