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• Ackerman, Diane. The Zookeeper's Wife.
• Adamson, Gil. The Outlander.
• Adiga, Aravind. The White Tiger.
• Akpan, Uwem. Say You're One of Them.
• Alexander, Matthew. How to Break a Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogators Who Use Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down The Deadliest Man in Iraq.
• Alexander, William. The $64 Tomato.
• Alexie. Sherman. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.
• Ali, Ayaan Hirsi. Infidel.
• Americans' Favorite Poems:  The Favorite Poem Project Anthology.
• Ariely, Dan. Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions.
• Austen, Jane/Grahame-smith, Seth. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance.
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• Bakopoulos, Dean. Please Don't Come Back from the Moon.
• Barbery, Muriel. The Elegance of the Hedgehog.
• Barry, Brunonia. The Lace Reader.
• Baxter, Charles.  The Feast of Love.
• Bauby, Jean-Dominique. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
• Beah, Ishmael.  A Long Way Gone:  Memoirs of a Boy Soldier.
• Bechdel, Alison. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic.
• Benioff, David. City of Thieves: A Novel.
• Berendt, John.  City of Falling Angels.
• Berry, Wendell.  Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food.
• Bloom, Amy. Away: A Novel.
• Bloom, Stephen G. Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America.
• Blume, Judy. Summer Sisters.
• Bohjalian, Christopher A. The Double Bind.
• Bolano, Roberto. The Savage Detectives.
• Boyle, T.C. The Women.
• Brinkley, Douglas.  The Wilderness Warrior:  Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America.
• Brooks, Geraldine.  March.
• Brooks, Geraldine. People of the Book.
• Bryson, Bill. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir.
• Bryson, Bill.  A Short History of Nearly Everything.
• Bstan-'dzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV. The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living.
• Buford, Bill.  Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-quoting Butcher in Tuscany.
• Burke, Shannon. Black Flies.
• Burroughs, Augusten.  Running with Scissors:  A Memoir.
• Bushnell, Candace. One Fifth Avenue.
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• Capote, Truman. Breakfast at Tiffany's: And Three Stories.
• Capote, Truman.  In Cold Blood:  A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences.
• Carr, David. The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of His Life, His Own.
• Chabon, Michael. The Yiddish Policeman's Union.
• Chandler, Raymond. The Big Sleep.
• Child, Julia. My Life in France.
• Coetzee, J. M. Diary of a Bad Year.
• Cody, Diablo. Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper.
• Coelho, Paulo. The Alchemist.
• Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games.
• Corrigan, Kelly. The Middle Place.
• Crawford, Matthew B. Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work.
• Cullen, Dave. Columbine.
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• Danticat, Edwidge. Brother, I'm Dying.
• Dawkins, Richard. The God Delusion.
• De Becker, Gavin. The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence.
• De los Santos, Marisa. Love Walked In.
• De Rosnay, Tatiana. Sarah's Key.
• Denny, Mark. Froth!: The Science of Beer.
• Diamond, Jared M.  Collapse:  How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.
• Diamond, Jared M.  Guns, Germs, and Steel:  The Fates of Human Societies.
• DiCamillo, Kate. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread.
• Dick, Phillip K. Ubik.
• Didion, Joan.  The Year of Magical Thinking.
• Doctorow, E.L.  The March:  A Novel.
• Doidge, Norman. The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science.
• Du Maurier, Daphne, Dame. Rebecca.
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• Edwards, Kim.  The Memory Keeper's Daughter.
• Egan, Timothy. The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl.
• Eggers, Dave. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.
• Ehrenreich, Barbara. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America.
• Ehrman, Bart D. Jesus Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (and Why We Don't Know About Them).
• Enger, Leif. So Brave, Young, and Handsome.
• English, T.J. Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba - And Lost It to the Revolution.
• Enright, Anne. The Gathering.
• Erickson, Steve. Zeroville.
• Eugenides, Jeffrey.  Middlesex.
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• Fadiman, Ann.  The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down:  A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures.
• Feraga, Jean. I Hear Voices: A Memoir of Love, Death, and the Radio.
• Fergus, Jim. One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd.
• Ferriss, Joshua. Then We Came to the End.
• Ferriss, Timothy. The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich.
• Filkins, Dexter. The Forever War.
• Ford, Jamie. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet.
• Fox, Michael J. Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist.
• French, Tana. In the Woods.
• Friedman, Thomas L. Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America.
• Friedman, Thomas L.  The World Is Flat:  A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century.
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• Gaiman, Neil. Stardust.
• Galloway, Steven. The Cellist of Sarajevo.
• Garcia Marquez, Gabriel. One Hundred Years of Solitude.
• Gawande, Atul. Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance.
• Genova, Lisa. Still Alice: A Novel.
• Gilbert, Elizabeth. Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything across Italy, India and Indonesia.
• Gilman, Susan Jane. Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven.
• Gladwell, Malcolm.  Blink:  The Power of Thinking without Thinking.
• Gladwell, Malcolm. Outliers: The Story of Success.
• Glass, Julia.  The Whole World Over.
• Golden, Arthur.  Memoirs of a Geisha:  A Novel.
• Goodwin, Doris Kearns. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln.
• Gordon-Reed, Annette. The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family.
• Gore, Albert.  An Inconvenient Truth:  The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It.
• Grandin, Temple. Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior.
• Grant, Linda. The Clothes on Their Backs.
• Greene, B. The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory.
• Gregory, Phillippa. The Other Boleyn Girl.
• Griest, Stephanie Elizondo. Mexican Enough: My Life Between the Borderlines.
• Grimwood, Ken. Replay.
• Grogan, John.  Marley & Me:  Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog.
• Gruen, Sara. Water for Elephants.
• Gudenkauf, Heather. The Weight of Silence.
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• Hachten, Harva.  The Flavor of Wisconsin:  An Informal History of Food and Eating in the Badger State.
• Haddon, Mark.  The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
• Hannah, Kristin. Firefly Lane.
• Hart, John. Down River.
• Harvey, Steve. Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think about Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment.
• Hall, Ron. Same Kind of Different as Me.
• Heller, Joseph. Catch-22.
• Hemon, Aleksander. The Lazarus Project.
• Hensher, Philip. The Northern Clemency.
• Hosseini, Khaled.  Kite Runner.
• Hosseini, Khaled.  A Thousand Splendid Suns.
• Horan, Nancy. Loving Frank: A Novel.
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• Ibbotson, Eva. A Countess Below Stairs.
• Indridason, Arnaldur. Jar City: A Reykjavik Thriller.
• Irving, John. The World According to Garp.
• Ishiguro, Kazuo.  Never Let Me Go.

• Jacobs, A.J. The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible.
• Jacobs, Kate. The Friday Night Knitting Club.
• Jamison, Kay R. An Unquiet Mind.
• Jessop, Carolyn. Escape.
• Johnson, Denis. Tree of Smoke.
• Johnson, Steven. Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic-- and How it Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World.
• Jones, Edward P.  The Known World.
• Jones, Lloyd. Mister Pip.
• Junot, Diaz. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.
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• Lahiri, Jhumpa. The Namesake.
• Lancaster, Jen. Such a Pretty Fat.
• Lander, Christian. Stuff White People Like: The Definitive Guide to the Unique Taste of Millions.
• Larson, Erik.  The Devil in the White City:  Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America.
• Larsson, Stieg. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
• Le Clezio, Jean-Marie Gustave. Wandering Star.
• Lehrer, Jonah. How We Decide.
• Lethem, Jonathan. Motherless Brooklyn.
• Levitin, Daniel. The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature.
• Levitt, Steven D.  Freakonomics:  A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything.
• Levine, Judith.  Not Buying It:  My Year Without Shopping.
• Lewis, Beverly. The Secret.
• Lindstrom, Martin. Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy.
• Louv, Richard. Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder.
• Luttrell, Marcus. Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10.
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• Kaku, Michio. Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel.
• Kalish, Mildred Armstrong. Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression.
• Kessler, David. The End of Overeating: Controlling the Insatiable American Appetite.
• Kidd, Sue Monk.  The Secret Life of Bees.
• Kidder, Tracy. Mountains Beyond Mountains.
• King, Dave.  The Ha-Ha:  A Novel.
• Kingsolver, Barbara. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life.
• Klein, Naomi. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.
• Klosterman, Chuck. Downtown Owl.
• Krakauer, Jon.  Into the Wild.
• Krauss, Nicole. The History of Love.
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• McCarthy, Cormac. All the Pretty Horses.
• McCourt, Frank. Teacher Man: A Memoir.
• McEwan, Ian. Atonement.
• Maguire, Gregory.  Wicked:  The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, a Novel.
• Maraniss, David. Rome 1960: The Olympics that Changed the World.
• Maraniss, David.  They Marched into Sunlight:  War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967.
• Martel, Yann.  Life of Pi:  A Novel.
• Matheson, Richard. I am Legend.
• Matthiessen, Peter. Shadow Country: A New Rendering of the Watson Legend.
• Max, Tucker. I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell.
• Mendelsohn, Daniel. The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million.
• Mengestu, Dinaw. The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears.
• Messud, Claire. The Emperor's Children.
• Meyer, Stephenie. Eclipse.
• Meyer, Stephenie. New Moon.
• Meyer, Stephenie.  Twilight.
• Miller, Frank. 300.
• Mitchell, David.  Cloud Atlas:  A Novel.
• Moehringer, J.R.  The Tender Bar:  A Memoir.
• Moriarty, Laura. The Center of Everything.
• Morrison, Toni. Beloved: A Novel.
• Mortenson, Greg.  Three Cups of Tea:  One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and
  Build Nations -- One School at a Time.
• Murakami, Haruki. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running.
• Murakami, Haruki. A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel.
• Myron, Vicky. Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World.
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• Nemirovsky, Irene. Suite Francaise.
• Nesaule, Agate.  In Love with Jerzy Kosinski.
• Niffenegger, Audrey.  The Time Traveler's Wife:  A Novel.
• Norman, Michael.  Haunted Wisconsin.
• Nguyen, Bich Minh. Stealing Buddha's Dinner: A Memoir.
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• O'Nan, Stewart. Last Night at the Lobster.
• O'Neill, Joseph. Netherland.
• Obama, Barack. The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream.
• Obama, Barack. Change We Can Believe in: Barack Obama's Plan to Renew America's Promise.
• Orman, Suze. Suze Orman's 2009 Action Plan: Keeping Your Money Safe and Sound.
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• Pamuk, Orhan. Snow.
• Parker, John L., Jr. Once a Runner.
• Patchett, Ann. Run.
• Pelzer, David J. A Child Called "It": One Child's Courage to Survive.
• Penney, Stef. The Tenderness of Wolves.
• Perkins, John.  Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.
• Perlstein, Rick. Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America.
• Perry, Michael. Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs and Parenting.
• Perry, Michael.  Population -- 485:  Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time.
• Pessl, Marisha. Special Topics in Calamity Physics.
• Petterson, Per. Out Stealing Horses.
• Phillips, Kevin P.  American Theocracy:  The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century.
• Picoult, Jodi.  My Sister's Keeper:  A Novel.
• Picoult, Jodi. Nineteen Minutes.
• Pink, Daniel H. A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future.
• Piper, Don. 90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life.
• Pollan, Michael. The Botany of Desire: A Plant's Eye View of the World.
• Pollan, Michael. In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto.
• Pollan, Michael.  The Omnivore's Dilemma:  A Natural History of Four Meals.
• Powers, Richard. The Echo Maker.
• Preston, Douglas. The Monster of Florence.
• Price, Richard. Lush Life.
• Pullman, Philip. The Golden Compass.
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• Rand, Ayn. Atlas Shrugged.
• Reichl, Ruth.  Garlic and Sapphires:  The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise.
• Riordan, Rick. The Last Olympian.
• Robinson, Marilynne.  Gilead.
• Robinson, Marilynne. Home.
• Robison, John Elder. Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asberger's.
• Rushdie, Salman. The Enchantress of Florence.
• Russell, Mary Doria. The Sparrow.
• Russell, Mary Doria. A Thread of Grace.

• Sacks, Oliver W. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain.
• Satrapi, Marjane. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood.
• Sayrafiezadeh, Said. When Skateboards Will Be Free: A Memoir of a Political Childhood.
• Sedaris, David. Me Talk Pretty One Day.
• Sedaris, David. When You are Engulfed in Flames.
• See, Lisa. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel .
• Setterfield, Diane. The Thirteenth Tale.
• Shaffer, Mary Ann. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.
• Sharlet, Jeff. The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American
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• Sheff, David. Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Meth Addiction.
• Shenk, Joshua Wolf. Lincoln’s Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled his Greatness.
• Shlaes, Amity. The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression.
• Shopsin, Kenny. Eat Me: The Food and Philosophy of Kenny Shopsin.
• Shreve, Anita. Body Surfing: A Novel.
• Silva, Daniel. Moscow Rules.
• Sittenfeld, Curtis. American Wife: A Novel.
• Smith, Tom Rob. Child 44.
• Smith, Zadie.  On Beauty:  A Novel.
• Spiegelman, Art. Maus: A Survivor's Tale.
• Stein, Garth. The Art of Racing in the Rain.
• Steinbeck.  East of Eden.
• Stephenson, Neal. Anathem.
• Stewart, Rory. Places in Between.
• Stockett, Kathryn. The Help.
• Strout, Elizabeth. Olive Kitteridge.
• Strauss, Neil. Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life.
• Summerscale, Kate. The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective.
• Suskind, Ron. The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism.
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• Taleb, Nassim. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable.
• Tan, Amy. Saving Fish from Drowning.
• Taylor, Jill. My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey.
• Tec, Nechama. Defiance: The Bielski Partisans.
• Thomas, Michael. Man Gone Down.
• Trussoni, Danielle. Falling Through the Earth: A Memoir.
• Tyler, Anne.  Digging to America:  A Novel.
• Tyson, Timothy B.  Blood Done Sign My Name:  A True Story.
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• Unsworth, Barry. Sacred Hunger.
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• Vanderbilt, Tom. Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us).
• Venkatesh, Sudhir Alladi. Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets.
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• Waiter. Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip--Confessions of a Cynical Waiter.
• Walls, Jeannette.  The Glass Castle:  A Memoir.
• Weber, Bruce. As They See 'Em: A Fan's Travels in the Land of Umpires.
• Weisman, Alan. The World without Us.
• Weiss, Brian L. Many Lives, Many Masters.
• Werlin, Nancy. Impossible.
• Westerfeld, Scott. Uglies.
• Whitaker, Robert. Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill.
• Wickersham, Joan. The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order.
• Wiesel, Elie.  Night.
• Wright, Evan. Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America and the New Face of American War.
• Wroblewski, David. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle.
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• Young, William P. The Shack.
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  Zafon, Carlos Ruiz. Shadow of the Wind.
  
• Zakaria, Fareed. The Post-American World.
• Zaslow, Jeffrey. The Girls from Ames: A Story and a Forty-year Friendship.
• Zusak, Markus. The Book Thief.