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Comic Contemporary Romances
Skintight by Susan Andersen
Body & soul by Jennifer Archer
Born to be wild by Patti Berg
Just like a man by Elizabeth Bevarly
Read It On The Big Screen — Romance
Animal husbandry by Laura Zigman
The bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller
Bridget Jones's diary : a novel by Helen Fielding
Chocolat : a novel by Joanne Harris
Murder on the Water
A superior death [sound recording] by Nevada Barr
Dangerous depths : an underwater investigation by Kathy Brandt
The lady in the lake [Large print] by Raymond Chandler
A share in death by Deborah Crombie
Sleuths Set in the Decades
1930s
Someone to watch over me by Jill Churchill
Damned in paradise : a Nathan Heller novel by Max Allan Collins
1940s
Murder at the president's door : an Eleanor Roosevelt mystery by Elliott Roosevelt
Murder in the rue de Paradis by Cara Black
Historical Mysteries — Male Detectives
Sister Pelagia and the red cockerel : a novel by Boris Akunin ; translated by Andrew Bromfield
Spectres in the smoke by Tony Broadbent
Alexandria by Lindsey Davis
Death of a wine merchant by David Dickinson
Sherlock Holmes Wannabes
The Star of India : a novel of Sherlock Holmes by Carole Buggé
The alienist by Caleb Carr
The final solution : a story of detection by Michael Chabon
Deadly season by Tim Champlin
Historical Mysteries — Female Detectives
Mark of the lion by Suzanne M. Arruda
The siren queen : an Ursula Blanchard mystery at Queen Elizabeth I's court by Fiona Buckley
Dangerous practice by Clare Curzon
Beacon Street mourning : a Freemont Jones mystery by Dianne Day
Well-written, Character-driven Books
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- Mr. X by Peter Straub
- Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine trilogy starting with volume 1 When Christ and His Saints Slept by Sharon Kay Penman
- the works of Anne Tyler, her first is Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
- the works of Elizabeth Berg, including Never Change
Teen Paranormal / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
Need by Carrie Jones
Uglies. 1 by Scott Westerfeld
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
Leviathan by written by Scott Westerfeld ; illustrated by Keith Thompson
Teen Mysteries With Romance
Bad kitty by Michele Jaffe
A spy in the house by Y.S. Lee
Rose cottage by Mary Stewart
Heist society by Ally Carter