Available Booklists

May 2009

Booklists · Beach Books

Heading for the beach? The mountains? Or just the local pool? Wherever you're going this summer, make sure you pack some books in with your maps, sunscreen, and flip-flops. Need a few ideas? Check out our list filled with sizzling, scary, and suspenseful reads. Bon voyage!

Action & Adventure

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Category 7

Bill Evans and Marianna Jameson

Cold Choices

Larry Bond

Devil May Care: The New James Bond Novel

Sebastian Faulks

Jurassic Park

Michael Crichton

Rogue Forces

Dale Brown

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon

David Michaels

African American Fiction

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Basketball Jones

E. Lynn Harris

The Best of Everything

Kimberla Lawson Roby

The Company We Keep

Mary Monroe

Dying for Revenge

Eric Jerome Dickey

How Stella Got Her Groove Back

Terry McMillan

The Long Fall: The First Leonid McGill Mystery

Walter Mosley

Pecking Order

Omar Tyree

Up to No Good

Carl Weber

Who’s Loving You

Mary B. Morrison

Biography

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Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist

Michael J. Fox

The Art of the Heist: Confessions of a Master Art Thief, Rock-and-Roller, and Prodigal Son

Myles J. Connor and Jenny Siler

Audition: A Memoir

Barbara Walters

Before Oprah: Ruth Lyons, the Woman Who Created Talk TV

Michael A. Banks

Clapton: The Autobiography

Eric Clapton

The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty Year Friendship

Jeffrey Zaslow

I’ll Scream Later

Marlee Matlin with Betsy Sharkey

Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen: How One Girl Risked Her Marriage, Her Job and Her Sanity to Master the Art of Living

Julie Powell

Multiple Bles8ings: Surviving to Thriving with Twins and Sextuplets

Jon and Kate Gosselin and Beth Carson

General Fiction

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American Wife

Curtis Sittenfeld

Beach Trip

Cathy Holton

The Forgotten Garden

Cathy Holton

Frangipani

Celestine Hitiura Vaite

Handle with Care

Jodi Picoult

Liberty: A Lake Wobegon Novel

Garrison Keillor

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The Memory of Running

Ron McLarty

My Husband’s Sweethearts

Bridget Asher

The Pursuit of Alice Thrift

Elinor Lipman

A Salty Piece of Land

Jimmy Buffet

The Thirteenth Tale

Diane Setterfield

The Wildwater Walking Club

Claire Cook

Historical Fiction

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The Heretic’s Daughter

Kathleen Kent

Innocent Traitor: A Novel of Lady Jane Grey

Alison Weir

Into the Wilderness

Sara Donati

The King’s Grace

Anne Easter Smith

The Other Boleyn Girl

Philippa Gregory

Prayers for Sale

Sandra Dallas

The Queen’s Sorrow

Suzannah Dunn

Rhett Butler’s People

Donald McCaig

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Lisa See

Horror

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Cuts

Richard Laymon

Duma Key

Stephen King

The Historian

Elizabeth Kostova

Interview with the Vampire

Anne Rice

Jaws

Peter Benchley

Meg: Hell’s Aquarium

Steve Alten

Mister B. Gone

Clive Barker

Humor

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Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea

Chelsea Handler

Driving Like Crazy: Thirty Years of Vehicular Hellbending, Celebrating America the Way It’s Supposed to Be—With an Oil Well in Every Backyard, a Cadillac Escalade in Every Carport, and the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank Mowing Our Lawn

P.J. O’Rourke

In the Event of My Untimely Demise: Twenty Things My Son Needs to Know

Brian Sack

Pretty in Plaid: A Life, a Witch, and a Wardrobe, or the Wonder Years Before the Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smart-Ass Phase

Jen Lancaster

When You Are Engulfed in Flames

David Sedaris

Why I’m Like This: True Stories

Cynthia Kaplan

Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid

Denis Leary

Mystery & Suspense

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Angel’s Tip

Alafair Burke

Black Out

Lisa Unger

The Blade Itself

Marcus Sakey

Borderline

Nevada Barr

Dead Silence

Randy Wayne White

Dexter in the Dark

Jeff Lindsay

The Dirty Secrets Club

Meg Gardiner

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The Fallen

T. Jefferson Parker

Fractured

Karin Slaughter

Gone Tomorrow: A Reacher Novel

Lee Child

Hold Tight

Harlan Coben

Nuclear Jellyfish

Tim Dorsey

Oblivion

Peter Abrahams

The Spellman Files

Lisa Lutz

Too Close to Home

Linwood Barclay

Pets & Animals

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All My Patients Have Tales: Favorite Stories from a Vet’s Practice

Jeff Wells, D.V.M.

Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World

Vicki Myron with Bret Witter

Dog Days: Dispatches from Bedlam Farm

Jon Katz

Enslaved by Ducks

Bob Tarte

From Baghdad, With Love: A Marine, the War, and a Dog Named Lava

Jay Kopelman with Melinda Roth

The Gerbil Farmer’s Daughter: A Memoir

Holly Robinson

Romance & Chick Lit

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Bet Me

Jennifer Crusie

Deep Dish

Mary Kay Andrews

Fearless

Diana Palmer

Good in Bed

Jennifer Weiner

Just Breathe

Susan Wiggs

Love the One You’re With

Emily Giffin

Love Walked In

Marisa de los Santos

Sister’s Choice

Emilie Richards

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Smoke Screen

Sandra Brown

Smooth Talking Stranger

Lisa Kleypas

A Summer Affair

Elin Hilderbrand

Sweet Love

Sarah Strohmeyer

Thanks for the Memories

Cecelia Ahern

Very Valentine

Adriana Trigiani

What I Did for Love

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Science Fiction & Fantasy

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Dragon Harper: A New Novel of Pern

Anne McCaffrey and Todd McCaffrey

A Feast for Crows

George R.R. Martin

The Host

Stephenie Meyer

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

Susanna Clarke

Knife of Dreams

Robert Jordan

A Lion Among Men: Volume Three in the Wicked Years

Gregory Maguire

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Karen Traviss

Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files

Jim Butcher

Sports

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A-Rod: The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez

Selena Roberts

Age Is Just a Number: Achieve Your Dreams at Any Stage in Your Life

Dara Torres with Elizabeth Weil

The Downhill Lie: A Hacker’s Return to a Ruinous Sport

Carl Hiaasen

Every Second Counts

Lance Armstrong with Sally Jenkins

Getting a Grip: On My Body, My Mind, My Self

Monica Seles

Halfway to Heaven: My White-Knuckled—and Knuckleheaded—Quest for the Rocky Mountain High

Mark Obmascik

Travel

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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia

Elizabeth Gilbert

First Comes Love, Then Comes Malaria—How a Peace Corps Poster Boy Won My Heart and a Third World Adventure Changed My Life

Eve Brown-Waite

Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu

J. Maarten Troost

In a Sunburned Country

Bill Bryson

Lonely Planet’s Best in Travel 2009

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

David Grann

Travel Therapy: Where Do You Need to Go?

Karen Schaler

Need more suggestions? Contact your local library and a reference librarian will be happy to assist you.