Cassette Books 2004

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Library of Congress
Washington 2005

Bestsellers

Full entries for these books can be found in the categories listed.

Nonfiction

After Life: Answers from the Other Side  RC 57007
by John Edward
Psychology and Self-Help

American: Beyond Our Grandest Notions  RC 55727
by Chris Matthews
Social Science

At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor  RC 53552
by Gordon W. Prange
War

Atkins for Life: The Complete Controlled Carb Program for Permanent Weight Loss and Good Health  RC 55758
by Robert C. Atkins
Diet and Nutrition

Audrey Hepburn: An Elegant Spirit  RC 57351
by Sean Hepburn Ferrer
Stage and Screen

Ball of Fire: The Tumultuous Life and Comic Art of Lucille Ball  RC 57093
by Stefan Kanfer
Stage and Screen

Barefoot Contessa Family Style: Easy Ideas and Recipes That Make Everyone Feel like Family  RC 55508
by Ina Garten
Cooking

Before the Change: Taking Charge of Your Perimenopause  RC 57110
by Ann Louise Gittleman
Medicine and Health, Women's Concerns

Benjamin Franklin: An American Life  RC 56501
by Walter Isaacson
U.S. History

Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas  RC 56485
by Elaine Pagels
Religion


Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth  RC 56940
by Joe Conason
U.S. History

Boy Genius: Karl Rove, the Brains behind the Remarkable Political Triumph of George W. Bush  RC 55868
by Lou Dubose and Jan Reid
Government and Politics

Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions  RC 55333
by Ben Mezrich
Crime

Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America  RC 57075
by Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose
Government and Politics

Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History  RC 56253
by George Crile
War

Chicken Soup for the Sister's Soul  RC 56495
edited by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen
Social Science

Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul on Love and Friendship  RC 56229
by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen
Psychology and Self-Help, Young Adults

The Clinton Wars  RC 56243
by Sidney Blumenthal
Government and Politics

The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film RC 55779
by Michael Ondaatje
Stage and Screen

The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror  RC 55867
by Bernard Lewis
World History

Dereliction of Duty: The Eyewitness Account of How Bill Clinton Compromised America's National Security  RC 56124
by Robert "Buzz"  Patterson
Government and Politics

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America  RC 55748
by Erik Larson
Crime

Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta  RC 55728
by Gore Vidal
Government and Politics

Eight Minutes in the Morning: A Simple Way to Start Your Day That Burns Fat and Sheds the Pounds  RC 55750
by Jorge Cruise
Diet and Nutrition

The Essential Fifty-Five: An Award-Winning Educators Rules for Discovering the Successful Student in Every Child  RC 56872
by Ron Clark
Education

Every Second Counts  RC 56920
by Lance Armstrong
Sports and Recreation

Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles  RC 55534
by Marianne Williamson
Inspiration

The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad  RC 56018
by Fareed Zakaria
Government and Politics

The Get with the Program! Guide to Good Eating: Great Food for Good Health  RC 56019
by Bob Greene
Medicine and Health

God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible  RC 56486
by Adam Nicolson
Religion

The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century  RC 57113
by Paul Krugman
Business and Economics

The Hard Questions: One Hundred Questions to Ask before You Say "I Do"  RC 55762
by Susan Piver
Marriage and Sex

The Hunt for Bin Laden: Task Force Dagger  RC 55763
by Robin Moore
War

I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story  RC 57047
by Rick Bragg
War

I Am the Central Park Jogger: A Story of Hope and Possibility  RC 56125
by Trisha Meili
Crime

I May Be Wrong but I Doubt It  RC 55571
by Charles Barkley
Sports and Recreation

Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles  RC 55726
by Anthony Swofford
War

Kate Remembered  RC 56771
by A. Scott Berg
Biography

Katharine Graham's Washington  RC 55458
edited by Katharine Graham
U.S. History

The Kennedy Curse: Why America's First Family Has Been Haunted by Tragedy for One Hundred and Fifty Years  RC 56880
by Edward Klein
Family

Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century  RC 55749
by Hunter S. Thompson
Biography

Krakatoa: The Day the World ExplodedCAugust 27, 1883  RC 55879
by Simon Winchester
Nature and the Environment

Last Dance, Last Chance: And Other True Cases  RC 55730
by Ann Rule
Crime

Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life  RC 56048
by Queen Noor
Biography

Lies (and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them): A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right  RC 56939
by Al Franken
Government and Politics

A Life God Rewards  RC 55064
by Bruce Wilkinson
Religion

Live from New York: An Uncensored History of "Saturday Night Live"  RC 55275
by Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller
Humor

Living History  RC 55882
by Hillary Rodham Clinton
Government and Politics

A Long Way from Home: Growing Up in the American Heartland  RC 55334
by Tom Brokaw
Biography

The Mailroom: Hollywood History from the Bottom Up  RC 55761
by David Rensin
Stage and Screen

Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling  RC 55756
by Ross King
The Arts

A Million Little Pieces  RC 56290
by James Frey
Social Science

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game  RC 56245
by Michael Lewis
Sports and Recreation

My Losing Season  RC 55514
by Pat Conroy
Sports and Recreation

No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World's First Supermodel  RC 54943
by Janice Dickinson
Biography

The One Minute Millionaire: The Enlightened Way to Wealth  RC 55336
by Mark Victor Hansen and Robert G. Allen
Business and Economics

Open: Inside the Ropes at Bethpage Black  RC 56287
by John Feinstein
Sports and Recreation

Paige by Paige: A Year of Trading Spaces  RC 56923
by Paige Davis
Journalism and the Media

Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World  RC 55337
by Margaret MacMillan
World History

A Patriot's Handbook: Songs, Poems, Stories, and Speeches Celebrating the Land We Love  RC 56506
selected by Caroline Kennedy
Literature

Perfect I'm Not: Boomer on Beer, Brawls, Backaches, and Baseball  RC 56059
by David Wells
Sports and Recreation

The Perricone Prescription: A Physician's Twenty-eight Day Program for Total Body and Face Rejuvenation  RC 54931
by Nicholas Perricone
Medicine and Health

Persecution: How Liberals Are Waging War against Christianity  RC 57012
by David Limbaugh
Government and Politics

Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America  RC 55757
by Arianna Huffington
Government and Politics

Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion's World Series of Poker  RC 56047
by James McManus
Sports and Recreation

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment  RC 55646
by Eckhart Tolle
Inspiration, Religion

The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?  RC 55648
by Rick Warren
Inspiration

Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market  RC 56254
by Eric Schlosser
Business and Economics

Rich Dad's Prophecy: Why the Biggest Stock Market Crash in History Is Still Coming     . . . .  and How You Can Prepare Yourself and Profit from It!  RC 55338
by Robert T. Kiyosaki
Business and Economics

The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush  RC 55531
by David Frum
Government and Politics

Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers  RC 55339
by Daniel Ellsberg
U.S. History

A Short History of Nearly Everything  RC 56241
by Bill Bryson
Science and Technology

Shut Up and Sing: How Elites from Hollywood, Politics, and the U.N. Are Subverting America  RC 57013
by Laura Ingraham
Government and Politics

Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude  RC 56879
by Robert Baer
Government and Politics

The South Beach Diet: The Delicious, Doctor-Designed, Foolproof Plan for Fast and Healthy Weight Loss  RC 56409
by Arthur Agatston
Diet and Nutrition, Medicine and Health

Suzanne Somers' Fast and Easy: Lose Weight the Somersize Way with Quick, Delicious Meals for the Entire Family!  RC 55780
by Suzanne Somers
Diet and Nutrition

The Sweet Potato Queen's Big-Ass Cookbook (and Financial Planner)  RC 55760
by Jill Conner Browne
Cooking

The Teammates  RC 56289
by David Halberstam
Sports and Recreation

This Just In: What I Couldn't Tell You on TV  RC 55649
by Bob Schieffer
Journalism and Media, U.S. History

To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian  RC 55747
by Stephen E. Ambrose
U.S. History

Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism  RC 56497
by Ann Coulter
Government and Politics

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith  RC 56777
by Jon Krakauer
Crime 

An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917B1963  RC 56246
by Robert Dallek
U.S. History

Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First  RC 56776
by Mona Charen
Government and Politics

Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos  RC 56244
by Robert D. Kaplan
Government and Politics

What Becomes of the Brokenhearted: A Memoir  RC 56881
by E. Lynn Harris
Biography

What Should I Do with My Life?  RC 55873
by Po Bronson
Psychology and Self-Help

When Hollywood Had a King: The Reign of Lew Wasserman, Who Leveraged Talent into Power and Influence  RC 56850
by Connie Bruck
Stage and Screen

When You Ride Alone You Ride with bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism  RC 55341
by Bill Maher
Government and Politics

Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround  RC 56248
by Louis V. Gerstner
Business and Economics, Computers

Who's Looking Out for You?  RC 57006
by Bill O'Reilly
Government and Politics

Who's Your Caddy? Looping for the Great, Near Great, and Reprobates of Golf  RC 56286
by Rick Reilly
Sports and Recreation

Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11  RC 56938
by Gerald Posner
Government and Politics

Fiction

Answered Prayers  RC 55509
by Danielle Steel
Romance

Armageddon: The Cosmic Battle of the Ages  RC 55878
by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
Religious Themes

The Arraignment  RC 55328
by Steve Martini
Legal Themes

Back Story  RC 55751
by Robert B. Parker
Mystery and Detective

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress  RC 55365
by Sijie Dai
Growing Up, Historical Fiction

Baudolino  RC 55062
by Umberto Eco
Adventure

Birthright  RC 55869
by Nora Roberts
Romance

Bleachers  RC 56894
by John Grisham
Sports

Blindside: An FBI Thriller  RC 56851
by Catherine Coulter
Suspense

Blow Fly  RC 57073
by Patricia Cornwell
Mystery and Detective

Cerulean Sins  RC 56288
by Laurell K. Hamilton
Occult and Horror

Chesapeake Blue  RC 55052
by Nora Roberts
Romance 

The Christmas Train  RC 55045
by David Baldacci
Holidays

A Cold Heart  RC 56231
by Jonathan Kellerman
Mystery and Detective

The Confessor  RC 55724
by Daniel Silva
Spies and Espionage

Cosmopolis  RC 55876
by Don DeLillo
Contemporary Fiction

The Da Vinci Code  RC 55735
by Dan Brown
Mystery and Detective

Dangerous  RC 55507
by Nora Roberts
Romance

The Dante Club  RC 55723
by Matthew Pearl
Mystery and Detective

Dating Game  RC 56414
by Danielle Steel
Romance

Death by Hollywood  RC 57046
by Steven Bochco
Mystery and Detective

Derailed  RC 55863
by James Siegel
Suspense

The Devil Wears Prada  RC 56233
by Lauren Weisberger
Humor

Diary  RC 57011
by Chuck Palahniuk
Occult and Horror

Drop City  RC 55862
by T. Coraghessan Boyle
Historical Fiction

Engaging the Enemy  RC 56227
by Nora Roberts
Romance

Esther's Gift: A Mitford Christmas Story  RC 55329
by Jan Karon
Holidays

Executive Power  RC 56302
by Vince Flynn
Spies and Espionage

The Face  RC 56285
by Dean Koontz
Occult and Horror

Final Justice: Badge of Honor, Book 8  RC 55725
by W.E.B. Griffin
Mystery and Detective

Forever  RC 55702
by Pete Hamill
Historical Fiction

Full Speed  RC 57096
by Janet Evanovich and Charlotte Hughes
Mystery and Detective

Full Tilt  RC 55865
by Janet Evanovich and Charlotte Hughes
Romance

Gone Too Far  RC 56772
retold by Suzanne Brockmann
Suspense

Hello, Darkness  RC 57173
by Sandra Brown
Psychological Themes

Hornet Flight  RC 55279
by Ken Follett
Spies and Espionage

I Don't Know How She Does It: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother  RC 55057
by Allison Pearson
Family

Imitation in Death  RC 57165
by J.D. Robb
Mystery and Detective

Johnny Angel  RC 56483
by Danielle Steel
Family

July, July  RC 55350
by Tim O'Brien
Human Relationships

The Kalahari Typing School for Men  RC 56235
by Alexander McCall Smith
Mystery and Detective

The Lake House  RC 56044
by James Patterson
Suspense

Last Car to Elysian Fields  RC 56931
by James Lee Burke
Mystery and Detective

The Last Detective: An Elvis Cole Novel  RC 55647
by Robert Crais
Mystery and Detective

The Last Jihad  RC 55521
by Joel C. Rosenberg
Political Themes

The Last Juror  RC 57381
by John Grisham
Legal Themes

Late Bloomer  RC 55755
by Fern Michaels
Romance

Lawless  RC 57074
by Nora Roberts
Romance

Light in Shadow  RC 55520
by Jayne Ann Krentz
Suspense

Lost Light  RC 55764
by Michael Connelly
Mystery and Detective

A Man to Call My Own  RC 56874
by Johanna Lindsey
Romance

Maneater  RC 56849
by Gigi Levangie Grazer
Romance

McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales  RC 56508
edited by Michael Chabon
Short Stories

Middlesex  RC 54934
by Jeffrey Eugenides
Human Relationships

Morgawr: The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara, Book 3  RC 56242
by Terry Brooks
Fantasy

Mortals  RC 56505
by Norman Rush
Political Themes

Mysterious  RC 57108
by Nora Roberts
Romance

Naked Prey  RC 56232
by John Sandford
Suspense

The Namesake  RC 56937
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Family

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency  RC 55503
by Alexander McCall Smith
Mystery and Detective

No Second Chance  RC 56020
by Harlan Coben
Suspense

Once a Thief  RC 55330
by Kay Hooper
Suspense

The Other Woman  RC 56284
by Eric Jerome Dickey
Human Relationships

Pasadena  RC 54944
by David Ebershoff
Historical Fiction

Pattern Recognition  RC 55752
by William Gibson
Suspense

The Perfect Summer  RC 57009
by Luanne Rice
Family

Portrait in Death  RC 55866
by J.D. Robb
Mystery and Detective

Red Rabbit  RC 54816
by Tom Clancy
Spies and Espionage

The Reluctant Suitor  RC 55753
by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
Romance

Safe Harbour  RC 57100
by Danielle Steel
Romance

Samaritan  RC 55528
by Richard Price
Mystery and Detective

Seizure  RC 56496
by Robin Cook
Suspense

Shopaholic Ties the Knot  RC 55877
by Sophie Kinsella
General

The Sinister Pig  RC 56045
by Tony Hillerman
Mystery and Detective

The Sinner  RC 56875
by Tess Gerritsen
Mystery and Detective

Someone to Watch Over Me  RC 55722
by Judith McNaught
Mystery and Detective

Sons of Fortune  RC 55650
by Jeffrey Archer
Family

Soul Circus  RC 55736
by George P. Pelecanos
Suspense

Street Dreams: Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus Mystery  RC 56876
by Faye Kellerman
Mystery and Detective

Sullivan's Woman  RC 57109
by Nora Roberts
Romance

Table for Two  RC 55332
by Nora Roberts
Romance

The Teeth of the Tiger  RC 56873
by Tom Clancy
Suspense

Temptation  RC 57101
by Nora Roberts
Romance

A Thousand Country Roads: An Epilogue to The Bridges of Madison County  RC 54811
by Robert James Waller
Romance

Tom Clancy's Op-Center: Sea of Fire  RC 56878
by Jeff Rovin
Suspense

Tom Clancy's Power Plays: Cutting Edge  RC 55331
by Jerome Preisler
Suspense

Trading Up  RC 56866
by Candace Bushnell
Human Relationships

Train  RC 57474
by Pete Dexter
Suspense

The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions That Determine Personal Success  RC 56620
by Andy Andrews
General

Truly Madly Manhattan  RC 55655
by Nora Roberts
Romance

Twisted Roots: The De Beers Family, Volume 3  RC 55059
by V.C. Andrews
Occult and Horror

The Vanished Man: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel  RC 56247
by Jeffery Deaver
Mystery and Detective

White Death: A Novel from the NUMA Files  RC 56507
by Clive Cussler
Adventure

You Shall Know Our Velocity  RC 56228
by Dave Eggers
Psychological Themes