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. . And Others Who Enjoy Literary Reads Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Lost City Radio by Daniel Alarcón. Staff recommendation Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen. Later, At the Bar: A Novel in Stories by Rebecca Barry. Staff recommendation Away by Amy Bloom. Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian. The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño. March by Geraldine Brooks. Cataloochee by Wayne Caldwell. Five Skies by Ron Carlson. Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon. The Great Man by Kate Christensen. Yellowcake by Ann Cummins. The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies. Varieties of Disturbance: Stories by Lydia Davis. Falling Man by Don DeLillo. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion. (B Didion) Maytrees by Annie Dillard. The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards. The Keep by Jennifer Egan. What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng: A Novel by Dave Eggers. The Gathering by Anne Enright. Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris. Staff recommendation Paint it Black by Janet Fitch. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer. The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford. Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier. Eat, Pray, Love: by Elizabeth Gilbert. (910.4) The Whole World Over by Julia Glass. Intuition by Allegra Goodman. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen. Staff recommendation Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon. The Master Bedroom by Tessa Hadley. Once in a Promised Land by Laila Halaby. Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid. When Madeline Was Young by Jane Hamilton. North River by Pete Hamill. Infidel by Ayann Hirsi Ali (B Hirsi Ali) Skylight Confessions by Alice Hoffman. The Mistress's Daughter by A.M. Homes. (B Homes) The Knitting Circle by Ann Hood. Loving Frank by Nancy Horan. The Abortionist's Daughter by Elisabeth Hyde. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. Staff recommendation All Aunt Hagar's Children by Edward P. Jones. Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones. The Uses of Enchantment by Heidi Julavits. No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories by Miranda July. Forgetfulness by Ward Just. Sirens of Baghdad by Yasmina Khadra. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver. (641.0973) The History of Love by Nicole Krauss. Staff recommendation The God of Animals by Aryn Kyle. The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson. Staff recommendation Lost Hearts in Italy by Andrea Lee. Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee. You Don't Love Me Yet by Jonathan Lethem. Acts of Love by Emily Listfield. Charity Girl by Michael Lowenthal The Road by Cormac McCarthy. After This by Alice McDermott. Staff recommendation On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan. Far Country by Daniel Mason. Michael Tolliver Lives by Armistead Maupin. The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu. Staff recommendation The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud. Last Empress by Anchee Min. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell. The Big Girls by Susanna Moore. The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen. The View from Castle Rock: Stories by Alice Munro. Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky. Gravedigger's Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates. The Light of Evening by Edna O'Brien. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell. Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje. Snow by Orhan Pamuk. Staff recommendation Strange as This Weather Has Been by Ann Pancake. Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl. Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson. Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult. The Birthdays by Heidi Pitlor. The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan. (394.12) The Echo Maker by Richard Powers. Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon. There Will Never Be Another You by Carolyn See. Peony in Love by Lisa See. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See. Staff recommendation The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield. The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak. Black & White by Dani Shapiro. Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood at FDR's Polio Haven by Susan Richards Shreve. (616.835) The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver. Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart. Ten Days in the Hills by Jane Smiley. Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer. Eat the Document by Dana Spiotta. Abide with Me by Elizabeth Strout. Red River by Lalita Tademy. Digging to America by Anne Tyler. Staff recommendation Summer Reading by Hilma Wolitzer. A Woman in Jerusalem by Abraham B. Yehoshua. Coming Soon in Paperback Channeling Mark Twain by Carol Muske-Dukes. Staff recommendation Waiting to Surface by Emily Listfield. Songs Without Words by Ann Packer. Run by Ann Patchett. Consumption by Kevin Patterson. Like You'd Understand, Anyway: Stories by Jim Shepard. Confessions of a Wall Street Shoeshine Boy by Doug Stumpf. Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama.
. . And Others Who Enjoy Literary Reads
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Lost City Radio by Daniel Alarcón. Staff recommendation
Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen.
Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian.
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño.
March by Geraldine Brooks.
Varieties of Disturbance: Stories by Lydia Davis.
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion. (B Didion)
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards.
What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng: A Novel by Dave Eggers.
Paint it Black by Janet Fitch.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer.
Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier.
Eat, Pray, Love: by Elizabeth Gilbert. (910.4)
The Whole World Over by Julia Glass.
Intuition by Allegra Goodman.
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen. Staff recommendation
Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon.
The Mistress's Daughter by A.M. Homes. (B Homes)
The Knitting Circle by Ann Hood.
The Abortionist's Daughter by Elisabeth Hyde.
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. Staff recommendation
All Aunt Hagar's Children by Edward P. Jones.
The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson. Staff recommendation
Last Empress by Anchee Min.
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky.
The Light of Evening by Edna O'Brien.
Strange as This Weather Has Been by Ann Pancake.
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl.
The Birthdays by Heidi Pitlor.
The Echo Maker by Richard Powers.
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield.
Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart.
Ten Days in the Hills by Jane Smiley.
Digging to America by Anne Tyler. Staff recommendation
A Woman in Jerusalem by Abraham B. Yehoshua.
Channeling Mark Twain by Carol Muske-Dukes. Staff recommendation
Waiting to Surface by Emily Listfield.
Songs Without Words by Ann Packer.
Run by Ann Patchett.
Consumption by Kevin Patterson.
Like You'd Understand, Anyway: Stories by Jim Shepard.
Confessions of a Wall Street Shoeshine Boy by Doug Stumpf.
Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama.
July 2008
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