SUPER SLEUTHS
AUTHOR FACTS
SYNOPSIS
WAR STORIES
MEMOIR
100
Alex Cross
James Patterson
100
This actor, producer, author, and tastemaker became the first black female billionaire in world history, according to Forbes.
Oprah Winfrey
100
On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears.
Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn
100
Slaughterhouse-Five
World War II (Kurt Vonnegut)
100
Born to Run
Bruce Springsteen
200
Miss Jane Marple
Agatha Christie
200
This author practiced law for a decade before his election to the Mississippi House of Representatives. Today he is known for writing thrillers, general fiction, and children’s books.
John Grisham
200
In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl to participate in a fight to the death on live TV.
Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
200
The Things They Carried
Vietnam War (Tim O’Brien)
200
Bossypants
Tina Fey
300
Mike Hammer
Mickey Spillane
300
This British novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and fighter pilot, is regarded as one of the greatest storytellers for children of the 20th century.
Roald Dahl
300
August Pullman was born with a facial difference that, up until now, has prevented him from going to a mainstream school. Starting 5th grade at Beecher Prep, he wants nothing more than to be treated as an ordinary kid—but his new classmates can’t get past Auggie’s extraordinary face.
Wonder, by R. J. Palacio
300
The Guns of August
World War I (Barbara Tuchman)
300
Wild
Cheryl Strayed
400
V.I. Warshawski
Sara Paretsky
400
The science-fiction stories of this French author were called “dreams come true.” In one novel, which was set under the sea, so prophetic was his description of a periscope that a few years later the actual inventor of the instrument was refused permission for an original patent.
Jules Verne
400
With a team composed of the sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the University of Washington’s eight-oar crew team was never expected to shock the world by defeating the German team rowing for Adolf Hitler.
The Boys in the Boat, by Daniel James Brown
400
The Last of the Mohicans
French and Indian War (James Fenimore Cooper)
400
Running with Scissors
Augusten Burroughs
500
Cormoran Strike
Robert Galbraith (or J.K. Rowling)
500
Only seven of this New England woman’s poems were published during her lifetime, and she left instructions that all of her manuscripts be destroyed. Today she is considered one of the most influential poets of the nineteenth century.
Emily Dickenson
500
This book follows the low-budget Oakland A's, visionary general manager Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateur baseball theorists. They are all in search of new baseball knowledge—insights that will give the little guy who is willing to discard old wisdom the edge over big money.
Moneyball, by Michael Lewis
500
The Bridges at Toko-Ri
Korean War (James Michener)
500
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
John Lewis
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