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If you like Action/Adventure
Jeffrey Archer
Dale Brown
Lee Child
James Clavell
Tom Clancy
Clive Cussler
Nelson DeMille
Ken Follett
Frederick Forsyth
Alan Furst
W.E.B. Griffin
Jack Higgins
John Le Carre
Robert Littell
Robert Ludlum
Philip Margolin
Deon Meyer
Lawrence Sanders
Wilbur Smith
Brad Thor
Irving Wallace
If you like Women’s Lives
Mary Kay Andrews
Elizabeth Berg
Maeve Binchy
Meg Cabot
Barbara Delinsky
Helen Fielding
Katie Fforde
Jane Green
Kristin Hannah
Marian Keyes
Sopie Kinsella
Jodi Picoult
Anna Quindlen
Anita Shreve
Plum Sykes
Danielle Steel
Joanna Trollope
Jennifer Weiner
Lauren Weisberger
If you like Fantasy
Piers Anthony
Ray Bradbury
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Terry Brooks
Jim Butcher
Susanna Clarke
John Connolly
Anne Crompton
David Eddings
Raymond Feist
Jasper Fforde
Neil Gaiman
Terry Goodkind
Mercedes Lackey
Ursula LeGuin
George R.R. Martin
Christopher Moore
Audrey Niffenegger
Terry Pratchett
Christopher Priest
Robert Rankin
R.A. Salvatore
J.R.R. Tolkien
If you like Gentle Reads
Hannah Alexander
Willa Cather
Jack Cavanaugh
Jennifer Chiaverini
Richard Paul Evans
Philip Gulley
Jan Karon
Thomas Kinkade
David Mamet
Joan Medlicott
Janette Oke
Diana Palmer
Robin Pilcher
Jeanne Ray
Miss Read
Anne B. Ross
Nicholas Sparks
Adriana Trigiani
Robert James Waller
Marcia Willett
If you like Historical Fiction
Isabel Allende
Jean M. Auel
Julian Barnes
Geraldine Brooks
Tracy Chavalier
Bernard Cornwell
Frank Delany
Anita Diamant
E.L. Doctorow
Sarah Dunant
Louise Erdrich
Charles Frazier
Diana Gabaldon
Phillipa Gregory
John Jakes
Beverly Lewis
Ian McEwan
Michelle Moran
Patrick O’Brian
Kathleen O’Neal
Janette Oke
Anne Perry
Francine Rivers
Tatiana de Rosnay
Lisa See
Jeff Shaara
Michael Shaara
If you like Horror
V.C. Andrews
Clive Barker
Lincoln Child
Robin Cook
Jack Finney
Laurell K. Hamilton
Charlaine Harris
Susan Hill
Brian Keene
Stephen King
Tabatha King
Dean Koontz
Elizabeth Kostova
Edward Lee
Doris Lessing
Ira Levin
H.P. Lovecraft
Jonathan Maberry
Richard Matheson
Robin McKinley
Richard Matheson
Joyce Carol Oates
Tom Piccirilli
Douglas Preston
Bill Pronzini.
Anne Rice
John Saul
If you like Literary
Margaret Atwood
Elizabeth Berg
Louise Erdrich
Jasper Fforde
Jonathan Franzen
Alice Hoffman
Khaled Hosseini
John Irving
Barbara Kingsolver
Anne Lamott
Sue Miller
Toni Morrison
Chuck Palahniuk
Ann Patchett
E. Annie Proulx
Anna Quindlen
Richard Russo
Carolyn See
Anita Shreve
Jane Smiley
Amy Tan
Anne Tyler
Alice Walker
If you like Mystery
Nevada Barr
M.C. Beaton
Lillian Jackson Braun
James Lee Burke
Patricia Cornwell
Janet Evanovich
Sue Grafton
John Grisham
Philip Friedman
P.D. James
J.A. Jance
Iris Johansen
Jonathan Kellerman
Stieg Larsson
John Lescroart
Steve Martini
Alexander McCall-Smith
Walter Mosley
Ridley Pearson
Sara Paretsky
Robert B. Parker
If you like Romance
Mary Balogh
Suzanne Brockman
Sandra Brown
Catherine Coulter
Jennifer Crusie
Janet Dailey
Barbara Delinsky
Julie Garwood
Lisa Kleypass
Jayne Ann Krentz
Debbie Macomber
Judith McNaught
Judith Michael
Fern Michaels
Kasey Michaels
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Rosamund Pilcher
Belva Plain
Nora Roberts
Anne Rivers Siddons
Lavyrle Spencer
Danielle Steele
Lori Wick
If you like Science Fiction
Douglas Adams
Catherine Asaro
Issac Asimov
Ian Banks
Greg Bear
Ben Bova
Ray Bradbury
Lois McMaster Bujold
Orson Scott Card
Philip Dick
Brian Herbert
Anne McCaffrey
Jack McDevitt
Elizabeth Moon
Michael Resnick
Neil Stephenson
S.M. Stirling
Theodore Sturgeon
David Weber
H.G. Wells
Scott Westerfield
Connie Willis
If you like Suspense
Lawrence Block
James Lee Burke
Lee Child
Mary Higgins Clark
Harlan Coben
Michael Connelly
Thomas Cook
Jeffrey Deaver
Philip Friedman
Greg Iles
J.A. Jance
Stieg Larsson
Elmore Leonard
John Lescroart
Steve Martini
Walter Mosley
James Patterson
Ridley Pearson
Thomas Perry
Ruth Rendell
John Sandford
Robert Tanenbaum
Scott Turow
S.J. Watson
If you like Thrillers
David Baldacci
Dan Brown
James Lee Burke
Lincoln Child
Robin Cook
Michael Crichton
Philip Friedman
Tess Gerritsen
James Grippando
John Grisham
Jonathan Kellerman
Philip Kerr
John Lescroart
Steve Martini
George Pelecanos
Douglas Preston
John Sandford
Lisa Scottoline
Daniel Silva
S.J. Watson
Stuart Woods
If you like Downton Abbey
DVDs
Upstairs, Downstairs
Gosford Park
Remains of the Day
Howard’s End
Room with a View
Books
House of Eliott
By Jean Marsh
Remains of the Day
By Kazuo Ishiguro
The Bolter
By Frances Osborne
Howard’s End
By E.M. Forster
The Children’s Book
By A.S. Byatt
Fall of Giants
By Ken Follett
The American Heiress
By Daisy Goodwin
The House at Riverton
By Kate Morton
The Crimson Rooms
By Katharine McMahon
Shadows and Lies
By Marjorie Eccles
A Duty to the Dead
By Charles Todd
Maisie Dobbs series
By Jacqueline Winspear