"One Book" Reading Promotion Projects
Selected List by Author
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Avi
“Nothing But the Truth”
Loudoun County (Virginia) 2008
Christina Baker Kline
“Orphan Train”
Dayton (Ohio) 2016
Frank Abagnale & Stan Redding
“Catch Me If You Can”
Indianapolis (Indiana) 2005-06
Shirley Abbott
“Bookmaker's Daughter”
* State-wide program (Arkansas) 2006
Peter Abrahams
“Dog On It”
Norwell (Massachusetts) 2010
Diana Abu-Jaber
“Crescent”
McMinnville (Oregon) 2008
Chinua Achebe
“Things Fall Apart”
Ithaca/Tompkins County (New York) 2005
Princeton (New Jersey) 2008
Diane Ackerman
“Zookeeper's Wife”
San Diego (California) 2009
Sheila Kay Adams
“My Old True Love”
Pittsboro (North Carolina) 2006
James Agee
“Death in the Family”
Knox County, Knoxville, Farragut (Tennessee) 2003
Oak Ridge (Tennessee) 2005
Mitch Albom
“Five People You Meet In Heaven”
Pico Rivera (California) 2004
Grand County (Colorado) 2004
Hanson (Massachusetts) 2006
Henderson (Nevada) 2007 (Oct., Nov.)
Farmingdale (New York) 2005
Sumner (Washington) 2005
“Tuesdays with Morrie”
Long Beach (California) 2002 April 29-May 5
Middletown (Connecticut) 2004
Broward County (Florida) 2004
Princeton (Illinois) 2003
Brownsburg (Indiana) 2005
Connersville (Indiana) 2003
Jay County (Indiana) 2004 Feb.- Apr.
Madison (Indiana) 2004
Shelby County (Indiana) 2004
Valparaiso (Indiana) 2004 April
Vincennes (Indiana) 2003
Quincy (Massachusetts) 2004
Springfield (Massachusetts) 2007
Duluth (Minnesota) 2003
Virginia (Minnesota) 2003
Cape Girardeau (Missouri) 2004
Roswell (New Mexico) 2004
Clayton (Ohio) 2004
Findlay-Hancock County (Ohio) 2003
Lancaster and York Counties (Pennsylvania) 2003
Fayette County (Georgia) 2008
Bess Streeter Aldrich
“Lantern in Her Hand”
* State-wide program (Nebraska) 2009
Lloyd Alexander
“How the Cat Swallowed Thunder”
* State-wide program (New Jersey) 2004
“Arkadians”
Westwood (Massachusetts) 2004 (children) -
William Alexander
“$64 Tomato”
Central Valley (New York) 2008
Robert Alexander (R. D. Zimmerman)
“Kitchen Boy”
Mahtomedi (Minnesota) 2004
Sherman Alexie
“Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”
Rome/Floyd County (Georgia) 2008
College Station + Bryan (Texas) 2009
Malden (Massachusetts) 2013
“Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfigt in Heaven”
Park City (Utah) 2013
Isabel Allende
“Daughter of Fortune”
Marin (California) 2007
San Mateo County (California) 2007
“Zorro”
Santa Clarita (California) 2006
Colorado Springs (Colorado) 2007
Nashua (New Hampshire) 2007
Sierra Madre (California) 2010
“[The works of]”
Seattle (Washington) 2004
Isabelle Allende
“Zorro”
Sonoma County (California) 2006
Jay Allison & Dan Gediman with John Gregory, Viki Merrick (editors)
“This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women”
Falmouth (Massachusetts) 2008
Steve Almond
“Candyfreak”
Wilbraham (Massachusetts) 2007
Falmouth (Massachusetts) 2013
Julia Alvarez
“How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents”
San Bernardino (California) 2007
Ingham County (Michigan) 2003
Long Island (New York) 2003
Tacoma (Washington) 2004
Cambridge (Massachusetts) 2008
“In the Time of Butterflies”
Highland Park (Illinois) 2009 (Spring)
“In the Time of the Butterflies”
Chicago (Illinois) 2004 (Fall)
Forsyth County (North Carolina) 2005
Park City (Utah) 2006
Rudolfo Anaya
“Bless Me, Ultima”
Yuma (Arizona) 2003
Mesa County (Colorado) 2004
Albuquerque (New Mexico) 2005 (fall) -
New Paltz (New York) 2007 (TBR)
Austin (Texas) 2002
Corpus Christi (Texas) 2007 (TBR)
Houston (Texas) 2007
Arlington (Virginia) 2007 (TBR)
Racine (Wisconsin) 2001
Rudolfo A. Anaya
“Bless Me, Ultima”
Fort Collins (Colorado) 2005
Laurie Halse Anderson
“Fever 1793”
Winnetka-Northfield (Illinois) 2004 (young readers) -
“Speak”
Saginaw Area (Michigan) 2005
New York City (New York) 2005
Appleton (Wisconsin) 2005
Andy Andrews
“Noticer”
Fairhope (Alabama) 2009
Maya Angelou
“I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”
Rome/Floyd County (Georgia) 2007
Kankakee County (Illinois) 2005
Forsyth County (North Carolina) 2004
Tamim Ansary
“West Kabul, East of New York”
Waco (Texas) 2004
“West of Kabul, East of New York: An Afghan American Story”
San Francisco (California) 2008
Marie Arana
“American Chica”
Nantucket (Massachusetts) 2009
Gustavo Arellano
“Orange County: A Personal History”
Fullerton (California) 2011
John Armistead
“Return of Gabriel”
Starkville (Mississippi) 2006 (spring) -
Jennifer Armstrong
“Shipwrecked At the Bottom of the World”
Hanson (Massachusetts) 2004
“Spirit of Endurance”
Williamstown (Massachusetts) 2005 Feb. (kids) -
Lance Armstrong
“It's Not About the Bike”
Bakersfield (California) 2004 (adults) -
Nick Arvin
“Articles of War”
Denver (Colorado) 2007
Mawi Asgedom
“Of Beetles and Angels”
Batavia (Illinois) 2004
Evanston (Illinois) 2007-08 -
Brown County (Green Bay) (Wisconsin) 2006
Jay Asher
“Thirteen Reasons Why”
Huntington Beach (California) 2013
Rilla Askew
“Fire in Beulah”
* State-wide program (Oklahoma) 2007
“Mercy Seat”
Bartlesville (Oklahoma) 2007
Ace Atkins
“White Shadow”
Starkville (Mississippi) 2007 (Fall)
Richard and Florence Atwater
“Mr. Popper's Penguins”
Orlando (Florida) 2007
Jane Austen
“Pride and Prejudice”
Sarasota/Manatee Counties (Florida) 2006
Chicago (Illinois) 2005 (Fall)
Ipswich (Massachusetts) 2007
Paul Auster
“Invention of Solitude”
Buffalo (New York) 2005
Paul Austin
“Something for the Pain”
Durham (North Carolina) 2009
Thomas Fox Averill
“What Kansas Means to Me”
* State-wide program (Kansas) 2011
Kathryn Ayres
“Up, Down and Around”
* State-wide program (Kansas) 2010
Paolo Bacigalupi
“Ship Breaker”
Gunnison and Crested Butte (Colorado) 2011
Fredrick Backman
“Man Called Ove”
Malden (Massachusetts) 2017
Jo Baker
“Longbourn”
Santa Monica (California) 2015
Larry Baker
“Flamingo Rising”
Pinellas (Florida) 2006
Christina Baker Kline
“Orphan Train”
Allen (Texas) 2015
David Baldacci
“Wish You Well”
Farmingdale (New York) 2007
* State-wide program (Rhode Island) 2003 (January - May):
Lynchburg (Virginia) 2005
Winchester, Frederick, and Clarke Counties (Virginia) 2006
* Country-wide program (* Regional program) 2001
Syracuse and Onondaga County (New York) 2011
“Wish You Well, Absolute Power, Hour Game”
Huntsville (Alabama) 2005
James Baldwin
“Go Tell It on the Mountain”
Chicago (Illinois) 2007 (Spring) -
Molly Bang
“Common Ground”
Pagosa Springs (Colorado) 2006 May
Russell Banks
“Sweet Hereafter”
Vigo County (Indiana) 2005
Rochester (New York) 2002
Seattle (Washington) 1998
Wilton (Connecticut) 2007
Charles Barkley
“Who's Afraid of a Large Black Man”
South Orange/Maplewood (New Jersey) 2006
Nevada Barr
“Firestorm”
Pagosa Springs (Colorado) 2007 (fiction)
Andrea Barrett
“Servants of the Map”
Rochester (New York) 2005
“Air We Breathe”
Boone and Callaway Counties (Missouri) 2009
T.A. Barron
“Lost Years of Merlin”
Castle Rock (Colorado) 2009 (Teen-)
Laura Bates
“Shakespeare Saved My Life”
Falmouth (Massachusetts) 2015
Tom Batiuk
“Lisa's Story: The Ohter Shoe”
Alliance (Ohio) 2015
Joan Bauer
“Hope Was Here”
Saginaw Area (Michigan) 2002
“[The works of]”
Farmingdale (New York) 2008
L. Frank Baum
“Wizard of Oz”
Chatham (Cape Cod/Barnstable County) (Massachusetts) 2005
“Wonderful Wizard of Oz”
Sierra Madre (California) 2007
Lawrence (Kansas) 2004 Feb.
Louisburg (Kansas) 2009
“Wonderful World of Oz”
Enfield (Connecticut) 2003 June - Sept.
Ridgefield (Connecticut) 2003
Westport (Connecticut) 2008
Ishmael Beah
“Long Way Gone”
Multnomah County/Portland (Oregon) 2008
“Long Way Gone: Memoirs of Boy Soldier”
Austin (Texas) 2008
Melba Pattillo Beals
“Warriors Don't Cry”
Chelsea (Michigan) 2004 January
Logan (Utah) 2006
Colin Beavan
“No Impact Man”
Highland Park (Illinois) 2009 (Fall)
Lauren Belfer
“City of Light”
Bethlehem (Pennsylvania) 2003 (spring) -
Bradford (Pennsylvania) 2008
Bill Belleville
“River of Lakes”
Central Florida (Florida) 2005
Joel ben Izzy
“Beggar King and the Secret of Happiness”
Racine (Wisconsin) 2007
David Benioff
“City of Thieves”
Eastern Connecticut (Connecticut) 2009
Sandra Benitez
“Place Where the Sea Remembers”
Rockford (Illinois) 2006
Austin (Minnesota) 2002
“Weight of All Things”
Eden Prairie (Minnesota) 2008
John Berendt
“Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil”
Gainesville (Florida) 2008
Elizabeth Berg
“Art of Mending”
* State-wide program (South Dakota) 2004
“We Are All Welcome Here”
Nashua (New Hampshire) 2010
H. G. Bissinger
“Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, and a Dream”
Saratoga (California) 2005
Evansville (Indiana) 2007
Galveston County (Texas) 2005
Mansfield (Texas) 2008 April
H.G. Bissinger
“Friday Night Lights”
Tuscarawas County (Ohio) 2009
Sara Blake
“Postmistress”
Nantucket (Massachusetts) 2011
Doris Bloodsworth
“Images of America”
Groveland (Florida) 2009
Fergus Bodewich
“Bound for Canaan”
Cambria County (Pennsylvania) 2008
Chris Bohjalian
“Before You Know Kindness”
Wilmette (Illinois) 2006
Augusta (Maine) 2006
Wilmington (Massachusetts) 2007
Richardson (Texas) 2008
“Buffalo Soldier”
Windsor (Connecticut) 2005
“Double Bind”
Conway (Mt. Washington Valley) (New Hampshire) 2009
“Skeletons at the Feast”
Nashua (New Hampshire) 2009
“Buffalo Soldier”
Evansville (Indiana) 2005
Martha's Vineyard (Massachusetts) 2004 (adults) -
Rochester (New York) 2007
“Double Bind”
Springfield (Illinois) 2007
“Sandcastle Girls”
Winchester (Massachusetts) 2013
“Water Witches”
Northampton (Massachusetts) 2004
Concord (New Hampshire) 2005
Southampton (Massachusetts) 2008
Ulrich Boser
“Gardner Heist”
Milton (Massachusetts) 2013
Anthony Bourdain
“Kitchen Confidential”
Rockford (Illinois) 2007
T. C. Boyle
“Tortilla Curtain”
Carlsbad (California) 2004
Santa Barbara (California) 2002
Sierra Madre (California) 2005
Silicon Valley (California) 2006-07
Johnson County (Iowa) 2006
Marquette (Michigan) 2006
Aliso Viejo (California) 2005
Bakersfield (California) 2003 (adults) -
Laguna Beach (California) 2006 Oct. - 2007 Mar.
San Joaquin County (California) 2003
Chelsea (Michigan) 2008
Boone and Callaway Counties (Missouri) 2006
Galveston County (Texas) 2004
T.C. Boyle
“Tortilla Curtain”
Nashua (New Hampshire) 2008
Fort Collins (Colorado) 2009
“When the Killing's Done”
Thousand Oaks (California) 2012
Ray Bradbury
“Dandelion Wine”
Lake Villa (Illinois) 2004
“Fahrenheit 451”
Anchorage (Alaska) 2007
Safford City (Graham County) (Arizona) 2007
Fayetteville (Arkansas) 2007
Bakersfield (California) 2005
Carlsbad (California) 2006
Concord (California) 2007
Long Beach (California) 2005
Sierra Madre (California) 2009
Los Angeles (California) 2002 April
Nevada County (California) 2005
Redwood City (California) 2007
Santa Clarita Valley (California) 2007
Silicon Valley (California) 2004
Sonoma County (California) 2007
Eastern Connecticut (Connecticut) 2003
Glastonbury (Connecticut) 2005
Norwalk (Connecticut) 2008
Jacksonville (Florida) 2003
Palm Beach (Florida) 2002 March - April
Boise (Idaho) 2006
Bloomington-Normal (Illinois) 2005
Kankakee County (Illinois) 2003
Libertyville (Illinois) 2006
Peoria (Illinois) 2008 (TBR)
Allen County (Fort Wayne) (Indiana) 2003
Bloomington (Indiana) 2007 (TBR)
Carmel (Indiana) 2003 (adult) -
Lafayette (Indiana) 2002
Topeka (Kansas) 2007 (TBR)
Baton Rouge (Louisiana) 2008
Bridgewater (Massachusetts) 2008-09 #1 -
Martha's Vineyard (Massachusetts) 2003 (adults) -
South Hadley (Massachusetts) 2006
Springfield (Massachusetts) 2006
East Lansing (Michigan) 2002
Kalamazoo (Michigan) 2003 Feb. 17- March 30
South Haven (Michigan) 2007
Omaha (Nebraska) 2004
Northern Nevada (and the Tahoe region of northern California) (Nevada) 2007
* State-wide program (New Hampshire) 2007 (TBR)
* State-wide program (New Jersey) 2003
Utica (New York) 2004
Wake County (North Carolina) 2003
Delaware County (Ohio) 2003 July
Greater Cleveland Area (Ohio) 2003 Feb-Apr
Claremore (Oklahoma) 2006
Multnomah County/Portland (Oregon) 2004
Erie (Pennsylvania) 2004
Houston (Texas) 2003
Tacoma (Washington) 2003 Feb.
Sweetwater County (Wyoming) 2007
Norwood (Massachusetts) 2008
Pittsfield (Massachusetts) 2011
James Bradley
“Flags of Our Fathers”
Lafayette (Indiana) 2007
Traverse City (Michigan) 2007
Kate Braestrup
“Here if You Need Me”
Conway (Mt. Washington Valley) (New Hampshire) 2008
“Here if You Need Me: A True Story”
Bedford (Massachusetts) 2008
Rick Bragg
“All Over But the Shoutin'”
* State-wide program (Arkansas) 2003 #1 -
Gwinnett County (Georgia) 2003
Evansville (Indiana) 2003
Cape Girardeau (Missouri) 2003
Henry County (Tennessee) 2004
Jackson-Madison County (Tennessee) 2004
Rutherford County (Tennessee) 2003
Kalamazoo (Michigan) 2009
“Ava's Man”
Mobile (Alabama) 2002
Monroe (Louisiana) 2005
Carroll County (Maryland) 2007
Sonny Brewer
“Poet of Tolstoy Park”
Fairhope (Alabama) 2005
Gwinnett County (Georgia) 2006 (fall) -
Andrew Bridge
“Hope's Boy”
Winchester (Massachusetts) 2010
Kevin Brockmeier
“Brief History of the Dead”
* State-wide program (Arkansas) 2007
Tom Brokaw
“Boom!: Voices of the Sixties Personal Reflections on the '60's”
Manchester (Massachusetts) 2009
“Greatest Generation”
Long Beach (California) 2007
Broomfield (Colorado) 2007
Iola (Kansas) 2006 #2
Carroll County (Maryland) 2002
Clayton (Ohio) 2002
Temple (Texas) 2004-05
Geraladine Brooks
“March”
North Andover (Massachusetts) 2008 (adult)
Geraldine Brooks
“Caleb's Crossing”
Eastern Connecticut (Connecticut) 2012
Winchester (Massachusetts) 2012
Sharon (Massachusetts) 2015
“March”
La Canada Flintridge (California) 2006
Prior Lake-Savage (Minnesota) 2006-07 (adult)
Syracuse and Onondaga County (New York) 2009-10
Holliston (Massachusetts) 2007
Hanover (New Hampshire) 2009
Lake Villa (Illinois) 2008
Fort Collins (Colorado) 2011
“People of the Book”
Sandwich (Massachusetts) 2009 (adult)
“Year of Wonders”
Winnetka-Northfield (Illinois) 2004 (adult)-
Amy Belding Brown
“Mr. Emerson's Wife”
East of the Connecticut River (Towns of Andover, Bolton, Colchester, Columbia, Glastonbury , Hebron, Manchester, Marlborough, and Portland) (Connecticut) 2007
Carie Brown
“Rope Walk”
* State-wide program (Iowa) 2009
Jennifer Brown
“Hate List”
Louisburg (Kansas) 2011
Mary Ward Brown
“It Wasn't All Dancing and Other Stories”
Decatur (Alabama) 2002
Oral Lee Brown
“Promise”
Manchester (Connecticut) 2006
Sandra Brown
“Rainwater”
Mansfield (Texas) 2012
Robert Bruel
“Bob and Otto”
Miami-Dade area (Florida) 2007
Joseph Bruhac
“[The works of]”
Naperville (Illinois) 2009 (children)-
Louella Bryant
“While in Darkness There is Light”
Hamilton-Wenham (Massachusetts) 2009
Bill Bryson
“Walk in the Woods”
Augusta (Maine) 2004
South Portland (Maine) 2005
Ipswich (Massachusetts) 2006
North Reading (Massachusetts) 2008
Norton (Massachusetts) 2006 (adult #2) -
Norwell (Massachusetts) 2007
Pittsfield (Massachusetts) 2008
Contoocook (New Hampshire) 2002
Tiffin (Ohio) 2007
Cambria County (Pennsylvania) 2005
Centre County (Pennsylvania) 2006
Cumberland-Dauphin Counties (Pennsylvania) 2003
Erie (Pennsylvania) 2005
Monson (Massachusetts) 2007
Groton (Massachusetts) 2008
Princeton (Massachusetts) 2009
Hamilton-Wenham (Massachusetts) 2008
Southwick (Massachusetts) 2005
Central Valley (New York) 2010
Marina Budhos
“Ask Me No Questions”
Mount Prospect (Illinois) 2007 (grades 7-10)
Olive Ann Burns
“Cold Sassy Tree”
Howard County (Indiana) 2005
Octavia Butler
“Kindred”
Pasadena (California) 2006
Rochester (New York) 2003
Milwaukee (Wisconsin) 2002
Bo Caldwell
“Distant Land of My Father”
Pasadena (California) 2007
Silicon Valley (California) 2008
A. E. Cannon
“Charlotte's Rose”
Salt Lake City (Utah) 2005-06 (children/young readers) -
Ottaviani Cannon and Cannon
“T-Minus: The Race to the Moon”
Allen (Texas) 2011
Truman Capote
“In Cold Blood”
* State-wide program (Kansas) 2008 (January) -
El Dorado (Kansas) 2008
Orson Scott Card
“Ender's Game”
Boone and Callaway Counties (Missouri) 2005
Forsyth County (North Carolina) 2007
Lynchburg (Virginia) 2006
Spokane Area (Washington) 2004
Nancy Carlson
“[The works of]”
Fergus Falls (Minnesota) 2005
Margaret Carney
“Biggest Fish in the Lake”
Roswell (Georgia) 2007 (children)
Lewis Carroll
“Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”
Colorado Springs (Colorado) 2006
Rachel Carson
“Silent Spring”
Bridgewater (Massachusetts) 2008-09 #2 -
Winona (Minnesota) 2006
Falmouth (Massachusetts) 2011
Jimmy Carter
“An Hour Before Daylight”
Columbus (Georgia) 2003
Flint/Genesee County (Michigan) 2003 April
“Hornet's Nest”
Huntsville (Alabama) 2004
Lorene Cary
“Price of a Child”
Buffalo (New York) 2003
Clarion (Pennsylvania) 2003-04
Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) 2003
Warren County (Pennsylvania) 2004
Michael Tougias, Casey Sherman
“Finest Hours”
Abington (Massachusetts) 2015
Vera Caspery
“Laura”
Starkville (Mississippi) 2007 (Fall)
Willa Cather
“Death Comes for the Archbishop”
Albuquerque (New Mexico) 2006 (spring) -
“My Antonia”
Chicago (Illinois) 2002 (Fall)
Fox Valley (communities of Aurora, Montgomery, North Aurora, and Oswego) (Illinois) 2007 (TBR)
Ames (Iowa) 2007
Fergus Falls (Minnesota) 2007 (TBR)
* State-wide program (Nebraska) 2005
Western North Carolina (North Carolina) 2008 (TBR)
* State-wide program (South Dakota) 2007 (TBR)
Timberland Region (5 county, 27 library district) (Washington) 2007 (TBR)
“O Pioneers!”
Brownsburg (Indiana) 2003
Howard County (Indiana) 2004
Michael Chabon
“Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay”
Sharon (Massachusetts) 2012
“Final Solution”
Kansas City (Missouri) 2007
Michael Chabon . . .
“My California”
Long Beach (California) 2006
Raymond Chandler
“Big Sleep”
Seward (Nebraska) 2007
“Lady in the Lake”
Santa Monica (California) 2012
“Long Goodbye”
Chicago (Illinois) 2008
Dan Chaon
“Await Your Reply”
Boone and Callaway Counties (Missouri) 2010
Fern Schumer Chapman
“Motherland”
Racine (Wisconsin) 2004
“Motherland: Beyond the Holocaust”
Davenport (Iowa) 2005
Lynne Cherry
“Great Kapok Tree”
Northwest Indiana (Indiana) 2007 (early readers)
Tracy Chevalier
“Girl With a Pearl Earring”
Lake Villa (Illinois) 2005 #1
Naperville (Illinois) 2004
Julia Child with Alex Prud'homme
“My Life in France”
Carlsbad (California) 2011
Eileen Christelow
“Great Pig Search”
Allen (Texas) 2012
Matt Christopher
“On the Bike with Lance Armstrong”
Bakersfield (California) 2004 (juvenile) -
Sandra Cisneros
“Caramelo”
Denver (Colorado) 2005
Boise (Idaho) 2005
Saratoga Springs (New York) 2007
Fort Worth (Texas) 2003
“House on Mango Street”
Jacksonville (Florida) 2004
* State-wide program (Arkansas) 2004
Escondido (California) 2007
Los Angeles (California) 2003
Pico Rivera (California) 2002
Sonoma County (California) 2004
Multnomah County/Portland (Oregon) 2005
College Station + Bryan (Texas) 2006
Irving (Texas) 2007
Milwaukee (Wisconsin) 2003
Chris Cleave
“Little Bee”
Santa Monica (California) 2010
Seattle (Washington) 2011
Margaret Coel
“Killing Raven”
Fremont County (Wyoming) 2005
“Eagle Catcher”
Loveland (Colorado) 2005
Henry Cole
“Nest for Celeste”
Allen (Texas) 2013
Suzanne Collins
“Hunger Games”
Cincinnati (Ohio) 2010 (adult and youth)
Dalton Conley
“Honkey”
Southington (Connecticut) 2006
Kevin Connolly
“Double Take: A Memoir”
Bozeman (Montana) 2010
Pat Conroy
“My Reading Life”
Columbia (South Carolina) 2014
Brian Copeland
“Not a Geniune Black Man”
Silicon Valley (California) 2009
Zizou Corder
“Lionboy”
Winnetka-Northfield (Illinois) 2007 (children)
Virginia Cornell
“Doc Susie: the true story of a country physician in the Colorado Rockies”
Grand County (Colorado) 2005
Trevor Corson
“Secret Life of Lobsters”
Bath and Brunswick (Maine) 2006
Lynn Cox
“Grayson”
Long Beach (California) 2008
Lynne Cox
“Grayson”
Malibu (California) 2007
Hannah Crafts (edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.)
“Bondwoman's Narrative”
Indianapolis (Indiana) 2004-05
Sharon Creech
“Granny Torelli Makes Soup”
Dover (New Hampshire) 2005
Doreen Cronin
“Wiggle”
* State-wide program (Kansas) 2009
Chris Crowe
“Mississippi Trial”
Springville (Utah) 2004 (adult) -
Chris Crutcher
“Whale Talk”
Prior Lake-Savage (Minnesota) 2005-06 (teen) -
Christopher Paul Curtis
“Bud Not Buddy”
Chelsea (Michigan) 2007 (Children)
“Watsons Go To Birmingham - 1963”
San Joaquin County (California) 2005
Lexington (Kentucky) 2007
South Portland (Maine) 2004
Baltimore (Maryland) 2006
Flint/Genesee County (Michigan) 2002 April
Ingham County (Michigan) 2005
Muskegon County (Michigan) 2003
Hastings (Minnesota) 2007 #2
St. Paul (Minnesota) 2003
Chattanooga (Tennessee) 2005-06 (young)
Norfolk (Virginia) 2002
Roald Dahl
“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”
Westchester (New York) 2005
“James and the Giant Peach”
Orlando (Florida) 2005
Sandra Dallas
“Tallgrass”
Cape Girardeau (Missouri) 2008
Edwidge Danticat
“Breath, Eyes, Memory”
Hartford (Connecticut) 2002
Miami (Florida) 2004 (Spring)
“Brother, I'm Dying”
Arlington (Virginia) 2008 (adult) -
“Dew Breaker”
New Paltz (New York) 2006
Charles Darwin
“On the Origin of the Species”
South Bend (Indiana) 2008-09
Julie Dash
“Daughters of the Dust”
Charleston County (South Carolina) 2011
Joshua Davis
“Spare Parts”
Richardson (Texas) 2016
Richard Dawkins
“Selfish Gene”
Kansas City (Missouri) 2008
George Dawson
“Life is so Good”
Saginaw Area (Michigan) 2004
Beverly Deepe Keever
“Death Zones & Darling Spies: Seven Years of Vietnam War Reporting”
* State-wide program (Nebraska) 2015
Jim Defede
“Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland”
Racine (Wisconsin) 2006
Sarah L. Delany
“Having Our Say: The Delany Sister's First 100 Years”
Columbia (South Carolina) 2011
Pat Cunningham Devoto
“Out of the Night That Covers Me”
Montgomery (Alabama) 2004
Junot Diaz
“Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”
Hartford (Connecticut) 2009
Amherst (Massachusetts) 2013
Kate DiCamillo
“Because of Winn-Dixie”
Orlando (Florida) 2003 Jan. 12-14
Arkansas City (Kansas) 2005
Holden (Massachusetts) 2005
North Reading (Massachusetts) 2006 (children) -
Omaha (Nebraska) 2005
* State-wide program (New Jersey) 2004
Pittsboro (North Carolina) 2007
“Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane”
Naperville (Illinois) 2006 (children) -
Dover (New Hampshire) 2007
Charles Dickens
“Tale of Two Cities”
Sarasota/Manatee Counties (Florida) 2007
“Great Expectations”
Lowell (Massachusetts) 2012
Joan Didion
“White Album”
Malibu (California) 2006
Brad Dimock
“Sunk Without a Sound”
* State-wide program (Arizona) 2005 #1 -
Chitra Divakaruni
“One Amazing Thing”
Alliance (Ohio) 2012
Richardson (Texas) 2012
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
“Mistress of Spices”
Oakland (California) 2006
Tahar Djaout
“Last Summer of Reason”
Johnson County (Iowa) 2001
E. L. Doctorow
“March”
Clarendon Hills, Downers Grove, Hinsdale, Indian Prairie, Lisle, Thomas Ford, Westmont, and Woodridge (Illinois) 2007
Davie County (Mocksville) (North Carolina) 2007
Ivan Doig
“Whistling Season”
Loveland (Colorado) 2007
Boone and Callaway Counties (Missouri) 2008
Lake Oswego (Oregon) 2010
Jennifer Donnelly
“Northern Light”
Western New York (New York) 2006
Tim Dorsey
“Florida Roadkill”
Lee County (Florida) 2007
Doug Dorst
“Alive in Necropolis”
San Francisco (California) 2009
Oroark Dowell
“Shooting the Moon”
Winnetka-Northfield (Illinois) 2011 (children) -
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”
South Bend (Indiana) 2012
“Hound of the Baskervilles”
Allen (Texas) 2011-12 (adult-
“Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”
Sierra Madre (California) 2012
“Hound of the Baskervilles”
Allen (Texas) 2012
Joe Drape
“Our Boys: A Perfect Season on the Plains with the Smith Center Redmen”
Louisburg (Kansas) 2012
Sharon Draper
“Fire from the rock”
Cincinnati (Ohio) 2009 (youth)-
Firoozeh Dumas
“Funny in Farsi”
Orange County (California) 2004
Palo Alto (California) 2006
Whittier (California) 2005
Dayton (Ohio) 2008
Concord (New Hampshire) 2010
Carlsbad (California) 2009
“Laughing Without an Accent”
Concord (New Hampshire) 2010
David James Duncan
“Brothers K”
McMinnville (Oregon) 2005
D. D. Dunn
“Binder Twine 'n Bandaids: Homegrown Humor from the Heartlands”
Northern Illinois (Illinois) 2005
Princeton (Illinois) 2005
Tony Earley
“Jim the Boy”
Owatonna (Minnesota) 2001
Clyde Edgerton
“Walking Across Egypt”
Gwinnett County (Georgia) 2004
Forsyth County (North Carolina) 2003
Wayne County (North Carolina) 2007
Chattanooga (Tennessee) 2005 (adults) -
Jackson-Madison County (Tennessee) 2005
Kim Edwards
“Memory Keeper's Daughter”
Roswell (Georgia) 2008
Bowling Green (Kentucky) 2007
Wake County (North Carolina) 2007
Timothy Egan
“Worse Hard Time”
Sunderland (Massachusetts) 2008
“Worst Hard Time”
Manhattan (Kansas) 2007
Leverett (Massachusetts) 2008
Lincoln (Nebraska) 2007
Lake Forest Park (Washington) 2007
“Worst Hard Time: the Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl”
Andover (Massachusetts) 2009
Dave Eggers
“What is the What”
San Mateo County (California) 2008
Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) 2008
Thousand Oaks (California) 2008
Arlington (Massachusetts) 2009
“Zeitoun”
Arlington (Massachusetts) 2011
Dayton (Ohio) 2012
John Ehle
“Land Breakers”
Forsyth County (North Carolina) 2006
“Road”
Western North Carolina (North Carolina) 2005
Barbara Ehrenreich
“Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America”
Peoria (Illinois) 2006
Lafayette (Indiana) 2006
Vigo County (Indiana) 2003
Linn County (Iowa) 2004
Monroe (Louisiana) 2007
Bridgewater (Massachusetts) 2005-06
South Hadley (Massachusetts) 2002
Chelsea (Michigan) 2006
Kalamazoo (Michigan) 2004 -Jan. 26 - March 31
Rochester (Minnesota) 2003
Boone and Callaway Counties (Missouri) 2004
Concord (New Hampshire) 2007
Cayuga County (New York) 2006
Watauga County (North Carolina) 2003
Dayton (Ohio) 2005
Bethlehem (Pennsylvania) 2003 (Fall)
Cambria County (Pennsylvania) 2004
Galveston County (Texas) 2007
Fox Cities (Wisconsin) 2007
Racine (Wisconsin) 2004
Carlos Eire
“Learning to Die in Miami: Confessions of a Refugee Boy”
Winchester (Massachusetts) 2015
“Waiting for Snow in Havana”
Madison (Connecticut) 2005
Southington (Connecticut) 2009
Deborah Ellis
“Breadwinner”
Winnetka-Northfield (Illinois) 2005 (young readers) -
Shelby County (Indiana) 2006 (young adult) -
Bath and Brunswick (Maine) 2005 (youth) -
Martha's Vineyard (Massachusetts) 2004 (young readers) -
Nantucket (Massachusetts) 2007 (middle school students)
Joseph Ellis
“Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation”
* State-wide program (Wisconsin) 2004
Joseph J. Ellis
“His Excellency: George Washington”
Fairfax County (Virginia) 2007
Mary Relindes Ellis
“Turtle Warrior”
Manawa (Wisconsin) 2006
Earl Emerson
“In the Inferno”
Sumner (Washington) 2006
Marina Endicott
“Good to a Fault”
Winchester (Massachusetts) 2011
Leif Enger
“Peace Like a River”
Pasadena (California) 2003
Denver (Colorado) 2004
* State-wide program (Iowa) 2003
Sharon (Massachusetts) 2007
Battle Creek (Michigan) 2007
Grand Rapids (Michigan) 2003
Winona (Minnesota) 2003
Lincoln (Nebraska) 2004
Washoe County (Nevada) 2003
Rochester (New York) 2004
Western New York (New York) 2003
Newport (Oregon) 2006
Adams County (Pennsylvania) 2006
* State-wide program (South Dakota) 2003
Sumner (Washington) 2004
“[The novels of ]”
Austin (Minnesota) 2009
Paul Engle
“Lucky American Childhood”
Linn County (Iowa) 2008
Larry Englemann and Meihong Xu
“Daughter of China”
Austin (Minnesota) 2006
Louise Erdrich
“Birchbark House”
St. Paul (Minnesota) 2006-07 (young reader)
“Master Butchers Singing Club”
* State-wide program (Iowa) 2005
“Painted Drum”
Winona (Minnesota) 2007
Maria Amparo Escandon
“Gonzalez & Daughter Trucking Co.”
La Canada Flintridge (California) 2007
Anne Fadiman
“Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down”
South Bend (Indiana) 2006-07
Winona (Minnesota) 2004
“Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures”
Groton (Massachusetts) 2011
Siobhan Fallon
“You Know When the Men Are Gone”
Winnetka-Northfield (Illinois) 2011
William Faulkner
“Go Down, Moses”
* State-wide program (Mississippi) 2007
Jasper Fforde
“Eyre Affair”
Bangor (Maine) 2008
Antwone Fisher
“Finding Fish”
New York City (New York) 2004
Greater Cleveland Area (Ohio) 2004
Janet Fitch
“White Oleander”
Laguna Beach (California) 2007 Mar. - Oct.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Great Gatsby”
* State-wide program (Arkansas) 2006 (TBR)
Pinellas (Florida) 2007 (TBR)
Libertyville (Illinois) 2007 (TBR)
Bloomington (Indiana) 2006
Vigo County (Indiana) 2007 (TBR)
Lexington (Kentucky) 2006
Westwood (Massachusetts) 2007 (TBR)
Duluth (Minnesota) 2006
St. Paul (Minnesota) 2005 (adult) -
Virginia (Minnesota) 2006
Las Vegas (Nevada) 2008
Ithaca/Tompkins County (New York) 2006
Long Island (New York) 2002
Erie (Pennsylvania) 2007 (TBR)
Scranton (Pennsylvania) 2003
* State-wide program (Virginia) 2007
Sioux City (Iowa) 2007
Bedford (Massachusetts) 2005
Arlington (Massachusetts) 2013
Fannie Flagg
“Fried Green Tomatoes”
Allegheny County (Pennsylvania) 2005
Paul Fleischman
“Seedfolks”
Upland (California) 2006
Tampa (Florida) 2002 January 21
Arlington (Massachusetts) 2003
Winchester (Massachusetts) 2002
Newburgh (New York) 2004
Springville (Utah) 2006-07
* State-wide program (Vermont) 2005
Racine (Wisconsin) 2005
Allen (Texas) 2008-09 (adult) -
Sun Prairie (Wisconsin) 2014
Appleton (Wisconsin) 2009
Nantucket (Massachusetts) 2009
Berwyn (Illinois) 2008
“Matchbox Diary”
Allen (Texas) 2015
Candace Fleming
“Lowji Discovers America”
Mount Prospect (Illinois) 2007 (grades 3-5)
Jonathan Safran Foer
“Eating Animals”
Fairfield (Connecticut) 2011
“Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close”
Mesa County (Colorado) 2009
“Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”
Santa Monica (California) 2006
Thousand Oaks (California) 2007
Marquette (Michigan) 2007
Deerfield, Bannockburn and Riverwoods (Illinois) 2011
Eastern Connecticut (Connecticut) 2011
Charleston County (South Carolina) 2011
Adrian Fogelin
“Sister Spider Knows All”
Lake County (Florida) 2007 (teens) -
Jaime Ford
“Hotel on the Corner of Sweet”
Richardson (Texas) 2011
Jamie Ford
“Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet”
Schenectady (New York) 2010
Sycamore (Illinois) 2011
Thousand Oaks (California) 2011
Connie May Fowler
“Before Women Had Wings”
Central Florida (Florida) 2004
Gwinnett County (Georgia) 2005
Jackson-Madison County (Tennessee) 2006
“Remembering Blue”
Sarasota County (Florida) 2006
“[The works of]”
Tampa-Hillsborough County (Florida) 2006
Anne Frank
“Diary of a Young Girl”
Fayette County (Georgia) 2010
“Diary of Anne Frank (The Diary of a Young Girl)”
Gainesville (Florida) 2001-02
Allen County (Fort Wayne) (Indiana) 2004
Westfield (Massachusetts) 2007
Greensboro (North Carolina) 2006
Michael Frayn
“Copenhagen”
Bethlehem (Pennsylvania) 2004 (fall) -
Charles Frazier
“Cold Mountain”
Greenwood (Indiana) 2005
Spokane Area (Washington) 2003
“Thirteen Moons”
Gwinnett County (Georgia) 2008
Ian Frazier
“Great Plains”
Sycamore (Illinois) 2002
Castle Freeman, Jr.
“Go with Me”
Conway (Mt. Washington Valley) (New Hampshire) 2010
Thomas Friedman
“World Is Flat”
Utica (New York) 2007
Thomas L. Friedman
“Hot, Flat and Crowded”
Watertown (Massachusetts) 2009
Cornelia Funke
“Thief Lord”
Boise (Idaho) 2007 (middle readers)
Jostein Gaarder
“Solitaire Mystery”
Sycamore (Illinois) 2004
Neil Gaiman
“[The works of]”
Naperville (Illinois) 2010 (all ages)-
Ernest J. Gaines
“Gathering of Old Men”
Knox County, Knoxville, Farragut (Tennessee) 2004
“Lesson Before Dying”
Miami (Florida) 2003
Peoria (Illinois) 2002 Jan-April
Bloomington (Indiana) 2002 Feb - Apr
Northwest Indiana (Indiana) 2002
Monroe (Louisiana) 2006
New Orleans (Louisiana) 2004
Jackson (Mississippi) 2003 Apr.-Oct.
Washoe County (Nevada) 2002
Albuquerque (New Mexico) 2005 (spring) -
Buffalo (New York) 2000
Rochester (New York) 2000
Syracuse and Onondaga County (New York) 2001-02
Greensboro (North Carolina) 2002 Sept. - Nov.
Watauga County (North Carolina) 2001
Cincinnati (Ohio) 2002
Multnomah County/Portland (Oregon) 2003
College Station + Bryan (Texas) 2005
Galveston County (Texas) 2008
Houston (Texas) 2002
Waco (Texas) 2002
Richmond (Chesterfield, Hanover, and Henrico) (Virginia) 2002
Seattle (Washington) 1999
Holyoke (Massachusetts) 2009
Fayette County (Georgia) 2009
Chattanooga (Tennessee) 2004 - (adults) -
“[The works of]”
Lafayette (Louisiana) 2002 Feb. 18 - March 26
Savannah (Georgia) 2005 April 3-9
Donald R. Gallo
“First Crossing: Stories about Teen Immigrants”
Chelsea (Michigan) 2008
Steven Galloway
“Cellist of Sarajevo”
Allen (Texas) 2009-10 (adult
James Galvin
“Fencing the Sky”
Sweetwater County (Wyoming) 2005
“Meadow”
Broomfield (Colorado) 2006
Loveland (Colorado) 2006
Norman G. Gantreau
“Sea Room”
Hudson (Massachusetts) 2005
Cristina Garcia
“Dreaming in Cuban”
Hartford (Connecticut) 2007
Henry Louis Gates
“Colored People”
* State-wide program (West Virginia) 2007
P.L. Gaus
“Seperate from the World: An Ohio Amish Mystery”
Western New York (New York) 2009
W. Michael and Kathleen O'Neal Gear
“People of the Moon”
Pagosa Springs (Colorado) 2006
Lisa Genova
“Love Anthony”
Winchester (Massachusetts) 2014
Ann George
“[The works of]”
South Baldwin County (Alabama) 2004
Karen Gettert Shoemaker
“Meaning of Names”
* State-wide program (Nebraska) 2016
Nikki Giovanni
“Bicycles: Love Poems”
Loudoun County (Virginia) 2010
Fred Gipson
“Old Yeller”
* State-wide program (Texas) 2002 (Children's selection) -
Malcolm Gladwell
“Tipping Point”
Sycamore (Illinois) 2005
Cayuga County (New York) 2007
Diane Glancy
“Stone Heart: A Novel of Sacajawea”
Rockford (Illinois) 2004
Julia Glass
“Widower's Tale”
Nashua (New Hampshire) 2013
Richard Glaubman
“Life is So Good”
Eastern Connecticut (Connecticut) 2008
Molly Gloss
“Jump-off Creek”
Eugene - Springfield (Oregon) 2005
William Goldman
“Princess Bride”
Boerne and Comfort (Texas) 2006
Michael Good
“Search for Major Plagge”
Durham and Middlefield (Connecticut) 2006
Doris Kearns Goodwin
“Wait Till Next Year”
Norwell (Massachusetts) 2009
Nadine Gordimer
“Pickup”
Ithaca/Tompkins County (New York) 2007
Al Gore
“Book list/discussions based on film: The Inconvenient Truth”
Ingham County (Michigan) 2008
Reyna Grande
“Across a Hundred Mountains”
Eastern Connecticut (Connecticut) 2007
Temple Grandin
“Emergence”
Huntington Beach (California) 2012
John Green
“Fault in Our Stars”
Arlington (Massachusetts) 2012
Bob Greene
“Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen”
Henderson County (Illinois) 2007
Louisburg (Kansas) 2005
Skowhegan (Maine) 2007
Rochester (Minnesota) 2004
Melissa Fay Greene
“Underdogs: Children, Dogs, and the Power of Unconditional Love”
Dayton (Ohio) 2018
Rhonda Gowler Greene
“Barnyard Song”
* State-wide program (Michigan) 2004
Linda Greenlaw
“Lobster Chronicles”
Augusta (Maine) 2005
Sturbridge (Massachusetts) 2004
Conor Grennan
“Little Princes”
Eastern Connecticut (Connecticut) 2013
“Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal”
Huntington Beach (California) 2016
Nikki Grimes
“Bronx Masquerade”
Cincinnati (Ohio) 2008 (youth) -
John Grisham
“Painted House”
Cape Girardeau (Missouri) 2002
“Bleachers”
Tiffin (Ohio) 2004
John Grogan
“Marley & Me”
Johnson County (Indiana) 2009
McEwensville, Milton, Northumberland, Selinsgrove, Sunbury (Pennsylvania) 2009
“Marley - A Dog Like No Other”
Allen (Texas) 2007-08 (youth:9-14) -
“Marley and Me”
Norwell (Massachusetts) 2008
“Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog”
Burbank (California) 2007
Grand County (Colorado) 2007
Mesa County (Colorado) 2007
Sycamore (Illinois) 2007
Evansville (Indiana) 2006
Henderson (Nevada) 2008
Bowling Green (Ohio) 2006
Lower Merion Township (Pennsylvania) 2006
Warren County (Pennsylvania) 2006
Berkeley County (South Carolina) 2008
Allen (Texas) 2007-08 (adult) -
Davis Grubb
“Night of the Hunter”
* State-wide program (West Virginia) 2006
Sara Gruen
“Water for Elephants”
Winnetka-Northfield (Illinois) 2007 (adult)
Sharon (Massachusetts) 2008
Montcalm County (Michigan) 2007
Boone and Callaway Counties (Missouri) 2007
Contoocook (New Hampshire) 2007
Saratoga Springs (New York) 2008
* State-wide program (Rhode Island) 2008
Park City (Utah) 2007
Schenectady (New York) 2009
Syracuse and Onondaga County (New York) 2010
South Hadley (Massachusetts) 2008
Stoughton (Massachusetts) 2008
Sarah Gruen
“Ape House”
Gwinnett County (Georgia) 2010
Judith Guest
“Ordinary People”
Warren County (Pennsylvania) 2009
Jacqueline Guidry
“Year the Colored Sisters Came to Town”
Windsor (Connecticut) 2007
Kansas City (Missouri) 2003
Jeff Guinn
“Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde”
Mansfield (Texas) 2011
Allan Gurganus
“White People”
Richmond (Chesterfield, Hanover, and Henrico) (Virginia) 2004
David Guterson
“Snow Falling on Cedars”
Vigo County (Indiana) 2002 April
Wakefield (Massachusetts) 2003 (Winter)
Contoocook (New Hampshire) 2004
Sullivan County (New York) 2002
Lewis County (Washington) 2003-04
Milwaukee (Wisconsin) 2002 Feb.-Apr
George Guthridge
“Kids From Nowhere”
Huntington Beach (California) 2009
Mark Haddon
“Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time”
Santa Barbara (California) 2004
Gunnison and Crested Butte (Colorado) 2005
Westport (Connecticut) 2006
LaPorte County (Indiana) 2006
Michigan City (Indiana) 2006
Montgomery County (Indiana) 2005
Falmouth (Massachusetts) 2007
North Attleborough (Massachusetts) 2005
North Reading (Massachusetts) 2005
West Boylston (Massachusetts) 2005
Kalamazoo (Michigan) 2007
Macomb County Area (Michigan) 2005
Central Valley (New York) 2005
New Paltz (New York) 2005
Wake County (North Carolina) 2005
Cincinnati (Ohio) 2006 (adult) -
South Central Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania) 2007
Galveston County (Texas) 2006
Salt Lake City (Utah) 2004-05 (fiction)-
Winchester, Frederick, and Clarke Counties (Virginia) 2005
Carolyn Haines
“Buried Bones”
Starkville (Mississippi) 2007 (Fall)
Roya Hakakian
“Journey from the Land of No”
Madison (Connecticut) 2007
Donald Hall
“[The works of]”
Concord (New Hampshire) 2004
Barbara Hambly
“Emancipator's Wife”
Springfield (Illinois) 2005
Pete Hamill
“Snow in August”
Eastern Connecticut (Connecticut) 2002
Westport (Connecticut) 2003
Arlington (Massachusetts) 2005
Brookline (Massachusetts) 2005
Monson (Massachusetts) 2004
Wilmington (Massachusetts) 2005
Macomb County Area (Michigan) 2002 July-Aug.
Traverse City (Michigan) 2004
Farmingdale (New York) 2003
Long Island (New York) 2004
Wilton (Connecticut) 2006
Jane Hamilton
“When Madeline Was Young”
Nashua (New Hampshire) 2012
Dashiell Hammett
“Maltese Falcon”
Danville and San Ramon (San Ramon Valley) (California) 2005
Nantucket (Massachusetts) 2012
Patricia Hampl
“St. Paul Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald”
Austin (Minnesota) 2005
Lorraine Hansberry
“Raisin in the Sun”
Chicago (Illinois) 2003 (Spring)
Michigan City (Indiana) 2003
Chad Harbach
“Art of Fielding”
Thousand Oaks (California) 2013
Paul Harding
“Tinkers”
Beverly (Massachusetts) 2010
Hamilton-Wenham (Massachusetts) 2010, Autumn-
George Harrar
“Parents Wanted”
North Andover (Massachusetts) 2007 (young adults)
Dan Harris
“10 Happier”
Canton (Massachusetts) 2016
Sharon (Massachusetts) 2016
Eddy L. Harris
“Mississippi Solo”
Jackson (Mississippi) 2004
* State-wide program (Missouri) 2004
Elva Trevino Hart
“Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child”
Traverse City (Michigan) 2006
Springville (Utah) 2007-08 -
Erin Hart
“Haunted Ground”
Austin (Minnesota) 2004
John Hart
“Down River”
Seward (Nebraska) 2010
Trevino Hart
“Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child”
Huntington Beach (California) 2011
Kent Haruf
“Eventide”
Broomfield (Colorado) 2009
“Plainsong”
* State-wide program (Arizona) 2003
San Joaquin County (California) 2007
Gunnison and Crested Butte (Colorado) 2004
Loveland (Colorado) 2004
Springfield (Illinois) 2002
Linn County (Iowa) 2003
Manhattan (Kansas) 2006
Grand Rapids (Michigan) 2005
Boone and Callaway Counties (Missouri) 2002
Kansas City (Missouri) 2002
Lincoln (Nebraska) 2002
Wahpeton (ND) and Breckenridge (MN) (North Dakota) 2005
Spokane Area (Washington) 2002
Castle Rock (Colorado) 2009 (Adult-)
Tommy Hays
“Pleasure Was Mine”
Greenville County (South Carolina) 2008
Ernest Hebert
“Old American”
Groton (Massachusetts) 2010
Chris Hedges
“War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning”
South Bend (Indiana) 2004-05
Ursula Hegi
“Stones from the River”
Adams County (Pennsylvania) 2004
Jean Hegland
“Into the Forest”
Northwest Indiana (Indiana) 2007 (adult)
Ernest Hemingway
“Farewell to Arms”
Miami (Florida) 2007 (spring) (TBR)
Boise (Idaho) 2007
“Old Man and the Sea”
Lake Villa (Illinois) 2006 #1
“Nick Adams Stories”
* State-wide program (Michigan) 2007
Lakeshore Area (Michigan) 2008
“Old Man the Sea”
Nantucket (Massachusetts) 2008
Jose Hernandez
“Barrio Boy”
San Joaquin County (California) 2006
Connie Hertzberg Mayo
“Island of Worthy Boys”
Canton (Massachusetts) 2017
Sharon (Massachusetts) 2018
Karen Hesse
“Out of the Dust”
El Dorado (Kansas) 2004
Bath and Brunswick (Maine) 2007 (youth) -
“Witness”
* State-wide program (Vermont) 2003
Loudoun County (Virginia) 2005
Peter Hessler
“River Town”
Madison (Indiana) 2007
Carl Hiaasen
“Flush”
Northwest Indiana (Indiana) 2007 (middle readers)
Hastings (Minnesota) 2008 (young adult) -
“Hoot”
STATEWIDE (Florida) 2005
Pinellas (Florida) 2005 Nov. 2005 - 2006 Feb.
Sanibel (Florida) 2004 Oct. - 2005 April (young readers)
Martha's Vineyard (Massachusetts) 2003 (young readers) -
Natick (Massachusetts) 2006
Madbury (New Hampshire) 2005
Denton (Texas) 2007 (intermediate)
Homer Hickam
“Rocket Boys”
Fullerton (California) 2008
South Bend (Indiana) 2011
Bloomington-Normal (Illinois) 2011
“Rocket Boys (October Sky)”
Grove Hill (Alabama) 2006
Guntersville (Alabama) 2004
Scottsboro (Alabama) 2004
Antelope Valley (California) 2007
Central Florida (Florida) 2002
Fox Valley (communities of Aurora, Montgomery, North Aurora, and Oswego) (Illinois) 2006
Greenwood (Indiana) 2002
Northwest Indiana (Indiana) 2004
Topeka (Kansas) 2003
Athol (Massachusetts) 2005
Easthampton (Massachusetts) 2005
South Hadley (Massachusetts) 2007
Grand Rapids (Michigan) 2007
Southwest Michigan (Michigan) 2005
Bowling Green (Ohio) 2003
Delaware County (Ohio) 2006
Findlay-Hancock County (Ohio) 2005
Greater Cleveland Area (Ohio) 2005
Tiffin (Ohio) 2002
South Central Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania) 2004
Warren County (Pennsylvania) 2005
Beaufort County (South Carolina) 2005
Memphis (Tennessee) 2004
Portland (Tennessee) 2005
Wichita Falls (Texas) 2007
Alexandria (Virginia) 2003 (Summer)
Winchester, Frederick, and Clarke Counties (Virginia) 2003 Jan. - Apr.
Martinsburg/Berkeley County (West Virginia) 2006
Sioux City, Iowa and South Sioux City, Nebraska (* Regional program) 2008
Burbank (California) 2008
Sioux City (Iowa) 2008
Wells County (Indiana) 2009
Homer H. Hickam
“Rocket Boys”
Galveston County (Texas) 2010
Homer Hickham
“Rocket Boys”
Allen (Texas) 2011
Homer Hickman
“Rocket Boys”
Allen (Texas) 2010-11 (adult
Homer H. Hickman, Jr.
“Rocket Boys”
Beverly (Massachusetts) 2003
Robert Hicks
“Widow of the South”
Bowling Green (Ohio) 2011
Catherine Ryan Hide
“Pay It Forward”
Sycamore (Illinois) 2010
Julia Butterfly Hill
“Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman, and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods”
Denton (Texas) 2007 (adult)
Laura Hillenbrand
“Seabiscuit: An American Legend”
Huntsville (Alabama) 2003 April-June
Los Angeles (California) 2004
Clarendon Hills, Downers Grove, Hinsdale, Indian Prairie, Lisle, Thomas Ford, Westmont, and Woodridge (Illinois) 2006
Carroll County (Maryland) 2005
Hanson (Massachusetts) 2006
Kingston (Massachusetts) 2004
Williamstown (Massachusetts) 2006
Waco (Texas) 2003
Winchester, Frederick, and Clarke Counties (Virginia) 2004
“Unbroken”
Sierra Madre (California) 2013
T. L. Hines
“Waking Lazarus”
Billings (Montana) 2008
Michael Hingson
“Thunder Dog: the True Story of a Blind Man, His Dog, and the Triumph of Trust at Ground Zero”
Alliance (Ohio) 2013
S. E. Hinton
“Outsiders”
Pueblo (Colorado) 2006
Haddam and Killingworth (Connecticut) 2007 (classic)
St. Paul (Minnesota) 2005 (young reader) -
Memphis (Tennessee) 2003
Alice Hoffman
“Blackbird House”
Sandwich (Massachusetts) 2007 #1
Fox Cities (Wisconsin) 2008 (adult) -
“Icantation”
Sandwich (Massachusetts) 2009 (young adult)
“Red Garden”
Nantucket (Massachusetts) 2013
Craig Holden
“Jazz Bird”
Northern Kentucky (Kentucky) 2009
Kris Holloway
“Monique and the Mango Rains”
Southampton (Massachusetts) 2010
Deborah Hopkinson
“Apples to Oregon”
* State-wide program (Oregon) 2009 (children) -
Nancy Horan
“Loving Frank”
Wilmette (Illinois) 2008
Dara Horn
“World to Come”
Deschutes County (Oregon) 2008
Tony Horwitz
“Voyage Long and Strange”
Gwinnett County (Georgia) 2009
“Confederates in the Attic”
Bowling Green (Ohio) 2011
Khaled Hosseini
“Kite Runner”
Zionsville (Indiana) 2005
Nantucket (Massachusetts) 2007 (adults and high school students) -
Montcalm County (Michigan) 2005
Bucks County (Pennsylvania) 2006
Fullerton (California) 2006
Albany (California) 2006
Escondido (California) 2006
Pasadena (California) 2005
San Mateo County (California) 2006
Santa Monica (California) 2005
Woodland (California) 2004
Eastern Connecticut (Connecticut) 2004
Lower Naugatuck Valley (Ansonia, Beacon Falls, Derby, Oxford, Seymour, and Shelton) (Connecticut) 2005
Middletown (Connecticut) 2005
Lee County (Florida) 2006 (fall) -
Winnetka-Northfield (Illinois) 2005 (adult) -
Bloomington (Indiana) 2005
Shelby County (Indiana) 2006
Johnson County (Iowa) 2004
Bath and Brunswick (Maine) 2005
Cambridge (Massachusetts) 2005
Hanson (Massachusetts) 2005
Winchester (Massachusetts) 2005
Chelsea (Michigan) 2005 (adult) -
East Lansing (Michigan) 2005
Prior Lake-Savage (Minnesota) 2005-06 (adult) -
Kansas City (Missouri) 2005
Lincoln (Nebraska) 2005
Contoocook (New Hampshire) 2005
Nashua (New Hampshire) 2005
Central Valley (New York) 2006
Saratoga Springs (New York) 2005
Schenectady (New York) 2008
Syracuse and Onondaga County (New York) 2006-07
Pittsboro (North Carolina) 2004
Rockingham County (North Carolina) 2008
Bowling Green (Ohio) 2005 (fall) -
Cincinnati (Ohio) 2005 (adult) -
Deschutes County (Oregon) 2005
Multnomah County/Portland (Oregon) 2006
Allegheny County (Pennsylvania) 2006
Lower Merion Township (Pennsylvania) 2005
South Central Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania) 2006
* State-wide program (Rhode Island) 2005
Arlington (Texas) 2007 #1
Houston (Texas) 2005
Richardson (Texas) 2005
Salt Lake City (Utah) 2006 (spring/summer-fiction) -
Fairfax County (Virginia) 2005
Khalid Hosseini
“Kite Runner”
Holliston (Massachusetts) 2006
Khaled Hossieni
“Thousand Splendid Suns”
Fairhope (Alabama) 2007
John Hough, Jr.
“Seen the Glory: a novel of the Battle of Gettysburg”
Falmouth (Massachusetts) 2012
Silas House
“Parchment of Leaves”
Bowling Green (Kentucky) 2004
* State-wide program (West Virginia) 2009
“Clay's Quilt”
Lexington (Kentucky) 2005
Northern Kentucky (Kentucky) 2006
“Coal Tattoo”
Bloomington-Normal (Illinois) 2009
“[The works of]”
Harrisburg (Illinois) 2005
James D. Houston
“Snow Mountain Passage”
Truckee (California) 2002
Jeanne Houston
“Farewell to Manzanar”
Whittier (California) 2006
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
“Farewell to Manzanar”
* State-wide program (Missouri) 2002 March - April
S.M. Hulse
“Black River”
Western New York (New York) 2016
Zora Neale Hurston
“Their Eyes Were Watching God”
Windsor (Connecticut) 2007
* State-wide program (District of Columbia) 2007
Jacksonville (Florida) 2007 (TBR)
Ocala (Florida) 2007 (TBR)
Palm Beach (Florida) 2004
Savannah (Georgia) 2007 (TBR)
Topeka (Kansas) 2006 (TBR)
* State-wide program (New Jersey) 2007
Buffalo (New York) 2007 (TBR)
Charleston County (South Carolina) 2007
Catherine Ryan Hyde
“Pay It Forward”
Hendry County (Florida) 2004
Peoria (Illinois) 2005
Jay County (Indiana) 2006 March - May
LaPorte County (Indiana) 2005
Madison (Indiana) 2006
Michigan City (Indiana) 2005
Shelby County (Indiana) 2005
Hanson (Massachusetts) 2005
Battle Creek (Michigan) 2006
Flint/Genesee County (Michigan) 2006
Findlay-Hancock County (Ohio) 2007
Wadsworth (Ohio) 2005
Washington County (Oregon) 2003
Johnson City (Tennessee) 2003
Corpus Christi (Texas) 2006
Richardson (Texas) 2004
Casper (Wyoming) 2007
Concord (New Hampshire) 2009
Henrik Ibsen
“An Enemy of the People”
South Bend (Indiana) 2007-08 -
Witi Ihimaera
“Whale Rider”
LaPorte County (Indiana) 2004
Michigan City (Indiana) 2004
Witi Tame Ihimaera
“Whale Rider”
Arlington (Massachusetts) 2004
Dave Isay
“Listening is an Act of Love”
Deerfield, Bannockburn and Riverwoods (Illinois) 2009
“Listening Is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project”
Howard County (Maryland) 2010
Long Beach (California) 2011
Christopher Isherwood
“Berlin Stories”
Santa Monica (California) 2004
J. A. Jance
“Justice Denied”
Warren County (Pennsylvania) 2008
Francisco Jimenez
“Breaking Through”
Sierra Vista (Arizona) 2008
“Circuit”
Woodland (California) 2002
Francisco Jiminez
“Breaking Through”
Silicon Valley (California) 2003
Kij Johnson
“At the Mouth of the River Bees”
Alaska (Alaska) 2013
Tony Johnson
“Any Small Goodness”
* State-wide program (Alaska) 2003
Lloyd Jones
“Mister Pip”
Park City (Utah) 2010
Hillary Jordan
“Mudbound”
Western New York (New York) 2011
Vernon Jordan
“Vernon Can Read”
Evansville (Indiana) 2002
Alponsion Deng, Benson Deng, Benhamin Ajak Judy A. Bernstein
“They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky”
Huntington Beach (California) 2010
Cynthia Kadohata
“Kira-Kira”
Mesa County (Colorado) 2006
Stephanie Kallos
“Broken For You”
Lake Forest Park (Washington) 2005
Stillwater, Minnesota and Hudson, Wisconsin (* Regional program) 2008 (adult- high school) -
“Sing Them Home”
* State-wide program (Iowa) 2011
Alex Kava
“One False Move”
* State-wide program (Nebraska) 2006
Terry Kay
“Valley of Light”
Roswell (Georgia) 2007(adult) -
“To Dance With the White Dog”
* State-wide program (Arkansas) 2001
Doris Kearns Goodwin
“Wait Till Next Year”
Long Island (New York) 2009
Doug Kelly
“Captain's Wife”
* State-wide program (Arkansas) 2002
Elmer Kelton
“Sandhill Boys”
Victoria (Texas) 2008
“Good Old Boys”
Mansfield (Texas) 2004 April
“Time It Never Rained”
Abilene (Texas) 2003
John F. Kennedy
“Profiles in Courage”
St. Paul (Minnesota) 2002
Piper Kerman
“Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison”
Sharon (Massachusetts) 2014
Jack Kerouac
“On The Road”
Chelsea (Michigan) 2007 (Young Adults)
Lauren Kessler
“Stubborn Twig”
* State-wide program (Oregon) 2009 (adult) -
Multnomah County/Portland (Oregon) 2009
Lake Oswego (Oregon) 2009
Watt Key
“Alabama Moon”
Fairhope (Alabama) 2006
Sue Monk Kidd
“Secret Life of Bees”
Mobile (Alabama) 2003
Montgomery County (Indiana) 2004
Ocala (Florida) 2005
Kankakee County (Illinois) 2006
Johnson County (Indiana) 2006
Norton (Massachusetts) 2006 (adult #1)-
Pittsboro (North Carolina) 2003
* State-wide program (Rhode Island) 2004
Timberland Region (5 county, 27 library district) (Washington) 2005
Tracy Kidder
“Home Town”
Lexington (Massachusetts) 2010
“Mountains Beyond Mountains”
Eastern Connecticut (Connecticut) 2005
Sarasota County (Florida) 2005
Augusta (Maine) 2007
Cambridge (Massachusetts) 2006
Concord (Massachusetts) 2004
Dover (Massachusetts) 2004
Falmouth (Massachusetts) 2006
Leverett (Massachusetts) 2005
Winchester (Massachusetts) 2004
Ann Arbor (Michigan) 2007
Summit (New Jersey) 2007
Syracuse and Onondaga County (New York) 2007-08
Bozeman (Montana) 2008
Deerfield, Bannockburn and Riverwoods (Illinois) 2008
Wilbraham (Massachusetts) 2009
Arlington (Massachusetts) 2006
Hamilton-Wenham (Massachusetts) 2007
“Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World”
Santa Barbara (California) 2007 Fall
McMinnville (Oregon) 2007
“Strength in What Remain”
Hanover (New Hampshire) 2010
“Strength in What Remains”
* State-wide program (Iowa) 2012
Haven Kimmel
“Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana”
Northwest Indiana (Indiana) 2003
Dave King
“Ha Ha”
Greenfield (Massachusetts) 2009
Laurie R. King
“Bookeepers Apprentice”
Bowling Green (Ohio) 2012
“Locked Rooms: A Mary Russell Novel”
Danville and San Ramon (San Ramon Valley) (California) 2007
“Beekeeper's Apprentice”
Southeast Michigan (Michigan) 2008
Stephen King
“Stephen King On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft”
Bangor (Maine) 2005
Barbara Kingsolver
“Animal Dreams”
* State-wide program (Arizona) 2002
Kalamazoo (Michigan) 2008
“Animal, Vegetable, Miracle”
Belmont (Massachusetts) 2009
Northampton (Massachusetts) 2009
Groton (Massachusetts) 2009
Sierra Vista (Arizona) 2009
Norwood (Massachusetts) 2009
Eden Prairie (Minnesota) 2010
Fullerton (California) 2009
Rehoboth (Massachusetts) 2010-11
Falmouth (Massachusetts) 2013
“Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life”
Williamstown (Massachusetts) 2008 #1 -
Concord (New Hampshire) 2008
Bath and Brunswick (Maine) 2009
“Animal, Vegetable. Miracle”
Burlington (Massachusetts) 2009
“Pigs in Heaven”
Linn County (Iowa) 2005
“Small Wonder”
Sanibel (Florida) 2004 Oct. - 2005 April (adult)
Howard County (Maryland) 2007
“Bean Trees”
* State-wide program (Kentucky) 2001
Greenfield (Massachusetts) 2002
Park City (Utah) 2003
* Country-wide program (* Regional program) 2003
Maxine Hong Kingston
“Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts”
Saratoga (California) 2004
W. P. Kinsella
“Shoeless Joe”
Bowling Green (Ohio) 2005
W.P. Kinsella
“Shoeless Joe”
Racine (Wisconsin) 2002
Kevin Kling
“Dog Says How”
Excelsior (Minnesota) 2008
William Kloefkorn
“Restoring the Burnt Child”
* State-wide program (Nebraska) 2008
Frederick Kohner
“Gidget”
Malibu (California) 2005
Jim Kokoris
“Rich Part of Life”
Sycamore (Illinois) 2003
Elizabeth Kolbert
“Field Notes from a Catastrophe”
Santa Barbara (California) 2007 (adult)
Hastings (Minnesota) 2008(adult) -
Jackie French Koller
“Primrose Way”
Ipswich (Massachusetts) 2009
Ted Kooser
“Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps”
* State-wide program (Nebraska) 2011
Gordon Korman
“Dive: The Discovery”
Bath and Brunswick (Maine) 2008 (youth) -
Alex Kotlowitz
“There Are No Children Here”
Batavia (Illinois) 2007
Jon Krakauer
“Into Thin Air”
Rockford (Illinois) 2003
“Under the Banner of Heaven”
Park City (Utah) 2004
William Kent Krueger
“Thunder Bay”
Austin (Minnesota) 2010
Robert Kurson
“Shadow Divers”
Bath and Brunswick (Maine) 2008 (adult) -
Aryn Kyle
“God of Animals”
Mesa County (Colorado) 2008
Jhumpa Lahiri
“Interpreter of the Maladies”
* State-wide program (District of Columbia) 2004
Chicago (Illinois) 2006 (Fall)
“Namesake”
Walnut Creek (California) 2006
Whittier (California) 2008
Cambridge (Massachusetts) 2004
Lexington (Massachusetts) 2005 (Fall)
Northampton (Massachusetts) 2007
South Orange/Maplewood (New Jersey) 2004
Park City (Utah) 2005
Seattle (Washington) 2007
Danbury (Connecticut) 2008
Watertown (Massachusetts) 2008
Stoughton (Massachusetts) 2010
Wilton (Connecticut) 2008
Laila Lalami
“Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits”
Rochester (New York) 2008
“Secret Son”
Seattle (Washington) 2010
William Landay
“Defending Jacob”
Sharon (Massachusetts) 2013
Abington (Massachusetts) 2014
Lorna Landvik
“[The novels of]”
Austin (Minnesota) 2007
Alfred Lansing
“Endurance”
Indianapolis (Indiana) 2003-04
Williamstown (Massachusetts) 2005 Feb.
Ipswich (Massachusetts) 2014
“Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage”
* State-wide program (Alaska) 2004
Bath and Brunswick (Maine) 2004
Easthampton (Massachusetts) 2007
Erik Larsen
“Devil in the White City”
Lewis County (Washington) 2006
Erik Larson
“Devil in the White City”
Sharon (Massachusetts) 2009
“Isaac's Storm”
Athol (Massachusetts) 2006 - "Reading up a Storm!"
Victoria (Texas) 2002 #2 -
“Devil in the White City”
Clarendon Hills, Downers Grove, Hinsdale, Indian Prairie, Lisle, Thomas Ford, Westmont, and Woodridge (Illinois) 2005
Stoughton (Massachusetts) 2006
Lincoln (Nebraska) 2006
Gretchen Moran Laskas
“Miner's Daughter”
* State-wide program (West Virginia) 2012
Jeanne Laskas
“Fifty Acres and a Poodle”
Warren County (Pennsylvania) 2007
David Laskin
“Children's Blizzard”
Bradford (Pennsylvania) 2009
Chang-Rae Lee
“Gesture Life”
Seattle (Washington) 2003
“Aloft”
Long Island (New York) 2008
“Native Speaker”
Princeton (New Jersey) 2002
* State-wide program (New York) 2002
Gus Lee
“China Boy”
San Francisco (California) 2005
Harper Lee
“To Kill a Mockingbird”
Bay Minette (Alabama) 2003
Huntsville (Alabama) 2007 (TBR)
West Valley (Arizona) 2007
Bakersfield (California) 2002 March-May
Fresno County (California) 2006
Long Beach (California) 2003
Roseville (California) 2005
San Mateo County (California) 2007
Stockton (California) 2002
Colorado Springs (Colorado) 2002
Pueblo (Colorado) 2005
Bridgeport (Connecticut) 2007
New Haven (Connecticut) 2007
Norwalk (Connecticut) 2007
Shelton (Connecticut) 2007
Stamford (Connecticut) 2007
Waterbury (Connecticut) 2007
Brevard County (Florida) 2007
Jacksonville (Florida) 2002
Lee County (Florida) 2006 (spring) -
Palm Beach (Florida) 2006
Atlanta (Georgia) 2007 #1
Gwinnett County (Georgia) 2006 (spring) -
Chicago (Illinois) 2001 (Fall)
Peoria (Illinois) 2007 (TBR)
Michigan City (Indiana) 2002
Salem (Indiana) 2004
Valparaiso (Indiana) 2002 April 14 - 20
Vincennes (Indiana) 2004
Davenport (Iowa) 2007
El Dorado (Kansas) 2005
Baton Rouge (Louisiana) 2007
Bath and Brunswick (Maine) 2002
Carroll County (Maryland) 2004
Canton (Massachusetts) 2006
Falmouth (Massachusetts) 2003
Groton (Massachusetts) 2005
North Attleborough (Massachusetts) 2008 (TBR)
Norwell (Massachusetts) 2006
South Hadley (Massachusetts) 2005
Winchester (Massachusetts) 2003
Duluth (Minnesota) 2002
Fergus Falls (Minnesota) 2002
Hastings (Minnesota) 2007 #3
Prior Lake-Savage (Minnesota) 2004-05 (adult) -
Starkville (Mississippi) 2007 (TBR)
Boone and Callaway Counties (Missouri) 2003
Cape Girardeau (Missouri) 2007 #1
Omaha (Nebraska) 2006
* State-wide program (New Jersey) 2005 (adult) -
Central Valley (New York) 2003
Chatham (New York) 2005
Farmingdale (New York) 2002
Schenectady (New York) 2006 Jan. 9-Apr. 8
Forsyth County (North Carolina) 2002 Aug. - Oct.
Wayne County (North Carolina) 2004
Western North Carolina (North Carolina) 2007 (TBR)
Velva (North Dakota) 2008
Bowling Green (Ohio) 2004
Clermont County (Ohio) 2004
Dayton (Ohio) 2006
Delaware County (Ohio) 2002 July
Findlay-Hancock County (Ohio) 2006
Greater Cleveland Area (Ohio) 2002 Jan-Apr
Allegheny County (Pennsylvania) 2003
Centre County (Pennsylvania) 2003
Scranton (Pennsylvania) 2002
Johnson City (Tennessee) 2002
Victoria (Texas) 2002 #1 -
* State-wide program (Virginia) 2008 (TBR)
Fairfax County (Virginia) 2004
Tacoma (Washington) 2002 Feb.
Neenah (Wisconsin) 2005
Casper (Wyoming) 2006
Sioux City, Iowa and South Sioux City, Nebraska (* Regional program) 2006
Iola (Kansas) 2009 Winter/Spring
Chelmsford (Massachusetts) 2008
Arlington (Massachusetts) 2007
Pittsfield (Massachusetts) 2009
Wilton (Connecticut) 2005
Lawrence (Kansas) 2010
South Bend (Indiana) 2010
Ipswich (Massachusetts) 2011
Dedham (Massachusetts) 2011
Chillicothe (Missouri) 2013
Milton (Massachusetts) 2012
Nantucket (Massachusetts) 2014
William Poy Lee
“Eighth Promise”
Ann Arbor (Michigan) 2008
Ursula LeGuin
“Lathe of Heaven”
Eugene - Springfield (Oregon) 2004
Dennis Lehane
“Given Day”
Sharon (Massachusetts) 2011
Lisa Lenard-Cook
“Dissonance”
Durango-La Plata County (Colorado) 2004
Mike Leonard
“Ride of Our Lives”
Lake Villa (Illinois) 2007
Aldo Leopold
“Sand County Almanac”
Erie (Pennsylvania) 2008
John Lescroart
“Suspect”
Sacramento (California) 2007
Billie Letts
“Where the Heart Is”
Glastonbury (Connecticut) 2002
Middletown (Connecticut) 2008
Gail Carson Levine
“Dave At Night”
Libertyville (Illinois) 2007 (youngsters)
C. S. Lewis
“Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”
Boise (Idaho) 2006 (middle readers) -
Boerne and Comfort (Texas) 2005
Michael Lewis
“Blind Side”
Brookline (Massachusetts) 2008
William Henry Lewis
“I Got Somebody in Staunton”
Richmond (Chesterfield, Hanover, and Henrico) (Virginia) 2006-07
Elinor Lipman
“My Latest Grievance”
North Andover (Massachusetts) 2007 (adult)
Gene Logsdon
“Man Who Created Paradise”
Tuscarawas County (Ohio) 2008
Jack London
“Call of the Wild”
Sonoma County (California) 2003
“White Fang”
San Leandro (California) 2006
Melinda Long
“How I Became a Pirate”
Boise (Idaho) 2007 (young readers) -
Steve Lopez
“Soloist”
Cincinnati (Ohio) 2009 (adult)-
Bozeman (Montana) 2009
Thousand Oaks (California) 2009
Concord (New Hampshire) 2009
Long Beach (California) 2010
Bellingham (Massachusetts) 2010
Malden (Massachusetts) 2011
“Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music”
Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) 2009
Marybeth Lorbiecki
“Planet Patrol”
Hastings (Minnesota) 2008 (elementary) -
Cynthia Lord
“Rules”
Connersville (Indiana) 2009
Lois Lowry
“Giver”
Middletown (Connecticut) 2003
Westport (Connecticut) 2002
Batavia (Illinois) 2006
Bloomington-Normal (Illinois) 2003
Valparaiso (Indiana) 2003 April
Groton (Massachusetts) 2006
Holden (Massachusetts) 2006
Southwest Michigan (Michigan) 2003
Rochester (Minnesota) 2005 (adult) -
Central Valley (New York) 2002
Centre County (Pennsylvania) 2004
Loudoun County (Virginia) 2006
La Crosse (Wisconsin) 2002
Waukesha (Wisconsin) 2002
Sierra Vista (Arizona) 2006
Fargo, West Fargo and Moorhead (North Dakota) 2012
Fort Collins (Colorado) 2002
Louisburg (Kansas) 2014
Louisburg (Kansas) 2014
David Lubar
“Hidden Talents”
Haddam and Killingworth (Connecticut) 2007 (fiction)
Mike Lupica
“Travel Team”
Ronan (Montana) 2005-06
Farmingdale (New York) 2006
Jacki Lyden
“Daughter of the Queen of Sheba”
Lexington (Massachusetts) 2009
Jim Lynch
“Highest Tide”
Santa Monica (California) 2008
George Ella Lyon
“With a Hammer for My Heart”
Northern Kentucky (Kentucky) 2008
Amin Maalouf
“Leo Africanus”
Ann Arbor (Michigan) 2005
Malcolm MacPherson
“Cowboy and His Elephant”
Grand County (Colorado) 2006
Tim Madigan
“I'm Proud of You: Life Lessons from My Friend Fred Rogers”
Mansfield (Texas) 2009
Michelle Magorian
“Goodnight, Mr. Tom”
Holden (Massachusetts) 2007
Gregory Maguire
“Wicked”
Saratoga Springs (New York) 2006
Adeline Yen Mah
“[The works of]”
Orange County (California) 2003
Bernard Malamud
“Natural”
Peabody (Massachusetts) 2008
Wilkes-Barre (Pennsylvania) 2006
Thomas Maltman
“Little Wolves”
* State-wide program (Iowa) 2014
St. John Mandel
“Station Eleven”
Santa Monica (California) 2016
Sonia Manzano
“No Dogs Allowed”
Miami-Dade area (Florida) 2004
Coin Marisa
“Mary”
Thousand Oaks (California) Silver
Yann Martel
“Life of Pi”
* State-wide program (Arizona) 2004
Santa Clarita (California) 2005
Naperville (Illinois) 2005
Traverse City (Michigan) 2003
Irving (Texas) 2006
Salt Lake County (Utah) 2007
Santa Barbara (California) 2003
Jacksonville (Florida) 2005
Contoocook (New Hampshire) 2003
Central Valley (New York) 2009
Lee Martin
“[The works of]”
Harrisburg (Illinois) 2003
Man Martin
“Days of the Endless Corvette”
Bowling Green (Kentucky) 2008
Bobbie Ann Mason
“In Country”
* State-wide program (West Virginia) 2010
David Mas Masumoto
“Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm”
Bakersfield (California) 2006
Brentwood (California) 2006
Nevada County (California) 2006
Sacramento (California) 2005
San Joaquin County (California) 2004
Silicon Valley (California) 2005
Woodland (California) 2003
Claire Hamner Matturro
“Sweetheart Deal”
Sarasota County (Florida) 2008
Anna Jean Mayhew
“Dry Grass of August”
Columbia (South Carolina) 2013
Archer Mayor
“Surrogate Thief”
Berlin, Newington, Rocky Hill, Wethersfield (Connecticut) 2007
James McBride
“Song Yet Sung”
*State-wide program (Maryland) 2009
Baltimore (Maryland) 2009
Winchester (Massachusetts) 2009
Winchester (Massachusetts) 2009
Nashua (New Hampshire) 2011
“Color of Water”
Hartford (Connecticut) 2003
Windsor (Connecticut) 2003
Cambridge (Massachusetts) 2003
Falmouth (Massachusetts) 2005
Springfield (Massachusetts) 2005
East Lansing (Michigan) 2004
Flint/Genesee County (Michigan) 2004
Kalamazoo (Michigan) 2005
Marquette (Michigan) 2002
Saginaw Area (Michigan) 2003
Long Island (New York) 2007
New York City (New York) 2002 Oct.(kickoff) -
Durham (North Carolina) 2005
Alliance (Ohio) 2004
Bethlehem (Pennsylvania) 2005 (fall) -
Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) 2004
Lynchburg (Virginia) 2003
Fort Collins (Colorado) 2006
Laura McBride
“We Are Called to Rise”
Western New York (New York) 2015
Richardson (Texas) 2015
Colum McCann
“Let the Great World Spin”
Wilmette (Illinois) 2011
Susan Carol McCarthy
“Lay That Trumpet In Our Hands”
Montcalm County (Michigan) 2008
Elizabeth McCracken
“Niagara Falls All Over”
* State-wide program (Iowa) 2004
“Giant's House”
Leverett (Massachusetts) 2007
“[The works of]”
Southeast Michigan (Michigan) 2005
Sharyn McCrumb
“Ballad Novels”
Oak Ridge (Tennessee) 2006
“Ballad of Frankie Silver”
Macomb County Area (Michigan) 2003 Apr.-Aug.
Lynchburg (Virginia) 2004
“Hangman's Beautiful Daughter”
Northern Kentucky (Kentucky) 2007
Carson McCullers
“Heart is a Lonley Hunter”
Columbus (Georgia) 2002
David McCullough
“1776”
Bedford (Massachusetts) 2006
“Wright Brothers”
Dayton (Ohio) 2017
Marc McCutcheon
“Kid Who Named Pluto”
Waco (Texas) 2005-06
Alice McDermott
“Charming Billy”
Richmond (Chesterfield, Hanover, and Henrico) (Virginia) 2005
Sidney S. McMath
“Promises Kept”
* State-wide program (Arkansas) 2003 #2 -
Larry McMurtry
“Lonesome Dove”
* State-wide program (Texas) 2002 (Adult selection) -
David McPhail
“Mole Music”
Allen (Texas) 2009-10 (picture book
John McPhee
“Pine Barrens”
* State-wide program (New Jersey) 2004
Brad Meltzer
“Zero Game”
STATEWIDE (Florida) 2006
Herman Melville
“Moby Dick”
Falmouth (Massachusetts) 2010
Dinaw Mengestu
“Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears”
Seattle (Washington) 2008
Roland Merullo
“Breakfast with Buddha”
Broomfield (Colorado) 2008
Southampton (Massachusetts) 2009
“Talk Funny Girl”
Conway (Mt. Washington Valley) (New Hampshire) 2013
Lisa Michaels
“Grand Ambition”
* State-wide program (Arizona) 2005 #2 -
James A. Michener
“Tales of the South Pacific”
Bucks County (Pennsylvania) 2007
Ben Mikaelsen
“Touching Spirit Bear”
Valparaiso (Indiana) 2007
El Dorado (Kansas) 2006
Iola (Kansas) 2006 #1
Candice Millard
“River of Doubt”
Long Island (New York) 2010
Arthur Miller
“Crucible”
Scranton (Pennsylvania) 2005
Chicago (Illinois) 2007 (fall)
Peabody (Massachusetts) 2002
Tacoma (Washington) 2006
“[The works of]”
Syracuse and Onondaga County (New York) 2002-03
E. Ethelbert Miller
“Fathering Words: The Making of An African American Writer”
* State-wide program (District of Columbia) 2003
Jacquelyn Mitchard
“Cage of Stars”
Lakeshore Area (Michigan) 2007
“[The works of]”
Harrisburg (Illinois) 2008
Jay County (Indiana) 2007 Sept.- Oct. 2007
Miriam Grace Monfredo
“North Star Conspiracy”
* State-wide program (Alaska) 2002
Brookline (Massachusetts) 2006
Central Valley (New York) 2007
Syracuse and Onondaga County (New York) 2005
Louis Carlos Montalvan
“Until Tuesday: A Wounded Warrior and the Golden Retriever Who Saved Him”
Louisburg (Kansas) 2013
Luis Carlos MontalvÃĄn
“Until Tuesday”
Huntington Beach (California) 2015
Sy Montgomery
“Good, Good Pig”
Warren County (Pennsylvania) 2010
Elizabeth Moon
“Speed of Dark”
Howard County (Maryland) 2008
Gary Moore
“Playing with the Enemy”
Kankakee County (Illinois) 2007
Naperville (Illinois) 2009 (Adult)-
Atmore (Alabama) 2010
Gary W. Moore
“Playing wit the Enemy”
Batavia (Illinois) 2010
“Playing with the Enemy”
Seward (Nebraska) 2009
Plainfield, Bolingbrook, Joliet (Illinois) 2008-09
Kenny Moore
“Bowerman and the Men of Oregon”
Deschutes County (Oregon) 2007
Eugene - Springfield (Oregon) 2008
Laura Moriarty
“Center of Everything”
Lawrence (Kansas) 2006 Feb. - Mar.
Michael Morpurgo
“Mozart Question”
Allen (Texas) 2009-10 (youth
Bob Morris
“Bermuda Schwartz”
Lake County (Florida) 2007 (adult)
Wright Morris
“Home Place”
* State-wide program (Nebraska) 2010
Toni Morrison
“One City, One Author: A Celebration of Toni Morrison”
Greensboro (North Carolina) 2007 (special) -
Greg Mortenson
“Three Cups of Tea”
Rehoboth (Massachusetts) 2008
Manhattan (Kansas) 2008 October
Bowling Green (Ohio) 2008
Plainfield, Bolingbrook, Joliet (Illinois) 2007-08
Richardson (Texas) 2009
Hanson (Massachusetts) 2009
Belmont (Massachusetts) 2008
Athol (Massachusetts) 2008
Chelmsford (Massachusetts) 2009
Framingham (Massachusetts) 2009
Long Beach (California) 2009
Alliance (Ohio) 2010
Beverly (Massachusetts) 2010
Eden Prairie (Minnesota) 2009
Central Valley (New York) 2011
“Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time”
Teton Valley (Idaho) 2008
Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin
“Three Cups of Tea”
Pembroke (Massachusetts) 2010
Howard Mosher
“Stranger in the Kingdom”
Glastonbury (Connecticut) 2003
Howard Frank Mosher
“Stranger in the Kingdom”
Conway (Mt. Washington Valley) (New Hampshire) 2006
“Northern Borders”
Chatham (New York) 2007
Western New York (New York) 2004
Walter Mosley
“Little Scarlet”
Los Angeles (California) 2005
Farley Mowat
“Never Cry Wolf”
Northwest Indiana (Indiana) 2007 (teen) -
Bill Moyers
“Fooling With Words: A Celebration of Poets and Their Craft”
Seattle (Washington) 2001
Siddhartha Mukerjee
“Emperor of All Maladies”
Gwinnett County (Georgia) 2011
Thomas Mullen
“Last Town on Earth”
Western New York (New York) 2008
Tori Murden McClure
“Pearl in the Storm”
Eastern Connecticut (Connecticut) 2010
Louise Murphy
“True Story of Hansel and Gretel”
Eastern Connecticut (Connecticut) 2006 (adult) -
Yannick Murphy
“Call”
Western New York (New York) 2012
Joan Murray
“Queen of the Mist”
Buffalo (New York) 2001
Azar Nafisi
“Reading Lolita in Tehran”
Hartford (Connecticut) 2005
South Hadley (Massachusetts) 2004
Rolette (North Dakota) 2008
“Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir of Books”
Bloomington (Indiana) 2004
Gloria Naylor
“Women of Brewster Place”
Atlanta (Georgia) 2007 #2
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
“Shiloh”
Prior Lake-Savage (Minnesota) 2004-05 (chapter book) -
Sonia Nazario
“Enrique's Journey”
San Diego (California) 2007
Glendale (California) 2008
“Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm”
Mount Prospect (Illinois) 2007 (high school and adult)
John G. Neihardt
“Black Elk Speaks”
* State-wide program (Nebraska) 2017
John Nichols
“Milagro Beanfield”
Denver (Colorado) 2006
Audrey Niffenegger
“Time Traveler's Wife”
Santa Monica (California) 2007
Seward (Nebraska) 2005
Abdi Nor Iftin
“Call Me American”
Sharon (Massachusetts) 2019
Canton (Massachusetts) 2019
Elizabeth Nunez
“Prospero's Daughter”
Miami (Florida) 2006
Tim O'Brien
“Things They Carried”
Chicago (Illinois) 2003 (Fall)
Sycamore (Illinois) 2006
Valparaiso (Indiana) 2005
Vigo County (Indiana) 2004
Groton (Massachusetts) 2007
Kalamazoo (Michigan) 2006
Eden Prairie (Minnesota) 2007
St. Paul (Minnesota) 2006-07 (adult)
St. Peter (Minnesota) 2002
Watauga County (North Carolina) 2002
Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) 2005
Richmond (Chesterfield, Hanover, and Henrico) (Virginia) 2003
Austin (Minnesota) 2003
College Station + Bryan (Texas) 2008
Wilmington (Massachusetts) 2009
Pittsfield (Massachusetts) 2010
Sharon (Massachusetts) 2010
Flannery O'Connor
“Good Man is Hard To Find and Other Stories”
Savannah (Georgia) 2004 April 5-9
Scott O'Dell
“Island of the Bue Dolphins”
Santa Barbara (California) 2007 (juvenile)
Tawni O'Dell
“Back Roads; Coal Run; Sister Mine; Fragile Beasts”
Warren County (Pennsylvania) 2011
Stewart O'Nan
“Circus Fire”
Manchester (Massachusetts) 2008
“Good Wife”
Berlin, Newington, Rocky Hill, Wethersfield (Connecticut) 2006
Eugene O'Neill
“Long Days Journey Into Night”
San Leandro (California) 2007
Barack Obama
“Dreams from my Father”
* State-wide program (Kansas) 2010
Robert OImstead
“Coal Black Horse”
Nantucket (Massachusetts) 2010
Daniel Okrent
“Prohibition: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition”
Dedham (Massachusetts) 2012
Robin Oliveira
“My Name is Mary Sutter”
Schenectady (New York) 2011
* State-wide program (Iowa) 2015
Robert Olmstead
“Coal Black Horse”
Cincinnati (Ohio) 2008 (adult) -
Susan Orlean
“Orchid Thief”
Sanibel (Florida) 2006-07
Julie Otsuka
“When the Emperor was Divine”
Santa Barbara (California) 2005
Silicon Valley (California) 2006 #1
Cheshire (Connecticut) 2007
Westport (Connecticut) 2004
Winnetka-Northfield (Illinois) 2006 (Adult) -
Carmel (Indiana) 2004 (adult) -
Johnson County (Iowa) 2005
Topeka (Kansas) 2005
St. Peter (Minnesota) 2004
Concord (New Hampshire) 2006
Centre County (Pennsylvania) 2008
Logan (Utah) 2005
Salt Lake City (Utah) 2006 (autumn/winter-fiction) -
Salt Lake County (Utah) 2006
Seattle (Washington) 2005
Ipswich (Massachusetts) 2008
Glendale (California) 2007
Howard County (Maryland) 2009
Fort Collins (Colorado) 2008
Jim Ottaviani
“T-Minus: The Race for the Moon”
Allen (Texas) 2010-11 (Junior-
ZZ Packer
“Drinking Coffee Elsewhere”
Hartford (Connecticut) 2006
R.J. Palacio
“Wonder”
Santa Monica (California) 2013
Linda Sue Park
“Single Shard”
Arlington (Virginia) 2006 (children) -
“Project Mulberry”
Mount Prospect (Illinois) 2007 (grades 5-7)
T. Jefferson Parker
“California Girl”
Fallbrook (California) 2006
“Iron River”
Carlsbad (California) 2012
Gordon Parks
“Learning Tree”
* State-wide program (Kansas) 2007 -Jan. 29-April 30
El Dorado (Kansas) 2007
Iola (Kansas) 2008
Louisburg (Kansas) 2007
Ann Patchett
“Bel Canto”
Boise (Idaho) 2003
Teton Valley (Idaho) 2003 (Fall)
Johnson County (Iowa) 2003
Lincoln (Nebraska) 2003 Sept.-Nov.
Dane County (Wisconsin) 2003
“Run”
Winchester (Massachusetts) 2008
Wilton (Connecticut) 2009
David Patneaude
“Thin Wood Walls”
Winnetka-Northfield (Illinois) 2006 (Children) -
Katherine Patterson
“Bread and Roses, Too”
Hamilton-Wenham (Massachusetts) 2009
Gary Paulsen
“Hatchet”
Twin Cities (Minnesota) area (Minnesota) 2002
Holden (Massachusetts) 2008
“[The works of]”
Naperville (Illinois) 2002 Jan-Feb.
Mahtomedi (Minnesota) 2005
Randy Pausch
“Last Lecture”
Park City (Utah) 2008
Sycamore (Illinois) 2008
Walter Payton
“Never Die Easy”
Plainfield, Bolingbrook, Joliet (Illinois) 2006-07
Matthew Pearl
“Last Dickens”
Mansfield (Texas) 2010
Nancy Pearl
“Book Lust”
Bowling Green (Ohio) 2010
Richard Peck
“Long Way from Chicago”
Lake Villa (Illinois) 2003 Apr. - Sept.
Carmel (Indiana) 2004 (children) -
Davenport (Iowa) 2003 April - May
Holden (Massachusetts) 2004
Chattanooga (Tennessee) 2005 (middle) -
Sycamore (Illinois) 2009
“Long Way from Chicago” and “A Year Down Yonder”
Jacksonville (Illinois) 2005 Feb. - Sept
“Long Way Home”
Merrimack (New Hampshire) 2005
“Long Way from Chicago”
Bloomington-Normal (Illinois) 2002
“River Between Us”
Red Wing (Minnesota) 2007
Cape Girardeau (Missouri) 2005
Dolen Perkins-Valdez
“Wench”
Santa Monica (California) 2011
Michael Perry
“Population 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time”
Eden Prairie (Minnesota) 2006
St. Peter (Minnesota) 2006
Manawa (Wisconsin) 2004
Excelsior (Minnesota) 2007
Nathaniel Philbin
“In the Heart of the Sea”
Marblehead (Massachusetts) 2007
Nathaniel Philbrick
“In The Heart of the Sea”
Glastonbury (Connecticut) 2004
Sandwich (Massachusetts) 2005
Nashua (New Hampshire) 2006
“Mayflower”
Manchester (Massachusetts) 2007
Plymouth (Massachusetts) 2007
Pembroke (Massachusetts) 2012
“Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War”
Wilbraham (Massachusetts) 2008
Caryl Phillips
“Crossing the River”
Cincinnati (Ohio) 2004 (adult) -
Nancy Pickard
“Virgin of Small Plains”
* State-wide program (Kansas) 2009 -
Jodi Picoult
“My Sister's Keeper”
Enfield (Connecticut) 2006
Middletown (Connecticut) 2006
Naperville (Illinois) 2006 (adult) -
Shelby County (Indiana) 2008 (adult) -
Bridgewater (Massachusetts) 2006-07
North Reading (Massachusetts) 2007 (adult)
Sandwich (Massachusetts) 2007 #2
Grand Rapids (Michigan) 2006
Lakeshore Area (Michigan) 2006
Montcalm County (Michigan) 2006
Saginaw Area (Michigan) 2006
Contoocook (New Hampshire) 2006
Schenectady (New York) 2007
Canton (Ohio) 2007
Richardson (Texas) 2006
“Nineteen Minutes”
Dayton (Ohio) 2009
Daniel Pink
“Whole New Mind”
Naperville (Illinois) 2008 (adult non-fiction) -
William Pinkney
“As Long As It Takes”
Southington (Connecticut) 2008
Daniel Pinkwater
“Hoboken Chicken Emergency”
* State-wide program (New Jersey) 2005 (middle grade) -
Robert Pinsky and Maggie Dietz
“An Invitation to Poetry: A New Favorite Poem Project Anthology”
Falmouth (Massachusetts) 2009
Carol Plum-Ucci
“Body of Christopher Creed”
* State-wide program (New Jersey) 2004
Edgar Allan Poe
“Edgar Allan Poe - selected short stories”
Jamestown (New York) 2004
Edgar Allen Poe
“Works of Edgar Allen Poe”
Bowling Green (Ohio) 2009
Patricia Polacco
“Thank You Mr. Falker”
Chattanooga (Tennessee) 2005 (young) -
Michael Pollan
“In Defense of Food”
Silicon Valley (California) 2010
“Omnivore's Dilemma”
Norwell (Massachusetts) 2011
Williamstown (Massachusetts) 2008 #2 -
Lexington (Massachusetts) 2008
Gene Stratton Porter
“Freckles”
Greenwood (Indiana) 2007
Chaim Potok
“Chosen”
Gainesville (Florida) 2007
Julie Powell
“Julie & Julia”
Greenfield (Massachusetts) 2010
Richard Powers
“Echo Maker”
Seward (Nebraska) 2008
Stephen Puleo
“Dark Tide”
Holliston (Massachusetts) 2008
Beverly (Massachusetts) 2009
Abington (Massachusetts) 2013
“Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919”
Stoughton (Massachusetts) 2009
Ipswich (Massachusetts) 2010
Rehoboth (Massachusetts) 2012
David Quammen
“Song of the Dodo”
McMinnville (Oregon) 2006
Tom Rachman
“Imperfectionists”
Brookline (Massachusetts) 2011
Aron Ralston
“Between a Rock and a Hard Place”
Bozeman (Montana) 2011
Ron Rash
“Saints at the River”
Columbia (South Carolina) 2012
“Serena”
* State-wide program (West Virginia) 2011
Nancy Rawles
“My Jim”
Seattle (Washington) 2009
Janisse Ray
“Ecology of a Cracker Childhood”
* State-wide program (Georgia) 2002 (Title chosen from the 2002 Georgia Top 25 Reading List)
Helen Recorvits
“My Name is Yoon”
Mount Prospect (Illinois) 2007 (pre-school - grade 2)
Marc Reisner
“Cadillac Desert”
Durango-La Plata County (Colorado) 2003
Pagosa Springs (Colorado) 2006 April
Davis Relin
“Second Suns”
Park City (Utah) 2014
Kristen Renner
“Quest of the Century”
Lake County (Florida) 2006 (teens) -
David Rhodes
“Driftless”
* State-wide program (Iowa) 2010
Michelle Richmond
“Year of Fog”
Silicon Valley (California) 2011
Pietra Rivoli
“Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy”
Santa Barbara (California) 2008
Dr. Terreance Roberts
“Lessons from Little Rock”
Huntington Beach (California) 2014
Kate Roberts
“Minnesota 150: The People, Places, and Things that Shape Our State”
Thief River Falls (Minnesota) 2008 July
Adele Crockett Robertson
“Orchard”
Beverly (Massachusetts) 2002
“Orchard: A Memoir”
Ipswich (Massachusetts) 2005 April
Manchester (Massachusetts) 2006
Newburyport (Massachusetts) 2003 Feb.
Adelle Crockett Robertson
“Orchard: A Memoir”
Bedford (Massachusetts) 2009
Marilynne Robinson
“Housekeeping”
Boise (Idaho) 2001
Santa Barbara (California) 2008 Fall
Mary Ann Rodman
“Yankee Girl”
Winnetka-Northfield (Illinois) 2010 (children) -
Philip Roth
“Plot Against America”
* State-wide program (New Jersey) 2008
Susan L. Roth, Cindy Trumbore
“Mangrove Tree: Planting Trees to Feed Families”
Hamilton-Wenham (Massachusetts) 2012
Arundhati Roy
“God of Small Things”
Buffalo (New York) 2004
Mary Doria Russell
“Thread of Grace”
Bloomington-Normal (Illinois) 2007
“Dreamers of the Day”
Dayton (Ohio) 2010
Richard Russo
“Empire Falls”
Wilmington (Massachusetts) 2004
Concord (New Hampshire) 2003
Nashua (New Hampshire) 2003
Chelmsford (Massachusetts) 2007
“That Old Cape Magic”
Wilton (Connecticut) 2010
Pam Muņoz Ryan
“Esperanza Rising”
Bakersfield (California) 2003 (juvenile) -
Orlando (Florida) 2006
Winnetka-Northfield (Illinois) 2008 (children) -
Baltimore (Maryland) 2007
Chelsea (Michigan) 2008
St. Paul (Minnesota) 2005-06
Arlington (Virginia) 2008 (children) -
Terry Ryan
“Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio”
Hudson (Massachusetts) 2007
Ashtabula and Trumbull Counties (Ohio) 2005
Wadsworth (Ohio) 2006
Tom Ryan
“Following Atticus”
Conway (Mt. Washington Valley) (New Hampshire) 2011
Louis Sachar
“Holes”
Nevada County (California) 2007
Orlando (Florida) 2004
Baltimore (Maryland) 2005
Holden (Massachusetts) 2003
Martha's Vineyard (Massachusetts) 2002 (young readers) -
Austin (Texas) 2003
Seattle (Washington) 2002
Fort Collins (Colorado) 2004
J. D. Salinger
“Catcher in the Rye”
Roseville (California) 2006
Laney and Gay Salisbury
“Cruelest Miles”
Rowayton (Connecticut) 2004
Mark Salzman
“Iron and Silk”
Watauga County (North Carolina) 2005
“Soloist”
La Canada Flintridge (California) 2005
Pasadena (California) 2002
Westport (Connecticut) 2007
North Attleborough (Massachusetts) 2009
Duxbury (Massachusetts) 2008
“[The works of]”
Saratoga (California) 2006
Ferrol Sams
“Downtown”
Gwinnett County (Georgia) 2007
“Run with the Horsemen”
Grove Hill (Alabama) 2007
Les Sandiford
“Last Train to Paradise”
Central Florida (Florida) 2006
Annette Sanford
“Eleanor &Abel”
Victoria (Texas) 2005
Esmeralda Santiago
“When I Was Puerto Rican”
Hartford (Connecticut) 2004
Holyoke (Massachusetts) 2008
Marjane Satrapi
“Persepolis”
Martha's Vineyard (Massachusetts) 2006 #2
Chelsea (Michigan) 2005 (high school/adult) -
New Hanover (North Carolina) 2007
Arlington (Virginia) 2006 (teens) -
Seattle (Washington) 2006
Lafayette (Indiana) 2009
Deerfield, Bannockburn and Riverwoods (Illinois) 2010
“Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return”
Miami (Florida) 2004 (Fall)
Eric Schlosser
“Chew on this: Everything You Don't Want to Know about Fast Food”
Bath and Brunswick (Maine) 2009 (young adults)
“Fast Food Nation”
Bakersfield (California) 2008
Gary D. Schmidt
“Lizzie Bright and the Buckminister Boy”
Bangor (Maine) 2006
“Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy”
North Andover (Massachusetts) 2008 (young adult)
“Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boys”
South Haven (Michigan) 2008
“Okay for Now”
Allen (Texas) 2013
Will Schwalbe
“End of Your Life Book Club”
Cincinnati (Ohio) 2012
R. A. Scotti
“Sudden Seas: The Great Hurricane of 1938”
Haddam and Killingworth (Connecticut) 2007 (nonfiction)
Lisa See
“Peony in Love”
Fairhope (Alabama) 2008
“Shanghai Girls”
Carlsbad (California) 2013
“Snow Flower and the Secret Fan”
Roseville (California) 2008
Naperville (Illinois) 2007 (adult fiction)
“Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane”
Canton (Massachusetts) 2018
Sharon (Massachusetts) 2018
Charles Seife
“Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea”
Alexandria (Virginia) 2005 (Summer)
George Selden
“Cricket in Times Square”
Orlando (Florida) 2008
Brian Selznick
“Invention of Hugo Cabret”
Naperville (Illinois) 2008 (children) -
Fairfield (Connecticut) 2009
Danzy Senna
“Caucasia”
South Orange/Maplewood (New Jersey) 2003
Dane County (Wisconsin) 2002
Diane Setterfield
“Thirteenth Tale”
Lincoln (Nebraska) 2008
Lincoln (Nebraska) 2008
Jeff Shaara
“Gods and Generals”
* State-wide program (Arkansas) 2005
Michael Shaara
“Killer Angels”
Howard County (Indiana) 2007
Bangor (Maine) 2002
Carroll County (Maryland) 2006
Ipswich (Massachusetts) 2013
South Bend (Indiana) 2013
Sunderland (Massachusetts) 2007
Cumberland-Dauphin Counties (Pennsylvania) 2002
McEwensville, Milton, Northumberland, Selinsgrove, Sunbury (Pennsylvania) 2005
Batavia (Illinois) 2009
Mary Ann Shaffer
“Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”
Rehoboth (Massachusetts) 2009-10
Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
“Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”
Central(New Hampshire) (New Hampshire) 2010
William Shakespeare
“Romeo and Juliet”
Gainesville (Florida) 2002-03
B. A. Shapiro
“Art Forger”
Nashua (New Hampshire) 2014
B.A. Shapiro
“Art Forger”
Abington (Massachusetts) 2016
Nancy Shaw
“Raccoon Tune”
* State-wide program (Michigan) 2008
Mary Shelley
“Frankenstein”
Allen County (Fort Wayne) (Indiana) 2005
Greenwood (Indiana) 2006
Valparaiso (Indiana) 2006
East Lansing (Michigan) 2003
Duluth (Minnesota) 2005
Ithaca/Tompkins County (New York) 2002
Tacoma (Washington) 2005
Milwaukee (Wisconsin) 2004
Falmouth (Massachusetts) 2014
South Bend (Indiana) 2014
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
“Frankenstein”
Colorado Springs (Colorado) 2003
Peter Shelton
“Climb to Conqueror”
Vail (Colorado) 2004 (Spring)
Richard Shelton
“Going Back to Bisbee”
* State-wide program (Arizona) 2007
Sierra Vista (Arizona) 2007
Anita Shreve
“Weight of Water”
Concord (New Hampshire) 2012
Diane Siebert
“Tour America”
Waco (Texas) 2007-08 -
Dai Sijie
“Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress”
Santa Monica (California) 2003
Westwood (Massachusetts) 2004 (adults)-
Fairfax County (Virginia) 2006
Anita Silvey
“Everything I Need to Know I Learned From a Children's Book”
Hamilton-Wenham (Massachusetts) 2010
Charles Simic
“Sixty Poems”
Syracuse and Onondaga County (New York) 2008-09
Rachel Simon
“Riding the Bus With My Sister”
Alliance (Ohio) 2005
Abington (Pennsylvania) 2006
Centre County (Pennsylvania) 2005
“Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey”
Houston (Texas) 2006
Graeme Simsion
“Rosie Project”
Dayton (Ohio) 2015
Alan Siporin
“Fire's Edge”
Eugene - Springfield (Oregon) 2003
Peter Sis
“Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain”
Loudoun County (Virginia) 2009
Rebecca Skloot
“Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”
Park City (Utah) 2011
Boone and Callaway Counties (Missouri) 2011
Malden (Massachusetts) 2014
Robin Sloan
“Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore”
Richardson (Texas) 2014
Malden (Massachusetts) 2015
Rebecca Sloot
“Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”
Dayton (Ohio) 2011
Alexander McCall Smith
“Tears of the Giraffe”
Mobile (Alabama) 2004
“No. 1 Ladies' Dectective Agency”
Carlsbad (California) 2008
“No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency”
Howard County (Indiana) 2006
Grand Rapids (Michigan) 2004
Marquette (Michigan) 2005
Pierce County (Washington) 2008
Alison Smith
“Name All the Animals”
Rochester (New York) 2006
April Smith
“Star for Mrs. Blake”
Cincinnati (Ohio) 2014
Bob Smith
“Hamlet's Dresser”
Stratford (Connecticut) 2007
Diane Smith
“Letters from Yellowstone”
* State-wide program (Montana) 2005
Jordan Fisher Smith
“Nature Noir”
Nevada County (California) 2008
Lee Smith
“On Agate Hill”
Western North Carolina (North Carolina) 2007
Winchester, Frederick, and Clarke Counties (Virginia) 2007
Mary-Ann Tirone Smith
“Girls of Tender Age”
Farmington Valley (Connecticut) 2007
Southington (Connecticut) 2007
“Girls of Tender Age: A Memoir”
East of the Connecticut River (Towns of Andover, Bolton, Colchester, Columbia, Glastonbury , Hebron, Manchester, Marlborough, and Portland) (Connecticut) 2006
Patrick Smith
“Land Remembered”
Central Florida (Florida) 2003
Indian River County (Florida) 2007
Lee County (Florida) 2005
Pinellas (Florida) 2004
Sanibel (Florida) 2005
Roland Smith
“Peak”
Iola (Kansas) 2008 Fall
Susan E. Snyder
“There's a frog trapped in the bathroom”
Lake County (Florida) 2007 (youth) -
Dalia Sofer
“Septembers of Shiraz”
Winnetka-Northfield (Illinois) 2008 (adult) -
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“One Day in the Life”
Chicago (Illinois) 2006 (Spring)
Jordan Sonnenblick
“Notes from the Midnight Driver”
Allen (Texas) 2015
Julia Spencer-Fleming
“In the Bleak Midwinter”
Western New York (New York) 2005
“Out of the Deep I Cry”
Augusta (Maine) 2009
Art Spiegelman
“Maus”
Bucks County (Pennsylvania) 2005
“Maus: A Survivor's Tale”
Highland Park (Illinois) 2008
Mark Spragg
“An Unfinished Life”
* State-wide program (Arizona) 2006
Putnam County (Indiana) 2008
Ingham County (Michigan) 2006
Billings (Montana) 2006 (Nov) -
Western New York (New York) 2007
Salt Lake City (Utah) 2005-06 (fiction) -
Fort Collins (Colorado) 2007
“Where Rivers Change Direction”
Teton Valley (Idaho) 2007
“[The works of]”
Casper (Wyoming) 2004
Michael Spragg
“An Unfinished Life”
Ionia County (Michigan) 2007
Warren St. John
“Outcasts United”
San Diego (California) 2010
Eden Prairie (Minnesota) 2011
Concord (New Hampshire) 2011
Bloomington-Normal (Illinois) 2010
Malden (Massachusetts) 2012
Wallace Stegner
“All the Little Live Things”
Walnut Creek (California) 2007
“Angle of Repose”
Durango-La Plata County (Colorado) 2002
Boise (Idaho) 2004
Salt Lake City (Utah) 2007-08 (winter-fiction) -
Garth Stein
“Art of Racing in the Rain”
Western New York (New York) 2010
Winnetka-Northfield (Illinois) 2009
Long Beach (California) 2013
Fort Collins (Colorado) 2010
Richardson (Texas) 2010
John Steinbeck
“Cannery Row”
Danville and San Ramon (San Ramon Valley) (California) 2004
“Grapes of Wrath”
San Leandro (California) 2001
“Of Mice and Men”
Pasco County (Florida) 2002
Lynchburg (Virginia) 2002 Apr.1 - May 15
“Grapes of Wrath”
* State-wide program (California) 2004
Bakersfield (California) 2002 Summer-Fall
Sierra Madre (California) 2003
Sonoma County (California) 2002
Boise (Idaho) 2002
Bath and Brunswick (Maine) 2007 (TBR)
Syracuse and Onondaga County (New York) 2004
Scranton (Pennsylvania) 2007 (TBR)
Salt Lake City (Utah) 2007 (spring/summer-fiction) -
Fullerton (California) 2010
“Pearl”
Roseville (California) 2007
Santa Ana (California) 2002
White Plains (New York) 2002
Knox County, Knoxville, Farragut (Tennessee) 2002
“Travels with Charley”
Carlsbad (California) 2010
“Travels with Charley: In search of America”
La Canada Flintridge (California) 2004
North Reading (Massachusetts) 2003
Virginia (Minnesota) 2005
Nashua (New Hampshire) 2004
Long Island (New York) 2005
“[The works of]”
Neenah (Wisconsin) 2002
Thomas Steinbeck
“Down to a Soundless Sea”
Contra Costa County (communities of Lafayette, Moraga, Orinda) (California) 2007
Louise Steinman
“Souvenir: A Daughter Discovers Her Father's War”
Silicon Valley (California) 2006 #2
Robert Louis Stevenson
“Treasure Island”
Colorado Springs (Colorado) 2004
Enfield (Connecticut) 2004
Carroll County (Maryland) 2008
Peabody (Massachusetts) 2005 (Fall)
Pembroke (Massachusetts) 2011
Sarah Stewart
“Gardener”
Allen (Texas) 2008-09 (youth:9-14) -
Kathryn Stockett
“Ida B.”
Winnetka-Northfield (Illinois) 2009 (children) -
“Help”
Winnetka-Northfield (Illinois) 2010
Francisco Stork
“Marcello in the Real World”
Arlington (Massachusetts) 2010
Cheryl Strayed
“Wild”
Dayton (Ohio) 2014
Bill Strickland
“Make the Impossible Possible”
Alliance (Ohio) 2011
David Strohmaier
“Seasons of Fire”
Pagosa Springs (Colorado) 2007 (Nonfiction)
Elizabeth Strout
“Olive Kitteridge”
Wilmette (Illinois) 2010
William Styron
“Sophie's Choice”
* State-wide program (Virginia) 2000
Manil Suri
“Death of Vishnu”
Hartford (Connecticut) 2008
Ron Suskind
“Hope in the Unseen”
Wilmette (Illinois) 2007
Summit (New Jersey) 2006
Buffalo (New York) 2002
Watauga County (North Carolina) 2004
Logan (Utah) 2004
*State-wide program (Maryland) 2008
James L. Swanson
“Manhunt: The Twelve-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer”
Frederick (Maryland) 2007
Lalita Tademy
“Cane River”
San Francisco (California) 2007
Amy Tan
“Joy Luck Club”
Las Vegas (Nevada) 2007
“Saving Fish From Drowning”
Marin (California) 2008
“Joy Luck Club”
Fresno County (California) 2007
Bridgeport (Connecticut) 2008
Miami (Florida) 2007 (fall)
Honolulu (Hawaii) 2007
Vigo County (Indiana) 2006
Duluth (Minnesota) 2007
Fergus Falls (Minnesota) 2008
Cincinnati (Ohio) 2007 (adult)-
Harris County (Texas) 2007
Beverly Tatum
“Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria”
Ann Arbor (Michigan) 2004
Detroit (Michigan) 2004
Lynchburg (Virginia) 2008
Clifton Taubert
“Little Cliff and the Porch People”
Miami-Dade area (Florida) 2005
Studs Terkel
“American Dreams: Lost and Found”
Jamestown (New York) 2003
“Giants of Jazz”
Chelsea (Michigan) 2007 (Adult)
James Alexander Thom
“Follow the River”
Clermont County (Ohio) 2003
* State-wide program (West Virginia) 2005
Angie Thomas
“Hate U Give”
Malden (Massachusetts) 2018
Tynia Thomassie
“Feliciana Feydra LaRoux”
Allen (Texas) 2014
Jean Thompson
“Year We Left Home”
* State-wide program (Iowa) 2013
Karen Thompson Walker
“Age of Miracles”
Western New York (New York) 2014
Yvonne S. Thornton
“Ditchdigger's Daughter”
* State-wide program (New Jersey) 2006
Highland Park (New Jersey) 2007
James Thunder
“My Life and Hard Times”
Lake Villa (Illinois) 2009
James Thurber
“My Life and Hard Times”
Tiffin (Ohio) 2003
Tim Tingle
“Walking the Choctaw Road”
* State-wide program (Alaska) 2005
* State-wide program (Oklahoma) 2005
J.R.R. Tolkien
“Fellowship of the Ring”
Wallingford (Connecticut) 2002 Dec.
Robert Towne
“Chinatown”
Pagosa Springs (Colorado) 2006 April-May
Jennifer Traig
“Devil in the Details”
Woodland (California) 2006
Adriana Trigiani
“Big Stone Gap”
Greenwood (Indiana) 2004
Seward (Nebraska) 2006
* State-wide program (West Virginia) 2008
Dawn Tripp
“Season of Open Water”
Dedham (Massachusetts) 2012
Peter Troy
“May the Road Rise Up to Meet You”
Western New York (New York) 2013
Gail Tsukiyama
“Samurai's Garden”
Albany (California) 2007
Brentwood (California) 2007
Danville and San Ramon (San Ramon Valley) (California) 2006
Stoughton (Massachusetts) 2005
Nancy E. Turner
“These Is My Words”
* State-wide program (Arizona) 2008
Scott Turow
“Ordinary Heroes”
Springfield (Illinois) 2006
Ingham County (Michigan) 2007
Mark Twain
“Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”
Pueblo (Colorado) 2007
“Huck Finn”
Cedarburg (Wisconsin) 2005
“Puddn'head Wilson”
Jamestown (New York) 2002
“Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”
Batavia (Illinois) 2003
West Boylston (Massachusetts) 2004
Duluth (Minnesota) 2004
Virginia (Minnesota) 2004
Winona (Minnesota) 2005
Bartlesville (Oklahoma) 2005
“Adventures of Tom Sawyer”
Davenport (Iowa) 2004
“[The works of]”
La Crosse (Wisconsin) 2004
Ann Tyler
“Digging to America”
Arlington (Massachusetts) 2008
Anne Tyler
“Digging to America”
* State-wide program (Iowa) 2008
Arlington (Virginia) 2006 (adult) -
Bedford (Massachusetts) 2007
Methuen (Massachusetts) 2008
Timothy Tyson
“Blood Done Sign My Name”
Alliance (Ohio) 2009
Brady Udall
“Miracle Life of Edgar Mint”
Vail (Colorado) 2003 Mar.-Apr.
Thrity Umrigar
“World We Found”
Fort Collins (Colorado) 2012
Luis Alberto Urrea
“Into the Beautiful North”
Galveston County (Texas) 2011
Fairfield (Connecticut) 2010
Santa Monica (California) 2014
“Devil's Highway”
Yuma (Arizona) 2006
“Hummingbird's Daughter”
San Francisco (California) 2006
Chris Van Allsburg
“Chronicles of Harris Burdick”
Allen (Texas) 2014
Wendelin Van Draanen
“"Sammy Keyes" Mystery series”
Allen (Texas) 2012
“the Sammy Keyes mysteries”
Allen (Texas) 2011-12 (junior-
Chris Van Dusen
“If I Built a Car”
Allen (Texas) 2011
Guy Vanderhaeghe
“Last Crossing”
* State-wide program (Montana) 2007
Marta Moreno Vega
“When the Spirits Dance Mambo”
New York City (New York) 2007
Vivian Vande Velde
“Heir Apparent”
Boise (Idaho) 2007 (young adult) -
Kurt Vonnegut
“[The works of]”
Indianapolis (Indiana) 2007
Susan Vreeland
“Girl in Hyacinth Blue”
Fallbrook (California) 2004 Mar. 6- Apr. 30
* State-wide program (Mississippi) 2004
Spokane Area (Washington) 2005
“Forest Lover”
Sumner (Washington) 2007
“[The works of]”
Bremerton (Washington) 2005
Alice Walker
“Color Purple”
Miami (Florida) 2007 Feb
Frank X Walker
“Affrilachia”
* State-wide program (West Virginia) 2013
Mildred Walker
“Winter Wheat”
* State-wide program (Montana) 2003
Carolyn Wall
“Sweeping up Glass”
Thousand Oaks (California) 2010
Daniel Wallace
“Big Fish”
Gadsden (Alabama) 2006-07
South Baldwin County (Alabama) 2003
Northwest Indiana (Indiana) 2005
Wayne County (North Carolina) 2005
Allen (Texas) 2014
Velma Wallis
“Two Old Women”
Sterling (Massachusetts) 2006
“Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage, and Survival”
Ronan (Montana) 2002 -03 -
Jeanette Walls
“Glass Castle”
Galveston County (Texas) 2009
Jeannette Walls
“Glass Castle”
Middletown (Connecticut) 2007
Battle Creek (Michigan) 2008
East Lansing (Michigan) 2006
Saginaw Area (Michigan) 2007
Bowling Green (Ohio) 2007
Dayton (Ohio) 2007
Findlay-Hancock County (Ohio) 2008
Richardson (Texas) 2007
Culpeper (Virginia) 2007
Neenah (Wisconsin) 2006
Cayuga County (New York) 2008
Jess Walter
“[The works of]”
Spokane Area (Washington) 2007
Chip Ward
“Canaries on the Rim”
Park City (Utah) 2009
Donna Wares
“My California Journeys By Great Writers”
Whittier (California) 2007
Robert Penn Warren
“All the King's Men”
Huntsville (Alabama) 2002 June
Bakersfield (California) 2007
Larry Watson
“Montana 1948”
Bloomington-Normal (Illinois) 2004
Zionsville (Indiana) 2007
Ionia County (Michigan) 2006
Traverse City (Michigan) 2005
La Crosse (Wisconsin) 2003
“White Crosses”
Wahpeton (ND) and Breckenridge (MN) (North Dakota) 2003
Will Weaver
“Sweet Land”
Prior Lake-Savage (Minnesota) 2007-08 (adult) -
“Sweet Land: New and Selected Stories”
Austin (Minnesota) 2008
Andy Weir
“Martian”
Malden (Massachusetts) 2016
H. G. Wells
“War of Worlds”
Gainesville (Florida) 2004
H.G. Wells
“Time Machine”
Lafayette (Indiana) 2008
Rosemary Wells
“Bunny Cakes”
* State-wide program (Kansas) 2006
Eudora Welty
“Collected Stories of Eudora Welty”
* State-wide program (Mississippi) 2009 -
“Ponder Heart”
Davenport (Iowa) 2006
Tom Wessels
“Reading the Forested Landscape”
Hamilton-Wenham (Massachusetts) 2008
Jessamyn West
“Friendly Persuasion”
Connersville (Indiana) 2005
Indianapolis (Indiana) 2002 -03 -
Stanley Gordon West
“Amos”
Wahpeton (ND) and Breckenridge (MN) (North Dakota) 2004
W.D. Wetherell
“Wisest Man In America”
Hanover (New Hampshire) 2011
E. B. White
“Charlotte's Web”
Orlando (Florida) 2002
Omaha (Nebraska) 2007 (kids)
Madbury (New Hampshire) 2006
Westchester (New York) 2002
Michael C. White
“Garden of Martyrs”
Northampton (Massachusetts) 2006
Easthampton (Massachusetts) 2006
Colson Whitehead
“Sag Harbor”
Long Island (New York) 2011
Elie Wiesel
“Night”
Carlsbad (California) 2007
Chicago (Illinois) 2002 (Spring)
Bridgewater (Massachusetts) 2007-08 -
Wayne County (North Carolina) 2006
Brown County (Green Bay) (Wisconsin) 2007
Simon Wiesenthal
“Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness”
Loudoun County (Virginia) 2004
Marianne Wiggins
“Shadow Catcher”
Santa Monica (California) 2009
Thornton Wilder
“Our Town”
Norwell (Massachusetts) 2005
Wakefield (Massachusetts) 2002
Haworth (New Jersey) 2004
Scranton (Pennsylvania) 2005
Cedarburg (Wisconsin) 2004
“Bridge of San Luis Rey”
Concord (New Hampshire) 2002
Waukesha (Wisconsin) 2004
Terry Tempest Williams
“Refuge”
Park City (Utah) 2012
Connie Willis
“Bellwether”
Springville (Utah) 2005(adult) -
“Doomsday Book”
Batavia (Illinois) 2008
Chattanooga (Tennessee) 2006-07 (adult)
Karman Wilson
“Bear Feels Sick”
* State-wide program (Kansas) 2008
Simon Winchester
“Man Who Loved China”
Wilmette (Illinois) 2009
Janice Woods Windle
“Will's War”
Abilene (Texas) 2002-03 (selection for adults)
Jacqueline Winspear
“Maisie Dobbs”
Wilbraham (Massachusetts) 2006
Sierra Madre (California) 2014
Jeanette Winter
“Librarian of Basra”
Nantucket (Massachusetts) 2007 (children)
Elizabeth Winthrop
“Counting on Grace”
* State-wide program (Vermont) 2007
“Castle in the Attic”
Omaha (Nebraska) 2008
Tom Wolfe
“Right Stuff”
Bakersfield (California) 2002
Tobias Wolff
“Barracks Thief”
Highland Park (Illinois) 2008 Summer
Virginia Euwer Wolff
“Bat 6”
* State-wide program (Oregon) 2009 (youth) -
Jacqueline Woodson
“Hush”
Prior Lake-Savage (Minnesota) 2004-05 (teen) -
Cincinnati (Ohio) 2004 (youth) -
Richard Wright
“Uncle Tom's Children”
* State-wide program (Mississippi) 2008
Kao Kalia Yang
“Latehomecomer”
Holliston (Massachusetts) 2009
“Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir”
Austin (Minnesota) 2011
A. B. Yehoshua
“Woman in Jerusalem”
* State-wide program (Rhode Island) 2006-07
Robin Yocum
“Essay”
Alliance (Ohio) 2014
Jane Yolen
“Briar Rose”
Eastern Connecticut (Connecticut) 2006 (teens) -
Fareed Zakaria
“Post American World”
Carlisle (Massachusetts) 2009
Paul O. Zelinsky (illustrator)
“Hansel and Gretel”
Eastern Connecticut (Connecticut) 2006 (children) -
Harriet Ziefert
“My Dog Thinks I'm a Genuis”
Allen (Texas) 2013
Markus Zusak
“Book Thief”
Vincennes (Indiana) 2006
Zionsville (Indiana) 2006
Loudoun County (Virginia) 2007
North Reading (Massachusetts) 2009
Richardson (Texas) 2013
Markus Zuzak
“Book Thief”
Arlington (Massachusetts) 2014
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