Okay reads

Books Previously Read &

Rated by the Bookies

3.9 - 3.0

The Bookies say check these out...

Rating: 3.9 A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines	Rating: 3.9 Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson	Rating:3.85 A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris
Rating: 3.85 Asylum by Patrick McGrath	Rating: 3.85 Paradise by Toni Morrison	Rating: 3.85 The Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds
Rating: 3.8 19 Read / 1 DNF Jewel by Bret Lott	Rating: 3.7 In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien	Rating: 3.7 Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
Rating: 3.65 Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts	Rating: 3.6 9 read Why is this a classic? - Libby A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess	Rating: 3.6 15 read/ 2 DNF Important subject, poor presentation - Jim The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang
Rating: 3.6 38 Read The Reader by Bernard Schlink	Rating: 3.5 16 Read Back Roads by Tawni O'Dell	Rating: 3.5 Black and Blue by Anna Quindlan
Rating: 3.5 Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons	Rating: 3.45 The Woman Who Walked Into Doors By Roddy Doyle	Rating: 3.4 A Gracious Plenty by Sheri Reynolds
Rating: 3.4 29 read/ 1 DNF Midwives by Chris Bohjalian	Rating: 3.4 12 Read/1 DNF Under The Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes	Rating: 3.4 25 Read / 1 DNF Slow Start, good (safe) finish - Nancy B. What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage
Rating: 3.3 A Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons	Rating: 3.3 20 Read/ 2 DNF Bag of Bones by Steven King	Rating:3.3 Turtle Moon by Alice Hoffman
Rating: 3.3 13 Read/ 1 DNF Unafraid of the Dark by Rosemary L. Bray	Rating: 3.3 When Angels Rest by Donald Harington	Rating: 3.25 Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg
Rating: 3.2 15 Read A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh	Rating: 3.1 12 Read/4 DNF American Pastoral by Philip Roth	Rating: 3.1 Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
Rating: 3.1 Comfort Woman by Nora Okja Keller	Rating 3.0 18 Read Gap Creek by Robert Morgan	Rating: 3.0 Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman
	Rating: 3.0 A Simple Plan by Scott Smith

Rating Scale Used

5 = Highly Recommended / Another "Bookies Classic."

4 = Recommended / A good read.

3 = Okay / An average book.

2 = Would Not Recommend / Less then satisfying.

1 = How did this get published? / Poor.

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