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Adventure & Thriller

Bellow, Saul	Henderson the Rain King.
Burroughs, Edgar	Tarzan of the Apes.
Carlon, Patricia	The Price of an Orphan.
Clancy, Tom	Clear and Present Danger.
Cook, Robin	Chromosome 6.
Crichton, Michael	Jurassic Park.
Cussler, Clive	Shock Wave.
Dumas, Alexandre	The Three Musketeers.
Gilman, Dorothy	Caravan.
Grisham, John	The Client.
Higgins, Jack	The President's Daughter.
Hope, Anthony	The Prisoner of Zenda.
Le Carre, John	Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
Meltzer, Brad	The Tenth Justice.
Nance, John	The Last Hostage.
Orczy, Emmuska	The Scarlet Pimpernel.
Perry, Thomas	Vanishing Act.
Stevenson, Robert Louis	Treasure Island.
Theroux, Paul	The Mosquito Coast: A Novel.

Biography

Beals, Melba	Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High.
Bernstein, Sara	Seamstress: A Memoir of Survival.
Bragg, Rick	All Over But the Shoutin'.
Codell, Esme Raji	Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Year.
Delany, Sarah	Having Our Say.
Feynman, Richard	"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" Adventures of a Curious Character.
Fouts, Roger	Next of Kin: What Chimpanzees Have Taught Me About Who We Are.
Grealy, Lucy	Autobiography of a Face.
Hickan, Homer	Rocket Boys.
Huxley, Elspeth	The Flame Trees of Thika.
McBride, James	The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother.
McCall, Bruce	Thin Ice: Coming of Age in Canada.
McCourt, Frank	Angela's Ashes.
Mowat, Farley	Woman in the Mists: The Story of Dian Fossey and the Mountain Gorillas of Africa.
Pelzer, David	A Child Called "It".
Perel, Shlomo	Europa, Europa.
Taylor, David	Is There a Doctor in the Zoo?
Thornton, Yvonne	The Ditchdigger's Daughters: A Black Family's Astonishing Success Story.

Classics

Austen, Jane	Pride and Prejudice.
Bradbury, Ray	Fahrenheit 451.
Bronte, Charlotte	Jane Eyre.
Cather, Willa	My Antonia.
Clark, Walter	The Ox-Bow Incident.
Conrad, Joseph	Lord Jim.
Craven, Margaret	I Heard the Owl Call My Name.
Dickens, Charles	Oliver Twist.
Golding, William	Lord of the Flies.
Hugo, Victor	Les Miserables.
Kesey, Ken	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
Knowles, John	A Separate Peace.
Lee, Harper	To Kill a Mockingbird.
Leroux, Gaston	The Phantom of the Opera.
McCullers, Carson	The Member of the Wedding.
Orwell, George	Animal Farm.
Plath, Sylvia	The Bell Jar.
Salinger, J.D.	The Catcher in the Rye.
Saroyan, William	The Human Comedy.
Smith, Betty	A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
Steinbeck, John	Of Mice and Men.
Wells, H.G.	The Invisible Man.
Wright, Richard	Native Son.

Contemporary Life

Banks, Russell	Rule of the Bone.
Berg, Elizabeth	Joy School.
Blume, Judy	Summer Sisters.
Bradbury, Ray	Dandelion Wine.
Conroy, Pat	The Great Santini.
Cook, Karin	What Girls Learn.
Dart, Iris	Beaches.
Denker, Henry	A Place for Kathy.
Guest, Judith	Ordinary People.
Irving, John	The World According to Garp: A Novel.
Kingsolver, Barbara	The Bean Trees.
Lamott, Anne	Crooked Little Heart.
Letts, Billie	Where the Heart Is.
McCullers, Carson	The Member of the Wedding.
Mitchard, Jacquelyn	The Deep End of the Ocean.
Schulman, Audrey	Swimming with Jonah.
Swarthout, Glendon	Bless the Beasts and Children.
Thomson, Maynard F.	Dreams of Gold.

Crime

Atwood, Margaret	Alias Grace.
Baldacci, David G.	Absolute Power.
Capote, Truman	In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences.
Doyle, Arthur Conan	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Handler, Daniel	The Basic Eight.
Ness, Eliot	The Untouchables.

Fantasy

Adams, Richard	Watership Down.
Anthony, Piers	On a Pale Horse.
Butler, Octavia	Kindred.
Card, Orson Scott	Seventh Son.
Dean, Pamela	Tam Lin.
Dickson, Gordon	The Dragon and the George.
Eddings, David	Pawn of Prophecy.
Elliott, Kate	King's Dragon.
Gaiman, Neil	Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch.
Gould, Steven	Jumper.
Hobb, Robin	Assassin's Apprentice.
Jordan, Robert	The Eye of the World.
Kay, Susan	Phantom.
Martin, George	A Game of Thrones.
Pratchett, Terry	Feet of Clay.
White, T.H.	The Once and Future King.
Williams, Tad	The Dragonbone Chair.
Zelazny, Roger	Nine Princes in Amber.

Historical

Aldrich, Bess	A Lantern in Her Hand.
Auel, Jean	The Clan of the Cave Bear.
Ballard, J.G.	Empire of the Sun.
Bradshaw, Gillian	The Beacon at Alexandria.
Burns, Olive	Cold Sassy Tree.
Clavell, James	Shogun: A Novel of Japan.
Cornwell, Bernard	Sharpe's Tiger.
Fast, Howard	April Morning.
Forester, C.S.	Mr. Midshipman Hornblower.
Golden, Arthur	Memoirs of a Geisha.
Hambly, Barbara	Free Man of Color.
Hamill, Pete	Snow in August.
Kelton, Elmer	The Pumpkin Rollers.
Kosinski, Jerzy	The Painted Bird.
Maxwell, Robin	The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn.
Mitchell, Margaret	Gone with the Wind.
Patton, Frances	Good Morning, Miss Dove.
Riley, Judith	The Serpent Garden.
Spiegelman, Art	Maus: A Survivor's Tale.
Tarr, Judith	Pillar of Fire.
Tey, Josephine	The Daughter of Time.
Uris, Leon	Exodus.
West, Jessamyn	The Friendly Persuasion.

Horror

Andrews, V.C.	Flowers in the Attic.
Clark, Mary Higgins	Loves Music, Loves to Dance.
King, Stephen	Pet Sematary.
Koontz, Dean	Fear Nothing.
Leroux, Gaston	The Phantom of the Opera.
Levin, Ira	Rosemary's Baby.
Martin, Valerie	Mary Reilly.
O'Connell, Carol	Judas Child.
Preston, Douglas	Relic.
Rice, Anne	Interview with the Vampire.
Shelley, Mary	Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus.
Stoker, Bram	Dracula.
Strieber, Whitley	Billy.

Multi-Cultural

Abraham, Pearl	The Romance Reader.
Alexie, Sherman	The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven.
Alvarez, Julia	How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents.
Anaya, Rudolfo A.	Bless Me, Ultima.
Angelou, Maya	I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
Baldwin, James	Go Tell It on the Mountain.
Dorris, Michael	A Yellow Raft in Blue Water.
Doyle, Roddy	Paddy Clarke, Ha-Ha-Ha.
Ellison, Ralph	Invisible Man.
Esquivel, Laura	Like Water for Chocolate.
Feiler, Bruce S.	Learning to Bow: An American Teacher in a Japanese School.
Gaines, Ernest	The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.
Potok, Chaim	The Chosen.
Rainey, John Calvin	The Thang That Ate My Grandaddy's Dog.
Tan, Amy	The Joy Luck Club.
Walker, Alice	The Color Purple.

Mysteries

Alexander, Bruce	Blind Justice.
Barr, Nevada	Firestorm.
Cannell, Dorothy	The Thin Woman: An Epicurian Mystery.
Christie, Agatha	And Then There Were None.
Davis, Lindsey	The Course of Honor.
Day, Dianne	The Strange Files of Fremont Jones.
Francis, Dick	10 lb. Penalty.
Gilstrap, John	Nathan's Run.
Hayter, Sparkle	What's a Girl Gotta Do?
Hillerman, Tony	A Thief of Time.
King, Laurie	The Beekeeper's Apprentice.
O'Connell, Carol	Mallory's Oracle.
Parker, Robert	Early Autumn: A Spenser Novel.
Penman, Sharon	The Queen's Man.
Peters, Ellis	A Morbid Taste for Bones.
Robinson, Lynda	Murder in the Place of Anubis.

Nonfiction

Ash, Russell	The Top 10 of Everything, 2004.
Burch, Jennings	They Cage the Animals at Night.
Stoll, Clifford	The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage.
Suplee, Curt	Everyday Science Explained.
Hawking, Stephen	A Brief History of Time.
Psihoyos, Louie	Hunting Dinosaurs.
Durrell, Gerald	Catch Me a Colobus.
Masson, J. Moussaieff	When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals.
Preston, Richard	The Hot Zone.
Buck, Rinker	Flight of Passage.
Herriot, James	All Things Bright and Beautiful.
Fogle, Bruce	The New Encyclopedia of the Cat.
Larson, Gary	There's a Hair in My Dirt! A Worm's Story.
Krauss, Lawrence	The Physics of Star Trek.
Telander, Rick	In the Year of the Bull: Zen, Air, and the Pursuit of Sacred and Profane Hoops.
Corbett, Sara	Venus to the Hoop: A Gold-Medal Year in Women's Basketball.
Ryan, Joan	Little Girls in Pretty Boxes: The Making and Breaking of Elite Gymnasts and Figure Skaters.
Krakauer, Jon	Into Thin Air.
O'Hanlon, Redmond	No Mercy: A Journey to the Heart of the Congo.
Markham, Beryl	West with the Night.
Ambrose, Stephen	Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West.
Alexander, Caroline	The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition.
Goldhagen, Daniel	Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust.
Childers, Thomas	Wings of Morning: The Story of the Last American Bomber Shot Down Over Germany in World War II.
Tuchman, Barbara	A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century.
Harrer, Heinrich	Seven Years in Tibet.
Junger, Sebastian	The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea.
Read, Piers Paul	Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors.

Romance

Binchy, Maeve	Circle of Friends.
Blume, Judy	Forever.
Bonner, Cindy	Lily: A Love Story.
Delinsky, Barbara	Three Wishes.
Du Maurier, Daphne	Rebecca.
Gingher, Marianne	Teen Angel and Other Stories of Young Love.
Ladew, Donald	Stradivarius.
McCullough, Colleen	The Ladies of Missalonghi.
Pilcher, Rosamunde	Sleeping Tiger.
Segal, Erich	Love Story.

Science Fiction

Adams, Douglas	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Asimov, Isaac	I, Robot.
Bear, Greg	Dinosaur Summer.
Brin, David	The Postman.
Card, Orson Scott	Ender's Game.
Clarke, Arthur C.	3001: The Final Odyssey.
Crichton, Michael	Jurassic Park.
Elze, Winifred	Here, Kitty, Kitty.
Heinlein, Robert	Tunnel in the Sky.
Hogan, James	Bug Park.
Keyes, Daniel	Flowers for Algernon.
McCaffrey, Anne	Dragonflight.
Shatner, William	Delta Search: Quest for Tomorrow.
Sheffield, Charles	Higher Education.
Turtledove, Harry	The Guns of the South.
Verne, Jules	Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
Willis, Connie	To Say Nothing of the Dog: Or How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last.
Zahn, Timothy	Heir to the Empire.

Short Stories

	Alfred Hitchcock Presents Stories to be Read with the Door Locked.
Capote, Truman	Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories.
Cooper, James Fenimore	The Leatherstocking Tales.
Harte, Bret	The Best of Bret Harte.
Jackson, Shirley	The Lottery: Or, The Adventures of James Harris.
Kipling, Rudyard	The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Stories.
Mansfield, Katherine	The Short Stories of Katherine Mansfield.
Maupassant, Guy de	The Tales of Guy de Maupassant, 1850-1893.
O'Connor, Flannery	A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories.
Parker, Dorothy	Complete Stories.
Poe, Edgar Allan	Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe.
Saki	The Complete Works of Saki.
Stockton, Frank Richard	The Lady, or the Tiger? and Other Stories.
Thurber, James	Thurber's Dogs.
Twain, Mark	Selected Shorter Writings of Mark Twain.
Welty, Eudora	A Curtain of Green and Other Stories.
Wilde, Oscar	The Short Stories of Oscar Wilde.
Wolff, Tobias	The Night in Question: Stories.