2014
WiIlliamsport Public Library
By Christopher Brown, MLS
Director
WWTPL Reader’s Advisory
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Contents
Contents .......................................................................................................................................... 0 Adventure ........................................................................................................................................ 2 Cracked Classics / Regency Mashups............................................................................................. 2
Fantasy ............................................................................................................................................ 3 Gentle Read ..................................................................................................................................... 4 Historical Fiction ............................................................................................................................ 5 Horror .............................................................................................................................................. 6 Literary Fiction ............................................................................................................................... 7
Mystery ........................................................................................................................................... 8 Cozy Mysteries ........................................................................................................................... 8
Amateur Detective ...................................................................................................................... 8 Police Procedural ........................................................................................................................ 8 Private Investigator ..................................................................................................................... 8
Psychological Suspense .................................................................................................................. 9
Romance ......................................................................................................................................... 9 Adventure .................................................................................................................................... 9 Contemporary ............................................................................................................................. 9
Fantasy ...................................................................................................................................... 10 Futuristic ................................................................................................................................... 10
Gentle ........................................................................................................................................ 10 Historical ................................................................................................................................... 11
Horror ........................................................................................................................................ 11 Humor ....................................................................................................................................... 12
Inspirational .............................................................................................................................. 12 Mystery ..................................................................................................................................... 13 Regency..................................................................................................................................... 13
Science Fiction .......................................................................................................................... 13 Thriller ...................................................................................................................................... 13
Time Travel ............................................................................................................................... 13 Western ..................................................................................................................................... 14
Romantic Suspense ................................................................................................................... 14
Science Fiction .............................................................................................................................. 15 Dystopia .................................................................................................................................... 16 Steampunk................................................................................................................................. 16
Suspense ........................................................................................................................................ 17 Thriller .......................................................................................................................................... 18
Legal ......................................................................................................................................... 18 Medical/Scientific ..................................................................................................................... 18 Political/Corporate/Financial .................................................................................................... 18
Crime/Caper .............................................................................................................................. 19 Espionage .................................................................................................................................. 19
Techno....................................................................................................................................... 19 Westerns ........................................................................................................................................ 20 Women's Lives and Relationships ................................................................................................ 21
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Adventure
Dan Brown
Steve Berry
Dale Brown
Edgar R. Burroughs
Stephen J. Cannell
James F. Cooper
James O. Curwood
Clive Cussler
P. T. Deutermann
Dorothy Dunnett
Michael W. Gear
Robert Girardi
W. E. B. Griffin
Jack Higgins
Will W. Johnstone
Jack London
Eric Van Lustbader
Alistair MacLean
Richard Marcinko
Bob Mayer
James A. Michener
Kerry Newcomb
Patrick O'Brian
David Poyer
Wilbur Smith
Cracked Classics / Regency Mashups
Seth Grahame-Smith
Ben H. Winters
Amanda Grange
Sherri Browning Erwin
Steve Hockensmith
Vera Nazarian
Lynn Messina
Adam Roberts
Porter Grand
Claudia Gabel
William R. Forstchen
W. Bill Czolgosz
Alan Goldsher
Nick S. Thomas
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Fantasy
Douglas Adams
Poul Anderson
Mark Anthony
Piers Anthony
Isaac Asimov
Robert Lynn Asprin
Dale Bailey
Frank L. Baum
Michael Bishop
Terry Brooks
Jim Butcher
Orson Scott Card
Jack Dann
Stephen R. Donaldson
David Eddings
Raymond E. Feist
Jasper Fforde
Eric Flint
Alan Dean Foster
Neil Gaiman
Terry Goodkind
Barbara Hambley
Harry Harrison
Robert A. Heinlein
Frank Herbert
Robin Hobb
Brian Jacques
Robert Jordan
Mercedes Lackey
C. S. Lewis
Anne McCaffrey
Gregory Maguire
George R. R. Martin
Lee Modesitt Jr.
Terry Pratchett
Philip Pullman
J. R. R. Tolkien
J. K. Rowling
Roger Zelazny
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Gentle Read
Mitch Albom
Nancy Atherton
H. E. Bates
Charlene Baumbich
Elizabeth Cadell
Jennifer Chiaverini
Catherine Cookson
A. J. Cronin
Jane Duncan
Clyde Edgerton
Richard Paul Evans
Fannie Flagg
Rose Franken
Paul Gallico
Dorothy Gilman
Elizabeth Goudge
Philip Gulley
Rick Hamlin
Eva Ibbotson
Jerry B. Jenkins
Jan Karon
Terry Kay
Garrison Keillor
Joan Medlicott
Rosamund Pilcher
Miss Read
Ann B. Ross
Nicholas Sparks
D. E. Stevenson
Eudora Welty
Lori Wick
Steven W. Wise
P. G. Wodehouse
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Historical Fiction
James Michener
Edward Rutherford
Patrick O'Brian
John Jakes
Louis L'Amour
Jane Smiley
Bernard Cornwell
Jeanne Williams
Dorothy Dunnet
Rosalind Laker
Catherine Cookson
Diana Gabaldon
Anne Perry
Howard Fast
Jean Auel
Rosanne Bittner
Phillipa Carr
James Clavell
William Stuart Long
Phillip McCutchan
Malcolm MacDonald
Larry McMurtry
James Michener
Jean Plaidy
Belva Plain
Patricia Potter
Eugenia Price
Judith Merkle Riley
Alexandra Ripley
Lucia St. Clair Robson
Dana Fuller Ross
Edward Rutherfurd
William Sarabande
Jeff Shaara
Wilbur A. Smith
Alternate History Harry Turtledove
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Horror
V. C. Andrews
Clive Barker
Nigel Bennett
Peter Benchley
Robert Bloch
Ramsey Campbell
John Farris
Charles Grant
Muriel Gray
Laurell K. Hamilton C
Thomas Harris
Nathaniel Hawthorne
James Herbert
Tom Holland
James Hynes
Stephen King
Jeanne Kalogridis
Stephen King
Andrew Klavan
Dean R. Koontz
Richard Laymon
Brian Lumley
Graham Masterson
Susie Moloney
Brent Monahan
Andrew Neiderman
Edgar Allen Poe
Douglas Preston
Anne Rice
John Saul
Dan Simmons
Bram Stoker
Peter Straub
Whitley Strieber
Chelsea Quinn Yarbo
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Literary Fiction
Isabel Allende
Margaret Atwood
John Barth
Saul Bellow
Chris Bohjalian
J. M. Coetzee
Pat Conroy
George Eliot
William Faulkner
Kaye Gibbons
David Guterson
Sara Gruen
Jane Hamilton
Joanne Harris
Peter Hoeg
Alice Hoffman
John Irving
James Joyce
Barbara Kingsolver
Wally Lamb
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Toni Morrison
Flannery O'Connor
Joyce Carol Oates
Arturo Perez-Reverte
Jodi Picoult
Richard Powers
Thomas Pynchon
Anne Rivers Siddons
Anita Shreve
Jane Smiley
William Styron
Amy Tan
Anne Tyler
John Updike
Kurt Vonnegut
David Wroblewski
Tom Wolfe
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Mystery
Cozy Mysteries
Susan Wittig Albert
Nancy Atherton
Rhys Bowen
Emily Brightwell
Jo Dereske
Sharon Kahn
Tamar Myers
Alexander McCall Smith & Lou Jane Temple
Amateur Detective
M.C. Beaton
Alan Bradley
Janet Evanovich
Lisa Lutz
Joanna Fluke
Diane Mott Davidson
J. A. Konrath
Police Procedural
Michael Connelly
Elizabeth George
Jo Nesbo
Dick Wolf
William Landay
Private Investigator
Sue Grafton Agatha Christie
Robert B. Parker J.A. Jance
Robert Crais P. D. James
Sara Paretsky Dick Francis
Lawrence Block Ed McBain
Linda Barnes John D. MacDonald
Marcia Muller James Lee Burke
Laura Lippman Dennis Lehane
Walter Mosley
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Psychological Suspense
Ruth Rendell
Henry James
Thomas H. Cook
Paul Graves
J. P. Smith
John Fowles
Paul Griner
Patricia Highsmith
Jane Hitchcock
Minette Walters
Robert Godard
Lisa Gardner
Stephen Dobyns
Patricia Carlon
Scott Smith
Joyce Carol Oates
Thomas Harris
Dean R. Koontz
David Morrell
Gillian Flynn
Blake Crouch
Romance
Adventure
Elizabeth Lowell
Loretta Chase
Contemporary
Jennifer Blake
Ursula Bloom
Sandra Brown
Elizabeth Cadell
Jackie Collins
Catherine Coulter
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Janet Dailey
Julie Ellis
Linda Howard
E.L. James
Iris Johansen
Jayne Ann Krentz
Emilie Loring
Elizabeth Lowell
Judith McNaught
Diana Palmer
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Emilie Richards
Nora Roberts
LaVyrle Spencer
Katherine Stone
Anne Stuart
Fantasy
Rebecca Brandewyne
Jessica Bryan
Kathryn Lynn Davis
Barbara Freethy
Betina Lindsey
Kathleen Morgan
Maura Seger
Maggie Shayne
Futuristic
Anne Avery
Marilyn Campbell
Jayne Castle
Justine Davis
Saranne Dawson
Jayne Ann Krentz
Kathleen Morgan
J. D. Robb
Pam Rock
Flora M. Speer
Gentle
Debbie Macomber
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Historical
Evelyn Anthony
Jill Barnett
Pamela Belle
Jo Beverley
Rebecca Brandewyne
Taylor Caldwell
Robyn Carr
Elizabeth Chadwick
Elaine Coffman
Catherine Cookson
Thomas Bertram Costain
Jude Deveraux
Christina Dodd
J. Suzanne Frank
Dorothy Garlock
Julie Garwood
Roberta Gellis
Heather Graham
Pamela Hill
Ceceia Holland
Victoria Holt
M. M. Kaye
Susan King
Mary Lide
Johanna Lindsey
Morgan Llywelyn
Nora Lofts
Edison Marshall
Diana Palmer
Jean Plaidy
Mary Jo Putney
Rafael Sabatini
Anya Seton
Janelle Taylor
Frank Yerby
Horror
Susan Krinard Stephanie Meyer Karina Halle Christine Feehan
Cassandra Clare Heather Graham Becca Fitzpatrick
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Humor
Jennifer Crusie
Rachel Gibson
Janet Evanovich
Inspirational
June Masters Backer
Lisa Tawn Bergren
Terri Blackstock
Lawana Blackwell
T. Davis Bunn
Wanda Brunssetter
Phillip Gulley
Robin Hardy
Robin Lee Hatcher
Dee Henderson
Patricia Hickman
Grace Livingston Hill
Ruth Livingston Hill
Jerry Jenkins
Jan Karon
Kathleen Karr
Karen Kingsbury
Tim LaHaye
Beverly Lewis
Emilie Baker Loring
George MacDonald
Catherine Marshall
Gilbert Morris
Janette Oke
Catherine Palmer
Jane Peart
Michael R. Phillips
Francine Rivers
Lauraine Snelling
Bodie Thoene
Agnes Sligh Turnbull
James Walker
Marian Wells
Robert Whitlow
Lori Wick
Lance Wubbels
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Mystery
Alice Chetwynd Ley
Jennifer Crusie
Regency
Berbara Metzger
Amanda Quick
Patricia Veryan
Jane Feather
Kasey Michaels
Christina Skye
Science Fiction
Jayne Castle
Justine Davis
Lisa Mason
Ann Maxwell
Kathleen Morgan
J. D. Robb
Thriller
Judith A. Lansdowne
Patricia Veryan
Time Travel
Madeline Baker Becky Lee Weyrich
Janice Bennett Eugenia Riley
Jede Deveraux Constance O'Day-Flannery
Diana Gabaldon Linda Lael Miller
Sandra Heath Flora M. Speer
Susan Sizemore
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Western
Catherine Anderson
Rexanne Becnel
Rosanne Bittner
Rebecca Brandewyne
Deborah Camp
Lori Copeland
Catherine Coulter
Janet Dailey
Jude Deveraux
Kathleen Eagle
Dorothy Garlock
Julie Garwood
Lorraine
Heath
Shirl Henke
Johanna Lindsey
Linda Lael Miller
Patricia Potter
Patricia Rice
Non Ryan
Janelle Taylor
Romantic Suspense
Joan Aiken Daphne du Maurier
Evelyn Anthony Catherine Coulter Heather Graham
Sandra Brown Monique Ellis Tami Hoag
Catherine Gaskin Mary Higgins Clark Victoria Holt
Linda Howard
Iris Johansen
Judith Lansdown
Caroline Llewellyn
Elizabeth Lowell
Barbara Michaels Pozzessere
Ann Maxwell Mary Stewart
Elizabeth Peters Patricia Veryan
Karen Robards Phyllis A. Whitney
Nora Roberts Sherryl Woods
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Science Fiction
Isaac Asimov
Harlan Ellison
Ursula K. LeGuin
Robert A. Heinlein
Philip K. Dick
Orson Scott Card
Connie Willis
Kim Stanley Robinson
Ursula LeGuin
Brian Aldiss
Frank Herbert
Roger Zelazny
Robert Silverberg
Gene Wolfe
A. C. Crispin
Lois McMaster Bujold
David Weber
Peter David
Barbara Hambly
Piers Anthony
David Brin
Octavia Butler
Kate Wilhelm
Mary Doria Russell
Greg Bear
Larry Niven David Mack
Sherri S. Tepper Robert Charles Wilson
Arthur C. Clarke Frederik Pohl
Dan Simmons Anne McCaffrey
William Gibson Jack Finney
Neal Stephenson Christie Golden
Jeff Noon C. S. Lewis
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Dystopia
C.S. Lewis H. G. Wells Franz Kafka
Ray Bradbury George Orwell Aldous Huxley
Kurt Vonnegut William Golding Ayn Rand
John Christopher Robert A. Heinlein William S. Burroughs
Alan Moore S. M. Stirling Philip K. Dick
Malorie Blackman
Margaret Atwood
Scott Westerfeld
James Dashner
Scott Westerfeld
Samantha Shannon
Veronica Roth
Marie Lu
Suzanne Collins
Justin Cronin
Lauren Oliver
Margaret Peterson
Haddix
Steampunk
Tim Powers Neal Stephenson
William Gibson Scott Westerfeld
Bruce Sterling Philip Pullman
Stephen Hunt China Miéville
Philip Reeve Jules Verne
K. W. Jeter Cherie Priest
Chris Wooding Gail Carriger
H.G. Wells Mary Shelley
Michael Moorcock
Diana Wynne Jones
James P. Blaylock
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Suspense
Softer-Edged Suspense - this overlaps with Romantic Suspense or
Christian Suspence
Mary Higgins Clark
Ted Dekker
Joy Fielding
Patricia J. MacDonald
Michael Allegretto
Frank Peretti
Jonellen Heckler
Mary Jane Clark
Lisa Gardner
Bonnie MacDougal
Phillip Shelby
Hard-Edged Suspense - this overlaps with Adventure, Thriller and True
Crime James Patterson
Thomas Harris
John Sandford
Jeffery Deaver
David Wiltse
Thomas Perry
Greg Iles
Harlan Coben
Craig Holden
Andrew Klavan
Jack Higgins
Daniel Silva
William Bernhardt
Jeffry Archer
Andrew Gross
Linda Fairstein
Blake Crouch
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Thriller
Paul Lavine Bonnie MacDougal
Barbara Parker Brad Meltzer
Lisa Scottoline Kile Mills
Eileen Dreyer Perri O'Shaughnessy
Brian Haig Nancy Rosenberg
Vince Flynn Barry Siegel
John LeCarre Richard North Patterson
John Lescroart Robert K. Tanenbaum
Robert Ludlum Scott Turow
Legal
John Grisham
Scott Turow
Erle Stanley Gardner
Robert Traver
William Diehl
Steve Martini
William Coughlin
Ira Genberg
Medical/Scientific
Robin Cook Eileen Dreyer
Michael Crighton Kathy Reichs
Tess Gerritsen Michael Crichton
Steve Alten John Nance
Patricia Cornwell Steven Spruill
William Boyd Ken Follett
Margaret Cuthbert Michael Palmer
Jonathan Kellerman
Political/Corporate/Financial
Linda Davies Stephen Leather Victor O'Reilly
Frederick Forsyth Jim Lehrer Stephen Frey
David Baldacci
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Crime/Caper
Carl Hiaasen
Lawrence Sanders
Lee Child
Michael Connelly
Stephen Coonts
Elmore Leonard
David Ramus
Lawrence Block
Evan Hunter
Katherine Neville
Laurence Shames
Mario Puzo
Thomas Perry
Christopher Rice
James Rollins
Pete Hautman
Espionage
Robert Ludlum
Ian Fleming
John le Carré
Helen MacInnes
Tom Clancy
John E. Gardner
Bryan Forbes
Adam Hall
Brian Freemantle
Dorothy Gilman
Robert Littell
Janice Weber
Maureen Tan
W.E.B. Griffin
Techno
Tom Clancy David Poyer Craig Thomas
Dale Brown Stephen Coonts Patrick Robinson
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Westerns
Elmer Kelton
Don Goldsmith
Loren D. Estleman
Terry C. Johnston
Will Henry
Owen Wister
Max Brand
Elmore Leonard
Louis L'Amour
Zane Grey
Matthew Braun
Richard Parry
Larry McMurtry
Richard S. Wheeler
Nicholas Evans
Al Cody
Ernest Haycox
Alan LeMay
Giles Lutz
Luke Short
Clifton Adams
Sam Brown
Richard Clarke
A. G. Guthrie
Will Henry
Elmer Kelton
Gary McCarthy
Lewis B. Patten
Jack Schaefer
Jonas Ward
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Women's Lives and Relationships
Richard Peck
Rebecca Wells
Danielle Steel
Fern Michaels
LaVyrle Spencer
Barbara Delinsky
Catherine Cooksons
Terry McMillan
Maeve Binchy
Anna Quindlen
Patricia Gaffney
Elinor Lipman
Susan Sussman
Helen Fielding
Kaye Gibbon
Rosamunde Pilcher
Alice Hoffman
Barbara Chepaitis
Barbara Whitnell
Sarah Woodhouse
Kristin Hannah
Joanna Trollope
Mary Wesley
Elizabeth Berg
Jodi Picoult
Diane Chamberlain
Anne Rivers Siddons
Nancy Thayer
Margaret Drabble
Arthur Golden
Amy Tan
Edwidge Danticat
Barbara Taylor Bradford
Belva Plain
Jill McCorkle
Susan Isaacs
Anita Shreve
Jacqueline Mitchard
Toni Morrison
Anne Tyler
Kathleen Gilles Seidel