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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Italo Calvino

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

Galapagos
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Dogeaters
Jessica Hagedorn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Snow
Orhan Pamuk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The New York Trilogy
Paul Auster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

I Know This Much Is True
Wally Lamb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Darkly Dreaming Dexter
Jeff Lindsay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook
Christina Henry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Shame
Salman Rushdie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

The Historian
Elizabeth Kostova

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Magus
John Fowles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pasternak

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

How To Live Safely In a Science Fictional Universe
Charles Yu

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Nutshell: A Novel
Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Preparation For The Next Life
Atticus Lish

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Luminaries
Eleanor Catton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Longbourn
Jo Baker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Slade House
David Mitchell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Story of O
Pauline Réage

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1954

The Hour of the Star
Clarice Lispector

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1977

The Chamber
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Woman on the Edge of Time
Marge Piercy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

The Lady in the Lake
Raymond Chandler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1943

The Intuitionist
Colson Whitehead

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Mother-in-Law
Sally Hepworth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Lying Life of Adults
Elena Ferrante

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

When Life Gives You Lululemons
Lauren Weisberger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Shadow of Night
Deborah Harkness

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Mothers
Brit Bennett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Sabbath's Theater
Philip Roth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Lisey's Story
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Witch Elm
Tana French

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Wall
John Lanchester

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Joanne Greenberg (Hannah Green)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

Solaris
Stanislaw Lem

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1981

No Longer at Ease
Chinua Achebe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

Jazz
Toni Morrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Fall
Albert Camus

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1956

Foe
J. M. Coetzee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

The Famished Road
Ben Okri

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Nausea
Jean-Paul Sartre

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1938

Child of God
Cormac McCarthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

The Other Boleyn Girl
Philippa Gregory

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Milan Kundera

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

The Whistling Season
Ivan Doig

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The President is Missing
Bill Clinton, James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Racketeer
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Clear and Present Danger
Tom Clancy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Crooked House
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1949

The Cold Dish
Craig Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Silkworm
Robert Galbraith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Firm
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert A. Heinlein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

How the Light Gets In
Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Hummingbird's Daughter
Luis Alberto Urrea

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Under the Dome
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Sphere
Michael Crichton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Mean Spirit
Linda Hogan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

The Alienist
Caleb Carr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Dead Zone
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

The Passage
Justin Cronin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Dolores Claiborne
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

In the Heat of the Night
John Dudley Ball

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

Something Borrowed
Emily Giffin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

A Perfect Spy
John le Carré

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Solibo Magnificent
Patrick Chamoiseau

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Antelope Woman
Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Cider House Rules
John Irving

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

In Country
Bobbie Ann Mason

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Maurice
E. M. Forster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

The Third Policeman
Flann O'Brien

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

Pushing the Bear: A Novel of the Trail of Tears
Diane Glancy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Foundation
Isaac Asimov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

The Martian Chronicles
Ray Bradbury

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1950

A Dog's Purpose
W. Bruce Cameron

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Fisherman
John Langan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Devil Wears Prada
Lauren Weisberger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Talisman
Stephen King, Peter Straub

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Along Came a Spider
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Bag of Bones
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Robber Bride
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Imagining Argentina
Lawrence Thornton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Transit of Venus
Shirley Hazzard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

The Pelican Brief
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Presumed Innocent
Scott Turow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

1st to Die
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Suttree
Cormac McCarthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

The Vampire Lestat
Anne Rice

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Bee Season
Myla Goldberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Outer Dark
Cormac McCarthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
Ayi Kwei Armah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

The Lost Steps
Alejo Carpentier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day
Pearl Cleage

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

The Quiet American
Graham Greene

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

The Sisters Brothers
Patrick Dewitt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Brothers K
David James Duncan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992