1) Lenzi hears voices and has visions and meets Alden, who reveals that she is a reincarnated Speaker who can communicate with lost souls and that he has been her Protector for centuries. 2) When Barry Fairbrother dies unexpectedly, the town of Pagford is thrown into turmoil as various factions go to war over his empty seat on the town council. 3) Michael discovers Skellig, a mysterious creature he finds injured in his new home's abandoned garage, as his baby sister becomes seriously ill.

1. Fantasy
Shattered Soul Lenzi hears voices and has visions - gravestones, floods, a boy
with steel gray eyes. Her boyfriend, Zak, can't help, and
Lindsey, Mary everything keeps getting louder and more intense. Then Lenzi
meets Alden, the boy from her dreams, who reveals that she's
Pages: 326 a reincarnated Speaker - someone who can talk to and help
lost souls - and that he has been her Protector for centuries.
FIC LIN
The Casual Vacancy When Barry Fairbrother dies unexpectedly in his early forties,
the little town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is,
Rowling, J.K. seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and
an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a
Pages: 503 town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with
their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at
FIC ROW war with their pupils…. Pagford is not what it first seems. And
the empty seat left by Barry on the town’s council soon
becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet
seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion,
duplicity and unexpected revelations?
Skellig After moving into a new house, Michael discovers Skellig, the
man-owl-angel who lies motionless behind the tea chests in
Almond, David the abandoned garage. As disturbing as this discovery is, it is
the least of Michael's worries. The new house is a mess, his
Pages: 182 parents are distracted, and his brand-new baby sister is
seriously ill. Still, he can't get this mysterious creature out of
FIC ALM his mind – even as he wonders if he has really seen him at all.
Tithe Sixteen-year-old Kaye Fierch is not human, but she doesn't
know it. Sure, she knows she's interacted with faeries since
Black, Holly she was little – but she never imagined she was one of them.
Kaye spends most of her time taking care of a would-be rock
Pages: 331 star mom, but when her mom's latest boyfriend turns
homicidal, they return to Gram's house at the New Jersey
FIC BLA shore where Kaye hooks up with childhood friend Janet and
her gay brother, Corny Stone.
Ironside In the realm of Faerie, the time has come for Roiben's
coronation. Uneasy in the midst of the malevolent Unseelie
Black, Holly Court, pixie Kaye is sure of only one thing – her love for
Roiben. But when Kaye, drunk on faerie wine, declares herself
Pages: 323 to Roiben, he sends her on a seemingly impossible quest. Now
Kaye can't see or speak to Roiben unless she can find the one
FIC BLA thing she knows doesn't exist: a faerie who can tell a lie.

2. The Child Thief Born of faerie blood, Peter hunts abandoned children,
runaways and the hopeless, recruiting for his Devils in Avalon
Brom and promising them a place where you never have to grow
up. He conveniently fails to mention that Avalon's monsters
Pages: 481 are very real, and the Devils must practice their war games or
risk being tortured to death, eaten or worse.
FIC BRO
The Blue Girl Seventeen-year-old Imogene decides to reinvent herself after
moving to a new town with her family, hoping to leave behind
de Lint, Charles her tough, rebellious nature, befriending the high school
outcast and trying her best to avoid trouble, but when she
Pages: 368 gets on the wrong side of a gang of malicious fairies, Imogene
finds herself in more trouble than ever before.
FIC DE
One Hundred Years The story follows 100 years in the life of Macondo, a village
of Solitude founded by José ArcadioBuendía and occupied by
descendants all sporting variations on their progenitor's
Garcia Marquez, name: his sons, José Arcadio and Aureliano, and grandsons,
Gabriel Aureliano José, Aureliano Segundo, and José Arcadio
Segundo. Then there are the women – the two Úrsulas, a
Pages: 417 handful of Remedios, Fernanda, and Pilar – who struggle to
remain grounded even as their men build castles in the air.
FIC GAR
Runemarks Seven o'clock on a Monday morning, five hundred years after
the end of the world, and goblins have been at the cellar
Harris, Joanne again. Not that anyone would admit it was goblins. In Maddy
world, order rules. Chaos, old gods, faeries, magic—all of
Pages: 526 these were supposedly vanquished centuries ago. But Maddy
knows that a small bit of magic has survived. The “ruinmark”
FIC HAR she was born with on her palm proves it—and makes the
other villagers fearful and suspicious that she is a witch.
Sign of the Raven Tomwould rather be home in Dorset enjoying his summer
vacation and hanging out with his mates. Instead, his cancer-
Hearn, Julie stricken mother has driven them both to London to stay with
her estranged mother. As soon as they arrive, Tom begins to
Pages: 328 hear voices from across the gap, a time portal in the
basement of his grandmother's house. Tom enters their 18th-
FIC HEA century world and, with the assistance of some 21st-century
technology, helps to free them from their oppressive lives.

3. The Foretelling Growing up the daughter of an Amazon queen who shuns her
because she is the product of a rape, Rain struggles to find her
Hoffman, Alice identity and prove herself. She rebels against the ways of her
tribe through her sister-like relationship with Lo and her
Pages: 182 feelings for a boy from a tribe of wanderers.
FIC HOF
A Wrinkle in Time Meg Murry, her brother Charles, and their friend Calvin,
embark on a journey through space and time, assisted by
L’Engle, Madeleine three otherworldly women, when they set out to find Meg's
father, a physicist who disappeared while experimenting with
Pages: 245 time travel.
FIC LEN
Floating Islands When Trei loses his family in a tragic disaster, he must search
out distant relatives in a new land with the majestic Floating
Neumeier, Rachel Islands. Trei is instantly sky-mad, and desperate to be a
kajurai himself. The only one who fully understands his
Pages: passion is Araene, his newfound cousin. Prickly, sarcastic, and
gifted, Araene has a secret of her own. Trei and Araene
FIC NEU quickly become conspirators as they pursue their individual
paths.
Sabriel After receiving a cryptic message from her father, Abhorsen, a
necromancer trapped in Death, 18-year-old Sabriel sets off
Nix, Garth into the Old Kingdom. Fraught with peril and deadly trickery,
her journey takes her to a world filled with parasitical spirits,
Pages: 491 Mordicants, and Shadow Hands. Sabriel, who has taken on
her father's title and duties, must now slip over the border
FIC NIX into the icy river of Death, sometimes battling the evil forces
that lurk there, waiting for an opportunity to escape into the
realm of the living.
East In the rural villages of Norway, there is an ancient belief that
children inherit the qualities of the direction in which they are
Pattou, Edith born. Nymah Rose, the last daughter of eight siblings born to
a poor mapmaker and his superstitious wife, was a North-
Pages: 507 born baby. North-born babies are wild, unpredictable, and
destined to break their mothers' hearts because they all leave
FIC PAT home to travel to the far ends of the earth. Rose’s mother lied
and told her she had been born of the East, but destiny
cannot be denied.

4. The Children of With the lands of Middle-earth populated by Men and other
Hurin humanoid races: Elves, Dwarves, and Orcs, as well as divine
beings, Maiar and Valar. This story concentrates on a Man of
Tolkien, J.R.R. the House of Hador, TúrinTurambar, and his sister
NiënorNíniel, who are cursed along with their father Húrin by
Pages: 320 the Dark Lord Morgoth. The events take place more than
6,500 years before the War of the Ring.
FIC TOL
The Hobbit Bilbo Baggins, an upstanding member of the "little people.”
He is, like most of his kind, well off, well fed, and best pleased
Tolkien, J. R. R. when sitting by his own fire with a pipe, a glass of good beer,
and a meal to look forward to. When Gandalf the Grey invites
Pages: 320 him on an adventure, he feverishly refuses, but before he can
even grab his hat or an umbrella, Bilbo Baggins is swept out
FIC TOL his door and into a dangerous adventure.
Tril is a world where Barrons and Healers are Bound to each
Soulbound
other: Barrons fight and Healers cure their Barrons' wounds in
Brewer, Heather the ongoing war with the evil Graplar King. Seventeen-year-old
Kaya was born a Healer, but she wants to fight. Kaya must learn
Pages: 394 in secret how to fight, but she is Bound to a Barron who is
unwilling to teach her.
FIC BRE
Gemma seems to have it all—she’s carefree, pretty, and falling in
love with Alex, the boy next door. One night she takes a late
Wake
night swim when she finds Penn, Lexi and Thea partying on the
Hocking, Amanda cove. After joining them, she wakes up on the beach feeling
groggy and sick, knowing something is different. Her new powers
Pages: 309 come with a terrifying price. And as she uncovers the truth, she’s
is forced to choose between staying with those she loves—or
FIC HOC
entering a new world brimming with dark hungers and
unimaginable secrets.

5. Historical Fiction
Ashes Berlin, 1932. Thirteen-year-old Gabriella Schramm's world is
slowly, but steadily, crumbling as Adolf Hitler rises to power.
Lasky, Kathryn The only thing that soothes Gabriella is her favorite pastime-
reading. But then her country's tensions rise, the streets fill
Pages: 320 with soldiers, Gaby's sister's boyfriend raises his arm in a heil
Hitler salute, and a family friend-Albert Einstein-flees the
FIC LAS country. And her only solace-her books-come under attack.
Bring up the Bodies The sequel to Hilary Mantel's 2009 Man Booker Prize winner
and New York Times bestseller, Wolf Hall delves into the heart
Mantel, Hilary of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Boleyn
Pages: 407 Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is
disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has failed to give him a
FIC MAN son and her sharp intelligence and audacious will alienate his
old friends and the noble families of England. When the
discarded Katherine dies in exile from the court, Anne stands
starkly exposed, the focus of gossip and malice.
The Fitzosbornes Sophie FitzOsborne and the royal family of Montmaray
At War escaped their remote island home when the Nazis attacked.
But as war breaks out in England and around the world,
Cooper, Michelle nowhere is safe. Sophie fills her journal with tales of a life
during wartime. Blackouts and the Blitz. Dancing in nightclubs
Pages: 552 with soliders on leave. And endlessly waiting for news of her
brother Toby, whose plane was shot down over enemy
FIC COO territory.
The Kitchen Boy Narrated by 94-year-old Mikhail Semyanov, a Russian
immigrant now living outside Chicago, the novel travels back to
Alexander, Robert the bloody days of the Russian revolution, when the entire
Romanv family is imprisoned in Siberia. There, the seven
Pages: 229 Romanovs-Tsar Nikolai, his wife Aleksandra, their son, Aleksei,
and their four daughters are confined with a small staff of
FIC ALE attendants, including Leonka, the kitchen boy of the title, who
may or may not be narrator Mikhail.

6. Chains Set in New York City at the beginning of the American
Revolution, Chains addresses the price of freedom both for a
Anderson, Laurie nation and for individuals. Isabel tells the story of her life as a
Halse slave. She was sold with her five-year-old sister to a cruel
Loyalist family even though the girls were to be free upon the
Pages: 316 death of their former owner.
FIC AND
The Pox Party Octavian, a young African American, and his mother, an African
princess, are kept isolated on an estate, and only as he grows
Anderson, M. T. older does he realize that while he is well dressed and well fed,
he is a captive being used by his guardians as part of an
Pages: 351 experiment to determine the intellectual acuity of Africans.
Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle his
FIC AND experiences from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up
during the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary
War.
The Kingdom on After escaping a death sentence in the summer of 1775,
the Waves Octavian and his tutor find shelter but no safe harbor in British-
occupied Boston and, persuaded by Lord Dunmoreâs
Anderson, M. T. proclamation offering freedom to slaves who join his
counterrevolutionary Royal Ethiopian Regiment, Octavian and
Pages: 555 his friends soon find themselves engaged in naval raids on the
Virginia coastline as the Revolutionary War breaks out in full
FIC AND force.
Wish You Well In 1940, after a car accident kills Lou and Oz's father and leaves
their mother Amanda in a catatonic trance, the children find
Baldacci, David themselves sent from New York City to their great-
grandmother Louisa's farm in Virginia. Louisa's hardscrabble
Pages: 420 existence comes as a profound shock to precocious Lou and
her shy brother. Still struggling to absorb their abandonment,
FIC BAL they enter gamely into a life that tests them at every turn--and
offers unimaginable rewards.
What I Saw and In 1947, with her jovial stepfather Joe back from the war and
How I Lied family life returning to normal, teenage Evie, smitten by the
handsome young ex-GI who seems to have a secret hold on
Blundell, Judy Joe, finds herself caught in a complicated web of lies whose
devastating outcome change her life and that of her family
Pages: 284 forever.
FIC BLU

7. The Boy in the Bruno’s father has received a promotion and the family must
Striped Pyjamas move from their home to a new house far away, where there is
no one to play with and nothing to do. Bruno longs to be an
Boyne, John explorer and decides that there must be more to this desolate
new place than what meets the eye. While exploring his new
Pages: 215 environment, he meets another boy whose life and
circumstances are very different to his own, and their meeting
FIC BOY results in a friendship that has devastating consequences.
O Pioneers! The book takes place on the plains of Nebraska in the late 19th
Century as the Prairie is settled by immigrants trying to make a
Cather, Willa living from what appears to be a harsh, inhospitable land. The
heroine of the book is Alexandra, daughter of a Swedish
Pages: 230 immigrant farmer in Nebraska. She inherits the family farm
and finds love with an old friend.
FIC CAT
Girl With a Pearl In a thrilling emulation of Jan Vermeer's artistic style, Tracy
Earring Chevalier uses scenes drawn from everyday life and
painstaking attention to detail to tell the story of Griet, a 16-
Chevalier, Tracy year-old girl who is required by her family's misfortunes to
become a maid in the Vermeer household. This book imagines
Pages: 233 the young woman in the mysterious painting "The Girl With a
Pearl Earring" as a sixteen-year-old Dutch girl named Griet who
FIC CHE sparks the interest of the artist when she becomes a maid in
his turbulent household.
My Brother Sam is All his life, Tim Meeker has looked up to his brother Sam. Sam's
Dead smart and brave -- and is now a part of the American
Revolution. Not everyone in town wants to be a part of the
Collier, James rebellion. Most are supporters of the British -- including Tim
and Sam's father. With the war soon raging, Tim knows he'll
Pages: 216 have to make a choice – between the Revolutionaries and the
Redcoats . . . and between his brother and his father.
FIC COL
The Great Santini Set in the time of the Vietnam War, this story is about Bull
Meecham. He’s all Marine-fighter pilot, king of the clouds, and
Conroy, Pan absolute ruler of his family. Lillian is his wife—beautiful,
southern-bred, with a core of velvet steel. Without her cool
Pages: 480 head, her kids would be in real trouble. Ben is the oldest, a
born athlete who’s best never satisfies the big man. Ben’s got
FIC CON to stand up, even fight back, against a father who doesn’t give
in—not to his men, not to his wife, and certainly not to his son.

8. The Last of the Hawkeye, a young frontier scout, and Chingachgook, a
Mohicans Mohican Indian, form an unlikely friendship as they attempt to
guide two sisters through hostile country in search of their
Cooper, James father. The chase is vividly described as going through
Fenimore picturesquely described forests, swirling waters, caves, and
Indian villages. The English had managed to vanquish most of
Pages: 562 the native Indians, but there were still some tribes who
attempted to maintain their independence. It is action
FIC COO packed, romantic and adventurous, set during the peak of the
French and Indian War in America.
The Red Badge of The story revolves around Henry Fleming, a member of the
Courage 304th regiment of the Union Army. At the start of the novel
Henry is eager to show his patriotism in battle but when faced
Crane, Stephen with the savagery of death he flees the frontline. Throughout
the novel Henry struggles with his courage in the face of the
Pages: 138 horror of war. The Red Badge of Courage is a timeless realistic
depiction of the psychological turmoil of war from the
FIC CRA perspective of an ordinary soldier.
Private Captain Twelve-year-old Ben sets off secretly from Lancaster to find his
older brother, Reuben, an officer in the 106th Pennsylvania
Crisp, Marty Company A, and bring him back to run the family store after
their father's death. Ben is joined by Reuben's dog Captain, an
Pages: 293 extremely loyal and capable hunter with "the best nose in
three counties.” They encounter burning bridges, shooting,
FIC CRI deserters, and wounded. All the while they are heading to the
Battle of Gettysburg, where they realize the enormity of war.
Bud, Not Buddy Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan,
during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and
Curtis, Christopher sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father – the
Paul renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids. Guided
only by a flier for one of Calloway's shows, Bud sets off to track
Pages: 245 down his supposed dad, a man he's never laid eyes on.
FIC CUR
Tallgrass Thirteen-year-old Rennie Stroud finds her hometown of
Tallgrass, Colorado, changed forever when the government
Dallas, Sandra builds a Japanese internment camp in the rural area and the
prisoners become the target of the townspeople who believe
Pages: 305 Japanese-Americans are the enemy. Rennie's obvious love of
family slowly extends itself to the Japanese house and field
FIC DAL helpers the Strouds receive permission to hire.

9. Corelli’s Mandolin In the early days of WWII, before Benito Mussolini invaded
Greece, Dr. Iannis practices medicine on the island of
De Bernieres, Louis Cephalonia, accompanied by his daughter, Pelagia, to whom he
imparts much of his healing art. It isn't long before Pelagia gets
Pages: 437 involved in a heated affair with a man on the enemy’s side.
Love is complicated enough in wartime, even when the lovers
FIC DE are on the same side. And for Corelli and Pelagia, it becomes
increasingly difficult to negotiate the minefield of allegiance.
The Red Tent The red tent is the place where women gathered during their
cycles of birthing, menses, and even illness. Like the
Diamant, Anita conversations and mysteries held within this feminine tent, this
sweeping piece of fiction offers an insider's look at the daily life
Pages: 321 of a biblical sorority of mothers and wives and their one and
only daughter, Dinah. Told in the voice of Jacob's daughter
FIC DIA Dinahwe are privy to the fascinating feminine characters who
bled within the red tent.
Copper Sun The story begins with a 15-year-old African girl's journey
through American slavery. Beginning in Amari's Ashanti village,
Draper, Sharon the idyllic scene explodes in bloodshed when slavers arrive and
murder her family. Amari and her beloved, Besa, are shackled,
Pages: 314 and so begins the account of impossible horrors from the slave
fort, the Middle Passage, and auction on American shores,
FIC DRA where a rice plantation owner buys Amari for his 16-year-old
son's sexual enjoyment.
The Pillars of the Set in twelfth-century England this book tells the story of
Earth Philip, prior of Kingsbridge, a devout and resourceful monk
driven to build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has
Follett, Ken known, Tom, the mason who becomes his architect-a man
divided in his soul, of the beautiful and elusive Lady Aliena,
Pages: 983 haunted by a secret shame, and of a struggle between good
and evil that will turn church against state, and brother against
FIC FOL brother.
Johnny Tremain This story of a tragically injured young silversmith who ends up
knee-deep in the American Revolution is inspiring, exciting, and
Forbes, Esther sad. Winner of the prestigious Newbery Award in 1944, Esther
Forbes's story has lasted these 50-plus years by including
Pages: 269 adventure, loss, courage, and history in a wonderfully written,
very dramatic package.
FIC FOR

10. Cold Mountain Inman, a wounded Confederate soldier, leaves the hospital
where he is being treated and determines to walk home to his
Frazier, Charles sweetheart Ada, only to find the land and the girl he
remembers are as changed by the war as he is. This book is a
Pages: 356 journey, a voyage through time and space and an exploration
of the human spirit. For Inman, the torturous wanderings test
FIC FRA his will to survive. For Ada, putting down roots opens a new life
of discipline and learning.
Memoirs of a Nitta Sayuri, a young Japanese woman who was taken from her
Geisha home at the age of nine and sold into slavery as a geisha,
discovers a rare opportunity for freedom when the outbreak of
Golden, Arthur World War II forces an end to the only life she has ever known.
Pages: 434
FIC GOL
Summer of my Minutes before the train pulled into the station in Jenkinsville,
German Soldier Arkansas, Patty Bergen knew something exciting was going to
happen. But she never could have imagined that her summer
Greene, Bette would be so memorable. German prisoners of war have arrived
to make their new home in the prison camp in Jenkinsville. To
Pages: 230 the rest of her town, these prisoners are only Nazis. But to
Patty, a young Jewish girl with a turbulent home life, one boy in
FIC GRE particular becomes an unlikely friend.
White Ghost Girls While their father is away photographing the war in Vietnam,
13-year-old Kate, the book's, and her big sister, Frances, revel
Greenway, Alice in the simple life of Pok Fu Lam village. Their mother, on the
other hand, spends her time pining for their absent father and
Pages: 168 painting watercolors that picture grassy western knolls. As
Frances grows wilder, Kate is forced to look more closely at
FIC GRE their father's growing addiction to war reporting and their
mother's lack of engagement with her surroundings and family.
Days of Infamy In this story of the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, the notorious
gambler Yamamoto is pitted against the equally legendary
Gringrich, Newt American admiral Bill Halsey in a battle of wits, nerve, and skill.
Days of Infamy recounts this alternative history from a
Pages: 369 multitude of viewpoints – from President Roosevelt, Prime
Minister Churchill, and the two great admirals, on down to
FIC GRI American pilots flying antiquated aircraft, bravely facing the
vastly superior Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft.

11. Pearl Harbor Pearl Harbor covers the full spectrum of characters and events
from that historic moment, from national leaders and admirals
Gringrich, Newt to the views of ordinary citizens caught in the chaos of war.
From the chambers of the Emperor of Japan to the American
Pages: 384 White House, from the decks of aircraft carriers to the playing
fields of the Japanese Naval Academy, this story portrays the
FIC GRI horrific brutality of war, and the desperate efforts of men of
reason on both sides.
A Time to Kill In Clanton, Mississippi, the life of a ten-year-old girl is
shattered by two drunken and remorseless young men. The
Grisham, John mostly white town reacts with shock and horror at the
inhuman crime, until her black father acquires an assault rifle
Page: 515 and takes justice into his own outraged hands.
FIC GRI
Water For When Jacob jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of
Elephants freaks, drifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to
survive during the Great Depression. A veterinary student
Gruen, Sara who almost earned his degree, Jacob is put in charge of caring
for the circus menagerie. It is there he meets Marlena, the
Pages: 350 beautiful star of the equestrian act, who is married to August,
the charismatic but twisted animal trainer. He also meets
FIC GRU Rosie, an elephant who seems untrainable until he discovers a
way to reach her.
Snow Falling on Set on an island in the straits north of Puget Sound, in
Cedars Washington, where everyone is either a fisherman or a berry
farmer, the story is nominally about a murder trial. But since
Guterson, David it's set in the 1950s, lingering memories of World War II,
internment camps and racism helps fuel suspicion of a
Pages: 460 Japanese-American fisherman, a lifelong resident of the
islands.
FIC GUT
Sarah Presents a novel based on the life of the Old Testament
character Sarah, the daughter of a powerful lord who employs
Halter, Marek drastic measures in an attempt to avoid an arranged marriage
and whose actions lead her to give up her exalted life to join
Pages: 325 Abram, a member of a nomadic tribe and follower of the one
true God.
FIC HAL

12. Snow in August In 1940s Brooklyn, friendship between an 11-year-old Irish
Catholic boy and an elderly Jewish rabbi might seem as unlikely
Hamill, Pete as, well, snow in August. But the relationship between young
Michael Devlin and Rabbi Judah Hirsch is only one of the many
Pages: 384 miracles large and small contained in the novel. Michael finds
himself in trouble when he witnesses the 17-year-old leader of
FIC HAM the dreaded Falcons gang beating an elderly shopkeeper, but
Michael feels he must keep the secret.
The Minister’s In 1645 in England during the English civil war, the daughters of
Daughter the town minister successfully accuse a local healer and her
granddaughter of witchcraft to conceal an out-of-wedlock
Hearn, Julie pregnancy, but years later during the 1692 Salem trials their lie
has unexpected repercussions.
Pages: 263
FIC HEA
Catch 22 A bombardier, based in Italy during World War II, repeatedly
tries to avoid flying bombing missions while his colonel tries to
Heller, Joseph get him killed by demanding that he fly more and more
missions.
Pages: 463 This book is a comedic attack on the rules that organizations
make and self-centered people who make them. It's also a
FIC HEL surprisingly poignant and powerful anti-war novel, one that
questions the foundations of patriotism and obedience that
lead soldiers to fight. It takes place in the heart of World War II.
A Farewell to Arms A Farewell to Arms is one of Hemingway's earliest novels. With
much of the material loosely based on his own personal
Hemingway, Ernest experiences as an ambulance driver during World War I, the
story captures in great detail the conflict in all of its horror and
Pages: 322 barbarism. The book invites us to imagine all of the brave
soldiers who went into the war in search of glory. What they
FIC HEM found instead was the endless stalemate and hideous prospect
of trench warfare.
The Widow of the Carrie McGavock, The Widow of the South, took it upon herself
South to grieve the loss of so many young men in the battle of
Franklin, Tennessee, which took place on November 30, 1864.
Hicks, Robert Nine thousand men lost their lives that day. She and her
husband John eventually re-buried on their own land 1,481
Pages: 436 Confederate soldiers killed at Franklin, when the family that
owned the land on which the original shallow graves had been
FIC HIC dug decided to plow it under and put it into cultivation.

13. The Kite Runner This book follows the story of Amir, a privileged boy living in
Kabul, and Hassan, the son of Amir's father's servant. As
Hosseini, Khaled children, the boys are inseparable until an unspeakable event
changes the nature of their relationship forever, and eventually
Pages: 371 cements their bond in ways neither boy could have ever
predicted. Amir remains haunted by his cowardly actions and
FIC HOS disloyalty. Returning back to his war-torn native land, Amir
finds solace through ways he never would have expected.
A Thousand This book is a breathtaking story set against the volatile events
Splendid Suns of Afghanistan’s last thirty years—from the Soviet invasion to
the reign of the Taliban to the post-Taliban rebuilding—that
Hosseini, Khaled puts the violence, fear, hope, and faith of this country in
intimate, human terms. It is a tale of two generations of
Pages: 372 characters brought jarringly together by the tragic sweep of
war, where personal lives—the struggle to survive, raise a
FIC HOS family, find happiness—are inextricable from the history
playing out around them.
Les Miserables Taking place in 19th century France this is a story about Jean
Valjean, a convict freshly out of prison after serving nineteen
Hugo, Victor years hard labor for stealing a loaf of bread. Bitter and angry,
he became determined to have his revenge against society and
Pages: 1232 God. But an unthinkable act of mercy and generosity by a
bishop drastically alters the path of Valjean’s life. From that
FIC HUG point on, Valjean determines to live as an honest man and raise
Cosette whom he loves as his own daughter.
The Distance from Mead parachuted into Normandy on D-Day and fought his way
Normandy to Germany, through some of the most brutal violence of
World War II. But his most difficult battle was lost years later,
Hull, Jonathan when his beloved wife Sophie succumbed to cancer. Since
then, he has waged a private war against both loneliness and
Pages: 320 the terrible memory of a day in 1945 that went horribly wrong-
and has haunted him ever since. His grandson Andrew, a
FIC HUL scared and angry high school sophomore, has been expelled
and is heading down a path of self-destruction. Mead agrees to
take the boy in for three weeks, to set him right.
Annie John A fictional account of a young girl's coming of age in Antigua,
from a doted upon childhood to an adolescence fraught with
Kincaid, Jamaica events and alliances leading her away from mutual complacent
acceptance. It is the tale of a family's disintegration told from
Pages: 148 the perspective of Annie, 10. The story revolves around
Annie's transformation from an adoring, obedient child to
FIC KIN rebellious, hardheaded outcast within her own home. It is a
classic love-hate tale where balance is somehow lost.

14. The Poisonwood In Belgium in 1959 Nathan, a Baptist preacher, and his family
Bible have come to spread the Word in a remote village reachable
only by airplane. To say that he and his family are woefully
Kingsolver, Barbara unprepared would be an understatement. In addition to
poisonous snakes, dangerous animals, and the hostility of the
Pages: 546 villagers to Nathan's fiery take-no-prisoners brand of
Christianity, there are also rebels in the jungle and the threat
FIC KIN of war in the air.
A Separate Peace Gene Forrester looks back fifteen years to a World War II year
in which he and his best friend Phineas were roommates in a
Knowles, John New Hampshire boarding school. Their friendship is marred by
Finny's crippling fall, an event for which Gene is responsible
Pages: 204 and one that eventually leads to tragedy.
FIC HAL
The Historian A young woman discovers an ancient book and a cache of old
letters in her father's library, and thus begins her adventurous
Kostova, Elizabeth quest for the truth about Vlad the Impaler, a search that will
span continents and generations, and a confrontation with the
Pages: 676 darkest powers of evil. Kostova has three basic story lines–one
from 1930, when Professor Rossi begins his dangerous
FIC KOS research into Dracula, one from 1950, when Professor Rossi's
student takes up the scent, and the main narrative from 1972.
Ashes In 1932 Berlin, thirteen-year-old Gaby Schramm witnesses the
beginning of Hitler's rise to power, as soldiers become
Lasky, Kathryn ubiquitous, her beloved literature teacher starts wearing a
jeweled swastika pin, and the family's dear friend, Albert
Pages: 309 Einstein, leaves the country while Gaby's parents secretly bury
his books and papers in their small yard. This book portrays
FIC LAS the steady change that occurred in countries and communities
during Hitler’s reign of power.
When Crickets Cry On the shaded town square in a sleepy Southern town, a
spirited seven-year-old has a brisk business at her lemonade
Martin, Charles stand. Her latest customer drains his cup and heads to his car,
his mind on other things. But the little girl's pretty yellow dress
Pages: 336 can't quite hide the ugly scar on her chest. The stranger
understands more about it than he wants to admit. And the
FIC MAR beat-up bread truck careening around the corner with its radio
blaring is about to change the path of both their lives.

15. Purple Heart While recuperating in a Baghdad hospital from a traumatic
brain injury sustained during the Iraq War, eighteen-year-old
McCormick, soldier Matt Duffy struggles to recall what happened to him
Patricia and how it relates to his ten-year-old friend, Ali. Matt just
wants to go back to being the soldier he once was. But he lives
Pages: 224 in fear of not being able to pull the trigger when the time
comes. In combat, Matt soon discovers that the notion of who
FIC MCC is right or wrong is very complicated indeed.
The Bridges at Story of the men of a naval task force operating in the icy
Toko-Ri waters off the Korean shore with a vital mission to perform; to
destroy with jet bombers the heavily guarded bridge at Toko-ri
Michener, James A. and thus to stop essential supplies from moving to the
Communist front lines. Young and innocent, the soldiers came
Pages: 126 to a place they had barely heard of and prepared for war. They
were American fighter pilots, trained but frightened, facing an
FIC MIC enemy they couldn't understand, and waging a war they had to
win.
Gone With the The story of Scarlett O'Hara, the spoiled and selfish daughter of
Wind a wealthy plantation owner, who arrives at young womanhood
just in time to see the Civil War sweep away the life for which
Mitchell, Margaret her upbringing had prepared her. This book gives an account
of the ugly end of the gallant “Old South” and a post-war
Pages: 719 description of the south while giving readers one of the best
love stories ever written.
FIC MAR
Coming of Age in Born to a poor couple in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived through
Mississippi some of the most dangerous days of the pre-civil rights era in
the South. An all-A student whose dream of going to college is
Moody, Anne realized when she wins a basketball scholarship. She has first-
hand experience of the demonstrations and sit-ins that were
Pages:384 the mainstay of the civil rights movement. This autobiography
lets us see history in the making, through the eyes of one of
FIC MOO the footsoldiers in the civil rights movement.
Beloved In the troubled years following the Civil War, the spirit of a
murdered child haunts the Ohio home of a former slave. This
Morrison, Toni angry, destructive ghost breaks mirrors, leaves its fingerprints
in cake icing, and generally makes life difficult for Sethe and
Pages: 321 her family; nevertheless, the woman finds the haunting oddly
comforting for the spirit is that of her own dead baby, never
FIC MOR named, only thought of as Beloved.

16. Fallen Angels Set in the trenches of the Vietnam War in the late 1960s, Fallen
Angelsis the story of Perry, a Harlem teenager who volunteers
Myers, Walter for the service when his dream of attending college falls
Dean through. Sent to the front lines, Perry and his platoon come
face-to-face with the Vietcong and the real horror of warfare.
Pages: 309 But violence and death aren't the only hardships as Perry
struggles to come to terms with why the U.S. is there at all.
FIC MYE
The Things They A gripping series of Vietnam stories gathered in a format of
Carried O'Brien's devising. It is not a collection of short stories, but it is
not one story with a beginning and an ending. It is perhaps
O’Brien, Tim closest to listening to a soldier storyteller over a long period of
time. While you listen to his stories, you hear a bit of the
Pages: 246 author’s personal life; he uses repetition of events and certain
phrases to reinforce familiarity with the tales.
FIC OBR
Bamboo People A Burmese boy soldier and an ethnic Karenni refugee narrate a
thrilling jungle survival story about war along the Myanmar
Perkins, Mitali border. In an unsparing novel for middle-grade readers, Perkins
sorts out the boys’ complicated feelings about revenge, justice,
Pages: 272 freedom and loyalty. The title metaphor honors the strength
and flexibility that individuals need when their simplest hopes
FIC PER are thwarted by geopolitical hatred.
The Chosen Recounts the story of ReuvenMalter and Danny Saunders – one
an orthodox Jew, the other the son of a Hasidic rabbi--and the
Potok, Chaim course of their friendship as they grow up in Brooklyn. Despite
their differences, they negotiate adolescence, family conflicts,
Pages: 272 the crisis of faith engendered when Holocaust stories begin to
emerge in the U.S., loss, love, and the journey to adulthood.
FIC POT
My Jim Ex-slave Sadie Watson reveals to her granddaughter her
experiences while in bondage and the love she had for her
Rawles, Nancy husband, Jim, who escaped down the Mississippi with Huck
Finn when he learned he was to be sold.
Pages: 190
FIC RAW

17. In My Father’s For two sisters growing up surrounded by the Civil War, there
House is conflict both outside and inside their home as their new step
father’s beliefs contradict that of their late biological father’s.
Rinaldi, Ann This book is about love, family loyalty and the conflict between
the “Old South” and the “New South.” It gives a rare account
Pages: 336 of what it might have been like as a woman during the Civil
War period in the southern United States.
FIC RIN
Scarlett A sequel to Gone With the Wind, this book makes you come
back to Tara . . . to Scarlett and Rhett . . . and to the greatest
Ripley, Alexandra love story in all fiction. This is the book whose initial
publication was an instant sensation: selling out immediately,
Pages: 823 setting new records, and enthralling readers all over the world.
This is the book everyone wants to read, savor and enjoy
FIC RIP
The Plot Against A novel that imagines what might have happened in America,
America particularly to one Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey, had
Charles Lindbergh won the 1940 presidential election rather
Roth, Philip than Franklin Roosevelt and acted upon his anti-Semitic
leanings.
Pages: 391
FIC ROT
Esperanza Rising Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of
wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of
Ryan, Pam Munoz Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh
circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the
Pages: 262 Great Depression.
FIC RYA
Peony in Love In post-Ming dynasty China, Peony, a young girl betrothed to
someone she has never met, observes a handsome man while
See, Lisa hidden from view at a performance of the opera "The Peony
Pavilion"--a work that has compelled young Chinese women to
Pages: 284 starve themselves to death – and, dead at sixteen, begins a
transformative journey as a "hungry ghost."
FIC SEE

18. Snow Flower and Set in remote 19th-century China details the deeply affecting
the Secret Fan story of lifelong, intimate friends Lily and Snow Flower, their
imprisonment by rigid codes of conduct for women and their
See, Lisa betrayal by pride and love. Beginning with a detailed and
heartbreaking description of Lily and her sisters' foot binding
Pages: 276 the story widens to a vivid portrait of family and village life.
FIC SEE
Rise to Rebellion A historical novel that chronicles the story of the American
Revolution and the men and women who forged the nation,
Shaara, Jeff covering events from the Boston Massacre to the signing of the
Declaration of Independence. The story is told from the
Pages: 492 perspective of a handful of characters well known from our
history books. Richly embroidered with such heroes as Patrick
FIC SHA Henry, Thomas Paine, Paul Revere, John Hancock and Thomas
Jefferson, the book chronicles America's plunge toward liberty.
The Guernsey The letters comprising this small charming novel begin in 1946,
Literary and Potato when single, 30-something author Juliet Ashton (nom de plume
Peal Pie Society Izzy Bickerstaff) writes to her publisher to say she is tired of
covering the sunny side of war and its aftermath. When
Shaffer, Mary Ann Guernsey farmer Dawsey Adams finds Juliet's name in a used
book and invites articulate—and not-so-articulate—neighbors
Pages: 290 to write Juliet with their stories, the book's epistolary circle
widens, putting Juliet back in the path of war stories.
FIC SHA
Balzac and the Two boys, moved to the country for "re-education" as part of
Little Chinese Mao's Cultural Revolution, find little to amuse them, but things
Seamstress change when they discover a stash of Western classics in
Chinese translation and use the stories of Balzac to capture the
Dai, Sijie attention of the beautiful daughter of the local tailor.
Pages: 197
FIC DAI
The Jungle This book describes the conditions of the Chicago stockyards
through the eyes of a young immigrant struggling in America.
Sinclair, Upton It is one of a handful of books throughout all of history which
have encapsulated the crying voices of the oppressed. While
Pages: 349 many readers and politicians at the time of its publication (and
since) have focused on the intolerable conditions in which
FIC SIN American food products were produced, the major thrust in
"The Jungle" is in regards to the ill-treatment of our workers.

19. A Tree Grows in Young Francie Nolan, having inherited both her father's
Brooklyn romantic and her mother's practical nature, struggles to
survive and thrive growing up in the slums of Brooklyn in the
Smith, Betty early twentieth century. Like the Tree of Heaven that grows
out of cement or through cellar gratings, resourceful Francie
Pages: 493 struggles against all odds to survive and thrive.
FIC SMI
East of Eden The saga of three generations of the Trask and Hamilton
families in the early 1900s in Northern California. It is a
Steinbeck, John symbolic recreation of the biblical story of Cain and Abel
woven into a history of Salinas Valley, California. Spanning the
Pages: 602 period between the American Civil War and the end of World
War I, the novel highlights the conflicts of two generations of
FIC STE brothers; the first being the kind, gentle Adam Trask and his
wild brother Charles.
The Grapes of Taking place during the great depression, this book chronicles
Wrath the struggles of the Joad family's life on a failing Oklahoma
farm, their difficult journey to California, and their
Steinbeck, John disillusionment once they arrive there and fall prey to a
parasitic economic system. The insularity of the Joads – Ma's
Pages: 455 obsession with family togetherness, son Tom's self-
centeredness, and daughter Rose of Sharon's materialism –
FIC STE ultimately gives way to a sense of universal community.
The Help Skeeter returns home to Mississippi from college in 1962 and
begins to write stories about the African-American women that
Stockett, Kathryn are found working in white households, which includes
Aibileen, who grieves for the loss of her son while caring for
Pages: 451 her seventeenth white child, and Minny, Aibileen's sassy friend,
the hired cook for a secretive woman who is new to town.
FIC STO
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Presents the controversial novel, published in 1852, in which
author Harriet Beecher Stowe offers an indictment of the pre-
Stowe, Harriet Civil War South through the story of Uncle Tom, an elderly
Beecher slave who maintains his human dignity in the face of cruelty,
suffering, and death. Tom is actually one of American
Pages: 515 literature’s first African-American heroes, a man who suffers
for refusing to obey his white oppressors.
FIC STO

20. Chasing Lincoln’s The YA version of Swanson's bestselling Manhunt, this account
Killer of Lincoln's assassination and the 12-day search for his killer
reads like a historical thriller, no matter that the narrative
Swanson, James jumps among its locations and characters. As President Lincoln
delivers victory speeches in April 1865, an enraged John Wilkes
Pages: 208 Booth vows death: "Now, by God, I'll put him through." Every
bit of dialogue is said to come from original sources, adding a
FIC SWA chill to the already disturbing conspiracy.
Cane River A fact-based novel in which the author draws upon her own
family history to trace four generations of African-American
Tademy, Lalita women from slavery on a Creole plantation to the pre-civil
rights South. To enable the slow but steady advance of their
Pages: 529 clan, the black women of Cane River plot, plead, deceive, and
manipulate their way through history in order to survive.
FIC TAD
Red River They are men whose lives began in slavery, who weathered the
Civil War, and who grappled with the contradictions of
Tademy, Lalita emancipation through the turbulent years of Reconstruction.
Portraying the lives of the families who dwell in The Bottom, a
Pages: 432 poor settlement just down Red River from Colfax, Louisiana,
the story begins with a heart-wrenching battle for the Colfax
FIC TAD courthouse and goes on to show the struggle for freedom in
the deep south.
The Friendship On a hot and humid in 1933 Mississippi four children witness
the confrontation between two friends, elderly African-
Taylor, Mildred American man and a white storekeeper in rural Mississippi as
they test their friendship against a backdrop of racism and peer
Pages: 53 pressure. An explosive confrontation takes place when Tom
Bee greets the John Wallace by his first name. A group of
FIC TAY witnesses heckle Wallace allowing Bee to greet him this way.
The Gold Cadillac Two African-American girls living in the North are proud of
their family's beautiful new Cadillac until they take it on a visit
Taylor, Mildred to the deep South and encounter racial prejudice for the first
time in communities poisoned by racial segregation and other
Pages: 43 manifestations of racism. `Lois, the protagonist, gives readers a
first-person narrative which allows readers to understand the
FIC TAY youthful perspective on the dehumanizing intentions of racism.

21. The Land Paul-Edward, the son of a part-Indian, part-African slave
mother and a White plantation owner father, finds himself
Taylor, Mildred caught between the two worlds of his parents as he pursues his
dream of owning land in the aftermath of the Civil War. The
Pages: 375 author’s portrayal of a person being caught between black and
white worlds and not fitting into either one presents readers
FIC TAY with a dilemma that was ever-present in the deep south at this
time in history.
Let the Circle be Four black children growing up in rural Mississippi during the
Unbroken Depression experience racial antagonisms and hard times and,
through them, readers can see what it was like to be black and
Taylor, Mildred powerless during that time in history. The children learn from
their parents the pride and self-respect they need to survive
Pages: 394 and keep their dignity. Intertwining actual historical events,
this book allows readers to learn about history while reading a
FIC TAY storyline that maintains intensity and emotion.
Mississippi Bridge During a heavy rainstorm in 1930s rural Mississippi, a ten-year-
old white boy sees a bus driver order all the black passengers
Taylor, Mildred off a crowded bus to make room for late-arriving white
passengers and then set off across the raging Rosa Lee River.
Pages: 62 This is a story in which a tragic accident clearly dispenses a
bittersweet justice in that world of prejudice without taking
FIC TAY away the reader's sympathy for the victims.
The Road to In 1941 a black youth, sadistically teased by two white boys in
Memphis rural Mississippi, severely injures one of them with a tire iron
and enlists a member of the Logan family to help in trying to
Taylor, Mildred flee the state. A sequence of events including pregnancy,
death, the intrusion of Pearl Harbor, and World War II wreak
Pages: 290 havoc on the Logan family, they are faced with possible
separation from each other. Drawing upon their strength as a
FIC TAY family and the support of their community, the Logan’s fight
for survival.
Song of the Trees With the depression bearing down on her family and food in
short supply, Cassie Logan isn't sure where her next meal will
Taylor, Mildred come from, but there is one thing that she knows will always
be there-the whispering trees outside her window. The Logan
Pages: 290 family, being deeply attached to the forest on their land, tries
to save it from being cut down by an unscrupulous white man.
FIC TAY This is a story of strength and pride and love of the land.

22. The Well During a drought in 1910, 10-year-old David Logan's family has
the only working well in their part of Mississippi. His family
Taylor, Mildred generously shares their well water with both white and
African-American neighbors in an atmosphere of potential
Pages: 92 racial violence, but white teenager Charlie Simms tests their
generosity, forcing David's older brother into a fight resulting in
FIC TAY extra work on the farm.
Adventures of Huck Finn, the son of the town drunk, and Jim, an escaped
Huckleberry Finn slave, make a break for freedom down the vast Mississippi
River on a raft. This book tells the story of a teenaged misfit
Twain, Mark who finds himself having one of the greatest adventures of all
time. In the course of their perilous journey, Huck and Jim
Pages: 244 meet adventure, danger, and a cast of characters who are
sometimes menacing and often hilarious.
FIC TWA
Mila 18 A handful of men and women in the Warsaw ghetto, knowing
they will almost certainly die, gather their meager resources to
Uris, Leon stage a revolt against the Nazis armed with only homemade
weapons, bare hands, and courage. The book's title refers to
Pages: 563 the address of the Jewish resistance headquarters, and the
place of much of the action and confrontation in the latter half
FIC URI of the story.
The Devil’s 12-year-old Hannah resents the traditions of her Jewish
Arithmetic heritage until she is transported back in time to a small Polish
1940's Nazi-occupied village. There she experiences the very
Yolen, Jane horrors that had embarrassed and annoyed her when her
elders related their Holocaust experiences. As she and her
Pages: 170 family are transported to the camp she endures inhumane
treatment and thus learns the importance of remembering
FIC YOL such a catastrophic and terrible time in history.
The Book Thief Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death tells
the story of Liesel--a young German girl as she manages to
Zusak, Markus evoke glimpses of pleasure using her stolen books and story-
telling skills despite the repressing nature of the Nazi régime.
Pages: 552 Liesel helps sustain the sanity of her family and the Jewish man
they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
FIC ZUS

23. Humor
Geektastic From Trekkers to science geeks, Buffy fanatics to Dungeon
Masters, nerds of all persuasions are sure to find themselves in
Black, Holly (editor) the pages of this anthology. A compilation of short stories, each
story is followed by a comic-book-style illustration offering
Pages: 403 information or advice such as "What Your Instrument Says
About You" and "How to Look Cool and Not Drool in Front of
FIC GEE Your Favorite Author." Simultaneously addressing the isolation
and loneliness that geeks can feel as well as the sense of
camaraderie and community that can be found.
The Amazing Joe Kavalier has managed to escape from Nazi-occupied
Adventures of Prague, and now he must use his cunning wits to help rescue
Kavalier and Clay his family from Hitler's evil plans. Complete with golems and
magic and miraculous escapes and evil nemeses and even
Chabon, Michael hand-to-hand Antarctic battle, it pursues the most important
questions of love and war, dreams and art, across pages
Pages: 639 brimming with longing and hope.
FIC CHA
Last Call After being diagnosed with terminal liver cancer, 55-year-old
Hayden MacBride decides to take control of his situation by
Pedersen, Laura plotting his final days. Hayden's approach changes when he
meets a kindred spirit named Rosamond Rogers who is railing
Pages: 320 noisily against the injustice of her inoperable lung cancer.
Hayden takes a shine to her, and convinces her to ditch the
FIC PED hospital and join him and Joey at a baseball game, where he
discovers something unexpected about her.
A Confederacy of The story is set in New Orleans in the early 1960s. The central
Dunces character is Ignatius J. Reilly, an educated but slothful 30-year-
old man still living with his mother in the city's Uptown
Toole, John neighborhood, who, due to an incident early in the book, must
Kennedy set out to get a job. In his quest for employment he has various
adventures with colorful French Quarter characters.
Pages:
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24. Non-Fiction
American Sniper From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the
most career sniper kills in United States military history. The
Kyle, Chris Pentagon has officially confirmed more than 150 of Kyles kills
(the previous American record was 109), but it has declined to
Pages: 381 verify the astonishing total number for this book. Iraqi
insurgents feared Kyle so much they named him al-Shaitan
92 KYL (“the devil”) and placed a bounty on his head. Kyle earned
legendary status among his fellow SEALs, Marines, and U.S.
Army soldiers, whom he protected with deadly accuracy from
rooftops and stealth positions.
Parallel Journeys The true story of two very different people who lived through
World War II. Helen Waterford, a Jewish young woman was
Ayer, Eleanor already married with a child when she went into hiding in
Amsterdam. Alfons Heck was just a boy when the war began.
Pages: 256 By the war's end, he was a high-ranking officer in the Hitler
Youth. This books shows the complexities of growing up
943.086 AYE during World War II and how different two children’s’ lives can
be even being from the same area.
A Long Way Gone Ishmael Beah describes his experiences after he was driven
from his home by war in Sierra Leone and picked up by the
Beah, Ishmael government army at the age of thirteen, serving as a soldier
for three years before being removed from fighting by UNICEF
Pages: 229 and eventually moving to the United States.
92 BEA
Flyboys Examines the disappearance of eight American airmen shot
down and taken prisoner on the remote island of Chichi Jima
Bradley, James in World War II and the secrecy that surrounded the events
for decades, and discusses the violence inflicted by both sides
Pages: 398 in the Pacific war. The book keeps its eye on the aviators-
growing up under a variety of conditions before the war,
940.54 BRA entering service, serving as the U. S. Navy's spearhead aboard
the fast carriers, or facing captivity and death.
Running with The author chronicles his life from age twelve to sixteen, living
Scissors in the bizarre home of his mother's psychiatrist, where he was
sexually abused by the doctor's thirty-three-year-old adopted
Burroughs, son. Dealing with issues such as being the son of an alcoholic
Augusten father and an unstable mother, sexual abuse, and others, this
memoir is not your average coming of age story.
Pages: 315
92 BUR

25. In Cold Blood On November 15, 1959, in Holcomb, Kansas, the four
members of the Clutter family were dragged from their beds
Capote, Truman in the early hours of the morning and tied up. All four were
shot in the head with a shotgun at close range. None survived.
Pages: 343 The killers left few clues, and there was no apparent motive
for the slayings. This book recreates the slaying of the Clutter
364.15 CAP family of Kansas, and the capture, trial, and execution of their
murderers.
Nickel and Dimed Funny, poignant, and passionate, this revelatory firsthand
account of life in low-wage America. This book reveals the
Ehrenreich, story of Barbara Ehrenreich’s attempts to eke out a living
Barbara while working as a waitress, hotel maid, house cleaner,
nursing-home aide, and Wal-Mart associate.
Pages: 256
305.56 EHR
Diary of a Young An inspirational story of the hardships of World War II in the
Girl viewpoint of a 13 year old Jewish girl in hiding during The
Holocaust. In her diary, Anne Frank shares her thoughts,
Frank, Anne feelings and insights about the many issues and conflicts in the
warehouse where her own family and another family hid for
Pages: 283 two years. Anne's diary entries show her growing, maturing
from a girl to a woman, and experiencing new emotions such
92 FRA as love and courage.
The World is Flat Contains an overview of the global political and economic
change since the turn of the twenty-first century, discussing
Freidman, Thomas the rapid developments in technologies that has allowed India
and China to become part of a growing supply chain of
Pages: 660 manufacturing impacting global markets.
303.48 FRE
Letters to a Bullied Olivia Gardner, a northern California teenager, was severely
Girl taunted and cyber-bullied by her classmates for more than
two years. News of her bullying spread, eventually reaching
Gardner, Olivia two teenage girls from a neighboring town, sisters Emily and
Sarah Buder. The girls were so moved by Olivia's story that
Pages: 240 they initiated a letter-writing campaign to help lift her spirits.
It was a tender gesture of solidarity that set off an
302.3 GAR overwhelming chain reaction of support, encouragement, and
love.

26. Cheaper by the Presents a memoir by two siblings from the Gilbreth clan in
Dozen which they look at the lives of their parents, Frank Bunker
Gilbreth and Lillian Moller Gilbreth, discuss Frank and Lillian's
Gilbreth, Frank B. careers as industrial engineers and work with scientific
management, and share the adventures the couple
Pages: 207 encountered raising a family of twelve children.
920 GIL
The Hungry Ocean The term “fisherwoman” does not exactly roll trippingly off
the tongue, and Linda Greenlaw, the world's only female
Greenlaw, Linda swordfish boat captain, isn't flattered when people insist on
calling her one. This book tracks her month long sword fishing
Pages: 265 trip over 1,000 nautical miles out to sea. It shows what
happens when things go right – proving, in the process, that
639.27 GRE every successful voyage is a narrowly averted disaster.
Roots This book tells of the two-century drama of KuntaKinte and
the six generations who came after him. By tracing back his
Haley, Alex own roots, Haley tells the story of 39 million Americans of
African descent. He has rediscovered for an entire people a
Pages:899 rich cultural heritage that ultimately speaks to all races
everywhere, for the story it tells is one of the most eloquent
920 HAL testimonials ever written to the indomitability of the human
spirit.
Rocket Boys Homer Hickam, a NASA engineer, recounts his childhood in
Coalwood, a West Virginia mining town, and discusses his
Hickam, Homer dreams of launching rockets into outer space, and how he
made those dreams come true. decided in 1957 to build his
Pages: 368 own rockets. They were his ticket out of Coalwood; a mining
town that everyone knew was dying.
92 HIC
The Perfect Storm It was the storm of the century, boasting waves over one
hundred feet high – a tempest created by so rare a
Junger, Sebastian combination of factors that meteorologists deemed it "the
perfect storm." This book illuminates a world of
Pages: 227 swordfishermen consumed by the dangerous but lucrative
trade of offshore fishing. It recreates the last moments of the
974.4 JUN Andrea Gail crew and recounts the daring high-seas rescues
that made heroes of some and victims of others.

27. Into Thin Air The author relates his own experience of climbing Mount
Everest during its deadliest season and examines what it is
Krakauer, Jon about the mountain that makes people willingly subject
themselves to such risk, hardship, and expense.
Pages: 333
796.52 KRA
Shadow Divers This journalistic narrative tells of John Chatterton and Rich
Kohler, two deep-sea wreck divers who in 1991 dove to a
Kurson, Robert mysterious wreck lying at the perilous depth of 230 feet, off
the coast of New Jersey. Both had a philosophy of excelling
Pages: 375 and pushing themselves to the limit; both needed all their
philosophy and fitness to proceed once they had identified the
940.54 KUR wreck as a WWII U-boat.
Devil in the White Tells the parallel stories of Daniel Burnham, the main architect
City of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, and serial killer Henry H.
Holmes, discussing the challenges Burnham faced in creating
Larson, Erik the hugely successful White City, and looking at how Holmes
used the opportunities afforded by the fair to lure victims to
Pages: 447 their deaths.
364.152 LAR
Brave Companions MuCullough culls the last few centuries for extraordinary men
and women whose names might vaguely trigger a bell, but
McCollough, David whose achievements and courage have mostly been
forgott
Pages: 240
920 MCC - , and
others.
Angela’s Ashes The author chronicles his impoverished childhood in Limerick,
Ireland, in the 1930s and 1940s, describing his father's
McCourt, Frank alcoholism and talent for storytelling; the challenges and
tragedies his mother faced, including the loss of three
Pages: 363 children; and his early experiences in the Catholic church, and
balances painful memories with humor. He recounts the
92 MCC painful loss of his siblings to avoidable sickness and hunger,
and the stench of the sewage-strewn streets that ran outside
the front door.

28. 1776 The story of those who marched with General George
Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence –
McCullough, David when the whole American cause was riding on their success,
without which all hope for independence would have been
Pages: 386 dashed and the noble ideals of the Declaration would have
amounted to little more than words on paper. Based on
973.3 MCC American and British archives, 1776 is a powerful drama
written with extraordinary narrative vitality. It is the story of
Americans in the ranks, men of every shape, size, and color
who turned into soldiers.
To Hell and Back A republication of the classic World War II memoir, originally
published in 1949, in which Audie Murphy recounts his
Murphy, Audie experiences fighting with the infantry in Europe, emerging as
America's most decorated soldier, having received twenty-one
Pages: 274 medals, including our highest military decoration, the
Congressional Medal of Honor. His memoir of the war is a
92 MUR classic having been awarded almost every medal the Army
could offer as well as the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Reading Lolita in The author presents a memoir of her life in post-revolutionary
Tehran Iran. In 1995, after resigning from her job as a professor at a
university in Tehran due to repressive policies, AzarNafisi
Nafisi, Azar invited seven of her best female students to attend a weekly
study of great Western literature in her home. Since the books
Pages: 380 they read were officially banned by the government, the
women were forced to meet in secret, often sharing
820.9 NAF photocopied pages of the illegal novels.
My Brother’s Voice Stephen "Pista" Nasser was 13 years old when the Nazis
whisked him and his family away from their home in Hungary
Nasser, Stephen to Auschwitz. His memories of that terrifying experience are
still vivid, and his love for his brother Andris is everlasting
Pages: 232 remembers the terrible ordeal they endured together.
Stephen's account of the Holocaust, told in the refreshingly
940.531 NAS direct and optimistic language of a young boy, will help every
reader to understand the Holocaust.
Truth and Beauty Ann Patchett tells the story of her friendship with fellow
author Lucy Grealy chronologically, in bursts of dialogue,
Patchett, Ann memory and snippets of Grealy's letters, moving from the
unfolding of their deep connection in graduate school and into
Pages: 257 the more turbulent waters beyond. Later, when adulthood
brought success, but also heartbreak and drug addiction, the
362.196 PAT duo continued to be intertwined, even though their link
sometimes seemed to fray.

29. The Last Lecture Made famous by his Last Lecture at Carnegie Mellon and the
quick Internet proliferation of the video of the event, Pausch
Pausch, Randy decided that maybe he just wasn't done lecturing. Despite
being several months into the last stage of pancreatic cancer,
Pages: 224 he managed to put together this book. The crux of it is lessons
and morals for his young and infant children to learn once he
004 PAU is gone.
A Child Called “It” David J. Pelzer's mother, Catherine Roerva, was, he writes in
this ghastly, fascinating memoir, a devoted den mother to the
Pelzer, David Cub Scouts in her care, and somewhat nurturant to her
children--but not to David, whom she referred to as "an It."
Pages: 184 This book is a brief, horrifying account of the bizarre tortures
she inflicted on him, told from the point of view of the author
92 PEL as a young boy.
Letters to a Young The letters were originally written to Franz Kappus, a 19-year-
Poet old student at the Military Academy of Vienna, of which Rilke
was an alumnus. Discouraged by the prospect of military life,
Rilke, Rainer Maria Kappus began to send his poetry to the 27-year-old Rilke,
seeking both literary criticism and career advice. Their
Pages: 76 correspondence lasted from 1902 to 1908. In 1929, three
years after Rilke's death, Kappus assembled and published the
831 RIL ten letters.
Fast Food Nation Presents an examination of the fast food industry, tracing its
history and discussing how it arose in postwar America, as well
Schlosser, Eric as the impact it has had on economy, food production, and
popular culture.
Pages: 383
394.1 SCH
Me Talk Pretty One David Sedaris describes the struggles he has had in life due to
Day his voice problems, discussing how his voice has affected his
personal relationships, his career, and his family life.
Sedaris, David
Pages: 272
814 SED

30. Men to Match My Men to Match My Mountains is a true historical masterpiece,
Mountains an unforgettable pageant of giants-men like John Sutter,
whose dream of paradise was shattered by the California Gold
Stone, Irving Rush; Brigham Young and the Mormons who tamed the desert
with Bible texts; and the silver kings and the miners who
Pages: 459 developed Nevada's Comstock Lode and settled the Rockies.
America called for greatness ... and got it. There is nothing else
979 STO in history to match the stories of these men who braved a
wilderness to bring a new nation to the shores of the Pacific.
The Hiding Place The memoirs of a Dutch woman who was sent to Ravensbruck
concentration camp during World War II as a result of her
Ten Boom, Corrie activities in the anti-Nazi underground. During World War II,
Corrie Ten Boom and her family risked their lives to help Jews
Pages: 241 escape the Nazis, and their reward was a trip to Hitler's
concentration camps. But she survived and was released and
92 TEN now shares the story of how faith triumphs over evil.
My Life and Hard Widely hailed as one of the finest humorist of the twentieth
Times century, James Thurber looks back at his own life growing up
in Columbus, Ohio, with the same humor and sharp wit that
Thurber, James defined his famous sketches and writings. In My Life and Hard
times, first published in 1933, he recounts the delightful chaos
Pages: 106 and frustrations of family, boyhood, youth odd dogs,
recalcitrant machinery, and the foibles of human nature.
92 THU

31. Science Fiction/Supernatural
Robopocalypse Not far into our future, the dazzling technology that runs our
world turns against us. Controlled by a childlike—yet massively
Wilson, Daniel powerful—artificial intelligence known as Archos, the global
network of machines on which our world has grown dependent
Pages: 368 suddenly becomes an implacable, deadly foe. At Zero Hour—
the moment the robots attack—the human race is almost
FIC WIL annihilated, but as its scattered remnants regroup, humanity
for the first time unites in a determined effort to fight back.
Everneath Last spring, Nikki Beckett vanished, sucked into an underworld
known as the Everneath. Now she’s returned—to her old life,
Ashton, Brodi her family, her boyfriend—before she’s banished back to the
underworld . . . this time forever. She has six months before the
Pages: 370 Everneath comes to claim her, six months for good-byes she
can’t find the words for, six months to find redemption, if it
FIC ASH exists.
The Hitchhiker’s Construction workers arrive at Arthur Dent's house, in order to
Guide to the Galaxy demolish it to make way for a bypass. His friend, Ford Prefect,
arrives while Arthur is lying in front of the bulldozers, to keep
Adams, Douglas them from demolishing it. He tries to explain to Arthur that he
is actually from a planet somewhere in the vicinity of
Pages: 216 Betelgeuse and that the Earth is about to be destroyed.
Seconds before Earth is demolished, Ford saves Arthur, and
FIC ADA together they journey through the galaxy.
Kit’s Wilderness It seems fated that 13-year-old Christopher Watson, nicknamed
Kit, would move to Stoneygate, an old English coal-mining
Almond, David village where his ancestors lived, worked, and died. The drama
unfolds as the haunted, hulking, dark-eyed John Askew draws
Pages: 229 Kit and other classmates into the game of Death, a spin-the-
knife, pretend-to-die game that he hosts in a deep hole dug in
FIC PED the earth, with candles, bones, and carved pictures of the
children of the old families of Stoneygate.
Thirsty Chris has problems; bickering, divorce-bound parents, a
domineering older brother, and his best friends becoming
Anderson, M. T. estranged. Overshadowing everything is the fact that Chris, is
becoming a vampire. The good people of his Massachusetts
Pages: 237 town are almost inured to the murders committed by
vampires. Yet violent mobs shortcut justice with stake-through-
FIC AND the-heart lynchings. As Chris's blood lust grows, he's
increasingly challenged to hide his transformation.

32. Feed This book is set in a future world where television and
computers are connected directly into people's brains when
Anderson, M. T. they are babies. The result is a chillingly recognizable consumer
society where empty-headed kids are driven by fashion and
Pages: shopping and the avid pursuit of silly entertainment – even on
trips to Mars and the moon – and by constant customized
FIC AND murmurs in their brains of encouragement to buy, buy, buy.
The Handmaid’s In the Republic of Gilead, formerly the United States, far-right-
Tale type ideals have been carried to extremes in the
monotheocratic government. The resulting society is a
Atwood, Margaret feminist's nightmare: women are strictly controlled, unable to
have jobs or money and assigned to various classes: the chaste,
Pages: 311 childless Wives; the housekeeping Marthas; and the
reproductive Handmaids, who turn their offspring over to the
FIC ATW "morally fit" Wives.
The Brief History of The City, where the recently departed reside as long as they are
the Dead remembered by the living, is home to Kuka Sims, who prints
the City's only newspaper, Coleman Kinzler, a vagrant who
Brockmeier, Kevin speaks the word of God, and Marion and Philip Byrd, who find
themselves falling in love once again, all of whom are
Pages: 252 remembered by Laura Byrd, whose own time is running out.
FIC BRO
Counter Clockwise When Nathan's mother is hit by a bus in London, his father
struggles with the tragedy and disappears through the
Cockcroft, Jason bathroom wall to travel back in time and prevent her death;
Nathan, with help from a Beefeater named Bartelby, tries to
Pages: 202 prevent his father from changing the future.
FIC COC
Rebecca A novel of mystery and passion, a dark psychological tale of
secrets and betrayal, dead loves and an estate called
Du Maurier, Manderley that is as much a presence as the humans who
Daphne inhabit it. Manderley is filled with memories of the elegant and
flamboyant Rebecca, the first Mrs. DeWinter. Rebecca may be
Pages: 357 physically dead, but she is a force to contend with.
FIC DU

33. The House of the In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special
Scorpion status as the young clone of El Patron, the one hundred forty-
two-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between
Farmer, Nancy Mexico and the United States. Fields of white opium poppies
stretch away over the hills, and uniformed workers bend over
Pages: 400 the rows, harvesting the juice. Gradually he realizes the fate
that is in store for him, and with the help of Tam Lin, his
FIC FAR Scottish bodyguard, he tries to escape.
The Secret Life of In Lily Dale, New York, a community dedicated to the religion of
Sparrow Delaney Spiritualism, tenth-grader Sparrow Delaney, the youngest
daughter in an eccentric family of psychics, agonizes over
Harper, Suzanne whether or not to reveal her special abilities in order to help a
friend.
Pages: 364
FIC HAR
Brave New World "Community, Identity, Stability" is the motto of Aldous Huxley's
utopian World State. Here everyone consumes daily grams of
Huxley, Aldous soma, to fight depression, babies are born in laboratories, and
the most popular form of entertainment is a "Feelie," a movie
Pages: 259 that stimulates the senses. Though there seems to be no
problems, Bernard Marx feels something is missing and senses
FIC HUX his relationship with a young women has the potential to be
much more than the confines of their existence allow.
Never Let Me Go Through the voice of thirty-one-year-old Kathy, along with old
friends from school, are forced to face the truth about their
Ishiguro, Kazuo childhood at Hailsham. All children should believe they are
special. But the students of Hailsham, an elite school in the
Pages: 288 English countryside, are so special that visitors shun them, and
only by rumor and the occasional fleeting remark by a teacher
FIC ISH do they discover their unconventional origins and strange
destiny.
Gossamer Readers first meet the dream-givers as they creep around a
dark house in the middle of the night where an old woman and
Lowry, Lois a dog named Toby are sleeping. Littlest is very small, new to
the work, energetic and curious. Fastidious is tired, impatient,
Pages: 176 and had a headache. Littlest is soon paired with a new partner,
Thin Elderly, who is a much better guide and teacher than
FIC LOW Fastidious was. They are benevolent beings who visit humans
(and pets, too) at night.

34. The Host A species of altruistic parasites has peacefully assumed control
of the minds and bodies of most humans, but feisty Melanie
Meyer, Stephanie Stryder won't surrender her mind to the alien soul called
Wanderer. Overwhelmed by Melanie's memories of fellow
Pages: 619 resistor Jared, Wanderer yields to her body's longing and sets
off into the desert to find him. Likely the first love triangle
FIC MEY involving just two bodies.
Hero Thom, the teenage son of a fallen superhero who seems to be
linked to his mother's disappearance, joins the League and
Moore, Perry finds himself dealing with confusing sexual feelings for the hero
Uberman while learning to use his powers and moving toward
Pages: 428 the truth about his mother's disappearance.
FIC MOO
1984 Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George
Orwell's nightmare vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world
Orwell, George and one poor stiff's attempt to find individuality. The brilliance
of the novel is Orwell's prescience of modern life – the ubiquity
Pages: 268 of television, the distortion of the language--and his ability to
construct such a thorough version of hell. Required reading for
FIC ORW students since it was published. It ranks among the most
terrifying novels ever written.
Virals Tory is the science-obsessed niece of a famous forensic
anthropologist, Temperance Brennan, living on a remote island
Reichs, Kathy off the coast of South Carolina. An old military ID tag leads Tory
and her best friends, Ben, Hi, and Shelton – all self proclaimed
Pages: 454 “sci-philes” – to an illegal research lab, where they are exposed
to a mutant strain of canine parvovirus. When the teens begin
FIC REI experiencing preternatural physical changes, their search for
answers brings them in contact with cold-blooded killers.
Across the Amy, having been cryogenically frozen and placed onboard a
Universe spaceship which was supposed to land on a distant planet
three hundred years in the future, is unplugged fifty years too
Revis, Beth early and finds herself stuck inside an enclosed world ruled by a
tyrannical leader and his rebellious teenage heir and confused
Pages: 398 about who to trust and why someone is trying to kill her.
FIC REV

35. The Forest of Through twists and turns of fate, orphaned Mary seeks
Hands and Teeth knowledge of life, love, and especially what lies beyond her
walled village and the surrounding forest, where dwell the
Ryan, Carrie unconsecrated, aggressive flesh-eating people who were once
dead.
Pages: 310
FIC RYA
Impossible On the night of her prom, Lucy, 17, is raped by her date and
becomes pregnant. She decides to keep the child, and she is
Werlin, Nancy supported by her foster parents and Zach, her childhood friend.
The teen discovers the curse on the women in her family when
Pages: she reads her birth mother's diary. Lucy is destined for
madness at 18 unless she can perform the three impossible
FIC WER tasks described in the song and break the curse of the Elfin
Knight.
A Certain Slant of Helen, who has been dead for 130 years, describes what it's
Light like to live as Light, clinging to a human host, then reentering
an empty human body and becoming physically and
Whitcomb, Laura emotionally attuned to the world. Helen is startled when she
realizes that a student in her host's English class can see her.
Pages: 282 James, too, is Light, but he has taken over the body of Billy,
who almost overdosed on drugs.
FIC WHI
Elsewhere Although Liz is maturing, coping with disappointments, and
controlling her anger, she is getting younger. Having been killed
Zevin, Gabrielle by a hit and run driver, she now lives in Elsewhere with the
grandmother who died before she was born. After death, the
Pages: 275 residents get younger until they become babies and are reborn
onto Earth again.
FIC ZEV
Before I Wake Covering up her own murder was one thing, but faking life is
much harder than Kaylee Cavanaugh expected. After weeks,
Vincent, Rachel she’s back in school, fighting to stay visible to the human
Pages: 346 world, struggling to fit in with her friends and boyfriend. But to
earn her keep in the human world, Kaylee must reclaim stolen
FIC VIN souls, and when her first assignment brings her face-to-face
with an old foe, she knows the game has changed.

36. 2312
The year is 2312, and scientific and technological advances allows
Robinson, Kim for people to live on the planet, Mercury. Swan Er Hong is a
designer and creator of worlds, but after some events, she may be
Pages: 561 forced to destroy them.
FIC ROB

37. Series
Women of the Elena Michaels seems like the typically strong and sexy modern
Otherworld Series woman, She lives with her architect boyfriend, writes for a
popular newspaper, and works out at the gym. She's also a
Armstrong, Kelley werewolf.
1 – Bitten
Pages: 464 2 – Stolen
FIC ARM 3 – Dime Store Magic
4 – Industrial Magic
5 – Haunted
6 – Broken
7 – No Humans Involved
Beautiful Dark On the night of Skye's seventeenth birthday, she meets two
Series enigmatic strangers whose sudden appearance sends her life
into a tailspin. Complete opposites, Asher is dark and wild,
Davies, Jocelyn while Devin is fair and aloof. Skye has no idea what they want
or why they seem to follow her every move—only that their
Pages: 405 presence coincides with a flurry of strange events. Soon she
begins to doubt not just the identity of the two boys, but also
FIC DAV the truth about her own past.
1 – A Beautiful Dark
Wereling Series Fourteen-year-old Trey Laporte is not a kid anymore. Not after
the day he wakes up in agony—retina-splitting, vomit-inducing
Feasey, Steve agony. His clothes are torn. His room is trashed.
Enter Lucien Charron, the mysterious, long-lost “uncle” with
Pages: 336 freakish fire-flecked eyes and skin that blisters in the sun.
Suddenly, Trey finds himself living in a luxury penthouse at the
FIC WER heart of a strange and sinister empire built on the powers of
the Netherworld—vampires, demons, sorcerers, and djinn.
1 – Wereling
2 – Dark Moon
3 – Blood Wolf
Mickey Bolitar Mickey Bolitar's year can't get much worse. After witnessing his
Series father's death and sending his mom to rehab, he's forced to live
with his estranged uncle Myron and switch high schools.
Coben, Harlan Fortunately, he's met a great girl, Ashley, and it seems like
things might finally be improving. But then Ashley vanishes.
Pages: 304 Mickey follows Ashley's trail into a seedy underworld that
reveals that Ashley isn't who she claimed to be. And neither
FIC COB was Mickey's father.
1 – Shelter
2 – Seconds Away

38. The Missing Series One night a plane appeared out of nowhere, the only
passengers aboard: thirty-six babies. As soon as they were
Haddix, Margaret taken off the plane, it vanished. Now, thirteen years later, two
Peterson of those children are receiving sinister messages, and they
begin to investigate their past. In this exciting new series,
Pages: 314 bestselling author Margaret Peterson Haddix brings an element
of suspense that will keep readers on the edge of their seats.
FIC HAD 1 – Found
2 – Sent
3 – Sabotaged
4 – Torn
5 – Caught
Ruby Red Trilogy Gwyneth Shepherd's sophisticated, beautiful cousin Charlotte
has been prepared her entire life for traveling through time.
Gier, Kerstin But unexpectedly, it is Gwyneth who in the middle of class
takes a sudden spin to a different era!
Pages: 336 1 – Ruby Red
2 – Sapphire Blue
FIC GIE
Michael Vey: The To everyone at Meridian High School, fourteen-year-old
Prisoner of Cell 25 Michael Vey is nothing special, just the kid who has Tourette’s
syndrome. But in truth, Michael is extremely special—he has
Evans, Richard Paul electric powers. Michael thinks he is unique until he discovers
that a cheerleader named Taylor has the same mysterious
Pages: 326 powers. With the help of Michael’s friend, Ostin, the three of
them set out to discover how Michael and Taylor ended up with
FIC EVA their abilities, and their investigation soon brings them to the
attention of a powerful group.
1 – Michael Vey : The Prisoner of Cell 25
2 - Michael Vey: Rise of the Elgen
Matched Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices
for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe. So when
Condie, Ally Xander's face appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony,
Cassia knows he is her ideal mate . . . until she sees Ky
Pages: 369 Markham's face flash for an instant before the screen fades to
black. The Society tells her it's a glitch, a rare malfunction, and
FIC CON that she should focus on the happy life she's destined to lead
with Xander.
1 - Matched
2 - Crossed
3 - Reached

39. The Darkest Powers Chloe Saunders is haunted by a particularly violent ghost and is
Series sent to Lyle House, a center for disturbed teens, where she
finds herself investigating a series of other paranormal
Armstrong, Kelley happenings.
Pages: 390 1-The Summoning
2-The Awakening
FIC ARM 3-The Reckoning
The Sisterhood of Spending each summer apart, Lena, Bridget, Carmen, and
the Traveling Pants Tibby, best friends since childhood, stay in touch through a
shared pair of secondhand jeans that magically adapts to each
Brashares, Ann of their figures and personalities.
Pages: 294 1-The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
2-The Second Summer of the Sisterhood
FIC BRA 3-Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood
4-Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood
Gemma Doyle After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen-year-
Trilogy old Gemma returns to England, after many years in India, to
attend a finishing school where she becomes aware of her
Bray, Libba magical powers and ability to see into the spirit world.
Pages: 403 1-A Great and Terrible Beauty
2-Rebel Angels
FIC BRA 3-The Sweet Far Thing
Chronicles of Vladimir Tod's is a vampire-or at least sort of. Since his parent’s
Vladimir Tod death, Vlad has only his friend Henry and his "Aunt" Nelly. But
he is about to realize that his father had a mysterious history
Brewer, Heather Vlad didn’t know about.
Pages: 182 1- Eigth Grade Bites
2-Ninth Grade Slays
FIC BRE 3-Tenth Grade Bleeds
4-Eleventh Grade Burns
5-Twelfth Grade Kills
The Princess Diaries Fourteen-year-old Mia, who is trying to lead a normal life as a
teenage girl in New York City, is shocked to learn that she is
Cabot, Meg actually a princess.
Pages: 283 1- The Princess Diaries
2- Princess in the Spotlight
FIC CAB 3- Princess in Love
4- Princess in Waiting
4½ - Project Princess
5- Princess in Pink
6- Princess in Training
6½- The Princess Present

40. 7- Party Princess
7½- Sweet Sixteen Princess
7¾- Valentine Princess
8- Princess on the Brink
9- Princess Mia
10- Forever Princess
Ender’s Game Government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as
soldiers in order to develop a secure defense against a hostile
Card, Orson Scott alien race's next attack.
Pages: 324
FIC CAR
Skeleton Creek With accompanying videos, Ryan McCray and Sarah Fincher’s
quest to find out how Skeleton Creek got its name takes them
Carman, Patrick on an expedition to a mechanical dredge they think is haunted.
Pages: 144 1- Skeleton Creek
2- Ghost in the Machine
FIC CAR 3- The Crossbones
4- The Raven
House of Night The House of Night series follows 16-year-old Zoey Redbird as
she is “Marked” by a vampire tracker and begins to undergo the
Cast, P.C. “Change” into an actual vampire.
Pages: 306 1- Marked
2- Betrayed
FIC CAS 3- Chosen
4- Untamed
5- Hunted
6- Tempted
7- Burned
8- Awakened

41. City of Bones Suddenly able to see demons and the Darkhunters who are
dedicated to returning fifteen-year-old Carly Fray and her
Clare, Cassandra mother to their own dimension, Carly is drawn into this bizarre
world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is almost
Pages: 485 killed by a monster.
FIC CLA 1- City of Bones
2- City of Ashes
3- City of Glass
Artemis Fowl Twelve-year-old evil genius Artemis Fowl tries to restore his
family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in
Cofler, Eoin gold, but the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a
particularly nasty troll.
Pages: 304
1- Artemis Fowl
FIC COF 2- The Arctic Incident
3- The Eternity Code
4- The Opal Deception
5- The Lost Colony
6- The Time Paradox
7- The Atlantis Complex
The Hunger Games Sixteen-year-old KatnissEverdeen accidentally becomes a
contender in the annual Hunger Games, a grave competition
Collins, Suzanne hosted by the Capitol where young boys and girls are pitted
against one another in a televised fight to the death.
Pages: 374
1- The Hunger Games
FIC COL 2- Catching Fire
3- Mockingjay
The Maze Runner Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the
middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the
Dashner, James community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.
Pages: 375 1- The Maze Runner
2- The Scorch Trials
FIC DAS 3- The Death Cure
13th Reality Thirteen-year-old Atticus "Tick" Higginbottom begins receiving
mysterious letters from around the world signed only "M.G.,"
Dashner, James and the clues contained therein lead him on a journey to the
perilous 13th Reality and a confrontation with evil Mistress
Pages: 506 Jane.
FIC DAS 1- The Journal of Curious Letters
2- The Dark Hunt for Infinity
3- The Blade of Shattered Hope

42. Blue Bloods Schuyler Van Alen, a loner at a prestigious New York City
private school, sets out to learn the secrets of the Blue Bloods,
De la Cruz, Melissa an ancient group of vampires.
Pages: 302 1- Blue Bloods
2- Masquerade
FIC DE 3- Revelations
4- The Van Alen Legacy
The Clique The series revolves around five girls. Massie, Alicia, Dylan, and
Kristen collectively make up The Pretty Committee, an 'A-Lister'
Harrison, Lisi clique at the fictional, all girls middle school, Octavian Country
Day, or as Massie likes to call it, OCD.
Pages: 220
1- The Clique
FIC HAR 2- Best Friends for Never
3- Revenge of the Wannabes
4- Invasion of the Boy Snatchers
5- The Pretty Committee Strikes Back
6- Dial L for Loser
7- It’s Not Easy Being Mean
8- Sealed With a Diss
9- Bratfest at Tiffany’s
10- P.S. I Loathe You
11- Boys R Us
12- These Boots are Made for Stalking
13- My Little Phony
14- A Tale of Two Pretties
Dune Chronicles The story of a young prince, Paul Artreides, scion of a star-
crossed dynasty, and of his journey from boy to warrior to ruler
Herbert, Frank of a dying planet destined to become a paradise regained.
Pages: 517 1- Dune
2- Dune Messiah
FIC HER 3- Children of Dune
4- God Emperor of Dune
5- Heretics of Dune
6- Chapterhouse
Gatekeepers Sent to live in a foster home in a remote Yorkshire village, Matt,
a troubled fourteen-year-old English boy, uncovers an evil plot
Horowitz, Anthony involving witchcraft and the site of an ancient stone circle.
Pages: 254 1- Raven’s Gate
2- Evil Star
FIC HOR 3- Nightrise
4- Necropolis

43. Redwall Series When the peaceful life of ancient Redwall Abbey is shattered by
the arrival of the evil rat Cluny and his villainous hordes,
Jacques, Brian Matthias, a young mouse, determines to find the legendary
sword of Martin the Warrior which, he is convinced, will help
Pages: 351 Redwall's inhabitants destroy the enemy.
FIC JAC 1- Redwall
2- Mossflower
3- Mattimeo
4- Mariel of Redwall
5- Salamandastron
6- Martin the Warrior
7- The Bellmaker
8- Outcast of Redwall
9- Pearls of Lutra
10- The Long Patrol
11- Marlfox
12- The Legend of Luke
13- Lord Brocktree
Need Series Depressed after the death of her stepfather, high school junior
Zara goes to live with her grandmother in a small Maine town,
Jones, Carrie where new friends tell Zara the strange man she keeps seeing
may be a pixie king, and that only "were" creatures can stop
Pages: 306 him from taking souls.
1-Need
FIC JON 2-Captivate
3-Entice
4- Endure
Blood Ninja After his father is murdered and a ninja saves his life, Taro
discovers the connection between ninjas and vampires and
Lake, Nick finds himself being dragged into a bitter conflict between the
rival lords ruling Japan.
Pages: 369
1- Blood Ninja I
FIC LAK 2- Blood Ninja II
Annals of the When a young man in the Uplands blinds himself rather than
Western Shore use his gift of "unmaking" – a violent talent shared by members
of his family – he upsets the precarious balance of power
Le Guin, Ursula K. among rival, feuding families, each of which has a strange and
deadly talent of its own.
Pages: 286
1- Gifts
FIC LE 2- Voices
3- Powers

44. Earthsea A tale about a reckless, awkward boy named Sparrowhawk who
becomes a wizard's apprentice after the wizard reveals
Le Guin, Ursula Sparrowhawk's true name. The boy comes to realize that his
fate may be far more important than he ever dreamed possible.
Pages: 183
1-A Wizard of Earthsea
FIC LE 2-The Tombs of Atuan
3-The Farthest Shore
4-Tehanu
The Chronicles of During World War II, four siblings are sent from London to a
Narnia house in the country, where they are drawn into a magical
world ruled by an evil witch.
Lewis, C.S. 1- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
2- Prince Caspian
Pages: 202 3- The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
4- The Silver Chair
FIC LEW 5- The Horse and His Boy
6- The Magician’s Nephew
7- The Last Battle
Lorien Legacy Nine of us came here. We seem just like you. We can do things
you dream of doing. Our plan was to grow, and train, and
Lore, Pittacus become strong, and become one, and fight them. But they
found us and started hunting us first. They caught Number
Pages: 448 One, Number Two, and Number Three. I am Number Four.
FIC LOR 1-I Am Number Four
2-The Power of Six
3-The Rise of Nine
The Giver Trilogy Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas
becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in
Lowry, Lois his community and discovers the terrible truth about the
society in which he lives.
Pages: 179
1- The Giver
FIC LOW 2- Gathering Blue
3- Messenger
Fablehaven When Kendra and Seth go to stay at their grandparents' estate,
they discover that it is a sanctuary for magical creatures and
Mull, Brandon that a battle between good and evil is looming.
Pages: 356 1- Fablehaven
2- Rise of the Evening Star
FIC MUL 3- Grip of the Shadow Plague
4- Secret of the Dragon Sanctuary
5- Keys to the Demon Prison

45. Twilight Series When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her
father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely
Meyer, Stephanie handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming
attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human.
Pages: 498
1- Twilight
FIC MEY 2- New Moon
3- Eclipse
4- Breaking Dawn
Immortals Since the car accident that took her family, Ever, 16, hides the
fact that she can see auras and hear people's thoughts. When
Noel, Alyson she meets Damen, their lives become intertwined.
Pages: 306 1- Evermore
2- Blue Moon
FIC NOE 3- Shadowland
4- Dark Flame
5- Night Star
The Inheritance In Aagaesia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called
Cycle Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an
intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with
Paolini, Christopher dragons, elves, and monsters.
Pages: 503 1- Eragon
2- Eldest
FIC PAO 3- Brisingr
Maximum Ride After the mutant Erasers abduct the youngest member of their
group, the "bird kids," who are the result of genetic
Patterson, James experimentation, take off in pursuit and find themselves
struggling to understand their own origins and purpose.
Pages: 440
1-The Angel Experiment
FIC PAT 2-School’s Out Forever
3-Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
4-The Final Warning
5-Max
Circle Reforged On visit to Namorn to visit her vast landholdings and her
devious cousin, Empress Berenene, eighteen-year-old Sandry
Pierce, Tamora must rely on her childhood friends and fellow mages Daja, Tris,
and Briar, despite the distance that has grown between them.
Pages: 550
1-The Will of the Empress
FIC PIE 2-Melting Stones

46. Song of the Lioness Call it fate, call it intuition, or just call it common sense, but
somehow young Alanna knows she isn't meant to become
Pierce, Tamora some proper lady cloistered in a convent. Instead, she wants to
be a great warrior maiden – a female knight.
Pages: 256
1- Alanna: The First Adventure
FIC PIE 2- In the Hand of the Goddess
3- The Woman Who Rides Like a Man
4- Lioness Rampant
The Sally Lockhart “Beware the seven blessings” When she first utters these
Mystery Series words, 16-year-old Sally Lockhart doesn’t know their meaning.
But when an employee of her late father hears them, he dies of
Pullman, Philip fear. Thus begins her journey into London’s underworld.
Pages: 230 1-The Ruby in the Smoke
2-The Shadow in the North
FIC PUL 3-The Tiger in the Well
4-The Tin Princess
Persepolis Contains black-and-white comic strip images in which the
author shares the story of her life in Tehran, Iran, where she
Satrapi, Marjane lived from ages six to fourteen while the country came under
control of the Islamic regime.
Pages: 153
1-Persepolis
741.5 SAT 2-Persepolis II
Nicholas Flamel Fifteen-year-old twins, Sophie and Josh, find themselves caught
Series up in the deadly struggle between rival alchemists, Nicholas
Flamel and John Dee, over the possession of an ancient book
Scott, Michael that holds the secret formulas for alchemy and everlasting life.
Pages: 375 1- The Alchemyst
2- The Magician
FIC SCO 3- The Sorceress
4- The Necromancer
5- The Warlock
6- The Enchantress
The Book of Dead Set during the dead days between Christmas and New Year's in
Days a crumbling city, this story is about an orphan named Boy. Boy
now belongs to Valerian, a magician. When Valerian reveals
Sedgwick, Marcus that he has only a few days to live (a pact with the devil is
coming due), Boy winds his way through the city, following
Pages: 273 Valerian's mysterious and dangerous instructions in a race to
save his master's life.
FIC SED
1-The Book of Dead Days
2-The Dark Flight Down

47. Pretty Little Liars When one of their tightly-knit group mysteriously disappears,
four high school girls find their friendship difficult to maintain
Shepard, Sara when they begin receiving taunting messages from someone
who seems to know everything about their past and present
Pages: 286 secrets.
FIC SHE 1-Pretty Little Liars
2-Flawless
3-Perfect
4-Unbelievable
5-Wicked
6-Killer
7-Heartless
8-Wanted
9-
10-Ruthless
Sisters of the Sword Two aristocratic sisters in ancient Japan disguise themselves as
samurai warriors to take revenge on the uncle who betrayed
Snow, Maya their family.
Pages: 277 1- Sisters of the Sword
2- Chasing the Secret
FIC SNO 3- Journey Through Fire
Maus Told with chilling realism in an unusual comic-book format, this
is more than a tale of surviving the Holocaust. Spiegelman
Spiegelman, Art relates the effect of those events on the survivors and their
families. The Nazis, drawn as cats, gradually introduce
Pages: 159 increasingly repressive measures, until the Jews, drawn as mice,
are hunted and herded toward the Final Solution.
741.5 SPI
1-Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History
2-Maus II: A Survivor’s Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
The Mysterious After Reynie Muldoon responds to an advertisement recruiting
Benedict Society "gifted children looking for special opportunities," he finds
himself in a world of mystery and adventure. The orphan is 1 of
Stewart, Trenton 4 children to complete a series of challenging tasks, and he
becomes part of the Mysterious Benedict Society.
Pages: 485
1-The Mysterious Benedict Society
FIC STE 2-The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey
3-The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma

48. The Bartimaeus Nathaniel, a young magician's apprentice, becomes caught in a
Trilogy web of magical espionage, murder, and rebellion, after he
summons the djinniBartimaeus and instructs him to steal the
Stroud, Jonathan Amulet of Samarkand from the powerful magician Simon
Loveland.
Pages: 462
1- The Amulet of Samarkand
FIC STR 2- The Golem’s Eye
3- Plotemy’s Gate
Lord of the Rings Frodo the hobbit and his companions set out to destroy the
Ring of Power before the evil Sauron takes control.
Tolkien, J. R. R.
1-The Fellowship of the Ring
Pages: 423 2-The Two Towers
3-The Return of the King
FIC TOL
Levithan In an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince
Alek, on the run from the Clanker Powers who are attempting
Westerfield, Scott to take over the globe using mechanical machinery, forms an
uneasy alliance with Deryn who, disguised as a boy to join the
Pages: 440 British Air Service, is learning to fly genetically-engineered
beasts.
FIC WES
1- Levithan
2- Behemoth
Uglies Series Tally’s friend Shay risks life on the outside rather than submit to
the forced operation that turns normal girls beautiful. They
Westerfield, Scott soon realize that there is a very ugly side to the “pretty” world.
Pages: 425 1- Uglies
2- Pretties
FIC WES 3- Specials
4- Extras
Alfred Kropp Through a series of dangerous and violent misadventures,
teenage loser Alfred Kropp rescues King Arthur's legendary
Yancey, Richard sword Excalibur from the forces of evil. Alfred is the last living
direct descendant of Sir Lancelot, and is given the near
Pages: 339 impossible task of delivering King Arthur's legendary sword
Excalibur from the forces of evil.
FIC YAN
1- Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp
2- Seal of Solomon
3- The Thirteenth Skull

49. Katsa is expected to do the dirty work of torture and punishment for
Graceling Series her uncle until she meets a mysterious stranger named Po, who is also a
Graced fighter and the first person ever to challenge her in a fight. The
Cashore, Kristen
two bond, and each discovers truths they never imagined about
Pages: 471 themselves, each other, and a terrible danger that is spreading slowly
through the seven kingdoms.
FIC CAS
1- Graceling
2- Fire
3- Bitterblue
In a dark future America where violence, terror, and grief touch
Ship Breaker Series everyone, young refugees Mahlia and Mouse have managed to leave
behind the war-torn lands of the Drowned Cities by escaping into the
Bacigalupi, Paolo
jungle outskirts. But when they discover a wounded half-man--a
Pages: 437 bioengineered war beast named Tool--who is being hunted by a
vengeful band of soldiers, their fragile existence quickly collapses. One
FIC BAC is taken prisoner by merciless soldier boys, and the other is faced with
an impossible decision: Risk everything to save a friend, or flee to a
place where freedom might finally be possible.
1- Ship Breaker
2- The Drowned Cities
Daire has been sent to live with her grandma in New Mexico
Soul Seeker Series
because of her unstable mental health. Soon, she discovers a whole
Noel, Alyson new world, a world she has never acknowledged. Daire's
grandmother is giving Daire a chance to become a Soul Seeker. But
Pages: 352 with evil forces around, how will it end?
FIC NOE 1- Fated
2- Echo
3- Mystic
4- Horizon
Halo Series Three angels – Gabriel, the warrior; Ivy, the healer; and Bethany, the
youngest and most human – are sent by Heaven to bring good to a
Adornetto, world falling under the influence of darkness. They work hard to
Alexandra conceal their luminous glow, superhuman powers, and, most
Pages: 484 dangerous of all, their wings, all the while avoiding all human
attachments.
FIC ADO
1- Halo
2- Hades
3- Heaven

50. When Sutton Mercer is murdered, her long lost twin sister Emma
Lying Game Series
takes over Sutton’s life. Emma's desperate to know what happened
Shepard, Sara to her sister and the only way to figure it out is to pretend to be
Sutton. But can she keep up the charade, even after she realizes her
Pages: 307 sister’s murderer is watching her every move?
FIC SHE 1- The Lying Game
2- Never Have I Ever
3- Two Truths and a Lie
4- Hide and Seek
5- Cross My Heart, Hope to Die
6- Flip, Sip, Die
Kaylee does not see dead people, but she senses when someone
Soul Screamer Series
around her is about to die and screams out bloody murder. She meets
Vincent, Rachel Nash, who also has special powers and they must piece together the
mystery of recurring deaths.
Pages: 279
1- My Soul to Take
FIC VIN 2- My Soul to Save
3- My Soul to Keep
4- My Soul to Steal
5- If I Die
6- Before I Wake
7- With All My Soul

51. Social Issues
Save Me Nobody could have foreseen what would happen the day that
Rose McKenna volunteers as a lunch mom in the cafeteria of
Scottoline, Lisa her daughter’s elementary school. Rose does it to keep a
discreet eye on her third-grader, Melly, a sweet, if shy, child
Pages: 373 who was born with a facial birthmark that has become her own
personal bull’s-eye. Melly has been targeted by the mean girl
FIC SCO at their new school and gets bullied every day, placing Rose in
a no-win position familiar to parents everywhere.
Speak Melinda Sordino busted an end-of-summer party by calling the
cops. Now her old friends won’t talk to her, and people she
Anderson, Laurie doesn’t even know hate her from a distance. The safest place
Halse to be is alone, inside her own head. But even that’s not safe.
Because there’s something she’s trying not to think about,
Pages: 197 something about the night of the party that, if she let it in,
would blow her carefully constructed disguise to smithereens.
FIC AND And then she would have to speak the truth.
Wintergirls Lia and Cassie had been best friends since elementary school,
and each developed her own style of eating disorder that leads
Anderson, Laurie to disaster. Now 18, they are no longer friends. Despite their
Halse estrangement, Cassie calls Lia 33 times on the night of her
death, and Lia never answers. As events play out, Lia's guilt,
Pages: 288 her need to be thin, and her fight for acceptance unravel in an
almost poetic stream of consciousness.
FIC AND
Am I Blue? Coming One of the first-ever anthologies of young adult fiction devoted
Out From the to lesbian and gay themes, Bauer has assembled original
Silence stories by a stellar list of popular children's and young adult
authors. With subjects ranging from first love to coming out,
Bauer, Marion self-discovery to homophobia, the collection offers an eclectic
Dane mix of voices.
Pages:
FIC BAU
Nicholas Dane Fourteen-year-old Nick is sent into England's institutional care
system after his single mother dies of a heroin overdose,
Burgess, Melvin where he endures harsh punishment and sexual abuse, and
witnesses horrors on a daily basis before finally emerging,
Pages: 403 emotionally scarred but still alive.
FIC BUR

52. The Sledding Hill Billy, recently deceased, keeps an eye on his best friend,
fourteen-year-old Eddie, and helps him stand up to a
Crutcher, Chris conservative minister and English teacher who is orchestrating
a censorship challenge. This controversial book deals with the
Pages: 230 issue of censorship and the baggage that comes with it.
FIC CRU
A Swift Pure Cry When her mother dies, 15-year-old Shell Talent becomes
trapped in a depressing life with her pious, but alcoholic father.
Dowd, Siobhan Having given up his job to devote his life to the Lord, he leaves
Shell and her younger siblings with no real means to support
Pages: 309 themselves. Longing to escape this cycle of poverty, Shell pins
her hopes and dreams on visions of their new priest, Father
FIC DOW Rose. These dreams soon come to a crashing end as Shell
becomes trapped in this relationship.
Me and Emma 8-year-old Carrie, the raven-haired narrator, is timid and
introverted, while her little sister Emma is a tow-headed
Flock, Elizabeth powerhouse with no sense of fear. The girls live in a terrible
situation: they depend on an unstable mother that has never
Pages: 336 recovered from her husband’s murder, their stepfather beats
them regularly, and they must forage on their own for food.
FIC FLO
Lush To the outside world, 13-year-old Samantha's family seems
perfectly happy. However, they are struggling to keep her
Friend, Natasha architect father's alcoholism a secret, and the balancing act of
enabling his addiction and protecting their image is becoming
Pages: 178 more and more difficult. Sam longs to be able to share her
burden with a friend and reaches out by leaving an anonymous
FIC FRI autobiographical letter in a library book.
Perfect Still absorbing, and on many levels avoiding, the impact of the
death of her father two years ago, Isabelle has found comfort
Friend, Natasha in binging and purging. Her mother is an emotional mess,
crying every night and refusing to talk about the loss. When
Pages: 172 April finds Isabelle with her head in the toilet she tells their
mother. This sets up a new reality for Isabelle, one that
FIC FRI includes group therapy each week and an unexpected
friendship with Ashley Barnum, the most perfect girl in school.

53. Someone Like Tall, blonde, blue-eyed Annabel, 17, is in love with Esteban, a
Summer Latino immigrant. They can't keep their hands off each other;
in fact, he is the one who stops them from going too far.
Kerr, M. E. Prejudice is rough from all sides, including the town's powerful
benefactor, who targets the illegals, and Esteban's older sister,
Pages: 263 who calls Annabel "flour face" and thinks all white girls are
loose. The main characters disturb all the stereotypes.
FIC KER
One Flew Over the Here is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its
Cuckoo’s Nest inhabitants, especially the tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched and
Randle Patrick McMurphy, the brawling, fun-loving new
Kesey, Ken inmate who resolves to oppose her. We see the struggle
through the eyes of Chief Bromden, the seemingly mute half-
Pages: 277 Indian patient who witnesses and understands McMurphy's
heroic attempt to do battle with the awesome powers that
FIC KES keep them all imprisoned.
I Know This Much For most of his life Dominick Birdsey has been living in the
is True shadow of his schizophrenic identical twin, Thomas, but when
Thomas commits a violent act that affects both their lives,
Lamb, Wally Dominick decides to leave his home and search for his true
identity. Not one to break with tradition, Dominick continues
Pages: 901 the dysfunctional legacy with rape, a failed marriage, a nervous
breakdown, SIDS, a car crash, and a racist conspiracy against a
FIC LAM coworker – just to name a few.
Boy Meets Boy Paul has both gay and straight friends, and they all hang out
together at terrific bookstores and concerts, and advise one
Leviathan, David another on the sometimes troubled progress of their various
romances. Life in their town is gloriously accepting of
Pages: 192 differences and only occasionally verges on magic realism; in
this first novel in which same sex preference is not the
FIC LEV problem.
The Earth, My Butt, Fifteen-year-old ViriginiaShreves is the blond, round, average
and Other Big daughter in a family of dark-haired, thin superstars. Her best
Round Things friend has moved away, and she's on the fringes at her private
Manhattan school. She wants a boyfriend, but she settles for
Mackler, Carolyn Froggy Welsh, who comes over on Mondays to grope her. The
story follows Virginia as she tries to lose weight, struggles with
Pages: 244 her "imperfections," and deals with the knowledge that her
idealized older brother has committed date rape.
FIC MAC

54. My Sister’s Keeper Anna was genetically engineered to be a perfect match for her
cancer-ridden older sister. Since birth, the 13-year-old has
Picoult, Jodi donated platelets, blood, her umbilical cord, and bone marrow
as part of her family's struggle to lengthen Kate's life. Anna is
Pages: 423 now being considered as a kidney donor in a last-ditch attempt
to save her 16-year-old sister. Anna decides to sue her parents
FIC PIC for control of her body when her mother wants her to donate
a kidney to Kate.
Nineteen Minutes On Peter Houghton's first day of kindergarten, he watched
helplessly as an older boy ripped his lunch box out of his hands
Picoult, Jodi and threw it out the window. From that day on, his life was a
series of humiliations. This book attempts to address the
Pages: 455 question of whether or not endless bullying can justify murder.
The people of Sterling, New Hampshire are forever changed
FIC PIC after Peter’s high school shooting leaves ten people dead.
The Bell Jar Esther, an A-student from Boston who has won a guest
editorship on a national magazine, finds a bewildering new
Plath, Sylvia world at her feet. Her New York life is crowded with
possibilities, but she can no longer retreat into the safety of
Pages: 244 her past. Esther is also struggling with the perennial problems
of morality, behavior and identity. In this compelling
FIC PLA autobiographical novel, Sylvia Plath chronicles her teenage
years-her disappointments, anger, depression and eventual
breakdown and treatment.
The Body of Sixteen-year-old Torey Adams and his friends remember
Christopher Creed beating up Chris Creed when his gentle but obnoxious ways
exasperated them. Now that he is gone, they joke uneasily
Plum-Ucci, Carol about him to ease their guilt. The town is full of ugly rumors,
and the suspicion of murder conveniently falls on big, tough Bo
Pages: 331 Richardson who is also an outcast.
FIC PLU
We Need to Talk In a series of brutally introspective letters to her husband, Eva
About Kevin tries to come to grips with the fact that their 17-year-old son,
Kevin, has killed seven students and two adults. Guiltily she
Shriver, Lionel recalls how, as a successful writer, she was terrified of having a
child. When their daughter, loving and patient Celia, is born,
Pages: 400 the gap between her view of Kevin as a "Machiavellian
miscreant" and her husband’s efforts to explain away their
FIC SHR son's aberrant behavior grows wider.

55. Boot Camp Abducted by transporters in the middle of the night, 15-year-
old Garrett finds himself handcuffed in the back of a car trying
Strasser, Todd to make sense of why he is being sent to a facility for troubled
teens. Convinced that he does not belong in Lake Harmony, he
Pages: 235 has difficulty conforming to the camp's standards. As a result,
he is subjected to continuous physical and mental abuse.
FIC STR
Jumping the After his father runs off with the cashier at the MicroMart,
Scratch Jamie Reardon and his mother move from Battle Creek to
Traverse City in northern Michigan to live with Aunt Sapphy at
Weeks, Sarah the Wondrous Acres trailer park. Jamie struggles to cope with
a deeply buried secret while seeking to help Aunt Sapphy
Pages: 167 overcome her medical condition.
FIC WEE
The Chosen One In a polygamous cult in the desert, Kyra, not yet fourteen, sees
being chosen to be the seventh wife of her uncle as just
Williams, Carol punishment for having read books and kissed a boy in violation
Lynch of Prophet Childs' teachings, and is torn between facing her
fate and running away from all that she knows and loves.
Pages: 213
FIC WIL
If You Come Softly Ellie, an upper-middle-class white girl who has just transferred
to Percy, an elite New York City prep school, and Jeremiah, one
Woodson, of her few African American classmates, whose parents (a
Jacqueline movie producer and a famous writer) have just separated.
Sequences alternate between Ellie's first-person narration and
Pages: 181 a third-person telling that focuses on Jeremiah. Both depicting
the struggles of an interracial relationship.
FIC WOO

56. Sports
Unstoppable If anyone understands the phrase "tough luck," it's Harrison. As
a foster kid in a cruel home, he knows his dream of one day
Green, Tim playing for the NFL is a long shot.
Pages: 343 Then Harrison's luck seems to change. He is brought into a new
home with kind, loving parents—his new dad is even a football
FIC GRE coach. Harrison's big build and his incredible determination
quickly make him a star running back on the junior high school
team. In no time, he's practically unstoppable.
Tangerine Even with his bottle-thick, bug-eyed glasses, Paul Fisher can see
better than most people. He can see the lies his parents and
Bloor, Edward brother live out, day after day. Paul, who lives in the shadow of
his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer
Pages: 312 despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the
incident that damaged his eyesight. No one ever listens to Paul,
FIC BLO though – until the family moves to Tangerine. In Tangerine,
even a blind, geeky, alien freak can become cool.
Leverage High school sophomore Danny excels at gymnastics but is
bullied, like the rest of the gymnasts, by members of the
Cohen, Joshua football team, until an emotionally and physically scarred new
student joins the football team and forms an unlikely friendship
Pages: 304 with Danny. This is a novel about being trapped inside a web of
expectations, where one’s family, community, team, and future
FIC COH rest on the assumed perpetuation of the established social
order.
Crackback Miles barely recalls when football was fun after being sidelined
by a new coach, constantly criticized by his father, and
Coy, John pressured by his best friend to take performance-enhancing
drugs. Through his struggles with his coach and his dad, he
Pages: 201 begins to learn that life is complicated and that answers don't
always come in the form of X's and O's.
FIC COY
Athletic Shorts In these six short stories, the author and his athlete
protagonists take on such weighty issues as racism,
Crutcher, Chris homophobia, sexism and the teenager's essential task of
coming to terms with his parents. At the same time the author
Pages: 194 makes the world of sports compelling enough to engage even
the most easily bored readers.
FIC CRU

57. Ironman Although slow to accept his placement in an anger-
management class, triathlete Bo Brewster learns to control and
Crutcher, Chris develop his emotional strength while examining his relationship
with his father. Bo’s story deals with love, divorce, child abuse,
Pages: 279 managing anger, and homophobia.
FIC CRU
The Rivalry Eighth-grade sportswriters Stevie and Susan Carol up to solve a
mystery at the famous Army-Navy football game. In the course
Feinstein, John of pursuing their journalistic duties, they meet a number of
real-life celebrities including journalist Bob Woodward,
Pages: 266 legendary basketball coaches Mike Krzyzewski and Bobby
Knight, politico Ed Rendell, golfer Phil Mickelson, and sports
FIC FEI commentator Tony Kornheiser. Even Barack Obama works the
kids into his schedule.
Playing for Pizza Rick Dockery was the third-string quarterback for the Cleveland
Browns and provided what was arguably the worst single
Grisham, John performance in the history of the NFL. After being cut from the
team, Rick finally gets a job as the starting quarterback for the
Pages: 320 Mighty Panthers . . . of Parma, Italy. To say that Italy, the land
of fine wines, extremely small cars, and football Americano
FIC GRI holds a few surprises for Rick Dockery would be something of
an understatement.
Skate Ian McDermott doesn't have much going for him. He has
basically raised himself and his young brother, who has fetal
Harmon, Michael alcohol syndrome. Their mother is a deadbeat drug addict who
makes rare appearances in their lives. One day, Ian loses his
Pages: 242 cool at school and ends up breaking his Coach’s jaw. He knows
that he and Sammy have to get away fast before the cops
FIC HAR catch up with him. They grab some meager supplies and skate
toward Walla Walla, Washington to search for their estranged
father.
Damage Seventeen-year-old football hero Austin, trying to understand
the inexplicable depression that has drained his interest in life,
Jenkins, A. M. thinks that he has found relief in a girl who seems very special.
Along with suffering from depression and other issues, his
Pages: 186 vulnerabilities contrast sharply with the cruel drills of his
militant football coach, successfully demonstrating just how
FIC JEN intolerant male culture can be of weakness.

58. Raiders Night With Division One schools aggressively recruiting him, Matt's
future looks assured. His present, however, is a nightmare. The
Lipsyte, Robert co-captain of his high school football team, Matt witnesses the
rape of a rookie player by teammates and struggles with his
Pages: 232 own use of performance-enhancing drugs. Lipsyte paints an
ugly picture of a corrupt high-school athletics world ruled by
FIC LIP arrogance, homophobia, sexism, and a pathological obsession
with winning.
Heat Pitching prodigy Michael Arroyo is on the run from social
services after being banned from playing Little League baseball
Lupica, Mike because rival coaches doubt he is only twelve years old and he
has no parents to offer them proof. Michael tries to find a way
Pages: 220 to get his birth certificate from Cuba while at the same time
keeping social services from finding out that he and his older
FIC LUP brother are living on their own following the recent death of
their beloved papi. Michael needs all the help he can get.
Dairy Queen After spending her summer running the family farm and
training the quarterback for her school's rival football team,
Murdock, sixteen-year-old D.J. decides to go out for the sport herself, not
Catherine Gilbert anticipating the reactions of those around her.
Pages: 274
FIC MUR
Front and Center Other folks have big plans for D.J. Like her coach. College
scouts. All the town hoops fans. A certain Red Bend High School
Murdock, junior who's keen for romance and karaoke. Not to mention
Catherine Brian Nelson, who she should not be thinking about! Who she is
done with, thank you very much, but who keeps showing up
Pages: 256 anyway.
FIC MUR
Hoops A teenage basketball player from Harlem named Lonnie Jackson
has all eyes on him while he practices with his team for a city-
Myers, Walter wide basketball Tournament of Champions. His coach, Cal,
Dean knows Lonnie has what it takes to be a pro-basketball player,
but warns him about giving in to the pressure. Cal knows
Pages: 183 because he, too, once had the chance – but sold out because of
a point shaving scandal. His only hope is to prevent other
FIC MYE young athletes from repeating his mistake.

59. Kick Told in their separate voices, thirteen-year-old soccer star Kevin
and police sergeant Brown, who knew his father, try to keep
Myers, Walter & Kevin out of juvenile hall after he is arrested on very serious
Ross Workman charges. Brown begins to suspect that the friend's family has
something to hide. He also develops a bond with Kevin, who,
Pages: 197 although angry and troubled, is basically kindhearted and well-
intentioned.
FIC KIC
Why I Fight After his house burns down, twelve-year-old Wyatt Reaves
takes off with his uncle, and the two of them drive from town
Oaks, J. Adams to town for six years, earning money mostly by fighting, until
Wyatt finally confronts his parents one last time. His thwarted
Pages: 228 emotions coalesce into an intense rage that is often violent and
out of control. Spade eagerly becomes Wyatt's manager,
FIC OAK coaching him, sending him on long beer runs, and collecting the
cold cash flowing from Wyatt's dominance as a fist-fighter.
Ball Don’t Lie Seventeen-year-old Sticky lives to play basketball at school and
at Lincoln Rec Center in Los Angeles and is headed for the pros,
Pena, Matt de la but he is unaware of the many dangers--including his own past-
-that threaten his dream. Has spent his life being abused by
Pages: 280 pimps living with his prostitute mother, bouncing from one
foster home to another, and living on the street between failed
FIC PEN placements. But he's developed incredible hoop skills that have
given him considerable social standing among his mostly black
peers.
Amazing Grace Teenage tennis-star Grace Ace Kincaid has the talent and looks
that make her a hit both on the court and on Madison Avenue.
Shull, Megan But she is falling apart, breaking under the tremendous
pressure of worldwide fame. She wants OUT. And she gets her
Pages: 247 wish–a total break from her lifestyle and identity. She becomes
Emily O'Brien, everyday teenager, with nose-ring intact. She is
FIC SHU transported to remote Medicine Hat, AK, where she lives with
her new guardian, retired FBI-agent Ava Grady, in a rustic cabin,
complete with outhouse and freezing-cold showers.

60. Thriller/Adventure
11/22/63 On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas,
President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you
King, Stephen could change it back? Stephen King’s heart-stoppingly
dramatic new novel is about a man who travels back in time
Pages: 849 to prevent the JFK assassination—a thousand page tour de
force.
FIC KIN
Following his massively successful novel Under the Dome,
King sweeps readers back in time to another moment—a real
life moment—when everything went wrong: the JFK
assassination. And he introduces readers to a character who
has the power to change the course of history.
Thirteen Hallows The Hallows. Ancient artifacts imbued with a primal and
deadly power. But are they protectors of this world, or the
Scott, Michael keys to its destruction? A gruesome murder in London
reveals a sinister plot to uncover a two-thousand-year-old
Pages: 351 secret. For decades, the Keepers guarded these Hallows,
keeping them safe and hidden and apart from each other. But
FIC SCO now the Keepers are being brutally murdered, their prizes
stolen, the ancient objects bathed in their blood.
The Scorpio Races Some race to win. Others race to survive. It happens at the
start of every November: the Scorpio Races. Riders attempt
Stiefvater, Maggie to keep hold of their water horses long enough to make it to
the finish line.
Pages: 409 Some riders live. Others die. At age nineteen, Sean Kendrick is
the returning champion. He is a young man of few words, and
FIC STI if he has any fears, he keeps them buried deep, where no one
else can see them.
Defending Jacob Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in his
suburban Massachusetts county for more than twenty years.
Landay, William He is respected in his community, tenacious in the
courtroom, and happy at home with his wife, Laurie, and son,
Pages: 431 Jacob. But when a shocking crime shatters their New England
town, Andy is blindsided by what happens next: His fourteen-
FIC LAN year-old son is charged with the murder of a fellow student.
The Racketeer Who is the Racketeer? And what does he have to do with the
judge’s untimely demise? His name, for the moment, is
Grisham, John Malcolm Bannister. Job status? Former attorney. Current
residence? The Federal Prison Camp near Frostburg,
Pages: 340 Maryland.
FIC GRI

61. The True On a long, grueling journey from England to Rhode Island in
Confessions of 1802, a 12 year old changes from a prim and proper girl to a
Charlotte Doyle swashbuckling mate of a mutinous crew and is accused of
murder by the captain. Awash with shipboard activity, intense
Avi feelings, and a keen sense of time and place, the story is a
throwback to good old-fashioned adventure yarns on the high
Pages: 232 seas.
FIC AVI
Candor The picture-perfect new town of Candor, Florida, is attracting
more and more new families, drawn by its postcard-like
Bachorz, Pam small-town feel. But the parents are drawn by something else
as well. They know that in Candor their rebellious teenagers
Pages: 249 will somehow become rewired - they'll learn to respect their
elders, to do their chores, and enjoy their homework. They'll
FIC BAC give up the tattoos, metal music, and partying that have been
driving their parents crazy. They'll become every parent's
dream.
The River Following her father’s emotional breakdown, Veronica moves
with her family from Portland to tiny Hoodoo, Oregon, where
Beaufrand, Mary her parents open an inn. Her father’s condition improves and
Jane her mother, a celebrity chef, is just fine, thank you. But
Ronnie is bereft, unable to get over all the things she’s left
Pages: 215 behind in the big city. And then the young girl she’s been
babysitting dies—an accidental drowning, the authorities
FIC BEA think, but Ronnie’s not so sure and sets out to investigate.
Mr. Shivers After his daughter is brutally murdered, a revenge-seeking
Marcus Connelly leaves Memphis on a hunt across America's
Bennett, Robert hobo camps and ghost towns for the grotesquely scarred,
Jackson ghostly figure known as "Mr. Shivers." On his quest Connelly
teams up with a scrappy band of hobos recovering from their
Pages: 327 own brushes with "the gray man," and the body count
increases as they ride the rails tracking their target.
FIC BEN
The Dark Days of Will Halpin has ditched his former "deaf school" and is now
Hamburger Haplin trying to merge into the auditory-able mainstream at Carbon
High in eastern Pennsylvania. As the new, overweight kid who
Berk, Josh has to sit off to the side during classes so he can try to read
the lips of both his teachers and his classmates, Will—no
Pages: 250 slouch when it comes to reading human reactions—quickly
downsizes his social expectations and retreats back into the
FIC BER soundless cocoon of his own skull.

62. The Rule of Four Tom Sullivan and Paul Harris are determined to unlock the
centuries old mystery behind an ancient Renaissance text
Caldwell, Ian before their graduation from Princeton, but just as they are
about to discover its secrets, the campus is rocked with a
Pages: 372 series of suspicious deaths.
FIC CAL
The Alchemist Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy, sets out from his
home in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of buried
Coelho, Paulo treasure, but through his encounters with a Gypsy woman, a
man who calls himself a king, and an Alchemist, he learns the
Pages: 197 value of the treasures found within himself.
FIC COE
I Am the Cheese 14-year-old Adam Farmer’s whole life has been fiction. His
identity altered and a new family history created. Suddenly
Cormier, Robert nothing is as it once seemed; he can trust no one, maybe not
even himself. It is exactly this revelation that turns Adam’s life
Pages: 256 upside down. As he tries to ascertain who he really is, he
encounters a past, present, and future too horrible to
FIC COR contemplate.
The Rag and Bone A 7-year-old girl has been battered to death, and there are no
Shop suspects, no leads. The police, under political pressure to
make an arrest, bring in Trent, a cold, ambitious professional
Cormier, Robert interrogator who prides himself on his ability to extract
confessions. His victim is 12-year-old Jason – the last person
Pages: 154 to see the girl. It becomes clear to readers that Trent’s goal is
a confession (even a false one) rather than truth.
FIC COR
The Hound of the Upon hearing Dr. James Mortimer's saga of the haunted
Baskervilles Baskerville family and the recent death of family head Sir
Charles Baskerville, apparently from the hound of the legend,
Doyle, Arthur Holmes and Watson begin their investigation. When the
Conan estate's heir, Sir Henry Baskerville, arrives in London from
Canada strange things immediately occur and Holmes
Pages: 250 dispatches Watson to accompany Sir Henry to Baskerville
Hall.
FIC DOY

63. Peace Like a River In the winter of his 11th year, two schoolyard bullies break
into the Lands' house, and Rube's big brother Davy guns them
Enger, Leif down with a Winchester. Shortly after his arrest, Davy breaks
out of jail and goes on the lam. Swede is Rube's younger
Pages: 313 sister and shortly after Davy's escape, Rube, Swede, and their
father, a widowed school custodian, hit the road too,
FIC ENG swerving this way and that across Minnesota and North
Dakota, determined to find their lost outlaw Davy.
Now You See Her This is a story about Marcy Taggart, who, at 50, is newly
divorced and mourning her daughter, Devon, who two years
Fielding, Joy ago disappeared in a boating accident and is presumed dead.
On what was to be her 25th wedding anniversary, Marcy
Pages: 200 travels to Ireland for a vacation and spots a girl she believes
to be Devon, and her sightseeing quickly turns into a quest.
FIC FIE
Anansi Boys "Fat Charlie" Nancy leads a life of comfortable workaholism in
London, with a stressful job he doesn't much like, and a
Gaiman, Neil pleasant fiancée, Rosie. When Charlie learns of the death of
his estranged father in Florida, he attends the funeral and
Pages: 400 learns two facts that turn his well-ordered existence upside-
down: that his father was a human form of Anansi, the
FIC GAI African trickster god, and that he has a brother, Spider, who
has inherited some of their father's godlike abilities.
Paper Towns Quentin or Q has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently
adventurous Margo from afar. So when she cracks open a
Green, John window and climbs back into his life, dressed like a ninja and
summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge, he
Pages: 305 follows. After their all-nighter ends and a new day breaks, Q
arrives at school to discover that Margo has now become a
FIC GRE mystery. But Q soon learns that there are clues – and they're
for him.
Invisible City An action-packed adventure involving conspiracy theories,
end-of-the-world prophecies, government agents, futuristic
Harric, M.G. technology, and a bit of the supernatural. When Joshua's
father dies in a suspicious plane crash in Mexico, the 13-year-
Pages: old flies across the Atlantic to investigate. Eventually Joshua
discovers a secret society that has remained hidden for
FIC HAR centuries.

64. It They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon
the horror. Now they were grown-up men and women who
King, Stephen had gone out into the big world to gain success and
happiness. But none of them could withstand the force that
Pages: 1093 drew them back to Derry, Maine to face the nightmare
without an end, and the evil without a name.
FIC KIN
Mystic River The past comes back to haunt three men who shared a
friendship as children when Sean Devine, now a policeman, is
Lehane, Dennis assigned to investigate the murder of Jimmy Marcus's
teenage daughter, a crime the third member of their group,
Pages: 401 Dave Boyle, is suspected of committing.
FIC LEH
Rosemary’s Baby Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse move into an apartment in a
building with a bad reputation. They discover that their
Levin, Ira neighbors are a very friendly elderly couple named Roman
and Minnie Castevet, and Guy begins to spend a lot of time
Pages: 319 with them, and strange things start to happen. A woman
Rosemary meets dies mysteriously, Rosemary has strange
FIC LEV dreams and Guy becomes distant. Then Rosemary falls
pregnant and begins to suspect that her neighbors have
special plans for her child.
Life of Pi Pi Patel, having spent an idyllic childhood in Pondicherry,
India, as the son of a zookeeper, sets off with his family at the
Martel, Yann age of sixteen to start anew in Canada, but his life takes a
marvelous turn when their ship sinks in the Pacific, leaving
Page: 401 him adrift on a raft with a 450-pound Bengal tiger for
company.
FIC MAR
The Eight In the 20th century, Catherine Velis is a computer expert with
a flair for music, painting, and chess who, on her way to
Neville, Katherine Algeria, she is invited to take a mysterious moonlighting
assignment: recover the pieces of an old chess set missing for
Pages: 598 centuries. Meanwhile, in the midst of the French Revolution,
a young nun discovers that her abbey is the hiding place of a
FIC NEV chess set, once owned by the great Charlemagne, which
allows those who play it to tap into incredible powers beyond
the imagination.

65. Bel Canto A group of international guests, taken hostage by terrorists
while attending a birthday party at the home of the vice
Patchett, Ann president of a small South American country, form bonds
with their captors and enter into an almost idyllic lifestyle,
Pages: 318 united by the music of Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered
soprano.
FIC PAT
The Shadow of the -
Wind , an author he has
recently discovered, and finds that everything Carax has ever
Ruiz, Carlos Zafon written has been destroyed--and that his search has put his
friends and family in danger.
Pages: 486
FIC RUI
In the Woods When Cameron rescues a baby abandoned in the woods,
everyone says it is a miracle. A stroke of luck that he just
Stevenson, Robin happened to be there, riding his bike along that trail, and
heard the baby's cry. But Cameron has a secret: It wasn't just
Pages: 124 luck. He was there because his twin sister Katie begged him
to go. Did Katie know about the baby? Is she covering for
FIC STE someone? At first Cameron just wants some answers but
once he knows the truth he has to decide what to do with it.
The Secret History Richard Papen comes from a lower-class family and a loveless
California home to Vermont's Hampden College. Almost too
Tartt, Donna easily, he is accepted into a clique of five socially
sophisticated students who study Classics with an
Pages: 559 idiosyncratic, morally fraudulent professor. Finally they
reveal to Richard that they accidentally killed a man during a
FIC TAR bacchanalian frenzy; when one of their members seems
ready to spill the secret, the group – now including Richard –
must kill him, too.
I Am The Nineteen-year-old cabbie Ed Kennedy has little in life to be
Messenger proud of: his dad died of alcoholism, and he and his mom
have few prospects for success. He has little to do except
Zusak, Markus share a run-down apartment with his faithful yet smelly dog,
drive his taxi, and play cards. Then, after he stops a bank
Pages: 357 robbery, Ed begins receiving anonymous messages marked in
code on playing cards in the mail, and almost immediately his
FIC ZUS life begins to swerve off its beaten-down path.

66. Young Adult Literature
One Summer It's almost Christmas, but there is no joy in the house of
terminally ill Jack and his family. With only a short time left to
Baldacci, David live, he spends his last days preparing to say goodbye to his
devoted wife, Lizzie, and their three children. Then,
Pages: 337 unthinkably, tragedy strikes again: Lizzie is killed in a car
accident. With no one able to care for them, the children are
FIC BAL separated from each other and sent to live with family
members around the country.
Dead to You Ethan was abducted from his front yard when he was just
seven years old. Now, at sixteen, he has returned to his family.
McMann, Lisa It’s a miracle…at first. Then the tensions start to build. His
reintroduction to his old life isn’t going smoothly, and his
Pages: 243 family is tearing apart all over again. If only Ethan could
remember something, anything, about his life before, he’d be
FIC MCM able to put the pieces back together. But there’s something
that’s keeping his memory blocked. Something unspeakable...
The Five People A bitter eighty-three-year-old war veteran who believes his life
You Meet in is meaningless dies while trying to save a little girl's life and
Heaven finds himself in heaven, where five people from his past--some
loved ones, some strangers – explain what his years on Earth
Albom, Mitch really meant, and whether or not he succeeded in saving the
child.
Pages: 196
FIC ALB
For One More Day After years of drinking, being rejected by his wife and
daughter, and a suicide attempt, ex-baseball star Charley
Albom, Mitch Benetto returns to his childhood home where he encounters
the ghost of his mother, who tells him family secrets and
Pages: 197 guides him in making his life better.
FIC ALB
The Absolutely Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the
True Diary of a Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town
Part-Time Indian school where the only other Native American is the school
mascot. Finding his niche on the basketball team and meeting
Alexie, Sherman his old classmates on the court, Junior grapples with questions
about what constitutes one's community, identity, and tribe.
Pages: 229 This book is filled with illustrations that help fuel the storyline.
FIC ALE

67. How the Garcia This is a story of four sisters who must adjust to life in America
Girls Lost Their after having to flee from the Dominican Republic is told
Accents through a series of episodes beginning in adulthood, when
their lives have been shaped by U. S. mores, and moving
Alvarez, Julia backwards to their wealthy childhood on the island. Adapting
to American life is difficult and causes embarrassment when
Pages: 290 friends meet their parents, anger as they are bullied.
FIC ALV
The Blood of The death of her father leads a teenage girl in seventeenth-
Flowers century Iran to go live with her mother as a servant in the
home of her uncle, a wealthy rug designer in the court of the
Amirrezvani, Anita Shah, where she is able to develop her talent for rug design--a
skill that becomes vital to her survival after her lack of a dowry
Pages: 377 forces her into a contract marriage, renewable every three
months, with the son of a horse trader.
FIC AMI
Catalyst Eighteen-year-old Kate, who sometimes chafes at being a
preacher's daughter, finds herself losing control in her senior
Anderson, Laurie year as she faces difficult neighbors, the possibility that she
Halse may not be accepted by the college of her choice, and an
unexpected death.
Pages: 232
FIC AND
Prom Ashley is a senior from a lower-middle-class family, dating a
high school dropout, and gearing up for graduation but with no
Anderson, Laurie plans for college. But when the new math teacher steals the
Hulse prom money, Ashley - who swears she doesn't care - finds
herself sucked into turning nothing into the best prom ever
Pages: 215 because it means the world to her best friend, Nat.
FIC AND
Twisted After finally getting noticed by someone other than school
bullies and his ever-angry father, seventeen-year-old Tyler
Anderson, Laurie enjoys his tough new reputation and the attentions of a
Halse popular girl, but when life starts to go bad again, he must
choose between transforming himself or giving in to his
Pages: 250 destructive thoughts.
FIC AND

68. Beach Blondes Three months. Three guys. One amazing summer. Summer
Smith is in for the best summer of her life. Between the cold
Applegate, weather and her boyfriendless existence in Minnesota,
Katherine Summer is ready for sun, sand, and boys in the Florida Keys.
And by the end of the first day, she has more than enough to
Pages: 736 keep her busy: Adam has looks and power. Diver is mellow and
intriguing. And Seth is the perfect guy except he has a
FIC APP girlfriend. But with new friends, cute guys, and miles of hot
white sand, Summer's in for more trouble than she thinks.
Thirteen Reasons High school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail
Why containing seven cassette tapes recorded by his crush, Hannah
Baker, who committed suicide, and spends a bewildering and
Asher, Jay heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to
Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death.
Pages: 288
FIC ASH
Weetzie Bat Weetzie, now 23, is a child of Hollywood who hated high
school but loves the memories of Marilyn Monroe and Charlie
Block, Francesca Chaplin. Nobody understands her, least of all her divorced
Lia parents, until she meets Dirk. After he tells her he’s gay, he
takes her slam-dancing at the hot clubs in L.A. After moving in
Pages: 128 together with their significant others, the four of them make
movies and have a baby. They spend no time considering
FIC BLO college or career. Their only priority is finding love and keeping
it once they find it.
Tyrell Fifteen-year-old Tyrell, who is living in a Bronx homeless
shelter with his spaced-out mother and his younger brother,
Booth, Coe tries to avoid temptation so he doesn’t end up in jail like his
father. Torn between the needs of the women in his life and
Pages: 310 his seven-year-old brother, Tyrell is determined to stay clean
as he agonizes over creating a new life for his family.
FIC BOO
Dandelion Wine Twelve-year-old Douglas Spaulding knows Green Town, Illinois,
is as vast and deep as the whole wide world that lies beyond
Bradbury, Ray the city limits. It is a pair of brand-new tennis shoes, the first
harvest of dandelions for Grandfather's renowned intoxicant,
Pages: 239 the distant clang of the trolley's bell on a hazy afternoon. It is
yesteryear and tomorrow blended into an unforgettable
FIC BRA always. But as young Douglas is about to discover, summer can
be more than the repetition of established rituals whose
mystical power holds time at bay.

69. The Rope Walk Alice MacCauley's eleventh summer is shaped by new
friendship, the twinges of first love, and adult lessons about
Brown, Carrie life and death when she and Theo, a New York City boy of
mixed race visiting his white New England grandparents,
Pages: 321 become the companions of Kenneth, an artist dying of and
losing his eyesight to AIDS, reading him the journals of Lewis
FIC BRO and Clark and building him a secret "rope walk" through the
woods.
Breakfast at Contains the title work about Holly Golightly, a Manhattan
Tiffany’s playgirl whose antics mask a pain-filled past; and includes
three additional stories, "House of Flowers," "A Diamond
Capote, Truman Guitar," and "A Christmas Memory." This collection gives
readers a continually fresh and exciting look at how human
Pages: 161 beings successfully connect with one another.
FIC CAP
The Perks of Being Charlie, a freshman in high school, explores the dilemmas of
a Wallflower growing up through a collection of letters he sends to an
unknown receiver. Charlie is a freshman. And while he's not
Chbosky, Stephen the biggest geek in the school, he is by no means popular. He's
a wallflower – shy and introspective, yet intelligent beyond his
Pages: 213 years. Charlie encounters the same struggles that many kids
face in high school – how to make friends, the intensity of a
FIC CHB crush, family tensions, a first relationship, exploring sexuality,
experimenting with drugs. Charlie's letters take on the
intimate feel of a journal as he shares his day-to-day thoughts
and feelings.
Frozen Rodeo Peggy Fleming Farrell, 17, feels no obligation to live up to her
famous namesake-much to the disappointment of her father, a
Clark, Catherine retired professional skater hoping to make a comeback at a
local summer rodeo-on-ice. Taking care of siblings Dorothy,
Pages: 304 Torvill, and Dean; coaching mom at Lamaze class; and working
at the coffee bar at Gas 'n Git are enough responsibility for the
FIC CLA self-involved teen.
The Chocolate War Does Jerry Renault dare to disturb the universe? You wouldn't
think that his refusal to sell chocolates during his school's
Cormier, Robert fundraiser would create such a stir, but it does; it's as if the
whole school comes apart at the seams. To some, Jerry is a
Pages: 191 hero, but to others, he becomes a scapegoat – a target for
their pent-up hatred. But Jerry is just trying to stand up for
FIC COR what he believes, but perhaps there is no way for him to
escape becoming a pawn in this game of control.

70. The Little Prince The narrator is a downed pilot in the Sahara Desert, frantically
trying to repair his wrecked plane. His efforts are interrupted
De Saint-Exupery, one day by the apparition of a little, well, prince, who asks him
Antoine to draw a sheep. And so begins their dialogue, which stretches
the narrator's imagination in all sorts of surprising, childlike
Pages: 110 directions.
FIC DE
The Secret Deborah Monroe makes a split-second decision to take the
Between Us blame for a car accident that left a man dead, hiding the fact
that her daughter, Grace, was driving from the police, and as
Delinsky, Barbara the lie seems to overshadow everything else, Grace and
Deborah find their relationship tested and their futures forever
Pages: 343 changes.
FIC DEL
Keeping the Moon Because her aerobics-star mother is taking her famous weight-
loss program to Europe, 15-year-old Colie leaves her home in
Dessen, Sarah Charlotte to spend the summer with her endearing but
uncompromisingly unusual Aunt Mira in coastal Colby, NC.
Pages: 228 Colie has recently dropped 45 pounds, but unlike her positive-
thinking mother, the teen has not succeeded in shedding her
FIC DES negative self-image.
Someone Like You Halley has always been close to her mother, but the summer
before her junior year, Halley begins cutting the umbilical cord.
Dessen, Sarah She and her best friend, Scarlett, start hanging out with Ginny
Tabor, dumps her nerdy boyfriend, and becomes involved with
Pages: 281 reckless Macon, a boy her parents have forbidden her to see.
Then Scarlett discovers she is pregnant. Walking a line
FIC DES between childhood and adulthood, the two girls turn to each
other instead of their families for support.
A Northern Light Mattie Gokey, 16, a talented writer, promised her dying
mother that she will always take care of her father and
Donnely, Jennifer younger siblings. She is stuck on a farm, living in near poverty,
with no way of escaping, even though she has been accepted
Pages: 408 at Barnard College. She promises to marry handsome Royal
Loomis, but after being assigned to burn some old letters,
FIC DON Mattie is swept along in a tale of self discovery by learning that
she can’t always live her life for other people.

71. A Yellow Raft in This novel is based on three generations of Indian Women.
Blue Water Rayona, 15, half black and half Indian, is abandoned by her
mother and in turn abandons her Aunt Ida. Her mother faces
Dorris, Michael what appears to be the last days of her often wild life in the
kind company of a misunderstood man who was both a
Pages: 372 childhood friend and enemy on the reservation. Linked to both
is Aunt Ida, the stony family matriarch who lost her favored
FIC DOR son to the Viet Nam War and now warms her heart before the
electronic fires of television soap operas.
The Memory Dr. David Henry, forced to deliver his own twins during a
Keeper’s Daughter snowstorm in 1964 with only a nurse to help him, makes a
decision that has far-reaching effects on his life, and the lives
Edwards, Kim of his wife and son, when his infant daughter is born with
Down Syndrome, and in a vain attempt to protect his wife, he
Pages: 401 orders the nurse to take the baby to an institution.
FIC EDW
Jane Slayer Jane Slayre sets out on the advice of her ghostly uncle to hone
her skills as the fearless slayer she’s meant to be. When she
Erwin, Sherri takes a job as a governess at a country estate, she falls head-
Browning & over-heels for her new master, Mr. Rochester, only to discover
Bronte, Charlotte he’s hiding a violent werewolf in the attic. Vampyres, Zombies,
and werewolves transform Charlotte Bronte’s unforgettable
Pages: 391 masterpiece into an eerie paranormal adventure.
FIC ERW
White Oleander Astrid Magnussen has a mother who is as sharp as a new
knife. Ingrid despises weakness and self-pity, telling her
Fitch, Janet daughter that they are descendants of Vikings, savages who
fought fiercely to survive. And when one of Ingrid's boyfriends
Pages: 446 abandons her, she illustrates her point, killing the man with
the poison of oleander flowers. This leads to a life sentence in
FIC FIT prison, leaving Astrid to teach herself the art of survival in a
string of Los Angeles foster homes.
Fried Green The classic novel of two women in the 1980s. Gray-headed
Tomatoes at the Mrs. Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn, who is in the
Whistle Stop Café sad slump of middle age. The tale she tells is also of two
women – of the irrepressibly dare devilish tomboy Idgie and
Flagg, Fannie her friend Ruth – who back in the thirties ran a little place in
Whistle Stop, Alabama, a Southern kind of Cafe Wobegon
Pages: 403 offering good barbecue and good coffee and all kinds of love
and laughter, even an occasional murder.
FIC FLA

72. Breaking Point Tripped in class, mooned in the hall, cola poured through the
slats in his locker, spitballs stuck in his hair – Paul Richmond
Flinn, Alex can’t take much more at his super-snobby private school. Paul
is there free because his mom works in the guidance office,
Pages: 240 but that fact makes him an instant outcast, his only friend a
funny-looking, independent girl named Binky. Even worse off is
FIC FLI David Blanco, whose mom is a cafeteria lady and whose father
is the janitor.
Cloaked Teenaged Johnny works as a cobbler in his mother's shoe
repair shop in a posh hotel in South Beach. Unexpectedly, the
Flinn, Alex striking Princess Victoriana of Aloria comes to the swanky
Miami hotel for a royal visit. The super-hot partying princess
Pages: 352 pleads for Johnny's help in finding her missing brother, and
offers of money and a royal marriage convince him to take her
FIC FLI seriously-even when she explains that the prince has been
turned into a frog.
Jane Bites Back Jane Austen, living in a sleepy college town in upstate New
York nearly two hundred years after being turned into a
Ford, Michael vampire, must hide her true identity. Jane may be undead, but
Thomas her books have taken on a life of their own. To make matters
worse, the manuscript she finished just before being turned
Pages: 299 into a vampire has been rejected by publishers. Jane longs to
let the world know who she is, but when fate suddenly thrusts
FIC FOR her back in the spotlight, she must hide her real identity.
If I Stay The last normal moment that Mia, a talented cellist, can
remember is being in the car with her family. Then she is
Forman, Gayle standing outside her body beside their mangled Buick and her
parents' corpses, watching herself and her little brother being
Pages: 259 tended by paramedics. As she ponders her state, Mia is
whisked away to a hospital, where, her body in a coma, she
FIC FOR reflects on the past and tries to decide whether to fight to live.
Juliet American Julie Jacobs travels to Sienna to learn more about
her Italian heritage and discovers she is a direct descendant of
Fortier, Anne GiuliettaTomei, the woman's whose love for Romeo
supposedly inspired Shakespeare's classic tale, and that her
Pages: 447 Italian relatives are still suffering from the curse upon their
houses.
FIC FOR

73. Sophie’s World Wanting to understand the most fundamental questions of the
universe isn't the province of ivory-tower intellectuals alone,
Gaarder, Jostein as this book's enormous popularity has demonstrated. A young
girl, Sophie, becomes embroiled in a discussion of philosophy
Pages: 518 with a faceless correspondent. At the same time, she must
unravel a mystery involving another young girl, Hilde, by using
FIC GAA everything she's learning. The truth is far more complicated
than she could ever have imagined.
Romeo and Juliet The Capulets and Montagues have some deep and essential
and Vampires differences. Blood differences. Of course, the Capulets can
escape their vampire fate, and the Montagues can try not to
Gabel, Claudia & kill their undead enemies. But at the end of the day, their
Shakespeare, blood feud is unstoppable. So it’s really quite a problem when
William Juliet, a vampire-to-be, and Romeo, the human who should be
hunting her, fall desperately in love. What they don’t realize is
Pages: 231 how deadly their love will turn out to be – or what it will mean
for their afterlives .
FIC GAB
Babe in Boyland When high school junior Natalie-or Dr. Aphrodite, as she calls
herself when writing the relationship column for her school
Gehrman, Jody paper-is accused of knowing nothing about guys and giving
Elizabeth girls bad relationship advice, she decides to investigate what
guys really think and want. But the guys in her class won't give
Pages: 292 her straight or serious answers. The only solution is to disguise
herself as a guy and spend a week at Underwood Academy,
FIC GEH the private all-boy boarding school in town.
What Happened to Cass is that girl in high school who does whatever it takes to be
Cass McBride? popular-which means stomping all over everyone else. David is
that awkward boy who painfully lurks on the outside of all of
Giles, Gail the social groups. When he commits suicide, his older brother
is out for revenge against the girl whom he believes is
Pages: 211 responsible for David's death. Slowly readers see what caused
David's suicide and Kyle's anger and are given insight as to why
FIC GIL Cass behaves as she does.
Bee Season Eliza Naumann is used to being the unremarkable member of
her family, but when she wins a series of spelling bees, her
Goldbert, Myla once distant family begins to lavish praise on her, bringing
about surprising complications. Teachers regard her with a
Pages: 275 new fondness; the studious girls begin to save a place for her
at lunch. Even Eliza can sense herself changing.
FIC GOL

74. Abraham Lincoln While Abraham Lincoln is widely renowned for saving a Union
Vampire Hunter and freeing millions of slaves, his valiant fight against the
forces of the undead has remained in the shadows for
Grahame-Smith, hundreds of years. That is, until his secret journal is stumbled
Seth upon. This book is a reconstruction of the true life story of our
greatest president for the first time – all while revealing the
Pages: 336 hidden history behind the Civil War.
FIC GRA
Little Women and The March girls learn some biting lessons, transforming from
Werewolves wild girls into little women – just as their neighbors transform
from gentlemen into blood-thirsty werewolves! Here are
Grand, Porter & tomboy Jo, meek Beth, ladylike Amy, and good-hearted Meg,
Alcott, Louisa May plus lovable neighbor Laurie Laurence, now doomed to prowl
the night on all fours, maiming and devouring the locals. As
Pages: 396 the Civil War rages, the girls learn the value of being kind, the
merits of patience and grace, and the benefits of knowing a
FIC GRA werewolf who can disembowel your teacher.
Mr. Darcy, Elizabeth Bennett marries Mr. Darcy and sets off with him on
Vampyre what she anticipates will be a happy wedding tour, but her
spirits are dampened by her new husband's dour mood, and a
Grange, Amanda series of strange incidents leads her to suspect something is
very wrong.
Pages: 308
FIC GRA
Wuthering Bites A retelling of the classic novel "Wuthering Heights" in which
Heathcliff is reimagined as a half-vampire who protects
Gray, Sarah Catherine by fighting bloodsuckers that roam the moors, and
Catherine is forced to choose between the wealthy Edgar
Pages: 362 Linton and the dangerous Heathcliff.
FIC GRA
An Abundance of Having been recently dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl
Katherines named Katherine, recent high school graduate and former
child prodigy Colin sets off on a road trip with his best friend to
Green, John try to find some new direction in life while also trying to create
a mathematical formula to explain his relationships
Pages: 227 hypothesizing that romantic relationships can be graphed and
predicted.
FIC GRE

75. Looking for Alaska Sixteen-year-old Miles Halter's adolescence has been one long
nonevent - no challenge, no girls, no mischief, and no real
Green, John friends. Seeking what Rabelais called the "Great Perhaps," he
leaves Florida for a boarding school in Birmingham, AL. His
Pages: 221 roommate, Chip, is a dirt-poor genius scholarship student with
a Napoleon complex who lives to one-up the school's rich
FIC GRE preppies. Chip's best friend is Alaska Young, with whom Miles
and every other male in her orbit falls instantly in love.
Bronx Masquerade Open Mike Friday is everyone's favorite day in Mr. Ward's
English class. On Fridays, his 18 high-school students dare to
Grimes, Nikki relax long enough to let slip the poets, painters, readers, and
dreamers that exist within each of them. Students at this
Pages: 167 Bronx high school share their creative sides by revealing their
innermost thoughts and fears to their formerly clueless
FIC GRI classmates.
A Painted House It's harvest time on the Chandler farm, and the family has
hired a crew of migrant Mexicans and "hill people" to pick 80
Grisham, John acres of cotton. A certain camaraderie pervades this bucolic
dream team. But it's backbreaking work, particularly for the 7-
Pages: 388 year-old narrator, Luke. What's more, tensions begin to
simmer between the Mexicans and the hill people, one of
FIC GRI whom has a penchant for bare-knuckles brawling. This leads to
a brutal murder, which young Luke has the bad luck to witness.
Marley and Me The author presents a tender story of his family's love for their
yellow Labrador retriever, Marley, and recalls how he grew
Grogan, John from a mischievous puppy into a nearly impossible adult that
no amount of obedience school training could correct, and of
Pages: 305 the love they felt for him.
FIC GRO
The Curious Late one night, Christopher comes across his neighbor's
Incident of the Dog poodle, Wellington, impaled on a garden fork. Wellington's
in the Night-time owner finds him cradling her dead dog in his arms, and has him
arrested. After spending a night in jail, Christopher resolves--
Haddon, Mark against the objection of his father and neighbors – to discover
just who has murdered Wellington. He is encouraged by
Pages: 226 Siobhan, a social worker at his school, to write a book about
his investigations, and the result – quirkily illustrated, with
FIC HAD each chapter given its own prime number.

76. The Noah For her 16th birthday, Lynnie expects a car, but instead, she
Confessions receives something puzzling, though of much greater
importance: a charm bracelet that belonged to her deceased
Hall, Barbara mother. Later that day, her dad gives her a long letter from her
mother to a boy called Noah. The teen begins to read about
Pages: 240 her family's past and learns why she never met her
grandparents. Lynnie is swept up in her mother's secrets and
FIC HAL begins to doubt her own future.
Jenna and Jonah’s Teen stars Charlie Tracker and Fielding Withers, known as
Fauxmance Jenna and Jonah on their hit television series about young
neighbors in love, are forced to carry on the charade off the
Haplin, Brendan set for the press and their fans, but when the paparazzi blow
their cover, Charlie and Fielding must disappear until the
Pages: 229 publicity dies down, and once off the Hollywood grid, they
realize they may like each other after all.
FIC HAP
Plainsong Tom Guthrie is a high school teacher whose wife can't--or
won't – get out of bed; the McPherons are two bachelor
Haruf, Kent brothers who know little about the world beyond their farm
gate; Victoria Roubideaux is a pregnant 17-year-old with no
Pages: 301 place to turn. Their lives parallel each other in much the same
way any small-town lives would--until Maggie Jones, another
FIC HAR teacher, makes them intersect.
Godless Jason is a smart 15-year-old, an agnostic-leaning-toward-
atheism, who resists following in the footsteps of his devoutly
Hautman, Peter Catholic father. Getting clocked under the water tower by the
nasty and unpredictable Henry leads Jason and his friend Shin
Pages: 198 to combine their talents to posit a new religion.
"Chutengodianism" sanctifies water, the source of all life, as
FIC HAU manifested by the Ten-Legged God, aka that same million-
gallon water tower.
The Outsiders According to Ponyboy, there are two kinds of people in the
world: greasers and socs. A soc has money, can get away with
Hinton, S.E. just about anything, and has an attitude longer than a
limousine. A greaser, on the other hand, always lives on the
Pages: 180 outside and needs to watch his back. Ponyboy is a greaser, and
he's always been proud of it, even willing to rumble against a
FIC HIN gang of socs for the sake of his fellow greasers – until one
terrible night when his friend Johnny kills a soc.

77. Dawn of the This book is a thrilling prequel set four years before the horrific
Dreadfuls events of Price and Prejudice and Zombies. As the story opens,
the Bennet sisters are enjoying a peaceful life in the English
Hockensmith, countryside until a funeral at the local parish goes strangely
Steve and horribly awry. Suddenly corpses are springing from the
soft earth and only one family can stop them. As the bodies
Pages: 287 pile up, Elizabeth Bennet evolves from a naïve young teenager
into a savage slayer of the undead.
FIC HOC
Green Angel Moody, introspective Green, 15, stays at home while her
parents and younger sister travel to the city to sell their
Hoffman, Alice produce. Her disappointment at being left behind causes her
to be cold and not say good-bye. But when I fire takes the city,
Pages: 116 Green is haunted by grief and by her past after losing her
family. She retreats into her ruined garden as she struggles to
FIC HOF survive emotionally and physically on her own.
When Zachary Summer in the tiny Texas town of Antler is traditionally a time
Beaver Came to for enjoying Wylie Womack's Bahama Mama snow cones and
Town racking up the pins at Kelly's Bowl-a-Rama, but this year it's
not going well for Toby. His 13-year-old heart has been broken
Holt, Kimberly twice: once by his mother, and his father to become a country
Willis singer in Nashville, and then again by his crush Scarlett, the
town beauty who barely acknowledges Toby's existence. But
Pages: 227 when Zachary Beaver, "The World's Fattest Boy," comes to
Antler as part of a traveling sideshow, Toby begins to realize
FIC HOL that there might just be people who have it worse than him.
A Time for Dancing Juliana, at age 16 is a gifted dancer along with her "one-and-
only" best friend, Samantha. Their initial concerns about
Hurwin, Davida boyfriends and dance class seem trivial after Jules is diagnosed
Wills with a deadly form of cancer. Through graphic depictions of
what follows’ endless sessions of chemotherapy, emergency
Pages: 257 runs to the hospital and Jules's periodic escapes into a dream
state, readers will feel the young victim's weariness as she
FIC HUR fights against the body which has betrayed her.
A Prayer for Owen Tells the story of Owen Meany who believes he is God's
Meany instrument and his friendship with John Wheelwright;
beginning at age eleven when Owen hits a foul ball that kills
Irving, John John's mother during a Little League game in 1953.
Pages: 617
FIC IRV

78. The Lottery and A collection of twenty-six stories by twentieth-century
Other Stories American author Shirley Jackson, including her famous work,
"The Lottery," in which the people of a village perform their
Jackson, Shirley annual lottery even though they have long forgotten the
reason for the ritual.
Pages: 320
FIC JAC
Emma and the Oblivious to the real evils within Highbury, Emma proceeds to
Vampires match make her friends to unsuitable vampires with disastrous
results. Even though she has never had the discipline to apply
Josephson, Wayne herself to reading or drawing, or the desire to marry, she
& Austen, Jane discovers quite suddenly that she is a skilled vampire slayer
and proceeds to rid the neighborhood of the fiendish Undead
Pages: 292 while winning the approval and heart of the one gentleman
vampire who she discovers she truly loves.
FIC JOS
Skunk Girl Sixteen-year-old Nina Khan feels like an outsider, and there are
two things that she particularly set her apart from others in
Karim, Sheba her small town: her perfect older sister, Sonia, and the fact
that she has inherited the “Pakistani hairy gene.” Begin a
Pages: 231 Muslim Pakistani-American, Nina’s parents have very firm
views on social behavior: she is not allowed to date or attend
FIC KAR parties, but as she forms a mutual attraction for a classmate,
Nina stages a mild rebellion.
The Juvie Three Terence, Gecko, and Arjay made serious mistakes and wound
up doing time in juvenile-detention facilities. Empathetic adult
Kerman, Gordon Douglas Healy, a former juvenile offender himself, has secured
a grant to operate an experimental halfway house in New York
Pages: 256 City designed to provide second chances to boys deemed as
deserving. The teens accept his offer to become his first
FIC KER reformees, willing to trade their bleak incarceration for a small
taste of freedom, even though the bargain entails maintaining
academic excellence, therapy, and community service.
Flowers for Algernon is a laboratory mouse who has undergone surgery to
Algernon increase his intelligence by artificial means. Charlie Gordon,
born with an unusually low IQ, and is the first human test
Keys, Daniel subject for the surgery. But must face his gradual return to his
former state when the astounding results of an experimental
Pages: 311 surgery that increased his intelligence prove to be only
temporary.
FIC KEY

79. The Bean Trees Feisty Marietta Greer changes her name to "Taylor" when her
car runs out of gas in Taylorville, Ill. By the time she reaches
Kingsolver, Barbara Oklahoma, this strong-willed young Kentucky native with a
quick tongue and an open mind is catapulted into a surprising
Pages: 323 new life. Taylor leaves home in a beat-up '55 Volkswagen bug,
on her way to nowhere in particular, savoring her freedom.
FIC KIN But when a forlorn Cherokee woman drops a baby in Taylor's
passenger seat and asks her to take it, she does.
Interpreter of This book is a collection of nine short stories dealing with
Maladies issues ranging from the disintegrating relationship of an Indian
couple to a newly married couple, are exploring their new
Lahiri, Jhumpa house, to a young woman, and her affair with a married Indian
man named Dev. Navigating between the Indian traditions
Pages: 198 they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in
this book provide touching stories.
FIC LAH
The Girls A fictional autobiography of conjoined twins told by Rose and
Ruby Darlen, two young women who, nearing the age of thirty,
Lansens, Lori are about to become history's oldest surviving twins to be
joined at the head. Born in a small town outside Toronto in the
Pages: 346 midst of a tornado and abandoned by their unwed teenage
mother two weeks later, the girls are cared for by Aunt Lovey,
FIC LAN a nurse who refuses to see them as deformed or even
disabled.
Crow Lake Four children living in northern Ontario struggle to stay
together after their parents die in an auto accident in Lawson's
Lawson, Mary fascinating debut, a compelling and lovely study of sibling
rivalry and family dynamics in which the land literally becomes
Pages: 320 a character. Kate Morrison narrates the tale in flashback mode,
starting with the fatal car accident that leaves seven-year-old
FIC LAW Kate; her toddler sister, Bo; 19-year-old Luke; and 17-year-old
Matt to fend for themselves.
Ella Enchanted In this novel based on the story of Cinderella, Ella is
inadvertently cursed by an imprudent fairy named Lucinda,
Levine, Gail Carson who bestows on her the "gift" of obedience. Anything anyone
tells her to do, Ella must obey. Another girl might have been
Pages: 238 cowed by this affliction, but not feisty Ella. When her beloved
mother dies, leaving her in the care of a mostly absent father,
FIC LEV and later, a loathsome stepmother and two treacherous
stepsisters, Ella's life and well-being seem in grave peril.

80. The Highest Tide Marine tidal life becomes a subtly executed metaphor for the
bewilderments of adolescence in this novel. As a precocious,
Lynch, Jim undersized 13-year-old living on the shore of Puget Sound, in
Washington State, Miles O'Malley has developed a consuming
Pages: 272 passion for the abundant life of the tidal flats. His simple
pleasure in observing is tested and complicated over the
FIC LYN course of a remarkable summer, when he finds a giant squid, a
discovery that brings him the unwelcome attention of
scientists, TV reporters and a local cult.
Saving Francesca Francesca is stuck at St. Sebastians, a boys' school that's
pretends it’s coed by giving the girls their own bathroom.
Marchetta, Melina Then there's Francesca's mother, who always thinks she knows
what's best for Francesca—until she is suddenly stricken with
Pages: 243 acute depression, leaving Francesca lost, along, and without an
inkling of who she really is.
FIC MAR
In Country Sam, 17, is obsessed with the Vietnam War and the effect it
has had on her life losing a father she never knew and now
Mason, Bobbie Ann living with Uncle Emmett, who seems to be suffering from the
effects of Agent Orange. In her own forthright way, she tries to
Pages: 272 sort out why and how Vietnam has altered the lives of the vets
of Hopewell, Kentucky.
FIC MAS
The No.1 Ladies’ MmaRamotswe's cases come slowly and hesitantly at first:
Detective Agency women who suspect their husbands are cheating on them; a
father worried that his daughter is sneaking off to see a boy; a
McCall Smith, missing child who may have been killed by witchdoctors to
Alexander make medicine; a doctor who sometimes seems highly
competent and sometimes seems to know almost nothing
Pages: 282 about medicine. The desultory pace is fine, since she has only a
detective manual, the frequently cited example of Agatha
FIC MCC Christie and her instincts to guide her.
Let the Great Philippe Petit's illicit 1974 high-wire walk between the World
World Spin Trade Center towers is the touchstone for meaningful stories
from the people down below, including an Irish monk living in
McCann, Colum the Bronx projects, a Park Avenue mother in mourning for her
son who died in Vietnam, and a heroin-addicted hooker. Each
Pages: 349 tells their moving stories as it relates to Philippe’s daring act.
FIC MCC

81. The Heart is a Deaf-mute John Singer, who becomes the confidant for all
Lonely Hunter various types of misfits in a Georgia mill town during the
1930s. Each one yearns for escape from small town life. When
McCullers, Carson Singer's mute companion goes insane, Singer moves into the
Kelly house, where Mick Kelly, the book's heroine finds solace
Pages: 430 in her music.
FIC MCC
Atonement Imaginative thirteen-year-old BrionyTallis, misinterpreting a
scene between her older sister Cecilia and Robbie Turner, the
McEwan, Ian housekeeper's son, later accuses Robbie of a crime she has no
proof he committed and spends years trying to atone for her
Pages: 351 actions.
FIC MCE
Little Vampire The dear, sweet March sisters are back, and Marmee has told
Women them to be good little women. Good little vampire women,
that is. The girls have grown up since you last read their tale,
Messina, Lynn & and now they have much longer lives and much more
Alcott, Louisa May ravenous appetites. Marmee has taught them well, and so
they live by an unprecedented moral code of abstinence . . .
Pages: 317 from human blood. They must learn to get along with one
another, help make society a better place, and avoid the
FIC MES vampire hunters who pose a constant threat to their existence.
Queen Victoria London, 1838. Queen Victoria is crowned; she receives the
Demon Hunter orb, the scepter, and an arsenal of bloodstained weaponry. If
Britain is about to become the greatest power of the age,
Moorat, A. E. there’s the small matter of the undead to take care of first.
Demons stalk the crown, but rather than dreams of demon
Pages: 374 hunting, Queen Victoria’s thoughts are occupied by Prince
Albert.
FIC MOO
The Rest of Her Life Now a junior high school English teacher married to a college
professor, Leigh's strained relationship with her eighteen-year-
Moriarty, Laura old daughter, Kara, is put to the test after Kara accidentally
kills another teenage girl--an event that forces Leigh to also
Pages: 333 deal with her resentment toward her husband and her feelings
about her mother.
FIC MOR

82. Taking Off In 1985 in Clear Lake, Texas, home of the Johnson Space
Center, high school senior Annie Porter struggles with her
Moss, Jenny desire to become a poet, but her resolve to pursue her dream
is strengthened when she meets Christa McAuliffe, the first
Pages: 340 teacher to go into space.
FIC MOS
Monster Steve Harmon, 16, is accused of serving as a lookout for a
robbery of a Harlem drugstore. The owner was shot and killed,
Myers, Walter and now Steve is in prison awaiting trial for murder. From
Dean there, he tells about his case and his incarceration. Steve, an
amateur filmmaker, recounts his experiences in the form of a
Pages: 281 movie screenplay. Steve searches deep within his soul to
prove to himself that he is not the "monster" the prosecutor
FIC MYE presented him as to the jury.
Wait for Me As her senior year in high school approaches, Mina yearns to
find her own path in life, but working at the family business,
Na, An taking care of her little sister, and dealing withher mother's
impossible expectations are as stifling as the southern
Pages: 169 California heat until she falls in love with Ysrael, a young
migrant worker with dreams of becoming a musician, who
FIC NA offers a way out.
Things I Want My Before Barbara Forbes, a mother of four, succumbs to terminal
Daughters to Know cancer, she leaves words of wisdom for her four daughters in
the form of letters to each of them. In the year following
Noble, Elizabeth Barbara's death, her daughters draw strength from her words
and from each other as they move forward with their lives.
Pages: 374
FIC NOB
Twenty Boy More than a year has passed since Matt’s sudden death, and
Summer all that time Anna has kept her brief relationship with Matt a
secret from Frankie. Matt had planned to tell his sister but
Ockler, Sarah died before he had the opportunity. Now, while on a beach
vacation with Frankie’s family, Anna finds herself falling for
Pages: 290 cute, sensitive Sam against her will. If she can love someone
else, does that mean she no longer loves Matt? Dealing with
FIC OCK loss, Anna tries to move on.

83. The Dive from Twenty-three-year-old Carrie Bell, engaged to her high school
Clausen’s Pier sweetheart, is ready to make a break from a life that has
become suffocating in its sameness, but her decision is
Packer, Ann complicated when her fiancée is paralyzed in a diving accident
and everyone expects her to stay and care for him.
Pages: 413
FIC PAC
Jacob Have I Loved Sara Louise Bradshaw is sick and tired of her beautiful twin
Caroline. Ever since they were born, Caroline has been the
Paterson, pretty one, the talented one, the better sister. Even now,
Katherine Caroline seems to take everything: Louise's friends, their
parents' love, her dreams for the future. For once in her life,
Pages: 256 Louise wants to be the special one. But in order to do that, she
must first figure out who she is . . . and find a way to make a
FIC PAT place for herself outside her sister's shadow.
Beginner’s Luck When Hallie Palmer, a 16-year-old gambling whiz kid, gets
kicked off her Ohio high school's soccer team for skipping
Pedersen, Laura class, she quits school altogether. With her parents and six
siblings breathing down her neck, she also decides to leave her
Pages: 336 chaotic home, hiding in the summerhouse of the Stocktons-the
delightfully quirky family for whom she's just started doing
FIC PED yard work.
The Big Shuffle After the death of her father and her mother's emotional
breakdown, graphic design student Hallie Palmer decides to
Pedersen, Laura leave college and take care of her eight younger siblings.
Assistance from offbeat relatives, church ladies, and friends
Pages: 387 goes a long way to make survival possible, but Hallie bears all
of the responsibility. Faced with twin baby brothers she can't
FIC PED tell apart, a sister who decamps to Boston, and the day-to-day
challenge of keeping all those people dressed, fed, and in
school, she takes little time to mourn.
King Dork 14-year-old outsider, Tom Henderson’s life is a series of
humiliations, from the principal who mocks him to the popular
Portman, Frank girls who put him on their Dud list. The teen’s only refuge is in
his music. When Tom looks for a copy of The Catcher in the
Pages: 368 Rye in a box of books left by his father, a detective who died
under strange circumstances. Tom sets out to read each
FIC POR volume, decode the secret messages that he finds, and figure
out who his father really was.

84. Hester In The Scarlet Letter, Nathanial Hawthorne hints that after
Hester Prynne's husband and lover die, Hester and her
Reed, Paula daughter, Pearl, travel abroad. In her own inventive way, Reed
takes this suggestion and runs with it. Eager to start anew,
Pages: 308 travels to England with Pearl and to find a suitable marital
match. Upon arrival, Hester reunites with a childhood friend
FIC REE whose husband is an ally of Oliver Cromwell. When Cromwell
learns of Hester's magical ability, he recruits her to help ferret
out those plotting against him.
A Brief Chapter in Sixteen-year-old atheist Simone Turner-Bloom's life changes in
My Impossible Life unexpected ways when her parents convince her to make
contact with her biological mother. Simone has always known
Reinhardt, Dana she was adopted and that her birth mother is named Rivka,
but never wanted to meet her. When contact is finally made,
Pages: 228 she finds out her mother is an agnostic from a Jewish family
who is losing her battle with cancer.
FIC REI
Brooklyn Rose It's 1900, the dawn of a new century, and fifteen-year-old Rose
Frampton is beginning a new life. She's left her family in South
Rinaldi, Ann Carolina to live with her handsome and wealthy husband in
Brooklyn, New York – a move that is both scary and exciting.
Pages: 224 As mistress of the large Victorian estate on Dorchester Road,
she must learn to make decisions, establish her independence,
FIC RIN and run an efficient household.
Gilead John Ames, is 76, a preacher who has lived almost all of his life
in Gilead, Iowa. He is writing a letter to his almost seven-year-
Robinson, old son, the blessing of his second marriage. The reason for
Marilynne the letter is Ames's failing health. He wants to leave an
account of himself for this son who will never really know him.
Pages: 247 His greatest regret is that he hasn't much to leave them, in
worldly terms.
FIC ROB
Other Words for Ari, having transferred to an elite Manhattan prep school after
Love receiving a large inheritance and been introduced to the
glamorous side of New York by wealthy student Leigh, begins
Rosenthal, Lorriane dating Leigh's cousin Blake, but when her parents start to
worry about how close she has gotten to Blake and he pulls
Pages: 354 away after his family suffers misfortune, Ari is forced to
reevaluate their intense relationship.
FIC ROS

85. How I Live Now To get away from her pregnant stepmother in New York City,
fifteen-year-old Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt
Rosoff, Meg and cousins, with whom she instantly bonds, but soon war
breaks out and rips apart the family while devastating the land.
Pages: 194 This riveting first novel paints a frighteningly realistic picture of
a world war breaking out in the 21st century.
FIC ROS
Just in Case After rescuing his baby brother from an open window's ledge,
15-year-old David Case becomes convinced that Fate is toying
Rosoff, Meg with him, so David tries to elude detection by creating a new
identity, starting with his name and his wardrobe. Eventually,
Pages: 246 he refuses to return home and plunges into an affair with an
older girl.
FIC ROS
What I Was An unnamed man recounts his time as a disgruntled student at
St. Oswald's boarding school; upon ditching an outdoor
Rosoff, Meg physical education class jog, he stumbles upon a mysterious
fellow teen named Finn who lives alone in a hut by the sea.
Pages: 209 The protagonist makes it his business to spend as much time
as possible with Finn, a major challenge. Weeks go by and Finn
FIC ROS falls ill, setting the stage for a surprising revelation that will
dramatically transform both boys.
So Shelly When their mutual friend Shelly is drowned in a sailing
accident, high school junior John Keats and his volatile
Roth, Ty classmate Gordon Byron decide to steal Shelly's ashes and, in a
romantic gesture, return them to the small Lake Erie island
Pages: 328 where her body washed up, but the journey proves more
revealing and emotionally complicated than either of them
FIC ROT had anticipated.
Empire Falls Miles Roby, called back from college to the small town of
Empire Falls in Dexter County, Maine to take care of his ailing
Russo, Richard mother, falls into a rut that keeps him trapped until years later
when a series of revelations and tragedies jolts him back into
Pages: 483 an awareness of his life.
FIC RUS

86. The Catcher in the This book details the two days in the life of 16-year-old Holden
Rye Caulfield after he has been expelled from prep school.
Confused and disillusioned, he searches for truth and rails
Salinger, J.D. against the "phoniness" of the adult world. He ends up
exhausted and emotionally ill, in a psychiatrist's office. After he
Pages: 214 recovers from his breakdown, Holden relates his experiences
to the reader.
FIC SAL
Nine Stories A Compilation of the stories: A Perfect Day for Bananafish,
Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, Just Before the War with the
Salinger, J.D. Eskimos, The Laughing Man, Down at the Dinghy, For Esme —
With Love and Squalor, Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes, De
Pages: 320 Daumier-Smith's Blue Period, and Teddy. War hangs over
these wry stories of loss and occasionally unsuppressed rage.
FIC SAL Salinger's children are fragile, odd, whereas his adults seem
beaten down by circumstances – some neurasthenic, others
deeply unsympathetic.
Not a Happy This sweet tale takes a nostalgic look back at the experience of
Camper attending sleepaway camp through the eyes of a 13-year-old
Jewish girl. Though this may not be quite the camp many baby
Schneider, Mindy boomers attended, this book succeeds in provoking gentle
flashbacks to a simpler shared time of teenage angst and
Pages: 256 hormone surges, before cable television, all recalled in a
humorous tone.
FIC SCH
The Lovely Bones On her way home from school on a snowy December day in
1973, 14-year-old Susie Salmon is lured into a makeshift
Sebold, Alice underground den in a cornfield and brutally raped and
murdered, the latest victim of a serial killer – the man she
Pages: 328 knew as her neighbor, Mr. Harvey. This story is an odd yet
affecting coming-of-age story. Susie struggles to accept her
FIC SEB death while still clinging to the lost world of the living.
The Pilot’s Wife Kathryn Lyon's life was peacefully routine, she had a good job
and a happy marriage, so when she received the news that her
Shreve, Anita pilot husband has died in a crash, her world was drastically
changed. Even before his body is recovered the media
Pages: 293 discovers that her husband had a secret life, and Kathryn sets
out to learn who her husband really was.
FIC SHR

87. I Capture the Seventeen-year-old Cassandra Mortmain wants to become a
Castle writer. Trouble is, she's the daughter of a once-famous author
with a severe case of writer's block. Her family is barely
Smith, Dodie scraping by in a crumbling English castle they leased when
times were good. Now there's very little furniture, hardly any
Pages: 352 food, and just a few pages of notebook paper left to write on.
Cassandra manages to get a hold of a journal and begins her
FIC SMI literary apprenticeship by refusing to face the facts.
The Geography of A coming-of-age novel in poems, in which small-town
Girlhood teenager, Penny Morrow, longs for love, courage, and a life of
adventure and struggles through the absence of her mother,
Smith, Kirsten the mental illness of a friend, the death of someone from her
past, and a romance with her sister's ex-boyfriend.
Pages: 184
FIC SMI
Dear John An angry rebel, John dropped out of school and enlisted in the
Army, not knowing what else to do with his life--until he meets
Sparks, Nicholas the girl of his dreams, Savannah. Their mutual attraction
quickly grows into the kind of love that leaves Savannah
Pages: 276 waiting for John to finish his tour of duty, and John wanting to
settle down with the woman who captured his heart. But 9/11
FIC SPA may change everything.
The Notebook In 1932, two North Carolina teenagers from opposite sides of
the tracks fall in love. Spending one idyllic summer together,
Sparks, Nicholas Noah and Allie don’t meet again for 14 years. Noah decides to
restore the house of his dreams, and Allie, programmed by the
Pages: 272 caste system of the South to marry a prosperous man, is
engaged to attorney Lon Hammond. When she reads a
FIC SPA newspaper story about Noah's restoration project, she shows
up at his door, re-entering his life for two very important days.
Message in a Bottle -needed
summer holiday at Cape Cod, she finds a lot more than a break
Sparks, Nicholas from the hustle and bustle. On an early-morning jog along
Cape Cod Bay, she comes across a corked bottle with a
Pages: 370 scrolled-up message inside. From there, a romance buds and
blossoms into a colorful bouquet of emotional baggage.
FIC SPA

88. Stargirl A series of interesting theories are concocted to explain
Stargirl Caraway, a new 10th grader at Arizona's Mica Area
Spinelli, Jerry High School who wears pioneer dresses and kimonos to school,
strums a ukulele in the cafeteria, laughs when there are no
Pages: 186 jokes, and dances when there is no music. The whole school is
stunned by her, including our 16-year-old narrator Leo Borlock.
FIC SPI
The Art of Racing in If you've ever wondered what your dog is thinking, Stein's third
the Rain novel offers an answer. Enzo is a lab terrier mix plucked from a
farm outside Seattle to ride shotgun with race car driver Denny
Stein, Garth Swift as he pursues success on the track and off. Enzo,
frustrated by his inability to speak and his lack of opposable
Pages: 336 thumbs, watches Denny's old racing videos, and hopes for the
day when his life as a dog will be over and he can be reborn a
FIC STE man.
The Joy Luck Club The personal, often painful, histories of four Chinese American
women who began meeting in San Francisco in 1949 to play
Tan, Amy mahjong are revealed as the daughter of one who has died
searches for her sisters in China to tell them about the mother
Pages: 288 they never knew.
FIC TAN
The Gospel Highly intelligent 17-year-old Josh Swensen wants to save the
According to Larry world and hopefully seduce Beth, the best friend for whom he
pines. Josh's self-deprecating, humorous tone carries readers
Tashjian, Janet swiftly along. As the anonymous Larry, the hero starts a Web
site (www.thegospelaccordingtolarry.com) on which he rants
Pages: 227 against consumer culture and its obsession with celebrities.
FIC TAS
Vote for Larry After going underground as a student at C.U.-Boulder, Josh
finds his anti-consumer ideals slipping--he tries to maintain his
Tashjian, Janet vow of austerity, but the slippery slope of a new girlfriend and
an even newer credit card finds Josh in a Polo sweatshirt and
Pages: 224 Nautica pajamas before he can say "Walden Pond."
Fortunately, Beth sweeps back into his life again bringing along
FIC TAS with her jealousy and a Harvard boyfriend.

89. The Girl Who Regina Bloomsbury makes a wish to be as famous as her idols,
Became a Beatle the Beatles, and awakens one morning to find that her band,
the Caverns, has replaced the legendary British band in the
Taylor, Greg pages of history, which makes Regina a celebrated rock star,
but the price of fame wanes on her and Regina must decide
Pages: 281 whether to reset the record.
FIC TAY
Senioritis A group of high school teenagers have to attend a 3-5 p.m.
program to make up credits, or to correct inappropriate
Thompson, Tate behavior before they can graduate. And a very compassionate
mentor encourages them to correct their failings as they vent
Pages: 161 their anger against teachers in their journals.
FIC THO
The Space Between Bhima, a domestic servant in the household of Sera Dubash, an
Us upper-class Parsi housewife, develops a bond with her
employer over the course of many years as they both suffer
Umrigar, Thirty through abusive marriages, loss, and disappointments, but
their friendship still cannot overcome the restrictions of class
Pages: 321 and money.
FIC UMR
You, Maybe Josie is a sophomore who doesn't care what anyone thinks
about her–until Carson Gold, senior and hottest guy around,
Vail, Rachel suddenly shows an interest. Neither Josie nor her best friends
quite understand why she indulges his attention. Though her
Pages: 224 friends discourage the relationship, Josie still finds herself
falling for him and his lifestyle. Josie’s mother approves her
FIC VAI request to go on a trip with him and his friends. Several
traumatic events during the weekend lead Josie to rediscover
what is really important to her.
Be More Chill Badly in need of self-confidence and a change of image, high
school nerd Jeremy Heere swallows a pill-sized super computer
Vizzini, Ned that is supposed to help him get whatever he wants, but more
importantly, what he wants most is Christine. The squip
Pages: 287 malfunctions when Jeremy takes Ecstasy, and it not only starts
miscuing Jeremy but also defaults to Spanish. There are
FIC VIZ genuine issues of morality folded into this story, including
Jeremy's dilemma of how to make himself both attractive and
sincere in Christine's perception.

90. It’s Kind of a Funny New York City teenager Craig Gilner succumbs to academic and
Story social pressures at an elite high school and enters an adult
psychiatric hospital after attempting suicide. Once there, he
Vizzini, Ned receives the help he needs, discovers his hidden artistic
talents, and connects with the quirky patients who have plenty
Pages: 444 of problems of their own, including Noelle, a girl his own age.
FIC VIZ
Big Fish Edward Bloom is dying, and his son William still doesn't know
him. He knows some things about his father but not the
Wallace, Daniel important things: how he thinks, what is important to him – or
who he really is. Sitting by his father's deathbed, William tries
Pages: 208 to understand the elusive Edward Bloom, the man quickly
slipping from his grasp. He's fading fast, and his son is milking
FIC WAL those last moments for all they're worth.
The Glass Castle The author recalls her life growing up in a dysfunctional family
with an alcoholic father and distant mother and describes how
Walls, Jeannette she and her siblings had to fend for themselves until they
finally found the resources and will to leave home.
Pages: 288
FIC WAL
So B. It One day in her apartment in Reno heard a pitiful sound in the
hallway. She opened the door a crack and saw a young woman
Weeks, Sarah standing there in her raincoat, her bare legs spattered with
dried mud, holding a crying baby wrapped in a blanket. The
Pages: 245 baby was Heidi, and they had come from the almost-empty
apartment next door for help. Heidi's Mama can't tend her
FIC WEE week-old child because she has, as Heidi later says, "a bum
brain," so Bernadette steps in and cares for them both
tenderly.
Android Karenina Tolstoy’s timeless saga of love and betrayal is transported to
19th century Russia. A world where debutantes dance the 3D
Winters, Ben H. & waltz in midair, mechanical wolves charge into battle, and
Tolstoy, Leo robots are the faithful companions of everyone who’s anyone.
Restless to forge her own destiny, the bold noblewoman Anna
Pages: 541 and her Android Karenina abandon a loveless marriage to seize
passion with the daring handsome Count Vronsky.
FIC WIN

91. Sense and This book expands the original text of the beloved Jane Austen
Sensibility and Sea novel with all-new scenes of giant lobsters, rampaging octopi,
Monsters two-headed sea serpents, and other biological monstrosities.
As our story opens, the Dashwood sisters are evicted from
Winters, Ben H. & their childhood home and sent to live on a mysterious island
Austen, Jane full of savage creatures and dark secrets. This masterful
portrait of Regency England blends Jane Austen’s biting social
Pages: 343 commentary with ultraviolent depictions of sea monsters
biting.
FIC WIN
Blind Faith While coping with her grandmother's sudden death and her
mother's resulting depression and fascination with a
Wittlinger, Ellen spiritualist church, whose ministers claim to communicate with
the dead, fifteen-year-old Liz finds herself falling for a new
Pages: 280 neighbor whose mother is dying of cancer.
FIC WIT
Native Son Bigger Thomas is doomed, trapped in a downward spiral that
will lead to arrest, prison, or death. Driven by despair and
Wright, Richard poverty and as a young black man in Chicago during the '30s,
he has no way out of the walls of poverty and racism that
Pages: 504 surround him. There is no hope for him. Bigger is debased,
aggressive, dangerous, and a violent criminal. As such, he
FIC WRI should have no claim on readers’ compassion or sympathy yet
somehow he does.
The Story of Edgar Born mute, Edgar Sawtelle leads an idyllic life with his parents
Sawtelle on their farm in remote northern Wisconsin. For generations,
the Sawtelles have trained a fictional breed of dog whose
Wroblewski, David thoughtful companionship is epitomized by Almondine, Edgar's
lifelong friend. But with the unexpected return of Edgar’s
Pages: 608 Uncle claude, turmoil consumes the Sawtelles' peaceful home.
When Edgar's father dies suddenly, Claude insinuates himself
FIC WRO into the life of the farm and into Edgar's mother's affections.
Memoirs of a After high-school junior Naomi conks her head, she can't
Teenage Amnesiac remember anything that happened since sixth grade. She is by
turns mystified and startled by evidence of her present life,
Zevin, Gabrielle from the birth-control pills in her bedside table to her parents'
astonishing, rancorous split. Eventually, the memories return,
Pages: 271 leaving Naomi questioning the basis of a new, intense
romance, and wondering which of her two lives, present or
FIC ZEV former, represents her most authentic self.

92. The Pigman As a result of a phone prank, high schoolers John and Lorraine
become friends with Mr. Pignati (the Pigman), an elderly
Zindel, Paul widower. The conflicted teens feel alienated from everything,
but the Pigman's enthusiasm for life soon spills over onto
Pages: 166 them. The teens have a party at the Pigman's house which
turns into a disaster. Trying desperately to make it up to him,
FIC ZIN the teens take him to the zoo, but, to their dismay, disaster
strikes again.
Karl is hopelessly in love, but his girlfriend demands proof
Dying to Know You through his writing. But Karl is dyslexic, and convinced that if
Chambers, Aidan Firella finds out, she will think he is stupid. Karl asks a local
writer to help him with his replies - and a friendship develops
Pages: 288 between the two men. They both come to learn a great deal
about life and when an act of violence shatters their calm, they
FIC CHA
find their respective appraisal of life shifting in profound ways.
The Girl Who Could Sonia is believed to have a special gift, but when tragedy
Silence the Wind strikes in her small town, she realizes she is no more special
than anyone else. To save her family from shame, she moves
Medina, Meg to the capital to work and learn who she is. Sonia is close with
her brother, Raphael, who goes missing after she moves. Sonia
Pages: 256
must find her brother with the help of a friend, although it may
FIC MED be too late.
Ed Kennedy lives a peaceful, incompetent life as a cabdriver
I am the Messenger
until he inadvertently stops a bank robbery. Shortly after, he
Zusak, Marcus receives an Ace of Diamonds in the mail from an unknown
source. He must complete a series of tasks that have been
Pages: 357 written on the cards mailed to him.
FIC ZUS

93. World Literature
Author Title Pages Location
AUSTRALIA
Doris Pilkington Rabbit-Proof Fence 160 FIC PIL
CHILE
Isabel Allende The House of the Spirits 433 FIC ALL
COLUMBIA
Gabriel Garcis-Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude 417 FIC GAR
Love in the Time of Cholera 368 FIC GAR
FRANCE
Honore de Balzac Pere Goriot 320 FIC DE
Pierre Boulle A Bridge Over the River Kwai 207 FIC BOU
Albert Camus The Plague 320 FIC CAM
The Stranger 123 FIC CAM
Alexandre Dumas The Black Tulip 262 FIC DUM
The Count of Monte Cristo 509 FIC DUM
The Man in the Iron Mask 656 FIC DUM
The Three Musketeers 704 FIC DUM
Gustav Flaubert Madame Bovary 491 FIC FLA
Victor Hugo Les Miserables 1232 FIC HUG
Moliere The Misanthrope 58 FIC MOL

94. Emmuska Orczy The Scarlet Pimpernel 268 FIC ORC
Edmond Rostand Cyrano de Bergerac 216 842 ROS
Jean-Paul Sartre The Exit & Other Plays 275 842 SAR
Voltaire Candide 176 FIC VOL
GERMANY
Franz Kafka The Metamorphosis 201 FIC KAF
The Trial 281 FIC KAF
Herman Hesse Siddhartha 152 FIC HES
Steppenwolf 224 FIC HES
Alexander Lloyd Westmark 192 FIC LLO
Erich Remarque All Quiet on the Western Front 295 FIC REM
Elie Wiesel Dawn 96 FIC WIE
Day 128 FIC WIE
Night 120 FIC WIE
GREEK/ROMAN
Alighieri Dante The Inferno 288 851 DAN
Homer The Illiad 462 883 HOM
The Odyssey 541 883 HOM
Plato The Republic 416 321 PLA
Sophocles Oedipus Rex 80 822 SOP

95. Antigone 80 822 SOP
Virgil The Aeneid 393 873 VIR
INDIA
Chitra Banerjee
Arranged Marriage 307 FIC BAN
Divakaruni
Kamala Markandaya Nectar in a Sieve 208 FIC MAR
ITALY
Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince 106 320 MAC
NORWAY
Henrik Ibsen A Doll’s House 119 839.8 IBS
MEXICO
Laura Esquivel Like Water for Chocolate 256 FIC ESQ
Carlos Fuentes The Death of Artemio Cruz 320 FIC FUE
POLAND
YadVashem Rutka’s Notebook 96 940.53 VAS
RUSSIA
Anton Chekov The Cherry Orchard 176 FIC CHE
Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Brothers Karamozov 908 FIC DOS
Crime and Punishment 536 FIC DOS
The Idiot 642 FIC DOS
Boris Pasternak Dr. Zhivago 510 FIC PAS

96. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Cancer Ward 560 FIC SOL
The First Circle 784 FIC SOL
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 200 FIC SOL
Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina 963 FIC TOL
War and Peace 1455 FIC TOL
Ivan Turgenev Fathers and Sons 296 FIC TUR
SOUTH AFRICA
Mark Mathabane Kaffir Boy 354 968 MAT
Miriam’s Song 320 968.06 MAT
Alan Paton Cry, The Beloved Country 316 FIC PAT
SPAIN
Miguel Cervantes Don Quixote 940 FIC CER

97. American Literature
Author Title Pages Location
James Agee A Death in the Family 310 FIC AGE
Edward Albee The American Dream 127 FIC ALB
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 242 FIC ALB
Louisa May Alcott Behind a Mask 277 FIC ALC
Eight Cousins/The Aunt-Hill 172 FIC ALC
Good Wives/Little Women Pt. II 218 FIC ALC
The Inheritance 149 FIC ALC
Jo’s Boys 323 FIC ALC
Little Men 346 FIC ALC
Little Women 489 FIC ALC
An Old-Fashioned Girl 345 FIC ALC
Rose in Bloom 326 FIC ALC
Under the Lilacs 275 FIC ALC
Sherwood Anderson Winesburg, Ohio 265 FIC SHE
Maya Angelou I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 289 92 ANG
I Shall Not Be Moved 48 811 ANG
Life Doesn’t Frighten Me 32 814 ANG
A Song Flung up to Heaven 212 92 ANG
And Still I Rise 54 811 ANG
Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey Now 139 814 ANG
James Baldwin Go Tell it on the Mountain 221 FIC BAL
Toni Cade Bambara Gorilla, My Love 177 808.8 BAM

98. Saul Bellow Seize the Day 114 FIC BEL
Ray Bradbury Dandelion Wine 239 FIC BRA
Fahrenheit 451 179 FIC BRA
The Martin Chronicles 182 FIC BRA
Something Wicked This Way Comes 293 FIC BRA
Joseph Bruchac Bearwalker 208 FIC BRU
Night Wings 194 FIC BRU
Olive Ann Burns Cold Sassy Tree 391 FIC BUR
Truman Capote In Cold Blood 343 364.15 CAP
Willa Cather Alexander’s Bridge 128 FIC CAT
Death Comes for the Archbishop 297 FIC CAT
A Lost Lady 371 FIC CAT
My Antonia 204 FIC CAT
O Pioneers 230 FIC CAT
One of Ours 371 FIC CAT
The Song of the Lark 457 FIC CAT
Mary Boykin Chesnut Mary Chesnut’s Civil War 886 973.7 WOO
Kate Chopin The Awakening 190 FIC CHO
Sandra Cisneros The House on Mango Street 105 FIC CIS
James Fenimore Cooper The Last of the Mohicans 562 FIC COO
The Pioneers 460 FIC COO
The Pathfinder 344 FIC COO

99. Stephen Crane Maggie, A Girl of the Streets 192 FIC CRA
Red Badge of Courage 125 FIC CRA
Emily Dickinson I’m Nobody! Who Are You? (poetry) 105 811 DIC
Narritave of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an
Frederick Douglass 144 92 DOU
American Slave
T. S. Eliot Murder in the Cathedral 88 822 ELI
Ralph Ellison Invisible Man 581 FIC ELL
Juneteenth 368 FIC ELL
Louise Erdrich The Game of Silence 256 FIC ERD
The Porcupine Year 193 FIC ERD
William Faulkner Absolam, Absolam! 313 FIC FAU
As I Lay Dying 267 FIC FAU
Big Woods 198 808.8 FAU
Intruder in the Dust 241 FIC FAU
Light in August 512 FIC FAU
Requiem for a Nun 245 FIC FAU
The Sound and the Fury 316 FIC FAU
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Beautiful and the Damned 379 FIC FIT
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 59 FIC FIT
Flappers and Philosophers 245 808.8 FIT
The Great Gatsby 180 FIC FIT
Tender is the Night 317 FIC FIT
This Side of Paradise 275 FIC FIT
Benjamin Franklin The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 212 92 FRA

100. Ernest J. Gaines The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman 259 FIC GAI
A Lesson Before Dying 256 FIC GAI
Gibson, William Necromancer 371 FIC GIB
Lorraine Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun 135 812 HAN
Nathaniel Hawthorne The Blithedale Romance 242 FIC HAW
The House of the Seven Gables 404 FIC HAW
The Scarlet Letter 274 FIC HAW
Joseph Heller Catch 22 463 FIC HEL
Ernest Hemingway The Dangerous Summer 228 818 HEM
Death in the Afternoon 397 791.8 HEM
A Farewell to Arms 332 FIC HEM
For Whom the Bell Tolls 471 FIC HEM
The Garden of Eden 274 FIC HEM
Green Hills of Africa 207 799.29 HEM
In Our Time 156 FIC HEM
Men Without Women 232 808.8 HEM
The Old Man and the Sea 127 FIC HEM
The Sun Also Rises 174 FIC HEM
To Have and Have Not 174 FIC HEM
True at First Light 319 FIC HEM
John Hersey Hiroshima 152 940.54 HER
Tony Hillerman The Blessing Way 294 FIC HIL
Coyote Waits 369 FIC HIL
Dance Hall of the Dead 240 FIC HIL
The Dark Wind 320 FIC HIL

101. Finding Moon 354 FIC HIL
The First Eagle 338 FIC HIL
The Fly on the Wall 354 FIC HIL
The Ghostway 369 FIC HIL
The Hunting Badger 334 FIC HIL
People of Darkness 296 FIC HIL
Sacred Clowns 354 FIC HIL
Skinwalkers 299 FIC HIL
Talking God 352 FIC HIL
A Thief of Time 334 Textbook
Zora Neale Hurston Dust Tracks on a Road 308 92 HUR
Their Eyes Were Watching God 219 FIC HUR
Henry James The American 370 FIC JAM
The Awkward Age 393 FIC JAM
The Bostonians 394 FIC JAM
Daisy Miller 83 FIC JAM
The Europeans 203 FIC JAM
The Golden Bowl 612 FIC JAM
The Turn of the Screw & Other Short Stories 449 FIC JAM
Ken Kesey One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 277 FIC KES
Harper Lee To Kill a Mockinbird 281 FIC LEE
Ursula K. Le Guin Annals of the Western Shore Book 1 - Gifts 286 FIC LE
Annals of the Western Shore Book 2 - Voices 341 FIC LE
Annals of the Western Shore Book 3 - Powers 502 FIC LE
Earthsea Book 1 - A Wizard of Earthsea 183 FIC LE
Earthsea Book 2 - The Thomb of Atuan 180 FIC LE
The Left Hand of Darkness 304 FIC LE

102. The Dispossessed 341 FIC LE
The Wind’s Twelve Quarters 303 813.5 LE
Ira Levin Rosemary’s Baby 319 FIC LEV
The Stepford Wives 123 FIC LEV
Sinclair Lewis Babbit 410 FIC LEW
Elmer Gantry 469 FIC LEW
If I Were Boss 363 FIC LEW
It Can’t Happen Here 384 FIC LEW
Main Street 475 FIC LEW
Jack London Before Adam 146 FIC LON
The Call of the Wild 139 FIC LON
Tales of the North 488 FIC LON
White Fang 252 FIC LON
H. P. Lovecraft The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories 420 808.8 LOV
Bernard Malamud The Assistant 246 FIC MAL
The Natural 231 FIC MAL
The Tenants 230 FIC MAL
Cormac McCarthy Border Trilogy Book 1 – All the Pretty Horses 301 FIC MCC
Border Trilogy Book 2 – The Crossing 300 FIC MCC
Border Trilogy Book 3 – Cities of the Plain 291 FIC MCC
No Country For Old Men 309 FIC MCC
Frank McCourt Angela’s Ashes 363 92 MCC
Teacher Man 258 92 MCC
Carson McCullers The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 430 FIC MCC

103. Herman Melville Billy Budd, Sailor 166 FIC MEL
The Confidence Man 296 FIC MEL
Moby Dick 593 FIC MEL
Redburn 312 FIC MEL
Arthur Miller The Crucible 94 812 MIL
Death of a Salesman 104 812 MIL
N. Scott Momaday House Made of Dawn 198 FIC MOM
Toni Morrison Beloved 321 FIC MOR
The Bluest Eye 216 FIC MOR
Love 201 FIC MOR
Paradise 318 FIC MOR
Sula 174 FIC MOR
Tar Baby 305 FIC MOR
Vladimir Nabokov Pale Fire 315 FIC NAB
Joyce Carol Oates Big Mouth and Ugly Girl 266 FIC OAT
Freaky Green Eyes 341 FIC OAT
We Were the Mulvaneys 454 FIC OAT
You Must Remember This 436 FIC OAT
Tim O’Brien The Things They Carried 246 FIC OBR
Flannery O’Connor Everything That Rises Must Converge 269 808.8 OCO
A Good Man is Hard to Find & Other Stories 252 808.8 OCO
Eugene O’Neill The Iceman Cometh 260 812 ONE

104. Sylvia Plath The Bell Jar 244 FIC PLA
ChaimPotok The Chosen 272 FIC POT
I Am the Clay 241 FIC POT
The Promise 368 FIC POT
Ayn Rand Anthem 105 FIC RAN
Atlas Shrugged 1168 FIC RAN
The Fountainhead 704 FIC RAN
We the Living 433 FIC RAN
Philip Roth The Plot Against America 391 FIC ROT
J. D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye 214 FIC SAL
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War
Carl Sandburg 762 973.7 SAN
Years
Upton Sinclair The Jungle 349 FIC SIN
Manassas 412 FIC SIN
The Money Changers 188 FIC SIN
Oil! 548 FIC SIN
Wallace Stegner All the Little Live Things 345 FIC STE
Angle of Repose 569 FIC STE
The Big Rock Candy Mountain 563 FIC STE
Mormon Country 362 979.2 STE
Remembering Laughter 152 FIC STE
Gertrude Stein The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas 252 818 STE
Blood on the Dining Room Floor 101 FIC STE
Three Lives 330 FIC STE

105. John Steinbeck The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights 202 FIC STE
Cannery Row 196 FIC STE
East of Eden 602 FIC STE
The Grapes of Wrath 455 FIC STE
Of Mice and Men 107 FIC STE
The Moon is Down 112 FIC STE
The Pastures of Heaven 207 FIC STE
The Pearl 90 FIC STE
The Red Pony 100 FIC STE
Sweet Thursday 249 FIC STE
To a God Unknown 188 FIC STE
Tortilla Flat 207 FIC STE
The Winter of Discontent 291 FIC STE
Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin 515 FIC STO
Amy Tan The Bonesetter’s Daughter 353 FIC TAN
The Hundred Secret Senses 358 FIC TAN
The Joy Luck Club 288 FIC TAN
The Moon Lady 32 FIC TAN
Saving Fish From Drowning 496 FIC TAN
Henry David Thoreau America the Beautiful 97 813.30 THO
Civil Disobedience 90 818 THO
Walden 455 818.308 THO
James Thurber My Life and Hard Times 106 FIC THU
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 32 FIC THU
Mark Twain Autobiography of Mark Twain 736 92 TWA
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 292 FIC TWA
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 216 FIC TWA

106. Is He Dead? 233 812 TWA
Life on the Mississippi 312 92 TWA
The Prince and the Pauper 219 FIC TWA
Pudd’nhead Wilson 228 FIC TWA
The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain 265 818 TWA
John Updike Rabbit at Rest 466 FIC UPD
Rabbit, Run 264 FIC UPD
The Witches of Eastwick 306 FIC UPD
Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse-Five/The Children’s Crusade 215 FIC VON
Alice Walker The Color Purple 288 FIC WAL
David Foster Wallace Infinite Jest 1079 FIC WAL
Booker T. Washington Up From Slavery 548 92 BOO
Eudora Welty A Curtain of Green and Other Stories 289 808.8 WEL
Delta Wedding 247 FIC WEL
The Optimist’s Daughter 180 FIC WEL
The Ponder Heart 156 FIC WEL
Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence 313 FIC WHA
Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass 167 811 WHI
Thornton Wilder The Bridge of San Luis Rey 138 FIC WIL
Our Town 181 812 WIL
Theophilus North 405 FIC WIL
Tennessee Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 158 812 WIL

107. The Glass Menagerie 105 812 WIL
A Streetcar Named Desire 142 812 WIL
August Wilson The Piano Lesson 108 812 WIL
Thomas Wolfe Look Homeward, Angel 512 FIC WOL
You Can’t Go Home Again 711 FIC WOL
Tom Wolfe I Am Charlotte Simmons 688 FIC WOL
The Bonfire of the Vanities 494 FIC WOL
Richard Wright Black Boy 419 92 WRI
Native Son 504 FIC WRI

108. British Literature
Author Title Pages Location
Jane Austen Emma 495 FIC AUS
Pride and Prejudice 435 FIC AUS
Samuel Beckett Eleutheria 196 842.91 BEC
Waiting for Godot 111 842.91 BEC
Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre 578 FIC BRO
Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights 330 FIC BRO
Lewis Carroll Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland 168 FIC CAR
Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales 504 821 CHA
Agatha Christie The A.B.C. Murders 252 FIC CHR
At Bertram’s Hotel 270 FIC CHR
Death on the Nile 351 FIC CHR
HerculePoirot’s Christmas 271 FIC CHR
A Murder is Announced 288 FIC CHR
The Secret of Chimneys 256 FIC CHR
And Then There Were None 275 FIC CHR
The Tuesday Club Murders 256 FIC CHR
Joseph Conrad The Heart of Darkness 146 FIC CON
Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe 322 FIC DEF

109. Charles Dickens David Copperfield 901 FIC DIC
Great Expectations 380 FIC DIC
Oliver Twist 424 FIC DIC
A Tale of Two Cities 369 FIC DIC
Arthur Conan Doyle The Hound of Bakervilles 250 FIC DOY
George Eliot The Mill on the Floss 579 FIC ELI
T. S. Eliot Murder in the Cathedral 88 822 ELI
John Fowles The Ebony Tower 313 FIC FOW
William Golding Lord of the Flies 182 FIC GOL
Thomas Hardy Tess of the D’Ubervilles 464 FIC HAR
Aldous Huxley Brave New World 116 FIC HUX
Rudyard Kipling The Jungle Book 216 FIC KIP
C. S. Lewis The Chronicles of Narnia (7 books in one) 766 FIC LEW
The Screwtape Latters 209 248.4 LEW
Richard Llewellyn How Green Was My Valley 495 FIC LLE
George Orwell Animal Farm 128 FIC ORW
1984 268 FIC ORW
William Shakespeare All Works 822.3 SHA
Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island 232 FIC STE

110. Lord of the Rings Book 1 – The Fellowship of the
J. R. R. Tolkien 423 FIC TOL
Ring
Lord of the Rings Book 2 – The Two Towers 352 FIC TOL
Lord of the Rings Book 3 –The Return of the King 440 FIC TOL
H. G. Wells The Invisible Man 176 FIC WEL
The Island of Dr. Moreau 142 FIC WEL
The Time Machine 115 FIC WEL
The War of the Worlds 204 FIC WEL
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Ernest & Other Plays 200 822.8 WIL
The Picture of Dorian Gray 252 FIC WIL