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Animal Narratives

• Animal Farm by George orwell
• Archy and Mehitabel by Don Marquis
• The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
• The Bear Went Over the Mountain by William Kotzwinkle
• The Bees by Laline Paull
• Call of the Wild by Jack London
• Dog on It: a Chet and Bernie mystery by Spencer Quinn
• A Dog's Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron
• Fifteen Dogs by Andre Alexis
• Mrs. Murphy series by Rita Mae Brown
• One Good Dog by Susan Wilson
• The Plague Dogs by Richard Adams
• Redwall series by Brian Jacques
• Sight Hound by Pam Houston
• Silent Sky; the incredible extinction of the passenger pigeon by Allan W. Eckert
• The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
• Watership Down by Richard Adams

Cats in Mysteries

• Barbara D’Amato
• Blaize Clement
• Carole Nelson Douglas
• Charlotte McLeod
• Diane Duane
• Edward Gorman
• Frances Lockridge
• Garrison Allen
• Janet Dawson
• Lawrence Block
• Lillian Jackson Braun
• Linda Barnes
• M.K. Wren
• Patricia Reilly Giff
• Peter Gethers
• Rita Mae Brown
• Shirley Rousseau
• Tailchaser's Song by Tad Williams
• Tanya Huff

Dogs in fiction

• A Dog Named Christmas by Gregory D. Kincaid
• A Dog’s Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron
• The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
• Blind Bloodhound Justice by Virginia Lanier
• Call of the Wild by Jack London
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night by Mark Haddon
• Dog Stories by James Herriot
• Jack and Jamie Series by Lee Charles Kelley
• Sight Hound by Pam Houston
• The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
• Watchers by Dean Koontz
• Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

Fiction

• A Matter of Time by Jessamyn West
• Blue Diary by Alice Hoffman
• Breathing Lessons by Ann Tyler
• Camilla’s Roses by Bernice McFadden
• Coast Road by Barbara Delinsky
• Dancing Through the Shadows by Theresa Tomlinson
• Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert
• Life Before Death by Abby Frucht
• Lightning by Danielle Steel
• Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
• My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
• One True Thing by Anna Quindlen
• Season of Blessing by Beverly LaHaye
• Seaview Inn by Sherryl Woods
• Spence + Lila by Bobbie Ann Mason
• Still Alice by Lisa Genova
• Sudden Change of Heart by Barbara Taylor Bradford
• Talk Before Sleep by Elizabeth Berg
• The Saving Graces by Patricia Gaffney

Nonfiction

• ALS Saved My Life... Until It Didn't by Dr. Jenni Kleinman Berebitsky
• Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest To Make Doctors Believe In Women’s Pain by Abby Norman
• My Lovely Wife In The Psych Ward By Mark Lukach
• The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays By Esmé Weijun Wang
• The Diving Bell And The Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
• The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
• This is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay
• When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

• Carly Phillips
• Catherine Anderson
• Helen Fielding
• Hester Browne
• Jane Austen
• Jane Green
• Janet Evanovich
• Jennifer Crusie
• Jennifer Weiner
• Jodie Picoult
• Kristin Hannah
• Lauren Weisberger
• Marian Keyes
• Marion Chesney
• Mary Kay Andrews
• Meg Cabot
• Patti Berg
• Sophie Kinsella
• Susan Andersen
• Susan Mallery
• Terry McMillan

Loss of Senses:

• • An Equal Music by Vikram Seth (hearing loss)
  • Servants of the Map by Andrea Barrett (hearing loss)
  • Person or Persons Unknown by Bruce Alexander (blindness)
  • Blood Trail by Tanya Huff (blindness)

Paralysis/Loss of Limbs:

• • • Wild Life by Molly Gloss (wooden leg)
    • The Wooden Leg of Inspector Anders by Marshall Browne

Physical Deformity:

• • A Bride for Donnigan by Janette Oke (limb length discrepancy)
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo (disfiguration)
  • The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet by David Mitchell (disfiguration)

Nonfiction

• • • Disability Visibility by Alice Wong
    • Golem Girl by Riva Lehrer
    • Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law by Haben Girma
    • Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson
    • Sitting Pretty by Rebekah Taussig

Famil sagas

• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
• Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane
• The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
• Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah
• The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
• The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
• The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
• The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo
• The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
• Salt Houses by Hala Alyan
• The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
• White Teeth by Zadie Smith

Authors

• Alex Haley
• Anne Rice
• Barbara Taylor Bradford
• Belva Plain
• Catherine Cookson
• Colleen McCullough
• Diana Gabaldon
• Dorothy Dunnett
• Eileen Goudge
• Evelyn Waugh
• Fannie Flagg
• Fern Michaels
• Frank Herbert
• Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Janet Dailey
• John Jakes
• Kasey Michaels
• Mary Renault
• Philippa Carr
• Philippa Gregory
• Roberta Gellis
• Rosamunde Pilcher
• Sara Donati
• V.C. Andrews

Foster care/adoption

• A Mercy by Toni Morrison
• The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
• Chesapeake Blue by Nora Roberts
• The Child Called It series by Dave Pelzer
• Digging to America by Anne Tyler
• Fortune’s Rocks by Anita Shreve
• Frank Fowler, the Cash Boy by Horatio Alger
• The Hope of Refuge by Cindy Woodsmall
• The Lost Daughters of China by Karin Evans
• The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
• The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint by Brady Udall
• Parting Gifts by Charlotte Vale Allen
• Run by Ann Patchett
• Three Little Words by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
• White Oleander by Janet Fitch

Epic Fantasy:

• Josiah Bancroft
• Terry Brooks
• Steven Erikson
• Robin Hobb
• Robert Jordan
• Ursula K. Leguin
• George R.R. Martin
• Phillip Pullman
• Patrick Rothfuss
• Brandon Sanderson
• J.R.R. Tolkien

Dark Fantasy:

• Joe Abercrombie
• Leigh Bardugo
• Anne Bishop
• Neil Gaiman
• Victor Lavalle
• Garth Nix
• Stephen King
• Anne Rice
• R.A. Salvatore

Humorous Fantasy:

• Douglas Adams
• Nicholas Eames
• Scott Lynch
• Douglas Moore
• Terry Pratchett

Modern Fantasy

• Ben Aaronovitch
• Patricia Briggs
• Jim Butcher
• Cassandra Clare
• Jasper Fforde
• Kieron Gillen
• Lev Grossman
• N.K. Jemisin
• Ann Leckie
• Ken Liu
• Rick Riordan
• J.K. Rowling
• V.E. Schwab
• G. Willow Wilson

Historical Fantasy

• Katherine Arden
• S. A. Chakraborty
• Zen Cho
• Susanna Clarke
• Bernard Cornwell
• Diana Gabaldon
• Theodora Goss
• Guy Gavriel Kay
• Erin Morgenstern
• Naomi Novik
• Helene Wecker

Arthurian legend

• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
• Avalon: the Return of King Arthur by Stephen Lawhead
• The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart
• The Discovery of King Arthur by Geoffrey Ashe
• Down the Long Wind Series by Gillian Bradshaw
• Guinevere by Sharan Newman
• King Arthur and His Knights by Thomas Mallory
• Merlin’s Mirror by Andre Norton
• The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
• The Once and Future King by T. H. White
• The Pendragon Chronicles: Heroic Fantasy from the Time of King Arthur edited by Mike Ashley
• The Return of Merlin by Deepak Chopra
• The Road to Avalon by Joan Wolf
• The Winter King: a Novel of Arthur by Bernard Cornwell

• A Fruitful Vine by Carrie Bender
• Acts of Love by Judith Michael
• The Adventures of Menahem-Mendl by Sholom Aleichem
• Beauty Queen by Linda Glovach
• Between Earth and Sky by Karen Osborn
• The Death of a King by P.C. Doherty
• Last Days of Summer by Steve Kluger
• The Last Voyage by Hammond Innes
• Love and Friendship by Jane Austen
• Lying in Bed by Mark Harris
• One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus
• Possession by A. S. Byatt
• Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaardner
• The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn by Robin Maxwell
• The Tattooed Map by Barbara Hodgson
• These is my words by Nancy Turner
• Thus was Adonis Murdered by Sarah Caudwell
• The Voyage of the Narwhal by Andrea Barrett
• White Lies by Jonellen Heckler

Quilting fiction

• T. Davis Bunn
• Jennifer Chiaverini
• Sandra Dallas
• Earlene Fowler
• Margaret Lawrence
• Silas House
• Sharyn McCrumb
• Barbara Michaels
• Whitney Otto
• Katherine Page
• Catherine Palmer
• Jane Peart
• Emilie Richards
• Lauraine Snelling
• Cindy Woodsmall

Recipes in fiction

• Thomas Fox Averill
• Jennifer Chiaverini
• Laura Childs
• Sheila Connolly
• Diane Mott Davidson
• Laura Esquivel
• Nancy Fairbanks
• Fannie Flagg
• Joanne Fluke
• Judith Hendricks
• Amulya Malladi
• Tamar Myers

Ancient history:

• Jean Auel
• Kathleen O'neal Gear
• Sue Harrison
• Wilbur Smith
• Judith Tarr

Black historical fiction

• The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest Gaines
• The Bells of Christmas by Virginia Hamilton
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• Black Gold by Anita Richmond Bunkley
• The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins
• The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
• Easy Rawlins Series by Walter Mosley
• Echo of Lions by Barbara Chase-Riboud
• An Extraordinary Union by Alyssa Cole
• Family by J. California Cooper
• Free Enterprise by Michelle Cliff
• A Free Man of Color by Barbara Hambly
• Jubilee by Margaret Walker
• Kindred by Octavia Butler
• A Long Way From Home by Connie Briscoe
• One More River to Cross by Will Henry
• The Middle Passage by Charles Richard Johnson
• Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• TripWire by Brian Garfield

Greece/Rome

• Gillian Bradshaw
• Margaret George
• Colleen Mccullough
• Steven Pressfield
• Mary Renault

Civil War:

• Charles Frazier
• John Jakes
• James Reasoner
• Michael Shaara
• Jessamyn West

WWII:

• John Boyne
• Anthoney Doerr
• Alan Furst
• Kristin Hannah
• Pam Jenoff
• Martha Hall Kelly
• Leila Meacham
• Heather Morris
• Kate Quinn
• Ruta Sepetys
• Elizabeth E. Wein

General/Misc:

• Kate Alcott
• Marie Benedict
• Geraldine Brooks
• Caleb Carr
• Tracy Chevalier
• Jennifer Chiaverini
• Bernard Cornwell
• Ken Follett
• Diana Gabaldon
• Philippa Gregory
• Sara Gruen
• Hilary Mantel
• Amor Towles
• Alison Weir
• Colson Whitehead
• Lisa Wingate

Authors

• Laird Barron
• William Peter Blatty
• Octavia Butler
• Justin Cronin
• Mark Z. Danielewski
• Guillermo Del Toro
• Tananarive Due
• Neil Gaiman
• Laurell K. Hamilton
• Thomas Harris
• Grady Hendrix
• Joe Hill
• Shirley Jackson
• Alma Katsu
• Caitlin R. Kiernan
• Stephen King
• T. Kingfisher
• Dean Koontz
• John Langan
• Victor Lavalle
• H.P. Lovecraft
• Josh Malerman
• Richard Matheson
• Helen Oyeyemi
• Chuck Palahniuk
• Dan Simmons
• Peter Straub
• Paul Tremblay
• David Wong

Titles

• Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons
• The Changeling by Victor Lavalle
• The Cipher by Kathe Koje
• The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
• A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
• House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
• The Hunger by Alma Katsu
• The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
• Lovecraft County by Matt Ruff
• Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction by Lisa Kroger
• Penpal by Dathan Auerbach
• Ring by Koji Suzuki
• The Ruins by Scott Smith
• The Shining by Stephen King
• The Troop by Nick Cutter
• The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher
• Uzumaki by Junji Ito
• White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
• The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Cozy mysteries:

• Agatha Christie
• Alexander McCall Smith
• Amanda Cross
• Ann Cleeves
• Ann Granger
• Anne George
• Carolyn G. Hart
• Charlotte MacLeod
• Dorothy Cannell
• Earlene Fowler
• Harry Kemelman
• Hazel Holt
• Jeanne M. Dams
• Jo Bannister
• Joan Hess
• Lawrence Block
• Leslie Meier
• Lillian Jackson Braun
• Lorna Barrett
• Louise Penny
• M.C. Beaton
• Martha Grimes
• Mary Daheim
• Mignon Franklin Ballard
• Nancy Atherton
• Parnell Hall
• Rett MacPherson
• Rita Mae Brown
• Rhys Bowen
• Sarah Graves
• Simon Brett
• Susan Wittig Albert

Thrillers:

• Margaret Atwood
• David Baldacci
• Dale Brown
• Dan Brown
• Tom Clancy
• Richard Condon
• Michael Connelly
• Stephen Coonts
• Bernard Cornwell
• Harold Coyle
• Clive Cussler
• Don DeLillo
• P.T. Deuterman
• Philip K, Dick
• Umberto Eco
• James Ellroy
• Ian Fleming
• Michael Flynn
• Frederick Forsyth
• Graham Greene
• W.E.B. Griffin
• Joseph Heller
• Jack Higgins
• Robert Ludlum
• Daniel Silva

Traditional mysteries:

• Agatha Christie
• Arthur Conan Doyle
• Bill Pronzini
• Carl Hiaasen
• Dorothy Sayers
• Ed McBain
• Elizabeth Peters
• Ellery Queen
• Elmore Leonard
• G.K. Chesterton
• George Pelecanos
• Georges Simenon
• Ian Fleming
• Ian Rankin
• James Lee Burke
• Lawrence Block
• Lee Child
• Minette Walters
• Ngaio Marsh
• P.D. James
• Patricia Cornwell
• Reginald Hill
• Robert B. Parker
• Ruth Rendell
• Scott Turow
• Walter Mosley

Who-Done-Its

• Agatha Christie
• Alfred Hitchcock
• Dan Brown
• Dashiell Hammett
• David Baldacci
• Dorothy L. Sayers
• Ellery Queen
• James Patterson
• Janet Evanovich
• Josephine Tey
• Lawrence Block
• Margaret Truman
• Mary Higgins Clark
• Michael Innes
• Raymond Chandler
• Rex Stout
• Simon Brett
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

• A Yellow Raft In Blue Water By Michael Dorris
• Ceremony By Leslie Marmon Silko
• Faces In The Moon By Betty Louise Bell
• The Girl With Braided Hair By Margaret Coel
• The Old American By Ernest Hebert
• Devil’s Backbone: The Modoc War, 1872-3 By Terry C. Johnston
• Green Grass, Running Water By Thomas King
• Louise Erdrich
• The Only Good Indians By Stephen Graham Jones
• The Sharpest Sight By Louis Owens
• Reservation Blues By Sherman Alexie
• City Of The Beasts By Isabel Allende
• Shell Shaker By Leanne Howe
• Trail Of Lightning By Rebecca Roanhorse

• American Royals Series by Katharine McGee
• Jennifer L. Armentrout
• Colleen Hoover
• Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell 
• The Hating Game by Sally Thorne
• Just One Day by Gayle Forman 
• Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowle
• Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
• Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
• Sarah J. Maas
• Serpent & Dove by Shelby Mahurin
• The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren
• Serpent & Dove by Shelby Mahurin

Money management:

• The 9 Steps To Financial Freedom By Suze Orman
• The Automatic Millionaire By David Bach
• Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By And Get Your Financial Life Together By Erin Lowry
• Everyday Millionaires By Chris Hogan
• I Will Teach You To Be Rich By Ramit Sethi
• Know Yourself, Know Your Money By Rachel Cruze
• The Latte Factor By David Bach
• Napkin Finance: Build Your Wealth In 30 Seconds Or Less By Tina Hay
• The Total Money Makeover By Dave Ramsey
• You Are A Badass At Making Money By Jen Sincero
• You Need A Budget By Jesse Mecham

Motivational:

• David Brooks
• Dr. Brené Brown 
• Steven R. Covey
• Marie Kondo
• Emily Ley
• Toni Morrison
• Gretchen Rubin
• Cheryl Strayed
• Haemin Sunim

Self-help/self-growth authors

• Chidera Eggerue
• Elizabeth Gilbert
• Rachel Hollis
• Austin Kleon
• Mark Manson
• Jen Sincero
• Shonda Rhimes

Self-help/self-growth books

• The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People By Stephen Covey
• Atomic Habits By James Clear
• Badass Habits By Jen Sincero
• Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear By Elizabeth Gilbert
• Can’t Hurt Me By David Goggins
• Daring Greatly By Brené Brown
• The Four Agreements By Don Miguel Ruiz
• The Gifts Of Imperfection By Brené Brown
• Girl, Stop Apologizing By Rachel Hollis
• The Highly Sensitive Person: How To Thrive When The World Overwhelms You By Elaine Aron
• How To Win Friends And Influence People By Dale Carnegie
• The Life Changing Magic Of Tidying Up By Marie Kondo
• The Power Of Habit By Charles Duhigg
• The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F*Ck By Mark Manson
• Year Of Yes By Shonda Rhimes
• You Are A Badass by Jen Sincero

Amish fiction

• Amy Clipston
• B. J. Hoff
• Beth Wiseman
• Beverly Lewis
• Carrie Bender
• Cindy Woodsmall
• Colleen Coble
• Dudley Delffs
• Gayle Roper
  • Amish Farm Trilogy
• Marta Perry
• Mary Ellis
• Mindy Starns Clark
• Shelley Shepard Gray
• Tamar Myers
  • Pennsylvania Dutch Mystery Series
• W. Dale Cramer
• Wanda Brunstetter

Biblical fiction

• A Time for Judas by Morley Callaghan
• Abigail by Lois Henderson
• The Book of Samson by David Maine
• Gods and Kings by Lynn Austin
• Great Lion of God by Taylor Caldwell
• Jesus by Walter Wangerin
• Joseph and His Brothers by Thomas Mann
• King of Kings by Malachi Martin
• A Love Divine by Alexandra Ripley
• Man of Nazareth by Anthony Burgess
• Man on Fire by LeGette Blythe
• Mark of the Lion Series by Francine Rivers
• The Messiah by Marjorie Holmes
• The Nazarene by Sholem Asch
• Prince of Egypt by Dorothy Wilson
• Queenmaker by India Edghill
• The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
• The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas
• Zipporah, Wife of Moses by Marek Halter

Christian authors

• Tamera Alexander
• Lynn Austin
• Terri Blackstock
• Melody Carlson
• Ted Dekker
• Suzanne Woods Fisher
• Robin Lee Hatcher
• Dee Henderson
• Jan Karon
• Karen Kingsbury
• Julie Klassen
• Tim Lahaye
• Beverly Lewis
• C.S. Lewis
• Janette Oke
• Frank Peretti
• Tracie Peterson
• Francine Rivers
• Bodie Thoene
• Brock Thoene
• Becky Wade
• Lori Wick
• Lisa Wingate
• William Paul Young

Inspirational nonfiction

• C.S. Lewis
• Emily Ley
• Haemin Sunim
• Jan Karon
• Joyce Meyer
• Max Lucado
• Philip Gulley
• Rachel Held Evans
• Rachel Hollis

Contemporary titles

• A Princess in Theory by Alyssa Cole
• Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire
• Born in Fire by Nora Roberts
• Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
• Hate to Want you by Alisha Rai
• I Owe You One by Sophie Kinsella
• It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover
• It Had to Be You by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
• Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
• Normal People by Sally Rooney
• Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev
• The Hating Game by Sally Thorne
• The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
• The Right Swipe by Alisha Rai
• The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
• The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory
• Us by David Nicholls
• Virgin River by Robyn Carr
• Waiting for Tom hanks by Kerry Winfrey

• Robert Alexander
• Alan Bennett
• Rhys Bowen
• Sarah Bradford
• Tina Brown
• Bernard Cornwell
• C. W. Gortner
• Carolly Erickson
• Margaret George
• Laurie Graham
• Philippa Gregory
• Sandra Gulland
• Karen Harper
• Katherine Kurtz
• Stephen Lawhead
• Morgan Llywelyn
• Norah Lofts
• Robin Maxwell
• Michelle Moran
• Sharon Kay Penman
• Jean Plaidy
• Nora Roberts
• Alison Weir

Aliens

• Aliens: 3 Novellas edited by Ben Bova
• Angel by Alton Gansky
• Berserker by Fred Saberhagen
• Blindsight by Peter Watts
• Foreigner series by C. J. Cherryh
• Gateway by Frederik Pohl
• The Golden One by Deborah Chester
• Illegal Alien by Robert J. Sawyer
• In the Balance by Harry Turtledove
• Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis
• Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

Alternate Histories

• 1632 by Eric Flint
• 1945 by Newt Gingrich
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
• Dies the Fire by S.M. Stirling
• Fatherland by Robert Harris
• Guns of the South by Harry Turtledove
• Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
• Pastwatch by Orson Scott Card
• Resurrection Day by Brenden DuBois
• River of Teeth by Sara Gailey
• Ruled Britannia by Harry Turtledove
• SS-GB by Len Deighton
• The Collaborators by Reginald Hill
• The Great War Series by Harry Turtledove
• The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
• The Two Georges by Richard Dreyfuss
• Timeline-191 Series by Harry Turtledove
• Tosev Series by Harry Turtledove
• Voyage by Stephen Baxter
• Weapons of Choice by John Birmingham
• Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Robinson

Post-Apocalyptic fiction

• A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
• A Gift Upon the Shore by M. K. Wren
• Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
• Chaos Walking trilogy by Patrick Ness
• Clay’s Ark by Octavia E. Butler
• Dies the Fire by S. M. Stirling
• Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton
• I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
• Lucifer’s Hammer by Larry Niven
• The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
• On the Beach by Nevil Shute
• Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
• The Postman by David Brin
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
• The Stand by Stephen King
• World Made by Hand by James Howard Kunstler

Science fiction

• Douglas Adams
• Isaac Asimov
• Iain Banks
• Octavia Butler
• Orson Scott Card
• Becky Chambers
• Michael Crichton
• Blake Crouch
• Philip K. Dick
• Frank Herbert
• Ann Leckie
• Ursula K. Leguin
• Yoon Ha Lee
• China Mieville
• Nnedi Okorafor
• John Scalzi
• Dan Simmons
• Neal Stephenson
• Catherynne M. Valente
• Jeff Vandermeer
• Andy Weir
• Martha Wells
• Timothy Zahn

Superhero fiction

• Batman, the Ultimate Evil by Andrew Vachss
• Batman: Nightfall by Dennis O’Neil
• Batman: No Man’s Land by Greg Rucka
• The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
• The Further Adventures of the Joker edited by Martin H. Greenberg
• Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots
• Hero by Perry Moore (YA Fic)
• It’s Superman! by Tom De Haven
• The New Heroes/Quantum Prophecy Series by Michael Carroll
• Nimona by Noelle Stephens
• Renegades by Marissa Meyer
• Spider-Man by Diane Duane
• Superman: Earth One by Michael Straczynski

Time Travel

• 11/22/63 by Stephen King
• 1632 by Eric Flint
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
• All Souls Trilogy by Deborah Harkness
• Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
• Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
• Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon
• Oxford Time Travel Series by Connie Willis
• Pastwatch by Orson Scott Card
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
• The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
• The Time Traders by Andre Norton
• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
• This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
• Time and Again by Jack Finney
• Timeline by Michael Crichton
• Weapons of Choice by John Birmingham

Vampires

• Amanda Ashley
• L.A. Banks
• Christine Feehan
• Laurell K. Hamilton
• Deborah Harkness
• Charlaine Harris
• Tanya Huff
• Annette Curtis Klause
• Tanith Lee
• Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
• Anne Rice
• Lynsay Sands
• Darren Shan
• R.L. Stine
• Whitley Strieber
• Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

• Kelley Armstrong
• L.A. Banks
• Patricia Briggs
• Jim Butcher
• Ramsey Campbell
• Mary Janice Davidson
• Charles deLint
• Christina Dodd
• Christine Feehan
• Laurell K. Hamilton
• Charlaine Harris
• Kay Hooper
• Tanya Huff
• Sherrilyn Kenyon
• Stephen King
• Dean Koontz
• Jayne Anne Krentz
• H.P. Lovecraft
• Robin McKinley
• Edgar Allen Poe
• Anne Rice
• John Saul
• Bram Stoker
• Peter Straub
• Whitley Strieber

• A Random Act by Cindi Broaddus
• Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston
• The Book of Saladin by Tariq Ali
• Brutal Journey by Paul Schneider
• Children’s Blizzard by David Laskin
• The Deep Dark Disaster & Redemption in America’s Richest Silver Mine by Gregg Olsen
• Finding Nouf by Zoe Ferraris
• Hell or High Water by Peter Heller
• Ice Bound by Jerri Nielsen
• The Ice Master by Jennifer Niven
• In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
• Johnstown Flood by David McCullough
• Krakatoa by Simon Winchester
• Miracle in the Andes by Nando Parrado
• Not Without Hope by Nick Schuyler
• The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
• Point Last Seen by Hannah Nyala
• Return With Honor by Scott O’Grady
• Rift by Liza Cody
• Sahara by Clive Cussler
• Terrible Hours by Peter Maas
• Touching the Void by Joe Simpson
• Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

• America’s Dumbest Criminals by Daniel R. Butler
• Bitter Harvest by Ann Rule
• Bloodsworth: The Story of the First Death Row Inmate Exonerated by DNA by Tim Junkin
• Choking in Fear by Mike McCarty
• Cold Kill by Jack Olson
• The Death of Innocence by John Ramsey
• The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
• For Laci by Sharon Rocha
• Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi
• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
• Indiana Gothic by Pope Brock
• Inside the Mind of the BTK Killer by John E. Douglas
• John Dillinger by Dary Matera
• The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston
• Under and Alone by William Queen

• Tom W. Blackburn
• Frank Bonham
• B.M. Bower
• Max Brand
• Tim Champlain
• Giff Cheshire
• Walt Coburn
• Dan Cushman
• Peter Dawson
• Leslie Ernenwein
• Loren D. Estleman
• Max Evans
• Cliff Farrell
• T.T. Flynn
• Don Goldsmith
• Zane Grey
• A.B. Guthrie
• Ernest Haycox
• Ray Hogan
• Elmer Kelton
• Louis L’Amour
• Larry McMurtry
• Richard S. Wheeler