Reading Instructor: Mel & El

Meet Melissa and Elizabeth.

Mel and El run a Book Club where I work and they are two of the best-read people I know. It's not surprising considering that El went to UCLA (where I'm sure she never got tired of hearing "Helloooo Newman!") and Mel is from Michigan where, as she herself so eloquently put it, it's so g*d-d**n cold all you want to do is curl up in front of the fireplace and read!

It may not be as cold or as literate where I am, but I better get cracking!

Mel & El's List:

1. Red Tent - Anita Diamant
2. The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
3. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
4. The History of Love: A Novel - Nicole Krauss
5. Middlesex: A Novel - Jeffrey Eugenides
6. The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
7. The Other Boleyn Girl - Philippa Gregory
8. Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail - Malika Oufkir, Michele Fitoussi, and Ros Schwartz
9. The Places In Between - Rory Stewart
10. The Road Home - Jim Harrison
11. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
12. My Antonia - Willa Cather
13. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
14. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books - Azar Nafisi