Books I'd Like To Read
Total Found: 6369 Displaying 1001 - 1500
Category (from) - Crime/Mystery
Category (thru) - Fiction
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Most of the books on this list come from reviews in the magazines Entertainment Weekly and People. A lot of the descriptions are excerpted from the reviews. Please support these magazines and the books that they recommend.
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Lansdale, Joe R. | Various - Hap and Leaonard Series | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Friend. "Witty and profane" series recommended by Kent.
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Larbalestier, Justine | My Sister Rosa | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: BookBub.com. A captivating psychological thriller. No one else truly understands what Che Taylor's little sister is capable of. Can Che protect the world from a 10-year-old monster? |
Lawton, John | Black Out | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Available as library eBook, The first of the Inspector Troy novels, Black Out singularly captures the realities of wartime London, weaving them into a riveting drama that encapsulates the uncertainty of Europe at the dawn of the postwar era. |
Lazar, Aaron Paul | Under the Ice | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. LeGarde mysteries book 9. After escaping her abusive husband, life is finally good for Camille LeGarde and her daughter, Shelby. She has a great relationship with her new husband, Gus, who also loves Shelby like his own child. But the LeGarde family's fragile oasis is shattered when the man of Camille's nightmares is released from prison. |
Lea, C.J. and Catherine Lea | The Contestant | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. Raymond is a serial killer - brilliant and resourceful. Once a respected behavioural analyst and profiler, a hit-and-run accident five years ago left him confined to a wheelchair, and now he grudgingly scratches out a living with online contests using fake or stolen identities. |
Lehane, Dennis | A Drink Before the War | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. Available as a library eBook. He's the Mystic River and Gone Baby Gone guy. "Dennis Lehane has done pretty well with the blue-collar Iris milieu of South Boston. Kenzie-Genaro Series:
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Leon, Donna | Doctored Evidence | Crime/Mystery | Noone seems unhappy that Maria Battestini has been bludgeoned to death in Venice. Until the cold case is picked up again. More Columbo than Dirty Harry, Commissariao Brunetti is a very Italian figure who goes home for stupendous lunches with the family. |
Leonard, Elmore | Be Cool | Crime/Mystery | Chili Palmer - movie is based on this book. |
Leonard, Elmore | Get Shorty | Crime/Mystery | Chili Palmer - movie is based on this book. |
Leonard, Elmore | Raylan | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Movie/TV. $2.14 Kindle book. |
Les Becquets, Diane | Breaking Wild | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Entertainment Weekly Mag. Amy Raye is a seasoned outdoorswoman who gets lost in the cold Colorado wilderness during an elk hunt. As she fights for survival, a local search-and-rescue worker named Prudence tries to find her. |
Levine, Paul | Bum Deal | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle book. Lassiter, Solomon & Lord Legal Thrillers Book 3. Appointed to prosecute a murder case, Lassiter vows to take down a prominent surgeon accused of killing his wife. Problem is...there's not a scrap of forensic evidence, and the defense lawyers are the crafty team of Steve Solomon and Victoria Lord. |
Levine, Paul | Bum Rap | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. Lassiter, our favorite linebacker-turned-lawyer, has had it with sleazy clients, shifty prosecutors, and a justice system out of whack. He's ready to call it quits when he gets a call from Victoria Lord. Her lover and law partner Steve Solomon has been charged with murder and needs the hardest-hitting lawyer in Miami. |
Lindgren, Anna | Every Step of the Way | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle book. Smugglers Cove #1. When Jake Davis arrives home, he is expecting to be met by a sea of familiar faces-not Cammie Anderson's glare and two middle fingers. She's a newcomer in town, and Jake…well, he's as close to Smuggler's Cove royalty as one can be.Jake is confident in his ability to capture the attention of any woman, but Cammie couldn't be further from interested. She is convinced her fiery personality will ward off unwanted attention, but will her walls withstand the strength of Hurricane Jake?The most impulsive decision Cammie ever made was moving to Smuggler's Cove to become a kayak tour guide. She quit her job, left her cheating ex, and moved to the tiny, remote town in Alaska.After falling in love with the adventure, the pristine landscape, and the loveable, quirky characters who seem to brighten even the dreariest of days, she ran into-or was nearly run over by-Jake Davis, the man who was at the helm of Cammie's near-death experience.Cammie has learned the hard way that the people we think we need most in life are the ones who ultimately disappoint us. No matter how hard Jake Davis tries to prove her wrong, she's determined to not let history repeat itself.But one thing is for certain. Jake Davis is a storm that never ends. |
Lippman, Laura | What the Dead Know | Crime/Mystery | In 1975, teen Sunny Bethany and her kid sister, Heather, head to a suburban mall to watch Escape from Witch Mountain, then vanish without a trace. What really happened to the girls? Lippman takes her sweet time peeling back the layers using skin-crawling flash-backs and a cast of finely drawn characters. |
Lister, Michael | Innocent Blood | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. John Jordan Mysteries book 7. When John Jordan was twelve years old, he came face-to-face with the man who went to prison for the Atlanta Child Murders. Six years later, John returns to Atlanta to discover the truth. As he battles his demons and embarks on his first murder investigation, Jordan learns the ropes from the one and only Harry Bosch. |
Locke, M. Louisa | Victorian San Francisco Mystery Series | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. The Victorian San Francisco Mystery series is based on the research M. Louisa Locke did for her doctorate in history at University of California, San Diego about women who worked in the far west at the end of the 19th century. The series features Annie Fuller, a boardinghouse owner and pretend clairvoyant, and Nate Dawson, a San Francisco lawyer, who together with family and friends from the O'Farrell Street boarding house investigate murders and other crimes. |
Logan, Chuck | Absolute Zero | Crime/Mystery | Stillwater native. |
Love, Sophie | The Witching Place: A Fatal Folio (A Curious Bookstore Cozy Mystery--Book 1) | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle book. A page-turning cozy, rife with the supernatural, mystery, secrets and love--and centered around a small town as odd and endearing as its shop--A CURIOUS BOOKSTORE will make you fall in love and keep you laughing out loud as you turn pages late into the night. When Alexis Blair, 29, is fired from her book publishing job and breaks up with her boyfriend on the same day, she wonders if life is urging her to make a fresh start. She decides it's time to pursue her lifelong dream of opening a bookstore of her own--even if that means leaving Boston and accepting a job in a curious bookstore in a small seaside town an hour away. But the odd shop, Alexis soon learns, is from more than just a rare, occult bookstore. Something strange is going on in the shop's secret back room, with its eccentric owner, and in the small town itself. |
Love, Sophie | The Witching Place: Murder by Manuscript (A Curious Bookstore Cozy Mystery--Book 2) | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle book. When Alexis is dispatched to scout out some books in an estate sale in a gothic mansion, she finds something she does not expect: one book is incredibly rare, the only one of its kind in existence, worth millions of dollars. She also soon finds something else she does not expect: a dead body. |
Lukeman, Alex | The Lance | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. The Project book 2. As Hitler's Germany faces final defeat, the Lance that pierced Christ's side – a weapon of legendary power – is spirited away to a secret base hidden in the frozen wastes of Antarctica. Decades later the Lance is found, and a long-term plan to conquer America from within begins to unfold. |
MacDonald, John D. | A Flash of Green | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. NOT part of the Travis McGee series. James Wing was only trying to help his friend's widow. At least that's what he told himself after he warned Kat Hubble that the beautiful bay that she and her neighbours had struggled to save was now going to be sold to developers. He knew he shouldn't have told her anything. He was a reporter, trained to reveal nothing. But he was falling in love with her. |
MacDonald, John D. | Various - Travis McGee Series | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author.
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MacDonald, Paul | Smile Now, Cry Later | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. Chuck Restic Private Investigator Series book 1. Chuck Restic is a man without a purpose. A 20-year career working in the risk-averse world of Human Resources for a large corporation has left him comfortably numb... but so incredibly bored. There has to be more to life than trying not to get sued. Chuck finds an escape in an unlikely form when he begins moonlighting as a private detective. |
Mackley, Cyn | American Goth | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle book. Goode-Grace Mysteries Book 1. "I love, love this author. Funny, smart, entertainment. Couldn't put it down. The characters just grab you and never let go". Trinity thought she'd left her small town behind for life as big-city Goth girl. But when her beloved grandfather dies in a bizarre accident, she heads back to the family farm. |
Madison, Marla | She's Not There | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. When the Milwaukee Police Department refuses to investigate because no bodies have been discovered, Lisa Rayburn, the clinical psychologist who discovers the anomaly, is drawn into an investigation to discover the cause after one of her own clients goes missing. She finds herself forming an unlikely alliance with a former policewoman turned security consultant, TJ Peacock, and the husbands of two of the missing women who may themselves be murderers. |
Mankell, Henning | Faceless Killers | Crime/Mystery | Wallander's personal life can occasionally seem more depressing than even a provincial Swedish detective should be asked to bear, but his investigative skills are strictly first rate. Recommended by Bob G., Mankell's story of the brutal murder of an elderly farm couple uncovers an unusual aspect of life in modern Sweden--a streak of fear and prejudice against the many newcomers from Africa, the Middle East and Eastern Europe who have sought asylum there. |
Marney, Ben | Sing Roses For Me | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. A friend pulls out a Ouija board and asks you to play. It's just a game, right? But when the Ouija board reveals a secret you've never disclosed, then "the spirit" asks you to warn his living sister that she is about to be murdered. What would you do? This is the scenario that tragically entangles the lives of Max Allen, Carla Cecil and Bradford Doss. |
Marsh, Ngaio | Various - Ngaio Marsh | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Friend. Recommended by Hugh P. Marsh is known as one of the "Queens of Crime", along with Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Margery Allingham. She is known primarily for her character Inspector Roderick Alleyn, a gentleman detective who works for the Metropolitan Police (London).
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Massey, Sujata | The Salaryman's Wife | Crime/Mystery | Classic English-style whodunit in contemporary Japan. Young, hip, saki-sipping sleuth. |
McBain, Ed | Various - 87th Precinct Series | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. "Inarguably the best series of police procedural novels ever written" - Stephen King.
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McCreight, Kimberly | Reconstructing Amelia | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Friend. Recommended by Dezi. Kate believes her daughter, 15-year-old Amelia, has committed suicide, jumping from the roof of her private school - until she receives an anonymous text saying simply, "Amelia didn't jump." Could she have been murdered? |
McDermid, Val | Splinter the Silence | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Entertainment Weekly Mag. Former detective and psychologist duo Jordan and Hill return in this topical thriller about a string of suicides by women who were savagely cyber-bullied in the past. |
McGrath, M.J. | The Bone Seeker | Crime/Mystery | Inuit mystery series. This third thriller features Edie Kiglatuk - guide, polar-bear hunter, schoolteacher - as bleak and icy as its Arctic setting. |
McMahon, Jennifer | Burntown | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. Recommended by Joshilyn Jackson, and she seemed SUPER EXCITED about it. Author of The Winter People and Promise Not to Tell returns with a riveting psychological thriller in which an unresolved murder haunts a family for generations, forcing one daughter into a life of hiding and concealed identity to escape a deadly threat. |
Mezrich, Ben | The Midnight Ride | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: BookBub.com. This guy is usually a non-fiction writer about fascinating people and situations. From the celebrated, New York Times bestselling author comes a commercial thriller of an MIT grad student who unwittingly uncovers the hidden connection between the Gardner Museum heist and the most fascinating secret in American history. |
Miller, Christiana | Somebody Tell Aunt Tillie She's dead | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. $.99 Kindle book. |
Miller, Melissa F. | The Aroostine Higgins Series: Box Set 1 (Books 1 and 2) | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Free Kindle book.
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Mills, Mark | Amagansett | Crime/Mystery | Atomospheric thriller set in the 40s. Like all good beach reads, this one offers surprises. |
Milne, A. A. | The Red House Mystery | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. Free Kindle book. Mark Ablett is not really a snob--not the worst kind of snob, at least. He simply prefers artists to everyone else, and the discussion of his own creative abilities to any other talk whatsoever. His vanities are easily forgiven especially since he is generous with his money--inherited not from his clergyman father but from a neighborhood spinster who took a liking to him--and he is always willing to play the host at the Red House, his delightful country estate. |
Mina, Denise | Gods and Beasts | Crime/Mystery | Until further notice, assume you should buy everything Denise Mina publishes. Her career is really a portrait of her native Glasgow. |
Mina, Denise | The End of the Wasp Season | Crime/Mystery | There's no going wrong with a Mina mystery. Her Glasgow-based books are full of great, conflicted women characters, pitch-perfect dialog, and more. |
Mofina, Rick | No Way Back | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. San Francisco crime reporter Tom Reed is burned out. On the day he decides to finally quit the news business, a sensational story breaks. A heart-stopping robbery-homicide at a jewelry store. The suspects have shot and killed a police officer before fleeing with a female hostage. Reed rushes to the scene, his passion resurrected for one last big story. |
Moore, Liz | Long Bright River | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: BookBub.com. When her troubled sister vanished amid a series of murders, police office Mickey must uncover the truth behind her disappearance. Named one of Barack Obama's favorite books of 2020. |
Mosley, Walter | Various - Easy Rawlins Series | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. Easy Rawlins Series
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Nesbø, Jo | The Redbreast | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. $2.15 Kindle book. Harry Hole series book 3. A chilling tale of murder and betrayal that ranges from the battlefields of World War Two to the streets of modern-day Oslo. Follow Hole as he races to stop a killer and disarm a ticking time-bomb from his nation's shadowy past. |
Nesbø, Jo | Various - The Harry Hole Series | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: BookBub.com. The Harry Hole detective series by Norwegian author, Jo Nesbø. Scandinavian.
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Nesser, Hakan | Hour of the Wolf | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Entertainment Weekly Mag. Swede crime writer. Retired police officer Van Veeteren is drawn into a web of awful murders. |
Nortman, Karen Musser | We are NOT Buying a Camper!: A Frannie Shoemaker Prequel (The Frannie Shoemaker Campground Mysteries Book 0) | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Amazon.com. Free Kindle book. A prequel to the Frannie Shoemaker Campground Mysteries. Frannie and Larry Shoemaker have busy jobs, two teenagers, and plenty of other demands on their time and sanity. Larry's sister and brother-in-law pester them to try camping for relaxation--time to sit back, enjoy nature, and catch up on naps. After all, what could go wrong? Join Frannie as "RV there yet?" becomes "RV crazy?" and she learns that going back to nature doesn't necessarily mean a simpler life. |
O'Donoghue, Domhnall | Sister Agatha | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: BookBub.com. At 118 years old, Sister Agatha is determined to become the world's oldest person. But when she learns she has only one week left to live, she sets off on a globe-trotting adventure to kill her competitors. Zany, darkly comic romp. |
Painter, Sarah | The Night Raven | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. $2.15 Kindle book. Crow Investigations Book 1. Lydia has always known she has no power, especially next to her infamous and more-than-slightly dodgy family. Which is why she carved her own life as a private investigator far away from London. When a professional snafu forces her home, the head of the family calls in a favour, and Lydia finds herself investigating the disappearance of her cousin, Maddie. |
Painter, Sarah | Various - Crow Investigations Series | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author.
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Paretsky, Sara | Blacklist | Crime/Mystery | V.I. Warshawski in Paretsky's 11th crime novel. |
Paretsky, Sara | Various - VI Warshawski Series | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Movie/TV.
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Parker, Robert B. | Night Passage | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. First book in the Jesse Stone series. |
Parker, Robert B. | Various - Jessie Stone Series | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. Here is a list of the first few.
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Parker, Robert B. | Various - The Spenser Series | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. The first few books in the series.
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Parker, T. Jefferson | California Girl | Crime/Mystery | Hard-boiled L.A. noir and psychologically lurid novel set in the cultural divide of the 60s. |
Parks, Alan | Bobby March Will Live Forever | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Harry McCoy Book 3. In this fascinating and dangerous Scottish noir, a detective scours Glasgow's gritty streets for two missing teens in the wake of a rock star's death. July 1973. The Glasgow drug trade is booming and Bobby March, the city's own rock star hero, has just overdosed in a central hotel. |
Patching, Will | Remorseless | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. Doc Powers & D.I. Carver Investigate book 1. Criminal profiler Doc Powers tries to unravel the truth about a psychopathic potential parolee in time to prevent him wreaking bloody revenge on those he blames for his incarceration - including Doc himself. |
Patterson, James | Ali Cross | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Patterson's blockbuster Alex Cross series brought to a new generation. Alex's son Ali is eager to follow in his father's footsteps as a detective, but when his best friend goes missing, what price will he have to pay to solve the mystery? |
Pelecanos, George | The Night Gardener | Crime/Mystery | A riveting whodunit that doubles as a wide-angle portrait of urban America. |
Pelicanos, George | Right as Rain, Hell to Pay, and Soul Circus | Crime/Mystery | Black PI, white partner. |
Penny, Louise | A Trick of the Light | Crime/Mystery | An art critic is throttled in a flower bed and Inspector Gamache must look for answers in the back-stabbing Quebec art world. Smart plot, and fascinating nuanced characters. |
Penny, Louise | Various - Armand Gamache Series | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: People Mag. "The Canadian Kurt Wallander"
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Perry, Thomas | Blood Money | Crime/Mystery | Native American Heroine steals from the Mafia to give to the poor. |
Petievich, Gerald | To Live And Die In L.A. | Crime/Mystery | The movie is based on this book. |
Petrie, Nick | The Breaker | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: BookBub.com. "Ash is the real deal" -Lee Child. Wanted by two governments, Peter Ash lives a quiet life renovating old buildings in Milwaukee - until his dangerous past comes back to haunt him. "If you aren't reading Nick Petrie, now is the time to start" -C.J. Box |
Petrie, Nick | The Drifter | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Entertainment Weekly Mag. Measures up to Jack Reacher. A former Marine lieutenant deeply damaged by his tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. The second book is Burning Bright. |
Petrie, Nick | Various - Peter Ash Series | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. Recommended by Lee Child and C.J. Box.
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Pistone, Joe and Bill Bonanno with David Fisher | The Good Guys | Crime/Mystery | Ex-undercover FBI agent Pistone is best known as Donny Brasco. The novel is a strange hybrid of autobiographical reflections and fictional mob thriller. |
Pochoda, Ivy | Visitation Street | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: BookBub.com. On one particularly stifling night, Val and June, "hot and stir-crazy" white teenage girls, dare to take a pink rubber raft out onto the treacherous Hudson River. Val is found unconscious beneath the pier; June is missing. During the ensuing investigation, even the dead have their say. The mysteries of sexuality, guilt, race and class conflicts, artistic pursuits, and psychic abilities are all in play as Pochoda transforms Red Hook into a microcosm of human longing. |
Preston, Lisa | Orchids and Stone | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. Daphne Mayfield sought a moment of quiet in a park--a break from city life, a tense relationship, and chronic overwork--but then an elderly woman makes a desperate plea. Daphne is reluctant to get involved when she's not sure what's happening, but she wants to help the stranger. Is the rambling old lady the victim of a crime or a victim of dementia? |
Price, Richard | Clockers | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. $1.07 Kindle book. The basis for the acclaimed Spike Lee film (The New York Times). Rocco Klein, a veteran homicide detective in a New Jersey city just outside Manhattan, has lost his appetite for the wild drama of the street. When a warm June night brings yet another drug murder, Klein has no sense that the case is anything special. A black twenty-year-old steps forward to confess, but a little digging reveals that he's never been in any kind of trouble, whereas his brother runs a crew of street-corner cocaine dealers--clockers--in a nearby housing project. Soon Klein is sure that Victor Dunham is innocent, sure that his brother, Strike, is the real killer. And suddenly Rocco's hunger for the job is back. |
Qui, Xiaolong | Various - Inspector Chen Series | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. Recommended by an author and teacher in the NYT to "give you a sense of the tricky and ever-shifting terrain the Chinese negotiate as a matter of course".
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Quinn, Alice | Queen of the Trailer Park | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. Rosie Maldonne is outspoken and sexy. She's also unemployed, and, with three children and a cat, life is a little tough. The four of them--well, five, if you count the cat--live in the South of France, in a run-down trailer near a vacant lot. They make do, living off her part-time waitressing job and a little help from the state. |
Quinn, Ryan | End of Secrets | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. Though her specialty is foreign cyberterrorism, CIA agent Kera Mersal finds herself plunged into a bizarre domestic case. Singers, writers, and artists are disappearing, leaving no trace in a world where everyone leaves a digital footprint. Posing as a journalist, Kera attempts to track the artists' last-known movements. |
Quinn, Spencer aka Peter Abrahams | Various - Chet and Bernie Series | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Enchanting and Masterful.
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Rabe, Peter | Kill the Boss Good-By | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. $1.07 Kindle book. Donald E. Westlake suggested Peter Rabe. |
Rabe, Peter | The Box | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. $3.26 Kindle book. Donald E. Westlake suggested Peter Rabe. |
Rahman, Khurrum | East of Hounslow | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Young Jay's ordinary life turns upside down when Britain's secret service recruits him for a sensitive mission: to go undercover and inflitrate a group of extremists. |
Randall, Jessica | The Obituary Society | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. When Lila Moore inherits her grandfather's house, she finds herself in a small Midwestern town where margarine is never an acceptable substitution for butter, a coveted family recipe can serve as currency, and the friend who will take your darkest secrets to the grave will still never give you the secret to her prize-winning begonias. |
Raymond, Bobbie | Acting Can Be Murder | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Friend. I think that Kent recommended this. I can't find a free (or cheap) copy of the full book. |
Reaves, Sam | Cold Black Earth | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. When Rachel Lindstrom fled from her rural hometown in western Illinois to join the State Department and see the world, she never expected to return with her life in tatters. But after the horrors of war and a painful divorce, the only place where she can rebuild is the town she once escaped. |
Rehder, Ben | Buck Fever | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. Buck Fever: It's the week before deer hunting season, as close to a statewide holiday as you get in Texas, and the locals are getting restless. Game Warden John Marlin has his hands full with poaching complaints coming in faster than he can write out-of-season tickets. Then a call of a different sort comes in. A man dressed up in some sort of deer costume has been shot at the Circle S ranch, and witnesses are reporting a massive wild-eyed buck prancing about the pasture in a lovesick frenzy. |
Reichs, Kathy | Various - The Temperance Brennan Series | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. The Temperance "Bones" Brennan series
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Reid, Terri | Loose Ends | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. Dying is what changed Mary O'Reilly's life. Well, actually, coming back from the dead and having the ability to communicate with ghosts is really what did it. Now, a private investigator in rural Freeport, Illinois, Mary's trying to learn how to incorporate her experience as a Chicago cop and new-found talent into a real job. Her challenge is to solve the mysteries, get real evidence (a ghost's word just doesn't hold up in court), and be sure the folks in town, especially the handsome new police chief, doesn't think she's nuts. |
Reiss, Mike | Cro-Magnon P.I. | Crime/Mystery | Head writer and producer of The Simpsons animated series. This book won an Edgar. |
Rendell, Ruth | A Demon in My View | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Arthur has channeled his years of rejection into a penchant for violence that remains a secret - until his downstairs neighbor stumbles upon something shocking. |
Rendon, Marcie R. | Murder on the Red River | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Available as library ebook. A Cash Blackbear Mystery Book 1. Introducing Cash Blackbear, a young Ojibwe woman whose visions and grit help solve a brutal murder in this award-winning debut. 1970s, Red River Valley between North Dakota and Minnesota: Renee "Cash" Blackbear is 19 years old and tough as nails. She lives in Fargo, North Dakota, where she drives truck for local farmers... |
Richardson, Kat | Greywalker | Crime/Mystery | After a brutal assault leaves her dead for two minutes, PI Harper Blaine finds herself able to slide between the physical world and a gray area full of vampires and otherworldly things. |
Richmond, Michelle | The Marriage Pact | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. Recommended by Joshilyn Jackson. "So. Freaking. Good. And weird. And original. And unputdownable." Newlyweds Alice and Jake are a picture-perfect couple. Alice, once a singer in a well-known rock band, is now a successful lawyer. Jake is a partner in an up-and-coming psychology practice. Their life together holds endless possibilities. After receiving an enticing wedding gift from one of Alice's prominent clients, they decide to join an exclusive and mysterious group known only as The Pact. |
Rimington, Stella | Illegal Acton | Crime/Mystery | A former director of MI5 in the 90s, Rimington filler her brainy page-turner with authentic details and funny glimpses of the mundane realities of intelligence work, including awful hours, bumbling bosses, and department rivalries. |
Robb, J.D. | Various - J.D. Robb aka Nora Roberts | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. Available at the library as eBooks. Nora Roberts, the romance writer, writing under a pseudonym.
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Robinson, Peter | Playing With Fire | Crime/Mystery | Part of the Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks series. Each time you think you're a step ahead of the author, he jumps in with a jaw-dropping and usually credible twist. |
Rose, Willow | Eleven, Twelve...Dig and Delve | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. Rebekka Franck is visiting a dear friend when she is swallowed up by the hole and ends up trapped inside a limestone mine. Together with the surviving residents from the neighborhood, she tries to get by underground while waiting to be rescued. When the body of one of the survivors turns up inside the mines, they suddenly know that not only do they face starvation and thirst, they also have a killer among them. |
Rosembaum, David | Zaddik | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. A former detective investigates a deadly diamond heist among New York's Hassidic community in this big, bright, and successfully old-fashioned thriller. Dov Taylor is an ex-cop. He's also an ex-husband, ex-drinker, and ex-observant Jew. The way he sees it, he doesn't have much to offer anybody. So he's surprised when he gets a summons from a rabbi in Brooklyn. |
Rous, Emma | The Au Pair | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Just hours after twins Seraphine and Danny are born, their mother falls off a cliff to her death. Years later, Seraphine finds a photo of her family on the fateful day - but why is her mother only holding one baby? Absolutely absorbing read. |
Rubenfeld, Jed | The Death Instinct | Crime/Mystery | In September 1920 a bomb rocked Wall Street, killing 38 in a crime that remains unsolved. Ably blends fact and fiction. |
Runcie, James | Various - Sidney Chambers Series (Grantchester!) | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Inspired the PBS Grantchester! mystery series.
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Russell, Alan | Guardians of the Night | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. As the sole members of LAPD's Special Cases Unit, Detective Michael Gideon and his German shepherd partner Sirius work investigations considered bizarre even by Los Angeles's standards. Yet their latest case is more than strange--it might be out of this world. |
Sanders, Lawrence | The Anderson Tapes | Crime/Mystery | Made into movie starring Sean Connery and Christopher Walken. They try to rob an NY apt bldg, and are taped by govt officials who don't care enough to stop it. |
Sandford, John | Various - Kidd Series (Done Reading) | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author.
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Sandford, John | Various - Letty Davenport Series | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author.
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Sandford, John | Various - Prey Series | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. http://www.johnsandford.org/listofbooks.html
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Sandford, John | Various - Virgil Flowers Series | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. Virgil Flowers series
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Saul, Jonas | The Crypt | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. Sarah Roberts thriller book 3. While Sarah Roberts searches for a weapon on the streets of Budapest, a strange man in a fedora follows her, but before she can find out who he is, she's arrested for a minor altercation. After her release from the Hungarian jail, she's ordered out of the country. |
Sayers, Dorothy L. | Unnatural Death | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. $1.99 Kindle book. The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries book 3. |
Sayers, Dorothy L. | Various - Dorothy L. Sayers | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author.
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Sayers, Dorothy L. | Whose Body? | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. $.99 Kindle book. The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries book 1 |
Schneider, J.A. | Catch Me | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. A Raney & Levine thriller, book 4. A terrifying serial killer who just targets couples, and leaves taunting notes for the NYPD signed CATCH ME |
Schwartz, Jinx | Just Needs Killin' | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. After several months of cruising Mexico's hauntingly beautiful Sea of Cortez, Hetta's in Puerto Escondido, a place once described by author John Steinbeck as "a magic harbor." Anchored out, swaying on the hook at the whim of breeze and tide, surrounded by magnificent views and turquoise water can be magical. Stuck at anchor alone? Not so much. |
Scottoline, Lisa | Courting Trouble | Crime/Mystery | Redheaded lawyer, low-calorie legal thriller. |
Scottoline, Lisa | One Perfect Lie | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: BookBub.com. On paper, Chris Brennan looks perfect. He's applying for a job as a high school government teacher, he's ready to step in as an assistant baseball coach, and his references are impeccable. But everything about Chris Brennan is a lie. |
Sharp, Zöe | Hard Knocks | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Charlie Fox goes undercover at an exclusive training school to learn why her friend was murdered - and who's targeted her next. If Jack Reacher were a woman, he'd be Charlie Fox (Lee Child). |
Shelby, Jeff | The Murder Pit | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. A Moose River Mystery book 1. |
Shepherd, Peng | The Cartographers | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. "The Cartographers is one of those brilliant books you have to read twice." -- Washington Post. Nell Young's whole life and greatest passion is cartography. Her father, Dr. Daniel Young, is a legend in the field and Nell's personal hero. But she hasn't seen or spoken to him ever since he cruelly fired her and destroyed her reputation after an argument over an old, cheap gas station highway map. But when Dr. Young is found dead in his office at the New York Public Library, with the very same seemingly worthless map hidden in his desk, Nell can't resist investigating. To her surprise, she soon discovers that the map is incredibly valuable and exceedingly rare. In fact, she may now have the only copy left in existence...because a mysterious collector has been hunting down and destroying every last one--along with anyone who gets in the way. But why? |
Shojai, Amy | Lost and Found | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. The 1st installment of Shojai's dark, female-driven domestic thriller series featuring pet-centric plots. A young woman races a Texas blizzard to save her autistic nephew from a deadly secret others will kill to protect--and the service dog she's trained finds his true purpose, when he disobeys. Autism Spectrum. Autistic. Asperger's syndrome. |
Siegel, James | Derailed | Crime/Mystery | More jolting and creepy than the movie with Jennifer Aniston and Clive Owen. Quick-paced, and if possible, more explicit than the movie. |
Simukka, Salla | As Red as Blood | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. In the midst of the freezing Arctic winter, seventeen-year-old Lumikki Andersson walks into her school's dark room and finds a stash of wet, crimson-colored money. Thousands of Euros left to dry--splattered with someone's blood. |
Slaughter, Karin | Various - Karin Slaughter | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Entertainment Weekly Mag. EW says that she writes hit thrillers about complex women. She also wrote one with Lee Child. The Grant County series
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Smith, Alexander McCall | Friends, Lovers, Chocolate | Crime/Mystery | Second in the "Sunday Philosophy Club" series. This mystery is a charmer. |
Smith, Alexander McCall | Tears of the Giraffe | Crime/Mystery | 2nd in the No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. #3: Morality for Beautiful Girls. #4: The Kalahari Typing School for Men. #5: The Full Cupboard of Life. #6: In the Company of Cheerful Ladies. |
Smith, April | Good Morning, Killer | Crime/Mystery | Chick detective. |
Smith, Julie | New Orleans Mourning | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. $.99 Kindle book. |
Snow, Anna | Bubblegum Blonde | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. Barb Jackson Mysteries book 1. "Expect the unexpected" has been Barb Jackson's motto ever since the day she became a private investigator. But when a blast from the past in the form of her cheating ex-boyfriend shows up in her office and begs her to help him clear his name in an ongoing murder investigation, she fears this time she might have bitten off more than she can chew. |
Spillane, Mickey | The Mike Hammer Collection: Volume 1 | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. eBook available at HCL. Three detective novels by Mickey Spillane, featuring tough guy private eye Mike Hammer: I, the Jury; My Gun is Quick; Vengeance is Mine! |
Stabenow, Dana | Various - Kate Shugak Series | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Friend. Kate Shugak is an Aleut who lives on a 160-acre homestead in a generic national Park in Alaska. Recommended by swap-bot partner from Kodiak Island. |
Stelljes, Roger | The St. Paul Conspiracy | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle book. Book 2 of 8 in McRyan Mystery Series (8 Book Series). Thirty-two-year-old, fourth-generation St. Paul Homicide Detective "Mac" McRyan thought his day was going to be less stressful. The day would involve paper work, coffee, and maybe even an early trip to the pub. Then his cell phone rings... A body has been found in a high-end condominium between Summit and Grand Avenues |
Stelmach, Orest | The Altar Girl | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. The daughter of uncompromising Ukrainian immigrants, Nadia was raised to respect guts, grit, and tradition. When the events around the seemingly accidental death of her estranged godfather don't add up, Nadia is determined to discover the truth--even if she attracts the attention of dangerous men intent on finding out what she knows through any means possible. |
Sten, Viveca | Still Waters | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. Sandhamn Murders book 1. On a hot July morning on Sweden's idyllic vacation island of Sandhamn, a man takes his dog for a walk and makes a gruesome discovery: a body, tangled in fishing net, has washed ashore. |
Stevenson, Damian | The Ian Fleming Files - An Espionage and Spy Thriller | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. $.99 Kindle book. Operation Armada and Operation Parsifal. In his startling debut novel, Ian Fleming scholar and screenwriter of upcoming movie Fleming Damian Stevenson has crafted the ultimate origin story for one of popular culture's most beloved icons. |
Stone, Lee | Free Fish Friday | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. Slacker Mills Mysteries book 1. Slacker, a vagabond fisherman extraordinaire, had found his personal paradise in Key West, Florida.. With his trophies covering the walls of the Rusty Hook tavern, and his fresh catch comprising the free Friday menu there, he was respected as a local hero. In the rum-gilded view of vacationing ladies, he also enjoyed billing as the "Catch of the Night." |
Stout, Rex | Nero Wolf Series | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: BookBub.com.
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Straley, John | Cold Storage, Alaska | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. $2.14 Kindle book. Cold Storage, Alaska, is a remote fishing outpost where salmonberries sparkle in the morning frost and where you just might catch a King Salmon if you're zen enough to wait for it. Settled in 1935 by Norse fishermen who liked to skinny dip in its natural hot springs, the town enjoyed prosperity at the height of the frozen fish boom. But now the cold storage plant is all but abandoned and the town is withering. |
Straley, John | The Woman Who Married a Bear | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Hapless, hard-drinking PI Cecil must get to the complicated truth behind the murder of a Tlingit hunting guide in small-town Alaska. Great characters, a highly unusual plot, and remarkably good writing. |
Stringer, Jay | Ways to Die in Glasgow | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. $2.14 Kindle book. "smart, vicious and properly laugh out loud funny." A violent drunk with a broken heart, Mackie looks for love in all the wrong places. When two hit men catch him with his pants down, he barely makes it out alive. Worse still, his ex-gangster uncle, Rab, has vanished, leaving him an empty house and a dead dog. |
Sutton, Sarah | One Last Step | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Free Kindle book. When hikers along the Appalachian Trail are targeted by a ruthless serial killer, FBI rookie Tara Mills and seasoned agent Frank Warren must work together to outwit a devious foe. |
Swank, Denise Grover | Twenty-Eight and a Half Wishes | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle book. Rose Gardner Mystery, Book 1. The first book of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling series! Rose realizes she's wasted twenty-four years of living and makes a list on the back of a Wal-Mart receipt: twenty-eight things she wants to accomplish before her vision comes true. She's well on her way with the help of her next door neighbor Joe, who has no trouble teaching Rose the rules of drinking, but won't help with number fifteen-- do more with a man. Joe's new to town, but it doesn't take a vision for Rose to realize he's got plenty secrets of his own. |
Tamblyn, Amber | Any Man | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. Amber Tamblyn from Joan of Arcadia and Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. "Explosive and innovative" work follows Maude, a dangerous predator, and the victims she leaves in her wake. A chilling portrait of terror and survival. |
Temple, Peter | The Broken Shore | Crime/Mystery | Little known in the US but a major award winner Down Under, Temple writes mostly about Melbourne. |
Thoft, Ingrid | Loyalty | Crime/Mystery | PI Fina Ludlow, daughter of a famous Boston personal injury lawyer, is equally at home on construction sites and in four-star restaurants. |
Thompson, Michaela | Huricane Season | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. $.99 Kindle book. The 1950s fairly leap off the page in this classic cozy mystery set in northern Florida in the Eisenhower era, complete with Johnny Ray on the jukebox and a Womanless Wedding--this one interrupted by an explosion at a moonshine still. |
Todd, Charles | A Lonely Death | Crime/Mystery | Scotland Yard inspector Ian Rutledge - investigating the deaths of WWI vets in his 13th outing - is himself a former soldier who carries scars. |
Tracy, P.J. | Dead Run | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. Monkeewrench Mysteries Book 3. Tart, engaging mystery featuring the Monkeewrench Gang, oddball software designers-turned-crime fighters. |
Tracy, P.J. | Live Bait | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. $2.15 Kindle book. Monkeewrench Mysteries Book 2. Written by mother and daughter team. Minnesota detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth are stuck working cold cases in the hottest April on record. Zingy dialogue and emotional heft. This mix of high tech and street-smart police work makes an enticing catch. |
Tracy, P.J. | Various - Monkeewrench Mysteries Series | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. Mother-Daughter writing team from Minnesota.
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Treby, Jack | The Scandal at Bletchley | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. "I've been a scoundrel, a thief, a blackmailer and a whore, but never a murderer. Until now..." The year is 1929. As the world teeters on the brink of a global recession, Bletchley Park plays host to a rather special event. MI5 is celebrating its twentieth anniversary and a select band of former and current employees are gathering at the private estate for a weekend of music, dance and heavy drinking. Among them is Sir Hilary Manningham-Butler, a middle aged woman whose entire adult life has been spent masquerading as a man. She doesn't know why she has been invited – it is many years since she left the secret service – but it is clear she is not the only one with things to hide. And when one of the other guests threatens to expose her secret, the consequences could prove disastrous for everyone. |
Tuomainen, Antti | Little Siberia | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. $1.07 Kindle book. ‘Finnish criminal chucklemeister Tuomainen is channelling Carl Hiaasen in this hilarious novel'. A man with dark thoughts on his mind is racing along the remote snowy roads of Hurmevaara in Finland, when there is flash in the sky and something crashes into the car. That something turns about to be a highly valuable meteorite. With euro signs lighting up the eyes of the locals, the unexpected treasure is temporarily placed in a neighbourhood museum, under the watchful eye of a priest named Joel. |
Tuomainen, Antti | Palm Beach, Finland | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: BookBub.com. From "the funniest writer in Europe". Things get hilariously messy as undercover detective Jan Nyman investigates a murder at a bizarre beach resort in a sleepy Finnish town. An inspired meld of crime and dark comedy. |
Turner, J. B. | Miami Requiem | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. Deborah Jones Thriller Series book 1. Since her first day on the Miami Herald, rookie reporter Deborah Jones has been agitating for a shot at one particular story. William Craig is on Death Row, convicted of killing Senator Jack O'Neill's only son. There is no question of his guilt. Craig murdered the young man who was acquitted of raping his granddaughter. |
Twelve Hawks, John | The Traveler | Crime/Mystery | This technothriller offers chilling scenarios about the future of privacy. The final third feels thin, but you won't want to put the book down. |
Valdés, Alisa Lynn | Hollow Beasts | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Amazon.com. $0.00 Free with Amazon Prime First Reads March 2023. Jodi Luna Book 1. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Dirty Girls Social Club comes a wilderness thriller featuring Jodi Luna, a rookie game warden who takes on a terrorist group in rugged New Mexico. |
Vandroux, Jacques | Heart Collector | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. Finding murderers is just a day on the job for police captain Nadia Barka. But when a mutilated corpse is discovered in an old baptistery, she's faced with some difficult questions: Who left a young woman's body in a high-security museum in the middle of the night? And where is the victim's heart? |
Walsh, M. O. | My Sunshine Away | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. "A tantalizing mystery and a tender coming-of-age story...Unputdownable."--Oprah.com. In the summer of 1989, a Baton Rouge neighborhood best known for cookouts on sweltering summer afternoons, cauldrons of spicy crawfish, and passionate football fandom is rocked by a violent crime when fifteen-year-old Lindy Simpson--free spirit, track star, and belle of the block--is attacked late one evening near her home. |
Wambaugh, Joseph | Finnegan's Week | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: BookBub.com. When a botched vehicle theft escalates into a deadly emergency, San Diego police detective Fin Finnegan plunges into a wild search for the culprits. A witty police procedural, superbly crafted and paced. Wambaugh at his cleverest. |
Wambaugh, Joseph | Hollywood Moon | Crime/Mystery | The heart of the story comes from the vignettes of life on patrol among the cast of the station cops, including Hollywood Nate Weiss, the actor turned cop; Weiss's beautiful partner, Dana Vaughn; and the surfer duo, Flotsam and Jetsam, who at one point engage in a hilarious, extended dialogue of surfer-speak straight off the waves at Zuma. Spare and punchy prose fuels descriptions so on target that readers will feel they are riding shotgun, gazing out on Tinseltown's tawdry landscape. |
Warner, Ann | The Babbling Brook Naked Poker Club | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. In Book One of this cozy mystery series, a morose parrot with a reputation for biting sums up Brookside Retirement Community for reluctant resident, Josephine Bartlett. But when Brookside turns out to be a setting for art theft, dodgy dealings, and naked poker it becomes vastly more interesting. Josephine investigates the unusual goings on with friend and handwriting expert, Lill Fitzel. And the two befriend a young woman Josephine tries to prevent from making the same mistakes she has made. |
Waters, Sarah | The Little Stranger | Crime/Mystery | By the author of Tipping the Velvet. Terrifying, engrossing ghost story set in the English countryside not long after WWII. Recommended by Stephen King. |
Watson, S. J. | Before I Go to Sleep | Crime/Mystery | Nicole Kidman movie? She wakes up every morning with no memory of who she is. |
Wendeberg, Annelie | Moriarty: Anna Kronberg Thriller | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. $1.07 Kindle book. Europe, late 19th century. Antibiotics have yet to be invented, and germs take a death toll that lets the number of murders appear negligible. But when a cholera victim is found floating in one of London's drinking water supplies, Dr Anton Kronberg - England's best bacteriologist - is called upon to investigate. He crosses paths with Sherlock Holmes. The detective immediately discovers Kronberg's secret -- a woman masquerading as a man in order to practice medicine -- a criminal deed that could land her in prison for years to come. |
Westlake, Donald E | Murder Among Children | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. $1.61 Kindle book. Mitch Tobin series book 1. When some West Village hippie kids get mixed up with the mob, the results are murder--and ex-cop Mitch Tobin tries to clean up the mess. On the outskirts of Greenwich Village, among a wasteland of warehouses and tenements, a group of young people are opening a coffee shop. They are idealistic, giddy, and beautiful--the picture of 1960s youth--but their optimism cannot last. When a corrupt detective comes around demanding regular bribes, one of the young hippies, Robin Kennely, asks for help from a distant relative, the honest but fallen former cop Mitchell Tobin. When Tobin visits the coffee shop for the first time, he finds Robin in a state of shock, clutching a knife and covered in blood. Two corpses lie upstairs. It seems impossible that anyone but Robin could have killed them, but for the sake of a group of children whose lives are so much brighter than his own, Tobin attempts to prove otherwise. |
Westlake, Donald E. | Baby, Would I Lie | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. $2.15 Kindle book. Having endured the seedy world of tabloid journalism at the Weekly Galaxy, ambitious reporter Sara Joslyn has finally moved on to Trend, a hip New York magazine. But news is news, and Sara is immediately sent to Branson, Missouri, the capital of wholesome entertainment, to cover a sensational celebrity trial. Embattled country music legend Ray Jones is accused of a brutal kidnapping and killing. Making--and mucking--matters worse, Sara's sleazy former colleagues from the Weekly Galaxy have also infested the town. |
Westlake, Donald E. | Call Me a Cab | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. $2.15 Kindle book. Written in 1977, published in 2022. Fans of mystery fiction have often pondered whether it would be possible to write a suspense novel without any crime at all, and in CALL ME A CAB the masterful Donald E. Westlake answered the question in his inimitable style. You won't find any crime in these pages – but what you will find is a wonderful suspense story, about a New York City taxi driver hired to drive a beautiful woman all the way across America, from Manhattan to Los Angeles, where the biggest decision of her life is waiting to be made. From Pennsylvania to Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Utah, Arizona and Nevada on the way to California, the characters' odyssey takes them through uncharted territory – on the map and in their lives. |
Westlake, Donald E. | High Adventure | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. $2.15 Kindle book. Kirby Galway may be a low-level marijuana smuggler in Belize, but the man has a dream--to make lots and lots of money. So when a local official offers him a back-jungle tract of land he swears would make a perfect cattle ranch, Kirby jumps at the opportunity. Unfortunately, he lands himself in a swamp--that he now owns. |
Westlake, Donald E. | Kahawa | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. $2.99 Kindle book. Tax not included - multiple purchases on order and I couldn't figure out the tax for each individual item. In Uganda in 1977, a particular trainload of coffee, mostly belonging to dictator Idi Amin, is worth six million dollars. As a group of scoundrels and international financiers hijack the train, the double and triple crosses pile up and the comic tension escalates in a brawling brew of buffoons, bumblers, beans and boxcars. |
Westlake, Donald E. | Memory | Crime/Mystery | Written in the 1960s, but never published until now. Paul Cole suffers from partial amnesia - his past is just beyond the reach of his mind. Memory is terse and bleak and low-key emotional and as indelible as Westlake's other books. |
Westlake, Donald E. | Smoke | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. $2.15 Kindle book. Due to a foiled burglary in a high-tech lab doing research for cigarette manufacturers, Freddie Noon, the thief, is now invisible. This condition has clear-cut advantages for a man in Freddie's profession, but now everybody wants a glimpse of Freddie. But Freddie doesn't dare show his face, his shadow, anything. Because Freddie Noon has gotten a taste of invisibility--and he can't quit now. |
Westlake, Donald E. | Trust Me on This | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. $2.15 Kindle book. Sara Joslyn is fresh from journalism school and ready to take on the world. Unfortunately, she has to settle for the galaxy--the Weekly Galaxy, to be precise, the sensational gossip rag where no low is too low, and no story is too outlandish to print. From finding a dead body in a car before she even finds her desk to making her bones by interviewing a pair of one-hundred-year-old twins (never mind that one of them is dead) and jockeying for brownie points against a crew of ruthless fellow reporters who will do literally anything to make the front page, Sara soon learns the ropes--how to climb them, and how to use them to strangle the competition. |
Westlake, Donald E. | Various - Dortmunder Series | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. Note: Highlighted Items are those I still would like to purchase as a Kindle eBook.
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Westlake, Donald E. | Write under these other names... | Crime/Mystery | Westlake wrote more than 100 books. He used his own name and several pseudonyms, including Richard Stark, Tucker Coe, Samuel Holt and Edwin West. I am so sad to hear that Donald E. Westlake died December 31st, 2008. |
Westlake, Donald E. and Abby Westlake | High Jinx | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. Bought on eBay 6/27/2022 for $10.42. High Jinx is a putting into print version of one of the programs of a successful hotel (Mohonk Mountain House) mystery role playing weekend run by Donald E Westlake and his wife Abby. The book provides an intro into the Mohonk hotel, the popularity of this weekend and boasts how it is always booked solid and has repeat visitation, has attracted guests such as top authors Stephen King, David Morrell and the like and gives other information along this line. A narration starts of this murder and the following chapters are speeches given from all the characters telling you how they came to be at Hotel Kluckkuckuhr in Switzerland in 1938. Some are spies, some are refugees who have escaped Nazi Germany, some are business men, some are old, some are young, some own the hotel, most know at least one other character and some have even confessed to the murder you the reader must solve. There's also a few photographs of the weekend and one of each of the characters (although this is a 1987 published book and the quality of photographs in print is not anything like what it is today). The book is also fairly short, you'll finish it in an hour, two if you take your time. You also don't want to have to put this down before you finish it as you sort of need to remember everything to solve the murder (which isn't that hard either I might add). |
Westlake, Donald E. and Abby Westlake | Transylvania Station | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. Bought on eBay 6/27/2022 for $6.02. Relates the story behind one of the staged "murders" of the Mohonk Mountain House and provides plot details, suspects, and a solution to the mystery. |
Westlake, Donald E. as Richard Stark | Breakout | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. $1.07 Kindle book. Parker series book 21. With Parker locked up and about to be unmasked, Breakout follows his Houdini-like escape from prison with a team of convicts. But when a new heist and new dangers--con artists, snitches, busybodies, eccentrics, and cops--loom among the dark alleys and old stone buildings of the big city to which they've fled, Parker soon learns that not all prisons have bars. |
Westlake, Donald E. as Richard Stark | The Alan Grofield novels... | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author.
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Westlake, Donald E. as Richard Stark | Various - Parker Series | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author.
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Westlake, Donald E. as Samuel Holt | Various - Donald E. Westlake as Samuel Holt | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author.
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Westlake, Donald E. as Tucker Coe | A Jade in Aries | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. $2.15 Kindle book. The Mitchell Tobin Mysteries Book 4. A desperate man is trying to find his partner's killer by means of astrology, and resist as he may, ex-cop Mitch Tobin is destined to help him do it. Disgraced ex-cop Mitch Tobin is digging in his basement when he meets Ronald Cornell. A gay man from downtown Brooklyn whose partner was recently murdered, Cornell wants Tobin's assistance in an investigation that the NYPD has declared hopeless. Tobin sympathizes--he once lost a partner of his own, a fellow cop whose death he was partially responsible for--and asks how he can help. Cornell has a list of six suspects, and all he needs to know about them is where they were born and at what time, so he can make their star charts. Tobin has just met the world's first astrological detective. |
Westlake, Donald E. as Tucker Coe | Don't Lie To Me | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. $3.23 Kindle book. Mitch Tobin series book 5. Working night security at a museum, ex-cop Mitchell Tobin finds a naked corpse on display in this crime novel by the Edgar Award–winning author. When he first met Linda Campbell, Mitchell Tobin was nothing more to her than the man who had put her husband in jail. It took over a year for them to begin their affair, but once it started, it became intense--lasting right up to the day when Tobin shirked duty to see her, and his partner got killed as a result. Years later, on a penny-ante night security job, Tobin is doing his rounds when Linda comes to ask a favor. Out of prison and hoping to go straight, her husband is having trouble escaping his old cronies. Tobin has just agreed to try to help when they come upon a corpse, lying naked on the floor. |
Westlake, Donald E. as Tucker Coe | Wax Apple | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. $2.15 Kindle book. The Mitchell Tobin Mysteries Book 3. At a mental institution, Mitch Tobin searches for a patient with a violent sense of humor Mitch Tobin is about to be committed. Since his abrupt dismissal from the NYPD, Tobin's nerves have been frayed, and if it wasn't for his work as a private detective, he might well be in need of actual psychiatric care. But during his stay at the Midway, a halfway house for those recovering from mental illness, he'll only be impersonating a patient while trying to uncover the identity of a particularly dangerous prankster.Four booby traps have been set on the grounds of this stately old institution, each one more dangerous than the last. Tobin has only just checked in when he finds trap number five: a tripwire that sends him tumbling down the stairs, snapping his arm. This prankster is not playing around. Tobin will be lucky to leave the Midway with his life intact; hanging onto his sanity may prove even tougher. |
Westlake, Donald E. writing as Judson Jack Carmichael | The Scared Stiff Donald E. Westlake Purchased: | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. $2.15 Kindle book. After more than a decade of skipping out on their debts, Lola and Barry owe a lot of money to the wrong people. To escape the loan sharks, Barry decides it's time for one of them to die--or at least to pretend to. As the venue for this insurance fraud, they choose Lola's home country, Guerrera, where death certificates come cheap and government record-keeping is sketchy at best. There is only one problem: la familia. |
Weston, Carolyn | Poor Poor Ophelia | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. Krug and Kellog thriller book 1. It's the turbulent 1970s, a time of social upheaval. The generation gap has never seemed so wide and perilous, especially for veteran Santa Monica homicide detective Al Krug and his new partner, university-educated ex-surfer Casey Kellog, the youngest detective on the force. A woman's corpse is found floating in the bay with a law firm's business card, sealed in plastic, strung around her neck. Krug and Kellog have to solve the bizarre and gruesome murder… if they don't kill each other first. |
Whitehouse, Lucie | Before We Met | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. $1.99 Kindle book. When Mark does not return from a business trip to the States and when the hours of waiting for him stretch into days, the foundations of Hannah's certainty begins to crack. Why do Mark's colleagues believe he has gone to Paris not America? Why is there no record of him at his hotel? And who is the mysterious woman who has been telephoning him over the last few weeks? |
Whittle, Tina | The Dangerous Edge of Things | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. Tai Randolph series book 1. Tai Randolph is still adjusting to a newly inherited Confederate-themed gun shop when she gets a big shock: a murdered corpse in her brother's driveway. |
Winspear, Jacqueline | Maisie Dobbs | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. The first entry in an iconic mystery series. In 1929, Maisie Dobbd works as a P.I. while coming to terms with her experiences as a nurse during the Great War. Lee Childs is a "huge fan". |
Winspear, Jacqueline | Various - Maisie Dobbs series | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: BookBub.com. "I'm a huge Maisie Dobbs fan" - Lee Child
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Winters, Ben H. | Various - The Last Policeman Series | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. Edgar award winner. It follows a police detective in New Hampshire as he investigates a suicide he believes was really a murder. His efforts are complicated by the social, political and economic effects of preparations for, and anticipation of, an asteroid impact six months in the future. Winters describes the work as an "existential detective novel", turning on the question of why people do things in spite of their long-term unimportance.
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Winters, Jill | The Unspinnable Big Clock Scandal | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. $1.99 Kindle book. |
Woods, Roslyn | Romancing the Brush | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. An Austin, Texas Art Mystery Michelle Hodge Series book 3. Thirty-year-old Shell Hodge seems to have it all: a great life with Dean, the man of her dreams, and an art career that is taking off. But when one of the partners in her gallery is murdered, Shell's life goes into a tailspin. She is thrown into a fearful state as memories of her parents' deaths surface, and she finds herself worrying about her relationship with Dean while she puzzles over the murder. |
Woods, Stuart | The Short Forever | Crime/Mystery | Crime mystery in upper-crust London. |
Woods, T.E. | The Unforgivable Fix | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. The Justice Series book 3. Detective Mort Grant of the Seattle PD has finally decided to sell. The home where he and his late wife raised two kids feels too large and too full of old memories. His son is married and raising a family of his own, and despite desperate efforts to find her, Mort has lost touch with his wayward daughter. That is, until the day she walks back into her childhood home and begs for his help. |
Wyer, Carol | An Eye for an Eye | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Amazon.com. Free Kindle book. Free for Amazon's "World Book Day". There are a coupla other books in the series. A killer running rings around the police. A detective spiralling out of control. DI Kate Young is on leave. She's the force's best detective, but her bosses know she's under pressure, on medication and overcoming trauma. So after her bad judgement call leads to a narrowly averted public disaster, they're sure all she needs is a rest. But when Staffordshire Police summon her back to work on a murder case, it's a harder, more suspicious Kate Young who returns. With a new ruthlessness, she sets about tracking down a clinical, calculating serial killer who is torturing victims and leaving clues to taunt the police. Spurred on by her reporter husband, Young begins to suspect that the murderer might be closer than she ever imagined. |
Zafiro, Frank and Colin Conway | Some Degree of Murder | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. A young woman has been murdered in River City. Police Detective John Tower is assigned to the case but there are few clues to go on. As he digs into the case, he's soon picking up hints that this murder may not be the killer's first ... or his last. |
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Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame | Friday Black | Essays | Suggested By: People Mag. This debut collection shines a laser-sharp light on the experience of being black in today's America. African American. |
Apatow, Judd | Sick in the Head | Essays | Suggested By: Author. $2.14 Kindle book. Conversations about life and comedy. |
Baldwin, James | Notes of a Native Son | Essays | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Notes is the book that established Baldwin's voice as a social critic, and it remains one of his most admired works. The essays collected here create a cohesive sketch of black America and reveal an intimate portrait of Baldwin's own search for identity as an artist, as a black man, and as an American. |
Baldwin, James | The Price of the Ticket | Essays | Suggested By: Movie/TV. Collected Nonfiction 1948-1985. With truth and insight, these personal, prophetic works speak to the heart of the experience of race and identity in the United States. |
Bambara, Toni Cade | The Black Woman | Essays | Suggested By: BookBub.com. A groundbreaking collection of stories, poems, and essays from celebrated Black female artists and activists such as Alice Walker and Audre Lorde. Each of these moving pieces explores the effects of racial and gender inequality on their lives - and resonates with powerful insight. |
Bangs, Lester | Psychotic Reactions and Carbureator Dung | Essays | Lester Bangs was mythologized in 'Almost Famous'. The critic, who died at 34 of a drug overdose, wrote like Janis Joplin sang [what?]. Book is dated, but fun. |
Barron, Sara | The Harm in Asking | Essays | Sara Barron is constantly amused and baffled by her painfully awkward interactions with other people. |
Bender, Aimee and Various Others Edited by Joe Fassler | Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process | Essays | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. $2.15 Kindle book. Couldn't find it at the library, so I bought it to read the Aimee Bender essay. A stunning masterclass on the creative process, the craft of writing, and the art of finding inspiration from Stephen King, Elizabeth Gilbert, Amy Tan, Khaled Hosseini, Roxane Gay, Neil Gaiman, and more of the most acclaimed writers at work today |
Benjamin, Walter | Illuminations | Essays | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Walter Benjamin transformed the study of culture with his insights on literature, art, philosophy, and history. This dazzling collection features many of the essays that cemented his legacy as an essential modern thinker. |
Berg, Elizabeth | Make Someone Happy | Essays | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. This is a collection of favorite blog entries and postings. |
Berg, Elizabeth | Various - The Happy Series | Essays | Suggested By: Author. Compilations of Facebook posts.
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Berry, Wendell | The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry | Essays | Suggested By: Other. Recommended by Nick Offerman (the actor). The writings gathered in The World-Ending Fire are the unique product of a life spent farming the fields of rural Kentucky with mules and horses, and of the rich, intimate knowledge of the land cultivated by this work. These are essays written in defiance of the false call to progress and in defense of local landscapes, essays that celebrate our cultural heritage, our history, and our home. With grace and conviction, Wendell Berry shows that we simply cannot afford to succumb to the mass-produced madness that drives our global economy--the natural world will not allow it. |
Bodett, Tom | As Far As You Can Go Without A Passport | Essays | A collection of short, witty pieces on small-town life, family life and everyday experiences in Homer, Alaska. He's got other stuff too - check it out. |
Bryson, Bill | The Mother Tongue | Essays | ?? |
Cahill, Tim | Pecked To Death by Ducks | Essays | Grand tour of the earth's remote, exotic, and dismal places. Vivid, nerve-wracking, and outrageously funny. |
Carver, Raymond | Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories | Essays | Suggested By: BookBub.com. More than sixty stories, poems, and essays are included in this wide-ranging collection by the extravagantly versatile Raymond Carver. Two of the stories--later revised for What We Talk About When We Talk About Love--are particularly notable in that between the first and the final versions, we see clearly the astounding process of Carver's literary development. |
Casey, Nell (editor) | An Uncertain Inheritance | Essays | Essays about caring for gravely ill parents, partners, and even children. |
Christina, Greta | Comforting Thoughts About Death That Have Nothing to Do with God | Essays | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. If you don't believe in God or an afterlife -- how do you cope with death? Accepting death is never easy. But we don't need religion to find peace, comfort, and solace in the face of death. In this mini-book collection of essays, prominent atheist author Greta Christina offers secular ways to handle your own mortality and the death of those you love. |
Clark, Mary Marshall etc | After the Fall | Essays | New Yorkers remember the assault on their city and the difficult years of healing that followed. |
Coblentz, Elizabeth with Kevin Williams | The Amish Cook | Essays | A collection of newspaper column: recollections and recipes from an old order Amish family. Lived without electricity but wanted for nothing. |
Cole, Teju | Known and Strange Things | Essays | Suggested By: BookBub.com. With this collection of more than fifty pieces on politics, photography, travel, history, and literature, Teju Cole solidifies his place as one of today's most powerful and original voices. On page after page, deploying prose dense with beauty and ideas, he finds fresh and potent ways to interpret art, people, and historical moments, taking in subjects from Virginia Woolf, Shakespeare, and W. G. Sebald to Instagram, Barack Obama, and Boko Haram. Cole brings us new considerations of James Baldwin in the age of Black Lives Matter; the African American photographer Roy DeCarava, who, forced to shoot with film calibrated exclusively for white skin tones, found his way to a startling and true depiction of black subjects; and (in an essay that inspired both praise and pushback when it first appeared) the White Savior Industrial Complex, the system by which African nations are sentimentally aided by an America "developed on pillage." |
Collected Authors | Conversations in Black | Essays | Suggested By: BookBub.com. In this thought-provoking read, Stacy Abrams, D.L. Hughley, and other prominent Black voices discuss everything from Hollywood stereotypes to live after the Obama presidency. Refreshing and illuminating, sure to spark lively and constructive discussion. |
Collected Authors | What I Know Now | Essays | Suggested By: BookBub.com. In this moving collection, forty-one famous women write letters to the women they once were, filled with advice and insights they wish they had had when they were younger. |
Costello, Stephen | My Father Never Took Me to a Baseball Game | Essays | Suggested By: Other. $.99 Kindle book. |
Crosley, Sloane | Look Alive Out There | Essays | Suggested By: People Mag. The most personal stories, about waning fertility and Crosley's feud with a teenage neighbor, are true masterpieces. |
Daum, Ann | The Prairie In Her Eyes | Essays | Ann Daum grew up on a ranch in one of the Dakotas and write stories about growing up there, and coming back. |
Daum, Meghan | The Unspeakable | Essays | Laser-sharp essays. Experiences too often come with preassigned emotional responses, like having kids or college. Contrarians rejoice. |
Daum, Meghan (Editor) | Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed | Essays | Suggested By: People Mag. Sixteen writers explain the provocative and profound choice not to have kids. |
David, Cazzie | No One Asked For This | Essays | Suggested By: People Mag. Cazzie David is a negative, anxious person - or as she puts it, "I'm pretty sure people sage their homes after I leave." David (daughter of Larry, and boy does she have his DNA) will make you bark with laughter in these essays about family, relationships and the perils of social media. |
De Havilland, Olivia | Every Frenchman Has One | Essays | Suggested By: Entertainment Weekly Mag. Delightfully witty collection of essays about living in Paris after marrying a French citizen. |
Didion, Joan | The White Album | Essays | Suggested By: BookBub.com. This bestselling collection from a literary giant captures the contradictory culture of the late '60s and '70s with clarity and wit. |
Ebert, Roger | Awake in the Dark | Essays | The Chicago-based movie critic collects 38 years of reviews, essays, interviews, and profiles into this one volume. |
Editors of 'The Bark' | My Dog is My Co-Pilot | Essays | Great writers on the world's oldest friendship. |
Edlow, Jonathan A. | The Deadly Dinner Party | Essays | Doctors must often become sleuths, as Edlow makes clear in these 15 true-life medical detective stories. |
Eggers, Dave et al | Created in Darkness By Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeney's Humor Category | Essays | Quirky anthology of satirical writing. |
Ephron, Nora | Crazy Salad & Scribble Scribble | Essays | Suggested By: Author. 1970s essay collections, reissued. Two classic collections of Nora Ephron's uproarious essays--tackling everything from feminism to the media, from politics to beauty products, with her inimitable charm and distinctive wit--now available in one book for the first time. |
Epstein, Lea Odze and Caren Osten Gerszberg | Drinking Diaries | Essays | Women authors share their thoughts on the role alcohol plays in their lives. |
Esquivel, Laura | Between Two Fires: Intimate Writings on Life, Love, Food and Flavor | Essays | Suggested By: BookBub.com. From the author of Like Water for Chocolate comes a richly layered collection of stories, essays, and recipes that delves into affairs of the heart, the spirit, and, of course, the stomach. In this fully illustrated book of musings and memories, beloved novelist Laura Esquivel reflects on the powerful relationships that shape us and the central role of food in them all. With imagination, intimacy, and wry humor, she offers up a banquet of vivid writings and mouthwatering recipes. |
Favro, Terri | Generation Robot: A Century of Science Fiction, Fact, and Speculation | Essays | Suggested By: Amazon.com. Free Kindle book. Clever and accessible, Generation Robot isn't just for the serious, scientific reader--it's for everyone interested in robotics and technology since their science-fiction origins. By looking back at the future she once imagined, analyzing the plugged-in present, and speculating on what is on the horizon, Terri Favro allows readers the chance to consider what was, what is, and what could be. This is a captivating book that looks at the pop-culture of our society to explain how the world works--now and tomorrow. |
Ferrari-Adler, Jenni | Alone in the Kitchen With An Eggplant | Essays | Cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest. Devouring the entire book will feel like eating Thanksgiving dinner and all the leftovers at once - but sampling one essay at a time is a treat. |
Ferriss, Timothy | Tribe of Mentors | Essays | Suggested By: BookBub.com. $4.30 Kindle book. Waiting list for this was over 100 people at the library. A compilation of tools, tactics, and habits from 130+ of the world's top performers. From iconic entrepreneurs to elite athletes, from artists to billionaire investors, their short profiles can help you answer life's most challenging questions, achieve extraordinary results, and transform your life. |
Fey, Tina | Bossypants | Essays | Genially jumbled memoir-esque collection of riffs, essays, laundry lists, true stories, fantasy scenarios, SNL script excerpts, embarrassing photos, and more. |
Fisher, Carrie | The Princess Diarist | Essays | Suggested By: People Mag. Collection of inter-connected auto-biographical essays focusing primarily on the making of the first Star Wars movie. |
Fisher, Mary Frances Kennedy (aka M.F.K. Fisher) | The Art of Eating: 50th Anniversary Edition | Essays | Suggested By: BookBub.com. $2.15 Kindle book. Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher (July 3, 1908 – June 22, 1992) was an American food writer. She was a founder of the Napa Valley Wine Library. Over her lifetime she wrote 27 books. This comprehensive volume of essays on culinary and other pleasures of life comes from the legendary and widely traveled writer "whose artful personal essays about food created a genre" (The New York Times) and who writes "practically, often profoundly, and always beautifully" (San Francisco Chronicle). Spanning from the autobiographical to the historical, it compiles her works Serve It Forth; Consider the Oyster; How to Cook a Wolf; The Gastronomical Me; and An Alphabet for Gourmets. Print Length 1058 pages. |
Gibson, Graeme | The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany | Essays | Lushly illustrated, this sweeping compilation of avian writing will capture the imagination of any literary bird-lover. Or it could be mind-numblingly pretentious. Found in the Bas Bleu catalog. |
Gibson, William | Distrust That Particular Flavor | Essays | Suggested By: Friend. Available as eBook from HCL. Recommended by Landon D. As seen at Dollar Tree. Recommended by Matthew Amster-Burton for the coupla short stories about Tokyo. These articles and essays cover thirty years of thoughtful, observant life, and are reported in the wry, humane voice that lovers of Gibson have come to crave. |
Gottlieb, Robert | Near-Death Experiences . . . and Others | Essays | Suggested By: Other. This new collection from the legendary editor Robert Gottlieb features twenty or so pieces he's written mostly for The New York Review of Books, ranging from reconsiderations of American writers such as Dorothy Parker, Thornton Wilder, Thomas Wolfe ("genius"), and James Jones, to Leonard Bernstein, Lorenz Hart, Lady Diana Cooper ("the most beautiful girl in the world"), the actor-assassin John Wilkes Booth, the scandalous movie star Mary Astor, and not-yet president Donald Trump. |
Graham, Lauren | Talking As Fast as I Can | Essays | Suggested By: Entertainment Weekly Mag. From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (and Everything in Between). Collection of personal essays. |
Greer, Judy | I Don't Know What You Know Me From | Essays | Kind of famous "How do I know you?" Essays on everything from her mom the (former) nun to her inability to ditch a mortifying vanity plate because her dad made it. |
Gurwitch, Annabelle | Fired! | Essays | Celebs including Tim Allen offer true tales of being axed. Woody Allen canning Gurwitch: "You look retarded." |
Hall, Megan Kelley and Carrie Jones | Dear Bully | Essays | 70 authors - some victims, some perpetrators, some observers - share their experiences with bullying. |
Halpern, Daniel (Editor) | Who’s Writing This? | Essays | Behind every author’s words, there’s a private self few ever see. Fifty well-known writers including James Michener, Joyce Carol Oates, and Margaret Atwood reflect on this duality in an enchanting treasury of literary meditations — sometimes moving, sometimes “delightfully silly”. |
Halpern, Justin | I Suck at Girls | Essays | Suggested By: BookBub.com. From the #1 New York Times bestseller author of Sh*t My Dad Says, Justin Halpern, comes a laugh-out-loud funny and deeply touching collection of personal stories about relationships with the opposite sex, from a first kiss to getting engaged and all the awkward moments in between. With Sh*t My Dad Says, Halpern brought his brand of talented comedic writing to the world. Now, with this equally poignant, hilarious, and provocative memoir, he establishes himself as one of popular writing's great humorists among the likes of David Sedaris, Sarah Vowell, and David Rakoff. Fans of biting, honor-infused memoirs such as Me Talk Pretty One Day and Assassination Vacation will find Halpern's I Suck at Girls an unforgettable journey into the best and worst moments of one man's adventures in romance. |
Harkins, Anthony (Editor) and Meredith McCarroll (Editor) | Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy | Essays | Suggested By: Other. Appalachian Reckoning is a retort, at turns rigorous, critical, angry, and hopeful, to the long shadow Hillbilly Elegy has cast over the region and its imagining. But it also moves beyond Hillbilly Elegy to allow Appalachians from varied backgrounds to tell their own diverse and complex stories through an imaginative blend of scholarship, prose, poetry, and photography. The essays and creative work collected in Appalachian Reckoning provide a deeply personal portrait of a place that is at once culturally rich and economically distressed, unique and typically American. Complicating simplistic visions that associate the region almost exclusively with death and decay, Appalachian Reckoning makes clear Appalachia's intellectual vitality, spiritual richness, and progressive possibilities. |
Havrilesky, Heather | How to Be a Person in the World | Essays | Suggested By: Entertainment Weekly Mag. "Ask Polly" advice columns. |
Havrilesky, Heather | What If This Were Enough? | Essays | Suggested By: People Mag. Wise, wry essays on the false promise of self-help, the emptiness of materialism and the beauty of the "imperfect moment". |
Hiaasen, Carl | Kick Ass | Essays | Suggested By: Author. Collection of newspaper columns on how weird is FL. |
Hood, Ann | Knitting Yarns | Essays | Anthology about knitting, including essays from Sue Grafton, Barbara Kingsolver, and other authors. |
Hornby, Nick | Songbook | Essays | Suggested By: Author. Collection of music-as-metaphor essays. Hopefully not as tedious as the soccer/football book. |
Hornby, Nick | The Polysyllabic Spree | Essays | Suggested By: Author. A year's worth of monthly columns. |
Hughett, Harvey | Missing Appalachia: Whimsical Observations | Essays | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. $0.00 Kindle book. This is a compilation of true, often humorous stories and serious observations about the lives and customs of Appalachians from the old days to modern times. Topics include mountain customs and traditions with forays into herbal remedies, moonshining, religion and language, along with the difficulties of being absorbed into cultures outside of the hills. |
Hughett, Harvey | Musing Appalachia | Essays | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. $0.00 Kindle book. Whimsical observations about hillbillies as they deal with old traditions on a changing world. |
Janetti, Gary | Do You Mind If I Cancel? | Essays | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Gary Janetti, the writer and producer for some of the most popular television comedies of all time, and creator of one of the most wickedly funny Instagram accounts there is, now turns his skills to the page in a hilarious, and poignant book chronicling the pains and indignities of everyday life. |
Johns, Bud | Old Dogs Remembered | Essays | Moving and sometimes funny anthology of essays and poems by other people commemorating dead dogs. |
Kapranos, Alex | Sound Bites: Eating on Tour with Franz Ferdinand | Essays | Food essays. Reviews? Whatever. He sounded interesting on the radios and the reviews seem to be decent. He really liked the word, "prose". |
Karbo, Karen | In Praise of Difficult Women | Essays | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Be inspired by this homage to 29 iconic women who broke the rules and lived life on their own terms. From Amelia Earhart to Shonda Rhimes, these "refreshingly frank" portraits (Kirkus Reviews) of extraordinary women are fascinating and illuminating! |
Katz, Jon | Dancing Dogs | Essays | Sixteen funny keenly observed short stories illuminating the bond between man and his best friend. |
Keegan, Marina | The Opposite of Loneliness | Essays | Suggested By: Unknown. Available as library eBook. Marina Keegan's star was on the rise when she graduated magna cum laude from Yale in May 2012. She had a play that was to be produced at the New York Fringe Festival and a job waiting for her at The New Yorker. Tragically, five days after graduation, Marina died in a car crash. Marina left behind a rich, deeply expansive trove of writing that, like her title essay, captures the hope, uncertainty, and possibility of her generation. Her short story "Cold Pastoral" was published on NewYorker.com. Her essay "Even Artichokes Have Doubts" was excerpted in the Financial Times, and her book was the focus of a Nicholas Kristof column in The New York Times. Millions of her contemporaries have responded to her work on social media. |
Kendrick, Anna | Scrappy Little Nobody | Essays | Suggested By: People Mag. These smart, self-deprecating essays by the star of Pitch Perfect tackle everything from the author's middle school malaise to her dating woes. Suggested by Christina Applegate (Kelly Bundy). |
Kendrick, Keturah | No Thanks: Black, Female, and Living in the Martyr-Free Zone | Essays | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Through eight humorous essays, Keturah Kendrick chronicles her journey to freedom. She shares the stories of other women who have freed themselves from the narrow definition of what makes a "proper woman." Spotlighting the cultural bullying that dictates women must become mothers to the expectation that one's spiritual path follow the traditions of previous generations, Kendrick imagines a world where black women make life choices that center on their needs and desires. She also examines the rising trend of women choosing to remain single and explores how such a choice is the antithesis to the trope of the sorrowful black woman who cannot find a man to grant her the prize of legal partnership. A mixture of memoir and cultural critique, No Thanks uses wit and insight to paint a picture of the twenty-first-century black woman who has unchained herself from what she is supposed to be. A black woman who has given herself permission to be whomever she wants to be. |
Keyes, Marian | Under the Duvet | Essays | Imagine Irish female Seinfeld. |
Khan, Mariam | It's Not About the Burqa: Muslim Women on Faith, Feminism, Sexuality and Race | Essays | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Taking one of the most politicized and misused words associated with Muslim women and Islamophobia, It's Not About the Burqa is poised to change all that. Here are voices you won't see represented in the national news headlines: seventeen Muslim women speaking frankly about the hijab and wavering faith, about love and divorce, about feminism, queer identity, sex, and the twin threats of a disapproving community and a racist country. With a mix of British and international women writers, from activist Mona Eltahawy's definition of a revolution to journalist and broadcaster Saima Mir telling the story of her experience of arranged marriage, from author Sufiya Ahmed on her Islamic feminist icon to playwright Afshan D'souza-Lodhi's moving piece about her relationship with her hijab, these essays are funny, warm, sometimes sad, and often angry, and each of them is a passionate declaration calling time on the oppression, the lazy stereotyping, the misogyny and the Islamophobia. |
Kick, Russ | You Are Being Lied To | Essays | Essays about lies perpetrated by the news media and textbooks. |
Klein, Jessi | You'll Grow Out of It | Essays | Suggested By: People Mag. SNL and Inside Amy Schumer comedy writer's hilarious, astute essays about the perilous path to modern womanhood which will have to wincing in recognition. |
Klosterman, Chuck | Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs | Essays | He shows how 'The Empire Strikes Back' created Gen X, and John Cusack's Lloyd Dobler schtick in 'Say Anything' ruined the mind of every American female born between 1965 and 1978. |
Kushner, Rachel | The Hard Crowd | Essays | Suggested By: BookBub.com. A vitalizing essay collection written with breath-catching clarity and polished rigor. Rachel Kushner shares some her most hard-hitting writing from the past two decades - on topics ranging from art and literature to illegal motorcycle racing. Wild, wide-ranging, and unsparingly intelligent throughout. |
Lanpher, Katherine | Leap Days | Essays | Behind her are a successful career at the St. Paul Pioneer Press, an unsuccessful marriage and a younger woman's belief in endless possibilities. Essays include warm memories of her childhood in St. Paul. |
Lennon, John | Skywriting By Word of Mouth | Essays | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Published after his death, this anthology of John Lennon's writings and drawings provides an eye-opening perspective on the musical legend's creative life. "Marvelous, delightful reading… for John Lennon fans, a must." |
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow | Gift From the Sea | Essays | Charles Lindbergh's wife essays exploring women's role in society. |
Lorde, Audre | Sister Outsider | Essays | Suggested By: BookBub.com. As a writer and civil rights activist, Lorde devoted her life to fighting oppression and promoting social change. This powerful collection of essays on racism, sexism, and other urgent issues is eye-opening. |
Lorde, Audre | Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches | Essays | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. Her prose is incisive, unflinching, and lyrical, reflecting struggle but ultimately offering messages of hope. |
Macdonald, Helen | Vesper Flights | Essays | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. A transcendent collection of essays about the human relationship to the natural world. Animals don't exist in order to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach is what we think we know about ourselves. |
MacDonald, Leanne and many more | Living Life Goddess Powered: For women choosing to awaken their confidence, worth and truth. | Essays | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle book. The Everyday Goddess Revolution - books to inspire women. Book 2. The book is a collection of wisdom infused stories from spiritual leaders from around the world. The stories are inspirational and come with practical guidance of how you can begin to take the steps to live life feeling confident, balanced, and connected. Begin your journey today towards living your life Goddesspowered! Various authors: Leanne MacDonald, Yolandi Boshoff, Judy Prokopiak, Karli Kershaw, Ceryn Rowntree, Charlie Edwards, Amy Whistance, Scott Hutchison-McDade, Shveta S, Iona Russell, Infiniti Jones, Wendy Dixon, Lisa Viccars, Randi Willhite, Jena, Tierra Womack, Lisa Martin, Michelle Maslin, Kimberley, Tanja Stephanie Rug, Helen Bartram, Trish McKinnley, Jasmin Baljak, Julie Brown, Sarah Battle, Penny Thresher |
MacDonald, Leanne and many more | The Unchained Goddess: Stories written by powerful female black leaders from around the world | Essays | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle book. The Everyday Goddess Revolution - books to inspire women. Book 5. Various authors: Tierra Womack, Andrea Jones, Cassandra Alexis, Anne-Marie Wickham, Shameka Jones, Arin DeGroff, Dawn Ellison, Paula Goode, Jena Robinson. |
Maznavi, Nura (Editor) and Ayesha Mattu (Editor) | Love, InshAllah | Essays | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women. Romance, dating, sex and--Muslim women? In this groundbreaking collection, twenty-five American Muslim writers sweep aside stereotypes to share their search for love openly for the first time, showing just how varied the search for love can be--from singles' events and online dating, to college flirtations and arranged marriages, all with a uniquely Muslim twist. |
McCafferty, Megan etc. | It's a Wonderfule Lie | Essays | 26 Truths About Life In Your Twenties. Essays about surviving the quarter-life crisis. |
McMurtry, Larry | Film Flam | Essays | Essays on Hollywood. A look at his life in film. |
McMurtry, Larry | In a Narrow Grave | Essays | Suggested By: Author. Essays on Texas. Available as a library eBook. |
Montori, Victor | Why we revolt: A patient revolution for careful and kind care | Essays | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle book. In this brave book, Dr. Montori channels George Orwell to expose the corruption -- and absurdity -- of health care. Filled with compassionate and clear-eyed observations, Why we Revolt will leave you fired up, no matter what side of the gurney you are on. |
Moore, Dinty W. | Dear Mister Essay Writer Guy | Essays | Suggested By: BookBub.com. An essayist demystifies the craft of writing in his answers to questions sent in by Cheryl Strayed, Roxane Gay, and more! Collect need-to-know tips for being a successful -- and happy -- writer with this "brilliantly instructive and wonderfully entertaining" guide. |
Mukhopadhyay, Samhita and Kate Harding | Nasty Women | Essays | Suggested By: BookBub.com. When 53 percent of white women voted for Donald Trump and 94 percent of black women voted for Hillary Clinton, how can women unite in Trump's America? Nasty Women includes inspiring essays from a diverse group of talented women writers (including Cheryl Strayed) who seek to provide a broad look at how we got here and what we need to do to move forward. |
Nadelberg, David | Mortified: Real Words. Real People. Real Pathetic. | Essays | Otherwise normal adults revisit private love letters and diary entries from their youth. Riveting and mortifying. |
Nolan, Savala | Don't Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body | Essays | Suggested By: Other. A powerful and provocative collection of essays that offers poignant reflections on living between society's most charged, politicized, and intractably polar spaces--between black and white, rich and poor, thin and fat. |
Notaro, Laurie | The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death | Essays | Suggested By: BookBub.com. The incisive Laurie Notaro tackles everything from new neighbors to open-mouth coughs with the wit of Erma Bombeck and Jen Lancaster. |
Novak, B.J. | One More Thing | Essays | Brainy, quirky hilarity. |
Offill, Jenny and Elissa Schappell | The Friend Who Got Away | Essays | A compelling collection of true stories by women about winning - and losing - friends. |
Oliver, Isaac | Intimacy Idiot | Essays | Oliver has mastered the art of self-deprecation. Numerous observations from jury duty and late-night subway rides prove both tragic and transcendent. |
Ozick, Cynthia | Quarrel and Quandary | Essays | Essays by remarkable mind. |
Peck, Cheryl | Fat Girls and Lawn Chairs | Essays | Peck usually proves as playful and poignant as her title. Witty essays and [erg] poems. |
Peterson, Roger Tory | All Things Reconsidered: My Birding Adventures | Essays | Collection of essays from Peterson's column in Bird Watcher's Digest. Peterson is the guy who published "A Field Guide to the Birds". The writing is bright and lively. |
Petri, Alexandra | Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why | Essays | Suggested By: Other. Someone suggested that Alexandra Petri of the Washington Post is hilarious. I found this book. "These impossibly cheerful essays on the routine horrors of the present era explain everything from the resurgence of measles to the fiasco of the presidency. In Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why, acclaimed Washington Post satirist Alexandra Petri offers perfectly logical, reassuring reasons for everything that has happened in recent American politics and culture that will in no way unsettle your worldview. In essays both new and adapted from her viral Post columns, Petri reports that the Trump administration is as competent as it is uncorrupted, white supremacy has never been less rampant, and men have been silenced for too long. Q-Anon makes perfect sense! Perhaps the abyss is staring back at you because your outfit looks extra nice today! At the center of the book is a virtuosic account of the past four years, a history as surreal and deranged as the Trump administration itself. This Panglossian venture into the swampy present will soothe--and terrify--readers who have died laughing to ClickHole, the Onion, Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, or Veep" |
Queenan, Joe | The Malcontents | Essays | The best bitter, cynical, and satirical writing in the world. |
Quindlen, Anna | Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake | Essays | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Available as a library eBook. Thoughtful memoir joins the ranks of baby boomers fretting about their stage in life. A #1 New York Times bestseller: A Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist who is "at times witty, at times wise" (The Miami Herald) reflects on all aspects of her life -- from marriage and aging, to friendship and body image. A "pithy, get-real memoir" (Booklist) perfect for readers of Nora Ephron and Anne Lamott. |
Rakoff, David | Fraud | Essays | Public radio journalist writes about other stuff. |
Resnick, Adam | Will Not Attend | Essays | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Emmy Award-winning writer. Stories from a self-described antisocial man are guaranteed to make you laugh. Biting and darkly hilarious. |
Robbins, John | No Happy Cows: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Food Revolution | Essays | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Robbins shares his dispatches from the frontlines of the food revolution: From his undercover investigations of feed lots and slaughterhouses, to the rise of food contamination, the slave trade behind chocolate and coffee, what he calls the sham of "Vitamin Water", and the effects of hormones on animals and animal products. |
Robertson, Jamie Cox | A Literary Paris | Essays | Hemingway, Colette, Sedaris, and Others on the Uncommon Lure of the City of Light. |
Robinson, Phoebe | You Can't Touch My Hair | Essays | Suggested By: People Mag. The comedian explains it all to white people: what hair means to black women, what white dudes me to her, and all the dos and don'ts of racism. |
Rowlands, Penelope | Paris Was Ours | Essays | Thirty-two writers reflect on the city of light. David Sedaris, and people I've never heard of. |
Russell, Bertrand | The Art of Philosophizing | Essays | Suggested By: BookBub.com. This enlightening read collects insightful essays on mathematics, logic, and philosophy from a Nobel Prize–winning author. "Russell epitomized the philosopher as a public figure. He was the Voltaire of his time" (The New York Times). |
Ryan, Alan | The Reader's Companion to Alaska | Essays | This is a wonderful compilation of writings by some our most prominent authors of their first (and lasting) impressions of the last American wilderness, Alaska. |
Sacks, Oliver | The River of Consciousness | Essays | Suggested By: People Mag. Sacks illuminates such mysteries as how we hear, see, feel time passing, inadvertently plagiarize or create nonexistent memories. And exuberant, fascinating reminder of the brilliant neuroscientist who opened our eyes to hidden worlds. |
Savage, Dan | American Savage | Essays | Savage's essays on fatherhood, cheating, and the subset of Americans who still think sexuality is a choice are powerful messages for both the head and the heart. |
Schumer, Amy | The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo | Essays | Suggested By: Other. Suggested by MPR Twitter. Refreshingly candid and uproariously funny collection of (extremely) personal and observational essays. |
Sedaris, David | Calypso | Essays | Suggested By: People Mag. David Sedaris is 5'5" tall ("Pocket gays, we're sometimes called."). Just when you thought Sedaris has mined every last bit of his life for comedy gold, he unearths more. The essays here are darker than their predecessors but there's no shortage of LOLs. |
Sedaris, David | Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim | Essays | Yeah, another one. Hopefully won't creep me out too much. |
Sedaris, David | When You Are Engulfed in Flames | Essays | It's gotten some pretty mixed reviews. |
Sidibe, Gabourney | This is Just My Face | Essays | Suggested By: Entertainment Weekly Mag. Essays about growing up in NYC and finding unexpected fame after her star turn in Precious. Moving and beautifully written. |
Simpson, Jessica | Take the Lead: An Essay | Essays | Suggested By: Amazon.com. A 22 page essay by Jessica Simpson, the singer and reality TV personality. |
Smith, Zadie | Feel Free | Essays | Suggested By: Author. Among others: Why do we love libraries? "Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay." |
Solnit, Rebecca | Men Explain Things to Me | Essays | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. In her comic, scathing essay "Men Explain Things to Me," Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women. She wrote about men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don't, about why this arises, and how this aspect of the gender wars works, airing some of her own hilariously awful encounters. She ends on a serious note-- because the ultimate problem is the silencing of women who have something to say, including those saying things like, "He's trying to kill me!" |
Soloway, Jill | Tiny Ladies in Shiny Pants | Essays | She hates women who hover over toilet seats. Soloway's debut deserves a space on the shelf beside David Sedaris and Augesten Burroughs. |
Stephenson, Neal | Some Remarks | Essays | Good entry into the relentless mind of Neal Stephenson. |
Strauss, Neil | Everyone Loves You When You're Dead: Journeys into Fame and Madness | Essays | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Rolling Stone journalist collects the greatest moments from the most insane music interviews of all time. |
Stuever, Hank | Off Ramp | Essays | Chandra Levy, self-storage facilities, Star Wars fanatics, and water-bed saleswomen receive equally lovely treatment from Washington Post writer Stuever's razor-sharp eye. These meaningful stories offer a master class in top-notch journalism. |
The Everyday Goddess Revolution - books to inspire women | Know Your Worth Goddess: Stories from women around the world who have reclaimed their worth, inspiring you to reclaim yours. | Essays | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle book. The Everyday Goddess Revolution - books to inspire women. Book 1. KNOW YOUR WORTH GODDESS is a book for all women who are ready to awaken their confidence, worth, and truth. For women who are ready to reclaim their self-worth and rise. For women who are ready to feel good about themselves again and allow that magic to flow through them out into the world. Various authors: Emma Halley, Leanne MacDonald, Karishma Sharma, Nicolle Star, Hillary Sepulveda Brown, Ivy Glass, Tierra Womack, Loretta Cristando Holton, Rita Moore, Penny Thresher. |
The New Yorker | Secret Ingredients | Essays | The New Yorker book of food and drink. A feast of delicious writing on food and drink, seasoned with a generous dash of cartoons. |
Thomas, R. Eric | Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America | Essays | Suggested By: BookBub.com. In essays by turns hysterical and heartfelt, Thomas reexamines what it means to be an "other" through the lens of his own life experience. He explores the two worlds of his childhood: the barren urban landscape where his parents' house was an anomalous bright spot, and the Eden-like school they sent him to in white suburbia. He writes about struggling to reconcile his Christian identity with his sexuality, the exhaustion of code-switching in college, accidentally getting famous on the internet (for the wrong reason), and the surreal experience of covering the 2016 election for Elle online, and the seismic changes that came thereafter. Ultimately, Thomas seeks the answer to these ever more relevant questions: Is the future worth it? Why do we bother when everything seems to be getting worse? As the world continues to shift in unpredictable ways, Thomas finds the answers to these questions by reenvisioning what "normal" means and in the powerful alchemy that occurs when you at last place yourself at the center of your own story. |
Truman, Harry S. and Margaret Truman | Where the Buck Stops | Essays | Suggested By: BookBub.com. The Personal and Private Writings of Harry S. Truman. Offers the late president's candid reflections on his office and leadership, his predecessors, politics and government in America, and his ever-controversial decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan. |
Various | Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir | Essays | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. For anyone who enjoys reading memoirs--or is thinking about writing one--this collection offers a master class from nine distinguished authors: Russell Baker, Jill Ker Conway, Annie Dillard, Ian Frazier, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alfred Kazin, Frank McCourt, Toni Morrison, and Eileen Simpson. |
Various | Maiden Voyages | Essays | The writings of women travelers. Wry, lyrical, and sometimes wistful. |
Vidal, Gore | United States: Essays 1952-1992 | Essays | Suggested By: BookBub.com. $2.15 Kindle book. From the age of Eisenhower to the dawning of the Clinton era, Gore Vidal's United States offers an incomparably rich tapestry of American intellectual and political life in a tumultuous period. It also provides the best, most sustained exposure possible to the most wide-ranging, acute, and original literary intelligence of the post–World War II years. United States is an essential book in the canon of twentieth-century American literature and an endlessly fascinating work. |
Wallace, David Foster | A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again | Essays | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. This is a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner. David Foster Wallace brings to nonfiction the same curiosity, hilarity, and exhilarating verbal facility that has delighted readers of his fiction, including the bestselling Infinite Jest. |
Wang, Esme Weijun | The Collected Schizophrenias | Essays | Suggested By: People Mag. In eloquent essays, novelist Wang tour-guides us through her schizoeffective disorder. By turns heartbreaking and awe-inspiring. |
Warner, Elizabeth | Ditched by Dr. Right | Essays | If David Sedaris had been born a Protestant white girl from Philadeliphia's Main Line...Almost every piece is brimming with biting wit, but even more impressive is that everyone of them is also coiled with genuine warmth. |
Wells, Ken | Floating Off the Page | Essays | The Best Stories from "The Wall Street Journal's" Middle Column. Those weird stories from the front page. The lighter side of business. |
White, E.B. | Essays of E.B. White | Essays | One of Elizabeth Berg's best loved books. "He has wielded the English language with as much clarity and control as any American of his time." (From amazon.com review) |
Williams, Simon | Wanderlost: Shots of Literary Tequila for the Restless Soul | Essays | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle book. From being trapped in a plane with broken landing gear high above the Grand Canyon, to facing arrest in Hong Kong for holding up traffic in a bathrobe, to being accosted by three aggressive locals entering a men's washroom in New Delhi Airport, what else can go wrong on a trip? |
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Bardugo, Leigh | Shadow and Bone | Fantasy | Suggested By: Movie/TV. About to be a new Netflix original series. Book one of a trilogy. Soldier. Summoner. Saint. Orphaned and expendable, Alina Starkov is a soldier who knows she may not survive her first trek across the Shadow Fold--a swath of unnatural darkness crawling with monsters. But when her regiment is attacked, Alina unleashes dormant magic not even she knew she possessed. |
Baum, L. Frank | Various - The Wizard of Oz Series | Fantasy | Suggested By: Author.
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Berger, Thomas | Arthur Rex | Fantasy | Suggested By: Unknown. Gave my copy to the library. In Berger's medieval England, the damsel in distress is never what she appears to be. Merlin is a wizard of a completely different stripe. Classic heroes and villains are vividly reimagined, breathing fresh life into a familiar story. Powerful, emotional, and at times laugh-out-loud funny, Arthur Rex is an unforgettable tribute to one of the most celebrated tales of all time. |
Bird, Eugenie and David Downton | Fairie-ality: The Fashion Collection from the House of Ellwand | Fantasy | High quality picture book - fairie fashions made from feathers, flowers, nuts, etc. |
Bishop, Anne | Various - The Others Series | Fantasy | Suggested By: Author. Recommended by Sarah Painter.
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Blevins, Meredith | The Hummingbird Wizard | Fantasy | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. Annie Szabo mystery series book 1. This sexy, witty, suspenseful, and wildly original mystery paints the portrait of a vibrant family. When the Szabo women put their heads together, sometimes bending a few laws, balance and justice are restored . . . At least temporarily! |
Brennan, Sarah Rees | Season of the Witch | Fantasy | Suggested By: Movie/TV. Prequel to Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. It's the summer before her sixteenth birthday, and Sabrina Spellman knows her world is about to change. She's always studied magic and spells with her aunts, Hilda and Zelda. But she's also lived a normal mortal life -- attending Baxter High, hanging out with her friends Susie and Roz, and going to the movies with her boyfriend, Harvey Kinkle. |
Briggs, Patricia | Various - The Mercedes Thompson Series | Fantasy | Suggested By: Author. Recommended by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse series). A world where vampires and werewolves walk among us, and one [hot tattooed with a sword] woman dares to cross into the darkness.
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Brite, Poppy Z | Last Souls | Fantasy | Vampire book recommended by Holly Black. It is the only novel-length adventure of Brite's 'Steve and Ghost' characters, popularized in numerous short stories. The novel is an extended version of the short story "The Seed of Lost Souls". |
Charnas, Suzy McKee | The Vampire Tapestry | Fantasy | Recommended by Holly Black. Edward Weyland is far from your average vampire: not only is he a respected anthropology professor but his condition is biological. |
Clare, Cassandra | Clockwork Angel | Fantasy | Recommended by Amy B: Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare so very fabulous - if you like well written steampunk with interestingly flawed characters who are never what they seem, a snarky love story, and plucky heroines. And who doesn't? |
Clarke, Susanna | Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell | Fantasy | Goes where Harry Potter fears to tread. In her capable hands, all this and more seems possible. |
Collins, Nancy A. | Sunglasses After Dark | Fantasy | Recommended by Holly Black. A horror novel featuring a vampire, Sonja Blue, who escapes from a mental hospital leaving a trail of corpses in her wake. As we learn about her early life, we are taken on a nightmarish tour of a world inhabited by other types of non-humans - ogres, zombies and, of course, vampires. |
Cronin, Justin | The Passage | Fantasy | Suggested By: Other. $2.14 Kindle book. The Passage Trilogy book 1. Expertly draws together the parallel story lines of an unusually watchful, stoic little girl named Amy and a covert Army experiment to turn the human body into a bioweapon using death-row inmates as test subjects. Then he jumps ahead a century to vampiric bloodhungry beasts. |
Crosby, Bette Lee | Memory House | Fantasy | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. Ophelia remembers everything. She remembers things from her own life and from the lives of those who came before her. She has only to touch her hand to an object and she can feel the special memories clinging to it. But now she is nearing ninety and needs to find a caretaker for these memories. If death comes before she finds someone, the memories will be lost forever. Ophelia prays this won't happen. |
Drake, Abigail | The Enchanted Garden Cafe | Fantasy | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle book. The South Side Stories Book 1. A Paranormal Women's Fiction Novel. The naked yoga classes were the last straw for the hardworking Fiona Campbell. When the air conditioner in their coffee shop stopped working, Fiona's mother, Claire, came up with a solution. Naked yoga in their café. It was a typical Claire Campbell move, but Fiona has had enough. She is so close to realizing her dreams, but between dealing with her flighty mother, a misbehaving magical fountain, a café on the edge of ruin, and tea that may or may not be increasing the libido of her elderly neighbors, Fiona's plate is full. The last thing she needs is another complication, especially one like the good looking musician Matthew Monroe. |
Ethington, Rebecca | Kiss of Fire | Fantasy | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. Joclyn Despain has been marred by a brand on her skin. She doesn't know why the mark appeared on her neck, but she doesn't want anyone to see it, including her best friend Ryland, who knows everything else about her. The scar is the reason she hides herself behind baggy clothes, and won't let the idea of kissing Ryland enter her mind, no matter how much she wants to. The scar is the reason she is being hunted. |
Gabaldon, Diana | An Echo in the Bone | Fantasy | Suggested By: Author. $5.38 Kindle book. Outlander Book 7. Jamie Fraser, former Jacobite and reluctant rebel, is already certain of three things about the American rebellion: The Americans will win, fighting on the side of victory is no guarantee of survival, and he'd rather die than have to face his illegitimate son--a young lieutenant in the British army--across the barrel of a gun. Claire Randall knows that the Americans will win, too, but not what the ultimate price may be. That price won't include Jamie's life or his happiness, though--not if she has anything to say about it. Meanwhile, in the relative safety of the twentieth century, Jamie and Claire's daughter, Brianna, and her husband, Roger MacKenzie, have resettled in a historic Scottish home where, across a chasm of two centuries, the unfolding drama of Brianna's parents' story comes to life through Claire's letters. The fragile pages reveal Claire's love for battle-scarred Jamie Fraser and their flight from North Carolina to the high seas, where they encounter privateers and ocean battles--as Brianna and Roger search for clues not only to Claire's fate but to their own. Because the future of the MacKenzie family in the Highlands is mysteriously, irrevocably, and intimately entwined with life and death in war-torn colonial America. |
Gabaldon, Diana | Lord John and the Hand of Devils | Fantasy | Suggested By: Author. Free Kindle book. Free with Amazon promotional credits. Lord John Grey Book 3. This is a collection of three novellas.
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Gabaldon, Diana | Seven Stones to Stand or Fall | Fantasy | Suggested By: Author. $3.23 Kindle book. A Collection of Outlander Fiction. 585 print pages. A magnificent collection of Outlander short fiction--including two never-before-published novellas--featuring Jamie Fraser, Lord John Grey, Master Raymond, and many more. |
Gabaldon, Diana | The Outlandish Companion Volume Two | Fantasy | Suggested By: Author. The Companion to The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, and Written in My Own Heart's Blood. Books 5-8. Written with Gabaldon's signature wit and intelligence, this compendium is bursting with generous commentary and juicy insider details, including:
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Gabaldon, Diana | Various - Lord John Grey Series | Fantasy | Suggested By: Author.
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Gabaldon, Diana | Various - Outlander Series | Fantasy | Suggested By: Friend. WWII nurse Claire Randall time travels to 18th-century Scotland and finds adventure and romance with the dashing James Fraser.
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Gabaldon, Diana | Written in My Own Heart's Blood | Fantasy | Suggested By: Author. $8.07 Kindle book. Used some promotional credits. Outlander Book 8. 1778: France declares war on Great Britain, the British army leaves Philadelphia, and George Washington's troops leave Valley Forge in pursuit. At this moment, Jamie Fraser returns from a presumed watery grave to discover that his best friend has married his wife, his illegitimate son has discovered (to his horror) who his father really is, and his beloved nephew, Ian, wants to marry a Quaker. Meanwhile, Jamie's wife, Claire Randall, and his sister, Jenny, are busy picking up the pieces. The Frasers can only be thankful that their daughter Brianna and her family are safe in twentieth-century Scotland. Or not. In fact, Brianna is searching for her own son, who was kidnapped by a man determined to learn her family's secrets. Her husband, Roger, has ventured into the past in search of the missing boy . . . never suspecting that the object of his quest has not left the present. Now, with Roger out of the way, the kidnapper can focus on his true target: Brianna herself. |
Gaiman, Neil | American Gods | Fantasy | Suggested By: Author. BOOKS ON TAPE. Read by George Guidall, recommended by Stephen King. |
Gaiman, Neil | The Ocean at the End of the Lane | Fantasy | Suggested By: Author. $2.96 Kindle book. BooksAndBars for July 2014, but I had already ready it. Some guy goes back to his childhood home, and then memories of that awful event come flooding back. |
Gaiman, Neil | Various - Neil Gaiman Novels | Fantasy | Suggested By: Author.
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Gaiman, Neil and Terry Pratchett | Good Omens | Fantasy | Suggested By: GoodReads.com. Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's brilliantly dark and screamingly funny take on humankind's final judgment. |
Gansworth, Eric | If I Ever Get Out Of Here | Fantasy | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Fearlessly lays down the truth about what it's like to grow up poor. Lewis Blake, and American Indian in an all-white school, forms a life-changing bond with an unlikely new friend. |
Godwin, Parke | Various - Firelord Series | Fantasy | Suggested By: Other. I gave my copies to the library.
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Godwin, Parke | Various - Robin Hood Series | Fantasy | Suggested By: Other. I gave my copy to the library.
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Golden, Christopher | Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Fantasy | Suggested By: Other. 20 Years of Slaying: the Watcher's Guide Authorized. |
Goldsworthy, Sandy | Aftermath | Fantasy | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. After losing her father, Emma Bennett moves to her aunt's small town of Westport to finish out her senior year of high school. Emma wants to forget the pain and loss of the past few weeks, finding relief in the company of Ben Parker--a local boy who she has an instant attraction and uncanny connection with. When Ben seems a little too preoccupied with other responsibilities and has no time for her, Emma turns to the town's hottest flirt--Lucas Crandon--for affection. Unfortunately, she realizes a little too late that, sometimes, bad boys really can be bad for you. |
Hahn, Chanda | UnEnchanted | Fantasy | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. Mina Grime is unlucky, unpopular and uncoordinated; until she saves her crush's life on a field trip, changing her High School status from loser to hero overnight. But with her new found fame brings misfortune in the form of an old family curse come to light. For Mina is descended from the Brothers Grimm and has inherited all of their unfinished fairy tale business. Which includes trying to outwit a powerful Story from making her it's next fairytale victim. |
Hall, Elizabeth | Miramont's Ghost | Fantasy | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. Clairvoyant from the time she could talk, Adrienne's visions show her the secrets of those around her. When her visions begin to reveal dark mysteries of her own aristocratic French family, Adrienne is confronted by her formidable Aunt Marie, who is determined to keep the young woman silent at any cost. Marie wrenches Adrienne from her home in France and takes her to America, to Miramont Castle, where she keeps the girl isolated and imprisoned. Surrounded by eerie premonitions, Adrienne is locked in a life-or-death struggle to learn the truth and escape her torment. |
Hamilton, Laurel K | Various - Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter Series | Fantasy | Suggested By: Friend. Recommended by Dezi. Anita Blake, who works in St. Louis, Missouri, as a professional zombie raiser, vampire executioner and supernatural consultant for the police. The early novels focus predominantly on crime-solving and action; the later ones on Anita's personal and sexual relationships and powers.
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Hamilton, Laurel K | Various - Merry Gentry Series | Fantasy | Suggested By: Friend. Dezi V.P. suggested Laurel K. Hamilton (mostly for the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series).
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Hamilton, Laurell K. | A Kiss of Shadows | Fantasy | Suggested By: Friend. $3.23 Kindle book. A Merry Gentry Novel Book 1) |
Hamilton, Laurell K. | Guilty Pleasures: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel | Fantasy | Suggested By: Friend. $2.15 Kindle book. Anita Blake is small, dark, and dangerous. Her turf is the city of St. Louis. Her job: re-animating the dead and killing the undead who take things too far. But when the city's most powerful vampire asks her to solve a series of vicious slayings, Anita must confront her greatest fear--her undeniable attraction to master vampire Jean-Claude, one of the creatures she is sworn to destroy... |
Harris, Charlaine | Sleep Like a Baby | Fantasy | Suggested By: BookBub.com. After hiring a nurse to help with her newborn daughter, Roe discovers a dead woman in her yard. But who is she, and where is the nurse? |
Hawkins, Scott | The Library at Mount Char | Fantasy | Suggested By: Other. BooksAndBars for May 2016. Debut novel. Neil Gaiman meets Joe Hill. Dark fantasy, with some humor and magic. |
Haywood, Sarah | The Cactus | Fantasy | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. A Reese Witherspoon book club pick. Charming and poignant debut. One woman's unconventional journey to finding love means learning to expect the unexpected. |
Hooper, Karen Amanda | Tangled Tides | Fantasy | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. Yara Jones doesn't believe in sea monsters--until she becomes one. When a hurricane hits her island home and she wakes up with fins, Yara finds herself tangled up in an underwater world of mysterious merfolk and secretive selkies. Both sides believe Yara can save them by fulfilling a broken promise and opening the sealed gateway to their realm, but they are battling over how it should be done. The selkies want to take her life. The merfolk want something far more precious. |
Hughes, Langston | The Best of Simple | Fantasy | This book compiles the cream of Langston Hughes' masterful interpretation of black life in the 1930s. |
Hunter, S. A. | Scary Mary | Fantasy | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. Mary has always been different. She'd like to be normal, but being able to hear ghosts means she'll never be like everyone else. She starts her junior year of high school hoping to be left alone, but Cyrus Asher is new and doesn't know or seem to care that she's a freak. They start hanging out and all is well until she goes over to his house. Cy's house is haunted, and not by Casper, the friendly ghost. |
Johansen, Erika | The Invasion of the Tearling | Fantasy | For years, the Tearling has sent human cargo to neighboring Mortmense as insurance against invasion. Queen Kelsea stops the shipments, but her problems are just beginning. Huh. I'm not convinced, but EW INSISTS that I will love this. |
King, Stephen | The Shining | Fantasy | Suggested By: Author. $2.14 Kindle book. Terrible events occur at an isolated hotel in the off season, when a small boy with psychic powers struggles to hold his own against the forces of evil that are driving his father insane. |
King, Stephen and Richard Chizmar | Gwendy's Button Box | Fantasy | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Novella. In Castle Rock, Maine, young Gwendy receives a mysterious gift from an unsettling stranger. |
Kostova, Elizabeth | The Historian | Fantasy | Twilight for smarty-pants. |
Lawhead, Stephen R. | Merlin | Fantasy | Suggested By: Author. $2.15 Kindle book. Book Two of the Pendragon Cycle. He was born to greatness, the son of a druid bard and a princess of lost Atlantis. A trained warrior, blessed with the gifts of prophecy and song, he grew to manhood in a land ravaged by the brutal greed of petty chieftains and barbarian invaders. |
Lawhead, Stephen R. | Taliesin | Fantasy | Suggested By: Author. $2.15 Kindle book. Book One of the Pendragon Cycle. The remarkable adventure of Charis--the courageous princess from Atlantis who escapes the terrible devastation of her land--and of the fabled seer and druid prince Taliesin, singer at the dawn of the age. A story of an incomparable love that joins two astonishing worlds amid the fires of chaos, and spawns the miracles of Merlin . . . and Arthur the king! |
Lawhead, Stephen R. | Various - The Pendragon Cycle | Fantasy | Suggested By: Other.
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Lee, Tanith | Sabella | Fantasy | Recommended by Holly Black. The main character is a vampire. Descriptions so lush and rich that you can feel them yourself. Tanith Lee's writing is seductive: you'll want to live in that big house on the plateau and...do the stuff they do. |
LeGuin, Ursula K. | Various - The Earthsea Trilogy (and more) | Fantasy | Suggested By: Movie/TV. I think that there is a TV series based on the books. Check that out?
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Luna, Steven | Joe Vampire | Fantasy | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. Joe Vampire Series book 1. Joe Vampire is a fresh, feisty, darkly comedic take on the vampire novel that asks the question: what happens when an average guy becomes a card-carrying member of the undead? The answer isn't pretty...but it IS pretty hilarious. |
Maguire, Gregory | Son of a Witch | Fantasy | Sequel to "Wicked", bestselling backstory to "The Wizard of Oz". |
McKinley, Robin | The Outlaws of Sherwood | Fantasy | Robin Longbow is a sub-apprentice forester in Donated my copy to the library. Sherwood Forest, barely eking out a living-and barely able to control his temper when he is confronted by the taunts of the Chief Forester's favorite. One careless shot, and he has killed the man. From then on, Robin is on the run-but he is not alone. |
McQuire, Seanan | Various - The Wayward Children Series | Fantasy | Suggested By: Author. Recommended by Sarah Painter. When is a door not a door? When it's a gateway to adventure: when it's the portal that leads you from a world where you never quite fit in to the place where you've always belonged, where you've always wanted to be. When it is the conduit to everything you need to be happy. When is a door a lie? When it opens again and you find yourself right back where you started...only now suddenly, brutally aware of how much you're missing. There's a school where these wayward children go, when they find themselves back in homes that will never understand them. Welcome to Eleanor West's.
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Moorcock, Michael | Elric of Melniboné: The Elric Saga Part 1 | Fantasy | Suggested By: Author. $12.93 Kindle book. Pre-ordered this edition forrrrrreeeever in advance. Finally got it in February of 2022. There are two more after this collection, and they both keep getting pushed out to later and later release dates.
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Moorcock, Michael | Stormbringer: The Elric Saga Part 2 | Fantasy | Suggested By: Author. $12.93 Kindle book. Pre-ordered this edition forrrrrreeeever in advance. Finally got it in April of 2022. There is one more after this collection, and it keeps getting pushed out to later and later release dates.
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Moorcock, Michael | The White Wolf: The Elric Saga Part 3 | Fantasy | Suggested By: Author. $12.93 Kindle book. Pre-ordered this edition forrrrrreeeever in advance. Finally arrived in October of 2022. This is the last in a 3-part series, and it keeps getting pushed out to later and later release dates.
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Moore, Christopher | Bite Me: A Love Story | Fantasy | Suggested By: BookBub.com. $2.15 Kindle book. Bloodsucking Fiends Book 3. The undead rise again in Bite Me, the third book in New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore's wonderfully twisted vampire saga. Joining his farcical gems Bloodsucking Fiends and You Suck, Moore's latest in continuing story of young, urban, nosferatu style love, is no Twilight--but rather a tsunami of the irresistible outrageousness that has earned him the appellation, "Stephen King with a whoopee cushion and a double-espresso imagination". |
Moore, Christopher | Island of the Sequined Love Nun | Fantasy | Suggested By: Author. $2.15 Kindle book. Known for his intense research process, Moore swam with whales for 2003's Fluke, and found out how to steal a 747 for 1997's Island of the Sequined Love Nun. |
Nix, Garth | The Left-Handed Booksellers of London | Fantasy | Suggested By: BookBub.com. While searching for her father, Susan meets Merlin and his family of magical booksellers - who police the mythical Old World when it intrudes upon modern society. A witty, clever adventure in an exquisitely detailed world (ruh roh - it's not a "look at my kewl world" kind of book, is it?) |
Novik, Naomi | His Majesty's Dragon | Fantasy | For anyone who's read one of Patrick O'Brian's 19th-century naval adventures and mused, "You know what would make this better? Dragons!" What could have been a D&D inspired mess is, in Novik's hands, a completely authentic tale, brimming with all the detail and richness one looks for in military yarns as well as the impossible wonder of gilded fantasy. |
Pratt, Tim | Heirs of Grace | Fantasy | Suggested By: Other. $2.15 Kindle book. Recent art school graduate Bekah thought she'd hit the jackpot: an unknown relative died, and she inherited a small fortune and a huge house in the mountains of North Carolina. |
Raybourn, Deanna | Various - Veronica Speedwell Mystery Series | Fantasy | Suggested By: Author. Veronica Speedwell Mystery series. Recommended by Joshilyn Jackson.
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Roberts, Nora | The Awakening | Fantasy | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Breen Kelly travels to Ireland to search for her father - and finds a doorway to a magical world. |
Rowling, J.K. | The Tales of Beedle the Bard | Fantasy | It purports to be a scholarly tome ("translated from the ancient runes by Hermione Granger"; commentaries by the late Professor Dumbledore) concerning a clutch of moralistic bedtime stories attributed toe the titular scribe. |
Samuel, R. J. | Falling Colours | Fantasy | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. KIRAN is the only vision painter working in Ireland, the only female in the ancient Indian profession. As a vision painter, she paints the hopes and dreams of her clients into existence. Her practice is not doing well and she works as a waitress in a struggling restaurant in Connemara. When Kiran is asked to paint the forbidden, forces are unleashed that she cannot contain, including two infuriating women with whom she must work in a race to restore order and save her gift. |
Sathian, Sanjena | Gold Diggers | Fantasy | Suggested By: BookBub.com. An NPR Best Book of 2020 and a work of 24-karat genius. When Neil discovers his neighbor Anita has a mysterious concoction made from stolen gold, it sparks a series of events that will change his life. Being developed by Mindy Kaling. |
Schmidt, Gary D. | Orbitting Jupiter | Fantasy | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. the shattering story of Joseph, a father at thirteen, who has never seen his daughter, Jupiter. After spending time in a juvenile facility, he's placed with a foster family on a farm in rural Maine. Here Joseph, damaged and withdrawn, meets twelve-year-old Jack, who narrates the account of the troubled, passionate teen who wants to find his baby at any cost. In this riveting novel, two boys discover the true meaning of family and the sacrifices it requires. |
Shea, K. M. | King Arthur and Her Knights: The Complete Series: Books 1-7 | Fantasy | Suggested By: BookBub.com. $1.07 Kindle book. I wasn't gonna get this, but it had a lot of very enthusiastic reviews. When Britt, a modern young woman, is pulled by a magical summons back through time she finds herself smack in the middle of the schemes of the surprisingly young and handsome wizard Merlin. Britt has no interest in the throne, and she definitely doesn't want to pretend she is the legendary King Arthur, but Merlin has some bad news. The real Arthur has run off, and the legendary sword in the stone has chosen Britt to take his place. |
Swanson, Cidney | The Ripple Trilogy | Fantasy | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. Discovering she can turn invisible terrifies Samantha, especially when she learns a geneticist who murdered her mom wants her too. Handsome Will Baker offers help and secrecy, but soon Sam will have to choose between keeping her secrets and keeping Will in her life. |
Thompson, Jean | The Witch and Other Tales Re-Told | Fantasy | Suggested By: BookBub.com. A collection of shrewdly unnerving and bewitching fairy tale retellings. Set in modern times, these once-familiar stories are spooky, enthralling as eerie as anything you'll find in the Brothers Grimm. |
Tolkien, J. R. R. | Lord of the Rings | Fantasy | Suggested By: Author. $4.30 Kindle book. Includes three books: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of The King. |
Tolkien,J.R.R. and Christopher Tolkien | The Silmarillion | Fantasy | Suggested By: Author. Free Kindle book ($2.99, but I used Amazon promotional credits). Tolkien considered THE SILMARILLION his most important work, and, though it was published last and posthumously, this great collection of tales and legends clearly sets the stage for all his other writing. The story of the creation of the world and of the the First Age, this is the ancient drama to which the characters in THE LORD OF THE RINGS look back and in whose events some of them, such as Elrond and Galadriel, took part. The three Silmarils were jewels created by Feanor, most gifted of the Elves. Within them was imprisoned the Light of the Two Trees of Valinor before the Trees themselves were destroyed by Morgoth, the first Dark Lord. Thereafter, the unsullied Light of Valinor lived on only in the Silmarils, but they were seized by Morgoth and set in his crown, which was guarded in the impenetrable fortress of Angband in the north of Middle-earth. THE SILMARILLION is the history of the rebellion of Feanor and his kindred against the gods, their exile from Valinor and return to Middle-earth, and their war, hopeless despite all their heroism, against the great Enemy. |
Ward, J.R. | Various - Black Dagger Brotherhood Series | Fantasy | Suggested By: Friend. Recommended by Dezi. A society (the "Black Dagger Brotherhood") of vampire warriors who live together and defend their race against de-souled humans called lessers.
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Washburn, Kawai Strong | Sharks in the Time of Saviors | Fantasy | Suggested By: People Mag. Infused with myth and magic, this engrossing family saga set in Hawaii was one of Barack Obama's favorite reads of 2020. |
White, T.H. | The Once and Future King | Fantasy | Suggested By: Author. $6.43 Kindle book. The book is divided into four parts:
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Wolf, Joan | Various - Dark Ages of Britain Series | Fantasy | Suggested By: Unknown.
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Zimmer Bradley, Marion | Lady of Avalon | Fantasy | Mists of Avalon Sequel |
Zimmer Bradley, Marion | The Forest House | Fantasy | Mists of Avalon Prequel |
Zimmer Bradley, Marion | Various - Mists Of Avalon Series | Fantasy | Suggested By: Author.
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Abbey, Edward | The Monkey Wrench Gang | Fiction | Suggested By: Amazon.com. Edward Abbey's most popular novel, The Monkey Wrench Gang is an outrageous romp with ultra-serious undertones that is as relevant today as it was in the early days of the environmental movement. The author who Larry McMurtry (Lonesome Dove) once dubbed "The Thoreau of the American West" has written a true comedic classic with brains, heart, and soul that more than justifies the call from the Los Angeles Times Book Review that we should all "praise the earth for Edward Abbey!" |
Abbott, Karen | The Ghosts of Eden Park | Fiction | Suggested By: Author. Recommended by Joshilyn Jackson. In the early days of Prohibition, long before Al Capone became a household name, a German immigrant named George Remus quits practicing law and starts trafficking whiskey. Within two years he's a multi-millionaire. The press calls him "King of the Bootleggers," writing breathless stories about the Gatsby-esque events he and his glamorous second wife, Imogene, host at their Cincinnati mansion, with party favors ranging from diamond jewelry for the men to brand-new cars for the women. By the summer of 1921, Remus owns 35 percent of all the liquor in the United States. |
Abbs, Annabel | Miss Eliza's English Kitchen | Fiction | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. England, 1835. London is awash with thrilling new ingredients, from rare spices to exotic fruits. But no one knows how to use them. When Eliza Acton is told by her publisher to write a cookery book instead of the poetry she loves, she refuses--until her bankrupt father is forced to flee the country. As a woman, Eliza has few options. Although she's never set foot in a kitchen, she begins collecting recipes and teaching herself to cook. Much to her surprise she discovers a talent – and a passion – for the culinary arts. |
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi | Americanah | Fiction | Tells the love story of a Nigerian couple in America and London while making incisive observations about race. |
Agee, James | A Death in the Family | Fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this classic about the tragic death of a man and his family's grieving is "a book which touches one deeply and which no reader will forget." (New York Herald Tribune). |
Alexander, Larry | 76 Hours: A Novel of Tarawa | Fiction | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. $1.07 Kindle book. I thought this might be worth reading because it might be close to the experience that G.U. Bill had on Biak. I didn't realize that it was a novel. The gripping historical novel of the invasion of Tarawa by US Marines in World War II, from bestselling author, journalist, and historian Larry Alexander. |
Alexander, Tasha | And Only to Deceive | Fiction | Forced into deep mourning by convention and her husband's death, she finds his personal journal and in it, a mystery. |
Alexie, Sherman | Ten Little Indians | Fiction | Short stories. |
Allbright, Ella | The Last Charm | Fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. After losing her precious charm bracelet, Leila must tell the story of each charm to prove to the stranger who finds it that she's the rightful owner. Through her recounting, her emotional love story with Jake unfolds. Beautifully written. |
Ames, Jonathan | The Extra Man | Fiction | Dapper fellow becomes the roommate of an older even more dapper fellow in NYC. |
Amis, Martin | Yellow Dog | Fiction | Yellow Dog is about men, bad men, dazed by the pornographic thrill of violence and the violent thrill pornography. It's actually a deeply feminist book. The high style Amis brings to lowlifes is why he makes other comic novelists blind with envy. |
Amrigar, Thrity | Everybody's Son | Fiction | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Deftly explores issues of race, class, privilege, and power. Asks us to consider uncomfortable moral questions in this probing, ambitious, emotionally wrenching novel of two families - one black, one white - during a terrible heat wave in 1991. |
Andreades, Daphne Palasi | Brown Girls | Fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Boisterous and infectious. In vibrant Queens, New York, a group of young women from immigrant families grows up together - but adulthood takes them in different directions. Glorious! |
Andrews, Alexandra | Who is Maud Dixon? | Fiction | Suggested By: People Mag. When her #metoo complaint backfires, jobless Florence gets an offer to be a personal assistant to "Maud Dixon" - a popular novelist whose real identity is known only to her agent. Dark comedy meets twisty thriller when "Maud" and Florence head to Morocco to research a novel. Couldn't be more fun. |
Andrews, Mary Kay | The Fixer Upper | Fiction | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. A New York Times bestseller: After her career implodes, Dempsey agrees to help her father renovate the Victorian mansion he's inherited. But the eccentric residents of her new Southern town are about to make her job a whole lot more complicated. |
Appiah-Kubi, Eden | The Bennet Women | Fiction | Suggested By: Amazon.com. Free Kindle book. Free with Amazon Prime First Reads. In this delightfully modern spin on Pride and Prejudice, love is a goal, marriage is a distant option, and self-discovery is a sure thing. Welcome to Bennet House, the only all-women's dorm at prestigious Longbourn University, home to three close friends who are about to have an eventful year. EJ is an ambitious Black engineering student. Her best friend, Jamie, is a newly out trans woman studying French and theatre. Tessa is a Filipina astronomy major with guy trouble. For them, Bennet House is more than a residence--it's an oasis of feminism, femininity, and enlightenment. But as great as Longbourn is for academics, EJ knows it can be a wretched place to find love. |
Ash, Stephanie Wilbur | The Annie Year | Fiction | Suggested By: Other. BooksAndBars for December 2017. Finalist for the Minnesota Book Award. This was probably the funniest book I've read in a long time. I heard a review of it on MPR thought it'd just be a fluffy account of a small town girl living in a lonely world, but it was so much more. The author perfectly describes the complex relationships between the main character and the townspeople she has known her whole life. The situational humor and wit that the characters display had me laughing out loud. It reminded me a lot of the movie 'Grumpy Old Men' in that way because of the "well here we are staring at each other again" situations that you end up in while trying to deal with difficult people in a small town. |
Askaripour, Mateo | Black Buck | Fiction | Suggested By: Other. A crackling, satirical debut novel about a young man given a shot at stardom as the lone Black salesman at a mysterious, cult-like, and wildly successful startup where nothing is as it seems. |
Aspden, Kathy | Baklava, Biscotti, and an Irishman | Fiction | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. Artfully weaving together three lives, three coasts and three generations, Kathy Aspden's breathtaking debut, Baklava, Biscotti, and an Irishman is a dazzling pastiche of love, deception, acceptance and forgiveness. NOTE: This book no longer appears in my Amazon.com book list. Is it still available? |
Atkinson, Kate | Behind the Scenes at the Museum | Fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Young Ruby narrates her existence from the moment of conception, examining her dysfunctional Yorkshire family and its secrets. |
Atkinson, Kate | Case Histories | Fiction | Four mysteries nesting like Russian Dolls. On EWs 2004 top ten fiction list, but is the best mystery of the decade according to Stephen King. "I defy any reader not to feel a combination of delight and amazement." |
Atkinson, Kate | Transcription | Fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Mesmerizing from every angle. During World War II, 18-year-old Juliet was recruited by MI5. Now working for the BBC, she discovers her past isn't so easy to leave behind. |
Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia | In the Forests of the Night | Fiction | 15-year-old girl profiled in People magazine. Youth fiction. |
Auður Ólafsdóttir and Brian FitzGibbon | Butterflies in November | Fiction | Suggested By: Unknown. Icelandic fiction. Bizarre and comic road trip novel. Her best friend's four-year-old deaf-mute son is thrust into her reluctant care. The boy chooses the winning numbers for a lottery ticket and the two of them set off on a road trip across Iceland with a glove compartment stuffed full of their jackpot earnings. |
Auchincloss, Louis | Manhattan Monologues | Fiction | Private lives of fictional New Yorkers. |
Auel, Jean M. | The Shelters of Stone | Fiction | More of Ayla and Jondalar |
Auel, Jean M. | Various - Clan of the Cave Bear Series | Fiction | Suggested By: Author.
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Auster, Paul | 4 3 2 1 | Fiction | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Nearly two weeks early, on March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson's life will take four simultaneous and independent fictional paths. Four identical Fergusons made of the same DNA, four boys who are the same boy, go on to lead four parallel and entirely different lives. Family fortunes diverge. Athletic skills and sex lives and friendships and intellectual passions contrast. Each Ferguson falls under the spell of the magnificent Amy Schneiderman, yet each Amy and each Ferguson have a relationship like no other. Meanwhile, readers will take in each Ferguson's pleasures and ache from each Ferguson's pains, as the mortal plot of each Ferguson's life rushes on. |
Ausubel, Ramona | Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty | Fiction | Suggested By: People Mag. Ausubel charts the unfolding crisis when rich kids stop getting money from their parents with tenderness, wit, and a sly understanding of wealth and its limitations. |
Awad, Mona | Bunny | Fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Creative writing student Samantha becomes entangled in an unfamiliar new world when she befriends the Bunnies, a mysterious group of wealthy young women. Wild, audacious, and ultimately unforgettable. |
Babb, Sanora | Whose Names Are Unknown | Fiction | Suggested By: Friend. $7.00 Kindle book. Used promotional credits. Hercel mentioned during the Daily Trivia Net that John Steinbeck "stole" his novel, The Grapes of Wrath from some woman. This is the book that she wrote using her notes that Steinbeck supposedly read. |
Backman, Frederik | Various - Frederik Backman | Fiction | Suggested By: Author. Note: the publication date is for the Swedish version, whenever possible. The English translations were usually released later.
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Backman, Fredrik | Various - by the author of A Man Called Ove | Fiction | Suggested By: Author.
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Bacon, Charlotte | There is Room for You | Fiction | Mother and daughter tell their stories about family, secrets, love, loss, and love regained. Mother grows up an English girl in India, daughter goes to India in search of her history. |
Bair, Kristin | Agatha Arch Is Afraid of Everything | Fiction | Suggested By: People Mag. Snarky and riddled with fears, that's Agatha. But when her husband takes up with the dog walker, making her life a spectacle for the local moms, she channels her idol Bear Grylls and begins a madcap journey of self-discovery. An uproarious send-up of modern suburbia. |
Baker, Jo | Lonbourn | Fiction | Suggested By: Unknown. Witty, richly detailed re-imagining of Jan Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Baker provides an intimate portrait of the work and love lives of the British servant class circa 1812, ala Downton Abbey. |
Baker, Kevin | Stivers Row | Fiction | Final book in City of Fire trilogy. Two men in Harlem at the height of WWII and Jim Crow laws. Meticulous research brings to life New York City history. First two books: "Paradise Alley" and "Dreamland". |
Baldwin, James | Go Tell It On The Mountain | Fiction | Lays bare the secrets of a tormented black family during the depression. |
Baldwin, James | If Beale Street Could Talk | Fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. When a man is jailed for a crime he didn't commit, can his fiancée, Tish, and his loving family help him get out. |
Ball, Jesse | Census | Fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. An NPR Best Book of 2018 and a powerful call for understanding and compassion. After learning he doesn't have long to live, a widower signs up to be a census taker alongside his sone with Down Syndrome. It will break your heart. |
Bank, Melissa | The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing | Fiction | Suggested By: Author. Suggested by Alice Hoffman. This book is so good it will break your heard and also make you laugh out loud. |
Barbery, Muriel | The Elegance of the Hedgehog | Fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. A self-taught concierge and a precocious 12-year-old girl form a life-changing friendship with a newcomer to their apartment building. |
Bardsley, Greg | Cash Out | Fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Remarkably funny and surprisingly perceptive. Follows a Silicon Valley executive on a madcap mission to leave the tech world behind. “Wild, unpredictable, and totally original” |
Barnes, Jennifer Lynn | The Naturals | Fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. A stay-up-late-to-finish kind of book (Publisher's Weekly). Recruited by the FBI, 17-year-old Cassie joins a team of unusually talented teens as they try to take down a dangerous killer. |
Barr, Nevada | Deep South | Fiction | Anna Pigeon - professional park ranger and amateur sleuth. |
Barry, Dave | Big Trouble | Fiction | Suggested By: GoodReads.com. With a wicked wit, razor-sharp observations, rich characters, and a plot with more twists than the Inland Waterway, Dave Barry makes his debut a complete and utter triumph. |
Barton, Fiona | The Child | Fiction | Suggested By: Book Award List. From a list of books that you can read in one sitting. As an old house is demolished in a gentrifying section of London, a workman discovers a tiny skeleton, buried for years. For journalist Kate Waters, it's a story that deserves attention. She cobbles together a piece for her newspaper, but at a loss for answers, she can only pose a question: Who is the Building Site Baby? As Kate investigates, she unearths connections to a crime that rocked the city decades earlier: A newborn baby was stolen from the maternity ward in a local hospital and was never found. Her heartbroken parents were left devastated by the loss. |
Basu, Diksha | The Windfall | Fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. When the Jha family suddenly becomes rich, their new lifestyle poses unforeseen challenges. "A delicious, addictive treat...I almost fell out of bed laughing" - Kevin Kwan author of Crazy Rich Asians. |
Baszile, Natalie | Queen Sugar | Fiction | Suggested By: Entertainment Weekly Mag. Book on which the Oprah Winfrey Network TV show is based. There is a value system, an earthiness, and a calm assuredness about just being in the ordinariness of life that turns out to be rather extraordinary. |
Batuman, Elif | The Idiot | Fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. NPR Best Book of 2017. "roaringly funny...intellectually subtle, surprising, and enlightening." The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begins corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics student from Hungary. Selin may have barely spoken to Ivan, but with each email they exchange, the act of writing seems to take on new and increasingly mysterious meanings. |
Bauermeister, Erica | The School of Essential Ingredients | Fiction | Suggested By: Author. From an author chosen by the Reese Witherspoon book club. Once a month on a Monday night, eight students gather in Lillian's restaurant for a cooking class. Among them is Claire, a young woman coming to terms with her new identity as a mother; Tom, a lawyer whose life has been overturned by loss; Antonia, an Italian kitchen designer adapting to life in America; and Carl and Helen, a long-married couple whose union contains surprises the rest of the class would never suspect. The students have come to learn the art behind Lillian's soulful dishes, but it soon becomes clear that each seeks a recipe for something beyond the kitchen. And soon they are transformed by the aromas, flavors, and textures of what they create. |
Beagin, Jen | Pretend I'm Dead | Fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. A young house cleaner seeks a new start in Taos, New Mexico - but will her off-kilter life really help her escape the past? |
Beauman, Ned | The Teleportation Accident | Fiction | This fizzy novel is a great time machine all its own, jumping between the Renaissance and the future, flirting with noir, sci-fi, and romance, and skewering the "same empty people going to the same empty parties" along the way. |
Beeby, Vicki | The Ops Room Girls | Fiction | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. $0.00 Kindle book. An uplifting and romantic WW2 saga (The Women's Auxiliary Air Force Book 1). It is 1939 and working class Evie Bishop has received a scholarship to study mathematics at Oxford when tragedy turns her life upside down. Evie must seek a new future for herself and, inspired to contribute to the war effort, joins the Women's Auxiliary Air Force as an Ops Room plotter. Posted to a fighter station on the Sussex Coast, Evie befriends two other WAAFs – shy, awkward May and flirty, glamorous Jess. Faced with earning the approval of strict officers and finding their way in a male dominated world, the three girls band together to overcome challenges, navigate new romances and keep their pilots safe in the skies. But the German bombers seem to know more than they should about the base's operations, and soon Evie, May and Jess are caught up in a world more dangerous than they ever imagined… |
Beha, Christopher | Arts & Entertainments | Fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. "A funny, sharp study of celebrity" (Entertainment Weekly). In a state of desperation, failed actor and drama teacher Eddie sells a sex tape he made with his now famous ex-girlfriend, setting into motion a disastrous and bizarre series of events. "Entertaining and thought-provoking" (Booklist). |
Bellamy, Guy | The Man Who Won | Fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. For writer Andy Devlin life has always been a struggle. But when his debts spiral out of control and he's forced to sell his home to pay them off, he finds himself unable to afford a new place to live. |
Benjamin, Melanie | The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb | Fiction | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. A barnstorming tale of an irrepressible, brawling, bawdy era and the remarkable women who had the courage to match the unique spirit of America's Gilded Age. She was only two feet, eight inches tall, but more than a century later, her legend reaches out to us. |
Bennett, Brit | The Mothers | Fiction | Suggested By: Entertainment Weekly Mag. Bennett speaks about how important it is to her to "depict ordinary black life. I think that there's something really powerful and humanizing of not foregrounding white racism as the number one problem of being black." The Vignes twins are identical, but one chooses to pass for white, and the other raises her black daughter in the same small town where she grew up. |
Bennett, Brit | The Vanishing Half | Fiction | Suggested By: Other. The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Many years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and her white husband knows nothing of her past. Still, even separated by so many miles and just as many lies, the fates of the twins remain intertwined. What will happen to the next generation, when their own daughters' storylines intersect? |
Berg, Elizabeth | Various - Elizabeth Berg | Fiction | Suggested By: Author.
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Berger, Thomas | Little Big Man | Fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Adopted by a Cheyenne chief, a young pioneer boy named Jack embarks on an odyssey of love, loss, and adventure on the wild frontier. "The very best novel ever about the American West." (The New York Times Book Review) |
Bernheimer, Kate | My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me | Fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. The fairy tale lives again in this book of forty new stories by some of the biggest names in contemporary fiction. |
Bertino, Marie-Helene | 2 A.M. at The Cat's Pajamas | Fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. One of NPR's Best Books of 2014! On the day before Christmas Eve in Philadelphia, the lives of a nine-year-old budding singer, a fifth-grade teacher, and the owner of a legendary jazz club will intersect in moving and magical ways. |
Blake, Sarah | The Guest Book | Fiction | Suggested By: People Mag. Ogden Milton buys a Maine island in 1936 to help his wife, Kitty, recover from heartbreak. Two generations later the Miltons face what their granddaughter Evie jokingly calls "the Twilight of the WASPs" and the possibility of losing their treasured summer refuge. The Milton family history, rife with secrets and moral failings, including a deep-seated bigotry, is a timely tale of America itself. An enveloping and moving page-turner. |
Blau, Jessica Anya | The Trouble with Lexie | Fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. From an author with "a wicked imagination" (Nick Hornby): When prep school counselor Lexie befriends her favorite student's father, her carefully scripted life spins out of control. |
Blaylock, Bonnie | Light to the Hills | Fiction | Suggested By: Amazon.com. Free Kindle book. Free with Amazon Prime First Reads. The folks in the Kentucky Appalachians are scraping by. Coal mining and hardscrabble know-how are a way of life for these isolated people. But when Amanda Rye, a young widowed mother and traveling packhorse librarian, comes through a mountain community hit hard by the nation's economic collapse, she brings with her hope, courage, and apple pie. Along the way, Amanda takes a shine to the MacInteer family, especially to the gentle Rai; her quick-study daughter, Sass; and Finn, the eldest son who's easy to warm to. They remind Amanda of her childhood and her parents with whom she longs to be reconciled. |
Blessing, Tonya Jewel | The Whispering in the Willows | Fiction | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. The Whispering of the Willows is a sweet read by a debut author! A work of historical Christian fiction, author Tonya Jewel Blessing sets her story in the late 1920s, against the backdrop of superstitions held in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia. There, eighth grade Emerald is about to learn some hard lessons when a deeply disturbed man is thrust into her life by her abusive father and enabling mother. |
Bloom, Amy | Come to Me | Fiction | According to Elizabeth Berg, this will "take your breath away". Yearning mysteries of romantic and familial love. Also recommends "Love Invents Us". |
Blooms, Ashley | Every Bone a Prayer | Fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Misty's holler looks like any of the thousands of hollers that fork through the Appalachian Mountains. But Misty knows her home is different. She may be only ten, but she hears things. Even the crawdads in the creek have something to say, if you listen. All that Misty's sister Penny wants to talk about are the strange objects that start appearing outside their trailer. The grown-ups mutter about sins and punishment, but that doesn't scare Misty. Not like the hurtful thing that's been happening to her, the hurtful thing that is becoming part of her. Ever since her neighbor William cornered her in the barn, she must figure out how to get back to the Misty she was before -- the Misty who wasn't afraid to listen. |
Blume, Judy | Double Fudge | Fiction | Sequel to Fudge |
Blume, Judy | In the Unlikely Event | Fiction | Suggested By: Author. In 1987, Miri Ammerman returns to her hometown of Elizabeth, New Jersey, to attend a commemoration of the worst year of her life. Thirty-five years earlier, when Miri was fifteen, and in love for the first time, a succession of airplanes fell from the sky, leaving a community reeling. Against this backdrop of actual events that Blume experienced in the early 1950s, when airline travel was new and exciting and everyone dreamed of going somewhere, she paints a vivid portrait of a particular time and place--Nat King Cole singing "Unforgettable," Elizabeth Taylor haircuts, young (and not-so-young) love, explosive friendships, A-bomb hysteria, rumors of Communist threat. And a young journalist who makes his name reporting tragedy. Through it all, one generation reminds another that life goes on. |
Blume, Judy | Just as Long as We're Together | Fiction | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. A tale of a family, friendship, and pre-teen life. A companion to Here's to You, Rachel Robinson. Stephanie's best friend is Rachel. Since second grade they've shared everything. |
Blume, Judy | Tiger Eyes | Fiction | Suggested By: Author. $2.14 Kindle book. Davey has never felt so alone in her life. Her father is dead--shot in a holdup--and now her mother is moving the family to New Mexico to try to recover. |
Bodden, Marlen Suyapa | The Wedding Gift | Fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. When Sarah, a young enslaved woman, learns she will be given as a wedding gift to her half sister's future husband, she must use her last chance to escape to freedom. |
Bohjalian, Chris | Skeletons at the Feast | Fiction | A Prussian family, the Scottish POW assigned to work on their farm, and a Jew disguised as a Third Reich soldier attempt to escape through the frozen, war-torn tundra of 1945 Germany. |
Bohjalian, Chris | The Double Bind | Fiction | Brutally attacked and nearly killed, artist Laurel Estabrook survives and retreats to focus on her photography. This is top-notch Bohjalian fiction until the final chapter, which is gutted by a cheap trick. |
Bohjalian, Chris | The Light in the Ruins | Fiction | Powerful story about a noble Tuscan family that becomes involved with the Nazis, a murder 11 years later, and the crime's investigation. |
Bohjalian, Chris | The Sandcastle Girls | Fiction | Pride and sadness in this tale of ethnic destruction and endurance that was the Armenian genocide. |
Bohjalian, Chris | Various - Chris Bohjalian | Fiction | Suggested By: Amazon.com.
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Bond, Cynthia | Ruby | Fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. A New York Times bestseller and an Oprah's Book Club selection: After Ruby trades small-town Texas for the glamour of Manhattan, an urgent message pulls her back home and thrusts her into her shadowy past. |
Bowen, Peter | Coyote Wind | Fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Discover the secrets of the Montana badlands as cattle inspector Gabriel Du Pré investigates a wreckage from a decades-old plane crash. A riveting adventure. |
Boyle, T.C. | The Tortilla Curtain | Fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. After an accident, the lives of two very different couples -- wealthy Los Angeles liberals and struggling Mexican immigrants -- intersect in a series of tragically funny misunderstandings. |
Bradley, David | The Chaneysville Incident | Fiction | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Brilliant but troubled historian John Washington has left Philadelphia, where he is employed by a major university, to return to his hometown just north of the Mason-Dixon line. "Best novel about the black experience in America since Ellison's Invisible Man." |
Brashares, Ann | My Name is Memory | Fiction | A romance that stretches across centuries and past lives constitutes the core of Brashares's varied second adult novel, the first in a planned trilogy. The story is primarily that of Daniel, as, in the present, he pursues Lucy (whom he knows as Sophia in a previous life) and attempts to persuade her of their history and destiny, but his passion initially and understandably scares her off. |
Brashares, Ann | The Here and Now | Fiction | An unforgettable epic romantic thriller about a girl from the future who might be able to save the world . . . if she lets go of the one thing she's found to hold on to. |
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