Sin in the Second City

  Karen Abbott  
  The Zookeeper's Wife

  Diane Ackerman  
  The Book of Dahlia

  Elisa Albert  
  Undaunted Courage

  Stephen E. Ambrose  
  Devil's Garden

  Ace Atkins  
  Persuasion

  Jane Austen  
  God's Gift to Women

  Michael Baisden  
  Peninsula of Lies

  Edward Ball  
  The Clothes They Stood Up In & The Lady in the Van


  Alan Bennett  
  Evening Class

  Maeve Binchy  
  White Cat

  Holly Black  
  Liberating Paris

  Linda Bloodworth-Thomason  
  Fahrenheit 451

  Ray Bradbury  
  Something Wicked This Way Comes

  Ray Bradbury  
  A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

  Bill Bryson  
  Honey, Baby, Sweetheart

  Deb Caletti  
  The Iron Lady

  John Campbell  
  Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916

  Michael Capuzzo  
  Ender's Game

  Orson Scott Card  
  O Pioneers!

  Willa Cather  
  The Yiddish Policemen's Union

  Michael Chabon  
  Death on the Nile: a Hercule Poirot Mystery


  Agatha Christie  
  The Hunt for Red October

  Tom Clancy  
  Little Bee

  Chris Cleave  
  Heart of Darkness

  Joseph Conrad  
  Unwise Passions

  Alan Pell Crawford  
  Jurassic Park

  Michael Crichton  
  Pope Joan

  Donna Woolfolk Cross  
  Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years

  Sarah & Elizabeth Delany  
  Sarah's Key

  Tatiana de Rosnay  
  A Christmas Carol

  Charles Dickens  
  The Commitments

  Roddy Doyle  
  The Hound of the Baskervilles

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle  
  Passing Through

  Leon Driskell  
  The Birth of Venus

  Sarah Dunant  
  A Season in Purgatory

  Dominick Dunne  
  The 19th Wife

  David Ebershoff  
  The Memory Keeper's Daughter

  Kim Edwards  
  Zeitoun

  Dave Eggers  
  Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America


  Barbara Ehrenreich  
  The Black Dahlia

  James Ellroy  
  Middlesex

  Jeffrey Eugenides  
  Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe


  Fannie Flagg  
  Madame Bovary

  Gustave Flaubert  
  A Room with a View

  E.M. Forster  
  Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter

  Tom Franklin  
  The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany

  Martin Goldsmith  
  Skipping Christmas

  John Grisham  
  Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's
Worst Dog

  John Grogan  
  Water for Elephants

  Sara Gruen  
  The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time


  Mark Haddon  
  Same Kind of Different as Me

  Ron Hall  
  Pompeii

  Robert Harris  
  Chocolat

  Joanne Harris  
  To Have and Have Not

  Ernest Hemingway  
  Rocket Boys

  Homer Hickam  
  Thorn in My Heart

  Liz Curtis Higgs  
  Dance Hall of the Dead

  Tony Hillerman  
  Seventh Heaven

  Alice Hoffman  
  About A Boy

  Nick Hornby  
  Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War

  Tony Horwitz  
  A Parchment of Leaves

  Silas House  
  Clay's Quilt

  Silas House  
  The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

  Washington Irving  
  Never Let Me Go

  Kazuo Ishiguro  
  A Girl Named Zippy

  Haven Kimmel  
  The Bean Trees

  Barbara Kingsolver  
  Shoeless Joe

  W. P. Kinsella  
  The Namesake

  Jhumpa Lahiri  
  The Piano Teacher

  Janice Y. K. Lee  
  Shutter Island

  Dennis Lehane  
  The Screwtape Letters

  C. S. Lewis  
  Under a Wing: A Memoir

  Reeve Lindbergh  
  Darkly Dreaming Dexter

  Jeffry P. Lindsay  
  A Night to Remember

  Walter Lord  
  The Giver

  Lois Lowry  
  Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

  Gregory Maguire  
  Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter

  Adeline Yen Mah  
  The Bad Seed

  William March  
  The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

  James McBride  
  The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency


  Alexander McCall Smith  
  The Road

  Cormac McCarthy  
  Angela's Ashes: A Memoir

  Frank McCourt  
  The Giant's House: A Romance

  Elizabeth McCracken  
  John Adams

  David McCullough  
  God Don't Like Ugly

  Mary Monroe  
  All the Living

  C.E. Morgan  
  A Mercy

  Toni Morrison  
  The House at Riverton

  Kate Morton  
  Trapped! The Story of Floyd Collins

  Robert Murray  
  The Time Traveler's Wife

  Audrey Niffenegger  
  Missing Mom

  Joyce Carol Oates  
  Dreams from My Father

  Barack Obama  
  Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever

  Bill O'Reilly  
  1984

  George Orwell  
  Bel Canto

  Ann Patchett  
  The Cater Street Hangman

  Anne Perry  
  My Sister's Keeper

  Jodi Picoult  
  Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously


  Julie Powell  
  Dead Man Walking

  Sister Helen Prejean  
  The Hot Zone

  Richard Preston  
  Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family

  Condoleezza Rice  
  Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers


  Mary Roach  
  Kabul Beauty School

  Deborah Rodriguez  
  The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio:
How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less


  Terry Ryan  
  Contact

  Carl Sagan  
  Cleopatra: A Life

  Stacy Schiff  
  The Lovely Bones

  Alice Sebold  
  Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

  Lisa See  
  The Thirteenth Tale

  Diane Setterfield  
  Frankenstein

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley  
  In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash


  Jean Shepherd  
  Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey


  Rachel Simon  
  Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

  Helen Simonson  
  Moo

  Jane Smiley  
  A Simple Plan

  Scott B. Smith  
  The Notebook

  Nicholas Sparks  
  The Art of Racing in the Rain

  Garth Stein  
  The Grapes of Wrath

  John Steinbeck  
  Manhunt: The Twelve Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer

  James L. Swanson  
  The Joy Luck Club

  Amy Tan  
  Big Stone Gap

  Adriana Trigiani  
  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court


  Mark Twain  
  Ladder of Years

  Anne Tyler  
  Cutting for Stone

  Abraham Verghese  
  The Glass Castle

  Jeannette Walls  
  All the King's Men

  Robert Penn Warren  
  The Little Stranger

  Sarah Waters  
  The Optimist's Daughter

  Eudora Welty  
  Ethan Frome

  Edith Wharton  
  The Picture of Dorian Gray

  Oscar Wilde