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Gold Medal Fiction:

  • Alcorn, Angela -- The Ishbane Conspiracy
  • Alexie, Sherman -- The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven
  • Alexie, Sherman -- Reservation Blues
  • Allen, Charlotte -- Dreaming in Color
  • Alvarez, Julia -- In the Time of the Butterflies
  • Ansay, A. Manette -- River Angel
  • Archer, Jeffrey -- As the Crow Flies
  • Austen, Jane -- Pride and Prejudice
  • Baldacci, David -- Saving Faith
  • Baldacci, David -- Wish You Well
  • Bank, Melissa -- The Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing
  • Barr, Nevada -- Blind Descent
  • Bass, Rick -- The Sky The Stars The Wilderness
  • Bear, Greg -- Vitals
  • Bedford, Deborah -- Just Between Us
  • Bedford, Deborah -- The Story Jar
  • Benig, Irving -- The Messiah Stones
  • Berg, Elizabeth -- Durable Goods
  • Berg, Elizabeth -- Open House
  • Berg, Elizabeth -- The Pull of the Moon
  • Binchy, Maeve -- The Copper Beech
  • Binchy, Maeve -- The Glass Lake
  • Booth, Martin -- The Industry of Souls
  • Brown, James -- Lucky Town
  • Brown, Dan Angels & Demons
  • Brown, Sandra -- The Witness
  • Burke, James -- Cimarron Rose
  • Burke, Jan -- Dear Irene,
  • Case, John -- The Fifth Horseman
  • Cather, Willa -- My Antonia
  • Cavanaugh, Jack -- Dear Enemy
  • Chiaverini, Jennifer -- Quilter's Apprentice (book1)
  • Chiaverini, Jennifer -- The Cross-Country Quilters (book 3)
  • Chiaverini, Jennifer -- Round Robin (book 2)
  • Child, Lincoln and Douglas Preston -- The Cabinet of Curiosities
  • Coelho, Paulo -- The Alchemist
  • Coleman, Jane C. -- Moving On
  • Conroy, Pat -- The Great Santini
  • Coomer, Joe -- Beachcombing for a Shipwrecked God
  • Cross, Donna -- Pope Joan
  • Dahlquist, Gordon - The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters new 04/25/2007
  • Dallas, Sandra -- The Diary of Mattie Spenser
  • Dallas, Sandra -- The Persian Pickle Club
  • Darnton, John -- Neanderthal
  • Darrell, Elizabeth -- We Will Remember
  • Davidson, Diane Mott -- Dying For Chocolate
  • Deaver, Jeffrey -- The Devil's Teardrop
  • DeBerry, Virginia -- Tryin' To Sleep In The Bed You Made
  • DeMille, Nelson -- The General's Daughter
  • Dorf, Fran -- Saving Elijah
  • Dorris, Michael -- A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
  • Dubis, Andre III -- House of Sand and Fog
  • Dundon, Susan -- To My Ex-Husband
  • Durham, David Anthony -- Gabriel's Story
  • Edgerton, Clyde -- Walking Across Egypt
  • Elton, Ben -- Popcorn
  • Ephron, Amy -- A Cup of Tea
  • Esquivel, Laura -- Like Water for Chocolate
  • Evans, Nicholas -- The Horse Whisperer
  • Fergus, Jim -- One Thousand White Women
  • Fergus, Jim -- The Wild Girl : The Notebooks of Ned Giles, 1932
  • Fforde, Jasper -- The Eyre Affair
  • Fielding, Helen -- Bridget Jones's diary
  • Flagg, Fannie -- Daisy Fay & The Miracle Man
  • Flagg, Fannie -- Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!
  • Follett, Ken -- The Third Twin
  • Folsom, Allan -- The Day After Tomorrow
  • Franscell, Ron -- Angel Fire
  • Frazier, Charles -- Cold Mountain
  • Gabriel, Marius -- Seventh Moon
  • Gaffney, Patricia -- Circle of Three
  • Galvin, James (WYO) -- Fencing the Sky
  • Gibbons, Kaye -- A Virtuous Woman
  • Gibson, William -- Pattern Recognition
  • Goldberg, Leonard S. -- Deadly Care
  • Gottlieb, Eli -- The Boy Who Went Away
  • Goudge, Eileen -- Garden of Lies
  • Gould, Steven & Laura J. Mixon -- Greenwar, an Environmental Thriller
  • Greenberg, Joanne -- No Reck'ning Made
  • Grisham, John -- A Painted House
  • Groom, Winston -- As Summers Die
  • Groom, Winston -- Forrest Gump
  • Gutcheon, Beth -- More Than you Know
  • Gutcheon, Beth -- Saving Grace
  • Guterson, David -- Snow Falling on Cedars
  • Hall, Matthew -- The Art of Breaking Glass
  • Hallowell, Janis -- The Annunciation of Francesca Dunn
  • Hannah, Kristin -- On Mystic Lake
  • Harstad, Donald -- Eleven Days
  • Hart, Carolyn -- Death in Paradise
  • Haruf, Kent -- Plainsong
  • Hedges, Peter -- An Ocean in Iowa
  • Hedges, Peter -- What's Eating Gilbert Grape
  • Hegi, Ursula -- Salt Dancers
  • Hegi, Ursula -- Stones from the River
  • Hegland, Jean -- Into the Forest
  • Heitzmann, Kristen -- A Rush of Wings
  • Heitzmann, Kristen -- The Still of Night
  • Henderson, M. R. -- By Reason Of
  • Henley, Patricia -- In the River Sweet
  • Herman, Richard -- Iron Gate
  • Hearn, Lian -- Across the Nightingale Floor
  • Hill, David -- Sacred Dust
  • Hobbs, Anne -- Tisha: The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaska Wilderness
  • Holt A. J. -- Watch Me
  • Hornby, Nick -- About a Boy
  • Hornby, Nick -- High Fidelity
  • Hosseini, K -- The Kite Rider
  • Hucker, Hazel -- Trials of Friendship
  • Hudgens, Dallas -- Drive Like Hell
  • Hyde, Catherine Ryan -- Love in the Present Tense
  • Hyde, Catherine Ryan -- Pay It Forward
  • Ishiguro, Kazuo -- The Remains of The Day
  • Johnson, Shane -- Chayatocha
  • Karon, Jan -- A Common Life
  • Karon, Jan -- A New Song
  • Karon, Jan -- At Home in Mitford
  • Kay, Terry -- The Runaway
  • Kellogg, Marne Davis -- Curtsey
  • Kidd, Sue Monk - The Secret Life of Bees
  • King, Laurie -- Folly
  • Kingsolver, Barbara -- The Bean Trees
  • Kingsolver, Barbara -- The Poisonwood Bible
  • Kirkpatrick, Jane -- Love to Water my Soul
  • Klavan, Andrew - Man and Wife
  • Koontz, Dean -- Seize the Night
  • Kotzwinkle, William -- The Fan Man
  • Kurzweil, Allen -- The Grand Complication
  • Latham, Elizabeth -- Silences of the Heart
  • LeClaire, Anne D. -- Leaving Eden
  • Levy, Burt -- The Last Open Road
  • Levy, JoAnn -- Daughter of Joy
  • Lewis, C. S. -- Till We Have Faces
  • Loveday, John -- Halo
  • McCaig, Donald -- Jacobs Ladder
  • McMurtry, Larry -- Comanche Moon
  • Magorian, Michelle -- Good Night, Mr. Tom
  • Margolis, Seth -- Perfect Angel
  • Mark, Andrew -- Falling Bodies
  • Martin, Steve -- Shopgirl
  • Martin, William -- Cape Cod
  • Matheson, Richard -- 7 Steps to Midnight
  • Matson, Suzanne -- A Trick of Nature
  • Maxwell, Evan -- All the Winters That Have Been
  • Mayle, Peter -- A Dog's Life
  • McMillan, Terry -- Waiting to Exhale
  • Michener, James A. -- The Source
  • Miller, Sue -- While I Was Gone
  • Minot, Susan -- Evening
  • Morgan, Marlo -- Mutant Message Down Under
  • Morgan, Robert -- The Truest Pleasure
  • Morris, Michael -- Slow Way Home
  • Morris, Willie -- Taps
  • Morrison, Toni -- Beloved
  • Moser, Nancy -- The Seat Beside Me
  • Moser, Nancy -- Time Lottery
  • Nance, John -- Blackout
  • Nance, John -- Last Hostage
  • Niffenegger, Audrey -- The Time Traveler's Wife
  • Oke, Janette -- Nana's Gift
  • Oke, Janette -- The Matchmakers
  • Oke, Janette -- The Red Geranium
  • O'Carroll, Brendan -- The Young Wan
  • O'Dell Tawni -- Back Roads
  • Otto, Whitney -- How to Make an American Quilt
  • Park, June -- The Bingo Queens of Paradise
  • Patterson, Richard North -- Dark Lady
  • Patterson, Richard North -- Degree of Guilt
  • Patterson, Richard North -- Silent Witness
  • Pearson, Allison -- I Don't know How She Does It
  • Pearson, Carol Lynn -- Morning Glory Mother
  • Pearson, Ridley -- No Witnesses
  • Pella, Judith and Michael Phillips -- The Russians: A House Divided
  • Peretti, Frank -- This Present Darkness
  • Peters, Elizabeth -- The Curse of the Pharaohs
  • Phillips, Michael and Judith Pella --The Russians: A House Divided
  • Picoult, Jodi -- Keeping Faith
  • Picoult, Jodi -- Plain Truth
  • Preston, Douglas and Lincoln Child -- The Cabinet of Curiosities
  • Preston, Douglas -- The Codex
  • Proulx, Annie -- Bad Dirt
  • Proulx, Annie - The Shipping News
  • Proulx, Annie -- That Old Ace in the Hole
  • Puzo, Mario -- The Last Don
  • Raney, Deborah -- Playing by Heart
  • Rayner, Richard -- Cloud Sketcher
  • Reeves-Stevens, Judith & Garfield -- Icefire
  • Reynolds, Sheri -- Bitterroot Landing
  • Ribon, Pamela -- Why Girls Are Weird
  • Rivers, Francine -- An Echo in the Darkness
  • Rivers, Francine -- As Sure As the Dawn
  • Rivers, Francine -- The Atonement Child
  • Rivers, Francine -- Unspoken
  • Robinson, Patrick -- Kilo Class
  • Rollins, James -- Map of Bones
  • Ross, Ann B. -- Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind
  • Russo, Richard -- Empire Falls
  • Saenz, Benjamin Alire -- Carry Me Like Water
  • Sandford, John -- Certain Prey
  • Sandford, John -- The Night Crew
  • Shaw, Patricia -- Where The Willows Weep
  • Sheepshanks, Mary -- Picking Up the Pieces
  • Shelby, Philip -- Gatekeeper
  • Shepard, Steve -- A Murder of Crows
  • Shields, Carol -- Unless
  • Simmons, Dan -- Darwin's Blade
  • Simmons, Dan -- Hard Freeze
  • Simmons, Dan -- Hardcase
  • Simmons, Dan -- A Winter Haunting
  • Shields, Carol -- The Stone Diaries
  • Shortridge, Jennie -- Riding With The Queen
  • Skwiot, Rick -- Sleeping With Pancho Villa
  • Smith, Diane -- Letters From Yellowstone
  • Sparks, Nicholas -- A Walk to Remember
  • Sparks, Nicholas -- The Notebook
  • Spence, Gerry -- Half-Moon and Empty Stars
  • Spencer, Wen -- Tinker
  • Steele, Danielle -- Accident
  • Stegner, Wallace -- Angle of Repose
  • Strunk, Frank C. -- Throwback
  • Sullivan, Mark -- Ghost Dance
  • Tan, Amy -- The Joy Luck Club
  • Taylor, Alice -- The Woman of the House
  • Taylor-Hill, Mary Ann -- Come and Go, Molly Snow
  • Thayer, Nancy -- Between Husbands & Friends
  • Thoene, Bodie & Brock -- The Twilight of Courage
  • Thrasher, Travis -- The Watermark
  • Trevanian -- Incident at Twenty-Mile
  • Trott, Susan -- The Holy Man's Journey
  • Twelve Hawks, John -- The Dark River new 08/09/2007
  • Tyler, Anne -- Ladder of Years
  • Vandenburgh, Jane -- The Physics of Sunset
  • Walker, Alice -- The Temple of My Familiar
  • Wells, Rebecca -- Little Altars Everywhere
  • Watson, Larry -- Montana 1948
  • Wheeler, Richard S -- The Fields of Eden
  • Wheeler, Richard -- Goldfield
  • Williams, J -- The Longest Road
  • Williams, Theresa -- The Secret of Hurricanes
  • Williamson, Penelope -- The Outsider
  • Winston, Lolly -- Good Grief
  • Woods, Stuart -- Heat
  • Woolfe, Sue -- Leaning Towards Infinity

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