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Book and Reading Discussion Collection
The Book Discussion Collection contains multiple copies of books designed for use by book groups. Check the library catalog for a complete list of library holdings. If you would like a set of books set aside for your group or if we can help you prepare for your discussion, please contact the Reader Services Desk at 847-729-7500, ext. 7600.
(Last updated: October 1, 2011)
Book and Reading Discussion Collection list (PDF)
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Author
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Title
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# of copies
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*Adiga, Aravind |
The White Tiger
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22 |
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*Alexander, Robert |
The Kitchen Boy
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21 |
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Alexie, Sherman
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian |
21 |
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Allende, Isabel
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Daughter of Fortune |
12 |
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Alvarez, Julia
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How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
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13 |
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Anaya, Rudolfo A. |
Bless Me, Ultima
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10
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*Ansay, A. Manette
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Blue Water
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20
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*Atwood, Margaret
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Alias Grace
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11
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*Atwood, Margaret
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The Blind Assassin
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8 |
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*Austen, Jane
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Persuasion
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20 |
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Bahr, Howard
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The Year of Jubilo: A Novel of the Civil War
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18 |
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Baum, Dan
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Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans
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10 |
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*Benioff, David
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City of Thieves: A Novel
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18 |
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*Berendt, John
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City of Falling Angels
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19
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Berendt, John
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Midnight in the Garden of the Good and Evil
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11
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*Berg, Elizabeth |
Dream When You're Feeling Blue
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13
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Bloom, Amy
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Love Invents Us
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12
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*Boyd, William
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Restless |
20 |
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Boyne, John |
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas: A Fable
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22 |
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Top
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*Bradbury, Ray |
Fahrenheit 451 |
16
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*Brooks, Geraldine
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March
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17
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*Brooks, Geraldine |
People of the Book
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22
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Bryson, Bill
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In a Sunburned Country |
17
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Bryson, Bill
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Notes from a Small Island
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18 |
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*Bryson, Bill
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A Walk in the Woods
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20 |
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Buford, Bill
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Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-maker, and
Apprentice to a Dante-quoting Butcher in Tuscany |
10 |
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*Campbell, Helen
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Turnip Blues |
13 |
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Chatwin, Bruce
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In Patagonia
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20
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Chavez, Denise
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Face of an Angel
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14
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*Chevalier, Tracy
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The Lady and the Unicorn
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13
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*Child, Julia |
My Life in France
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18 |
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Ciresi, Rita
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Sometimes I Dream in Italian |
22 |
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Clayton, Meg Waite
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The Wednesday Sisters |
18 |
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Top
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Cohan, Tony |
On Mexican Time: A New Life in San Miguel |
16 |
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*Conroy, Pat
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South of Broad |
22 |
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*Dai, Sijie
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress |
16 |
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Dallas, Sandra |
The Diary of Mattie Spenser |
15 |
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Davies, Peter Ho |
The Welsh Girl |
24
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Dean, Debra
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Madonnas of Leningrad
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19 |
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De Rosa, Tina |
Paper Fish |
18 |
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*De Rosnay, Tatiana |
Sarah's Key |
22 |
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Desai, Kiran
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The Inheritance of Loss |
19 |
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Dickens, Charles
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A Tale of Two Cities
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20
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Divakaruni, Chitra
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The Mistress of Spices |
14 |
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Doctorow, E.L.
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The March |
20
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*Doig, Ivan
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The Whistling Season |
20 |
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*Dunant, Sarah
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Birth of Venus |
19 |
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Edwards, Kim
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The Memory Keeper's Daughter
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14 |
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Ehrenreich, Barbara
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
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20 |
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Enger, Leif
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Peace Like a River
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13 |
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Top
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Ephron, Amy
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A Cup of Tea: A Novel of 1917
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19
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Feiler, Bruce S.
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Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan
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16 |
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Feiler, Bruce S.
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Walking the Bible |
20
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Fisher, M. F. K. |
Two Towns in Provence |
19 |
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Fleming, Peter
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Brazilian Adventure |
16 |
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*Foer, Jonathan Safran
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Everything is Illuminated |
20 |
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*Friedman, Thomas
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The World is Flat
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24
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Fuller, Alexandra
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
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20
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Gallagher, Dorothy
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How I Came into My Inheritance: And Other True Stories
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17
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Geoffrian, Alan
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Brokentrail |
23 |
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Gibbons, Kaye
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Ellen Foster |
13 |
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Top
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Gibbons, Kaye |
On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon |
17 |
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Gilbert, Elizabeth
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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India
and Indonesia |
13 |
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Gill, Michael Gates
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How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privlege Learns to Live Like
Everyone Else |
8 |
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*Glass, Julia |
Three Junes |
16 |
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*Goodwin, Doris Kearns |
Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir |
13 |
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Gough, Laurie
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Kite Strings of the Southern Cross: a Woman's Travel Odyssey
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16 |
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Greenway, Alice
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White Ghost Girls
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25 |
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*Grisham, John
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A Painted House |
25 |
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*Gruen, Sara
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Water for Elephants
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13
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Haddon, Mark
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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11
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*Haddon, Mark |
A Spot of Bother
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20 |
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Haigh, Jennifer |
Baker Towers |
17 |
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Halpin, Brendan
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Donorboy |
25 |
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*Hamilton, Jane
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When Madeline was Young
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20 |
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Hamilton, Marsha
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The Camel Bookmobile |
25 |
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*Hammett, Dashiell
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The Maltese Falcon |
17 |
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Hansen, Eric K.
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Bird Man and the Lap Dancer: Close Encounters with Strangers |
19 |
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*Hart, John
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The Last Child
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22
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*Haruf, Kent
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Eventide
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19
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*Haruf, Kent
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Plainsong
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16
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Heat Moon, William Least
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River-Horse: The Logbook of a Boat Across America |
16 |
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Hemingway, Ernest
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A Moveable Feast |
18 |
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*Hillenbrand, Laura
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Seabiscuit: an American Legend |
16 |
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*Horan, Nancy
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Loving Frank
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24 |
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Top
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Horn, Dara
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The World to Come
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15
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Hornby, Nick
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About a Boy
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19 |
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*Horwitz, Tony
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Blue Latitudes : Boldly Going Where Captain
Cook Has Gone Before
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18 |
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*Hosseini, Khaled
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The Kite Runner
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21 |
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Houpt, Simon
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Museum of the Missing: A History of Art Theft |
10 |
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House, Silas
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Clay's Quilt |
20 |
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Hurston, Zora Neale
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Their Eyes Were Watching God |
9 |
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Irwin, Terri
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Steve and Me |
10 |
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Ishiguro, Kazuo
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Never Let Me Go
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18 |
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*Jacobs, Kate |
The Friday Night Knitting Club |
24 |
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*James, Henry
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Washington Square
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18
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Janzen, Rhoda |
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home
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18 |
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*Jenkins, Peter
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A Walk Across America |
20 |
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Jordan, Hillary |
Mudbound |
22 |
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*Junger, Sebastian |
A Death in Belmont |
22
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Kalish, Mildred Armstrong |
Little Heathens: Hard Times and Hard Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the
Great Depression
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8 |
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Kaplan, Alice Yeager
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French Lessons: A Memoir |
13 |
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*Kay, Terry |
To Dance with the White Dog |
18 |
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*Kidder, Tracy
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Mountains Beyond Mountains |
24 |
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King, Laurie |
The Beekeeper's Apprentice |
24 |
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Kingsolver, Barbara
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life |
22 |
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Kohn, Rebecca
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The Gilded Chamber: A Novel of Queen Esther |
24 |
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Kokoris, Jim |
The Rich Part of Life |
14 |
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Konik, Michael |
Ella in Europe: An American Dog's International Adventures |
20
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Kotlowitz, Alex |
Never a City So Real: A Walk in Chicago |
20 |
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Krakauer, Jon |
Into the Wild |
20 |
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Krauss, Nicole |
The History of Love |
20 |
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Lahiri, Jhumpa |
The Namesake |
10 |
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*Larsson, Stieg |
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo |
22 |
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Larson, Erik |
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that
Changed America |
10 |
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Top
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Lawson, Mary |
Crow Lake |
19 |
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*Letts, Billie |
The Honk and Holler Opening Soon |
15 |
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Letts, Elizabeth |
Family Planning |
19 |
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Letts, Tracy
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August: Osage County |
22 |
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Lewis, Sara |
The Answer is Yes |
20 |
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Liftin, Hilary |
Dear Exile: The True Story of Two Friends Separated (for a year) by an
Ocean |
19
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Lipman, Elinor
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The Inn at Lake Devine: A Novel |
14 |
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Luttrell, Marcus
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The Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the
Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 |
10 |
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*Martel, Yann |
Life of Pi: A Novel |
10 |
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Mattison, Alice |
The Book Borrower |
15 |
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*McCall Smith, Alexander
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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency |
10 |
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McEwan, Ian
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Saturday |
20 |
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*Medina, Pablo
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The Cigar Roller
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20
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Mehran, Marsha
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Pomegranate Soup
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18
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Miller, Arthur
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The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts
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25 |
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Miller, Arthur
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Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a
Requiem |
11 |
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Miller, Sue |
For Love |
25 |
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*Miller, Sue
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The Senator's Wife
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18
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Moaveni, Azadeh
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Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America and American
in Iran
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18
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Top
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*Mortenson, Greg
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at
a Time
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8 |
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*Nafisi, Azar
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books |
10 |
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*Obama, Barack |
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream |
20 |
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*Obama, Barack
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Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
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22 |
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*O'Brien, Tim
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The Things They Carried: A Work of Fiction
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19
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O'Faolain, Naula
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Are You Somebody: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman
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14
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*O'Flynn, Catherine |
What Was Lost |
25 |
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O'Nan, Stewart
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The Good Wife |
18
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O'Reilly, James
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Travelers' Tales, Thailand: True Stories |
16
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Otsuka, Julie |
When the Emperor Was Divine |
10 |
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*Packer, Ann |
Songs Without Words |
18 |
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*Patchett, Ann |
Bel Canto |
5 |
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Paulsen, Gary |
Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod |
10 |
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*Pausch, Randy |
The Last Lecture |
10 |
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Pausch, Randy
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La Ultima Leccion |
10 |
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Perry, Michael |
Truck: A Love Story |
10 |
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Picoult, Jodi |
My Sister's Keeper |
7 |
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Top
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Proulx, Annie |
Close Range: Wyoming Stories |
18 |
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Proulx, Annie
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The Shipping News |
10 |
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Quindlen, Anna |
Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City |
16 |
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Robinson, Marilynne |
Housekeeping |
17 |
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*Rodriguez, Deborah
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Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil
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18 |
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Roiphe, Anne Richardson |
An Imperfect Lens |
25 |
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Roth, Philip |
American Pastoral |
11 |
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*Roth, Philip |
The Plot Against America |
19 |
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Ruiz Zafon, Carlos |
Shadow of the Wind |
15 |
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Russert, Tim |
Big Russ and Me: Father and Son, Lessons of Life |
10 |
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Salinger, J.D. |
The Catcher in the Rye |
22 |
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Santiago, Esmeralda |
When I Was Puerto Rican |
15 |
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Saramago, Jose
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Journey to Portugal |
20 |
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*Schlink, Bernhard |
The Reader |
10
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*Sebold, Alice |
The Lovely Bones |
9 |
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*Seierstad, Asne
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The Bookseller of Kabul |
19 |
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*See, Lisa |
Shanghai Girls |
22 |
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*See, Lisa |
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan |
10 |
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Top
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*Shaffer, Mary Ann
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society |
8 |
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Shanman, Ellen |
Everything Nice |
25 |
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*Shreve, Anita |
The Pilot's Wife |
15 |
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*Shreve, Anita |
Sea Glass |
20 |
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*Shreve, Anita |
The Weight of Water |
17 |
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Smith, Diane |
Letters from Yellowstone |
20 |
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Stegner, Wallace |
Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in
the West |
20 |
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Steinbach, Alice |
Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman |
20 |
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Stewart, Chris |
Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Spain |
20 |
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Strout, Elizabeth |
Olive Kitteridge |
36 |
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*Suberman, Stella |
The Jew Store |
17 |
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Swift, Graham
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Last Orders |
17 |
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Theroux, Paul |
Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town |
24 |
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Theroux, Paul |
The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia |
18 |
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Thesiger, Wilfred |
Arabian Sands |
17 |
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Truong, Monique T. D.
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The Book of Salt |
25 |
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Tsukiyama, Gail |
The Samurai's Garden |
10 |
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Tucker, Lisa |
The Song Reader |
20 |
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*Turner, Nancy E. |
These is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881 - 1901: Arizone
Territories |
7 |
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*Tyler, Anne |
The Amateur Marriage |
19 |
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*Tyler, Anne |
Back When We Were Grownups |
17 |
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*Tyler, Anne |
Digging to America |
11 |
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Top
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Udall, Brady |
The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint |
20 |
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Umrigar, Thrity N. |
The Space Between Us |
19 |
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Updike, John |
Gertrude and Claudius |
20 |
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Vonnegut, Kurt |
Mother Night |
12 |
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Walls, Jeannette |
The Glass Castle: A Memoir |
18 |
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Ward, Amanda Eyre |
Sleep Toward Heaven |
19 |
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Waugh, Evelyn |
The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy |
20 |
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Weiner, Eric |
The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World |
16 |
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*West, Dorothy |
The Wedding |
17 |
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*White, Bailey |
Quite a Year For Plums |
20 |
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Wolfe, Swain |
The Lake Dreams the Sky |
19 |
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Wolff, Tobias |
The Night in Question: Stories |
17 |
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Yglesias, Helen |
The Girls |
20 |
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Yoshikawa, Mako |
One Hundred and One Ways |
15 |
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Yoshimoto, Banana |
Kitchen |
14 |
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