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Charles Baxter Shadow Play Michigan short story writer and novelist takes on 80’s ethics and its impact on families in a small community with a chemical plant.
Amy Bloom Come to Me Short Stories.
Geraldine Brooks March 2006 Pulitzer Prize winning novel of Civil War time.
Geraldine Brooks People of the Book Inspired by a true story.
Bill Bryson The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid Bryson's memoir of his childhood.
Pearl S. Buck The Good Earth 1932 Pulitzer Prize winning novel
Sandra Cisneros Caramelo Mexican/American history, family love.
Paulo Coelho Eleven Minutes Best selling Brazilian novelist
J.M. Coetzee Disgrace Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Jill Ker Conway The Road from Coorain Memoir of Conway’s journey from an Australian sheep farm to America. She eventually became the first woman president of Smith College.
Michael Cunningham Hours
Edwidge Danticat Breath, Eyes, Memory The wonder, terror and heartache of Danticat’s native Haiti and its women.
Peter Ho Davies The Welsh Girl North Wales just after D-Day
Junot Diaz The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao
Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking Reflects a portrait of marriage and a life, in good times and bad.
Jack Driscoll Wanting Only to be Heard Poignant stories about hard men by Interlochen writer.
Kim Edwards The Memory Keeper's Daughter A fathers disavowal of a newborn daughter with Downs Syndrome.
Ralph Ellison Invisible Man A journey across the racial divide.
Louise Erdrich The Master Butchers Singing Club Immigrants settle in the fictional town of Erdrich's previous novels, Argus, N.Dakota following WWI.
Lisa Huang Fleischman Dream of the Walled City Inspired by the author's early feminist Chinese grandmother.
Franklin Foer How Soccer Explains the World Soccer and the global economy
Michael Frayn Headlong English playwright, novelist and journalist. Shortlisted for 1999 Booker Prize.
Kay Gibbons Ellen Foster 11 year old orphan in American South. Oprah selection
Sara Gruen Water for Elephants Story of a man's life in the circus in Depression era America.
Bryan Gruley Starvation Lake mystery
Ernest Hemingway Nick Adams Stories Memorable character grows from child to adolescent to soldier, veteran, writer and parent.
Nancy Horan Loving Frank Novel about Frank Lloyd Wright's scandalous life.
Khaled Hosseini Kite Runner Kabul in the 1970s from fall of the monarchy to The Taliban. ALA Notable Book.
Pam Houston Cowboys Are My Weakness Strong shrewd and funny.
Linda Lawrence Hunt Bold Spirit Helga Estby's forgotten walk across victorian America.
Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God An independent black woman in the 30's.
William Jamerson Big Shoulders Looking for his dad, a boy finds his father.
Barbara Kingsolver Animal Dreams Early Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver Animal, Vegetable, Miracle Recounts a year spent eating home-grown food and, if not that, local.
Jhumpa Lahiri The Namesake New arrivals from Calcutta try their best to become Americans.
Adam Langer Crossing California Chicago's West Rogers Park neighborhood in 1979
Erik Larson The Devil in the White City Murder, magic, and madness at the World's Fair (non-fiction)
Jim Lynch Highest Tide A 13-yr old boy develops a consuming passion for tidal flats one summer.
William Maxwell All the Days and Nights 21 stories spanning 50 years of William Maxwell’s eloquence, grace and wit.
Elizabeth McCraken The Giant's House Unlikely love story between a lonely spinster librarian and a monstrous-sized younger man
Frank McCourt Angela's Ashes A memoir.
Jon Meachum American Lion Andrew Jackson in the White House.
Dinaw Mengestu The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears Debut novel about what it means to lose a family and a country through African immigrant's eyes.
Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye 1970 first Morrison novel. Oprah selection.
Toni Morrison Beloved Chosen by NYT Book Review fiction writers and reviewers as best American fiction in last 25 years.
Greg Mortenson Three Cups of Tea One man's quest to build schools in the wildest parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Joyce Carol Oates We Were the Mulvaneys Dissolution of the American family—and an American way of life. Oprah selection.
Nuala O'Faolain Are You Somebody? The accidental memoirs of a Dublin woman.
Michael Pollan The Botany of Desire A plant's-eye view of the world.
Jonathan Raban Passage To Juneau: a sea and its meanings. Raban sails a 35 foot sailboat the thousand miles from Seattle to Juneau. The journey becomes a personal journey as well, as events in his own life impact his trip.
Marilynne Robinson Gilead Fathers and sons and the spiritual battles that still rage in America's heart.
Marilynne Robinson Housekeeping A book to read slowly and savor each word. Coming of age of a young orphan.
Julian Rubenstein Ballad of the Whiskey Robber True story of bank heists, ice hockey, Transylvanian pelt smuggling, moonlighting, detectives, and broken hearts.
Salman Rushdie Midnight’s Children Allegory for events in India before and after its 1947 independence and partition. Won Booker of Bookers in 1993.
Asne Seierstad The Bookseller of Kabul Reportage of Afghan after the Taliban
Aaron Stander Color Tour Second in Ray Elkins thrillers series
Peter Taylor Summons to Memphis Pulitzer Prize
Josephine Tey The Franchise Affair Inspector Grant has a cameo role in this classic in the detective field.
Jeffrey Toobin The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court New Yorker legal writer Toobin surveys the Court from the Reagan administration onward, as the justices wrestled with abortion, affirmative action, the death penalty, gay rights and church-state separation.
William Trevor After Rain Short stories by the author of Felicia’s Journey.
Adriana Trigiani Big Stone Gap Life story of self-proclaimed spinster Ave Maria Mulligan.
Brady Udall The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint A novel.
Barry Unsworth Morality Play Medieval murder mystery.
Larry Wakefield The Way it Was: Stories from the Grand Traverse Area In this collection of stories, historian Larry Wakefield, offers a short excursion into the amazing landscape of The Way It Was in the Grand Traverse Region.
Minette Walters The Sculptress Edgar award winning contemporary mystery writer – one of her best.
Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence Won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize. A story of desire and betrayal in Old New York.
Elie Wiesel Night Autobiographical account of Nazi death camp. Nobel Peace Prize.
Tobias Wolff This Boy's Life A Memoir