Currently on my nightstand:

 I usually shy away from books in Operah's Book Club on mere principal as they typically tend toward chick-lit, PC, feel good 8th grade reading level abuses of the English language. I haven't made up my mind about this one yet - just that it's not all that bad. Reading it for my book club.

Set in 1920's Georgetown, about racism and coping with the death of a child. It certainly offers a diferent perspective than I usually get from the books I choose. It's an easy read but the subject matter is tough to wade through.

River, Cross My Heart: By, Breena Clarke

  Another book club book (that I didn't finish in time for the discussion but am still reading). As in most cases the book, far better than the movie.

This book is eloquently written.

Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they’ll make your soul impervious to the world’s soft decay ~ Janet Fitch

White Oleander, Janet Fitch

The book primarily has to do with the adventures of a nineteen-year old prostitute in 1875 London. It's Dickens in the playboy mansion.

The Crimson Petal and the White, Michel Faber