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Love On the Wild Side

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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.