Jacqueline Briskin

Eva Ibbotson

Anne Rivers Siddons

Catherine Cookson

Edna O’Brien

Joanna Trollope

R. F. Delderfield

Rosamunde Pilcher

Phyllis A. Whitney

J. Lynne Hinton

Belva Plain

Len Deighton

Nancy Pickard

Gerald Seymour

Jack Higgins

Randy Wayne White

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Roberta Gellis

Sharon Kay Penman

Jude Deveraux

Cecelia Holland

Eugenia Riley

Sara Donati

Judith Merkle Riley

Barbara Erskine

Linda Lael Miller

J. Suzanne Frank

Karen Marie Moning

Heron Carvic

Carolyn Hart

Rosamunde Pilcher

Agatha Christie

Susan Isaacs

Cynthia Riggs

Jill Churchill

Alexander McCall Smith

Mary Stewart

Diane Mott Davidson

Elizabeth Peters

In His Image by James BeauSeigneur

The Stand by Stephen King

Birth of an Age by James BeauSeigneur

Acts of God by James BeauSeigneur

This Present Darkness by Frank Peretti

The Messiah Stones by Irving Benig

Piercing the Darkness by Frank Peretti

Showdown by Ted Dekker

Day of Confession by Allan Folsom

Clifford Blair

Zane Grey

Lauran Paine

Max Brand

Tony Hillerman

Luke Short

Terry C. Johnston

Richard S. Wheeler

Robert J. Conley

Douglas C. Jones

Loren D. Estleman

Elmer Kelton

M. C. Beaton- Agatha Raisin series

Carolyn Hart

Simon Brett- Mrs. Pargeter series & Fethering series

Laurie R. King- Mary Russell series

Fiona Buckley- Ursula Blanchard series

Charlotte MacLeod

Dorothy Cannell- Ellie Haskell series

Sharyn McCrumb- Elizabeth MacPherson series

Amanda Cross- Kate Fansler series

Sharan Newman- Catherine LeVendeur series

Lindsey Davis- Marcus Didius Falco series

Robin Page- Kate Sheridan series

Carola Dunn- Daisy Dalrymple series

Michael Pearce- Mamur Zapt series

Kathy Lynn Emerson- Susanna Appleton series

Elliott Roosevelt- Eleanor Roosevelt series

Dorothy Gilman- Mrs. Pollifax series

Amanda Quick

H. Rider Haggard- King Solomon's Mines

Dashiel Hammett- The Thin Man

Donna Boyd

Charlaine Harris

John Saul

Tananarive Due

Tom Holland

Darren Shan

Christine Feehan

Jeanne Kalogridis

Peter Straub

Barbara Hambly

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Whitley Strieber

Laurell K. Hamilton

Tanith Lee

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

Spring Moon by Bette Lord

Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat

Falling Leaves by Adeline Yen Mah

Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich

The Piano Tuner by Daniel Philippe Mason

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Eating Chinese Food Naked by Mei Ng

Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns

The Persian Pickle Club by Sandra Dallas

The Scandalous Summer of Sissy LeBlanc by Loraine Despres

Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man by Fannie Flagg

Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik

The Three Miss Margarets by Louis Shaffer

World of Pies by Karen Stolz

Beautiful Dreamer by Christopher Bigsby
In this taut, spare parable, a white man tries to prevent the lynching of a black man and gets caught up in a vortex of violent reprisal.

The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean
Dean artfully parallels a woman’s descent into Alzheimer’s and her role in the concealment of paintings at the Hermitage during the siege of Leningrad .

The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Frustration and loss color the lives of five Indian people. Their interwoven stories, from rural India to Manhattan , are told in lush language with ironic humor.

The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig
Rural Montana in 1909 is the central character in this humorous novel of life on the prairie. Change moves in with a widow from Minneapolis.

The Secret River by Kate Grenville
Convicted of theft and transported to Australia , an Englishman creates a new life for himself and his family in this potent story of dreams transformed.

The Attack by Yasmina Khadra
In this provocative novel, a successful Arab-Israeli surgeon revisits his roots as he seeks understanding of his wife’s death as a suicide bomber.

The Girls by Lori Lansens
Twenty-nine-year-old conjoined twins who know they will soon die set out to record their story. In distinctly separate voices, they reveal lives intertwined yet independent.

The Road by Cormac McCarthy
In McCarthy’s unrelenting tale, a father and son struggle to survive on their journey through the deadly, empty winter of a postapocalyptic America.

Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
Share English teen Jason Taylor’s ace adventures as he takes on unforgiving classmates, a wicked stammer, and the Falklands War, emerging as an unforgettable protagonist.

The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth by Tim Flannery
In this stirring call to action, biologist Flannery provides an overview of the impact that global warming has on the environment and suggests possible solutions.

Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City by Jed Horne
Times-Picayune reporter Horne skillfully attempts to untangle a disaster and its aftermath through victims’ personal stories.

Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert
Drawing from interviews with front-line scientists, Kolbert calmly and persuasively demonstrates the extent of global warming.

Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick
Philbrick dramatically brings to life, and corrects common misconceptions about, the Pilgrim settlement of Plymouth.

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
For nine-year-old Oskar, grief over the loss of his father turns into a series of riddles in this luminous and inventive post-September 11, 2001, novel.

Veronica by Mary Gaitskill
A former model is haunted by the memory of an AIDS-stricken friend in a story that pierces the heart and illumines the excesses of the 1980s.

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
An English boarding school conceals a shocking secret that only gradually dawns on the reader of this finely observed, thought-provoking novel.

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
A veteran Texas sheriff reflects on a troubled society and an increasingly evil breed of criminal as he confronts the fast-moving case of a botched drug deal.

Saturday by Ian McEwan
In this subtly crafted novel, a chance encounter during a typical Saturday in the life of a successful London neurosurgeon leads to a life-altering series of events.

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
In this imaginative novel, a 15-year-old Japanese boy embarks on a surreal odyssey after his father's murder.

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
A small-town Iowa minister weaves together issues of conscience and commitment with family secrets in a rich tapestry of American life.

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared M. Diamond
Easter Island , Norse Greenland, Rwanda, and other societies reveal the catastrophic consequences of environmental mismanagement.

Conspiracy of Fools by Kurt Eichenwald
The meteoric rise and spectacular downfall of Enron is detailed in this suspenseful blow-by-blow account of executive greed, arrogance, and stupidity.

The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq by George Packer
Packer skillfully navigates the politics of the United States ' decision to invade Iraq and the postwar reconstruction that has betrayed all sides.

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
A successful writer spots her mother digging through trash on a New York City street , sparking painful and affectionate memories of an unusual childhood.

The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
In a chilling alternate history set in 1940s America , hero and anti-Semite Charles Lindbergh wins the presidency over FDR, and a Jewish family endures life in a new society.

Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib by Seymour M. Hersh
Hersh exposes the military abuse in Abu Ghraib prison and the events leading up to it in this groundbreaking report.

1968: The Year That Rocked the World by Mark Kurlansky
This engrossing account tells the complete story of the global, social, and political upheaval, warfare, and assassinations that define one year in a tumultuous decade.

The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni, 1968-1998 by Nikki Giovanni
African American activist Giovanni observes and embraces the world like few other poets; seize on these poems spanning three decades, and listen to her sing.