The Help
by Kathryn Stockett | 
A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini | 
Beneath a Scarlet Sky
by Mark Sullivan | 
The Great Alone
by Kristin Hannah | 
Before We Were Yours
by Lisa Wingate | 
The Invention of Wings
by Sue Monk Kidd | 
And the Mountains Echoed
by Khaled Hosseini | 
America's First Daughter
by Stephanie Dray | 
The Dutch House
by Ann Patchett | 
The Book Of Negroes
by Lawrence Hill | 
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
by Kim Michele Richardson | 
The Sunne In Splendour
by Sharon Kay Penman |
This Tender Land
by William Kent Krueger | 
I Am Livia
by Phyllis T. Smith | 
The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
by Robert Dugoni | 
The Rent Collector
by Camron Wright | 
The Forty Rules of Love
by Elif Shafak | 
Necessary Lies
by Diane Chamberlain | 
Commonwealth
by Ann Patchett | 
Underworld
by Don DeLillo |
After her "stand-in mother," a bold black woman named Rosaleen, insults the three biggest racists in town, Lily Owens joins Rosaleen on a journey to Tiburon, South Carolina, where they are taken in by three black, bee-keeping sisters.