Sin in the Second City

  Karen Abbott  
  The Zookeeper's Wife

  Diane Ackerman  
  Say You're One of Them

  Uwem Akpan  
  The Five People You Meet in Heaven

  Mitch Albom  
  Tuesdays with Morrie

  Mitch Albom  
  The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar

  Robert Alexander  
  Brick Lane

  Monica Ali  
  Undaunted Courage

  Stephen E. Ambrose  
  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  
  Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

  John Berendt  
  Evening Class

  Maeve Binchy  
  Liberating Paris

  Linda Bloodworth-Thomason  
  Fahrenheit 451

  Ray Bradbury  
  Something Wicked This Way Comes

  Ray Bradbury  
  P.G. County

  Connie Briscoe  
  Angels & Demons

  Dan Brown  
  A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

  Bill Bryson  
  Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34

  Bryan Burrough  
  Honey, Baby, Sweetheart

  Deb Caletti  
  Ender's Game

  Orson Scott Card  
  The Alienist

  Caleb Carr  
  O Pioneers!

  Willa Cather  
  The Yiddish Policemen's Union

  Michael Chabon  
  The Lady and the Unicorn

  Tracy Chevalier  
  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  
  Gorky Park

  Martin Cruz Smith  
  The Hours

  Michael Cunningham  
  Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

  Sijie Dai  
  The Diary of Mattie Spenser

  Sandra Dallas  
  Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years

  Sarah & Elizabeth Delany  
  Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

  Philip K. Dick  
  A Christmas Carol

  Charles Dickens  
  The Commitments

  Roddy Doyle  
  The Hound of the Baskervilles

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle  
  Passing Through

  Leon Driskell  
  The Three Musketeers

  Alexandre Dumas  
  Rebecca

  Daphne Du Maurier  
  The Birth of Venus

  Sarah Dunant  
  A Season in Purgatory

  Dominick Dunne  
  The 19th Wife

  David Ebershoff  
  The Memory Keeper's Daughter

  Kim Edwards  
  Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America


  Barbara Ehrenreich  
  Middlesex

  Jeffrey Eugenides  
  The Eyre Affair

  Jasper Fforde  
  The Great Gatsby

  F. Scott Fitzgerald  
  Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe


  Fannie Flagg  
  Madame Bovary

  Gustave Flaubert  
  The Last King of Scotland

  Giles Foden  
  A Room with a View

  E.M. Forster  
  Love in the Time of Cholera

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez  
  The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany

  Martin Goldsmith  
  A Is for Alibi (The Kinsey Millhone Mysteries)


  Sue Grafton  
  The Killings at Badger's Drift (Inspector Barnaby Mysteries)


  Caroline Graham  
  Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

  Stephen Greenblatt  
  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  
  A Map of the World

  Jane Hamilton  
  84, Charing Cross Road

  Helene Hanff  
  A Civil Action

  Jonathan Harr  
  Chocolat

  Joanne Harris  
  What's Eating Gilbert Grape?

  Peter Hedges  
  To Have and Have Not

  Ernest Hemingway  
  Rocket Boys

  Homer Hickam  
  Thorn in My Heart

  Liz Curtis Higgs  
  Murder in Hollywood: Solving a Silent Screen Mystery

  Charles Higham  
  Seabiscuit: An American Legend

  Laura Hillenbrand  
  Dance Hall of the Dead

  Tony Hillerman  
  Seventh Heaven

  Alice Hoffman  
  Loving Frank

  Nancy Horan  
  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  
  Land Girls

  Angela Huth  
  The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

  Washington Irving  
  Never Let Me Go

  Kazuo Ishiguro  
  The Know-It-All

  A.J. Jacobs  
  The Secret Life of Bees

  Sue Monk Kidd  
  A Girl Named Zippy

  Haven Kimmel  
  The Bean Trees

  Barbara Kingsolver  
  Shoeless Joe

  W. P. Kinsella  
  Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic
of 1918

  Gina Bari Kolata  
  Into the Wild

  Jon Krakauer  
  The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell


  Mark Kurlansky  
  The Namesake

  Jhumpa Lahiri  
  The Devil in the White City

  Erik Larson  
  Shutter Island

  Dennis Lehane  
  Three-Ten to Yuma and Other Stories

  Elmore Leonard  
  The Screwtape Letters

  C. S. Lewis  
  Under a Wing: A Memoir

  Reeve Lindbergh  
  Darkly Dreaming Dexter

  Jeffry P. Lindsay  
  Apollo 13

  Jim Lovell  
  The Giver

  Lois Lowry  
  With a Hammer for My Heart

  George Ella Lyon  
  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 Book Borrower

  Alice Mattison  
  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  
  Atonement

  Ian McEwan  
  The Memory of Running

  Ron McLarty  
  God Don't Like Ugly

  Mary Monroe  
  From Hell

  Alan Moore  
  Gap Creek

  Robert Morgan  
  All the Living

  C.E. Morgan  
  A Mercy

  Toni Morrison  
  Three Cups of Tea

  Greg Mortenson  
  Trapped! The Story of Floyd Collins

  Robert Murray  
  The Time Traveler's Wife

  Audrey Niffenegger  
  Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life


  Queen Noor  
  Missing Mom

  Joyce Carol Oates  
  Dreams from My Father

  Barack Obama  
  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  
  Kate Vaiden

  Reynolds Price  
  Black and Blue

  Anna Quindlen  
  A Gracious Plenty

  Sheri Reynolds  
  Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers


  Mary Roach  
  Kabul Beauty School

  Deborah Rodriguez  
  The Sparrow

  Mary Doria Russell  
  Big Russ and Me: Father and Son: Lessons of Life

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


  Terry Ryan  
  Contact

  Carl Sagan  
  Drowning Ruth

  Christina Schwarz  
  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  
  The Pilot's Wife

  Anita Shreve  
  Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey


  Rachel Simon  
  Moo

  Jane Smiley  
  A Simple Plan

  Scott B. Smith  
  The Notebook

  Nicholas Sparks  
  The Grapes of Wrath

  John Steinbeck  
  Of Mice and Men

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

  James L. Swanson  
  The Joy Luck Club

  Amy Tan  
  Jackie, Ethel, Joan: Women of Camelot


  J. Randy Taraborrelli  
  The Rum Diary

  Hunter S. Thompson  
  The Turquoise Ring

  Grace Tiffany  
  Big Stone Gap

  Adriana Trigiani  
  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court


  Mark Twain  
  Ladder of Years

  Anne Tyler  
  The Devil's Highway: A True Story

  Luis Alberto Urrea  
  Easter Island

  Jennifer Vanderbes  
  Slaughterhouse-Five

  Kurt Vonnegut  
  Girl in Hyacinth Blue

  Susan Vreeland  
  Sweeping Up Glass

  Carolyn D. Wall  
  The Glass Castle

  Jeannette Walls  
  All the King's Men

  Robert Penn Warren  
  Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond

  Essie Mae Washington-Williams  
  Innocent Traitor

  Alison Weir  
  The Optimist's Daughter

  Eudora Welty  
  Ethan Frome

  Edith Wharton  
  The Picture of Dorian Gray

  Oscar Wilde