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Mystery Quick Reads
The Best American Mystery Stories
edited by Jeffery Deaver
Black Noir: Mystery, Crime and Suspense Stories by African-American Writers
edited by Otto Penzler
On a Raven's Wing: New Tales in Honor of Edgar Allan Poe
by Mary Higgins Clark
Crime Spells
edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Loren L. Coleman
The Dark End of the Street: New Stories of Sex and Crime by Today's Top Authors
edited by Jonathan Santlofer and S.J. Rozan
First Thrills: High-Octane Stories from the Hottest Thriller Authors
edited by Lee Child
Hook, Line & Sinister
edited by T. Jefferson Parker
The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
edited by John Joseph Adams with assistance provided by David Barr Kirtley
Killer Year: Stories to Die for- from the Hottest New Crime Writers
edited by Lee Child
Los Angeles Noir Two: The Classics
edited by Denise Hamilton
Mystery Date
edited by Denise Little
Mystery Writers of America Presents the Prosecution Rests: New Stories about Courtrooms, Criminals, and the Law
edited by Linda Fairstein
Portland Noir
edited by Kevin Sampsell
A Prisoner of Memory: and 24 of the Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories
edited by Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg
Seattle Noir
edited by Curt Colbert
At the Scene of the Crime: Forensic Mysteries from Today's Best Writers
edited by Dana Stabenow
Sex, Lies and Private Eyes
edited by Joe Gentile and Richard Dean Starr
Sherlock Holmes: The American Years
edited by Michael Kurland
Two of the Deadliest: New Tales of Lust, Greed, and Murder from Outstanding Women of Mystery
edited by Elizabeth George
Unusual Suspects: Stories of Mystery & Fantasy
edited by Dana Stabenow
Nature and Wilderness Quick Reads
Desert Solitaire: a Season in the Wilderness
by Edward Abbey
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2009
edited and with an introduction by Elizabeth Kolbert
1001 Natural Wonders You Must See Before You Die
by Michael Bright
The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild
by Craig Childs
The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest
by Timothy Egan
Reaching Home: Pacific Salmon, Pacific People
by Natalie Fobes
Henry David Thoreau: Collected Essays and Poems
edited by Elizabeth Hall Witherll
Hoagland on Nature: Essays
by Edward Hoagland
The Last Polar Bear
by Steven Kazlowski
High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never
by Barbara Kingsolver
Fast Moving Water: Images and Essays from the Hoh River
by Keith D. Lazelle
A Sand County Almanac: With Essays on Conservation
by Aldo Leopold
Salmon River Country
by Mark Lisk
About This Life: Journeys on the Threshold of Memory
by Barry Lopez
Planet Ice: a Climate for Change
by James Martin
Nature Writings
by John Muir
Renewing Salmon Nations Food Traditions compiled and edited
by Gary Paul Nabhan
Monster of God
by David Quammen
Marking the Sparrow’s Fall: Wallace Stegner’s American West
by Wallace Stegner
Finding Beauty in a Broken World
by Terry Tempest Williams
Children’s Quick Reads
The Brownie and the Princess and Other Stories
by Louisa May Alcott
Please Write in This Book
by Mary Amato
American Fairy Tales from Rip Van Winkle to the Rootabaga Stories
compiled by Neil Philip
Strange Happenings: Five Tales of Transformation
by Avi
Flat Stanley
by Jeff Brown
The Twits
by Roald Dahl
Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Jumping Frogs
by Donald J. Sobol
The Hundred Dresses
by Eleanor Estes
Friends: Stories about New Friends, Old Friends, and Unexpectedly True Friends
edited by Ann M. Martin and David Levithan
The Reluctant Dragon
by Kenneth Grahame
I Fooled You! Ten Stories of Tricks, Jokes and Switcheroos
collected and edited by Johanna Hurwitz
Sword of the Samurai: Adventure Stories from Japan
by Eric Kimmel
The Mouse Family Robinson
by Dick King-Smith
The Curse of the Campfire Weenies and Other Warped and Creepy Tales
by David Lubar
Leaping Beauty: And Other Animal Fairy Tales
by Gregory Maguire
The Perfect Hamburger and Other Delicious Stories
by Alexander McCall Smith
Porch Lies: Tales of Slicksters, Tricksters, and Other Wily Characters
by Pat McKissack
Inspector Forsooth’s Mini-Mysterie
by Derek Niederman
Noisy outlaws, unfriendly blobs, and some other things that aren't as scary, maybe, depending on how you feel about lost lands, stray cellphones, creatures from the sky, parents who disappear in peru, a man named Lars Farf,and one other story we couldn't quite finish so maybe you could help us out
edited by Ted Thompson with Eli Horowitz
The Hoboken Chicken Emergency
by Daniel Pinkwater
Beware! R.L. Stine Picks His Favorite Scary Stories
by R.L. Stine
Cut From the Same Cloth: American Women of Myth, Legend and Tall Tale
by Robert San Souci
Still More Stories to Solve told
by George Shannon
Baseball in April and Other Stories
by Gary Soto
Science Fiction and Fantasy Quick Reads
Ages of Wonder
edited by Julie E. Czerneda and Rob St. Martin
Mirror Kingdoms: The Best of Peter S. Beagle
by Peter S. Beagle; edited by Jonathan Strahan
Worlds
by Eric Flint
A Is for Alien
by Caitlín R. Kiernan
The Best of Michael Moorcock
edited by John Davey with Ann & Jeff VanderMeer
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
The Dragon Book
edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois
Moonlight and Vines: A Newford Collection
by Charles de Lint
Eclipse Three: New Science Fiction and Fantasy
edited by Jonathan Strahan
A Fantasy Medley
edited by Yanni Kuznia
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
by Neil Gaiman
Gamer Fantastic
edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Kerrie Hughes
The Mammoth Book of Merlin
edited by Mike Ashley
Cryptic: The Best Short Fiction of Jack McDevitt
by Jack McDevitt
Cyberabad Days
by Ian McDonald
The New Space Opera 2 edited
by Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan
Chimerascope
by Douglas Smith
Spells of the City
edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Jean Rabe
Strange Brew
edited by P.N. Elrod
Wireless
by Charles Stross
Travel Quick Reads
True North
by Myron Arms
I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after 20 Years Away
by Bill Bryson
Hold the Enlightenment
by Tim Cahill
New Orleans, Mon Amour: 20 Years of Writings from the City
by Andrei Codrescu
From Stonehenge to Samarkand: an Anthology of Archaeological Travel Writing
by Brian Fagan
Up at the Villa: Travels with My Husband
by Linda Jenkins
Tales from the Edge: True Adventures in Alaska
edited by Larry Kaniut
The Kindness of Strangers
edited by Don George
Charles Kuralt’s American Moments
by Charles Kuralt
The Titanic Awards: Celebrating the Worst of Travel
by Doug Lansky
Roads to Quoz: an American Mosey
by William Least Heat-Moon
Contact: A Book of Encounters
by Jan Morris
Food Journeys of a Lifetime: 500 Extraordinary Places to Eat around the Globe
by “National Geographic"
The New Age of Adventure: 10 Years of Great Writing
edited by John Rasmus 9781426205460
It Still Moves: Lost Songs, Lost Highways, and the Search for the Next American Music
by Amanda Petrusich
Dining with al-Qaeda
by Hugh Pope
The Accidental Explorer: Wayfinding in Alaska
by Sherry Simpson
Adios, Amigos: Tales of Sustenance and Purification in the American West
by Page Stegner
Flying High with A. Frank Steward: More Air Travel Tips and Tales from the Flight Crew
by James Wyso
Not Now Voyager
by Lynne Schwartz
Literary Fiction Quick Reads
A Good Scent From A Strange Mountain: Stories
by Robert Olen Butler
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?: The Stories of Raymond Carver
by Raymond Carver
Anton Chekhov: Selected Stories translated
by Ann Dunnigan
The Dead Fish Museum
by Charles D'Ambrosio
Drown
by Junot Diaz
A Multitude of Sins: Stories
by Richard Ford
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
by Ernest Hemingway
The Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
Interpreter of Maladies: Stories
by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Complete Stories
by David Malouf
No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; translated by J.S. Bernstein
Dance of the Happy Shades and Other Stories
by Alice Munro
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
by Grace Paley
Dimanche and Other Stories
by Irene Nemirovsky
A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories
by Flannery O'Connor
Brokeback Mountain
by Annie Proux
Franny and Zooey
by J.D. Salinger
Day Out of Days: Stories
by Sam Shepard
Cheating at Canasta
by William Trevor
Licks of Love: Short Stories and a Sequel
by John Updike
Humorous Quick Reads
I'll Mature When I'm Dead: Dave Barry's Amazing Tales of Adulthood
by Dave Barry
I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays
by Sloane Crosley
Disquiet, Please!: More Humor Writing from the New Yorker
edited by David Remnick and Henry Finder
Twisted: Tales from the Wacky Side of Life
by Bob Fenster
Viva La Repartee: Clever Comebacks and Witty Retorts from History's Great Wits & Wordsmiths
by Mardy Grothe
Humor Me: an Anthology of Funny Contemporary Writing (Plus Some Great Old Stuff Too)
edited by Ian Frazier
I'll Be Sober in the Morning: Great Political Comebacks, Putdowns & Ripostes
edited by Chris Lamb 9780972382946
Life Among the Lutherans
by Garrison Keillor
Vinyl Café Unplugged
by Stuart McLean
Kerplunk! Stories
by Patrick F. McManus 0743280490
The Darwin Awards Next Evolution: Chlorinating the Gene Pool
by Wendy Northcutt
Passive Aggressive Notes: Painfully Polite and Hilariously Hostile Writings, and Just Plain Aggressive compiled
by Kerry Miller
Our Front Pages: 21 Years of Greatness, Virtue, and Moral Rectitude from America's Finest News Source
by “The Onion"
Out of My Mind
by Andy Rooney
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
by David Sedaris
My Life and Hard Times
by James Thurber
The Mammoth Book of Jokes
edited by Geoff Tibballs
Cannibalism in the Cars: the Best of Twain's Humorous Sketches
by Mark Twain
Mama Makes up Her Mind: and Other Dangers of Southern Living
by Bailey White
A Few Quick Ones
by P.G. Wodehouse
Horror Quick Reads
The Annotated H.P. Lovecraft
annotations by S.T. Joshi
The Ancestors
by L.A. Banks, Tananarive Due and Brandon Massey
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One
edited by Ellen Datlow
Skeleton in the Closet and Other Stories
by Robert Bloch; edited by Stefan R. Dziemianowicz
The Horror Writers Association presents Blood Lite : An Anthology of Humorous Horror Stories
edited by Kevin J. Anderson
Inferno : New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural edited
by Ellen Datlow
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
by H.P. Lovecraft ; edited with an introduction and notes by S.T. Joshi
On a Raven's Wing: New Tales in Honor of Edgar Allan Poe
by Mary Higgins Clark, et al.; edited by Stuart M. Kaminsky
Cthulhu's Reign edited
by Darrell Schweitzer
Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror
edited by Ellen Datlow 9781892391957
Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales
by Stephen King
Just After Sunset: Stories
by Stephen King
Lovecraft Unbound: Twenty Stories
edited by Ellen Datlow
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume Twenty
edited and with an introduction by Stephen Jones
Mystery Writers of America Presents In the Shadow of the Master: Classic Tales
by Edgar Allan Poe edited by Michael Connelly
Night Shift
by Stephen King
Poe's Children: The New Horror: An Anthology
edited by Peter Straub
The Restless Dead : Ten Original Stories of the Supernatural edited
by Deborah Noyes
Shadows Over Baker Street edited
by Michael Reaves and John Pelan
Whispers in the Night edited
by Brandon Massey
Wolfsbane and Mistletoe
edited by Charlaine Harris and Toni L.P. Kelner
Romance Quick Reads
Irresistible Forces
edited by Catherine Asaro
Chalice of Roses
by Jo Beverley, et al.
Dragon Lovers
by Jo Beverley, et al.
My Zombie Valentine
by Lisa Cach, et al.
Ladies Prefer Rogues
by Janet Chapman, et al.
A Bride by Christmas
by Heather Graham, Jo Beverly and Candace Camp
Pistols for Two and Other Stories
by Georgette Heyer
Strangers in the Night
by Linda Howard
Under the Mistletoe
by Linda Howard and Stephanie Bond
Awakening the Beast: A Collection of Six Sexy Bites
by Lisa Renee Jones, et al.
Holiday With a Vampire III
by Linda Winstead Jones, Lisa Childs and Bonnie Vanak
Heart's Desire: A Collection of Their Most Touching Love Stories
by Jayne Ann Krentz, Linda Howard and Linda Lael Miller
Cupid Cats
by Katie MacAlister, Connie Brockway and Vicki Lewis Thompson
A Gift of Love
by Judith McNaught, et al.
Simple Gifts
by Judith McNaught and Jude Deveraux
Once Upon a Castle
by Nora Roberts, et al.
Once Upon a Star
by Nora Roberts, et al.
Bitten by Cupid
by Lynsay Sands, Pamela Palmer and Jaime Rush
Heart of Darkness
by Gena Showalter, Maggie Shayne and Susan Krinard
Give Me a Texas Ranger
by Jodi Thomas, et al.
Racing Hearts
by Vicki Lewis Thompson, Nancy Warren and Dorien Kelly
Teen Quick Reads
Up All Night: A Short Story Collection
by Peter Abrahams, et al.
No Such Thing As the Real World: Stories about Growing up and Getting a Life
by M.T. Anderson, et al.
The Poison Eaters and Other Stories
by Holly Black
A Banquet for Hungry Ghosts: a Collection of Deliciously Frightening Tales
by Ying Chang Compestine
Fire: Tales of Elemental Spirits
by Peter Dickinson and Robin McKinley
Every Man for Himself: 10 Short Stories about Being a Guy
edited by Nancy E. Mercado
Firebirds: An Anthology of Original Fantasy and Science Fiction
edited by Sharyn November
First Kiss (Then Tell)
edited by Cylin Busby
You Don't Even Know Me: Stories and Poems about Boys
by Sharon Flake
Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd
edited by Holly Black and Cecil Castellucci
How Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of Identity
edited by Michael Cart
Immortal: Love Stories with Bite
edited by P.C. Cast
Black Juice
by Margo Lanagan
Pretty Monsters: Stories
by Kelly Link
Gothic: Ten Original Dark Tales
by Deborah Noyes
grl2grl: Short Fictions
by Julie Anne Peters
The Starry Rift: Tales of New Tomorrows edited
by Jonathan Strahan
Lips Touch: Three Times
by Lani Taylor
21 Proms
edited by David Levithan and Daniel Ehrenhaft
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Last Updated:
March 12, 2012
