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Generational Sagas

Thrillers

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Science Fiction

 

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Fiction

Inspirational Fiction

Detectives

Romance

 

If you like...

Janet Evanovich | Danielle Steel | Nora Roberts | Jan Karon's Mitford Series

For Nora Roberts Fans (or anyone who enjoys Romantic Suspense)

Elizabeth Adler

Susan Anderson

Beverly Barton

Terri Blackstock

Suzanne Brockman

Sandra Brown

Stella Cameron

Mary Higgins Clark

Jan Coffey

Catherine Coulter

Jasmine Cresswell

Eileen Dreyer

Lynn Erickson

Joy Fielding

Suzanne Forster

Lisa Gardner

Heather Graham

Karen Harper

Dee Henderson

Tami Hoag

Kay Hooper

Linda Howard

Lisa Jackson

Iris Johansen

Jayne Ann Krentz

Rachel Lee

Gennita Low

Elizabeth Lowell

Alex Kava

Dinah McCall

Meagan McKinney

Judith McNaught

Barbara Michaels

Hunter Morgan

Doris Mortman

Helen R. Myers

Carla Neggers

Amanda Quick

Karen Robards

J.D. Robb

Karen Rose

Jo Ann Ross

Sharon Sala

Meryl Sawyer

Taylor Smith

Erica Spindler

Mariah Stewart

Katherine Stone

Phyllis Whitney

 

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Janet Evanovich

Susan Anderson

Donna Andrews – Meg Lanslow Series

Linda Barnes – Carlotta Carlyle Series

Nancy Bartholomew – Sierra Lavotini Mysteries

Anthony Bruno – Kovacs & Marvelli Series

Jan Burke – Irene Kelly Series

Jill Churchill – Jane Jeffry Series

Harlan Coben – Myron Bolitar Series

Jennifer Crusie – Tell Me Lies & Crazy for You

Selma Eichler – Desiree Shapiro Series

G.M. Ford – Leo Waterman Series

Carolina Garcia-Aguilera – Lupe Solano Mysteries

Carl Hiaasen

Sparkle Hayter – Robin Hudson Series

Jane Heller – Princess Charming

Lauren Henderson – Sam Jones Mysteries

Susan Isaacs – Compromising Positions & After All These Years

Marne Davis Kellogg – Lilly Bennet Mysteries

Laura Lippman – Tess Monaghan Series

Lindsey Maracotta – Lucy Freers Mysteries

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Marissa Piesman – Nina Fischman Mysteries

Gillina Roberts – Amanda Pepper Series

Chris Rogers – Dixie Flannigan Series

Jane Rubino – Cat Austen Mysteries

Jen Sacks – Nice

Sarah Shankman – Samantha Adams Series

Sarah Strohmeyer – Bubbles Yablonsky Series

Kathy Hogan Trochek – Callahan Garrity Series

 

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For Danielle Steel Fans

Elizabeth Adler

Charlotte Vale Allen

Pat Booth

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Jacqueline Briskin

Diane Chamberlain

Jackie Collins

Shirley Conran

Julie Ellis

Elizabeth Gage

Eileen Goudge

Judith Gould

Kristin Hannah

Susan Isaacs

Judith Krantz

Judith Michael

Fern Michaels

Doris Mortman

Anne Rivers Siddons

Katherine Stone

Nancy Thayer

Laura Van Wormer

 

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Jan Karon’s Mitford Series

Nancy Atherton

Lois Battle

Dan Binchy

Ann Brandt

Elizabeth Cadell

Jane Duncan

Clyde Edgerton

Annie Garrett

Elizabeth Goudge

Emily Grayson

Phillip Gulley

Helene Hanff

J. Lynn Hinton

Catherine Ryan Hyde

Lorna Landvik

Catherine Marshall

Evan Maxwell

K.C. McKinnon

Joan Medlicott

L.M. Montgomery

Rosamund Pilcher

James Michael Pratt

Barbary Pym

Miss Read

Julie Salamon

Cathleen Schine

Richard Siddoway

Madeleine Babcock Smith

Robert Kimmell Smith

D.E. Stevenson

E.L. Swann

Angela Thirkell

Robert James Waller

Effie Wilder

Susan Wilson

Harold Bell Wright

 

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Thrillers

Medical Thrillers | TechnoThrillers | Legal Thrillers | Psychological Suspense

Medical Thrillers

Hannah Alexander

Gary Braver

John Case

April Christofferson

Peter Clement

Robin Cook

Michael Cordy

Patricia Cornwell

Michael Crichton

Margaret Cuthbert

John Darnton

Eileen Dreyer

Tess Gerritsen

Leonard Goldberg

Gwen Hunter

Gregg Hurwitz

William Katz

Jonathan Kellerman

Mary Kittredge

Daniel Klein

Harry Lee Kraus

Patrick Lynch

Ben Mezrich

Michael Palmer

Stanley Pottinger

Richard Preston

Kathy Reichs

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Leah Ruth Robinson

Steven Spruill

Harry Stein

F. Paul Wilson

 

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Technothrillers

Mark Berent

Larry Bond

Dale Brown

Joe Buff

Jimmie Butler

Stephen Cannell

Gerry Carroll

Tom Clancy

James H. Cobb

Stephen Coonts

H.W. Coyle

Herbert Crowder

Michael DiMercurio

Greg Dinallo

David Hagberg

Payne Harrison

Richard Herman, Jr.

James W. Huston

Anthony Hyde

Dean Ing

Mark Joseph

Gordon Kent

Robert Ludlum

Bob Mayer

David E. Meadows

David Morrell

John Nance

Ralph Peters

R.J. Pinero

David Poyer

Matthew Reilly

Timothy Rizzi

Patrick Robinson

Ed Ruggero

Julian Savarin

Chris Stewart

Craig Thomas

Joe Weber

Robin A. White

 

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Psychological Suspense

Donna Anders

William Bayner

John Case

Mary Higgins Clark

Patricia Cornwell

Jeffery Deaver

Joy Fielding

Lisa Gardner

Thomas Harris

Kay Hooper

Greg Iies

John Katzenbach

Jonathan Kellerman

Dennis Lehane

David Lindsey

Patricia MacDonald

Richard Montanari

Carol O’Connell

Elizabeth Ogilvie

James Patterson

Ridley Pearson

Thomas Perry

Tom Savage

Michael Slade

Erica Spindler

Carlene Thompson

Mary Willis Walker

David Wiltse

 

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Legal Thrillers

William Bernhardt

Jay Brandon

William Coughlin

Robert Daley

William Diehl

Michael C. Eberhardt

Linda Fairstein

J.F. Friedman

Phillip Friedman

Tim Green

Stephen Greenleaf

John Grisham

Jeremiah Healy

George Higgins

Clifford Irving

John T. Lescroart

Harry Levy

Phillip Margolin

Steve Martini

Lia Matera

Perri O’Shaugnessy

Barbara Parker

Richard North Patterson

David Rosenfelt

Nancy Taylor Rosenberg

Lisa Scottoline

Barry Siegel

Sheldon Siegel

Robert Tannenbaum

William Tappley

Scott Turow

Kate Wilhelm

 

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Fiction

Feel Good Fiction | Inspirational Fiction

Inspirational Fiction

Hannah Alexander

Lynn Austin

June Masters Bacher

Faith Baldwin

James Scott Bell

Carrie Bender

Angela Benson

Lisa Tawn Bergren

Terri Blackstock

Stephen & Janet Bly

T. Davis Bunn

Jack Cavanaugh

Lori Copeland

Ted Dekker

Sharon Ewell Foster

Janie Holt Giles

Joseph Girzone

Robin Jones Gunn

Karen Hancock

Robin Lee Hatcher

Kristin Heitzmann

Dee Henderson

Kathy Herman

Patricia Hickman

Grace Livingston Hill

B.J. Hoff

Angela Elwell Hunt

Jerry B. Jenkins

Barbara Johnson

Karen Kingsbury

Beverly Lewis

David Ryan Long

Emilie Loring

Catherine Marshall

Gilbert Morris

Nancy Moser

Bill Myers

Janette Oke

Jane Peart

Judith Pella

Frank Peretti

Tracie Peterson

Michael Phillips

Jonathan Rabb

Francine Rivers

Elizabeth Seifert

James Shott

Lauraine Snelling

Penelope Stokes

Essie Summers

Booth Tarkington

Ann Tatlock

Bodie Thoene

Brock Thoene

Marian Wells

Lori Wick

Sally Wright

Lance Wubbels

 

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Feel Good Fiction

Emma – Jane Austen

Wish You Were Here -  David Baldacci

Hens Dancing – Raffaela Barker

Florabana Ladies Auxiliary & Sewing Circle – Lois Battle

Mapp and Lucia – E.F. Benson

Open House – Elizabeth Berg

Silver Wedding – Maeve Binchy

Free Fall of Webster Cummings – Tom Bodett

Rose’s Garden – Carrie Brown

Cold Sassy Tree – Olive Ann Burns

Quilter’s Apprentice – Jennifer Chiaverini

Alice’s Tulips – Sandra Dallas

Diary of a Provincial Lady – E.M. Delafield

One Pair of Hands – Monica Dickens

Walking Across Egypt – Clive Edgerton

Jim the Boy – Tony Early

The Parting Gift – Ben Erickson

Esperanza’s Box of Saints – Maria Escandon

Life Skills – Katie Fforde

Fried Green Tomatoes – Fannie Flagg

Saving Graces – Patricia Gaffney

Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell

Charms for an Easy Life – Kaye Gibbons

Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons

No Other Place – John Gould

A Painted Horse – John Grisham

Home to Harmony – Phillip Gulley

On Mystic Lake – Kristin Hannah

Plainsong – Kent Haruf

Friendship Cake – J. Lynn Hinton

Pay it Forward – Catherine Ryan Hyde

Their Eyes Were Watching God ­– Zora Neale Hurston

A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving

When We Were Orphans -  Kazuo Isiguro

At Home in Mitford – Jan Karon

Taking Lottie Home – Terry Kay

Patty Jane’s House of Curl – Linda Landvik

To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

Where the Heart is – Billie Letts

Sarah, Plain and Tall – Patricia MacLachlan

Christy – Catherine Marshall

Ladies of Covington Send Their Love – Joan Medlicott

Anne of Green Gables – L.M. Montgomery

Through a Glass Darkly – Gilbert Morris

River Midnight – Lilian Nattel

Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas – James Patterson

Winter Solstice – Rosamunde Pilcher

Shipping News – Annie Proulx

Some Tame Gazelle – Barbara Pym

Julie and Romeo – Jeanne Ray

Swimming in the Starry River – P.C. Reid

Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind – Ann B. Ross

The Autobiography of Foudini M. Cat – Susan Fromberg Schaeffer

I Capture the Castle – Dodie Smith

Lemon Jelly Cake – Madeline Babcock Smith

Blue Bottle Club – Penelope Stokes

World of Pies – Karen Stolz

Father of the Bride – Edward Streeter

The Hundred Secret Senses – Amy Tan

Country Chronicle – Angela Thirkill

Big Stone Gap – Adriana Trigiani

The Samurai’s Garden – Gail Tsukiyama

Quite a Year for Plums – Bailey White

Out to Pasture – Eddie Leland Wilder

Shepherd of the Hills – Harold Bell Wright

 

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Westerns

Jack Ballas

Winifred Blevins

Max Brand

Matthew Braun

Don Coldsmith

Judd Cole

Ralph Compton

Robert J. Conley

Ralph Cotton

Jason Elder

Mike Flanagan

Brian Garfield

Zane Grey

Cynthia Haseloff

Ernest Haycox

Will Henry

Ray Hogan

William W. Johnstone

Cameron Judd

Elmer Kelton

Louis L’Amour

Karl Lassiter

Wolf Mackenna

Hank Mitchum

Frank O’Rourke

Stephen Overholser

Frank Roderus

Gene Shelton

Luke Short

David Thompson

Charles G. West

Richard S. Wheeler

 

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Generational Sagas

Elizabeth Adler

Jeffrey Archer

Leona Blair

Jacqueline Bimingham

Phillippa Carr

James Clavell

Lonnie Coleman

Catherine Cookson

Gay Courter

Mario De La Roche

R.F. Delderfield

Julie Ellis

Howard Fast

Cynthia Freeman

Catherine Gaskin

Kathleen O’Neal Gear

Marilyn Harris

Susan Howatch

John Jakes

Barbara Kingsolver

Terry C. Johnston

Rosalind Laker

William Stuart Long

Mary Mackey

Hillary Norman

Jean Plaidy

Belva Plain

Donald Clayton Porter

Eugenia Price

Alexandra Ripley

Dada Fuller Ross

Jessica Stirling

Jean Stubbs

Madge Swindells

James Alexander Thom

Barbara Whitnell

Herman Wouk

Nancy Zaroulis

 

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Science Fiction

Poul Anderson

Isaac Asimov

John Barnes

Greg Bear

Ben Bova

Marion Zimmer Bradley

David Brin

John Brunner

Lois McMaster Bujold

Orson Scott Card

C.J. Cherryh

Arthur C. Clarke

L. Sprague de Camp

Philip Jose Farmer

Joe Haldeman

Harry Harrison

Frank Herbert

Keith Laumer

Ursula K. Le Guin

Paul McAuley

Anne McCaffrey

Jack McDevitt

Vonda McIntyre

L.E. Modesitt

Elizabeth Moon

Michael Moorcock

Larry Niven

Frederick Pohl

Melissa Scott

Joan Slonczewski

Harry Turtledove

 

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Horror Novelists

Steven Alten

V.C. Andrews

Kelley Armstrong

Clive Barker

William Peter Blatty

James Blaylock

Robert Bloch

Alice Borchardt

Poppy Z. Brite

Ramsey Campbell

Lincoln Child

Douglas Clegg

John Coyne

Frank De Felitta

Tananarive Due

S.K. Epperson

John Farris

Charles Grant

Laurell K. Hamilton

Barry Hoffman

Jeanne Kalogridlis

Stephen King

Dean R. Koontz

Ira Levin

Bentley Little

Brian Lumley

Robert B. McCammon

Christopher Pike

Douglas Preston

Anne Rice

John Saul

Dan Simmons

Bran Stoker

Peter Straub

Whitley Strieber

Thomas Tryon

Bari Wood

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

 

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Fantasy Fiction

Piers Anthony

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Terry Brooks

Gordon R. Dickson

Stephen R. Donaldson

Dave Duncan

Devind Eddings

Raymond E. Feist

Barbara Hambly

Tracy Hickman

Katherine Kerr

Katherine Kurtz

Mercedes Lackey

Stephen Lawhead

Tanith Lee

Fritz Leiber

Anne McCaffrey

R.A. MacAvoy

George R.R. Martin

L.E. Modesitt

Andre Norton

Tamora Pierce

Terry Pratchett

Melanie Rawn

J.K Rowling

Christopher Stasheff

Judith Tarr

J.R.R. Tolkien

Margaret Weis

 

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Romance

For Contemporary Romance Fans | Historical Romance

For Contemporary Romance Fans

Catherine Anderson

Mary Lynn Baxter

Jennifer Crusie

Janet Dailey

Barbara Delinsky

Jude Deveraux

Kathleen Eagle

Olivia Goldsmith

Joan Johnston

Jayne Ann Krentz

Rachel Lee

Debbie Macomber

Hilary Norman

Diana Palmer

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Belva Plain

Luanne Rice

Emilie Richards

Christina Skye

Deborah Smith

 

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Historical Romance

Catherine Anderson

Mary Balogh

Jo Beverly

Rosanne Bittner

Susan Carroll

Elaine Coffman

Tracy Cozzens

Geralyn Dawson

Jude Deveraux

Christina Dodd

Shannon Drake

Cassie Edwards

Jo Ann Ferguson

Dorothy Garlock

Julie Garwood

Heather Graham

Lorraine Heath

Shirl Henke

Virginia Henley

Norah Hess

Hannah Howell

Miranda Jarrett

Samantha James

Brenda Joyce

Betina Krahn

Jill Marie Landris

Stephanie Laurens

Johanna Lindsay

Elizabeth Lowell

Kat Martin

May McGoldrick

Judith McNaught

Linda Lael Miller

Pamela Morsi

Judith O’Brien

Maggie Osborne

Amanda Quick

Julia Quinn

Cheryl Reavis

Janelle Taylor

Jodi Thomas

Anna Lee Waldo

Kathleen Woodiwiss

 

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Detective

Private Detectives | Police Procedurals | Amateur Detectives | English Detectives

Police Procedurals

John Ball

James Lee Burke

William Caunitz

John Connelly

Michael Connelly

K.C. Constantine

Thomas H. Cook

Robert Daley

Lesley Egan

Lisa Gardner

Leslie Glass

Sue Henry

Joan Hess

Tony Hillerman

J.A. Jance

William Katz

Alex Kava

Faye Kellerman

Marne Davis Kellogg

Elizabeth Linington

Ed McBain

Carol O’Connell

James Patterson

Ridley Pearson

Clyde Phillips

Patrick Quinn

J.D. Robb

Lawrence Sanders

John Stanford

Dorothy Simpson

Aimee & David Thurlo

 

 

 

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Amateur Detectives

Lydia Adamson

Susan Wittig Albert

M.C. Beaton

Lillian Jackson Braun

Dorothy Cannell

Jill Churchill

Liza Cody

Beverly Conner

Amanda Cross

Elizabeth Daly

Barbara D’Amato

Dianne Mott Davidson

Janet Evanovich

Earlene Fowler

Dick Francis

Dorothy Gilman

Carolyn Hart

Joan Hess

Jonathan Kellerman

Harry Kemelman

Karen Kijewski

Sharyn McCrumb

Carol Ann O’Marie

Iain Pears

Thomas Perry

Elizabeth Peters

Nancy Pickard

Candace Robb

Gillian Roberts

Elliot Roosevelt

Kathy Hogan Trochek

Andrew Vachss

Mary Willis Walker

 

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English Detectives

Catherine Aird

Jeffery Ashford

Marian Babson

Robert Barnard

Agatha Christie

John Creasey

Clare Curzon

Colin Dexter

E.X. Ferrars

Anthea Fraser

Elizabeth George

Martha Grimes

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

John Harvey

Reginald Hill

John Buxton Hilton

P.D. James

Peter Lovesy

Jill McGown

Ngaio Marsh

John Milne

Anne Perry

Elizabeth Peters

Ruth Rendell

Peter Robinson

Dorothy L. Sayers

Josephine Tey

Peter Turnbull

Patricia Wentworth

 

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Private Detectives

Linda Barnes

K.K. Beck

Eleanor Taylor Bland

Raymond Chandler

George Chesbro

Liza Cody

Robert Crais

Sarah Dunant

Earl Emerson

Sue Grafton

Stephen Greenleaf

Dashiell Hammett

J.F. Healy

Jonnie Jacobs

Stuart Kaminsky

Karen Kijewski

Lynda La Plante

Dennis Lehane

Elmore Leonard

Ross Macdonald

Margaret Maron

Marcia Muller

Sara Paretsky

Robert B. Parker

Sandra West Prowell

Barbara Seranella

Dana Stabenow

Rex Stout

Valerie Wilson Wesley

 

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