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A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, Y, Z

A
Abouet , Margeurite and Clement Oubrerie : Aya ,
Adichie , Chimamanda Ngozi : Half of a Yellow Sun , Purple Hibiscus
Akunin , Boris : The Winter Queen
Albright , Madeleine : Memo to the President Elect , Madam Secretary
Alexander , Robert : The Kitchen Boy
Amado , Jorge : Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon
Anderson, Laurie Halse: Speak
Angier , Natalie : The Canon
Arana , Marie : American Chica
Asher , Jay : Thirteen Reasons Why
Atkinson , Kate : Case Histories
Atwood , Margaret : Cat’s Eye
Austen , Jane : Sense and Sensibility , Persuasion , Emma
Austen-Leigh, William and Richard Arthur : Jane Austen: Her Life and Letters
Avi : The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

B
Bainbridge, David : The X in Sex
Balzac : Cousin Bette
Banville , John : Birchwood
Baricco , Alessandro : “Silk”
Basbanes , Nicholas : A Gentle Madness
Beagle , Peter : Tamsin, The Innkeeper’s Song
Bechdel , Alison: Fun Homes
Beddor , Frank : The Looking Glass Wars
Bennet , Alan : “The Uncommon Reader”
Bissell , Tom : God Lives in St. Petersburg
Black , Holly : Tithe
Blakeslee , Sandra : The Body Has a Mind of Its Own
Blakeslee , Matthew : The Body Has a Mind of Its Own
Bloom , Amy : A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You
Bloom , Stephen : The Oxford Project
Borchet , Daniel : Free For All
Botton , Alain de : The Consolations of Philosophy
Bordewich , Fergus : Bound for Canaan
Bowen , Elizabeth : The Last September , To the North
Bradbury , Ray : Something Wicked This Way Comes
Braddon , Mary Elizabeth : Lady Audley’s Secret
Bronte , Anne : The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Brumberg , Joan Jacobs : The Body Project
Bryson , Bill : Shakespeare/em>
Burnett , Frances Hodgett : The Secret Garden
Burney , Frances: Evelina
Burreson , Jay: Napoelon’s Buttons
Buzbee , Lewis: The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop
Byatt , A.S. : The Virgin in the Garden , The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye

C
Cain , Kenneth : Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures
Calvino , Italo : If on a winter’s night a traveler
Campbell , Joseph : The Power of Myth , Pathways to Bliss
Capote , Truman : Summer Crossing , In Cold Blood
Card , Orson Scott : Enchantment , Lost Boys , Ender’s Game
Carr , Caleb : The Italian Secretary
Carter , Angela : The Bloody Chamber
Cast , P.C. : Marked
Cast , Kristin : Marked
Chabon , Michael : The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Chang , Jung : Wild Swans
Chesterton , G.K. : The Wisdom of Father Brown
Chevalier , Tracy : The Virgin Blue
Christie , Agatha : The Moving Finger
<a , Postern of Fate , Taken at the Flood, The Witness for the Prosecution
Cisneros , Sandra : The House on Mango Street
Clark , Susanna : The Ladies of Grace Adieu
Collette : “Gigi”
Collins, Gail: America’s Women
Collins , Paul : Sixpence House
Collins , Wilkie : The Moonstone
Connolly , John : The Book of Lost Things , Nocturnes
Couteur , Penny Le: Napoelon’s Buttons
Creech , Sharon : Bloomability

D
Dalby , Liz : The Tale of Murasaki
deBlieu , Jan : Wind
Delors , Catherine : Mistress of the Revolution
Derfner , Joel : Swish
Dinesen , Isak : Seven Gothic Tales , Out of Africa
Dirda , Michael : Classics for Pleasure , Bound to Please
Domingue , Ronlyn : The Mercy of Thin Air
Donahue , Keith : The Stolen Child
Dumas , Alexandre : The Count of Monte Cristo
Dunning , John : Booked to Die

E
Eco , Umberto : The Name of the Rose
Ehrenreich , Barbara : Nickel and Dimed
Eliot , George : Middlemarch
Ephron , Nora : I Feel Bad About My Neck
Enright , Elizabeth : The Saturdays
Eugenides , Jeffrey(ed.) : My Mistress’s Sparrow is Dead

F
Fadiman , Anne : Ex Libris , Rereadings (ed.)
Fascitelli , Melanie Charlton : The Oxford Project
Feldstein , Peter : The Oxford Project
Fforde , Jasper : The Well of Lost Plots , Something Rotten , Lost in a Good Book , The Eyre Affair
Fitzgerald , Penelope : “The Bookshop”
Flaubert , Gustave : Madame Bovary
Franklin, Miles: My Brilliant Career
Follett , Ken : Pillars of the Earth
Fonseca , Isabel : Bury Me Standing
Ford , Amanda : Kiss Me, I’m Single
Forster , C.S. : Commodore Hornblower , Ship of the Line , Flying Colours , Beat to Quarters
Forster , E.M. : Howard’s End
Foster , Thomas : How to Read Literature Like a Professor
Fowles , John : The Collector
French , Patrick : Tibet, Tibet
Friedman , George : America’s Secret War
Fry , Stephen : The Ode Less Travelled
Funke , Cornelia : Inkheart
Furst , Alan : Night Soldiers

G
Gaiman , Neil : The Doll’s House , American Gods , Stardust , Anansi Boys , Neverwhere , Coraline , Preludes & Noctures , Fragile Things , Odd and the Frost Giants
Gaines , Earnest : The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Gladwell , Malcolm : Blink
Gleason , Colleen : The Rest Falls Away
Goldstein , Nancy. : Jackie Ormes
Gombrich , E.H. : The Story of Art
Gomez-Jurado , Juan : God’s Spy
Goodall , Jane : Reason for Hope
Gourevitch , Philip : A Cold Case
Green , John : “Looking for Alaska”
Greenfield , Lauren : Girl Culture
Gregory , Philippa : The Virgin’s Lover
Griffin , John Howard : Black Like Me
Guy , John : Queen of Scots

H
Hale , Shannon : The Goose Girl , Austenland
Hamad, Mohsin: The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Hansen , Ron : Mariette in Ecstasy
Hari , Daoud : The Translator
Harwood , John : The Ghost Writer
Hawthorne , Nathaniel : The House of Seven Gables
Helms, Beth : Dervishes
Hessler , Peter : Oracle Bones
Hennessey , Jonathan : The United States Constitution: a Graphic Adaptation
Heyer , Georgette : Beauvallet , The Talisman Ring
Hill, Susan : The Man in the Picture
Hills , Joe : Heart-Shaped Box
Hochschild , Adam : King Leopold’s Ghost
Hoffman , Alice : Blackbird House
Houtte , Alison and Melissa : Alligators, Old Mink, and New Money
Holloway , Kris : Monique and the Mango Rains
Hornby , Nick : The Polysyllabic Spree
Hurston , Zora Neale : Their Eyes Were Watching God

I
Ihimaera , Witi : The Whale Rider
Ilyin , Natalia : Blonde Like Me
Ishiguro , Kazuo : Never Let Me Go , The Remains of the Day

J
Jackson , Joshilyn : Between, Georgia
Jackson , Lisa : Lost Souls
Jackson , Shirley : The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Jacobs , Kate : The Friday Night Knitting Club
James , P.D. : Innocent Blood , Death in Holy Orders , Original Sin
James , Henry : “Daisy Miller“
Japrisot , Sebastien : A Very Long Engagement , Trap for Cinderella
Jelloun , Tahar Ben : The Last Friend
Jian , Ma : The Noodle Maker
Jin , Ha : Waiting
Johnson , Diane : Le Divorce
Johnston , Tracy : Shooting the Boh
Judson , Olivia : Dr. Tatiana’s Sex Advice to All Creation

K
Kalfus , Ken : Pu-239 and Other Russian Fantasies
Kaplan , Alice : French Lessons
Kawabata , Yaunari : Snow Country
Kennan , George : Sketches from a Life
Kidd , Sue Monk : The Secret Life of Bees
Kidder , Tracy : Among Schoolchildren
Kim , Hyekin : Jia
King , Laurie : The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, A Monstrous Regiment of Women, The Game , Locked Rooms , The Language of Bees
King, Ross : Brunelleschi’s Dome
Kingsolver , Barbara : The Poisonwood Bible
Kipling , Rudyard : Kim
Kneale , Matthew : When We Were Romans
Koff , Clea : The Bone Woman
Kohl , Herbert : A Grain of Poetry
Koontz , Dean : Odd Thomas

L
Laclos , Pierre Choderlos de : Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Lamb , Christinia : House of Stone
Lamb, Brian: Booknotes: Stories From American History
Larkin , Emma : Finding George Orwell in Burma
LeBor , Adam : City of Oranges
Lee , Hermione : Virginia Woolf
Lehrer , Jonah : Proust Was a Neuroscientist
Leibovitz , Annie : Women
L’Engle , Madeleine : A Wrinkle in Time
Leon , Donna : Death at La Fenice , Dressed for Death
Levine , Judith : Not Buying It
Lint , Charles de : The Little Country , Widdershins , Dreams Underfoot, From a Whisper to a Scream
Lowry , Lois : Gossamer , The Giver

M
Macalister , Kate : Ain’t Myth Behavin’
Maclay , John : Dreadful Delineations
Mahfouz , Naguib : “Khufu’s Wisdom”
Malouf, David: Remembering Babylon
Manguel , Alberto : A History of Reading , The Library at Night
Marai , Sandor : Embers
Maraire , J. Nozipo : Zenzele
Markham, Beryl: West With the Night
Marquez , Gabriel Garcia : News of a Kidnapping , Love in the Time of Cholera
Marr , Melissa : Wicked Lovely
Martin , James : My Life With the Saints
Maurier , Daphne de : The House on the Strand , My Cousin Rachel
McConnell , Aaron : The United States Constitution: a Graphic Adaptation
McCullers , Carson : “The Ballad of the Sad Café”
McDermott , Alice : That Night
McEwan , Ian : Comfort of Strangers, The
McPhee , John : Basin and Range
Medina , Lan : Fables, Vol. One: Legends in Exile
Medley , Linda : Castle Waiting
Meyer , Stephanie : Twilight
Mirrlees , Hope : Lud-in-the-Mist
Mishima, Yukio: The Sound of Waves
Mitchel , Stephen (trans.): Gilgamesh
Mootoo , Shani : Cereus Blooms at Night
Morrison , Toni : The Bluest Eye , A Mercy
Morton , Kate : The House at Riverton
Mullan , John : How Novels Work
Murakami , Haruki : Norwegian Wood
Murdoch, Iris : The Bell
Mutford , John : How to Read a Novel

N
Napoli , Donna Jo : Zel
Nelson , Sara : So Many Books, So Little Time

O
Obama , Barack : The Audacity of Hope
Oates , Joyce Carol : Blonde
O’Connor , Flannery : The Habit of Being
Orczy , Baroness : The Scarlet Pimpernel
Orenstein , Peggy : Waiting for Daisy
Orlean , Susan : The Orchid Thief
Orwell, George : Burmese Days
Oubrerie, Clement and Margeurite Abouet : Aya

P
Paige , Robin : Death at Bishop’s Keep
Pamuk , Orhan : The Black Book
Pearl , Nancy : Book Lust
Perlstein , Linda : Tested
Peters , Elizabeth : Crocodile on the Sandbank
Peters , Ellis : A Morbid Taste for Bones
Postlewaite , Heidi : Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures
Power , Samantha : Chasing the Flame
Pratchett , Terry : Nation

Q
Quindlen , Anna : How Reading Changed My Life

R
Rees , Celia : Pirates!,
Rendell , Ruth : Kissing the Gunner’s Daughter , From Doon With Death
Reverte-Perez , Arturo : The Nautical Chart
Rhodes , Jewell Parker : Voodoo Season
Rhys , Jeane : Wide Sargasso Sea
Richardson , Bill : Bachelor Brothers’ Bed and Breakfast
Richmond , Michelle : No One You Know
Ridley, Matt: The Red Queen
Rinehard , Mary Roberts : The Door
Roach , Mary : Stiff , Spook
Roberts , Jason : A Sense of Place
Robilant , Andrea di : A Venetian Affair
Romanones , Aline : The Spy Wore Red
Rose , M.J. : The Memorist
Rosen , Jeffrey : The Supreme Court
Rosin , Hanna : God’s Harvard
Ross , Kate : Cut to the Quick , A Broken Vessel , Whom the Gods Love
Ruddick , James : Death at the Priory
Russell , Mary Doria : Dreamers of the Day

S
Sacks , Oliver : Musicophilia , The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Safina , Carl : Song for the Blue Ocean
Salinger , J.D. : Nine Stories
Salzman , Mark : True Notebooks
Sayers, Dorothy: The Complete Stories
Schmidt , Gary : The Wednesday Wars
Schwartz , Lynne Sharon : Ruined by Reading
Scott , Sir Walter : Rob Roy
Sedaris , David : Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
See , Lisa : Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Setterfield , Diane : The Thirteenth Tale
Shadid , Anthony : Night Draws Near
Shephard, Margaret: The Art of the Personal Letter
Shields , Carol : Dressing Up for the Carnival
Shonk , Katherine : The Red Passport
Siddons , Anne Rivers : The House Next Door
Silva , Daniel : The Kill Artist
Simmons , Dan : Ilium , Olympos
Smith , Dodie : I Capture the Castle
Smith , Philip : A Billion Bootstraps
Snadowsky , Daria : Anatomy of a Boyfriend
Soueif , Ahdaf : In the Eye of the Sun
Stepp , Laura Sessions : Unhooked
Stevermer , Caroline : Sorcery and Cecilia , The Grand Tour
Storr , Will : Will Storr vs. the Supernatural

T
Tademy , Lalita : Cane River
Tan , Shaun : Tales From Outer Surburbia
Tanizaki , Juricho : Naomi
Tannen , Deborah : You’re Wearing That?
Tartt , Donna : The Secret History
Thomas , Will : Some Danger Involved
Thomson , Andrew : Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures
Thorton , Rosy : Hearts and Minds
Thurman , Erc : A Billion Bootstraps
Thwe , Pascal Khoo : From the Land of Green Ghosts
Trollope , Anthony : The Eustace Diamonds , Barchester Towers
Turnbull , Sarah : Almost French
Tyre , Peg : The Trouble With Boys
Tyson , Neil deGrasse : Death by Black Hole

U
Ueda , Akinari : Tales of Moonlight and Rain

V
Velde , Vivian Vande : A Well-Timed Enchantment
Verne , Jules : Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Voltaire : “Candide“
Vonnegut , Kurt : Cat’s Cradle

W
Walker , Alan : The Wisdom of the Bones
Walker , Gabrielle : Snowball Earth
Wallace , David : The Watermelon King , Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician
Waters , Sarah : Tipping the Velvet
Waters , T.J. : Class 11
Waxman , Sharon : Loot
Weisman , Alan : The World Without Us
Weil , Christa : Secondhand Chic
Welty , Eudora : Delta Wedding
Whitfield , Susan : Life Along the Silk Road
Whitman , Beth : Wanderlust and Lipstick
Willingham , Bill : Fables, Vol. One: Legends in Exile
Winspear , Jacqueline : Maisie Dobbs
Wodehouse , P.G. : Carry On, Jeeves
Wrede , Patricia : Sorcery and Cecilia , The Grand Tour
Wright , Lawrence : The Looming Tower
Wright , Robin : Dreams and Shadows

Y
Yoshimoto , Banana : Kitchen

Z
Zeitz , Joshua : Flapper
Zimmler , Richard : The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon
Zusak , Markus : The Book Thief

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