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Fiction

Newest "Fiction" Lists

11 Long-Neglected Candidates for Adventurous Book Clubs

10 of the Best Books Set in India (with its Multitudinous Mysteries)

The Best Book Club Selections of 2009 as chosen by Women Book Bloggers

Back to School: Campus Novels

Favorite Reissues of Neglected Books

Personal Favorites

Literary Fiction Picks from Alex Geana

Some Favorite Books of Gotham Gal

Clarisse Perrette's Favorite Novels

Darcy Lewis' Favorite Fiction

Ernie Chen's Favorite Fiction

Ed Bomze's Favorite Fiction

Hal Steinberg's Favorite Novels

Peter Steinberg's Favorite Novels

Series

John Updike's "Rabbit" Series

Ferrol Sams' "Run With the Horsemen" Trilogy

Armistead Maupin's "Tales of the City" Series

Every Book by...

Every Novel by Chuck Palahniuk — Author of Fight Club

Every Book by Nick Hornby

Every Book by Jhumpa Lahiri

Book Club Recommendations

Book Club Recommendations: The Most Popular Reads of 2008

Book Club Recommendations from the Union Square Reading Group

Oprah's Book Club

Award Winners

The Spur Awards

Pulitzer Prize Winners for Fiction

Best of...

The Best Books of P.G. Wodehouse

The New York Times' 5 Best Books of 2008 (Fiction)

Salon.com's Favorite Fiction of 2007

John Irving's Best Books

All The Rest...

"Lost Classics" as suggested by Melanie Rehak

The "Top 5 Favorite Books" list from High Fidelity

10 Books That'll Make You Wish Your Flight Would Never End

The 10 Funniest Books According to ABE's British Customers

The 10 Most "Challenged" Books of 2008

10 of the Best Books Set in India (with its Multitudinous Mysteries)

11 Long-Neglected Candidates for Adventurous Book Clubs

21 Great Books with Just-As-Great Movie Versions

5 Killer Reads. Serial Killer, That Is.

6 Books (by Current Authors) That Knock My Socks Off

The 9 Favorite Novels of the Harvard Book Store Staff

Arturo Perez-Reverte: Everything in Translation

Australian Fiction That Has Shaped Me

Back to School: Campus Novels

The Best 21st Century Fictions out of Canada

The Best Book Club Selections of 2009 as chosen by Women Book Bloggers

The Best Novels About WASPs

Best of Irish Writers, Then and Now

The Best Short Stories I've Read This Year

Blanket Books: Fiction for Under the Covers

Book Club Recommendations for Book Clubs that Really Discuss the Books

Books for the Serious Jane Austen Fan

Books in 140's Favorite Reads of 2008

Books Narrated By Killers

Books That Journey into Darkness

Books That Taught Me to Like the Subway Again

Books That Will Make You Hug Your Kids... Tightly

Books That'll Make You Cry Like a Baby

The Books They Read on TV's Mad Men

Brevity is the Soul of Wit: Recommended Short Story Collections

Call Me Crazy, Call Me True: Madness We Can All Relate To

The Chocolate and Peanut Butter of Noir and Speculative Fiction

A Collection of Books on Sorrow and Loss

Creepy Houses That Must Be Explored

Ductless Glands and Viscera: The Many Strange Forms of the Body As I See Them Through Fiction

Epistolary Novels

Fan Fiction for Adults: The Best in Parallel Literature

Favorite Reissues of Neglected Books

The Fiction of Ayn Rand

First of the Best: American Female P.I. Novels

First of the Best: British Police Detective Series

Glimpses of the Afterlife

Great (Mostly) Novels on Sex and Love

Great Books About Magicians or Circuses

Great Novels with Important Lessons for Leaders

Hero Debuts That Will Have You Hooked

Hey, Women! Chick Lit Before There Was Chick Lit

I Want to Live Forever: An Immortality Reading List

In Honor of Darwin, A Menagerie of Species

Is It Better to be British? Some of the Best Books Britain Has to Offer

Kate Ross's "Julian Kestrel" Mysteries

A Large Handful of Novels About World War II

Literary Thrillers for the Book Lover

Nordic Noir

Norman Mailer's 10 Favorite American Novels

Novels that Rock

Raymond Chandler's L.A. Noir

Shakespeare in Fiction

Terrifying Inspiration from The King of Horror: Some Books of Stephen King

The Things We Do For Love

Undertaker and Funeral Home Mysteries

Vampire Novels To Sink Your Teeth Into

Welcome Back: Books That Are Like Going Home Again

What 52Books is Reading in 2009

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