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What Kind of
Reader are You?
Let us help you find a sampling of other authors you may enjoy reading
in your favorite genre! Click on the author's name to see books available
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Romance | Historical
Fiction | Victorian Era | Latin American |
Mystery | Adventure
African American |
Chick Lit | Christian/Inspiration |
Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Horror/Thriller
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Romance?
Try looking at this website: www.likesbooks.com.
If you like the romances written by
Catherine
Coulter
you might enjoy reading books by:
Julie
Garwood, Amanda
Quick, Jo
Beverly, Catherine
Palmer, Cathy
Maxwell,
Sabrina Jeffries, Lori
Foster, Jayne Ann Krentz and
Julia Quinn
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Historical
Fiction? You will definitely want to add
this website to your favorites: www.historicalfiction.org.
Not only does Miriam Grace Monfredo write great historical fiction but
these authors are historical fiction writers as well:
Gore
Vidal, Jane Peart,
Barbara Hambly, Thomas
Mallon, and John Jakes
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Victorian
Era? These authors write novels that take place
during the Victorian Era:
Anne
Perry, A.S. Byatt,
Will
Thomas, Robin
Paige,
and Emma Donoghue. Classical authors include: Jane
Austen,
the
Bronte sisters, Elizabeth Barrett
Browning, and Rudyard Kipling
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Latin
American Authors? Try reading:
Isabel Allende,
Sandra
Cisneros, Carlos
Fuentes, Julia
Alvarez, and Laura
Esquivel (non-fiction writer)
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Mystery,
Suspense, Crime? These
websites are fun to look at: www.hsmb.com,
www.murderbythebook.com and
www.themysteryreader.com.
If you like Patricia
Cornwell, you may want to read books by:
Kathy
Reichs, Tess Gerritsen,
Robert W.
Walker, Robin
Cook, Iris
Johansen,
Tony Hillerman, Michael
Palmer, Tamar
Myers, and Janet
Evanovich
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Adventure?
Some of the wonderful adventure writers we have available through
the Monroe County Library Systerm are:
Dale
Brown, Lincoln
Child, Stephen Coonts,
Clive Cussler,
Jeffrey Deaver,
Frederick
Forsyth,
W.E.B. Griffin, Jack
Higgins, Eric Van Lustbader,
John J.
Nance, Patick
O'Brian, and Martin Cruz Smith
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African
American Authors?
Enjoy reading books
by:
Maya
Angelou, Octavia
Butler, Stephen L.
Carter, Pearl Cleage,
Eric
Jerome Dickey, E. Lynn
Harris, T.D.
Jakes, Terry
McMillan, Toni
Morrison, Walter
Mosley, Kimberla Lawson
Roby, Omar
Tyree, and Alice
Walker
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Chick
Lit? Read
great chick lit writers like:
Cecelia
Ahern, Candace
Bushnell, Meg
Cabot,
Helen Fielding, Jane
Green, Marian
Keyes, Sophie
Kinsella, Carole
Matthews, Carly
Phillips, and Jennifer Weiner
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Christian/Inspirational?
Inspirational and
Christian authors include:
Terri
Blackstock, Stephen
Bly, T. Davis
Bunn,
Philip Gulley, Dee
Henderson, Jan
Karon, Karen
Kingsbury, Tim
LaHaye,
Beverly Lewis, Tracie
Peterson, Lauraine
Snelling, and Lori Wick
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Science
Fiction/Fantasy? Noted
authors of this genre include:
Terry
Brooks, Orson Scott
Card, Terry
Goodkind, Laurell K.
Hamilton, Mercedes
Lackey, Anne
McCaffrey, Harry
Turtledove, and John Scalzi
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Thriller/Horror?
Try reading books by:
Dan
Brown, Joe
Hill, Greg
Iles, James
Patterson, Richard
Patterson, Ken
Follett, Tess
Gerritsen, Alex
Kava, Dean
Koontz, Stephen
King, Perri
O'Shaughnessy,
and Anne
Rice.
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