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Fiction

Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A Death in the Family, James Agee
Brick Lane, Monica Ali
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Jayber Crow, Wendell Berry
The Ash Garden, Dennis Bock
The Buffalo Soldier, Christopher A.Bohjalian
The Tortilla Curtain, T. Coraghessan Boyle
Pavilion of Women, Pearl S.  Buck
The Son of Laughter, Frederick Buechner
Death Comes for the Archbishop; My Antonia; The Professor’s House, Willa Cather
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon
The Magic of Ordinary Days, Ann Howard Creel
The Hours, Michael Cunningham
Himalayan Dhaba, Craig Joseph Danner
Reading in the Dark, Seamus Deane
Paddy Clarke, Ha Ha Ha, Roddy Doyle
The Siege, Helen Dunmore
The House on Moon Lake, Francesca Duranti
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, Louise Erdrich
Kleopatra, Karen Essex
A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest J. Gaines
The Hungry Tide, Amitav Ghosh
Charms for the Easy Life, Kaye Gibbons
The Seduction of Water, Carol Goodman
Baker Towers, Jennifer Haigh
The Mayor of Casterbridge; Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
Staggerford, Jon Hassler
Hummingbird House, Patricia Henley
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
The Lost Garden, Helen Humphreys
Land Girls, Angela Huth
The Known World, Edward P. Jones
The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
Mother to Mother, Sindiwe Magona
Palace Walk, Najib Mahfuz
The Preservationist, David Maine
Dreams of My Russian Summers, Andrei Makine
Remembering Babylon, David Malouf
The Piano Tuner, Daniel Mason
All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy
The Member of the Wedding, Carson McCullers
Atonement, Ian McEwan
Fugitive Pieces, Anne Michaels
A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
Suite Française, Irène Némirovsky
When the Emperor Was Divine, Julie Otsuka
Bel Canto, Ann Patchett
The  Shipping News, Annie Proulx
The Flanders Panel, Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Empire Falls, Richard Russo
Fair and Tender Ladies , Lee Smith
Angle of Repose; Crossing to Safety, Wallace Earle Stegner
Down to a Soundless Sea, Thomas Steinbeck
The Confessions of Nat Turner, William Styron
The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Bonesetter’s Daughter, Amy Tan
The Samurai’s Garden, Gail Tsukiyama
Winter Wheat, Mildred Walker
The Ginger Tree, Oswald Wynd

Nonfiction

The Tender Bar: A Memoir, J. R. Moehringer   070.92 MOE
The Cloister Walk, Kathleen Norris   255 NOR
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century, Thomas L. Friedman  
303. 4833 FRI
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Jared M. Diamond   304.28 DIA
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, Jared M. Diamond   304.4 DIA
Bound Feet & Western Dress, Pang-Mei Natasha Chang   305.420951 CHA
Nickel and Dimed: On (not) Getting By in America, Barbara Ehrenreich, 305.569 EHR
Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa, Keith B. Richburg, 306.0967 RIC
The Lexus and the Olive Tree, Thomas L. Friedman, Audio Book 337 FRI (Only)
War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, Chris Hedges 355.02 HED
The Glass Castle: A Memoir, Jeannette Walls 362.82092 WAL
Warriors Don’t Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Central High, Melba Beals 370.19342 BEA
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, Eric Schlosser  394 SCH
The Lost Painting, Jonathan Harr 759.5 HAR
Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith, Anne Lamott  813.54 LAM
All the Fishes Come Home to Roost: An American Misfit in India, Rachel Manija Brown
915.4 BRO
Looking for Lovedu: Days and Nights in Africa, Ann Jones 916 JON
Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town, Paul Theroux  916 THE
In a Sunburned Country, Bill Bryson  919.4 BRY
Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Difficult Times, Studs Terkel  920 TER
Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II, Robert Kurson  940.5451 KUR
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II, Iris Chang  951.042 CHA
Eleni, Nicholas Gage  949.5074 GAG
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, Jung Chang  951.01 CHA
Iron and Silk, Mark Salzman  951.058 SAL
The Tiger Ladies: A Memoir of Kashmir, Sudha Koul  954.6 KOU
Kabul in Winter: Life Without Peace in Afghanistan, Ann Jones  958.1047 JON
Argument Without End: In Search of Answers to the Vietnam Tragedy, Robert S.
McNamara  959.7043 ARG
Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood, Alexandra Fuller 968.9104 FUL
An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America, Henry
Wiencek, 973.41092 WIE
April 1865: The Month That Saved America, Jay Winik  973.7 WIN
The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home, George Howe Colt
974.492 COL
Population 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time, Michael Perry  977.544 PER
The Road from Coorain, Jill K. Conway  B CONWAY
A Girl Named Zippy: Growing up Small in Mooreland, Indiana, Haven Kimmel
B KIMMEL
West with the Night, Beryl Markham, B MARKHAM