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A Beautiful Mind: A Biography Of John Forbes Nash, Jr…, Sylvia Nasar B Nash

A River Runs Through It, And Other Stories, Norman Maclean

A Room With A View, E. M. Forster

A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley

About A Boy, Nick Hornby

About Schmidt, Louis Begley

Absolute Power, David Baldacci

Accidental Tourist, Anne Tyler

Affliction, Russell Banks

Age Of Innocence, Edith Wharton

All The Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy

Anywhere But Here, Mona Simpson

Babette’s Feast And Other Anecdotes Of Destiny, Isak Dinesen

Bastard Out Of Carolina, Dorothy Allison

Beaches, Iris Rainer Dart

Before And After, Rosellen Brown

Beloved: A Novel, Toni Morrison

Billy Bathgate: A Novel, E. L. Doctorow

Black Hawk Down: A Story Of Modern War, Mark Bowden 967.73053 BOW

Blood Work, Michael Connelly

Bridget Jones’s Diary: A Novel, Helen Fielding

Bringing Out The Dead, Joe Connelly

Circle Of Friends, Maeve Binchy

Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons

Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier

Contact: A Novel, Carl Sagan

Corelli’s Mandolin: A Novel, Louis De Bernières
(movie title Captain Corelli’s Mandolin)

Crazy In Alabama, Mark Childress

Dances With Wolves, Michael Blake

Devil In A Blue Dress, Walter Mosley

Don’t Say A Word, Andrew Klavan

Doctor Zhivago, Boris Leonidovich Pasternak

Emma, Jane Austen

Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

Finding Fish: A Memoir, Antwone Quenton Fisher 973 FIS
(movie title Antwone Fisher)

Forrest Gump, Winston Groom

Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Shop Café, Fannie Flagg

Get Shorty, Elmore Leonard

How To Make An American Quilt, Whitney Otto

Interview With The Vampire, Anne Rice

Ironweed, William Kennedy

Jacob The Liar, Jurek Becker
(movie title Jakob The Liar)

Jaws, Peter Benchley

Jurassic Park: A Novel, Michael Crichton

Kiss Of The Spider Woman, Manuel Puig

Kiss The Girls, James Patterson

L. A. Confidential, James Ellroy

Like Water For Chocolate: A Novel In Many Installments, Laura Esquivel
(movie title Como Agua Para Chocolate)

Little Women, Louisa May Alcott

Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov

Lonesome Dove: A Novel, Larry McMurtry

Lost Horizon, James Hilton

Mary Reilly, Valerie Martin

Matchstick Men: A Novel, Eric Garcia

Message In A Bottle, Nicholas Sparks

Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil: A Savannah Story, John Berendt
975.8724 BER

Misery, Stephen King

Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

Murder On The Orient Express, Agatha Christie

My Dog Skip, Willie Morris 813.54 MOR

Mystic River, Dennis Lehane

One True Thing, Anna Quindlen

Ordinary People, Judith Guest

Oscar & Lucinda, Peter Carey

Pay It Forward: A Novel, Catherine Ryan Hyde

Persuasion, Jane Austen

Possession: A Romance, A. S. Byatt

Practical Magic, Alice Hoffman

Presumed Innocent, Scott Turow

Prince Of Tides, Pat Conroy

Prizzi’s Honor, Richard Condon

Random Hearts, Warren Adler

Schindler’s List, Thomas Kenneally

Seabiscuit: An American Legend, Laura Hillenbrand 798.4 HIL

Sense And Sensibility, Jane Austen

Shoeless Joe, W. P. Kinsella

Smilla’s Sense Of Snow, Peter Høeg

Snow Falling On Cedars, David Guterson

Sophie’s Choice, William Styron

Strip Tease, Carl Hiaasen

The African Queen, C. S. Forester

The Bone Collector, Jeffery Deaver

The Bourne Identity, Robert Ludlum

The Bridges Of Madison County, Robert James Waller

The Cider House Rules, John Irving

The Color Purple, Alice Walker

The Deep End Of The Ocean, Jacqueline Mitchard

The English Patient: A Novel, Michael Ondaatje

The Firm, John Grisham

The First Wives Club, Olivia Goldsmith

The Four Feathers, A. E. W. Mason

The Godfather, Mario Puzo

The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans

The Hours, Michael Cunningham

The House Of The Spirits, Isabel Allende

The Hunt For Red October, Tom Clancy

The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan

The Mambo Kings Play Songs Of Love, Oscar Hijuelos

The Man In The Iron Mask, Alexandre Dumas

The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story Of One Man’s Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45,
Wladyslaw Szpilman
940.5318092 SZP

The Portrait Of A Lady, Henry James

Primary Colors: A Novel Of Politics, Anonymous

The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern’s Classic Tale…, William Goldman

The Quiet American, Graham Greene

The Rainmaker, John Grisham

The Remains Of The Day, Kazuo Ishiguro

The Shining, Stephen King

The Shipping News, Annie Proulx

The Silence Of The Lambs and Red Dragon, Thomas Harris

The Snapper, Roddy Doyle

Sphere: A Novel, Michael Crichton

Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein

The Sweet Hereafter: A Novel, Russell Banks

The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith

The Thin Red Line, James Jones

The Unbearable Lightness Of Being, Milan Kundera

The Witches Of Eastwick, John Updike

To Dance With The White Dog, Terry Kay

Under The Tuscan Sun: At Home In Italy, Frances Mayes 945.5 MAY

Waiting To Exhale, Terry McMillan

Washington Square, Henry James
(two movies, Washington Square, 1998, and The Heiress, 1949)

What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?, Peter Hedges

Where The Heart Is, Billie Letts

Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon

This list was prepared by the St. Charles Public Library, 9/03

 

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