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We asked a group of avid readers to tell us about books they couldn’t put down. Here are the results. Children’s and Young Adult The Glass Castle: A Memoir, Jeannette Walls Feed, M.T. Anderson Running with Scissors: A Memoir, Augusten The Harry Potter Series, J.K. Rowling Burroughs The Hunger Games Series, Suzanne Collins The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, The Giver, Lois Lowry Rebecca Skloot The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl, Stacey O’Brien Classics Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, Cheryl Strayed Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou Science Fiction/Dystopian Literature Roots, Alex Haley 1984, Orson Welles The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain A Scanner Darkly, Philip K. Dick The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dune, Frank Herbert Dumas Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald Hyperion, Dan Simmons The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Neuromancer, William Gibson Hemingway Seveneves, Neal Stephenson Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood Walden, Henry David Thoreau The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin Non-Fiction, Memoirs, and Essay Collections Fantasy Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi American Gods, Neil Gaiman Espionage, Love, and Betrayal, Ben Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Macintyre Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, Terry Bad Feminist, Roxane Gaye Pratchett and Neil Gaiman Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Homeland: Legend of Drizzt, R.A. Salvatore Thinking, Malcolm Gladwell Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, Outlander, Diana Gabaldon David Sedaris The Wee Free Men, Terry Pratchett General Fiction Amazon.com (print and digital books) Audible.com (audiobooks) A Place for Us, Fatima Farheen Mirza Barnes and Noble (new books) A Tale for the Time Being, Ruth Ozeki Collin College Libraries All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr Frisco Public Library All The Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy Half Price Books (new and used books) Americanah, Chimanda Ngozi Adichie Eight Months on Ghazzah Street, Hilary Places to Learn About Books Mantel Life of Pi, Yann Martel The New York Times Book Review Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro Goodreads Sarah’s Key, Tatiana de Rosnay Amazon suggestions and reviews The Housekeeper and the Professor, Yoko Ogawa The Idiot, Elif Batuman The Leftovers, Tom Perrotta The Nightingale, Kristin Hannah The Sky Fisherman, Craig Lesley Three Day Road, Joseph Boyden Where’d You Go, Bernadette, Maria Semple

Graphic Novels American Born Chinese, Gene Luen Yang Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, Alison Bechdel The Complete Maus, Art Spiegelman

Mystery/Horror/Thrillers A is for Alibi, Sue Grafton And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie Four Past Midnight, Stephen King Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn Sometimes I Lie, Alice Feeney The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, Alan Bradley The Woman in Black, Susan Hill The Woman in the Window, A.J. Finn

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