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July 2006
Compiled by Robin Beerbower, of Salem Public Library, OR, from contributions by the members of Fiction_L.

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Abraham, Pearl   The Romance Reader

Abu-Jaber, Diana   Crescent

Albom, Mitch   5 People You Meet in Heaven

Alcott, Louisa May   Little Women

Alexander, Alma   The Secrets of Jin-Shei

Alexander, Robert   The Kitchen Boy

Allende, Isabel   Daughter of Fortune

Angelou, Maya   The Heart of a Woman

Atkins, Catherine   Alt Ed

Atkinson, Kate   Behind the Scenes at the Museum

Atwood, Margaret   The Edible Woman

Atwood, Margaret   The Handmaid's Tale

Austen, Jane   Emma

Austen, Jane   Persuasion

Austen, Jane   Pride and Prejudice

Austen, Jane   Sense and Sensibility

Babb, Senora   Whose Names are Unknown

Baker, Russell   Growing Up

Banks, Russell   The Sweet Hereafter

Barrett, Andrea   Servants of the Map

Bartoy, Mitchell   The Devil's Own Rag Doll

Baxter, Charles   The Feast of Love

Begiebing, Robert J.   The Adventures of Allegra Fullerton

Berry, Steve   The Romanov Prophecy

Bin Laden, Carmen   Inside the Kingdom: My Life in Saudi Arabia

Bohjalian, Chris   Before You Know Kindness

Bohjalian, Chris   Trans-Sister Radio

Boyle, T.C.   Tortilla Curtain

Bradbury, Ray   Fahrenheit 451

Bragg, Rick   All Over But the Shoutin'

Bronte, Charlotte   Jane Eyre

Brookner, Anita   Hotel Du Lac

Brooks, Geraldine   March

Brooks, Geraldine   Year of Wonders

Brown, Carrie   Confinement

Brown, D.   Da Vinci Code

Brubaker-Bradley, Kimberly   For Freedom: The Story of a French Spy

Bryson, Bill   In a Sunburned Country

Buckley, Christopher   Florence of Arabia

Caldwell, Bo   The Distant Land of My Father

Campbell, Helen   Turnip Blues

Capote, Truman   In Cold Blood

Card, Orson Scott   Ender's Game

Caspary, Vera   Laura

Cather, W.   Death Comes for the Archbishop

Cather, Willa   O Pioneers!

Chang, Jung   Wild Swans

Chaon, Dan   You Remind Me of Me

Chevalier, Tracy   Falling Angels

Chevalier, Tracy   The Lady and the Unicorn

Cisneros, Sandra   House on Mango Street

Clark, Arthur C/Baxter, Stephen   The Light of Other Days

Cleage, Pearl   What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day

Coelho, Paulo   The Alchemist

Coetzee, J.M.   Disgrace

Collins, Wilkie   Woman in White

Connelly, Michael   The Black Echo

Connelly, Michael   The Closers

Cornwell, Patricia   Portrait of a Killer

D'Amato, Barbara   Hardball

D'Antonio, Michael   Hershey

Dallas, Sandra   Diary of Mattie Spencer

Damsgaard, Shirley   Witch Way to Murder

DeFede, Jim   The Day the World Came to Town: 911 in Gander, Newfoundland

Diamant, Anita   The Red Tent

Dickens, Charles   A Christmas Carol

Dickens, Charles   A Tale of Two Cities

Didion, Joan   Slouching Toward Bethlehem

Didion, Joan   Where I Was From

Didion, Joan   The Year of Magical Thinking

Divakaruni, Chitra B.   Arranged Marriage

Divakaruni, Chitra B.   Sister of My Heart

Doctorow, E.L.   The March

Doig, Ivan   Dancing at the Rascal Fair

Domingue, Ronlyn   The Mercy of Thin Air

Donnelly, Jennifer   A Northern Light

Doyle, Arthur Conan   The Hound of the Baskervilles

Drabble, Margaret   The Seven Sisters

Du Maurier, Daphne   Rebecca

Dunant, Sarah   The Birth of Venus

Dunn, Jane   Elizabeth and Mary

Dwyer, Jim and Flynn, Kevin   Towers

Eliot, George   The Mill and the Floss

Enger, Leif   Peace Like a River

Erdrich, Louise   The Painted Drum

Estleman, Loren D.   The Master Executioner

Fadiman, Anne   The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

Farrington, Tim   The Monk Downstairs

Faulkner, William   As I Lay dying

Feldman, Jay   When the Mississippi Ran Backwards: Empire, Intrigue, Murder and the New Madrid Earthquakes

Fitzgerald, F. Scott   Tender is the Night

Flaubert, G.   Madame Bovary

Fluke, Joanne   Sugar Cookie Murder

Follett, Ken   Pillars of the Earth

Ford, Richard   Independence Day

Fowler, Joy   Jane Austen Book Club

Frank, Dorothea Benton   Full of Grace

Fredriksson, Marianne   Hanna's Daughters

Fremont, Helen   After Long Silence

Friedman, T L   Lexus and the Olive Tree

Fugard, Lisa   Skinner's Drift

Fuller, Alexandra   Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight

Gaiman, Neil   American Gods

Garcia-Marquez, Gabriel   100 years of Solitude

Gardner, John   Grendel

Gibbons, Kaye   Charms for the Easy Life

Gibbons, Kaye   Ellen Foster & the Life All Around Me by Ellen Foster

Gladwell, Malcolm   Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Glass, Julia   Three Junes

Golden, Arthur   Memoirs of a Geisha

Goldsmith, Barb   Obsessive Genius

Goodman, Carol   The Ghost Orchid

Goodman, Carol   The Seduction of Water

Goodwin, Doris Kearns   Team of Rivals

Gorman, Carol   Dork in Disguise

Grandin, Temple   Animals in Translation

Gregory, Philippa   The Other Boleyn Girl

Grisham, John   Skipping Christmas

Grogan, John   Marley and Me

Guest, Judith   The Tarnished Eye

Guilfoile, Kevin   Cast of Shadows

Haddon, Mark   Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime

Haigh, Jennifer   Baker Towers

Haigh, Jennifer   Mrs. Kimble

Harris, Joanne   Holy Fool

Hartwick, Cynthia   Ladies with Options

Hartwick, Cynthia   Ladies with Prospects

Haruf, Kent   Plainsong

Hawn, Goldie   A Lotus Grows in the Mud

Hawthorne, Nathaniel   The Scarlet Letter

Hazzard, Shirley   The Great Fire

Helget, Nicole Lea   The Summer of Ordinary Ways

Heller, Joseph   Catch 22

Hellmann, Libby F.   An Eye for Murder

Hellmann, Libby Fisher   An Image of Death

Hemingway, Ernest   A Farewell to Arms

Hendricks, Judith Ryan   Bread Alone

Henry, O.   Short Stories

Hessler, Peter   The Oracle Bones

Hiaasen, C.   Tourist Season

Hicks, Robert   Widow of the South

Hill, Reginald   Good Morning, Midnight

Hoffman, A.   Practical Magic

Hoose, Phillip   The Race to Save the Lord God Bird

Hornby, Nick   How to be Good

Hornby, Nick   A Long Way Down

Hosseini, Khaled   The Kite Runner

House, Silas   Clay's Quilt

Hurston, Zora Neale   Their Eyes Were Watching God

Irvine, Alexander   The Narrows

Irving, John   The Cider House Rules

Irving, John   Prayer for Owen Meany

Ishiguro, Kazuo   Never Let Me Go

Ishiguro, Kazuo   The Remains of the Day

Jacobs, AJ   The Know-It-All

James, Kay-Marie   Cooking for Harry: A Low-Carbohydrate Novel

Jiles, Paulette   Enemy Women

Jin, Ha   Waiting

Kallos, Stephanie   Broken for You

Kesey, Ken   Sometimes a Great Notion

Kidd, Sue Monk   The Mermaid Chair

Kidd, Sue Monk   The Secret Life of Bees

King, Cassandra   The Same Sweet Girls

King, Dave   The Ha-Ha

King, Laurie   The Bee Keepers Apprentice

King, Laurie   A Grave Talent

Kingsolver, Barbara   Pigs in Heaven

Kingsolver, Barbara   The Poisonwood Bible

Konigsburg, E.L.   The View From Saturday

Koryta, Michael   Tonight I Said Goodbye

Kotzwinkle, William   The Bear Who Went Over the Mountain

Kozak, Harley J.   Dating Dead Men

Krakauer, Jon   Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

Krauss, Nicole   The History of Love

Kurston, Robert   Shadow Divers

Lahiri, Jhumpa   Interpreter of Maladies: Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri

Lama XIV, Dalai   Art of Happiness

Lamott, Anne   Traveling Mercies

Lampedusa, Guiseppe di   The Leopard

Landvik, Lorna   Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons

Lansky, Aaron   Outwitting History

Larson, Erik   Devil in the White City

Laskas Jeanne Marie   Fifty Acres and a Poodle: A Story of Love, Livestock and Finding Myself on a Farm

Lawrence, D.H.   Women in Love

LeCarre, John   Constant Gardener

Lee, Harper   To Kill a Mockingbird

Lehane, Dennis   Shutter Island

Leimbach, Marti   Daniel isn't Talking

Lethem, Jonathan   Motherless Brooklyn

Levine, Paul   Solomon vs. Lord

Levitt, Stephen   Freakonomics

Lewis, Sinclair   Cass Timberlane

Lynch, Sarah-Kate   Blessed are the Cheesemakers

MacPherson, Rett   Family Skeletons: A Novel

McBride, James   The Color of Water

McCarthy, Cormac   No Country for Old Men

McCullough, David   1776

McCullough, David   John Adams

McEwan, Ian   Atonement

McEwan, Ian   Saturday

McManus, James   Physical: An American Checkup

Maguire, Gregory   Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Mahfouz, Naguib   Palace Walk

Malladi, Amulya   The Mango Season

Malone, Michael   Handling Sin

Martel, Yann   Life of Pi

Martin, Lee   Quakertown

Martin, Nancy   How to Murder a Millionaire

Mason, Daniel   The Piano Tuner

Milton, Joyce   Loss of Eden

Mitchard, Jacquelyn   Christmas, Present

Montgomery, Sy   Good Good Pig

Moon, Elizabeth   The Speed of Dark

Munro, Alice   Runaway

Murray, Paul   An Evening of Long Goodbyes

Myers, B.R.   A Reader's Manifesto

Nabokov, Vladimir   Lolita

Nafisi, Azar   Reading Lolita in Tehran

Naslund, Jeter   Ahab's Wife

Nielson, Jerri   Ice Bound:A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the So. Pole

Niffenegger, Audrey   The Time Traveler's Wife (3) O'Brian, Patrick   Master & Commander

O'Brien, Tim   The Things They Carried

O'Connor, Joseph   Star of the Sea

O'Rourke, Sally Smith   The Man Who Loved Jane Austen

Oates, Joyce Carol   Freaky Green Eyes

Orlean, Susan   The Orchid Thief

Orwell, George  v 1984

Otsuka, Julie   When the Emperor was Divine

Paine, Thomas   Common Sense

Parker, Jefferson   Silent Joe

Patchett, Ann   Bel Canto

Patchett, Ann   The Patron Saint of Liars

Paton, Alan   Cry the Beloved Country

Patterson, James   Honeymoon

Patterson, Richard North   Final Judgment

Pattison, Eliot   Bone Mountain

Payne, Holly   Virgin's Knot

Perez-Reverte, Arturo   The Queen of the South

Perry, Michael   Population: 485

Philbrick, Nathaniel   In the Heart of the Sea

Phillips, Susan Elizabeth   Ain't She Sweet?

Picoult, Jodi   My Sister's Keeper

Picoult, Jodi   Plain Truth

Picoult, Jodi   Vanishing Acts

Potok, Chaim   My Name is Asher Lev

Pym, Barbara   Excellent Women

Quindlen, Anna   Blessings

Rankin, Ian   Knots and Crosses

Ravel, Edeet   Ten Thousand Lovers

Reichl, Ruth   Garlic and Sapphires

Reichl, Ruth   Tender at the Bone

Rimington, Stella   At Risk

Robb, Candace   The Apothecary Rose

Robinson, Barbara   The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

Robinson, Marilynne   Gilead

Robinson, Peter   In a Dry Season

Rolvaag, Ole   Giants in the Earth

Ross, Ann   Miss Julia Throws a Wedding

Ross, Kate   The Devil in Music

Roth, Philip   The Plot Against America

Russell, Mary Doria   The Sparrow

Russell, Kirk   Shell Games

Russo, Richard   Empire Falls

Ryan, Terry   Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio

Sachar, Louis   Holes

Santos, Marisa de los   Love Walked In

Satrapi, Marjane   Persepolis

Sayers, Dorothy L.   Whose Body?

Sebold, Alice   The Lovely Bones

Sedaris, David   Me Talk Pretty One Day

See, Lisa   Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Seierstad, Asne   The Bookseller of Kabul

Setterfield, Diane   The Thirteenth Tale

Shaara, Michael   The Killer Angels

Shaber, Sarah R.   Simon Said

Skakespeare, William   King Lear

Shields, Carol   Stone Diaries

Shreve, Anita   A Wedding in December

Shreve, Anita   The Weight of Water

Siddons, Anne Rivers   The House Next Door

Sidhwa, Bapsi   Cracking India

Sijie, Dai   Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

Silverstein, Ken   The Radioactive Boy Scout

Smith, Lee   Fair and Tender Ladies

Smith, Lee   Saving Grace

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander   One Day in the Live of Ivan Denisovich

Spragg, Mark   An Unfinished Life

Stegner, Wallace   Crossing to Safety

Steinbeck, John   Cannery Row

Steinbeck, John   Of Mice and Men

Steinbeck, John   The Wayward Bus

Stevenson, Robert Louis   The Black Arrow

Stoker, Bram   Dracula

Stokes, Penelope   The Blue Bottle Club

Strauss, Darrin   Chang and Eng

Suberman, Stella   The Jew Store: A Family Memoir

Sullivan, Faithv   The Cape Ann

Suskind, Patrick   Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Swanson, James L.   Manhunt: The Twelve-Day Chase to Catch Lincoln's Killer

Talley, Marcia   Sing It to Her Bones

Tan, Amy   The Bonesetter's Daughter

Taylor, Sarah Stewart   O' Artful Death

Thom, James Alexander   Follow the River

Toole, John Kennedy   A Confederacy of Dunces

Tratt, Donna   The Little Friend

Trigiani, Adriana   Lucia, Lucia

Trillin, Calvin   Messages from My Father

Tsukiyama, Gail   The Samurai's Garden

Tsukiyama, Gail   Women of the Silk

Turner, Nancy   These is My Words

Tyler, Anne   Digging to America

Tyler, Anne   Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

Tyson, Tim   Blood Done Sign My Name

Udall, Brady   The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint

Urreal, Luis Alberto   The Hummingbird's Daughter

Von Armin, Elizabeth   The Enchanted April

Vreeland, Susan   Forest Lover

Vreeland, Susan   Life Studies

Walters, Minette   Acid Row

Wharton, Edith   Ethan Frome

Wharton, Edith   House of Mirth

Wharton, Edith   Summer

Wiesel, Elie   Night

Wilde, Oscar   Picture of Dorian Gray

Williams, Sheila   Dancing on the Edge of the Roof

Williams, T.   Rose Tattoo

Willis, Connie   The Doomsday Book

Winchester, Simon   Professor and the Madman

Winspear, Jacqueline   Maisie Dobbs

Wright, Edward   While I Disappear No Meeting

Zafon, Ruiz   The Shadow of the Wind

Zailckas, Koren   Smashed

 
 
      
   
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