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Positive Literary Fiction
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October 2000
Compiled by Lisa Olsen
of Cumberland County Public Library & Information Center, 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.)
A Farm Under A Lake by Martha Bergland
All Over But the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg (nonfiction)
The Good House by Bonnie Burnard
Monkey King by Patricia Chao
Veronika Decides to Die by Paula Coehlo
The Answer is Yes by Ellen Cohen
Laurie Colwin
Lake News by Barbara Delinsky
Walking Across Egypt by Clyde Edgerton
Raney by Clyde Edgerton
Hanging Up by Delia Ephron
Charms for the Easy Life by Kaye Gibbons
Sights Unseen by Kaye Gibbons
The Mrs. Pollifax series by Dorothy Gilman
Father Melancholy's Daughter by Gail Godwin
Kaaterskill Falls by Allegra Goodman
Mr. Ives' Christmas by Oscar Hijuelos
About a Boy by Nick Hornby
Pay it forward by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Which Witch? by Eva Ibbotson (teen novel)
The Mitford series by Jan Karon
The View From Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg
Welcome to the Great Mysterious by Lorna Landvik
Elinor Lipman
Swan Song by David McCammon
Bright Angel Time by Martha McPhee
The Ladies of Covington Send Their Love by Joan Medlicott
Rumpole of the Bailey series by John Mortimer
The Mammy by Brendan O'Carroll
An Ocean Apart by Robin Pilcher
Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher
Voices in Summer by Rosamunde Pilcher
Roxanna Slade by Reynolds Price
The Rake by Mary Jo Putney
One Perfect Rose by Mary Jo Putney
The Dork of Cork by Chet Raymo
Miss Read
Bachelor Brothers' Bed and Breakfast by Bill Richardson
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
The Far Country by Nevil Shute
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
Fair and Tender Ladies by Lee Smith
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Angela Thirkell
My Life and Hard Times by James Thurber
Big Stone Gap by Trigiani
A Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler
She Flew the Coop by Michael Lee West
Quite a Year for Plums by Bailey White
P.G. Wodehouse
The Train to Estelline and its sequels by Jane Roberts Wood
The Kind of Love that Saves You by Amy Yurk
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