Suburban Diva's Confessions: useless incentives

When not writing, I'm reading:

Three Strong Women, by Marie Ndiaye**
The Satanic Verses, by Salman Rushdie**
Flight, by SHerman Alexie***
An Inconvenient Truth, by Al Gore ***
State of Wonder, by Ann Patchett****
The Dovekeepers,by Alice Hoffman ****
Beautiful Maria of My Soul, by Oscar Hijuelos
Girl in Translation, by Jean Kwok
The Opposite of Me, by Sarah Pekkanen
Let the Great World Spin, by Colum McCann
Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout
The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein
The Enchantress of Florence, by Salman Rushdie
Firefly Lane, by Kristin Hannah
Julie and Julia, by Julie Powell
The Danish Girl,by David Ebershoff
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz
The Romanov Bride, by Robert Alexander
The Sex Lives of Cannibals; Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific, by J. Maarten Troost
The Madonnas of Leningrad, by Debra Dean
The Confessions of Max Tivoli, by Andrew Sean Greer
Shelter Me, by Juliette Fay
The Hour I First Believed,by Wally Lamb
Songs Without Words, by Ann Packer
The Pirate's Daughter, by Margaret Cezair-Thompson
The Septembers of Shiraz, by Dalia Sofer
The Mission Song, by John le Carre
Suite Francaise, by Irene Nemirovsky
The Last Chinese Chef, by Nicole Mones
Hanna's Daughters, by Marianne Fredriksson
The Teahouse Fire,by Ellis Avery
The Opposite of Love, by Julie Buxbaum
Eat, Pray, Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert
Seeing, by Jose Saramago
Beginner's Greek, by James Collins