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For Lover's of...
ACTION, CRIME SUSPENSE & THRILLERS
Read-alikes: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Read-alikes: Mary Higgins Clark
BIOGRAPHIES AND MEMOIRS
Read-alikes: The Glass Castle by Jennifer Walls
COZY READS
Amish & Mennonite "Bonnet" Fiction
FAMILY AND RELATIONSHIPS FICTION
Read-alikes: The Glass Castle by Jennifer Walls
ALL THINGS HISTORICAL
Historical Mysteries (Authors)
Historical Mysteries (Specific Places and Eras)
Historical Nonfiction that Reads Like a Novel
Read-alikes: the Maisie Dobbs series by Jacqueline Winspear
HOBBIES IN FICTION
MYSTERIES
Historical Mysteries (Authors)
Historical Mysteries (Specific Places and Eras)
Read-alikes: the Maisie Dobbs series by Jacqueline Winspear
Read-alikes: Mary Higgins Clark
Read-alikes: Precious Ramatswe series by Alexander McCall Smith
NONFICTION
Historical Nonfiction that Reads Like a Novel
Read-alikes: The Glass Castle by Jennifer Walls
Read-alike: Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
ROMANCE AND RELATIONSHIPS
Women’s Lives and Relationships Fiction
SEASONAL READS
SCIENCE AND MEDICINE IN FICTION
THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT
OLD FICTION
Action Thrillers
Dale Brown
Lincoln Child
Tom Clancy
Stephen Coonts
Clive Cussler
Len Deighton
William Diehl
Paul Erdman
Frederick Forsyth
W.E.B. Griffin
Thomas Harris
Jack Higgins
Stephen Hunter
Dean Ing
Robert Ludlum
Eric Lustbader
David Poyer
Douglas Preston
Patrick Robinson
Craig Thomas
Stuart Woods
Adventure and Espionage
Dale Brown
Tom Clancy
Stephen Coonts
Clive Cussler
Len Deighton
Frederick Forsyth
John Gardner
Jack Higgins
Greg Iles
John Le Carre
Robert Ludlum
Gerald Seymour
American Historical Fiction
Howard Bahr
Madison Smartt Bell
Kathleen & W. Michael Gear
Thomas Fleming
Lana M. Harrigan
Robert Hicks
John Jakes
Gary Jennings
Douglas C. Jones
Thomas Mallon
Larry McMurtry
David Nevin
David Poyer
Barbara Riefe
James Reasoner
Lucia St. Clair Robson
Jeffrey & Michael Shaara
Amish & Mennonite "Bonnet" Fiction
Richard Ammon
Carrie Bender
Sandra Birdsell
Annette Blair
Wanda Brunstetter
Linda Castillo
Mindy Starns Clark
Colleen Coble
W. Dale Cramer
Jerry S. Eicher
Kathleen Fuller
Paul L. Gaus
Shelley Shepard Gray
Karen Harper
B.J. Hoff
Beverly Lewis
Tamar Myers
Marta Perry
Kim Vogel Sawyer
Sarah Strohmeyer
Beth Wiseman
Cindy Woodsmall
Animal Stories (Nonfiction)
A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog by Dean Koontz
Homer’s Odyssey: A Fearless Feline Tale, or, How I Learned About Love and Life with a Blind Wonder Cat
by Gwen Cooper
Making Rounds with Oscar: The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat by Deavid Dosa, M.D.
Rescue Ink: How Ten Guys Saved Countless Dogs and Cats, Twelve Horses, Five Pigs, One Duck, and a
Few Turtles by Rescue Ink with Denise Flaim
To the Rescue: Found Dogs with a Mission by Elise Lufkin
The Wolf in the Parlor: The Eternal Connection Between Humans and Dogs by Jon Franklin
Biographies/Memoirs
Blue Nights by Joan Didion
Townie : a Memoir by Andre Dubus
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller
Making Piece: a Memoir of Love, Loss & Pie by Beth M. Howard
Then Again by Diane Keaton
Fifty Acres and a Poodle : a Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding myself on a farm by Jeanne Marie Laskas
Lots of Candle, Plenty of Cake by Anna Quindlen
Hedy's folly : the life and breakthrough inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the most beautiful woman in the world by Richard Rhodes
My Dyslexia by Philip Schultz
Van Gogh : the Life by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith
Wild : From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
The Orchard: a Memoir by Theresa Weir
Nothing Daunted : the Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West by Dorothy Wickenden
Blockbuster Fiction
Jeffrey Archer
Gerald A. Browne
Michael Crichton
Nelson DeMille
William Diehl
Ken Follett
W.E.B. Griffin
John Grisham
Judith Krantz
Stephen Martini
Sidney Sheldon
Scott Turow
Book to Film Adaptations
Chick Lit
Melissa Bank
Mark Barrowcliff
Christina Bartolomeo
Elizabeth Berg
Jennifer Cruise
Barbara Delinksy
Delia Ephron
Katie Fforde
Helen Fielding
Suzanne Finnamore
Karen Joy Fowler
Mike Gayle
Rachel Gibson
Eileen Goudge
Jane Green
Kristin Hannah
Janice Harayda
Jane Heller
Wendy Holden
Nick Hornby
Shirley Lord
Marian Keyes
Sophie Kinsella
Jo-Ann Mapson
Sue Margolis
Kat Martin
Anna Maxtel
Carly Phillips
Francine Prose
Mary Jo Putney
Jennifer Weiner
Rebecca Wells
Michael Lee West
Laura Zigman
Classics
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Odyssey by Homer
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Contemporary Romance
Candace Bushnell
Meg Cabot
Jennifer Cruise
Rachel Gibson
Jane Green
Emily Griffin
Kristin Hannah
Jane Heller
Linda Howard
Lisa Kleypas
Kasey Michaels
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Jennifer Weiner
Lauren Weisberger
Contract Killers
Bleeding Hearts by Ian Rankin
Dynamite Road by Andrew Klavan
Fear by Jeff Abbott
Garden of Beasts by Jeffrey Deaver
Good Guy by Dean Koontz
Judge & Jury by James Patterson
Pursuit by Thomas Perry
Rain Fall by Barry Eisler
Sleeping with Strangers by Eric Jerome Dickey
Three Days to Never by Tim Powers
Crime and Capers
William Caunitz
Michael Connelly
James W. Hall
Carl Hiaasen
Elmore Leonard
David Lindsey
Thomas Perry
Lawrence Sanders
Laurence Shames
Joseph Wambaugh
Donald E. Westlake
Stuart Woods
Crime Fiction
Peter Blauner
Lee Child
Michael Connelly
John Connolly
Jonathan Kellerman
William Lashner
Walter Mosley
Robert Parker
T. Jefferson Parker
James Patterson
George Pelecanos
Daniel Silva
Stuart Woods
Detective Mysteries
James Lee Burke
Raymond Chandler
Lee Child
Michael Connelly
John Connolly
Robert Crais
Jeffery Deaver
James Ellroy
Erle Stanley Gardner
Dashiell Hammett
George V. Higgins
William Lashner
Elmore Leonard
Ed McBain
Walter Mosely
Robert B. Parker
T. Jefferson Parker
James Patterson
George Pelecanos
Ian Rankin
Daniel Silva
English Mystery
Margery Allingham
Anthony Berkeley
Christianna Brand
Leo Bruce
Sarah Caudwell
John Dickson Carr
Francis Iles
Michael Innes
Elizabeth Lemarchand
Ngaio Marsh
Patricia Moyes
Anne Morice
Josephine Tey
Patricia Wentworth
Family Sagas
Maeve Binchy
Jessica Blair
Barbara Taylor Bradford
J. California Copper
Anne Douglas
Fannie Flagg
Jennifer Haigh
Kent Haruf
Brenda Jackson
Leila Meacham
Roland Merullo
Elizabeth Palmer
Robin Pilcher
Belva Plain
Anne Taylor
Adriana Trigiani
Sarah Woodhouse
Fantasy
Piers Anthony
Robert Lynn Asprin
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Terry Brooks
David Eddings
Raymond E. Feist
Terry Goodkind
Robert Jordan
Katherine Kurtz
Mercedes Lackey
Melanie Rawn
Margaret Weis
Female Detective Mysteries
Linda Barnes
Nevada Barr
Edna Buchanan
Patricia Cornwell
Deborah Crombie
Janet Evanovich
Elizabeth George
Tess Gerritsen
Sue Grafton
Ellen Hart
Laurie R. King
Lynda La Plante
Laura Lippman
Margaret Maron
Alexander McCall Smith
Marcia Muller
Carol O’Connell
Sara Paretsky
Anne Perry
S.J. Rozan
Lisa Scottoline
Dana Stabenow
Forensic Mysteries
Patricia Cornwell
Beverly Connor
Jeffrey Deaver
D.J. Donaldson
Aaron Elkins
Tess Gerritsen
Iris Johansen
Pricilla Masters
Kathy Reichs
Karin Slaughter
Keith McCarthy
Peter May
Sheila Lowe
Sharyn McCrumb
Jeffrey P. Lindsay
Genealogy in Fiction
At Death’s Door by Robert Barnard
The Devil in Tartan by Elisabeth Ogilvie
The Famous DAR Murder Mystery by Graham Landrum
The Ghost of Hannah Mendes by Naomi Ragen
The Horse You Came in On by Martha Grimes
The Mangan Inheritance by Brian Moore
Mother Love by Laurali Wright
Murder at Monicello by Rita Mae Brown
Murder Runs in the Family by Anne George
The Third Heiress by Brenda Joyce
Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers
Gentle Reads
Carrie Bender
Maeve Binchy
Jennifer Chiaverini
Sandra Dallas
Richard Paul Evans
Fannie Flagg
Philip Gulley
Kristen Hannah
Jon Hassler
J. Lynne Hinton
Jan Karon
Garrison Keillor
Thomas Kincaide
Debbie Macomber
Joan A. Medlicott
Janette Oke
Delia Parr
Rosamunde Pilcher
Jeanne Ray
Luanne Rice
Ann B. Ross
Rebecca Shaw
Annette Gail Smith
Adriana Trigiani
Bailey White
Marcia Willett
Gothic Fiction
The Evil in Pemberley House by Philip Jose Farmer and Win Scott Eckert
Sleep, Pale Sister by Joanne Harris
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Descent Into Dust by Jacqueline Lepore
The Tale of the Halcyon Crane: A Novel by Wendy Webb
Halloween Mysteries
The Secret Life of Laszlo, Count Dracula by Roderick Anscombe
Suckers by Anne Billson
Wycliff and the Beatles by W.J. Burley
The Judas Glass by Michael Cadmun
Eye Killers by A.A. Carr
Halloween Party by Agatha Christie
Those Who Hunt the Night the Night by Barbara Hambly
Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg
Historical Fiction (Authors)
Joan Aiken
Jean M. Auel
Pamela Belle
Tracy Chevalier
Bernard Cornwell
Catherine Coulter
Paul Doherty
Patricia Finney
Diana Gabaldon
Margaret George
Cecilia Holland
Rosalind Laker
Morgan Llywelyn
James A. Michener
Patrick O’Brian
Julienne Osborne—McKnight
Sharon Kay Penman
Belva Plain
Eugenia Price
Mary Jo Putney
Jennifer Roberson
Edward Rutherford
Judith Tarr
Anna Lee Waldo
Historical Fiction (Titles)
Agaat by Marlene van Niekerk
Beautiful Maria of My Soul by Oscar Hijuelos
Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland
The Elephant’s Journey by Jose Saramago
The Matchmaker of Kenmare by Frank Delaney
Percival’s Plant by Michael Byers
Promises to Keep by Ann Tatlock
Revenants: A Dream of New England by Daniel Mills
Rodin’s Debutante by Ward Just
Historical Mysteries (Authors)
Stephanie Barron
Simon Beaufort
James R. Benn
Rhys Bowen
Alys Clare
Fiona Buckley
Lindsay Davis
Anna Dean
P.C. Doherty
Joan Druett
Adriana Franklin
Margaret Fraser
Susanna Gregory
Barbara Hambly
David Liss
Charles O’Brien
Laura Joh Rowland
Charles Todd
Jeri Westerson
Lauren Willig
Historical Mysteries (Specific Places and Eras)
Susan Wittig Albert – England 1800s
Carrie Bebris – England 1800s
Rhys Bowen – England eary 1900s
Stephanie Barron – England early 1800s
M.C. Beaton – England early 1900s
Alys Clare – England 1100s
Jill Churchill – New York 1929
Jeanne Dams – America 1920s
Carola Dunn – England 1920s
Christopher Fowler – England 1940s
Kerry Greenwood – Australia 1920s
Amy Patricia Meade – Connecticut 1930s
Kathryn Miller Haines – New York WWII
Amy Myers – England Victorian Era
Laurie R. King – England early 1900s
Anne Perry – England Victorian Era
Elizabeth Peters – England 1300s
Sharon Kay Penman – England 1300s
Elliot Roosevelt – Washington, D.C. 1940s
Victoria Thompson – New York early 1900s
Jacqueline Winespear – England early 1900s
Historical Nonfiction that Reads like a Novel
London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
Endurance by Caroline Alexander
Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
Close to Shore: the Terrifying Shark Attack of 1916 by Mike Capuzzo
Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America by Timothy Egan
Worst Hard Time: the Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience & Redemption by Lauren Hillenbrand
Blue Latitudes by Tony Horwitz
War by Sebastian Junger
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
The Children’s Blizzard by David Laskin
Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man & a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis by Ben Macintyre
The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough
Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves by Farley Mowat
Horror (Authors)
Clive Barker
Ramsey Campbell
Neil Gaiman
Laurell K. Hamilton
Joe Hill
Ervin Howard
Shirley Jackson
Caitlin R. Kiernan
Stephen King
Dean Koontz
HP Lovecraft
Richard Matheson
Robert McCammon
Edgar Allan Poe
Hideaki Sena
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
R. L. Stine
Peter Straub
Bram Stoker
Karl Edward Wagner
Horror (Titles)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde & The Bodysnatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Phantom of The Opera
Rosemary’s Baby
Tales of Terror and Mystery
Turn of the Screw
Irish Fiction
Sebastian Barry
Clare Boylan
Roddy Doyle
Katie Fforde
Mary Beth Keane
Cathy Kelly
Julia O’Faolain
Patrick Taylor
Colm Toibin
William Trevor
Niall Williams
James Lee Burke
Parnall Hall
Joe L. Hensley
Jonnie Jacobs
William Lashners
Margaret Maron
Ralph McInerny
Barbara Parker
David Rosenfelt
William G. Tapply
Kate Wilhelm
Legal Thrillers
William Bernhardt
Willliam Coughlin
Linda Fairstein
Joseph Finder
Tim Green
John Grisham
Jilliane Hollman
John Lescroart
Phillip Margolin
Margaret Maron
Steve Martini
Perri O’Shaughnessy
Barbara Parker
Richard North Patterson
Nancy Rosenberg
Lisa Scottoline
Scott Turow
Stuart Woods
Life Abroad
A Thousand Days in Venice by Marlena de Blasi
All the Clean Ones are Married and Other every Day Calamities in Moscow by Lordi Cidylo
An Innocent, a Broad by Ann Leary
A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
Me Talk Pretty One Day and When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
Cuba Diaries: An American Housewife in Havana by Isadora Tattlin
House in Corfu: A Family’s Sojourn in Greece by Emma Tennant
Almost French by Sarah Turnbull
Literary Fiction
Kate Atkinson
Margaret Atwood
T. Coraghessan Boyle
Geraldine Brooks
Peter Carey
Michael Chabon
Don DeLillo
Annie Dillard
E.L. Doctorow
Louise Erdrich
Jeffrey Eugenides
Jonathan Safran Foer
Alice Hoffman
Nancy Horan
Jhumpa Ladiri
Ian McEwan
Joyce Carol Oates
Matthew Pearl
Jane Smiley
Zadie Smith
Anne Tyler
Mash Ups
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
Android Karenina by Ben H. Winters
Emma and the Vampires by Wayne Josephson
Jane Slayre by by Sherri Browning Erwin
Little Vampire Women by Lynn Messina
Little Women and Werewolves by Porter Grand
The Meowmorphosis by Coleridge Cook
Paul is Undead: The British Zombie Invasion by Alan Goldsher
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls by Steve Hockensmith
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dreadfully Ever After by Steve Hockensmith
Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter by A.E. Moorat
Romeo & Juliet & Vampires by Claudia Gabel
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters by Ben H. Winters
Medical Thrillers
Jefferson Bass
Stephen J. Cannell
John Case
Robin Cook
Patricia Cornwell
John Darnston
Jeffrey Deaver
Tess Gerritsen
Greg Iles
Daniel Kalla
John Nance
Michael Palmer
Richard Preston
Kathy Reichs
John Saul
Stephen White
J. Paul Wilson
Medieval Historical Fiction
Simon Beaufort
Alys Clare
P.C. Doherty
Margaret Frazer
Roberta Gellis
Alan Gordon
C.L. Grace
Susanna Gregory
Michael Jecks
Edward Marston
Sharon Kay Penman
Ellis Peters
Candace M. Robb
Caroline Roe
Kate Sedley
Peter Tremayne
Joan Wolf
Memoirs
Flying Drunk: The True Story of a Northwest Airlines Flight, Three Drunk Pilots, and One Man’s Fight for
Redemption by Joseph Balzer
A Room for Learning by The Making of a School in Vermont by Tal Birdsey
Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir by Christopher Buckley
The Possibility of Everything by Hope Edelman
Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist by Michael J. Fox
A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin by Kathy Griffin
The Gift of an Ordinary Day: A Mother’s Memoir by Katrina Kenison
The Compass: A Memoir by Edward M. Kennedy
Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman by Jon Krakauer
Sister Salty, Sister Sweet: A Memoir of Sibling Rivalry by Shannon Kring Brio and Natalie Kring
Happy: A Memoir by Alex Lemon
Saving Sammy: Curing the Boy Who Caught OCD by Beth Alison Maloney
Going Rogue: An American Life by Sarah Palin
The Yankee Years by Joe Torre
Mum Lit
A Married Man by Catherine Alliott
Hens Dancing by Raffaella Barker
Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman by Eliz. Buchan
Amanda Bright @home by Danielle Crittenden
Having It and Eating It by Sabine Durrant
Babyville by Jane Green
Watermelon by Marian Keyes
Operating Instructions by Anne Lamott
Nursery Crimes by Ayelet Waldman
Mysteries with a Comic Twist
Stephanie Bond
Kate Collins
Janet Evanovich
Anne George
Sparkle Hayter
Joan Hess
Harley Jane Kozak
Rita Lakin
Liza Lutz
Nancy Martin
Tamar Myers
Sarah Strohmeyer
Heather Webber
Mysteries Written by Women
Nevada Barr
Edna Buchanan
Sue Grafton
Linda Grant
Ellen Hart
Karen Kijewski
Laura Lippman
Sharyn McCrumb
Marcia Muller
Sara Paretsky
Nora Roberts
Lisa Scottoline
Kate White
Native American Fiction
Sherman Alexie
Peter Abresch
Margaret Coel
Louise Erdrich
Kathleen and W. Michael Gear
Tony Hillerman
Linda Lay Shuler
Aimee and David Thurlo
Narrative Nonfiction
The Wild Marsh: Four Seasons at Home in Montana by Rick Bass
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Wildwood: A Journey through Trees by Roger Deakin
Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America by Eric Jay Dolin Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
Needlecraft Fiction
Anne Bartlett
Teri DuLong
Kate Jacobs
Debbie Macomber
Gil McNeil
Needlecraft Mysteries
Barbara Bretton
Anne Canadoe
Monica Ferris
Sally Goldenbaum
Betty Hechtman
Maggie Sefton
“Object”ive Nonfiction
The Dirt on Clean: an Unsanitized History by Katherine Ashenburg
The Beach: The History of Paradise on Earth by Lena Lencek and Gideon Bosker
The Smoke of the Gods: A Social History of Tobacco by Eric Burns
A Splintered History of Wood: Belt Sander Races, Blind Woodworkers, and Baseball Bats by Spike Carlsen
Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
Tea: Addiction, Exploitation and Empire by Roy Moxham
Paranormal Suspense
Cherry Adair
Jennifer Ashley
Nina Bangs
Allsion Chase
Chiristine Feehan
Susan Grant
Laurel K. Hamilton
Shererilyn Kenyon
Lynn Kirkland
Susan Krinard
Marjorie Liu
Kat Martin
Joy Nash
Maggie Shane
Gena Showalter
Christina Skye
J. R. Ward
Quilting Fiction
Marie Boswick
Sandra Dallas
Irene Latham
Zakes Mda
Nancy Willard
Quilting Mysteries
Jennifer Chiaverini
Earlene Fowler
Sara Hoskinson Frommer
Clare O’Donohue
Emilie Richards
Read-alikes: Barbara Delinsky
Jude Deveraux
Anita Diamant
Patricia Gaffney
Julie Garwood
Kristin Hannah
Fern Michaels
Belva Plain
Luanne Rice
LaVyrle Spencer
Danielle Steel
Read-alikes: Danielle Steel
Elizabeth Berg
Maeve Benchley
Jennifer Blake
Barbara Taylor Bradford
Barbara Delinsky
Jude Deveraux
Julie Ellis
Eileen Goudge
Elin Hilderebrand
Susan Isaacs
Judith McNaught
Fern Michaels
Luanne Rice
Anne Rivers Siddons
Lavryle Spencer
Read-alikes: Edgar Allen Poe
The Chatham School Affair by Thomas H. Cook
Silent Words by Joan M. Drury
With Child by Laurie R. King
Hearts and Bones by Margaret Lawrence
Pentecost Alley by Anne Perry
A Test of Wills by Charles Todd
Walking Rain by Susan Wade
Mean Streak by Carolyn Wheat
Tribe by R.D. Zimmerman
Read-alikes: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Kerstin Ekman
Karin Fossum
Tana French
Patricia Highsmith
Arnaldur Indridtason
Mari Jungstedt
Asa Larsson
Henning Mankell
Jo Nesbo
Maj Sjowall & Per Wahloo
Helene Tursten
Barbara Vine
Minette Walters
Read-alikes: The Glass Castle by Jennifer Walls
All Over but the Shoutin’ by Rick Bragg
All Souls: A Family Story from Southie by Michael P. MacDonald
Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child by Elva Treviño Hart
Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found by Jennifer Lauck
Chanel Bonfire: A Memoir by Wendy Lawless
Cherry: A Memoir by Mary Karr
A Child Called “It” by David Pelzer
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller
The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother by
James McBride
Daughter of the Queen of Sheba by Jacki Lyden
Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by
Alexandra Fuller
Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp
Driving with Dead People: A Memoir by Monica Holloway
Fat Girl: A True Story by Judith Moore
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kayson
Learning Joy from Dogs Without Collars by Lauralee Summer
The Liars’ Club by Mary Karr
Lit by Mary Karr
Lucky by Alice Sebold
Name All the Animals by Alison Smith
The Only Girl in the Car by Kathy Dobie
A Piece of Cake: A Memoir by Cupcake Brown
Running With Scissors: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs
Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood by Julie
Gregory
Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood by Koren Zalickas
The Summer of Ordinary Ways by Nicole Lea Helget
The Tender Bar: A Memoir by J.R. Moehringer
They Cage the Animals at Night by Jennings Michael Burch
This Boy’s Life by Tobias Wolff
Read-alikes: The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Angels of Morgan Hill by Donna Van Liere
Big Girls Don't Cry by Connie Briscoe
Clover by Dorie Sanders
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Four Spirits by Sena Jeter Naslund
Freshwater Road by Denise Nicholas
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
Persia Cafe by Melany Neilson
Right as Rain by Bev Marshall
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Sula by Toni Morrison
The Sweet By and By by Todd Johnson
The Sweet Potato Queen series by Jill Conner Browne
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Trouble the Water by Nicole Seitz
Read-alikes: Janet Evanovitch
Nancy Bartholomew
Sarah Strohmeyer
Anthony Bruno
Read-alikes: Jean Auel
Kathleen and Michael Gear
Morgan Llywelyn
Mary Mackey
James Alexander Thom
Read-alikes: Jodi Piccoult
Elizabeth Berg
Alice Hoffman
Caroline Leavitt
Sue Miller
Ann Packer
Elizabeth Robinson
Alice Sebold
Anne Tyler
Read-alikes: John Grisham
David Baldacci
Linda Fairstein
Joseph Finder
Stephen Frey
James Grippando
Colin Harrison
Douglas Kennedy
Andrew Klavan
William Lashner
John T. Lescroart
Phillip Margolin
Steve Martini
Brad Meltzer
Perri O’Shaughnessy
Barbara Parker
Richard North Patterson
Christopher Reich
Nancy Taylor Rosenberg
Robert Tannenbaum
Scott Turow
Read-alikes: Kite Runner
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus
The Warlord’s Son by Dan Fesperman
The Mulberry Empire by Philip Hensher
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Swallows of Kabul by Khadra Yasmina
Read-alikes: Linda Howard
Elizabeth Adler
Suzanne Brockmann
Sandra Brown
Catherine Coulter
Julie Garwood
Kay Hooper
Iris Johansen
Elizabeth Lowerll
Nora Roberts
Read-alikes: the Maisie Dobbs series by Jacqueline Winspear
Suzanne Aruda
Sarah Caudwell
Barbara Cleverly
P.D. James
Alexander McCall Smith
Anne Perry
Elizabeth Peters
Read-alikes: Mary Higgins Clark
Carol Higgins Clark
Joy Fielding
Lisa Gardner
Tami Hoag
Kay Hooper
Linda Howard
Lisa Jackson
Iris Johansen
Jonathan Kellerman
Jayne Ann Krentz
Phillip Margolin
Carla Neggers
Karen Robards
Kate White
Read-alikes: Michael Connelly
Keith Ablow
Richard Barre
Lawrence Block
James Lee Burke
Lee Child
Harlan Coben
John Connolly
Robert Crais
Jeffrey Deaver
Barry Eisler
James Ellroy
Leslie Glass
John Harvey
Jeremiah Healy
Dennis Lehane
Jeffrey Lindsay
Ross MacDonald
Carol O’Connell
T. Jefferson Parker
James Patterson
Ridley Pearson
George Pelecanos
Ian Rankin
Read-alikes: Nora Roberts
Deborah Crombie
Jennifer Cruise
Patricia Gaffney
Dorothy Garlock
Jayne Ann Krentz
Debbie Macomber
Fern Michaels
Linda Lael Miller
Read-alikes: Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores The Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen Dubner
Simplexity by Jeffrey Kluger
American Nerd : The Story of My People by Benjamin Nugent
Microtrends : The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow’s Big Changes by
Mark Penn
The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
A History of the World In Six Glasses by Tom Standag
Read-alikes: Precious Ramatswe series by Alexander McCall Smith
M.C. Beaton
Agatha Christie
Robert Can Gulik
Rony Hillerman
James McClure
R.K. Narayan
Read-alikes: Sue Grafton
Nevada Barr
Raymond Chandler
Liza Cody
Marcia Muller
Sara Paretsky
Real Disasters (Nonfiction)
The Great Influenza by John M. Barry
Triangle by Dave Von Drehle
Isaac’s Storm by Erik Larson
The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
Fire and Ashes by John N. Maclean
Manhattan Medics by Francis J. Rella
Relationship-driven Fiction
Rosellen Brown
Julia Glass
Gail Godwin
Jane Hamilton
Alice McDermott
Sue Miller
Robin Pilcher
Anna Quindlen
Anne Rivers Siddons
Carol Shields
Jane Smiley
Lee Smith
Elizabeth Strout
Nancy Thayer
Joanna Trollope
Anne Tyler
Ayelet Waldman
Romance
Elizabeth Adler
Sandra Brown
Marion Chesney
Catherine Coulter
Jennifer Cruise
Jude Deveraux
Julie Garwood
Jayne Anne Krentz aka Amanda Quick
Elizabeth Lowell
Judith McNaught
Delia Parr
Nora Roberts
LaVryle Spencer
Katherine Stone
Jennifer Weiner
Romantic Suspense
Suzanne Brockmann
Catherine Coulter
Joy Fielding
Lisa Gardner
Heather Graham
Tami Hoag
Kay Hooper
Linda Howard
Lisa Jackson
Iris Johansen
Jayne Ann Krentz
Elizabeth Lowell
Barbara Michaels
Carla Neggers
Nora Roberts
J.D. Robb
Stephanie Tyler
Science Fiction
Douglass Adams
Piers Anthony
Isaac Asimov
Ray Bradbury
Orson Scott Card
Arthur C. Clarke
Harry Harrison
Anne McCaffrey
Larry Niven
William Shatner
Star Trek & Star Trek Next Generation series
Star Wars series
Small Town Fiction
Fred Chappell
Philip Gulley
Susan Howach
Garrison Keillor
Lorna Landvik
Joan Medlicott
Barbara Pym
Ann Ross
Angela Thirkell
Bailey White
Smart Comedy
Cleaning Nabokov’s House by Leslie Daniels
Bad Marie by Marcy Dermansky
The Widower’s Tale by Julia Glass
The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman
New World Monkeys by Nancy Munro
Commuters by Emily Gray Tedrowe
The Uncoupling by Meg Wolitzer
Sophisticated Thrillers
The Third Translation by Matt Bondurant
The Geographer’s Library by Jon Fashman
Improbable by Adam Fawer
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
The Eight by K. Neville
Map of Bones by James Rollins
Shadow of the Wind by C. Ruiz Zafron
Southern Fiction
Lynn Abercombie
Frankie Y. Bailey
Madison Smartt Bell
Wendall Berry
Larry Brown
Fred Chappell
Pat Conroy
Clyde Edgerton
John Ehle
Mary Anne Evans
Fannie Flagg
Charles Frazier
Ernest Gaines
Kaye Gibbons
Ellen Gilchrist
Anne George
Allan Gurganus
Barbara Hambly
Jill McCorkle
Michael Malone
Margaret Maron
Bobbie Anne Mason
Barbara Neely
T.R. Pearson
Reynolds Price
Ferrol Sams
MaryLee Settle
Louise Shivers
Anne Rivers Siddons
Robert Skinner
Elizabeth Spencer
Anne Tyler
Eudora Welty
Summer Recommendations
Summer in Tuscany by Elizabeth Adler
A Summer to Remember by Mary Balogh
Gone for Good by Harlan Coben
Faking It by Jennifer Cruise
The Survivors Club by Lisa Gardner
Distant Shores by Kristin Hannah
Always a Thief by Kay Hooper
The Fourth Hand by John Irving
The Beach House by James Patterson
Step-Ball-Change by Jeanne Ray
Time Travel Fiction
A Knight in Shining Armor by Jude Deveraux
Lady of Hay by Barbara Erskine
Thursday Next in the Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde
Time After Time by Jack Finney
The Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Patriot’s Dream by Barbara Michaels
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Bewitched by Constance O’Day Flannery
True Crime (Nonfiction)
Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper, Case Close by Patricia Cornwall
A Rip in Heaven: A Memoir of Murder and Its Aftermath by Jeanine Cummins
Anyone You Want Me to Be: A True Story of Sex and Death on the Internet by John E. Douglas
Invisible Eden: A Story of Murder on Cape Cod by Maria Flook
A Death in Belmont by Sebastian Junger
Thunderstruck by Erik Larson
Wiseguy: A Life in a Mafia Family by Nicholas Pileggi
Unholy Messenger: The Life and Crimes of the BTK Serial Killer by Stephen Singular
Urban Fiction
Dwayne D. Birch
Wahida Clark
Shannon Holmes
Brenda Jackson
Pamela M. Johnson
Solomon Jones
K’Wan
Mary Monroe
Kimberla Lawson Roby
Sapphire
Sister Souljah
Nikki Turner
Omar Tyree
Carl Weber
Anthony Whyte
Kashamba Williams
Teri Woods
Zane
Vietnam War Fiction
The Deep Green Sea by Robert Olen Butler
Up County by Nelson Demille
Betrayed by Brendan DuBois
Blue Deep by Layne Heath
A Dangerous Friend by Ward Just
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
Lost Soldiers by James Webb
The Ambassador by Morris L. West
Winter Fiction
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
The Ice House by Minette Walters
Wolf Winter by Clare Francis
Under the Snow by Kerstin Ekman
A Fine and Bitter Snow by Dana Stabenow
Smilla’s Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg
Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
Winter of the Wolf Moon by Steve Hamilton
Winter Nonfiction
Crossing Antarctica by Will Steger and Jon Bowermaster
A first rate tragedy : Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the South Pole by Diana Preston
Endurance : an Epic of Polar Adventure by F.A. Worsley
Ice bound : a Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole by Jerri Nielsen
Riddle of the Ice : a Scientific Adventure into the Arctic by Myron Arms
Terra Incognita : travels in Antarctica by Sara Wheeler
Women’s Lives and Relationships Fiction
Julia Alvarez
Elizabeth Berg
Barbara Taylor Bradford
Diane Chamberlain
Barbara Delinsky
Fannie Flagg
Karen Joy Fowler
Olivia Goldsmith
Kristin Hannah
Susan Isaacs
Marian Keyes
Barbara Kingslover
Jill Marie Landis
Lorna Landvik
Elinor Lipman
Fern Michaels
Gloria Naylor
Luanne Rice
Barbara Samuel
Anita Shreve
Anne Rivers Siddons
Nancy Thayer
Joanna Trollope
Rebecca Wells
World War II Fiction
The Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard
Run Silent, Run Deep by E.L. Beach
The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen
The Boat by L. Bucheim
The Perfect Gallows by Peter Dickenson
The Eye of the Needle and The Key to Rebecca by Ken Follett
The Night Sky by Clare Francis
The Tenth Man by Graham Greene
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
Shining Through by Susan Isaacs
The Thin Red Line by James Jones
This Shining Land by Rosalind Laker
The Guns of Navarone by Alistair MacLean
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
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Amish & Mennonite "Bonnet" Fiction
Historical Mysteries (Authors)
Historical Mysteries (Specific Places and Eras)
Historical Nonfiction that Reads Like a Novel
Mysteries with a Comic Twist
Read-alikes: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larson
Read-alikes: The Glass Castle by Jennifer Walls
Read-alikes: The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Read-alikes: the Maisie Dobbs series by Jacqueline Winspear
Read-alikes: Mary Higgins Clark
Read-alikes: Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Read-alikes: Precious Ramatswe series by Alexander McCall Smith
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