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Book Lists and Websites

In addition to awardwinners and bestsellers, we’ve put together booklists and links to websites for fans of all types of fiction.

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Angela's Ashes

Bastard Out of Carolina

Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found

Born Blue

Chinese Cinderella

Desert Flower

Falling Leaves

False Allegations

Finding Fish

First Person Plural

Flowers in the Attic

Ghost Girl: The True Story of a Child in Peril and the Teacher Who Saved Her

Keeping Watch

M and M

Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America

Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood

Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail

Tears of a Tiger

The Great Santini

The Liars Club

The Tiger's Child

The Watcher

The Way the Crow Flies

This Boy's Life

Wayne: An Abused Child's Story of Courage, Survival and Hope

You Don't Know Me

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Reading Reference Books

Be sure to stop by the Adult Reference Desk and look at our reader’s advisory books. These are reference books covering a variety of fiction genres, including:

The What Do I Read Next series

Now Read This: A Guide to Mainstream Fiction

Genreflecting: A Guide to Reading Interests in Genre Fiction

Christian Fiction: A Guide to the Genre

Romance Fiction: A Guide to the Genre

Detecting Men and Detecting Women

Hooked on Horror: A Guide to Reading Interests in Horror Fiction

Blood, Bedlam, Bullets, and Badguys: A Reader’s Guide to Adventure/Suspense Fiction

Strictly Science Fiction: A Guide to Reading Interests

Book Club Resources

You’re invited to attend the Adult Book Discussion at 10 a.m. on the second Saturday of the month in the Wilton Room.

Books are available at the Circulation Desk the month before the discussion.

Looking for a book for your own book club? Try our list of Best Book Group Books, suggested by the members of Fiction-L and other area libraries. We also have a Book Club Collection for book groups to check out.

If you're just starting to lead a book discussion, check out Book Discussion: A Leader's Guide. If you're looking for book discussion questions, try Reading Group Guides, which has discussion questions for many books as well as a set of generic discussion questions, and Reading Group Center, which includes discussion questions for Random House books and links to Random House author interviews and essays.