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Book Title Author a Bridge Across the Ocean Susan Meissner A NFGP Bookies Alphabetized List Book Title Author A Bridge Across the Ocean Susan Meissner A Christmas Train David Baldacci A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole A Gentleman in Moscow Amor Towles A Man Called Ove Fredrick Backman A Painted House John Grisham A Paris Apartment Michelle Gable A Piece of the World Christina Baker Kline A Redbird Christmas Fannie Flagg A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini A Week in Winter Maeve Binchy A Woman in the Window A. J. Finn A Woman of Independent Means Elizabeth Hailey Ahab/s Wife: Or, The Star-Gazer Sena Jeter Naslund Alice I Have Been Melanie Benjamin All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr An Hour Before Daylight Jimmy Carter And the Mountains Echoed Khaled Hosseini Angels and Demons Dan Brown Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons Lorna Landvik Audition: A Memoir Barbara Walters Bachelor Brothers Bed and Breakfast Bill Richardson Back When We Were Grownups Anne Tyler Beautiful Ruins Jess Walter Before I Go the Sleep S.J. Watson Beneath a Marble Sky John Shors Blood, Bones and Butter Gabrielle Hamilton 1 NFGP Bookies Alphabetized List Book Title Author Boone's Lick Larry McMurtry Bury Me Standing Isabel Fonseca Caleb's Crossing Geraldine Brooks Can't Wait to Get to Heaven Fannie Flagg Change Me Into Zeus's Daughter Barbara Robinette Ross Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt Anne Rice Cold Sassy Tree Olive Ann Burns Confessions of a Shopaholic Sophie Kinsella Crossing on the Paris Dana Gynther Cutting for Stone Abraham Verghese DaVinci Code Dan Brown Defending Jacob William Landay Delicious Ruth Reichl Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World Vicki Myron and Bret Witter Don't Say a Word Barbara Freethy East of Eden John Steinbeck Eat Cake Jeanne Ray Eat, Pray, Love Elizabeth Gilbert Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine Gail Honeyman Elizabeth the Queen Sally Bedell Smith Emma Jane Austen Empire of the Summer Moon S.C. Gwynne Everything I Never Told You Celeste Ng Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs John Bloom Finding Noel: A Novel Richard Paul Evans First Mothers: Women Who Shaped the Presidents Bonnie Angelo Flags of Our Fathers James Bradley Friday Night Lights H. G. Bissinger 2 NFGP Bookies Alphabetized List Book Title Author Garlic and Sapphires Ruth Reichl Girl in Hyacinth Blue Susan Vreeland Girl Waits with Gun Amy Stewart God's Hotel, a Doctor, Hospital and Pilgrimage to heart of Medicine Victoria Sweet Gone Girl Gillian Flynn Half Broke Horses Jeannette Walls Hill Country Janice Windle Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet Jamie Ford House of the Sand and Fog Andre Dubus III I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman Nora Ephron Ida Mae Tutweiler and the Traveling Tea Party Ginnie Siena Bivona Into the Wild Jon Krakauer Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster Jon Krakauer Isabel's Daughter Judith Ryan Hendricks Ladies of Liberty Cokie Roberts Life After Life Kate Atkinson Little Bee Chris Cleave Loving Frank Nancy Horan Madam President Nicolle Wallace Mao's Last Dancer Li Cunxin Miss Julie Speaks Her Mind Ann B. Ross Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore Robin Sloan Murdering Mr. Monti Judith Viorst Natural Blonde Liz Smith News of the World Paulette Jiles Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America Barbara Ehrenreich Orphan Train Christina Baker Kline Outliers Malcom Gladwell 3 NFGP Bookies Alphabetized List Book Title Author Peace Like a River Leif Enger Persian Pickle Club Sandar Dallas Personal History Katharine Graham Property of a Noblewoman Danielle Steele Rachel's Holiday Marian Keyes Reading Lolita in Tehran Azar Nafisi Rogue Lawyer John Grisham Same Kind of Different as Me Ron Hall and Deaver Moore Sarah's Key Tatiana de Rosnay Seabiscuit Laura Hillenbrand Shoe Dog Phil Knight Sisters Rosamund Lufton Skipping Christmas John Grisham Somerset Leila Meacham Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good Jan Karon Standing in the Rainbow Fannie Flagg Still Alice Lisa Genova Summer Sisters Judy Blume Suzanne/s Diary for Nicholas James Patterson Teacher Man Frank McCourt The Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Investor's Roadtrip Jim Rogers The Art Forger V.A. Shapiro The Aviator's Wife Melanie Benjamin The Bettencourt Affair Tom Sancton The Black Dahlia James Ellroy The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood The Bonesetter's Daughter Amy Tan The Book Club Mary Alice Monroe 4 NFGP Bookies Alphabetized List Book Title Author The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind William Kamkwamba/B Mealer The Bridge of San Luis Rey Thornton Wilder The Brotherhood of the Rose David Morrell The Buddha in the Attic Julie Otsuka The Children's Crusade Ann Packer The Christmas Box Richard Paul Evans The Christmas Letters Lee Smith The Christmas Quilt Thomas J. Davis The Designer Marius Gabriel The Devil in the White City Erik Larson The Eighth Day Thornton Wilder The Five People You Meet in Heaven Mitch Albom The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton The Fountainhead Ayn Rand The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Stiegg Larsson The Girls Helen Yglasias The Goldfinch Donna Tartt The Good Earth Pearl Buck The Great Alone Kristin Hannah The Hamilton Affair Elizabeth Cobbs The Heirloom Murder Kathleen Ernst The Help Kathryn Stockett The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot The Inferno Dan Brown The Innocent Traitor: A Novel of Lady Jane Grey Alison Weir The Invention of Wings Sue Monk Kidd The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini The Lady Elizabeth: A Novel Alison Weir 5 NFGP Bookies Alphabetized List Book Title Author The Language of Flowers Vanessa Diffenbaugh The Last Days of Night Graham Moore The Last Time They Met Anita Shreve The Life of Pi Yann Martel The Light Between Oceans M. L. Stedman The Lost Symbol Dan Brown The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography Sydney Poitier The Moonstone Wilkie Collins The Nightingale Kristin Hannah The Other Einstein Marie Benedict The Paris Wife Paula McLain The Passenger Lisa Lutz The Pillars of the Earth Ken Follett The Professor and the Madman Simon Winchester The Pull of the Moon Elizabeth Berg The Rainbow Comes and Goes Anderson Cooper The Reading Group Elizabeth Noble The Rescue Artist Edward Dolnick The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd The Secret Wife Gil Paul The Shoemaker's Wife Adriana Trigiani The Strangeness of Beauty Lydia Minatoya The Summer Before the War Helen Simonson The Sun Also Rises Earnest Hemingway The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane Lisa See The Thirteenth Tale Diane Setterfield The Tiger's Wife Tea Obreht 6 NFGP Bookies Alphabetized List Book Title Author The Time Traveler's Wife Audrey Niffenegger The Two-Family House Lynda Cohen Loigman The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead The Unlikely Lavender Queen Jeannie Ralston The Wives of Los Alamos Tara Shea Nesbit The Wonder Garden Lauren Acampora The Zoo Keeper's Wife Diane Ackerman This Side of Paradise F. Scott Fitzgerald Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace Greg Mortenson Three Junes Julia Glass To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee Treasures From the Attic Mirjam Pressler True Women Janice Woods Windle Two Women Marianne Fredicksson Unbroken Laura Hillenbrand Under the Wide and Starry Sky Nancy Horan Virgin Blue Tracy Chevalier Water for Elephants: A Novel Sara Gruen Way Station Clifford Simak We Are Called to Rise Laura McBride What She Knew Billy Macmillian When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa Peter Godwin White Butterfly Vanda Terrell White Rose Amy Ephron 7 NFGP Bookies Alphabetized List Book Title Author 8.
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