- “The Principles of Uncertainty” by Maira Kalman
- “A Student of Living Things” by Susan Richards Shreve
- “The Other Boleyn Girl” by Philippa Gregory
- “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini
- “No One Belongs here More Than You” by Miranda July
- “Love in the Time of Cholera” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- “The Big Girls” by Susanna Moore
- “Reservation Road” by John Burnham Schwartz
- “On Chesil Beach” by Ian McEwan
- “The Feast of Love” by Charles Baxter
- “Lolita” by Vladimir Nabokov
- “Sense and Sensibility” by Jane Austen
- “Ron Carlson Writes a Story” by Ron Carlson
- “elsewhere” by Gabrielle Zevin
- “Promise Not to Tell” by Jennifer McMahon
- “Some Fun” by Antonya Nelson
- “Beach Music” by Pat Conroy
- “Practically Perfect in Every Way- My Misadventures Through the World of Self-Help and Back” by Jennifer Niesslein
- “Throw Like a Girl” by Jean Thompson
- “Special Topics in Calamity Physics” by Marisha Pessl
- “The Patron Saint of Liars” by Ann Patchett
- “Rise and Shine” by Anna Quindlen
- “The Missouri Review” Spring 2007
- “The Dead Fish Museum” by Charles d’Ambrosio
- “The Secret of Lost Things” by Sheridan Hay
- “Reading Like a Writer” by Francine Prose
- “Making a Change for Good” by Cheri Huber
- “Fabulous Friendship Festival” by Sark
- “The Knitting Circle” by Ann Hood
- “The Ghost at the Table” by Suzanne Berne
- “She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana” by Haven Kimmel
- “Skylight Confessions” by Alice Hoffman
- “Moral Disorder” by Margaret Atwood
- “Awake in the Dark” by Shira Nayman
- “Blind Submission” by Debra Ginsberg
- “This Year You Write Your Novel” by Walter Mosley
- “Grace Eventually” by Anne Lamott
- “Happiness Sold Separately” by Lolly Winston
- “Girls in Peril” by Karen Lee Borden
- “Nineteen Minutes” by Jodi Picoult
- “The Tenth Circle” by Jodi Picoult
- “A history Lesson for Girls” by Aurelie Sheehan
- “A Bit on the Side” by William Trevor
- “Blackbird” by Jennifer Lauck
- “Happiness” by Will Ferguson
- “Life As We Knew It” by Susan Beth Pfeffer
- “Show Me the way” by Jennifer Lauck
- “Still Waters” by Jennifer Lauck
- “The Long Haul” by Amanda Stern
