My I'm-So-Glad-I-Read-These List of Books

Submitted by FriedaG on Mon, 10/30/2006 - 12:22
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  • 20th-Century Literature
  • The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
  • The Balkan Trilogy - Olivia Manning
  • Black Narcissus - Rumer Godden
  • The Book of Ebenezer Le Page - G.B. Edwards
  • Death Comes for the Archbishop - Willa Cather
  • Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
  • Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell
  • Giants in the Earth - Ole Edvard Rolvaag
  • The Go-Between - L.P. Hartley
  • The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
  • The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Kristin Lavransdatter - Sigrid Undset
  • Lark Rise to Candleford: A Trilogy - Flora Thompson
  • The Levant Trilogy - Olivia Manning
  • Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow
  • The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
  • To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
  • Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
  • 19th-Century Literature
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
  • Agnes Grey - Anne Bronte
  • Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
  • Bleak House - Charles Dickens
  • Captains Courageous - Rudyard Kipling
  • A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
  • Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
  • Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
  • The House of the Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
  • Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Lady Audley's Secret - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
  • Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
  • Persuasion - Jane Austen
  • Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
  • The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte
  • Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
  • Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Villette - Charlotte Bronte
  • Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Autobiography - Janet Frame
  • Bronx Primitive: Portraits in a Childhood - Kate Simon
  • Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year - Carlo Levi
  • Cider with Rosie - Laurie Lee
  • Crossing the Line: A Blue Jacket's Odyssey in World War II - Alvin Kernan
  • The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood - Elspeth Huxley
  • Goodbye to All That - Robert Graves
  • Manhattan, When I Was Young - Mary Cantwell
  • The Merry Hall Trilogy - Beverley Nichols
  • A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway
  • A North Country Maid - Mary Craddock
  • Nun - Mary Gilligan Wong
  • One Pair of Hands - Monica Dickens
  • Our Hearts Were Young and Gay - Cornelia Otis Skinner
  • Out of Africa - Isak Dinesen
  • Pentimento - Lillian Hellman
  • The Periodic Table - Primo Levi
  • Quench the Lamp - Alice Taylor
  • The Road from Coorain - Jill Ker Conway
  • A Schoolteacher in Old Alaska: The Story of Hannah Breece - Jane Jacobs, Ed.
  • To School Through the Fields - Alice Taylor
  • Trooper to the Southern Cross - Angela MacKail Thirkell
  • The Village - Alice Taylor
  • Biography
  • Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa, and Sarah Lennox, 1740-1832 - Stella Tillyard
  • The Brontes - Juliet Barker
  • Captain Bligh and Mister Christian - Richard Hough
  • Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller - Judith Thurman
  • Leonard da Vinci: Flights of the Mind - Charles Nicholl
  • The Life and Times of Grigorii Efemovich Rasputin - Alex de Jonghe
  • Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee - Charles J. Shields
  • Richard Wetherill: Anasazi - Frank McNitt
  • The Riddle and the Knight: In Search of Sir John Mandeville, The World's Greatest Traveller - Giles Milton
  • Nicholas and Alexandra - Robert K. Massie
  • Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self - Claire Tomalin
  • Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette - Judith Thurman
  • The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family - Mary S. Lovell
  • Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moody and Catherine Parr Traill - Charlotte Gray
  • Tisha: The Story of a Young Schoolteacher in the Alaska Wilderness - Robert Specht
  • Touched by Fire: The Life, Death, and Mythic Afterlife of George Armstrong Custer - Louise Barnett
  • Coming-of-Age Novels
  • The Brontes Went to Woolworths - Rachel Ferguson
  • The Fountain Overflows - Rebecca West
  • I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
  • The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
  • A Separate Peace - John Knowles
  • Seventeen - Booth Tarkington
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
  • Winter Wheat - Mildred Walker
  • Diaries and Letters
  • The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists - Alan Taylor, Ed.
  • Austen and Mabel: The Amherst Affair & Love Letters of Austin Dickinson and Mabel Loomis Todd - Polly Longworth
  • A Book of One's Own: People and Their Diaries - Thomas Mallon
  • The Brontes: A Life in Letters - Juliet Barker
  • The Cruise of the Janet Nichol Among the South Sea Islands: A Diary by Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson - Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson
  • The Diary of Helena Morley - translated by Elizabeth Bishop
  • The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
  • The Journals of Sylvia Plath - Sylvia Plath
  • Letters from Africa, 1914-1931 - Isak Dinesen
  • Letters of a Woman Homesteader - Elinore Pruitt Stewart
  • Mary Chesnut's Civil War - Mary Chesnut & C. Vann Woodward
  • A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
  • The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey - Ernesto Che Guevara
  • My Famous Evening: Nova Scotia Sojourns, Diaries, and Preoccupations - Howard Norman
  • Paris Was Yesterday, 1925-1939 - Janet Flanner
  • Phoenix: Chronicle of Youth - Vera Brittain
  • Pioneer Women - Joanna L. Stratton
  • Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey - Lillian Schlissel
  • Essays
  • The Battle with the Slum - Jacob A. Riis
  • The Complete Essays of Montaigne - Michel de Montaigne
  • Low Life: The Lures and Snares of Old New York - Luc Sante
  • The Orwell Reader - George Orwell
  • People of the Abyss - Jack London
  • The Road to Wigan Pier - George Orwell
  • Up in the Old Hotel - Joseph Mitchell
  • Gothic Romance & Suspense
  • Darkhaven - Dorothy Daniels
  • Dragonwyck - Anya Seton
  • The Heiress of Bayou Vache - Harriet Stone
  • Jamaica Inn - Daphne du Maurier
  • The Mistress of Mellyn - Victoria Holt
  • The Quicksilver Pool - Phyllis A. Whitney
  • Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
  • Uncle Silas - J. Sheridan LeFanu
  • Graphic Novel
  • Stations - Michael Flanagan
  • Historical Novels
  • Before the Sun Goes Down - Elizabeth Metzger Howard
  • Below the Salt - Thomas B. Costain
  • Calico Palace - Gwen Bristow
  • Christy - Catherine Marshall
  • Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem - Peter Ackroyd
  • A Dead Man in Deptford - Anthony Burgess
  • Dear and Glorious Physician - Taylor Caldwell
  • The Englishman's Boy - Guy Vanderhaeghe
  • The Far Pavilions - M.M. Kaye
  • Galveston - Suzanne Morris
  • The Glass-Blowers - Daphne du Maurier
  • Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
  • Green Dolphin Street - Elizabeth Goudge
  • Guests of the Emperor - Janice Young Brooks
  • H: The Story of Heathcliff's Return to Wuthering Heights - Lin Haire-Sargent
  • A High Wind in Jamaica - Richard Hughes
  • Jubilee Trail - Gwen Bristow
  • Katherine - Anya Seton
  • Keeping Secrets - Suzanne Morris
  • The Last Crossing - Guy Vanderhaeghe
  • The King's General - Daphne du Maurier
  • The Ladies of Missalonghi - Colleen McCullough
  • Land Girls - Angela Huth
  • The Mistletoe and the Sword - Anya Seton
  • My Cousin Rachel - Daphne du Maurier
  • One Day the Ice Will Reveal All Its Dead - Clare Dudman
  • Pursuit of Gentlemen - Kathryn Cravens
  • Raintree County - Ross Lockridge Jr.
  • The Robe - Lloyd C. Douglas
  • Ross Poldark - Winston Graham
  • Scarlett - Alexandra Ripley
  • The Siege of Krishnapur - J.G. Farrell
  • Sironia, Texas - Madison Cooper Jr.
  • Steamboat Gothic - Frances Parkinson Keyes
  • The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCullough
  • The Train to Estelline - Jane Roberts Wood
  • A Very Long Engagement - Sebastien Japrisot
  • The Vines of Yarrabee - Dorothy Eden
  • Voyage of the Narwhal - Andrea Barrett
  • Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
  • The Winthrop Woman - Anya Seton
  • History
  • The Ancient Mediterranean - Michael Grant
  • Annals of the Former World - John McPhee
  • Asimov's Guide to the Bible: The Old and New Testaments and the Apocrypha - Isaac Asimov
  • At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor - George W. Prange
  • The Basque History of the World - Mark Kurlansky
  • The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty - Caroline Alexander
  • Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water - Marc Reisner
  • Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed - Jared Diamond
  • Cooper's Creek: The Opening of Australia - Alan Moorehead
  • The Dig Tree: A True Story of Bravery, Insanity, and the Race to Discover Australia's Wild Frontier - Sarah Murgatroyd
  • A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century - Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds - Charles Mackay
  • The Fatal Shore: The Epic Founding of Australia - Robert Hughes
  • Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations - Brian M. Fagan
  • The Greatest Killer: Smallpox in History - Donald R. Hopkins
  • The Great Human Diasporas - Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, et al
  • The Great Journey: The Peopling of Ancient America - Brian M. Fagan
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies - Jared Diamond
  • Hadrian's Wall: In the Days of the Romans - Ronald Embleton, et al
  • The History of Food - Reay Tannahill
  • The Johnstown Flood - David McCullough
  • King Arthur: The True Story - Graham Phillips
  • Journey from Eden: The Peopling of Our World - Brian M. Fagan
  • The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300-1850 - Brian M. Fagan
  • The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization - Brian M. Fagan
  • Martin's Hundred - Ivor Noel Hume
  • Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error - Emmanuel LeRoy Ladurie
  • Napoleon's Glands and Other Ventures in Biohistory - Arno Karlen
  • The Neandertal Enigma: Solving the Mystery of Modern Human Origins - James Shreeve
  • Noah's Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries of the Event That Changed History - William Ryan and Walter Pitman
  • Plagues and Peoples - William H. McNeill
  • The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe - Charles Nicholl
  • The Return of Martin Guerre - Natalie Zemon Davis
  • Return to Sodom and Gomorrah - Charles R. Pellegrino
  • The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - William L. Shirer
  • Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America - John M. Barry
  • Roanoke Island: The Beginnings of English America - David Stick
  • Salt: A World History - Mark Kurlansky
  • Unearthing Atlantis - Charles R. Pellegrino
  • Ungentlemanly Acts: The Army's Notorious Incest Trial - Louise Barnett
  • The Virginia Adventure - Ivor Noel Hume
  • Horror & Supernatural
  • The Amityville Horror - Jay Anson
  • Dracula - Bram Stoker
  • Burnt Offerings - Robert Marasco
  • Harvest Home - Thomas Tryon
  • The Haunted - Robert Curran
  • The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
  • Picnic at Hanging Rock - Joan Lindsay
  • Rosemary's Baby - Ira Levin
  • Tryst - Elswyth Thane
  • The Uninvited - Dorothy Macardle
  • We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson
  • The Woman in Black - Susan Hill
  • Humor
  • If Symptoms Still Persist - Theodore Dalrymple
  • O Ye Jigs & Juleps - Virginia Cary Hudson
  • Pioneer, Go Home - Richard Powell
  • Suds in Your Eye - Mary Lasswell
  • You're Stepping on My Cloak and Dagger - Roger Hall
  • Mysteries
  • The Alienist - Caleb Carr
  • The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
  • The Case of Jennie Brice - Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • The Circular Staircase - Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • The Continental Op - Dashiell Hammett
  • The Daughter of Time - Josephine Tey
  • Eight Months on Ghazzah Street - Hillary Mantel
  • Farewell, My Lovely - Raymond Chandler
  • The Fig Eater - Jody Shields
  • Green for Danger - Christianna Brand
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Hunted Down: The Detective Stories of Charles Dickens - Charles Dickens
  • The Lodger - Marie Belloc Lowndes
  • The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
  • The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
  • The Mystery of the Yellow Room - Gaston Leroux
  • The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
  • The Passenger from Scotland Yard - H.F. Woods
  • Phantom Lady - Cornell Woolrich
  • Rose - Martin Cruz Smith
  • Scarlet Women - J.D. Christilian
  • Shroud for a Nightingale - P.D. James
  • The Sleeping Car Murders - Sebastien Japrisot
  • The Thin Man - Dashiell Hammett
  • The Waterworks - E.L. Doctorow
  • Wings Above the Diamantina - Arthur W. Upfield
  • Photo Essays
  • Evidence - Luc Sante
  • How the Other Half Lives - Jacob A. Riis
  • Kiki's Paris: Artists and Lovers, 1900-1930 - Billy Kluver
  • Let Us Now Praise Famous Men - James Agee and Walker Evans
  • Material World: A Global Family Portrait - Peter Menzel
  • No Voice from the Hall: Early Memories of a Country House Snooper - John Harris
  • Photographs for the Tsar: The Pioneering Color Photography of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Commissioned by Tsar Nicholas II
  • Wisconsin Death Trip - Michael Lesy
  • Plays
  • Blithe Spirit - Noel Coward
  • Our Town - Thornton Wilder
  • Richard III - William Shakespeare
  • Rita, Sue and Bob Too - Andrea Dunbar
  • Shirley Valentine - Willy Russell
  • A Taste of Honey - Shelagh Delaney
  • Poetry
  • Immortal Poems of the English Language - Oscar Williams, Ed.
  • Off to Arcady: Adventures in Poetry - Max J. Herzberg, Ed.
  • A Spoon River Anthology - Edgar Lee Masters
  • The White Cliffs of Dover - Alice Duer Miller
  • Polar Exploration
  • Arctic Grail: The Quest for the Northwest Passage and the North Pole, 1818-1909 - Pierre Berton
  • Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure - Richard E. Byrd
  • Below the Convergence: Voyages Toward Antarctica, 1699-1839 - Alan Gurney
  • Charting the Sea of Darkness: The Four Voyages of Henry Hudson - Donald S. Johnson
  • Empire of the Bay: The Company of Adventurers That Seized a Continent - Peter C. Newman
  • Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage - Alfred Lansing
  • Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition - Owen Beattie, et al
  • The Ghosts of Cape Sabine: The Harrowing Story of the Greely Expedition - Leonard F. Guttridge
  • Great Heart: The History of a Labrador Adventure - James West Davidson
  • I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination - Francis Spufford
  • Ice Blink: The Fate of Sir John Franklin's Lost Polar Expedition - Scott Cookman
  • Weird and Tragic Shores: The Story of Charles Francis Hall, Explorer - Chauncey Loomis
  • The Worst Journey in the World - Apsley Cherry-Garrard
  • Popular Novels
  • Allegra Maud Goldman - Edith Konecky
  • The Best of Everything - Rona Jaffe
  • Cal - Bernard MacLaverty
  • Class Reunion - Rona Jaffe
  • The Enchanted April - Elizabeth von Arnim
  • The Flight of the Falcon - Daphne du Maurier
  • Glengarry School Days: A Story of Early Days in Glengarry - Ralph Connor
  • Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson
  • In This House of Brede - Rumer Godden
  • The Last Picture Show - Larry McMurtry
  • The Lemon Jelly Cake - Madeline Babcock Smith
  • Les Grand Meaulnes - Henri Alain-Fournier
  • The Man from Glengarry - Ralph Connor
  • Marjorie Morningstar - Herman Wouk
  • Ninety-two in the Shade - Thomas McGuane
  • The Nun's Story - Katherine Caverly Hulme
  • Oyster - Janette Turner Hospital
  • Paper Moon - Joe David Brown
  • Peyton Place - Grace Metalious
  • Possession - A.S. Byatt
  • The Scapegoat - Daphne du Maurier
  • The Secret History - Donna Tartt
  • The Spiral Road - Jan de Hartog
  • So Far from Heaven - Richard Bradford
  • The Source - James Michener
  • Summer of '42 - Herman Raucher
  • Tirra Lirra by the River - Jessica Anderson
  • A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
  • Up the Down Staircase - Bel Kaufman
  • The Way We Were - Arthur Laurents
  • The World of Suzie Wong - Richard Mason
  • Romance - Historical
  • The Company of Swans - Eva Ibbotson
  • Desiree - Annemarie Selinko
  • Everything but a Husband - Jeanette Kamins
  • Forever Amber - Kathleen Winsor
  • Frenchman's Creek - Daphne du Maurier
  • Madensky Square - Eva Ibbotson
  • The Masqueraders - Georgette Heyer
  • A Sparrow Falls - Marion Smith Collins
  • These Old Shades - Georgette Heyer
  • Venetia - Georgette Heyer
  • Years - LaVyrle Spencer
  • Romantic Suspense
  • The Gabriel Hounds - Mary Stewart
  • The Moon-Spinners - Mary Stewart
  • Nine Coaches Waiting - Mary Stewart
  • Seven Tears for Apollo - Phyllis A. Whitney
  • To See a Stranger - Margaret Lynn
  • Wildfire at Midnight - Mary Stewart
  • The Window on the Square - Phyllis A. Whitney
  • Sailing & the Sea
  • By Way of the Wind - Jim Moore
  • A Bride's Passage: Susan Hathorn's Year Under Sail - Catherine Petroski
  • Coasting - Jonathan Raban
  • Ghost Ship: The Mysterious True Story of the Mary Celeste and Her Missing Crew - Brian Hicks
  • The Last Log of the Titanic - David G. Brown
  • The Log from the Sea of Cortez - John Steinbeck
  • The Long Way - Bernard Moitessier
  • Maiden Voyage - Tania Aebi
  • North-West by North - Dora Birtles
  • Phantom Islands of the Atlantic: The Legends of Seven Lands That Never Were - Donald S. Johnson
  • Sailing Alone Around the World - Joshua Slocum
  • Steaming to Bamboola: The World of a Tramp Freighter - Christopher Buckley
  • The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst - Nicholas Tomalin & Ron Hall
  • Two Years Before the Mast & Twenty Years After - Richard Henry Dana Jr.
  • A Voyage for Madmen - Peter Nichols
  • A World of My Own - Robin Knox-Johnston
  • Short Stories
  • 41 Stories - O. Henry
  • Anecdotes of Destiny and Ehrengard - Isak Dinesen
  • Bel-Ami - Guy de Maupassant
  • Berlin Stories - Christopher Isherwood
  • Bret Harte's Gold Rush - Bret Harte
  • The Complete Saki - H.H. Munro
  • The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories - Sarah Orne Jewett
  • Dubliners - James Joyce
  • Ghost Stories - Edith Wharton
  • The Great Exotic Novels and Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham
  • Rear Window and Other Stories - Cornell Woolrich
  • Seven Gothic Tales - Isak Dinesen
  • Ship Fever - Andrea Barrett
  • Slice of Life
  • Anybody Can Do Anything - Betty MacDonald
  • The Egg and I - Betty MacDonald
  • The Hills Is Lonely - Lillian Beckwith
  • Life with Mother Superior - Jane Trahey
  • Mama's Bank Account - Kathryn Forbes
  • My Sister Eileen - Ruth McKenney
  • Period Piece - Gwen Raverat
  • The Plague and I - Betty MacDonald
  • We Took to the Woods - Louise Dickinson Rich
  • Why Shoot the Teacher? - Max Braithwaite
  • Thrillers
  • The Boys from Brazil - Ira Levin
  • A Coffin for Dimitrios - Eric Ambler
  • The Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth
  • Doctor Frigo - Eric Ambler
  • Eye of the Needle - Ken Follett
  • Kahawa - Donald E. Westlake
  • The Key to Rebecca - Ken Follett
  • The Riddle of the Sands - Erskine Childers
  • Seven Days in May - Fletcher Knebel, et al
  • The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - John LeCarre
  • The Third Man - Graham Greene
  • The Thirty-nine Steps - John Buchan
  • The Wreck of the Mary Deare - Hammond Innes
  • The Year of Living Dangerously - Christopher J. Koch
  • Time Travel & Reincarnation
  • Green Darkness - Anya Seton
  • The House on the Strand - Daphne du Maurier
  • Lady of Hay - Barbara Erskine
  • The Mirror - Marlys Milhiser
  • The Nonsuch Lure - Mary M. Luke
  • Portrait of Jennie - Robert Nathan
  • The Search for Bridey Murphy - Morey Bernstein
  • Travel & Expat Adventure
  • The Bottlebrush Tree: A Village in Andalusia - Hugh Seymour-Davies
  • Castaway - Lucy Irvine
  • Celestine: Voices from a French Village - Gillian Tindall
  • Congo Kitabu - Jean-Pierre Hallett
  • A Death in Brazil: A Book of Omissions - Peter Robb
  • Digging Up Butch and Sundance - Anne Meadows
  • The Fruit Palace - Charles Nicholl
  • The Great Railway Bazaar - Paul Theroux
  • In Bolivia - Eric Lawlor
  • In Patagonia - Bruce Chatwin
  • Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer
  • An Island to Oneself: Six Years on a Desert Island - Tom Neale
  • The Kingdom by the Sea - Paul Theroux
  • Malaria Dreams: An African Adventure - Stuart Stevens
  • My Father's Island: A Galapagos Quest - Johanna Angemeyer
  • The Old Patagonian Express - Paul Theroux
  • Orchid Fever: A Tale of Love, Lust, and Lunacy - Eric Hansen
  • Riding the Iron Rooster - Paul Theroux
  • Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo - Eric Hansen
  • A Sweet and Glorious Land: Return to the Ionian Sea - John Keahey
  • Toujours Provence - Peter Mayle
  • The Way to Xanadu - Caroline Alexander
  • A Year in Provence - Peter Mayle
  • True Crime
  • An Affair of State: The Profumo Case and the Framing of Stephen Ward - Phillip Knightley
  • And the Sea Will Tell - Vincent Bugliosi and Bruce Henderson
  • The Brother: The Untold Story of the Rosenberg Case - Sam Roberts
  • A Cast of Killers: The Murder of William Desmond Taylor - Sidney Kirkpatrick
  • The Complete History of Jack the Ripper - Philip Sugden
  • Crime Album Stories: Paris, 1886-1902 - Eugenia Parry
  • Echoes in the Darkness - Joseph Wambaugh
  • Evil Angels - John Bryson
  • Forty Whacks: New Evidence in the Life and Legend of Lizzie Borden - David Kent
  • Framed! The Untold Story of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle - Andy Edmonds
  • Helter Skelter - Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry
  • Honor Killing: How the Infamous "Massie Affair" Transformed Hawai'i - David E. Stannard
  • Hot Toddy: The Murder of Thelma Todd - Andy Edmonds
  • The Massie Case - Peter Packer
  • The Maul and the Pear Tree - P.D. James & T.A. Critchley
  • The Murder of Helen Jewett - Patricia Cline Cohen
  • The Rosenberg File - Ronald Radosh and Joyce Milton
  • Scotland's Unsolved Mysteries of the Twentieth Century - Richard Wilson, Ed.
  • Serpentine - Thomas Thompson
  • The Ship That Stood Still: The Californian and Her Mysterious Role in the Titanic Disaster - Leslie Reade
  • The Trunk Murderess: Winnie Ruth Judd - Jana Bommersbach
  • Unsolved! Classic True Murder Cases - Richard Glyn Jones, Ed. (Included is Dorothy L. Sayers's superb recounting of the Julia Wallace case.)
  • Victorian Murderesses - Mary S. Hartman
  • White Mischief - James Fox
  • Vintage Travel
  • The Aran Islands - John M. Synge
  • As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning - Laurie Lee
  • Brazilian Adventure - Peter Fleming
  • By the Ionian Sea - George Gissing
  • Following the Equator - Mark Twain
  • Innocents Abroad - Mark Twain
  • In the South Seas - Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Mogreb-El-Acksa: A Journey in Morocco - R.B. Cunninghame Graham
  • Mr. Dimock Explores the Mysteries of the East: Journeys in India - Edward Cameron Dimock
  • Old Calabria - Norman Douglas
  • Old Man in the Parlour: A Record of a Journey from Rangoon to Haiphong - W. Somerset Maugham
  • Pictures from Italy - Charles Dickens
  • The Sea and the Jungle - H.M. Tomlinson
  • Tramps Abroad - Mark Twain
  • The Travels of Sir John Mandeville - John Mandeville
  • Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes - Robert Louis Stevenson
  • War Novels
  • The Caine Mutiny - Herman Wouk
  • From Here to Eternity - James Jones
  • The Sand Pebbles - Richard McKenna
  • Von Ryan's Express - David Westheimer
  • War and Remembrance - Herman Wouk
  • The Winds of War - Herman Wouk
  • Young Adult/Adolescent
  • Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery
  • Berries Goodman - Emily Cheney Neville
  • The Blue Castle - Lucy Maud Montgomery
  • The Bronze Bow - Elizabeth George Speare
  • Call It Courage - Armstrong Sperry
  • Eagle of the Ninth - Rosemary Sutcliff
  • A Girl of the Limberlost - Gene Stratton Porter
  • I, Juan de Pareja - Elizabeth Borten de Trevino
  • Island of the Blue Dolphins - Scott O'Dell
  • Little Britches: or, Father and I Were Ranchers - Ralph Moody
  • The Long Winter - Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Mrs. Mike - Benedict and Nancy Freedman
  • Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
  • The Unchosen - Nan Gilbert
  • The Witch of Blackbird Pond - Elizabeth George Speare
  • Witch's Silver - Dorothy Gilman Butters
  • A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle