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| Abramov, Yirmeyaho | Two Halves of a Whole |
| Achebe, Chinua | Things Fall Apart |
| Ackerman, Diane | A Natural History of Love |
| Ackerman, Diane | A Natural History of the Senses |
| Adams, Douglas | Life, the Universe and Everything |
| Adams, Douglas | So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish |
| Adams, Douglas | The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy |
| Adams, Douglas | The Restaurant at the End of the Universe |
| Adams, Richard | Watership Down |
| Aeschylus | Prometheus Bound |
| Ahern, Cecilia | If you could see me now |
| Ahern, Cecilia | P.S. I Love You |
| Ahern, Cecilia | Rosie Dunne |
| Albom, Mitch | The Five People You Meet In Heaven |
| Albom, Mitch | Tuesdays With Morrie |
| Albom, Mitch | Have a Little Faith |
| Alcott, Louisa May | Little Women |
| Allen, David | Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity |
| Allen, David | Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done |
| Allende, Isabel | The House of the Spirits |
| Allende, Isabel | Paula |
| Amis, Kingsley | Lucky Jim |
| Angell, Roger | Let Me Finish |
| Angelou, Maya | I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings |
| Anonymous | Beowolf |
| Aristotle | Poetics |
| Aron, Elaine | The Highly Sensitive Person in Love: Understanding and Managing Relationships When the World Overwhelms You |
| Aron, Elaine | The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You |
| Aron, Elaine | The Highly Sensitive Person’s Workbook |
| Atwood, Margaret | The Handmaid’s Tale |
| Austen, Jane | Emma |
| Austen, Jane | Persuasion |
| Austen, Jane | Pride and Prejudice |
| Austen, Jane | Sense and Sensibility |
| Avery, Ellis | The Last Nude |
| Bach, Richard | Illusions |
| Bach, Richard | Jonathan Livingston Seagull |
| Bach, Richard | One True Thing |
| Bach, Richard | Running From Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit |
| Bach, Richard | The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story |
| Bakhtin, M.M. | Speech Genres and Other Late Essays |
| Bantock, Nick | Griffin & Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence |
| Bantock, Nick | Sabine’s Notebook: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Continues |
| Bantock, Nick | The Forgetting Room: A Fiction |
| Bantock, Nick | The Golden Mean: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Concludes |
| Barbery, Muriel | The Elegance of the Hedgehog |
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| Barry, Dave | Dave Barry’s Money Secrets |
| Baxter, Charles | The Feast of Love |
| Baxter, John | The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris |
| Baxter, John | We’ll Always Have Paris: Sex and Love in the City of Light |
| Beattie, Melody | Stop Being Mean to Yourself |
| Beattie, Melody | The Lessons of Love |
| Beckett, Samuel | Waiting for Godot |
| Belle, Jennifer | High Maintenance |
| Bellemare, Sarah Ahern | Painted Pages: Fueling Creativity with Sketchbooks and Mixed Media |
| Bellow, Saul | Henderson the Rain King |
| Bender, Aimee | The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake |
| Berg, Elizabeth | Dream When You’re Feeling Blue |
| Berg, Elizabeth | Durable Goods |
| Berg, Elizabeth | Joy School |
| Berg, Elizabeth | Never Change |
| Berg, Elizabeth | Open House |
| Berg, Elizabeth | Ordinary Life |
| Berg, Elizabeth | Range of Motion |
| Berg, Elizabeth | Talk Before Sleep |
| Berg, Elizabeth | The Art of Mending |
| Berg, Elizabeth | The Handmaid and the Carpenter |
| Berg, Elizabeth | The Year of Pleasures |
| Berg, Elizabeth | True to Form |
| Berg, Elizabeth | Until the Real Thing Comes Along |
| Berg, Elizabeth | We Are All Welcome Here |
| Berg, Elizabeth | What We Keep |
| Berman, Jennifer | For Women Only |
| Bernieres, Louis de | Captain Corelli’s Mandolin |
| Bialok, Mayim | Beyond the Sling: A Real-Life Guide to Raising Confident, Loving Children the Attachment Parenting Way |
| Binchy, Maeve | Circle of Friends |
| Binchy, Maeve | Evening Class |
| Blake, William | Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience |
| Block, Valerie | Was It Something I Said? |
| Bloom, Amy | A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You: Stories |
| Bloom, Harold | How to Read and Why |
| Blume, Judy | Smart Women, etc. |
| Boccaccio, Giovanni | The Decameron |
| Bohjalian, Chris | Midwives |
| Bohjalian, Chris | The Buffalo Soldier |
| Bohjalian, Chris | Trans-Sister Radio |
| Botton, Alain de | How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not a Novel |
| Bradbury, Ray | Fahrenheit 451 |
| Brashares, Ann | The Last Summer of You and Me |
| Brautigan, Richard | Trout Fishing in America |
| Breathnach, Sarah Ban | Romancing the Ordinary |
| Breathnach, Sarah Ban | Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy |
| Bremmer, Ian | The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall |
| Bronson, Po and Ashley Merryman | Nurture Shock: New Thinking About Children |
| Bronte, Charlotte | Jane Eyre |
| Bronte, Emily | Wuthering Heights |
| Brookner, Anita | Hotel du Lac |
| Brookner, Anita | Providence |
| Brooks, Geraldine | March |
| Brown, Dan | The Da Vinci Code |
| Browning, Elizabeth Barrett | Sonnets From the Portugese |
| Bruni, Frank | Ambling Into History: The Unlikely Odyssey of George W. Bush |
| Buber, Martin | I And Thou |
| Buchanan, Andrea | Literary Mama |
| Buck, Pearl S. | The Good Earth |
| Buckingham, Marcus | Now, Discover Your Strengths |
| Burdain, Anthony | Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly |
| Burgess, Anthony | A Clockwork Orange |
| Burnett, Frances Hodgson | The Secret Garden |
| Burt, Wendy | Work It, Girl!: Productive and Fun Tips for the Hip Working Chick |
| Burton, Betsy | The King’s English: Adventures of an Independent Bookseller |
| Bush, Laura | Spoken From the Heart |
| Bushnell, Candace | Trading Up |
| Buzbee, Lewis | The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop |
| Byatt, A.S. | Angels and Insects |
| Byatt, A.S. | Possession |
| Cameron, Julia | Blessings |
| Cameron, Julia | The Artist’s Way Morning Pages Journal |
| Cameron, Julia | The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity |
| Cameron, Julia | The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation Into the Writing Life |
| Cameron, Julia | The Vein of Gold |
| Cameron, Julia | Transitions |
| Cameron, Julia | Walking in This World |
| Camus, Albert | The Fall |
| Camus, Albert | The Plague |
| Camus, Albert | The Stranger |
| Carey, Peter | Oscar and Lucinda |
| Carey, Peter | Theft: A Love Story |
| Carhart, Thad | The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier |
| Carlson, Richard | Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff at Work |
| Carlson, Richard | Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff — and it’s all Small Stuff |
| Carnegie, Dale | How to Stop Worrying and Start Living |
| Carnegie, Dale | How to Win Friends and Influence People |
| Carnegie, Dale | The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking |
| Carroll, Lewis | Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland |
| Carter, Jimmy | Our Endangered Values: America’s Moral Crisis |
| Castiglione, Baldesar | The Book of the Courtier |
| Cather, Willa | Death Comes for the Archbishop |
| Cather, Willa | My Antonia |
| Cervantes, Miguel de | Don Quixote |
| Chabon, Michael | Wonder Boys |
| Charan, Ram | What the CEO Wants You to Know: How Your Company Really Works |
| Chaucer, Geoffrey | The Canterbury Tales |
| Chessman, Harriet Scott | Lydia Cassat Reading the Morning Paper |
| Chevalier, Tracy | Burning Bright |
| Chevalier, Tracy | Falling Angels |
| Chevalier, Tracy | Girl with a Pearl Earring |
| Chevalier, Tracy | Remarkable Creatures |
| Chevalier, Tracy | The Lady and the Unicorn |
| Chevalier, Tracy | The Virgin Blue |
| Chodron, Pema | Comfortable With Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion |
| Chodron, Pema | Start Where You Are |
| Chodron, Pema | The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times |
| Chodron, Pema | When Things Fall Apart |
| Chomsky, Noam | 9-11 |
| Chomsky, Noam | Failed States : the abuse of power and the assault on democracy |
| Chopin, Kate | The Awakening |
| Cisneros, Sandra | The House on Mango Street |
| Citrin, James | The 5 Patterns of Extraordinary Careers: The Guide for Achieving Success and Satisfaction |
| Clark, Tracey | Elevate the Everyday: A Photographic Guide to Picturing Motherhood |
| Clinton, Bill | Giving |
| Collins, Wilkie | The Moonstone |
| Conrad, Joseph | Heart of Darkness |
| Conroy, Pat | The Prince of Tides |
| Conway, Susannah | This I Know: Notes on Unraveling the Heart |
| Cooley, Martha | The Archivist |
| Cooper, Anderson | Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival |
| Cooper, James Fenimore | The Last of the Mohicans |
| Corrigan, Maureen | Leave me Alone, I’m Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books |
| Cosby, Bill | Congratulations! Now What? |
| Coupland, Douglas | Generation X |
| Courtenay, Bryce | The Power of One |
| Covey, Stephen | The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People |
| Crane, Stephen | Maggie: A Girl of the Streets |
| Crane, Stephen | The Red Badge of Courage |
| Crusie, Jennifer | Don’t Look Down |
| Cunningham, Michael | Specimen Days |
| Cunningham, Michael | The Hours |
| Dalai Lama XIV | The Essence of Happiness |
| De Beauvoir, Simone | A Transatlantic Love Affair: Letters to Nelson Algren |
| De Beauvoir, Simone | America Day by Day |
| De Beauvoir, Simone | Letters to Sartre |
| Defoe, Daniel | Moll Flanders |
| DeLillo, Don | Underworld |
| DeLillo, Don | White Noise |
| Denby, David | Great Books |
| Desai, Kiran | The Inheritance of Loss |
| Diamant, Anita | Good Harbor |
| Diamant, Anita | Pitching My Tent |
| Diamant, Anita | The New Jewish Wedding |
| Diamant, Anita | The Red Tent |
| Diamante, Anita | Day Into Night |
| Dickens, Charles | A Christmas Carol |
| Dickens, Charles | A Tale of Two Cities |
| Dickens, Charles | David Copperfield |
| Dickens, Charles | Great Expectations |
| Dickens, Charles | Hard Times |
| Dickens, Charles | Oliver Twist |
| Dickinson, Emily | Selected Poems |
| Didion, Joan | Political Fictions |
| Didion, Joan | The Year of Magical Thinking |
| DiFalco, Marcelle L | The Big Sister’s Guide to the World of Work: The Inside Rules Every Working Girl Must Know |
| Diffenbaugh, Vanessa | The Language of Flowers |
| Diliberto, Gioia | I Am Madame X |
| Dirda, Michael | Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life |
| Doctorow, E.L. | City of God |
| Domar, Alice D. | Self-Nurture: Learning to Care for Yourself as Effectively as you Care for Everyone Else |
| Dostoevsky, Fyodor | Crime and Punishment |
| Dostoevsky, Fyodor | The Brothers Karamazov |
| Drabble, Margaret | The Peppered Moth |
| Dreiser, Theodore | An American Trajedy |
| Dreiser, Theodore | Sister Carrie |
| Du Maurier, Daphne | Rebecca |
| Duenas, Maria | The Time In Between |
| Dunant, Sarah | In the Company of the Courtesan |
| Dunant, Sarah | The Birth of Venus |
| Dunn, Mark | Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters |
| Eckstut, Joann | Room Redux: The Home Decorating Workbook |
| Eco, Umberto | Foucault’s Pendulum |
| Eco, Umberto | The Search for the Perfect Language |
| Eggers, Dave | A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius |
| Eggers, Dave | How We Are Hungry |
| Eggers, Dave | The O. Henry Prize Stories 2002 |
| Eliot, George | Middlemarch |
| Eliot, George | Silas Marner |
| Eliot, T.S. | The Waste Land and Other Poems |
| Ellis, Estelle | At Home with Books |
| Ellison, Ralph | Invisible Man |
| Ephron, Amy | One Sunday Morning |
| Epstein, Joseph | The Best American Essays, 1993 |
| Erasmus, Desiderius | The Praise of Folly |
| Eugenides, Jeffrey | The Virgin Suicides |
| Euripides | Medea |
| Evans, Nicholas | Christmas Box |
| Evans, Nicholas | The Horse Whisperer |
| Evans, Nicholas | The Smoke Jumper |
| Evans, Nicholas | Timepiece |
| Faber, Michael | The Crimson Petal and the White |
| Fadiman, Anne | Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader |
| Fadiman, Anne | Rereadings |
| Faulkner, William | As I Lay Dying |
| Faulkner, William | Light in August |
| Faulkner, William | The Sound and the Fury |
| Feldman, Ellen | Lucy |
| Feynman, Richard P. | “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!” (Adventures of a Curious Character) |
| Feynman, Richard P. | Perfectly Reasonable Deviations From the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman |
| Fielding, Helen | Bridget Jones’s Diary |
| Fielding, Henry | The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling |
| Fisher, Helen | Why Him? Why Her? Understanding your Personality Type and Finding the Perfect Match |
| Fisher, Roger | Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In |
| Fishman, Charles | The Wal-mart Effect |
| Fitzgerald, F Scott | The Great Gatsby |
| Fitzgerald, F. Scott | Tender is the Night |
| Flagg, Fannie | Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café |
| Flaubert, Gustave | Madame Bovary |
| Forster, E.M. | A Passage to India |
| Forster, E.M. | A Room With A View |
| Forster, E.M. | Howard’s End |
| Forster, E.M. | Kim |
| Fowler, Karen Joy | The Jane Austen Book Club |
| Frank, Anne | The Diary of a Young Girl |
| Frankel, Lois P. | Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office |
| Franken, Al | Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right |
| Franken, Al | The Truth: With Jokes |
| Frankl, Victor | Man’s Search for Meaning |
| Franklin, Emily | Liner Notes |
| Fraser, Laura | An Italian Affair |
| Frost, Robert | Poetry |
| Gaardner, Jostein | Sophie’s World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy |
| Gaffney, Patricia | Circle of Three |
| Gaffney, Patricia | Flight Lessons |
| Gaffney, Patricia | Summer Sisters |
| Gaffney, Patricia | The Goodbye Summer |
| Gaffney, Patricia | The Saving Graces |
| Gasche, Rodolphe | Tain of the Mirror: Derrida and the Philosophy of Reflection |
| Gelman, Rita | Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World |
| Geniesse, Jane | Passionate Nomad: The Life of Freya Stark |
| Genova, Lisa | Still Alice |
| Gerhart, Ann | The Perfect Wife: The Life and Choices of Laura Bush |
| Gibbons, Kaye | The Life All Around Me by Ellen Foster |
| Gibran, Kahlil | The Prophet |
| Gilbert, Elizabeth | Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia |
| Gilbert, Elizabeth | Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage |
| Gilman, Charlotte | Herland |
| Ginsberg, Debra | Blind Submission |
| Gladwell, Malcolm | Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking |
| Gladwell, Malcolm | The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference |
| Glass, Ira | The New Kings of Nonfiction |
| Glass, Julia | Three Junes |
| Glendon, Mary Ann | A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
| Goldberg, Bonnie | Room to Write |
| Goldberg, Myla | Bee Season |
| Goldberg, Natalie | Writing Down the Bones |
| Golden, Arthur | Memoirs of a Geisha |
| Goodman, Allegra | Paradise Park |
| Goodman, Allegra | Intuition |
| Goodman, Allegra | The Cookbook Collector |
| Gottman, John | The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work |
| Gowda, Shilpi Somaya | Secret Daughter |
| Grass, Gunter | The Tin Drum |
| Green, David | More Than A Hobby: How a $600 Startup Became America’s Home and Craft Superstore |
| Green, Jane | Another Piece of my Heart |
| Green, Jane | Babyville |
| Green, Jane | Bookends |
| Green, Jane | Dune Road |
| Green, Jane | Jemima J |
| Green, Jane | Mr. Maybe |
| Green, Jane | Second Chance |
| Green, Jane | Strait Talking |
| Green, Jane | Swapping Lives |
| Green, Jane | The Other Woman |
| Green, Jane | To Have and To Hold |
| Green, John | The Fault in Our Stars |
| Greenberg, Joanne | I Never Promised You a Rose Garden |
| Greene, Graham | The Heart of the Matter |
| Greenspan, Miriam | Healing Through the Dark Emotions: The Wisdom of Grief, Fear, and Despair |
| Greer, Andrew Sean | The Confessions of Max Tivoli |
| Gregory, Philippa | The Constant Princess |
| Gregory, Philippa | The Queen’s Fool |
| Gregory, Philippa | The Virgin’s Lover |
| Grisham, John | The Firm |
| Grissom, Katherine | The Kitchen House |
| Gruen, Sara | Water for Elephants |
| Gruen, Sara | Water for Elephants |
| Haigh, Jennifer | Mrs. Kimble |
| Halter, Marek | Sarah |
| Halter, Marek | Zipporah |
| Hamilton, Jane | The Book of Ruth |
| Hanff, Helene | 84, Charing Cross Road |
| Hanff, Helene | Letter from New York: BBC Woman’s Hour Broadcasts |
| Hanff, Helene | Q’s Legacy |
| Hanff, Helene | The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street |
| Hanh, Thich Nhat | A Journal with the Words of Thich Nhat Hanh |
| Hanh, Thich Nhat | Being Peace |
| Hanh, Thich Nhat | Call Me By My True Names |
| Hanh, Thich Nhat | Peace is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life |
| Hanh, Thich Nhat | The Blooming of a Lotus: Guided Meditation Exercises for Healing and Transformation |
| Hanh, Thich Nhat | The Miracle of Mindfulness |
| Hannah, Kristen | Between Sisters |
| Hardy, Thomas | Far From the Madding Crowd |
| Hardy, Thomas | Jude the Obscure |
| Hardy, Thomas | Tess of the D’Urbervilles |
| Harris, Joanne | Blackberry Wine |
| Harris, Joanne | Chocolate |
| Harris, Joanne | Coastliners |
| Harris, Joanne | Five Quarters of the Orange |
| Harris, Joanne | Jigs & Reels: Stories |
| Harris, Joanne | Sleep, Pale Sister |
| Harris, Rachel | 20-minute Retreats: Revive Your Spirit in Just Minutes a Day with Simple, Self-Led Practices |
| Harris, Robert | Pompeii: A Novel |
| Harrison, Sabrina Ward | And the Story is Happening |
| Hart, Marjorie | Summer at Tiffany |
| Haslett, Adam | You Are Not A Stranger Here |
| Hass, Robert | Praise |
| Hass, Robert | Sun Under Wood |
| Hauptman, Judith | Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The Scarlet Letter |
| Hefter, Wendy | The Complete Jewish Wedding Planner |
| Hegi, Ursula | Stones from the River |
| Heidegger, Martin | Being and Time |
| Heinlein, Robert | Stranger in a Strange Land |
| Heinlein, Robert | The Cat Who Walks Through Walls |
| Heller, Joseph | Catch-22 |
| Hemingway, Ernest | A Farewell to Arms |
| Hemingway, Ernest | For Whom the Bell Tolls |
| Hemingway, Ernest | In Our Time |
| Hemingway, Ernest | Old Man and the Sea |
| Heschel, Abraham Joshua | Man Is Not Alone |
| Heschel, Abraham Joshua | The Sabbath |
| Hesse, Hermann | Siddhartha |
| Hesse, Hermann | Steppenwolf |
| Hirsch, Edward | How To Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry |
| Hirsch, Edward | On Love Poems |
| Hirsch, Edward | Poet’s Choice |
| Hodgman, John | The Areas of My Expertise |
| Hoffman, Eva | Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language |
| Hollinghurst, Alan | The Line of Beauty |
| Homer | The Iliad |
| Homer | The Odyssey |
| Horn, Dara | The World to Come |
| Hornby, Nick | Housekeeping vs. the Dirt |
| Hornby, Nick | How to Be Good |
| Hosseini, Khaled | A Thousand Splendid Suns |
| Hosseini, Khaled | The Kite Runner |
| Howard, Cori | Between Interruptions: 30 Women Tell the Truth About Motherhood |
| Hugo, Victor | Les Miserables |
| Hugo, Victor | The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| Hull, Jonathan | Losing Julia |
| Hurston, Zora Neale | Their Eyes Were Watching God |
| Ibsen, Henrik | A Doll’s House |
| Irving, John | The Cider House Rules |
| Irving, John | The Prayer for Owen Meany |
| Isaacson, Walter | Benjamin Franklin: An American Life |
| Ishiguro, Kazuo | The Ramains of the Day |
| Jacobs, A.J. | The Know-it-All: One Man’s Humble Quest to become the Smartest Person in the World |
| Jaeger, Barrie | Making Work Work for the Highly Sensitive Person |
| James, Clive | Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts |
| James, E.L. | Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker, Fifty Shades Freed |
| James, Eloisa | Paris in Love |
| James, Henry | Daisy Miller |
| James, Henry | Portrait of a Lady |
| James, Henry | The Wings of the Dove |
| James, Henry | Turn of the Screw |
| Jamison, Kay Redfield | An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness |
| Jennings, Ken | Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs |
| Jio, Sarah | The Bungalow |
| Jio, Sarah | The Violets of March |
| Johnson, Marilyn | The Dead Beat |
| Johnson, Spencer | Who Moved My Cheese |
| Jong, Erica | Serenissima |
| Joyce, James | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
| Kafka, Franz | Metamorphosis |
| Kafka, Franz | The Trial |
| Kalman, Shapira Kalonymus | Conscious Community |
| Kantor, Jodi | The Obamas |
| Kaplan, Alice | Dreaming in French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis |
| Kenison, Katrina | The Gift of an Ordinary Day: A Mother’s Memoir |
| Kenison, Katrina | Mitten Strings for God: Reflections for Mothers in a Hurry |
| Kerouac, Jack | On the Road |
| Keyes, Marian | Angels |
| Keyes, Marian | Anybody Out There? |
| Keyes, Marian | Cracks in my Foundation |
| Keyes, Marian | Last Chance Saloon |
| Keyes, Marian | Rachel’s Holiday |
| Keyes, Marian | Sushi for Beginners |
| Keyes, Marian | The Other Side of the Story |
| Keyes, Marian | Under the Duvet |
| Kidd, Sue Monk | The Mermaid Chair |
| Kidd, Sue Monk | The Secret Life of Bees |
| Kidd, Sue Monk | Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story |
| King, Ross | Brunelleschi’s Dome: How a Renissance Genius Reinvented Architecture |
| King, Ross | Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling |
| Kingsolver, Barbara | Prodigal Summer |
| Klein, Edward | The Amateur |
| Knowles, John | A Separate Peace |
| Knowles, John | Peace Breaks Out |
| Kohn, Alfie | Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishment to Love and Reason |
| Koppel, Lily | The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal |
| Krauss, Nicole | The History of Love |
| Kristof, Nick and Cheryl WuDunn | Half the Sky: Turning oppression into opportunity for women worldwide |
| Kundera, Milan | Identity |
| Kundera, Milan | Slowness |
| Kundera, Milan | The Unbearable Lightness of Being |
| Kushner, Lawrence | Kabbalah, A Love Story |
| Lahiri, Jhumpa | The Namesake |
| Lahiri, Jhumpa | Interpreter of Maladies |
| Lamb, Cathy | Such a Pretty Face |
| Lamb, Wally | I Know This Much is True |
| Lamb, Wally | She’s Come Undone |
| Lamoreux, Liz | Inner Excavation |
| Lamott, Anne | Imperfect Birds |
| Lamott, Anne | Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life |
| Larson, Erik | Isaac’s Storm: A Man, A Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History |
| Lawrence, D.H. | Lady Chatterley’s Lover |
| Lawson, Jenny | Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir) |
| Lawson, Mary | Crow Lake |
| Lee, Harper | To Kill a Mockingbird |
| Lessing, Doris | The Golden Notebook |
| Lessing, Doris | Time Bites |
| Levitt, Steven | Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything |
| Lightman, Alan | Einstein’s Dreams |
| Lindbergh, Anne Morrow | Gift From the Sea |
| Lynch, Sarah-Kate | Dolci di Love |
| Machiavelli, Niccolo | The Prince |
| Maher, Bill | New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer |
| Marlowe, Christopher | Doctor Faustus |
| Marquez, Gabiel Garcia | One Hundred Years of Solitude |
| Marton, Kati | Hidden Power: Presidential marriages that shaped our history |
| Maugham, W. Somerset | Of Human Bondage |
| Maugham, W. Somerset | The Moon and Sixpence |
| Maugham, W. Somerset | The Painted Veil |
| Maugham, W. Somerset | The Razor’s Edge |
| Mayes, Francis | Year in the World |
| Mayes, Francis | A Year in the World: Journeys of a Passionate Traveler |
| McCourt, Frank | Angela’s Ashes |
| McCullers, Carson | The Heart is a Lonely Hunter |
| McCullough, Colleen | The Thorn Birds |
| McCullough, David | Brave Companions |
| McCullough, David | John Adams |
| McCullough, David | Truman |
| McLain, Paula | The Paris Wife |
| McPhee, John | Uncommon Carriers |
| Melville, Herman | Bartleby the Scrivner |
| Melville, Herman | Moby Dick |
| Mercer, Jeremy | Time Was Soft There |
| Milazzo , Vickie L. | Inside Every Woman: Using the 10 Strengths You Didn’t Know You Had to Get the Career and Life You Want Now |
| Miller, Arthur | Death of a Salesman |
| Miller, Arthur | The Crucible |
| Miller, Christine Mason | Desire to Inspire: Using Creative Passion to Transform the World |
| Miller, Karen Maezen | Momma Zen: Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood |
| Miller, Karen Maezen | Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life |
| Milosz, Czeslaw | Facing the River |
| Minot, Susan | Evening |
| Mirvis, Tova | The Outside World |
| Mirvis, Tova | The Ladies Auxillary |
| Mitchell, Margaret | Scarlet |
| Mitchell, Margaret | Gone With the Wind |
| Mogel, Wendy | The Blessing of a Skinned Knee: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children |
| Montgomery, L.M. | Anne of Avonlea |
| Montgomery, L.M. | Anne of Green Gables |
| More, Thomas | Utopia |
| Morinis, Alan | Everyday Holiness: The Spiritual Path of Mussar |
| Mortenson, Greg | Three Cups of Tea |
| Mortenson, Greg | Stones into Schools |
| Moses, Kate | Because I Said So: 33 Mothers Write About… |
| Nabokov, Vladimir | Lolita |
| Nabokov, Vladimir | Pnin |
| Nafisi, Azar | Reading Lolita in Tehran |
| Napthali, Sarah | Buddhism for Mothers: A Calm Approach to Caring for Yourself and Your Children |
| Nelson, Sara | So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading |
| Nemirovsky, Irene | Fire in the Blood |
| Nemirovsky, Irene | Suite Francaise |
| Niffenegger, Audrey | The Time Traveler’s Wife |
| Novobatzky, Peter | Depraved and Insulting English |
| O’Farrell, Maggie | The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox |
| Obama, Barack | Audacity of Hope |
| Oliver, Mary | Thirst: Poems |
| Ondaatje, Michael | The English Patient |
| Orwell, George | Animal Farm |
| Orwell, George | Nineteen Eighty Four |
| Osen, Diane and Neil Baldwin | The Book That Changed My Life: Interviews with National Book Award Winners and Finalists (Modern Library Paperbacks) |
| Otsuka, Julie | The Buddha in the Attic |
| Ozma, Alice | The Reading Promise |
| Packer, Ann | The Dive From Clausen’s Pier |
| Patchett, Ann | Bel Canto |
| Patchett, Ann | Truth and Beauty: A Friendship |
| Paton, Alan | Cry, the Beloved Country |
| Peacock, Molly | The Paper Garden: An Artist Begins Her Life’s Work at 72 |
| Pearl, Nancy | Book Lust |
| Peri, Camille | Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-Life Parenthood |
| Peterson, Brian | Blossoming of the World: Essays and Images |
| Picoult, Jodi | My Sister’s Keeper |
| Picoult, Jodi | Nineteen Minutes |
| Picoult, Jodi | Perfect Match |
| Picoult, Jodi | Picture Perfect |
| Picoult, Jodi | Second Glance |
| Picoult, Jodi | The Pact |
| Picoult, Jodi | The Tenth Circle |
| Picoult, Jodi | Vanishing Acts |
| Picoult, Jodi | Change of Heart |
| Picoult, Jodi | House Rules |
| Pinker, Stephen | The Language Instinct |
| Placksin, Sally | Mothering the New Mother |
| Plath, Sylvia | The Bell Jar |
| Plouffe, David | The Audacity to Win |
| Poitier, Sidney | Measure of a Man |
| Post, Peggy | Excuse Me, But I Was Next; How to Handle the Top 100 Manners Dilemmas |
| Powers, Alan | Living With Books |
| Prager/Telushkin | Nine Questions People Ask About Judaism |
| Proulx, Annie | The Shipping News |
| Quindlen, Anna | A Short Guide to a Happy Life |
| Quindlen, Anna | Being Perfect |
| Quindlen, Anna | Black and Blue |
| Quindlen, Anna | Blessings |
| Quindlen, Anna | How Reading Changed My Life |
| Quindlen, Anna | Loud and Clear |
| Quindlen, Anna | One True Thing |
| Quindlen, Anna | Rise and Shine |
| Rackoff, David | Don’t Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never- Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems |
| Rackoff, David | Fraud |
| Ragan, Naomi | Chains Around the Grass |
| Ragan, Naomi | Sotah |
| Rand, Ayn | Atlas Shrugged |
| Rand, Ayn | The Fountainhead |
| Ray, Jeanne | Eat Cake |
| Ray, Jeanne | Julie and Romeo |
| Reeve, Christopher | Still Me |
| Remarque, Erich Maria | All Quiet on the Western Front |
| Rilke, Rainer Maria | Letter to a Young Poet |
| Robinson, Marilynne | Gilead |
| Rosnay, Tatiana de | Sarah’s Key |
| Rosnay, Tatiana de | A Secret Kept |
| Roth, Philip | Everyman |
| Roth, Phillip | Portnoy’s Complaint |
| Rowley, Hazel | Tete-a-Tete: Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre |
| Rowling, J.K. | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone |
| Royte, Elizabeth | Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash |
| Rubin, Gretchen | The Happiness Project |
| Russo, Richard | Empire Falls |
| Sacks, Oliver | An Anthropologist On Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales |
| Sacks, Oliver | The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales |
| Saint-Exupery, Antoine de | The Little Prince |
| Salinger, J.D. | Catcher in the Rye |
| Salinger, J.D. | Franny and Zooey |
| Salinger, J.D. | Nine Stories |
| Saussure, Ferdinand de | A Course in General Linguistics |
| Savage, Sam | Fermin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife |
| Sedaris, David | Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules |
| Sedaris, David | Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim |
| Sedaris, David | Holidays on Ice |
| See, Lisa | Snow Flower and the Secret Fan |
| See, Lisa | Peony in Love |
| Segal, Erich | Doctors |
| Segal, Erich | Love Story |
| Segal, Erich | Acts of Faith |
| Segal, Erich | Only Love |
| Segal, Erich | Prizes |
| Segal, Erich | Man, Woman & Child |
| Segal, Erich | Oliver’s Story |
| Segal, Erich | The Class |
| Sendker, Jan-Philipp | The Art of Hearing Heartbeats |
| Setterfield, Diane | The Thirteenth Tale |
| Shaffer, Mary Ann and Annie Barrows | The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society |
| Shakespeare, William | The Complete Works (almost) |
| Sheehy, Gail | Passages |
| Shelley, Mary | Frankenstein |
| Sher, Barbara | I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It |
| Shields, Brook | Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression |
| Shreve, Anita | A Wedding in December |
| Shreve, Anita | All He Ever Wanted |
| Shreve, Anita | Body Surfing |
| Shreve, Anita | Eden Close |
| Shreve, Anita | Fortune’s Rocks |
| Shreve, Anita | Light on Snow |
| Shreve, Anita | Resistance |
| Shreve, Anita | Sea Glass |
| Shreve, Anita | Strange Fits of Passion |
| Shreve, Anita | The Last Time They Met |
| Shreve, Anita | The Pilot’s Wife |
| Shreve, Anita | The Weight of Water |
| Shreve, Anita | Where or When |
| Shreve, Anita | A Change in Altitude |
| Sijie, Dai | Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress |
| Silvers, Robert B., Epstein, Barbara | The Company They Kept; Writers on Unforgettable Friendships |
| Sittenfeld, Curtis | American Wife |
| Smith, Alexis | Glaciers |
| Smith, Betty | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
| Solomon, Andrew | The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression |
| Sontag, Susan | At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches |
| Sontag, Susan | Best American Essays: 1992 |
| Sontag, Susan | Regarding the Pain of Others |
| Sontag, Susan | The Volcano Lover |
| Steinbach, Alice | Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman |
| Steinbeck, John | Grapes of Wrath |
| Steinbeck, John | Of Mice and Men |
| Steinbeck, John | Winter of our Discontent |
| Stockett, Kathryn | The Help |
| Stoppard, Tom | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead |
| Stowe, Harriet Beecher | Uncle Tom’s Cabin |
| Strunk, William | Elements of Style |
| Styron, William | A Tidewater Morning |
| Styron, William | Sophie’s Choice |
| Sullivan, J. Courtney | Commencement |
| Swift, Jonathan | Gulliver’s Travels |
| Talese, Gay | A Writer’s Life |
| Tan, Amy | The Joy Luck Club |
| Telushkin, Joseph | A Code of Jewish Ethics, Volume 1: You Shall Be Holy |
| Telushkin, Joseph | Biblical Literacy: The Most Important People, Events, and Ideas of the Hebrew Bible |
| Telushkin, Joseph | Jewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know About the Jewish Religion, its People, and its History |
| Telushkin, Joseph | Jewish Wisdom |
| Telushkin, Joseph | The Book of Jewish Values: A Day-by-Day Guide to Ethical Living |
| Telushkin, Joseph | Words That Hurt, Words That Heal: How to Choose Words Wisely and Well |
| Thackeray, William | Vanity Fair |
| Thereaux, Paul | Fresh Air Fiend |
| Thereaux, Paul | Great Railway Bazaar |
| Thereaux, Paul | The Old Patagonian Express |
| Thereaux, Paul | The Pillars of Hercules: A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean |
| Thoreau, Henry David | Walden |
| Tieger and Barron | Do What You Are |
| Tolstoy, Leo | Anna Karenina |
| Toole, John Kennedy | A Confederacy of Dunces |
| Towles, Amor | The Rules of Civility |
| Trigiani, Adrianna | The Shoemaker’s Wife: A Novel |
| Truss, Lynne | Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation |
| Truss, Lynne | Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door |
| Truss, Lynne | The Lynne Truss Treasury: Columns and Three Comic Novels |
| Twain, Mark | Adventures of Huckelberry Fin |
| Twain, Mark | Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
| Tyler, Anne | A Patchwork Planet |
| Tyler, Anne | Accidental Tourist |
| Tyler, Anne | Back When We Were Grownups |
| Tyler, Anne | Breathing Lessons |
| Tyler, Anne | Digging to America |
| Tyler, Anne | The Amateur Marriage |
| Updike, John | Due Considerations |
| Urbina, Ian | Life’s Little Annoyances: True Tales of People Who Just Can’t Take It Anymore |
| Van de Rijt, Hetty and Frans Plooij | Wonder Weeks (baby) |
| Vida, Vendela | The Lovers: A Novel |
| Vincent, Norma | Self-Made Man |
| Vonnegut, Kurt | A Man without a Country |
| Vonnegut, Kurt | God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian |
| Vonnegut, Kurt | Slaughterhouse-five |
| Vreeland, Susan | Clara and Mr. Tiffany |
| Vreeland, Susan | Girl in Hyacinth Blue |
| Vreeland, Susan | Luncheon of the Boating Party |
| Vreeland, Susan | The Passion of Artemisia |
| Walker, Alice | The Color Purple |
| Walker, Alice | The Way Forward is With A Broken Heart |
| Walker, Rebecca | Baby Love |
| Waller, Robert James | Bridges of Madison County |
| Walls, Jeannette | The Glass Castle |
| Warner, Judith | Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety |
| Warren, Robert Penn | All the King’s Men |
| Waugh, Evelyn | Brideshead Revisited |
| Weiner, Jennifer | The Guy Not Taken |
| Weiner, Jennifer | American Girls About Town |
| Weiner, Jennifer | Good in Bed |
| Weiner, Jennifer | Goodnight Nobody: A Novel |
| Weiner, Jennifer | In Her Shoes |
| Weiner, Jennifer | Little Earthquakes |
| Wertberg, Granger | Good Grief: Turning the Showers of Disappointment and Pain into Sunshine |
| Weschler, Lawrence | Vermeer in Bosnia |
| West, Cornell | Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism |
| West, Kim | Good Night, Sleep Tight: The Sleep Lady’s Gentle Guide … |
| Wharton, Edith | A Backward Glance |
| Wharton, Edith | Ethan Frome |
| Wharton, Edith | Summer |
| Wharton, Edith | The Age of Innocence |
| Wharton, Edith | The House of Mirth |
| White, E. B. | Essays of E.B. White |
| White, E. B. | Writings From The New Yorker 1927 – 1976 |
| Whitman, Walt | Leaves of Grass |
| Wiesel, Elie | All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs |
| Wiesel, Elie | Dawn |
| Wiesel, Elie | Day |
| Wiesel, Elie | Night |
| Wiesel, Elie | The Forgotten |
| Wilde, Oscar | The Importance of Being Earnest |
| Wilde, Oscar | The Picture of Dorian Gray |
| Williams, Tennessee | A Streetcar Named Desire |
| Winston, Lolly | Good Grief |
| Winston, Lolly | Happiness Sold Separately |
| Winterson, Jeanette | The Passion |
| Wittgenstein, Ludwig | The Blue and Brown Books |
| Wolitzer, Meg | The Fingertips of Duncan Dorfman |
| Wolitzer, Meg | The Ten-Year Nap |
| Wollstonecraft, Mary | A Vindication of the Rights of Women |
| Woolf, Virginia | A Room of One’s Own |
| Woolf, Virginia | Mrs. Dalloway |
| Wright, Righard | Native Son |
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this list is great!
NO big surprise we have several authors we obviously love because we’ve read loads of their books. I might look down your list the next time I’m at the library, thanks for sharing…
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A pleasure. If you have any recommendations…
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