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Children's & Young Adult Books |
Bunting, Eve |
 We Were There: A Nativity Story Clarion Books, 2001. |
Grimes, Nikki |
 Dark Sons Jump At the Sun, 2005. |
Hathorn, Libby |
 Way Home Knopf Books for Young Readers, 1994. |
Kurlek, William |
 A Northern Nativity Tundra Books, 1976. |
Paterson, Katherine |
 Bridge to Terabithia Random House, 1986.  The Great Gilly Hopkins Harper Trophy, 1987. |
Paulsen, Gary |
 The Tent Laurel Leaf, 1996. |
Rylant, Cynthia |
 A Fine White Dust Aladdin, 1996. |
Small, David |
 The Journey Farrar, Straus & Grioux, 2001. |
Stewart, Sarah |
The Journey Farrar, Straus & Grioux, 2001. |
Vivas, Julie |
 The Nativity Gulliver Books, 2005. |
Woodson, Jacqueline |
 Our Gracie Aunt Jump At the Sun, 2002. |
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Novels & Other Fiction |
Atwood, Margaret |
 The Blind Assassin Anchor, 2001. |
Banks, Russell |
 Affliction Harper Perennial, 1990.  Continental Drift Harper Perennial, 2000.  The Sweet Hereafter Harper Perennial, 1992. |
Berry, Wendell |
 Jayber Crow Counterpoint Press, 2001.  Selected Poems Counterpoint Press, 1998. |
Bronte, Charlotte |
 Jane Eyre Doubleday, 1997. |
Brooks, Geraldine |
 March: A Novel Viking Adult, 2005. |
Carter, Stephen |
 The Emperor of Ocean Park Vintage, 2003. |
Carver, Raymond |
 Where I'm Calling From Vintage, 1989. |
Chacour, Elias |
 Blood Brothers Chosen Books, 2003. |
Conroy, Pat |
 The Prince of Tides Bantam, 1987. |
de Unamuno, Miguel |
 Abel Sanchez and Other Stories Gateway Editions, 1996. |
Dinesen, Isak |
 Babette's Feast and Other Anecdotes of Destiny Knopf, 1988. |
Dostoevsky, Fyodor |
 The Brothers Karamazov Modern Library, 2001. |
Duncan, David James |
 The Brothers K Dial Press, 1996. |
Edgerton, Clyde |
 A Walk across Egypt Ballantine Books, 1997. |
Endo, Shusako |
 Silence Taplinger Publishing Company, 1980. |
Franzen, Jonathan |
 The Corrections Picador, 2002. |
Giardina, Denise |
 Storming Heaven Ivy Books, 1988.  The Unquiet Earth Ivy Books, 1994. |
Gibbons, Kaye |
 Ellen Foster Vintage, 1997. |
Greene, Graham |
 The Power and the Glory Penguin Classics, 2003. |
Hamilton, Jane |
 A Map of the World Anchor, 1999. |
Hansen, Ron |
 Mariette in Ecstasy Harper Perennial, 2002. |
Hassler, Jon |
 A Green Journey  Dear James Ballantine Books, 1996.  North of Hope  Simon's Night  The Staggerford Flood Plume, 2003. |
Hemingway, Ernest |
 The Old Man and the Sea Scribner, 1995. |
Hijuelos, Oscar |
 Mr. Ives' Christmas Harper Perennial, 1996. |
Hosseini, Khaled |
 The Kite Runer Riverhead Trade, 2004. |
Irving, John |
 A Prayer for Owen Meany Ballantine Books, 1997. |
Kafka, Franz |
 Das Urteil, tr. The Trial Schocken, 1995. |
Keizer, Gerrit |
Dressing of Sycamore Trees: The Finding of a Mystery David Godine, 2001. |
Kidd, Sue Monk |
 The Secret Life of Bees Penguin Books, 2003. |
Kingsolver, Barbara |
 The Poisonwood Bible Harper Torch, 2003. |
Lee, Harper |
 To Kill a Mockingbird Warner Books, 1988. |
Miller, Sue |
 While I Was Gone Ballantine Books, 2000. |
Miller, Walter M., Jr.
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 A Canticle for Leibowitz Spectra, 1997. |
Mistry, Rohninton |
 A Fine Balance Vintage, 2001. |
Morrison, Toni |
 Beloved Plume, 1998. |
O'Brien, Michael D. |
 Father Elijah Ignatius Press, 1998. |
Oates, Joyce Carol |
 We Were the Mulvaneys Plume, 1996. |
Paton, Alan |
 Cry, the Beloved Country Scribner, 2003. |
Potok, Chaim |
 My Name Is Asher Lev  The Chosen Fawcett, 1987.  The Promise Fawcett, 1985. |
Proulx, Annie |
 The Shipping News Scribner, 1994. |
Robinson, Marilynne |
 Gilead Picador, 2006. |
Roth, Philip |
 American Pastoral Vintage, 1998. |
Rowling, J.K. |
 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Arthur A. Levine Books, 1998. |
Roy, Arundhati |
 The God of Small Things Harper Perennial, 1998. |
Russo, Richard |
 Empire Falls Vintage, 2002. |
Sacks, Oliver |
 A Leg to Stand On Summit, 1984.  An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales Knopf, 1995.  Awakenings: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat Touchstone Books, 1985. |
Salzman, Mark |
 Lying Awake Vintage, 2001. |
Sebold, Alice |
 The Lovely Bones Back Bay Books, 2004. |
Shields, Carol |
 Larry's Party Viking, 1997.  The Stone Diaries Penguin Books, 1995. |
Sijie, Dai |
 Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress Anchor, 2002. |
Solzhenitzen, Alexander |
 Cancer Ward Farrar, Straus & Grioux, 1969. |
Stegner, Wallace |
 Crossing to Safety Modern Library, 2002. |
Steinbeck, John |
 East of Eden Penguin Books, 2002.  The Grapes of Wrath Penguin Books, 2002. |
Styron, William |
 Sophie's Choice Vintage, 1992. |
Tolkien, J.R.R. |
 The Lord of the Rings Del Rey Books, 2001. |
Tyler, Anne |
 Breathing Lessons Ballantine Books, 2006.  Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant Ballantine Books, 1996.  Ladder of Years Ivy Books, 1997.  Morgan's Passing Ballantine Books, 1996.  Saint Maybe Ballantine Books, 1996.  The Amateur Marriage Knopf, 2004. |
Updike, John |
 In the Beauty of the Lilies Ballantine Books, 1997.  Rabbit Is Rich Rossetta Books, 2004.  Rabbit Redux Rossetta Books, 2004.  Rabbit Remembered Rossetta Books, 2003.  Rabbit at Rest Rossetta Books, 2003.  Rabbit, Run Rossetta Books, 2003.  Toward the End of Time Ballantine Books, 1998. |
Walker, Percy |
 The Moviegoer Knopf, 1961.  The Second Coming Farrar, Straus & Grioux, 1980. |
Wolfe, Tom |
 The Bonfire of the Vanities Farrar, Straus & Grioux, 1990. |
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Recommended Biography, History, Memoir, and Non-Fiction |
Ambrose, Stephen |
 Undaunted Courage Simon & Schuster, 1997. |
Barnes, M. Craig |
 Searching for Home: Spirituality for Restless Souls Brazos Press, 2003. |
Barzun, Jacques |
 From Dawn to Decadence Perennial, 2000. |
Bass, Dorothy |
 Receiving the Day: Christian Practices for Opening the Gift of Time Jossey-Bass, 2001. |
Beck, Martha |
 Expecting Adam Berkley Publishing Group, 1999. |
Bernanos, George |
 Diary of a Country Priest Carrol & Graf, 2002. |
Berry, Wendell |
 A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems 1979-1999 Counterpoint, 1998.  What Are People For? Counterpoint, 1998. |
Bloom, Stephen |
 Postville Harcourt, 2000. |
Boswell, Thomas |
How Life Imitates the World Series Doubleday, 1982. |
Branch, Taylor |
 Parting the Waters: America in the King Years Simon & Schuster, 1989. |
Breslin, Jimmy |
 The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutierrez Three Rivers Press, 2002. |
Brooks, David |
 Bobos in Paradise Simon & Schuster, 2000. |
Browning, Christopher |
 Ordinary Men Harper Collins, 1992. |
Buechner, Frederick |
 Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, & Fairy Tale HarperSanFrancisco, 1977. |
Campbell, Will |
 Brother to the Dragonfly Continuum Publishing Group, 2000. |
Caro, Robert |
 Master of the Senate Knopf, 2002.  Means of Ascent Knopf, 2002.  Path to Power Knopf, 2002. |
Conroy, Pat |
 My Losing Season Doubleday, 2002. |
Dallek, Robert |
 An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy 1917-1963 Little Brown, 2003. |
De Boer, Kathleen |
 Gender and Competition: How Men and Woman Approach Work and Play Differenly Coaches Choice Books, 2004. |
Donald, David Herbert |
 Lincoln Simon & Schuster, 1995. |
Fisher, Louis |
 The Life of Mahatma Gandhi Harper Collins, 1997. |
Gaines, Ernest |
 A Lesson Before Dying Vintage Books USA, 1997. |
Goodwin, Doris Kearns |
 No Ordinary Time Touchstone, 1995. |
Graham, Katherine |
 Personal History Knopf, 1997. |
Keizer, Gerrit |
 God of Beer Harper Collins, 2002. |
L'Engle, Madeline |
 Two-Part Invention Harper San Francisco, 1989. |
LaMott, Anne |
 Bird By Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and on Life Pantheon Books, 1994.  Traveling Mercies Anchor, 1999. |
Lischer, Richard |
 Open Secrets: A Memoir of Faith and Discovery Broadway, 2002. |
Lynch, Thomas |
 The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade WW Norton and Co, 1997. |
Manchester, William |
 American Caesar Laurel, 1983.  The Last Lion: Alone Delta, 1989.  The Last Lion: Visions of Glory Delta, 1984. |
McCullough, David |
 Truman Touchstone, 1992. |
McNeill, Robert |
 Wordstruck Penguin Books, 1990. |
Morris, Edmund |
 Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan Random House, 1999.  Theodore Rex Random House, 2001. |
Patchett, Anne |
 Patron Saint of Liars Houghton Mifflin, 1992. |
Percy, Walker |
 The Message in the Bottle Farrar, Straus & Grioux, 1984. |
Ratushinskaya, Irina |
Grey is the Color of Hope Vintage, 1989. |
Shattuck, Roger |
 Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography Harvest Books, 1996. |
Taylor, Barbara Brown |
 Speaking of Sin: The Lost Language of Salvation Cowley Publications, 2001. |
Taylor, Charles |
 Sources of the Self: The Making of Modern Identity Harvard University Press, 1992. |
Timmer, John |
 God of Weakness: How God Works Through the Weak Things of the World Faith Alive Christian Resources, 1996. |
Trillin, Calvin |
 Remembering Denny Warner Books, 1994. |
Tutu, Desmond |
 No Future Without Forgiveness Image, 2000. |
Van Drehle, David |
 Triangle: The Fire that Changed America Grove Press, 2004. |
Ward, Geoffrey |
 A First-Class Temperament: the Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt Harper Collins, 1992. |
Wicker, Tom |
 One of Us: Richard Nixon and the American Dream Random House, 1991. |
Wills, Garry |
 Certain Trumpets: the Call of Leaders Simon & Schuster, 1994.  Lincoln at Gettysburg Simon & Schuster, 1993.  Reagan's America: Innocents at Home Doubleday, 1987. |
Winner, Lauren |
 Girl Meets God Random House, 2003. |
Wolff, Tobias |
 This Boy's Life Grove Press, 2000. |
