1. TIE -- The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (Viking)
       The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (Doubleday)
   
   
2. Life of Pi by Yann Martel (Harcourt)
   
   
3. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead)
   
   
4. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Picador USA)
   
   
5. Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik (Ballantine)
   
   
6. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (HarperCollins)
   
   
7. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom (Hyperion)
   
   
8. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant (Picador USA)
   
   
9. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon (Vintage)
   
   
10. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffeneger (Harvest)
    
    
11. East of Eden by John Steinbeck (Penguin)
    
    
12. Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier (Plume)
    
    
13. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry (Vintage)
    
    
14. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (Back Bay)
    
    
15. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult (Washington Square Press)
    
    
16. No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith (Anchor)
    
    
17. Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi (Random House)
    
    
18. Wicked: The Life & Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire (ReganBooks)
    
    
19. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson (Vintage)
    
    
20. Peace Like a River by Leif Enger (Grove)

Winner of the $75 check for catering and advance review copies of
Yann Martel's Life of Pi (thanks to Harcourt)

The Rectory School Readers
Pomfret, Connecticut