A Fine Balance
By Rohinton Mistry
A Lesson Before Dying
By Ernest J. Gaines
A Map of the World
By Jane Hamilton
A Million Little Pieces
By James Frey
A Virtuous Woman
By Kaye Gibbons
Anna Karenina
By Leo Tolstoy
As I Lay Dying
By William Faulkner
Back Roads
By Tawni O’Dell
Black and Blue
By Anna Quindlen
Breath, Eyes, Memory
By Edwidge Danticat
Cane River
By Lalita Tademy
Cry, the Beloved Country
By Alan Paton
Daughter of Fortune
By Isabel Allende
Drowning Ruth
By Christina Schwarz
East of Eden
By John Steinbeck
Ellen Foster
By Kaye Gibbons
Fall on Your Knees
By Ann-Marie MacDonald
Gap Creek: The Story Of A Marriage
By Robert Morgan
Here on Earth
By Alice Hoffman
House of Sand and Fog
By Andre Dubus III
I Know This Much Is True
By Wally Lamb
Icy Sparks
By Gwyn Hyman Rubio
Jewel
By Bret Lott
Light in August
By William Faulkner
Midwives
By Chris Bohjalian
Mother of Pearl
By Melinda Haynes
Night
By Elie Wiesel
One Hundred Years of Solitude
By Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Open House
By Elizabeth Berg
Paradise
By Toni Morrison
River, Cross My Heart
By Breena Clarke
She’s Come Undone
By Wally Lamb
Song of Solomon
By Toni Morrison
Songs In Ordinary Time
By Mary McGarry Morris
Sula
By Toni Morrison
Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail
By Malika Oufkir
Stones from the River
By Ursula Hegi
Tara Road
By Maeve Binchy
The Best Way to Play
By Bill Cosby
The Bluest Eye
By Toni Morrison
The Book of Ruth
By Jane Hamilton
The Corrections
By Jonathan Franzen
The Deep End of the Ocean
By Jacquelyn Mitchard
The Good Earth
By Pearl S. Buck
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
By Carson McCullers
The Heart of a Woman
By Maya Angelou
The Known World
By Edward P. Jones
The Meanest Thing to Say
By Bill Cosby
The Pilot’s Wife
By Anita Shreve
The Poisonwood Bible
By Barbara Kingsolver
The Rapture of Canaan
By Sheri Reynolds
The Reader
By Bernhard Schlink
The Sound and the Fury
By William Faulkner
The Treasure Hunt
By Bill Cosby
Vinegar Hill
By A. Manette Ansay
We Were the Mulvaneys
By Joyce Carol Oates
What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day
By Pearl Cleage
Where the Heart Is
By Billie Letts
While I Was Gone
By Sue Miller
White Oleander
By Janet Fitch
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By Anita Shreve
Oprah Winfrey’s Book Club Selection: 1999
With five novels to her credit, including the acclaimed The Weight of Water, Anita Shreve now offers a skillfully crafted
exploration of the long reach of tragedy in The Pilot's Wife. News of Jack Lyons's fatal crash sends his wife into shock
and emotional numbness:
Kathryn wished she could manage a coma. Instead, it seemed that quite the opposite had happened: She felt herself to be
inside of a private weather system, one in which she was continuously tossed and buffeted by bits of news and information,
sometimes chilled by thoughts of what lay immediately ahead, thawed by the kindness of others ... frequently drenched by
memories that seemed to have no regard for circumstance or place, and then subjected to the nearly intolerable heat of
reporters, photographers and curious on-lookers. It was a weather system with no logic, she had decided, no pattern, no
progression, no form.
The situation becomes even more dire when the plane's black box is recovered, pinning responsibility for the crash on Jack.
In an attempt to clear his name, Kathryn searches for any and all clues to the hours before the flight. Yet each discovery
forces her to realize that she didn't know her husband of 16 years at all. Shreve's complex and highly convincing treatment
of Kathryn's dilemma, coupled with intriguing minor characters and an expertly paced plot, makes The Pilot's Wife really
take off.
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