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Book |
Author |
Dewey Number |
Description |
Austenland |
Hale, Shannon |
FIC HAL |
A New Yorker obsessed with Jane Austen’s Mr. Darcy receives the gift of a trip to an English resort catering to Austen-crazed women. |
The Weight of Heaven |
Umrigar, Thrity |
FIC UMR |
A grieving American father becomes consumed by the family and life of a boy he befriends in India, when he and his wife attempt to start a new life half a world away. |
The Little Stranger |
Waters, Sarah |
FIC WAT |
A haunting ghost story about a house, a dying way of life and an increasingly obsessed outsider—think Downton Abbey meets Poe. |
Fates and Furies |
Groth, Lauren |
FIC GRO |
A marriage that thrives on mutual obsession. Or does it? |
The Talented Mr. Ripley |
Highsmith, Patricia |
FIC HIG |
Tom Ripley is obsessed with obtaining the best life has to offer and will stop at nothing to get it. |
The Woman Upstairs |
Messud, Claire |
FIC MES |
A woman becomes riveted on glamorous neighbors, whose lives offer her all she might have once had for herself. |
The Girl on the Train |
Hawkins, Paula |
FIC HAW |
There are many tales of obsession that leads to murder. This is one of them. |
Misery |
King, Stephen |
FIC KIN |
King wrote what might be the definitive horror story about fandom gone too far. |
Wuthering Heights |
Bronte, Emily |
FIC BRO |
Classic story of intense and almost demonic love between Heathcliff and Catherine. |
Moby Dick |
Melville, Herman |
FIC MEL |
Man obsessed with whale. White whale. |
Enduring Love |
McEwan, Ian |
FIC BAC |
Sudden and crushing obsession can be the most interesting and the most frightening. |
The Wages of Sin |
Welsh, Kaite |
FIC WEL |
Sometimes someone just needs to answer a question or solve a mystery and it can lead to obsession, as it does in this fine historical novel. |
Running North |
Cook, Ann |
92 COO |
A family moves to Alaska, focused on running the Yukon Quest—the toughest sled dog race in the world. |
Mountains Beyond Mountains |
Kidder, Tracy |
92 FAR |
Dedication to a philosophy and a world view can be seen as obsession and can often result in good things happening. |
Timothy Leary |
Greenfield, Robert |
92 LEA |
His name became famous as his obsession with drugs led him to become a psychedelic messiah. |
The Orchid Thief |
Orlean, Susan |
92 LAR |
This book explores the eccentric world of Florida’s orchid collectors and one very obsessed collector. Made into a movie. |
Pirate Hunters |
Kurson, Robert |
910.916 |
What could be more obsessive than the hunt for treasure? But these men are obsessed with finding the buried ship of pirates. |
Steve Jobs |
Isaacson, Walter |
92 JOB |
A focused and brilliant entrepreneur or a man obsessed? I have both the book and the audio book for this title. |
The Lost City of Z |
Grann, David |
918.11 GRA |
A tale of deadly obsession in the Amazon. I have the audiobook and the book for this title too. |