Brandon Sanderson/Classics/Biographies

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Enchantment 
By Orson Scott Card
SCI-FI CARD
With colorful believable characters, Card intertwines the story of Sleeping Beauty with Russian mythology creating a fantasy complete with adventure and romance. 

Sorcerer’s Treason 
By Sarah Zettel
SCI-FI ZETTEL
Bridget Lederle, a lonely outcast maintaining a lighthouse has a vision about the shipwreck victim she saves. From another world, he also has visions, but is he trustworthy or not? 

Flowers For Algernon 
By Daniel Keyes
F KEYES
This is the classic novel of a mentally disabled man, Charlie, whose life mirrors the incredible lab mouse Algernon. Charlie documents his own experimental scientific progression until ... 

Sometimes the Magic Works 
By Terry Brooks
BIO BROOKS
This biography gives you a chance to enter the mind of best selling fantasy author Terry Brooks. He draws on his own life experiences and life lessons learned to show you how he created his characters and writing style.

Classics

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• Similar to Mary Shelley, Fredrick Barton, Shakespeare

Dracula 
Bram Stoker
F STOKER
Having discovered the double identity of the wealthy Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula, a small group of people vow to rid the world of the evil vampire. 

The Woman in White 
Wilkie Collins
MYSTERY COLLINS
When Walter Hartwright encounters a solitary, terrified, beautiful woman dressed in white on a moonlit night in London, he feels impelled to solve the mystery of her distress. The story, full of secrets, locked rooms, lost memories, and surprise revelations, features heroine Marian Halcombe and drawing-master Walter Hartright as sleuthing partners pitted against the diabolical Count Fosco and Sir Percival Glyde. 

The Count of Monte Cristo 
Alexandre Dumas
F DUMAS
The Count of Monte Cristo is the story of Edmond Dantes, who is imprisoned in the island fortress of the Chateau d'If on a false political charge; after escaping, he finds the fabulous treasure of Monte Cristo and sets upon the course of revenge against his old enemies. 

Rebecca 
Daphne du Maurier
F DU MAURIER
A classic novel of romantic suspense finds the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter entering the home of her mysterious and enigmatic new husband and learning the story of the house's first mistress, to whom the sinister housekeeper is unnaturally devoted. 

Doctor Faustus and Other Plays 
Christopher Marlowe
822.3 MAR 1998
Christopher Marlow was an Elizabethan play wright who in “Doctor Faustus ” tells the story of a learned German doctor who sells his soul to the devil in order to get more knowledge and power.

Adventure/Paranormal Romance

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The Forest of Hands and Teeth 
By Carrie Ryan
YA F RYAN Forest #1
Through twists and turns of fate, orphaned Mary seeks knowledge of life, love, and especially what lies beyond her walled village and the surrounding forest, where dwell the Unconsecrated, aggressive flesh-eating people who were once dead. 

Vampire Academy 
By Richelle Mead
YA F MEAD Vampire #1
Two years after a horrible incident made them run away, vampire princess Lissa and her guardian-in-training Rose are found and returned to St. Vladimir's Academy, where one focuses on mastering magic, the other on physical training, while both try to avoid the perils of gossip, cliques, gruesome pranks, and sinister plots. 

Divine by Mistake 
By P.C. Cast
SCI-FI CAST Divine #1
This one is a little different than the others on this list — rather than vampires & zombies, this story involves mythology as the supernatural element of the story. In this story, Shannon Parker, a teacher, is on summer vacation and purchases a Celtic vase. Thereafter she finds herself transported to the world of Partholon where she becomes the Goddess Incarnate of Epona and must find a way to return to Oklahoma before war erupts - and she is married off to a centaur. 

Fallen 
By Lauren Kate
YA F KATE Fallen #1
Suspected in the death of her boyfriend, seventeen-year-old Luce is sent to a Savannah, Georgia, reform school where she meets two intriguing boys and learns the truth about the strange shadows that have always haunted her. 

The Vampire Diaries 
By L. J. Smith
YA F SMITH Vampire #1 - 2
Two vampire brothers compete for high stakes -- the love of Elena Gilbert, a beautiful high school senior who is searching for excitement.

Science Fiction/Memoir for the Well-Read Reader

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• Memoir
• Well-written
• For the well-read reader

Ready Player One 
By Ernest Cline
SCI-FI CLINE
In a bleak 2044, Wade Watts, an impoverished high school student lives primarily online alongside billions of others via a massive online game, OASIS, where players race to unravel the puzzles OASIS creator James Halliday built into the game before his death, with the winner taking control of the virtual world's parent company, as well as staggering wealth. When Wade stumbles on a clue taken from a 1980s video game , he's plunged into high-stakes conflict with a corporation dedicated to unraveling Halliday's riddles. 

Zorro 
By Isabel Allende
F ALLENDE
Diego de la Vega, the son of an aristocratic Spanish landowner and a Shoshone mother, returns to California from school in Spain to reclaim the hacienda on which he was raised and to seek justice for the weak and helpless. 

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: a Novel
By Edgar Wroblewski
F WROBLEWSKI
A tale reminiscent of "Hamlet" that also celebrates the alliance between humans and dogs follows speech-disabled Wisconsin youth Edgar, who bonds with three yearling canines and struggles to prove that his sinister uncle is responsible for his father's death. 

Daughter of the Forest 
By Juliet Marillier
SCI-FI MARILLIER Sevenwat #1
To reclaim the lives of her brothers, Sorcha leaves the only safe place she has known and starts on a journey of pain, loss, and terror. This is the first of six books in the Sevenwaters series. 

Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Meth Addiction 
By David Sheff
BIO SHEFF
Bright and athletic, Nic Sheff excelled in any setting. But during his teenage years he was seduced by the illicit world of drugs and alcohol and found himself caught in the clutches of addiction. Beautiful Boy is Nic’s father’s recounting of the story of his son. Tweak: (Growing Up on Methamphetamines) by Nic Sheff (BIO SHEFF) reveals the story of addiction and recovery from Nic’s point of view. 

The End of Your Life Book Club 
By Will Schwalbe
NEW BOOKS - NONFICTION SCHWALBE 2012
The inspiring story of a son and his dying mother, who form a "book club" that brings them together as her life comes to a close. 

Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore 
By Robin Sloan
NEW BOOKS – FICTION SLOAN
The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon out of his life as a San Francisco web - design drone and landed him a new gig working the night shift at Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. But after just a few days on the job, Clay begins to realize that this store is even more curious than the name suggests. There are only a few customers, but they come in repeatedly and never seem to actually buy anything. Soon he embarks on a complex analysis of the customers' behavior and ropes his friends into helping him figure out just what's going on.

YA Dystopian Fiction

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Birthmarked 
By Caragh O’Brien
YA F O’BRIEN Birthmar #1
When her midwife mother is taken away by the very people she serves, Gaia Stone starts to question the role of the Enclave and whether it is all that it seems. 

The Selection 
By Kiera Cass
YA F CASS
America Singer is chosen to compete in the Selection--a contest to see which girl can win the heart of Illea's prince--but all she really wants is a chance for a future with her secret love, Aspen, who is a caste below her. 

Wither 
By Lauren Destafano
YA F DESTEFANO Chemical #1
After modern science turns every human into a genetic time bomb where men die at age twenty-five and women at age twenty, girls are kidnapped and married off in order to repopulate the world. 

For Darkness Shows the Stars 
By Diana Peterfreund
YA F PETERFRE
Elliot North fights to save her family's land and her own heart in this post-apocalyptic reimaging of Jane Austen's Persuasion. 

Inside Out 
By Maria V. Snyder
YA F SNYDER
Trella, a scrub whose life consists of cleaning for the socially superior Uppers, finds her peaceful life disturbed when she encounters a prophet who promises a better life for her people and ends up in the middle of a rebellion.

Historical Fiction/Romance

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The Blue Castle 
By L.M. Montgomery
YA F MONTGOMERY
When Valancy Stirling is diagnosed with a heart condition, she decides to throw aside her family’s overbearing standards and live exactly as she likes, much to her staid family’s dismay. But it’s when her rebellion puts her in contact with Barney Snaith, the town pariah, that Valancy’s new life truly begins. 

A Bride for Donnigan 
By Janette Oke
F OKE Women of #7
Kathleen O’Malley is bound for America, leaving her homeland to marry a man she has never seen. Donnigan Harrison has finally achieved his dream of building a cabin and making a success of his farm, but finds it is lonely by himself. Will they be able to make their arranged marriage work? 

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle 
By Avi
YA F AVI
As the lone “young lady” on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, Charlotte learns that the captain is murderous and the crew rebellious. 

Hidden Places 
By Lynn Austin
F AUSTIN
Eliza Wyatt is a young widow trying to keep hold of her family orchard. But when an injured, out-of-work man arrives on her doorstep, Eliza finds herself falling in love with his kind heart and gentle ways. 

Courting Miss Lancaster 
By Sarah Eden
ROMANCE EDEN
Harry Windover knows he can never make an offer for his adored Athena Lancaster, but when her brother asks him to help find a suitable suitor for Athena, Harry concocts a plot to help her see his own sterling qualities against a backdrop of alarming suitors.

Inspirational Fiction

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At Home in Mitford 
By Jan Karon
F KARON Mitford #1
Longing for change in the face of burnout, Episcopal rector Father Tim finds his lonely bachelor existence enriched by a stray dog, a lonely boy, and a pretty neighbor.

The Scarlet Thread 
By Francine Rivers
F RIVERS
When Sierra finds a journal by one of her ancestors, she begins to explore the young woman's life and rediscovers her own spirituality. 

A Time to Dance 
By Karen Kingsbury
F KINGSBURY Women of #1
Struggling to keep their marriage together, John and Abby Reynolds put their differences aside and their thoughts of divorce on hold when their daughter announces her plans to be married in the summer. 

A Proper Pursuit 
By Lynn Austin
F AUSTIN
Set in Chicago during the time of the World's Fair, this is the story of Violet Hayes whose search to find her mother exposes the young woman to the world about her from high society to the poor immigrant families; from the suffragette movement to the security of a suitable marriage match. As Violet contemplates what course her life will take, she will discover the missing parts of her family's past and, ultimately, herself.

Teen Books with a Bit of Romance and Adventure

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Legend 
By Marie Lu
YA F LU Legend #1
In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteen-year-olds Day, a famous criminal, and prodigy June, the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common enemy.

Heist Society 
By Ally Carter
YA F CARTER Heist #1
A group of teenagers uses their combined talents to re-steal several priceless paintings and save fifteen-year-old Kat Bishop's father, himself an international art thief, from a vengeful collector.

Book of a Thousand Days 
By Shannon Hale
YA F HALE
Fifteen-year-old Dashti, sworn to obey her sixteen-year-old mistress, the Lady Saren, shares Saren's years of punishment locked in a tower, then brings her safely to the lands of her true love, where both must hide who they are as they work as kitchen maids.

Entwined 
By Heather Dixon
YA F DIXON
Confined to their dreary castle while mourning their mother's death, Princess Azalea and her eleven sisters join The Keeper, who is trapped in a magic passageway, in a nightly dance that soon becomes nightmarish.

Keturah and Lord Death 
By Martine Leavitt
YA F LEAVITT
When Lord Death comes to claim sixteen-year-old Keturah while she is lost in the King's Forest, she charms him with her story and is granted a twenty-four hour reprieve in which to seek her one true love.

Historical Fiction

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The Light between Oceans
 By M.L. Stedman
F STEDMAN
A novel set on a remote Australian island a few years after WWI, where a childless couple live quietly running a lighthouse, until a boat carrying a baby washes ashore. 

Rumors of War 
By Dean Hughes
F HUGHES Children #1
The first volume in the Children of the Promise series opens in 1938 with Elder Alex Thomas and his companion serving in Germany. It soon becomes obvious that he will never complete his mission. War is coming, and that will affect not only Elder Thomas but also his family back home in Salt Lake City. 

The Forgotten Garden
By Kate Morton
F MORTON
Abandoned on a 1913 voyage to Australia, Nell is raised by a dock master and his wife who do not tell her until she is an adult that she is not their child, leading Nell to return to England and eventually hand down her quest for answers to her granddaughter.

Interesting Mysteries

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• Little to no language and no graphic scenes

A Test of Wills 
By Charles Todd
MYSTERY TODD Inspecto #1
Ian Rutledge returns to his career at Scotland Yard after fighting in the war, still suffering from shell shock. His next case, with a war-ravaged ex-soldier as the witness, could spell disaster for him. 

The Undertakers Widow 
By Phillip Margolin
 F MARGOLIN
Judge Richard Quinn struggles to follow justice in the trial of a congresswoman accused of murdering her mortician husband but instead finds himself in a maze of murder and deceit. 

Spycatcher 
By Matthew Dunn
 F DUNN Spycatch #1
Unpredictable agent Will Cochrane must catch the world's most wanted international terrorist mastermind, who was responsible for the death of his father in Iraq twenty-five years ago, and avert an attack the likes of which the world has never seen. 

Don’t Turn Around 
 By Michelle Gagnon
YA F GAGNON
After waking up on an operating table with no memory of how she got there, Noa must team up with computer hacker Peter to stop a corrupt corporation with a deadly secret.

Suspenseful Adventures That Are Clean Reads

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• Clean Reads

Gold of Kings 
By Davis Bunn
F BUNN
An art historian unravels the mystery surrounding her grandfather's untimely death and quickly becomes entangled in a web of international intrigue dating back to biblical times. 

Road to Nowhere 
By Paul Robertson
MYSTERY ROBERTS
Unexpected funding for town development transforms a small mountain community in North Carolina from a peaceful region where neighbors care for one another into a hostile and divided area fraught with greed and violence. 

Dead Heat 
By Joel C. Rosenberg
 F ROSENBER Jon Benn #5
In the wake of a horrific war in the Middle East, the president's second term is ending and the battle to succeed him is heating up into one of the most fiercely contested presidential elections in American history--and Jon and Erin Bennett realize the stakes could not be higher.

Kill Switch 
By Neal Baer
MYSTERY BAER
Criminal psychologist Dr. Claire Waters finds her life unraveling when she mistakenly recommends the release of a brutal serial killer, after which a woman is murdered and the crime bears all the signs of the serial killer's work. 

The Atlantis Code 
By Charles Brokaw
F BROKAW Thomas #1
When the ancient ruins of Atlantis are discovered along the Spanish coast, linguist and archaeologist Thomas Lourds joins a violent competition to be the first of its explorers, an effort marked by a series of puzzles that must be solved in order to gain entry into the lost civilization.