Best from 2005-2006

Upstate by Kalisha Buckhanon ****1/2

Snowed In by Cristina Bartolomeo ****

We Are All Fine Here by Mary Guterson ***1/2

Bachelorette Party by Karen Lutz ***

Sight Hound by Pam Houston *****

Smashed by Koren Zailckas ****

Cowboys Are My Weakness by Pam Houston ****

Pig and I by Rachel Toor ****

New Year's Eve by Lisa Grunwald ***1/2

Good Wife by Stewart O Nan ****

Dear Zoe by Philp Beard ****1/2

Mountain Betty by Heather McCouch ****

Drama City by George Pelecanos ***1/2

Gods in Alabama by Joshilyn Jackson ****

Everything Changes by Jonathan Tropper ***

If Andy Warhol Had a Girlfriend by Alison Pace ****1/2

Untelling by Tayari Jones ****

Good Grief by Lolly Winston ****

Same As It Never Was by Claire LaZebnik ****

First Love by Adrienne Sharp ***1/2

Lost Night by Rachel Howard ****

Trophy House by Anne Bernays ***1/2

Shop Girl by Steve Martin ****1/2

Whatever Makes You Happy by Lisa Grunwald ****

Little Beauties by Kim Addonizio ***1/2

Saturn's Return to New York by Sara Gran ***1/2

On a Night Like This by Ellen Sussman ***1/2

What the Dog Did by Emily Yoffe ***1/2

Night Garden by Pamela Holm ***1/2

Myth of You and Me by Leah Stewart *****

What Remains by Carole Radziwill ***1/2

Wedding in December by Anita Shreve ***

Tin Box by Holly Kennedy ***

Breakdown Lane by Jacqueline Mitchard ***1/2

Marley and Me by John Grogan ***

Adultery for Beginners by Sarah Duncan ***

Twins by Mary Dermansky ***

Enter Sandman by Stephanie Williams ***1/2

Cooking for Mr Right by Susan Volland ***

And Baby Makes Two by Sheehan ***

Good Family by Terry Gamble ***1/2

How to Kill a Rock Star ***

Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls ****

Cat People by Korda ****

Mrs Kimble by Jennifer Haigh ***1/2

Year of Magical Thinking by Didion **1/2

Baker Towers by Jennifer Haigh ****

Two Harbors by Kate Benson ***

Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards ***

Everyone Else's Girl by Megan Crane ***

Love Walked in by De Los Santos ****

Anyone but You by Jennifer Cruisie ***

Love and Other Impossible Pursuits by Ayelet Waldman ****

Song Reader by Lisa Tucker ***1/2

Shout Down the Moon by Lisa Tucker ***1/2

Ruins of California by Martha Sherrill ***1/2

Torch by Strayed ***

Wish by Melina Gerosa Bellows ****

And She Was by Cynthia Dyson ****

Pug Hill by Alison Pace ***

Once Upon a Day by Lisa Tucker ***1/2

Jane Austen in Scarsdale by Jennifer Beth Cohen ***1/2

Lost and Found by Carolyn Parkhust ***

Between Georgia by Joshilyn Jackson ***

Firefly Cloak by Sheri Reynolds ***