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16 Favorite Authors

Stephen King - Dark suspense/horror; Frank Delaney - Irish FictionCormac McCarthy - (Very) Dark Fiction; Margaret George - Historical Fiction; Phillipa Gregory - Historical Fiction; Wally Lamb - Mainstream Fiction; Ken Follett - Historical Fiction; Patricia Cornwell - Forensic Mystery; Gregory Maguire - Fairy Tale Fiction; Augusten Burroughs - Autobiographical Sattire; Jodi Picoult - Mainstream Fiction; Edgar Allen Poe - Poetry, Dark Fiction; Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Literature; Charles Dickens - Literature; Vikas Swarup - World FictionAmy Tan - World Fiction

Great Poems: Click for author, poem

Edgar Allen Poe
Sylvia Plath
E.E. Cummings
Muriel Rukeyser
Max Ehrmann
E.E. Cummings, young

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Updated Apr 2022

11/22/1963 * 206 Bones * 1776 * 1984 * A * A Changed Man * A Confederacy of Dunces * A Dark Matter * A Doll's House * A Column of Fire * A Far Country * A Gate at the Stairs * A Gentleman in Moscow * A Good Man is Hard to Find * A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms * A Lesson Before Dying * A Lion Among Men * A Map of the World * A Painted House * A Patchwork Planet * A Reliable Wife * A Respectable Trade * A Separate Country * A Soldier of the Great War * A Spark of Light * A Star Called Henry * A Tale of Two Cities * A Tree Grows in Brooklyn * The Authenticator * A Wolf at the Table * Alice's Adventures in Wonderland * The Alchemist * All the Pretty Horses * All That Remains * The Almost Moon * American Rust * Amy & Isabelle * Amy Snow * An Anonymous Girl * An Instance of the Fingerpost * An Unkindness of Ravens * And the Mountains Echoed * Angela's Ashes * Anna Karenina * Antigone * Apt Pupil * The Art of Hearing Heartbeats * The Art of Racing in the Rain * As the Pig Turns * At Home in Mitford * Atonement * The Autobiography of Henry VIII * The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb * Away * A Wolf at the Table *  * B * The Bad Behavior of Belle Cantrell * Bag of Bones * The Beach House * Before She Knew Him * Before We Were Yours * Believing the Lie * Belong to Me * Beloved * The Bible * Billy Summers * Black and Blue * Black Notice * Blaze * Bleak House * Blood Meridian * The Bluest Eye * The Body Farm * The Boleyn Inheritance * Body of Evidence * Body of Proof * The Book of Longings * The Book of Night Women * The Book of Ruth * The Boleyn Inheritance * The Book Thief * The Book of Unholy Mischief * Breaking Silence * Broken Harbor * The Brothers Karamazov * The Brave * The Breakdown Lane * Brida * The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky * The Burgess Boys * C * The Cabinet of Curiosities * Caleb’s Crossing * Call of the Wild * Candles Burning * Cane River * Careless in Red * Carrie * The Casual Vacancy * Catch 22 * The Catcher in the Rye * Cat's Cradle * Cathedral by the Sea * Cause of Death * The Chalice * Change of Heart * Changeling * Charms for the Easy Life * Child of God * Christine * Cities of the Plain * Clock Dance * Cloud Atlas * Cold Sassy Tree * The Color Purple * The Colorado Kid * Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister * The Constant Princess * Conspirata * Cujo * Crime and Punishment * The Criminal Lawyer * The Cross Gardener * The Crossing * The Crucible * Cruel and Unusual * The Cuckoo’s Calling * Cutting for Stone * Cycle of the Werewolf * D * Dark Eagle: The Story of Benedict Arnold * The Dark Half * The Dark Tower Series * Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen * Daughter of Fortune * David Copperfield * The Dead Zone * The Death of Mrs. Westaway * Deception * The Deep End of the Ocean * Defending Jacob * Delores Claiborne * The Deposition of Father McGreevy * Devil Bones * Devil in the White City * The Devlin Diary * Diary of Anne Frank * Desperation * Discord's Apple * The Dispatcher * Dissolution * Doctor Sleep * Doctored Evidence * The Dome * Dorothy Must Die * Down the Darkest Road * Dream Catcher * Drood * Dry * The Dry * Duma Key * Dune * The Dutch House * E * The Edgar Allen Poe Collection * Edge of Eternity * Einstein * Elegy for April * Elizabeth I * Ellen Foster * The End of Oz * English * Escape from Andersonville * Etta * The Evening and the Morning * Every Last One * Evidence of Life * The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore * The Execution of Noa P. Singleton * The Expected One * The Eyes of the Dragon * F * Faithful Place * Fall of Freddy the Leaf * Fall of Giants * Fallen Masters * Falling * Fathers and Sons * The Favorite Sister * Fear of Flying * The Feminine Mystique * The Fifth Gospel * Fifteen Minutes * Fifty Shades of Gray * Final Girls * Finders Keepers * Firestarter * The Five People You Meet in Heaven * Florida * Flowers for Algernon * For One More Day * Ford County * The Forgotten Garden * Frankenstein * Frankenstein: Lost Souls * Freedom * From Potter’s Field  * G * Gap Creek * The Gargoyle * Gerald's Game * The Getaway Girls * The Girl on the Train * The Girl with all the Gifts * The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo * The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon * The Giver of Stars * Glass Houses * The Good Lawyer * Gone Girl * Gone Missing * The Good Guy * The Gospel According to the Son * Great Expectations * Great House * The Greatest Man in Cedar Hole * The Green Mile Series * The Guest Book *  H * The Hand that First Held Mine * Hannibal * Hannibal Rising * The Heart of the Sea * The Heart is a Lonely Hunter * The Heights * Helen of Troy * The Help * Henderson the Rain King * The Heretic's Daughter * Hiss and Hers * The Historian * The Home for Unwanted Girls * The Honk and Holler Opening Soon * The Hour I First Believed * The Hundred Secret Senses * The Hunger Games * The Husband's Secret * I * The Ice Queen * I Know This Much Is True * I Sing the Body Electric * If it Bleeds * If You Tell * I'll Take You There * The Illusionist * Imperium * In Cold Blood * In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner * In the Heart of the Sea * In the Woods * Indignation * The Irishman’s Daughter * The Institute * Insomnia * Into the Woods * The Invisible Bridge * Invisible Man * Ireland * Is There Life After Death? * It * J * Jane Eyre * Jewel * The Joy Luck Club * Joyland  * Just After Sunset  * K * The Keep * The Kid * Killer by Nature * Killing Lincoln * King Tut * The Kingmaker's Daughter * The Kitchen God's Wife * The Kite Runner * The Known World *  L * The Lady of the Rivers * Landsman * The Last Kingdom * The Last Lecture * Last Night in Twisted River * The Last Precinct * The Last Storyteller * The Lecture * The Left Hand of Darkness * Left Neglected * The Leftovers * Life After Life * The Life All Around Me * Life of Pi * The Lifeboat * Light from Heaven * Light On Snow * The Likeness * Little Bee * The Little Book * Little Women * Lock In * London * Lone Wolf * Look Again * Look Me in the Eye * Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade * Lord John and the Hand of  Devils * The Lost Men * The Lost Summer * Love You Forever * Lovely Bones * The Lying Game * M * Made in the USA * Magical Thinking * The Map of Time * Marie Antoinette  * The Marsh King’s Daughter * Mary, Called Magdalene * Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles * Master & God * Mayflower: A story of Courage * The Memoirs of Cleopatra * Memoirs of a Geisha * The Memory Keeper's Daughter * Midnight Cab * Midnight Son * Midwife of the Blue Ridge * Midwives * Mile 81 * The Mill on the Floss * Miriam the Medium * Mirror, Mirror * Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children * Misery * Missing Molly * Mistress of My Fate* The Mistress of Nothing * Mistress of the Art of Death * The Mists of Avalon * Mister Mercedes * The Moon is a Harsh Mistress * The Moses Expedition * Mother of Pearl * Mrs. Poe * The Murderer's Daughters * My Sister's Keeper * N * The Naked and the Dead * The Name of the Rose * Needful Things * Nine Perfect Strangers * Nineteen Minutes * Night * The Night Circus * The Night Listener *  The Night Strangers * The Night Tourist * The Ninth Hour * No Country for Old Men * Nowhere, TX  * O * Oh, the Places You'll Go! * The Old Curiosity Shop * Olive Kitteridge * Oliver Twist * Once We Were Brothers * One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest * The Opposite of Fate * The Orchard Keeper * The Orchardist * Order of Darkness *  The Orphan Master * Orphan Train * The Orphan's Tale * The Other * The Other Boleyn Girl * The Other Typist * The Other Queen * Our Lady of the Forest * Out of Oz * The Outcasts * Outer Dark * Outlander * The Outsider * P * The Penny * Pet Semetary * The Picture of Dorian Gray * Pillars of the Earth * The Plot * The Poe Shadow * Police * Port Mortuary * Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper * Possible Side Effects  * The Postmistress * Postmortem * The Power of One * Practical Magic * The Princess of Ireland * The Pull of the Moon * Q * The Queen of Subtleties * The Queen's Fool * R * Rabbit, Run * The Ransom of Red Chief * The Rapture of Canaan * The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend * The Red Devil * Red Dragon * Red Mist * The Red Queen * Red River * The Red Tent * Remarkable Creatures * Reunion at Red Paint Bay * Revelation * Revival * Rise and Shine * Rising Tide * The Road * Robinson Crusoe * The Rope Walk * Rose Madder * Running with Scissors * S * Salt to the Sea * Salem Falls * Salem's Lot * Sarah's Key * Saving Fish From Drowning * The Scandal of the Season * The Scarlet Letter * Scarpetta * The Secret Book & Scone Society * The Second Objective * Secret Garden * The Secret History * The Secret History of Witches * The Secret River * The Secret Supper * The Secret Wife of King George IV * Secrets of a Fire King * Serpent of the Crown * The Shack * Shannon * Sharp Objects * Sharpe’s Fury * She's Come Undone * The Shining * Silas Marner * The Silence of the Lambs * Silent Child * The Silent Patient * The Silver Linings Playbook * The Sister Queens * Slaughterhouse Five * Sleeping Beauties * Slumdog Millionaire * Smoke * The Snowman * Someone Knows My Name * The Son * Son of a Witch * Songs of the Humpback Whale * Songs in Ordinary Time * Sophie's Choice * The Stand * *State of Wonder * Still Alice * Still Life * Stones from the River * The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry * The Story of Edgar Sawtelle * The Stranger * Sula * Summer Island * Sun Dog * Suspect * Suttree * The Swan Thieves * The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie * Sword Song * The Sympathizer * T * The Art of Racing in the Rain * The Tailor’s Daughter * Tale of a Sky Blue Dress * The Talisman * The Tattooist of Auschwitz * Telegraph Days * Tenant of Wildfell Hall * Tess of the d'Urbervilles * That Old Ace in the Hole * The Things We Cannot Say * Thinner * The Thirteenth Tale * Third Wish * This Much I Know Is True * Those Who Saved Us * The Time Traveler's Wife * Three Sisters, Three Queens * Tipperary * The Tipping Point * Tis * To Kill a Mockingbird * The Tommyknockers * The Touch * Traveling with Pomegranates * Trouble * Truly Madly Guilty * Two Little Girls in Blue *U * The Unlikely Event * Under the Dome * The Unnamed * The Used World * V * The Valley of Amazement * Valley of the Dolls * Vengeance * Vengeance In The Woods * The Vision of Emma Blau * The Virgin's Lover * The Vineyard * W * Waiting for Columbus * Washington: A Life * The Water Dancer * Water for Elephants * The Water is Wide * The Weight of Silence * The Weight of Water * The Weird Sisters * Wench * West Cork * When Madeline was Young * Where The Crawdads Sing * Where the Sidewalk Ends * Where'd You Go, Bernadette * White Oleander * Whisper Network * The White Queen * Who Fears Death * Wicked * Wideacre * The Wife Between Us * Winter Garden * Winter of the World * The Winter Witch * Wishin' and Hopin' * The Witch of Portobello * With No One as Witness * Wolf Hall * Woman on the Edge * The Women of the Cousin's War * The World According to Garp * World Without End * The Worst Hard Time * The Worst Thing I’ve Ever Done * Worthy Brown's Daughter * Y * Yellow Brick War * The Yellow House * You Better Not Cry *

 

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