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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

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

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

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

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

The Long Way Home

Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Invention of Morel

Adolfo Bioy Casares

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1940

Lonesome Dove

Larry Mcmurtry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Green Grass, Running Water

Thomas King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The Drowned World

J. G. Ballard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

Empire Falls

Richard Russo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Leopard

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

The Art of Fielding

Chad Harbach

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Buddha in the Attic

Julie Otsuka

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

House Made of Dawn

N. Scott Momaday

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

On the Beach

Nevil Shute

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

Midaq Alley

Naguib Mahfouz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1947

The Pilot's Wife

Anita Shreve

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Sputnik Sweetheart

Haruki Murakami

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999