Research Guides: Readers' Collection: Popular Authors

Popular Authors

Locating Books

Our Library has a fantastic selection of books by popular fiction authors. Some are located in our Readers' Collection downstairs while others are located upstairs in the Stacks.
Make sure to check the call number before looking for a book!
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Suspenseful political crime novels

The Client by Janet McAlpin (Retold by); John Grisham; Andy Hopkins (Editor); Jocelyn Potter (Editor)
Call Number: Reader PE 1126 .A4 M43 1999
ISBN: 0582417775
The Broker by John Grisham
Call Number: Reader Grisham
ISBN: 0385340540
The Chamber by John Grisham
Call Number: PS3557 .R5355 C47 2006
ISBN: 9780385339667
El Ultimo Jurado by John Grisham; Antonia Menini Pages (Translator)
Call Number: Reader Grisham
ISBN: 8466621865
(En Español)

The Shining by Stephen King
Call Number: Reader King
ISBN: 0743437497
Carrie by Stephen King; Gregorio Viastelica (Translator)
Call Number: Spa King
ISBN: 0307348075
Classic tale of a misunderstood girl tortured by her classmates. Will she get her revenge? (En Español)
Firestarter by Stephen King
Call Number: PS3561 .I483 F57 1981
ISBN: 0451167805
The Tommyknockers by Stephen King
Call Number: PS3561 .I483 T66 1987
ISBN: 0399133143

Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
Call Number: PS3572 .O5 M68 2006
ISBN: 9780385334143
Publication Date: 1999-05-11
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Call Number: E-BOOK
ISBN: 0385333846
Publication Date: 1999-01-12
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Call Number: PS3572 .O5 B74 2000
ISBN: 0385334206
Publication Date: 1999-05-11
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Call Number: PS3572 .O5 C38 1998
ISBN: 038533348X
Publication Date: 1998-09-08
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut
Call Number: PS3572 .O5 G63 1965
ISBN: 0385333471
Publication Date: 1998-09-08

Crutcher writes about teenage athletes who often have to deal with adult problems and situations in other areas of their lives.

Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher
Call Number: Reader Crutcher
ISBN: 0440229383
Several outcast members of their school community come together to form a swim team and learn what it means to truly be a team.
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher
Call Number: Reader Crutcher
ISBN: 9780060094898
Ironman by Chris Crutcher
Call Number: Reader Crutcher
ISBN: 0060598409

Gary Soto writes for a wide audience, from children and teenagers to adults.

Buried Onions by Gary Soto
Call Number: Reader Soto
ISBN: 0152062653
When nineteen-year-old Eddie drops out of college, he struggles to find a place for himself as a Mexican American living in a violence-infested neighborhood of Fresno, California.
Help Wanted by Gary Soto
Call Number: PS3619 .O86 H45 2005 ... ... See also: Reader Soto
ISBN: 9780152056636
Ten stories portray some of the struggles and hopes of young Mexican Americans.
Chato Goes Cruisin' by Gary Soto; Susan Guevara (Illustrator, Translator)
Call Number: Kid Soto
ISBN: 039923974X
The Effects of Knut Hamsun on a Fresno Boy by Gary Soto
Call Number: PS3569 .O72 Z465 2000
ISBN: 0892552549
Set mostly in author Gary Soto's hometown, Fresno, and the San Francisco Bay area, in narratives that are tender or outrageous, delirious with joy or touched by heartbreak, Soto falls in love, picks up hitchhikers, uses his wits to solve the hunger of dogs, and discovers the writing life.

The Truth about Forever by Sarah Dessen
Call Number: Reader Dessen
ISBN: 0142406252
Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen
Call Number: Reader Dessen
ISBN: 0142401773
Dreamland by Sarah Dessen
Call Number: Reader Dessen
ISBN: 0142401757
This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen
Call Number: Reader Dessen
ISBN: 0142501557

Street Love by Walter Dean Myers
Call Number: Reader Myers
ISBN: 0060280794
Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers
Call Number: Reader Myers
ISBN: 0590424114
The Glory Field by Walter Dean Myers
Call Number: Reader Myers
ISBN: 0590458973
Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers
Call Number: Reader Myers
ISBN: 0064406237

City of the Beasts by Isabel Allende; Margaret Sayers Peden (Translator)
Call Number: Reader Allende
ISBN: 0060535032
When fifteen-year-old Alexander accompanies his grandmother on an expedition to find a humanoid Beast in the Amazon, he experiences ancient wonders and a supernatural world as he tries to avert disaster for the Indians.
Forest of the Pygmies by Isabel Allende; Margaret Sayers Peden (Translator)
Call Number: Reader Allende
ISBN: 0060761989
Eighteen-year-old Alexander and his grandmother travel to Africa on an elephant-led safari, but discover a corrupt world of poaching and slavery.
Kingdom of the Golden Dragon by Isabel Allende; Margaret Sayers Peden (Translator)
Call Number: Reader Allende
ISBN: 0060589442
Sixteen-year-old Alexander accompanies his grandmother, a writer for a geography magazine, to the remote Forbidden Kingdom in the Himalayas to help locate a sacred statue of a golden dragon before it is stolen by a greedy outsider.

A prolific science fiction author.

Nightfall and Other Stories by Isaac Asimov
Call Number: PS3551 .S5 A15 1969
ISBN: 0345310918
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
Call Number: PS3551 .S5 I3 1991
ISBN: 0553294385
Isaac Asimov's Guide to Earth and Space by Isaac Asimov
Call Number: QB 52 .A74 1991
ISBN: 0679404376
The Exploding Suns by Isaac Asimov; D. F. Bach (Illustrator); William A. Gutsch
Call Number: QB 801.6 .A85 1996
ISBN: 0452276608
Foundation and Earth by Isaac Asimov
Call Number: PS3551 .S5 F594 1986
ISBN: 0385233124