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LDS Authors 

  • Abramson, Traci Hunter
  • Adair, Liz
  • Allen Nancy Campbell
  • Andrews, Sarah
  • Barkdull, Larry
  • Barker, Shane
  • Bessey, Sian
  • Borrowman, Jerry
  • Carter, Ron
  • Crane, Cheri
  • Durrant, George
  • Edwards, Paul M.
  • Evans, Richard Paul
  • Gardner, Lynn
  • Gates, John
  • Gilchrist, Jeri
  • Green, Betsy Brannon
  • Grossman, Jeni
  • Hansen, Jennie
  • Heimerdinger, Chris
  • Hilton, Joni
  • Hughes, Dean
  • Jarvis, Sharon Downing
  • King, Beverly
  • Levitin, Sonia
  • Lund, Gerald N
  • Marcum, Robert
  • McCloud, Susan Evans
  • Nelson, Lee
  • Nunes, Rachel Ann
  • Poulson, Clair
  • Pratt, James Michael
  • Sanderson, Brandon
  • Siddoway, Richard M.
  • Smith, Robert F.
  • St. James, Sierra
  • Stansfield, Anita
  • Taylor, Samuel W.
  • Taylor, Lorraine
  • Tolman, Louise
  • Udall, Brady
  • Walton, Rick
  • Weyland, Jack
  • Yates, Dan
  • Yorganson, Blaine
  • Yorganson, Brenton
  • Young, Jerry M.
  • Young, Margaret Blair

 

Christian Authors

  • June M. Bacher

  • Terri Blackstock

  • T. Davis Bunn

  • Brandilyn Collins

  • Lori Copeland

  • Lloyd Douglas

  • Joseph F. Girzone

  • Ruth Glover

  • Philip Gulley

  • Robin L. Hatcher

  • B.J. Hoff

  • Marjorie Holmes

  • Jerry Jenkins

  • Jan Karon

  • Karen Kingsbury

  • Tim LaHaye

  • Stephen R. Lawhead

  • Beverly Lewis

  • George Macdonald

  • Lorena McCourtney

  • Gilbert & Lynn Morris

  • Janette Oke

  • Gary E. Parker

  • Delia Parr

  • Judith Pella

  • Frank D. Peretti

  • Michael R. & Judith Phillips

  • Sheri Reynolds

  • Francine Rivers

  • Brock & Bodie Thoene

  • Walter Wangerin

  • Marion Wells

  • Lori Wick

  • Lisa Wingate

  • Harold Bell Wright

 

 

 

 

Culinary Mystery

Authors

  • Abresch, Peter

  • Albert, Susan Wittig

  • Beaton, M.C.

  • Bell, NancyBishop, Claudia

  • Carl, JoAnna

  • Childs, Laura

  • Craig, Philip R.

  • Crawford, Isis

  • Crespi, Camillia T.

  • Davidson, Diane Mott

  • Fairbanks, Nancy

  • Farmer, Jerrilyn

  • Fluke, Joanne

  • Hart, Ellen

  • Holtzer, Susan

  • Johnson, Claire M.

  • King, Peter

  • Lyons, Nan

  • McKevett, G.A.

  • Myers, Tamar

  • Neel, Janet

  • Page, Katherine

  • Pence, Joanne

  • Pickard, Nancy

  • Rich, Virginia

  • Richman, Phyllis

  • Rozan, S.J.

  • Temple, Lou Jane

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

Forensic Mystery

Authors

  •      Andrews, Sarah

  •       Ayres, Noreen

  •         Bass, Jefferson

  •         Connor, Beverly

  •         Cook, Robin

  •         Corcoran, Tom

  •         Cornwell, Patricia

  •         Deaver, Jeffery

  •         Donaldson, D.J.

  •         Elkins, Aaron

  •         Ephron, G.H.

  •         Gerritsen, Tess

  •         Goddard, Ken

  •         Goldberg, Ken

  •         Harris, Thomas

  •         Hoag, Tami

  •         James, P.D.

  •         Johnson, Iris

  •         Kellerman, Jonathan

  •         Kennett, Shirley

  •         Landreth, Marsha

  •         Lovett, Sarah

  •         Lutz, John

  •         McCrery, Nigel

  •         McCrumb, Sharyn

  •         North, Darian

  •         Patterson, James

  •         Pearson, James

  •         Preston, Douglas

  •         Reichs, Kathy

  •         Salter, Anna

  •         Slaughter, Karin

  •         Sultan, Faye

  •         Walker, Robert W.

  •         White, Stephen

 

Romantic Suspense Authors

 

Y    Adler, Elizabeth

Y    Anthony, Evelyn

Y    Barton, Beverly

Y    Brown, Sandra

Y    Cameron, Stella

Y    Clark, Mary Higgins

Y    Coulter, Catherine

Y    Deveraux, Jude

Y    Erickson, Lynn

Y    Evanovich, Janet

Y    Gardner, Lisa

Y    Garlock, Dorothy

Y    Garwood, Julie

Y    Hannah, Kristin

Y    Hoag, Tami

Y    Holt, Victoria

Y    Howatch, Susan

Y    Howard, Linda

Y    Johansen, Iris

Y    Johnston, Velda

Y    Kellogg, Marne D.

Y    Krentz, Jayne Ann

Y    Lowell, Elizabeth

Y    Michaels, Barbara

Y    Mortman, Doris

Y    Peart, Jane

Y    Peters, Elizabeth

Y    Quick, Amanda

Y    Robards, Karen

Y    Roberts, Nora

Y    Rogan, Barbara

Y    Sawyer, Meryl

Y    Stewart, Mary

Y    Whitney, Phyllis

 

 

Romantic Suspense Authors 

“G Rated”

Y    Brent, Madeline

Y    Carr, Philippa

Y    Garlock, Dorothy

Y    Garwood, Julie

Y    Henderson, Dee

Y    Hodge, Jane Aiken

Y    Holt, Victoria

Y    Howard, Linda

Y    Lowell, Elizabeth

Y    Michaels, Barbara

Y    Peters, Elizabeth

Y    Quick, Amanda

Y    Robards, Karen

Y    Smith, Debra White

Y    Stewart, Mary

Y    Whitney, Phyllis

   

 

Humorous

Authors

  • Douglas Adams

  • Robert Asprin

  • Nancy Atherton

  • Dave Barry

  • Nancy Bartholomew

  • M.C. Beaton

  • Robert Benchley

  • Tom Bodett

  • Bill Bryson

  • Christopher Buckley

  • Jill Churchill

  • Andrei Codrescu

  • Bill Cosby

  • Jennifer Crusie

  • Janet Evanovich

  • Fannie Flagg

  • Anne George

  • Olivia Goldsmith

  • Lewis Grizzard

  • Sparkle Hayter

  • Jane Heller

  • Carl Hiaasen

  • Anne Lamott

  • Patrick McManus

  • Terry Pratchett

  • Spider Robinson

  • Andrew Rooney

  • James Thurber

  • Bailey White

  • P.G. Wodehouse

 

 

   Adventurous Women

  • Conran, Shirley --Savages
    Davis, Val --Track of the Scorpion
    Stabenow, Dana --Kate Shugak Alaska      mysteries
    Barr, Nevada --Anna Pigeon National Park mysteries
    Francis, Clare --Night Sky, Wolf Winter
    Perry, Thomas --Vanishing Act, Dance for the Dead
    Neville, Katherine --The Eight, A Calculated Risk
    Gilman, Dorothy --Mrs. Pollifax novels
    Gosling, Paula --Fair Game
    Peters, Elizabeth --Amelia Peabody series
    Anthony, Evelyn --Davina Graham series and Tamarind Seed
    M.M. Kaye -- Death in . . . (Cyprus, Zanzibar, Berlin, etc.)
    Stewart, Mary --My Brother Michael, The Moon Spinners, This Rough Magic, Madam, Will you Talk?
    Day, Dianne --The Strange Files of Fremont Jones
    Jones, Robert F. --Tie the Bones to Her Back
    Morris, Alan B. --Katy Steele adventures
    Smith, Martin Cruz --Rose
    Wood, Barbara --Prophetess
    Arthur, Elizabeth --Antarctic Navigation
    Prentiss, Charlotte --Children of the Sun etc.
    Harrison, Sue --Mother Earth, Father Sky
    Steel, Danielle --Wings
    Fell, Doris Elaine --Always in September series
    Hardy, Robin --Padre: A Novel
    Schulman, Audrey --The Cage (woman photographer of polar bears)
    Smith, Mitchell --Due North
    Drabble, Margaret --The Gates of Ivory
    Quick, Barbara --Northern Edge (Alaska survival)
    Maitland, Sara --Home Truths
    Lukeman, Tim –Witchwood

 

   
Mothers, Daughters, and Sisters

         

"The Beach House" Monroe, Mary Alice
"Bed and Breakfast" Battle, Lois
"Caroline's Daughters" Adams, Alice
"Charms for the Easy Life" Gibbons, Kay
"China Run" Ball, David
"Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" Wells, Rebecca
"Drowning Ruth" Schwartz, Christina
"Far from the Tree" DeBerry, Virginia
"For My Daughters" Delinsky, Barbara 
"Freaky Friday" Rogers, Mary
"Hanna's Daughters" Fredericksson, Marianne
"Julie and Romeo" Ray, Jeanne
"Jewel" Lott, Bret
"Little Women" Alcott, Louise May
"The Midnight Hour" Robards, Karen 
"Missing Pieces" Fielding, Joy
"One Heart" McCafferty, Jane
"The Red Tent" Diamant, Anita
"Shades of Grace" Delinsky, Barbara
"Step-Ball-Change" Ray, Jeanne
Southern Sisters mysteries (series) George, Ann
"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" Smith, Betty
"What We Keep" Berg, Elizabeth
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Fantasy Authors

 Piers Anthony

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Terry Brooks

David Drake

Dave Duncan

David Eddings

David Feintuch

Raymond Feist

Terry Goodkind

Tracy Hickman

Tanya Huff

Robert Jordan

Mercedes Lackey

Anne McCaffrey

Robin McKinley

Andre Norton

Tamora Pierce

Terry Pratchett

Mickey Zucher Reichert

Christopher Stasheff

J.R.R. Tolkien

Eric Van Lustbader

Margaret Weis

 

Science Fiction

Authors

Poul Anderson
Isaac Asimov
Greg Bear
Gregory Beneford
David Brin
Lois Master Bujold
Orson Scott Card
C.J. Cherryh
Arthur C. Clarke
Phillip K. Dick
Gordon Dickson
David Drake
Robert A. Heinlein
Frank Herbert
Ursula LeGuin
L.E. Modesitt
Elizabeth Moon
Larry Niven
Jerry Pournelle
John Ringo
Robert Silverberg

 

 Classics

 

Louisa May Alcott

Little Women

Little Men

Jane Austen

Emma

Mansfield Park

Northanger Abby

Pride and Prejudice

Sense and Sensibility

Edward Bellamy

Looking Backward

Ray Bradbury

            Fahrenheit 451

Charlotte Bronte

            Jane Eyre

Emily Bronte

            Wuthering Heights

Frances Hodgson Burnett

            The Secret Garden

Pearl Buck

            The Good Earth

John Bunyan

            The Pilgrim’s Progress

Lewis Carroll

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Willa Cather

            Death Comes For the Archbishop

            My Antonia

            O Pioneers

Miguel de Cervantes

            Don Quixote de la Mancha

Walter Van Tilburg Clark

            The Ox-Bow Incident

Wilkie Collins

            The Woman in White

Joseph Conrad 

            Heart of Darkness

            Lord Jim

James Fenimore Cooper

            The Deerslayer

            The Last of the Mohicans

The Pathfinder, or the Inland Sea

Stephen Crane

            The Red Badge of Courage

Daniel Defoe

            Robinson Crusoe

Charles Dickens

            Bleak House

            A Christmas Carol

            David Copperfield

            Great Expectations

            Hard Times

            Little Dorrit

            Oliver Twist

            A Tale of Two Cities

Theodore Dreiser

            An American Tragedy

            Sister Carrie

Alexandre Dumas

            The Count of Monte Cristo

            The Man in the Iron Mask

            The Three Musketeers

George Elliot

            Adam Bede

            Middlemarch

            Mill On the Floss

            Silas Marner

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ralph Ellison

            Invisible Man

William Faulkner

            Absalom, Absalom!

            As I Lay Dying

            Light In August

Sound and the Fury

Henry Fielding

            The History of Tom Jones

F. Scott Fitzgerald

            The Great Gatsby

            Tender is the Night

Gustave Flaubert

            Madame Bovary

E.M. Forester

            Passage to India

A.B. Guthrie

            The Big Sky

Thomas Hardy

            Far from the Maddening Crowd

            Return of the Native

            Tess of the D’Urbervilles

Nathaniel Hawthorne

            The House of Seven Gables

            The Scarlet Letter

Ernest Hemingway

            For Whom the Bell Tolls

            The Old Man and the Sea

            The Sun Also Rises

Homer

            The Iliad

            The Odyssey

W.H. Hudson

            Green Mansions

Victor Hugo

            The Hunchback of Notre Dame

            Les Miserables

Aldous Huxley

            Brave New World

Henry James

            The American

            Daisy Miller

            Portrait of a Lady

            The Turn of the Screw

James Joyce

            A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

            Ulysses

D.H. Lawrence

            Lady Chatterley’s Lover

            Sons and Lovers

            Women in Love

       Harper Lee

            To Kill a Mockingbird

Sinclair Lewis

            Arrowsmith

            Babbitt

            Main Street

Jack London

            Call of the Wild

            The Sea Wolf

W. Somerset Maugham

            Of Human Bondage

Herman Melville

            Billy Bud

            Moby Dick

            Typee

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Margaret Mitchell

            Gone With the Wind

Toni Morrison

            Beloved

            The Bluest Eye

            Song of Solomon

Charles Nordhoff

            Mutiny on the Bounty

George Orwell

            Animal Farm

            1984

Francis Parkman

            The Oregon Trail

Boris Pasternak

            Doctor Zhivago

Alan Patton     

            Cry the Beloved Country

Marjorie Rawlings

            The Yearling

Erich Remarque

            All Quiet on the Western Front

J.D. Salinger

            The Catcher in the Rye

Walter Scott

            Ivanhoe

Mary Shelly

            Frankenstein

Upton Sinclair

            The Jungle

John Steinbeck

            The Grapes of Wrath

            The Pearl

            The Red Pony

            Tortilla Flat

Robert Lewis Stevenson

            Kidnapped

            The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and

                         Mr. Hyde

            Treasure Island

Harriet Beecher Stowe

            Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Jonathan Swift

            Gulliver’s Travels

William Thackeray

            Vanity Fair

Leo Tolstoy

            Anna Karenina

            War and Peace

Mark Twain

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

            The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

            A Connecticut Yankee in King

            Arthur’s Court

Jules Verne

            Around the World in Eighty Days

H.G. Wells

            The Time Machine

            The Invisible Man

Oscar Wilde

            The Picture of Dorian Gray