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May 2006
Compiled by Leslie DeLooze, of Richmond Memorial Library, Batavia, NY, from contributions by the members of Fiction_L.

(To use this list in your library, book club, etc., please include the following credit line: "Compiled by the subscribers of the Fiction_L mailing list." This list may not be used for commercial purposes.)

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Alcott, Louisa May  Little Women

Allende, Isabel  Eva Luna

Atwood, Margaret  Alias Grace

Bach, Richard  Jonathan Livingston Seagull; Illusions

Baldwin, James  Go Tell It on the Mountain

Bloor, Edward  Tangerine (YA)

Blume, Judy  Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (J)

Bradbury, Ray  Fahrenheit 451

Brautigan, Richard  In watermelon sugar

Bronte, Charlotte  Jane Eyre

Capote, Truman  Other voices, other rooms

Coelho, Paulo  The alchemist

Diamant, Anita  The red tent

Dostoevsky, Fyodor  Brothers Karamozov, Crime and punishment

Eggers, Dave  Heartbreaking work of staggering genius

Farmer, Nancy  House of the scorpion (YA)

Foer, Jonathan Safran  Everything is illuminated, Extremely loud and incredibly close

Giardina, Denise  Saints and villains

Golding, William  Lord of the flies

Haddon, Mark  Curious incident of the dog in the nighttime

Hamill, Pete  The gift

Heinlein, Robert A.  Green hills of earth

Hemingway, Ernest  any title

Hosseini, Khaled  The kite runner

Keneally, Thomas  Schindler's list

Kerouac, Jack  On the road, Dharma bums

Keyes, Daniel  Flowers for Algernon

Lee, Harper  To kill a mockingbird

Lehane, Dennis  Shutter Island

L'Engle, Madeleine  A wrinkle in time (J/YA)

Lessing, Doris  The golden notebook

Lewis, C.S.  Chronicles of Narnia series

MacLachlan, Patricia  Sarah, plain and tall (J)

Marquand, John B.  Stopover: Tokyo

Martel, Yann  Life of Pi

Maugham, Somerset  Of human bondage

McMurtry, Larry  Leaving Cheyenne

Miller, Arthur  Crucible

Mitchell, Margaret  Gone with the wind

Orwell, George  1984

Potok, Chaim  The chosen

Pullman, Philip  His dark materials trilogy

Quinn, Daniel  Ishmael: an adventure of mind and spirit; After Dachau

Rand, Ayn  The fountainhead

Rice, Anne  Witching hour

Smith, Betty  A tree grows in Brooklyn

Steinbeck, John  The grapes of wrath

Stewart, Mary  Madam, will you talk?

Tartt, Donna  Secret history

Tolkien, J. R. R.  Lord of the rings trilogy

Townsend, Sue  Adrian Mole diaries

Trumbo, Dalton  Johnny got his gun

Vonnegut, Kurt  Cat's cradle

 
 
      
   
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