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How to find fiction at the UTSA Libraries with selected titles from a variety of genres.
Selected Titles
- The Death Cure by James DashnerCall Number: PZ7.D2587 De 2011ISBN: 9780385738774WICKED has taken everything from Thomas: his life, his memories, and now his only friends, but it's finally over. What WICKED doesn't know is that Thomas remembers far more than they think. And it's enough to prove that he can't believe a word of what they say. Thomas will risk anything to save his friends. But the truth might be what ends it all.
- Red Sparrow by Jason MatthewsCall Number: JPL 3rd Floor PS3613.A8484 R43 2013ISBN: 9781476706122Russian intelligence officer Dominika Egorova struggles to survive in the post-Soviet intelligence jungle after she is ordered to become a "Sparrow," a trained seductress, Dominika is assigned to operate against Nathaniel Nash, a young CIA officer who handles the Agency's most important Russian mole. Dominika and Nate soon collide in a duel of wills, tradecraft, and--inevitably--forbidden passion that threatens everything.
- The Road by Cormac McCarthyCall Number: JPL 2nd Floor, Reserves PS3563.C337 R63 2006ISBN: 0307265439A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food--and each other.
- Every Day by David LevithanCall Number: JPL 3rd Floor, Juvenile Literature PZ7.L5798 Es 2012ISBN: 9780307931887Will Grayson wakes up every morning in a different body, living a different life. Every day in love with the same girl.
- Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeerCall Number: JPL 2nd Floor, Popular Reading Collection PS3572.A4284 A84 2014ISBN: 9780374104092Four women undertake the mission to map Area X's terrain, record all observations of their surroundings yet avoid being contaminated. They arrive expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivers--they discover a massive topographic anomaly and life forms that surpass understanding--but it's the surprises that came across the border with them and the secrets the expedition members are keeping from one another that change everything.
- To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny HanCall Number: JPL 3rd Floor, Juvenile Literature PZ7.H18944 To 2014ISBN: 9781442426702Lara Jean Song keeps her love letters in a hatbox her mother gave her. They aren't love letters that anyone else wrote for her; these are ones she's written. One day her secret letters are mailed, and suddenly, Lara Jean's love life goes from imaginary to out of control.
- Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin KwanCall Number: JPL 2nd Floor, Popular Reading Collection PS3611.W36 C73 2014ISBN: 9780345803788Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Young, but Nick has failed to give his girlfriend a few key details. One, that his childhood home looks like a palace; two, that he grew up riding in more private planes than cars; and three, that he just happens to be the country's most eligible bachelor.
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleCall Number: JPL 2nd Floor, Popular Reading Collection PS3523.E55 W7 2007ISBN: 9780312367541It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger. "Wild nights are my glory," the unearthly stranger told them. "I just got caught in a downdraft and blown off course. Let me sit down for a moment, and then I''ll be on my way. Speaking of ways, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract." A tesseract (in case the reader doesn''t know) is a wrinkle in time.
- Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick (Illustrator)Call Number: PZ7.S4654 Won 2011 JPL Juv LitISBN: 9780545027892Set fifty years apart, two independent stories - Ben's told in words and Rose's in pictures - weave back and forth with mesmerizing symmetry. Ever since his mom died, Ben feels lost. At home with her father, Rose feels alone. He is searching for someone, but he is not sure who. She is searching for something, but she is not sure what. When Ben finds a mysterious clue hidden in his mom's room, When a tempting opportunity presents itself to Rose, Both children risk everything to find what's missing.
- Ready Player One by Ernest ClineCall Number: JPL Popular CollectionISBN: 9781524763282It's the year 2045, and the real world is an ugly place. Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes his grim surroundings by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia that lets you be anything you want to be, a place where you can live and play and fall in love. And like most of humanity, Wade dreams of being the one to discover the ultimate lottery ticket that lies concealed within this virtual world. And then Wade stumbles upon the first puzzle. Now the only way for Wade to survive and preserve everything he knows is to win.
- Wonder by R. J. PalacioCall Number: PZ7.P17526 Wo 2012 JPL 3rd FloorISBN: 9780375869020August Pullman was born with a facial difference that, up until now, has prevented him from going to a mainstream school. Starting 5th grade at Beecher Prep, he wants nothing more than to be treated as an ordinary kid--but his new classmates can't get past Auggie's extraordinary face.
- Hidden Figures by Margot Lee ShetterlyCall Number: QA27.5 .L44 2016 JPL 3rd FloorHidden Figures follows the interwoven accounts of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson and Christine Darden, four African American women who participated in some of NASA's greatest successes. It chronicles their careers over nearly three decades they faced challenges, forged alliances and used their intellect to change their own lives, and their country's future.
- Live by Night by Dennis LehaneCall Number: PS3562.E426 L58 2012 JPL 3rd FloorLive by Night is the riveting story of one man's rise from Boston petty thief to the Gulf Coast's most successful rum runner, and it proves again that the accolades New York Times bestseller Lehane consistently receives are well deserved.
- Before I Fall by Lauren OliverCall Number: PZ7.O475 Be 2010 JPL Juvenile LiteratureFor Samantha Kingston, February 12--"Cupid Day"--should be one big party, a day of valentines and roses. And it is...until she dies in a terrible accident that night, yet she still wakes up the next morning. In fact, Sam lives the last day of her life seven times, until she realizes that by making even the slightest changes, she may hold more power than she ever imagined.
- The Sense of an Ending by Julian BarnesCall Number: PR6052.A6657 S46 2011 JPL 3rd FloorTony Webster thought he'd left all this behind as he built a life for himself, and by now his marriage and family and career have fallen into an amicable divorce and retirement. But he is then presented with a mysterious legacy that obliges him to reconsider a variety of things he thought he'd understood all along, and to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.
- The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane AckermanCall Number: DS134.64 .A25 2007 JPL 3rd Floor, Popular CollectionWhen Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw--and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the Zabinskis' villa, emerging after dark for dinner, socializing, and, during rare moments of calm, piano concerts.
- The Lost City of Z by David GrannCall Number: F2546 .G747 2009 JPL 3rd FloorIn 1925 Fawcett ventured into the Amazon to find an ancient civilization; El Dorado. Captivating the imagination of millions around the globe, Fawcett embarked with his twenty-one-year-old son, determined to prove that this ancient civilization—which he dubbed “Z”—existed. Then he and his expedition vanished. For decades scientists and adventurers have searched for evidence of Fawcett’s party and the lost City of Z.
- The Dinner by Herman KochCall Number: JPL 3rd Floor PT5881.21.O25 D56513 2012It's a summer's evening in Amsterdam, and two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant for dinner. Between mouthfuls of food and over the polite scrapings of cutlery, the conversation remains a gentle hum of polite discourse, but behind the empty words, terrible things need to be said, and with every forced smile and every new course, the knives are being sharpened.
- Everything, Everything by Nicola YoonCall Number: PZ7.1.Y66 Ev 2015 JPL Juvenile LiteratureI'm allergic to the world, I don't leave my house, have not left my house in seventeen years. The only people I ever see are my mom and my nurse, Carla. But then one day, a moving truck arrives next door. I look out my window, and I see him. He catches me looking and stares at me. I stare right back. His name is Olly, and my whole life changes.