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JANUARY

1- E.M. Forster 1879 ("Howard's End")

Erik Larson 1954 ("Devil in the White City")

J.D. Salinger 1919 ("Catcher in the Rye")

2- Isaac Asimov 1920 ("I, Robot")

Gigi Levangie Grazer 1963 ("The Starter Wife")
Jean Little ("Little by Little") 

3- J.R.R. Tolkien 1892 ("Lord of the Rings" trilogy)

Carolyn Haywood 1898 ("B is for Betsy")
Carol Guess 1968 ("Switch")

4- Jakob Grimm 1785 ("Grimm's Fairy Tales")

Harlan Coben 1962 (mystery)

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor 1933 ("Shiloh")

5- Umberto Eco 1932 ("The Name of the Rose")

6- Khalil Gibran 1883 ("The Prophet")

Elizabeth Strout 1956 ("Amy & Isabelle")

E.L. Doctorow 1931 ("Ragtime")

7- Zora Neale Hurston 1903 ("Their Eyes Were Watching God")

William Peter Blatty 1928 ("The Exorcist")

8- Wilkie Collins 1824 ("The Moonstone")

Robert Littell 1935 ("The Company")

Stephen Hawking 1942 ("A Brief History of Time")

Terry Brooks 1944 (sci-fi/fantasy)

9- Stuart Woods 1938 (mystery)

Simone de Beauvoir 1908 ("The Second Sex")

Anne River Siddons 1936 ("Sweetwater Creek")

Philippa Gregory 1954 ("The Other Boleyn Girl")

Wilbur Smith 1933 (adventure)

Judith Krantz 1928 (romance)

10- Stephen Ambrose 1936 ("Band of Brothers")

Yasmina Khadra 1955 ("The Attack")

11- Alan Paton 1903 ("Cry, The Beloved Country")

Diana Gabaldon 1952 ("The Outlander")

Jasper Fforde 1961 ("The Well of Lost Plots")

12- Jack London 1876 ("The Call of the Wild")

Haruki Murakami 1949 ("Kafka on the Shore")

Walter Mosley 1952 (mystery)

Z.Z. Packer 1973 ("Drinking Coffee Elsewhere")

13- Michael Bond 1926 ("A Bear Called Paddington")

Jay McInerney 1955 ("The Good Life")

14- John Lescroart 1948 (adventure)

Hugh Lofting 1886 ("Dr. Dolittle")

Anchee Min 1957 ("Empress Orchid")

15- Moliere 1622 ("The Imaginary Invalid")

Ernest J. Gaines 1933 ("A Lesson Before Dying")

16- Mary Karr 1955 ("The Liar's Club")

Susan Sontag 1933 ("Volcano Lover")

Dian Fossey 1932 ("Gorillas in the Mist")

Robert Lipsyte 1938 ("One Fat Summer")

Ruth Reichl 1948 ("Garlic and Sapphires")

17- Benjamin Franklin 1706 ("The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin")

Sebastian Junger 1962 ("The Perfect Storm")

Anne Bronte 1820 (poet)

Robert Cormier 1925 ("The Chocolate War")

Anton Chekhov 1860 ("Three Sisters")

18- A.A. Milne 1882 ("Winnie the Pooh")

Peter Mark Roget 1779 (thesaurus)

Carolyn Parkhurst 1969 ("The Dogs of Babel")

19- Edgar Allan Poe 1809 (poet)

Robert MacNeil 1931 ("Burden of Desire")

Edwidge Danticat 1969 ("Breath, Eyes, Memory")

20- Tami Hoag 1959 (mystery)

R.A. Salvatore 1959 (sci-fi/fantasy)

21. Eva Ibbotson 1925 ("The Secret of Platform 13")
Gretel Ehrlich 1946 ("The Blizzard Year") 

22. Lord Byron 1788 (poet)

Aryn Kyle 1978 ("The God of Animals")

23- Anya Seton 1904 ("Green Darkness")

Katharine Holabird 1948 ("Angelina Ballerina")

24- Edith Wharton 1862 ("Ethan Frome")

25- W. Somerset Maugham 1874 ("Of Human Bondage")

Virginia Woolf 1882 ("Mrs. Dalloway")

Stephen Chbosky 1970 ("The Perks of Being a Wallflower")

26- Mary Mapes Modge 1831 ("Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates")

Shannon Hale 1974 ("The Princess Academy")
Jules Feiffer 1929 ("The Man in the Ceiling")

27- Lewis Carroll 1832 ("The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland")

James Grippando 1958 (mystery)

28- Colette 1873 ("Gigi")

29- Thomas Paine 1737 ("Common Sense")

Rosemary Wells 1943 (" Max and Ruby" series)

30- Shirley Hazzard 1931 ("The Great Fire")

Lloyd Alexander 1924 (sci-fi/fantasy)

Richard Brautigan 1935 ("Trout Fishing in America")

Robert Hicks 1951 ("The Widow of South")

Michael Dorris 1945 ("A Yellow Raft in Blue Water")

31- Norman Mailer 1923 ("Why Are We in Vietnam?")

Zane Grey 1872 (westerns)

Laura Lippman 1959 (mystery)

FEBRUARY

1- Langston Hughes 1902 (poet)

Muriel Spark 1918 ("The Finishing School")

Jerry Spinelli 1941 ("Maniac Magee")

Meg Cabot 1967 ("The Princess Diaries")

2- James Joyce 1882 ("Ulysses")

Brenda Jackson 1953 ("Slow Burn")

Ayn Rand 1905 ("Atlas Shrugged")

Judith Viorst 1931 ("Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day")

3- Gertrude Stein 1874 ("Useful Knowledge")

Joan Lowery Nixon 1927 ("Search for the Shadowman")

James Michener 1907 ("The Source")

Megan McCafferty 1973 ("Sloppy Firsts")

Paul Auster 1947 ("Brooklyn Follies")

4- Betty Friedan 1921 ("The Feminine Mystique")

Russell Hoban 1925 ("A Bargain for Frances")
Stewart O'Nan 1961 ("Snow Angels")

5- William S. Burroughs 1914 ("Naked Lunch")

Stephen J. Cannell 1941 (mystery)

Andrew Greeley 1928 ("Irish Stew!")

David Wiesner 1956 ("Flotsam")

6- Tom Brokaw 1940 ("The Greatest Genereation")

7- Charles Dickens 1812 ("Oliver Twist")

Sir Thomas More 1478 ("Utopia")

Sinclair Lewis 1885 ("Main Street")

Laura Ingalls Wilder 1867 ("Little House on the Prarie")

Fred Gipson 1908 ("Old Yeller")

Patrick McGrath 1950 ("Asylum")

8- Jules Verne 1828 ("20,000 Leagues Under the Sea")

Kate Chopin 1850 ("The Awakening")

John Grisham 1955 ("The Firm")

9- Alice Walker 1944 ("The Color Purple")
Seamus Deane 1940 ("Reading in the Dark") 

10- Boris Pasternak 1890 ("Doctor Zhivago")

Stephen Gammell 1943 (illustrator)

J.M. Coetzee 1940 ("Disgrace")

E.L. Konigsburg 1930 ("From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler")

11- Sidney Sheldon 1917 ("If Tomorrow Comes")

Jane Yolen 1939 ("The Devil's Arithmetic")

Irene Nemirovsky 1903 ("Suite Française")

12- Charles Darwin 1809 ("On the Origin of Species")

R.F. Delderfield 1912 ("Theirs was the Kingdom")

Judy Blume 1938 ("Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret")

13-Denise Austin 1957 (exercise books)

14- Carl Bernstein 1944 ("All the President's Men")

Claire Cook 1955 ("Must Love Dogs")

Leif Enger 1961 ("Peace Like a River")

Frederick Douglass 1818 ("A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass")

15- Norman Bridwell 1928 ("Clifford" series)

Art Spiegelman 1948 ("Maus")

16- Richard Ford 1944 ("The Lay of the Land")

17- Margaret Truman 1924 (mystery)

Chaim Potok 1929 ("The Chosen")

Ruth Rendell 1930 (mystery)

18- Wallace Stegner 1909 ("Angle of Repose")

Bebe Moore Campbell 1950 ("72 Hour Hold")

Toni Morrison 1931 ("Beloved")

Lisa See 1955 ("Snowflower & the Secret Fan")

Jean Auel 1936 ("The Clan of the Cave Bear")

19- Carson McCullers 1917 ("The Heart is a Lonely Hunter")

Laurell K. Hamilton 1963 (sci-fi/fantasy)

Amy Tan 1952 ("The Joy Luck Club")

Jonathan Lethem 1964 ("Motherless Brooklyn")

Helen Fielding 1958 ("Bridget Jones' Diary")

20- Pierre Boulle 1912 ("The Planet of the Apes")

Alan Furst 1941 (adventure)

21- W.H. Auden 1907 (poet)

Chuck Palahniuk 1962 ("Fight Club")

Anais Nin 1903 ("Delta of Venus")

Erma Bombeck 1927 ("The Grass is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank")

Ha Jin 1956 ("War Trash")

22- Richard North Patterson 1947 ("Exile")

Dan Millman 1946 ("The Way of the Peaceful Warrior")

Francis Pharcellus Church 1839 ("Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Clause")

23- W.E.B. DuBois 1868 (poet)

John Sandford 1944 (mystery)

24- Gillian Flynn 1971 ("Gone, Girl")
Wilhelm Grimm 1786 ("Grimm's Fairy Tales")

Kent Haruf 1943 ("Plainsong")

25- Anthony Burgess 1917 ("A Clockwork Orange")

John Saul 1942 (mystery)

Cynthia Voigt 1942 ("Dicey's Song")

26- Victor Hugo 1802 ("Les Miserables")

Elizabeth George 1949 (mystery)

27- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (poet)

John Steinbeck 1902 ("The Grapes of Wrath")

28- Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket) 1970 ("The Series of Unfortunate Events")

Steve Martini 1946 (mystery)

Amanda Davis 1971 ("Wonder When You'll Miss Me)

29- Dee Brown 1908 ("Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee")

Anthony Robbins 1960 ("Personal Power")

MARCH

1- Nevada Barr 1952 (mystery)

Ralph Ellison 1914 ("Invisible Man")

2- Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss) 1904 ("The Cat in the Hat")

Peter Straub 1943 (horror)

Tom Wolfe 1931 ("The Bonfire of the Vanities")

Dai Sijie 1954 ("Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress")

John Irving 1942 ("The World According to Garp")

3- Patricia MacLachlan 1938 ("Sarah, Plain and Tall")

4- Johann David Wyss 1743 ("The Swiss Family Robinson")

Khaled Hosseini 1965 ("The Kite Runner")

James Ellroy 1948 ("The Black Dahlia")

Dav Pilkey 1966 ("The Captain Underpants" series)

Peggy Rathmann 1953 ("Good Night, Gorilla")

5- Frank Norris 1870 ("McTeague")

Mark Z. Danielewski 1966 ("House of Leaves")

6- Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806 (poet)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez 1928 ("One Hundred Years of Solitude")

Indu Sundaresan ("The Twentieth Wife")

7- Bret Easton Ellis 1964 ("American Psycho")

Robert Harris 1957 ("Fatherland")

8- Kenneth Grahame 1859 ("The Wind in the Willows")

Robert Sabuda 1965 (illustrator)

9- Mickey Spillane 1918 (mystery)

10- Johanna Lindsey 1952 (romance)

11- Douglas Adams 1952 ("The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy")

Wanda Gag 1893 ("Millions of Cats")

Ezra Jack Keats 1916 ("Snowy Day")

Christopher Rice 1978 ("The Snow Garden")

12- Jack Kerouac 1922 ("On the Road")

Carl Hiaasen 1953 (mystery)

Edward Albee 1928 ("Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?")

Sandra Brown 1948 (romance)

Dave Eggers 1970 ("A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius")

13- Ellen Raskin 1928 ("The Westing Game")

Thomas Rockwell 1933 ("How to Eat Fried Worms")

14- Tad Williams 1957 (sci-fi/fantasy)

Billy Crystal 1948 ("700 Sundays")

Marguerite de Angeli 1889 ("The Door in the Wall")

15- Heather Graham (romance)

Lawrence Sanders 1920 (mystery)

16- Alice Hoffman 1952 ("Practical Magic")

David Liss 1966 ("The Coffee Trader")

Margaret Weis 1948 (sci-fi/fantasy)

17- Penelope Lively 1933 ("The Photograph")

18- John Updike 1932 ("Rabbit, Run")

Joy Fielding 1945 (mystery)

Richard Condon 1915 ("The Manchurian Candidate")

19- Philip Roth 1933 ("The Human Stain")

20- Lois Lowry 1937 ("Number the Stars")

Henrik Ibsen 1828 ("A Doll's House")

Emily Giffin 1972 ("Something Borrowed")

Louis Sachar 1954 ("Holes")

John Grogan 1957 ("Marley & Me")

Bill Martin Jr. 1916 (Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?)

21- David Wisniewski 1953 ("Golem")

Phyllis McGinley 1905 ("The Horse that Lived Upstairs")

22- Louis L'Amour 1908 (westerns)

Billy Collins 1941 (poet)

James Patterson 1947 (mystery)

23- Julia Glass 1956 ("Three Junes")

Jim Fergus 1950 ("1,000 White Women")

24- Tabitha King 1949 ("Pearl")

Mary Balogh 1944 (romance)

25- Flannery O'Connor 1925 ("The Life You Save May Be Your Own")

Jung Chang 1952 ("Wild Swans")

Kate DiCamillo 1964 ("Because of Winn-Dixie")

26- Robert Frost 1874 (poet)

Tennesee Williams 1911 ("A Streetcar Named Desire")

Erica Jong 1942 ("A Fear of Flying")

Viktor Frankl 1905 ("Man's Search for Meaning")

27- Julia Alvarez 1950 ("How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents")

28- Marianne Fredriksson 1927 (Hanna's Daughters")

Amanda Quick 1948 (romance)

Russell Banks 1940 ("Rule of the Bone")

28- Jennifer Weiner 1970 ("In Her Shoes")

Lauren Weisberger 1977 ("The Devil Wears Prada")

Iris Chang 1968 ("The Rape of Nanking")

29- Judith Guest 1936 ("Ordinary People")

Alexandra Fuller 1969 ("Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight")

30- Anna Sewell 1820 ("Black Beauty")

Eloise Wilkin 1904 ("My Goodnight Book")

31- John Jakes 1932 ("The Americans")

Stephanie Kallos ("Broken For You")
Marge Piercy 1936 ("Sleeping With Cats")

APRIL

1- Edmond Rostand 1868 ("Cyrano de Bergerac")

Nikolai Gogol 1809 (poet)

Milan Kundera 1929 ("The Unbearable Likeness of Being")

2- Hans Christian Andersen 1805 (fairy tales and fables)

Emile Zola 1840 (poet)

3- Washington Irving 1783 ("The Legend of Sleepy Hollow")

Sandra Boynton 1953 ("Moo, Baa, La La La!")

4- Maya Angelou 1928 ("I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings")

Phoebe Gilman 1940 ("Jillian Jiggs")

Katherine Neville 1945 ("The Eight")

Ernestine Gilbreth Carey 1908 ("Cheaper By the Dozen")

Elizabeth Levy 1942 ("Something Queer is Going On")

5- Richard Peck 1934 ("A Year Down Yonder")

Anthony Horowitz 1955 ("Stormbreaker")

Elizabeth Lowell 1944 (romance)

6- Graeme Base 1958 ("Uno's Garden")

7- Iris Johansen 1938 (mystery)

8- John Fante 1909 ("Ask the Dust")
Barbara Kingsolver 1955 ("The Poisonwood Bible")

Richard T. Kiyosaki 1947 ("Rich Dad, Poor Dad")

9- Margaret Peterson Haddix 1964 ("Among the Hidden")

Fern Michaels 1933 (romance)

10- Penny Vincenzi ("No Angel")

David Halberstam 1934 ("The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship")

Anne Lamott 1954 ("Crooked Little Heart")

David A. Adler 1947 ("Cam Jansen" series)

Dani Shapiro 1962 ("Black and White")

11- Dorothy Allison 1949 ("Bastard Out of Carolina")

Ralph Compton 1934 (westerns)

12- Beverly Cleary 1916 ("Ramona Quimby" series)

Jon Krakauer 1954 ("Into the Wild")

Scott Turow 1949 (mystery)

Tom Clancy 1947 ("The Hunt for Red October")

13- Thomas Jefferson 1743 ("Notes on the State of Virginia")

Marguerite Henry 1902 ("Misty of Chincoteaque")

Samuel Beckett 1906 ("Waiting for Godot")

Michel Faber 1960 ("The Crimson Petal and the White")

Seamus Heaney 1939 (poet)

Jeffrey Eugenides 1960 ("Middlesex")

14- Ron McLarty 1947 ("The Memory of Running")

15- Henry James 1843 ("Washington Square")

Jeffrey Archer 1940 ("Kane and Abel")

16- Gertrude Chandler Warner 1890 ("Boxcar Children" series)

Garth Williams 1912 (illustrator)

Daniel Mendelsohn 1960 ("The Lost")

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes 1984 (sci-fi/fantasy)

17- Thornton Wilder 1897 ("Our Town")

Cynthia Ozick 1928 ("The Heir to the Glimmering World")

Nick Hornby 1957 ("High Fidelity")

Isak Dinesen 1885 ("Out of Africa")

18- Robert Kurson 1963 ("Shadowdivers")

George Hagen 1958 ("The Laments")

19- Robert Collier 1885 ("The Secret of the Ages")

Jean Lee Latham 1902 ("Carry On, Mr. Bowditch")

20- Sebastian Faulks 1953 ("Charlotte Gray")

Julie Powell 1973 ("Julie and Julia")

21- Charlotte Bronte 1816 ("Jane Eyre")

Jeannette Walls 1960 ("The Glass Castle")

Barbara Park 1947 ("Junie B. Jones" series)

Nell Freudenberger 1975 ("Lucky Girls")

22- Janet Evanovich 1943 (mystery)

Henry Fielding 1707 ("Tom Jones")

Paula Fox 1923 ("The Slavedancer")

23- William Shakespeare 1564 ("Romeo & Juliet")

Michael Moore 1954 ("Stupid White Men")

Vladimir Nabokov 1899 ("Lolita")

Arthur Phillips 1969 ("Prague")

24- Daniel Defoe 1659 ("Robinson Crusoe")

Robert Penn Warren 1905 ("All the King's Men")

Sue Grafton 1940 (mystery)

David Morrell 1943 (thriller)

25- Melvin Burgess 1954 ("Smack")

Alvin Schwartz 1927 ("Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark")

26- Bernard Malamud 1914 ("The Natural")

John Audubon 1785 (animal guides)

Patricia Reilly Giff 1935 ("Lily's Crossing")

27- Ludwig Bemelmans 1898 ("Madeline" series)

28- Harper Lee 1926 ("To Kill a Mockingbird")

Lois Duncan 1934 ("Killing Mr. Griffin")

Terry Pratchett 1948 (sci-fi/fantasy)

Diane Johnson 1934 ("Le Divorce")

29- Elmer Kelton 1926 (westerns)

Adriana Trigiani 1959 ("Big Sone Gap")

Ron Roy 1940 ("A-Z mysteries" series)

30- Annie Dillard 1945 ("An American Childhood")

MAY

1- Joseph Heller 1923 ("Catch-22")

2- Dr. Benjamin Spock 1903 ("Baby and Child Care")

3- Niccolo Machiavelli 1469 ("The Prince")

Dodie Smith 1896 ("I Capture the Castle")

4- Amos Oz 1939 ("A Tale of Love and Darkness")

Kim Edwards 1958 ("The Memory Keeper's Daughter")

David Guterson 1956 ("Snow Falling on Cedars")

Robin Cook 1940 (mystery)

5- Todd Strasser 1950 ("The Wave")

Kaye Gibbons 1960 ("Ellen Foster")

Linda Fairstein 1947 (mystery)

6- Leo Lionni 1910 ("Swimmy")

Jeffrey Deaver 1950 (mystery)

Gaston Leroux 1868 ("Phantom of the Opera")

Milton William Cooper 1943 ("Behold A Pale Horse")

7- Peter Carey 1943 ("Theft: A Love Story")
Kim Chernin 1940 ("In My Mother's House")

8- Thomas Pynchon 1937 ("Gravity's Rainbow")

Peter Benchley 1940 ("Jaws")

Roddy Doyle 1958 ("The Woman Who Walked into Doors")

9- J.M. Barrie 1860 ("Peter Pan")

Eleanor Estes 1906 ("Ginger Pye")
Alan Bennett 1934 ("Smut") 

Richard Adams 1920 ("Watership Down")

10- Barbara Taylor Bradford 1933 ("A Woman of Substance")

Dr. Wayne Dyer 1940 ("Pulling Your Own Strings")

Caroline B. Cooney 1947 ("The Face on the Milk Carton")

Suzan-Lori Parks 1963 ("Getting Mother's Body")

11- Michael Palmer 1943 (mystery)

Sheila Burnford 1918 ("The Incredible Journey")

12- George Carlin 1937 ("BrainDroppings")

Cesar Millan 1969 ("Cesar's Way")

13- Daphne du Maurier 1907 ("Rebecca")

Charles Baxter 1947 ("Feast of Love")

Ridley Pearson 1953 (adventure)

Francine Pascal 1938 ("Sweet Valley High" series)

14- George Selden 1929 ("The Cricket in Times Square")

Eoin Colfer 1965 ("Artemis Fowl" series)

15- L. Frank Baum 1856 ("The Wonderful Wizard of Oz")

Katherine Anne Porter 1890 ("Pale Horse, Pale Rider")

Paul Zindel 1936 ("The Pigman")

Julie Otsuka 1962 ("When the Emperor was Divine")

16- Bruce Coville 1950 ("Aliens Ate My Homework")

17- Gary Paulsen 1939 ("Hatchet)

Jane Moore 1962 ("The Ex Files")

18- Diane Duane 1952 (sci-fi/fantasy)

Lionel Shriver 1957 ("We Need to Talk About Kevin")

Irene Hunt 1907 ("Across Five Aprils")

W.G. Sebald 1944 ("Austerlitz")

19- Lorraine Hansberry 1930 ("Raisin n the Sun")

Jodi Picoult 1966 ("My Sister's Keeper")

Nora Ephron 1941 ("I Feel Bad About My Neck")

20- Honore de Balzac 1799 ("Cromwell")

Douglas Preston 1956 (adventure)

Mary Pope Osborne 1949 ("The Magic Tree House" series)

21- Dante Alighieri 1265 ("Inferno")

Elizabeth Buchan 1948 ("Wives Behaving Badly")

Torey Hayden 1951 ("One Child")

Harold Robbins 1916 (mystery)

22- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 ("Sherlock Holmes" books)

Arnold Lobel 1933 ("Frog and Toad" series)

23- Scott O'Dell 1898 ("Island of the Blue Dolphin")

Margaret Wise Brown 1910 ("Goodnight Moon")

Ursula Hegi 1946 ("Stones from the River")

Mitch Albom 1958 ("Tuesdays With Morrie")

24- Michael Chabon 1963 ("The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay")

William Trevor 1928 ("The Story of Lucy Gault")

25- Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 (poet)

Robert Ludlum 1927 (adventure)

Jamaica Kincaid 1949 ("Annie John")

Eve Ensler 1953 ("The Vagina Monologues")

26- Alan Hollinghurst 1954 ("The Line of Beauty")

27- Herman Wouk 1915 ("Marjorie Morningstar")

John Cheever 1912 ("Falconer")

Tony Hillerman 1925 (mystery)

M.E. Kerr 1932 ("Gentlehands")

Rachel Carson 1907 ("Silent Spring")

28- Ian Fleming 1908 ("James Bond" series)

Maeve Binchy 1940 ("Circle of Friends")

Meg Wolitzer 1959 ("The Wife")
Walker Percy 1916 ("The Moviegoer") 

29- Andrew Clements 1949 ("Frindle")

John F. Kennedy 1917 ("Profiles of Courage")

T.H. White 1906 ("The Once and Future King")

30- Colm Toibin 1955 ("The Master")

31- Walt Whitman 1819 (poet)

Alan Brennert 1954 ("Molokai")

Jane Green 1968 ("Jemima J")

JUNE

1- Bruce Lansky 1941 ("Funny Little Poems for Funny Little People")

Colleen McCullough 1937 ("The Thornbirds")

Sheri Holman 1966 ("The Dress Lodger")

2- Thomas Hardy 1840 ("Tess of the d'Urbervilles")

Norton Juster 1929 ("The Phantom Tollbooth")

Carol Shields 1935 ("The Stone Diaries")

3- Larry McMurty 1936 ("The Lonesome Dove")

Lucy Grealy 1963 ("The Autobiography of a Face")

Allen Ginsberg 1926 (poet)

Kathleen Woodiwiss 1939 (romance)

4- Robert Fulghum 1937 ("All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten")

Dr. Ruth Westheimer 1928 ("Dr. Ruth's Encyclopedia of Sex")

5- Richard Scarry 1919 ("What Do People Do All Day")

Margaret Drabble 1939 (mystery)

Christy Brown 1932 ("My Left Foot")

Ken Follett 1949 (mystery)

6- Cynthia Rylant 1954 ("Henry and Mudge" series)

Thomas Mann 1875 ("The Magic Mountain")

V.C. Andrews 1923 ("Flowers in the Attic")

Sarah Dessen 1970 ("Just Listen")

7- Orhan Pamuk 1952 ("Snow")

Deborah Tannen 1945 ("You're Wearing That?!")

8- Andrew Weil 1942 ("Healthy Aging")

Sara Paretsky 1947 (mystery)

Scott Adams 1957 ("Dilbert" comic strip)

9- Patricia Cornwell 1956 (mystery)

Gregory Maguire 1954 ("Wicked")

Curzio Malaparte 1898 ("Kaputt")

10- Saul Bellow 1915 ("Herzog")

Nicci French 1958 (mystery)

Maurice Sendak 1928 ("Where the Wild Things Are")

11- William Styron 1925 ("Sophie's Choice")

Robert Munsch 1945 ("Love You Forever")

12- Johanna Spyri 1829 ("Heidi")

Rona Jaffe 1932 ("The Best of Everything")

Anne Frank 1929 ("Diary of a Young Girl")

13- William Butler Yeats 1865 (poet)

Beverly Swerling ("City Of Dreams")

Audrey Niffenegger 1963 ("The Time Traveler's Wife")

14- Peter Mayle 1939 ("A Good Year")

Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 ("Uncle Tom's Cabin")

John Bartlett 1820 ("Bartlett's Quotations")

Harry Turtledove 1949 (sci-fi/fantasy)

Tova Mirvis 1972 ("The Ladies Auxiliary")

15- Brian Jacques 1939 (sci-fi/fantasy)

Rev. W. Awdry 1911 ("Thomas the Tank Engine" series)
Debra M. Ginsberg 1962 ("Waiting")

16- John Howard Griffin 1920 ("Black Like Me")

Joyce Carol Oates 1938 ("We Were the Mulvaneys")

17- John Hersey 1914 ("Hiroshima")

18- Chris Van Allsburg 1949 ("The Polar Express")

Gail Godwin 1937 ("The Good Husband")

Richard Powers 1957 ("The Echomaker")

19- Tobias Wolff 1945 ("This Boy's Life")

Salman Rushdie 1947 ("The Satanic Verses")

20- E. Lynn Harris 1955 ("Any Way the Wind Blows")

Vikram Seth 1952 ("A Suitable Boy")

21- Ian McEwan 1948 ("Atonement")

22- Erich Maria Remarque 1898 ("All Quiet on the Western Front")

Anne Morrow Lindbergh 1906 ("Gift From the Sea")

Dorothy Garlock 1942 (romance)

Dan Brown 1964 ("The Da Vinci Code")

23- Michael Shaara 1928 ("Gods and Generals")

Theodore Taylor 1921 ("The Cay")

Richard Bach 1936 ("Jonathan Livingston Seagull")

24- Pete Hamill 1935 ("Snow Falls in August")

Mercedes Lackey 1950 (sci-fi/fantasy)

25- George Orwell 1903 ("1984")

Eric Carle 1929 ("The Very Hungry Caterpillar")

Yann Martel 1963 ("The Life of Pi")

26- Pearl S. Buck 1892 ("The Good Earth")

Michael Baisden 1963 ("The Maintenance Man")

Walter Farley 1915 ("The Black Stallion")

27- Helen Keller 1880 ("The Story of My Life")

Alice McDermott 1953 ("After This")

Ivan Doig 1939 ("English Creek")

Anita Diamant 1951 ("The Red Tent")

28- Luigi Pirandello 1867 ("Six Characters in Search of An Author")

Esther Forbes 1891 ("Johnny Tremain")

Mark Helprin 1947 ("Freddy and Fredericka")

29- Antoine de Saint-Exupery 1900 ("The Little Prince")

Oriana Fallaci 1929 ("The Rage and The Pride")

30- Marion Zimmer Bradley 1930 (sci-fi/fantasy)

JULY

1- William Strunk Jr. 1869 ("Elements of Style")

Lisa Scottoline 1955 (mystery)

2- Hermann Hesse 1877 ("Siddhartha")

Jack Gantos 1951 ("Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key")

Jean Craighead George 1919 ("My Side of the Mountain")

Matthew Reilly 1974 (adventure)

3- Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1860 ("The Yellow Wallpaper")

Franz Kafka 1883 ("The Trial")

Joanne Harris 1964 ("Five Quarters of the Orange")

Dave Barry 1947 ("Babies and Other Hazards of Sex")
Rohinton Mistry 1952 ("A Fine Balance") 

4- Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 ("The Scarlet Letter")

Eileen Goudge 1950 ("Garden of Lies")

Neil Simon 1927 ("Lost In Yonkers")

5- Bill Watterson 1958 ("Calvin & Hobbes" comic strip)

Louise Shaffer 1942 (" The Three Miss Margarets")

6- Bernhard Schlink 1944 ("The Reader")

7- Robert Heinlein 1907 ("A Stranger in a Strange Land")

Louise Erdrich 1954 ("Love Medicine")

Eric Jerome Dickey 1961 ("Friends & Lovers")

David McCullough 1933 ("John Adams")

8- Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross 1926 ("On Death & Dying")

Anna Quindlen 1953 ("Black and Blue")

9- Oliver Sacks 1933 ("The Man Who Mistake His Wife For a Hat")

Nancy Farmer 1941 (" The Ear, the Eye and the Arm")

Dean Koontz 1945 (thriller)

Todd Parr 1962 ("The Mommy Book")

10- Marcel Proust 1871 ("In Search of Lost Time")

Alice Munro 1931 ("The View from Castle Rock")

Naomi Regan 1949 ("The Covenant")
Karen Russell ("Swamplandia") 

11- E.B. White 1899 ("Charlotte's Web")

Harold Bloom 1930 ("Genius...")

Patricia Polacco 1944 ("Thank You Mr. Faulkner")

12- Henry David Thoreau 1817 ("Walden")

Pablo Neruda 1904 (poet)

13- Jane Hamilton 1957 ("The Book of Ruth")

Scott Smith 1965 ("A Simple Plan")

14- Arthur Laurents 1918 ("West Side Story")

Laura Numeroff 1953 ("If You Give a Mouse a Cookie")

Peggy Parish 1927 ("Amelia Bedelia" series)

Irving Stone 1903 ("The Agony and the Ecstasy")

15- Richard Russo 1949 ("Empire Falls")

Clement Clarke Moore 1779 ("Twas the Night Before Christmas")

Clive Cussler 1931 (adventure)

Iris Murdoch 1919 ("A Severed Head")

16- Tony Kushner 1956 ("Angels in America")

17- Mattie Stepanek 1990 (poet)

Christina Stead 1902 ("The Man Who Loved Children")

Olive Ann Burns 1924 ("Cold Sassy Tree")

18- William Makepeace Thackeray 1811 ("Vanity Fair")

Hunter S. Thompson 1937 ("Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas")

Elizabeth Gilbert 1969 ("Eat, Pray, Love")
Jessamyn West 1902 ("The Life I Really Lived") 

19- Stephen Coonts 1946 (mystery)

20- Cormac McCarthy 1933 ("The Road")

Paulette Bourgeois 1951 ("Franklin the Turtle" series)

Thomas L. Friedman 1953 ("The World is Flat")

21- Ernest Hemingway 1889 ("The Old Man and the Sea")

John Gardner 1933 ("Grendel")

Michael Connelly 1956 (mystery)

22- S.E. Hinton 1948 ("The Outsiders")

Tom Robbins 1936 ("Jitterbug Perfume")

Margery Williams 1881 ("The Velveteen Rabbit")

23- Hubert Selby Jr. 1928 ("Requiem for a Dream")

Raymond Chandler 1888 ("The Big Sleep")

24- Alexandre Dumas 1802 ("The Count of Monte Cristo")

Zelda Fitzgerald 1900 ("Save Me the Waltz")

25- Anne Applebaum 1964 ("Gulag")

Robyn Carr 1951 (romance)

26- George Bernard Shaw 1856 ("Pygmalion")

Rick Bragg 1959 ("All Over But the Shoutin'")

Aldous Huxley 1894 ("A Brave New World")

Jan Berenstain 1923 ("The Berenstain Bears" series)

27- Jack Higgins 1929 (adventure)

Bharati Mukherjee 1940 ("Jasmine")

28- Beatrix Potter 1866 ("Peter Rabbit")

Jim Davis 1945 ("Garfield" comic strip)

Natalie Babbit 1932 ("Tuck Everlasting")

William Vollmann 1959 ("Europe Central")

29- Chang-rae Lee 1965 ("A Gesture Life")
Booth Tarkington 1869 ("Abigail Adams") 

Sharon Creech 1945 ("Walk Two Moons")

30- Emily Bronte 1818 ("Wuthering Heights")

Rich Cohen 1968 ("Sweet & Low")

31- Primo Levi 1919 ("Survival in Auschwitz")

J.K. Rowling 1965 ("Harry Potter" series)

Robert Kimmel Smith 1930 ("Chocolate Fever")

Elizabeth Wurtzel 1967 ("Prozac Nation")

Lynne Reid Banks 1929 ("The Indian in the Cupboard")

Faye Kellerman 1952 (mystery)

AUGUST

1- Robert James Waller 1939 ("The Bridges of Madison County")

Herman Melville 1819 ("Moby-Dick")

David Gemmell 1948 (sci-fi/fantasy)

2- James Baldwin 1924 ("Go Tell it on the Mountain")

Isabel Allende 1942 ("The House of the Spirits")

James Howe 1946 ("Bunnicula")

Caleb Carr 1955 ("The Alienist")

3- P.D. James 1920 (mystery)

Leon Uris 1924 ("Exodus")

Linda Howard 1950 (romance)

Martha Stewart 1941 (cookbooks)

4- Dennis Lehane 1966 ("Mystic River")

Iceberg Slim 1918 ("Death Wish")

5- Christopher Moore 1958 ("Lamb")

Richard Preston 1954 ("The Hot Zone")

Julia Child 1912 (cookbooks)

6- Piers Anthony 1934 (sci-fi/fantasy)

Frank Asch 1946 ("Mooncake")

Lord Tennyson 1809 (poet)

7- Betsy Byars 1928 ("Summer of the Swans")

Garrison Keillor 1942 ("Lake Wobegon Days")

8- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 1896 ("The Yearling")

Sarah Dunant 1950 ("The Birth of Venus")

9- Jonathan Kellerman 1949 (mystery)

Daniel Keyes 1927 ("Flowers for Algernon")

Barbara Delinsky 1945 (romance)

P.L. Travers 1899 ("Mary Poppins")

10- Rachel Simmons 1974 ("Odd Girl Out")

Robin Pilcher 1950 ("An Ocean Apart")

11- Alex Haley 1921 ("Roots")

Andre Dubus (Sr.) 1936 ("Dancing After Hours")

Don Freeman 1908 ("Corduroy")

Joanna Cole 1944 ("The Magic School Bus" series)

12- Edith Hamilton 1867 ("Mythology")

Ann M. Martin 1955 ("Baby-Sitters Club" series)

Walter Dean Myers 1937 ("Scorpions")

William Goldman 1931 ("The Princess Bride")

Sue Monk Kidd 1948 ("The Secret Life of Bees")

Chris Bohjalian ("Midwives")

13- Tom Perrotta 1961 ("Little Children")
Merrill Markoe 1948 ("It's My F----ing Birthday")

14- John Galsworthy 1867 ("Forsyte Saga")

Russell Baker 1925 ("Growing Up")

Danielle Steel 1947 (romance)

Gary Larson 1950 ("The Far Side" comic strip)

15- Sir Walter Scott 1771 (poet)

Edith Nesbit 1858 ("The Enchanted Castle")

16- William Maxwell 1908 ("So Long, See You Tomorrow")

Matt Christopher 1917 ("Ice Magic")

Charles Bukowski 1920 ("Women", poet)

17- Jonathan Franzen 1959 ("The Corrections")

Julian Fellowes 1949 ("Snobs")

V.S. Naipaul 1932 ("A Bend in the River")

18- Paula Danziger 1944 ("Amber Brown" series)

19- Mary Doria Russell 1950 ("A Thread of Grace")

Frank McCourt 1930 ("Angela's Ashes")
Malcolm Forbes 1919 ("They Went That-A-Way")

20- H.P. Lovecraft 1890 (horror)

James Rollins 1961 (adventure)

Jacqueline Susann 1918 ("Valley of the Dolls")

21- Brad Thor 1970 (mystery)

22- Dorothy Parker 1893 ("Enough Rope")

Diane Setterfield 1964 ("The 13th Tale")

Ray Bradbury 1920 ("Fahrenheit 451")

E. Annie Proulx 1935 ("The Shipping News")

23- Nelson Demille 1943 (mystery)

Curtis Sittenfeld 1975 ("Prep")

24- A.S. Byatt 1936 ("Possession")

Paulo Coelho 1947 ("The Alchemist")

Oscar Hijuelos 1951 ("The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love")

Alexander McCall Smith 1948 (mystery)

Orson Scott Card 1951 ("Ender's Game")

25- Martin Amis 1949 ("House of Meetings")

Rachel Ray 1968 (cookbooks)

26- Barbara Ehrenreich 1941 ("Nickel and Dimed")

John Buchan 1875 ("The 39 Steps")

Carl Deuker 1950 ("Nighthoops")

27- Confucius 551 B.C. ("Spring and Autumn Annals ")

Suzy Kline 1943 ("Horrible Harry" series)

Theodore Dreiser 1871 ("An American Tragedy")

Ann Rinaldi 1934 ("The Last Silk Dress")

Rene Steinke 1964 ("The Fires")

Suzanne Fisher Staples 1945 ("Shabanu")

28- Johann Goethe 1749 ("Faust")

Frederick Forsyth 1938 (mystery)

29- Karen Hesse 1952 ("Witness")

30- Mary Shelley 1797 ("Frankenstein")

Virginia Lee Burton 1909 ("The Little House")

John Gunther 1901 ("Death Be Not Proud")

31- William Saroyan 1908 ("The Human Comedy")

SEPTEMBER

1- Malcolm Gladwell 1963 ("The Tipping Point")

Scott Spencer 1945 ("A Ship Made of Paper")

Edgar Rice Burroughs 1875 ("Tarzan")

Jesse Kellerman 1978 (mystery)

Alan Dershowitz 1938 ("The Case for Israel")

Dave King 1955 ("The Ha-Ha")

2- Cleveland Amory 1917 ("The Cat That Came for Christmas")
Allen Drury 1918 ("Advise and Consent")

3- Kiran Desai 1971 ("Inheritance of Loss")

Bessie Delany 1891 ("Having Our Say")

4- Richard Wright 1908 ("Black Boy")

Syd Hoff 1912 ("Sammy the Seal")

5- Cathy Guisewite 1950 ("Cathy" comic strip)

Ward Just 1935 ("A Family Trust")

Paul Fleischman 1952 ("Joyful Noise")

6- Alice Sebold 1963 ("The Lovely Bones")

Robert Pirsig 1928 ("Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance")

Tony DiTerlizzi 1969 ("The Spiderwick" series)

Jennifer Egan 1962 ("The Invisible Circus")

7- Elia Kazan 1909 ("Acts of Love")

Eric Hill 1927 ("Where's Spot")

8- Jack Prelutsky 1940 (poet)

Marianne Wiggins 1947 ("Evidence of Things Unseen")

Jon Scieszka 1954 ("The True Story of the Three Little Pigs")

Ann Beattie 1947 ("Chilly Scenes of Winter")

9- Leo Tolstoy 1828 ("War & Peace")

James Hilton 1900 ("Lost Horizon")

10- Marian Keyes 1963 ("Last Chance Saloon")

Jared Diamond 1937 ("Guns, Germs, and Steel")

11- O.Henry 1862 ("The Gift of the Magi")

Andre Dubas III 1959 ("The House of Sand and Fog")

D.H. Lawrence 1885 ("Lady Chatterley's Lover")

12- Michael Ondaatje 1943 ("The English Patient")

Dorothea Benton Frank ("Isle of Palms")

13- Roald Dahl 1916 ("Matilda")

Gail Tsukiyama ("Women of the Silk")

Mildred Taylor 1943 ("Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry")

Else Holmelund Minarik 1920 ("Little Bear" series)

14- Robert McCloskey 1914 ("Make Way For Ducklings")

Elizabeth Winthrop 1948 ("The Castle in the Attic")

Edith Hurd 1910 ("Johnny Lion" series)

William H. Armstrong 1914 ("Sounder")

15- James Fenimore Cooper 1789 ("The Last of the Mohicans")

Agatha Christie 1890 ("And Then There Were None")
Brendan O'Carroll 1955 ("The Mammy") 

Tomie de Paola 1934 ("Strega Nona")

16- H.A. Rey 1898 ("Curious George" series")

John Knowles 1926 ("A Separate Peace")

17- Ken Kesey 1935 ("One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest")

Thrity Umrigar ("The Space Between Us")

Robert B. Parker 1932 (mystery)

Gail Carson Levine 1947 ("Ella Enchanted")

18- Kris Radish ("Elegant Gathering of White Snows")

Zane ("Addicted")

19- William Golding 1911 ("The Lord of the Flies")

Sadie Delany 1889 ("Having Our Say")

20- Upton Sinclair 1878 ("The Jungle")

Jude Deveraux 1947 (romance)

21- H.G. Wells 1866 ("The War of the Worlds")

Stephen King 1947 ("The Shining")

Fannie Flagg 1944 ("Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe")

22- Rosamunde Pilcher 1924 ("The Shell Seekers")

Jo Beverly 1947 (romance)

Esphyr Slobodkina 1908 ("Caps For Sale")

23- Baroness Emma Orczy 1865 ("The Scarlett Pimpernel")

24- F. Scott Fitzgerald 1896 ("The Great Gatsby")

David Drake 1945 (sci-fi/fantasy)

Wilson Rawls 1913 ("Where the Red Fern Grows")

Joanne Greenberg 1932 ("I Never Promised You a Rose Garden")

25- William Faulkner 1891 ("As I Lay Dying")

Carlos Ruiz Zafon 1964 ("Shadow of the Wind")

Shel Silverstein 1930 ("Where the Sidewalk Ends")

Luanne Rice 1955 (romance)

26- T.S. Eliot 1888 ("Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats")

Mark Haddon 1962 ("The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime")

Jane Smiley 1949 ("A Thousand Acres")

27- Irvine Welsh 1958 ("Trainspotting")

28- Kate Douglas Wiggin 1856 ("Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm")

Christopher Buckley 1952 ("Thank You for Smoking")

29- Miguel de Cervantes 1547 ("Don Quixote")

Donna Leon 1942 (mystery)

Stan Berenstain 1923 ("Berenstain Bears" series)

Elizabeth Peters 1927 (mystery)

30- Truman Capote 1924 ("In Cold Blood")

Elie Wiesel 1928 ("Night")

Laura Esquivel 1950 ("Like Water For Chocolate")

Cecelia Ahern 1981 ("P.S. I Love You")

OCTOBER

1- Tim O'Brien 1946 ("The Things They Carried")

Julie Andrews 1935 ("Mandy")

Jimmy Carter 1924 ("The Hornet's Nest")

2- Graham Greene 1904 ("The Heart of the Matter")

Gandhi 1869 ("Non-Violent Resistance")

Jack Finney 1911 ("Time and Again")

Matthew Pearl ("The Dante Club")

3- Gore Vidal 1925 ("Empire")

James Herriot 1916 ("All Creatures Great and Small")

Thomas Wolfe 1900 ("Look Homeward, Angel")

4- Jackie Collins 1941 ("Lucky")

Franklin W. Dixon 1862 ("The Hardy Boys" series)

Anne Rice 1941 ("Interview With a Vampire")

Donald J. Sobol 1924 ("Encyclopedia Brown" series)

5- Clive Barker 1952 ("Abarat")

David Shannon 1960 ("No, David!")

Louise Fitzhugh 1928 ("Harriet the Spy")

Edward P. Jones 1950 ("The Known World")

6- Louis Begley 1933 ("About Schmidt")

Joseph Finder 1958 (mystery)

Thor Heyerdahl 1914 ("Kon-Tiki")

7- Leon Trotsky 1879 ("Marxism and Terrorism")

Sherman Alexie 1966 ("Reservation Blues")

Thomas Keneally 1935 ("Schindler's List")

Oliver North 1943 ("The Jericho Sanction")

8- Frank Herbert 1929 ("Dune" series)

Jenna Blum ("Those Who Save Us")

R.L. Stine 1943 ("Goosebumps" series)

9- Johanna Hurwitz 1937 ("Baseball Fever")

Belva Plain 1919 ("Evergreen")

10- Nora Roberts 1950 (romance)

James Marshall 1942 ("Miss. Nelson is Missing")

James Clavell 1924 ("Shogun")

Lilly Tuck 1938 ("The News From Paraguay")

11- Elmore Leonard 1925 (mystery)

Richard Paul Evans 1962 ("The Christmas Box")

Melissa Bank 1960 ("The Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing")

12- Richard Price 1949 ("Lush Life")

13- Conrad Richter 1890 ("The Light in the Forest")

14- E.E. Cummings 1894 (poet)

Eugene Fodor 1905 (travel guides)

15- Friedrich Nietzche 1844 ("The Birth of Tragedy")

Virgil 17 B.C. ("Aeneid")

Mario Puzo 1920 ("The Godfather")

Ed McBain 1926 (mystery)

16- Oscar Wilde 1854 ("The Picture of Dorian Gray")

Jennifer Haigh 1968 ("Mrs. Kimble")

Eugene O'Neil 1888 ("Long Day's Journey into Night")

Noah Webster 1758 (dictionary)

Gunter Grass 1927 ("The Tin Drum")

Lorenzo Carcaterra 1954 ("Sleepers")

17- Arthur Miller 1915 ("The Crucible")

Robert Jordan 1948 (sci-fi/fantasy)

Wally Lamb 1950 ("She's Come Undone")

Harvey Wheeler 1918 ("Fail-Safe")

18- Terry McMillian 1951 ("A Day Late and a Dollar Short")

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos 1741 ("Dangerous Liaisons")

Wendy Wasserstein 1950 ("Shiska Goddess")

Rick Moody 1961 ("The Ice Storm")

19- Dan Gutman 1955 ("My Weird School" series)

Tracy Chevalier 1962 ("The Girl With the Pearl Earring")

John Le Carre 1931 (mystery)

Sylvia Brown 1936 ("Life on the Other Side")

Philip Pullman 1946 ("The Golden Compass")

20- Crockett Johnson 1906 ("Harold & the Purple Crayon")

Gary Jennings 1928 ("Aztec")

Monica Ali 1958 ("Brick Lane")

21- Ursula K. Le Guin 1929 (sci-fi/fantasy)

Amy Ephron 1958 ("One Sunday Morning")

Mary Pipher 1947 ("Reviving Ophelia")

Carrie Fisher 1956 ("Postcards From the Edge")

22- Doris Lessing 1919 ("The Fifth Child")

Marjorie Flack 1897 ("The Story of Ping")

Debbie Macomber 1948 (romance)

Ann Rule 1935 (true crime)

23- Augusten Burroughs 1965 ("Running with Scissors")

Gordon Korman 1963 ("No More Dead Dogs")

Michael Crichton 1942 ("Jurassic Park")

Laurie Halse Anderson 1961 ("Speak")

Bob Montana 1920 ("Archie" comic creator)

24- Stephen R.Covey 1932 ("The 7 Habits of Highly Intelligent People")

Frank Delaney 1941 ("Ireland")

25- Geoffrey Chaucer 1343 ("The Canterbury Tales")

Anne Tyler 1941 ("Digging to America")

26- Pat Conroy 1945 ("Beach Music")

Stephen L. Carter 1959 ("The Emperor of Ocean Park")

Steven Kellogg 1941 ("Is Your Mama a Llama?")

Napoleon Hill 1883 ("Think and Grow Rich")

Marisha Pessl 1977 ("Special Topics in Calamity Physics")

27- Dylan Thomas 1914 (poet)

Maxine Hong Kingston 1940 ("Woman Warrior")

Sylvia Plath 1932 ("The Bell Jar")

J.A. Jance 1944 (mystery)

Zadie Smith 1975 ("White Teeth")

28- Anne Perry 1938 (mystery)

29- Dominick Dunne 1925 ("People Like Us")

Anne-Marie MacDonald 1958 ("Fall on Your Knees")

30- Rudolfo Anaya 1937 ("Bless Me, Ultima")

Henry Winkler 1945 ("Hank Zipzer" series)

Robert A. Caro 1935 ("The Powerbroker")

31- John Keats 1795 (poet)

Kinky Friedman 1944 (mystery)

Dick Francis 1920 (mystery)

Katherine Paterson 1932 ("The Great Gilly Hopkins")

NOVEMBER

1- Stephen Crane 1871 ("The Red Badge of Courage")

Lee Smith 1944 ("The Last Girls")

Susanna Clarke 1959 ("Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell")

Hilary Knight 1926 (illustrator)

2- Dale Brown 1956 (adventure)

Barby D'Aurevilly 1808 ("Les Diaboliques")

3- Martin Cruz Smith 1942 (mystery)

Bette Bao Lord 1938 ("In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson")

4- Charles Frazier 1950 ("Cold Mountain")

Thomas Harris 1940 ("The Silence of the Lambs")

5- Sam Shepard 1943 ("The Late Henry Moss")

Uzodinma Iweala 1982 ("The Beast of No Nation")

6- Michael Cunningham 1952 ("The Hours")

Maria Shriver 1955 ("What's Heaven?")

Ethan Hawke 1970 ("The Hottest State")
Michelle Magorian 1947 ("Good Night, Mr. Tom") 

7- Albert Camus 1913 ("The Stranger")
Helen Garner 1942 ("The Spare Room") 

8- Margaret Mitchell 1900 ("Gone With the Wind")

Bram Stoker 1847 ("Dracula")

Kazuo Ishiguro 1954 ("The Remains of the Day")

9- Anne Sexton 1928 (poet)

Ivan Turgenev 1818 ("Fathers and Sons")

Kay Thompson 1908 ("Eloise")

Janet Fitch 1955 ("White Oleander")

Carl Sagan 1934 ("Cosmos: A Personal Voyage")

10- Neil Gaiman 1960 ("American Gods")

W.E.B. Griffin 1929 (mystery)

11- Fydor Dostoevsky 1821 ("Crime & Punishment")

Susanna Kaysen 1948 ("Girl, Interrupted")

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 1922 ("SlaughterHouse 5")

Howard Fast 1914 ("April Morning")

Noah Gordon 1926 ("The Rabbi")

12- Michael Ende 1929 ("The Neverending Story")

Tracy Kidder 1945 ("Mountains Beyond Mountains")

Marjorie W. Sharmat 1928 ("Nate the Great" series)

13- Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 ("Treasure Island")

Ayaan Hirsi Ali 1969 ("Infidel")

William Gibson 1914 ("The Miracle Worker")

14- Astrid Lindgren 1907 ("Pippi Longstocking")

William Steig 1907 ("Shrek")

Lori Foster (romance)

Michael Dobbs 1948 ("Winston's War")

15- Lolly Winston 1961 ("Good Grief")

J. G. Ballard 1930 ("Empire of the Sun")

16- Chinua Achebe 1930 ("Things Fall Apart")

Jose Saramago 1922 ("Blindness")

Andrea Barrett 1954 ("The Air We Breathe")

17- Christopher Paolini 1983 ("Eragon")

18- Margaret Atwood 1939 ("The Cat's Eye")

19- Myla Goldberg 1971 ("Bee Season")

20- Don Delillo 1936 ("White Noise")

Nadine Gordimer 1923 ("The Pickup")

21- Voltaire 1694 ("Candide")

Richard Marcinko 1940 (adventure)

Andrew Sean Greer 1970 ("The Confessions of Max Tivoli")

Marlo Thomas 1937 ("Right Words at the Right Time")

22- George Eliot 1819 ("Silas Marner")

Jamie Lee Curtis 1958 ("Today I Feel Silly")
George Gissing 1857 ("The Odd Women")

23- Marc Simont 1915 (illustrator)

24- Frances Hodgson Burnett 1849 ("The Secret Garden")

Arundhati Roy ("The God of Small Things")

Dale Carnegie 1888 ("How to Win Friends and Influence People")

Carlo Collodi 1826 ("Pinocchio")

25- Marc Brown 1946 ("Arthur" series)

Charlaine Harris 1951 (sci-fi/fantasy)

Mordicai Gerstein 1935 (illustrator)

26- Marilynne Robinson 1943 ("Gilead")

Charles M. Schulz 1922 ("Peanuts" comic strip)

27- Kevin Henkes 1960 ("Kitten's First Full Moon")

Gail Sheehy 1937 ("Sex and the Seasoned Woman")

James Agee 1909 ("A Death in the Family")

Bruce Lee 1940 ("The Tao of Jeet Kune Do")

28- Rita Mae Brown 1944 (mystery)

John Bunyan 1628 ("Pilgrim's Progress")

29- Louisa May Alcott 1832 ("Little Women")

Sue Miller 1943 ("While You Were Gone")

C.S. Lewis 1898 ("The Chronicles of Narnia" series)

Madeleine L'Engle 1918 ("A Wrinkle in Time")

30- Jonathan Swift 1667 ("Gulliver's Travels")

Abbie Hoffman 1936 ("Steal This Book")

Mark Twain 1835 ("The Adventure of Tom Swayer")

L.M. Montgomery 1874 ("Anne of Green Gables")

Adeline Yen Mah 1937 ("Falling Leaves")

DECEMBER

1- Candace Bushnell 1958 ("Sex in the City")

Woody Allen 1935 ("Mere Anarchy")

Jan Brett 1949 ("The Mitten")

2- T.C. Boyle 1948 ("The Tortilla Curtain")

Brian Lumley 1937 (horror)

Ann Patchett 1963 ("Bel Canto")

Elizabeth Berg 1948 ("Talk Before Sleep")

3- Joseph Conrad 1857 ("The Heart of Darkness")

Morgan Llywelyn 1937 ("1972")

4- Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 (poet)

William Diehl 1924 (mystery)

5- Joan Didion 1934 ("A Year of Magical Thinking")

Calvin Trillin 1935 ("Tepper Isn’t Going Out")

John Berendt 1939 ("Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil")

James Lee Burke 1936 (mystery)

6- John Reynolds Gardiner 1944 ("Stone Fox")

Alfred Joyce Kilmer 1886 (poet)

Sonia Manzano 1950 ("No Dogs Allowed")

7- Willa Cather 1873 ("My Antonia")

Susan Minot 1956 ("Evening")

Pearl Cleage 1948 ("What Looks Like Crazy On an Ordinary Day")

Susan Isaacs 1943 ("Anywhere I Hang My Hat")

J.R. Moehringer 1964 ("The Tender Bar")

8- Bill Bryson 1951 ("A Walk in the Woods")

John Banville 1945 ("The Sea")

Mary Gordon 1949 ("Pearl")

Kenneth Roberts 1885 ("Northwest Passage")

Louis de Bernieres 1954 ("Corelli's Mandolin")

E.C. Segar 1894 ("Popeye" comic strip)

9- Dalton Trumbo 1905 ("Johnny Got His Gun")

Bertrice Small 1937 (romance)

John Milton 1608 ("Paradise Lost")

Joanna Trollope 1943 ("Second Honeymoon")

Jean de Brunhoff 1899 ("Babar" creator)

10- Emily Dickinson 1830 (poet)

Cornelia Funke 1958 ("The Thief Lord")

Mercer Meyer 1943 ("Little Critter" series)

Mary Norton 1903 ("The Borrowers")

Jacquelyn Mitchard 1955 ("The Deep End of the Ocean")

11- Jim Harrison 1937 ("Legends of the Fall")

Susan Elizabeth Phillips (romance)

L.A. Banks (sci-fi/fantasy)

Ayelet Waldman 1964 ("Love and Other Impossible Pursuits")

12- Gustave Flaubert 1821 ("Madame Bovary")

Sophie Kinsella 1969 ("Confessions of a Shopaholic")

Eugene Burdick 1918 ("Fail-Safe")

Patrick O'Brian 1914 ("Master and Commander")

13- Tamora Pierce 1954 (sci-fi/fantasy)

14- Shirley Jackson 1916 ("The Lottery")

Nostradamus 1503 ("The Prophecies")

15- Betty Smith 1896 ("A Tree Grows in Brooklyn")

Donald Goines 1937 ("Crime Partners")

Edna O'Brien 1930 ("The Country Girls")

16- Jane Austen 1775 ("Pride and Prejudice")

Tim Green 1963 (mystery)

Arthur C. Clarke 1917 ("2001: A Space Odyssey")

Quentin Blake 1932 (illustrator)

Warren Adler 1927 ("War of the Roses")

17- John Kennedy Toole 1937 ("A Confederacy of Dunces")

Ford Madox Ford 1873 ("The Good Soldier")

Penelope Fitzgerald 1916 ("Innocence")

18- A.M. Homes 1961 ("This Book Will Save Your Life")

Leonard Maltin 1950 (Movie Guides)

19- Eve Bunting 1928 ("Someone is Hiding on Alcatraz Island")

Eleanor H. Porter 1868 ("Pollyanna")

20- Sandra Cisneros 1954 ("The House on Mango Street")

Alain de Botton 1969 ("The Art of Travel")

21- George Gatley 1928 ("Heathcliff" comic strip)

Anthony Powell 1905 ("A Dance to the Music of Time")

22- Edwin Arlington Robinson 1869 (poet)

Elizabeth Noble 1968 ("The Reading Group")

23- Avi 1937 ("Nothing But the Truth")

Norman Maclean 1902 ("A River Runs Through It")

Donna Tartt 1963 ("A Secret History")

24- Mary Higgins Clark 1927 (mystery)

Johnny Gruelle 1880 ("Raggedy Ann" series)

Stephanie Meyer 1973 ("Twilight")

Adam Haslett 1970 ("You Are Not a Stranger Here")

25- Pam Munoz Ryan 1951 ("Esperanza Rising")

26- Henry Miller 1891 ("The Tropic of Cancer")

Elizabeth Kostova 1964 ("The Historian")

Catherine Coulter 1942 (romance)

David Sedaris 1956 ("Me Talk Pretty One Day")

27- Sarah Vowell 1969 ("Assassination Vacation")

Patricia Gaffney ("Circle of Three")

Louis Bromfield 1896 ("Early Autumn")

28- Stan Lee 1921 (comics)

Carol Ryrie Brink 1895 ("Caddie Woodlawn")

Emily Cheney Neville 1919 ("It's Like This, Cat")

29- Dave Pelzer 1960 ("A Child Called It")

30- Rudyard Kipling 1865 ("The Jungle Book")
Al Purdy 1918 ("A Splinter in the Heart") 

31- Nicholas Sparks 1965 ("The Notebook")

Simon Wiesenthal 1908 ("The Sunflower")