Sunday Salon: Squeezing in a Little Reading Here & There

The grandparents long ago returned to their own homes and Anjin to work. Mouse and I have the house to ourselves during the day, the furkids our only company. You might think that would leave me lots of free time to write blog posts and comment on blogs, especially considering my little girl is only interested in eating, sleeping and having a clean diaper at this point (although, she does likes the occasional song, going on walks and watching her mother do a little back stretching dance). As those of you who were once first time parents know, despite her seemingly simple life, I rarely have a moment to do much of anything but meet her needs at this early stage. A newborn, especially mine, eats A LOT.

Even so, I am able to read while I nurse Mouse (or watch TV). And can I just say how much I love my smart phone? Who would have thought? I can keep up with my e-mail, read your blogs, stay on top of the news, and keep in touch with my husband, family and friends (who are probably tired of the daily photos I take of the baby with my phone). I may not be able to write a coherent book review or spend time on my actual computer, but I am not totally disconnected. I take what I can get in short spurts. I only wish I could somehow better manage the growing laundry piles!

I especially love that I am able to read. Once Mouse is awake more often and more interactive, I know I will have to sacrifice some of that reading time. For now though, I am taking full advantage.

Right before and after Mouse was born, I finished off the Mercy Thompson urban fantasy series books by Patricia Briggs I had on hand. I flew through Blood Bound, Iron Kissed, Bone Crossed and Silver Borne, reading one right after the other. Mercy Thompson owns her own car repair shop and is an ace mechanic. She also is a walker, someone who can turn into a coyote at will. She mingles with werewolves, vampires and other supernatural beings. Trouble always seems to be around the corner and Mercy and friends are quick to step in and put a stop to it. Mercy has many of the typical urban fantasy heroine characteristics, and yet she stands out on her own. I love the world Patricia Briggs has created and enjoy spending time with the various characters. Unfortunately, I don't have a copy of her latest release, River Marked, and so am now officially one behind in the series. When I get my hands on that one (probably not until it's out in paperback), I will definitely be jumping right in.

After finishing Patricia Briggs' Silver Borne, I was still itching to read urban fantasy. Unfortunately most of my TBR books are packed away. I did have Lori Handeland's Any Given Doomsday handy, however, and so decided to give that a try. The book is the first in the Phoenix Chronicles featuring psychic Elizabeth Phoenix. Life has already proven to be tough for Liz but when her beloved foster mother dies leaving her a special gift, her life suddenly has become much more difficult--and dangerous. The fate of the world lays on her shoulders. The novel got off to a slow start for me, and I admit to considering setting it aside. I persevered, however, and enjoyed the book in the end. Mostly. It took me awhile to warm up to the main character, and I was reminded of the later books in the Laurel K. Hamilton Anita Blake series where sex is used as a means to an end. I wasn't quite sold on that idea. Vague, I know, but I don't want to totally spoil the book for those who haven't read it. I do like the world Lori Handeland has created as well as the many supernatural characters she introduced in this first book in the series. She definitely offers a different take on the genre. Will I pick up the next book in the series? The jury is still out. It might be worth it to see where the author takes the story next.

I then settled into Linda Castillo's Sworn to Silence, which I had heard so much about. The first in a crime fiction series featuring a police chief with an Amish background. A serial killer is targeting young women in the area in ways that seems eerily like vicious murders that occurred in the same area years before. Only, the police chief knows that can't be possible--or could it? The mystery grabbed me from the start and didn't let go until I reached the end. Kate Burkholder is a complex heroine with a dark secret from her past. I instantly took to her and look forward to reading the next book in the series.

My next attempts at reading were not quite as successful. Reruns of Law and Order were more enticing. It isn't that the books were bad; rather I was trying to read review books, books that require more energy and thought than I have to spare right now. I should have realized that from the start, but it isn't like I am working on all cylinders at this point. Exhaustion has that effect after all. So, when Anjin suggested I dive into the select few TBR books I had purposefully not packed and just enjoy reading for the sake of reading, no strings attached, I decided to do just that.

I wasn't sure George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones, the first in an epic fantasy series, was the book to pick up and read (it's size alone is rather daunting), but Anjin said he was sure it was just what I was looking for. It couldn't be because he wants me to read it before the HBO miniseries airs later this month, right? I should know better than to doubt my husband though. I am only 200 pages in but am enjoying every minute of it.

Mouse is ready for another feeding, and I can't say no to my adorable little girl. Do drop me a comment and let me know what you have been up to and what you've been reading!

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© 2011, Wendy Runyon of Musings of a Bookish Kitty. All Rights Reserved.If you're reading this on a site other than Musings of a Bookish Kitty or Wendy's feed, be aware that this post has been stolen and is used without permission.

2011: A Year in Review

Two thousand eleven was the year for comfort reads. While I did read a few thought provoking books, I spent most of the year craving brain candy. When I look over the titles of the books I read this year, I can pinpoint what was happening in my life at that particular time.

The Man Who Loved Books Too Much was a fitting book to read as I gave away hundreds of my own books, preparing for my move. I read most of the Patricia Briggs's books, beginning with Moon Called, during my final days of pregnancy when I needed something fast paced and deliciously good to distract me from the million thoughts going through my mind. I read A Game of Thrones during those seemingly endless cluster feedings. Bloodline was the first book I read in our new house. And Harley Jane Kozak's Wollie series was what jump started my reading again when I was beginning to think I might never read again. Madelyn Alt's The Trouble With Magic saw me through right after my father's death. It's only been in the last few months I feel as if I have found my reading groove again--even if in a limited capacity.

I am breaking from my usual tradition of posting my stats and own special book categories this year. My record keeping fell by the wayside, and I haven't the energy or time to try and pull it all together at this late date. Instead, I am turning to an end of the year survey that is going around thanks to Jamie from The Perpetual Page Turner.


1. Best Book You Read In 2011?

Looking over the titles of the books I read this year, I an struggling over which book would take top honors. I read a little less than half of what I read last year, and so I hesitate to make a top ten list like I normally do. Instead, I will share the titles of a few books that most stood out for me:

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin managed to hold me captive despite it's length at a time when my attention span was shot because of sleep deprivation and constant interruptions. It is the first in an epic fantasy series. The characters got under my skin and I fell under the spell of the world so completely. The HBO miniseries based on the book was pretty awesome too.

A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception and Survival at Jonestown by Julia Scheeres was not only well researched but also extremely well written. I learned so much I hadn't known before about the Jonestown Massacre, and about Jim Jones and his followers in general. There is much more to it than what meets the eye.

While Patrick Ness's The Chaos Walking Trilogy amazed me in its detail and world building as a whole, the first book in the trilogy was by far my favorite. The Knife of Never Letting Go was much more than I expected in terms of depth and heart. There was one scene in particular that was heartwrenching--I nearly threw my nook across the room.

Witchlanders by Lena Coakley was so very good. The writing, the characters, the setting , and the story . . . There wasn't anything I didn't like about it. It definitely is among my favorites this year.

Linda Castillo's Sworn to Silence is perhaps my favorite mystery of the year. The protagonist is a complex character and her past played a particularly interesting role in this first in the series. I liked the setting, particularly the Amish cultural aspects and the conflicts that arose as a result.

2. Most Disappointing Book?

The Vampire Diaries: The Awakening by L.J. Smith wins this category hands down. I wanted to like it because the television show is a guilty pleasure of mine, but the book fell completely flat for me.

3. Best series you discovered in 2011?

I finally got around to reading Patricia Briggs's Mercy Thompson series and it quickly became a favorite. I am anxious to read more by the author.

4. Favorite new authors you discovered in 2011?

I think most of the authors I read this year were new to me. Among my favorites would have to be Patricia Briggs, Lena Coakley, Linda Castillo, Patrick Ness, and George R.R. Martin.

5. Best book that was out of your comfort zone or was a new genre for you?

Hmm. I suppose I'll have to go with a book outside of my comfort zone on this one since I didn't tackle any new to me genres. Bossypants by Tina Fey--not only did I listen to the audio book (way outside of my comfort zone), but I generally avoid celebrity memoirs. I really liked Bossypants; I laughed all the way through it and have been recommending it to people right and left.

6. Most thrilling, unputdownable book in 2011?

Patrick Ness's Choas Walking trilogy had me from the first page. I began with The Knife of Never Letting Go, raced through The Ask and The Answer and devoured Monsters of Men.

7. Book you most anticipated in 2011?

I am afraid books were the furthest things from my mind when it came to anticipation. Baby. New House. These were things I anticipated. I did read several books that were published in 2011, however, all of which I enjoyed to different degrees.

8. Most memorable character in 2011?

Todd Hewitt and Viola from The Chaos Walking Trilogy captured my heart, but then, so did Arya Stark, the youngest daughter of Edward Stark, of A Game of Thrones. All three faced difficult times and were forced to grow up too fast. They each had an innocence about them and had good hearts.

9. Most beautifully written book read in 2011?

Tigerheart by Peter David probably comes the closest. I loved how the author wrote his novel in the spirit of J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan. It was poetic and fun. I felt myself transported right into the pages of the book, lost in the descriptions of places and characters.

10. Book you can't believe you waited UNTIL 2011 to finally read?

Moon Called by Patricia Briggs was so good! I am still kicking myself for putting off reading the series all these years.

11. Book That Had A Scene In It That Had You Reeling And Dying To Talk To Somebody About It? (a WTF moment, an epic revelation, a steamy kiss, etc. etc.) Be careful of spoilers!

I wanted to talk about The Chaos Walking trilogy with a passion you wouldn't believe. Only, everyone who had already read it seemed all talked out and those who hadn't yet--well, I couldn't exactly talk to them about it, could I? Ho hum. I almost made my husband read it but then decided against it. With my luck, he'd hate it and then I'd feel bad.

Another book that had me chomping at the bit to discuss was A Thousand Lives by Julia Scheeres. I actually did talk about it quite a bit as I was reading it--to my coworkers, whether they wanted to listen or not.


Looking Ahead

Two thousand twelve will no doubt be an eventful year. Soon the finalists for the Indie Lit Awards will be announced, and I will be busy catching up with the top five mystery nominees before the final votes are tallied. I will be hosting my first challenge, the Merely Mystery Reading Challenge, and I hope to join a few others just for the fun of it.

I predict my reading will follow a similar pattern this coming year as it did this year. I have enjoyed reading books from my own stacks and so want to keep the review books to a minimum. Also, I imagine I will be too busy chasing a certain little Mouse all over to read quite as much as I might like!

What were some of your favorite books and authors read this year? Did anything stand out above the rest? What are your goals for this coming year?

Changes

I mentioned before I might try my hand at writing about more than just books and movies here at Musings of a Bookish Kitty. I hope to do some of that this coming year. I would love to hear your ideas about what you might like me to write about. I confess I am not the best at brainstorming on my own so could use a little friendly guidance. Pretty please?

Also, I am going to start referring to my reviews as my bookish thoughts. I have never been good at writing a formal review and, really, my reviews tend to be merely my thoughts and reflections about how a book touched me or what I thought of it. Saying it's just my "bookish thought" takes some of the pressure off as well--at least psychologically. It gives me a little more freedom, if you will. Semantics, I know.

Before I close, I want to say again how grateful I am to those of you who are still keeping up with my blog. My posts have been sporadic this year, sometimes few and far between. I have not been able blog hop the way I would have liked which meant a lot less commenting on my favorite blogs. I truly appreciate your support this year and look forward to being more involved this next year. Thank you and have a very Happy New Year!

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© 2011, Wendy Runyon of Musings of a Bookish Kitty. All Rights Reserved.If you're reading this on a site other than Musings of a Bookish Kitty or Wendy's feed, be aware that this post has been stolen and is used without permission.

Weekly Mews: November Wrap-Up, What I Am Reading Now & What Should I Read Next? (December's TBR List Poll)

I am linking up to the Sunday Post hosted by the wonderful Kim of Caffeinated Book Reviewer, where participants recap our week, talk about what we are reading, share any new books that have come our way, and whatever else we want to talk about. As well as Stacking the Shelves hosted by the great Team Tynga's Reviews and Marlene of Reading Reality a meme in which participants share what new books came their way recently.

December promises to be a busy month, and I imagine I will not have as much computer time as I would like, especially toward the middle and last half of the month. Between family coming in from out of town and all of Mouse's activities, including a big holiday dance showcase, free time will be hard to come by. I am happy to say that my holiday cards are in the mail, and I am officially all done with the Christmas shopping. I am still waiting on a couple of packages, but the money is spent, and so I figure it counts as being done anyway.

I put together a bookish Advent calendar this year for my daughter, wrapping several of Mouse's Christmas books. I had mentioned the idea to her, asking if she would want to do something like that, but explained we would be using books we already owned. It just so happens she has over 24 holiday-themed books. I have always wanted to do something like this. I think it will be a lot of fun!

Did your December get off to a good start? What are you most looking forward to this month? 

November In Review: 

My mother paid us a visit in early November, and Anjin and I got to go on a rare date. We decided to see the new Blade Runner movie, as the original is one of my husband's favorites.

Soccer season came to an end. Mouse had fun at the season end party. I think we are all glad for the chance to sleep in on Saturday mornings again.

While my reading got off to a slow start the beginning of November, it picked up with my break from blogging Thanksgiving week. Although I had to work most of that week, I took advantage of any spare time I had to read. Mouse and I organized her books and wrapped Christmas presents. We also managed to get the house mostly decorated for Christmas. We still haven't put up the tree, but will likely be doing that this weekend.

Thanksgiving Day brought some bad news. Ten or so years ago, my mother had been diagnosed with breast cancer. Doctors were able to successfully remove all malignant growth. Unfortunately, it has returned. My mom went in for surgery the first of December, and we will know late next week whether the margins are clear.

In more bad news, although much less so, we sprung a leak and I spent a good part of one day this past week waiting for the plumber to come out. Fortunately it wasn't a terribly expensive fix, but it still cost a pretty penny.

My carpal tunnel syndrome seems to be flaring up in both wrists. It has made life at work and at home a bit more challenging considering how much time I spend on the computer. Add being so busy with other things, it makes me a not very good commenter as of late.

Getting back to my reading, I am actually quite proud of how will I did both quality and quantity wise in November. I read some great books--none were disappointing.

Here is what I read last month:

• Mr. Dickens and His Carol by Samantha Silva
• Lust and Wonder by Augusten Burroughs
• Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris
• Snowfall on Haven Point by RaeAnne Thayne
• Christmas At Little Beach Street Bakery by Jenny Colgan
• Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo (audio)

Book Reviews Posted in November (but not necessarily read in November):

• Sworn Virgin by Kristopher Dukes
• Owl and the Japanese Circus by Kristi Charish
• Miss Jane by Brad Watson
• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
• Death in the Stacks by Jenn McKinlay
• Cinder by Marisa Meyer
• Mini Reviews: Fantastic Beasts, Warring Werewolves & Sexy Weretigers

Non-Book Review Posts in November:

• Weekly Mews: October Wrap-Up & What Should I Read Next? (November's My TBR List Poll)
• Wishing For Wednesday: A Psychological Thriller/Paranormal Romance/Holiday Reading
• Where Is Your Bookmark? (Mr. Dickens and His Carol)
• November TBR List Winner
• Wishing for Wednesday: Paranormal Suspense of the Romantic Variety & A Cozy Mystery
• Where Is Your Bookmark? (Lust & Wonder by Augusten Burroughs)
• Tuesday Favorites: Top Ten Books On My Winter TBR
• Where Is Your Bookmark? (Christmas at Little Beach Street Bakery & My Favorite Christmas Story)

How did your November shape up reading wise? What was your favorite book you read in November?

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New to My Shelves: 

I purchased a few e-books and one audiobook this past month that I couldn't resist:

The Breakdown by P.A. Paris

The Good Samaritan by John Marrs

Betrayed  (#3 Black Hat Thriller) by Karen E. Olson

The Hating Game by Sally Thorne (audio)

Starstruck (the Cowboys of Cold Creek) by RaeAnne Thayne

Shadowed (#2 Black Hat Thriller) by Karen E. Olson

The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves by James Han Mattson

Cursed by Fire (#1 Immortal Brother) by Jacqueline Frank

Have you read any of these? What did you think? What new books did you add to your shelves in November? 

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What I Am Reading: I am currently reading Shadowed by Karen E. Olson. Oh my gosh! Talk about suspenseful! The book hasn't let up since page one. I am sure I will be finishing the book this weekend. Probably Saturday if not tonight. My e-reader has been acting up (I'm not sure if it is the actual device or the book itself) which is the only reason I have not been able to finish it yet). Next up is another Christmas themed book. Maybe The Christmas Room by Catherine Anderson.

What I Am Listening To: I just finished listening to Leigh Bardugo's Wonder Woman: Warbringer and haven't yet started another audio book. It always seems to take me a while to start another one after finishing one. I am not sure which one will catch my attention next.

What I Am Watching: I am all caught up with The Walking Dead. At least until Sunday's episode airs. It has been a rather lackluster season so far. I am enjoying The Voice and watching too many Christmas Hallmark movies. 

What I Am Worried About: Besides the global and societal issues I have no control over, everything I have to do this month. All the places I have to be. All the money I have already and still have to spend. How I will be able to get my daughter to this or that event. And if I will survive this whole dance holiday showcase ordeal. Dance/Stage mom: I am not. Work. My mom. Especially my mom. And what are we going to serve for Christmas dinner?!

What I Am Looking Forward To: Christmas Day and the day after.

What I Am Grateful For:  My family. My mom. My husband. Especially my husband. And, of course, my daughter. And my loving and playful cat who is such a comfort.

Tell me about what you have been up to! What are you reading, listening to and watching? Do you have anything planned for this coming week?

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Thank you for helping me decide what book from my TBR collection I should read next:

My TBR List is a meme hosted by the awesome Michelle at Because Reading. It’s a fun way to choose a book from your TBR pile to read. The 1st Saturday of every month, I will list 3 books I am considering reading and take a poll as to which you think I should read. I will read the winner that month, and my review will follow (unfortunately, not likely in the same month, but eventually--that's all I can promise). 

At the moment I type this, there is a cat attacking my head. Rather, rubbing herself all over me and clawing at my head. It is making blogging a little difficult at the moment, but I shall persevere. I have mysteries on the brain this month and chose three different types of crime fiction novels for you to choose from. They all offer something a bit different from one another, and I would love to know which one you think  I should read this month.

Death Below Stairs (Kat Holloway Mysteries #1) by Jennifer Ashley ~ I love a good historical mystery, and this one is irresistible sounding, don't you think?

Victorian class lines are crossed when cook Kat Holloway is drawn into a murder that reaches all the way to the throne.  

Highly sought-after young cook Kat Holloway takes a position in a Mayfair mansion and soon finds herself immersed in the odd household of Lord Rankin. Kat is unbothered by the family’s eccentricities as long as they stay away from her kitchen, but trouble finds its way below stairs when her young Irish assistant is murdered.

Intent on discovering who killed the helpless kitchen maid, Kat turns to the ever-capable Daniel McAdam, who is certainly much more than the charming delivery man he pretends to be. Along with the assistance of Lord Rankin’s unconventional sister-in-law and a mathematical genius, Kat and Daniel discover that the household murder was the barest tip of a plot rife with danger and treason—one that’s a threat to Queen Victoria herself.  [Goodreads Summary]

The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn ~ Doesn't this sound intriguing? I think so!

 What did she see?

It’s been ten long months since Anna Fox last left her home. Ten months during which she has haunted the rooms of her old New York house like a ghost, lost in her memories, too terrified to step outside.

Anna’s lifeline to the real world is her window, where she sits day after day, watching her neighbours. When the Russells move in, Anna is instantly drawn to them. A picture-perfect family of three, they are an echo of the life that was once hers.

But one evening, a frenzied scream rips across the silence, and Anna witnesses something no one was supposed to see. Now she must do everything she can to uncover the truth about what really happened. But even if she does, will anyone believe her? And can she even trust herself? [Goodreads Summary]

A Murder for the Books (Blue Ridge Library Mysteries #1) by Victoria Gilbert ~ Who can resist a mystery featuring a librarian? I know I can't!

Fleeing a disastrous love affair, university librarian Amy Webber moves in with her aunt in a quiet, historic mountain town in Virginia. She quickly busies herself with managing a charming public library that requires all her attention with its severe lack of funds and overabundance of eccentric patrons. The last thing she needs is a new, available neighbor whose charm lures her into trouble.

Dancer-turned-teacher and choreographer Richard Muir inherited the farmhouse next door from his great-uncle, Paul Dassin. But town folklore claims the house’s original owner was poisoned by his wife, who was an outsider. It quickly became water under the bridge, until she vanished after her sensational 1925 murder trial. Determined to clear the name of the woman his great-uncle loved, Richard implores Amy to help him investigate the case. Amy is skeptical until their research raises questions about the culpability of the town’s leading families... including her own.

When inexplicable murders plunge the quiet town into chaos, Amy and Richard must crack open the books to reveal a cruel conspiracy and lay a turbulent past to rest in A Murder for the Books, the first installment of Victoria Gilbert’s Blue Ridge Library mysteries.  [Goodreads Summary]

Have you read any of these? Which one do you think I should lose myself in this month? 

Thank you for voting! I hope you all have a wonderful December and Happy Reading!

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Readers Imbibing Peril V Challenge

With the opening line “It was a dark and stormy night. . .” begins the fifth annual Readers Imbibing Peril (R.I.P.) Challenge hosted by Carl V. of Stainless Steel Droppings. Participants are asked to read books that fall into the following categories

Mystery
Suspense
Thriller
Dark Fantasy
Gothic
Horror
Supernatural

Depending on the challenge level, readers can choose their own level of commitment. There's little stress and a whole lot of creepy fun. The challenge began on September 1st and will end on October 31st. What better way to welcome in the autumn season than by reading books that keep the reader on the edge of his or her seat?

In regards to Peril The First, which is the level I am taking on, the host, Carl V., writes:

Read four books, any length, that you feel fits my very broad definition of scary. It could be Stephen King or Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Ian Fleming or Edgar Allan Poe…or anyone in between.

I confess my mood at the moment is leaning more towards mystery/suspense novels, but I hope to make an effort to read books from a couple of the other categories as well. I haven't quite settled on which four books I will be reading for the challenge, however, I couldn't resist making a tentative list of books I am considering, with room to read other books not listed as well.

White Night by Jim Butcher
Sworn to Silence by Linda Castillo
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe
Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
I'd Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman
The Devil's Company by David Liss
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
Of Bees and Mist by Erick Setiawan
Daughters of the Witching Hill by Mary Sharratt
Drood by Dan Simmons
Echoes From the Dead by Johan Theorin
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

I also plan to sprinkle my short story reading with peril filled tales throughout the next two months. I am not committing to reading a set number of short stories, at this time. If time permits, I'd love to read Joe Hill's 20th Century Ghosts, even if just a couple of stories from the collection. I have another ghost story collection that is mighty tempting as well, The Virago Book of Ghost Stories, edited by Richard Dalby I might give a try. Perhaps another Edgar Allan Poe story. I never tire of those!

Are you joining in the R.I.P. V Challenge too? If so, What are you most looking forward to reading?

What books or short stories would you recommend for a challenge like this? Have you read any of the ones on my tentative list? If so, what did you think?

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Where Is Your Bookmark? (Sworn Virgin/Long & Short Books/Friday Fun)

I polished off two books this week while on vacation and am about to start another one. I am leaning strongly towards the historical fiction novel set in the early 1900's, The Sworn Virgin by Kristopher Dukes, about a young woman who avoids being sold into marriage by calling on an old tradition to remain a virgin for the rest of her life so that she can live independently with many of the rights of a man.

A weekly meme where readers share the first sentence of the book they are reading and say what they think. Hosted by the wonderful Gillion Dumas of Rose City Reader.

The body lay motionless. His once bright, brown eyes now as dull as the sucking mud beneath him, much like the sopping footpath they had traveled to reach this strange town. Thick blood flooded his white shirt from the deep, black hole in his chest. Eleanora flinched as a tall, craggy-faced man touched her arm, telling her this was not something a young woman should see. 

The author jumps right into the action of the novel with the first sentence in the novel. The rest of the paragraph only lays bare what we already know. Someone is dead. I was immediately pulled in with this opening, and cannot wait to read more.

A weekly meme in which readers share a random sentence or two from page 56 or 56% of the book they are reading. Hosted by the wonderful Freda of Freda's Voice.

"I want to speak with the elders--no, the chief of the town," she said. She would find this shooter and make him pay for what he had done. When the elders found out who had been shot . . . Her tone was hard, but not brittle. She would not be a stupid hysterical woman. She would be calm as Baba had taught her to be. She wiped her eyes and took a deep breath, squaring her shoulders. "Now, please. Take me now." [pg 57]

Eleanora is clearly upset about the death, but I like that she is trying to be strong and take action. She isn't one to sit back and let things happen to and around her from the sounds of it.


What do you think so far? Would you keep reading?

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Everyone has a favorite and then we also have something we dislike. Like a coin, there are two sides to every question. Each week, Carrie at The Butterfly Reads and Laura from Blue Eye Books ask participants to list what they like and don't like about that week's topic.

This week's topic is Book you've enjoyed with the most/least pages.

Coming in at 1,439 pages, The Stand by Stephen King, was a surprisingly fast book to read, and I enjoyed it.  On the other end of the spectrum, (excluding children's books and graphic novels) is Wet Silence: Poems about Hindu Widows by Sweta Srivastava Vikram which was only 82 pages long. It's a beautiful and emotional collection of poems.

What is a book you enjoyed with the most pages? The least pages?

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Every Friday Coffee Addicted Writer from Coffee Addicted Writer poses a question which participants respond on their own blogs within the week (Friday through Thursday). They then share their links at the main site and visit other participants blogs.

Have you ever read a book written in a foreign language you might be fluent in, and then read the same book in English?

I enjoy reading books that have been translated into English, especially crime fiction. I wish I was so gifted as to know more than one language. Alas, I am only fluent in English. 

What about you?

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Every Friday Ellen from 15andmeowing.com and Ann from McGuffy’s Reader get together to host the Friendly Fill-Ins. You can be serious or funny--the idea is just to have fun.

1. Over-worrying is a waste of time, and yet I do it all the time.

2. My favorite app is the Inoreader app, which I use to track most of the book blogs I follow.

3. My first car was a Neon Dodge. I named it Danica, but eventually switched its name to Betty.

4. The best car I ever owned is my current car because it is still running.


 I hope you all have a wonderful weekend! Be sure and tell me what you are reading and are up to!

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Sunday Salon: 100 Best Beach Books Ever

The summer season is not all that different for me than the rest of the year. I go to work every day just as I always have. The weather is warmer, certainly. And the sun is out longer. I may take a vacation or I may not. My reading pretty much stays the same regardless of the season.

I suppose that is why I have never fully appreciated the term "beach read". When I first heard it, I took it at its literal definition. A book you would want to read on the beach, one you would not mind getting sand between the pages. And I suppose that is, in part, where it got its start. In a broader sense, I think quite a few people think of "beach reads" as light reading, those books that don't require your full attention or much in the way brain power. However, I've discovered that there are those who choose to think of "beach reads" as those more serious tomes they can finally pick up and give their full attention to. National Public Radio (NPR) conducted a survey recently to see what books their audience would select as the best beach reads. As you can see, the 100 Best Beach Books Ever list has books that span a wide spectrum.

What does a "beach read" mean to you? What kinds of books would you take along with you on a vacation? Any thoughts about NPR's list?

NPR's 100 Best Beach Books Ever
1. The Harry Potter series, by J.K. Rowling*
2. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee*
3. The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini*
4. Bridget Jones's Diary, by Helen Fielding
5. Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen*
6. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, by Rebecca Wells
7. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald*
8. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams*
9. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, by Fannie Flagg*
10. The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver
11. The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
12. Life of Pi, by Yann Martel
13. The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan*
14. The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien*
15. The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger*
16. Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell
17. Bel Canto, by Ann Patchett
18. The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien*
19. Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides*
20. Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen
21. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain*
22. The Bean Trees, by Barbara Kingsolver
23. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, by Alexander McCall Smith*
24. The World According to Garp, by John Irving
25. Catch-22, by Joseph Heller*
26. The Prince of Tides, by Pat Conroy
27. Like Water for Chocolate, by Laura Esquivel
28. The Princess Bride, by William Goldman*
29. The Accidental Tourist, by Anne Tyler
30. Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer*
31. A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole
32. East of Eden, by John Steinbeck
33. The Red Tent, by Anita Diamant*
34. Beach Music, by Pat Conroy
35. One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez*
36. Rebecca, by Daphne Du Maurier
37. Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card
38. Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry
39. The Thorn Birds, by Colleen McCullough
40. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, by Michael Chabon
41. Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follett*
42. Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy*
43. Interview with the Vampire, by Anne Rice*
44. Cold Mountain, by Charles Frazier
45. Empire Falls, by Richard Russo*
46. Under the Tuscan Sun, by Frances Mayes
47. The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas
48. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, by Tom Robbins
49. I Know This Much Is True, by Wally Lamb*
50. Murder on the Orient Express, by Agatha Christie
51. Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott
52. The Stand, by Stephen King
53. She's Come Undone, by Wally Lamb*
54. Dune, by Frank Herbert
55. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
56. Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
57. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll
58. Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov
59. The Godfather, by Mario Puzo*
60. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith
61. Animal Dreams, by Barbara Kingsolver
62. Jaws, by Peter Benchley
63. Good in Bed, by Jennifer Weiner
64. Angle of Repose, by Wallace Stegner
65. Snow Falling on Cedars, by David Guterson
66. The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway*
67. The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand
68. Breakfast of Champions, by Kurt Vonnegut
69. Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
70. The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler
71. The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway*
72. The Hunt for Red October, by Tom Clancy
73. Cold Sassy Tree, by Olive Ann Burns
74. The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding*
74. Bonfire of the Vanities, by Tom Wolfe [tie]
76. Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte*
77. Outlander, by Diana Gabaldon
78. The Shell Seekers, by Rosamunde Pilcher
79. Prodigal Summer, by Barbara Kingsolver
80. Eye of the Needle, by Ken Follett
81. Cannery Row, by John Steinbeck
81. The Pilot's Wife, by Anita Shreve [tie]
83. All the Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy
84. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson
85. The Little Prince, by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
86. The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
87. One for the Money, by Janet Evanovich*
88. Shogun, by James Clavell
89. Dracula, by Bram Stoker*
90. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera
91. Presumed Innocent, by Scott Turow
92. Franny and Zooey, by J.D. Salinger
93. The Secret History, by Donna Tartt
94. Dead Until Dark, by Charlaine Harris*
95. Summer Sisters, by Judy Blume*
96. The Shining, by Stephen King
97. How Stella Got Her Groove Back, by Terry McMillan*
98. Lamb, by Christopher Moore
99. Sick Puppy, by Carl Hiaasen
100. Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson

(I put an asterisk next to the ones I've read--31 of the titles--just for the fun of it. Whether or not I read them in the summer, I cannot say.)


In Reading Mews:

Reviews Pending:
The Glass Devil by Helene Tursten (written, just not posted)
The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies (polishing off review)
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant (still in rough draft stage)

Currently Reading:
Wife of the Gods by Kwei Quartey

New Additions to my TBR collection:
Sworn to Silence by Linda Castillo (from LibraryThing's Early Review Program)
Holly's In Box by Holly Denham (from the author)

Other Posts of Interest This Week:
Monday at the Movies: Road Trips & A Trip to the Theater: Fiddler on the Roof
Wordless Wednesday: Riding the Highway (Part 8)

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Books Read in 2011

(Archive of books read in 2011, in alphabetical order)

Alt, Madelyn - The Trouble with Magic (2006) - Crime Fiction (Fantasy)
Bartlett, Allison Hoover - The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession (2009) - Nonfiction
Billingham, Mark - Bloodline (2011) - Crime Fiction
Briggs, Patricia - Blood Bound (2007) - Fantasy
Briggs, Patricia - Bone Crossed (2010) - Fantasy
Briggs, Patricia - Iron Kissed (2008) - Fantasy
Briggs, Patricia - Moon Called (2006) - Fantasy
Briggs, Patricia - Silver Borne (2011) - Fantasy
Butcher, Jim - White Night (2010) - Fantasy
Castillo, Linda - Sworn to Silence (2009) - Crime Fiction
Coakley, Lena - Witchlanders (2011) - Fantasy
David, Peter - Tigerheart (2008) - Fantasy (YA)
Fey, Tina - Bossypants (2011) - Nonfiction

Frost, Jeaniene - Halfway to the Grave (2007) - Fantasy (Paranormal Romance)

Gruley, Bryan - The Hanging Tree (2010) - Crime Fiction
Handeland, Lori - Any Given Doomsday (2008) - Fantasy
Harris, Charlaine - Dead Reckoning (2011) - Fantasy
Hyde, Catherine Ryan - When I Found You (2009) - Fiction
Kozak, Harley Jane - A Date You Can't Refuse (2009) - Crime Fiction
Kozak, Harley Jane - Dating Dead Men (2005) - Crime Fiction
Kozak, Harley Jane - Dating is Murder (2005) - Crime Fiction
Kozak, Harley Jane - Dead Ex (2007) - Crime Fiction
LePore, James - Blood of My Brother (2010) - Crime Fiction
Martin, George R.R. - Game of Thrones (2003) - Fantasy
Martinez, Michele - Cover-Up (2007) - Crime Fiction
Meeks, Christopher - Love At Absolute Zero (2011) - Fiction
Ness, Patrick - The Ask and the Answer (2010) - Fantasy (YA)
Ness, Patrick - The Knife of Never Letting Go (2008) - Fantasy (YA)
Ness, Patrick - Monsters of Men (2011) - Fantasy (YA)
Scheeres, Julia - A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception and Survival at Jonestown (2011) - Nonfiction
Sellers, L.J. - The Sex Club (2007) - Crime Fiction
Simon, Clea - Dogs Don't Lie (2011) - Crime Fiction
Smith, L.J. - Vampire Diaries: The Awakening (1999) - Fantasy (YA)
Sweeney, Leann - The Cat, the Quilt and the Corpse (2009) - Crime Fiction
Woodrell, Daniel - Winter's Bone (2006) - Fiction

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Book Reviews

(Book Review Archives - Alphabetical by Author)

A
Aaron, Jason & Cameron Stewart - The Other Side (2007)
Aaron, Jason & R.M. Guéra - Scalped: Indian Country (2007)
Abdullah, Shaila - Saffron Dreams (2013)
Ablow, Keith - The Architect (2005)
Ablow, Keith - Compulsion (2002)
Ablow, Keith - Murder Suicide (2004)
Ablow, Keith - Projection (1999)
Ablow, Keith - Psychopath (2003)
Acevedo, Mario - The Nymphos of Rocky Flats (Felix Gomez, #1) (2006)
Addison, Esme - A Spell for Trouble (Enchanted Bay, #1) (2020) 

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi - Half of a Yellow Sun (2006)
Agarwal, Shilpa - Haunting Bombay (2009)
Akers, W.M. - Westside (Westside, #1) (2019)

Alarcón, Daniel - War by Candlelight (2005)

Alers, Rochelle - Home and Away (2024) 
Alexander, Robert - The Kitchen Boy (2003)
Alexie, Sherman - The Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian (2007)

Allende, Isabel - The Japanese Lover (2015) 
Allende, Isabel - Ripper (2014)
Allende, Isabel - The Wind Knows My Name (2023)

Almojera, Anthony - Riding the Lightning: A Year in the Life of a New York City Paramedic (2022) 

Alpert, Karen - I Want My Epidural Back: Adventures in Mediocre Parenting (2016)
Alt, Madelyn - The Trouble with Magic (2006)
Alvarez, Julia - In the Time of the Butterflies (1994)
Anable, Stephen - The Fisher Boy (2008)
Anderson, Catherine - The Christmas Room (2017)

Anderson, Laurie Halse - Shout (2019)  
Anderson, Laurie Halse - Speak (1999)

Andrews, Ilona - Bayou Moon (The Edge #2) (2010)
Andrews, Ilona - Clean Sweep (2012) 
Andrews, Ilona - Magic Bleeds (2010)
Andrews, Ilona - Magic Bites (2007)
Andrews, Ilona - Magic Burns (2008)
Andrews, Ilona - Magic Slays (Kate Daniels, #5) (2011)
Andrews, Ilona - Magic Strikes (2009)
Andrews, Ilona - On the Edge (The Edge #1) (2009)

Andrews, Ilona - On the Edge (The Edge #1) (2009) (re-read)
Andrews, Ilona - One Fell Sweep (2016) 
Andrews, Ilona - Sweep in Peace (2015)
Andrews, Ilona - Sweep of the Blade (Innkeeper Chronicles, #4) (2019)
Appelhans, Lenore - The Memory of After (2013)
Arikawa, Hiro, translated by Philip Gabriel - The Travelling Cat Chronicles (2012)

Arlen, Tessa - A Death By Any Other Name (Lady Montford Series, #3) (2017)
Arlen, Tessa - Death of a Dishonorable Gentleman (Lady Montford Series, #1) (2015)
Arlen, Tessa - Death Sits Down for Dinner (Lady Montford Series, #2) (2016)
Armstrong, Kelley - Bitten (2001)
Armstrong, Kelley - Broken (Women of the Otherworld, #6) (2006)

Armstrong, Kelley - Dime Store Magic (2004)

Armstrong, Kelley - Exit Strategy (2007)
Armstrong, Kelley - Haunted (2005)
Armstrong, Kelley - Industrial Magic (2004)
Armstrong, Kelley - Stolen (2002)
Arsenault, Emily - The Evening Spider (2016) 
Arthur, Keri - Chasing the Shadows (2013-reissue)

Arthur, Keri - Dancing with the Devil (2013-reissue)

Arthur, Keri - Hearts in Darkness (2013-reissue)

Arthur, Keri - Kiss the Night Goodbye (2013-reissue)
Arudpragasam, Anuk - The Story of a Brief Marriage (2016)
Ashley, Jennifer - Death Below Stairs (2018) 
Ashley, Jennifer - Death in Kew Gardens (Kate Holloway, #3) (2019)
Ashley, Jennifer - Scandal Above Stairs (Kat Holloway, #2) (2018) 
Ashworth, Trisha & Amy Nobile - I Was a Really Good Mom Before I Had Kids: Reinventing Modern Motherhood (2007)

Atkinson, Kate - Case Histories (2004)
Atwood, Margaret - Blind Assassin (2000)
Atwood, Margaret - The Handmaid's Tale (1986) 
Austen, Jane - Emma (1816)
Austen, Jane - Northanger Abbey (1817)
Austen, Jane - Persuasion (1817)
Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice (1831)
Austin, Max - Duke City Split (2014)
Avey, Bob - Beneath a Buried House (2008)
Axelsson, Majgull - April Witch (1997)
Azzarello, Brian et al - Noir: A Collection of Crime Comics (2009)


B
Backman, Fredrik - A Man Called Ove (2014)
Backman, Fredrik - My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry (2015)
Baker, Christina - The Orphan Train (2013)
Baldacci, David - The Christmas Train (2004)

Baldree, Travis - Legends & Lattes (#1) (2022) 
Ballard, J.G. - Empire of the Sun (1984)
Banks, Dakota - Dark Time (2009)
Bannalec, Jean-Luc - Death in Brittany (2012)
Barlow, Toby - Sharp Teeth (2008)
Barnes, Jonathan - The Somnambulist (2008)
Barnes, Julian - The Sense of an Ending (2011)
Bartlett, Allison Hoover - The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession (2009)
Bashir, Halima (with Damien Lewis) - Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Durfar (2008)
Bass, Bill & Jon Jefferson - Death's Acre (2003)
Baum, L. Frank - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)

Beaglehole, Iris - Accidental Magic (Myrtlewood Mystery #1) (2022)

Bechdel, Alison - Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (2007)
Beer, Edith Hahn - The Nazi Officer's Wife (1999)
Benedek, E.A. - Red Sea (2007)

Bennett, Robert Jackson - The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan #1) (2024) 
Benulis, Sabrina - Archon: The Books of Raziel (2012)
Bergren, Lisa T. - The Begotten (2006)
Bernikow, Louise - Dreaming in Libro: How a Good Dog Tamed a Bad Woman (2007)
Beverly-Whitemore, Miranda - June (2016)
Billingham, Mark - Bloodline (2011)
Billingham, Mark - Lifeless (2006)
Bishop, Anne - Dreams Made Flesh (2005)
Bishop, Anne - The Invisible Ring (The Black Jewels #4) (2000)
Bishop, Anne - Marked in Flesh (2016) 
Bishop, Anne - Murder of Crows (2014)
Bishop, Anne - Vision on Silver (2014)
Bishop, Anne - Written in Red (2013)
Bivald, Katarina - The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend (2016)

Black, Sue - Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind (2020)  
Blum, Jenna - Those Who Save Us (2005)
Boecker, Virginia - The King Slayer (Witch Hunter, #2) (2016)
Boecker, Virginia - The Witch Hunter (2015)
Boesky, Amy - What We Have: A Family's Inspiring Story About Love, Loss, & Survival (2010)

Bogel, Anne - I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life (2018) 
Bohjalian, Chris - Before You Know Kindness (2004)
Boldin, Brenda M. - Dead Birds Don't Sing (2005)
Bolton, Sharon - Little Black Lies (2015)
Born, James O. - Field of Fire (2007)
Bouchet, Amanda - Nightchaser (Endeavor, #1) (2019)
Bouchet, Amanda - Starbreaker (Endeavor, #2) (2020)

Bowden, Mark - Guests of the Ayatollah, The Iran Hostage Crisis: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam (2006)
Boyne, John - The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2006)
Bradbuy, Ray - Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
Brady, Catherine - The Mechanics of Falling and Other Stories (2009)
Branard, Lynne - The Art of Arranging Flowers (2014)
Brecher, Christin - 15 Minutes of Flame (Nantucket Candle Maker Mystery, #3) (2020)

Brennan, Allison - The Hunt (2006)
Brenner, Marie - Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found (2008)
Brennert, Alan - Moloka'i (2003)
Briggs, Patricia - Blood Bound (2007)
Briggs, Patricia - Bone Crossed (2010)
Briggs, Patricia - Iron Kissed (2008)
Briggs, Patricia - Moon Called (2006)
Briggs, Patricia - Silver Borne (2011)
Brockmeier, Kevin - The View From the Seventh Layer (2008)
Brogan, Jan - Teaser (2008)
Brook, Allison - Buried in the Stacks (Haunted Library, #3) (2019)
Brook, Allison - Checked Out for Murder (Haunted Library, #4) (2020)

Brook, Allison - Death Overdue (Haunted Library, #1) (2017)
Brook, Allison - Read and Gone (Haunted Library, #2) (2018)
Brooks, Max - World War Z (2006)
Brophy, Grace - A Deadly Paradise by Grace Brophy (2008)
Brosgol, Vera -  Anya's Ghost (2011) 

Brown, Nancy Marie - The Real Valkyrie: The Hidden History of Viking Warrior Women (2021) 

Brown, Rita Mae - Litter of the Law (2013)
Brown, Sandra (ed) - Thriller 3: Love is Murder (2012)
Brubaker, Ed & Sean Phillips - Criminal Vol. 1: Coward (2007)
Buchanan, Cathy Marie - The Day the Falls Stood Still (2009)

Buckley, Carla -The Deepest Secret (2014) 

Buckley, Julia - A Dark and Stormy Murder (2016)

Burgess, Carla - The Five Year Plan (2020)
Burke, Alfafair - Never Tell (2012)
Burroughs, Augusten - Lust and Wonder (2017)
Burroughs, Augusten - Running with Scissors (2002)
Burton, Tara Isabella - Social Creature (2018)
Butcher, Jim - Blood Rites (The Dresden Files #6) (2004)
Butcher, Jim - Dead Beat (The Dresden Files #7) (2005)
Butcher, Jim - Death Masks (The Dresden Files #5) (2003)
Butcher, Jim - Fool Moon (The Dresden Files #2) (2001)
Butcher, Jim - Grave Peril (The Dresden Files #3) (2001)
Butcher, Jim - Proven Guilty (2006)
Butcher, Jim - Storm Front (1997)
Butcher, Jim - Summer Knight (The Dresden Files #4) (2002)
Butcher, Jim - White Night (2010)

Butler, Octavia E. - Parable of the Sower (Earthseed #1) (1993) 


C
Cain, Susan - Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (2012)
Caine, Rachel - Cape Storm (2010)
Caine, Rachel - Chill Factor (2005)
Caine, Rachel - Firestorm (2007)
Caine, Rachel - Gale Force (2009)
Caine, Rachel - Heat Stroke (2004)
Caine, Rachel - Ill Wind (2003)
Caine, Rachel - Ink and Bone (The Great Library, #1) (2015)

Caine, Rachel - Thin Air (2008)
Caine, Rachel - Total Eclipse (2011)
Caine, Rachel - Windfall (2006)
Calkins, Susanna - A Murder at Rosamund's Gate (2013)
Callahan, Coreene - Fury of a Highland Dragon (2015)
Callow, Pamela - Damaged (2010)
Calonita, Jen - Flunked (Fairy Tale Reform School #1) (2015) 

Campbell, Gordon - Missing Witness (2007)
Canavan, Trudi - The High Lord (The Black Magician Trilogy #3) (2003)
Canavan, Trudi - The Magicians' Guild ( The Black Magician Trilogy #1) (2001)

Canavan, Trudi - The Novice (The Black Magician Trilogy #2) (2002) 

Capote, Truman - In Cold Blood (1965)
Carey, Ella - Paris Time Capsule (2015)
Carey M.R. -The Girl With All The Gifts (2014)
Carlisle, Kate - The Book Supremacy (Bibliophile Mystery #13) (2019)
Carpenter, Don - Hard Rain Falling (1964)
Carr, Alex - An Accidental American (2007)
Carriger, Gail - Soulless (2009)
Carrisi, Donato - The Lost Girls of Rome (2013)
Carter, Stephen L. - The Emperor of Ocean Park (2002)
Carter, Stephen L. - New England White (2007)
Castillo, Linda - Sworn to Silence (2009)
Cates, Bailey - Brownies and Broomsticks (Magical Bakery Mystery #1) (2016)
Chabon, Michael - The Final Solution (2004)
Chan, Vanessa - The Storm We Made (2024)

Chance, Maia- Gin and Panic (2017)
Charish, Kristi - Owl and the Japanese Circus (2015)
Charles, Paula - Hammers and Homicide (Hometown Hardware Mystery #1) (2023)

Charney, Noah - The Art Thief (2007)
Chase, Ashlyn - Hooked on a Phoenix (2018)
Chase, Erika - A Killer Read (2012)
Chast, Roz - Childproof: Cartoons About Parents & Children (1997)
Chastain, Rebecca - A Fistful of Evil (2014)
Chastain, Rebecca - A Fistful of Fire (2015)
Chastain, Rebecca - Curse of the Gargoyles (Gargoyle Guardian Chronicles #2) (2016)
Chastain, Rebecca - Leads & Lynxes (Terra Haven Chronicles, #1) (2020)

Chastain, Rebecca - Magic of the Gargoyles (Gargoyle Guardian Chronicles #1) (2014)
Chiaverini, Jennifer - Christmas Bells (2015)
Christiansë, Yvette - Unconfessed (2006)
Chidgey, Catherine - The Strength of the Sun (2000)
Child, Lee - Gone Tomorrow (2009)
Child, Lee - Killing Floor (2009)

Cho, Zen - Black Water Sister (2021)

Choo, Yangsze - The Ghost Bride (2013)
Choo, Yangsze - The Night Tiger  (2019)

Chouinard, Michelle - The Serial Killer Guide to San Francisco  (#1) (2024) 

Chow, Jennifer J. - Mimi Lee Gets a Clue (A Sassy Cat Mystery #1) (2020)

Christie, Agatha - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)

Clare, Cassandra - The City of Bones (Book 1: Mortal Instruments) (2008)
Cleave, Chris - Little Bee (2008)
Cline, Ernest - Ready Player One (2011)
Coakley, Lena - Witchlanders (2011)
Coakley, Lena - Worlds of Ink and Shadow (2015)
Coelho, Paulo - The Alchemist (1993)
Cogman, Genevieve - The Burning Page (Invisible Library #3)(2016)
Cogman, Genevieve -  The Invisible Library (Invisible Library #1) (2015)
Cogman, Genevieve - The Lost Plot (Invisible Library #4) (2018)
Cogman, Genevieve - The Masked City (Invisible Library #2) (2016)
Cogman, Genevieve - The Mortal Word (Invisible Library, #5) (2018)
Cogman, Genevieve - The Secret Chapter (Invisible Library, #6) (2020)

Cohen, Jeffrey A. - The Killing of Mindi Quintana (2010)
Cohen, Kerry - Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity (2008)
Cole, Courtney - The Christmas Dress (2021)

Cole, Kresley - A Hunger Like No Other (2006)
Cole, Kresley - No Rest for the Wicked (2006)
Cole, Kresley - Wicked Deeds on a Winter's Night  (2007) 

Colgan, Jenny - Christmas At Little Beach Street Bakery (2017)

Colgan, Jenny - The Christmas Bookshop (2021)
Collins, Suzanne - Catching Fire (2009)
Collins, Suzanne - Hunger Games (2008)
Collins, Suzanne - Mockingjay (2010)
Collins, Wilkie - The Woman in White (1861)
Connelly, Michael - The Black Ice (1993)
Connolly, John - The Wanderer in Unknown Realms (2013)
Connolly, Tina - Ironskin (2012)
Conte, Cate - Witch Hunt (2020)

Cook, Claire - Must Love Dogs (2002)
Cooke, Darwyn - Parker: The Hunter (Richard Stark’s Parker, Book 1) (2009)
Cooper, Karina - The Mysterious Case of Mr. Strangeway (2013)
Copleton, Jackie - A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding (2015)
Corrigan, Maureen - Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books (2005)
Cosimano, Elle - Finlay Donovan Is Killing It (2021)

Cosimano, Elle - Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun (Finlay Donovan #3) (2023)

Costello, Matthew - Missing Monday (2004)
Cotterill, Colin - Anarchy and Old Dogs (2007)
Craig, Erin et al - Together, Apart (2020)

Crais, Robert - The Monkey's Raincoat (1987)
Creel, Ann Howard -  The Whiskey Sea (2016)
Crews, Caitlin - Scandalize Me (2014)
Crichton, Michael - State of Fear (2004)
Crombie, Deborah - No Mark Upon Her (2012)
Cross, Ethan - The Prophet (2012)
Cross, Juliette - The Black Lily (Black Lily #1) (2017)
Cross, Juliette - Darkest Heart (Dominion, #1)  (2018)
Cross, Juliette - Don't Hex and Drive (Stay a Spell, #2) (2020) 

Cross, Juliette - Dragon in the Blood (Vale of Stars 2) (2016)
Cross, Juliette - Dragon Heartstrings (Vale of Stars 0.5) (2016)
Cross, Juliette - Nightbloom (Nightwing #3) (2015)
Cross, Juliette - Soulfire (Nightwing #1) (2014)
Cross, Juliette - Waking the Dragon (Vale of Stars 1) (2015)
Cross, Juliette - Wolf Gone Wild (Stay a Spell, #1) (2020)

Cross, Juliette - Windburn (Nightwing #2) (2015)
Cross, Juliette - Walking in a Witchy Wonderland (Stay a Spell #3.5) (2021)

Crosswell, Marie S. - Alchemy (2018)
Crowell, Jenn - Etched On Me  (2014)

Crusie, Jennifer - Fast Women (2001)

Culbertson, Judi - An Illustrated Death (2013)
Cummins, Fiona - The Family Next Door (2020)

Czerneda, Julie E. - The Gossamer Mage  (2019)


D
Dalcher, Christina - Vox (2019)
Dane, Jordan - Evil Without a Face (2011)
Dane, Jordan - No One Heard Her Scream (2008)
Danticat, Edwidge - Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994)
Danticat, Edwidge - The Dew Breaker (2004)

Dara, Maxie - A Grim Reaper's Guide to Catching a Killer (S.C.Y.T.H.E Mystery #1) (2024) 
Dark, Juliet - The Angel Stone (2013)
Dark, Juliet - The Demon Lover (2011)
Dark, Juliet - Water Witch (2013)
Daugharty, Janice - The Little Known (2010)
David, Peter - Tigerheart (2008)
Davidson, MaryJanice - Derik’s Bane (2005)
Davidson, MaryJanice - Dead and Loving It (2006)
Davidson, MaryJanice - Undead and Unappreciated (2005)
Davidson, MaryJanice - Undead and Unemployed (2004)
Davidson, MaryJanice - Undead and Unpopular (2006)
Davidson, MaryJanice - Undead and Unreturnable (2005)
Davidson, MaryJanice - Undead and Unwed (2004)
Davies, Peter Ho - The Welsh Girl (2007)
Davis, Kathy - Passiflora (2021)

Davis, Lia - Royal Enchantment (2016)
Davis, Patrick A. - The Shattered Blue Line (2005)
Davis, Vonnie - Bearing It All (2015)
Davis, Vonnie - The Highlander's Obsession (2014)
Davis, Vonnie - The Highlander's Passion (2015)
Delaney, Frank - Venetia Kelly's Traveling Show (2010)
DeLuca, Jen - Well Met (2019)
Dennis-Benn, Nicole - Here Comes the Sun (2016)
Derr, Megan - The Lady and the Thief (2018)
Di Marco, Connie - The Madness of Mercury (2016)
Diamant, Anita - The Last Days of Dogtown (2005)
Diamant, Anita - The Red Tent (1997)
Dickens, Charles - A Christmas Carol (1843)
Diliberto, Gioia - The Collection (2007)
Donaldson, Stephen R. - Lord Foul's Bane (1977)
Donoghue, Emma - Room (2010)
Donovan, Kemper - The Decent Proposal (2016)
Douglas, John - Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit  (1988)
Downing, David - Zoo Station (2007)
Doyle, Arthur Conan - The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901)
Drake, Jocelynn - Nightwalker (2008)
Draven, Grace - Phoenix Unbound (Fallen Empire, #1) (2018)
Dreyer, Eileen - Brain Dead (1997)
Duba, Ursula - Tales From a Child of the Enemy (1995)
Dublin, D.H. - Blood Poison (2007)
Duffy, Brendan - The Storm King (2016)
Dukes, Kristopher - Sworn Virgin (2017)
Dunant, Sarah - The Birth of Venus (2003)
Dunaway, Michele - A Little Christmas Jingle (2014)
Dunn, Matthew - The Spy Trade (2015)
Dunstall, S.K. - Stars Beyond (Stars Uncharted, #2) (2020)

Dunstall, S.K. - Stars Uncharted (Stars Uncharted, #1) (2018)

E
Eason, K. - How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse  (Thorne Chronicles #1) (2019)

Ebershoff, David - The 19th Wife (2008)
Edim, Gloria (ed.) - Well-Read Black Girl (2018)

Edwards, Kim - The Memory Keeper's Daughter (2005)
Edwardson, Åke - Sun and Shadow (1999)
Ellicott, Jessica - Murder at a London Finishing School (Beryl & Edwina Mystery #7) (2023)

Ellis, Helen - What Curiosity Kills (The Turning, Book 1) (2010)
Ellison, Jan - A Small Indiscretion (2015)
Elwes, Cary & Joe Layden - As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride (2014)
Emley, Dianne - The Night Visitor (2014)

Engel, Amy - The Roanoke Girls (2017) 
Enger, Leif - Peace Like a River (2001)
Enss, Chris - The Pinks: The First Women Detectives, Operatives, and Spies with the Pinkerton National Detective Agency (2017)
Erdrich, Louise - LaRose (2016)
Eskens, Allen - The Life We Bury (2014)
Eugenides, Jeffrey - Middlesex (2002)
Evanovich, Janet - Eleven on Top (2005)
Evanovich, Janet - Lean Mean Thirteen (2007)
Evanovich, Janet - Plum Lovin' (2007)
Evanovich, Janet - Twelve Sharp (2006)


F
Faber, Michel - The Crimson Petal and the White (2002)
Faber, Michel - Under the Skin (2001)
Fadiman, Anne - Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Readers by Anne Fadiman (1998)
Fairstein, Linda - Bad Blood (2006)
Fairstein, Linda - Death Angel (2013)
Fairstein, Linda - Hell Gate (2010)
Fairstein, Linda - Killer Heat (2008)
Fairstein, Linda - Legal Legacy (2009)

Fairstein, Linda - Night Watch (2012)

Fairstein, Linda - Silent Mercy (2011) 

Fairstein, Linda - Terminal City (2014)

Fallon, Jennifer - Lion of Senet (2002)
Fam, Charlee - Last Train to Babylon (2014)
Fate, Robert - Baby Shark (2006)
Fawcett, Heather - Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (#1) (2023) 

Faye, Lyndsay - Jane Steele (2016) 
Feldman, Ellen - Terrible Virtue (2016)

Feng, Linda Rui - Swimming Back to Trout River (2021)

Fey, Tina - Bossypants (2011)
Finder, Joseph - Paranoia (2004)
Finn, A.J. - The Woman in the Window (2018) 
Fitch, Janet - White Oleander (1999)
Fixler, Barry - Semper Cool: One Marine's Fond Memories of Vietnam (2010)
Flagg, Fannie - Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (1987)
Flock, Elizabeth - Me & Emma (2005)
Flynn, Gillian - Gone Girl (2012)
Foer, Jonathan Safran - Everything is Illuminated (2002)
Foley, Laura - Joy Street (2014)
Foley, Laura - WTF: Poems (2017)
Follett, Ken - Pillars of the Earth (1990)
Ford, Jamie - Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (2009)
Foreman, Gayle - If I Stay (2009)
Forna, Namina - The Gilded Ones (2021)

Fossen, Delores -  Blame It On the Cowboy (2016)
Foust, Rebecca - Paradise Drive (2015)
Freeman, Ru - A Disobedient Girl (2009)
Freese, Mathias B. - Down to a Sunless Sea (2007)
French, Tana - In the Woods (2007)
Friedmann, Patty - Eleanor Rushing (2000)
Frost, Jeaniene - Halfway to the Grave (2007)
Funke, Cornelia - Inkheart (Inkworld, #1) (2003)
Fuqua, Jonathon Scott - In the Wake of the Boatman (2008)


G
Gaiman, Neil - American Gods (2001)
Gaiman, Neil - Neverwhere (1997)
Gaiman, Neil - The Ocean at the End of the Lane (2013)
Gaiman, Neil - Stardust (1999)
Galbraith, Robert - The Cuckoo's Calling (2013)
Galloway, Steven - The Cellist of Sarajevo (2008)
Garcia, Kami & Margaret Stohl - Beautiful Creatures (2009)

Gawande, Atul - Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (2014)
Gaynor, Hazel - The Girl From the Savoy (2016)
Gaynor, Hazel & Heather Webb - The Last Christmas in Paris (2017)
Gaynor, Hazel - The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter (2018)
Genova, Lisa -  Love Anthony (2012)
Genova, Lisa - Still Alice (2009)
George, Anne - Murder on a Girls' Night Out (1996)
Gerritsen, Tess - Life Support (1997)
Gibson, Q. - Sunday Sugar (2017) 
Gilbert, Victoria - A Murder for the Books (Blue Ridge Library Mysteries #1), (2017)

Gilbert, Victoria - Schooled in Murder (Campus Sleuth Mysteries #1) (2025)
Gilleo, Mark - Sweat (2012)

Giovanni, Nikki - A Good Cry: What We Learn from Tears and Laughter  (2017) 

Gleason, Colleen - The Bleeding Dusk (2008)
Gleason, Colleen - The Rest Falls Away (2007)
Gleason, Colleen - Rises The Night (2007)
Goldberg, Myla - Bee Season (2000)
Goldberg, Myla - Wickett's Remedy (2005)
Golden, Arthur - Memoirs of a Geisha (1997)
Goodwin, Jan - Price of Honor: Muslim Women Lift the Veil of Silence on the Islamic World  (1994)
Gottfried, Susan Helene - Shapeshifter: The Demo Tapes, Year 1 (2008)
Gottfried, Susan Helene - Trevor's Song (2008)
Grace, February - Wishing Cross Station(2015)
Grafton, Sue - S is for Silence (2005)
Grafton, Sue - T is for Trespass (2007)
Graham, E.A. - Dust Covered Dreams (2006)
Graham, Heather - The Betrayed (2014)
Graham, Heather - The Hexed (2014)
Graham, Heather - The Silenced (2015)
Green, John - An Abundance of Katherines (2006)
Green, John - The Fault in Our Stars (2012)
Greer, Robert - Blackbird, Farewell (2008)
Gregory, Philippa - The Other Boleyn Girl (2001)
Greyson, Maeve - My Higland Bride (2015)
Greyson, Maeve - Sadie's Highlander (2017)
Greyson, Maeve - My Seductive Highlander (2016) 
Greyson, Maeve - My Tempting Highlander (2016)
Griffith, Clay & Susan Griffith - The Shadow Revolution (Crown & Key #1) (2015)
Grippando, James - Got the Look (2006)
Grisham, John - A Time to Kill (1989)
Gruley, Bryan - The Hanging Tree (2010)
Gruley, Bryan - Starvation Lake (2009)
Guillory, Jasmine - Royal Holiday (Wedding Date #4) (2019)

Guillory, Jasmine - The Wedding Date (The Wedding Date #1) (2018)

Gunter, Jen - The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism (2021)

Gutcheon, Beth - More Than You Know (2000)


H
Hackwith, A.J. - The Library of the Unwritten (Hell's Library, #1) (2019)

Haddon, Mark - A Spot of Bother (2006)
Haji, Nafisa - The Writing on My Forehead (2009)
Hale, Jenny - Christmas Wishes and Mistletoe Kisses (2015)
Hale, Shannon & Dean Hale (illustrated by LeUyen Pham) - The Princess In Black (The Princess in Black, #1) (2014)
Hale, Shannon & Dean Hale (illustrated by LeUyen Pham - The Princess in Black and the Hungry Bunny Horde (The Princess in Black, #3) (2016)
Hale, Shannon & Dean Hale (illustrated by LeUyen Pham - The Princess in Black and the Perfect Princess Party (The Princess in Black, #2) (2015)

Hale, Shannon & Dean Hale (illustrated by LeUyen Pham - The Princess in Black Takes a Vacation (The Princess in Black, #4) (2016)

Hall, Elizabeth - Miramont's Ghost (2004)
Hall, Steven - The Raw Shark Texts (2007)
Halpern, Adena - 29: A Novel (2010)
Hamer, Kate - The Girl in the Red Coat (2016)
Hamilton, Laurell et al - Bite (2006)
Hamilton, Laurel K. - Danse Macabre (2006)
Hamilton, Laurel K. - Micah (2006)
Hamilton, Masha - 31 Hours (2009)
Hamilton, Rebecca - The Forever Girl (2012)
Hamlin, L.J. - Tales of the Fae (2018)
Hammett, Dashiell - The Maltese Falcon (1930)
Handeland, Lori - Any Given Doomsday (2008)
Hankins, James - Shady Cross (2015)
Hannah, Mari - The Murder Wall (2013)
Hansen, Lina - In My Attic (Magic Misfits, #1) (2020)

Hari, Daoud - The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur (2008)
Harkness, Deborah - The Book of Life (2014) 
Harkness, Deborah - A Discovery of Witches (2011)
Harkness, Deborah - Shadow of Night (2012)
Harlow, Jennifer - What's a Witch To Do? (2006)

Harper, Elodie - The House with the Golden Door ( Wolf Den #2) (2022)

Harper, Elodie - The Temple of Fortuna (Wolf Den Trilogy #3) (2023)

Harper, Elodie - The Wolf Den (#1) (2021)

Harrington, Karen - Janeology (2008)
Harris, Charlaine - An Easy Death (Gunnie Rose, #1) (2018) 

Harris, Charlaine - All Together Dead (2007)

Harris, Charlaine - Club Dead (2003)
Harris, Charlaine - Dead as a Doornail (2005)
Harris, Charlaine - Dead and Gone (2009)
Harris, Charlaine - Dead Ever After (2013)
Harris, Charlaine - Dead in the Family (2010)
Harris, Charlaine - Dead Reckoning (2011)
Harris, Charlaine - Dead to the World (2004)
Harris, Charlaine - Dead Until Dark (2001)
Harris, Charlaine - Deadlocked (2012)
Harris, Charlaine - Definitely Dead (2006)
Harris, Charlaine - From Dead to Worse (2008)
Harris, Charlaine - Living Dead in Dallas (2002)
Harris, Charlaine - A Longer Fall (Gunnie Rose, #2) (2020) 

Harris, Charlaine - The Russian Cage (Gunnie Rose #3) (2021)

Harris, Charlaine - Shakespeare's Landlord (2005)
Harris, Charlaine - A Touch of Dead (2009)
Harris, Oliver - The Hollow Man (2012)
Harris, Paul - The Secret Keeper (2009)
Harrison, Kim - Dead Witch Walking (The Hollows #1) (2004)

Harrison, Kim - Into the Woods: Tales from the Hollows and Beyond Into the Woods: Tales from the Hollows and Beyond (10.1)  (2012)

Harrison, Kim - Million Dollar Demon (The Hollows #15) (2021) 

Harrison, Kim - The Witch With No Name (Hollows #13) (The Hollows #13) (2014) 

Harrow, Alix E. - Starling House (2023)

Harrow, Alix E. - The Ten Thousand Doors of January (2019)
Hart, John - The Last Child (2009)
Hartman, Rachel - Seraphina (2012)
Hartman, Rachel - Shadow Scale (2015)
Harwood, John - The Ghost Writer (2004)
Hashimi, Nadia - When the Moon Is Low (2015)
Hatzfeld, Jean - Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak (2003)

Hawke, Lydia M. - A Gathering of Crones (Crone Wars #2) (2022) 

Hawke, Lydia M. - Becoming Crone (The Crone Wars #1) (2021)

Hawke, Lydia M. - Game of Crones (Crone Wars #3) (2022) 

Hawkins, Paula - The Girl on the Train (2015)
Hawkins, Rachel - The Wife Upstairs (2021)

Hayder, Mo - The Devil of Nanking (2004)
Hayman, James - Darkness First (2013)
Haynes, Elizabeth - Behind Closed Doors (2015)
Haynes, Elizabeth - Human Remains (2013)
Haynes, Elizabeth - Into The Darkest Corner (2013)
Haynes, Elizabeth - Under a Silent Moon (2013)
Hazen, Elizabeth - Girls Like Us (2020)

Heaberlin, Julia - Black-Eyed Susans (2015)
Heaberlin, Julia - Playing Dead (2012)
Hegi, Ursula - The Worst Thing I've Done (2007)
Heinemann, Larry - Paco's Story (1986)
Heller, Joseph - Catch-22 (1955)
Helms, Beth - Dervishes (2008)
Helprin, Mark - Winter's Tale (2005)
Henderson, Susan - Up From the Blue (2010)
Hendrix, Grady - The Southern Book Club's Guide to the Vampire Slayer (2020)

Henríquez, Cristina - The Book of Unknown Americans (2014) 
Henry, Christina - The Girl in Red (2019)
Hesse, Jennifer David - Bell, Book & Candlemas (A Wiccan Wheel Mystery, #2)(2016)
Hesse, Jennifer David - Midsummer Night's Mischief (A Wiccan Wheel Mystery, #1)(2016)
Hesse, Jennifer David - Samhain Secrets (A Wiccan Wheel Mystery, #4) (2018)
Hesse, Jennifer David - Yuletide Homicide (A Wiccan Wheel Mystery, #3) (2017)
Henkin, Joshua - Matrimony (2007)
Hewitt, Kate - Expose Me (2014)
Hill, Joe - 20th Century Ghosts (2005)
Hill, Joe -  The Fireman (2016)
Hill, Joe - Heart-Shaped Box (2007)
Hill, Sandra - Kiss of Pride (2012)
Hill, Sandra - Kiss of Surrender (2012)
Hoag, Tami - Deeper Than the Dead (2010)
Hoag, Tami - Secrets to the Grave (2010)
Hoffman, Alice - Practical Magic (1995)
Hoffman, Alice - The Probable Future (2003)
Hoffman, Alice - The Rules of Magic (Practical Magic, #2) (2017)

Hoffman, Beth - Saving CeeCee Honeycutt (2010)
Hoffman, Cara - Be Safe I Love You (2014)
Holdstock, Robert - Mythago Wood (1984)
Holloway, Emma Jane - A Study in Silks (2013)
Holmqvist, Ninni - The Unit (2009)
Horan, Ellen - 31 Bond Street (2010)
Horsley, Kate -  The American Girl (2016)
Howard, Cori (ed) - Between Interruptions: Thirty Women Tell the Truth About Motherhood (2008)

Huang, Justinian - The Emperor and the Endless Palace (2024)
Huber, Anna Lee - This Side of Murder (Verity Kent, #1) (2017)
Hughes, Dorothy B. - In A Lonely Place (1947)
Hugo, Lynne - A Matter of Mercy (2014)
Hugo, Victor - Les Misérables (1862)
Humphreys, Helen - The Lost Garden (2003)
Hunter, Frances - The Fairest Portion of the Globe (2010)
Hunter, Sandra - Losing Touch (2014)
Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World (1932)
Hyde, Catherine Ryan - When I Found You (2009)
Hyland, Adrian - Moonlight Downs (2008)


I
Iles, Greg - Sleep No More (2002)
Ione, Larissa - Bound by Night (2014)
Ireland, Liz -  Mrs. Claus and the Santaland Slayings (Mrs. Claus #1) (2020)

Iridiđason, Arnaldur - Jar City (2000)
Iridiđason, Arnaldur - Silence of the Grave (2002)
Irving, John - A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989)
Iweala, Uzodinma - Beasts of No Nation (2005)

Izumi, Mitsu (translated by Hiroto Hamada) - Magus of the Library, Vol. 1  (2018) 

Izumi, Mitsu (translated by Hiroto Hamada) - Magus of the Library, Vol. 2  (2018)

Izumi, Mitsu (translated by Hiroto Hamada) - Magus of the Library, Vol. 3  (2019)

Izumi, Mitsu (translated by Hiroto Hamada) - Magus of the Library, Vol. 4  (2020)

J
Jackson, Joshilyn - Someone Else's Love Story (2013)
James, E.L. - Fifty Shades Darker (2012)
James, E.L. - Fifty Shades of Grey (2012)
James, Elliott - Charming (2013)
James, Emmett - Admit One: A Journey Into Film (2007)
James, Kate -  When I Found You (2016)
James, Miranda - Claws For Concern (2018)
Jance, J.A. - Birds of Prey (J.P. Beaumont, #15) (2001)
Jance, J.A. - Breach of Duty (J.P. Beaumont, #14)  (1999)
Jance, J.A. - Dead to Rights (Joanna Brady, #4) (1996)
Jance, J.A. - Devil's Claw (Joanna Brady, #8) (2000)
Jance, J.A. - Exit Wounds (Joanna Brady, #11) (2003)
Jance, J.A. - Long Time Gone (J.P. Beaumont, #17) (2005)
Jance, J.A. - Lying in Wait (J.P. Beaumont, #12) (1994)
Jance, J.A. - Name Withheld (J.P. Beaumont, #13) (1996)
Jance, J.A. - Outlaw Mountain (Joanna Brady, #7) (1999)
Jance, J.A. - Partner in Crime (J.P. Beaumont #16/Joanna Brady, #10) (2002)

Jance, J.A. - Paradise Lost (Joanna Brady, #9) (2001)

Jance, J.A. - Rattlesnake Crossing (Joanna Brady, #6) (1998)
Jance, J.A. - Ring in the Dead (J.P. Beaumont #20.5) (2013)
Jance, J.A. - Skeleton Canyon (Joanna Brady, #5) (1997)
Jance, J.A. - Stand Down (2015)
Jeffries, Sabrina - The Risk of Rogues (The Sinful Suitors, #5.5) (2018)
Jenoff, Pam - The Lost Girls of Paris (2019)

Jio, Sarah - The Look of Love (2014)

Johnson, Craig - The Cold Dish (2005)
Johnson, Craig - Death Without Company (2006)
Johnson, Craig - Kindness Goes Unpunished (2007)
Johnson, Jean - Dawn of the Flame Sea (2016)
Johnson Jean - Demons of the Flame Sea (2016)
Johnson, Melonie - Getting Hot With a Scot (Sometimes in Love, #1) (2019)
Johnson, Melonie - Smitten by the Brit (Sometimes in Love, #2) (2019)
Johnston, Tim - Descent (2016)
Just, Ward - Forgetfulness (2006)


K
Kagawa, Julie - Shadow of the Fox (2018)
Kalian, Cady - As Dead As It Gets (2006)
Kalian, Cady - A Few Good Murders (2007)
Kallos, Stephanie - Broken For You (2004)
Kang, Lydia - The Impossible Girl (2018)  
Kasischke, Laura - Mind of Winter (2014)
Katsu, Alma - The Deep (2020)

Kava, Alex - Damaged (2010)
Kearsley, Susanna - Shadowy Horses (2012)
Kellerman, Jesse - Trouble (2007)
Kellerman, Jonathan - Gone (Alex Delaware, #20) (2006)
Kellerman, Jonathan - Rage (2005)
Kelly, Leslie - O, Naughty Night! (2014)
Kendal, Claire - The Book of You (2014)
Kerley, Jack - The Death Collectors (2005)
Kerley, Jack - A Garden of Vipers (2006)
Kerley, Jack - The Hundredth Man (2004)
Khadra, Yasmina - The Attack (2005)

Khan, Shubnum - The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years (2024)

Khavari, Kate - A Botanist's Guide to Flowers and Fatality (Saffron Everleigh Mystery #2) (2023)

Khavari, Kate - A Botanist's Guide to Parties and Poisons (Saffron Everleigh Mystery #1) (2022)

Kidd, Sue Monk - The Mermaid Chair (2005)
Kidd, Sue Monk - The Secret Life of Bees (2001)
Kiernan, Denise - The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of Women who Helped Win World War II (2013)
Kiernan, Stephen P. - The Curiosity (2013)
Kiernan, Stephen P. - The Hummingbird (2016)

Kimmerle, Erin - We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys (2022) 
King, Stephen - Cell (2006)
King, Stephen - Misery (1987)
King, Stephen - The Shining (1977)
King, Stephen - The Stand (1978, 1990)
Kirino, Natsuo - Out (2003)
Koontz, Dean - Darkfall (1984)
Koontz, Dean - Life Expectancy (2004)
Kostova, Elizabeth - The Historian (2005)
Kowal, Mary Robinette -Shades of Milk and Honey (2010)
Kozak, Harley Jane - A Date You Can't Refuse (2009)
Kozak, Harley Jane - Dating Dead Men (2005)
Kozak, Harley Jane - Dating is Murder (2005)
Kozak, Harley Jane - Dead Ex (2007)
Krakauer, Jon - Into the Wild (1996)
Krasikov, Sana - One More Year (2008)
Kropf, Elizabeth - What Mothers Withhold (2021)

Krulewitch, Marc - The Maxwell Street Blues (2014)
Krulewitch, Marc - Windy City Blues (2001)

Krys, Michelle - Hexed (2014)

Kuang, R.F. - Yellowface (2023) 

L
L'Engle, Madeleine - A Wrinkle in Time (1962)

La Plante, Lynda - Backlash (2013)

Lackey, Mercedes - Exile's Honor (2002)
Lackey, Mercedes - Exile's Valor (2003)
Lackey, Mercedes - The Fire Rose (1995)
Lahiri, Jhumpa - The Namesake (2003)
Lai, Thanhha - Inside Out & Back Again (2011)

Laird, Nick - Utterly Monkey (2005)
Lamb, Wally - I Know This Much Is True (1998)
Lamb, Wally - Wishin' and Hopin' (2009)
LaManna, Gina- Pretty Guilty Women (2019)
Landay, William - Defending Jacob (2012)
Lapena, Shari - The Couple Next Door (2016)
Larsson, Stieg - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2008)
Lauren, Christina - In a Holidaze (2020)

Lawson, Jenny - Let's Pretend This Never Happened (2012)
Lawson, Mary - Crow Lake (2002)
Le, Nam - The Boat (2008)
Le Guin, Ursula K. - A Wizard of Earthsea (1968)
Leary, Ann  - The Good House (2013)
Leckie, Ann -Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch #1) (2013)
Lee, Jing-Jing - How We Disappeared (2019)
Lehane, Dennis - Mystic River (2001)
Lehane, Dennis - Shutter Island (2003)
Leibovich, Lori ed. - Maybe Baby (2006)
Lemmon, Jessica - The Millionaire Affair (2014)
LePore, James - Blood of My Brother (2010)
LePore, James - A World I Never Made (2009)
Leve, Ariel - If Could be Worse. You Could Be Me (2010)
Levithan, David - Every Day (2012)
Lindsay, Jeff - Dearly Devoted Dexter (2005)
Lindqvist, John Ajvide - Let the Right One In (2004)
Lippman, Laura - By A Spider's Thread (2004)
Lippman, Laura - And When She Was Good (2012)
Liu, Marjorie & Sana Takeda - Monstress, Volume One: Awakening (2015)
Lo, Malinda - Ash (2009)
Logan, Kirsty - The Gracekeepers (2015)
London, Julia - The Devil Takes a Bride (2015)
Long, David - The Inhabited World (2006)
Lord, Karen - Unraveling (2019)
Louis, Lia - Dear Emmie Blue (2020) 

Lovelace, Amanda - The Witch Doesn't Burn In This One (2018)
Lu, Marie - Warcross (Warcross, #1) (2017)
Lutz, Lisa - The Spellman Files (2007)


M
Macallister, Greer -Girl in Disguise (2017)
Macallister, Greer - The Magician's Lie (2015)
MacDonald, Ann-Marie - The Way the Crow Flies (2003)
Macmillan, Gilly - What She Knew (2015)
MacNeal, Susan Elia - His Majesty's Hope (2013)
MacNeal, Susan Elia - Mr. Churchill's Secretary (2012)
MacNeal, Susan Elia - The Prime Minister's Secret Agent (2014)
MacNeal, Susan Elia - Princess Elizabeth's Spy (2012)
Madison, Shawntelle - Bitten by Deceit (2017)
Madison, Shawntelle - Bitter Disenchantment (2013)
Madison, Shawntelle - Coveted (2012)
Madison, Shawntelle - Kept (2012)
Malladi, Amulya - A House for Happy Mothers (2016)
Malladi, Amulya - Song of the Cuckoo Bird (2006)
Manansala, Mia P. - Arsenic and Adobo  (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery #1) (2021)

Mandanna, Sangu - The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches (2022) 

Mandel, Emily St. John -Last Night in Montreal (2009)
Mandel, Emily St. John - The Singer's Gun (2010)

Mandel, Emily St. John - Station Eleven (2014)
Mantella, Deborah - My Sweet Vidalia (2015)
Marais, Bianca - The Witches of Moonshyne Manor (2022)

Marco, John (edited by) - Imaginary Friends (2008)
Marco, John - Starfinder (2009)
Margolin, Phillip - Sleeping Beauty (2004)
Marks, John - Fangland (2007)
Márquez, Gabriel García - One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)
Marr, Melissa - Wicked Lovely (2007)
Martin, Celestine - Witchful Thinking (Elemental #1) (2022) 

Martin, Charles - When Crickets Cry (2006)
Martin, George R.R. - Game of Thrones (2003)
Martinez, Michele - Cover-Up (2007)
Martinez, Michele - The Finishing School (2006)
Massie, Robert K. - Catherine the Great: A Portrait of a Woman (2011)
Masse, Stephen V. - A Jolly Good Fellow (2008)
Mastai, Elan - All the Wrong Todays (2017)
Matthews, Christine ed. - Deadly Housewives (2006)
Matthews, Mimi - A Holiday by Gaslight (2018)
Maynard, Joyce - Labor Day (2009)
Maynard, Joyce - The Usual Rules (2003)
Matturro, Claire - Bone Valley (2006)
McCarthy, Cormac - The Road (2009)
McCarthy, Jenny - Belly Laughs: The Naked Truth About Pregnancy and Childbirth (2004)
McCartney, J Lou - De Marco Empire (2008)
McCarty, Monica - Going Dark (Lost Platoon, #1) (2017)
McCarty, Monica - Highlander Unchained (2007)
McCarty, Monica - Highlander Unmasked (2007)
McCarty, Monica - Highlander Untamed (2007)
McCarty, Monica - Off the Grid (Lost Platoon, #2)  (2018)
McCarty, Monica - Out of Time (Lost Platoon, #3)  (2018)
McCoy, Sarah - The Baker's Daughter (2011)
McCoy, Sarah - The Mapmaker's Children (2015)
McEwan, Ian - Atonement (2001)
McGuire, Seanan - Angel of the Overpass (Ghost Roads #3) (2021)

McGuire, Seanan - The Girl in the Green Silk Gown (Ghost Roads, #2) (2018)
McGuire, Seanan- Rosemary and Rue (October Daye, #1) (2009)
McGuire, Seanan - Sparrow Hill Road (Ghost Roads, #1) (2014)
McKenzie, Catherine -  Fractured (2016)
McKenzie, Catherine - Smoke (2015)
McKinlay, Jenn - The Christmas Keeper (Happily Ever After, #2)  (2019)
McKinlay, Jenn - Death in the Stacks (2017)
McKinney-Whetstone, Diane - Lazaretto (2016)
McPherson, Catriona - The Child Garden (2015)
Meeink, Frank & Dr. Jody M Roy - Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead (2010)
Meeks, Christopher - The Brightest Moon of the Century (2009)
Meeks, Christopher - Love At Absolute Zero (2011)
Melton, Glennon Doyle - Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed (2013)
Mendez, Antonio with Malcolm McConnell - The Master of Disguise: My Secret Life in the CIA (2000)
Merlino, Linda - Belly of the Whale (2008)
Messina, Lynn - A Brazen Curiosity (2018)
Messineo, Teresa - The Fire by Night (2017)

Messenger, Shannon - Exile (Keeper of the Lost Cities #2) (2013)

Messenger, Shannon - Keeper of the Lost Cities (#1) (2012)

Messenger, Shannon - Nightfall (Keeper of the Lost Cities #6) (2017) 

Meyer, Marissa - Cinder (2017)
Meyer, Philipp - American Rust (2009)
Meyer, Stephanie - Eclipse (2007)
Meyer, Stephanie - Breaking Dawn (2008)
Meyer, Stephanie - New Moon (2006)
Meyer, Stephanie - Twilight (2005)
Meyer, Stephanie & Young Kim - Twilight, Volume 1 (2010)
Michaels, Nicole - Blame It On the Mistletoe (2014)
Miller, Madeline - The Song of Achilles (2011)

Miller, Sasha L. - Slaying Dragons (2015)
Minato, Kanae - Confessions (2013)
Mishani, D.A. - The Missing File (2013)

Mlynowski, Sarah - Fairest of All (Whatever After #1) (2012)

Mlynowski, Sarah - If the Shoe Fits (Whatever After #2) (2012) 

Mlynowski, Sarah - Sink or Swim (Whatever After #3) (2013)

Mlynowski, Sarah, Lauren Myracle & Emily Jenkins - Sticks & Stones (Upside Down Magic, #2) (2016)

Molloy, Aimee - The Perfect Mother (2018)
Moning, Karen Marie - Beyond the Highland Mist (1999)
Moning, Karen Marie - Darkfever (2007)
Monsch, Danielle - Stone Guardian (2013)
Montag, Kassandra - After the Flood (2019)
Montanari, Richard - Merciless (2007)
Montanari, Richard - The Skin Gods (2006)
Mooney, Bryan - A Christmas in Vermont: A Very White Christmas (2015)
Moore, Alan & Dave Gibbons - Watchmen (1987)
Moore, Alan & Kevin O'Neill, Ben Dimagmaliw, Bill Oakely - The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Volume One (2000)
Moore, Christopher - Practical Demonkeeping (1992)
Montanari, Richard - The Rosary Girls (2005)
Morais, Richard C. - The Hundred-Foot Journey (2010)
Moran, Jan - The Scent of Triumph (2014)
Moran, Michelle - Nefertiti (2007)
Moran, Terrie Farley - Read to Death (2016)
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia - Mexican Gothic (2020) 

Morgan, Sarah - A Wedding in December (2019)
Morgan, Sarah - Sleigh Bells in the Snow (2013)
Morgenstern, Erin - Night Circus (2011)
Moriarty, Laura - The Center of Everything (2003)
Moriarty, Liane - Big Little Lies (2014)

Moriarty, Liane - The Husband's Secret (2013)
Morley, Christopher - The Haunted Bookshop (1919)
Morrison, Toni - Sula (1973)
Mosse, Kate - Labyrinth (2005)
Moyer, Jaime Lee - Delia's Shadow (2013)
Mulhern, Julie - The Deep End (The Country Club Murders #1) (2015) 

Murphy, Louise - The True Story of Hansel and Gretel: A Novel of War and Survival (2003)


N
Nabokov, Vladimir - Lolita (1958)
Nafisi, Azar - Reading Lolita in Tehran (2003)
Nagel, Leslie - The Book Club Murders (2016)
Nayeri, Dina - A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea (2013)
Neill, Chloe - Shadowed Steel (Heirs of Chicagoland #3) (2021)

Neill, Chloe - Wicked Hour (Heirs of Chicagoland, #2) (2019)
Neill, Chloe - Wild Hunger (Heirs of Chicagoland, #1) (2018)
Ness, Patrick - The Ask and the Answer (2010)
Ness, Patrick - The Knife of Never Letting Go (2008)
Ness, Patrick - Monsters of Men (2011)
Neville, Kim - The Memory Collectors (2021)

Newman, Catherine and narrated by Nan McNamara - Sandwich (2024) 

Newman, Emma - Planetfall (Planetfall #1) (2015)
Newman, Susan - The Case for the Only Child (2011)
Newman, T.J. - Falling (2021) 

Niffenegger, Audrey - The Time Traveler's Wife (2003)
Noble, Elizabeth - The Friendship Test (2004)
Nolan, Terri - The Burden of Truth (2013)
Novack, Sandra - Precious (2009)
Novik, Naomi - A Deadly Education (Scholomance, #1) (2020)

Novik, Naomi - The Last Graduate  (Scholomance #2) (2021) 

Novik, Naomi - Uprooted (2015)


O
O'Brien, Tim - The Things They Carried (1990)
O'Dell, Tawni - Angels Burning (2016)
O'Donnell, Lisa - The Death of Bees (2013)
Oates, Joyce Carol - The Falls (2004)

Obama, Michelle - Becoming (2018)
Ogawa, Yōko - The Diving Pool (2008)
Oliver, Mary - Dog Songs (2013)

Oliver, Simon Oliver & Goran Sudžuka - Hellblazer: Chas - The Knowledge (2008)
Olson, Karen E. - Betrayed (Black Hat Thriller, #3) (2017)
Olson, Karen E. - Day of the Dead (2007)
Olson, Karen E. - Driven to Ink (2010)
Olson, Karen E. - Hidden (2015)
Olson, Karen E. - The Missing Ink (2009)
Olson, Karen E. - Pretty in Ink (2010)
Olson, Karen E. - Sacred Cows (2005)
Olson, Karen E. - Secondhand Smoke (2006)
Olson, Karen E. - Shot Girl (2008)
Olson, Karen E. - Vanished (Black Hat Thriller, #4) (2018)
Orenstein, Peggy - Cinderella Ate My Daughter (2011)
Ostermiller, Dori - Outside the Ordinary World (2010)
Ozment, Katherine - Grace Without God: The Search for Meaning, Purpose, and Belonging in a Secular Age (2016)

P
Palacio, R.J. - Wonder (#1) (2012)

Palahniuk, Chuck - Diary (2001)
Palmer, Alex - The Santa Claus: The Rise and Fall of a Jazz Age Con Man and the Invention of Christmas in New York (2015)
Palmer, Michael - The Society (2004)
Palombo, Alyssa - The Spellbook of Katrina Van Tassel: The Story of Sleepy Hollow (2018)
Paolini, Eragon - Eragon (2003)
Parker, T. Jefferson - Laguna Heat (1985)
Parkhurst, Carolyn - The Nobodies Album (2010)
Parrish, Rhonda ed. - Mrs. Claus: Not the Fairy Tale They Say (2017) 
Patchett, Ann - State of Wonder (2011)
Paterson, Katherine - Bridge to Terabithia (1977)
Patterson, James - Cat & Mouse (1997)
Pavone, Chris - The Expats (2013)
Peace, David - Tokyo Year Zero (2007)
Pearl, Matthew - The Last Dickens (2009)

Pearlman, Robb - Live Like a Vulcan, Love Like a Wookiee, Laugh Like a Hobbit: Life Lessons from Pop Culture (2021) 
Pelecanos, George - The Cut (2011)
Pelecanos, George - The Night Gardener (2006)
Pelzer, Dave - Moving Forward: Taking the Lead In Your Life (2008)
Penner, Sarah - The London Séance Society (2023) 

Penney, Elizabeth - The Fatal Folio  (Cambridge Bookshop #3) (2023)

Penny, Louise - A Trick of the Light (2011)
Percer, Elizabeth - All Stories Are Love Stories (2016)
Perry, Anne - The Hyde Park Headsman (1994)
Perry, Carol J. - Bells, Spells, and Murder (2018)
Perry, Thomas - Pursuit (2001)
Pessl, Marisha - Night Film (2013)
Pettersson, Vicki - The Taken (2012)
Phillips, Don - I, Tutus: The Son of Heaven (2005)
Picoult, Jodi - Ninteen Minutes (2007)

Picoult, Jodi - Plain Truth (2000)

Picoult, Jodi - Salem Falls (2001)

Picoult, Jodi - Vanishing Acts (2005)
Plum, Amy - Die For Her (2013)
Plum, Amy - Die For Me (2011)
Plum, Amy - If I Should Die (2013)
Plum, Amy - Until I Die (2012)
Pochoda, Ivy - The Art of Disappearing (2010)
Poehler, Amy - Yes, Please (2014)
Pradham, Monica - The Hindi-Bindi Club (2007)

Priest, Cherie - Flight Risk (The Booking Agents #2) (2022)

Priest, Cherie - Grave Reservations (Booking Agents #1) (2021) 
Pressey, Rose - Murder Can Mess Up Your Masterpiece (2019)
Pressfield, Steven - Killing Rommel (2008)
Preston, Douglas & Lincoln Child - Relic (1995)
Preston, Douglas & Lincoln Child - Reliquary (1997)

Prose, Nita - The Mystery Guest (Molly the Maid #2) (2024)
Przekop, Penelope - Aberrations (2008)


Q
Quaid, Jamie - Boyfriend From Hell (2012)
Quaid, Jamie - Damn Him to Hell (2013)
Quartey, Kwei - Wife of the Gods (2009)

Quick, Amanda -  'Til Death Do Us Part (2016)

Quinn, Spencer - Dog On It (2009)


R
Rabinovitch-Fox, Einav - Dressed for Freedom: The Fashionable Politics of American Feminism  (2021)

Rand, EJ - Say Goodbye (2008)
Ravenel, M. - The Arrangement  (Plainclothes Tootsie #1) (2021)

Raybourn, Deanna  - A Curious Beginning (Veronica Spellwell, #1) (2015) 

Raybourn, Deanna - Killers of a Certain Age (2022) 

Raybourn, Deanna - Night of a Thousand Stars (2014)

Raybourn, Deanna - A Perilous Undertaking  (Veronica Speedwell #2) (2017) 

Reed, Shannon - Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out (2024) 

Rees, Matt Beynon - A Grave in Gaza (2008)
Rice, Christopher - A Density of Souls (2000)
Richardson, Sara - One Christmas Wish (2015)
Richmond, Michelle - No One You Know (2009)
Roach, Mary - Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (2005)
Roach, Mary - Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (2003)

Robb, J.D. - Ceremony in Death (#5) (1997) 

Robb, J.D. - Glory in Death ( In Death #2) (1995)

Robb, J.D. - Immortal in Death (#3) (1996)

Robb, J.D. - Naked in Death (In Death #1) (1995) 

Robb, J.D. - Rapture in Death (#4) (1996) 

Roberts, Olivia - Mom, Can I Do My Laundry at Your House?: Poems from Your Adult Child (2023) 

Robinson, Peter - Before the Poison (2012)
Robinson, Peter - Friend of the Devil (2008)
Robotham, Michael - Bombproof (2008)
Robotham, Michael - Say You're Sorry (2012)
Robotham, Michael - Watching You (2013)
Robson, Jennifer - Moonlight Over Paris (2016)
Robson, Jennifer - Somewhere in France (2013)
Rock, Andrea - The Mind at Night: The New Science of How and Why We Dream (2004)
Rock, Karen - Under An Adirondack Sky (2016)
Roesch, Mattox - Sometimes We're Always Real Same-Same (2009)
Rose, M.J. - The Delilah Complex (2006)
Rose, M.J. - The Hypnotist (2010)

Rosen, Lev A.C. - Lavender House (Evander Mills #1) (2022) 
Rosner, Elizabeth - Blue Nude (2010)

Ross, Anna V.Q. - Flutter, Kick (2022)

Roth, Veronica - Allegiant (2013)
Roth, Veronica - Divergent (2012)

Roth, Veronica - Insurgent (2012)
Rowell, Rainbow - Eleanor & Park (2012) 

Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007)
Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2005)
Rowling, J.K. - The Tales of Beedle the Bard (2008)
Rucka, Greg - Critical Space (2001)
Rucka, Greg - Finder (1998)
Rucka, Greg - The Keeper (1996)
Rucka, Greg - Patriot Acts (2007)
Rucka, Greg - Private Wars (2005)
Rucka, Greg - Smoker (1998)

Ruffin, Amber & Lacey Lamar - You'll Never  Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism (2021) 
Ruggle, Katie - Fan the Flames (Search & Rescue, #2) (2016)
Ruggle, Katie - Hold Your Breath (Search & Rescue, #1) (2016)
Ruggle, Katie - On His Watch (Search & Rescue, #0.5) (2016)
Russell, E.J. -  Lost in Geeklandia (2015) 

Russell, Rachel Renée - Tales from a Not-So-Graceful Ice Princess (Dork Diaries #4) (2012)

Russell, Rachel Renée - Tales from a Not-So-Smart Miss Know-It-All  (Dork Diaries #5) (2012)

Russo, Richard - Empire Falls (2001)
Ryan, Hank Phillippi - Face Time (2009)
Ryan, Hank Phillippi - Prime Time (2009)


S
Saggar, Gaytri - Lost to Them (2006)
Saintcrow, Lilith - The Demon's Librarian (2009)
Saintcrow, Lilith - Hunter, Healer (2005)
Saintcrow, Lilith - The Society (2005)
Sakey, Marcus - The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes (2011)
Salazar, Aida - The Moon Within (2019) 

Samartin, Cecilia - Tarnished Beauty (2008)
Sanders, Angela M. - Bait and Witch (Witch Way Librarian #1)

Sanders, Angela M. - The Seven-Year Witch (Witch Way Librarian #2) (2021)

Sanders, Angela M. - Witch and Famous (Witch Way Librarian #3) (2022)

Sanders, Angela M. - Witch Upon a Star (Witch Way Librarian Series #4) (2023)

Sands, Lynsay - Single White Vampire (2003)
Sanford, John - Mortal Prey (2002)
Sansom, Ian - The Case of the Missing Books (2005)
Santlofer, Jonathan - The Murder Notebook (2008)
Sapphire - Push (1996)
Satrapi, Marjane - Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (2003)
Satrapi, Marjane - Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (2004)
Savage, J. Scott - Far World, Book 1: Water Keep (2008)
Savage, Tom - A Penny for a Hangman (2014)
Saville, Laurel - North of Here (2016)
Sayer, Dorothy L. - Whose Body? (1923)

Scalzi, John - Kaiju Preservation Society (2022) 
Scalzi, John - Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas (2012)
Scamander, Newt & J.K. Rowling - Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2017)
Scarborough, William - Baked Alaskan (2006)
Scheeres, Julia - A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception and Survival at Jonestown (2011)
Schötz, Susanne - The Secret Language of Cats (2018)
Schwarz, Liesel - A Consiracy of Alchemists (2013)
Scottoline, Lisa - Devil's Corner (2005)

Searles, John - Help for the Haunted (2013)

Sebastian, Linda - Overcoming Postpartum Depression and Anxiety (1998)
Sebold, Alice - The Almost Moon (2007)
Sedaris, David - Holidays on Ice (1997)
See, Lisa - The Island of Sea Women (2019)

See, Lisa - Shanghai Girls (2009)
See, Lisa - The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane (2017)
Sellers, L.J. - The Sex Club (2007)
Serle, Rebecca - In Five Years (2020)

Setterfield, Diane - The Thirteenth Tale (2006)
Shalvis, Jill - The Good Luck Sister (2018)
Shalvis, Jill - Once in a Lifetime (2013)
Shalvis, Jill - Simply Irrestible (2010)
Shea, Suzanne Strempek - Shelf Life: Romance, Mystery, Drama. and Other Page-Turning Adventures from a Year in a Bookstore (2004)
Sherratt, Mel - The Girls Next Door (Detective Eden Berrisford #1) (2016)
Shetterly, Margot Lee - Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race (2016)
Shlian, Deborah & Joel - Rabbit in the Moon (2008)
Shoham, Liad - Lineup (2013)
Shortridge, Jennie - Love & Biology at the Center of the Universe (2008)
Shortridge, Jennie - When She Flew (2009)
Shriver, Lionel - We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
Shroff, Parini - The Bandit Queens (2023)

Siegel, James - Derailed (2003)
Sijie, Dai - Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress  (2000)
Silva, Daniel - The Messenger (2006)
Silva, Daniel - The Rembrandt Affair (2010)
Silva, Samantha - Mr. Dickens and His Carol (2017)
Silver, Elizabeth L. - The Execution of Noa P. Singleton (2013)
Sim, Dave - Judenhass (2008)
Simon, Clea - Cattery Row (2006)
Simon, Clea - Cries and Whiskers (2007)
Simon, Clea - Dogs Don't Lie (2011)
Simon, Clea - Grey Matters (2010)
Simon, Clea - Mew is for Murder (2005)
Simon, Clea - The Ninth Life (2016)
Simon, Clea - Probable Claws (2009)
Simon, Clea - Shades of Grey (2009)
Simon, Nina - Mother-Daughter Murder Night (2023)

Simpson, Mona - Casebook (2014)
Slater, Susan - The Pumpkin Seed Massacre (1999)
Slaughter, Karin - Unseen (2013)

Slomski, Heather A. - The Lovers Set Down Their Spoons (2014)
Smith, Carla Susan - A Vampire's Promise (2014)

Smith, Carla Susan - A Vampire's Soul (2014) 

Smith, Clint - How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (2021) 

Smith, Cynthia Leitich - Hearts Unbroken (2018)

Smith, L.J. - Vampire Diaries: The Awakening (1999)
Smith, Michael Marshall - The Servants (2008)
Smith, Philip - Walking Through Walls (2008)
Sofer, Dalia - Septembers in Shiraz (2007)
Sokoloff, Alexandra - Blood Moon (2015)
Sokoloff, Alexandra - Cold Moon (2015)
Sokoloff, Alexandra - Huntress Moon (2012)
Soli, Tatjana - The Forgetting Tree (2012)
Soli, Tatjana - The Lotus Eaters (2010)
Spann, Susan -  The Ninja's Daughter (2016)
Spano, Robin - Dead Politician Society (2010)
Spear, Terry - A Silver Wolf Christmas (2015)
Spechler, Diana - Who By Fire (2008)
Snowden, Jim - The Summer of Long Knives (2014)
St. James, Simone - Broken Girls  (2018)

St. James, Simone - Murder Road (2024)
St. John, Lauren - Rainbow's End: A Memoir of Childhood, War, and an African Farm (2006)
Stanton, Mary - Angel's Advocate (2009)
Stanton, Mary - Defending Angels (2008)

Stars, Holly - Murder in the Dressing Room (Misty Divine #1) (2025)
Steavenson, Wendell - The Weight of a Mustard Seed (2009)
Stern, Steve - The Angel of Forgetfulness (2005)
Stevens, Amanda - The Devil's Footprints (2008)
Stewart, Amy - Girl Waits With Gun (2015)
Stewart, Amy - Lady Cop Makes Trouble (2016)
Stinson, Lorettta -Little Green (2010)
Stoker, Bram - Dracula (1897)
Stone, David - The Echelon Vendetta (2006)
Stone, Nic - Dear Martin (2017) - Fiction/YA

Stone, Victoria Helen - False Step (2019)
Strange, Liz - Erased (2014)
Strange Liz - The Fairfolk in Knob's End: Book 1: The Daughters of Annwn (2013)

Strange, Liz - A Fresh Set of Eyes (2012)

Strange, Liz - Missing Daughter, Shattered Family (2011)

Stratford, Sarah-Jane - Radio Girls (2016)
Struth, Sharon - Twelve Nights (2015)
Sultan, Cathy - Tragedy in South Lebannon: The Israeli-Hezbollah War of 2006 (2008)
Sutanto, Jesse Q. - Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers (2023) 

Swain, James - Dark Magic (2012)
Swanson, Peter - The Girl With a Clock For a Heart (2014)
Swarup, Vikas - Slumdog Millionaire (2005)
Sweeney, Emma - As Always, Jack: A Wartime Love Story (2002)
Sweeney, Leann - The Cat, the Quilt and the Corpse (2009)
Sweetingham, Lisa - Chemical Cowboys: The DEA's Secret Mission to Hunt Down a Notorious Ecstasy Kingpin (2009)
Swierczynksi, Duane - Fun & Games (2011)


T
Tanquary, Kathryn - The Night Parade (2016)
Tansley, K.C. - The Girl Who Ignored Ghosts (2015)
Taylor, Art - On the Road with Del & Louise: A Novel in Stories (2015)
Telgemeier, Raina - Guts (Smile #3) (2019) 

Telgemeier, Raina - Smile (2009) 
Teller, Joseph - The Tenth Case (2008)
Thayne, RaeAnne - A Cold Creek Christmas Story (2015)
Thayne, RaeAnne - Coming Home for Christmas (Haven Point, #10) (2019)
Thayne, RaeAnne - Evergreen Springs (2015)
Thayne, RaeAnne - The Rancher's Christmas Song (2017)
Thayne, RaeAnne - Snowfall on Haven Point (2017)
Thayne, RaeAnne - Sugar Pine Trail (2017)
Thomas, Angie -The Hate U Give (2017)
Thomas, Jodi - One Wish (2019)
Thomas, Sherry - The Study in Scarlet Women (2016) 

Thompson, Craig - Blankets (2003)
Thorne, Sally - The Hating Game (2016) - Romance

Todd, Charles - An Unmarked Grave (2012)
Tolstoy, Leo - Anna Karenina (1877)
Tolstoy, Leo - War and Peace (1867)
Thorne, Elle - Forbidden (2017)
Togawa, Masako - The Master Key (2019)
Torres, Ted - Scenes From the Blanket (2006)
Tracy, P.J. - Dead Run (2005)
Tracy, P.J. - Live Bait (2004)
Tracy, P.J. - Monkeewrench (2003)
Tracy, P.J. -  The Sixth Idea (2016)
Tracy, P.J. - Snow Blind (2006)
Trent, Gayle - Murder Takes the Cake (2008)
Troup, Gary - Bad Twin (2006)
Tse, Helen - Sweet Mandarin (2007)
Tucker, Lisa - The Promised World (2009)
Tursten, Helene - The Glass Devil (2007)
Tuttle, Lisa - The Mysteries (2005)
Tuttle, Lisa - Silver Bough (2006)


U
Umrigar, Thrity - Bombay Time by Thrity Umrigar (2001)
Umrigar, Thrity - The Space Between Us (2006)
Umrigar, Thrity - The Weight of Heaven (2009)


V
Van Booy, Simon - The Illusion of Separateness (2013)
Van der Kwast, Ernest - The Ice-Cream Makers (2017)
Van Praag, Menna - The House At the End of Hope Street (2013)
Van Lustbader, Eric - First Daughter by (2008)
Vandagriff, G.G. - The Arthurian Omen (2008)
Vaughn, Carrie - Kitty and the Dead Man's Hand (2009)
Vaughn, Carrie - Kitty and the Midnight Hour (2005)
Vaughn, Carrie - Kitty and the Silver Bullet by Carrie Vaughn (2008)
Vaughn, Carrie - Kitty Goes to Washington (2006)
Vaughn, Carrie - Kitty Raises Hell (2009)
Vaughn, Carrie - Kitty Takes a Holiday (2007)
Verdon, John - Let the Devil Sleep (2012)
Verdon, John - Shut Your Eyes Tight (2011)
Verdon, John - Think of a Number (2010)
Vikram, Sweta Srivastava - Wet Silence: Poems About Hindu Widows (2015)
Voruganti, Thanvi - From the Inside: The Inner Soul of a Young Poet (2021)


W
Wahab, Saima - In My Father's Country (2012)
Wall, Carolyn - Sweeping Up Glass (2009)
Walls, Jeannette - The Glass Castle (2005)
Walker, Rebecca - Adé: A Love Story (2013)
Walters, Minette - The Devil's Feather (2006)
Wang, Annie - The People’s Republic of Desire (2006)
Ward, Amanda Eyre - Forgive Me (2007)
Ward, Annie - Beautiful Bad (2019)
Ward, Jesmyn - Salvage the Bones (2010)
Ware, Ruth -  In a Dark, Dark Wood (2015)
Ware, Ruth - One by One (2020)

Ware, Ruth - Turn of the Key  (2019)
Warren, Nancy - The Vampire Knitting Club (#1) (2018) 

Waters, Sarah - Fingersmith (2002)
Watson, Andi - Slow News Day (2002)
Watson, Brad - Miss Jane (2016)
Watson, S.J. - Before I Go Sleep (2011)
Waxman, Abbi - The Bookish Life of Nina Hill (2019)
Weiser, Christine - Broad Street (2008)
Weiss, Kirsten - The Perfectly Proper Paranormal Museum (2016)
Weiss, Kirsten - Pressed to Death (2016)
Wells, Dan - The Hollow City (2012)
Wesley, Valerie Wilson - A Glimmer of Death (#1) (2021)

Westover, Tara - Educated (2018)
Weule, Eric R. - The Thoughtful Spot (2004)
Whedon, Joss & Georges Jeanty - Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Long Way Home (2007)
White, Karen - The Girl on Legare Street (2009)
White, Karen - The House on Tradd Street (2008)
White, Michael C. - Beautiful Assassin (2010)

Whitehead, Colson - The Nickel Boys (2019)
Wilde, Oscar - The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
Wilder, Cheryl - Anything That Happens (2021)

Willberg, T.A. - Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder (2020)

Willems, RG - Targets of Affection by RG Willems (2006)

Williams, Beatriz - The Wicked City (2017)
Williams, Carol Lynch - The Chosen One (2009)
Williams, Renaada - Find Her. Keep Her. (2022) 

Willig, Lauren - The Other Daughter (2015)
Wilton, Traci - Mrs. Morris and the Ghost (Salem B& B Breakfast #1) (2019)

Wilton, Traci - Mrs. Morris and the Witch (Salem B&B Mystery #2) (2008) 

Winters, Ben H. - Countdown City (2013)

Winters, Ben H. - The Last Policeman (2012) 

Winters, Ben H. - World of Trouble (2014)
Winters, Cat - The Uninvited (2015)

Wishnia, Kenneth - The Fifth Servant (2010)
Wisniewski, Linda C. - Off Kilter: A Woman's Journey to Peace With Scoliosis, Her Mother, & Her Polish Heritage (2008)
Wolf, Sara - Bring Me Their Hearts(#1) (2018)
Wong, Cecily - Diamond Head (2015)
Woodrell, Daniel - Winter's Bone (2006)

Woodson, Jacqueline - Brown Girls Dreaming (2014)
Wright, Edward - Red Sky Lament (2006)
Wright, Sally - Watches of the Night (2008)
Wu, Fan - February Flowers (2007)


X


Y

Yamada, Hitsuji - The Masterful Cat is Depressed Again, Today Vol. 1  (2019) 

Yamada, Hitsuji - The Masterful Cat is Depressed Again, Today Vol. 2  (2019) 

Yamada, Hitsuji - The Masterful Cat is Depressed Again, Today Vol. 3 T (2020) 

Yanique, Tiphanie - How to Escape from a Leper Colony (2010)
Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn - The Lost Prince (2008)
Yates, Maisey - Avenge Me (2014)
Yellen, Tara - After Hours At The Almost Home (2008)
Yew, Samara - Murder by the Seashore (California Bookshop #1) (2023)

Yoon, Nicola - The Sun Is Also a Star (2016)
York, Rebecca - White Christmas (2016)


Z
Zahradnik, Rich - A Black Sail (2016)
Zahradnik, Rich - Drop Dead Punk (2015)
Zahradnik, Rich - Last Words (2014)
Zevin, Gabrielle - The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry (2014)
Zuckoff, Mitchell - Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II (2013)
Zuckoff, Mitchell - Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Mission Rescue of World War II (2011)
Zusak, Markus - The Book Thief (2006)