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Tell No One
Harlan Coben

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Beartown
Fredrik Backman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Animal's People
Indra Sinha

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Under The Feet Of Jesus
Helena Maria Viramontes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Waterlily
Ella Cara Deloria

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

If He Hollers Let Him Go
Chester Himes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

The Jade Peony
Wayson Choy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Glass Palace
Amitav Ghosh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Middle Passage
Charles R. Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

The Notebook
Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Woman in Cabin 10
Ruth Ware

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Gangster We Are All Looking For
Le Thi Diem Thuy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

News of the World
Paulette Jiles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Word for World is Forest
Ursula K. Le Guin

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1972

Pet Sematary
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Gilead
Marilynne Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Confessions of Nat Turner
William Styron

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

Farewell, My Lovely
Raymond Chandler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1940

Olive Kitteridge
Elizabeth Strout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Once We Were Brothers
Ronald H. Balson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

It
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Before We Were Yours
Lisa Wingate

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Essex Serpent
Sarah Perry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Snow Child
Eowyn Ivey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Plot Against America
Philip Roth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Corregidora
Gayl Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Goodbye To Berlin
Christopher Isherwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

The Other Side of the Bridge
Mary Lawson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Behold the Dreamers
Imbolo Mbue

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Another Brooklyn
Jacqueline Woodson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Behind Closed Doors
B.A. Paris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
Mohsin Hamid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

It Ends with Us
Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

We The Animals
Justin Torres

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Magicians
Lev Grossman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

What We All Long For
Dionne Brand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Geek Love
Katherine Dunn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

On Such A Full Sea
Chang-rae Lee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Arrow of God
Chinua Achebe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

The Calcutta Chromosome
Amitav Ghosh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Book of Salt
Monique Truong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Nightwood
Djuna Barnes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1936

The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Small Great Things
Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Fates and Furies
Lauren Groff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Christ in Concrete
Pietro Di Donato

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1937

Exit West
Mohsin Hamid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness
Arundhati Roy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Season of Migration to the North
Tayeb Salih

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

The Girl Before
JP Delaney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Pachinko
Min Jin Lee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Maria Semple

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

A Bend In The River
V.S. Naipaul

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

A Time to Kill
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Lilac Girls
Martha Hall Kelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Leavers
Lisa Ko

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Dawn
Octavia E. Butler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Haunting Of Hill House
Shirley Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

Binti
Nnedi Okorafor

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2015

Oil on Water
Helon Habila

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Go, Went, Gone
Jenny Erpenbeck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

It Can't Happen Here
Sinclair Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1935

Little Bee
Chris Cleave

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Sea of Poppies
Amitav Ghosh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Novel Without a Name
Thu Huong Duong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Reading in the Dark
Seamus Deane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

No Telephone to Heaven
Michelle Cliff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Mudbound
Hillary Jordan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Farming Of Bones
Edwidge Danticat

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Richard Flanagan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Two Old Women
Velma Wallis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The Shawl
Cynthia Ozick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

The Heart Of Redness
Zakes Mda

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The End Of The Affair
Graham Greene

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

All the Missing Girls
Megan Miranda

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

In A Dark Dark Wood
Ruth Ware

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Brown Girl in the Ring
Nalo Hopkinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Bastard of Istanbul
Elif Shafak

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Southland
Nina Revoyr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Not Wanted on the Voyage
Timothy Findley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

The Postman Always Rings Twice
James M. Cain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

The Rent Collector
Camron Wright

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Heather Morris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Ugly American
William J. Lederer, Eugene Burdick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

What Is The What
Dave Eggers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

No Great Mischief
Alistair MacLeod

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Rules of Civility
Amor Towles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Spinning Heart
Donal Ryan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Leaving Time
Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Medicine Walk
Richard Wagamese

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Plainsong
Kent Haruf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Gates of Fire
Steven Pressfield

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

We Need New Names
NoViolet Bulawayo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
Lisa See

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017