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Abercrombie, Joe
The First Law
1. The Blade Itself

Abrams, Douglas Carlton
– The Lost Diary of Don Juan

Ackerman, Diane
– The Zookeeper’s Wife

Aczel, Amir D.
– The Cave and the Cathedral: How a Real-Life Indiana Jones and a Renegade Scholar Decoded the Ancient Art of Man

Andersen, Hans Christian
– Fairy Tales

Anderson, John David
– Standard Hero Behavior

Anderson, M. T.
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation
1. The Pox Party
2. The Kingdom on the Waves

Ascroft, Dianne
– Hitler and Mars Bars

Asimov, Isaac
– The Caves of Steel

Austen, Jane
– Pride and Prejudice
– Emma
– Persuasion

Avi
– Crispin: The Cross of Lead

Barker, Clive
Books of Abarat
1. Abarat

Barnes, Jonathan
– The Somnambulist

Barrett, Andrea
– Ship Fever

Barry, Brunonia
– The Lace Reader

Barry, Dave
Starcatchers Trilogy
1. Peter and the Starcatchers
2. Peter and the Shadow Thieves

Bauermeister, Erica
– The School of Essential Ingredients

Beddor, Frank
The Looking Glass Wars
1. The Looking Glass Wars

Bertagna, Julie
Exodus Trilogy
1. Exodus
2. Zenith

Black, Holly
Modern Tales of Faerie
1. Tithe
The Spiderwick Chronicles
1. The Field Guide
2. The Seeing Stone
3. Lucinda’s Secret
4. The Ironwood Tree
5. The Wrath of Mulgarath

Block, Stefan Merrill
– The Story of Forgetting

Bradbury, Ray
– S is for Space

Bradley, Alan
The Buckshaw Chronicles
1. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

Bray, Libba
The Gemma Doyle Trilogy
2. Rebel Angels
3. The Sweet Far Thing

Breen, M. E.
– Darkwood

Bujold, Lois McMaster
Chalion
3. The Hallowed Hunt
Vorkosigan Saga
1. Shards of Honor

Burnside, John
– The Glister

Bryson, Bill
– Made in America

Cain, Kenneth
– Emergency Sex: And Other Desperate Measures

Card, Orson Scott
Ender’s Saga
1. Ender’s Game

Cashore, Kristin
Graceling
1. Graceling
Prequel. Fire

Chabon, Michael
– The Yiddish Policeman’s Union

Clay, Mortimus
The Weirdling Cycle
1. The Purloined Boy

Cohn, Rachel
– Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist

Colfer, Eoin
– The Supernaturalist
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
6. And Another Thing…

Collins, Suzanne
The Hunger Games Trilogy
1. The Hunger Games
2. Catching Fire

Connolly, John
– The Book of Lost Things

Coppold, Murray
– A Geoscience Guide to the Burgess Shale

Cornwell, Bernard
– Stonehenge

Cox, Michael
– The Meaning of Night: A Confession

Darnton, John
– The Darwin Conspiracy

Darwin, Emma
– A Secret Alchemy

Dashner, James
The 13th Reality
1. The Journal of Curious Letters

Davidson, Andrew
– The Gargoyle

Davis, Charles
– Angel’s Rest

Davys, Tim
– Amberville

de Lint, Charles
– Moonheart

Dean, Rebecca
– Palace Circle

Delamare, François
– Colors: The Story of Dyes and Pigments

DiCamillo, Kate
– The Tale of Despereaux

Dick, Philip K.
– The Minority Report and Other Stories

DiTerlizzi, Tony
The Spiderwick Chronicles
1. The Field Guide
2. The Seeing Stone
3. Lucinda’s Secret
4. The Ironwood Tree
5. The Wrath of Mulgarath

Doctorow, Cory
– Little Brother

Donnelly, Jennifer
Roses
1. The Tea Rose
2. The Winter Rose
– A Northern Light

Donohue, Keith
– Angels of Destruction

Duane, Diane
Young Wizards
3. High Wizardry
Feline Wizards
1. The Book of Night With Moon

Dunant, Sarah
– The Birth of Venus
– Sacred Hearts

Dunn, Katherine
– Geek Love

Dunn, Mark
– Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters

DuPrau, Jeanne
Books of Ember
1. The City of Ember
2. The People of Sparks
3. The Prophet of Yonwood
4. The Diamond of Darkhold

Ebershoff, David
– The 19th Wife

Eco, Umberto
– The Name of the Rose

Edwards, Julie Andrews
– The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles

Edwards, Kim
– The Memory Keeper’s Daughter

Eisdorfer, Erica
– The Wet Nurse’s Tale

Etzioni-Halevy, Eva
– The Triumph of Deborah

Farmer, Nancy
The Sea of Trolls Trilogy
1. The Sea of Trolls
2. The Land of the Silver Apples

Farmer, Penelope
Aviary Hall
1. The Summer Birds
2. Emma in Winter

Feist, Raymond E.
The Riftwar Saga
1. Magician: Apprentice

Felber, Adam
– Schrödinger’s Ball

Ferrari-Adler, Jenni
– Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant

Fforde, Jasper
Thursday Next Mysteries
3. The Well of Lost Plots
Nursery Crimes Series
1. The Big Over Easy

Finlay, Victoria
– Buried Treasure: Travels Through the Jewel Box

Fitzgerald, Becca
– Hush, Hush

Forsyth, Adrian
– A Natural History of Sex: The Ecology and Evolution of Mating Behavior

Fowler, Karen Joy
– The Jane Austen Book Club

French, Tana
Ryan/Maddox Mysteries
1. In the Woods

Frost, Gregory
Shadowbridge
1. Shadowbridge
2. Lord Tophet

Funke, Cornelia
Inkworld Trilogy
1. Inkheart
2. Inkspell
3. Inkdeath
- The Thief Lord
- Dragon Rider

Gabaldon, Diana
Outlander Series
1. Outlander
2. Dragonfly in Amber
3. Voyager
4. Drums of Autumn
- The Outlandish Companion
5. The Fiery Cross
6. A Breath of Snow and Ashes
7. An Echo in the Bone

Gaiman, Neil
– Fragile Things
– Interworld
- MirrorMask
- The Graveyard Book
Absolute Sandman
1. The Absolute Sandman, Vol. 1
2. The Absolute Sandman, Vol. 2
3. The Absolute Sandman, Vol. 3
4. The Absolute Sandman, Vol. 4
11. The Dream Hunters
12. Endless Nights
Death
1. Death: The High Cost of Living
2. Death: The Time of Your Life

Ganeshananthan, V. V.
– Love Marriage

Garner, James Finn
– Politically Correct Bedtime Stories
– Once Upon a More Enlightened Time

Gibbons, Dave
– Watchmen

Godbersen, Anna
The Luxe Novels
1. The Luxe
2. Rumors
3. Envy

Goodkind, Terry
The Sword of Truth
1. Wizard’s First Rule

Graham, Jo
– Black Ships
– Hand of Isis

Grann, David
– The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

Green, John
– An Abundance of Katherines
– Paper Towns
– Let it Snow: Three Holiday Romances

Gregory, Philippa
– The Other Boleyn Girl
– The Constant Princess

Groff, Lauren
– The Monsters of Templeton

Grossman, Anne Chotzinoff
– Lobscouse & Spotted Dog: Which It’s a Gastronomic Companion to the Aubrey/Maturin Novels

Grossman, Lev
– The Magicians

Guineau, Bernard
– Colors: The Story of Dyes and Pigments

Haddon, Mark
– A Spot of Bother

Hale, Shannon
– The Goose Girl
– Austenland

Harding, Matt
– Where the Hell is Matt?: Dancing Badly Around the World

Hari, Daoud
– The Translator: A Tribesman’s Memoir of Darfur

Harper, Karen
– Mistress Shakespeare

Harr, Jonathan
– The Lost Painting

Harris, Bob
– Who Hates Whom: Well-Armed Fanatics, Intractable Conflicts, and Various Things Blowing Up: A Woefully Incomplete Guide

Harris, Charlaine
Southern Vampire Mysteries
1. Dead Until Dark
2. Living Dead in Dallas
3. Club Dead
4. Dead to the World
5. Dead as a Doornail
6. Definitely Dead
7. All Together Dead
8. From Dead to Worse
9. Dead and Gone
Short Stories. A Touch of Dead

Heaney, Seamus
– Beowulf: A New Verse Translation

Heinrich, Bernd
– Summer World: A Season of Bounty

Henderson, Bobby
– The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

Hensley, Nina Dreyer and Jim
– Slurp: Drinks and Light Fare, All Day, All Night

Highsmith, Patricia
– People Who Knock on the Door

Hoesel, Don
– Elisha’s Bones

Howe, Katherine
– The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane

Jacques, Brian
– Redwall

Jennings, Ken
– Braniac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs

Johnson, Maureen
– Let it Snow: Three Holiday Romances

Jones, Diana Wynne
– Howl’s Moving Castle
– Dark Lord of Derkholm
– The Merlin Conspiracy

Jones, Sherry
– The Jewel of Medina

Jordan, Hillary
– Mudbound

Jordan, Robert
The Wheel of Time
12. The Gathering Storm

Kay, Guy Gavriel
– The Lions of Al-Rassan
– Beyond This Dark House
The Fionavar Tapestry
1. The Summer Tree
2. The Wandering Fire
3. The Darkest Road
Sarantine Mosaic
1. Sailing to Sarantium
2. Lord of Emperors

Kelly, Elizabeth
– Apologize, Apologize!

Kenner, Julie
Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom
1. Carpe Demon: Adventures of a Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom
2. California Demon: The Secret Life of a Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom
3. Demons are Forever: Confessions of a Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom

Kent, Kathleen
– The Heretic’s Daughter

Kingsolver, Barbara
– Prodigal Summer
– The Lacuna

Knight, E. E.
The Age of Fire
1. Dragon Champion

Kolpan, Gerald
– Etta

Konigsburg, E. L.
– Throwing Shadows

Krakauer, Jon
– Into the Wild

L’Engle, Madeleine
Kronos Quartet
3. A Swiftly Tilting Planet

L’Homme, Erik
Book of the Stars
1. Quadehar the Sorcerer
2. The Mystery of Lord Sha
3. The Face of the Shadow

Lackey, Mercedes
– The Fire Rose

Lalwani, Nikita
– Gifted

Lanagan, Margo
– Tender Morsels

Larbalestier, Justine
– Liar

Larson, Erik
– The Devil in the White City

Larsson, Steig
– The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Lawhead, Stephen
Song of Albion
1. The Paradise War

Levithan, David
– Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist

Lisle, Holly
Novels of Korre
1. Talyn
2. Hawkspar

Lockhart, E.
– The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

Løwe, Paul
– Slurp: Drinks and Light Fare, All Day, All Night

Lynch, Brian
Angel: After the Fall
1. Volume 1
2. Volume 2: First Night
3. Volume 3
4. Volume 4

Lynch, Don
– Ghosts of the Abyss: A Journey into the Heart of the Titanic

Lynch, Scott
Gentleman Bastards
1. The Lies of Locke Lamora

Madison, Deborah
– What We Eat When We Eat Alone: Stories and 100 Recipes

Maguire, Gregory
– Mirror, Mirror

Maistros, Louis
– The Sound of Building Coffins

Marco, John
Skylords
1. Starfinder

Marschall, Ken
– Ghosts of the Abyss: A Journey into the Heart of the Titanic

Marr, Melissa
Wicked Lovely
1. Wicked Lovely
2. Ink Exchange
3. Fragile Eternity
Wicked Lovely Desert Tales
1. Sanctuary

Martin, George R. R.
Dreamsongs
1. Dreamsongs, Volume 1
2. Dreamsongs, Volume 2
3. Dreamsongs, Volume 3

McCarthy, Cormac
– All the Pretty Horses
– The Road

McDermott, Alice
– A Bigamist’s Daughter

McEwan, Ian
– Atonement
– On Chesil Beach

McKinley, Robin
– Beauty
– Rose Daughter
– The Outlaws of Sherwood

Meyer, Louis A.
Bloody Jack Adventures
5. Mississippi Jack: Being an Account of the Further Waterborne Adventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman, Fine Lady, and the Lily of the West
6. My Bonny Light Horseman: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, in Love and War

Meyer, Stephenie
– The Host
Twilight
3. Eclipse
4. Breaking Dawn

Michaels, Barbara
– Patriot’s Dream

Miller, Keith
– The Book of Flying

Moore, Alan
– Watchmen

Moore, Christopher
– Practical Demonkeeping
– Island of the Sequined Love Nun
– The Stupidest Angel

Moran, Michelle
– Cleopatra’s Daughter

Mosse, Kate
– Labyrinth

Mull, Brandon
Fablehaven
1. Fablehaven

Mullen, Thomas
– The Last Town on Earth

Myracle, Lauren
– Let it Snow: Three Holiday Romances

Némirovsky, Irène
– Suite Française

Newmark, Elle
– The Book of Unholy Mischief

Niffenegger, Audrey
– Her Fearful Symmetry

Nix, Garth
– Across the Wall: A Tale of the Abhorsen and Other Stories

Novik, Naomi
Temeraire
1. His Majesty’s Dragon
2. Throne of Jade
3. Black Powder War
4. Empire of Ivory
5. Victory of Eagles

Pallen, Mark
– The Rough Guide to Evolution

Paolini, Christopher
Inheritance Cycle
3. Brisingr

Patchett, Ann
– Bel Canto

Pearson, Ridley
Starcatchers Trilogy
1. Peter and the Starcatchers
2. Peter and the Shadow Thieves

Pessl, Marisha
– Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Phillips, Arthur
– The Egyptologist

Picoult, Jodi
– My Sister’s Keeper

Pierce, Tamora
Daughter of the Lioness
1. Trickster’s Choice
2. Trickster’s Queen

Postlewait, Heidi
– Emergency Sex: And Other Desperate Measures

Powell, Wayne
– A Geoscience Guide to the Burgess Shale

Pratchett, Terry
Tiffany Aching
1. The Wee Free Men
2. A Hat Full of Sky
3. Wintersmith

Pullman, Philip
His Dark Materials
2. The Subtle Knife
3. The Amber Spyglass
5. Once Upon a Time in the North
Sally Lockhart Mysteries
1. The Ruby in the Smoke
2. The Shadow in the North
3. The Tiger in the Well

Quinn, Daniel
– If They Give You Lined Paper Write Sideways

Reaves, Michael
– Interworld

Redmond, J. B.
Oathbreaker
1. Assassin’s Apprentice

Reid, Kamilla
The Questory of Root Karbunkulus
1. The Questory of Root Karbunkulus: Item One: Miist

Remarque, Erich Maria
– All Quiet on the Western Front

Roach, Mary
– Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
– Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

Rose, Joel
– The Blackest Bird

Rothfuss, Patrick
The Kingkiller Chronicle
1. The Name of the Wind

Rowling, J. K.
– The Tales of Beedle the Bard

Roy, Arundhati
– The God of Small Things

Ruff, Matt
– Fool on the Hill
– Bad Monkeys

Rummel-Hudson, Robert
– Schuyler’s Monster: A Father’s Journey with His Wordless Daughter

Sanderson, Brandon
– Firstborn (short story)
– Warbreaker
Mistborn Trilogy
1. The Final Empire
2. The Well of Ascension
3. The Hero of Ages
Alcatraz Smedry
1. Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians
2. Alcatraz Versus the Scrivener’s Bones
3. Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia
The Wheel of Time
12. The Gathering Storm

Savage, J. Scott
Farworld
1. Water Keep

Schell, Adam
– Tomato Rhapsody: A Fable of Love, Lust & Forbidden Fruit

See, Lisa
– Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Slatton, Traci L.
– Immortal

Sobel, Dava
– Galileo’s Daughter

Somper, Justin
Vampirates
1. Demons of the Ocean
2. Tide of Terror
3. Blood Captain

Spinelli, Jerry
– Stargirl

Standage, Tom
– An Edible History of Humanity

Stein, Garth
– The Art of Racing in the Rain

Stevermer, Caroline
– A College of Magics

Stirling, S. M.
Emberverse
1. Dies the Fire

Stoker, Bram
– Dracula

Stroud, Jonathan
– The Last Siege
– Heroes of the Valley

Thomas, Lisa Grossman
– Lobscouse & Spotted Dog: Which It’s a Gastronomic Companion to the Aubrey/Maturin Novels

Thompson, Andrew
– Emergency Sex: And Other Desperate Measures

Thompson, Jill
– Death: At Death’s Door

Tobin, Betsy
– Ice Land

Turner, Megan Whalen
Queen’s Thief
1. The Thief
2. The Queen of Attolia

Vantrease, Brenda Rickman
– The Illuminator

Vaught, S. R.
Oathbreaker
1. Assassin’s Apprentice

Vess, Charles
– The Book of Ballads

Vowell, Sarah
– The Wordy Shipmates

Walsh, Bill
– Lapsing into a Comma: A Curmudgeon’s Guide to the Many Things that Can Go Wrong in Print – and How to Avoid Them

Westerfeld, Scott
– So Yesterday
Uglies Series
4. Extras
Succession
1. The Risen Empire
2. The Killing of Worlds
Leviathan Trilogy
1. Leviathan

Whedon, Joss
– Fray
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 8
1. The Long Way Home
2. No Future for You
3. Wolves at the Gate
4. Time of Your Life
5. Predators and Prey
Serenity
1. Those Left Behind

Whitcomb, Laura
– A Certain Slant of Light

White, T. H.
– The Once and Future King

Willig, Lauren
Pink Carnation Series
1. The Secret History of the Pink Carnation

Willingham, Bill
Fables
0. 1001 Nights of Snowfall
1. Volume 1: Legends in Exile
2. Volume 2: Animal Farm
3. Volume 3: Storybook Love
4. Volume 4: March of the Wooden Soldiers
5. Volume 5: The Mean Seasons
6. Volume 6: Homelands
7. Volume 7: Arabian Nights (and Days)
8. Volume 8: Wolves
9. Volume 9: Sons of Empire
10. Volume 10: The Good Prince
11. Volume 11: War and Pieces
11. Volume 12: The Dark Ages
Jack of Fables
1. Volume 1: The (Nearly) Great Escape
2. Volume 2: Jack of Hearts
3. Volume 3: The Bad Prince
4. Volume 4: Americana
5. Volume 5: Turning Pages
6. Volume 6: The Big Book of War

Willis, Connie
– Doomsday Book

Wolff, Robert
– Original Wisdom: Stories of an Ancient Way of Knowing

Wrede, Patricia C.
– Book of Enchantments

Zafón, Carlos Ruiz
– The Shadow of the Wind

Zuk, Marlene
– Sexual Selections: What We Can and Can’t Learn About Sex from Animals