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Enjoy these unique booklists, created by our library staff. All booklists were updated in 2011.

Fiction

Fantasy and Science Fiction:

Fiction of Places

Historical Fiction

Horror

Humor/Satire

Literature and General Fiction

Multicultural

Mystery & Thriller

Romance

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Non-Fiction

African-American

Art and Artists

Cooking, Gardening and Hobbies

Families and Parenting

Finances

Health and Self-Help

History

People and Their Stories

Science and the Natural World

Spirituality and Religion

Sports

Travel

 

Featured Booklist: The Inklings

The Great Divorce

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By C.S. Lewis

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"C. S. Lewis takes us on a profound journey through both heaven and hell in this engaging allegorical tale. Using his extraordinary descriptive powers, Lewis introduces us to supernatural beings who will change the way we think about good and evil."
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The Screwtape Letters

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By C.S. Lewis

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A "Positively Diabolical" Correspondence

"My dear Wormwood,"
So begins this product of C.S. Lewis's wickedly funny imagination, a correspondence between two devils, Screwtape and his young nephew, Wormwood. As the senior fiend advises his young apprentice in leading humanity astray, Lewis delves into questions about good and evil, temptation, repentance, and grace, offering knowledge and guidance to all who are trying to live good Christian lives.

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The Canterbury Tales

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By Geoffrey Chaucer, translated into modern English by Nevill Coghill

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"A retelling of the medieval poem about a group of travelers on a pilgrimage to Canterbury and the tales they tell each other. With their astonishing diversity of tone and subject matter, The Canterbury Tales have become one of the touchstones of medieval literature. Translated here into modern English, these tales of a motley crowd of pilgrims drawn from all walks of life-from knight to nun, miller to monk-reveal a picture of English life in the fourteenth century that is as robust as it is representative."

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