Introduction to the Second Edition
The Age of Innocence • Edith Wharton
Ahab’s Wife: or, The Star-Gazer
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Angela’s Ashes • Frank McCourt
Angle of Repose • Wallace Stegner
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
SPICY PORK WITH ORANGE HOISIN SAUCE IN WONTON CUPS
CHOCOLATE CHIP SHORTBREAD COOKIES
The Bonesetter’s Daughter • Amy Tan
FOUNTAIN COURT EGGPLANT SAUTÉED WITH FRESH BASIL
FOUNTAIN COURT LION’S HEAD CLAY POT OF MEATBALLS AND RICE VERMICELLI
MARKUS ZUSAK’S VANILLA KIPFERLS (CRESCENT COOKIES)
JOAN AND LALITA’S PEACH COBBLER
The Coldest Winter Ever • Sister Souljah
The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother
DOTTIE’S FAMOUS PEANUT BUTTER PIE
Corelli’s Mandolin • Louis de Bernières
Cutting for Stone • Abraham Verghese
SISTER MARY JOSEPH PRAISE’S CARI DE DAL
JOHN HORNBURG’S DEATH BY CHOCOLATE
Daughter of Fortune • Isabel Allende
SUN-DRIED TOMATO AND GOAT CHEESE PIZZA
SHAW’S CRAB HOUSE LOBSTER BISQUE
SHAW’S CRAB HOUSE WILD TURKEY MANHATTAN
Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage • Alfred Lansing
A Fine Balance • Rohinton Mistry
THE TAAL RESTAURANT’S CHICKEN BIRYANI (BASMATI RICE WITH CHICKEN)
DOROTHY’S FAMOUS CHRISTMAS TOFFEE
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium Trilogy, Book 1) • Stieg Larsson
Girl with a Pearl Earring • Tracy Chevalier
The God of Small Things • Arundhati Roy
ALOO TIKKI (POTATO CUTLETS) WITH GREEN CHUTNEY
The Good Earth • Pearl S. Buck
The Grapes of Wrath • John Steinbeck
ONE MAIN STREET CAFÉ’S ARTICHOKE-JALAPEÑO SPREAD WITH TOMATO BRUSCHETTA TOPPING
The Great Gatsby • F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society • Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
ANNIE BARROWS’S POTATO PEEL PIE AND NON-OCCUPIED POTATO PEEL PIE
Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel • Jeanette Walls
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone • J. K. Rowling
The Hours • Michael Cunningham
House of Sand and Fog • Andre Dubus III
KHOREST BADEMJAN (EGGPLANT AND TOMATO STEW) WITH BEEF
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks • Rebecca Skloot
REBECCA SKLOOT’S CHICKEN DIABLE
Interpreter of Maladies • Jhumpa Lahiri
MRS. LAHIRI’S HARD-BOILED-EGG CURRY IN MUSTARD SAUCE
MASALA ART’S MANGO LASSI (YOGURT DRINK)
The Killer Angels • Michael Shaara
CIVIL WAR CHERRY-APPLE COBBLER WITH SWEET VANILLA CUSTARD
The Kite Runner • Khaled Hosseini
BRITTA’S SABZI CHALLOW (SPINACH AND RICE) WITH LAMB
Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life • Queen Noor of Jordan
HER MAJESTY’S MUJADARA (LENTILS AND RICE) WITH CUCUMBER YOGURT
HER MAJESTY’S SPINACH BÖREK (PASTRY)
A Lesson Before Dying • Ernest Gaines
Love in the Time of Cholera • Gabriel García Márquez
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand • Helen Simonson
HELEN SIMONSON’S TOAD-IN-THE-HOLE
PEACHES-AND-CREAM PIE WITH STREUSEL TOPPING
Memoirs of a Geisha • Arthur Golden
Motherless Brooklyn • Jonathan Lethem
My Sister’s Keeper • Jodi Picoult
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America • Barbara Ehrenreich
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women • Geraldine Brooks
SALAD SHIRAZI (TOMATO-CUCUMBER SALAD)
The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency • Alexander McCall Smith
MRS. NESBITT’S ANGEL FOOD CAKE WITH LEMON CREAM
Olive Kitteridge • Elizabeth Strout
OLIVE KITTERIDGE’S GRANDMOTHER’S DOUGHNUTS
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd • Jim Fergus
The Optimist’s Daughter • Eudora Welty
MRS. MAHFOUZ’S MULUKHIYA (GREEN SOUP)
MRS. MAHFOUZ’S LABANEYA (SPINACH SOUP WITH YOGURT)
Peace Like a River • Leif Enger
MRS. ENGER’S CINNAMON ROLLS WITH COFFEE FROSTING
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea • Sebastian Junger
Personal History • Katharine Graham
The Poisonwood Bible • Barbara Kingsolver
SALADI YA MATUNDA (TROPICAL FRUIT SALAD)
Pope Joan • Donna Woolfolk Cross
CORMARYE (ROAST PORK WITH CORIANDER-CARAWAY SAUCE)
A Prayer for Owen Meany • John Irving
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books • Azar Nafisi
FIG SPREAD AND GOAT CHEESE TOASTS
The Samurai’s Garden • Gail Tsukiyama
HIYASHI UDON (COLD UDON NOODLES) WITH DIPPING SAUCE
Sarah’s Key • Tatiana de Rosnay
Seabiscuit: An American Legend • Laura Hillenbrand
The Secret Life of Bees • Sue Monk Kidd
The Shadow of the Wind • Carlos Ruiz Zafón
CHORIZO AND POTATO SPANISH TORTILLA BITES
Snow Falling on Cedars • David Guterson
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan • Lisa See
LISA SEE’S DEEP-FRIED SUGARED TARO
SLIGHTLY NORTH OF BROAD’S BLACK BOTTOM PIE
The Sparrow • Mary Doria Russell
Stones from the River • Ursula Hegi
Their Eyes Were Watching God • Zora Neale Hurston
BLACK-EYED PEA CAKES WITH JALAPEÑO-AVOCADO SALSA
To Kill a Mockingbird • Harper Lee
The Tortilla Curtain • T. Coraghessan Boyle
TOSTADAS WITH GREEN CHILE SALSA
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn • Betty Smith
A Visit from the Goon Squad • Jennifer Egan
JENNIFER EGAN’S OATMEAL FUDGE “REFRIGERATOR” COOKIES
SPICY SHRIMP IN BLACK BEAN SAUCE
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail • Bill Bryson
VERY YELLOW LEMON MERINGUE PIE
Water for Elephants • Sara Gruen
OYSTER BRIE SOUP (THE GROVE PARK INN’S RECIPE)
The Weight of Water • Anita Shreve
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China • Jung Chang