A Mad Desire to Dance
by Elie Wiesel | 
The Help
by Kathryn Stockett | 
A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini | 
Beneath a Scarlet Sky
by Mark Sullivan | 
The Great Alone
by Kristin Hannah | 
The Secret Life of Bees
by Sue Monk Kidd | 
Before We Were Yours
by Lisa Wingate | 
And the Mountains Echoed
by Khaled Hosseini | 
America's First Daughter
by Stephanie Dray | 
The Book Of Negroes
by Lawrence Hill | 
I Am Livia
by Phyllis T. Smith | 
The Forty Rules of Love
by Elif Shafak | 
The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
by Robert Dugoni | 
The Rent Collector
by Camron Wright | 
The Midwife's Revolt
by Jodi Daynard | 
Necessary Lies
by Diane Chamberlain | 
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
by Heather Morris | 
Commonwealth
by Ann Patchett | 
Underworld
by Don DeLillo | 
Cane River
by Lalita Tademy |
When a Christian boy disappears in a fictional Eastern European town in the 1920s, the local Jews are quickly accused of ritual murder. There is tension in the air. A pogrom threatens to erupt. Suddenly, an extraordinary man-Moshe the dreamer, a madman and mystic-steps forward & confesses to a crime he didn't commit, in a vain attempt to save his people from certain death. The community gathers to hear his last words-a plea for silence-and everyone present takes an oath: whoever survives the impending tragedy must never speak of the town's last days and nights of terror. For fifty years the sole survivor keeps his oath-until he meets a man whose life depends on hearing the story, & one man's loyalty to the dead confronts head-on another's reason to go on living.