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Alex Awards

Index Alex Awards

The Alex Awards annually recognize "ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults ages 12 through 18". [1]

272 relations: A Long Way Gone, A. Lee Martinez, Abigail Tarttelin, Aimee Bender, Alan Watt (author), All Systems Red, All the Light We Cannot See, Amanda Davis, American Library Association, Anansi Boys, Andy Weir, Ann Packer (author), Ann Patchett, Antarctica (novel), Anthony Doerr, Arena, Aryn Kyle, As Simple as Snow, Audrey Niffenegger, Bad Monkeys, Baltimore, Barbara Ehrenreich, Bart Yates, Ben Sherwood, Between the World and Me, Bingo's Run, Black Swan Green, Booklist, Brandon Stanton, Breena Clarke, Camille DeAngelis, Candyfreak, Carol Rifka Brunt, Caroline Alexander (author), Caucasia (novel), Celeste Ng, Chris Ballard, City of Thieves (novel), Conn Iggulden, Connie Porter, Connie Willis, Crow Lake (novel), Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Daniel H. Wilson, Danzy Senna, Darin Strauss, Daughter of the Forest, David Anthony Durham, David Benioff, David Bodanis, ..., David Breashears, David Finkel, David Levithan, David Mitchell (author), David Small, David Wong (writer), David Zimmerman, DC Pierson, Derf, Diane Guerrero, Diane Setterfield, Donna Morrissey, Educating Esmé, Emma Donoghue, Ender's Shadow, Erin Morgenstern, Ernest Cline, Esmeralda Santiago, Essex County Trilogy, Eve Ewing, Every Heart a Doorway, Everything I Never Told You, Everything Matters!, Flags of Our Fathers, Gabriel's Story, Gail Carriger, Gavin Extence, Geraldine Brooks (writer), Gil's All Fright Diner, Gillian Bradshaw, Girl with a Pearl Earring (novel), Golden Boy (novel), Gregory Galloway, Hannah Hart, Hannah Tinti, Helen Grant (author), Hillary Jordan, Humans of New York, In the Heart of the Sea, Into Thin Air, Ishmael Beah, Ivan Doig, Jacqueline Winspear, James Bradley (author), Jasper Fforde, Jean Kwok, Jeannette Walls, Jeff Lemire, Jesmyn Ward, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Jim Shepard, Jo Ann Beard, Jodi Picoult, Joe Abercrombie, Joey Comeau, John Connolly (author), John Darnielle, John Scalzi, John Searles, Jon Krakauer, Judy Fong Bates, Julia Scheeres, Julianna Baggott, Julie Otsuka, Juliet Marillier, June Jordan, Just After Sunset, Kalisha Buckhanon, Kanae Minato, Kat Howard, Kate Racculia, Kazuo Ishiguro, Kent Haruf, Kevin Wilson (writer), Khaled Hosseini, Kim Stanley Robinson, Kit Reed, Koren Zailckas, Larry Colton, Last Days of Summer, Leave Myself Behind, Leif Enger, Lev Grossman, Linda Greenlaw, Lisa Lutz, Liz Murray, Lloyd Jones (New Zealand author), Lock In, Louise Erdrich, Lucy Knisley, Lynda Barry, Lynne Cox, Maisie Dobbs, Malagash, Manuel Gonzales, Margaret A. Edwards, Maria Semple, Marjane Satrapi, Mark Haddon, Mark Salzman, Mark Slouka, Martha Southgate, Martha Wells, Mary Lawson, Mary Roach, Matt Haig, Matt Ruff, Matt Simon, Matthew Polly, Max Barry, Meg Rosoff, Mel Odom (author), Michael Koryta, Michael Lewis, Michael Swanwick, Mike D'Orso, Mister Pip, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, Mudbound, My Losing Season, My Sister's Keeper (novel), Nancy Rawles, Nathaniel Philbrick, Neil Gaiman, Never Let Me Go (novel), Nickel and Dimed, Orson Scott Card, Over and Under, Pat Conroy, Patrick Rothfuss, Peace Like a River, Persepolis (comics), Pete Hamill, Peter Rock (novelist), Plainsong (novel), Pure (Baggott novel), Rachel DeWoskin, Ready Player One, Rebecca Carroll, Rebecca Walker, Richard Ross (photographer), Rick Bragg, River, Cross My Heart, Robert Kurson, Robert Silverberg, Robin Sloan, Robopocalypse, Roland Merullo, Ron Currie Jr., Ron Powers, Ron Rash, Room (novel), Roughneck, Ryan North, Salvage the Bones, Sara Gruen, Sara Nović, Sarah Beth Durst, Seanan McGuire, Sebastian Junger, Shadow Divers, Sharp Teeth, Shattered Sea, Soulless (novel), Stardust (novel), Stephen G. Bloom, Stephen King, Steve Almond, Steve Hamilton (author), Steve Kluger, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Stitches (book), Susan Palwick, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Tell The Wolves I'm Home, Tenth grade, The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game, The Book of Lost Things, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The Death of Bees, The Dive from Clausen's Pier, The Dragons of Babel, The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition, The Eyre Affair, The Glass Castle, The God of Animals, The Good Soldiers, The Good Thief (novel), The Kite Runner, The Lock Artist, The Lover's Dictionary, The Magicians (Grossman novel), The Martian (Weir novel), The Name of the Wind, The Night Circus, The Perfect Storm (book), The Regional Office is Under Attack!, The Round House (novel), The Thirteenth Tale, The Time Traveler's Wife, The World Made Straight, Theresa Rebeck, Timothy Ferris, Title, To Say Nothing of the Dog, Todd Tucker, Tracy Chevalier, Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, Tupelo Hassman, Velma Maia Thomas, Water for Elephants, Wesley Chu, When the Emperor was Divine, Where'd You Go, Bernadette, William Kamkwamba, Wolf in White Van, Wolf of the Plains, Year of Wonders, Young Adult Library Services Association, Zak Ebrahim, Zoë Ferraris, ZZ Packer. Expand index (222 more) »

A Long Way Gone

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (2007) is a memoir written by Ishmael Beah, an author from Sierra Leone.

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A. Lee Martinez

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Abigail Tarttelin

Abigail Jane Kathryn Tarttelin (born 13 October 1987) is an English novelist who began her career as an actress.

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Aimee Bender

Aimee Bender (born June 28, 1969) is an American novelist and short story writer, known for her surreal plots and characters.

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Alan Watt (author)

Alan Watt (born 1965) is a Canadian author, comedian, actor, lecturer, and screenwriter.

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All Systems Red

All Systems Red is a 2017 science fiction novella by American author Martha Wells.

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All the Light We Cannot See

All the Light We Cannot See is a novel written by American author Anthony Doerr, published by Scribner on May 6, 2014.

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Amanda Davis

Amanda Davis (February 28, 1971March 14, 2003) was an American writer and teacher who died in a plane accident.

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American Library Association

The American Library Association (ALA) is a nonprofit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally.

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Anansi Boys

Anansi Boys is a fantasy novel by English writer Neil Gaiman.

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Andy Weir

Andrew Taylor Weir (born June 16, 1972) is an American novelist whose debut novel, The Martian, was later adapted into a film of the same name directed by Ridley Scott in 2015.

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Ann Packer (author)

Ann Packer (born 1959) is an American novelist and short story writer, perhaps best known for her critically acclaimed first novel The Dive From Clausen's Pier.

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Ann Patchett

Ann Patchett (born December 2, 1963) is an American author.

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Antarctica (novel)

Antarctica (1997) is a science fiction novel by American writer Kim Stanley Robinson.

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Anthony Doerr

Anthony Doerr (born October 27, 1973) is an American author of novels and short stories.

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Arena

An arena, is a covered or not covered enclosed area, often circular or oval-shaped, designed to showcase theater, musical performances, or sporting events.

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Aryn Kyle

Aryn Kyle (born January 22, 1978) is an American novelist and short story writer.

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As Simple as Snow

As Simple As Snow (2005) is a mystery novel by Gregory Galloway.

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Audrey Niffenegger

Audrey Niffenegger (born June 13, 1963) is an American writer, artist and academic.

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Bad Monkeys

Bad Monkeys (2007) is a psychological thriller novel by Matt Ruff.

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Baltimore

Baltimore is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maryland, and the 30th-most populous city in the United States.

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Barbara Ehrenreich

Barbara Ehrenreich (born August 26, 1941) is an American author and political activist who describes herself as "a myth buster by trade" and has been called "a veteran muckraker" by The New Yorker.

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Bart Yates

Bart Yates is an American novelist, from Iowa City, Iowa.

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Ben Sherwood

Benjamin Berkley "Ben" Sherwood (born February 12, 1964) is an American writer, journalist, and producer who currently serves as the Co-Chairman of Disney Media Networks, and the President of Disney-ABC Television Group.

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Between the World and Me

Between the World and Me is a 2015 book written by Ta-Nehisi Coates and published by Spiegel & Grau.

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Bingo's Run

Bingo's Run is a 2014 novel by James A. Levine.

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Black Swan Green

Black Swan Green is a semi-autobiographical bildungsroman written by David Mitchell.

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Booklist

Booklist is a publication of the American Library Association that provides critical reviews of books and audiovisual materials for all ages.

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Brandon Stanton

Brandon Stanton (born March 1, 1984) is an American author, photographer, and blogger.

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Breena Clarke

Breena Clarke is an African-American scholar and writer of fiction, including an award-winning debut novel River, Cross My Heart (1999).

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Camille DeAngelis

Camille DeAngelis is an American novelist and travel writer.

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Candyfreak

Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America is a non-fiction book written by Steve Almond.

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Carol Rifka Brunt

Carol Rifka Brunt (born 1970) is an American novelist and short fiction writer.

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Caroline Alexander (author)

Caroline Alexander (born 1956 in Florida) is an author and journalist.

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Caucasia (novel)

Caucasia (1998) is an American novel written by Danzy Senna.

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Celeste Ng

Celeste Ng (Chinese name: 伍綺詩) (born 1980) is an American author.

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Chris Ballard

Chris Ballard is an American sports journalist and a senior writer at Sports Illustrated.

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City of Thieves (novel)

City of Thieves is a 2008 historical fiction novel by David Benioff.

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Conn Iggulden

Conn Iggulden (born) is a British author who writes historical fiction, most notably the ''Emperor'' series and ''Conqueror'' series.

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Connie Porter

Connie Rose Porter (born July 29, 1959) is an African-American writer of young-adult books, and a teacher of creative writing.

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Connie Willis

Constance Elaine Trimmer Willis (born December 31, 1945), commonly known as Connie Willis, is an American science fiction and fantasy writer.

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Crow Lake (novel)

Crow Lake is a 2002 first novel written by Canadian author Mary Lawson.

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Dan-el Padilla Peralta

Dan-el Padilla Peralta (also, Dan-el Padilla) is the 2006 Latin salutatorian of Princeton University.

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Daniel H. Wilson

Daniel H. Wilson (born March 6, 1978) is a New York Times best selling author, television host and robotics engineer.

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Danzy Senna

Danzy Senna (born 1970) is an American novelist and essayist.

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Darin Strauss

Darin Strauss (born March 1, 1970) is a best-selling American writer whose work has earned a number of awards, including, among numerous others, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

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Daughter of the Forest

Daughter of the Forest is an historical fantasy novel by Juliet Marillier first published in 1999.

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David Anthony Durham

David Anthony Durham (born March 23, 1969) is an American novelist, author of historical fiction and fantasy.

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David Benioff

David Benioff (born David Friedman; September 25, 1970) is an American screenwriter, television producer and writer, and novelist.

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David Bodanis

David Bodanis is a futurist, speaker, business advisor and writer of popular science books, notably E.

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David Breashears

David Finlay Breashears (born December 20, 1955) is an American mountaineer, filmmaker, author, and motivational speaker.

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David Finkel

David Louis Finkel (born October 28, 1955) is an American journalist.

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David Levithan

David Levithan (born September 7, 1972) is an American young adult fiction author and editor.

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David Mitchell (author)

David Stephen Mitchell (born 12 January 1969) is an English novelist.

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David Small

David Small (born February 12, 1945) is an American writer and illustrator who is best known for children's picture books.

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David Wong (writer)

Jason Pargin (born January 10, 1975), known by his pen name David Wong, is an American humor writer.

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David Zimmerman

David Zimmerman is an American author originally from Georgia.

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DC Pierson

Donald Charles "DC" Pierson IV (born December 27, 1984) is an American comedian, author, and actor.

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Derf

John Backderf (born October 1959 in Richfield, Ohio) is an American cartoonist, also known as Derf or Derf Backderf.

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Diane Guerrero

Diane Guerrero (born July 21, 1986) is an American actress and author.

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Diane Setterfield

Diane Setterfield (born 22 August 1964) is a British author whose 2006 debut novel, The Thirteenth Tale, became a ''New York Times'' No. 1 best-seller.

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Donna Morrissey

Donna Morrissey (born 1956 at The Beaches, Newfoundland) is a Canadian author.

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Educating Esmé

Educating Esmé: Diary of a First Year Teacher is a book written by children's literature specialist and then elementary school teacher Esmé Raji Codell.

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Emma Donoghue

Emma Donoghue (born 24 October 1969) is an Irish-Canadian playwright, literary historian, novelist, and screenwriter.

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Ender's Shadow

Ender's Shadow (1999) is a parallel science fiction novel by the American author Orson Scott Card, taking place at the same time as the novel Ender's Game and depicting some of the same events from the point of view of Bean, a supporting character in the original novel.

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Erin Morgenstern

Erin Morgenstern (born July 8, 1978) is an American multimedia artist and the author of a successful fantasy novel, The Night Circus (2011).

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Ernest Cline

Ernest Christy Cline (born March 29, 1972) is an American novelist, slam poet, and screenwriter.

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Esmeralda Santiago

Esmeralda Santiago (born May 17, 1948) is a Puerto Rican author and former actress known for her novels and memoirs.

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Essex County Trilogy

Essex County Trilogy is a collection of three graphic short stories set in Essex County, Ontario by Jeff Lemire published in 2011 by Top Shelf Productions.

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Eve Ewing

Eve Louise Ewing (born 1986) is an academic, American scholar, writer and visual artist from Chicago.

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Every Heart a Doorway

Every Heart A Doorway is a novella by Seanan McGuire.

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Everything I Never Told You

Everything I Never Told You is a 2014 debut novel by Celeste Ng.

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Everything Matters!

Everything Matters! (2009) is American author Ron Currie Jr.'s second novel.

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Flags of Our Fathers

Flags of Our Fathers (2000) is a New York Times bestselling book by James Bradley with Ron Powers about the six United States Marines who would eventually be made famous by Joe Rosenthal's lauded photograph of the flag raising at Iwo Jima, one of the costliest and most horrifying battles of World War II's Pacific Theater.

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Gabriel's Story

Gabriel's Story is an award-winning 2001 novel by American author David Anthony Durham.

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Gail Carriger

Gail Carriger is the pen name of Tofa Borregaard, an American archaeologist and author of steampunk fiction.

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Gavin Extence

Gavin Extence (born 1982) is an English writer.

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Geraldine Brooks (writer)

Geraldine Brooks (born 14 September 1955) is an Australian American journalist and novelist whose 2005 novel, March, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

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Gil's All Fright Diner

Gil's All Fright Diner is an urban fantasy novel by A. Lee Martinez first published in 2005.

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Gillian Bradshaw

Gillian Marucha Bradshaw (born May 14, 1956) is an American writer of historical fiction, historical fantasy, children's literature, science fiction, and contemporary science-based novels, who currently lives in Britain.

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Girl with a Pearl Earring (novel)

Girl with a Pearl Earring is a 1999 historical novel written by Tracy Chevalier.

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Golden Boy (novel)

Golden Boy is the second novel by Abigail Tarttelin, published in 2013 about an intersex teenager, Max, and his family.

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Gregory Galloway

Gregory Galloway is an American fiction writer.

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Hannah Hart

Hannah Maud Hart (born November 2, 1986) is an American internet personality, comedian, author, and actress.

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Hannah Tinti

Hannah Tinti is an American writer and the co-founder of One Story magazine.

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Helen Grant (author)

Helen Grant (born 1964 in Westminster, London) is an English author of novels for young adults, now based in Crieff, Scotland.

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Hillary Jordan

Hillary Jordan is an American novelist.

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Humans of New York

Humans of New York (HONY) is a photoblog and book of street portraits and interviews collected on the streets of New York City.

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In the Heart of the Sea

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex is a book by American writer Nathaniel Philbrick about the loss of the whaler ''Essex'' in the Pacific Ocean in 1820.

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Into Thin Air

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt.

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Ishmael Beah

Ishmael Beah (born on 23 November 1980UNICEF,, unicef.org; retrieved 15 February 2007.) is a Sierra Leonean author and human rights activist who rose to fame with his acclaimed memoir, A Long Way Gone.

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Ivan Doig

Ivan Doig (June 27, 1939 – April 9, 2015) was an American author and novelist, widely known for his sixteen fiction and non-fiction books set mostly in his native Montana, celebrating the landscape and people of the post-war American West.

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Jacqueline Winspear

Jacqueline Winspear is a mystery writer, author of the Maisie Dobbs series of books exploring the aftermath of World War I. She has won several mystery writing awards for books in this popular series.

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James Bradley (author)

James Bradley (born 1954) is an American author, specializing in historical nonfiction chronicling the Pacific theatre of World War II.

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Jasper Fforde

Jasper Fforde (born 11 January 1961) is a British novelist.

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Jean Kwok

Jean Kwok is the award-winning, New York Times and international bestselling Chinese American author of two novels: Girl in Translation and Mambo in Chinatown.

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Jeannette Walls

Jeannette Walls (born April 21, 1960) is an American author and journalist widely known as former gossip columnist for MSNBC.com and author of The Glass Castle, a memoir of the nomadic family life of her childhood.

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Jeff Lemire

Jeff Lemire (born March 21, 1976) is a Canadian cartoonist.

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Jesmyn Ward

Jesmyn Ward is an American novelist and an associate professor of English at Tulane University.

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Jesse Lee Kercheval

Jesse Lee Kercheval is a poet, memoirist, translator and fiction writer.

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Jim Shepard

Jim Shepard (born 1956) is an American novelist and short story writer, who teaches creative writing and film at Williams College.

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Jo Ann Beard

Jo Ann Beard is an American essayist.

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Jodi Picoult

Jodi Lynn Picoult (born May 19, 1966) is an American writer.

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Joe Abercrombie

Joe Abercrombie (born 31 December 1974) is a British fantasy writer and film editor.

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Joey Comeau

Joey Comeau (born September 26, 1980) is a Canadian writer.

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John Connolly (author)

John Connolly is an Irish writer who is best known for his series of novels starring private detective Charlie Parker.

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John Darnielle

John Darnielle (born March 16, 1967) is an American musician and novelist best known as the primary (and often solitary) member of the American band the Mountain Goats, for which he is the writer, composer, guitarist, pianist, and vocalist.

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John Scalzi

John Michael Scalzi II (born May 10, 1969) is an American science fiction author and former president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.

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John Searles

John Searles is an American writer and book critic.

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Jon Krakauer

Jon Krakauer (born April 12, 1954) is an American writer and mountaineer, primarily known for his writings about the outdoors, especially mountain climbing.

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Judy Fong Bates

Judy Fong Bates (born) is a Chinese-Canadian author.

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Julia Scheeres

Julia Scheeres (pronounced "shears"), is a journalist and nonfiction author.

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Julianna Baggott

Julianna Baggott (born 30 September 1969) is a novelist, essayist, and poet who also writes under the pen names Bridget Asher and N.E. Bode.

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Julie Otsuka

Julie Otsuka is an award-winning Japanese American author.

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Juliet Marillier

Juliet Marillier (born 27 July 1948) is a New Zealand-born writer of fantasy, focusing predominantly on historical fantasy.

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June Jordan

June Millicent Jordan (July 9, 1936 – June 14, 2002) was a Caribbean-American poet, essayist, teacher, and activist.

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Just After Sunset

Just After Sunset is the fifth collection of short stories by Stephen King.

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Kalisha Buckhanon

Kalisha Buckhanon (born April 1, 1977 in Kankakee, Illinois) is an African-American author who writes frequently on literature, race and Black women's themes.

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Kanae Minato

is a Japanese writer of crime fiction and thriller.

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Kat Howard

Kat Howard is an American writer.

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Kate Racculia

Kate Racculia is an American author whose novels include Rhapsody (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014) and This Must Be the Place (Henry Holt and Company, 2010).

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Kazuo Ishiguro

Sir Kazuo Ishiguro (born 8 November 1954) is a Nobel Prize-winning British novelist, screenwriter, and short-story writer.

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Kent Haruf

Alan Kent Haruf (February 24, 1943 – November 30, 2014) was an American novelist.

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Kevin Wilson (writer)

Kevin Wilson is an American writer from Sewanee, Tennessee USA and teaches in the English Department at the University of the South.

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Khaled Hosseini

Khaled Hosseini (خالد حسیني.;; born March 4, 1965) is an Afghan-born American novelist and physician.

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Kim Stanley Robinson

Kim Stanley Robinson (born March 23, 1952) is an American writer of science fiction.

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Kit Reed

Kit Reed, born Lillian Hyde Craig or Lil(l)ian Craig Reed (June 7, 1932 – September 24, 2017), was an American author of both speculative fiction and literary fiction, as well as psychological thrillers under the pseudonym Kit Craig.

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Koren Zailckas

Koren Zailckas (born 1980) is a bestselling American writer and memoirist.

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Larry Colton

Lawrence Robert Colton (born June 8, 1942), a one-time professional baseball player, is a writer and educator in Portland, Oregon, United States.

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Last Days of Summer

Last Days of Summer is 1998 novel written by Steve Kluger.

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Leave Myself Behind

Leave Myself Behind is the 2004 debut novel by American writer Bart Yates.

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Leif Enger

Leif Enger is an American author who wrote the novel Peace Like a River.

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Lev Grossman

Lev Grossman (born June 26, 1969 in Concord, Massachusetts) is an American novelist and journalist, most notable as the author of the Magicians trilogy: The Magicians (2009), The Magician King (2011), and The Magician's Land (2014).

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Linda Greenlaw

Linda Greenlaw (born December 22, 1960) is a best-selling author of books with maritime themes and the only female swordfishing boat captain on the East Coast of the United States.

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Lisa Lutz

Lisa Lutz is an American author.

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Liz Murray

Elizabeth Murray (born) is an American inspirational speaker who is notable for having been accepted by Harvard University despite being homeless in her high school years.

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Lloyd Jones (New Zealand author)

Lloyd Jones (born 23 March 1955) is a New Zealand author.

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Lock In

Lock In is a science fiction police procedural novel by American writer John Scalzi.

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Louise Erdrich

Louise Erdrich (born Karen Louise Erdrich, June 7, 1954) is an American author, writer of novels, poetry, and children's books featuring Native American characters and settings.

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Lucy Knisley

Lucy Knisley (born January 11, 1985) is an American comic artist and musician.

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Lynda Barry

Lynda Barry (born Linda Jean Barry; January 2, 1956) is an American cartoonist, author, and teacher.

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Lynne Cox

Lynne Cox (born 1957 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American long-distance open-water swimmer, writer and speaker.

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Maisie Dobbs

Maisie Dobbs is a fictional character created by the author Jacqueline Winspear.

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Malagash

Malagash is a dispersed community on the Malagash Peninsula in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada.

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Manuel Gonzales

Manuel Gonzales (March 3, 1913 – March 31, 1993) was a Spanish-American Disney comics artist.

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Margaret A. Edwards

Margaret Alexander Edwards (October 23, 1902 – April 19, 1988) was an educator and librarian who was at the forefront of the movement for young adult services in the 20th century.

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Maria Semple

Maria Keogh Semple (born May 21, 1964) is an American novelist and screenwriter.

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Marjane Satrapi

Marjane Satrapi (مرجان ساتراپی) (born 22 November 1969) is an Iranian-born French graphic novelist, cartoonist, illustrator, film director, and children's book author.

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Mark Haddon

Mark Haddon (born 28 October 1962) is an English novelist, best known for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003).

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Mark Salzman

Mark Joseph Salzman (born December 3, 1959 in Greenwich, Connecticut, is an American writer. Salzman is best known for his 1986 memoir Iron & Silk, which describes his experiences living in China as an English teacher in the early 1980s. Salzman grew up in Ridgefield, Connecticut, the oldest child of a piano teacher mother and a social worker father. He studied Chinese Language and Literature at Yale University. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude in 1982 and spent the next two years in Changsha, Hunan, teaching English at and studying martial arts with Pan Qingfu, a Chinese martial arts teacher and kung fu movie actor. His experiences in China are recounted in his first book, Iron & Silk: A young American encounters swordsmen, bureaucrats and other citizens of contemporary China, published in 1986. Salzman received several literary awards for Iron & Silk. The book was made into a 1990 film of the same title. Salzman wrote the screenplay and starred as himself in the film. Though the real venue of the story was in Changsha, the film was shot in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. Salzman's other publications include several works of fiction, a memoir dealing with growing up in suburbia, more specifically Ridgefield, Connecticut, and a report on his work as a creative writing instructor for juvenile delinquents. Salzman plays the cello. In high school, he played the cello for the Norwalk Youth Symphony. In 1996, he performed as guest cellist with YoYo Ma, pianist Emmanuel Ax, and others at Alice Tully Hall for the 20th anniversary performance of Live From Lincoln Center. In 2007, Mark Salzman, along with three other men, was featured in the documentary Protagonist, directed by his wife, Jessica Yu. Salzman was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2000. He, his wife Jessica Yu, an Academy Award-winning filmmaker, and their daughters Ava and Esme live in Los Angeles.

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Mark Slouka

Mark Slouka is an American novelist and essayist.

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Martha Southgate

Martha Southgate (born December 12, 1960) is an African-American novelist and essayist best known for her novel Third Girl from the Left.

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Martha Wells

Martha Wells (born 1964) is an American writer of speculative fiction.

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Mary Lawson

Mary Lawson (born 1946) is a Canadian novelist.

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Mary Roach

Mary Roach is an American author, specializing in popular science and humor.

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Matt Haig

Matt Haig (born 3 July 1975) is a British novelist and journalist.

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Matt Ruff

Matthew Theron "Matt" Ruff (born September 8, 1965 in Queens, New York) is an American author of thriller, science-fiction and comic novels.

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Matt Simon

Matthew Blake Simon (born 22 January 1986) is an Australian international football (soccer) player who plays as a striker for Central Coast Mariners FC in the A-League.

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Matthew Polly

Matthew Polly is an American author best known for being the first American to defend the honor of the Shaolin Monks in a fight, the details of which were published in his memoir American Shaolin.

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Max Barry

Max Barry (born 18 March 1973) is an Australian author.

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Meg Rosoff

Meg Rosoff (born 16 October 1956) is an American writer based in London, United Kingdom.

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Mel Odom (author)

Mel Odom (born 1957 in California) is a writer primarily known for his science fiction and fantasy novels set in existing properties.

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Michael Koryta

Michael Koryta (pronounced ko-ree-ta) is an American author of contemporary crime and supernatural fiction.

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Michael Lewis

Michael Monroe Lewis (born October 15, 1960) is an American non-fiction author and financial journalist.

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Michael Swanwick

Michael Swanwick (born November 18, 1950) is an American science fiction author.

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Mike D'Orso

' Mike D'Orso (born October 12, 1953) is an American author and journalist based in Norfolk, Virginia.

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Mister Pip

Mister Pip (2006) is a novel by Lloyd Jones, a New Zealand author.

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Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

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Mudbound

Mudbound (2008) is the debut novel by American author Hillary Jordan.

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My Losing Season

My Losing Season is a memoir by Pat Conroy.

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My Sister's Keeper (novel)

My Sister's Keeper is a 2004 novel written by Jodi Picoult.

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Nancy Rawles

Nancy Rawles is an African American playwright, novelist, and teacher.

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Nathaniel Philbrick

Nathaniel Philbrick (born June 11, 1956) is an American author and a member of the Philbrick literary family.

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Neil Gaiman

Neil Richard MacKinnon GaimanBorn as Neil Richard Gaiman, with "MacKinnon" added on the occasion of his marriage to Amanda Palmer.

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Never Let Me Go (novel)

Never Let Me Go is a 2005 dystopian science fiction novel by Nobel Prize-winning British author Kazuo Ishiguro.

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Nickel and Dimed

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America is a book written by Barbara Ehrenreich.

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Orson Scott Card

Orson Scott Card (born August 24, 1951) is an American novelist, critic, public speaker, essayist, and columnist.

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Over and Under

Over and Under is an album by folk singer/guitarist Greg Brown, released in 2000 on the Trailer Records label, a brief departure from his normal Red House Records label.

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Pat Conroy

Donald Patrick "Pat" Conroy (October 26, 1945 – March 4, 2016) was an American author who wrote several acclaimed novels and memoirs.

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Patrick Rothfuss

Patrick James Rothfuss (born June 6, 1973) is an American writer of epic fantasy.

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Peace Like a River

This article is about the novel by Leif Enger.

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Persepolis (comics)

Persepolis is a graphic autobiography by Marjane Satrapi that depicts her childhood up to her early adult years in Iran during and after the Islamic Revolution.

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Pete Hamill

Pete Hamill (born June 24, 1935) is an American journalist, novelist, essayist, editor and educator.

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Peter Rock (novelist)

Peter Rock (born 1967) is an American novelist born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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Plainsong (novel)

Plainsong is a bestselling novel by Kent Haruf.

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Pure (Baggott novel)

Pure is a dystopian novel written by Julianna Baggott and published in 2012.

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Rachel DeWoskin

Rachel DeWoskin (born 1972, Kyoto, Japan) is an American actress and author.

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Ready Player One

Ready Player One is a 2011 science fiction novel, and the debut novel of American author Ernest Cline.

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Rebecca Carroll

Rebecca Caroll is a writer, editor and radio producer.

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Rebecca Walker

Rebecca Walker (born November 17, 1969 as Rebecca Leventhal) is an American writer, feminist, and activist.

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Richard Ross (photographer)

Richard Ross is an American photographer.

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Rick Bragg

Rick Bragg (born July 26, 1959) is an American journalist and writer known for non-fiction books, especially those about his family in Alabama.

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River, Cross My Heart

River, Cross My Heart is a debut novel by Breena Clarke.

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Robert Kurson

Robert A. Kurson (born April 18, 1963) is an American author, best known for his 2004 bestselling book, Shadow Divers, the true story of two Americans who discover a World War II German U-boat sunk 60 miles off the coast of New Jersey.

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Robert Silverberg

Robert Silverberg (born January 15, 1935) is an American author and editor, best known for writing science fiction.

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Robin Sloan

Robin Sloan is an American author.

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Robopocalypse

Robopocalypse (2011) is a science fiction novel by Daniel H. Wilson.

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Roland Merullo

Roland Merullo (born September 19, 1953) is an American author who writes novels, essays and memoir.

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Ron Currie Jr.

Ron Currie Jr. is an American author.

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Ron Powers

Ron Powers (born November 18, 1941) is an American journalist, novelist, and non-fiction writer.

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Ron Rash

Ron Rash (born September 25, 1953), an American poet, short story writer and novelist, is the Parris Distinguished Professor in Appalachian Cultural Studies at Western Carolina University.

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Room (novel)

Room is a 2010 novel by Irish-Canadian author Emma Donoghue.

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Roughneck

Roughneck is a term for a person whose occupation is hard-manual labor.

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Ryan North

Ryan M. North (born October 20, 1980) is a Canadian writer and computer programmer who is the creator and author of Dinosaur Comics, and co-creator of Whispered Apologies and Happy Dog the Happy Dog.

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Salvage the Bones

Salvage the Bones is a 2011 novel by Jesmyn Ward and was the 2011 recipient of the National Book Award for Fiction.

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Sara Gruen

Sara Gruen (born 1969 in Vancouver) is an author with dual Canadian and American citizenship.

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Sara Nović

Sara Nović (born 1987) is an American writer, translator, and creative writing professor.

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Sarah Beth Durst

Sarah Beth Durst is an American author of fantasy.

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Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire (pronounced SHAWN-in) (born January 5, 1978, in Martinez, California) is an American author and filker.

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Sebastian Junger

Sebastian Junger (born January 17, 1962) is an American journalist, author and filmmaker famous for the best-selling book The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (1997), his award-winning chronicle of the war in Afghanistan in the documentary films Restrepo (2010) and Korengal (2014), and his book War (2010).

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Shadow Divers

Shadow Divers (published in 2004) is a non-fictional book by Robert Kurson recounting of the discovery of a World War II German U-boat off the coast of New Jersey, United States in 1991.

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Sharp Teeth

Sharp Teeth is a 2008 novel in free verse by American writer Toby Barlow.

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Shattered Sea

Shattered Sea is a young adult fantasy series written by British author Joe Abercrombie, a trilogy of novels published by Del Rey in the United States and Harper Voyager in the UK.

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Soulless (novel)

Soulless is a steampunk paranormal romance novel by Gail Carriger.

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Stardust (novel)

Stardust is a novel by British writer Neil Gaiman, usually published with illustrations by Charles Vess.

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Stephen G. Bloom

Stephen G. Bloom is an American journalist and professor of Journalism at the University of Iowa, in Iowa City.

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Stephen King

Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy.

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Steve Almond

Steve Almond (born October 27, 1966) is an American short-story writer, essayist and author of ten books, three of which are self-published.

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Steve Hamilton (author)

Steve Hamilton is a mystery novelist.

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Steve Kluger

Steve Kluger (born June 24, 1952) is an American author and playwright.

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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers is a 2003 non-fiction work by Mary Roach.

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Stitches (book)

Stitches: A Memoir is a graphic memoir written and illustrated by David Small.

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Susan Palwick

Susan Palwick (born 1961 in New York City) is an American writer and associate professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno.

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Ta-Nehisi Coates

Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates (born September 30, 1975) is an American author, journalist, comic book writer, and educator.

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Tell The Wolves I'm Home

Tell The Wolves I'm Home is the debut novel of American writer Carol Rifka Brunt, published by Random House in 2012.

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Tenth grade

Tenth grade, sophomore year, or grade 10 (called Year 11 in England and Wales) is the tenth year of school post-kindergarten or the tenth year after the first introductory year upon entering compulsory schooling.

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The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game

The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game is a book by Michael Lewis released on September 2, 2006 by W. W. Norton & Company.

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The Book of Lost Things

The Book of Lost Things is a fantasy novel by John Connolly.

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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a 2003 mystery novel by British writer Mark Haddon.

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The Death of Bees

The Death of Bees is a 2013 debut novel by Lisa O’Donnell.

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The Dive from Clausen's Pier

The Dive From Clausen's Pier is a 2005 Lifetime original film based on an Ann Packer novel directed by Harry Winer and starring Will Estes, Michelle Trachtenberg, and Sean Maher.

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The Dragons of Babel

The Dragons of Babel is a 2008 science fantasy novel by American author Michael Swanwick, set in the same world as his earlier work The Iron Dragon's Daughter (1993).

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The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

The Endurance is a 2000 documentary film directed by George Butler about Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expedition in 1914.

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The Eyre Affair

The Eyre Affair is the debut novel by English author Jasper Fforde, published by Hodder and Stoughton in 2001.

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The Glass Castle

The Glass Castle is a 2005 memoir by Jeannette Walls.

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The God of Animals

The God of Animals is the debut novel by Aryn Kyle first published in 2007.

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The Good Soldiers

The Good Soldiers (2009) is a non-fiction book about the 2007 troop surge in Iraq written by David Finkel, chronicling the deployment of 2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment of the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, nicknamed "Rangers", under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Kauzlarich.

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The Good Thief (novel)

The Good Thief, by Hannah Tinti, is a debut novel published in 2008 by Dial Press.

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The Kite Runner

The Kite Runner is the first novel by Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini.

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The Lock Artist

The Lock Artist is a standalone crime novel by American novelist Steve Hamilton.

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The Lover's Dictionary

The Lover's Dictionary is a 2011 novel by the American author David Levithan.

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The Magicians (Grossman novel)

The Magicians is a new adult fantasy novel by the American author Lev Grossman, published in 2009 by Viking Press.

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The Martian (Weir novel)

The Martian is a 2011 science fiction novel written by Andy Weir.

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The Name of the Wind

The Name of the Wind, also called The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day One, is a fantasy novel written by American author Patrick Rothfuss.

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The Night Circus

The Night Circus is a 2011 fantasy novel by Erin Morgenstern.

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The Perfect Storm (book)

The Perfect Storm is a creative nonfiction book written by Sebastian Junger and published by W. W. Norton & Company in 1997.

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The Regional Office is Under Attack!

The Regional Office is Under Attack! is a 2016 debut novel by Manuel Gonzales.

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The Round House (novel)

The Round House is a novel by American writer Louise Erdrich, first published in 2012.

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The Thirteenth Tale

The Thirteenth Tale (2006) by Diane Setterfield is a gothic suspense novel, the author's first published book.

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The Time Traveler's Wife

The Time Traveler's Wife is the debut novel of American author Audrey Niffenegger, published in 2003.

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The World Made Straight

The World Made Straight is a 2006 novel by Ron Rash.

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Theresa Rebeck

Theresa Rebeck (born February 19, 1958) is an American playwright, television writer, and novelist.

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Timothy Ferris

Timothy Ferris (born August 29, 1944) is an American science writer and the best-selling author of twelve books, including The Science of Liberty (2010) and Coming of Age in the Milky Way (1988), for which he was awarded the American Institute of Physics Prize and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

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Title

A title is a prefix or suffix added to someone's name in certain contexts.

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To Say Nothing of the Dog

To Say Nothing of the Dog: or, How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last is a 1997 comic science fiction novel by Connie Willis.

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Todd Tucker

Todd Nathaniel Tucker (born 1979, Louisville, Kentucky) is a fellow at the specializing in trade agreements and international law.

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Tracy Chevalier

Tracy Rose Chevalier, (born October 19, 1962) is an American-British historical novelist.

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Tunneling to the Center of the Earth

Tunneling to the Center of the Earth is the debut story collection of Kevin Wilson, published in April 2009 by Ecco/HarperCollins.

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Tupelo Hassman

Tupelo Hassman is an American author.

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Velma Maia Thomas

Reverend Velma Maia Thomas (born June 18, 1955) is an author and academic from the United States of America.

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Water for Elephants

Water for Elephants is a historical novel by Sara Gruen, written as part of National Novel Writing Month.

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Wesley Chu

Wesley Chu (朱恆昱) (born September 23, 1976, in Taipei) is a science fiction author.

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When the Emperor was Divine

When the Emperor was Divine is a historical fiction novel written by American author Julie Otsuka about a Japanese American family sent to an internment camp in the Utah desert during World War II.

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Where'd You Go, Bernadette

Where'd You Go, Bernadette is a 2012 comedy novel written by Maria Semple.

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William Kamkwamba

William Kamkwamba (born August 5, 1987) is a Malawian innovator, engineer and author.

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Wolf in White Van

Wolf in White Van is the first novel by the American author and singer-songwriter John Darnielle.

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Wolf of the Plains

Wolf of the Plains (2007) is a historical novel from English author Conn Iggulden.

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Year of Wonders

Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague is a 2001 international bestselling historical fiction novel by Geraldine Brooks.

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Young Adult Library Services Association

The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), established in 1957, is a division of the American Library Association.

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Zak Ebrahim

Zak Ebrahim (born Abdulaziz El Sayyid Nosair, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 24, 1983) is an American peace campaigner and author.

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Zoë Ferraris

Zoë Ferraris is an American novelist.

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ZZ Packer

ZZ Packer (born January 12, 1973 Chicago, Illinois) is an American writer of short fiction.

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