My mother, who would always buy her books new, hated it the vintage hardcovers with their cracked spines and threadbare cloth covers. True you couldn't go in there and buy the latest best seller, but when you held one of those volumes in your hands, you were leafing through another person'a life. Someone else had once loved that story, too. Someone else had carried that book in a backpack, devoured it over breakfast, mopped up that coffee stain at a Paris café, cried herself to sleep after that last chapter. The scent was distinctive: a slight damp mildew, a punch of dust. To me, it was the smell of history.

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Bibliography
Songs of the Humpback Whale (1992)
Harvesting the Heart (1993)
Picture Perfect (1995)
Mercy (1996)
The Pact (novel) (1998)
Keeping Faith (1999)
Plain Truth (2000)
Salem Falls (2001)
Perfect Match (2002)
Second Glance (2003)
My Sister's Keeper (2004)
Vanishing Acts (2005)
The Tenth Circle (2006)
Nineteen Minutes (2007)
Wonder Woman (vol. Picoult currently has some 14 million copies of her books in print worldwide. Nineteen Minutes Picoult's novel about the aftermath of a school shooting in a small town has become her first book to debut at #1 on the New York Times Best Seller list.

Picoult currently has some 14 million copies of her books in print worldwide. Jodi Lynn Picoult (pron. : /ˈdʒoʊdi piːˈkoʊ/; born May 19 1966) is an American author.