ADULT FICTION FOR LIBRARIES
Thanks once again to everyone who sent suggestions. I appreciate your input
very much. I've organized your responses by author, then title & author,
and finally other suggestions.
AUTHOR SUGGESTIONS
Albom, Mitch / Austen, Jane / Baladucci, David / Brooks, Terry / Clancy, Tom
/ Clark, Mary Higgins / Coben, Harlan / Cornwell, Patricia / Crichton,
Michael / Cussler, Clive / Dessen, Sarah / Evanovich, Janet / Flagg, Fannie
/ Giardina, Claudia, / Goodkind, Terry / Grafton, Sue / Gregory, Philipp /
Grimes, Martha / Grisham, John / Gruen, Sarah / Hamilton, Laurell K. /
Harris, Charlaine, / Henderson, Dee / Hiaasen, Carl / King, Stephen /
Kinsella, Sophie / Koontz, Dean / McCaffrey, Anne / McCourt, Frank /
Patterson, James / Pelzer, David / Picoult, Jodi / Rivers, Francine /
Salvatore, R.A. / Sanford, John / Sebold, Alice / Shreve, Anita / Sparks,
Nicholas / Weis, Margaret /
Not so popular lately at my school: Clark/Cornwell/Clancy(except for
NetForce)/Ludlum/King/ Patterson/Vonnegut/Pelzer/
TITLE SUGGESTIONS
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
Any Philip Roth, especially The Human Stain
Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe series
Cyclops/Pacific Vortex/Treasure of Kahn by Clive Cussler
DaVinci Code/Angels & Demons/Deception Point by Dan Brown
Deception Point by Dan Brown
Eventide by Kent Haruf
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Godfather by Mario Puzo
Ines of my Soul / Daughter of Fortune / House of Spirits by Isabelle Allende
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Left Behind Series
Light on Snow by Anita Shreve
Lion's Game/Up Country by Nelson DeMille
Lovely Bones/Lucky by Alice Sebold
Mount Dragon/Riptide by Lincoln Childs & Douglas Preston
My Sister's Keeper and everything else by Jodi Picoult
Notebook/Guardian by Nicholas Sparks
Peace Like a River, Leif Enger
Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult
Plainsong by Kent Haruf
Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
S is for Silence, etc. by Sue Grafton
Secret Life of Bees
Secret life of bees by Sue Monk Kidd
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
State of Fear/Next by Michael Crichton
The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
The Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea
The Innocent Man by John Grisham
The Kite Runner by Khalid Hossein
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The Pact by Jodi Picoult
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (the best book ever!)
The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer
The Third Twin/Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Time to Kill/Bleachers/Street Lawyer by John Grisham
Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Tuesdays with Morrie/Five People you Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice
Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
One of the new books that I was surprised circulated as often as it did is
Greg Palast's The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. I read it too and highly
reocmmend it. He's a perfect example of a dying breed of truly
investigative reporters. I've seen him on C-SPAN as well and he's a very
eloquent, amusing speaker. Another book that I'm half way through and that
is also excellent is John Perkins' Confessions of an Economic Hitman;
diction, rhetoric, tone, style, explains difficult concepts like
macro-economics very well.
You may want to look at the 2007 (and past) Alex Award winners. If you are
not familiar with it, then here's the info. "The Young Adult Library
Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association
(ALA), has selected 10 adult books that will appeal to teen readers to
receive the 2007 Alex Awards.
"http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/booklistsawards/alexawards/alex07.htm
ALA has an award every year called the Alex Awards. It goes to ten new
titles each year that are published for the adult market that would
especially interesting to teenagers. Those titles are perfect for your
list. You'll find it at www.ala.org; then click on Awards and Scholarships;
then click on Book Awards; then look for Alex Awards.
"VAN"
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Diane K. Van Gorden, Librarian
Baker Middle & High School Library
Box 659
Baker, Montana USA 59313-0659
voice 406.778.3329
fax 406.778.2785
email vangordend @ baker . k12 . mt . us
"When one cannot go away, one can travel in spirit by means of books."
Louisa May Alcott, Letters, February 1884
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