my reading list

In the interest of making blogging easier on myself I've decided that I need to make a reading list.
I love reading guides, I love books that give you lists of books based on a theme to read. I love the descriptions and then the trawling the net for reviews to see if I'll actually like it myself.
The guide I ended up turning to was, A year of reading by Elisabeth Ellington and Jane Fremiller. The book is arranged into chapters based on the months of the year and theres a different theme for each month.
For each month you the get a book selection from a selection of either crowd pleaser, classic, challenge, memoir or potluck. For each selection the book has reading questions, authors bios and loads of other info along with other recommended reading to help you get the most out of the book.In the month of November the theme is comfort food, comfort reading. the crowd pleaser is She flew the coop by Michael Lee West. This is a novel set in the south with recipes interspaced throughout which have meaning for the story. I've also bought the authors memoir Consuming passions a food obsessed life, I,m going to start with this as I noticed that West has recipes in the memoir for things that she mentions in she flew the coop but doesn't have a recipe for. The plan is that I'm going to Cross reference the two works so that when she mentions a meal that there isn't a recipe for in She flew the coop but there is in Consuming passions that I'll cook the meal based mainly on authors own recipe. Any ways I feel that I've talked enough, so heres my reading list from the book for a little while-

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  Consuming Passions a food obsessed life by Michael Lee West
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  She flew the coop by Michael Lee West
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  Crazy in Alabama by Mark Childress
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  Home cooking and
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  More home cooking from Laurie Colwin
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  Like water for chocolate by Laura Esquivel
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  Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle stop cafe by Fannie Flagg
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  and lastly My Mothers southern kitchen: recipes and reminiscences by James Villas

If anyone's read any of these and wants to tell me what they think, please do! I'd love to hear how other people got on with any of these books.