Pearl, Matthew: The Dante Club

Read May 2006.

Report.

In sum:
A slow start, which I attribute to my knowing nothing about either Dante or Longfellow and his peers.
Loved it. Inspired to read Inferno.

Kurzweil, Allen: The Grand Complication

Read May 6, 2005.
Comments.

Buchanan, Andrea J (editor): It's A Girl

It's a Girl: Women Writers on Raising Daughters.
Read April 2006.
Reviewed.

Pamuk, Orhan: Snow

Read May 2, 2006.
Discussed.

Primary discussion at Reading Matters.

Highly recommended.
Of any contemporary book I can think of, this one I predict will be studied generations from now.