1. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (Viking)
   
   
2. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (Doubleday)
   
   
3. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant (Picador USA)
   
   
4. Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand (Random House)
   
   
5. Life of Pi by Yann Martel (Harcourt)
   
   
6. Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier (Plume)
   
   
7. Peace Like a River by Leif Enger (Grove)
   
   
8. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (HarperCollins)
   
   
9. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (Little Brown)
   
   
10. Empire Falls by Richard Russo (Knopf)
    
    
11. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Picador USA)
    
    
12. No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith (Anchor)
    
    
13. Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross (Ballantine)
    
    
14. Atonement by Ian McEwan (Anchor)
    
    
15. Cold Mountain by Charles Frasier (Vintage)

Winner of the $75 check for catering and advance review copies of
Adriana Trigiani's Lucia Lucia (thanks to Random House)

Ladies of Literature
Monroe, North Carolina