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The 6th Lamentation William Brodrick 15 Minutes of Shame Lisa Daily 1984 George Orwell The 351 Books of Irma Arcuri David Bajo About Grace Anthony Doerr The Accident Man Tom Cain The Accidental Masterpiece Michael Kimmelman Acqua Alta Donna Leon Across the Nightingale Floor Lian Hearn The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain The Adventures of Thursday Next Jasper Fforde After the Plague T.C. Boyle Against Gravity Farnoosh Moshiri The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton Age of Iron J.M. Coetzee Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll All Over Creation Ruth Ozeki Aloft Chang-rae Lee The Alphabet Versus the Goddess Leonard Shlain Amagansett Mark Mills Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking Aoibheann Sweeney Amongst Women John McGahern And God Created the Au Pair Bénédicte Newland and Pascale Smets And Sometimes Why Rebecca Johnson Angle of Repose Wallace Stegner Animal Farm George Orwell Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy Annie Dunne Sebastian Barry Another Country Mary Pipher Another Man's Moccasins Craig Johnson Another Place at the Table Kathy Harrison Are you Happy : A Childhood Remembered Emily Fox Gordon Armed Madhouse Greg Palast The Arraignment Steve Martini Art in America Ron McLarty Astrid & Veronika Linda Olsson Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand Augusta Locke William Haywood Henderson Author, Author David Lodge The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man James Weldon Johnson The Autobiography of My Mother Jamaica Kincaid Back Roads Tawni O'Dell Basilica R. A. Scotti The Bastard of Istanbul Elif Shafak Bastard Out of Carolina Dorothy Allison Beach Day, Rainy Day, and Snow Day Patricia Lakin The Beach House Jane Green The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears Dinaw Mengestu The Begotten & The Betrayed Lisa T. Bergren The Bell Iris Murdoch Beside a Burning Sea John Shors Best Friends Martha Moody Betrayal John Lescroart Big Green Purse Diane MacEachern The Big Over Easy Jasper Fforde Black, White, and Jewish Rebecca Walker Bleeding Kansas Sara Paretsky Blood in the Sun Nuruddin Farah Blood Kin Ceridwen Dovey Blue Diary Alice Hoffman Blue Shoe Anne Lamott The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison The Bonesetter's Daughter Amy Tan The Book of Mormon Joseph Smith Book of Murder Guillermo Martinez The Books of Toni Morrison Toni Morrison A Border Passage Leila Ahmed Boswell's Presumptuous Task Adam Sisman Brethren Robyn Young Bride Island Alexandra Enders Bridget Jones's Diary Helen Fielding The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Díaz Burning Bright Tracy Chevalier Candide Voltaire Carpenter's Gothic William Gaddis A Catch of Consequence Diana Norman Catching Genius Kristy Kiernan Caucasia Danzy Senna Cavedweller Dorothy Allison Ceremony Leslie Marmon Silko C'est la Vie Suzy Gershman Chang and Eng Darin Strauss Chasing the Flame Samantha Power Cherry Mary Karr The Chess Machine Robert Löhr Chez Moi Agnès Desarthe China Boy Gus Lee Church of the Dog Kaya McLaren The City of Falling Angels John Berendt City of God E. L. Doctorow City of Thieves David Benioff The City of Your Final Destination Peter Cameron The Cloister Walk Kathleen Norris Coal Run Tawni O'Dell The Cold Dish Craig Johnson Collapse Jared Diamond The Color of Light Karen White The Color of Water James McBride The Commissario Brunetti Series Donna Leon The Communist Manifesto Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels Confessions Of an Economic Hitman John Perkins Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict Laurie Viera Rigler Consequences Penelope Lively Consider the Lily Elizabeth Buchan Cordelia Underwood Van Reid Cousin Bette Honore de Balzac Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Crime Writer Gregg Hurwitz The Cross-Country Quilters Jennifer Chiaverini Crusade Robyn Young The Cunning Man Robertson Davies Dancing with Rose Lauren Kessler The Danish Girl David Ebershoff Dark Fire C. J. Sansom Daughter of the Queen of Sheba Jacki Lyden David Copperfield Charles Dickens A Day Late and a Dollar Short Terry McMillan The Dead Fathers Club Matt Haig The Deadwood Beetle Mylene Dressler Dearest Dorothy Series Charlene Ann Baumbich Dear Zoe Philip Beard Death in Summer Wiliam Trevor Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller The Death of Jim Loney James Welch Death Without Company Craig Johnson The Deep End of the Ocean Jacquelyn Mitchard The Deportees and Other Stories Roddy Doyle Diane Johnson Diary of a Bad Year J.M. Coetzee The Disappearing Girl Lisa Machoian Disgrace J.M. Coetzee Dissolution C.J. Sansom The Divide Nicholas Evans The Divorce Party Laura Dave Do the Windows Open? Julie Hecht The Drawing of the Three: The Dark Tower II Stephen King Dream Jungle Jessica Hagedorn The Dream Life of Sukhanov Olga Grushin The Dream of Scipio Iain Pears Dreamland Sarah Dessen Drinking Coffee Elsewhere ZZ Packer Dry Ice Stephen White Dubliners James Joyce East of Eden John Steinbeck Eat Cake Jeanne Ray Eating Heaven Jennie Shortridge Eat, Pray, Love Elizabeth Gilbert Eichmann in Jerusalem Hannah Arendt Emma Jane Austen Enthusiasm Polly Shulman The Books of Eva Ibbotson Eva Ibbotson Every Inch of Her Peter Sheridan Everything She Thought She Wanted Elizabeth Buchan Excellent Women Barbara Pym Expecting Adam Martha Beck Eye Contact Cammie McGovern The Eyre Affair Jasper Fforde Fall of Frost Brian Hall Falling Angels Tracy Chevalier Falling Under Danielle Young-Ullman The Farming of Bones Edwidge Danticat Fast Girls Emily White Fat Girl Judith Moore Fear of Flying Erica Jong Feathers Jacqueline Woodson Felicia's Journey William Trevor The Fiction Class Susan Breen Fifth Business Robertson Davies Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's Lauren Kessler Fingersmith Sarah Waters Fiona Range Mary McGarry Morris Fire In Beulah Rilla Askew Five Skies Ron Carlson The Flaming Corsage William Kennedy The Florabama Ladies' Auxiliary & Sewing Circle Lois Battle Flower Children Maxine Swann The Forest Lover Susan Vreeland Four Queens Nancy Goldstone The Fourth Bear Jasper Fforde Fox Girl Nora Okja Keller Frankenstein Mary Shelley Freddy and Fredericka Mark Helprin Frida Bárbara Mujica Friday Night Knitting Club Kate Jacobs A Friend of the Earth T. C. Boyle From a Crooked Rib Nuruddin Farah From Binge to Blackout Chris Volkmann and Toren Volkmann Galileo's Daughter Dava Sobel The Garden of Ruth Eva Etzioni-Halevy The Gentle Axe R. N. Morris The Geographer's Library Jon Fasman Geographies of Home Loida Maritza Perez A Gesture Life Chang-rae Lee Get to Work Linda R. Hirshman The Ghost Map Steven Johnson Gifts Nuruddin Farah Giraffe J. M. Ledgard Girl from the South Joanna Trollope The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing Melissa Bank Girl in Hyacinth Blue Susan Vreeland Girls of Riyadh Rajaa Alsanea The Girls Who Went Away Ann Fessler Girl With a Pearl Earring Tracy Chevalier The Godfather Mario Puzo Gods Go Begging Alfredo Vea God Is Dead Ron Currie Jr. The Golden Road Caille Millner Goodbye Lemon Adam Davies A Good Distance Sarah Willis The Good Wife Strikes Back Elizabeth Buchan Gracelin O'Malley Ann Moore The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck Grass for His Pillow Lian Hearn Great Expectations Charles Dickens The Growing Seasons Samuel Hynes The Gunslinger: The Dark Tower I Stephen King The Harmony Silk Factory Tash Aw Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad The Heart of the Matter Graham Greene Helen of Troy Margaret George The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo Paula Huntley Herzog Saul Bellow High Fidelity Nick Hornby History Lesson for Girls Aurelie Sheehan Hold Tight Harlan Coben A Hole in the Universe Mary McGarry Morris Home to Holly Springs Jan Karon The House Gun Nadine Gordimer House Of Daughters Sarah-Kate Lynch The House of Mirth Edith Wharton The House of Mondavi Julia Flynn Siler The How of Happiness Sonja Lyubomirsky How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Julia Alvarez How to Be Cool Johanna Edwards How to Be Good Nick Hornby Howards End E.M. Forster The Huge Book of Hell Matt Groening Hunger Lan Samantha Chang The Huntsman Whitney Terrell The Ice Child Elizabeth McGregor The Idea of Perfection Kate Grenville The Impressionist Hari Kunzru The Divine Comedy Volume I: The Inferno Dante Alighieri The Inner Circle T.C. Boyle Insect Dreams: The Half Life of Gregor Samsa Marc Estrin The Inspector Montalbano Series Andrea Camilleri An Instance of the Fingerpost Iain Pears Interred with Their Bones Jennifer Lee Carrell The Interruption of Everything Terry McMillan In the Heart of the Sea Nathaniel Philbrick In The Memory of the Forest Charles Powers In the Name of Salome Julia Alvarez In the Woods Tana French Inventing the Rest of Our Lives Suzanne Braun Levine Ironweed William Kennedy Isle of Palms Dorothea Benton Frank The Books of Jacqueline Woodson Jacqueline Woodson The Jane Austen Book Club Karen Jay Fowler Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë Joan Bauer Charlene Ann Baumbich The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan Julie and Romeo Jeanne Ray Just in Case Meg Rosoff Justine Lawrence Durrell Keeping the Moon Sarah Dessen The Kept Man Jami Attenberg Kindness Goes Unpunished Craig Johnson King of King's County Whitney Terrell The Kitchen Boy Robert Alexander The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini Knots Nuruddin Farah Kristin Lavransdatter Sigrid Undset Labyrinth Kate Mosse Ladies with Options Cynthia Hartwick Land of a Thousand Hills Rosamond Halsey Carr The Language of Sycamores Lisa Wingate Larry's Party Carol Shields Las Uvas de la Ira, D Ratones y Hombres, y la Perla John Steinbeck The Last Friend Tahar Ben Jelloun Last Night at the Lobster Stewart O’Nan The Last Days of Socrates Plato The Last Promise Richard Paul Evans The Last Summer (of You and Me) Ann Brashares Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman Left Bank Kate Muir Les Misérables Victor Hugo Letters from Yellowstone Diane Smith The Liars' Club Mary Karr The Liar's Diary Patry Francis Libra Don DeLillo Life Studies Susan Vreeland The Likeness Tana French Links Nuruddin Farah Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes T Cooper Listening Is an Act of Love Dave Isay The Little Book Selden Edwards The Little Disturbances of Man Grace Paley Londonstani Gautam Malkani Looking for Alaska John Green Losing Gemma Katy Gardner London Is the Best City in America Laura Dave A Long, Long Way Sebastian Barry A Long Way from Chicago Richard Peck Losing the Moon Patti Callahan Henry The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets Eva Rice The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes) Henri Alain-Fournier The Lost Mother Mary McGarry Morris The Lost Years of Merlin Epic T. A. Barron Lottery Patricia Wood Louisa Simon Zelitch Love and Biology at the Center of the Universe Jennie Shortridge Love Walked In Marisa de los Santos A Lover's Almanac Maureen Howard The Luckiest Girl in the World Steven Levenkron Lulu in Marrakech Diane Johnson Lulu Meets God and Doubts Him Danielle Ganek Luncheon of the Boating Party Susan Vreeland Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper Harriet Scott Chessman Mademoiselle Boleyn Robin Maxwell The Magic of Ordinary Days Ann Howard Creel Maisie Dobbs Jacqueline Winspear Making It Up Penelope Lively The Manticore Robertson Davies Maps Nuruddin Farah March Geraldine Brooks Marrying Mozart Stephanie Cowell Marrying the Mistress Joanna Trollope Martha Washington Patricia Brady Mary, Called Magdalene Margaret George The Mascot Mark Kurzem The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov Matters of Faith Kristy Kiernan Mayada, Daughter of Iraq Jean Sasson Memories of a Pure Spring Duong Thu Huong The Memory Keeper's Daughter Kim Edwards The Memory of Running Ron McLarty Mendel's Dwarf Simon Mawer The Mercy Seat Rilla Askew The Mermaid Chair Sue Monk Kidd Miracle at St. Anna James McBride Miss Garnet's Angel Salley Vickers Miss Julia Throws a Wedding Ann B. Ross Mistress of the Art of Death Ariana Franklin The Mistress's Daughter A.M. Homes Mistress of the Revolution Catherine Delors The Mitford Years Series Jan Karon Moby-Dick Herman Melville More Than It Hurts You Darin Strauss The Moonstone Wilkie Collins Motherland Fern Schumer Chapman Mr. Phillips John Lanchester Mr. Vertigo Paul Auster My Antonia Willa Cather My Dream of You Nuala O'Faolain My First White Friend: Confessions on Race, Love and Forgiveness Patricia Raybon My House in Umbria William Trevor My Year of Meats Ruth Ozeki Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Frederick Douglass Native Speaker Chang-rae Lee A New Earth Eckhart Tolle The Night Journal Elizabeth Crook No! I Don't Want to Join a Book Club Virginia Ironside No Man's Land Ruth Fowler A Noble Radiance Donna Leon Noli Me Tangere José Rizal None to Accompany Me Nadine Gordimer Northanger Abbey Jane Austen The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto Mario Vargas Llosa Nowhere Else on Earth Josephine Humphreys The Observations Jane Harris The Odyssey Homer The Office of Desire Martha Moody Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maugham Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck Oh, Play That Thing Roddy Doyle Oil! Upton Sinclair The Omnivore's Dilemma Michael Pollan On Beauty Zadie Smith On the Road Jack Kerouac The Opposite of Fate Amy Tan An Ordinary Man Paul Rusesabagina The Oresteia Aeschylus Other People's Children Joanna Trollope The Other Woman Jane Green Our Lady of the Lost and Found Diane Schoemperlen Our Nig Harriet E. Wilson The Pact Drs. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt with Liza Frazier Page Parasites Like Us Adam Johnson Passarola Rising Azhar Abidi The Passion of Artemisia Susan Vreeland Paula Spencer Roddy Doyle Pawleys Island Dorothea Benton Frank The Pearl John Steinbeck Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century People of the Book Geraldine Brooks Perfect Madness Judith Warner The Perfectly True Tales of a Perfect Size 12 Robin Gold Persian Girls Nahid Rachlin A Person of Interest Susan Choi Petals of Blood Ngugi wa Thiong’o Petropolis Anya Ulinich Pharmakon Dirk Wittenborn The Photograph Penelope Lively The Piano Teacher Lynn York The Pickup Nadine Gordimer Picture Perfect Jodi Picoult Pig Island Mo Hayder The Pillars of the Earth Ken Follett A Place Called Canterbury Dudley Clendinen Plantation Dorothea Benton Frank The Poisoning of an American High School Joy Horowitz Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen The Prince Niccolò Machiavelli The Procedure Harry Mulisch Prozac Diary Lauren Slater Quaking Kathryn Erskine The Queen of the South Arturo Pérez-Reverte The Quilter's Legacy Jennifer Chiaverini The Rape of Nanking Iris Chang The Rapture of Canaan Sheri Reynolds Rashi's Daughters, Book I: Joheved Maggie Anton Rashi's Daughters, Book II: Miriam Maggie Anton Rasputin's Daughter Robert Alexander Ravelstein Saul Bellow Reading Judas Elaine Pagels and Karen L. King The Red and the Black Stendhal The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane Red Rover Deirdre McNamer Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman Elizabeth Buchan The Rice Mother Rani Manicka Riding With The Queen Jennie Shortridge A Rip in Heaven Jeanine Cummins Riven Rock T.C. Boyle The River King Alice Hoffman The Romance Readers' Book Club Julie L. Cannon The Romanov Bride Robert Alexander A Room with a View E. M. Forster Roscoe William Kennedy Round Robin Jennifer Chiaverini The Rug Merchant Meg Mullins The Ruins of California Martha Sherrill The Runaway Quilt Jennifer Chiaverini The Russian Concubine Kate Furnivall The Russian Debutante's Handbook Gary Shteyngart The Saffron Kitchen Yasmin Crowther Salt Jeremy Page The Savage Garden Mark Mills Scribbling the Cat Alexandra Fuller The Sea, The Sea Iris Murdoch Second Chance Jane Green Secret Daughter June Cross The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret History of the American Empire John Perkins The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd Secrets Nuruddin Farah Seductress Betsy Prioleau Seize the Day Saul Bellow Self-Made Man Norah Vincent Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen The Serpent's Tale Ariana Franklin The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafón The Sharper Your Knife, The Less You Cry Kathleen Flinn The Shell Collector Anthony Doerr Shem Creek Dorothea Benton Frank A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian Marina Lewycka Should You Leave? Peter D. Kramer, M.D. Siddhartha Herman Hesse The Silver Screen Maureen Howard Sister Noon Karen Joy Fowler Slam Nick Hornby Slow Man J. M. Coetzee Smashed Koren Zailckas The Solitaire Mystery Jostein Gaarder Somebody Else's Daughter Elizabeth Brundage Someone Like You Cathy Kelly Something to Declare Julia Alvarez The Song of the Lark Willa Cather Songs in Ordinary Time Mary McGarry Morris Songs for the Missing Stewart O'Nan Song Yet Sung James McBride Sovereign C. J. Sansom The Spark Flys Upward Diana Norman Special Topics in Calamity Physics Marisha Pessl The Speckled Monster Jennifer Lee Carrell The Staggerford Flood Jon Hassler A Star Called Henry Roddy Doyle Stealing Buddha's Dinner Bich Minh Nguyen Still Life with Chickens Catherine Goldhammer The Stone Diaries Carol Shields The Story of Lucy Gault William Trevor The Story of My Life Giacomo Casanova Strangers in the House Raja Shehadeh Strawberry Fields Marina Lewycka The Street of Crocodiles Bruno Schulz A Student of Living Things Susan Richards Shreve Sugar Bernice L. McFadden Sullivan's Island Dorothea Benton Frank Sunset Song Lewis Grassic Gibbon The Suspect John Lescroart Swann's Way Marcel Proust Swapping Lives Jane Green The Sweet Life Lynn York Sword and Blossom Peter Pagnamenta and Momoko Williams The Tain Ciaran Carson The Tale of Genji Murasaki Shikibu Talk Talk T.C. Boyle Teach Me R.A. Nelson The Teahouse Fire Ellis Avery Tending Roses Lisa Wingate The Ten Best Days of My Life Adena Halpern The Ten-Year Nap Meg Wolitzer The Terra-Cotta Dog Andrea Camilleri The Testament of Gideon Mack James Robertson Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl Kate McCafferty That Summer Sarah Dessen They Did It With Love Kate Morgenroth Thinks... David Lodge This Bitter Earth Bernice L. McFadden This Blinding Absence of Light Tahar Ben Jelloun This Book Will Save Your Life A.M. Homes This Earth of Mankind Pramoedya Ananta Toer This Night's Foul Work Fred Vargas A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini Three Cups of Tea Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin Three Day Road Joseph Boyden Through the Looking-Glass Lewis Carroll Thursday Next: First Among Sequels Jasper Fforde In the Time of the Butterflies Julia Alvarez Too Close to the Falls Catherine Gildiner The Tortilla Curtain T. C. Boyle Transmission Hari Kunzru Traveler Ron McLarty The Triumph of Deborah Eva Etzioni-Halevys The True Story of Hansel and Gretel Louise Murphy The Truth About Forever Sarah Dessen Truth and Consequences Alison Lurie The Turtle Warrior Mary Relindes Ellis Twisted Laurie Halse Anderson Two Lives William Trevor The Underdogs Mariano Azuela Uniform Justice Donna Leon Ursula, Under Ingrid Hill Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray La vida secreta de las abejas Sue Monk Kidd The Virgin Blue Tracy Chevalier War and Peace Leo Tolstoy The Warrior Frances Richey The Washington Story Adam Langer The Waste Lands: The Dark Tower III Stephen King Watermelon Nights Greg Sarris Water Music T. C. Boyle The Wednesday Letters Jason F. Wright We Were the Mulvaneys Joyce Carol Oates What I Was Meg Rosoff What You Owe Me Bebe Moore Campbell When the Elephants Dance Tess Uriza Holthe The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty Sebastian Barry The Wind River Mystery Series Margaret Coel Winter in the Blood James Welch Winter in Madrid C.J. Sansom Without a Net Michelle Kennedy Without a Backward Glance Kate Veitch Wit's End Karen Joy Fowler Wives Behaving Badly Elizabeth Buchan Wizard and Glass: The Dark Tower IV Stephen King Wolves of the Crescent Moon Yousef Al-Mohaimeed The Woman in White Wilkie Collins A Woman of Independent Means Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey The Woman Who Walked into Doors Roddy Doyle The Women of Brewster Place Gloria Naylor The Wonder Spot Melissa Bank World of Wonders Robertson Davies World Without End Ken Follett Year of Wonders Geraldine Brooks A Year Down Yonder Richard Peck ¡Yo! Julia Alvarez Ysabel Guy Gavriel Kay