recommended to me, but haven't checked out

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  • stress of her regard by tim powers
  • ragamuffin gospel by brennan manning
  • love in the ruins by walker percy
  • waiting for god by simone weil
  • salvation on sand mountain by dennis covington
  • seven story mountain by ?
  • "lost in the funhouse" by john barth
  • vaparetto 13 by robert girardi
  • all hallows eve by charles williams
  • young adult novel by daniel manus pinkwater
  • partly cloudy patriot by sarah vowell
  • the hours by michael cunningham
  • possession by a.s. byatt
  • marianne dreams by catherine storr
  • perks of being a wallflower by stephen chbosky
  • orchid thief by susan orlean
  • skinny legs and all and even cowgirls get the blues by tim robbins
  • ender's game by orson scott card
  • steal this book by abbie hoffman
  • ahab's wife by sena jeter naslund
  • beans of egypt, maine by carolyn chute
  • dinner at homesick restaurant by anne tyler
  • fried green tomatoes and daisy fay and the miracle man by fannie flagg
  • midwives by chris a bohjalean
  • my year of meats by ruth ozeki
  • rosie and crooked little heart by anne lamott
  • tales of the city by armistead maupin
  • tending roses by lisa wingate
  • the kitchen god's wife by amy tan
  • the seventh telling by mitchell chefitz
  • the storm by frederick buechner
  • yellow raft on blue water by michael dorris
  • daughter of fortune by isabelle allende
  • giovanni's room by james baldwin
  • colors of the mountain by da chen
  • virgin suicides by jeffrey eugenides
Author Comments: 

this list will grow as i remember more, but these stick out as ones that have been mentioned to me more than once, often by more than one person--ie, people must really think i'd enjoy them. i guess we'll see, won't we!