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A  
Chinua Achebe— Things Fall Apart
Douglas Adams— The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Sheila Kay Adams— My Old True Love
Mitch Albom— The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Mitch Albom— Tuesdays with Morrie
Monica Ali— Brick Lane
Sarah Addison Allen— Garden Spells
Isabel Allende— Daughter of Fortune
Isabel Allende— Eva Luna
Isabel Allende— The House of the Spirits
Isabel Allende— Ines of My Soul
Anita Amirrezvani— The Blood of Flowers
Maya Angelou— I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
A. Manette Ansay— Blue Water
Margaret Atwood— Alias Grace
Margaret Atwood— The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood— The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood— Oryx and Crake
Jane Austen— Pride and Prejudice




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B   
Murray Bail— Eucalyptus
David Baldacci— The Collectors
Louis Bayard— Mr. Timothy
Louis Bayard— The Pale Blue Eye
Lauren Belfer— City of Light
Alan Bennett— The Uncommon Reader
Louise De Bernieres— Corelli's Mandolin
Cordelia Frances Biddle— The Conjurer
Chris Bohjalian— Double Bind
Chris Bohjalian— Midwives
T.C. Boyle— Talk Talk
T.C. Boyle—Tortilla Curtain
Marion Zimmer Bradley— The Mists of Avalon
Ray Bradbury— Fahrenheit 451
Rick Bragg— All Over but the Shoutin'
Anita Brookner— Hotel du Lac
Charlotte Bronte— Jane Eyre
Emily Bronte— Wuthering Heights
Geraldine Brooks— March
Geraldine Brooks— Nine Parts of Desire
Geraldine Brooks— People of the Book
Geraldine Brooks— Year of Wonders
Dan Brown— The Da Vinci Code
Bill Bryson—The Life And Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Bill Bryson— A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson— A Walk in the Woods
Pearl S. Buck— The Good Earth
Augusten Burroughs— Possible Side Effects
Augusten Burroughs— Running with Sissors




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C   
Taylor Caldwell— The Listener
Stephen L. Carter— The Emperor of Ocean Park
Willa Cather— My Antonia
Michael Chabon— The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Michael Chabon— Wonder Boys
Michael Chabon— The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Jung Chang— Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Nien Cheng— Life and Death in Shanghai
Tracy Chevalier— Girl with a Pearl Earring
Tracy Chevalier— The Virgin Blue
Paulo Coehlo— The Alchemist
Richard Condon—The Manchurian Candidate
Anderson Cooper— Dispatches from the Edge
Donna W. Cross— Pope Joan
Michael Cunningham— The Hours
Li Cunxin—see Li (under L)




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D    
Tiffanie DeBartolo— God-Shaped Hole
Sarah and Elizabeth Delany— Having Our Say
Kiran Desai— The Inheritance of Loss
Anita Diamant— The Red Tent
Junot Diaz— The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Joan Didion— The Year of Magical Thinking
Annie Dillard—An American Childhood
Edward Dolnick— The Rescue Artist
Andre Dubus III— House of Sand and Fog





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E  
Kim Edwards— The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Jennifer Egan— The Keep
Jennifer Egan— Look at Me
Dave Eggers— A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Dave Eggers— What is the What
Barbara Ehrenreich— Nickel and Dimed
Leif Enger— Peace Like a River
Anne Enright— The Gathering
Louise Erdrich— The Master Butchers Singing Club
Louise Erdrich— The Plague of Doves
Clarissa Pinkola Estes— Women Who Run with the Wolves
Jeffrey Eugenides— Middlesex




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F   
Jim Fergus— One Thousand White Women
Helen Fielding— Bridget Jones's Diary
Janet Fitch— White Oleander
F. Scott Fitzgerald— The Great Gatsby
Fannie Flagg— Can't Wait to Get to Heaven
Jonathan Safran Foer— Everything is Illuminated
E.M. Forster— A Room With a View
Karen Joy Fowler— The Jane Austen Book Club
John Fowles— The French Lieutenant's Woman
Anne Frank— The Diary of a Young Girl
Charles Frazier— Cold Mountain
Charles Frazier— Thirteen Moons
James Frey— A Million Pieces
Thomas L. Friedman— The World is Flat
Alexander Fuller— Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight




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G   
Edward J. Gaines— The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Edward J. Gaines— A Lesson Before Dying
Gabriel Garcia Marquez— Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel Garcia Marquez— One Hundred Years of Solitude
Kaye Gibbons— Ellen Foster
Kaye Gibbons— On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon
Kaye Gibbons— A Virtuous Woman
Elizabeth Gilbert— Eat, Pray, Love
Malcolm Gladwell— Blink
Julia Glass— Three Junes
Julia Glass— The Whole World Over
Myla Goldberg— Bee Season
Arthur Golden— Memoirs of a Geisha
Francisco Goldman— The Divine Husband
Gloria Goldreich— Dinner with Anna Karenina
Carol Goodman— The Seduction of Water
Lawrence Otis Graham— Our Kind of People
Philippa Gregory— The Other Boleyn Girl
Kate Grenville— The Secret River
John Grisham— Skipping Christmas
John Grogan— Marley and Me
Sara Gruen— Riding Lessons
Sara Gruen— Water for Elephants
Judith Guest— Ordinary People
Beth Gutcheon— Leeway Cottage
Beth Gutcheon— More Than You Know
Beth Gutcheon— Saying Grace
David Guterson— Snow Falling on Cedars




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H   
Mark Haddon— The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Mark Haddon— A Spot of Bother
Kathryn Miller Haines— The War Against Miss Winter
Jane Hamilton— The Book of Ruth
Jane Hamilton— A Map of the World
Jane Hamilton— When Madeline Was Young
Thomas Hardy— Far from the Madding Crowd
Joanne Harris— Chocolat
Jim Harrison— Returning to Earth
Kathryn Harrison— A Thousand Orange Trees
Kent Haruf— Eventide
Kent Haruf— Plainsong
Ursula Hegi— Stones From the River
Zoe Heller— What Was She Thinking
Ernest Hemingway— A Farewell to Arms
Joshua Henkin— Matrimony
Carl Hiaasen—Flush
Laura Hillenbrand— Seabiscuit
Nancy Horan— Loving Frank
Khaled Housseini— The Kite Runner
Khaled Housseini— A Thousand Splendid Suns
Keri Hulme— The Bone People
Zora Neale Hurston— Their Eyes Were Watching God
Elisabeth Hyde— The Abortionist's Daughter




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I - J
John Irving— A Prayer for Owen Meany
John Irving— The World According to Garp
Kazuo Ishiguro— Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro— The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro— When We Were Orphans


Edward P. Jones— The Known World



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K  
Sue Monk Kidd— The Mermaid Chair
Sue Monk Kidd— The Secret Life of Bees
Tracy Kidder— Mountains Beyond Mountains
Barbara Kingsolver— Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Barbara Kingsolver— The Poisonwood Bible
Elizabeth Kostova— The Historian
Jon Krakauer— Under the Banner of Heaven
Nicole Krauss— The History of Love




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L
Jhumpa Lahiri— Interpreter of Maladies
Jumpha Lahiri— The Namesake
Wally Lamb— I Know This Much Is True
Wally Lamb— She's Come Undone
Lorna Landvik— Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons
Erik Larson— The Devil in the White City
Erik Larson— Thunderstruck
Andrea Lee— Lost Hearts in Italy
Harper Lee— To Kill a Mockingbird
Dennis Lehane— Mystic River
Li Cunxin— Mao's Last Dancer



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M   
Norman Maclean— A River Runs Through It
Najib Mafuz— see Naguib Mahfouz
Gregory Maguire— Wicked
Naguib Mahfouz—Palace Walk
J. Nozipo Maraire— Zenzele
Gabriel Garcia Marquez— Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel Garcia Marquez— One Hundred Years of Solitude
Yann Martel— Life of Pi
James McBride— The Color of Water
Cormac McCarthy— All the Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy— No Country for Old Men
Cormac McCarthy— The Road
Frank McCourt— Angela's Ashes
Alice McDermott— Charming Billy
Ian McEwan— Atonement
Ian McEwan— Saturday
Larry McMurtry— Lonesome Dove
Claire Messud— The Emporer's Children
Sue Miller— While I Was Gone
Sue Miller— The Good Mother
Rohinton Mistry— A Fine Balance
Toni Morrison— Beloved
Toni Morrison— The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison— Paradise
Toni Morrison— Song of Solomon
Greg Mortenson— Three Cups of Tea
Alice Munro— Friend of My Youth




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N   
Vladimir Nabokov— Lolita
Azar Nafisi— Reading Lolita in Tehran
Sena Jeter Naslund— Abundance
Sena Jeter Naslund— Ahab's Wife
Irene Nemirovsky— Suite Francaise
Audrey Niffenegger— The Time Traveler's Wife




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O  
Linda Olsson— Astrid and Veronika
George Orwell— Animal Farm
George Orwell— 1984
Frances Osborne— Lilla's Feast



P - Q  
Ann Packer— The Dive from Clausen's Pier
Ann Packer— Songs without Words
Ann Patchett— Bel Canto
Ann Patchett— Patron Saint of Liars
Ann Patchett— Run
Ann Patchett— Truth and Beauty
Mariane Pearl— A Mighty Heart
Matthew Pearl— The Dante Club
Stef Penney— The Tenderness of Wolves
Marisha Pessl— Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Per Petterson— Out Stealing Horses
Arthur Phillips— The Egyptologist
Jodi Picoult— My Sister's Keeper
Jodi Picoult— Nineteen Minutes
Jodi Picoult— The Tenth Circle
Jodi Picoult— Vanishing Acts
Michael Pollan— The Omnivore's Dilemma
Richard Powers— The Echo Maker
Annie Proulx— Brokeback Mountain
Annie Proulx— Close Range
Annie Proulx— The Shipping News


Queen Noor— Leap of Faith



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R   
David Oliver Relin— Three Cups of Tea
Jewell Parker Rhodes— The Douglass Women
Jean Rhys— Wide Sargasso Sea
Susan Richards— Chosen by a Horse
Marilynne Robinson— Gilead
Marilynne Robinson— Housekeeping
Deborah Rodriguez— Kabul Beauty School
Philip Roth— The Human Stain
Rodney Rothman— Early Bird
Arundhati Roy— The God of Small Things
Jed Rubenfeld— The Interpretation of Murder
Salman Rushdie— Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie— The Moor's Last Sigh
Richard Russo— Bridge of Sighs
Richard Russo— Empire Falls
Richard Russo— Nobody's Fool
Terry Ryan— The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio




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S   
J.D. Salinger— Catcher in the Rye
Helen Hooven Santmyer— And Ladies of the Club
Bernhard Schlink— The Reader
John Burnham Schwartz— The Commoner
Alice Sebold— The Lovely Bones
Lisa See— Peony in Love
Lisa See— Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Diane Setterfield— The Thirteenth Tale
Anita Shreve— Body Surfing
Anita Shreve— The Pilot's Wife
Lionel Shriver— We Need to Talk About Kevin
Anita Shreve— The Weight of Water
Gary Shteyngart— Absurdistan
Dai Sijie— Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Jane Smiley— Horse Heaven
Jane Smiley— Moo
Jane Smiley— A Thousand Acres
Jane Smiley— A Year at the Races
Alexander McCall Smith — The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency
Ali Smith— The Accidental
Betty Smith— A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Lee Smith— Oral History
Scott Smith— A Simple Plan
Zadie Smith— On Beauty
Zadie Smith— White Teeth
Dava Sobel— Galileo's Daughter
Dalia Sofer— The Septembers of Shiraz
Wallace Stegner— Angle of Repose
Wallace Stegner— Crossing to Safety
John Steinbeck— East of Eden
John Steinbeck— The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck— Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck— Tortilla Flat
John Steinbeck— Travels with Charley




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T   
Amy Tan— The Bonesetter's Daughter
Amy Tan— The Joy Luck Club
Donna Tartt— The Secret History
Eckhart Tolle— A New Earth
Leo Tolstoy— Anna Karenina
John Kennedy Toole— A Confederacy of Dunces
Robert Traver— Anatomy of a Murder
Adriani Trigiani— Big Cherry Holler
Adriani Trigiani— Big Stone Gap
Adriani Trigiani— Milk Glass Moon
Joanna Trollope— Next of Kin
Joanna Trollope— Other People's Children
Gail Tsukiyama— The Samauri's Garden
Anne Tyler— The Accidental Tourist
Anne Tyler— The Amateur Marriage
Anne Tyler— Back When We Were Grownups
Anne Tyler— Breathing Lessons
Anne Tyler— Digging to America
Anne Tyler— Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant




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U - V  
Gore Vidal— Lincoln
Susan Vreeland— Girl in Hyacinth Blue
Susan Vreeland— The Passion of Artemisia




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W   
Alice Walker— The Color Purple
Jeanette Walls— The Glass Castle
Larry Watson— Montana 1948
Evelyn Waugh— Brideshead Revisited
Edith Wharton— The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton— Ethan Frome
Marianne Wiggins— Evidence of Things Unseen
Simon Winchester— The Professor and the Madman
Eudora Welty— The Optimist's Daughter
Elie Wiesel— Night
Naomi Wolf— The Beauty Myth
Sandra Worth— Love and War (Rose of York Series)
Richard Wright— Native Son




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X - Y- Z   
Carlos Ruiz Zafon— The Shadow of the Wind
Fareed Zakaria— The Post American World
Marion Zimmer-Bradley— The Mists of Avalon