F
- Fiction
NF - Non Fiction
YA - Young Adult
Jr F - Junior Fiction
Things Fall Apart,
Chinua
Achebe, F
Twelve Red Herrings, Jeffery Archer, F
Pull of the Moon, Elizabeth Berg, F
Heading West, Doris Betts, F
Scarlett Feather, Maeve Binchy, F
The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian, Lawrence Block, F
The Buffalo Soldier, Chris Bohjalian, F
Just Rewards (Book 6 of the Harte Family Saga),
Barbara Taylor Bradford, F
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Ann Brashares, F
Rosa Parks, Douglas Brinkley, Bio
Celia Garth, Gwen Bristow, F
The Greatest Inventions of the Past 2,000 Years,
John Brockman, NF 609
Angels and Demons, Dan Brown, F
The Promise, Oral Lee Brown, NF 378.3
Dawn Land, Joseph Bruchac, F
The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck, F
Where Soldiers Fear to Tread, John S. Burnett, NF 967.7305
Cold Sassy Tree, Olive Ann Burns, F
Sally Hemmings, Barbara Chase-Riboud, F
Alexander Hamilton Ron Chernow, Bio
The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins, F
State of Fear, Michael Crighton, F
Pope Joan, Donna Woolfolk Cross, F
Alice’s Tulips, Sandra Dallas, F
The Dew Breaker, Edwidge Danticant, F
The Peculiar People, Jan de Hartog, F
Loved Walked In, Marisa de los Santos, F
The Twelfth Card, Jeffery Deaver, F
The Firefly, P. T. Deutermann, F
The Last Days of Dogtown, Anita Diamant, F
The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion, NF 306.9
The Birth of Venus, Sarah Dunant, F
The Sleeping Bride, Dorothy Eden, F
Seedfolks, Paul Fleischman, Audio Book
Shem Creek, Dorthea Benton Frank, F
My Heartbeat, Garret Freymann-Weyr, YA/F
The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman, NF 337
The Snow Goose, Paul Gallico, Jr Pic Book/F
People of the Mist, Kathleen O’Neal Gear, F
Blink, Malcolm Gladwell, NF 153.4
Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Bio
Future Homemakers of America, Laurie Graham, F
Nail Biter, Sarah Graves, F
Bookends, Jane Green, F
The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B.,
Sandra Gulland, F
Leeway Cottage, Beth Gutcheon, F
Between Sisters, Kristen Hannah, F
I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly, Joyce Hansen, Jr/F
Food for the Soul, Harlem Baptist Church, NF 641.59
Winter World, Bernd Heinrich, NF 591.54
The Country Gentleman, Fiona Hill, F
Discovering Moths: Nighttime Jewels in Your own Backyard,
John Himmelman, NF 595.78
Fever Pitch, Nick Hornby, NF 796.334
A Long Way Down, Nick Hornby, F
The White Dawn, JamesHouston, F
A Company of Swans, Eva Ibbotson, F
Vernon Can Read, Vernon Jordan, Audio Book
The Good German, Joseph Kanon F
Ordinary Wolves, Seth Kantner, F
Straight into Darkness, Faye Kellerman, F
Julia’s Hope, Leisha Kelly, F
The Feast, Margaret Kennedy, F
Cell, Stephen King, F
Odd Thomas, Dean Koontz, F
Oh My Stars, Lora Landvik, F
The Tulip & the Pope, Deborah Larsen, NF 255
Freakonomics, Steven Levitt, NF 330
Tell Me No Lies, Elizabeth Lowell, F
Number the Stars, Lois Lowry, F
A Good Yarn, Debbie Macomber, F
A Walk in My World, Anna Mazer (editor), YA NF 808.83
Urchin of the Riding Stars - Book 1 The Mismantle Chronicles,
M. I. McAllister, Jr/F
The Journal of Callie Wade, Dawn Miller, F
Second Growth, Ruth Moore, F
The Last Hostage, John J. Nance, F
Potshot, Robert B. Parker, F
Maximum Ride, James Patterson, YA/F
Mary Mary, James Patterson, F
Apple Tree Lean Down, Mary E. Pearce, F
A Long Way from Chicago, Richard Peck, Jr/F
Running the Bulls, Cathie Pelletier, F
My Sister’s Keeper, Jodi Picoult, F
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew,
Daniel Pool, NF 942
In Our Strange Gardens, Michel Quint, F
Pobby and Dingean, Ben Rice, F
Founding Mothers, Cokie Roberts, NF 973.3
Murder in the Blue Room, Elliott Roosevelt, F
Noah’s Flood, William Ryan, NF 930
The Girl Who Played Go, Shan Sa, F
The Demon-Haunted World, Carl Sagan, NF 500
Broken Prey, John Sandford, F
The Working Poor, David K. Shipler, F
A Wedding in December, Anita Shreve, F
Three Weeks with My Brother,
Nicholas & Micah Sparks, NF 306.875
East of Eden, John Steinbeck, F
Highwire Moon, Susan Straight, F
A Vast Army of Women, Lynda L. Sudlow, NF 973.7
The Hiding Place, Ten Boom, NF 940.53/T289
Big Stone Gap, Adriana Trigiani, F
Any Bitter Thing, Monica Wood, F
Life At Sixteen: Silent Tears, Cheryl Zach, YA/F
2005 101 Great
Summer Reads
1. Hitchhikers
Guide to the Galaxy - Adams, Douglas F 2. Gob's Grief - Adrian, Chris F 3. Question Quest - Anthony, Piers Pbk/F 4. Down the Common - Baer, Ann F 5. The Winner - Baldacci, David F 6. Big Dig - Barnes,Linda F 7. A Superior Death - Barr, Nevada F 8. Snowed In - Bartolomeo, Christina F 9. Nights of Rain and Stars - Binchy,
Maeve F 10. The Middle Ages - Bishop, Morris NF 940.1 11. Idyll Banter - Bohjalian, Chris NF 917.43 12. Before You Know Kindness -
Bohjalian, Chris F 13. The Age of Gold - Brands, H.W. NF 979.4 14. Short and Tall Tales - Braun, Lilian
Jackson F 15. Queen Eleanor - Brooks, Polly
Schoyer NF Bio 16. Dawn Land - Bruchac, Joseph F 17. The Wonderful Thing About Pets -
Burghoff, Gary NF 636.088 18 18. Living, Loving & Learning -
Buscaglia, Leo NF 158 19. How the Irish Saved Civilization -
Cahill, Thomas NF 941.501 20. Adrift - Callahan, Steven NF 910.4 21. Growing Up on the Edge of the World
- Callaway, Phil F 22. The Archer's Tale - Cornwell,
Bernard F 23. The Black Rose - Costain, Thomas B. F 24. The Conquering Family - Costain,
Thomas B. NF 940.03 25. Pope Joan - Cross, Donna Woolfolk F 26. Theme Gardens - Damrosch, Barbara NF 635.9 27. The Peaceable Kingdom - De Hartog,
Jan F 28. Diary of a Provincial Lady -
Delafield, E. M. F 29. Nightfall - DeMille, Nelson F 30. Mountain Time - DeVoto, Bemard F 31. Quieter Than Sleep - Dobson, Joanne F 32. King Arthur - Doherty, Paul C. NF Bio 33. The Three Musketeers - Dumas,
Alexandre F 34. The Name of the Rose - Ecco, Umberto
F 35. Founding Brothers - Ellis, Joseph J.
NF 973.4 36. Voyageurs - Elphinstone, Margaret F 37. Peace Like a River - Enger, Leif F 38. The Last Report on the Miracles at Little
No Horse - Erdich, Louise F 39. Lost! On a Mountain in Maine -
Fendler, Don J/NF 796.5
40. Zlata's Diary - Filipovic, Zlata NF 949.7 41. Begging for Change - Flake, Sharon YA/F 42. Indian Creek Chronicles - Fromm,
Pete NF 796.5 43. Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight -
Fuller, Alexandra NF 968.91 44. Raising Abel - Gear, Michael F 45. Life in a Medieval Village - Gies,
Frances NF 940.1 46. Princess Bride - Goldman, William F 47. The Seduction of Water - Goodman,
Carol F 48. Saigon - Grey, Anthony F 49. The Falls - Harper, Karen F 50. The Kite Runner - Hosseini, Kahled F 51. Wilbur Day: hunter, guide and poacher
- Ives, Edward D., ed. NF 799 52. Middle Passage - Johnson, Charles F 53. Hidden Treasures - Keno, Leigh NF 749.2 54. On Writing - King, Stephen NF 808 55. Desire Lines - Kline, Christina
Baker F 56. 3,000 Mile Garden - Land, Leslee NF 57. The Iron Lance - Lawhead, Stephen
R. F 58. Prisons & Prisoners - Lytton,
Constance NF 324.6 59. Time of Men - MacWilliams, Donald NF 974.1 60. King Arthur and the Grail Quest -
Matthews, John NF 398.22 61. A Year in Provence - Mayle, Peter NF 914.4 62. Ghost Riders - McCrumb, Sharyn F 63. Memory of Running - McLarty, Ron F 64. New England Ghosts - McSherry, Frank
D. NF 133.1 65. The Center of Everything - Moriarty,
Laura F 66. Brave Kingdom - Murray, Frances F 67. The Time Traveler's Wife -
Niffenegger, Audrey F 68. Mallory's Oracle - O'Connell, Carol F 69. Women of the Four Winds - Olds,
Elizabeth F. 70. Faithful - O'Nan, Stewart NF 796.357 71. My Life in Dog Years - Paulsen, Gary
J/NF 636.7 72. A Short History of a Small Place -
Pearson, T.R. F 73. Teacher's Funeral - Peck, Richard J/CHPT 74. Here be Dragons - Penman, Sharon
Kaye F 75. The Confession of Brother Haluin -
Peters, Ellis F 76. Plain Truth - Picoult, Jodi F 77. The Shadow of the Pomegranate -
Plaidy, Jean F 78. Butterfly House - Preston, Marcia F 79. Object Lessons - Quindlen, Anna F 80. Fire from Heaven - Renault, Mary F/paper 81. Solutions : a ME medical murder mystery
- Richards, Dewey F 82. The Serpent Garden - Riley, Judith
Merkle F 83. Gilead - Robinson, Marilynne F 84. Joan of Arc - Ross, Nancy Wilson NF Bio 85. Straight Man - Russo, Richard F 86. The Forest - Rutherford, Edward F 87. McNally's Secret - Sanders,
Lawerence F 88. Ivanhoe - Scott, Sir Walter F 89. Barbarian Europe - Simons, Gerald NF 940.1 90. Simple Gifts - Sprigg, June NF 289 91. The Prince and the Pilgrim -
Stewart, Mary F 92. Magna Carta - Swindler, William F. NF 942.03 93. Queen of Swords - Tarr, Judith F 94. A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court
- Twain, Mark F 95. The Investigation - Uhnak, Dorothy F 96. Little Earthquakes - Weiner,
Jennifer F 97. The Friendly Persuasion - West,
Jessamyn F 98. The Once and Future King - White,
T.H. F 99. Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit -
Wodehouse, P.G. F 100. Snow in August - Hamill, Pete F 101. Murder with Puffins - Andrews,
Donna F
2004 101 Great Summer Reads
1. Albom, Mitch, The
Five People You Meet in Heaven
F
2. Ambrose, Stephen, The Wild Blue
NF
3. Asimov, Isaac, The Union Club Mysteries
F
4. Barrett, William E., The Lillies of the Field
F
5. Best, Joel, Damned Lies and Statistics
NF
6. Beston, Henry, White Pine and Blue Water
NF
7. Binchy, Maeve, Tara Road F
8. Breakenridge, William
M., Helldorado
F
9. Brown, Dan, Angels and Demons
F
10. Bryson, Bill, A
Short History of Nearly Everything NF
11. Campbell, Mary Mason, New England
Butt'ry Shelf Almanac
12. Cannel, Dorothy, The Thin Woman F
13. Carrighar, Sally, One Day on Beetle Rock
NF
14. Carroll, Gladys
Hasty, Come with Me
Home F
15. Carson, Rachel, Silent Spring NF
16. Christy, Agatha, Masterpieces of Murder
F
17. Clark, Walter V., The Oxbow Incident F
18. Coban, Harlan, One False Move F
19. Cook, Thomas H., The Chatham School Affair
F
20. Craven, Margret I Heard the Owl Call My Name
F
21. Cross, Donna
Woolfolk, Pope Joan
F
22. Davis, Thomas, The Christmas Quilt F
23. Deaver, Jeffrey, The Stone Monkey F
24. Dee, Ed, The
Con Man's Daughter F
25. Dillard, Annie, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
NF
26. Eliot, George, Middlemarch F
27. Elliott, Charles, The Potting Shed Papers
NF
28. Eslick, Tom, Tracked
in the Whites F
29. Evans, Richard Paul, The Carousel F
30. Feiler, Bruce, Abraham: a journey to the heart of
three faiths NF
31. Fotcj, Janet, White
Oleander F
32. Fox, Michael J., Lucky Man F
33. Frazier, Charles, Cold Mountain F
34. Giles, Janice Holt, The Kentuckians F
35. Gould,
John, Maine's Golden Road: a
memoir NF
36 Granger,
Ann, A Season for Murder
F
37 Gutcheon,
Beth, More Than You Know
38 Hawking,
Stephen, The Universe in a Nutshell
NF
39 Hoffman,
Alice, Blue Diary F
40 Hopkins,
Nigel, Go Figure! F
41 Hothouse,
Henry, Seeds of Change
42 Isaacs,
Susan, Compromising Positions
F
43 Jennings,
Gary, Aztec F
44
Jewett,
Sarah Orne, Country of the Pointed Firs
F
45 Karon,
Jan, A Common Life F
46 Kidd,
Susan Monks, The Secret Life of Bees
F
47 King,
Laurie R., Folly
F
48 King,
Stephen, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
F
49 Koontz,
Dean, One Door Away from
Heaven F
50 Lamb,
Wally, I Know This Much Is True
F
51
Landvik,
Lorna, Patty Jane's House of
Curl F
52
Maas,
Peter, Serpico F
53 MacKinlay,
Kantor, Andersonville
NF
54 Mason,
Bobbie Ann, Spence and Lila
F
55 Mattingly,
Garrett, The Armada NF
56 Mayle,
Peter, French Lessons (Adventures with
Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew)
57 McCullough,
David, John Adams Bio
58 Mead,
Margaret, Blackberry Winter
Bio
59 Meltzer,
Brad, Dead Even F
60 Michaels,
Barbara, Stitches in Time
F
61 Montville,
Leigh, On the Altar of Speed:
the fast life and tragic death of Dale Earnhardt NF
62 More,
Thomas, Utopia NF
63 Muller,
Marcia,
Listen to the Silence
F
64 Munro,
Alice, Hateship, Friendship,
Courtship, Loveship, Marriage F
65 Oufkir,
Malika, Stolen Lives
NF
66 Paine,
Thomas, Selected Writings of
Thomas Paine NF
67 Patterson,
James, 1st to Die
F
68 Proulx,
E.
Annie , Shipping News, The F
69 Reader's
Digest , Everyday Life Throughout the Ages
NF
70 Russo,
Richard , Empire Falls F
71 Ryan,
Terry
, Prize
Winner of Defiance, Ohio
NF
72 Sanders,
Michael , Yard, The: Building a Destroyer at
the Bath Iron Works NF
73 Sasson,
Jean , Princess
NF
74 Scharz,
Christina , Drowning Ruth
F
75 Scottoline,
Lisa , Moment of Truth
Audio
76 Shreve,
Anita , Sea Glass
F
77 Shreve,
Susan Richards , A Country of Strangers
F
78 Sides,
Hampton , Ghost Soldiers
NF
79 Singer,
Isaac Bashevis , Magician of Lublin, The
Audio
80 Smith,
Deborah , Stone Flower Garden
F
81 Smith,
Kay
Nolte , Watcher, The F
82 Smith, Margaret Chase
, Declaration of Conscience
Bio
83 Smith,
Wilbur , Birds of Prey F
84 Sparks,
Nicholas , Bend in the Road
F
85 Steinbeck,
John , Of Mice and Men F
86 Tademy,
Lalita , Cane River F
87 Taubman,
Bryna , Lady Cop NF
88 Taylor,
Robert , History of Limington, Maine
NF
89 Terkel,
Studs , Coming of Age
NF
90 Tey,
Josephine , Daughter of Time, The
F
91 Thayer,
Cynthia , Strong for Potatoes
F
92 Updike,
John , Rabbit Run
F
93 Uris,
Leon
, Haj,
The F
94 West,
Morris L. , Summer of the Red Wolf
F
95 Whitney,
Catherine , Nine and Counting
NF
96 Wilder,
Thornton , Heaven's My Destination
F
97 Winn,
Marie
, Redtails
in Love NF
98 Wolfe,
Tom
, Bonfire
of the Vanities, The F
99 Woods,
Monica , My Only Story
F
100
Wouk, Herman , Caine Mutiny, The
F
101 Young,
Carrie , Nothing to Do But Stay: My Pioneer
Mother NF
2003 101 Great Summer Reads
1 Peace River
Country Allen, Ralph F
2 Islam
Explained Ben Jelloun, Tehar NF
3 Irish Girls
About Town Binchy, Maeve, at al F
4 The
Exorcist Blatty, Willam Peter F
5 A Year of
Wonder Brooks, Geraldine F
6 The Good
Earth Buck, Pearl F
7 White Doves
at Morning Burke, James Lee F
8 The
Incredible Journey Burnford, Sheila F
9 Grandma
Spins DownEast Yarns Clough, Blanche Cole bio
10 Black
Hunter Curwood, James Oliver F
11 Blue Nowhere
Deaver, Jeffrey F
12 Having our Say
Delany, Sarah & Elizabeth bio
13 The Winter
Garden Mystery Dunn, Carola F
14 Meeting Luciano
Esaki-Smith, Anna F
15 All This and
Heaven, Too Field, Rachel F
16 Extraordinary
Powers Finder, Joseph F
17 Standing in the
Rainbow Flagg, Fannie F
18 Mr. Midshipman
Hornblower Forester, C.S. F
19 Quiet as a Nun
Fraser, Antonia F
20 Killing Me Softly
French, Nicci F
21 Brady
Fritz, Jean F/YA
22 Three Junes
Glass, Julia F
23 The Good Husband
Godwin, Gail F
24 Pen Pals
Goldsmith, Olivia F
25 Reason for Hope
Goodall, Jane bio
26 Taste of Honey
Goudge, Eileen F
27 The Lobster
Chronicles Greenlaw, Linda NF
28 Home Free
Hailey, Elizabeth Forsythe F
29 Coastliners
Harris, Joanne F
30 A Woman Called
Moses Heidish, Marcy F
31 Ravens in Winter
Heinrich, Bernd NF
32 Storm Warning
Higgins, Jack F
33 Seabiscuit
Hillenbrand, Laura NF
34 Pillar of the Sky
Holland, Cecilia F
35 Penmarric
Howatch, Susan F
36 Journeyer
Jennings, Gary F
37 Maine: The Pine
Tree State from Prehistory-Present Judd, Richard
W NF
38 A Girl Named
Zippy Kimmel, Haven NF
39 Adventure Stories
King, Clive NF
40 The White
Larsen, Deborah F
41 Crow Lake
Lawson, Mary F
42 Leaving Eden
LeClaire, Anne D F
43 No Certain Rest
Lehrer, James F
44 The Honk &
Holler Opening Soon Letts, Billie F
45 Road to Omaha
Ludlum, Robert F
46 Dream Seekers
Marks, Grace F
47 Tara Kane
Markstein, George F
48 B. F.'s Daughter
Marquand, John P F
49 Christy
Marshall, Catherine F
50 Spence & Lila
Mason, Bobbie Ann F
51 Gift of Dragons,
A McCaffrey, Ann F/YA
52 Love to Love You
Baby Michaels, Kasey ?
53 Hateship,
Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, & Marriage
Munro, Alice F
54 The Dirty Dozen
Nathanson, E.M. F
55 Rascal
North, Sterling F
56 The Things they
Carried O'Brien, Tim F
57 The Dive from
Clausen's Pier Packer, Ann F
58 The Magician's
Assistant Patchett, Anne F
59 I Don't Know How
She Does It Pearson, Alison F
60 The Angel Maker
Pearson, Ridley F
61 In the Heart of
the Sea Philbrick, Nathaniel NF
62 Keeping Faith
Picoult, Jodi F
63 Deja Dead
Reichs, Kathy F
64 Keys to the
Street Rendell, Ruth F
65 Winter Harbor
Richmond, Bernice NF
66 Genome: the
authobiography of a species Ridley, Matt NF
67 The Serpent
Garden Riley, Judith Merkle F
68 Mortal Prey
Sandford, John F
69 The Lovely Bones
Sebold, Alice F
70 She Walks in
Beauty Shankman, Sarah F
71 Cluny Brown
Sharp, Margery F
72 Lily of the
Valley Shea, Suzanne Strempek F
73 Lisbon
Sherwood, Valerie F
74 The Far Country
Shute, Nevil F
75 Colony
Siddons, Anne Rivers F
76 Balzac and the
Little Chinese Seamstress Sijie, Dai F
77 The Horse
Soldiers Sinclair, Harold F
78 Horse Heaven
Smiley, Jane F
79 Sophie Shapiro's
Knitting Book Smith, Robert K. F
80 In the Bleak
Mid-Winter Spencer, Fleming F
81 Fire Mountian
Springer, Norman F
82 The Souvenir
Steinman, Louise NF
83 Music in the
Hills Stevens, D.E. F
84 Airs Above the
Ground Stewartm Mary F
85 Those Who Love
Stone, Irving F
86 A Change of Heart
Sylvia, Claire NF
87 Penrod
Tarkington, Booth F
88 The Investigation
Uhnak, Dorothy F
89 Raptor
Van Gieson, Judith F
90 Relative Sins
Victor, Cynthia F
91 The Virginia
Exiles Vining, Elizabeth Gray F
92 Handsome Women
Wall, Judith Henry F
93 Jonathan
Dearborn : a novel of the war of 1812 Wallace,
Willard F
94 Foundation Stone
Warren, Lella F
95 Wilderness
Warren, Robert Penn F
96 Magnificent
Destiny Wellman, Paul I. F
97 Time Was
West, John Foster F
98 Good Behavior
Westlake, Donald E. F
99 The Once and
Future King White, T.H. F
100 Ernie's Ark
Wood, Monica F
101 The Caine Mutiny
Wouk, Herman F