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Parable of the Talents

Octavia E. Butler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Bless Me, Ultima

Rudolfo Anaya

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

Like Water for Chocolate

Laura Esquivel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Kindred

Octavia E. Butler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

The Joy Luck Club

Amy Tan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Sula

Toni Morrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

The Plague

Albert Camus

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1947

Light in August

William Faulkner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1932

On the Road

Jack Kerouac

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

The House of the Spirits

Isabel Allende

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Hannibal

Thomas Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Autumn of the Patriarch

Gabriel García Márquez, Transl. Gregory Rabassa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Pompeii: A Novel

Robert Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1940

Love in the Time of Cholera

Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Cat's Cradle

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

Cannery Row

John Steinbeck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

The Crying of Lot 49

Thomas Pynchon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

Go Tell It on the Mountain

James Baldwin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

Blackbird House

Alice Hoffman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Dear John

Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Absalom, Absalom

William Faulkner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1936

Breath, Eyes, Memory

Edwidge Danticat

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Stieg Larsson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

All the King's Men

Robert Penn Warren

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1946

Revolutionary Road

Richard Yates

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

The Woman in Black

Susan Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Kitchens of the Great Midwest

J. Ryan Stradal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Atlas Shrugged

Ayn Rand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

Cold Mountain

Charles Frazier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

John le Carré

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

The City and the City

China Miéville

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Jeanette Winterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

The Golden Notebook

Doris Lessing

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

Open City

Teju Cole

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Day of the Jackal

Frederick Forsyth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

Different Seasons

Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

No Second Chance

Harlan Coben

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Signs Preceding the End of the World

Yuri Herrera

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Dark Tower

Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Bel Canto

Ann Patchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Celestine Prophecy

James Redfield

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The Red Tent

Anita Diamant

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

The Tin Drum

Gunter Grass

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

Naked Lunch

William S. Burroughs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

Fifty Shades of Grey

E. L. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Peripheral

William Gibson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Oscar and the Lady in Pink

Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Rabbit, Run

John Updike

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

A Prayer for Owen Meany

John Irving

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Under the Volcano

Malcolm Lowry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1947

The Paris Wife

Paula McLain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Long Goodbye

Raymond Chandler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

Swing Time

Zadie Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Tropic of Cancer

Henry Miller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

The Adventures of Augie March

Saul Bellow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

Peyton Place

Grace Metalious

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1956

Where the Heart Is

Billie Letts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran

Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2001

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

Rachel Joyce

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Murder at the Vicarage

Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1930

The Lost World

Michael Crichton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Great Train Robbery

Michael Crichton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

The Language of Flowers

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Apex Hides the Hurt

Colson Whitehead

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Our Man in Havana

Graham Greene

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

Bryn Greenwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Still Life

Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Jamaica Inn

Daphne du Maurier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1935

Rosemary's Baby

Ira Levin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

Red Sparrow

Jason Matthews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Client

John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Lincoln in the Bardo

George Saunders

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Sellout

Paul Beatty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

Dan Millman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

The Longest Ride

Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Eyes of the Dragon

Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Master and Commander

Patrick O'Brian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

Keep the Aspidistra Flying

George Orwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1936

Black Rain

Masuji Ibuse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

The Lincoln Lawyer

Michael Connelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Omeros

Derek Walcott

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1990

The Woman in the Dunes

Kōbō Abe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

Red Mars

Kim Stanley Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Nights at the Circus

Angela Carter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

Helen Simonson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

A Million Little Pieces

James Frey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

A Clash of Kings

George R. R. Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Dances with Wolves

Michael Blake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Hours

Michael Cunningham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Woman at Point Zero

Nawal El Saadawi

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1975

The Joys of Motherhood

Buchi Emecheta

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

The Golem and the Jinni

Helene Wecker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

So Long, See You Tomorrow

William Maxwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

The Hundred Secret Senses

Amy Tan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Wind from an Enemy Sky

D'Arcy Mcnickle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

Before I Go to Sleep

S. J. Watson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Truly Madly Guilty

Liane Moriarty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Art of Hearing Heartbeats

Jan-Philipp Sendker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002