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A  
Chinua Achebe— Things Fall Apart
Diane Ackerman— The Zookeeper's Wife
Douglas Adams— The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Sheila Kay Adams— My Old True Love
Gil Adamson— The Outlander
Aravind Adiga— The White Tiger
Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie— Half of a Yellow Sun
Elizabeth Adler— Fortune is a Woman
Uwem Akpan— Say You're One of Them
Daniel Alarcon— Lost City Radio
Mitch Albom— The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Mitch Albom— Have a Little Faith
Mitch Albom— Tuesdays with Morrie
Louise May Alcott— Little Women
Sholem Aleichem—Tevye, the Dairyman
Ayaan Hirsi Ali— Infidel
Monica Ali— Brick Lane
Sarah A. 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
David Almond— Skellig
Anita Amirrezvani— The Blood of Flowers
Maya Angelou— I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou—Letter to My Daughter
A. Manette Ansay— Blue Water
Jeffrey Archer— Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
Bridget Asher— The Pretend Bride
Kate Atkinson— Case Histories
Kate Atkinson— One Good Turn
Kate Atkinson— When Will There Be Good News
Margaret Atwood— Alias Grace
Margaret Atwood— The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood— The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood— Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood— The Year of the Flood
Jane Austen— Emma
Jane Austen— Mansfield Park
Jane Austen— Persuasion
Jane Austen— Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen— Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Seth Grahame-Smith)
Jane Austen— Sense and Sensibility
Avi— Seer of Shadows



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B   
Mariama Ba— So Long a Letter
Jimmy Santiago Baca— A Place to Stand
Anita Badami— Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?
Murray Bail— Eucalyptus
David Baldacci— The Collectors
David Baldacci— The Winner
Muriel Barbery— The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Alessandro Baricco— Silk
Annie Barrows— The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Brunonia Barry— The Lace Reader
Dan Baum— Nine Lives
Charles Baxter— Feast of Love
Charles Baxter— The Soul Thief
Louis Bayard— The Black Tower
Louis Bayard— Mr. Timothy
Louis Bayard— The Pale Blue Eye
Ishmael Beah— Long Way Gone
Lauren Belfer— City of Light
David Benioff— City of Thieves
Sandra Benitez— Bitter Grounds
Alan Bennett— The Uncommon Reader
John Berendt— The City of Falling Angels
John Berendt— Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Elizabeth Berg— Home Safe
Elizabeth Berg— What We Keep
Elizabeth Berg— The Year of Pleasures
Suzanne Berne— Ghost at the Table
Louis de Bernieres— see D (de Bernieres)
Cordelia Frances Biddle— The Conjurer
Maeve Binchy— The Copper Beech
Maeve Binchy— Heart and Soul
Maeve Binchy— Quentins
Amy Bloom— Away
Jenna Blum— Those Who Save Us
Chris Bohjalian— Before You Know Kindness
Chris Bohjalian— Double Bind
Chris Bohjalian— Midwives
Chris Bohjalian— Skeletons at the Feast
Roberto Bolan— 2666
Ulrich Boser— The Gardner Heist
Marie Bostwick— A Single Thread
C.J. Box— Blue Heaven
T.C. Boyle— Talk Talk
T.C. Boyle—Tortilla Curtain
John Boyne— The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Ray Bradbury— Fahrenheit 451
Alan Bradley— The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Marion Zimmer Bradley— The Mists of Avalon
Kate Braestrup— Here If You Need Me
Rick Bragg— All Over but the Shoutin'
Ann Brashares— Last Summer (of You & Me)
Ann Brashares— The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Marie Brenner— Apples & Oranges
Alan Brennert— Moloka'i
Connie Briscoe— Sisters and Husbands
Connie Briscoe— Sisters and Lovers
Po Bronson— Nurture Shock
Charlotte Bronte— Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte— Villette
Emily Bronte— Wuthering Heights
Anita Brookner— Hotel du Lac
Anita Brookner— Strangers
Geraldine Brooks— March
Geraldine Brooks— Nine Parts of Desire
Geraldine Brooks— People of the Book
Geraldine Brooks— Year of Wonders
Dan Brown— Angels and Demons
Dan Brown— The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown— The Lost Symbol
Marvelyn Brown— The Naked Truth: Young...(HIV) Positive
Tony Brown— What Mama Taught Me
Sylvia Brownrigg— Morality Tale
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
Elizabeth Buchan— Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman
Pearl S. Buck— The Good Earth
Claudia Mair Burney—Wounded
Augusten Burroughs— Possible Side Effects
Augusten Burroughs— Running with Sissors
Candace Bushnell— One Fifth Avenue
Candace Bushnell— Sex and the City
A.S. Byatt— The Children's Book
A.S. Byatt— Possession
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum— Ms. Hempel Chronicles



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C   
Taylor Caldwell— Captains and the Kings
Taylor Caldwell— The Listener
Wayne Caldwell— Cataloochee
Ethan Canin— America America
Ethan Canin— Palace Thief
Anthony Capella— The Food of Love
Anthony Capella— Wedding Officer
Truman Capote— Breakfast at Tiffany's
Truman Capote— In Cold Blood
Betsy Carter— The Puzzle King
Stephen L. Carter— The Emperor of Ocean Park
Stephen L. Carter— New England White
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
Julia Child— My Life in France
Sandra Cisneros— The House on Mango Street
Meg Waite Clayton— The Wednesday Sisters
Chris Cleave— Little Bee
Paulo Coehlo— The Alchemist
Paulo Coehlo— Brida
Paulo Coehlo— The Witch of Portobello
Gail Collins— America's Women
Gail Collins— When Everything Changed
Wilkie Collins— The Woman in White
Richard Condon—The Manchurian Candidate
Pat Conroy— Beach Music
Pat Conroy— The Great Santini
Pat Conroy— The Prince of Tides
Pat Conroy— South of Broad
Pat Conroy— The Water Is Wide
Claire Cook— Life's a Beach
Claire Cook— Must Love Dogs
Claire Cook— Summer Blowout
Thomas H. Cook— The Chatham School Affair
Caroline B. Cooney— The Face on the Milk Carton
Anderson Cooper— Dispatches from the Edge
Helene Cooper— The House at Sugar Beach
J. California Cooper— Life Is Short But Wide
J. California Cooper— The Wake of the Wind
Stacy A. Cordery— Alice: Alice Longworth Roosevelt
Patricia Cornwell— Body of Evidence
Patricia Cornwell— Post Mortem
Catherine Coulter— Double Take
Lynne Cox— Grayson
Michael Cox— The Glass of Time
Michael Cox— The Meaning of Night: A Confession
Donna W. Cross— Pope Joan
Katie Crouch— Girls in Trucks
Michael Cunningham— The Hours
Li Cunxin—see Li (under L)



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D    
Sandra Dallas— The Diary of Mattie Spenser
Edwidge Danticat— Breath, Eyes, Memory
Edwidge Danticat— The Farming of Bones
Debra Dean— The Madonnas of Leningrad
Tiffanie DeBartolo— God-Shaped Hole
Louis de Bernieres— Corelli's Mandolin
Louis de Bernieres— Partisan's Daughter
Belle de Jour— Secret Diary of a Call Girl
Marisa de los Santos— Belong to Me
Marisa de los Santos— Love Walked In
Sarah and Elizabeth Delany— Having Our Say
Catherine Delors— Mistress of the Revolution
Tatiana de Rosnay— Sarah's Key
Kiran Desai— The Inheritance of Loss
Jude Deveraux— The Summerhouse
Anita Diamant— Day After Night
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
Annie Dillard— The Living
Chitra Divakaruni— Sister of My Heart
E.L. Doctorow— The Book of Daniel
E.L. Doctorow— Homer and Langley
E.L. Doctorow— The March
E.L. Doctorow— Ragtime
Ivan Doig— Dancing at the Rascal Fair
Ivan Doig— The Eleventh Man
Ivan Doig— English Creek
Ivan Doig— Ride with Me, Mariah Montana
Ivan Doig— This House of Sky
Ivan Doig— Whistling Season
Edward Dolnick— The Rescue Artist
Daphne Du Maurier— Rebecca
Stephen J. Dubner— Freakonomics
Andre Dubus III— House of Sand and Fog
Tananarive Due— The Living Blood
Tananarive Due— My Soul to Keep
Alexandre Dumas— Count of Monte Cristo
Sarah Dunant— The Birth of Venus
Sarah Dunant— In the Company of the Courtesan
Sarah Dunant— Sacred Hearts
Carola Dunn— Death at Wentwater Court
Sarah Dunn— The Big Love
Sarah Dunn— Secrets to Happiness


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E  
Tony Earley— Jim the Boy
David Ebershoff— The 19th Wife
Kim Edwards— The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Jennifer Egan— The Keep
Jennifer Egan— Look at Me
Timothy Egan— The Worst Hard Time
Dave Eggers— A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Dave Eggers— What is the What
Dave Eggers— You Shall Know Our Velocity!
Barbara Ehrenreich— Nickel and Dimed
Joseph J. Ellis— Founding Brothers
Leif Enger— Peace Like a River
Leif Enger— So Young, Brave, and Handsome
Nathan Englander— The Ministry of Special Cases
Anne Enright— The Gathering
Jennifer Cody Epstein— The Painter from Shanghai
Louise Erdrich— Love Medicine
Louise Erdrich— The Master Butchers Singing Club
Louise Erdrich— The Plague of Doves
Janna Cawrse Esarey— The Motion of the Ocean
Clarissa Pinkola Estes— Women Who Run with the Wolves
Jeffrey Eugenides— Middlesex
Richard Paul Evans— The Christmas List



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F   
Anne Fadiman— The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Evan Fallenberg— Light Fell
William Faulkner— Absalom, Absalom!
William Faulkner— As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner— Light in August
William Faulkner— The Sound and the Fury
Jennifer M. Fenske— The Wide Smiles of Girls
Jim Fergus— One Thousand White Women
Helen Fielding— Bridget Jones's Diary
Alex Finn— Fade to Black
Janet Fitch— White Oleander
F. Scott Fitzgerald— The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
F. Scott Fitzgerald— The Great Gatsby
Fannie Flagg— Can't Wait to Get to Heaven
Fannie Flagg— A Redbird Christmas
Jamie Ford— Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Jonathan Safran Foer— Everything is Illuminated
Jonathan Safran Foer— Extremely Loud and Incredibly
Ken Follett— Pillars of the Earth
Ken Follett— World Without End
Elaine Ford— American Wife: Stories
E.M. Forster— A Room With a View
Karen Joy Fowler— The Jane Austen Book Club
John Fowles— The French Lieutenant's Woman
John Fowles— The Magus
Karen Foxlee— The Anatomy of Wings
Anne Frank— The Diary of a Young Girl
Dorothea Benton Frank— Sullivan's Island
Viktor Frankl— Man's Search for Meaning
Jonathan Franzen— The Corrections
Charles Frazier— Cold Mountain
Charles Frazier— Thirteen Moons
Castle Freeman, Jr.— All That I Have
Tana French— In the Woods
Tana French— The Likeness
James Frey— A Million Pieces
Thomas L. Friedman— Hot, Flat, and Crowded
Thomas L. Friedman— The World is Flat
Alexander Fuller— Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
Kate Furnivall— The Red Scarf
Kate Furnivall— The Russian Concubine



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G   
Diana Gabaldon— Outlander
Ernest J. Gaines— The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Ernest J. Gaines— A Lesson Before Dying
Ernest J. Gaines— Of Love and Dust
Steven Galloway— The Cellist of Sarajevo
Gabriel Garcia Marquez— Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel Garcia Marquez— One Hundred Years of Solitude
Lisa Genova— Still Alice
Amitav Ghosh— The Glass Palace
Amitav Ghosh— Sea of Poppies
Kaye Gibbons— Ellen Foster
Kaye Gibbons— On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon
Kaye Gibbons— A Virtuous Woman
Pamela Gien— The Syringa Tree
Emily Giffin— Love the One You're With
Elizabeth Gilbert— Eat, Pray, Love
Malcolm Gladwell— Blink
Malcolm Gladwell— Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell— The Tipping Point
Julia Glass— I See You Everywherbe
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
Andrea Goldsmith— The Prosperous Thief
Carol Goodman— The Seduction of Water
Doris Kearns Goodwin— Team of Rivals
Robert Goolrick— A Reliable Wife
Lawrence Otis Graham— Our Kind of People
Seth Grahame-Smith—Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Michael Greenberg— Hurry Down Sunshine
Andrew Sean Greer— The Story of a Marriage
Philippa Gregory— The Other Boleyn Girl
Philippa Gregory— The Other Queen
Philippa Gregory— The White Queen
Kate Grenville— The Idea of Perfection
Kate Grenville— The Lieutenant
Kate Grenville— The Secret River
John Grisham— The Innocent Man
John Grisham— Playing for Pizza
John Grisham— Skipping Christmas
John Grogan— Marley and Me
Lev Grossman— The Magicians
Sara Gruen— Riding Lessons
Sara Gruen— Water for Elephants
Heather Gudenkauf— The Weight of Silence
Judith Guest— Ordinary People
Sally Gunning— The Widow's War
Beth Gutcheon— Five Fortunes
Beth Gutcheon— Good-bye and Amen
Beth Gutcheon— Leeway Cottage
Beth Gutcheon— More Than You Know
Beth Gutcheon— Saying Grace
David Guterson— Other
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
Rawi Hage— Cockroach
Mary Downing Hahn— The Old Willis Place
Jennifer Haigh— Baker Towers
Jennifer Haigh— The Condition
Jennifer Haigh— Mrs. Kimble
Kathryn Miller Haines— The War Against Miss Winter
Shannon Hale— Book of a Thousand Days
Shannon Hale— Princess Academy
Ron Hall— Same Kind of Different As Me
Steven Hall— Raw Shark Texts
Mohsin Hamid— The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Jane Hamilton— The Book of Ruth
Jane Hamilton— A Map of the World
Jane Hamilton— When Madeline Was Young
Masha Hamilton— The Camel Bookmobile
Masha Hamilton— The Distance Between Us
Chelsea Handler— My Horizontal Life
Kristin Hannah— Firefly Lane
Kristin Hannah— On Mystic Lake
Thomas Hardy— Far from the Madding Crowd
Hill Harper— Letters to a Young Sister
E. Lynn Harris— Just Too Good to be True
Joanne Harris— Chocolat
Jim Harrison— Returning to Earth
Kathryn Harrison— A Thousand Orange Trees
John Hart— The Last Child
Kent Haruf— Eventide
Kent Haruf— Plainsong
Steve Harvey— Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man
Ursula Hegi— Stones From the River
Zoe Heller— What Was She Thinking
Ernest Hemingway— A Farewell to Arms
Judith Hendricks— The Baker's Apprentice
Judith Hendricks— Bread Alone
Judith Hendricks— The Laws of Harmony
Joshua Henkin— Matrimony
Joanna Hershon— Swimming
Carl Hiaasen— Flush
Robert Hicks— The Widow of the South
Seiichi Higashide— Adios to Tears
Earl J. Higgins— The Joy of Y'at Catholicism
Elin Hilderbrand— Barefoot
Elin Hilderbrand— The Love Season
Lawrence Hill— The Book of Negroes / Someone Knows My Name
Laura Hillenbrand— Seabiscuit
Alice Hoffman— Illumination Night
Alice Hoffman— Practical Magic
Alice Hoffman— Seventh Heaven
Alice Hoffman— The Story Sisters
Alice Hoffman— The Third Angel
Alice Hoffman— Turtle Moon
Eva Hoffman— Appassionata
Jilliane Hoffman— Retribution
Alan Hollinghurst— The Line of Beauty
Rupert Holmes— Where the Truth Lies
Nancy Horan— Loving Frank
Anthony Horowitz— Stormbreaker
Khaled Housseini— The Kite Runner
Khaled Housseini— A Thousand Splendid Suns
Katherine Howe— The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
Keri Hulme— The Bone People
Zora Neale Hurston— Their Eyes Were Watching God
Catherine Ryan Hyde— Pay It Forward
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
Walter Isaacson— Einstein
Kazuo Ishiguro— Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro— The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro— When We Were Orphans

Joshilyn Jackson— The Girl Who Stopped Swimming
Joshilyn Jackson— The Gods in Alabama
Kate Jacobs— The Friday Night Knitting Club
Henry James— Daisy Miller
Henry James— The Portrait of a Lady
Carolyn Jessop— Escape
Paulette Jiles—Enemy Women
Denis Johnson— Tree of Smoke
R.M. Johnson— The Million Dollar Demise
Spencer Johnson— Who Moved My Cheese
Edward P. Jones— The Known World
Lloyd Jones— Mister Pip
Belle de Jour— Secret Diary of a Call Girl



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K  
Lesley Kagen— Whistling in the Dark
Vivian Jeanette Kaplan— Ten Green Bottles
Mary Karr— The Liar's Club
Doris Kearns Goodwin— Team of Rivals
Garrison Keillor— Pontoon
Kathleen Kent— The Heretic's Daughter
Philip Kerr— A Quiet Flame
Daniel Keyes— Flowers for Algernon
Sue Monk Kidd— The Mermaid Chair
Sue Monk Kidd— The Secret Life of Bees
Tracy Kidder— Mountains Beyond Mountains
Tracy Kidder— Strength in What Remains
Barbara Kingsolver— Animal Dreams
Barbara Kingsolver— Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Barbara Kingsolver— The Bean Trees
Barbara Kingsolver— Pigs in Heaven
Barbara Kingsolver— The Poisonwood Bible
Barbara Kingsolver— Prodigal Summer
Sophie Kinsella— Can You Keep a Secret?
Sophie Kinsella— Confessions of a Shopaholic
Sophie Kinsella— Remember Me?
Sophie Kinsella— Twenties Girl
Katrina Kittle— The Kindness of Strangers
Dean Koontz— Life Expectancy
Gordon Korman— Swindle
Elizabeth Kostova— The Historian
Jon Krakauer— Into the Wild
Joh Krakauer— Into Thin Air
Jon Krakauer— Under the Banner of Heaven
Jon Krakauer— Where Men Win Glory
Nicole Krauss— The History of Love
James Howard Kunstler— World Made by Hand
Rachel Kushner— Telex from Cuba
Aryn Kyle— The God of Animals



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Jhumpa Lahiri— Interpreter of Maladies
Jumpha Lahiri— The Namesake
Jumpha Lahiri— Unaccustomed Earth
Wally Lamb— The Hour I First Believed
Wally Lamb— I Know This Much Is True
Wally Lamb— She's Come Undone
Lorna Landvik— Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons
Lorna Landvik— 'Tis the Season
Lorna Landvik— The View from Mount Joy
Erik Larson— The Devil in the White City
Erik Larson— Thunderstruck
Stieg Larsson— The Girl Who Played with Fire
Stieg Larsson— The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Jeanne Marie Laskas— Fifty Acres and a Poodle
D.H. Lawrence— Lady Chatterley's Lover
Mary Lawson— Crow Lake
Mary Lawson—The Other Side of the Bridge
Nam Le— The Boat
John le Carre— A Most Wanted Man
Suzanne Lebsock— A Murder in Virginia
Andrea Lee— Lost Hearts in Italy
Harper Lee— To Kill a Mockingbird
Janice Y.K. Lee— Piano Teacher
Dennis Lehane— The Given Day
Dennis Lehane— Mystic River
Jonathan Lethem— Chronic City
Jonathan Lethem— The Fortress of Solitude
Jonathan Lethem— Motherless Brooklyn
Billie Letts— Made in the U.S.A.
Billie Letts— Shoot the Moon
Billie Letts— Where the Heart Is
Stephen D. Levitt— Freakonomics
C.S. Lewis— The Chronicles of Narnia (complete series)
C.S. Lewis— Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe
C.S. Lewis— The Screwtape Letters
Sinclaiar Lewis— Main Street
Li Cunxin— Mao's Last Dancer
Francie Lin— Foreigner
Laura Lippman— Life Sentences
Margot Livesey— The House on Fortune Street
Richard Llewellyn— How Green Was My Valley
Attica Locke— Black Water Rising
Steve Lopez— The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely...
Cynthia Lord— Rules
Victoria Lustbader— Stone Creek
Sarah-Kate Lynch— House of Daughters



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M   
Norman Maclean— A River Runs Through It
Najib Mafuz— see Mahfouz
Gregory Maguire— Wicked
Naguib Mahfouz— Palace Walk
Michael Malone— Handling Sin
Somaly Mam— The Road of Lost Innocence
Rani Manicka— The Rice Mother
Jennifer Manske Fenske— The Wide Smiles of Girls
Hilary Mantel— Wolf Hall
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
Charles Martin— When Crickets Cry
Charles Martin— Wrapped in Rain
Daniel Mason— The Piano Tuner
Robert Mawson— The Lazarus Child
Frances Mayes— Under the Tuscan Sun
Peter Mayle— A Year in Provence
James McBride— The Color of Water
James McBride— Miracle at St. Anna
James McBride— Song Yet Sung
Nathan McCall— Them
Colum McCann— Let the Great World Spin
Cormac McCarthy— All the Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy— No Country for Old Men
Cormac McCarthy— The Road
Frank McCourt— Angela's Ashes
Frank McCourt— Teacher Man
Carson McCullers— The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
David McCullough— John Adams
Alice McDermott— Charming Billy
Ian McEwan— Atonement
Ian McEwan— Enduring Love
Ian McEwan— On Chesil Beach
Ian McEwan— Saturday
Ami McKay— The Birth House
Ron McLarty— Memory of Running
Larry McMurtry— Lonesome Dove
Jon Meacham— American Lion
Herman Melville— Bartleby the Scrivener
Herman Melville— Benito Cereno
Dinaw Mengestu— The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
Pascal Mercier— Night Train to Lisbon
Ashley Merryman— Nurture Shock
Roland Merullo— Breakfast with Buddha
Claire Messud— The Emporer's Children
Donald Miller— Blue Like Jazz
Sue Miller— The Good Mother
Sue Miller— The Senator's Wife
Sue Miller— While I Was Gone
David Milofsky— Playing from Memory
Anchee Min— The Last Empress
Rohinton Mistry— A Fine Balance
David Mitchell— Ghostwritten
Margaret Mitchell— Gone With the Wind
Miriam Grace Monfredo— North Star Conspiracy
Sy Montgomery— The Good Good Pig
Christopher Moore— Fool
Christopher Moore— Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff
Denver Moore— Same Kind of Different As Me
Lorrie Moore— A Gate at the Stairs
Michelle Moran— Nefertiti
Laura Moriarty— The Center of Everything
Laura Moriarity— Rest of Her Life
Laura Moriarty— While I'm Falling
Toni Morrison— Beloved
Toni Morrison— The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison— A Mercy
Toni Morrison— Paradise
Toni Morrison— Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison— Sula
Greg Mortenson— Three Cups of Tea
Kate Morton— The Forgotten Garden
Kate Morton— The House at Riverton
Walter Mosley— The Man In My Basement
Walter Mosley— The Tempest Tales
Thomas Mullen— The Last Town on Earth
Alice Munro— Friend of My Youth
Alice Munro— View from Castle Rock
Vicky Myron— Dewey: Small-Town Library Cat



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N   
Vladimir Nabokov— Lolita
Azar Nafisi— Reading Lolita in Tehran
V.S. Naipaul— A House for Mr. Biswis
Sena Jeter Naslund— Abundance
Sena Jeter Naslund— Ahab's Wife
Mende Nazer— Slave: My True Story
Irene Nemirovsky— Suite Francaise
Audrey Niffenegger— Her Fearful Symmetry
Audrey Niffenegger— The Time Traveler's Wife
Elizabeth Noble— The Reading Group
Elizabeth Noble— Things I Want My Daughters to Know
Queen Noor— Leap of Faith
Kathleen Norris— Acedia and Me



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Joyce Carol Oates— Black Water
Joyce Carol Oates— Blonde
Joyce Carol Oates— The Falls
Joyce Carol Oates— Gravedigger's Daughter
Joyce Carol Oates— Little Bird of Heaven
Joyce Carol Oates— We Were the Mulvaneys
Barack Obama— Dreams from My Father
Tim O'Brien— The Things They Carried
Tawni O'Dell— Back Roads
Tawni O'Dell— Coal Run
Tawni O'Dell— Sister Mine
Catherine O'Flynn— What Was Lost
John O'Hara— Appointment in Samarra
Ben Okri— The Famished Road
Linda Olsson— Astrid and Veronika
Steward O'Nan— Last Night at the Lobster
Jamie O'Neill— At Swim, Two Boys
Joseph O'Neill— Netherland
Doreen Orion— Queen of the Road
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
Christopher Paolini— Eragon
Ann Patchett— Bel Canto
Ann Patchett— The Magician's Assistant
Ann Patchett— Patron Saint of Liars
Ann Patchett— Run
Ann Patchett— Truth and Beauty
Alan Paton— Cry, the Beloved Country
James Patterson— 2nd Chance
James Patterson— Sundays at Tiffany's
Gary Paulsen— Winterdance
Randy Pausch— The Last Lecture
Mariane Pearl— A Mighty Heart
Matthew Pearl— The Dante Club
Matthew Pearl— The Last Dickens
Matthew Pearl— The Poe Shadow
Stef Penney— The Tenderness of Wolves
Jacques Pepin— The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen
Irene Pepperberg— Alex & Me
Tom Perrotta— The Abstinence Teacher
Tom Perrotta— Little Children
Marisha Pessl— Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Per Petterson— Out Stealing Horses
Peter Pezzelli— Francesca's Kitchen
Arthur Phillips— The Egyptologist
Christi Phillips— The Rossetti Letter
Delores Phillips— The Darkest Child
Nancy Pickard— The Virgin of Small Plains
Jodi Picoult— Change of Heart
Jodi Picoult— Handle with Care
Jodi Picoult— Harvesting the Heart
Jodi Picoult— My Sister's Keeper
Jodi Picoult— Nineteen Minutes
Jodi Picoult— The Tenth Circle
Jodi Picoult— Vanishing Acts
Rosamunde Pilcher— The Shell Seekers
Sylvia Plath— Bell Jar
Sidney Poitier— The Measure of a Man
Michael Pollan— In Defense of Food
Michael Pollan— The Omnivore's Dilemma
Anthoy Powell— Dance to the Music of Time (I-IV)
Julia Powell— Julie and Julia
Richard Powers— The Echo Maker
Steven Pressfield— Gates of Fire
Douglas Preston— Monster of Florence
Reynolds Price— Kate Vaiden
Richard Price— Lush Life
Francine Prose— Goldengrove
Annie Proulx— Brokeback Mountain
Annie Proulx— Close Range
Annie Proulx— The Shipping News


Queen Noor— Leap of Faith
Anna Quindlen— Blessings
Anna Quindlen— Object Lessons
Anna Quindlen— One True Thing
Anna Quindlen— Rise and Shine



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R   
Kris Radish— Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral
Naomi Ragen— Sotah
Ayn Rand— Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand— The Fountainhead
Ron Rash— Serena
Julia Reed— Queen of the Turtle Derby
Ruth Reichl— Tender at the Bone
Kathy Reichs— Bones to Ashes
Kathy Reichs— Break No Bones
David Oliver Relin— Three Cups of Tea
Jewell Parker Rhodes— The Douglass Women
Jean Rhys— Wide Sargasso Sea
Susan Richards— Chosen by a Horse
Janet Grace Riehl— Sightlines: A Poet's Diary
Laurie Viera Rigler— Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict
Tom Robbins— Skinny Legs and All
Cokie Roberts— Founding Mothers
Nora Roberts— Angels Fall
Kathleen Robinson— Dominic
Marilynne Robinson— Gilead
Marilynne Robinson— Home
Marilynne Robinson— Housekeeping
Roxana Robinson— Cost
Deborah Rodriguez— Kabul Beauty School
Tatiana de Rosnay— Sarah's Key
Philip Roth— American Pastoral
Philip Roth— Everyman
Philip Roth— Exit Ghost
Philip Roth— The Human Stain
Philip Roth— Operation Shylock
Philip Roth— The Plot Against America
Philip Roth— Portnoy's Complaint
Philip Roth— Sabbath's Theater
Philip Roth— Zuckerman Bound
Rodney Rothman— Early Bird
Arundhati Roy— The God of Small Things
Jed Rubenfeld— The Interpretation of Murder
Carlos Ruiz Zafon— Angel's Game
Carlos Ruiz Zafon— The Shadow of the Wind
Salman Rushdie— Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie— The Moor's Last Sigh
Mary Doria Russell— Children of God
Mary Doria Russell— The Sparrow
Mary Doria Russell— A Thread of Grace
Richard Russo— Bridge of Sighs
Richard Russo— Empire Falls
Richard Russo— Nobody's Fool
Richard Russo— That Old Cape Magic
Edward Rutherfurd— Russka
Terry Ryan— The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio




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S   
J.D. Salinger— Catcher in the Rye
Elizabeth Samet— Soldier's Heart
Helen Hooven Santmyer— And Ladies of the Club
Marjane Satrapi— Persepolis: A Story of Childhood
Bernhard Schlink— The Reader
Eric Schlosser— Fast Food Nation
E.F. Schumacher— Small is Beautiful: Economics...
John Burnham Schwartz— The Commoner
Paul Scott— The Jewel in the Crown
Alice Sebold— The Almost Moon
Alice Sebold— The Lovely Bones
David Sedaris— Me Talk Pretty One Day
David Sedaris— When You Are Engulfed in Flames
Lisa See— On Gold Mountain
Lisa See— Peony in Love
Lisa See— Shanghai Girls
Lisa See— Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Diane Setterfield— The Thirteenth Tale
Michael Shaara— The Killer Angels
Mary Ann Shaffer— The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Jacqueline Sheehan— Lost and Found
David Sheff— Beautiful Boy
Carol Shields— Collected Stories
Carol Shields— The Stone Diaries
Carol Shields— Unless
Sholem Aleichem—Tevye, the Dairyman
Anita Shreve— All He Ever Wanted
Anita Shreve— Body Surfing
Anita Shreve— A Change in Altitude
Anita Shreve— The Pilot's Wife
Anita Shreve— Testimony
Anita Shreve— The Weight of Water
Lionel Shriver— The Post-Birthday World
Lionel Shriver— We Need to Talk About Kevin
Gary Shteyngart— Absurdistan
Anne Rivers Siddons— Heartbreak Hotel
Anne Rivers Siddons— Off Season
Anne Rivers Siddons— Peachtree Road
Anne Rivers Siddons— Sweetwater Creek
Anne Rivers Siddons— Up Island
Dai Sijie— Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Dai Sijie— Once on a Moonless Night
Daniel Silva— The Messenger
Neil Simon— Rewrites
Lina Simoni— The Scent of Rosa's Oil
Indra Sinha— Animal's People
Curtis Sittenfeld— American Wife
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
Andrea Smith— Friday Nights at Honeybee's
Betty Smith— A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Dodie Smith— I Capture the Castle
James Bryan Smith— Room of Marvels
Lee Smith— Oral History
Scott Smith— A Simple Plan
Seth Grahame-Smith— Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Zadie Smith— On Beauty
Zadie Smith— White Teeth
Jill Smolinski— The Next Thing on My List
Dava Sobel— Galileo's Daughter
Dalia Sofer— The Septembers of Shiraz
Ahdaf Soueif— The Map of Love
Muriel Spark— The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Nicholas Sparks— The Choice
Nicholas Sparks— The Lucky One
Nicholas Sparks— Message in a Bottle
Nicholas Sparks— Nights in Rodanthe
Nicholas Sparks— The Notebook
Irene Spencer— Shattered Dreams
Patricia Sprinkle— The Remember Box
Susan Squire— I Dont: A Contrarian History of Marriage
Rebecca Stead— When You Reach Me
Wallace Stegner— Angle of Repose
Wallace Stegner— Crossing to Safety
Garth Stein— The Art of Racing in the Rain
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
Mary Stewart— Nine Coaches Waiting
Kathryn Stockett— The Help
Bram Stoker— Dracula
Elizabeth Strout— Olive Kitteridge
J. Courtney Sullivan— Commencement
Kate Summerscale— The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
Kim Sunee— Trail of Crumbs
Patrick Suskind— Perfume
James L. Swanson— Manhunt: 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
Vikas Swarup— Slumdog Millionaire
Josh Swiller— The Unheard



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T   
Lalita Tademy— Cane River
Amy Tan— The Bonesetter's Daughter
Amy Tan— The Hundred Secret Senses
Amy Tan— The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan— Saving Fish From Drowning
Donna Tartt— The Secret History
William Makepeace Thackeray— Vanity Fair
Paul Theroux— Dark Star Safari
Trisha R. Thomas— Nappily Ever After
Trisha R. Thomas— Would I Lie to You?
Colm Toibin— Brooklyn
Colm Toibin— The Master
Sandy Tolan— The Lemon Tree
J.R.R. Tolkein— The Lord of the Rings: Complete Trilogy
Eckhart Tolle— A New Earth
Eckhart Tolle— The Power of Now
Leo Tolstoy— Anna Karenina
John Kennedy Toole— A Confederacy of Dunces
Robert Traver— Anatomy of a Murder
Adriana Trigiani— Big Cherry Holler
Adriana Trigiani— Big Stone Gap
Adriana Trigiani— Home to Big Stone Gap
Adriana Trigiani— Milk Glass Moon
Adriana Trigiani— Very Valentine
Joanna Trollope— Next of Kin
Joanna Trollope— Other People's Children
Jonathan Tropper— The Book of Joe
Jonathan Tropper— Everything Changes
Jonathan Tropper— How to Talk to a Widower
Jonathan Tropper— This Is Where I Leave You
Gail Tsukiyama— The Samauri's Garden
Lisa Tucker— The Cure for Modern Life
Nancy E. Turner— These Is My Words
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  
Thrity Umrigar— Space Between Us
Loung Ung— First They Killed My Father
Lisa Unger— Beautiful Lies
Lisa Unger— Sliver of Truth
John Updike— The Centaur
John Updike— The Coup
John Updike— Couples
John Updike— Rabbit Novels, Vol 1
John Updike— Rabbit Novels, Vol 2
John Updike— Roger's Version
John Updike— The Widows of Eastwick
John Updike— The Witches of Eastwick
Leon Uris— Exodus


Abraham Verghese— Cutting for Stone
Abraham Verghese— My Own Country
Gore Vidal— Burr
Gore Vidal— Lincoln
Susan Vreeland— Girl in Hyacinth Blue
Susan Vreeland— Luncheon of the Boating Party
Susan Vreeland— The Passion of Artemisia




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W   
Kate Walbert— A Short History of Women: A Novel
Alice Walker— The Color Purple
Jeannette Walls— Half Broke Horses
Jeannette Walls— The Glass Castle
Jesmyn Ward— Where the Line Bleeds
Margaret Walker— Jubilee
Barbara Walters— Audition
Larry Watson— Montana 1948
Larry Watson— Sundown, Yellow Moon
Peter Watson— Landscape of Lies
Evelyn Waugh— Brideshead Revisited
Carl Weber— Something on the Side
Jennifer Weiner— Best Friends for Ever
Jennifer Weiner— Certain Girls
Jennifer Weiner— Good in Bed
Alison Weir—The Lady Elizabeth
Sheila Weller— Girls Like Us
Rebecca Wells— The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder
Rebecca Wells— The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Eudora Welty— The Optimist's Daughter
Stanley West— Until They Bring Back the Streecars
Edith Wharton— The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton— Ethan Frome
Madeleine Wickham— The Wedding Girl
Kate Douglas Wiggin— Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Marianne Wiggins— Almost Heaven
Marianne Wiggins— Evidence of Things Unseen
Marianne Wiggins— The Shadow Catcher
Oscar Wilde— The Picture of Dorian Gray
Simon Winchester— The Man Who Loved China
Simon Winchester— The Professor and the Madman
Lauren F. Winner— Girl Meets God
Lolly Winston— Good Grief
Lolly Winston— Happiness Sold Separately
Tim Winton— Breath
Bret Witter— Dewey: Small-Town Library Cat
Elie Wiesel— Night
Jane Roberts Wood— The Train to Estelline
Stuart Woods— Chiefs
Naomi Wolf— The Beauty Myth
Mishna Wolff— I'm Down
Meg Wolitzer— The Position
Meg Wolitzer— The Ten-Year Nap
Meg Wolitzer— The Wife
Virginia Woolf— Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf— To the Lighthouse
Sandra Worth— Love and War (Rose of York Series)
Jason F. Wright— The Wednesday Letters
Richard Wright— Native Son
David Wroblewski— The Story of Edgar Sawtelle




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X - Y- Z   

Richard Yates— Revolutionary Road
Sara Young— My Enemy's Cradle
William P. Young— The Shack

Carlos Ruiz Zafon— Angel's Game
Carlos Ruiz Zafon— The Shadow of the Wind
Fareed Zakaria— The Post American World
Marion Zimmer-Bradley— The Mists of Avalon