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A
Abbott, Jeff ~ Panic
Albom, Mitch ~ For One More Day
Ammaniti, Niccolo ~ I'm Not Scared
Angelou, Maya ~ I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Atkinson, Kate ~ One Good Turn
Atwood, Margaret ~ Oryx and Crake


B
Battles, Brett ~ The Cleaner
Beah, Ishmael ~ A Long Way Gone
Bohjalian, Chris ~ The Double Bind
Boyle, T. C. ~ The Tortilla Curtain
Braun, Lilian ~ The Cat Who Could Read Backwards
Brennert, Alan ~ Moloka'i
Brink, Carol Ryrie ~ Caddie Woodlawn
Buck, Pearl S. ~ The Good Earth
Burke, Alafair ~ Dead Connection
Burroughs, Augusten ~ Running with Scissors


C
Cain, Chelsea ~ Heart Sick
Capote, Truman ~ Breakfast at Tiffany's
Cather, Willa ~ O Pioneers!
Chaon, Dan ~ You Remind Me of Me
Child, Lee ~ Killing Floor
Cleary, Beverly ~ Dear Mr. Henshaw
Coben, Harlan ~ Deal Breaker
Connelly, Michael ~ The Lincoln Lawyer
Connelly, Michael ~ The Narrows
Conrad, Joseph ~ Heart of Darkness
Cook, Thomas ~ Red Leaves
Crais, Robert ~ The Forgotten Man
Creech, Sharon ~ Walk Two Moons


D
Dallas, Sandra ~ Tallgrass
Deaver, Jeffery ~ More Twisted
Deaver, Jeffery ~ Twisted
DePree, Traci ~ A Can of Peas
DiCamillo, Kate ~ The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
DiCamillo, Kate ~ The Tale of Despereaux
Divakaruni, Chitra ~ Sister of My Heart


E
Edwards, Kim ~ The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Ephron, G. H. ~ Amnesia
Esquith, Rafe ~ Teach Like Your Hair's On Fire
Eugenides, Jeffrey ~ Middlesex
Eversz, Robert ~ Zero to the Bone


F
Fielding, Joy ~ Mad River Road
Fleischman, Sid ~ The Whipping Boy
Fossum, Karin ~ Don't Look Back
Frank, Pat ~ Alas, Babylon
Franklin, Tom ~ Hell at the Breech
Frey, James ~ My Friend Leonard


G
Gaffney, Patricia ~ The Saving Graces
Gerritsen, Tess ~ Vanish
Gibbons, Kaye ~ Ellen Foster
Gilbert, Elizabeth ~ Eat, Pray, Love
Gilstrap, John ~ Even Steven
Gladwell, Malcolm ~ Blink
Golding, William ~ Lord of the Flies
Greiman, Lois ~ Unzipped
Grippando, James ~ Lying with Strangers
Grisham, John ~ The Innocent Man
Grisham, John ~ Playing for Pizza
Gruen, Sara ~ Water for Elephants
Guinn, Jeff ~ The Autobiography of Santa Claus


H
Hale, Shannon ~ The Goose Girl
Hannigan, Katherine ~ Ida B
Harris, Joanne ~ Gentlemen and Players
Hayder, Mo ~ Birdman
Henderson, Dee ~ The Negotiator
Hiaasen, Carl ~ Skinny Dip
Hill, Joe ~ Heart-Shaped Box
Hosp, David ~ Dark Harbor
Hosseini, Khaled ~ A Thousand Splendid Suns
Huston, Charlie ~ Caught Stealing
Huston, Charlie ~ Six Bad Things
Hyland, M. J. ~ Carry Me Down


I
Iles, Greg ~ True Evil
Ishiguro, Kazuo ~ Never Let Me Go
Iweala, Uzodinma ~ Beasts of No Nation


J
Jackson, Joshilyn ~ Between, Georgia
Jackson, Joshilyn ~ gods in Alabama


K
Katzenbach, John ~ The Analyst
Kessler, Brad ~ Birds in Fall
Kirino, Natsuo ~ Out
Kittle, Katrina ~ The Kindness of Strangers
Konigsburg, E. L. ~ From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Koontz, Dean ~ Brother Odd
Koontz, Dean ~ The Husband
Koontz, Dean ~ Life Expectancy
Koryta, Michael ~ Tonight I Said Goodbye


L
Larson, Erik ~ The Devil in the White City
Laskas, Jeanne Marie ~ Fifty Acres and a Poodle
Lawson, Mary ~ Crow Lake
Lewis, Michael ~ The Blind Side
Lindsay, Jeff ~ Darkly Dreaming Dexter
Long, David ~ The Inhabited World
Lowry, Lois ~ Number the Stars


M
MacLachlan, Patricia ~ Sarah, Plain and Tall
Macomber, Debbie ~ Susannah's Garden
McCarthy, Cormac ~ The Road
McEwan, Ian ~ On Chesil Beach
Mcfadyen, Cody ~ The Face of Death
Mcfadyen, Cody ~ Shadow Man
Meyer, Stephenie ~ Twilight
Mirandette, Erik ~ The Only Road North
Mitchell, David ~ Black Swan Green
Montgomery, Sy ~ The Good Good Pig
Moorman, Chick ~ Our Classroom


N
Nabokov, Vladimir ~ Lolita


O
O'Brien, Tim ~ Things They Carried (The)
O'Dell, Scott ~ Island of the Blue Dolphins
Orwell, George ~ Animal Farm
Otsuka, Julie ~ When the Emperor was Divine


P
Patron, Susan ~ The Higher Power of Lucky
Patterson, James ~ Judge and Jury
Perrotta, Tom ~ Little Children
Prose, Francine ~ Reading Like a Writer


Q
Quindlen, Anna ~ Being Perfect


R
Rash, Ron ~ One Foot in Eden
Reichs, Kathy ~ Bare Bones
Robbins, P. & Alvy, H. ~ The New Principal's Guidebook
Rosenfelt, David ~ Open and Shut
Ryan, Terry ~ The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
Rylant, Cynthia ~ Every Living Thing


S
Sandford, John ~ Rules of Prey
Schmoker, Mike ~ Results Now
Scottoline, Lisa ~ Dirty Blonde
Setterfield, Diane ~ The Thirteenth Tale
Sharp, Zoe ~ First Drop
Slaughter, Karin ~ Blindsighted
Smith, Alexander McCall ~ The Sunday Philosophy Club
Smith, Alexander McCall ~ Tears of the Giraffe
Speare, Elizabeth George ~ The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Spinelli, Jerry ~ Maniac Magee
Swain, James ~ Midnight Rambler


T
Tanner, Patricia Pomeroy ~ Mercy Triumphs
Taylor, Mildred D. ~ Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Tracy, P.J. ~ Snow Blind
Trigiani, Adriana ~ Lucia, Lucia
Trigiani, Adriana ~ The Queen of the Big Time
Tyler, Anne ~ Digging to America


U
Updike, John ~ Rabbit, Run


V
Visman, Janni ~ Yellow


W
Walker, Alice ~ The Color Purple
Walls, Jeannette ~ The Glass Castle
Whitaker, Todd ~ What Great Principals Do Differently
Whitaker, Todd ~ What Great Teachers Do Differently
Woolf, Virginia ~ Mrs. Dalloway


X
Xinran ~ The Good Women of China


Y
Yarbrough, Steve ~ The End of California


Z
Zusak, Markus ~ The Book Thief