(in the order in which I read them)
1. March, by Geraldine Brooks
2. The Stone Diaries, by Carol Shields
3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, by J.K. Rowling
4. The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
5. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair that Changed America, by Erik Larson
(I also listened to Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner in the car and liked it very much.)