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Something Like ... The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
The Book of Names Jill Gregory & Karen Tintori
Valley of Bones Michael Gruber
The Last Cato Matilde Asensi
The Sword of the Templars Paul Christopher
The Genesis Code John Case
The Expected One Kathleen McGowan
Day of Confession  Allen Folsom 
The Testament  Eric Lustbader 
Resurrection  Tucker Malarkey 
The Medici Dagger  Cameron West 
  December 15, 2009

Memoirs with a Purpose
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle Barbara Kingsolver
Candy Girl Diablo Cody
Eat, Pray, Love Elizabeth Gilbert
Give It Up  Mary Carlomagno
Julie and Julia Julie Powell
The Know-It-All A.J. Jacobs
Not Buying It Judith Levine

Plenty

 Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon
Queen of the Road Doreen Orion
Slippery Year Melanie Gideon

So Many Books, So Little Time

 Sara Nelson
The Wishing Year Noelle Oxenhandler

The Year of Magical Thinking 

Joan Didion
The Year of Yes Maria Dahvana Headley
  August 17, 2009

Celebration of Friendship
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons Lorna Landvik
Crossing to Safety Wallace Stegner
The First Wives Club Olivia Goldsmith
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle-Stop Cafe Fannie Flagg
Friendship Cake Lynne Hinton
Little Earthquakes Jennifer Weiner
The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets Eva Rice
My Antonia Willa Cather
The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafón ; translated by Lucia Graves
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Lisa See
Where the Heart Is Billie Letts

 

Books With Bite
Blue Bloods Melissa de la Cruz
Dark Lover J.R. Ward
The Darkest Night Gena Showalter
Dead Until Dark Charlaine Harris
The Good, the Bad, and the Undead Kim Harrison
Guilty Pleasures Laurell K. Hamilton
A Hunger Like No Other Kresley Cole
Single White Vampire Lynsay Sands
Sunshine Robin McKinley
Twilight Stephanie Meyer
Undead and Unwed MaryJanice Davidson

 

Graphic Novels for Adults 
The Best of The Spirit Will Eisner
Cantarella You Higuri
Color of Rage Kazuo Koike
Hellboy Mike Mignola
Lone Wolf and Cub

Kazuo Koike
Mushishi Yuki Urushibara
Persepolis Marjane Satrapi
Powers Brian Michael Bendis
Sandman Neil Gaiman
Sin City Frank Miller
Strangers in Paradise Terry Moore
Transmetropolitan Warren Ellis
Y: The Last Man Brian Vaughan

 
Beach Reads
Amagansett Mark Mills
Beach Music Pat Conroy
Careless in Red Elizabeth George
Death in Holy Orders P.D. James 
Duma Key  Stephen King 
House of Sand and Fog  Andre Dubus III 
Jaws  Peter Benchley 
Ladder of Years  Anne Tyler 
Mangrove Squeeze  Lawrence Shames 
On Chesil Beach  Ian McEwan 
Portofino  Frank Schaeffer 
The Samurai's Garden  Gail Tsukiyama 

 

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