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Check out some great titles recommended by Alan Cheuse in a recent NPR.org article.

Eric Anderson: The White Tiger / Aravind Adiga, In the Kitchen / Monica Ali, Cotton's Queer Relations:  Same-Sex Intimacy and the Literature of the Southern Plantation, 1936-1968 / Michael Bibler, among other books

Jennifer Atkinson: As Is / Jim Galvin, Ginko Light / Arthur Sze, and many more

David Beach: The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo / Steig Larsson, The Girl Who Played With Fire / Stieg Larsson, Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All / Christina Thompson

Laura Casal: Ardent Spirits / Reynolds Price, A Long and Happy Life / Reynolds Price, The Passion / Jeanette Winterson, The Sun Also Rises / Ernest Hemingway

Nila Dutta: Lolita in Tehran / Azar Nafisi, The Glass Palace / Amitav Ghosh, and many more

Candace Fowler: The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War / Alexander Waugh

Wade Fletcher: The Alphabet / Ron Silliman, Disaster Suites / Rob Halpern, Next Life / Rae Armantrout, and Collapsible Poetics Theater / Rodrigo Toscano

John Foster: Ibadan / Wole Soyinka, Under Western Eyes / Joseph Conrad

Barb Gomperts: The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo / Steig Larsson

Helon Habila: Remembrance of Things Past / Marcel Proust, Mukiwa / David Godwin, In My Father's House / Anthony Appiah

Tamara Harvey: The Baroque Cycle, Neal Stephenson

Twila Johnson: No Right To Remain Silent: The Tragedy at Virginia Tech / Lucinda Roy, The Oracle: Ancient Delphi and the Science Behind Its Lost Secrets / William J. Broad, Seeing and Death with Interruptions / Jose Saramago, and Boomsday / Christopher Buckley

Deborah Kaplan: This Way For Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen / Tadeusz Borowski, Watching Baseball Smarter / Zach Hample

David Kaufmann: The Poems of C.P. Cavafy / trans. Daniel Mendelsohn, Lush Life / Richard Price

Sally Keith: The Sisters Antipodes / Jane Alison; Guns, Germs, and Steel / Jared Diamond; Mrs. Caldwell Speaks to Her Son / Camilo Jose Cela, and many more.

Al DeFazio: A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway

Roger Lathbury: Scoop / Evelyn Waugh

Susan Lawrence: Palestinian Walks / Raja Shehadeh, The Ghost in Love / Jonathan Carroll, The Dark Side / Jane Mayer, Netherland / Joseph O'Neill, and The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery

Aubrey Lenahan: Unaccustomed Earth / Czeslaw Milosz, Pale Fire / Vladimir Nabokov, The Redshifting Web / Arthur Sze

Erika Lin: The Shanghai Moon / S.J. Rozan

Lisa Lister: The Secret of Lost Things / Sheridan Hay, The Year of Magical Thinking / Joan Didion, Girl Meets God / Lauren Winner, Amazing Grace / Kathleen Norris, and many more.

Robert Matz: The English Civil War : Papists, gentlewomen, soldiers, and witchfinders in the birth of modern Britain / Diane Purkiss

Ellen Moody: The Other Elizabeth Taylor / Nicola Beauman, Robert Southey: Entire Man of Letters / W. Speck

Thomas Newberg: The Zanzibar Chest / Aidan Hartley, Elegy for Kosovo / Ismail Kadare, The Dark Side / Jane Mayer, and several more.

Mel Nichols: The Politics of Aesthetics / Jacques Ranciere

Dorothy Raffel: Kim / Rudyard Kipling, Tea Time for the Traditionally Built / Alexander McCall Smith

Catherine Saunders: The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family / Annette Gordon-Reed

Stacey Remick-Simkins: Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary Hero: An American Warrior Recon-sidered / James Martin

Art Taylor: Blood's A Rover / James Ellroy, The March / E.L. Doctorow, and several detective novels by John Shannon

Eleanor Tipton: The Divine Comedy / Dante, The Aeneid / Virgil, The Dream of the Unified Field / Jorie Graham, and The Redshifting Web / Arthur Sze

Emily Viggiano: This Nest, Swift Passerine (a collection) / Dan Beachy-Quick

Abby Waldron: In Defense of Food / Michael Pollan; Animal, Vegetable, Miracle / Barbara Kingsolver; Grapes of Wrath / John Steinbeck

Annie Wall: Encountering the Dharma: Daisaku Ikeda, Soka Gakkai, and the Globalization of Buddhist Humanism / Richard Hughes Seager

Benjamin Wilkins: Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Gentlemen of the Road, and Maps and Legends / Michael Chabon; A Place of My Own / Michael Pollan

David Williams: Sick of Nature / David Gessner

Alok Yadov: Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr Johnson's Dictionary / Henry Hitchings, Pale Fire / Vladimir Nabokov