Some Tasty Reading

Discover a delicious selection of books with 'Some Tasty Reading'—your ultimate list of mouthwatering reads for food lovers and literary gourmets alike.

Out Stealing Horses Cover
Book

Out Stealing Horses

by Per Petterson

Spring/Summer 2008
Divisadero Cover
Book

Divisadero

by Michael Ondaatje

From the celebrated author of The English Patient and Anil's Ghost comes a remarkable, intimate novel of intersecting lives that ranges across continents and time. …
Water for Elephants Cover
Book

Water for Elephants

by Sara Gruen

Ninety-something-year-old Jacob Jankowski remembers his time in the circus as a young man during the Great Depression, and his friendship with Marlena, the star of …
The Gathering Cover
Book

The Gathering

by Anne Enright

A large Irish family is haunted by the past -- something that happened in their grandmother's house in the winter of 1968.
Loving Frank Cover
Book

Loving Frank

by Nancy Horan

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of The House of Lincoln, an “enthralling” novel that brings “the buried truths of the ill-starred relationship …
Desperation Moon Cover
Book

Desperation Moon

by Ken Douglas

When racecar driver Sara Hackett arrives home from a desert road race, she finds her niece and another girl have been kidnapped and a dead …
The Yiddish Policemen's Union Cover
Book

The Yiddish Policemen's Union

by Michael Chabon

For sixty years Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of …
World Without End Cover
Book

World Without End

by Ken Follett

#1 New York Times Bestseller In 1989, Ken Follett astonished the literary world with The Pillars of the Earth, a sweeping epic novel set in …
Nineteen Minutes Cover
Book

Nineteen Minutes

by Jodi Picoult

The daughter of a judge in a New Hampshire school shooting case witnessed the events, but cannot remember the last several minutes of the attack.
Dear American Airlines Cover
Book

Dear American Airlines

by Jonathan Miles

From the cocktails columnist at the "The New York Times" comes the scathingly funny, deeply moving story of a stranded airline passenger, whose enraged letter …
Mister Pip Cover
Book

Mister Pip

by Lloyd Jones

In a novel that is at once intense, beautiful, and fablelike, Lloyd Jones weaves a transcendent story that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit …
Change of Heart Cover
Book

Change of Heart

by Jodi Picoult

Her life shattered by a devastating act of violence, June Nealson is forced to make a pivotal choice that involves her twelve-year-old daughter and a …
Spook Country Cover
Book

Spook Country

by William Gibson

The “cool and scary”(San Francisco Chronicle) New York Times bestseller from the author of Pattern Recognition and Neuromancer. spook (spo͞ok) n.: A specter; a ghost. …
City of Thieves Cover
Book

City of Thieves

by David Benioff

Documenting his grandparents' experiences during the siege of Leningrad, a young writer learns his grandfather's story about how a military deserter and he tried to …
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Cover
Book

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

by Lisa See

Lily is haunted by memories–of who she once was, and of a person, long gone, who defined her existence. She has nothing but time now, …
Sundays at Tiffany's Cover
Book

Sundays at Tiffany's

by James Patterson

Years after spending a lonely childhood at the side of a make-believe best friend named Michael, theater maven's daughter Jane encounters a loving flesh-and-blood Michael …
Barefoot Cover
Book

Barefoot

by Elin Hilderbrand

Visiting Nantucket for the summer, three women seek peace and comfort as they cope with the challenges in their lives--from marriage, infidelity, and the mayhem …
Lush Life Cover
Book

Lush Life

by Richard Price

In "Lush Life," Price tears the shiny veneer off the "new" New York to show the underground networks of control and violence beneath the glamour, …
Consequences Cover
Book

Consequences

by Penelope Lively

The Booker Prize winning author's sweeping saga of three generations of women "One of the most accomplished writers of fiction of our day" (The Washington …
The Last Chinese Chef Cover
Book

The Last Chinese Chef

 

No summary available.
The Septembers of Shiraz Cover
Book

The Septembers of Shiraz

by Dalia Sofer

In the aftermath of the Iranian revolution, rare-gem dealer Isaac Amin is arrested, wrongly accused of being a spy. Terrified by his disappearance, his family …
No One Belongs Here More Than You Cover
Book

No One Belongs Here More Than You

 

No summary available.
Item Not Found
ID: 0446699853
(Type: book)
The Double Bind Cover
Book

The Double Bind

by Chris Bohjalian

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of The Flight Attendant, here is a gripping psychological novel of obsession and consequence. When Laurel Estabrook is …
Life of Pi Cover
Book

Life of Pi

 

No summary available.
The Lollipop Shoes :--A Novel. Cover
Book

The Lollipop Shoes :--A Novel.

 

No summary available.
The House at Riverton Cover
Book

The House at Riverton

 

No summary available.
Mudbound Cover
Book

Mudbound

by Hillary Jordan

In 1946, Laura McAllan tries to adjust after moving with her husband and two children to an isolated cotton farm in the Mississipi Delta.
Oxygen Cover
Book

Oxygen

 

No summary available.