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Mysteries:
 Sister Pelagia and the Red Cockerel,* Boris Akunin
Stork Raving Mad: A Meg Langslow Mystery,* Donna Andrews
Who Killed Art Deco? Chuck Barris
I Am Not a Psychic! Richard Belzer
 Royal Blood,* Rhys Bowen
From Away, David Carkeet
Curing the Blues with a New Pair of Shoes, Dixie Cash
Hello Kitty Must Die, Angela S. Choi
 Some Like It Hot-Buttered, Jeffrey Cohen
Wanna Get Lucky? Deborah Coonts
Fatally Flaky,* Diane Mott Davidson
Gator A-Go-Go,* Tim Dorsey
 Murder Can Crash Your Party: A Desiree Shapiro Mystery*
Selma Eichler
Sizzling Sixteen,* Janet Evanovich
Boca Mournings,* Steven M. Forman
Ghost in Trouble, Carolyn Hart
 Merry Wives of Maggody: An Arly Hanks Mystery,* Joan Hess
Bones in High Places: The Case of the Vicar and the Casket of Crumbling Bones,* Suzette A. Hill
The Crack in the Lens,* Steve Hockensmith
Shoulder Bags and Shootings,* Dorothy Howell
 A Job to Kill For: A Lacy Fields Mystery,* Janice Kaplan
The Spellmans Strike Again,* Lisa Lutz
The Huckleberry Murders: A Sheriff Bo Tully Mystery,* Patrick F. McManus
Bowled Over, Kasey Michaels
 Baja Florida,* Bob Morris
Can’t Never Tell: A Southern Fried Mystery,* Cathy Pickens
To Fetch a Thief: A Chet and Bernie Mystery,* Spencer Quinn
Hasta La Vista, Lola!: A Lola Cruz Mystery, Misa Ramirez
 Holy Moly,* Ben Rehder
The Bad Book Affair: A Mobile Library Mystery,* Ian Sansom
Mighty Old Bones,* Mary Saums
Mama Gets Hitched: A Mace Bauer Mystery,* Deborah Sharp
 Bubbles All the Way, Sarah Strohmeyer
Elvis and the Memphis Mambo Murders,* Peggy Webb
Drop Dead, My Lovely, Ellis Weiner
Romance & Love Stories:
 The Fixer Upper, Mary Kay Andrews
Sweet Nothings, Trisha Ashley
Par for the Course, Ray Blackston
The Finishing Touches, Hester Browne
 Queen of Babble Gets Hitched,* Meg Cabot
The Pig Did It, Joseph Caldwell
Beginner’s Greek, Jim Collins
Life’s a Beach, Claire Cook
 Nancy’s Theory of Style, Grace Coopersmith
Men and Dogs, Katie Crouch
Maybe this Time, Jennifer Crusie
Enlightenment for Idiots, Anne Cushman
 Kissing Babies at the Piggly Wiggly, Rob Dalby
Undead and Unfinished,* MaryJanice Davidson
Hero at Large,* Janet Evanovich
Nice to Come Home To, Rebecca Flowers
 Sammy’s House, Kristin Gore
The Shiksa Syndrome, Laurie Graff
Serious Men, Manu Joseph
Too Hot To Handle, Robin Kaye
 Twenties Girl, Sophie Kinsella
The Exchange-Rate Between Love and Money, Thomas Leveritt
A Gentleman By Any Other Name, Kasey Michaels
The Brass Bed, Jennifer Stevenson
The Sleeping Beauty Proposal, Sarah Strohmeyer
My French Whore, Gene Wilder
The Marriage Bureau for Rich People, Farahad Zama
Chick Lit:
 Following Polly, Karen Bergreen
Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives, Josie Brown
Accidentally Demonic,* Dakota Cassidy
Forget About It, Caprice Crane
 Austenland, Shannon Hale
Thin, Rich, Pretty, Elizabeth Harbison
Mini Shopaholic, Sophie Kinsella
Magic and the Modern Girl, Mindy Klasky
 Every Demon Has His Day, Cara Lockwood
True Lies of a Drama Queen, Lee Nichols
An Ideal Wife, Gemma Townley
Chasing Harry Winston, Lauren Weisberger
General Fiction:
 The Gift, Cecelia Ahern
Brains: A Zombie Memoir, Robin Becker
The Last Ghost Dancer, Tony Bender
Loopy, Dan Binchy
 Getting Sassy, D.C. Brod
Tooth and Claw, T. Coraghessan Boyle
One Hit Wonder, Charlie Carillo
A Piggly Wiggly Christmas, Rob Dalby
 The Pirates! In an Adventure with Napoleon, Gideon Defoe
I Still Dream About You, Fannie Flagg
Paul is Undead: The British Zombie Invasion, Alan Goldsher
Our Man in Havana, Graham Greene
 The Hospital for Bad Poets, J.C. Hallman
29, Adena Halpern
Star Island, Carl Hiaasen
Elegies for the Brokenhearted, Christie Hodgen
 Boys and Girls Like You and Me: Stories, Aryn Kyle
Not Ready for Mom Jeans, Maureen Lipinski
Tied to the Tracks, Rosina Lippi
The Sand Café, Neil MacFarquhar
 An Object of Beauty, Steve Martin
The Unbearable Lightness of Scones,* Alexander McCall Smith
Once Around the Track, Sharyn McCrumb
Old Dogs, Donna Moore
 Jane and the Damned, Janet Mullany
A Thousand Peaceful Cities, Jerzy Pilch
The Patterns of Paper Monsters, Emma Rathbone
The Dog Park Club, Cynthia Robinson
 Beet, Roger Rosenblatt
Miss Julia Renews Her Vows,* Ann B. Ross
Secrets of a Soap Opera Diva, Victoria Rowell
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary, David Sedaris
 All Eyes on Her, Poonam Sharma
Waking Up in Dixie, Haywood Smith
The French Revolution, Matt Stewart
Science Fiction & Fantasy:
 The Hitchhiker’s Guide To the Galaxy,* Douglas Adams
Knot Gneiss,* Piers Anthony
Yarn, Jon Armstrong
U.S.! Chris Bachelder
 And Another Thing, Eoin Colfer
Go, Mutants! Larry Doyle
Schrödinger’s Ball, Adam Felber
Breakfast with the Ones You Love, Eliot Fintushel
 The Candle of Distant Earth, Alan Dean Foster
Blonde Bombshell, Tom Holt
Johannes Cabal, the Necromancer, Jonathan L. Howard
The Four Fingers of Death, Rick Moody
 Unseen Academicals: A Novel of Discworld,* Terry Pratchett
The Toyminator, Robert Rankin
The Sheriff of Yrnameer, Michael Rubens
Mathematicians in Love, Rudy Rucker
 Don’t Hex with Texas, Shanna Swendson
John Dies at the End, David Wong
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