Books. By Title

         
AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT
August-born Authors
Charming Charlotte Bronte 
Notable August-born Authors 
Notable December-born Authors 
Notable February-born Authors 
Tribute to Ernest Hemingway 
Tribute to Author Gaston Leroux 
Tribute to Author Pearl S. Buck 
Tribute to Author Sue Grafton 
BOOK LISTS
Annette's 21 Book Salute 
2013 Book Club Ratings 
 MISCELLANEOUS
Cool Bookstores Around the World 
Cool Bookstores Around the World, Part 2 
NUMERICAL

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The Absinthe Forger by Evan Rail (Non-Fiction)
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Address Unknown by Taylor Kressmann 
The Adventures of John Carson in Several Quarters of the World 
Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte (Classic)
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn (Historical Fiction)
 All About Edgar (Allan Poe) (Classic)
All the Broken Places by John Boyne
The Almost Zero Waste Guide by Melanie Mannarino (Non-Fiction)
 All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (Prize Winner)
Alphabet Weekends by Elizabeth Noble 
Amazing Gracie by Dan Dye and Mark Beckloff (Non-Fiction Memoir) 
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (Classic)
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt (Non-Fiction Memoir)
Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik
Anne of Green Gables L.M. Montgomery (Classic)
Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne (Classic)
Around the World in 72 Days by Jason Marks (Non-Fiction)
Around the World with Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis (Should Be Classic)
The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb by Melanie Benjamin (Historical Fiction)
The Aviator's Wife by Melanie Benjamin (Historical Fiction) 
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Babayaga by Toby Barlow  
Bad Girls Throughout History by Ann Shen (Non-Fiction)
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie 
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter 
The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri (Historical Fiction)
Beloved by Toni Morrison (Classic)
Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan (Historical Fiction)
Beneath the Tamarind Tree by Isha Sesay (Non-Fiction)
Better Luck Next Time by Julia Claiborne Johnson
 Bill Bryson's African Diary by Bill Bryson (Non-Fiction Travel)
The Book of Joy by the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu and Douglas Abrams (Non-Fiction Self-Help)
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson 
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah (Non-Fiction Memoir)
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown (Non-Fiction)
Breakfast with Buddha by Roland Merullo 
The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Prize Winner)
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin 
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The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde (Classic)
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (Classic)
C'est La Vie by Suzy Gershman (Non-Fiction Travel Memoir)
Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank Gilbreth and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey (Non-Fiction Memoir, Classic)
The Chili Queen by Sandra Dallas 
Cilka's Journey by Heather Morris (Historical Fiction)
Cinnamon and Gunpowder by Eli Brown (One of my favorites!)
City of Thieves by David Benioff (Historical Fiction)
The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse (Classic)
Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns 
Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler 
Crashing Through by Robert Kurson (Non-Fiction Memoir)
Creepy and True: Mummies Exposed! by Kerrie Logan Hollihan (Non-Fiction)
The Crystal Palace by Frances Mary Hendry  (Mid-Kids' Historical Fiction) 
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon 
The Curse of the Werepenguin by Allan Woodrow (Mid-Kids Fiction--loved!)
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Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie (Classic)
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (Non-Fiction)
The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell (Non-Fiction Memoir)
The Diary of Mattie Spenser by Sandra Dallas 
Dog On It by Spencer Quinn 
A Dog's Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron 
Down Cut Shin Creek: The Pack Horse Librarians of Kentucky by Kathi Appelt & Jeanne Cannella Schmitzer (Children's Non-Fiction)
Dreams of Joy by Lisa See (Historical Fiction)
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Echo Mountain by Lauren Wolk (Mid-Kids)
Educated by Tara Westover (Non-Fiction)
Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World by Matthew Goodman (Non-Fiction)
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff (Epistolary Non-Fiction)
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn (One of my favorites!)
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman (One of my favorites!)
The Elephant of Belfast by S. Kirk Walsh (Historical Fiction)
The End of October by Lawrence Wright
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing (Non-Fiction)
Escape at 10,000 Feet by Tom Sullivan (Non-Fiction)
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton (Classic)
The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline (Historical Fiction)
Exploring the White House by Kate Anderson Brower (Non-Fiction)
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Falling Leaves by Adeline Yen Mah (Non-Fiction Memoir)
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (Classic)
Firefly Lane by by Kristin Hannah 
Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris 
Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley with Ron Powers (Non-Fiction)
The Floribama Ladies' Auxiliary and Sewing Circle by Lois Battle 
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (Classic)
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg 
The Freedom Writers' Diary with Erin Gruwell (Non-Fiction Memoir)
French Dirt By Richard Goodman (Non-Fiction Travel Memoir)
Frida by Barbara Mujica (Historical Fiction)
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The Giant's House by Elizabeth McCracken 
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles 
The Girl from the Channel Islands by Jenny Lecoat (Historical Fiction)
 Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok 
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins  
The Girl in His Shadow by Audrey Blake (Historical Fiction)
 The Girls in the Picture by Melanie Benjamin (Historical Fiction)
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (Non-Fiction Memoir)
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn 
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Classic)
A Good American by Alex George  
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Classic)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (Historical Fiction)
A Guide to the Birds of East Africa by Nicholas Drayson (One of my favorites!)
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The Help by Kathryn Stockett 
The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi
Hiroshima by John Hersey (Non-Fiction)
His Majesty's Hope by Susan Elia MacNeal (Historical Fiction)
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros 
The Hundred-Foot Journey by Richard C. Morais  (One of my favorites!)
The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan 
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson 
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (Young Adult)
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I Am Madame X by Gioia Diliberto (Historical Fiction)
I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai (Non-Fiction Memoir)
I Always Loved You by Robin Oliveira (Historical Fiction)
I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys (Historical Fiction)
I'm Down by Mishna Wolff (Non-Fiction Memoir)
Immoveable Feast: A Paris Christmas by John Baxter (Non-Fiction Memoir)
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (Classic)
In Order to Live by Yeonmi Park (Non-Fiction Memoir)
In Our Hearts We Were Giants by Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev (Non-Fiction)
Intensity by Dean Koontz 
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (Non-Fiction)
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (Classic)
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Keeping the House by Ellen Baker 
Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain (Non-Fiction Memoir)
The Kitchen Front by Jennifer Ryan (Historical Fiction)
Kiss, Kiss by Roald Dahl 
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Lady at the O.K. Corral by Ann Kirschner (Non-Fiction)
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence (Classic)
The Lady in Gold by Anne-Marie O'Connor (Non-Fiction) 
The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J..Ryan Stradal
The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish (Non-Fiction Memoir)
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch (Non-Fiction Self-Help)
The Last Train to London by Meg Waite Clayton (Historical Fiction)
The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving (Classic)
Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinore Pruitt Stewart (Non-Fiction)
The Library Book By Susan Orlean (Non-Fiction)
Life on the Refrigerator Door by Alice Kuipers 
The Life She Was Given by Ellen Marie Wiseman
The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens
Life with Father by Clarence Day (Non-Fiction Memoir)
The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
Like Water for Chocolate By Laura Esquivel 
Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly (Historical Fiction)
 The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George  
Log of the SS The Mrs Unguentine by Stanley Crawford 
A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby 
Lost Horizon by James Hilton (Classic)
Love & Saffron by Kim Fay
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Classic)
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri 
Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan Vreeland (Historical Fiction)
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Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (Classic)
Madhouse at the End of the Earth by Julian Sancton (Non-Fiction)
 Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman 
The Martian by Any Weir 
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris (Non-Fiction Memoir)
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen (Non-Fiction Memoir)
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (Classic)
Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Miss Benson's Beetle By Rachel Joyce
 Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs (Young Adult Fiction)
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (Classic)
Modoc by Ralph Helfer (Non-Fiction)
Moloka'i by Alan Brennert 
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (Classic)
Mrs. Roosevelt's Confidante by Susan Elia MacNeal (Historical Fiction)
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie (Classic)
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie (Classic)
The Music of Bees by Eileen Garvin
My Uncle Oswald by Roald Dahl 
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman 
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
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Night by Elie Wiesel (Non-Fiction Memoir)
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern 
Night Witches by Bruce Myles (Non-Fiction Memoir)
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson (Non-Fiction Travel Memoir)
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (Classic)
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O. Henry Short Stories (Classic)
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman 
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (Classic)
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Classic)
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout 
The One by John Marrs 
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate (Mid-Kids Fiction)
One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle
Optic Nerve by Maria Gainza
The Other Side of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon 
-P/Q-
The Painted Girls by Cathy Marie Buchanan (Historical Fiction)
The Paris Key by Juliet Blackwell 
Patty Jane's House of Curl by Lorna Landvik 
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind 
The Persian Pickle Club by Sandra Dallas 
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (Classic)
The Plant Hunters: Two Hundred Years of Adventure and Discovery Around the World by Toby Musgrave, Chris Gardner, and Will Musgrave (Non-Fiction)
Pomegranate Soup by Marsha Mehran  
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain  (Classic)
The Private Lives of the Impressionists by Sue Roe (Non-Fiction) 
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio by Terry Ryan (Non-Fiction Memoir)
Puddn'head Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins by Mark Twain 
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw (Classic)
Quirky Sleeps by Bruce and Susan Armstrong  (Non-Fiction Travel) 
Quirky Sleeps by Bruce and Susan Armstrong -- Train Car Update (Non-Fiction Travel)
Quirky Sleeps by Bruce and Susan Armstrong -- Treehouse Update (Non-Fiction Travel)
Quirky Sleeps by Bruce and Susan Armstrong -- Tugboat Update (Non-Fiction Travel)
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Rasputin's Daughter by Robert Alexander (Historical Fiction)
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (Classic)
The Red Lotus by Chris Bohjalian
A Redbird Christmas by Fannie Flagg 
A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick  
The Reluctant Tuscan by Phil Doran (Non-Fiction Travel Memoir)
The Ridiculous Race by Steve Hely and Vali Chandrasekaran (Non-Fiction Travel Memoir)
The Rose Code by Kate Quinn (Historical Fiction)
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion 
Roughing It by Mark Twain (Classic)
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Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys (Historical Fiction)
Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay (Historical Fiction)
Saving Cee Cee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman 
The Seasons of Beento Blackbird by Akosua Busia
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives by Lola Shoneyin 
Serena by Ron Rash 
The Shadow of the Wind by  Carlos Ruiz Zafon 
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See (Historical Fiction)
Silas Marner by George Eliot (Classic)
The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls 
Sisters by Carol Saline, photography by Sharon J. Wohlmuth (Non-Fiction)
The $64 Tomato by William Alexander (Non-Fiction Memoir)
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson 
Songs of Willow Frost by Jamie Ford 
Stealing Mona Lisa by Carson Morton 
Still Life With Chickens by Catherine Goldhammer (Non-Fiction Memoir)
The Stolen Lady by Laura Morelli (Historical Fiction)
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin 
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell 
Switch Bitch by Roald Dahl 
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Tales of a Female Nomad by Rita Golden Gelman (Non-Fiction Travel Memoir)
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris (Historical Fiction)
Tea and Green Ribbons by Evelyn Doyle (Non-Fiction Memoir)
Tequila Mockingbird by Federle (Cocktail Book)
These Is My Words by Nancy Turner 
Thirteen Days to Glory by Lon Tinkle (Non-Fiction)
Time After Time by Lisa Grunwald
Tobacco Wives by Adele Myer (Historical Fiction)
Tracks by Robyn Davidson (Non-Fiction Memoir)
Three Weeks With My Brother by Nicholas Sparks and Micah Sparks (Non-Fiction Travel Memoir)
Twenty Chickens for a Saddle by Robyn Scott (Non-Fiction Memoir)
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Uncommon Type by Tom Hanks (Short Stories)
Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes (Non-Fiction Memoir)
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce 
Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners by Therese Oneill (Non-Fiction)
A Void by Georges Perec 

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A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson (Non-Fiction Travel Memoir)
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen 
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson (Classic)
We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter (Historical Fiction)
The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown 
Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez 
The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn (Historical Fiction)
What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty 
What She Knew by Gilly MacMillan 
When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka (Historical Fiction) 
When Time Stopped by Ariana Neumann (Non-Fiction Memoir)
When We Were Young and Brave by Hazel Gaynor (Historical Fiction)
Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple 
The White Darkness by David Grann (Non-Fiction)
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (Classic)
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A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle (Non-Fiction Travel Memoir)
The Year of Living Danishly by Helen Russell (Non-Fiction Travel Memoir)
The Yearling Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings  (Classic)

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Zoo  by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge 
Zorro by Isabel Allende 

*Mid-Kids - Ages 8-12
*Young Adult - Ages 13+


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