“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.” ~Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
September ’14
Blackbird Fly/ Erin Entrada Kelly
Conviction/ Kelly Gilbert
The Honest Truth/ Dan Gemeinhart
Mosquitoland/ David Arnold
We All Looked Up/ Tommy Wallach
August ’14
The Rules/ Nancy Holder & Debbie Viguie (June ’15)
Fear Street: The Confession/ RL Stine
Gone Girl/ Gillian Flynn (again)
Dear Daughter/ Elizabeth Little
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd/ Agatha Christie (again)
5 to 1/ Holly Bodger (May ’15)
Fear Streer: The Perfect Date/ RL Stine
Fear Street: The Stepsister/ RL Stine
July ’14
Denton Little’s Deathdate/ Lance Rubin (April ’15)
Beach House/ RL Stine
Sisterland/ Curtis Sittenfeld
Ship of Brides/ Jojo Moyes (Oct ’14)
My Heart & Other Black Holes/ Jasmine Warga (Feb ’15)
If You Find This/ Matthew Baker (March ’15)
When Reason Breaks/ Cindy L. Rodriguez (Feb ’15)
Annihilation/ Jeff VanderMeer
Murder is Bad Manners/ Robin Stevens (April ’15)
June ’14
Horrorstor/ Grady Hendrix (Sept ’14)
All Fall Down/ Jennifer Weiner
Ketchup Clouds/ Annabel Pitcher
Hideaway/ Dean Koontz
Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future/ AS King (Oct ’14)
I Take You/ Eliza Kennedy (May ’15)
May ’14
Far From You/ Tess Sharpe
Belzhar/ Meg Wolitzer (Sept ’14)
The Secret History/ Donna Tartt
The Cuckoo’s Calling/ Robert Galbraith
I’ll Give You the Sun/ Jandy Nelson (Sept ’14)
We Should Hang Out Sometime/ Josh Sundquist (Dec ’14)
April ’14
Open Road Summer/ Emery Lord
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets/ JK Rowling
The Vanishing Coin/ Kate Egan
The Secret Place/ Tana French (Aug ’14)
The Jewel/ Amy Ewing (Sept ’14)
The Perfectionists/ Sara Shepard (Oct ’14)
Point/ Brandy Colbert
Amity/ Micol Ostow (August ’14)
The Heiresses/ Sara Shepard (May ’14)
March ’14
Not That Kind of Girl/ Siobhan Vivian
Everything Leads To You/ Nina LaCour (May ’14)
Since You’ve Been Gone/ Morgan Matson (May ’14)
February ’14
The Truth About Alice/ Jennifer Mathieu (June ’14)
Landline/ Rainbow Rowell (July ’14)
Conversion/ Katherine Howe (July ’14)
The Vactioneers/ Emma Straub (May ’14)
They All Fall Down/ Roxanne St. Claire (October ’14)
Poisoned Apples/ Christine Heppermann (September ’14)
Like No Other/ Una LaMarche (July ’14)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone/ JK Rowling
The Riverman/ Aaron Starmer (March ’14)
Very Bad Things/ Susan McBride
Dept. of Speculation/ Jenny Offill
Absolutely Almost/ Lisa Graff (June ’14)
Althea and Oliver/ Cristina Moracho (October ’14)
The Fever/ Megan Abbot (June ’14)
January ’14
Reconstructing Amelia/ Kimberly McCreight
The Fourteenth Goldfish/ Jenni Holm (August ’14)
The Vanishing Season/ Jodi Lynn Anderson (July ’14)
Now I’ll Tell You Everything/ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
The Battle of Darcy Lane/ Tara Altebrando (April ’14)
Just Call My Name/ Holly Goldberg Sloan (August ’14)
Me Before You/ Jojo Moyes
Noggin/ John Corey Whaley (April ’14)
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender/ Leslye Walton (March ’14)
Starstruck/ Rachel Shukert
Love Me/ Rachel Shukert (Feb ’14)
Boy in the Striped Pajamas/ John Boyne
The Hit/ Melvin Burgess (Feb ’14)
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September ’11
Half A Life/ Darin Strauss
Single Girl’s To-Do List/ Lindsey Kelk
All These Things I’ve Done/ Gabrielle Zevin
Never Have I Ever/ Sara Shepard
August ’11
Stay/ Allie Larkin
No Safety in Numbers/ Dayna Lorentz (manuscript)
Girls In White Dresses/ Jennifer Close
Fly Away Home/ Jennifer Weiner
Robopocalypse/ Daniel Wilson
Rules of Civility/ Amor Towles
July ’11
A Visit From The Goon Squad/ Jennifer Egan
Bitterblue/ Kristin Cashore (manuscript)
State of Wonder/ Ann Patchett
The Department of Lost and Found/ Allison Winn Scotch
Then Came You/ Jennifer Weiner
Beauty Queens/ Libba Bray
Twisted/ Sara Shepard
Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children/ Ransom Riggs
June ’11
Unbroken/ Laura Hillenbrand
Sex on the Moon/ Ben Mezrich
Jurassic Park/ Michael Crichton
Ten Things We Did (And Probably Shouldn’t Have)/ Sarah Mlynowski
Almost Identical/ Lin Oliver (Manuscript)
Wicked Jealous/ Robin Palmer (Manuscript)
Girl In A Diamond Collar/ Katherine Longshore (Manuscript)
May ’11
The Paris Wife/ Paula McLain
A Gate at the Stairs/ Lorrie Moore
How To Say Goodbye In Robot/ Natalie Standiford
April ’11
Talking To Girls About Duran Duran/ Rob Sheffield
Rosebush/ Michele Jaffe
Under the Dome/ Stephen King
A Red Herring Without Mustard/ Alan Bradley
The Weed that Strings the Hangman’s Bag/ Alan Bradley
How To Change The World/ Madeline George (Manuscript)
March ’11
Moon Over Manifest/ Clare Vanderpool
The Future of Us/ Jay Asher & Carolyn Mackler (Manuscript)
Try Not To Breathe/ Jennifer Hubbard (Manuscript)
The Disenchantments/ Nina LaCour (Manuscript)
Dragonswood/ Janet Lee Carey (Manuscript)
Deadly Cool/ Gemma Halliday
Just Kids/ Patti Smith
The Last Little Blue Envelope/ Maureen Johnson
I Totally Meant To Do That/ Jane Borden
February ’11
Ghosts of Greenwich Village/ Lorna Graham
Secret Lives of Dresses/ Erin McKean
What Alice Forgot/ Liane Moriarty
Happy Ever After/ Nora Roberts
Born Wicked/ Jessica Spotswood (manuscript)
Swamplandia!/ Karen Russell
January ’11
Savor the Moment/ Nora Roberts
Loser/ Queen/ Jodi Lynn Anderson
Great House/ Nicole Krauss
A Tale Dark and Grimm/ Adam Gidwitz
The Catastrophic History of You & Me/ Jess Rothenberg (Manuscript)
December ’10
Anna and the French Kiss/ Stephanie Perkins
Legend/ Marie Lu (manuscript)
The Sky is Everywhere/ Jandy Nelson
The Fingertips of Duncan Dorfman/ Meg Wolitzer (manuscript)
Spook/ Mary Roach
Vision in White/ Nora Roberts
The Lying Game/ Sara Shepard
Fall For Anything/ Courtney Summers
Room/ Emma Donoghue
November ’10
Everything Changes/ Jonathan Tropper
Half Broke Horses/Jeannette Walls
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth/ Jeff Kinney
The Mockingbirds/ Daisy Whitney
The A Circuit/ Catherine Hapka & Georgina Bloomberg
The Probability of Miracles/ Wendy Wunder (manuscript)
October ’10
Bright Young Things/ Anna Godbersen
The House at Riverton/Kate Morton
Imaginary Girls/ Nova Ren Suma (manuscript)
Robyn and her Band of Thieves/ Peter Abrahams (manuscript)
The Apothecary/ Maile Meloy (manuscript)
The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows/ Jacqueline West
The Lost Dogs/ Jim Gorant
September ’10
The Book Of Joe/ Jonathan Tropper
Never Let Me Go/Kazuo Ishiguro
What Happened To Goodbye/ Sarah Dessen (manuscript)
The Scorch Trials/ James Dashner
The DUFF (Designated, Ugly Fat Friend)/ Kody Keplinger
Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town/ Nick Reding
Across the Universe/ Beth Revis
August ’10
Mockingjay/ Suzanne Collins
This is Where I Leave You/ Jonathan Tropper
Vlad Tod: 8th Grade Bites/ Heather Brewer
Where She Went/ Gayle Foreman
Delerium/ Lauren Oliver
Secrets to Happiness/ Sarah Dunn
The Dreamland Social Club/ Tara Altebrando (manuscript)
Brother/ Sister/ Sean Olin (manuscript)
July ’10
The Eternal Ones/ Kirsten Miller
One Day/ David Nicholls
XVI/ Julia Karr
Matched/ Ally Condie
Between Shades of Gray/ Ruta Sepetys
Only the Good Spy Young/ Ally Carter
June ’10
North of Beautiful/ Justina Chen Headley
Love You Hate You Miss You/ Elizabeth Scott
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake/ Aimee Bender
The Trump Card/ Ivanka Trump
How Did You Get This Number/ Sloane Crosley
Not That Kind Of Girl/ Siobhan Vivian
Pretty Little Liars: Wanted/ Sara Shepard
Mrs. Astor Regrets/ Meryl Gordon
Heart of the Matter/ Emily Giffin
May ’10
Let the Great World Spin/ Colum McCann
The Indifferent Stars Above/ Daniel James Brown
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned/ Wells Tower
Columbine/ Dave Cullen
Stiff/ Mary Roach
Angels/ Marian Keyes
The Magicians/ Lev Grossman
And The Heart Says Whatever/ Emily Gould
April ’10
Will Grayson, Will Grayon/ John Green & David Levithan
The Bronx Is Burning/ Jonathan Mahler
Rework/ Jason Fried and David Hansson
The Body Finder/ Kimberly Derting
The Irresistible Henry House/ Lisa Grunwald
My Horizontal Life/ Chelsea Handler
March ’10
Little Women/ Louisa May Alcott
Cell/ Stephen King
February ’10
All Around The Town/ Mary Higgins Clark
The Summer I Turned Pretty/ Jenny Han
The Bachelorette Party/ Karen McCullah Lutz
Sharp Objects/ Gillian Flynn
Dark Places/ Gillian Flynn
Plum Spooky/ Janet Evanovich
The Group/ Mary McCarthy
January ’10
Waiting For You/ Susane Colasanti
Airhead/ Meg Cabot
Remember Me/ Mary Higgins Clark
Pretty Little Liars: Heartless/ Sara Shepard
Marcelo in the Real World/ Francisco Stork
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief/ Rick Riordan
Impossible/ Nancy Werlin
Blue Bloods: Revelations/ Melissa De La Cruz
Blue Bloods: Masquerade/ Melissa De La Cruz
Blue Bloods/ Melissa De La Cruz
The Girls/ Tucker Shaw
The Six Rules of Maybe/ Deb Caletti
By The Time You Read This I’ll Be Dead/ Julie Anne Peters
Secret Society/ Tom Dolby
Tangled/ Carolyn Mackler
The Help/ Kathryn Stockett
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December ’09
Girl With The Dragon Tattoo/ Stieg Larsson
Some Girls Are/ Courtney Summers
Something, Maybe/ Elizabeth Scott
Lips Touch/ Laini Taylor
Evermore/ Alyson Noel
Take Me There/ Susane Colasanti
Heaven to Betsy/ Maud Hart Lovelace
Betsy in Spite of Herself/ Maud Hart Lovelace
November ’09
When It Happens/ Susane Colasanti
Hush, Hush/ Becca Fitzpatrick
I Shudder/ Paul Rudnick
Front and Center/ Catherine Murdock
Fire/ Kristin Cashore
Pretty Little Liars: Killer/ Sara Shepard
October ’09
Girlfriend Material/ Melissa Kantor
Old School/ Tobias Wolff
Luxe: Splendor/ Anna Godbersen
Nation/ Terry Pratchett
Accidental Billionaires/ Ben Mezrich
Alex & Me/ Irene Pepperberg
Wimpy Kid 4: Dog Days/ Jeff Kinney
Mary & O’Neil/ Justin Cronin
Graceling/ Kristin Cashore
Gone/ Michael Grant
September ’09
I’m So Happy For You/ Lucinda Rosenfeld
Don’t Judge A Girl By Her Cover/ Ally Carter
An Off Year/ Claire Zulkey
You Remind Me Of Me/ Dan Chaon
Shutter Island/ Dennis Lehane
Going Too Far/ Jennifer Echols
Time Of My Life/ Allison Winn Scotch
Paper Towns/ John Green
Pretty Little Liars: Wicked/ Sara Shepard
August ’09
And Then There Were None/ Agatha Christie
The Passage/ Justin Cronin (manuscript)
Soul of a Dog/ Jon Katz
Devil In The White City/ Erik Larson (again)
Breakfast at Tiffany’s/ Truman Capote
The Sixty-Eight Rooms/ Marianne Malone (manuscript)
The Last Good Kiss/ James Crumley
All We Ever Wanted Was Everything/ Janelle Brown
July ’09
Split/ Swati Avasthi (manuscript)
The Dead-Tossed Waves/ Carrie Ryan (manuscript)
All Unquiet Things/ Anna Jarzab (manuscript)
Best Friends Forever/ Jennifer Weiner
The Cinderella Society/ Kay Cassidy (manuscript)
Epitaph Road/ David Patneaude (manuscript)
Julie & Julia/ Julie Powell
My Life In France/ Julia Child
After You/ Julie Buxbaum
The Mosts/ Melissa Senate (manuscript)
June ’09
Wake/ Lisa McMann
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh/ Michael Chabon
The Secret/ Rhonda Byrne
Chasing Vermeer/ Blue Balliett
Cracked Up To Be/ Courtney Summers
Gimmie A Call/ Sarah Mlynowski (manuscript, Spring ’10)
Catching Fire/ Suzanne Collins
Sweeping Up Glass/ Carolyn D. Wall
May ’09
Lush Life/ Richard Price
The Song is You/ Arthur Phillips
Oliver Kitteridge/ Elizabeth Strout
After/ Amy Efaw
Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie/ Alan Bradley
If I Stay/ Gayle Forman
April ’09
Girl in the Arena/ Lise Haines
Sloane Sisters/ Anna Carey
March ’09
The Tipping Point/ Malcom Gladwell
Lowboy/ John Wray
February ’09
What I Saw And How I Lied/ Judy Blundell
Canterwood Crest: Take the Reins/ Jessica Burkhart
Along For the Ride/ Sarah Dessen
Wintergirls/ Laurie Halse Anderson
Party/ Tom Leveen (manuscript)
Free Food For Millionaires/ Min Jin Lee
January ’09
Love Walked In/ Marisa de los Santos
Luxe 3: Envy/ Anna Godbersen
Mouse Tales/ David Koenig
Candor/ Pam Bachorz (manuscript, Fall ’09)
Maze Runner/ James Dashner (manuscript, Fall ’09)
Fat Cat/ Robin Brande (manuscript, Fall ’09)
Infected/ Scott Sigler
Contagious/ Scott Sigler
Diary of a Wimpy Kid 3/ Jeff Kinney
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December ’08
The Hunger Games/ Suzanne Collins
World War Z/ Max Brooks (again)
November ’08
The Witches of Eastwick/ John Updike
Confederates in the Attic/ Tony Horwitz
September ’08
Let It Snow/ John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson
The Big Splash/ Jack D. Ferraiolo (again)
Generation Dead/ Daniel Waters
Essays of EB White/ EB White
About Alice/ Calvin Trillin
The Partly Cloudy Patriot/ Sarah Vowell
August ’08
Little Brother/ Cory Doctorow
Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet/ Jamie Ford
Lucky/ Rachel Vail
Peeled/ Joan Bauer
Alive and Well in Prague, New York/ Daphne Grab
Ten Cents a Dance/ Christina Fletcher
July ’08
The Patron Saint of Butterflies/ Cecilia Galante
Still Life With Husband/ Lauren Fox
Side Effects/ Amy Goldman Koss
The Girl Who Threw Butterflies/ Mick Cochrane (manuscript)
3 Willows/ Ann Brashares (manuscript)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society/ Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows (again)
The Kid/ Dan Savage
Dishwasher/ Pete Jordan
Love the One You’re With/ Emily Giffin
June ’08
Unaccustomed Earth/ Jhumpa Lahiri (audio)
When You Are Engulfed in Flames/ David Sedaris (audio)
Fraud/ David Rakoff
The Big Splash/ Jack D. Ferraiolo
Sorority 101: Zeta or Omega?/ Kate Harmon
Savvy/ Ingrid Law
Paper Towns/ John Green
Bliss/ Lauren Myracle
Pretty Little Liars #4: Unbelievable/ Sara Shepard
May ’08
Scott Pilgrim Vol. 2/ Bryan Lee O’Malley
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks/ E. Lockhart
The Market/ JM Steele
Beacon Street Girls #1/ Annie Bryant
And Then We Came To the End/ Joshua Ferris
You Are Here/ Rebecca Stead (manuscript)
Forest of Hands and Teeth/ Carrie Ryan (manuscript)
Luxe: Rumors/ Anna Godbersen
April ’08
Certain Girls/ Jennifer Weiner
Lock & Key/ Sarah Dessen
I Was Told There’d Be Cake/ Sloane Crosley
Boy Proof/ Cecil Castellucci
Rats Saw God/ Rob Thomas
Cheer!/ Kate Torgovnick
The Red Blazer Girls (manuscript)
The #1 Ladies’ Detective Agency/ Alexander Mccall Smith
Audrey, Wait!/ Robin Benway
March ’08
Remember Me?/ Sophie Kinsella
Good Dog. Stay/ Anna Quindlen
Highway to Hell (manuscript)/ Rosemary Clement-Moore
The Friday Night Knitting Club/ Kate Jacobs
The Opposite of Love/ Julie Buxbaum
Water For Elephants/ Sara Gruen
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society/Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
How To Be Bad/ E. Lockhart; Sarah Mlynowski; Lauren Myracle
Bratfest at Tiffany’s/ Lisi Harrison
The Glass Castle/ Jeannette Walls
February ’08
Design Flaws of the Human Condition/ Paul Schmidtberger
Estrella’s Quinceanera/ Malin Alegria
My Most Excellent Year/ Steve Kluger
Assassination Vacation/ Sarah Vowell
Sweethearts/ Sara Zarr
Kiss Me, Kill Me/ Lauren Henderson
I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have To Kill You/ Ally Carter
Suite Scarlett/ Maureen Johnson
The True Meaning of Smekday/ Adam Rex
January ’08
Poseur/ Rachel Maude
Repossessed/ AM Jenkins
Fake Boyfriend/ Kate Brian
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You/ Peter Cameron
The Wednesday Wars/ Gary D. Schmidt
Chiggers/ Hope Larson
Hush/ Donna Jo Napoli
Austenland/ Shannon Hale
Slam/ Nick Hornby
The Abstinence Teacher/ Tom Perrotta
Eat Pray Love/ Elizabeth Gilbert