Saving Fish From Drowning

by Amy Tan.

This was really excellent. It had been too long since I'd read a really well-written adult novel.

Toning the Sweep

by Angela Johnson

A Thousand Splendid Suns

by Khaled Hosseini.

Depressing, yes, but it concluded with optimism. Also v. educational.

The Secret Life of Bees

I decided this was "multi-cultural." I have actually read quite a bit of multi-cultural fiction that could have met my multi-cultural fiction requirement for Reader's Advisory (Midnight's Children, A Fine Balance, Beloved and everything else Toni Morrison has ever written, Ceremony, etc.), but I wanted to read something new and I really enjoyed this.