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Shantaram
Gregory David Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Chocolat
Joanne Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Penelopiad
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Grass is Singing
Doris Lessing

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1950

Kanthapura
Raja Rao

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1938

Fiela's Child (Fiela se Kind)
Dalene Matthee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Maru
Bessie Head

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

When Rain Clouds Gather
Bessie Head

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

Burial Rites
Hannah Kent

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Jasmine
Bharati Mukherjee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

The Hungry Tide
Amitav Ghosh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Vendor of Sweets
R. K. Narayan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

Three Day Road
Joseph Boyden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Shoeless Joe
W.P. Kinsella

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

The Shadow Lines
Amitav Ghosh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Shadow of the Wind
Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Tracks
Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Kitchen
Banana Yoshimoto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

No-No Boy
John Okada

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1956

The Lords of Discipline
Pat Conroy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Girl In Translation
Jean Kwok

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Samurai's Garden
Gail Tsukiyama

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Trust Exercise
Susan Choi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

My Sister, the Serial Killer
Oyinkan Braithwaite

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Big Little Lies
Liane Moriarty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Indian Killer
Sherman Alexie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Black Leopard, Red Wolf
Marlon James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

American Dirt
Jeanine Cummins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Next Year In Havana
Chanel Cleeton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Mrs. Fletcher
Tom Perrotta

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Milkman
Anna Burns

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Hero's Walk
Anita Rau Badami

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

Such a Fun Age
Kiley Reid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Art of Racing in the Rain
Garth Stein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Dinner
Herman Koch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Ninth House
Leigh Bardugo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Fasting, Feasting
Anita Desai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Jamie Ford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Caleb's Crossing
Geraldine Brooks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Montana 1948
Larry Watson

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1993

The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Mohsin Hamid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Salvage the Bones
Jesmyn Ward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Half Broke Horses
Jeannette Walls

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Girl With a Pearl Earring
Tracy Chevalier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Winter's Bone
Daniel Woodrell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

A Breath of Snow and Ashes
Diana Gabaldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Ella Minnow Pea
Mark Dunn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Cellist of Sarajevo
Steven Galloway

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Lay That Trumpet in Our Hands
Susan Carol McCarthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

And the Mountains Echoed
Khaled Hosseini

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Bodega Dreams
Ernesto Quiñonez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Becky Chambers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

A Gesture Life
Chang-rae Lee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Violent Bear It Away
Flannery O'Connor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

The Tattooed Soldier
Héctor Tobar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Caucasia
Danzy Senna

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Under the Udala Trees
Chinelo Okparanta

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Light Between Oceans
M.L. Stedman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Alias Grace
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Brick Lane
Monica Ali

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Crow Lake
Mary Lawson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Reservation Blues
Sherman Alexie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Orphan Train
Christina Baker Kline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Black Swan Green
David Mitchell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

City of Thieves
David Benioff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Into the Beautiful North
Luis Alberto Urrea

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Going After Cacciato
Tim O'Brien

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

Let the Great World Spin
Colum McCann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
Robin Sloan, Rodrigo Corral

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Till We Have Faces
C. S. Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1956

Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Buddha of Suburbia
Hanif Kureishi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Wise Blood
Flannery O'Connor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1952

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Lisa See

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Screwtape Letters
C. S. Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1942

Memoirs of a Geisha
Arthur Golden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

State of Wonder
Ann Patchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Darkness at Noon
Arthur Koestler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1940

The Tiger's Wife
Tea Obreht

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Invention of Wings
Sue Monk Kidd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Rosie Project
Graeme Simsion

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

In the Lake of the Woods
Tim O'Brien

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Orphan Master's Son
Adam Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Houseboy
Ferdinand Oyono

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1956

Train to Pakistan
Khushwant Singh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1956

Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Tamas
Bhisham Sahni

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

Indian Horse
Richard Wagamese

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

In the Time of the Butterflies
Julia Alvarez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Ironweed
William Kennedy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

No Country for Old Men
Cormac McCarthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Paradise of the Blind
Duong Thu Huong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Optimist's Daughter
Eudora Welty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969