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If You Like Bridget Jones' Diary
Classic Canadian Fiction 
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DaVinci Code Readalikes
Debut Authors 
Diagnosis Murder
Eco Fiction
Fiction Based on Real People and Events
Fiction That Inspires
Fiction Set on the Canadian Prairie
For Better or For Worse 
Friends
Great Summer Reads 2004
If You Like Harry Potter
In Celebration of Mothers
Libraries and Librarians in Fiction
Magical Realism
Maritime Fiction
Multicultural Fiction
Music and Musicians
Quilts, Quilters and Quilting Fiction
Reports On Business - Mysteries by Women
Sister, Sister
Sports
Stormy Weather
Strong Women
Take Me Out to the Ballgame
Top 100 Science Fiction Novels
Up and Comers

The Underground Railway
Wedding Bells 
Wine and Grapes 
Women of Spirit

Women Sleuths

Action Adventures

David Aaron
Crossing by Night
Larry Bond
The Enemy Within
Walter Boyne
Trophy for Eagles
Dale Brown
Fatal Terrain
Tom Clancy
The Hunt for Red October
Stephen Coonts
Intruders
Harold Coyle
Savage Wilderness
Clive Cussler
Flood Tide
Len Deighton
Charity
Greg Denallo
Purpose of Evasion
Ernest K. Gann
The Triumph
Bill Granger
The Last Good German
W.E.B. Griffin
Blood and Honor
Payne Harrison
Black Cipher
Layne Heath
CW2
David Ignatius
Agents of Innocence
Dean Ing
Flying to Pieces
Gary Jennings
Aztec
Franklin Allen Leib
Sea Lion
Robert Ludlum
Matarese Countdown
Eric Van Lustbader
Angel Eyes
Ryne Douglas Pearson
October's Ghost
Ed Ruggero
Common Defense
Tim Sebastian
War Dance
Gerald Seymour
Killing Ground
Martin Cruz Smith
Rose
Wilbur Smith
Birds of Prey
Craig Thomas
Playing with Cobras
Joe Weber
Honorable Enemies
Robin White
Siberian Light
David Wiltse Blown Away

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Art & Artists in Fiction

Margaret Atwood Cat's Eye
Oliver T. Banks The Caravaggio Obsession
Pat Booth Marry Me
Anthony Burgess Byrne
A. S. Byatt The Matisse Stories
Joyce Cary The Horse's Mouth
Stephen Crane The Third Violet
Jenn Crowell Necessary Madness
Robertson Davies What's Bred in the Bone
Lawrence Durrell Clea
Dick Francis To the Hilt
Paul Gallico Snow Goose
George Dawes Green The Juror
Kay Hooper Finding Laura
Maureen Howard A Lover's Almanac
Kazuo Ishiguro An Artist of the Floating World
Erica Jong Inventing Memory: a Novel of Mothers & Daughters
Kipling, Rudyard The Light That Failed
Judith Krantz Mistral's Daughter
Rosalind Laker The Golden Tulip
Nora Lofts Day of the Butterfly
Mary McCarthy Cannibals & Missionaries
A Charmed Life
Richard Mason The World of Suzie Wong
W. Somerset Maugham The Moon and Sixpence
Iris Murdoch Nuns and Soldiers
Robert Payne Caravaggio
Marge Piercy Summer People
David Plante Annunciation
Chaim Potok My Name is Asher Lev
The Gift of Asher Lev
Judith Merkle Riley The Serpent Garden
Lawrence Sanders The Second Deadly Sin
Susan Fromberg Schaeffer The Golden Rope
Anne Rivers Siddons Hill Towns
Irving Stone The Agony and the Ecstasy
Depths of Glory
Lust for Life
William Styron Set This House on Fire
Anne Tyler Celestial Navigation
Jane Urquhart The Underpainter
Michael Weaver Deceptions
Morris West Vanishing Point
Niall Williams Four Letters of Love

 

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Books into Films

Jane Austen Emma
Sense and Sensibility
Russell Banks The Sweet Hereafter
John Buchan The Thirty-Nine Steps
Peter Carey Oscar and Lucinda
Tom Clancy

A Clear and Present Dange
The Hunt for Red October
Patriot Games

Avery Corman Kramer Vs. Kramer
Michael Crichton The Andromeda Strain
Disclosure
Jurassic Park
The Lost World
Nicholas Evans The Horse Whisperer
E. M. Forster Howard's End
A Passage to India
A Room with a View
John Fowles The French Lieutenant's Woman
Olivia Goldsmith The First Wives' Club
John Grisham The Firm
The Pelican Brief
The Rainmaker
A Time to Kill
Dashiell Hammett The Maltese Falcon
Jim Harrison Legends of the Fall
Alice Hoffman Practical Magic
John Irving The Hotel New Hampshire
The World According to Garp
Henry James The Portrait of a Lady
The Wings of a Dove
Nikos Kazantzakis The Last Temptation of Christ
Ken Kesey One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
W.P. Kinsella Shoeless Joe (Field of Dreams)
Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird
Norman Maclean A River Runs Through It
Terry McMillan How Stella Got Her Groove Back
Waiting to Exhale
Larry McMurtry Terms of Endearment
Jacquelyn Mitchard The Deep End of the Ocean
Margaret Mitchell Gone with the Wind
Toni Morrison Beloved
Michael Ondaatje The English Patient
Whitney Otto How to Make an American Quilt
Mario Puzo The Godfather
Anna Quindlen One True Thing
Carl Sagan Contact
Nicholas Sparks Message in a Bottle
William Styron Sophie's Choice
Robert James Waller The Bridges of Madison County

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If You Like Bridget Jones' Diary

Melissa Banks - The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing

As it explores the life lessons of Jane, the contemporary American Everywoman -- who combines the charm of Bridget Jones, the vulnerability of Ally McBeal, and the wit of Lorrie Moore -- "The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing" offers wise, poignant and laugh-out-loud insight.


Kate Christensen - In the Drink

An intelligent, witty and completely readable novel about the life of a normal young woman trying to find love and success in the Big Apple.


Nora Ephron - Heartburn

A pregnant cookbook writer discovers her husband is in analysis and having an affair and she suffers from six weeks of intense heartburn. Great fun.

 

Katie Fforde - Wild Designs

Modern comedy by promising new English writer about the struggles of a 38 year old mother of three dealing with many new and difficult events in her life.

Stately Pursuits

Funny and endearing story of a young woman who after finding her lover in bed with another woman, retreats to the crumbling estate of an aging relative and ends up finding a new love.


Helen Fielding: Bridget Jones - The Edge of Reason

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason is another laugh-out-loud look at the life of 90's Everywoman Bridget Jones. Picking up where the blockbuster bestselling Bridget Jones' Diary left off. It has all the charm and hearty laughs that made Diary such a smash.


Suzanne Finnamore - Otherwise Engaged

What happens to an attractive, intelligent, formerly rational woman when the man she has been chasing finally pops the question? Eve has 12 months until the big day - plenty of time to contemplate the exasperating ritual otherwise known as modern marriage.

 

Marian Keyes - Watermelon

Hilarious story of how an abandoned new mother fights her way back to independence in spite of her philandering husband and Dublin family.

Rachel's Holiday

Again the author takes a comic, poignant look at a 90's woman sorting out her life.

Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married

Lucy Sullivan is getting married...or is she? Lucy doesn't even have a boyfriend. (To be honest, she isn't that lucky in love). But Mrs. Nolan - a local psychic - has read her tarot cards and predicted that Lucy will be walking down the aisle within the year. There's the small matter of no boyfriend. But then Lucy meets Gus, gorgeous, unreliable Gus. And she starts to wonder if he could be the future Mr. Lucy Sullivan. Or could it be handsome Chuck? Or Daniel, the world's biggest flirt? Or even cute Jed, the new boy at work? Maybe the idea of Lucy Sullivan getting married isn't so unlikely, after all....

 

Terry McMillan - How Stella Got Her Groove Back

Successful 40-something divorcee looking to put some excitement back in her life by going on vacation.

 

Richard Peck - London Holiday

Fun beach read about three middle aged women who go on a trip to London to change their lives.


Cathleen Schine - Rameau's Niece

Comic novel of manners in contemporary Manhattan. Spoofs the cultural elite.


Amy Sohn - Run Catch Kiss

Hilarious and wise, Run Catch Kiss is a tongue-in-cheek commentary on the voyeuristic and avaricious culture that created that dangerous nineties phenomenon: the single girl who wants it all.


Gail Storey - The Lord's Motel

Delightfully narrated novel about the absurdities of modern life as a single librarian. Mary Tyler Moore in the 90's.

God's Country Club
This sequel to the Lord's Motel continues the romantic, tongue-in-cheek adventures of a single librarian as she looks for true love.


Laura Zigman - Animal Husbandry

A funny look at one woman's way of coping with her relationship. The reader may find herself laughing out loud.

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Courtroom Drama / Legal Thrillers

Joseph Amiel A Question of Proof
Jay Brandon Rules of Evidence
Herb Brown Shadows of Doubt
W. D. Buffa The Defense
Frederick Busch Closing Arguments
William Coughlin Her Honor
George Cuomo Trial by Water
Robert Daley Tainted Evidence
Len Deighton Violent Ward
Nelson DeMille Word of Honor
William Diehl Primal Fear
Michael Eberhardt Body of Crime
Linda Fairstein Likely to Die
Joy Fielding Tell Me No Secrets
Phillip Friedman Inadmissable Evidence
Frances Fyfield Shadow Play
James Grippando The Pardon
John Grisham The Firm
Evan Hunter Criminal Conversation
John Katzenbach Just Cause
Mimi Latt Powers of Attorney
John Lescroart Hard Evidence
Paul Levine Mortal Sin
Emily Listfield Acts of Love
Lia Matera Prior Convictions
Steve Martini Compelling Evidence
Perri O'Shaughnessy Motion to Suppress
Barbara Parker Suspicion of Innocence
Richard Patterson Degree of Guilt
Anna Quindlen One True Thing
Nancy T. Rosenberg Mitigating Circumstances
Lisa Scottoline Legal Tender
Robert Tanenbaum Justice Denied
William Tapply Snake Eater
Gallatin Warfield State v. Justice

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Diagnosis Murder

Ben Bova Brothers
William Close Ebola