This post is entirely for myself, but if it can help anyone else, I will be delighted.
the list of books that I read and loved is under lj cut.
August 2009:
Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult
The Rabbi of 84th Street. The Extraordinary Life of Haskel Besser by Warren Kozak
September 2009
The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
Somewhere a Master by Elie Wiesel
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
January 2010
Olive Kitterridge by Elizabeth Strout