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    • Comedy     • Drama     • Romance      • Sci-Fi     • Thriller    

 

Comedy
About a Boy  Nick Hornby
Bridget Jones the Edge of Reason  Helen Fielding
Bridget Jones's Diary  Helen Fielding
Fletch  Gregory McDonald
Get Shorty  Elmore Leonard
High Fidelity  Nick Nornby
Le Divorce  Diane Johnson
Must Love Dogs  Claire Cook
Strip Tease  Carl Hiaasen
The Van  Roddy Doyle

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Drama
Absolute Power  David Baldacci
The Accidental Tourist  Anne Tyler
The Age of Innocence  Edith Wharton
All Quiet on the Western Front  Erich Remarque
All the Pretty Horses  Cormac McCarthy
American Psycho  Brett Easton Ellis
Beaches  Iris Rainer Dart
Beloved  Toni Morrison
Breakfast at Tiffany's  Truman Capote
The Cider House Rules  John Irving
A Circle of Friends  Maeve Binchy
Clan of the Cave Bear  Jean Auel
A Clockwork Orange  Anthony Burgess
The Color Purple  Alice Walker
Congo  Michael Crichton
The Constant Gardner  John Le Carre
Corelli's Mandolin  Louis De Bernieres
Dances With Wolves  Michael Blake
The Deep End of the Ocean  Jacqueline Mitchard
Disclosure  Michael Crichton
The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood  Rebecca Wells
Emma  Jane Austen
Empire of the Sun  G.J. Ballard
The English Patient  Michael Ondaatje
Everything is Illuminated  Jonathan Safran Foer
The Exorcist  William Blatty
Fahrenheit 451  Ray Bradbury
Fight Club  Chuck Palaniuk
Forrest Gump  Winston Groom
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe  Fannie Flagg
The General's Daughter  Nelson DeMille
Girl With a Pearl Earring  Tracy Chevalier
The Grapes of Wrath  John Steinbeck
Great Expectations  Charles Dickens
The Horse Whisperer  Nicholas Evans
The Hours  Michael Cunningham
House of Sand and Fog  Andre Dubus
How Stella Got Her Groove Back  Terry McMillan
In Her Shoes  Jennifer Weiner
The Joy Luck Club  Amy Tan
L.A. Confidential  James Ellroy
The Last of the Mohicans  James Fenimore Cooper
Memoirs of a Geisha  Arthur Golden
Mystic River  Dennis Lehane
One True Thing  Anna Quindlen
The Orchid Thief  Susan Orlean
The Pilot's Wife  Anita Shreve
Possession  A.S. Byatt
Pride and Prejudice  Jane Austen
The Prince of Tides  Pat Conroy
Roots  Alex Haley
Schindler's List  Thomas Keneally
Sense and Sensibility  Jane Austen
A Time to Kill  John Grisham
Terms of Endearment  Larry McMurtry
Thumbsucker  Walter Kirn
The Virgin Suicides  Jeffrey Eugenides
Waiting to Exhale  Terry McMillan
White Oleander   Janet Fitch
 

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Romance
The Bridges of Madison County  Robert Waller
Chocolat  Joanne Harris
Cold Mountain  Charles Frazier
Doctor Zhivago  Boris Pasternak
Emma  Jane Austen
Gone With the Wind  Margaret Mitchell
Message in a Bottle  Nicholas Sparks
Must Love Dogs  Claire Cook
The Notebook  Nicholas Sparks
Possession  A.S. Byatt
Pride and Prejudice  Jane Austen
The Princess Bride  William Golding
A Room With a View  E.M. Forster
Sense and Sensibility  Jane Austen
Shopgirl  Steve Martin
The Thorn Birds  Colleen McCullough
A Walk to Remember  Nicholas Sparks
 

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Sci-fi
1984  George Orwell
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sleep?  (Bladerunner) Philip K. Dick
The Fellowship of the Ring  J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy  Douglas Adams
I, Robot  Isaac Asimov
Jurassic Park  Michael Crichton
The Return of the King  J.R.R. Tolkien
The Two Towers  J.R.R. Tolkien
War of the Worlds  H.G. Wells
 

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Thriller
Along Came a Spider  James Patterson
The Bone Collector  Jeffrey Deaver
The Bourne Identity  Robert Ludlum
The Bourne Supremacy  Robert Ludlum
Carrie  Stephen King
The Client  Stephen King
Cujo  Stephen King
Dead Zone  Stephen King
Derailed  James Siegel
Dracula  Bram Stoker
The Firm  John Grisham
Frankenstein  Mary Shelley
Freedomland  Richard Price
Hannibal  Thomas Harris
The Hunt For Red October  Tom Clancy
Interview With the Vampire  Anne Rice
It  Stephen King
Jaws  Peter Benchley
Jurassic Park  Michael Crichton
Kiss the Girls  James Patterson
The Manchurian Candidate  Richard Condon
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World  Patrick O'Brian
The Relic  Douglas Preston
Rosemary's Baby  Ira Levin
Sahara  Clive Cussler
The Shining  Stephen King
The Silence of the Lambs  Thomas Harris
The Sum of All Fears  Tom Clancy

  

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Last updated March 23, 2006 by Courtney Moore (cmoore@wppl.org).