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African History for Beginners by Herb Boyd
African Civilization Revisited: From Antiquity to Modern Times by Basil Davidson
The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality byCheikh Anta Diop,
The World and Africa: An Inquiry into the Part Which Africa Has Played in World History by W.E.B. Du Bois
Blacks Before America by Mark Hyman
The Scramble for Africa, 1876-1912 by Thomas Pakenham
World's Great Men of Color by Joel Augustus Rogers
The Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C. to 2000 A. D. by Chancellor Williams

African American History

A Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States (volumes 1-7)
Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America by Lerone Bennett
The Shaping of Black America by Lerone Bennett
Long Memory: The Black Experience in America by Mary Frances Berry
Down the Glory Road by Herb Boyd
Africans in the Americas: A History of the Black Diaspora by Michael L. Conniff
W.E.B. Du Bois: A Reader
In Their Own Words: A History of the American Negro, 1619-1865 by Milton Meltzer

Modern Westerns

Abbey, Edward
Ballard, Todhunter
Bennett, Dwight
Brown, Sam
Clinton, Jeff
Cody, Al
Evans, Max
Hogan, Ray
Kelton, Elmer
McCarthy, Cormac
McMurtry, Larry
Porter, Donald Clayton
Richter, Conrad
Williams, Jeanne

Westerns

Bly, Stephen A.
Brand, Max
Carter, Franklin
Cummings, Jack
Fox, Norman A.
Judd, Cameron
Kelley, Leo P.
Ladd, Justin
Martin, Larry Jay
Mitchum, Hank
Paine, Lauran
Parker, F. M.
Wheeler, Richard S.

Suspense and Thrillers

Allegretto, Michael
Babson, Marian
Dorner, Marjorie
Fielding, Joy
George, Elizabeth
Green, Kate
Hansen, Joseph
Heckler, Jonellen
Kellerman, Faye
Krich, Rochelle Majer
McCrumb, Sharyn
Muller, Marcia
Peters, Elizabeth
Rendell, Ruth
Reynolds, William J.
Stallwood, Veronica
Wallace, Marilyn
Warner, Mignon
Watson, Clarissa
Waugh, Hillary
Werry, Richard R.
Westmacott, Mary
Whitney, Phyllis A.
Windsor, Patricia
Wodehouse, P. G.
Woods, Sara
Woods, Stuart

Margaret Atwood

Allende, Isabel
Erdrich, Louise
Gordon, Mary
Hoffman, Alice
Kingsolver, Barbara
McMillan, Terry
Morrison, Toni
Munro, Alice
Piercy, Marge
Smiley, Jane
Tan, Amy
Thayer, Nancy
Tyler, Anne
Walker, Alice

Victoria Holt

Black, Laura
Butler, Gwendoline
Clark, Mary Higgins
Du Maurier, Daphne
Gilbert, Anna
Johnston, Velda
MacInnes, Helen
Michaels, Barbara
Peters, Elizabeth

Short Stories

If the River Was Whiskey by T. Coraghessan Boyle
Come to Me by Amy Bloom
A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler
Plan B for the Middle Class by Ron Carlson
Short Cuts by Raymond Carver
Working Men by Michael Dorris
Jump: And Other Stories by Nadine Gordimer
The Book of Guys by Garrison Keillor
Crash Diet by Jill McCorkle
Friend of My Youth by Alice Munro
The Collected Stories by Reynolds Price

Sports Stories

Bickham, Jack M.
Bouton, Jim
Cork, Barry
Daniel, Mark
Evers, Crabbe
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Francis, Dick
Gent, Peter
Granger, Bill
Kinsella, W. P.
MacLean, Norman
Navratilova, Martina
Spooner, John D.
Zimmerman, Bruce

Humorous Novels

The Faux Gourmet by Juli Huss
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Junk-Drawer Corner- Store Front-Porch Blues by John R. Powers
Let 'Em Eat Cake by Susan Jedren
Murdering Mr. Monti by Judith Viorst
My Life as a Whale by Dyan Sheldon
The Neon Madonna by Dan Binchy
The Plagarist by Benjamin Cheever
The Road to Wellville by T. Coraghessan Boyle
Selling the Lite of Heaven by Suzanne StrempekShea
Thank You for Smoking by Christopher Buckley
Wise Children by Angela Carter

If you liked the movie, try the book!

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Dances with Wolves by Michael Blake
Forrest Gump by Winston Groom
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Road to Wellville by T. Coraghessan Boyle
Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally

Danielle Steel

Collins, Jackie
Collins, Joan
Conran, Shirley
Greber, Judith
Harris, Ruth
Kells, Susannah
Mann, Catherine
McCullough, Colleen
Michael, Judith
Mortman, Doris
Quinn, Sally
Thayer, Nancy
Villars, Elizabeth

Kathleen Woodiwiss

Bickmore, Barbara
Blake, Jennifer
Brandewyne, Rebecca
Brown, Sandra
Busbee, Shirlee
Delinsky, Barbara
Garlock, Dorothy
Garwood, Julie
Hart, Catherine
Hylton, Sara
Matthews, Patricia
Norman, Hilary
Sheldon, Sidney
Wilde, Jennifer

Animal Stories

Adams, Richard
Adamson, Lydia
Benchley, Peter
Braun, Lilian Jackson
Brown, Rita Mae
Caras, Roger A.
Conant, Susan J.
Douglas, Carole Nelson
Francis, Dick
Herriot, James
London, Jack
Shoemaker, Bill
Webb, Peggy
Webster, Elizabeth

Cat Stories

Adamson, Lydia
Amory, Cleveland
Braun, Lilian Jackson
Brown, Rita Mae
Douglas, Carole Nelson
Friedman, Kinky
Gethers, Peter
Greenberg, Martin H.
Hahn, Harriet
Norton, Andre

Civil War Fiction

Action at Aquila by Hervey Allen
Sherman's March by Cynthia Bass
A Death in Bulloch Parish by Nat Brandt
A Bright Tragic Thing by L.D. Clark
Swept Away by Phoebe Conn
Starbuck Chronicles (series) by Bernard Cornwell
While Angels Dance by Ralph W. Cotton
Ain't Goin' to Glory by David Delman
A Southern Woman by Elena Yates Eulo
The Raider by Jesse Hill Ford
Jim Mundy by Robert H. Fowler
The Civil War Stories of Harold Frederic by Harold Frederic
Run Me a River by Janice Holt Giles
Confederacy of the Dead by Richard Gilliam
Shadow on the Valley by Kirk Mitchell
Appomattox Saga (series) by Gilbert Morris
Banished Children of Eve by Peter Quinn
In My Father's House by Ann Rinaldi
Glory Enough for All by Duane P. Schultz
The Passionate Rebel by Frank G. Slaughter
The Guns of the South by Harry Turtledove
So Red the Rose by Stark Young

Stephen King

Andrews, V. C.
Barker, Clive
Cadnum, Michael
Duane, Diane
Grant, Charles L.
Herbert, James
Koontz, Dean R.
McCammon, Robert R.
Powers, Tim
Rice, Anne
Straub, Peter
Yarbro, Chelsea

Robin Cook

Recycled by Jo Bailey
Double Blind by David Laing Dawson
Doctor on Trial by Henry Denker
A Deadly Practice by Leonard S.Goldberg
A Clinic for Murder by Marsha Landreth
Proceed With Caution by Pat Leonard
Nothing Lasts Forever by Sidney Sheldon
Surgeon's Choice by Frank G. Slaughter
The Magic Bullet by Harry Stein
The Select by F. Paul Wilson

Mysteries Featuring Animals

Adamson, Lydia
Allen, Garrison
Benjamin, Carol Lea
Berenson, Laurien
Braun, Lilian Jackson
Brown, Rita Mae
Cleary, Melissa
Conant, Susan J.
Crum, Laura
Douglas, Carole Nelson
Jaffe, Jody
Lanier, Virginia

English Mysteries

Allingham, Margery
Dexter, Colin
Donald, Anabel
Gash, Jonathan
George, Elizabeth
Granger, Ann
Hart, Roy
Hill, Reginald
McGown, Jill
Mortimer, John Clifford
Moyes, Patricia
Perry, Anne
Robinson, Peter
Ross, Kate
Simpson, Dorothy

Irish Writers

Beckett, Samuel
Behan, Brendan
Binchy, Dan
Binchy, Maeve
Joyce, James
Moore, Brian
O'Brien, Edna
O'Casey, Sean
O'Connor, Frank
O'Faolain, Sean
O'Flaherty, Liam
Synge, J. M.
Wilde, Oscar
Yeats, W. B.

Hispanic Authors

Allende, Isabel
Anaya, Rudolfo A.
Alvarez, Julia
Borges, JorgeLuis
Cisneros, Sandra
Esquivel, Laura
Fuentes, Carlos
Hijuelos, Oscar Vargas
Llosa, Mario
Lorca, Federico Garcia
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia
Menchu, Rigoberta
Neruda, Pablo
Paz, Octavio

Contemporary Romance

Beauman, Sally
Bradford, Barbara Taylor
Brown, Sandra
Chamberlain, Diane
Collins, Jackie
Collins, Joan
Krantz, Judith
Krentz, Jayne Ann
Michaels, Fern
Norman, Hilary
Roberts, Nora
Stone, Katherine
Trump, Ivana
Waller, Robert James

Family Sagas

Cameron Family Saga by Heather Graham
Courtneys of Africa by Wilbur A. Smith
Floridians by Ann O'Connell Rust
Forsyte Chronicles by John Galsworthy
Generations Trilogy by John E. Gardner
Georgian Saga by Jean Plaidy
House of Niccolo by Dorothy Dunnett
House of Winslow by Gilbert Morris
Kent Family Chronicles by John Jakes
Kirov Saga by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Sea Adventures

Conrad, Joseph
Forester, C. S.
Hall, James Norman
Hennessy, Max
Hough, Richard
Kent, Alexander
MacLean, Alistair
McCutchan, Philip
Melville, Herman
Nordhoff, Charles
O'Brian, Patrick
Reeman, Douglas
Suthren, Victor

Vietnam War Fiction

Rebel Powers by Richard Bausch
Storm Flight by Mark Berent
On Distant Ground by Robert Olen Butler
Ghostrider One by Gerry Carroll
Paradise of the Blind by Thu Huong Duong
Flower Shadows by Terry Farish
The Last Klick by Robert Flynn,
Point of Impact by Stephen Hunter
In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

Sidney Sheldon

Amiel, Joseph
Anderson, Patrick
Beauman, Sally
Booth, Pat
Conran, Shirley
Dunne, Dominick
Ellis, Julie
Isaacs, Susan
Korda, Michael
Krantz, Judith
Masterton, Graham
Robbins, Harold
St. James, Ian
Wallace, Irving

Southern Novelists

Bradley, John Ed
Conroy, Pat
Edgerton, Clyde
Faulkner, William
Gaines, Ernest J.
Godwin, Gail
Hurston, Zora Neale
Mason, Bobbie Ann
McCorkle, Jill
Siddons, Anne Rivers
Styron, William
Walker, Alice
Warren, Robert Penn
Welty, Eudora

Tom Clancy

Ambler, Eric
Anthony, Evelyn
Archer, Jeffrey
Brown, Dale
Cussler, Clive
Follett, Ken
Forsyth, Frederick
Gardner, John E.
Hall, Adam
Higgins, Jack
Ludlum, Robert
Pollock, J. C.
Sanders, Lawrence
Thomas, Craig

John Grisham

Bernhardt, William
Brandon, Jay
Grippando, James M.
Hartzmark, Gini
Kahn, Michael A.
Kincaid, D.
Levine, Paul J.
Martini, Steven P.
Matera, Lia
Reed, Barry
Rosenberg, Nancy T.
Stockley, Grif
Turow, Scott
Wilhelm, Kate

Psychological Suspense

Carr, Robyn
Cornwell, Patricia
Diehl, William
George, Elizabeth
Highsmith, Patricia
Kellerman, Jonathan
Klavan, Andrew
Patterson, James
Pearson, Ridley
Rendell, Ruth
Sandford, John
Walters, Minette
White, StephenWalsh
Zimmerman, R. D.

True Crime

Bledsoe, Jerry
Buchanan, Edna
Graysmith, Robert
O'Brien, Darcy
Olsen, Jack
Provost, Gary
Ressler, Robert K.
Rule, Ann
Schutze, Jim
Schwartz-Nobel, Loretta
Wambaugh, Joseph

Travel Adventures

Buffett, Jimmy
Clarke, Terence
Clavell, James
Cleary, Jon
Crichton, Michael
Day, A. Grove
Forester, C. S.
Keith, Agnes Newton
MacLean, Alistair
Masters, John
Maugham, W. Somerset
Michener, James
Reeman, Douglas
Shute, Nevil
Theroux, Paul

Books About Florida

Brown, Loren "Totch"
Coyle, Beverly
Crews, Harry
Douglas, Marjory Stoneman
Hall, James W.
Hiaasen, Carl
Hurston, ZoraNeale
MacDonald, John D.
MacGregor, T. J.
Matthiessen, Peter
Pratt, Theodore
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan
Rust, Ann O'Connell
Smith, Patrick D.
White, Randy Wayne

Terry McMillan

Ansa, Tina McElroy
Campbell, Bebe Moore
Cartier, Xam Wilson
Chase-Riboud, Barbara
Cooper, J. California
Ellis, Trey
George, Nelson
Golden, Marita
Harris, E. Lynn
Marshall, Paule
Morrison, Toni
Naylor, Gloria
Rhodes, Jewell Parker
Walker, Alice

Christian Fiction

Bly, Stephen A.
Bunn, T. Davis
Crow, Donna Fletcher
Girzone, Joseph F.
Karon, Jan
LaHaye, Tim
Morris, Gilbert
Oke, Janette
Peart, Jane
Pella, Judith
Peretti, Frank E.
Phillips, Michael R.
Thoene, Bodie
Wick, Lori

Agatha Christie

Beaton, M. C.
Braun, Lilian Jackson
Hall, Mary Bowen
Hardwick, Mollie
Harris, Charlaine
Hart, Carolyn G.
McShea, Susanna Hofmann
Meier, Leslie
Page, Katherine Hall
Pickard, Nancy
Rich, Virginia
Rowe, Jennifer
Sawyer, Corinne Holt
Sprinkle, Patricia Houck

Mysteries featuring the Middle Ages

Doherty, P. C.
Eco, Umberto
Eyre, Elizabeth
Frazer, Margaret
Grace, C. L.
Harding, Paul
Robb, Candace M.
Sedley, Kate

Fantasy

Anthony, Piers
Blaylock, James P.
Bradley, Marion Zimmer
Brust, Steven
Eddings, David
Jordan, Robert
Kerr, Katharine
Lackey, Mercedes
Lee, Tanith
Pratchett, Terry
Rawn, Melanie
Tarr, Judith
Weis, Margaret
Williams, Tad

Science Fiction

Anderson, Poul
Bear, Greg
Benford, Gregory
Card, Orson Scott
Cherryh, C. J.
McHugh, Maureen
Niven, Larry
Pohl, Frederik
Robinson, Kim Stanley
Stephenson, Neal
Vinge, Vernor
Willis, Connie
Zelazny, Roger

Joseph Wambaugh

Buchanan, Edna
Caunitz, William J.
Daley, Robert
Dexter, Colin
Heffernan, William
Hiaasen, Carl
Hill, Reginald
Hillerman, Tony
Jance, Judith A.
Leuci, Bob
Oster, Jerry
Smith, Martin Cruz
Uhnak, Dorothy

Elmore Leonard

Baxt, George
Bayer, William
Buchanan, Edna
Coughlin, William
Dexter, Pete
Diehl, William
Freemantle, Brian
Hiaasen, Carl
Izzi, Eugene
Katzenbach, John
Thomas, Ross
Vachss, Andrew H.
West, Morris L.
White, Randy Wayne

Robert B. Parker

Constantine, K. C.
Craig, Philip R.
Crais, Robert
Grimes, Martha
Hall, James W.
Harvey, John
Higgins, George V.
Irvine, Robert B.
Lewin, Michael Z.
Macdonald, Ross
Roberts, Les
Valin, Jonathan
Womack, Steven
Wren, M. K.

Sue Grafton

Cornwell, Patricia
Cross, Amanda
D'Amato, Barbara
Fraser, Antonia
Hess, Joan
Lamb, J. Dayne
MacLeod, Charlotte
Melville, Jennie
Morice, Anne
O'Donnell, Lillian
O'Marie, Carol Anne
Peters, Elizabeth
Roosevelt, Elliott
Taylor, Elizabeth Atwood