• BIO - Biography
• F - Fiction
• Jr F - Junior Fiction
• MM pbk - Mass Market paperback
• NF - Non Fiction
• YA - Young Adults

101 Great Reads of 2010

The Tale of Applebeck Orchard by Susan Wittig Albert / F
Have a Little Faith by Mitch Albom / F
Tears of the Pearl: Book 4 Emily Ashton sereis by Tasha Alexander / F
Persuation by Jane Austen / F
Divine Justice: Book 4 Camel Club series by David Baldacci / F
Borderline by Nevada Barr / F
The Side of the Angels:A Novel by Christina Bartolomeo / F
The Florabamba Ladies’ Auxiliary & Sewing Circle by Lois Battle / F
Death of a Witch by M. C. Beaton / F
The Glass Lake by Maeve Binchy / F
Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley / F
The Imperial Cruise by James Bradley / NF
Year of Wonder by Geraldine Brooks / F
The Lost Symbol by Dale Brown / F
Rainwater by Sandra Brown / F
Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns / F
America, America by Ethan Canin / F
Girl with the Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier / F
The Lost Quilter by Jennifer Chiaverini / F
The Hills of Maine by William M. Clark / NF 818.741
A Girl from Yamhill: A Memoir by Beverly Cleary / Jr Bio CLEA
The Dog Breed Bible by D. Caroline Colie, Ph.D / NF 636.7 COIL
The Big House by George Howe Colt / NF 974.4 COLT
The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly / F
Agincourt by Bernard Cornwell / F
I heard the owl call my name by Margaret Craven / F
The Wrecker by Clive Cussler / F
The Main Corpse by Diane Mott Davidson / F
Not my daughter by Barbara Delinsky / F
Quieter than Sleep by Joanne Dobson / F
Making Rounds with Oscar by David Dosa, M.D. / NF 636.8 DOSA
The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant / F
The Bookman’s Promise by John Dunning / F MM pbk
The Reivers by William Faulkner / F
Monmouth by Charles Bracelen Flood / F
The Shepherd by Frederick Forsyth / F
Outlander: Book 1 Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon / F
Still Alice by Lisa Genova / F
The Enduring Hills by Janice Holt Giles / F
The Hearts of Horses by Molly Gloss / F
Dune Road by Jane Green / F
Winter Garden by Kristen Hannah / F
Summer World:A season of Bounty by Bernd Heinrich / NF 508
Female Intelligence by Jane Heller / F
Scat by Carl Hiaasen / J/CH BK/fic
Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations by Georgiana Howell / NF Bio BELL
The country of the pointed firs by Sarah Orne Jewett / F
The Brightest Star in the Sky by Marian Keyes / F
The Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie R. King / F
Under the Dome: A Novel by Stephen King / F
Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella / F
All together in one place, Book 1 by Jane Kirkpatrick / F
Breathless by Dean Koontz / F
The Golden Tulip by Rosalind Laker / F
Thunderstruck by Erik Larson / NF 364.1 LARS
Ashes by Kathryn Lasky / J/F
Cinnamon Skin by John D. MacDonald / F
Exit the milkman by Charlotte MacLeod / F
Changing Habits by Debbie Macomber / F
Blown by Francine Matthews / F
Swan by Frances Mayes / F
The Rosewood Casket by Sharyn McCrumb / F
Candles on Bay Street by K.C. McKinnon / F
The Ladies of Covington Send Their Love by Joan Medlicott / F
The Journal of Callie Wade by Dawn Miller / F
Three Cups of Tea by Mortenson Greg / NF 954.91 MORT
Chasing Icarus by Gavin Mortimer / NF 629.13
Dewey by Vicki Myron / NF 636.8 MYRO
Osprey Island by Thisbe Nissen / F
Wesley the Owl by Stacey O’Brien / NF 598.9
Presumption of death by Perri O’Shaughnessy / F
High Tide at Noon by Elisabeth Ogilvie / F
Between earth and sky by Karen Osborn / F
Critical judgement by Michael Palmer / F
Alex Cross’s Trial by James Patterson / F
A short history of a small place by T.R. Pearson / F
Once upon a time on the banks by Cathie Pelletier / F
The Sheen on the Silk by Anne Perry / F
Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult / F
Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher / F
Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molassis Flood of 1919 by Stephen Puleo / NF 974.4 PULE
Rules of Deception: Book 1 Jonathan Ransom series by Christopher Reich / F
The Six Sacred Stones by Matthew Reilly / F
The Casco Deception by Bob Reiss / F
Chosen by a Horse by Susan Richards / NF 636.1 RICH
Arundel by Kenneth Roberts / F
Black Hills by Nora Roberts / F
New York by Edward Rutherford / F
Maine Curiosities by Tim Sample & Steve Bither / 817 SAMP
For Love of the Game by Michael Shaara / F
The Help by Kathryn Stockett / F
An Irish Country Village by Patrick Taylor / F
Takedown by Brad Thor / F
Snow Island by Katherine Towler / F
Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls / F
Over Tumbled Graves by Jess Walter / F
Best Friends Forever by Jennifer Weiner / F
The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder by Rebecca Wells / F
Jimmy by Robert Whitlow / F
The Mapping of Love and Death by Jacqueline Winspear / F
The Inn at Eagle Point by Sheryl Woods / F

101 Great Reads of 2009

Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson / YA
Bone Hunter by Sarah Andrews / MMPBK
False Impression by Jeffery Archer / F
Wish You Well by David Baldacci / F
Cold Case by Linda Barnes / F
The Great Influenza: The story of the deadliest pandemic in history by John M. Barry / NF614.5
The Year of Pleasures by Elizabeth Berg / F
Heart & Soul by Maeve Binchey / F
Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian / F
Here if you need me by Kate Braestrup / NF253
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray / YA F
March by Geraldine Brooks / F
Her Royal Spyness by Rhys Brown / F
Lost York County by Steven Burr / NF974.1
The New England Butt’ry Shelf Almanac by Mary Mason Campbell / NF917.4 CAMP
The Genesis Code by John Case / F
Graceling by Kristin Cashore / YA F
Debt of Honor by Tom Clancy / F Audio Cass
Just Take My Heart by Mary Higgins Clark / F
More Tales of Cedar River by William M. Clark / NF817.741 CLAR
Seen It All and Done the Rest by Pearl Cleage / F
Hold Tight by Harlan Coben / F
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins / YA
Blood Work by Michael Connelly / F
The Black Angel by John Connolly / F
The Meaning of Night: A Confession by Michael Cox / F
Anyone But You by Jennifer Crusie / MMPBK
The Chase by Clive Cussler / F
Prayers for Sale by Sandra Dallas / F
Belong to Me by Maria de los Santos / F
The Broken Window by Jeffrey Deaver / F
While My Sister Sleeps by Barbara Delinsky / F
Lavender Morning by Jude Deveraux / F
Summer & Fall Wildflowers of New England by Marilyn J. Dwelley / NF582.13 DWEL
So Brave, So Young, So Handsome by Lief Enger / F
Charley’s Web by Joy Fielding / F
Comeback by Dick Francis / MMPBK
Sweetsmoke by David Fuller / F
Domestic Affairs by Eileen Goudge / F
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen / F
The Big Sky by A.B. Guthrie / F
Pine, Potatoes and People by Helen Hamlin / NF974.1 H223
True Colors by Kristin Hannah / F
Set Sail for Murder by Carolyn Hart / F
Lucky You by Carl Hiassen / F
Any Place I Hang My Hat by Susan Isaacs / F
The year of living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs / NF220 JACO
Knit Two (Friday Night Knitting Cub, Book 2) by Kate Jacobs / F
Day of the Dead by J.A. Jance / F
The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson / NF614.5 JOHN
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver / F
Etta by Gerald Kolpan / F
Your Heart Belongs to Me by Dean Koontz / F
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer / NF289.3
Crow Lake by Mary Lawson / F
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee / F
The Special Prisoner by Jim Lehrer / F
The Hot Kid by Elmore Leonard / F
The Honk & Holler Opening Soon by Billie Letts / F
Lonely Vigil by Walter Lord / NF940.54
Dawn’s Early Light by Walter Lord / NF973.5
Cinnamon Skin by John D. MacDonald / F
Fugitive by Phillip Margolin / F
Hard Row by Margaret Maron / F
Singing boy by Dennis McFarland / F
Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief by James M. McPherson / NF973.7 MCPH
A Time of Men by J. Donald McWilliams / NF974.1 M177
American Lion by Jon Meacham / NF B JACK
The Ever-Running Man by Marcia Muller / F
Starclimber by Kenneth Oppel / YA F
The First Patient by Michael Palmer / F
Death and Restoration by Iain Pears / F
Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins / YA F
Execution Dock by Anne Perry / F
Define “Normal” by Julie Ann Peters / F
Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick / NF973.2
Le Quebecois: The Virgin Forest by Doris Provencher-Faucher / F
Virus Ground Zero by Ed Regis / NF616.9
The Coast of Maine by Louise Dickinson Rich / NF974.1 R498
Ladies of Liberty by Cokie Roberts / NF973.3
Miss Julia Throws a Wedding by Ann B. Ross / F
The Yellow Star by Jennifer Roy / YA F
Shanghi Moon by S.J. Rozan / F
Indian New England Before the Mayflower by Howard S. Russell / NF970.004 RUSS
Princess by Jean P. Sasson / NF305.4
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See / F
The Gurnsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer / F
Off Season by Anne Rivers Siddons / F
Sweetwater Creek by Anne Rivers Siddons / F
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith / F
A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks / F
Emergency by Neil Strauss / NF613.6
Thread That Runs So True by Jesse Stuart / NF371.1
Sun Going Down by Jack Todd / F
Very Valentine by Adriana Trigiani / F
Shadows on the Ivy by Lea Wait / F
The Music Lesson by Katharine Weber / F
Just Breathe by Susan Wiggs / F
Among the Mad by Jacqueline Winspear / F
Jeeves & the Feudal Spirit by P.G Wodehouse / F
Haunted Portland: from Pirates to Ghost Brides by Roxie J. Zwicker / NF133.1 ZWIC

101 Great Reads of 2008

Zoo Keeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman / NF 940.53
Gob’s Grief by Chris Adrian / F
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende / F
Nothing like it in the World by Stephen E. Ambrose / NF 385 A496
You Auto See Maine by WIll Anderson / NF 629.222
Persuasion by Jane Austen / F
The Norton Book of Light Verse by Russell Baker / NF 811
The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum / Jr F
A Maine Hamlet by Lura Beam / NF 917.41 B366
Death of a Glutton by M.C. Beaton / MMPBK
Away by Amy Bloom / F
Greatest Inventions of the Last 2000 Years by John Brockman / NF 609 B864
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks / F
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown / F
All the Fishes Come Home to Roost: An American Misfit in India by Rachel Manija Brown / NF 818 BROW
White Doves at Morning by James Lee Burke / F
Grace and Favor by Thomas Caplan / F
The Angel of Darkness by Caleb Carr / MMPBK
Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon / F
Summerland by Michael Chabon / YA F
Postcards from No Man’s Land by Aidan Chambers / YA F
Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier / F
The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy / F
I Wish I Had a Red Dress by Pearl Cleage / F
The Archer’s Tale by Bernard Cornwell / F
The Hours by Michael Cunningham / F
The Sea Hunters by Clive Cussler / NF 910.4
Tallgrass by Sandra Dallas / F
The Book of Old Houses by Sarah Graves / F
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DeCamillo / Jr F
A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly / F
The Last Voyage of Columbus by Martin Dugard / NF 910.92
The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich / F
Like Water For Chocolate by Laura Esquivel / F
Full Scoop by Evanovitch & Hughes / F MMPBK
The Land of Silver Apples by Nancy Farmer / YA F
World Without End by Ken Follett / F Audio CD
Proof by Dick Francis / F
The Christmas Pearl by Dorothea Benton Frank / F
Sullivan’s Island (A Low Country Tale) by Dorothea Benton Frank / F
Mad Dash by Patricia Gafney / F
Careless in Red by Elizabeth George / F
The Bone Garden by Tess Gerritsen / F
Maine Charm String by Elinor Graham / NF 917.41 G738
Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray / YA F
Home to Harmony by Philip Gulley / F
The Coldest Winter by David Halberstam / NF 951.904 HALB
Pine, Potatoes & People by Helen Hamlin / NF 974.1
River Town by Peter Hessler / NF 915.1
Seeds of Change: Five Plants that Transformed Mankind by Henry Hobhouse / NF 630.9 H683
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini / F
Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression by Mildred Armstrong Kalish / NF 818 KALI
Pontoon by Garrison Keillor / F
The Burnt House by Faye Kellerman / F
Anybody Out There? by Marian Keyes / F
Queen of Broken Hearts by Cassandra King / F
Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling / F
Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution by A.J. Langguth / NF 973.3 L278
The Rest of Her Life by Laura Moriarty / F
To Kill a Mockingbird by Lee, Harper / F
No certain rest by Jim Lehrer / F
The Contrary Farmer by Gene Logsdon / NF 630.1
Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry / YA F
Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by David Lubar / YA F
Santorini by Alistair MacLean / F
Rhett Butler’s People by Donald McCaig / F
John Adams by David McCullough / Bio A214
The Grasshopper Trap by PatrickMcManus / NF 817
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer / YA F
If These Walls had Ears by James Morgan / NF 976.7
The Journal of Scott P. Collins by Walter Dean Myers / Jr CH BK (series)
1812 by David Nevin / MMPBK
New England Naturally by Bob Niss / NF 508.74 N726
The Quickie by James Patterson / F
Sundays at Tiffany’s by James Patterson / F
A Short history of a Small Place by T. R. Pearson / F
Wild Friends by Rae Perry / NF 599
The chosen by Chaim Potok / F
The Twentieth Maine by John J. Pullen / NF 973.7
We took to the Woods by Louise Dickinson Rich / Bio
A Stitch in Time by Ann Rinaldi / YA F
High Noon by Nora Roberts / F
Wisdom of our Fathers by Tim Russert / NF 306.874
Saturday Night at Moody’s Diner by Tim Sample / NF 817
McNally’s Luck by Lawrence Sanders / F
The Steel Wave by Jeff Shaara / F
Dear Mr. Jefferson: Letters from a Nantucket Gardner by Laura Simon / NF 635 S595
The Horse Soldiers by Harold Sinclair / F
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betsy Smith / F
The Souvenir: A Daughter Discovers Her Father’s War by Louise Steinman / NF 940.54 STEI
Highwire Moon by Susan Straight / F
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey / F
The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain / NF 818
Stopping to Home by Lea Wait / Jr F
The Caves of Perigord by Martin Walker / F
Lighthouse in my Life by Philmore B. Wass / NF 387.1 W321
Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir / F
Hunter’s Moon by Randy Wayne White / F
Red-tails in Love by Marie Winn / NF 598.07
An Incomplete Revenge by Jacqueline Winspear / F
Slow Dancing on Dinosaur Bones by Lana Witt / F

101 Great Reads of 2007

Summer in Tuscany by Elizabeth Adler / F
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom / 378.1 A339
One more day by Mitch Albom / F
Camel Club by David Baldacci / F
Hunting Season by Nevada Barr / F MM pbk
Death of a Maid by M. C. Beaton / F
We Are All Welcome Here by Elizabeth Berg / F
The Alexandria Link by Steve Berry / F
Midwives by Chris Bohjalian / F
Idyll Banter by Chris Bohjalian / NF 917.43
Forever in Blue - Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares / F
Calico Palace by Gwen Bristow / F
The Treasure of Montsegur by Sophy Burnham / F
Shadows on the Rock by Willa Cather / F
The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier/ F
The Hard Way by Lee Childs / F
Two Little Girls in Blue by Mary Higgins Clark / F
No Second Chance by Harlan Coben / F
Babyproofing Your Marriage by Cockrell, O'Neill & Stone / NF 306.85
Vital Signs by Robin Cook / F
The Blind Years by Catherine Cookson / F
The Two Minute Rule by Robert Crais / F
I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven / F
The Blue Nowhere by Jeffery Deavers / F
The Wild Swan by Celeste DeBlasis / F
Family Tree by Barbara Delinsky / F
Lake in the Clouds (Bonner Family - Book 3) by Sara Donati / F
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer / YA F
The Land of Mango Sunsets by Dorthea Benton Frank / F
The Saving Graces by Patricia Gaffney / F
Gone by Lisa Gardner / F
Alone by Lisa Gardner / F
Shady Grove by Janice Holt Giles / F
West to Eden by Gloria Goldreich / F
Trap Door by Sarah Graves / F
The Lobster Chronicles by Linda Greenlaw / NF 917.41
No Bugles, No Glory by Fred Grove / F
Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon / F
Lilah - A Forbidden Love, A People's Destiny by Marek Halter / F
Between Sisters by Kristin Hannah / F
Stoweaway by Karen Hesse / YA F
Storm Warning by Jack Higgins / F
Friendship Cake by Lynne Hinton / F
The Knitting Circle by Ann Hood/ F
Island of the Aunts by Eva Ibbotson / Jr F
Shining Throug by Susan Isaacs / F MM pbk
The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs/ F
On The Run by Iris Johansen / F
Middle Passage by Charles Johnson / F
Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson / F
This Shining Land by Roselind Laker / F
Santorini by Alistair MacLean / F
Back on Blossom Street by Debbie Macomber / F
Tara Kane by George Markstein / F
Winter's Child by Margaret Maron / F
Cold Tea on a Hot Day by Curtiss Ann Matlock / F MM pbk
The Good Mother by Sue Miller / F
Smoke Screen by Kyle Mills / F
Champagne and a Gardener by B. J. Morison / F
Letting Go by Pamela Morsi / F MM pbk
Vanishing Point by Marcia Muller / F
Bound by Donna Jo Naopli / YA F
Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje / F
Between Earth and Sky by Karen Osborn / F
A Few Good Men by William Overgard / F
Eragon by Christopher Paolini / YA F
The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett / F
Honeymoon by James Patterson & Howard Roughan / F
The Funeral Makers by Cathie Pellitier / F
Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy by Diana Preston / NF 910.4
The Patriots Club by Christopher Reich / F
The Edge of Winter by Luanne Rice / F
Solutions by Dewey Richards / F
Angel Falls by Nora Roberts / F
Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwartz / F
She Walks in Beauty by Sarah Shankman / F
Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides / NF 940.54 S568
Letters from Yellowstone by Diane Smith / F
All Mortal Flesh by Julia Spencer-Fleming / F
Fire Mountain by Norman Springer/ F
Miss Buncle's Book by D. E. Stevenson / F
Household Gods by Judith Tarr & Harry Turtledove / F
The King's Orchard by Agnes Sligh Turnbull / F
Reversible Errors by Scott Turow / F
Digging to America by Anne Tyler / F
The Dirty Girls Social Club by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez / F
The Englishman's Boy by Guy Vanderhaeghe / F
The Caves of Perigord by Martin Walker / F
In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner / F
Ya-Yas in Bloom by Rebecca Wells / F
Time Was by John Foster West / F
Blitzcat by Robert Westall / F MM pbk
Quite a Year for Plums by Baily White / F
Home Before Dark by Susan Wiggs / F
Out to Pasture by Effie Leland Wilder / F
My French Whore by Gene Wilder / F
Come Spring by Ben Ames Williams / F
Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor / F
The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse / F
Any Bitter Thing by Monica Wood / F
Nothing to Do But Stay by Carrie Young / NF 978.4

101 Great Reads of 2006

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe / F
Twelve Red Herrings by Jeffrey Archer / F
Pull of the Moon by Elizabeth Berg / F
Heading West by Doris Betts / F
Scarlett Feather by Maeve Binchy / F
The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian by Lawrence Block / F
The Buffalo Soldier by Chris Bohjalian / F
Just Rewards (Book 6 of the Harte Family Saga) by Barbara Taylor Bradford / F
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares / F
Rosa Parks by Douglas Brinkley / Bio
Celia Garth by Gwen Bristow / F
The Greatest Inventions of the Past 2,000 Years by John Brockman / NF 609
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown / F
The Promise by Oral Lee Brown / NF 378.3
Dawn Land by Joseph Bruchac / F
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck / F
Where Soldiers Fear to Tread by John S. Burnett / NF 967.7305
Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns / F
Sally Hemmings by Barbara Chase-Riboud / F
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow / Bio
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins / F
State of Fear by Michael Crighton / F
Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross / F
Alice’s Tulips by Sandra Dallas / F
The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticant / F
The Peculiar People by Jan de Hartog / F
Loved Walked In by Marisa de los Santos / F
The Twelfth Card by Jeffery Deaver / F
The Firefly by P. T. Deutermann / F
The Last Days of Dogtown by Anita Diamant / F
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion / NF 306.9
The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant / F
The Sleeping Bride by Dorothy Eden / F
Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman / Audio Book
Shem Creek by Dorthea Benton Frank / F
My Heartbea by Garret Freymann-Weyr / YA F
The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman / NF 337
The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico / Jr Pic Book F
People of the Mist by Kathleen O’Neal Gear / F
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell / NF 153.4
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin / Bio
Future Homemakers of America by Laurie Graham / F
Nail Biter by Sarah Graves / F
Bookends by Jane Green / F
The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. by Sandra Gulland / F
Leeway Cottage by Beth Gutcheon / F
Between Sisters by Kristen Hannah / F
I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly by Joyce Hansen / Jr F
Food for the Soul by Harlem Baptist Church / NF 641.59
Winter World by Bernd Heinrich / NF 591.54
The Country Gentleman by Fiona Hill / F
Discovering Moths: Nighttime Jewels in Your own Backyard by John Himmelman / NF 595.78
Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby / NF 796.334
A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby / F
The White Dawn by Jame Houston / F
A Company of Swans by Iva Ibbotson / F
Vernon Can Read by Vernon Jordan / Audio Book
The Good German by Joseph Kanon / F
Ordinary Wolves by Seth Kantner / F
Straight into Darkness by Faye Kellerman / F
Julia’s Hope by Leisha Kelly / F
The Feast by Margaret Kennedy / F
Cell by Stephen King / F
Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz / F
Oh My Stars by Lora Landvik / F
The Tulip & the Pope by Deborah Larsen / NF 255
Freakonomics by Steven Levitt / NF 330
Tell Me No Lies by Elizabeth Lowell / F
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry / F
A Good Yarn by Debbie Macomber / F
A Walk in My World by Anna Mazer (editor) / YA NF 808.83
Urchin of the Riding Stars (Book 1 The Mismantle Chronicles) by M. I. McAllister / Jr F
The Journal of Callie Wade by Dawn Miller / F
Second Growth by Ruth Moore / F
The Last Hostage by John J. Nance / F
Potshot by Robert B. Parker / F
Maximum Ride by James Patterson / YA F
Mary Mary by James Patterson / F
Apple Tree Lean Down by Mary E. Pearce / F
A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck / Jr F
Running the Bulls by Cathie Pelletier / F
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult / F
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew by Daniel Pool / NF 942
In Our Strange Gardens by Michel Quint / F
Pobby and Dingean by Ben Rice / F
Founding Mothers by Cokie Roberts / NF 973.3
Murder in the Blue Room by Elliott Roosevelt / F
Noah’s Flood by William Ryan / NF 930
The Girl Who Played Go by Shan Sa / F
The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan / NF 500
Broken Prey by John Sandford / F
The Working Poor by David K. Shipler / F
A Wedding in December by Anita Shreve / F
Three Weeks with My Brother by Nicholas & Micah Sparks / NF 306.875
East of Eden by John Steinbeck / F
Highwire Moon by Susan Straight / F
A Vast Army of Women by Lynda L. Sudlow / NF 973.7
The Hiding Place by Ten Boom / NF 940.53 T289
Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani / F
Any Bitter Thing by Monica Wood / F
Life At Sixteen: Silent Tears by Cheryl Zach / YA F

101 Great Reads of 2005

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams / F
Gob's Grief by Chris Adrian / F
Murder with Puffins by Donna Andrews / F
Question Quest by Piers Anthony / F MM pbk
Down the Common by Ann Baer / F
The Winner by David Baldacci / F
Big Dig by Linda Barnes / F
A Superior Death by Nevada Barr / F
Snowed In by Christina Bartolomeo / F
Nights of Rain and Stars by Maeve Binchy / F
The Middle Ages by Morris Bishop / NF 940.1
Idyll Banter by Chris Bohjalian / NF 917.43
Before You Know Kindness by Chris Bohjalian / F
The Age of Gold by H.W. Brands / NF 979.4
Short and Tall Tales by Lilian Jackson Braun / F
Queen Eleanor by Polly Schoyer Brooks / Bio
Dawn Land by Joseph Bruchac / F
The Wonderful Thing About Pets by Gary Burghoff / NF 636.088
Living, Loving & Learning by Leo Buscaglia / NF 158
How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill / NF 941.501
Adrift by Steven Callahan / NF 910.4
Growing Up on the Edge of the World by Phil Callaway / F
The Archer's Tale by Bernard Cornwell / F
The Black Rose by Thomas B.Costain / F
The Conquering Family by Thomas B. Costain / NF 940.03
Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross / F
Theme Gardens by Barbara Damrosch / NF 635.9
The Peaceable Kingdom by Jan De Hartog / F
Diary of a Provincial Lady by E. M. Delafield / F
Nightfall by Nelson DeMille / F
Mountain Time by Bemard DeVoto / F
Quieter Than Sleep by Joanne Dobson / F
King Arthur by Paul C. Doherty / Bio
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas / F
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Ecco / F
Founding Brothers by Joseph J. Ellis / NF 973.4
Voyageurs by Margaret Elphinstone / F
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger / F
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdich / F
Lost! On a Mountain in Maine by Don Fendler / Jr NF 796.5
Zlata's Diary by Zlata Filipovic / NF 949.7
Begging for Change by Sharon Flake / YA F
Indian Creek Chronicles by Pete Fromm / NF 796.5
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller / NF 968.91
Raising Abel by Michael Gear / F
Life in a Medieval Village by Frances Gies / NF 940.1
Princess Bride by William Goldman / F
The Seduction of Water by Carol Goodman / F
Saigon by Anthony Grey / F
Snow in August by Pete Hamill / F
The Falls by Karen Harper / F
The Kite Runner by Kahled Hosseini / F
Wilbur Day: Hunter, Guide and Poacher by Edward D. Ives, ed. / NF 799
Middle Passage by Charles Johnson / F
Hidden Treasures by Leigh Keno / NF 749.2
On Writing by Stephen King / NF 808
Desire Lines by Christina Baker Kline / F
3,000 Mile Garden by Leslee Land / NF
The Iron Lance by Stephen R. Lawhead / F
Prisons & Prisoners by Constance Lytton / NF 324.6
Time of Men by Donald MacWilliams / NF 974.1
King Arthur and the Grail Quest by John Matthews / NF 398.22
A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle / NF 914.4
Ghost Riders by Sharyn McCrumb / F
Memory of Running by Ron McLarty / F
New England Ghosts by Frank D. McSherry / NF 133.1
The Center of Everything by Laura Moriarty / F
Brave Kingdom by Frances Murray / F
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger / F
Mallory's Oracle by Carol O'Connell / F
Women of the Four Winds by Elizabeth Olds / F.
Faithful by Stewart O'Nan / NF 796.357
My Life in Dog Years by Gary Paulsen / Jr NF 636.7
A Short History of a Small Place by T.R. Pearson / F
Teacher's / Funeral by Richard Peck / Jr F
Here be Dragons by Sharon Kaye Penman / F
The Confession of Brother Haluin by Ellis Peters / F
Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult / F
The Shadow of the Pomegranate by Jean Plaidy / F
Butterfly House by Marcia Preston / F
Object Lessons by Anna Quindlen / F
Fire From Heaven by Mary Renault / F MMpbk
Solutions: A Maine Medical Murder Mystery by Dewey Richards / F
The Serpent Garden by Judith Merkle Riley / F
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson / F
Joan of Arc by Nancy Wilson Ross / NF Bio
Straight Man by Richard Russo / F
The Forest by Edward Rutherford / F
McNally's Secret by Lawerence Sanders / F
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott / F
Barbarian Europe by Gerald Simons / NF 940.1
Simple Gifts by June Sprigg / NF 89
The Prince and the Pilgrim by Mary Stewart / F
Magna Carta by William F. Swindler / NF 942.03
Queen of Swords by Judith Tarr / F
A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain / F
The Investigation by Dorothy Uhnak / F
Little Earthquakes by Jennifer Weiner / F
The Friendly Persuasion by JessamynWest / F
The Once and Future King by T.H. White / / F
Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit by P.G. Wodehouse / F

101 Great Reads of 2004

The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom / F
The Wild Blue by Stephen Ambrose / NF
The Union Club Mysteries by Isaac Asimov / F
The Lillies of the Field by William E. Barrett / F
Damned Lies and Statistics by Joel Best / NF
White Pine and Blue Water by Henry Beston / NF
Tara Road by Maeve Binchy / F
Helldorado by William M. Breakenridge / F
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown / F
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson / NF
New England Butt'ry Shelf Almanac by Mary Mason Campbell / NF
The Thin Woman by Dorothy Cannel / F
One Day on Beetle Rock by Sally Carrighar / NF
Come with Me Home by Gladys Hasty Carroll / F
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson / NF
Masterpieces of Murder by Agatha Christy / F
The Oxbow Incident by Walter V. Clark / F
One False Move by Harlan Coban / F
The Chatham School Affair by Thomas H. Cook / F
I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Marge Craven / F
Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross / F
The Christmas Quilt by Thomas Davis / F
The Stone Monkey by Jeffery Deaver / F
The Con Man's Daughter by Ed Dee / F
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Annie Dillard / NF
Middlemarch by George Eliot / F
The Potting Shed Papers by Charles Elliott / NF
Tracked in the Whites by Tom Eslick / F
The Carousel by Richard Paul Evans / F
Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths by Bruce Feiler / NF
White Oleander by Janet Fotcj / F
Lucky Man by Michael J. Fox / F
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier / F
The Kentuckians by Janice Holt Giles / F
Maine's Golden Road: a memoir by John Gould / NF
A Season for Murder by Ann Granger/ F
More Than You Know by Beth Gutcheon/ F
The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking / NF
Blue Diary by Hoffman / F
Go Figure! by Nigel Hopkins / F
Seeds of Change by Henry Hothouse / F
Compromising Positions by Susan Isaacs / F
Aztec by Gary Jennings / F
Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett / F
A Common Life by Jan Karon / F
The Secret Life of Bees by Susan Monks Kidd / F
Folly by Laurie R. King / F
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King / F
One Door Away from Heaven by Dean Koontz / F
I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb / F
Patty Jane's House of Curl by Lorna Landvik / F
Serpico by Peter Mass / F
Andersonville by Kantor MacKinlay / NF
Spence and Lila by Bobbie Ann Mason / F
The Armada by Garrett Mattingly, Garrett / NF
French Lessons (Adventures with Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew) by Peter Mayle / NF
John Adams by David McCullough / Bio
Blackberry Winter by Margaret Mead / Bio
Dead Even by Brad Meltzer / F
Stitches in Time by Barbara Michaels / F
On the Altar of Speed: the fast life and tragic death of Dale Earnhardt by Leigh Montville / NF
Utopia by Thomas More / NF
Listen to the Silence by Marcia Muller / F
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro / F
Stolen Lives by Malika Oufkir / NF
Selected Writings of Thomas Paine by Thomas Paine / NF
1st to Die by James Patterson / F
The Shipping News by Annie Proulx / F
Everyday Life Throughout the Ages by Reader's Digest / NF
Empire Falls by Richard Russo / F
Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio by Terry Ryan / NF
The Yard: Building a Destroyer at the Bath Iron Works by Michael Sanders / NF
Princess by Jean Sasson / NF
Drowning Ruth by Christina Scharz / F
Moment of Truth by Lisa Scottoline / Audio Cass F
Sea Glass by Anita Shreve / F
A Country of Strangers by Susan Richards Shreve / F
Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides / NF
The Magician of Lublin by Isaac Bashevis Singer / Audio Cass F
Stone Flower Garden by Deborah Smith / F
The Watcher by Kay Nolte Smith / F
Declaration of Conscience by Margaret Chase Smith / Bio
Birds of Prey by Wilbur Smith / F
Bend in the Road by Nicholas Sparks / F
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck / F
Cane River by Lalita Tademy / F
Lady Cop by Bryna Taubman / NF
History of Limington, Maine by Robert Taylor / NF
Coming of Age by Studs Terkel / NF
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey / F
Strong for Potatoes by Cynthia Thayer / F
Rabbit Run by John Updike / F
The Haj by Leon Uris / F
Summer of the Red Wolf Morris L. West / F
Nine and Counting by Catherine Whitney / NF
Heaven's My Destination by Thornton Wilder / F
Redtails in Love by Marie Winn / NF
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe / F
My Only Story by Monica Woods / F
The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk / F
Nothing to Do But Stay: My Pioneer Mother by Carrie Young / NF

101 Great Reads of 2003

Peace River Country by Ralph Allen / F
Islam Explained by Tehar Ben Jelloun / NF
Irish Girls About Town by Maeve Binchy, et al / F
The Exorcist by Blatty, Willam Peter / F
A Year of Wonder by Geraldine Brooks / F
The Good Earth by Pearl Buck / F
White Doves at Morning by James Lee Burke / F
The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford / F
Grandma Spins DownEast Yarns by Blanche Cole Clough / Bio
Black Hunter by James Oliver Curwood / F
Blue Nowhere by Jeffrey Deaver / F
Having our Say by Sarah & Elizabeth Delany / Bio
The Winter Garden Mystery by Carola Dunn / F
Meeting Luciano by Anna Esaki-Smith / F
All This and Heaven, Too by Rachel Field / F
Extraordinary Powers by Joseph Finder / F
Standing in the Rainbow by Fannie Flagg / F
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower by C.S. Forester / F
Quiet as a Nun by Antonia Fraser / F
Killing Me Softly by Nicci French / F
Brady by Jean Fritz / YA F
Three Junes by Julia Glass / F
The Good Husband by Gail Godwin / F
Pen Pals by Olivia Goldsmith / F
Reason for Hope by Jane Goodall / Bio
Taste of Honey by Eileen Goudge, Eileen / F
The Lobster Chronicles by Linda Greenlaw / NF
Home Free by Hailey by Elizabeth Forsythe / F
Coastliners by Joanne Harris / F
A Woman Called Moses by Marcy Heidish / F
Ravens in Winter by Bernd Heinrich / NF
Storm Warning by Jack Higgins / F
Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand / NF
Pillar of the Sky by Cecilia Holland / F
Penmarric by Susan Howatch / F
Journeyer by Gary Jennings / F
Maine: The Pine Tree State from Prehistory-Present by Richard W. Judd / NF
A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel / NF
Adventure Stories by Clive King / NF
The White by Deborah Larsen / F
Crow Lake by Mary Lawson / F
Leaving Eden by Anne D. LeClaire / F
No Certain Rest by James Lehrer / F
The Honk & Holler Opening Soon by Billie Letts / F
Road to Omaha by Robert Ludlum/ F
Dream Seekers by Grace Marks / F
Tara Kane by George Markstein / F
B. F.'s Daughter by John P. Marquand / F
Christy by Catherine Marshall / F
Spence & Lila by Bobbie Ann Mason / F
A Gift of Dragons by AnnMcCaffrey F/YA
Love to Love You Baby by Kasey Michaels / F
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, & Marriage by Alice Munro / F
The Dirty Dozen by E.M. Nathanson / F
Rascal by Sterling North / F
The Things they Carried by Tim O'Brien / F
The Dive from Clausen's Pier by Ann Packer / F
The Magician's Assistant by Anne Patchett / F
I Don't Know How She Does It by Alison Pearson / F
The Angel Maker by Ridley Pearson / F
In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick / NF
Keeping Faith by Jodi Picoult / F
Deja Dead by Kathy Reichs / F
Keys to the Street by Ruth Rendell / F
Winter Harbor by Bernice Richmond / NF
Genome: The Authobiography of a Species by Matt Ridley / NF
The Serpent Garden by Judith Merkle Riley / F
Mortal Prey by John Sandford / F
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold / F
She Walks in Beauty by Sarah Shankman / F
Cluny Brown by Margery Sharp / F
Lily of the Valley by Suzanne Strempek Shea / F
Lisbon by Valerie Sherwood / F
The Far Country by Nevil Shute / F
Colony by Anne Rivers Siddons / F
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie / F
The Horse Soldiers by Harold Sinclair / F
Horse Heaven by Jane Smiley / F
Sophie Shapiro's Knitting Book by Robert K. Smith / F
In the Bleak Mid-Winter by Julia Spencer-Fleming / F
Fire Mountian by Norman Springer / F
The Souvenir by Louise Steinman / NF
Music in the Hills by D.E. Stevens / F
Airs Above the Ground by Mary Stewartm / F
Those Who Love by Irving Stone / F
A Change of Heart by Claire Sylvia / NF
Penrod by Booth Tarkington / F
The Investigation by Dorothy Uhnak / F
Raptor by Judith Van Gieson / F
Relative Sins by Cynthia Victor / F
The Virginia Exiles by Elizabeth Gray Vining / F
Handsome Women by Judith Henry Wall / F
Jonathan Dearborn : A Novel of the War of 1812 by Willard Wallace / F
Foundation Stone by Lella Warren / F
Wilderness by Robert Penn Warren / F
Magnificent Destiny by Paul I. Wellman / F
Time Was by John Foster West / F
Good Behavior by Donald E. Westlake / F
The Once and Future King by T.H. White / F
Ernie's Ark by Monica Wood / F
The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk / F