1. A cold December wind was blowing and Teresa Osborne crossed her arms as she stared out over the water.
A) MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE by Nicholas Sparks
B) THE LETTER by Richard Paul Evans
C) THE PERFECT STORM by Sebastian Junger
D) BEACH MUSIC by Pat Conroy

2. Charlie Crocker, astride his favorite Tennessee walking horse pulled his shoulders back to make sure he was erect in the saddle and took a deep breath...Ahhhh, that was the ticket...
A) CITIES OF THE PLAIN by Cormac McCarthy
B) COMANCHE MOON by Larry McMurtry
C) CUBA LIBRE by Elmore Leonard
D) A MAN IN FULL by Tom Wolfe

3. Until I began to build and launch rockets, I didn't know my hometown was at war with itself over its children and that my parents were locked in a kind of bloodless combat over how my brother and I would live our lives.
A) WOEBEGON BOY by Garrison Keillor
B) ROCKET BOYS by Homer Hickam
C) TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE by Mitch Albom
D) I KNOW THIS MUCH IS TRUE by Wally Lamb

4. She hurries from the house, wearing a coat too heavy for the weather.
A) A WIDOW FOR ONE YEAR by John Irving
B) BAG OF BONES by Stephen King
C) THE HOURS by Michael Cunningham
D) THE LOOP by Nicholas Evans

5. At this prison the doors are inches thick, steel; once factory smooth, they now carry multiple dents.
A) THE SIMPLE TRUTH by David Baldacci
B) CAT & MOUSE by James Patterson
C) THE STREET LAWYER by John Grisham
D) SECRET PREY by John Sandford

6. I will not drink more than fourteen alcohol units a week.
A) APHRODITE by Isabel Allende
B) BRIDGET JONES' DIARY by Helen Fielding
C) THRILL! by Jackie Collins
D) THE SHARP EDGES by Jayne Ann Krentz

7. The first time my husband hit me I was nineteen years old.
A) BLACK AND BLUE by Anna Quindlan
B) LOW COUNTRY by Ann Rivers Siddons
C) WELCOME TO THE WORLD, BABY GIRL by Fannie Flagg
D) A PATCHWORK PLANET by Anne Tyler

8. The city is broiling in an early summer heat wave and for the third day in a row Victoria buys a salad from the Korean market around the corner and has lunch at her desk.
A) THEN CAME HEAVEN by Lavyrle Spencer
B) SUMMER SISTERS by Judy Blume
C) THE GHOST by Danielle Steele
D) ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT by Mary Higgins Clark

9. A flattened and drying daffodil was dangling off the little card that I had made my Aunt Atie for Mother's Day.
A) THE POISONWOOD BIBLE by Barbara Kingsolver
B) VIOLIN by Anne Rice
C) BREATH, EYES, MEMORY by Edwidge Danticat
D) PARADISE by Toni Morrison

10. Somewhere in The Bronx, only twenty minutes or so from the cemetery, Maeve found a small bar-and-grill in a wooded alcove set well off the street that was willing to serve the funeral party of forty-seven medium-rare roast beef and boiled potatoes and green beans almondine, with fruit salad to begin and vanilla ice cream to go with the coffee.
A) POINT OF ORIGIN by Patricia Cornwell
B) CHARMING BILLY by Alice McDermott
C) N IS FOR NOOSE by Sue Grafton
D) WALKING THE MOON by Elizabeth Hand