2014

WiIlliamsport Public Library

By Christopher Brown, MLS

Director

WWTPL Reader’s Advisory

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Contents

Contents .......................................................................................................................................... 0 Adventure ........................................................................................................................................ 2 Cracked Classics / Regency Mashups............................................................................................. 2

Fantasy ............................................................................................................................................ 3 Gentle Read ..................................................................................................................................... 4 Historical Fiction ............................................................................................................................ 5 Horror .............................................................................................................................................. 6 Literary Fiction ............................................................................................................................... 7

Mystery ........................................................................................................................................... 8 Cozy Mysteries ........................................................................................................................... 8

Amateur Detective ...................................................................................................................... 8 Police Procedural ........................................................................................................................ 8 Private Investigator ..................................................................................................................... 8

Psychological Suspense .................................................................................................................. 9

Romance ......................................................................................................................................... 9 Adventure .................................................................................................................................... 9 Contemporary ............................................................................................................................. 9

Fantasy ...................................................................................................................................... 10 Futuristic ................................................................................................................................... 10

Gentle ........................................................................................................................................ 10 Historical ................................................................................................................................... 11

Horror ........................................................................................................................................ 11 Humor ....................................................................................................................................... 12

Inspirational .............................................................................................................................. 12 Mystery ..................................................................................................................................... 13 Regency..................................................................................................................................... 13

Science Fiction .......................................................................................................................... 13 Thriller ...................................................................................................................................... 13

Time Travel ............................................................................................................................... 13 Western ..................................................................................................................................... 14

Romantic Suspense ................................................................................................................... 14

Science Fiction .............................................................................................................................. 15 Dystopia .................................................................................................................................... 16 Steampunk................................................................................................................................. 16

Suspense ........................................................................................................................................ 17 Thriller .......................................................................................................................................... 18

Legal ......................................................................................................................................... 18 Medical/Scientific ..................................................................................................................... 18 Political/Corporate/Financial .................................................................................................... 18

Crime/Caper .............................................................................................................................. 19 Espionage .................................................................................................................................. 19

Techno....................................................................................................................................... 19 Westerns ........................................................................................................................................ 20 Women's Lives and Relationships ................................................................................................ 21

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Adventure

Dan Brown

Steve Berry

Dale Brown

Edgar R. Burroughs

Stephen J. Cannell

James F. Cooper

James O. Curwood

Clive Cussler

P. T. Deutermann

Dorothy Dunnett

Michael W. Gear

Robert Girardi

W. E. B. Griffin

Jack Higgins

Will W. Johnstone

Jack London

Eric Van Lustbader

Alistair MacLean

Richard Marcinko

Bob Mayer

James A. Michener

Kerry Newcomb

Patrick O'Brian

David Poyer

Wilbur Smith

Cracked Classics / Regency Mashups

Seth Grahame-Smith

Ben H. Winters

Amanda Grange

Sherri Browning Erwin

Steve Hockensmith

Vera Nazarian

Lynn Messina

Adam Roberts

Porter Grand

Claudia Gabel

William R. Forstchen

W. Bill Czolgosz

Alan Goldsher

Nick S. Thomas

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Fantasy

Douglas Adams

Poul Anderson

Mark Anthony

Piers Anthony

Isaac Asimov

Robert Lynn Asprin

Dale Bailey

Frank L. Baum

Michael Bishop

Terry Brooks

Jim Butcher

Orson Scott Card

Jack Dann

Stephen R. Donaldson

David Eddings

Raymond E. Feist

Jasper Fforde

Eric Flint

Alan Dean Foster

Neil Gaiman

Terry Goodkind

Barbara Hambley

Harry Harrison

Robert A. Heinlein

Frank Herbert

Robin Hobb

Brian Jacques

Robert Jordan

Mercedes Lackey

C. S. Lewis

Anne McCaffrey

Gregory Maguire

George R. R. Martin

Lee Modesitt Jr.

Terry Pratchett

Philip Pullman

J. R. R. Tolkien

J. K. Rowling

Roger Zelazny

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Gentle Read

Mitch Albom

Nancy Atherton

H. E. Bates

Charlene Baumbich

Elizabeth Cadell

Jennifer Chiaverini

Catherine Cookson

A. J. Cronin

Jane Duncan

Clyde Edgerton

Richard Paul Evans

Fannie Flagg

Rose Franken

Paul Gallico

Dorothy Gilman

Elizabeth Goudge

Philip Gulley

Rick Hamlin

Eva Ibbotson

Jerry B. Jenkins

Jan Karon

Terry Kay

Garrison Keillor

Joan Medlicott

Rosamund Pilcher

Miss Read

Ann B. Ross

Nicholas Sparks

D. E. Stevenson

Eudora Welty

Lori Wick

Steven W. Wise

P. G. Wodehouse

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Historical Fiction

James Michener

Edward Rutherford

Patrick O'Brian

John Jakes

Louis L'Amour

Jane Smiley

Bernard Cornwell

Jeanne Williams

Dorothy Dunnet

Rosalind Laker

Catherine Cookson

Diana Gabaldon

Anne Perry

Howard Fast

Jean Auel

Rosanne Bittner

Phillipa Carr

James Clavell

William Stuart Long

Phillip McCutchan

Malcolm MacDonald

Larry McMurtry

James Michener

Jean Plaidy

Belva Plain

Patricia Potter

Eugenia Price

Judith Merkle Riley

Alexandra Ripley

Lucia St. Clair Robson

Dana Fuller Ross

Edward Rutherfurd

William Sarabande

Jeff Shaara

Wilbur A. Smith

Alternate History Harry Turtledove

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Horror

V. C. Andrews

Clive Barker

Nigel Bennett

Peter Benchley

Robert Bloch

Ramsey Campbell

John Farris

Charles Grant

Muriel Gray

Laurell K. Hamilton C

Thomas Harris

Nathaniel Hawthorne

James Herbert

Tom Holland

James Hynes

Stephen King

Jeanne Kalogridis

Stephen King

Andrew Klavan

Dean R. Koontz

Richard Laymon

Brian Lumley

Graham Masterson

Susie Moloney

Brent Monahan

Andrew Neiderman

Edgar Allen Poe

Douglas Preston

Anne Rice

John Saul

Dan Simmons

Bram Stoker

Peter Straub

Whitley Strieber

Chelsea Quinn Yarbo

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Literary Fiction

Isabel Allende

Margaret Atwood

John Barth

Saul Bellow

Chris Bohjalian

J. M. Coetzee

Pat Conroy

George Eliot

William Faulkner

Kaye Gibbons

David Guterson

Sara Gruen

Jane Hamilton

Joanne Harris

Peter Hoeg

Alice Hoffman

John Irving

James Joyce

Barbara Kingsolver

Wally Lamb

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Toni Morrison

Flannery O'Connor

Joyce Carol Oates

Arturo Perez-Reverte

Jodi Picoult

Richard Powers

Thomas Pynchon

Anne Rivers Siddons

Anita Shreve

Jane Smiley

William Styron

Amy Tan

Anne Tyler

John Updike

Kurt Vonnegut

David Wroblewski

Tom Wolfe

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Mystery

Cozy Mysteries

Susan Wittig Albert

Nancy Atherton

Rhys Bowen

Emily Brightwell

Jo Dereske

Sharon Kahn

Tamar Myers

Alexander McCall Smith & Lou Jane Temple

Amateur Detective

M.C. Beaton

Alan Bradley

Janet Evanovich

Lisa Lutz

Joanna Fluke

Diane Mott Davidson

J. A. Konrath

Police Procedural

Michael Connelly

Elizabeth George

Jo Nesbo

Dick Wolf

William Landay

Private Investigator

Sue Grafton Agatha Christie

Robert B. Parker J.A. Jance

Robert Crais P. D. James

Sara Paretsky Dick Francis

Lawrence Block Ed McBain

Linda Barnes John D. MacDonald

Marcia Muller James Lee Burke

Laura Lippman Dennis Lehane

Walter Mosley

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Psychological Suspense

Ruth Rendell

Henry James

Thomas H. Cook

Paul Graves

J. P. Smith

John Fowles

Paul Griner

Patricia Highsmith

Jane Hitchcock

Minette Walters

Robert Godard

Lisa Gardner

Stephen Dobyns

Patricia Carlon

Scott Smith

Joyce Carol Oates

Thomas Harris

Dean R. Koontz

David Morrell

Gillian Flynn

Blake Crouch

Romance

Adventure

Elizabeth Lowell

Loretta Chase

Contemporary

Jennifer Blake

Ursula Bloom

Sandra Brown

Elizabeth Cadell

Jackie Collins

Catherine Coulter

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Janet Dailey

Julie Ellis

Linda Howard

E.L. James

Iris Johansen

Jayne Ann Krentz

Emilie Loring

Elizabeth Lowell

Judith McNaught

Diana Palmer

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Emilie Richards

Nora Roberts

LaVyrle Spencer

Katherine Stone

Anne Stuart

Fantasy

Rebecca Brandewyne

Jessica Bryan

Kathryn Lynn Davis

Barbara Freethy

Betina Lindsey

Kathleen Morgan

Maura Seger

Maggie Shayne

Futuristic

Anne Avery

Marilyn Campbell

Jayne Castle

Justine Davis

Saranne Dawson

Jayne Ann Krentz

Kathleen Morgan

J. D. Robb

Pam Rock

Flora M. Speer

Gentle

Debbie Macomber

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Historical

Evelyn Anthony

Jill Barnett

Pamela Belle

Jo Beverley

Rebecca Brandewyne

Taylor Caldwell

Robyn Carr

Elizabeth Chadwick

Elaine Coffman

Catherine Cookson

Thomas Bertram Costain

Jude Deveraux

Christina Dodd

J. Suzanne Frank

Dorothy Garlock

Julie Garwood

Roberta Gellis

Heather Graham

Pamela Hill

Ceceia Holland

Victoria Holt

M. M. Kaye

Susan King

Mary Lide

Johanna Lindsey

Morgan Llywelyn

Nora Lofts

Edison Marshall

Diana Palmer

Jean Plaidy

Mary Jo Putney

Rafael Sabatini

Anya Seton

Janelle Taylor

Frank Yerby

Horror

Susan Krinard Stephanie Meyer Karina Halle Christine Feehan

Cassandra Clare Heather Graham Becca Fitzpatrick

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Humor

Jennifer Crusie

Rachel Gibson

Janet Evanovich

Inspirational

June Masters Backer

Lisa Tawn Bergren

Terri Blackstock

Lawana Blackwell

T. Davis Bunn

Wanda Brunssetter

Phillip Gulley

Robin Hardy

Robin Lee Hatcher

Dee Henderson

Patricia Hickman

Grace Livingston Hill

Ruth Livingston Hill

Jerry Jenkins

Jan Karon

Kathleen Karr

Karen Kingsbury

Tim LaHaye

Beverly Lewis

Emilie Baker Loring

George MacDonald

Catherine Marshall

Gilbert Morris

Janette Oke

Catherine Palmer

Jane Peart

Michael R. Phillips

Francine Rivers

Lauraine Snelling

Bodie Thoene

Agnes Sligh Turnbull

James Walker

Marian Wells

Robert Whitlow

Lori Wick

Lance Wubbels

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Mystery

Alice Chetwynd Ley

Jennifer Crusie

Regency

Berbara Metzger

Amanda Quick

Patricia Veryan

Jane Feather

Kasey Michaels

Christina Skye

Science Fiction

Jayne Castle

Justine Davis

Lisa Mason

Ann Maxwell

Kathleen Morgan

J. D. Robb

Thriller

Judith A. Lansdowne

Patricia Veryan

Time Travel

Madeline Baker Becky Lee Weyrich

Janice Bennett Eugenia Riley

Jede Deveraux Constance O'Day-Flannery

Diana Gabaldon Linda Lael Miller

Sandra Heath Flora M. Speer

Susan Sizemore

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Western

Catherine Anderson

Rexanne Becnel

Rosanne Bittner

Rebecca Brandewyne

Deborah Camp

Lori Copeland

Catherine Coulter

Janet Dailey

Jude Deveraux

Kathleen Eagle

Dorothy Garlock

Julie Garwood

Lorraine

Heath

Shirl Henke

Johanna Lindsey

Linda Lael Miller

Patricia Potter

Patricia Rice

Non Ryan

Janelle Taylor

Romantic Suspense

Joan Aiken Daphne du Maurier

Evelyn Anthony Catherine Coulter Heather Graham

Sandra Brown Monique Ellis Tami Hoag

Catherine Gaskin Mary Higgins Clark Victoria Holt

Linda Howard

Iris Johansen

Judith Lansdown

Caroline Llewellyn

Elizabeth Lowell

Barbara Michaels Pozzessere

Ann Maxwell Mary Stewart

Elizabeth Peters Patricia Veryan

Karen Robards Phyllis A. Whitney

Nora Roberts Sherryl Woods

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Science Fiction

Isaac Asimov

Harlan Ellison

Ursula K. LeGuin

Robert A. Heinlein

Philip K. Dick

Orson Scott Card

Connie Willis

Kim Stanley Robinson

Ursula LeGuin

Brian Aldiss

Frank Herbert

Roger Zelazny

Robert Silverberg

Gene Wolfe

A. C. Crispin

Lois McMaster Bujold

David Weber

Peter David

Barbara Hambly

Piers Anthony

David Brin

Octavia Butler

Kate Wilhelm

Mary Doria Russell

Greg Bear

Larry Niven David Mack

Sherri S. Tepper Robert Charles Wilson

Arthur C. Clarke Frederik Pohl

Dan Simmons Anne McCaffrey

William Gibson Jack Finney

Neal Stephenson Christie Golden

Jeff Noon C. S. Lewis

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Dystopia

C.S. Lewis H. G. Wells Franz Kafka

Ray Bradbury George Orwell Aldous Huxley

Kurt Vonnegut William Golding Ayn Rand

John Christopher Robert A. Heinlein William S. Burroughs

Alan Moore S. M. Stirling Philip K. Dick

Malorie Blackman

Margaret Atwood

Scott Westerfeld

James Dashner

Scott Westerfeld

Samantha Shannon

Veronica Roth

Marie Lu

Suzanne Collins

Justin Cronin

Lauren Oliver

Margaret Peterson

Haddix

Steampunk

Tim Powers Neal Stephenson

William Gibson Scott Westerfeld

Bruce Sterling Philip Pullman

Stephen Hunt China Miéville

Philip Reeve Jules Verne

K. W. Jeter Cherie Priest

Chris Wooding Gail Carriger

H.G. Wells Mary Shelley

Michael Moorcock

Diana Wynne Jones

James P. Blaylock

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Suspense

Softer-Edged Suspense - this overlaps with Romantic Suspense or

Christian Suspence

Mary Higgins Clark

Ted Dekker

Joy Fielding

Patricia J. MacDonald

Michael Allegretto

Frank Peretti

Jonellen Heckler

Mary Jane Clark

Lisa Gardner

Bonnie MacDougal

Phillip Shelby

Hard-Edged Suspense - this overlaps with Adventure, Thriller and True

Crime James Patterson

Thomas Harris

John Sandford

Jeffery Deaver

David Wiltse

Thomas Perry

Greg Iles

Harlan Coben

Craig Holden

Andrew Klavan

Jack Higgins

Daniel Silva

William Bernhardt

Jeffry Archer

Andrew Gross

Linda Fairstein

Blake Crouch

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Thriller

Paul Lavine Bonnie MacDougal

Barbara Parker Brad Meltzer

Lisa Scottoline Kile Mills

Eileen Dreyer Perri O'Shaughnessy

Brian Haig Nancy Rosenberg

Vince Flynn Barry Siegel

John LeCarre Richard North Patterson

John Lescroart Robert K. Tanenbaum

Robert Ludlum Scott Turow

Legal

John Grisham

Scott Turow

Erle Stanley Gardner

Robert Traver

William Diehl

Steve Martini

William Coughlin

Ira Genberg

Medical/Scientific

Robin Cook Eileen Dreyer

Michael Crighton Kathy Reichs

Tess Gerritsen Michael Crichton

Steve Alten John Nance

Patricia Cornwell Steven Spruill

William Boyd Ken Follett

Margaret Cuthbert Michael Palmer

Jonathan Kellerman

Political/Corporate/Financial

Linda Davies Stephen Leather Victor O'Reilly

Frederick Forsyth Jim Lehrer Stephen Frey

David Baldacci

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Crime/Caper

Carl Hiaasen

Lawrence Sanders

Lee Child

Michael Connelly

Stephen Coonts

Elmore Leonard

David Ramus

Lawrence Block

Evan Hunter

Katherine Neville

Laurence Shames

Mario Puzo

Thomas Perry

Christopher Rice

James Rollins

Pete Hautman

Espionage

Robert Ludlum

Ian Fleming

John le Carré

Helen MacInnes

Tom Clancy

John E. Gardner

Bryan Forbes

Adam Hall

Brian Freemantle

Dorothy Gilman

Robert Littell

Janice Weber

Maureen Tan

W.E.B. Griffin

Techno

Tom Clancy David Poyer Craig Thomas

Dale Brown Stephen Coonts Patrick Robinson

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Westerns

Elmer Kelton

Don Goldsmith

Loren D. Estleman

Terry C. Johnston

Will Henry

Owen Wister

Max Brand

Elmore Leonard

Louis L'Amour

Zane Grey

Matthew Braun

Richard Parry

Larry McMurtry

Richard S. Wheeler

Nicholas Evans

Al Cody

Ernest Haycox

Alan LeMay

Giles Lutz

Luke Short

Clifton Adams

Sam Brown

Richard Clarke

A. G. Guthrie

Will Henry

Elmer Kelton

Gary McCarthy

Lewis B. Patten

Jack Schaefer

Jonas Ward

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Women's Lives and Relationships

Richard Peck

Rebecca Wells

Danielle Steel

Fern Michaels

LaVyrle Spencer

Barbara Delinsky

Catherine Cooksons

Terry McMillan

Maeve Binchy

Anna Quindlen

Patricia Gaffney

Elinor Lipman

Susan Sussman

Helen Fielding

Kaye Gibbon

Rosamunde Pilcher

Alice Hoffman

Barbara Chepaitis

Barbara Whitnell

Sarah Woodhouse

Kristin Hannah

Joanna Trollope

Mary Wesley

Elizabeth Berg

Jodi Picoult

Diane Chamberlain

Anne Rivers Siddons

Nancy Thayer

Margaret Drabble

Arthur Golden

Amy Tan

Edwidge Danticat

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Belva Plain

Jill McCorkle

Susan Isaacs

Anita Shreve

Jacqueline Mitchard

Toni Morrison

Anne Tyler

Kathleen Gilles Seidel