Legal Thrillers

Split Second by Baldacci, David
Bleedout by Brady, Joan
Missing Witness by Campbell, Gordon
Runaway Heart by Cannell, Stephen
Absolute Certainty by Connors, Rose
The Jury Master by Dugoni, Robert
Eye of the Beholder by Ellis, David
Bad Blood by Fairstein, Linda
The Namedropper by Freemantle, Brian
The Color Of Law by Gimenez, Mark
The Letter of the Law by Green, Tim
The King of Torts by Grisham, John
The King of Lies by Hart, John
Last Witness by Hoffman, Jilliane
Innocence by Hosp, David
Magic Time by Marlette, Doug
Lady Killer by Scottoline, Lisa

GLBT-Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender

All Titles are Young Adult

Baby Be-Bop by Block
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You by Cameron
Naomi and Ely’s No Kiss List by Cohn
My Heartbeat by Freymann-Weyr
Geography Club by Hartinger
The Order of the Poison Oak Hartinger by Hartinger
The Bermudez Triangle by Johnson
Boy Girl Boy by Koertge
Talk by Koja
Absolutely, Positively Not by La Rochelle
Wide Awake by Levithan
Boy Meets Boy by Levithan
Crush by Mac
Twelve Long Months by Malloy
Kissing Kate by Myracle
Keeping You a Secret by Peters
Between Mom and Jo by Peters
Empress of the World by Ryan
Freak Show by St. James
Getting It by Sanchez
Rainbow Boys series by Sanchez
So Hard to Say by Sanchez
Tale of Two Summers by Sloan
Not the Only One by Summer (ed.)
7 Days at the Hot Corner by Trueman
True Believer by Wolff

Famous Woman in Historical Fiction

Alias, Grace (Grace Marks, accused murderess) by Atwood, M.
Mr. Emerson's Wife by Brown, A.
Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper by Chessman, H.
Too Great a Lady: The Notorious, Glorious Life of Emma, Lady Hamilton (mistress of Horatio “Hornblower” Nelson) by Elyot, A.
The Secret Life of Josephine: Napoleon’s Bird of Paradise by Erickson, C.
Lucy (Lucy Mercer & FDR) by Feldman, E.
Lady’s Maid (Elizabeth Barrett Browning) by Forster, M.
Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles by George, M.
Stone Heart (Sacajawea) by Glancy, D.
The Boleyn Inheritance by Gregory, P.
The Constant Princess (Catherine of Aragon) by Gregory, P.
The Other Boleyn Girl by Gregory, P.
The Emancipator’s Wife by Hambly, B.
Patriot Hearts: A Novel of the Founding Mothers by Hambly, B.
Widow of the South (Carrie McGavock) by Hicks, R.
Loving Frank (Mamah B. Cheney, mistress of Frank Lloyd Wright) by Horan, N.
Sister (Emily Dickinson) by Kaufmann, P.
Lady MacBeth by King, S.
Afternoons With Emily (Dickinson) by Macmurray, R.
An Army of Angels (Joan of Arc) by Marcantal, P.
The Wild Irish (Grace O’Malley, Pirate Queen) by Maxwell, R.
Antony and Cleopatra by McCullough, C.
I, Elizabeth (Elizabeth I) by Miles, R.
Empress Orchid (Tsu Hsi, China’s Last Empress) by Min, A.
Nefertiti by Moran, M.
Just Jane ( Austen) by Moser, N.
Frida (Kahlo) by Mujica, B.
Signed, Mata Hari by Murphy, Y.
Abundance (Marie Antoinette) by Naslund, S.
Harriet and Isabella (Harriet Beecher Stowe) by O’Brien, P.
Time and Chance (Eleanor of Aquitaine) by Penman, S.
Gatsby’s Girl (Ginevra King & F. Scott Fitzgerald by Preston, C.
Farewell, My Queen (Marie Antoinette) by Thomas, C.
The Passion of Artemisia (Artemisia Gentileschi) by Vreeland, S.
The Lady Elizabeth by Weir, A.
Fanny (Fanny Wright, utopian feminist, & Mrs. Frances Trollope) by White, E.

Edwardian England Fiction Set from 1901-1910

Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter series by Albert
· The Tale of Hill Top Farm
· The Tale of Cuckoo Brow Wood
· The Tale of Holly How
· The Tale of Hawthorn House
· The Tale of Briar Bank
Crippen
by Boyne
The Ravenscar Dynasty by Bradford
Falling Angels by Chevalier
Edwardian Mystery series by Chesney
· Snobbery with Violence
· Hasty Death
· Sick of Shadows
· Our Lady of Pain
Kate Hannigan
by Cookson
The Shape of Sand by Eccles
Matchmaker trilogy by Feather
· The Bachelor List
· The Bride Hunt
· The Wedding Game
Howard’s End
by Forster
A Room With a View by Forster
Consequences of Sin by Langley-Hawthorne
Blood on the Wood by Linscott
The Blackpool Highflyer by Martin
Charles and Kate Sheridan series by Paige
· Death at Bishops Keep
· Death at Gallow’s Green
· Death at Daisy’s Folly
· Death at Devil’s Bridge
· Death at Rottingdean
· Death at Whitechapel
· Death at Epsom Downs
· Death at Dartmoor
· Death at Glamis Castle
· Death at Hyde Park
· Death at Blenheim Palace
· Death on the Lizard
The Piper’s Tune
by Stirling
Vanquished by Tarr
Anna’s Book by Vine

Chick Lit

Killer Deal by Anderson
Killer Heels by Anderson
Spa Girls series by Billerbeck
Little Lady Agency and the Prince by Browne
Little Lady, Big Apple by Browne
Four Blondes by Bushnell
Boy Meets Girl by Cabot
Queen of Babble series by Cabot
Because She Can by Clark
Faking It by Crusie
Welcome to Temptation by Crusie
The Next Big Thing by Edwards
Second Thyme Around by Fforde
Bridget Jones Diary by Fielding
The Beach House by Green
Bookends by Green
Austenland: a novel by Hale
Secrets of a Shoe Addict by Harbison
Charm! by Hart
Sushi for Beginners by Keyes
This Charming Man by Keyes
Remember Me? by Kinsella
Shopaholic series by Kinsella
Undomestic Goddess by Kinsella
She’s Come Undone by Lamb
You Could Do Better by Lehmann
Where the Heart Is by Letts
The Chocolate Lovers’ Club by Matthews
Fourth Comings by McCafferty
The Nanny Diaries by McLaughlin
How Stella Got her Groove Back by McMillan
I Don’t Know How She Does It by Pearson
Sealed with a Kiss by Phillips
Debutante Divorcee by Sykes
Dirty Girls Social Club by Valdes-Rodriguez
Good in Bed by Weiner
Chasing Harry Winston by Weisberger
Everyone Worth Knowing by Weisberger
The Devil Wears Prada by Weisberger

Book Group Favorites

Fiction
Before you Know Kindness by Bohjalian
The Alchemist by Coelho
The Inheritance of Loss by Desai
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Edwards
Middlesex by Eugenides
The Other Boleyn Girl by Gregory
Water for Elephants by Gruen
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Haddon
Loving Frank by Horan
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Hosseini
The Kite Runner by Hosseini
Life of Pi by Martel
Atonement by McEwan
Suite Francaise by Nemirovsky
The Time Traveler's Wife by Niffenegger
Bel Canto by Patchett
My Sister's Keeper by Picoult
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by See
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Shriver
Balzac & the Little Chinese Seamstress by Sijie
Prep: A Novel by Sittenfeld
The Book Thief (YA) by Zus
ak

Non-fiction
Under the Banner of Heaven (289.3 Kra Krakauer)
The Devil in the White City (364.15 Lar Larson)
Three Cups of Tea (371.82 Mor Mortenson)
The Omnivore’s Dilemma (641 Pol Pollan)
Reading Lolita in Tehran (820.9 Naf Nafisi)
All Over but the Shoutin' (B Bragg Bragg)
Eat, Pray, Love (B Gilbert Gilbert)
Into the Wild (B McCandle Krakauer)
The Glass Castle: A Memoir (B Walls Walls)

2008 Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults

Fiction
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian (Fict Ale YA Alexie)
Before I Die (Fict Dow YA Downham)
Mister Pip (Fict Jon Jones)
Skulduggery Pleasant (Fict Lan YA Landy)
Tamar: A Novel of Espionage, Passion, and Betrayal (Fict Pee YA Peet)
The Invention of Hugo Cabret: A Novel (J Fict Sel Selznick)


Non-fiction
The Arrival (741 Tan YA Tan)
American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China (796.8 Pol Polly)
Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath (811 Plah YA Hemphill)
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (B Beah Bea Beah)

2007 Alex Award Books Best Adult Books for Teens

Fiction:
The Book of Lost Things by Connolly
The Whistling Season by Doig
Water for Elephants by Gruen
Color of the Sea by Hamamura
The Floor of the Sky by Joern
Black Swan Green by Mitchell
The World Made Straight by Rash
The Thirteenth Tale by Setterfield


Non-fiction
Eagle Blue (796.323 DOr D’Orso)
The Blind Side (796.332 Lew Lewis)

Best Crime Novels 2008

Zugzwang by Bennett
Bangkok Haunts by Burdett
Heartsick by Cain
The Second Objective by Frost
The Good Physician by Harrington
Down into Darkness by Lawrence
Devil’s Peak by Meyer

The Redbreast by Nesbo
The Ancient Rain by Stansberry
Victory Square by Steinhauer

Take Me Out to the Ballgame

Non-fiction
Faithful to Fenway (796.357 Bor)
The 33-year-old Rookie (796.357 Cos)
Asterisk: Home Runs, Steroids, and the Rush to Judgment (796.357 Ezr)
Just Play Ball (796.357 Gar)
The Teammates (796.357 Hal)
The Year Babe Ruth Hit 104 Home Runs (796.357 Jen)
Working at the Ballpark (796.357 Jon)
Baseball Eccentrics (796.357 Lee)
Moneyball (796.357 Lew)
Facing Clemens (796.357 May)
Senior Year (796.357 Sha)
Ty and the Babe (796.357 Sta)
Your Brain on Cubs (795.357 You)
Chief Bender’s Burden (B Bender Swi)
Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig (B Gehrig Eig)
Wait Till Next Year (B Goodwin Goo)


Fiction
The Fan by Abrahams
Murder at the Baseball Hall of Fame by Daniel
The Entitled by Deford
Screwball by Ferrell
Scooter by Foley
Season of Gene by Hudgens
All the Stars Came Out That Night by King
Shoeless Joe by Kinsella
Shakespeare Bats Cleanup (YA) by Koertge
Wild Pitch by Lupica
The Natural by Malamud
Waiting for Teddy Williams by Mosher
Playing for Keeps (YA) by Nixon
Double Play by Parker
Cooperstown by Pilek
Slider by Robinson

ALA Notable Books 2008

Fiction
Away by Bloom
Five Skies by Carlson
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Chabon
An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England by Clarke
Finn by Clinch
The Pesthouse by Crace
The Ministry of Special Cases by Englander
The Five-Forty-Five to Cannes by Holthe
Mister Pip by Jones
The Complete Stories by Malouf
On Chesil Beach by McEwan
Out Stealing Horses by Petterson
Cheating at Canasta by Trevor

Non-fiction
The World without Us by Weisman (304.2 Wri)
Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline by Margonelli (338.2 Mar)
The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science by Angier (500 Ang)
Super-Crunches: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart by Ayres (519.5 Ayr)
How Doctors Think by Groopman (610 Gro)
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Kingsolver (641 Kin)
A New Hunger by Bosselaar (811 Bos)
In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus: New and Selected Poems, 1955–2007 by Kennedy (811 Ken)
The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story by Ackerman (940.53 Ack)
Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations by Howell (B Bell How)
Einstein: His Life and Universe by Isaacson (B Einstein Isa)
When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa by Godwin (B Godwin God)

The Adirondacks

Fictions
The Grace That Keeps This World by Bailey
The Reserve by Banks
The Air We Breathe by Barrett
Backwater (YA) by Bauer
The Adirondack Detective series by Briant
Dawn Land by Bruchac
Long River by Bruchac
The Waters Between by Bruchac
The Best Adirondack Stories of Philander Deming by Deming
Loon Lake by Doctorow
Elizabeth and Nathaniel Bonner series by Donati
A Northern Light by Donnelly
An American Tragedy by Dreiser
The Lake of Dead Languages by Goodman
Blood Knot by Hubbard
Swallow the Hook by Hubbard
Take the Bait by Hubbard
All Rivers Flow to the Sea by McGhee
Was It Beautiful? by McGhee
The Cabin by Neggers
Sweetwater by Robinson
Claire Fergusson and Russ Van Alstyne mysteries by Spencer-Fleming
Within a Forest Dark: An Adirondack Tale of Love and Suspicion by Virtanen



Non-fiction
46 Adirondack Sonnets (811 Maranville)
Excuse Me, Sir… Your Socks Are On Fire (818 Wei Weill)
Pardon Me, Sir… There’s a Moose in Your Tent (818 Wei Weill)
The Search for Adirondack Gold (974.75 Joh Johnson)
Adirondack Wilderness (974.753 Far Farb)
Wandering Home (974.75 McK McKibben)
The Adirondacks, 1830-1930 (974.75 Wil Williams)
The Adirondacks, 1931-1990 (974.75 Wil Williams)
Adirondack High (974.753 Tru Truesdale)

Spine Tingling Tales

Antiques Maul by Allan, Barbara
The Amityville Horror by Anson, Jay
House Possessed by Blackstock, Charity
A Graveyard for Lunatics The Halloween Tree by Bradbury, Ray
Cat Who Talked to Ghosts by Braun, Lillian Jackson
Death at Hallow’s End by Bruce, Leo
Wycliffe and the Scapegoat by Burley, W. J.
Campfire Tales: ghoulies, ghosties, and long-leggety beasties by Burley, W.
Haunted Halloween Stories by J.Christensen, Jo-Anne
Silver Scream by Daheim, Mary
Dead on demand: the best of ghost story weekend by Daheim, Mary
Cat with an Emerald Eye by Douglas, Carole Nelson
The Witchfinder by Estleman, Loren D.
Quoth the Raven by Haddam, Jane
Skeleton Key by Haddam, Jane
Hallowed Bones by Haines, Carolyn
The Heart-Shaped Box by Hill, Joe
The Fallen Man by Hillerman, Tony
The Haunting of Hill House by Jackson, Shirley
The Turn of the Screw by James, Henry
Day of Atonement by Kellerman, Faye
The Shining and other titles by King, Stephen
Best Ghost Stories of J. S. Lefanu by LeFanu, J. Sheridan
Rosemary’s Baby by Levin, Ira
Tricks: an 87th Precinct Mystery by McBain, Ed
You Suck by Moore, Christopher
Nightscape by Morrell, David
Flight of a Witch by Peters, Ellis
Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Poe, Edgar Allan
The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer by Reardon, Joyce
Frankenstein by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
The Terror by Simmons, Dan
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Stevenson, Robert Louis
DraculaBest Ghost and Horror Stories by Stoker, Bram
Monster Island by Wellington, David
The Island of Dr. Moreau by Wells, H. G.
The Haunted Air by Wilson, F. Paul