North America

Library Suggestions (these are guidelines only- you can choose other books)

Bill Bryson - The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

Truman Capote - In Cold Blood

Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep

Michael Connelly - The Lincoln Lawyer

Patrick DeWitt - The Sisters Brothers

David Ebershoff - The 19th Wife

Nicholas Evans - The Horse Whisperer

F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby

Joseph Heller - Catch-22

Stephen King - Carrie

Mary Lawson - The Other Side of the Bridge

Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird

Jack London - The Call of the Wild

Margaret Mitchell - Gone with the Wind

Toni Morrison - Beloved

Annie Proulx - The Shipping News

J. D. Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye

Kathryn Stockett - The Help

Anne Tyler - Digging to America

Robert James Waller - The Bridges of Madison County


Teen Reads

Laurie Halse Anderson - Chains

Jeff Kinney - Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Theresa Breslin - Prisoner in Alcatraz