Alphabet of books you have read - Part 12

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3198. The Waters of Kronos, by Conrad Richter (read 19 May 1999) (National Book Award fiction prize for 1961)

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skipping X, Y, Z

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Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics, and Essences; with Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory
by Roy Blount, Jr.

B

5120. Boy 30529 A Memoir, by Felix Weinberg (read 6 Feb 2014)

C

Captain's Paradise by Kay Hooper

D

David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell

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2716. An Empress in Exile: My Days in Doorn, by Empress Hermine (read 7 Mar 1995)

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Friends by Helme Heine

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1376. Good-Bye Dolly Gray: The Story of the Boer War, by Rayne Kruger (read 29 Dec 1975)

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Hatter's Castle by A. J. Cronin

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In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck

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1976. Jean Barois, by Roger Martin du Gard translated by Stuart Gilbert (read 30 Jan 1986)

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Killing Time by Linda Howard

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2849. Little Lord Fauntleroy, by Frances Hodgson Burnett (read 8 Mar 1996)

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Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

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No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need by Naomi Klein

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5688. Officer Involved, by Bill Zahren (read19 Apr 2020)

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Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler

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The Quality Of Mercy by Barry Unsworth

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The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen

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5239. The Shepherd, by Frederick Forsyth (read 20 Jan 2015)

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A Tale For The Time Being - Ruth Ozeki

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An Untamed State by Roxane Gay

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5668. A Vine Transplanted Dubuque Franciscans in Latin America 1965-2015, by Pat Farrell, OSF (read 11 Jan 2020)

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The Wanting Seed by Anthony Burgess

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2041. Xerxes at Salamis, by Peter Green (read 27 Dec 1986)

if I've used this on this Part 12 previously I'll delete it

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The Young Lions by Irwin Shaw

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1980. Zachary Taylor: Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest, by K. Jack Bauer (read 23 Feb 1986)

A

Apple Tree Yard by Louise Doughty

B

5728. Big Little Lies, by Liane Moriarty (read 31 Dec 2020)

C

The Crown by Kiera Cass

D

5073. The Double V How Wars, Protest, and Harry Truman Desegregated America's Military, by Rawn James, Jr. (read 10 Oct 2013)

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Empire Falls by Richard Russo

F

The Followers by Jude Watson

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2602. The Great Tradition and other stories, by Katharine Fullerton Gerould (read 2 May 1994)

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The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

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In Spite Of The Gods: The Strange Rise Of Modern India - Edward Luce

J

Jewel Of The Nile by Tessa Afshar

K

The Kentucky Derby: How the Run for the Roses Became America's Premier Sporting Event
by James C. Nicholson

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1566. The Lives of the Popes in the Middle Ages (Vol. IX) by the Rev. Horace K. Mann, D.D. (read 6 May 1980)

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Middlemarch by George Eliot

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798. New Grub Street A Novel by George Gissing (read Feb or Mar 1965)

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Our Lady of the Forest by David Guterson

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The Paper Chase by John Jay Osborn Jr

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223. Roger B. Taney, by Carl Brent Swisher (read 25 Dec 1945)

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The Sands of Time by Sidney Sheldon

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That Old Ace in the Hole by Annie Proulx

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2289. Ultra Goes to War: the First Account of World War II's Greatest Secret Based on Official Documents, by Ronald Lewin (read 29 Apr 1990)

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Vanished by Danielle Steel

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1600. Whitney Father, Whitney Heiress, by W. A. Swanberg (read 4 Dec 1980)

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Yeager by Chuck Yeager

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Zoya by Danielle Steel

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The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It by Richard Hofstadter

B

5591. Bibliophile An Illustrated Miscellany, by Jane Mount (read 31 Oct 2018)

C

The Carpetbaggers by Harold Robbins

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The Documents in the Case by Dorothy L. Sayers

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Evergreen by Belva Plain

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5606. Faith A Journey for All, by Jimmy Carter (read 6 Jan 2019)

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Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

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Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris

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2676. In Patagonia, by Bruce Chatwin (read 19 Nov 1994)

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The Journals of Susanna Moodie by Margaret Atwood

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The Killing Fields by Loren Coleman

L

Last Words: A Memoir by George Carlin

M

The Merry Widow by Franz Lehar

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Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature by David Quammen

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5558. The Other Side of the Story, by Jody Powell (read 18 May 2018)

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The Pearl by John Steinbeck

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200. Queen Victoria, by E. F. Benson (read 14 July 1945)

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Ring Of Bright Water by Gavin Maxwell

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4536. Speaking for Myself My Life from Liverpool to Downing Street, by Cherie Blair (read 16 Feb 2009)

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Trunk Music by Michael Connelly

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The Umbrella Man by Jake Needham

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4558. The Visible Hand The Managerial Revolution in American Business, by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. (read 13 Apr 2009) (Pulitzer History prize in 1978) (Bancroft Prize for 1977)

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The Widow's Walk by Robert Barclay

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The Zoo That Never Was by R. D. Lawrence

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523. Anna Karenina, by Count Leo Tolstoy translated by Constance Garnett (read 24 Oct 1957)

B

The Blue Edge of Midnight by Jonathon King

C

Captain's Courageous by Cabin Fever

D

5516. Days of Our Years, by Pierre van Paassen (read 4 Dec 2017)

E

Echo Park by Michael Connelly

F

The Far Country by Nevil Shute

G

5733. Gettysburg The Last Invasion, by Allen C. Guelzo (read 5 Feb 2021)

H

The High And The Mighty by Ernest K. Gann

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3792. If the War Goes On . . . Reflections on War and Politics, by Hermann Hesse translated by Ralph Manheim (read 28 Aug 2003)

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Journey of the Pink Dolphins: An Amazon Quest by Sy Montgomery

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The King Of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner

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The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton

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3293. Miracles & Prophecies in Nineteenth-Century France, by Thomas A. Kselman (read 13 Feb 2000) (John Gilmary Shea prize for 1983)

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Never Say No by J.L. Bouma

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3751. Old Mortality, by Sir Walter Scott (read 4 June 2003)

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The People's Choice by John C. Freeman

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Quantum: A Thriller by Patricia Cornwell

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3620. Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour An Introduction, by J. D. Salinger (read 22 Aug 2002)

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The Song Of Solomon by G. Lloyd Carr

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564. The Town, by Conrad Richter (read 14 Dec 1958) (Pulitzer Fiction prize for 1951)

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Under The Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy

V

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West With The Night - Beryl Markham

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5504. You Can Yell It! Coming of Age in Leeds, Iowa, by William K. Poston, Jr. (read 4 Oct 2017)

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Zero by Eric Lustbader

A

764. Aircraft Carrier, by J. Bryan III (read 5 Jan 1964)

B

The Brave Cowboy: An Old Tale in a New Time by Edward Abbey

C

Certain People by Roberta Allen

D

3872. Do Cats Think? Notes of a cat-watcher, by Paul Corey (read 5 Apr 2004)

E

Ed King by David Guterson

F

Falling Down by David Cole

G

The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson

H

5730. His Very Best Jimmy Carter, A Life by Jonathan Alter (read 15 Jan 2021)

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Imagination by Stephen Bayley

J

The Jaguar's Children by John Vaillant

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925. Kim, by Rudyard Kipling (read 2 Nov 1967)

L

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong- James W. Loewen

M

The Makepeace Experiment by Andrei Sinyavsky

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767. Nuremberg Diary, by G. M. Gilbert, Ph.D. (read 26 Jan 1964)

O

Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout

P

Plainsong by Kent Haruf

skipping Q

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5032. Ride With Me, Mariah Montana, by Ivan Doig (read 9 Jun 2013)

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Swing Time by Zadie Smith

T

Time Out by Helen Cresswell

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The Upright Piano Player by David Abbott

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5614. Villisca The True Account of the Unsolved 1912 Mass Murder That Stunned the Nation, by Roy Marshall (read 25 Feb 2019)

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The Way Of Men by Jack Donovan

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154. Yankee From Olympus Justice Holmes and His Family, by Catherine Drinker Bowen (read 9 Jun 1944)

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Zero Minus Ten by Raymond Benson

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5037. Ablaze The Story of the Heroes and Victims of Chernobyl, by Piers Paul Read (read 25 Jun 2013)

B

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (An Indian History of the Amrican West) by Dee Brown

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The Crown of Embers by Rae Carson

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4462. Dubuque on the Mississippi 1788-1988, by William E. Wilkie (read 25 Jul 2008)

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The Elephant Man by Bernard Pomerance

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Fingerprints: The Origins of Crime Detection and the Murder Case that Launched Forensic Science
by Colin Beaven

G

2729. Gilbert N. Haugen: Norwegian-American Farm Politician, by Peter T. Harstad - Bonnie Lindermann (read 9 Apr 1995)

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Halloween by Jerry Seinfield

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Inviting Disaster: Lessons From the Edge of Technology by James R. Chiles

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4231. Jimmy Stewart Bomber Pilot, by Starr Smith (read 12 Nov 2006)

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King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard

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The Little Drummer Girl - John Le Carre

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Middlemarch by George Eliot

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2495. A New Age Now Begins Volume Two, by Page Smith (read 6 Mar 1993)

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The Open Door by Latifa Al-Zayyat

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203. Phantom Crown: The Story of Maximilian & Carlota of Mexico, by Bertita Harding (read __ Jul or Aug 1945)

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The Quiet Man by Paula Marshall

R

1571. Rupert Brooke A biography, by Christopher Hassall (read 31 May 1980)

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The Scandal of the Century: And Other Writings by Gabriel García Márquez

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Tree of Knowledge by Henry James

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3705. Ulysses, by James Joyce (read 26 Feb 2003)

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Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann

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The Way Home by Shakti Butler

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2041. Xerxes at Salamis, by Peter Green (read 27 Dec 1986)

Y

You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place
by Janelle Shane

Z

Zero At The Bone by Jane Seville

A

3391. Abandon Ship! The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, the Navy's Greatest Sea Disaster, by Richard F. Newcomb (read 15 Jan 2001)

B

Beautiful Lies by Lisa Unger

C

4715. A Country of Vast Designs James K. Polk, the Mexican War, and the Conquest of the American Continent, by Robert W. Merry (read 4 Jun 2010)

D

Dinner For One by Franco Marazzi

E

The Evil That Men Do: FBI Profiler Roy Hazelwood's Journey into the Minds of Sexual Predators
by Stephen G. Michaud with Roy Hazelwood

F

5720. First Across the Rhine The 291st Engineer Combat Battalion in France, Belgium, and Germany, by Colonel David E. Pergrin with Eric Hammel (read 25 Nov 2020)

G

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

H

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance

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4007. Ice Station, by Matthew J. Reilly (read 10 Apr 2005)

J

The Jewel Of The Nile by Joan Wilder

K

Killing Grounds by Dana Stabenow

L

1992. Luce and His Empire, by W. A. Swanberg (read 30 Mar 1986) (Pulitzer Biography prize for 1973)

M

The Martian by Andy Weir

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Never Say Never by Kailin Gow

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2166. Old Fritz and the New Era, by Louise Muhlbach (read 9 Oct 1988)

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A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn

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The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis

R

4674. A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, by Norman MacLean (read 16 Feb 2010)

S

St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised By Wolves by Karen Russell

T

Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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5108. The Unwinding An Inner History of the New America, by George Packer (read 3 Jan 2014) (National Book Award nonfiction prize in 2013)

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Vacant Possession by Hilary Mantel

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3411. What Me Befell The Reminiscenses of J. J. Jusserand (read 24 Feb 2001)

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Xenocide by Orson Scott Card

Y

4078. The Year That Rocked the World 1968, by Mark Kurlansky (read 30 Sep 2005)

Z

Zarafa: A Giraffe's True Story, from Deep in Africa to the Heart of Paris by Michael Allin

A

Albert The Albatross by Syd Hoff

B

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

C

4181. The Cat Who Could Read Backwards, by Lilian Jackson Braun (read 23 June 2006)

D

Devil's Island by John Hagee

E

The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

F

3719. A Fabric of Defeat The Politics of South Carolina Millhands, 1910-1948, by Bryant Simon (read 22 Mar 2003)

G

The Gold Coast by Nelson DeMille

H

Hell's Kitchen by Jeffrey Deaver

I

Indian Killer by Sherman Alexie

J

5610. Justice in the Mountains Stories and Tales by a Vermont Country Lawyer, by Deane C. Davis (read 21 Jan 2019)

K

Kaleidoscope by Danielle Steel

L

Lies, And The Lying Liars Who Tell Them - Al Franken

M

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

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5339. North and South, by Elizabeth Gaskell (read 2 Jan 2016)

O

The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession by Susan Orlean

P

The Painted House by Graham Rust

Q

The Quiet American - Graham Greene

R

3921. Rivers of Gold The Rise of the Spanish Empire, from Columbus to Magellan, by Hugh Thomas (read 16 Aug 2004)

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Summer Love by A.J. Llewellyn

T

Travels With Myself And Another: A Memoir - Martha Gellhorn

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The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss

V

521. The View from Pompey's Head, by Hamilton Basso (read 26 Sep 1957)

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The Widow Maker by Charles O'Mahony

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1386. Xingu and Other Stories, by Edith Wharton (read 18 Apr 1976)

Y

Year's Best SF 7 Edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer

Z

Zorrie by Laird Hunt

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1140. Abraham Lincoln, by Godfrey Rathbone Benson Lord Charnwood (read 25 Nov 1971)

B

Burr by Gore Vidal

C

Certain People by Roberta Allen

D

33. Dick Tracy and the Spider Gang by Chester Gould (read in 1939)

E

Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains by Jon Krakauer

F

Friends Forever by Danielle Steel

G

1800. The Game Is Never Over: An Appreciative History of the Chicago Cubs, 1948-1980, by Jim Langford (read 9 Oct 1983)

H

Homeland and Other Stories by Barbara Kingsolver

I

In Tearing Haste - Charlotte Mosley

J

Justice by Larry Watson

K

The Keep by Jennifer Egan

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4928. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow & Other Stories, by Washington Irving (read 2 Jun 2012)

M

The Magic Pudding by Norman Lindsay

N

Nine Dragons by Michael Connelly

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253. Only Yesterday An Informal History of the Nineteen-Twenties, by Frederick Lewis Allen (read 21 May 1946)

P

Pieces of Her by Karin Slaughter

Q

Quiet : the power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking by Susan Cain

R

Running to the Mountain: A Midlife Adventure by Jon Katz

S

The Sand Man by E. T. A. Hoffman

T

That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo

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319. The Uniform of Glory, by Percival Christopher Wren (read 29 Mar 1947)

V

Vengeance by Lee Child

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Windigo Island by William Kent Krueger

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2199. The Year of Decision:1846, by Bernard DeVoto (read 23 Mar 1989)

Skipping Z

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After The Rain by John Bowen

B

Burmese Days - George Orwell (currently reading)

C

Cain and Abel by Joyce Raub

D

The Dance of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships
by Harriet Lerner

E

1681. An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, by John Henry Newman (read 25 Dec 1981)

F

The Female Man by Joanna Russ

G

The Greatest Show On Earth by Vivian French

H

How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
by Michael Pollan

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610. Ignatius Loyola The Founder of the Jesuits, by Paul Van Dyke (read 5 Mar 1960)

J

Jack Maggs by Peter Carey

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1242. Klingsor's Last Summer by Hermann Hesse Translated by Richard and Clara Winston (read 13 Sept 1973)

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The Lion's Game by Nelson DeMille

M

Mink River by Brian Doyle

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2550. Nelson W. Aldrich A Leader in American Politics, by Nathaniel Wright Stephenson (read 7 Nov 1993)

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Operation Wandering Soul by Richard Powers

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The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus by Margaret Atwood

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1318. The Queen's Necklace, by Alexandre Dumas (read 9 Mar 1975)

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Red October by Robert Vincent-Daniels

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Suttree by Cormac McCarthy

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2326. A Time to Dance, No Time to Weep by Rumer Godden (read 20 Sept 1990)

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Upside Down by Ramsey Miller

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The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains by Owen Wister

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4356. Why England Slept, by John F. Kennedy (read 28 Aug 2007)

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Xerxes: A Persian Life by Richard Stoneman

Y

Yellow Sun Bright Sky by Oliver La Farge

Z

843. The Zimmermann Telegram, by Barbara W. Tuchman (read 20 Mar 1966)

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Anger Management by Richard Baxter

B

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

C

Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

D

Dangerous Liaisons by Maggie Price

E

Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover

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5596. Fear Trump in the White House, by Bob Woodward (read 18 Nov 2018)

G

Great Things To Be by Kenin O'Connor

H

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

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4578. Imperfect Victories The Legal Tenacity of the Omaha Tribe, 1945-1995, by Mark R. Scherer (read 30 May 2009)

J

Justice by Larry Watson

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168. The Keys of the Kingdom, by A. J. Cronin (read 25 Dec 1944)

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Letters to a Young Scientist by Edward O. Wilson

M

The Merry Widow by Franz Lehar

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2596. The Nation Comes of Age: Volume Four, by Page Smith (read 17 Apr 1994)

Old Yeller by Fred Gibson

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The Princess Royal by John Parker

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1249. A Question of Judgment The Fortas Case and the Struggle for the Supreme Court, by Robert Shogan (read 31 Oct 1973)

R

The Reapers by John Connolly

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Saving Grace by Julie Garwood

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5205. The Tenderness of Wolves, by Stef Penney (read 4 Oct 2014)

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The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguo

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Vantage Point by Paul Miller

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Writing On The Wall: Social Media - The First 2,00 Years - Tom Standage

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5504. You Can Yell It! Coming of Age in Leeds, Iowa, by William K. Poston, Jr. (read 4 Oct 2017)

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Almost Paradise by Susan Isaacs

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Before Jamaica lane By Samantha young

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2519. Curriculum Vitae Autobiography, by Muriel Spark (read 17 Jul 1993)

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The Dress Lodger by Sheri Holman

E

Everything Under the Heavens by Dana Stabenow
Book 1 of Silk and Song

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3987. The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox A Year in the Life of a Supreme Court Clerk in FDR's Washington edited and with a Foreword and Afterword by Dennis J. Hutchinson and David J. Garrow (read 15 Feb 2005)

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Going My Way by Terri Lindsey

H

Heaven's Keep by William Kent Krueger

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3177. Isaiah Berlin: A Life, by Michael Ignatieff (read 22 Mar 1999)

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A June Bride by Teresa DesJardien