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If You Like British Mysteries, try these...

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AUTHOR
TITLE
Marion Babson
Murder at the Cat Show
Robert Barnard
Bodies
Gwendoline Butler
Appointment with Death
Liza Cody
Backhand
Colin Dexter
Jewel That Was Ours
Margaret Duffy
Rookshoot
Dick Francis
Longshot
Elizabeth George
For the Sake of Elena
Martha Grimes
Rough Treatment
P. D. James
Devices and Desires
Susan B. Kelly
Hope Against Hope
Peter Lovesey
The Last Detective
Anne Perry
Belgrave Square
Ruth Rendell
Kissing the Gunner’s Daughter
Betty Rowlands
Finishing Touch
Dorothy Simpson
Dead by Morning
David Williams
Treasure by Post
Margaret Yorke
A Small Deceit

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If You Like Humor, try...

Douglas Adams
Dave Barry
Thomas Berger
Peter DeVries
Nora Ephron
Paul Gallico
Dorothy Gillman
Lewis Grizzard
R. Hooker
Dan Jenkins
Garrison Keillor
Jim Lehrer
Armistead Maupin
George Plimpton
Robert Smith
Muriel Spark
Donald Westlake
P.G. Wodehouse

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If You Like John Grisham, try...

William Bernhardt
Jay Brandon
Herb Brown
Dudley W. Buffa
William Coughlin
Alan M. Dershowitz
J.F. Freedman
Philip Friedman
Sarah Gregory
Lee Grunefeld
Jean Hanff Korelitz
Stan Latreille
John T. Lescroart
Philip Margolin
Perri O’Shaughnessy
Barbara Parker
Barry Reed
Nancy Taylor Rosenberg
Lisa Socttoline
Sheldon Siegel
Grif Stockley
Robert Tanenbaum
Robert Traver
Scott Turow

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Novels Involving Sailing & Diving

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AUTHOR
TITLE
David Poyer
The Tiller Galloway diving thrillers:
Bahamas Blue
Hatteras Blue
Louisiana Blue
Doug Allyn
The Mitch Mitchell diving mysteries:
(Set in Michigan)

Icewater Mansions
Black Water
A Dance in Deep Water
Nevada Barr
A Superior Death
Clive Cussler
The Dirk Pitt diving series:
Mediterranean Caper
Iceberg
Raise the Titanic
Vixen 03
Night Probe Pacific Vortex
Deep Six
Cyclops
Treasure
Dragon Sahara
Inca Gold
Shock Wave
Flood Tide
Atlantis Found
Ray Sipherd
The Courtship of Peggy McCoy
Peter Matthiessen
Far Tortuga
James Thayer
Force 12

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If You Want Historical Naval and Sea Stories, Try These Authors:

Alistar MacLean
Kent Alexander
C.S. Forester
Dewey Lambdin
Philip McCutchan

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If You Like Novels About Hollywood...

AUTHOR
TITLE
Sally Beauman
Destiny
Pat Booth
Malibu
Barbara Bradford
Voice of the Heart
Jacqueline Briskin
Dreams Are Not Enough
Mary Higgins Clark
Weep No More My Lady
Henry Denker
The Retreat
Alan Ebert
Traditions
Carrie Fisher
Postcards From the Edge
Elizabeth Gage
A Glimpse of Stocking
Thomas Gifford
Hollywood Gothic
Susan Howatch
Glittering Images
Howard Kaminsky
Talent
Linda Lane
Malibu 90265
Claire Rayner
"The Performer" Series
Danielle Steel
Secrets
Star
Thomas Tryon
All That Glitters
Rebecca West
Sunflower

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Civil War Novels

AUTHOR
TITLE
Bahr, Howard
The Black Flower
Bass, Cynthia
Sherman’s March
Bean, Frederic
Lorena
Brown, Dee Alexander
The Way to Bright Star
Coleman, Lonnie
Look Away, Beulah Land
Coyle, Harold
Look Away
Cornwell, Bernard
The Bloody Ground
Crane, Stephen
The Red Badge of Courage
Foote, Shelby
Shiloh
Frazier, Charles
Cold Mountain
Gear, Kathleen O’Neal
Thin Moon and Cold Mist
Gibbons, Kaye
On The Occasion of my Last Afternoon
Gurganus, Allan
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
Jakes, John
Love and War
Jones, Douglas C.
The Barefoot Brigade
Jones, Ted
Grant’s War
Hard Road to Gettysburg
Judd, Cameron
Season of Reckoning
Kantor, MacKinlay
Andersonville
Keneally, Thomas
Confederates
Madden, David
Sharpshooter
McCaig, Donald
Jacob’s Ladder
McColley, Kevin
The Other Side
McCoy, Max
Sons of Fire
Mitchell, Margaret
Gone With The Wind
Parry, Owen
Shadows of Glory
Plain, Belva
Crescent City
Reno, Marie R.
When the Music Changed
Shaara, Jeff
The Last Full Measure
Smith, Johnny Neil
Hillcountry Warriors
Thane, Elswyth
Yankee Stranger

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Pioneer Women

Non-Fiction
TITLE
AUTHOR
Women’s Diaries of the Westward Journey
Lillian Schlissel
Home on the Range
Cathy Luchetti
Pioneer Women
Linda Peavy
Letters of a Woman Homesteader
Elinore Pruitt Stewart
Nothing To Do But Stay
Carrie Young

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Fiction


Fiction
TITLE
AUTHOR
True Women
Janice Woods Windle
No Roof But Heaven
Jeanne Williams
The Wedding Dress: stories from the Dakota Plains
Carrie Young
Overland Trail
Wendi W. Lee
Fearless: a novel of Sarah Bowman
Lucia St.Clair Robson
Thin Moon and Cold Mist
Kathleen O’Neal Gear
Walking West
Noelle Sickels
The Homesman
Glendon Swarthout
These Is My Words
Nancy E. Turner
O Pioneers!
Willa Cather
Into the Wilderness
Sara Donati

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Tales of the Wild West

AUTHOR
TITLE
Jack Ballas
Hard Land
Frederic Bean
Black Gold
Clifford Blair
The Eastern Gun
Mike Blakely
The Snowy Range Gang
Doug Bowman
H & R Cattle Company
Bill Brooks
The Last Law There Was
Ralph Compton
Sundowners Trilogy
Ralph W. Cotton
Powder River
Judson Gray
Hunter’s Run (series)
Douglas Hirt
Assassination
Lewis P. Patten
Lynching at Broken Butte
Gary Paulsen
Al Murphy (series)
Mike Roake
First Frontier (series)
Dana Fuller Ross
Wagons West Series
David Thompson
Wilderness (series)
Richard S. Wheeler
Skye’s West

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Cooking Up A Mystery

Mystery authors whose detectives know their way around the kitchen!)
Susan Wittig Albert
Christine Andreae
Claudia Bishop
Michael Bond
Camilla T. Crespi
Diane Mott Davidson
Selma Eichler
Ruthe Furie
Jaqueline Girdner
Ellen Hart
Peter King
Janet Laurence
Nan & Ivan Lyons
G.A. McKevett
Tamar Myers
Katherine Hall Page
Joanne Pence
Nancy Pickard
Virginia Rich
Corinne Holt Sawyer
Lou Jane Temple

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Time Travel Romance Bookshelf

AUTHOR
TITLE
Baker, Laura
Stargazer
Baker, Madeline
Under a Prairie Moon
Barrett, Victoria
Maybe This Time
Berg, Patti
If I Can’t Have You
Brisbin, Terri
A Matter of Time
Goodger, Jane
Memories of You
Grant, Susan
Once a Pirate
Hallam, Elizabeth
Spirit Catcher
Hannah, Kristin
Waiting for the Moon
Howard, Linda
Son of the Morning
Jones, Linda
On a Wicked Wind
Kurland, Lynn
The More I See You
Moffett, Julie
A Double Edged Blade
Medeiros, Teresa
A Touch of Enchantment
Moning, Karen Marie
Beyond the Highland Mist
O’Brien, Judith
Maiden Voyage
O’Day-Flannery, Constance
Anywhere You Are
Overfield, Joan
Time’s Tapestry
Wellington, Janet
Forever Rose

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Young & Single In the City

AUTHOR
TITLE
Banks, Melissa
The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing
Bartolomeo, Christina
Cupid and Diana
Bird, Sarah
Boyfriend School
Christensen, Kate
In the Drink
Fforde, Katie
Stately Pursuits
Fielding, Helen
Bridget Jone’s Diary
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Finnamore, Suzanne
Otherwise Engaged
Forrester, Anouchka
Ringing for You
Harayda, Janice
The Accidental Bride
Hayter, Sparkle
What’s a Girl Got to Do
Nice Girls Finish Last
Revenge of the Cootie Girls
Henderson, Lauren
Black Rubber Dress
Freeze My Margarita
Holden, Wendy
Simply Divine
Keyes, Marian
Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married
Watermelon
Zigman, Laura
Animal Husbandry

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The Adventure Bookshelf

Benchley, Peter
Bond, Larry
Brown, Dale
Cannell, Stephen J.
Clancy, Tom
Cobb, James H.
Coonts, Stephen
Cornwell, Bernard
Cussler, Clive
DeMille, Nelson
DiMercurio, Michael
Flannery, Sean
Follett, Ken
Gifford, Thomas
Goddard, Ken
Griffin, W.E.B.
Hagberg, David
Higgins, Jack
Ing, Dean
Lindsay, Paul
Lindsey, David
Lustbader, Eric van
MacLean, Alistair
Morrell, David
O’Brian, Patrick
Pearson, Ryne Douglas
Poyer, David
Riker, H. Jay
Stewart, Chris
Thayer, James Stewart

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Mysteries For Cat & Dog Lovers

Cats
 
Adamson, Lydia
Babson, Marian
Barnes, Linda
Braun, Lillian Jackson
Brown, Rita Mae
Dawson, Janet
Douglas, Carole Nelson
Lockridge, Frances
Murphy, Shirley Rousseau
Dogs
 
Benjamin, Carol Lea
Berenson, Laurien
Bond, Michael
Cleary, Melissa
Cody, Liza
Conant, Susan
Lanier, Virginia
Stabenow, Dana
Wilson, Karen

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Humorous Romance Writers

Susan Andersen
Jill Barnett
Elizabeth Bevarly
Sarah Bird
Loretta Chase
Jennifer Crusie
Geralyn Dawson
Janet Evanovich
Patricia Gaffney
Rachel Gibson
Jane Heller
Stef Ann Holm
Kay Hooper
Marian Keyes
Teresa Medeiros
Barbara Metzger
Pamela Morsi
Linda Nichols
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Patricia Roy

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World War II Fiction Booklist

AUTHOR
TITLE
Bernau, George
Black Phoenix
Diehl, William
The Hunt
Erdman, Paul
Swiss Account
Follett, Ken
Eye of the Needle
Key to Rebecca
Night Over Water
Folsom, Allan
Day After Tomorrow
Gifford, Thomas
Praetorian
Griffin, W.E.B.
Honor Bound
Soldier Spies
Harris, Robert
Enigma
Higgins, Jack
Cold Harbour
Eagle Has Landed
Sheba
Storm Warning
Illes, Greg
Black Cross
Spandau Phoenix
Kaplan, Andrew
War of the Raven
Lehrer, Jim
Special Prisoner
McCutchan, Philip
His "Convoy" series
Meade, Glenn
Sands of Sakkara
Poyer, David
The Only Thing to Fear
Reich, Christopher
The Runner
Silva, Daniel
The Unlikely Spy
Stephenson, Neal
Cryptonomicon
Thayer, James Stewart
Five Past Midnight
Wouk, Herman
The Caine Mutiny

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A Romantic Suspense Booklist

AUTHOR
TITLE
Elizabeth Adler
The Secret of the Villa Mimosa
Michael Allegretto
The Watchman
Barbara Taylor Bradford
Remember
Marilyn Campbell
See How They Run
Rachel Canon
The Anniversary
Mary Higgins Clark
Any Title!
Nicholas Conde
In the Deep Woods
Joy Fielding
Missing Pieces
Suzanne Forster
Husband, Lover, Stranger
Lisa Gardner
The Perfect Husband
Christine Heggan
Suspicion
Tami Hoag
Still Waters
Kay Hooper
Finding Laura
Susan Isaacs
Red, White and Blue
Lisa Jackson
Unspoken
Elizabeth Lowell
Amber Beach
Patricia MacDonald
The Secret Admirer
William Martin
Nerve Endings
Barbara Michaels
Dancing Floor
Carla Neggars
Night Scents
Patricia O’Brien
Good Intentions
Heather Graham Pozzesserre
If Looks Could Kill
J.D. Robb
Glory in Death
Karen Robards
Hunter’s Moon
Nora Roberts
Sweet Revenge
Sharon Sala
Remember Me
Meryl Sawyer
Tempting Fate
Robyn Sisman
Special Relationship
Anne Stuart
Winter’s Edge
Susan Wade
Walking Rain
Marilyn Wallace
Current Danger
Theresa Weir
Cool Shade
Marianne Wesson
Render Up the Body
Phyllis Whitney
Amethyst Dreams
Barbara Victor
Coriander

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