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Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

Gail Honeyman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Flaubert's Parrot

Julian Barnes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Purple Hibiscus

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

In the Castle of My Skin

George Lamming

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

The Silver Linings Playbook

Matthew Quick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Mumbo Jumbo

Ishmael Reed

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

There There

Tommy Orange

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

A Confederacy of Dunces

John Kennedy Toole

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

Linden Hills

Gloria Naylor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Elizabeth is Missing

Emma Healey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Euphoria

Lily King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Marriage Of Opposites

Alice Hoffman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Wolf Hall

Hilary Mantel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Vegetarian

Han Kang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Such a Long Journey

Rohinton Mistry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Beneath a Scarlet Sky

Mark Sullivan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Zorba the Greek

Nikos Kazantzakis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1946

Tales of the City

Armistead Maupin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

Washington Black

Esi Edugyan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

In the Skin of a Lion

Michael Ondaatje

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Great Alone

Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

A Man Called Ove

Fredrik Backman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Circe

Madeline Miller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

LaRose

Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Passion

Jeanette Winterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Moor's Account

Laila Lalami

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Water Knife

Paolo Bacigalupi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Storied Life Of Aj Fikry

Gabrielle Zevin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Song of Achilles

Madeline Miller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Uncommon Reader

Alan Bennett

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2007

A Fine Balance

Rohinton Mistry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Defending Jacob

William Landay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Brown Girl, Brownstones

Paule Marshall

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

The Silmarillion

J. R. R. Tolkien

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

The Forty Rules of Love

Elif Shafak

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd

Ana Menéndez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Written On The Body

Jeanette Winterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Daughter Of Time

Josephine Tey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

The Story of a New Name

Elena Ferrante

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Known World

Edward P. Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

America's First Daughter

Stephanie Dray, Laura Kamoie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Memory Man

David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

Anthony Marra

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Secret Scripture

Sebastian Barry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Immortalists

Chloe Benjamin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Lake House

Kate Morton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

In the Woods

Tana French

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Lowland

Jhumpa Lahiri

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

White Noise

Don DeLillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

People of the Book

Geraldine Brooks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Waterland

Graham Swift

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

The German Girl

Armando Lucas Correa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Underground Railroad

Colson Whitehead

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Old School

Tobias Wolff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Friend

Sigrid Nunez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Twelve Tribes of Hattie

Ayana Mathis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Crossing to Safety

Wallace Stegner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

A Walk to Remember

Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

A Fatal Grace

Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Black Robe

Brian Moore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Dinner At The Homesick Restaurant

Anne Tyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Nada

Carmen Laforet

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

The Inheritance of Loss

Kiran Desai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

This Is How It Always Is

Laurie Frankel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

A Fall of Marigolds

Susan Meissner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Through Black Spruce

Joseph Boyden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Strange as this Weather Has Been

Ann Pancake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Circle

Dave Eggers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

We Were the Lucky Ones

Georgia Hunter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Trespasser

Tana French

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Fannie Flagg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Pearl That Broke Its Shell

Nadia Hashimi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

God Help The Child

Toni Morrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Untouchable

Mulk Raj Anand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1935

The Kitchen House

Kathleen Grissom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Who Fears Death

Nnedi Okorafor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Blindness

José Saramago

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Bondwoman's Narrative

Hannah Crafts, Henry Louis Gates Jr., ed.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Prince of Thorns

Mark Lawrence

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Lock Artist

Steve Hamilton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

What She Knew

Gilly Macmillan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Jitterbug Perfume

Tom Robbins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

The Smell of Apples

Mark Behr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Redeeming Love

Francine Rivers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

The Nightingale

Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Desert Blood: The Juárez Murders

Alicia Gaspar de Alba

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

All I Asking for Is My Body

Milton Murayama

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Wide Sargasso Sea

Jean Rhys

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

The Plague Of Doves

Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Sing, Unburied, Sing

Jesmyn Ward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Forgotten Garden

Kate Morton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

One Second After

William Forstchen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

A Spool of Blue Thread

Anne Tyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

A God in Ruins

Kate Atkinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

Fredrik Backman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Paris Architect

Charles Belfoure

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Jubilee

Margaret Walker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

Funny Boy

Shyam Selvadurai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1937