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Small-Town Life
Suggested Books for the January 2005 Williamsburg Regional Library Thematic Book Group
Fiction
Boonville Robert Mailer Anderson
You Know Better Tina McElroy Ansa
The Sweet Hereafter Russell Banks
Saul and Patsy Charles Baxter
most novels Wendell Berry
most novels Maeve Binchy
Rose’s Garden Carrie Brown
You Remind Me of Me Dan Chaon
Look Back All the Green Valley Fred Chappell
Quilters series Jennifer Chiaverini
The Beans of Egypt, Maine Carolyn Chute
Pretty is as Pretty Does Allison Clement
most novels Sandra Dallas
Paris Trout Pete Dexter
most novels Tony Earley
most novels Clyde Edgerton
Peace Like a River Leif Enger
The Master Butchers Singing Club Louise Erdrich
The Virgin Suicides Jeffrey Eugenides
most novels Fannie Flagg
Bleachers John Grisham
A Painted House John Grisham
Snow Falling on Cedars David Guterson
most novels Kent Haruf
most novels Jon Hassler
Small Town Odds Jason Headley
What's Eating Gilbert Grape Peter Hedges
The Mammoth Cheese Sheri Holman
most novels Garrison Keillor
The Adventures of Flash
Jackson William Kowalski
The Solace of Leaving Early Haven Kimmel
most novels Lorna Landvik
Where the Heart Is Billie Letts
Imaginary Friends Allison Lurie
The Clarinet Polka Keith Maillard
Dingley Falls Michael Malone
The Giant's House Elizabeth McCracken
Center of Everything Laura Moriarty
most novels Howard Frank Mosher
most novels John Nichols
Back Roads Tawni O’Dell
Kilbrack Jamie O'Neill
most novels T.R. Pearson
Plain Truth Jodi Picoult
Vernon God Little D.B.C. Pierre
most novels Reynolds Price
most novels Annie Proulx
One Foot in Eden Ron Rash
When the Finch Rises Jack Riggs
most novels Richard Russo
The Impartial Recorder Ian Sansom
Wigfield: the Can-Do Town that
Just May Not Amy Sedaris
World of Pies Karen Stolz
The Little Friend Donna Tartt
Liberating Paris Linda Bloodworth Thomason
most novels Adriana Trigiani
The Book of Joe Jonathan Tropper
The Song Reader Lisa Tucker
Mr. Golightly’s Holiday Salley Vickers
Big Fish Daniel Wallace
Stillwater William F. Weld
The Siege of Salt Cove Anthony Weller
most novels Michael Lee West
most novels James Wilcox
Classic Fiction
Winesburg, Ohio Sherwood Anderson
Cold Sassy Tree Olive Ann Burns
The Grass Harp Truman Capote
Stones for Ibarra Harriet Doerr
most novels William Faulkner
Mysteries Knut Hamsun
A Bell for Adano John Hersey
Not Without Laughter Langston Hughes
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
Main Street Sinclair Lewis
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers
The Last Picture Show Larry McMurtry
Peyton Place Grace Metalious
Sula Toni Morrison
…And Ladies of the Club Helen Hooven Santmyer
Cannery Row John Steinbeck
most novels Eudora Welty
Mysteries and Thrillers
Carl Wilcox series Harold Adams
The Killing Floor Lee Child
Lost Souls Michael Collins
Mario Balzic/Rocksburg series K.C. Constantine
Alpine series Mary Daheim
Joan Spencer series Sarah Frommer
Home Repair series Sarah Graves
A Time to Kill John Grisham
Blue Deer series Jamie Harrison
Maggody series Joan Hess
Joanna Brady series J.A. Jance
Claire Wilcox series Mary Logue
Sara Linton series Karin Slaughter
Claire Ferguson series Julia Spencer-Fleming
Scrumble River series Denise Swanson
Gentle Reads
Can of Peas Traci DePree
Dandelions in a Jelly Jar Traci DePree
Harmony series Philip Gulley
Friendship Cake Lynne Hinton
Mitford series Jan Karon
Covington series Joan A. Medlicott
most novels Miss Read
Moosepath League series Van Reid
Miss Julia series Ann B. Ross
The Church Ladies Lisa Samson
Barsetshire series Angela Thirkell
Dorsetville series Katherine Valentine
Our Town Thornton Wilder
Velma Still Cooks in Leeway Vinita Hampton Wright
Nonfiction
Postville Stephen G. Bloom
The Lost Continent: Travels in
Small Town America Bill Bryson
In Cold Blood Truman Capote
What's the Matter with Kansas Thomas Frank
Too Close to the Falls Catherine Gildiner
Once Upon a Town: the Miracle of
the North Platte Canteen Bob Greene
Home Town Tracy Kidder
The Rural Life Verlyn Klinkenborg
most books Charles Kuralt
The Sense of Place David Lamb
The Birdhouse Chronicles Cathleen Miller
It Takes a Village Idiot Jim Mullen
Population: 485 Michael Perry
Storyville, U.S.A. Dale Peterson
A Good Place to Live Terry Pindell
American Towns: an Interpretive
History David J. Russo
Biography and Memoir
Growing Up Russell Baker
Breaking Clean Judy Blunt
Idyll Banter: Weekly
Excursions to a Very
Small Town Chris Bohjalian
Ava's Man Rick Bragg
Redneck Riviera: Armadillos,
Outlaws, and the Demise of
the American Dream Dennis Covington
An Open Book: Coming of Age
in the Heartland Michael Dirda
The Coalwood Way Homer Hickam
A Girl Named Zippy Haven Kimmel
Cursed by a Happy Childhood Carl Lennertz
Coming of Age in Mississippi Anne Moody
My Dog Skip Willie Morris
The Prizewinner of
Defiance, Ohio Terry Ryan
Mama Makes Up Her Mind:
and Other Dangers of
Southern Living Bailey White
Romance
Mean Season Heather Cochran
Eclipse Bay series Jayne Ann Krentz
address series Debbie Macomber
Primrose Creek books Linda Lael Miller
Ain't She Sweet Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Charming Grace Deborah Smith
A Bend in the Road Nicholas Sparks
Horror
The Church of Dead Girls Stephen Dobyns
It Stephen King
The Town Bentley Little
The Night Country Stewart O'Nan
A Choir of Ill Children Tom Piccirilli
Summer of Night Dan Simmons
Science Fiction and Fantasy
The Wooden Sea Jonathan Carroll
A Shortcut in Time Charles Dickinson
1632 Eric Flint
Alas Babylon Pat Frank
Z for Zachariah Robert C. O'Brien
Historical Fiction
In Sunlight, In a Beautiful Garden Kathleen Cambor
Housewrights Art Corriveau
Blackberry Creek series Denise Giardina
Home Fires Burning Robert Inman
Abram's Daughters series Beverly Lewis
Dewey Defeats Truman Thomas Mallon
Moon Tide Dawn Clifton Tripp
Montana 1948 Larry Watson
Will's War Janice Woods Windl
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