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Fiction/Nonfiction Authors

Like Mark Twain of old, some of our most popular authors dip into both fiction and nonfiction writing. Here is a selection of recommended authors showing their multifaceted talents.

F is fiction and NF is nonfiction. Also, B is biography, BCD is book on compact disc, BOT is book on tape, LT is lareg type, and M is mystery.

Peter Ackroyd

    F:

  • The Fall of Troy
  • The Plato Papers: A Prophesy

    • NF:

  • Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination (942)
  • Blake (B)
  • Dickens (B)
  • The Life of Thomas More (B)
  • London: The Biography (942.1)
  • Shakespeare: The Biography (B)

Mitch Albom

    F:

  • The Five People You Meet in Heaven
  • For One More Day

    • NF:

  • Tuesdays with Morrie (155.937)

James Baldwin

    F:

  • The Amen Corner: A Play (812)
  • Another Country, Blues For Mister Charlie: A Play (812)
  • Giovanni's Room
  • Go Tell It on the Mountain
  • Going to Meet the Man
  • If Beale Street Could Talk
  • Just Above My Head, One Day
  • When I Was Lost: A Scenario (812)
  • Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone

    • NF:

  • No Name in the Street (301.451)
  • Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son (301.451)

Dave Barry

    F:

  • Big Trouble
  • The Shepherd, the Angel, and Walter the Christmas Miracle Dog
  • Tricky Business

    • NF:

  • Boogers are my Beat (814.54)
  • Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway (817)
  • Dave Barry Is Not Making This Up (817)
  • Dave Barry Slept Here (817)
  • Dave Barry Turns 50 (817)
  • Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys (817)
  • Dave Barry's Greatest Hits (817)
  • Dave Barry's History of the Millenium (so far) (818.54)
  • Dave Barry's Money Secrets (814.54)

Wendell Berry

    F:

  • Hannah Coulter
  • Jayber Crow

    • NF:

  • The Broken Ground: Poems (811)
  • Citizenship Papers (323.6)
  • Clearing: Poems (811)
  • Given: New Poems (811)

William F. Buckley

    F:

  • High Jinx
  • Marco Polo
  • If You Can
  • Mongoose,
  • R.I.P.
  • The Rake
  • Saving the Queen
  • See You Later Alligator
  • Spy Time
  • Stained Glass
  • A Very Private Plot
  • Who's on First

    • NF:

  • Buckley: The Right Word (422)
  • The Fall of the Berlin Wall (943)
  • Let Us Talk of Many Things: The Speeches (815.54)
  • The Lexicon (428)
  • Miles Gone By (B)

Truman Capote

    F:

  • Breakfast at Tiffany's
  • A Capote Reader
  • The Complete Stories of Truman Capote
  • The Grass Harp, a Play (812)
  • Music for Chameleons
  • Other Voices, Other Rooms
  • The Thanksgiving Visitor

    • NF:

  • In Cold Blood (364.15)
  • Portraits and Observations: The Essays of Truman Capote (814.54)

Susan Cheever

    F:

  • Doctors and Women

    • NF:

  • American Bloomsbury (810.9)
  • My Name Is Bill : Bill Wilson : His Life and the Creation of Alcoholics Anonymous (B Wilson)
  • Note found in a Bottle: My Life as a Drinker (362.292)
  • A Woman's Life: The Story of an Ordinary American and her Extraordinary Generation

Edwidge Danticat

    F:

  • The Dew Breaker
  • Breath, Eyes, Memory (also LT)
  • The Farming of Bones
  • Krik? Krack!

    • NF:

  • Brother, I'm Dying (B)
  • After the Dance: A Walk through Carnival in Jacmel, Haiti (917.294)

Joan Didion

    F:

  • Democracy
  • The Last Thing He Wanted
  • Play It As It Lays

    • NF:

  • After Henry (814)
  • Fixed Ideas: America since 9.11 (320.53)
  • Miami (975.9381)
  • Salvador (972.84)
  • Slouching Towards Bethlehem (814)
  • Where I Was From (979.4)
  • The White Album (814)
  • The Year of Magical Thinking (B)

Dave Eggers

    F:

  • How We Are Hungry
  • What Is the What

    • NF:

  • A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (B Eggers)
  • Teachers Have It Easy: The Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of America's Teachers (331.2)

Shelby Foote

    F:

  • Shiloh

    • NF:

  • Civil War: A Narrative (973.7)
  • Stars in their Courses: The Gettysburg Campaign, June-July 1863 (973.7349)

Andrew Greeley

    F:

  • All About Women: Stories
  • Angels of September
  • Blackie Ryan mystery series (M)
  • Cardinal series
  • Fall from Grace
  • Nuala Anne McGrail series
  • Irish Gold
  • The Priestly Sins
  • September Song
  • Star Bright! A Christmas Story
  • Summer at the Lake
  • White Smoke

    • NF:

  • The Bible and Us: A Priest and a Rabbi Read Scripture Together (220.6)
  • The Catholic Imagination (282)
  • The Catholic Myth: The Behavior and Beliefs of American Catholics (282.73)
  • Confessions of a Parish Priest (B)
  • The Making of the Popes 1978: The Politics of Intrigue in the Vatican (262.136)

John Grisham

    F:

  • The Appeal
  • Bleachers (also BCD)
  • The Brethren (also BCD and LT)
  • The Broker (also BCD)
  • The Chamber (also LT)
  • The Client
  • The Firm (also LT)
  • The King of Torts
  • The Last Juror (also LT)
  • A Painted House (also LT)
  • The Partner
  • The Pelican Brief
  • Playing for Pizza (also BCD)
  • The Rainmaker (also LT)
  • The Runaway Jury (also BOT)
  • Skipping Christmas (also BCD and LT)
  • The Street Lawyer
  • The Summons (also BOT and LT)
  • The Testament (also LT)

    • NF:

  • The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town (345.766) (also BCD)

Nick Hornby

    F:

  • About a Boy
  • Fever Pitch (tape only)
  • High Fidelity
  • A Long Way Down
  • Slam

    • NF:

  • The Polysyllabic Spree (814)

Thomas Keneally

    F:

  • Office of Innocence
  • Schindler's List
  • Season in Purgatory

    • NF:

  • Abraham Lincoln (B)
  • The Great Shame: And the Triumph of the Irish in the English-speaking World

Jamaica Kincaid

    F:

  • Annie John
  • Autobiography of My Mother
  • Mr. Potter

    • NF:

  • My Brother

Barbara Kingsolver

    F:

  • Animal Dreams
  • The Bean Trees
  • Pigs in Heaven
  • The Poisonwood Bible
  • Prodigal Summer

    • NF:

  • Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
  • High Tide in Tucson
  • Small Wonder

Anne Lamott

    F:

  • Crooked Little Heart
  • Rosie

    • NF:

  • Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith (B LaMott)
  • Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith (B Lamott)
  • Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith (B Lamott)

Doris Lessing

    F:

  • African Stories
  • Briefing for a Descent into Hell
  • Children of Violence
  • The Cleft
  • The Four-Gated City
  • The Grandmothers: Four Short Novels
  • Love, Again
  • The Memoirs of a Survivor
  • The Real Thing: Stories and Sketches
  • The Summer Before the Dark
  • The Sweetest Dream
  • The Temptation of Jack Orkney and Other Stories

    • NF:

  • African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe (916.891)
  • Under My Skin (B)
  • Walking in the Shade (B)

Steve Martin

    F:

  • Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays (812)
  • The Pleasure of My Company
  • Shopgirl

    • NF:

  • Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life (B)
  • Cruel Shoes (817)

Anna Quindlen

    F:

  • Black and Blue
  • Blessings
  • Object Lessons
  • One True Thing (BOT)
  • Rise and Shine

    • NF:

  • Being Perfect (170.14)
  • Good Dog. Stay (636.7)
  • How Reading Changed My Life (814)
  • Loud and Clear (081)
  • A Short Guide to a Happy Life (170.44)
  • Thinking Out Loud (814)

Jane Smiley

    F:

  • The Age of Grief
  • The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton
  • At Paradise Gate
  • Good Faith
  • The Greenlanders
  • Moo
  • Ordinary Love & Good Will
  • Ten Days in the Hills
  • A Thousand Acres

    • NF:

  • Charles Dickens (B Dickens)
  • Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel (813.54)
  • A Year at the Races (798.4)

Susan Sontag

    F:

  • Alice in Bed: A Play in Eight Scenes (812)
  • In America
  • The Volcano Lover

    • NF:

  • Against Interpretation and other Essays (809.04)
  • AIDS and its Metaphors (362.1)
  • At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches (814.54)
  • Illness as Metaphor (809.933)
  • Regarding the Pain of Others (303.6)

Amy Tan

    F:

  • The Bonesetter's Daughter
  • The Hundred Secret Senses
  • The Joy Luck Club
  • The Kitchen God's Wife
  • Saving Fish from Drowning

    • NF:

  • The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings

Tom Wolfe

    F:

  • Ambush at Fort Bragg (BOT)
  • The Bonfire of the Vanities
  • Hooking Up
  • I Am Charlotte Simmons
  • A Man in Full

    • NF:

  • From Bauhaus to Our House (720.973)
  • The New Journalism (081)
  • The Painted Word (759.06)
  • The Right Stuff (629.1)

Virginia Woolf

    F:

  • Mrs. Dalloway
  • Orlando
  • To the Lighthouse
  • The Years

    • NF:

  • A Room of One's Own (305.4)
  • A Writer's Diary (B)