BGB Title List
Updated September 18, 2016
Chinua Achebe, Things fall apart
Sherman Alexie, The absolutely true diary of
a part-time Indian YA
Steve Almond, Candyfreak
Julia Alvarez, In the time of the butterflies
Maya Angelou, I know why the caged bird
sings
Katherine Applegate, Home of the brave YA
Margaret Atwood, The handmaid’s tale
Jane Austen, Pride and prejudice
Fredrik Backman, A man called Ove
Jo Baker, Longbourn
David Baldacci, Wish you well
Ann Bancroft, No horizon is so far
Muriel Barbery, The elegance of the
hedgehog
Wilton Barnhardt, Lookaway, lookaway
David Benioff, City of thieves
Elizabeth Berg, We are all welcome here
Maeve Binchy, A week in winter
Clara Bingham, Class action
R.D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone
Deborah Blum, The poisoner's handbook
Jenna Blum, Those who save us
T. Coraghessan Boyle, The tortilla curtain
Kevin Brockmeier, The brief history of the
dead
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Geraldine Brooks, Year of wonders; People of
the book
Daniel James Brown, The boys in the boat
Pearl S. Buck, The good earth
Susan Cain, Quiet: the power of introverts in
a world that can’t stop talking
Caleb Carr, The alienist
Willa Cather, O Pioneers!
Julia Child, My life in France
Suzanne Collins, The hunger games YA
Bryce Courtenay, The power of one
Stephen Crane, The red badge of courage YA
Donna W. Cross, Pope Joan
Jennifer L. Davidson, Crossing Carol
Anita Diamant, The red tent
Charles Dickens, A Christmas carol
Emma Donoghue, Room; Frog music
Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca
P.S. Duffy, The cartographer of no man’s
land
Firoozeh Dumas, Funny in Farsi
Thomas Eberhard, A distant world beckons:
embracing the mystical
Robert M. Edsel, The monuments men
Kim Edwards, The memory keeper’s daughter
Timothy Egan, The worst hard time
Elissa Elliott, Eve
J. Lynn Else, The Forgotten: Aten's last queen
Louise Erdrich, The plague of doves
Amanda Farmer, If you leave this farm
Nancy Farmer, The house of the scorpion YA
Zoë Ferraris, Finding Nouf
Nathan Filer, The shock of the fall
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The great Gatsby
Jamie Ford, Hotel on the corner of bitter and
sweet
C.J. Fosdick, Blossoms and blizzards; The
accidental wife
Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain
Gregory A. Freeman, Lay this body down: the
1921 murders of eleven plantation slaves
Kami Garcia, Beautiful creatures YA
Melissa Fay Greene, No biking in the house
without a helmet
John Grisham, The innocent man
Sara Gruen, Water for elephants
Heather Gudenkauf, The weight of silence
Ted Gup, A secret gift: how one man's
kindness – and a trove of letters – revealed
the hidden history of the Great Depression
Mark Haddon, The curious incident of the
dog in the night-time YA
Meg Hafdahl, Twisted reveries
Masha Hamilton, The camel bookmobile
Lorraine Hansberry, A raisin in the sun
Erika Hayasaki, The death class
Nicole Helget, The summer of ordinary ways
Lawrence Hill, Someone knows my name
Sheri Holman, The dress lodger
Nancy Horan, Loving Frank
Tony Horwitz, Confederates in the attic
Khaled Hosseini, The kite runner
Kazuo Ishiguro, Never let me go
Carolyn Jourdan, Heart in the right place
Laurie Jueneman, Climbing the Mount
Everest of depression: a story of hope,
recovery, and inspiration
Michael Kalmbach, The Caldarian conflict
Garrison Keillor, A Christmas blizzard
Kathleen Kent, The heretic’s daughter
Piper Kerman, Orange is the new black
Sue Monk Kidd, The secret life of bees
Tracy Kidder, Mountains beyond mountains
Haven Kimmel, A girl named Zippy
Lily King, Euphoria
Barbara Kingsolver, The bean trees
Phil Klay, Redeployment
Christina Baker Kline, Orphan train
Dean R. Koontz, Odd Thomas
Jonathan Kozol, Letters to a young teacher
John Krackauer, Into the wild
Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the sky: turning
oppression into opportunity for women
worldwide
William Kent Krueger, Ordinary grace
Ellen Krug, Getting to Ellen
Jean Kwok, Girl in translation
Eve LaPlante, Marmee & Louisa
Erik Larson, The devil in the White City:
murder, magic and madness at the fair
that changed America
Robert Lautner, Road to reckoning
Jenny Lawson, Let's pretend this never
happened (a mostly true memoir)
League of Women Voters, Taking the lead:
Rochester women in public policy, 19701990
Harper Lee, To kill a mockingbird; Go set a
watchman
Mara Leveritt, Devil's knot: the true story of
the West Memphis three
James Levine, The blue notebook
James Loewen, Lies my teacher told me
Mary Logue, Blood country
Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven
Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
Frances Mayes, Under the Tuscan sun
James McBride, The color of water
Frank McCourt, Angela's ashes
David G. McCullough, 1776
Ian McEwan, Saturday
Alison McGhee, Shadow baby
Paula McLain, Like family: growing up in
other people's houses
Emma McLaughlin, The nanny diaries
Elizabeth Moon, The speed of dark
Wes Moore, The other Wes Moore
Erin Morgenstern, The night circus
Liane Moriarty, Big little lies
Greg Mortensen, Three cups of tea
Kate Morton, The distant hours
JoJo Moyes, Me before you
Alice Munro, Dear life: stories
Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki
and his years of pilgrimage
Kent Nerburn, Neither wolf nor dog
Helen Oyeyemi, Boy, snow, bird
Sara Paretsky, Bleeding Kansas
Ann Patchett, State of Wonder
Per Petterson, Out stealing horses
Alan Philps, The boy from Baby House 10
Jodi Picoult, Plain truth
Chaim Potok, The chosen
Margaret Powell, Below stairs: the classic
kitchen maid's memoir that inspired
"Upstairs, downstairs" and "Downton
Abbey"
Anna Quindlen, Blessings
Vaddey Ratner, In the shadow of the banyan
Margaret Regan, The death of Josseline
Mary Roach, Packing for Mars
O.E. Rölvaag, Giants in the earth
Tatiana de Rosnay, Sarah’s Key
Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis
Monique Maria Schmidt, Last moon
dancing: a memoir of love and real life in
Africa
Alice Sebold, The lovely bones
Lisa See, Shanghai girls
Maria Semple, Where'd you go, Bernadette
Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary &
Potato Peel Pie Society
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
Jean Shepherd, In God we trust, all others
pay cash
Anita Shreve, Stella Bain
Amy Silverstein, Sick girl
Graeme C. Simsion, The Rosie project
Rebecca Skloot, The immortal life of
Henrietta Lacks
John Steinbeck, The grapes of wrath
Rick Steves, Travel as a political act
Kathryn Stockett, The help
Bram Stoker, Dracula
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s cabin
Cheryl Strayed, Wild: from lost to found on
the Pacific Crest Trail
Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge; The
Burgess boys
Faith Sullivan, The Cape Ann
Kate Summerscale, The suspicions of Mr.
Whicher
Elizabeth Dowling Taylor, A slave in the
White House: Paul Jennings and the
Madisons
Kressmann Taylor, Address unknown
J.R.R. Tolkien, The hobbit YA
Anne Tyler, The accidental tourist
Abraham Verghese, Cutting for stone
Sarah Vowell, Assassination vacation
S. L. Wallace, Price of a bounty
Jeanette Walls, Half broke horses
Eric Weiner, The geography of bliss
Andy Weir, The Martian
Nathan Whitaker, Quiet strength: a memoir
Dorothy Wickenden, Nothing daunted
Elie Wiesel, Night
Thornton Wilder, Our town, a play in three
acts
Isabel Wilkerson, The warmth of other suns:
the epic story of America’s great migration
Abbie Williams, Heart of a dove
Anthony Wilson, Mortimer: the leader within
William P. Young, The shack
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The shadow of the wind
Jeffrey Zaslow, The girls from Ames
Gabrielle Zevin, The storied life of A.J. Fikry
Jane Ziegelman, 97 Orchard
Markus Zusak, The book thief YA
YA = Young Adult book group bag