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A Soul of Ash and Blood

Jennifer L. Armentrout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

A Spark of Light

Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

A Spool of Blue Thread

Anne Tyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Assistant to the Villain

Hannah Nicole Maehrer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

A Star Called Henry

Roddy Doyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

A Stranger in the House

Shari Lapena

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

A Tale For The Time Being

Ruth Ozeki

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

A Talent for Murder

Peter Swanson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

A Tale of Three Kings: A Study of Brokenness

Gene Edwards

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

A Thousand Acres

Jane Smiley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

A Thousand Ships

Natalie Haynes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Khaled Hosseini

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

A Time For Mercy

John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

A Time to Kill

John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Atlas Shrugged

Ayn Rand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

At Night All Blood Is Black: A Novel

David Diop, Transl. Anna Moschovakis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Atonement

Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

A Touch of Ruin

Scarlett St. Clair

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

A Town Called Solace

Mary Lawson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Betty Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1943

At Swim-Two-Birds

Flann O'Brien

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

At the Mountains of Madness

H. P. Lovecraft

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1936

Audition

Katie Kitamura

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Aura

Carlos Fuentes

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1962

Austerlitz

W.G. Sebald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Authority: A Novel

Jeff VanderMeer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Autobiography Of Red

Anne Carson

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1998

A Voice in the Wind

Francine Rivers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

A Walk to Remember

Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

A Week in Winter

Maeve Binchy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

A Wild Sheep Chase

Haruki Murakami

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

A Woman Is No Man

Etaf Rum

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

A World of Curiosities

Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of The Oxford Translators' Revolution

R. F. Kuang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Back Roads

Tawni O'Dell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Bad Cree

Jessica Johns

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Bad Monkey

Carl Hiaasen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Bad Summer People

Emma Rosenblum

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Bag of Bones

Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

Dai Sijie, Transl. Ina Rilke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Banyan Moon

Thao Thai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Bared To You

Sylvia Day

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Bastard Out Of Carolina

Dorothy Allison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Beach Music

Pat Conroy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Beach Read

Emily Henry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Bear

Julia Phillips

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Beautiful Disaster

Jamie McGuire

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Beautiful Graves

L. J. Shen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Beautiful Ruins

Jess Walter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Beautiful Ugly

Alice Feeney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Beautiful World, Where Are You

Sally Rooney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Beautyland

Marie-Helene Bertino

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Becoming Madam Secretary

Stephanie Dray

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Becoming Mrs. Lewis: The Improbable Love Story of Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis

Patti Callahan Henry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Before I Go to Sleep

S. J. Watson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Before I Let Go

Kennedy Ryan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Before She Disappeared

Lisa Gardner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Before the Coffee Gets Cold

Transl. Geoffrey Trousselot, Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Before the Fall

Noah Hawley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Before We Were Innocent

Ella Berman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Before We Were Strangers

Renee Carlino

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Before We Were Yours

Lisa Wingate

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Beggars in Spain

Nancy Kress

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Behind Closed Doors

B.A. Paris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Behind Her Eyes

Sarah Pinborough

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Behind the Net

Stephanie Archer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Behold the Dreamers

Imbolo Mbue

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Being There

Jerzy Kosiński

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

Bel Canto

Ann Patchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Beloved

Toni Morrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Beneath a Scarlet Sky

Mark Sullivan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Betty

Tiffany McDaniel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Between Sisters

Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Between The Acts

Virginia Woolf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1941

Between Two Fires

Christopher Buehlman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Bewilderment

Richard Powers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Beyond That, the Sea

Laura Spence-Ash

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions

Daniel Wallace

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Big Lies in a Small Town: A Novel

Diane Chamberlain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Big Little Lies

Liane Moriarty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Big Summer

Jennifer Weiner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Big Swiss

Jen Beagin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Billy Summers

Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Binti

Nnedi Okorafor

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2015

Bird Box

Josh Malerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Birnam Wood

Eleanor Catton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Bitter in the Mouth

Monique Truong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Blackbird House

Alice Hoffman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Black Buck

Mateo Askaripour

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Black Cake

Charmaine Wilkerson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Black Girls Must Die Exhausted: A Novel

Jayne Allen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Black Leopard, Red Wolf

Marlon James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Black No More: Being an Account of the Strange and Wonderful Workings of Science in the Land of the Free

George Schuyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1931

Blackouts

Justin Torres

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Black Panther: The Young Prince

Don McGregor, Rich Buckler, Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Billy Graham (comics)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Black Rain

Masuji Ibuse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

Black Robe

Brian Moore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Black Sun

Rebecca Roanhorse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Black Sunday

Tola Rotimi Abraham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Black Swan Green

David Mitchell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006