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Short Stories

• “The Day Boy and the Night Girl” by George MacDonald (short story)
• “The Student” by Anton Chekhov (short story)

#

• 100 Questions Every First-Time Home Buyer Should Ask by Ilyce Glink
• 1984 by George Orwell
• 44 Scotland Street Alexander McCall-Smith
• 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

A

• A Caldecott Celebration: Six Artists and Their Paths to the Caldecott Medal by Leonard Marcus
• A Child’s Goodnight Book by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Jean Charlot
• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
• A Circle of Quiet by Madeleine L’Engle
• A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenberg
• A is for Annabelle by Tasha Tudor
• A Modest Proposal by Jonathon Swift
• A Stranger at Green Knowe by L.M. Boston
• A to Z and In Between by Sandra Boynton
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith by Betty Smith
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
• Abraham Lincoln: A Man of Faith and Courage by Joe Wheeler
• Adventures of Pinocchio, The by Carlo Collodi
• Aesop’s Fables (1912 translation with introduction by G.K. Chesterton)
• Age of Innocence, The by Edith Wharton
• Alchemist, The by Paulo Coehlo
• All the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
• Alligators All Around by Maurice Sendak
• Alphabet Adventure by Audrey Wood and Bruce Wood
• An Edge in the Kitchen by Chad Ward
• An Enemy at Green Knowe by L.M. Boston
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• Anthem by Ayn Rand
• Arabian Nights II, The, translated by Husain Haddawy
• Arabian Nights, The translated by Husain Haddawy
• Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
• Arrival, The by Shaun Tan
• Art of Simple Food, The by Alice Waters
• Aucassin et Nicolete by an anonymous author, translated by Andrew Lang

B

• Baby Animals (A Little Golden Book)
• Baby Bear, Baby Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martine Jr. and Eric Carle
• Babylon in a Jar by Andrew Hudgins
• Baking Cakes in Kigali by Gaile Parkin
• Battle of Life, The by Charles Dickens
• Beekeeper’s Apprentice, The by Laurie R. King
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• Better by Atul Gawande
• Big Book of Words by Simms Taback
• Big Dog, Little Dog by P.D. Eastman
• Big Red Barn by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Felicia Bond
• Big Snow, The by Berta and Elmer Hader
• Black & White by Tana Hoban
• Black Book of Colors, The by Menena Cottina and Rosana Faria
• Book that Changed My Life, The by Roxanne J. Coady and Joy Johannesson
• Book Thief, The (Audiobook Review) by Markus Zusak
• Book Thief, The by Markus Zusak
• Boy Who Wouldn’t Go To Bed, The by Helen Cooper
• Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle
• But Not the Hippopotamus by Sandra Boynton

C

• Carmen by Georges Bizet (opera)
• Carmen by Prosper Merimee (novella)
• Cars and Truck and Things That Go by Richard Scarry
• Cars, Trucks and Planes/Carros, Camiones y Aviones by Gladys Rosa-Mendoza
• Castle Waiting by Linda Medley
• Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
• Chicago Poems by Carl Sandburg
• Chicago School of Architecture, The by Carl W. Condit
• Chicago: Then and Now by Elizabeth McNulty
• Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr and John Archambault
• Children of Green Knowe, The by L.M. Boston
• Chimes, The by Charles Dickens
• Christ and the New Covenant by Jeffrey R. Holland
• Christmas Poems, Everyman’s Library Edition
• Christmas Story, The from the Bible, illustrated by Gennady Spirin
• Chugga Chugga Choo Choo by Kevin Lewis
• Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, The by Samuel P. Huntington
• Color Kittens, The by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen
• Color Zoo by Lois Ehlert
• Complete Maus, The: A Survivor’s Tale by Art Spiegelman
• Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter, The
• Complications by Atun Gawande
• Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
• Creative Family, The by Amanda Blake Soule
• Cricket on the Hearth, The by Charles Dickens
• Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
• Curious George Learns the Alphabet by H.A. Rey

D

• Dangerous Alphabet, The by Neil Gaiman
• Daughter of Destiny by Benazir Bhutto
• Discoverers, The by Daniel Boorstin
• Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, The by E. Lockhart
• Divine Songs by Isaac Watts
• Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye, The by A.S. Byatt (short story collection and novella)
• Doggies by Sandra Boynton
• Dogs by Gail Gibbon
• Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! by Mo Willems
• Door, The by Margaret Atwood
• Dr. Seuss’s ABC
• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• Dubliners by James Joyce (stories)
• Duchess of Bloomsbury, The by Helene Hanff
• Dune by Frank Herbert

E

• East of Eden by John Steinbeck
• Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss (illustrated version)
• Edwina, The Dinosaur That Didn’t Know She Was Extinct by Mo Willems
• Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
• Elements of Cooking, The by Michael Ruhlman
• Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
• Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
• Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
• Eric Carle’s ABC
• Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau
• Eyre Affair, The by Jasper Fforde

F

• Fairest by Gail Carson Levine
• Fairy Tales and Fables by Eric Carle
• Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton
• Feet are Not for Kicking by Elizabeth Verdick
• Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
• First the Egg by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
• Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott
• Flotsam by David Wiesner
• Forsyte Saga, The by John Galsworthy   (In Chancery and To Let)
• Forsyte Saga, The by John Galsworthy  (The Man of Property)
• Foundation by Isaac Asimov
• Founding Mothers by Cokie Roberts
• Free Fall by David Wiesner
• Freight Train by Donald Crews
• Friendly Beasts, The by Tomie dePaola
• From Conception to Birth: A Life Unfolds by Alexander Tsiaras
• Frosty the Snowman by Steve Nelson and Jack Rollins and illustrated by Richard Cowdrey
• Fundamentals of Photography by Tom Ang

G

• Gay-Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji
• George and Martha by James Marshall
• Gift of the Magi, The by O. Henry, illustrated by Carol Heyer
• Glass Castle, The by Jeannette Walls
• Going to Bed Book, The by Sandra Boynton
• Golden Egg Book, The by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Leonard Weisgard
• Golden Legacy by Leonard S. Marcus
• Good Earth, The by Pearl S. Buck
• Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! by Laura Amy Schlitz
• Good Night, Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann
• Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
• Graveyard Book, The by Neil Gaiman
• Great Equations, The by Robert P. Crease
• Green Eyes by Abe Birnbaum
• Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales
• Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, The by Mary Ann Schaeffer and Anne Burrows
• Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathon Swift

H

• Hand Hand Fingers Thumb by Al Perkins
• Handmaid’s Tale, The by Margaret Atwood
• Hands are Not For Hitting by Martine Agassi
• Harlem Renaissance, The edited by Harold Bloom (critical essays)
• Harlem Renaissance, The: An Explosion of African-American culture by Richard Worth
• Harlem STOMP! A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance by Laban Carrick Hill
• Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
• Harry the Dirty Dog by Gene Zion
• Haunted Man and The Ghost’s Bargain, The by Charles Dickens
• Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle by Betty MacDonald
• Here Comes Santa Claus by Gene Autry and Oakley Haldeman, illustrated by Bruce Whatley
• Hey, Al by Arthur Yorinks
• Hippolytus by Euripides
• Hippos Go Berserk by Sandra Boynton
• Hobbit, The by J.R.R. Tolkein
• Home Buying for Dummies by Eric Tyson and Ray Brown
• Horns to Toes and In Between by Sandra Boynton
• Horns to Toes and In Between by Sandra Boynton
• House in the Night, The by Susan Marie Swanson, illustrated by Beth Krommes
• House of Mirth, The by Edith Wharton
• House on Mango Street, The by Sandra Cisneros
• How Do Dinosaurs Clean Up Their Rooms? by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague
• How Do Dinosaurs Count to Ten? by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague
• How Do Dinosaurs Play With Their Friends? by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague
• How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss
• How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster
• Hunger: An Unnatural History by Sharman Apt Russell

I

• I Drive a Freight Train by Sarah Bridges
• I Miss You Every Day by Simms Taback
• I Spy: An Alphabet in Art by Lucy Micklethwait
• Iliad, The by Homer, trans. Robert Fagles
• Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
• Invention of Hugo Cabret, The by Brian Selznick
• Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

J

• Jane Austen: A Life by Carol Shields
• Jane Austen’s Little Advice Book by Jane Austen, edited by Cathryn Michon and Pamela Norris
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
• Jesus the Christ by James E. Talmage
• Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
• Joseph Had a Little Overcoat by Simms Taback
• Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling by Richard Lyman Bushman
• Julia’s Kitchen Wisdom by Julia Child
• Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
• Jungle Book(s), The by Rudyard Kipling
• Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

K

• King of Inventors, The by Catherine Peters
• Kissinger by Walter Isaacson
• Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willems
• Knuffle Bunny Too by Mo Willems

L

• L is for Lincoln by Kathy-jo Wargin
• La Casa en Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
• Last Lecture, The by Randy Pausch
• Legend of Sleepy Hallow and Other Stories, The by Washington Irving
• Leonardo the Terrible Monster by Mo Willems
• Let’s Dance, Little Pookie by Sandra Boynton
• Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The by L. Frank Baum
• Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee
• Life of Our Lord, The by Charles Dickens
• Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
• Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman
• Listen to the Wind by Greg Mortenson and Susan L. Roth
• Little Engine That Could, The by Watty Piper, illustrated by Loren Long
• Little Fur Family, The by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Garth Williams
• Little Island, The by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Leonard Weisgard
• Little Prince, The by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• Little Red Caboose, The (A Little Golden Book)
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• Littlest Angel, The by Charles Tazewell and illustrated by Paul Micich
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• Lost Chicago by David Lowe
• Love You Forever by Robert Munsch
• Lovely Bones, The by Alice Sebold
• Lullabies and Poems for Children
• Lullabies: An Illustrated Songbook by the Metropolitan Museum of Art

M

• Macbeth by Shakespeare
• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
• Madonnas of Leningrad, The by Debra Dean
• Magic Flute, The by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Emanuel Schikaneder (opera)
• Making of a Chef, The by Michael Ruhlman
• March by Geraldine Brooks
• Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
• Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
• Masterclass in Photography by Michael and Julien Busselle
• Material World by Peter Menzel
• Medea by Euripides, translated by Rex Warner
• Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
• Midwife’s Apprentice, The by Karen Cushman
• Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton
• Millionaire Next Door, The (abridged audiobook) by Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko
• Moments: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photographs by Hal Buell
• Mommy Loves by Anne Gutman
• Monster at the End of the Book, The (starring Grover) by Jon Stone
• Moo, Baa, La La La by Sandra Boynton
• Moonstone, The by Wilkie Collins
• Mortgage Confidential by David Reed
• Mortgages 101 by David Reed
• Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle by Betty MacDonald
• Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle Treasury by Betty MacDonald
• Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s Magic by Betty MacDonald
• Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
• My Antonia by Willa Cather
• My Big Animal Book
• My Big Truck Book
• My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
• My First Jumbo Book of Things that Go
• My First Story of Christmas by Tim Dowley
• My Life in France by Julia Child
• My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss
• My Very First Book of Numbers by Eric Carle
• My World by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Clement Hurd

N

• Night Before Christmas, The by Clement Clark Moore, illustrated by Mary Engelbreit
• Night Before Christmas, The by Clement Clark Moore, illustrated by Ruth Sanderson
• Nine Days to Christmas by Marie Hall Ets and Aurora Labastida
• Nineteen-Eighty Four by George Orwell
• Nineteenth-Century Mormon Architecture and City Planning by Mark Hamilton
• No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, The by Alexander McCall-Smith
• North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
• Norton Introduction to Poetry
• Nutcracker, The by Michael Hague

O

• Odyssey, The by Homer, trans. by Robert Fagles
• Old Man and the Sea, The by Ernest Hemingway
• Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
• On Writing by Stephen King
• Once Upon a Potty (for boys) by Alona Frankel
• Owl Moon by Jane Yolen, illustrated by John Schoenherr

P

• Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
• Palestine by Joe Sacco
• Panda Bear, Panda Bear What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle
• Pat the Bunny by Dorothy Kunhardt
• Perrault’s Complete Fairy Tales by Charles Perrault
• Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi
• Persepolis:The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
• Personal History by Katharine Graham
• Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
• Planets, The by Dava Sobel
• Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein
• Poetry for Young People: Lewis Carroll
• Poetry for Young People: Robert Louis Stevenson
• Poetry for Young People: William Shakespeare
• Poetry of John Donne
• Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Here? by Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle
• Polar Express, The by Chris Van Allsburg
• Pooh Bedside Reader, The by A.R. Melrose
• Pooh Sketchbook, The drawings by Ernest H. Shepard for the Pooh stories
• Portuguese Irregular Verbs Alexander McCall-Smith
• Possession by A.S. Byatt
• Pretend Soup by Mollie Katzen and Ann Henderson
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• Professor and the Madman, The by Simon Winchester
• Proust was a Neuroscientist by Jonas Lehrer

Q

• Q is for Duck by Mary Elting and Michael Folsom
• Quiet Noisy Book, The by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Leonard Weisgard

R

• Rainbow Fun! by Emily Hawkins
• Richard Scarry’s ABCs
• River at Green Knowe, The by L.M. Boston
• Robinson Crusoe Adaptations for Children
• Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
• Room for a Little One: A Christmas Tale by Martin Waddell
• Rose, Where Did You Get That Red? by Kenneth Koch
• Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer by Robert Lewis May, illustrated by David Wenzel
• Runaway Bunny, The by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Clement Hurd

S

• Sailing Alone Around the Room by Billy Collins
• Secret Life of Wilkie Collins, The by William Clarke
• Sector 7 by David Wiesner
• Shiver Me Letters: A Pirate ABC by June Sobel
• Silmarillion, The by J.R.R. Tolkein
• Sister Bernadette’s Barking Dogs by Kitty Burns Florey
• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
• Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
• Snowy Day, The by Ezra Jack Keats
• Speeches of Winston Churchill
• Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
• Stones at Green Knowe, The by L.M. Boston
• Stories by Anton Chekhov
• Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
• Stories by Ernest Hemingway
• Stories by Flannery O’Connor
• Stories by Guy de Maupassant (Favorites)
• Stories by Guy de Maupassant (Introductory Thoughts)
• Stories by Ivan Turgenev
• Stories by John Cheever (Audio Collection)
• Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Stories by O. Henry
• Stories by Tommaso Landolfi
• Stories by Vladimir Nabokov
• Stranger, The by Albert Camus
• Stuart Little by E.B. White
• Sunday Philosophy Club, The by Alexander McCall-Smith

• Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Fenyman by Robert Fenyman

T

• Tales of Beedle the Bard, The by J.K. Rowling
• There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly by Simms Taback
• This is the House that Jack Built by Simms Taback
• Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
• Three Pigs, The by David Wiesner
• Three Trees, The: A Traditional Folktale by Angela Elwell Hunt, illustrated by Tim Jonke
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• To Kill a Mockingbird, the movie
• Too Late the Phalarope by Alan Paton
• Too Many Cooks by Emily Franklin
• Treasure of Green Knowe by L.M. Boston
• Trumpet of the Swan, The by E.B. White
• Tuesday by David Wiesner
• Twelve Days of Christmas, The illustrated by John O’Brien
• Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda
• Twenty Years at Hull-House by Jane Addams
• Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Allsburg
• Two Histories of England by Jane Austen and Charles Dickens

U

• Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
• Uncommon Reader, The by Alan Bennett
• Unconditional Parenting by Alfie Kohn
• Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
• Utopia by Thomas More

V

• Velveteen Rabbit by Margaret William Bianco, illustrated by Monique Felix
• Very Hungry Caterpillar, The by Eric Carle

W

• We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
• What the World Eats by Peter Menzel
• What’s Wrong, Little Pookie by Sandra Boynton
• Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
• While You Were Sleeping by John Butler
• White Snow, Bright Snow by Alvin Tresselt, illustrated by Roger Duvoisin
• Why Women Should Rule the World by Dee Dee Myers
• Will in the World by Stephen Greenblatt
• Wind in the Willows, The by Kenneth Grahame
• Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne
• Winnie-the-Pooh’s ABCs, inspired by A.A. Milne
• Wit by Margaret Edson
• Woman in White, The by Wilkie Collins
• Words We Live By, The: Your Annotated Guide to the Constitution by Linda R. Monk
• Wynken, Blynken, and Nod by Eugene W. Field, illustrated by Giselle Potter

X
Y
Z

• Z Was Zapped, The by Chris Van Allsburg

Updated 8 January 2010