• Jeffrey Archer
• Maeve Binchy
• Tom Clancy
• Mary Higgins Clark
• Robin Cook
• Michael Crichton
• John Grisham
• Tony Hillerman
• Stephen King
• Barbara Kingsolver
• Danielle Steele
• Anne Tyler

• Raney and Walking across Egypt by Clyde Edgerton
• What Girls Learn by Karin Cook is a recent Alex winner and an excellent novel.
• Snow falling on cedars by Guterson
• One true thing by Anna Quindlen
• Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen
• How to make an American Quilt by Whitney Otto
• Montana 1948 - Watson
• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
• The Pelican Brief (Grisham)
• Congo (Crichton)
• Baby Alicia is dying.
• Beloved - Morrison
• The Color Purple — Walker
• Like Water for Chocolate --L. Esquivel
• Infinite Plan
• Bless Me Ultima - R. Anaya
• Poisonwood Bible - Kingsolver
• The Killer Angels --Michael Shaara (the novel of the Battle of Gettysburg; Pulitzer winner)
• Cold Mountain - Frasier
• AliceHoffman's novels _At risk_ and _Practical Magic_ move quite well.
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving.
• Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.
• Cold Sassy Tree by Burns
• Saint Maybe and Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler.

NON-FICTION TITLES

• Tuesdays with Morrie
• Reviving Ophelia — Mary Pipher
• A child called "It"
• The Color of Water by James McBride
• A Year in Provence — P. Mayle
• Angelas Ashes -F. McCourt
• Into Thin Air and Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
• Lost in place: Growing up absurd in suburbia_ by Mark Salzman.

• T. A. Barron (fantasy/sci-fi)
• Octavia Butler
• Ursula Le Guin
• Anne McCaffrey
• Stephen Donaldson (fantasy)
• Orson Scott Card

• Sphere - Crichton
• Cobra Effect - Preston
• Medusa's Child
• Time and Again -- Jack Finney
• Kindred by Octavia Butler "(time travel helps set up this fictional slave narrative). An 8th grade teacher in Philly is using this in her language arts classes."
• Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler. A teenage Black girl living in a futuristic California compound (everyone lives in walled communities for protection) starts her own religion where God is "change"and goes on a journey to find a safe commune up north , perhaps in Canada.
• Anne McCaffrey and her Dragons of Pern books(White Dragon, Dragonsinger)
• Piers Anthony's series about Xanth
• Brian Jacques' series beginning with Redwall.
• The Ship Who Searched by Anne McCaffery and Mercedes Lackey. It is a science fiction story of a gifted young girl who contracts a disease that paralyzes her. Her only alternative to being a vegetable is to become a brainship. (It sounds a little strange but it wasn't in the context of the story.) It is an interesting story with some adventure, some romantic interest, strong female character and some interesting thoughts about what makes us human.
• Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
• Books by David & Leigh Eddings (the first ones only say "By David Eddings")
• These are the "Quest" type of Fantasy books.
• The Belgariad (five books)
• The Malloreon (Continues the Saga of the characters in The Belgariad)

• High Hunt
• The Losers (I read this one, it might have appeal to YA as well)
• Ursula Le Guin’s The Left hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed
• Stephenson — “Best "cyberpunk" writer that I have read.”
• Snow Crash
• The Diamond Age (*Try this one first maybe)
• Willian Gibson -- The "Other" cyberpunk writer
• Neuromancer
• Count Zero
• Mona Lisa Overdrive
• Burning Chrome
• Johnny Mnemonic: The Screenplay
• Virtual Light
• Idoru
• Robert Jordan The Eye of the World set
• Dinosaur Summer by Greg Bear
• Vorkosgian series by Lois McMaster Bujold
• The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis.

• By the Light of the Moon by Dean Koontz
• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
• Drowning Ruth.
• Enemy Women (Civil War era)
• Five People you meet in heaven by Mitch Albom
• Joy School by Elizabeth Berg
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• Light on Snow by Anita Shreve
• Montana 1948
• Seabiscuit
• Secret Life of Bees by Sue Kidd
• Snow In August
• Tell No One
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
• The Haj  by Uris.
• The Lady and the Unicorn; Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
• The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
• The Road from Coorain by Jill ker Conway.