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Books for Teens |
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Adventure and Thriller |
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| Bellow, Saul | Henderson the Rain King |
| Burroughs, Edgar | Tarzan of the Apes |
| Carlon, Patricia | The Price of an Orphan |
| Clancy, Tom | Clear and Present Danger |
| Cook, Robin | Chromosome 6 |
| Crichton, Michael | Jurassic Park |
| Cussler, Clive | Shock Wave |
| Dumas, Alexandre | The Three Musketeers |
| Gilman, Dorothy | Caravan |
| Grisham, John | The Client |
| Higgins, Jack | The President's Daughter |
| Hope, Anthony | The Prisoner of Zenda |
| Le Carre, John | Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy |
| Meltzer, Brad | The Tenth Justice |
| Nance, John | The Last Hostage |
| Orczy, Emmuska | The Scarlet Pimpernel |
| Perry, Thomas | Vanishing Act |
| Stevenson, Robert Louis | Treasure Island |
| Theroux, Paul | The Mosquito Coast: A Novel |
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Classics |
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| Austen, Jane | Pride and Prejudice |
| Bradbury, Ray | Fahrenheit 451 |
| Bronte, Charlotte | Jane Eyre |
| Cather, Willa | My Antonia |
| Clark, Walter | The Ox-Bow Incident |
| Conrad, Joseph | Lord Jim |
| Craven, Margaret | I Heard the Owl Call My Name |
| Dickens, Charles | Oliver Twist |
| Golding, William | Lord of the Flies |
| Hugo, Victor | Les Miserables |
| Kesey, Ken | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| Knowles, John | A Separate Peace |
| Lee, Harper | To Kill a Mockingbird |
| Leroux, Gaston | The Phantom of the Opera |
| McCullers, Carson | The Member of the Wedding |
| Orwell, George | Animal Farm |
| Plath, Sylvia | The Bell Jar |
| Salinger, J.D. | The Catcher in the Rye |
| Saroyan, William | The Human Comedy |
| Smith, Betty | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
| Steinbeck, John | Of Mice and Men |
| Wells, H.G. | The Invisible Man |
| Wright, Richard | Native Son |
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Contemporary Life |
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| Banks, Russell | Rule of the Bone |
| Berg, Elizabeth | Joy School |
| Blume, Judy | Summer Sisters |
| Bradbury, Ray | Dandelion Wine |
| Conroy, Pat | The Great Santini |
| Cook, Karin | What Girls Learn |
| Dart, Iris | Beaches |
| Denker, Henry | A Place for Kathy |
| Guest, Judith | Ordinary People |
| Irving, John | The World According to Garp: A Novel |
| Kingsolver, Barbara | The Bean Trees |
| Lamott, Anne | Crooked Little Heart |
| Letts, Billie | Where the Heart Is |
| McCullers, Carson | The Member of the Wedding |
| Mitchard, Jacquelyn | The Deep End of the Ocean |
| Schulman, Audrey | Swimming with Jonah |
| Swarthout, Glendon | Bless the Beasts and Children |
| Thomson, Maynard F. | Dreams of Gold |
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Crime |
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| Atwood, Margaret | Alias Grace |
| Baldacci, David G. | Absolute Power |
| Capote, Truman | In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences |
| Crichton, Robert | The Great Impostor |
| Doyle, Arthur Conan | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
| Handler, Daniel | The Basic Eight |
| Ness, Eliot | The Untouchables |
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Fantasy |
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| Adams, Richard | Watership Down |
| Anthony, Piers | On a Pale Horse |
| Butler, Octavia | Kindred |
| Card, Orson Scott | Seventh Son |
| Dean, Pamela | Tam Lin |
| Dickson, Gordon | The Dragon and the George |
| Eddings, David | |
| Elliott, Kate | King's Dragon |
| Feist, Raymond | Magician, Apprentice |
| Gaiman, Neil | Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch |
| Gould, Steven | Jumper |
| Hobb, Robin | Assassin's Apprentice |
| Jordan, Robert | The Eye of the World |
| Kay, Susan | Phantom |
| Martin, George | A Game of Thrones |
| Pratchett, Terry | Feet of Clay |
| White, T.H. | The Once and Future King |
| Williams, Tad | The Dragonbone Chair |
| Zelazny, Roger | Nine Princes in Amber |
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Historical |
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| Aldrich, Bess | A Lantern in Her Hand |
| Auel, Jean | The Clan of the Cave Bear |
| Ballard, J.G. | Empire of the Sun |
| Bradshaw, Gillian | The Beacon at Alexandria |
| Burns, Olive | Cold Sassy Tree |
| Clavell, James | Shogun: A Novel of Japan |
| Cornwell, Bernard | Sharpe's Tiger |
| Fast, Howard | April Morning |
| Forester, C.S. | Mr. Midshipman Hornblower |
| Golden, Arthur | Memoirs of a Geisha |
| Hambly, Barbara | Free Man of Color |
| Hamill, Pete | Snow in August |
| Kelton, Elmer | The Pumpkin Rollers |
| Kosinski, Jerzy | The Painted Bird |
| Maxwell, Robin | The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn |
| Mitchell, Margaret | Gone with the Wind |
| Patton, Frances | Good Morning, Miss Dove |
| Riley, Judith | The Serpent Garden |
| Spiegelman, Art | Maus: A Survivor's Tale |
| Tarr, Judith | Pillar of Fire |
| Tey, Josephine | The Daughter of Time |
| Uris, Leon | Exodus |
| West, Jessamyn | The Friendly Persuasion |
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Horror |
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| Andrews, V.C. | Flowers in the Attic |
| Clark, Mary Higgins | Loves Music, Loves to Dance |
| King, Stephen | Pet Sematary |
| Koontz, Dean | Fear Nothing |
| Leroux, Gaston | The Phantom of the Opera |
| Levin, Ira | Rosemary's Baby |
| Martin, Valerie | Mary Reilly |
| O'Connell, Carol | Judas Child |
| Preston, Douglas | Relic |
| Rice, Anne | Interview with the Vampire |
| Shelley, Mary | Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus |
| Smith, Wayne | Thor |
| Stoker, Bram | Dracula |
| Strieber, Whitley | Billly |
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Multi-Cultural |
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| Abraham, Pearl | The Romance Reader |
| Alexie, Sherman | The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven |
| Alvarez, Julia | How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents |
| Anaya, Rudolfo A. | Bless Me, Ultima |
| Angelou, Maya | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
| Baldwin, James | Go Tell It on the Mountain |
| Dorris, Michael | A Yellow Raft in Blue Water |
| Doyle, Roddy | Paddy Clarke, Ha-Ha-Ha |
| Ellison, Ralph | Invisible Man |
| Esquivel, Laura | Like Water for Chocolate |
| Feiler, Bruce S. | Learning to Bow: An American Teacher in a Japanese School |
| Gaines, Ernest | The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman |
| Potok, Chaim | The Chosen |
| Rainey, John Calvin | The Thang That Ate My Grandaddy's Dog |
| Tan, Amy | The Joy Luck Club |
| Walker, Alice | The Color Purple |
Mysteries |
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| Alexander, Bruce | Blind Justice |
| Barr, Nevada | Firestorm |
| Cannell, Dorothy | The Thin Woman: An Epicurian Mystery |
| Christie, Agatha | And Then There Were None |
| Davis, Lindsey | The Course of Honor |
| Day, Dianne | The Strange Files of Fremont Jones |
| Francis, Dick | 10 lb. Penalty |
| Gilstrap, John | Nathan's Run |
| Hayter, Sparkle | What's a Girl Gotta Do? |
| Hillerman, Tony | A Thief of Time |
| King, Laurie | The Beekeeper's Apprentice |
| O'Connell, Carol | Mallory's Oracle |
| Parker, Robert | Early Autumn: A Spenser Novel |
| Penman, Sharon | The Queen's Man |
| Peters, Ellis | A Morbid Taste for Bones |
| Robinson, Lynda | Murder in the Place of Anubis |
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Romance |
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| Binchy, Maeve | Circle of Friends |
| Blume, Judy | Forever |
| Bonner, Cindy | Lily: A Love Story |
| Delinsky, Barbara | Three Wishes |
| Du Maurier, Daphne | Rebecca |
| Gingher, Marianne | Teen Angel and Other Stories of Young Love |
| Ladew, Donald | Stradivarius |
| McCullough, Colleen | The Ladies of Missalonghi |
| Pilcher, Rosamunde | Sleeping Tiger |
| Segal, Erich | Love Story |
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Science Fiction |
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| Adams, Douglas | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
| Asimov, Isaac | I, Robot |
| Bear, Greg | Dinosaur Summer |
| Brin, David | The Postman |
| Card, Orson Scott | Ender's Game |
| Clarke, Arthur C. | 3001: The Final Odyssey |
| Crichton, Michael | Jurassic Park |
| Elze, Winifred | Here, Kitty, Kitty |
| Heinlein, Robert | Tunnel in the Sky |
| Hogan, James | Bug Park |
| Keyes, Daniel | Flowers for Algernon |
| McCaffrey, Anne | Dragonflight |
| Niven, Larry | Ringworld |
| Pohl, Frederik | The Gateway Trip: Tales and Vignettes of the Heechee |
| Shatner, William | Delta Search: Quest for Tomorrow |
| Sheffield, Charles | Higher Education |
| Turtledove, Harry | The Guns of the South |
| Verne, Jules | Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea |
| Willis, Connie | To Say Nothing of the Dog: Or How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last |
| Wilson, Robert | Gypsies |
| Zahn, Timothy | Heir to the Empire |
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Short Stories |
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| Alfred Hitchcock Presents Stories to be Read with the Door Locked | |
| Capote, Truman | Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories |
| Cooper, James Fenimore | The Leatherstocking Tales |
| Harte, Bret | The Best of Bret Harte |
| Henry, O. | The Best Short Stories of O. Henry |
| Jackson, Shirley | The Lottery: Or, The Adventures of James Harris |
| Kipling, Rudyard | The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Stories |
| Mansfield, Katherine | The Short Stories of Katherine Mansfield |
| Maupassant, Guy de | The Tales of Guy de Maupassant, 1850-1893 |
| O'Connor, Flannery | A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories |
| Parker, Dorothy | Complete Stories |
| Poe, Edgar Allan | Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe |
| Saki | The Complete Works of Saki |
| Stockton, Frank Richard | The Lady, or the Tiger? and Other Stories |
| Thurber, James | Thurber's Dogs |
| Twain, Mark | Selected Shorter Writings of Mark Twain |
| Welty, Eudora | A Curtain of Green and Other Stories |
| Wilde, Oscar | The Short Stories of Oscar Wilde |
| Wolff, Tobias | The Night in Question: Stories |
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