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Abu-Jaber, Diana
 Origin
Adam, Paul
 Rainaldi Quartet
Albert, Susan Wittig
 Tale of Hill Top Farm.
Alexie, Sherman.
 Flight.
Anderson, M.T.
 Feed.
Anderson, Sherwood.
 Winesburg, Ohio.
Andrews, Donna.
 Murder with Peacocks
Anthony, Piers
 On a Pale Horse
Archer, Jeffrey
 Paths of Glory.
Arnaldur Indridason
 Jar City: a Reykjavik Thriller
Atkinson, Kate
 Behind the Scenes at the Museum
Atkinson, Kate
 Case Histories
Atwood, Margaret
 Alias Grace
Atwood, Margaret
 Blind Assassin
Atwood, Margaret
 Handmaid’s Tale
Atwood, Margaret
 Robber Bride
Auster , Paul
 City of Glass.
Balzac, Honoré de
 Eugénie Grandet
Balzo, Sandra
 Uncommon Grounds
Bank, Melissa
 Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing
Banks, Russell
 Darling.
Barbery, Muriel
 Elegance of a Hedgehog
Barry, Brunonia
 Lace Reader
Barry, Sebastian
 Secret Scripture
Baxt, George
 William Powell and Myrna Loy Murder Case
Bazell, Josh
 Beat the Reaper
Bear, Elizabeth
 All the Windwracked Stars
Beaton, M.C.
 Death of a Gossip.
Bell, Nancy
 Biggie and the Poisoned Politician.
Bellamy, Edward
 Looking Backward, 2000-1887
Bender, Aimee
 An Invisible Sign of My Own
Benioff, David
 City of Thieves.
Benjamin, Melanie
 Alice I have Been.
Bennett, Alan
 The Uncommon Reader
Black, Veronica
 Vow of Silence
Bloom, Amy
 Away
Bowen, Rhys
 Murphy’s Law
Boyle, T.Coraghessan
 Road to Wellville.
Boyle, T.Coraghessan
 Talk, Talk.
Bradbury, Ray
 Dandelion Wine
Bradbury, Ray
 Fahrenheit 451
Bradbury, Ray
 Something Wicked This Way Comes
Bradley, Alan
 Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Bradley, Marion Zimmer
 Mists of Avalon
Bradshaw, Gillian
 Sand-Reckoner
Brennert, Alan
 Honolulu.
Brett, Peter
 Warded Man
Brockmeier, Kevin
 Brief History of the Dead
Brooks, Terry
 Elves of Cintra
Browne, S.G. (Scott G.)
 Breathers: a zombie’s lament
Buffett, Jimmy
 Tales from Margaritaville: fictional facts and factual fictions
Bunyan, John
 Pilgrim’s Progress
Byatt, A.S
 Possession
Cahill, Mary
 Carpool
Calvino, Italo
 Marcovaldo
Camus, Albert
 Stranger
Cannell, Dorothy
 Thin woman
Card, Orson Scott
 Ender's game
Cather, Willa
 Collected stories
Cather, Willa
 My Antonia.
Cather, Willa
 Troll garden
Cerda, Martha
 Senora Rodriguez and other worlds
Chabon, Michael
 Amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Chopin, Kate
 Awakening and selected stories
Cisneros, Sandra
 House on Mango street
Clancy, Tom
 Hunt for red October
Cleage, Pearl
 What looks like crazy on an ordinary day
Coetzee, J.M.
 Disgrace
Cooper, James Fenimore
 Deerslayer
Cooperstein, Claire
 Johanna
Craven, Margaret
 I heard the owl call my name
Crispin, Edmund
 Moving toyshop
Danticat, Edwidge.
 Breath, eyes, memory
Davidson, Diane Mott
 Dying for chocolate
Day, Richard Cortez
 When in Florence
Dennis, Patrick
 Auntie Mame: an irreverent escapade
Dick, Philip.
 Man in the high castle
Dickens, Charles
 Great expectations
Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee
 Mistress of spices.
Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee
 Sister of my heart
Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee
 Unknown errors of our lives: stories
Dreiser, Theodore
 American tragedy
Dunning, John
 Bookman's promise: a Cliff Janeway novel
Elegant, Simon
 Floating life
Eliot, George
 Mill on the floss
Elizabeth
 Enchanted April. (Elizabeth von Arnim)
Ellison, Ralph
 Invisible man
Ende, Michael
 Momo
Epstein, Joseph
 Fabulous small Jews
Finder, Joseph
 Paranoia
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
 Flappers and philosophers.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
 Great Gatsby
Flagg, Fannie
 Fried green tomatoes at the whistle stop cafe
Flaubert, Gustave
 Madame Bovary.
Franklin, Miles
 My brilliant career
Frazier, Charles
 Cold mountain
Gaines, Ernest
 A lesson before dying
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel.
 One hundred years of solitude
Gaskell, Elixabeth
 Cranford
Gibbons, Stella
 Cold comfort farm
Gissing, George
 Odd women
Goldstein, Lisa
 Dream years
Gordimer, Nadine
 House Gun
Gordimer, Nadine
 July's people
Goudge, Elizabeth
 City of bells
Gran, Sara
 Come Closer
Greene, Graham
 Heart of the matter
Greene, Graham
 Power and the Glory
Gregory, Phillipa
 Other Boleyn Girl.
Haddon, Mark
 Curious incident of the dog in the night-time: a novel
Hambly, Barbara
 Free man of color
Hardy, Thomas
 Jude the Obscure
Hardy, Thomas
 Mayor of Casterbridge
Hardy, Thomas
 Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Haruf, Kent
 Plainsong
Helprin, Mark
 Memoir from antproof case
Hesse, Herman
 Siddhartha
Hill, Susan
 Woman in black
Hornby, Nick
 About a boy
Hughart, Barry
 Bridge of birds
Ishiguro, Kazuo
 Remains of the day
Jewett, Sarah Orne
 Country of the pointed firs and other stories
Kawabata, Yasunari
 Snow Country
Kazantzakis, Nikos
 Zorba the Greek
Keyes, Daniel
 Flowers for Algernon
Kincaid, Jamaica
 Autobiography of my mother
Kincaid, Jamaica
 Annie John
Kincaid, Jamaica
 My garden
King, Laurie
 Beekeeper's apprentice
Kingsolver, Barbara
 Animal dreams
Kingsolver, Barbara
 Bean trees
Kingsolver, Barbara
 Pigs in Heaven
Kingsolver, Barbara
 The Poisonwood Bible
Lahiri, Jhumpa
 Namesake
Le Guin, Ursula
 Wind's twelve quarters
Lee, Harper
 To kill a mockingbird
Lennon, j. Robert
 Funnies
Letts, Billie
 Where the heart is
Lewis, Sinclair
 Babbitt
Lightman, Alan
 Einstein's dreams
Llewellyn, Richard
 How green was my valley
Lovesey, Peter
 Waxwork
Lurie, Alison
 Foreign affairs
Maclean, Norman
 River runs through it
MacLeod, Charlotte
 Family vault
Mansfield, Katherine
 Stories
Markoe, Merrill
 It's my f***ing birthday
Marquand, John P
 The Late George Apley
McCracken, Elizabeth
 The Giant's house.
McCullers, Carson.
 The Heart is a lonely hunter
Melville, Herman
 Moby Dick
Miller, Walter
 Canticle for Leibowitz
Mishima, Yukio
 Sailor who fell from grace with the sea
Moore, Christopher
 Fluke, or, I know why the winged whale sings
Morley, Christopher
 Parnassus on wheels.
Munro Alice
 Friend of my youth: stories
Munro Alice
 Hateship, friendship, courtship, loveship, marriage: stories
Munro Alice
 Open secrets: stories
Niffenegger, Audrey
 The Time-traveler's wife: a novel
Niven, Larry
 Ringworld
O'Connor, Flannery
 Violent bear it away
Oe, Kenzaburo
 Nip the buds, shoot the kids
Parkhurst, Carolyn
 Dogs of Babel
Parkinson, C. Northcote
 Jeeves: a gentleman's personal gentleman
Paton, Alan
 Cry the beloved country
Pearson, T.R.
 Short history of a small place
Plath, Sylvia
 The Bell jar
Pratchett, Terry
 Thief of time
Pym, Barbara
 Excellent women
Read, Miss
 Village diary
Remarque, Erich Maria
 All quiet on the western front
Robb, Candace
 A Trust betrayed
Roberts, Gillian
 Caught dead in Philadelphia
Robinson, Marilynne
 Housekeeping
Rutherfurd, Edward
 The Princes of Ireland
Sackville-West, Vita
 All passion spent
Saroyan, William
 Human comedy
Saunders, George
 Pastoralia
Schwarz, Christina
 All is vanity: a novel
Sebold, Alice
 Lovely Bones
Seth, Vikram
 Suitable boy
Shakar, Alex
 Savage girl: a novel
Shields, Carol
 The Stone Diaries
Simak, Clifford
 City
Smiley, Jane
 Horse Heaven
Smiley, Jane
 Moo
Smiley, Jane
 A Thousand Acres
Smith, Betty
 A tree grows in Brooklyn
Smith, Dodie
 I capture the castle
Snow, C.P.
 The Masters
Spark, Muriel
 Memento mori
Spence, Gerry
 Half -moon and empty stars
Steinbeck, John
 Cannery row
Steinbeck, John
 The grapes of wrath
Stevenson, Jane
 Winter Queen
Stowe, Rebecca
 Shadow of desire
Symons, Julian
 Great detectives
Tan, Amy
 The Joy Luck Club
Tevis, Walter
 The Queen's gambit
Thompson, Flora
 Lark rise to Candleford
Tolstaya, Tatyana
 The Slynx
Tolstoy, Leo
 War and peace
Toole, John Kennedy
 Confederacy of dunces
Trevor, William
 The love department
Trevor, William
 The story of Lucy Gault
Tyler, Anne
 The accidental tourist
Tyler, Anne
 Breathing lessons
Tyler, Anne
 Dinner at the homesick restaurant
Tyler, Anne
 Ladder of Years
Tyler, Anne
 Saint maybe
Verne, Jules
 Around the world in 80 days
Vonnegut, Kurt
 Slaughterhouse five
Vreeland, Susan
 Girl in hyacinth blue
Waugh, Evelyn
 Brideshead revisited
Weldon, Fay
 Letters to Alice
Wells, H.G
 The time machine
Wells, Rebecca
 Divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood
Welty, Eudora
 Collected stories of Eudora Welty
West, Nathanael
 Day of the locust
Wharton, Edith
 Collected stories: 1891-1910
Wharton, Edith
 Collected stories: 1911-1937
Wharton, Edith
 Ethan Frome
Wharton, Edith
 The house of mirth.
Wilde, Oscar
 The picture of Dorian Gray
Willis, Connie
 Bellwether
Willis, Connie
 To say nothing of the dog
Winterson, Jeanette
 Oranges are not the only fruit
Wolfe, Tom
 A man in full
Wolff, Tobias
 Night in question: stories
Yoshimoto, Banana
 Kitchen
Young, Carrie
 Wedding dress: stories from the Dakota plains
Zelanzy, Roger
 Lord of light

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