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staff recommends--fiction   

Anderson, Sherwood. Winesburg, Ohio. [F]
Anthony, Piers. On a pale horse. [SF]
Atwood, Margaret. Blind Assassin [F]
Alias Grace. [F]
Handmaid's tale [F]
Robber's bride [F]
Auster, Paul. City of Glass. [Mys] (See also: graphic novel)
Balzac, Honore de. Eugenie Grandet. [F]
Baxt, George William Powell and Myrna Loy murder case. [Mys]
Beaton, M.C. Death of a gossip. [Mys]
Beck, K.K.  Death in a deck chair. [Mys]
Bellamy, Edward. Looking backward. [F]
Bender, Aimee. An invisible sign of my own. [F]
Black, Veronica. Vow of Silence. [Mys]
Boyle, T.C Road to wellville. [F]
Bradbury, Ray. Dandelion wine. [F]
Fahrenheit 451. [SF]
Something wicked this way comes. [F]
Bradley, Marion Zimmer. Mists of Avalon. [SF]
Bradshaw, Gillian Sand-reckoner. [F]
Buffett, Jimmy. Tales from Margaritaville. [F]
Bunyan, John. Pilgrim's progress. [F]
Byatt, A.S Possession [F]
Cadigan, Pat. Tea from an empty cup. [SF]
Cahill, Mary. Carpool. [Mys]
Calvino, Italo. Marcovaldo. [F]
Camus, Albert. Stranger. [F]
Cannell, Dorothy. Thin woman. [F]
Card, Orson Scott. Ender's game. [SF]
Cather, Willa. Collected stories. [F]
My Antonia. [F]
Troll garden. [F]
Cerda, Martha. Senora Rodriguez and other worlds. [F]
Chabon, Michael Amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay. [F]
Chopin, Kate. Awakening and selected stories. [F]
Cisneros, Sandra. House on Mango street. [F]
Clancy, Tom. Hunt for red October. [F]
Cleage, Pearl. What looks like crazy on an ordinary day. [F]
Coetzee, J.M. Disgrace. [F]
Cooper, James Fenimore. Deerslayer. [F]
Cooperstein, Claire. Johanna. [F]
Craven, Margaret. I heard the owl call my name. [F]
Crispin, Edmund. Moving toyshop. [Mys]
Danticat, Edwidge. Breath, eyes, memory. [F]
Davidson, Dinae Mott  Dying for chocolate  [Mys]
Day, Richard Cortez. When in Florence. [F]
Dennis, Patrick. Auntie Mame: an irreverent escapade. [F]
Dick, Philip. Man in the high castle. [SF]
Dickens, Charles. Great expectations. [F]
Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee. Mistress of spices. [F]
Sister of my heart. [F]
Unknown errors of our lives: stories. [F]
Dreiser, Theodore. American tragedy. [F]
Dunning, John. Bookman's promise: a Cliff Janeway novel. [F]
Elegant, Simon. Floating life. [F]
Ellison, Ralph. Invisible man. [F]
Eliot, George. Mill on the floss. [F]
Elizabeth. Enchanted April. [F] (Elizabeth von Arnim)
Ende, Michael. Momo. [F]
Epstein, Joseph. Fabulous small Jews. [F]
Finder, Joseph. Paranoia. [F]
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Flappers and philosophers. [F]
Great Gatsby. [F]
Flagg, Fannie. Fried green tomatoes at the whistle stop café. [F]
Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary. [F]
Franklin, Miles. My brilliant career. [F]
Frazier, Charles. Cold mountain. [F]
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel. One hundred years of solitude. [F]
Gaines, Ernest. A lesson before dying. [F]
Gaskell, Elixabeth. Cranford. [F]
Gibbons, Stella. Cold comfort farm. [F]
Gissing, George. Odd women. [F]
Goldstein, Lisa. Dream years. [F]
Gordimer, Nadine. House Gun. [F]
July's people. [F]
Goudge, Elizabeth. City of bells. [F]
Gran, Sarah. Come Closer. [F}
Greene, Graham. Heart of the matter. [F]
Power and the Glory. [F]
Gregory, Phillipa. Other Boleyn Girl. [F]
Haddon, Mark. Curious incident of the dog in the night-time: a novel. [F]
Hambly, Barbara.     Free man of color. [F]
Hardy, Thomas. Jude the Obscure.
Mayor of Casterbridge. [F]
Tess of the D'Urbervilles. [F]
Haruf, Kent. Plainsong. [F]
Helprin, Mark. Memoir from antproof case. [F]
Hesse, Herman. Siddhartha. [F]
Hill, Susan. Woman in black. [F]
Hornby, Nick. About a boy. [F]
Hughart, Barry. Bridge of birds. [F]
Ishiguro, Kazuo. Remains of the day. [F]
Jewett, Sarah Orne. Country of the pointed firs and other stories. [F]
Kazantzakis, Nikos. Zorba the Greek. [F]
Kawabata, Yasunari. Snow Country. [F]
Keyes, Daniel. Flowers for Algernon. [F]
Kincaid, Jamaica. Autobiography of my mother. [F]
Annie John
My garden
King, Laurie. Beekeeper's apprentice. [Mys]
Kingsolver, Barbara. Animal dreams. [F]
Bean trees. [F]
Pigs in Heaven. [F]
Poisonwood Bible. [F]
Lahiri, Jhumpa. Namesake. [F]
Le Guin, Ursula. Wind's twelve quarters. [SF]
Lee, Harper. To kill a mockingbird. [F]
Lennon, j. Robert. Funnies. [F]
Letts, Billie. Where the heart is. [F]
Lewis, C.S. Out of the silent planet. [SF]
Lewis, Sinclair. Babbitt. [F]
Lightman, Alan. Einstein's dreams. [F]
Llewellyn, Richard. How green was my valley. [F]
Lovesey, Peter. Waxwork. [Mys]
Lurie, Alison. Foreign affairs. [F]
McCracken, Elizabeth. Giant's house. [F]
McCullers, Carson. Heart is a lonely hunter. [F]
Maclean, Norman. River runs through it. [F]
MacLeod, Charlotte. Family vault. [Mys]
Mansfield, Katherine. Stories. [F]
Markoe, Merrill. It's my f***ing birthday. [F]
Marquand, John P. Late George Apley. [F]
Melville, Herman.

 Moby Dick. [F]

Miller, Walter. Canticle for Leibowitz. [SF]
Mishima, Yukio. Sailor who fell from grace with the sea [F]
Moore, Christopher. Fluke, or, I know why the winged whale sings. [F]
Morley, Christopher Parnassus on wheels. [F]
Munro Alice. Friend of my youth: stories [F]
Hateship, friendship, courtship, loveship, marriage: stories [F]
Open secrets: stories [F]
Murphy, Pat. Adventures in time and space with Max Merriwell. [SF]
Niffenegger, Audrey. Time-traveler's wife: a novel. [F]
Niven, Larry. Ringworld. [SF]
Oe, Kenzaburo. Nip the buds, shoot the kids. [F]
O'Connor, Flannery.

Violent bear it away. [F]

Parkhurst, Carolyn. Dogs of Babel. [F]
Parkinson, C. Northcote. Jeeves: a gentleman's personal gentleman. [F]
Paton, Alan. Cry the beloved country. [F]
Pearson, T.R. Short history of a small place. [F]
Plath, Sylvia. Bell jar. [F]
Pratchett, Terry.

Thief of time. [SF]

Pym, Barbara. Excellent women. [F]
Read, Miss. Village diary. [F]
Remarque, Erich Maria. All quiet on the western front. [F]
Robb, Candance. Trust betrayed. [Mys]
Roberts, Gillian. Caught dead in Philadelphia. [Mys]
Robinson, Marilynne. Housekeeping. [F]
Rutherford, Edward. Princes of Ireland. [F]
Sackville-West, Vita. All passion spent. [F]
Saroyan, William. Human comedy. [F]
Saunders, George. Pastoralia. [F]
Schwarz, Christina. All is vanity: a novel. [F]
Sebold, Alice.  Lovely Bones. [F]
Seth, Vukram.

Sutiable boy. [F]

Shakar, Alex. Savage girl: a novel. [F]
Shields, Carol. Stone Diaries. [F]
Simak, Clifford. City [SF]
Smiley, Jane.  Horse Heaven. [F]
Moo. [F]
Thousand Acres [F]
Smith, Betty. A tree grows in Brooklyn. [F]
Smith, Dodie. I capture the castle. [F]
Snow, C.P. The Masters. [F]
Spark, Muriel. Memento mori. [F]
Spence, Gerry. Half -moon and empty stars. [F]
Steinbeck, John. Cannery row. [F]
Grapes of wrath. [F]
Stevens, Rosemary. Death on a silver tray. [Mys]
Stevenson, Jane. Winter Queen. [F]
Stowe, Rebecca. Shadow of desire. [F]
Symons, Julian. Great detectives. [Mys]
Tan, Amy. Joy luck club. [F]
Tevis, Walter. Queen's gambit. [F]
Thompson, Flora. Lark rise to candleford. [F]
Tolstaya, Tatyana. Slynx [F]
Tolstoy, Leo. War and peace. [F]
Toole, John Kennedy. Confederacy of dunces. [F]
Trevor, William. Love department. [F]
Story of Lucy Gault. [F]
Tyler, Anne. Accidental tourist. [F]
Breathing lessons. [F]
Dinner at the homesick restaurant. [F]
Ladder of Years. [F]
Saint maybe. [F]
Verne, Jules. Around the world in 80 days. [F]
Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse five. [F]
Vreeland, Susan. Girl in hyacinth blue. [F]
Waugh, Evelyn. Brideshead revisited. [F]
Weldon, Fay. Letters to Alice. [F]
Wells, H.G. Time machine. [SF]
Wells, Rebecca. Divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood. [F]
Welty, Eudora. Collected stories of Eudora Welty. [F]
West, Nathanael. Day of the locust. [F]
Wharton, Edith. Collected stories: 1891-1910. [F]
Collected stories: 1911-1937. [F]
Ethan Frome. [F]
House of mirth. [F]
Wilde, Oscar. Picture of Dorian Gray. [F]
Willis, Connie. Bellwether. [SF]
To say nothing of the dog. [F]
Winterson, Jeanette.

Oranges are not the only fruit. [F]

Wolfe, Tom. A Man in full. [F]
Wolff, Tobias. Night in question: stories. [F]
Yoshimoto, Banana. Kitchen. [F]
Young, Carrie. Wedding dress: stories form the Dakota plains. [F]
Zelanzy, Roger. Lord of light. [SF]

               
 

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