Regular Print Book Discussion Kits Genre List Available at KDLA Updated 7/19/21

Biography/Autobiography/Memoir:  1864: Lincoln at the Gates of History by Charles Bracelen Flood  Abigail Adams by Woody Holton  Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston  Below Stairs: the Classic Kitchen Maid's Memoir That Inspired Upstairs, Downstairs and Downton Abbey by Margaret Powell

 Bone Black by bell hooks  Boone, a Biography by Robert Morgan  The Bourbon King by Bob Batchelor  Clear Springs by Bobbie Ann Mason  Cleopatra: a Life by Stacy Schiff  The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride  Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs and Parenting by Michael Perry  Don't Sing at the Table: Life Lessons from my Grandmothers by Adriana Trigiani  Don't You Remember? A Memoir by George Ella Lyon  Driving Over Lemons: an Optimist in Spain by Chris Stewart  Emma's War by Deborah Scroggins  Familiar Wilderness: Searching for Home on Daniel Boone’s Road by S. J. Dahlman  The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls  The Good Neighbor : the Life and Work of Fred Rogers by Maxwell King  Grant and Twain: the Story of an American Friendship by Mark Perry  Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure: the True Story of a Great American Road Trip by Matthew Algeo  Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains by Cassie Chambers  Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance  An Hour before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood by Jimmy Carter  House of Abraham: Lincoln and the Todds, a Family Divided by War by Stephen William Berry  I Am Potential: Eight Lessons on Living, Loving, and Reaching Your Dreams by Patrick Henry Hughes  I Choose to be Happy: a School Shooting Survivor's Triumph Over Tragedy by Missy Jenkins ; with William Croyle  I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou  I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land, a Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad by Karolyn Smardz Frost  The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot  Imperfect Endings: a Daughter's Tale of Life and Death by Zoe FitzGerald Carter  Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs  Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm during the Great Depression by Mildred Armstrong Kalish  Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter by Loretta Lynn; with George Vecsey  Madam Belle by Maryjean Wall  Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder  Night by Elie Wiesel  No Heroes: a Memoir of Coming Home by Chris Offutt  Nothing Daunted: the Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West by Dorothy Wickenden  Passing for Black, the Life and Careers of Mae Street Kidd by Wade Hall  A Pearl in the Storm: How I Found My Heart in the Middle of the Ocean by Tori Murden McClure  The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels: a Love Story by Ree Drummond  Pontius Pilate by Ann Wroe  Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail by Malika Oufkir and Michèle Fitoussi  Team of Rivals, the Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin  Tender at the Bone: Growing up at the Table by Ruth Reichl  Then They Came for Me: a Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival by Maziar Bahari; with Aimee Molloy  Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace-- One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson  The Unbreakable Child: A Story about Forgiving the Unforgivable by Kim Michele Richardson  Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington  Wesley the Owl: the Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl by Stacey O'Brien  Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed  The Wright Brothers by David McCullough

Christian Fiction:  The Colonel's Lady: a Novel by Laura Frantz  God's Gift by Dee Henderson  Love Comes Softly by Janette Oke  Saturday Morning by Lauraine Snelling  The Song of Hannah: a Novel by Eva Etzioni-Halevy  Sophie's Heart by Lori Wick  The Storekeeper's Daughter by Wanda E. Brunstetter  Stuck in the Middle: a novel by Virginia Smith  Sweetwater Run by Jan Watson  To Die For: a Novel of Anne Boleyn by Sandra Byrd  Troublesome Creek by Jan Watson  The Wednesday Letters: a Novel by Jason F. Wright

Christmas  Call Me Mrs. Miracle by Debbie Macomber  The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans  The Christmas Bus by Melody Carlson  A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens  Christmas Jars by Jason F. Wright  A Christmas Memory; One Christmas; by  Christmas Pearl by Dorothea Benton Frank  The Christmas Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini  Christmas Stories edited by Diana Secker Tesdell  Christmas with Tucker by Greg Kincaid  A Dog Named Christmas by Greg Kincaid  Gideon's Gift by Karen Kingsbury  Miracle on 34th Street by Valentine Davies  Mischief of the Mistletoe by Lauren Willig  A Mrs. Miracle Christmas by Debbie Macomber  Peace: a Crittenden County Christmas Novel by Shelley Shelley Shepard Gray  A Redbird Christmas by Fannie Flagg  The Snow Globe by Sheila Roberts  Unwrapping Christmas by Lori Copeland

Classics:  1984: a Novel by George Orwell  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain  And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie  Animal Farm: a Fairy Story by George Orwell  Brave New World by Aldous Huxley  Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote  A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens  A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess  A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole  The Crucible by Arthur Miller  The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck  The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers  The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde  The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling  The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving  Little Women by Louisa May Alcott  The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington  The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick  Mansfield Park by Jane Austen  My Ántonia by  Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen  Persuasion by Jane Austen  O Pioneers! by Willa Cather  Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier  Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut  The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson  The Sun Also Rises by  The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

General Fiction:  Act of Contrition by Janice Holt Giles  After You by Julie Buxbaum  All the Living by C. E. Morgan  Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler  The Art of Fielding: a Novel by Chad Harbach  The Art of Racing in the Rain: a Novel by Garth Stein  At the Breakers by Mary Ann Taylor-Hall  The Last Ballad by Wiley Cash  The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison  The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder  Calling Home by Janna McMahan  Can't Wait To Get To Heaven: a novel by Fannie Flagg  Clay’s Quilt by Silas House  The Coal Tattoo by Silas House  The Color Purple by Alice Walker  Come Walk With Me by Joan Medlicott  Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella  The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman  Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan  Creekside: an Archaeological Novel by Kelli Carmean  Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin  Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese  Daughter of Fortune, a novel by Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden  Dear John by Nicholas Sparks  Deep Down True by Juliette Fay  The Descendants: a Novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings  A Dog’s Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron  The Dollmaker by Harriette Arnow  Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer  The Enduring Hills by Janice Holt Giles  Evening Class by Maeve Binchy  Everything is Illuminated: a novel by Jonathan Safran Foer  The Family Corleone by Ed Falco  Family Linen by Lee Smith  Far From Good by Stephen Van Zant  Flight Behavior by  The Forgotten Garden: a Novel by Kate Morton  Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café by Fannie Flagg  A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore  Gilead by Marilynne Robinson  The Girl Who Fell From the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow  The Gravedigger’s Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates  Hannah Coulter: a novel by Wendell Berry  The Hearts of Horses by Molly Gloss  The History of Love by Nicole Krauss  Home to Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani  I Could Write a Book by Karen M. Cox  Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio  In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason  Innocent by Scott Turow  Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry  Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini  The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh  A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines  Life After Life by by Kate Atkinson  The Life You've Imagined by Kristina Riggle  The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan  The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman  Little Black Dress by Susan McBride  Live by Night by Dennis Lehane  Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards  The Memory of Old Jack by Wendell Berry  Mildred Pierce by James M. Cain  The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint: a novel by Brady Udall  My Sister's Keeper: a novel by Jodi Picoult  The Namesake by  Night Ride Home by Barbara Esstman  Olive Kitteridge by  One Day by David Nicholls  Our Kind: a novel by Kate Walbert  Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson  The Overstory by  The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham  The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender  The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett  Pawleys Island by Dorothea Benton Frank  Peace Like A River by Leif Enger  Pickering’s Mountain by Joseph G. Anthony  Please Look After Mom by Kyŏng-suk Sin  Plum Wine: a novel by Angela Davis-Gardner  The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver  The Poet of Tolstoy Park by Sonny Brewer  Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman  Prayers and Lies by Sherri Wood Emmons  Prodigal Summer: a novel by Barbara Kingsolver  Push: a Novel by Sapphire [basis for the movie Precious]  The Queen of Kentucky by Alecia Whitaker  The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis  The Rest of Her Life by Laura Moriarty  Revenge of the Middle-aged Woman by Elizabeth Buchan  River of Earth by James Still  Room by Emma Donoghue  Runaway: Stories by Alice Munro  Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan  Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda  Shine by Mark Heinz  Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick  Sing You Home: a Novel by Jodi Picoult  The Sisters by Nancy Jensen  Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson  The Sport of Kings by C.E. Morgan  The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: a Novel by David Wroblewski  Summer Rental by Mary Kay Andrews  These Things Hidden by Heather Gudenkauf  This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper  Thistles by Charles L. Roe  To Dance with the White Dog, a Novel of Life, Loss, Mystery, and Hope by Terry Kay  The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise by Julia Stuart  Up From the Blue by Susan Henderson  Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult  Velva Jean Learns to Drive by Jennifer Niven  Walking Across Egypt by Clyde Edgerton  We Need to Talk about Kevin: a Novel by Lionel Shriver  The Wednesday Letters: a Novel by Jason F. Wright  Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens  Whiskey and Ribbons by Leesa Cross-Smith  Winter's Bone: a Novel by Daniel Woodrell  Wish You Well by David Baldacci

Historical Fiction:  Ahab's Wife: Or, the Star-Gazer, a novel by Sena Jeter Naslund  The Alice Network by Kate Quinn  Atonement by Ian McEwan  The Ballad of Tom Dooley by Sharyn McCrumb  Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie; translated from the French by Ina Rilke  Beneath a Marble Sky: a Love Story by John Shors  Big Stone Gap, a novel by Adriana Trigiani  The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson  Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks  Chinaberry by James Still  The Cypress House by Michael Koryta  The Devil Amongst the Lawyers by Sharyn McCrumb  The Dry Grass of August by Anna Jean Mayhew  The Eight: a Novel by Katherine Neville  Eli the Good by Silas House  The English Patient: a novel by Michael Ondaatje  Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada  Four Spirits, a novel by Sena Jeter Naslund  Gap Creek: a Novel by Robert Morgan  Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland  Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier  The Good Lord Bird by James McBride  The Good Thief: a Novel by Hannah Tinti  The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows  Harriet and Isabella by Patricia O’Brien  Honolulu by Alan Brennert  The House at Riverton by Kate Morton  The Irresistible Henry House by Lisa Grunwald  The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara  The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom  The Last Ballad by Wiley Cash  Lucy's Story: Right Choices but Wrongs Still Left authored by Larry Hamilton; written by Christina DeLaet  March by Geraldine Brooks  Mudbound by Hillary Jordan  One Drop a Slave! by Eddie Price  Orphan Train by Christine Baker Kline  People of the Book: a Novel by Geraldine Brooks  by Ken Follett  Pope Joan, a novel by Donna Woolfolk Cross  The Queen of Palmyra by Minrose Gwin  The Rebel Wife by Taylor M. Polites  The River Wife by Jonis Agee  Rose Island by Terry Chamber  Rules of Civility by Amor Towles  The Scourges of Heaven by David Dick  Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill  Sue Mundy, a Novel of the Civil War by Richard Taylor  The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough  The Typewriter Girl by Alison Atlee  To Die For: a Novel of Anne Boleyn by Sandra Byrd  Tracks: a Novel by  Under the Wide and Starry Sky by Nancy Horan  Walking to Gatlinburg: a Novel by Howard Frank Mosher  Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen  Widder’s Landing by Eddie Price  Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Kentucky Authors or about Kentucky:  A is for Alibi by  Act of Contrition by Janice Holt Giles  Ahab's Wife: Or, the Star-Gazer, a novel by Sena Jeter Naslund  All the Living by C. E. Morgan  At the Breakers by Mary Ann Taylor-Hall  The Bluegrass Conspiracy by Sally Denton  Bone Black by bell hooks  The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson  Boone, a Biography by Robert Morgan  Calling Home by Janna McMahan  Chinaberry by James Still  Clay’s Quilt by Silas House  Clear Springs by Bobbie Ann Mason  The Coal Tattoo by Silas House  The Colonel's Lady: a Novel by Laura Frantz  Cornbread Mafia: a Homegrown Syndicate's Code of Silence and the Biggest Marijuana Bust in American History by James Higdon  Creekside: an Archaeological Novel by Kelli Carmean  The Dollmaker by Harriette Arnow  Don't You Remember? A Memoir by George Ella Lyon  Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer  Eli the Good by Silas House  The Enduring Hills by Janice Holt Giles  Familiar Wilderness: Searching for Home on Daniel Boone’s Road by S. J. Dahlman  Far From Good by Stephen Van Zant  Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver  Hannah Coulter: a novel by Wendell Berry  Hell and Ohio: Stories of Southern Appalachia by Chris Holbrook  Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains by Cassie Chambers  Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance  House of Abraham, Lincoln and the Todds, a Family Divided by War by Stephen Berry  I Am Potential: Eight Lessons on Living, Loving, and Reaching Your Dreams by Patrick Henry Hughes  I Choose to be Happy: a School Shooting Survivor's Triumph Over Tragedy by Missy Jenkins ; with William Croyle  I Could Write a Book by Karen M. Cox  Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio  In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason  I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land, a Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad by Karolyn Smardz Frost  Inside the Beverly Hills Supper Club Fire by Ron Elliott  Isaac Murphy: I Dedicate This Ride: Poems by Frank X Walker  Isabella Moon by Laura Benedict  Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry  A Jesse Stuart Reader, selected and introduced by Jesse Stuart  Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter by Loretta Lynn; with George Vecsey  Louisville's Alma Kellner Mystery by Shawn Herron  Lucy's Story: Right Choices but Wrongs Still Left authored by Larry Hamilton; written by Christina DeLaet  Madam Belle by Maryjean Wall  Many Storied House by George Ella Lyon  Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards  The Memory of Old Jack by Wendell Berry  Murder and Madness by Matthew G. Schoenbachler  No Heroes: a Memoir of Coming Home by Chris Offutt  Obedience, a novel by Will Lavender  One Drop a Slave! by Eddie Price  Passing for Black, the Life and Careers of Mae Street Kidd by Wade Hall  The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett  Pickering’s Mountain by Joseph G. Anthony  The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver  Prince of Sin City by Gary P. Walton  Prodigal Summer: a novel by Barbara Kingsolver  The Queen of Kentucky by Alecia Whitaker  The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis  River of Earth by James Still  Rose Island by Terry Chamber  The Scourges of Heaven by David Dick  Shine by Mark Heinz  The Sisters by Nancy Jensen  The Sport of Kings by C.E. Morgan  Stuck in the Middle: a novel by Virginia Smith  Sue Mundy, a Novel of the Civil War by Richard Taylor  Sweetwater Run by Jan Watson  Thistles by Charles L. Roe  Trapped!: the Story of Floyd Collins by Robert K. Murray and Roger W. Brucker  Troublesome Creek by Jan Watson  The Typewriter Girl by Alison Atlee  The Unbreakable Child: A Story about Forgiving the Unforgivable by Kim Michele Richardson  Weedeater by Robert Gipe  Whiskey and Ribbons by Leesa Cross-Smith  Widder’s Landing by Eddie Price  Wild Ride: the Rise and Tragic Fall of Calumet Farm, Inc., America's Premier Racing Dynasty by Ann Hagedorn

Love Stories:  Act of Contrition by Janice Holt Giles  All the Living by C. E. Morgan  Atonement by Ian McEwan  The Ballad of Tom Dooley by Sharyn McCrumb  Beneath a Marble Sky: a Love Story by John Shors  Big Stone Gap, a novel by Adriana Trigiani  Call Me Mrs. Miracle by Debbie Macomber  Casting Off by Nicole R. Dickson  The Colonel's Lady: a Novel by Laura Frantz  Daughter of Fortune, a novel by Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden  Dear John by Nicholas Sparks  Evening Class by Maeve Binchy  Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café by Fannie Flagg  God's Gift by Dee Henderson  I Could Write a Book by Karen M. Cox  Juliet by Anne Fortier  The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh  The Longest Ride by Nicholas Sparks  Love Comes Softly by Janette Oke  Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez  The Mischief of the Mistletoe: [a pink carnation Christmas] by Lauren Willig  Night Ride Home by Barbara Esstman  Nine Lives by Sharon Sala  One Day by David Nicholls  Our Kind: a novel by Kate Walbert  Peace: a Crittenden County Christmas Novel by Shelley Shepard Gray  Plum Wine: a novel by Angela Davis-Gardner  Revenge of the Middle-aged Woman by Elizabeth Buchan  The Snow Globe by Sheila Roberts  Sophie's Heart by Lori Wick  The Storekeeper's Daughter by Wanda E. Brunstetter  Stuck in the Middle: a novel by Virginia Smith  Summer Rental by Mary Kay Andrews  The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough  The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise by Julia Stuart  The Typewriter Girl by Alison Atlee  Weekend Warriors by Fern Michaels

Mystery/Suspense:  15 Seconds by Andrew Gross  A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton  Absolution by Murder: a Sister Fidelma mystery by Peter Tremayne  After the Storm by Linda Castillo  Amagansett by Mark Mills  And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie  The Blessing Way by  Bloodroot: a Novel by Amy Greene  The Butterfly Sister by Amy Gail Hansen  Casino Royale by Ian Fleming  The Church of Dead Girls by Stephen Dobyns  The Code of the Hills by Nancy Allen  Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin  The Cypress House by Michael Koryta  Darkness, My Old Friend: a Novel by Lisa Unger  The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware  The Eight: a Novel by Katherine Neville  The Family Corleone by Ed Falco  Family Linen by Lee Smith  Finger Lickin’ Fifteen by Janet Evanovich  The Forgotten Garden: a Novel by Kate Morton  The Gate House by Nelson DeMille  The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson  Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn  The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter by Sharyn McCrumb  The House at Riverton by Kate Morton  I'd Know You Anywhere by  In the Woods by Tana French  Innocent by Scott Turow  Isabella Moon by Laura Benedict  Judge & Jury by James Patterson & Andrew Gross  Juliet by Anne Fortier  The Last Child by John Hart  The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine  Live by Night by Dennis Lehane  The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton  Murder on Music Row: a Music Industry Thriller by Stuart Dill  Nine Lives by Sharon Sala  No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy  Obedience, a novel by Will Lavender  Prince of Sin City by Gary P. Walton  Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier  The Reckoning by  Room by Emma Donoghue  Step on a Crack by James Patterson  These Things Hidden by Heather Gudenkauf  Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carré  The Virgin of Small Plains: a novel by  Weekend Warriors by Fern Michaels  The Wicked Girls by Alex Marwood

Non-Fiction:  1776 by David McCullough  Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo  Bloody Crimes: the Chase for Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant for Lincoln's Corpse by James L. Swanson  The Botany of Desire: a Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan  Cornbread Mafia: a Homegrown Syndicate's Code of Silence and the Biggest Marijuana Bust in American History by James Higdon  Inside the Beverly Hills Supper Club Fire by Ron Elliott  Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths by Karen Armstrong  The Lost City of Z: a Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann  Louisville's Alma Kellner Mystery by Shawn Herron  Manhunt: The Twelve-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson  Maphead by Ken Jennings  Murder and Madness by Matthew G. Schoenbachler  Nickel and Dimed: On (not) Getting by by Barbara Ehrenreich  Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend by Susan Orlean  Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand  Secretariat by William Nack  The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell  A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson  Wild Ride: the Rise and Tragic Fall of Calumet Farm, Inc., America's Premier Racing Dynasty by Ann Hagedorn

Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror:  Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith  Artemis by Andy Weir  Brave New World by Aldous Huxley  Dracula by Bram Stoker  Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett  I am Legend by Richard Matheson  Life After Life by by Kate Atkinson  The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick  Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman  The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

Softer Selections:  Can't Wait To Get To Heaven: a novel by Fannie Flagg  The Colonel's Lady: a Novel by Laura Frantz  Come Walk with Me by Joan Medlicott  Dear John by Nicholas Sparks  Don't Sing at the Table: Life Lessons from my Grandmothers by Adriana Trigiani  God's Gift by Dee Henderson  Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry  Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm during the Great Depression by Mildred Armstrong Kalish  Love Comes Softly by Janette Oke  The Memory of Old Jack by Wendell Berry  Sophie's Heart by Lori Wick  The Storekeeper's Daughter by Wanda E. Brunstetter  Stuck in the Middle: a novel by Virginia Smith  Troublesome Creek by Jan Watson

Westerns:  Conagher by Louis L'Amour  The Hearts of Horses by Molly Gloss  Love Comes Softly by Janette Oke  True Grit by Charles Portis