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A River Runs Through It

Norman Maclean

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1976

Out of This Furnace

Thomas Bell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1941

Wild Seed

Octavia E. Butler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

The Exorcist

William Peter Blatty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

The Windup Girl

Paolo Bacigalupi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Then She Was Gone

Lisa Jewell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

MaddAddam

Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Zorro

Isabel Allende

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Future Home of the Living God

Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Breakfast on Pluto

Patrick Mccabe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Children Act

Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Burgess Boys

Elizabeth Strout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Monkey Beach

Eden Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Reflections in a Golden Eye

Carson McCullers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1941

Medicine River

Thomas King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

The Spectator Bird

Wallace Stegner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Moses, Man of the Mountain

Zora Neale Hurston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

Something in the Water

Catherine Steadman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Warlight

Michael Ondaatje

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Summer Sisters

Judy Blume

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Cloven Viscount

Italo Calvino

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1952

A Pocket Full of Rye

Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

Hank Green

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Tiger Flu

Larissa Lai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Amongst Women

John McGahern

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

The Garden of Eden

Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Days Without End

Sebastian Barry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Back of the Turtle

Thomas King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Forever War

Joe Haldeman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

A Complicated Kindness

Miriam Toews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

A Head Full of Ghosts

Paul G. Tremblay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Back Roads

Tawni O'Dell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Bird Box

Josh Malerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Bury Your Dead

Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Butcher's Crossing

John Edward Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

Devil on the Cross

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

Jonny Appleseed

Joshua Whitehead

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk

Kathleen Rooney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

Robert A. Heinlein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

Saturday

Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Endless Love

Scott Spencer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

Claire North

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Vanishing Acts

Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Men of Brewster Place

Gloria Naylor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Everybody's Fool

Richard Russo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Dept. of Speculation

Jenny Offill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Mothering Sunday

Graham Swift

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Goodbye, Vitamin

Rachel Khong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Hot Milk

Deborah Levy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Nora Webster

Colm Tóibín

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Career of Evil

Robert Galbraith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Anything Is Possible

Elizabeth Strout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Story of Arthur Truluv

Elizabeth Berg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Freedom

Jonathan Franzen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

White Is for Witching

Helen Oyeyemi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Camino Island

John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Written in My Own Heart's Blood

Diana Gabaldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Likeness

Tana French

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

Elena Ferrante

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Broken Harbour

Tana French

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Midwives

Chris Bohjalian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Pretty Girls

Karin Slaughter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Origin

Dan Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Cities of the Plain

Cormac McCarthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Hyperion

Dan Simmons

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

The Waves

Virginia Woolf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1931

Heart-Shaped Box

Joe Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Eileen

Ottessa Moshfegh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Every Day Is for the Thief

Teju Cole

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Crazy Rich Asians

Kevin Kwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Unsheltered

Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Secret Place

Tana French

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Whistler

John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Secrets of a Charmed Life

Susan Meissner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Conversations with Friends

Sally Rooney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Woman in the Window

A.J. Finn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Clock Dance

Anne Tyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Behind Her Eyes

Sarah Pinborough

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Little Paris Bookshop

Nina George, Transl. Simon Pare

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Sometimes I Lie

Alice Feeney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Map of Salt and Stars

Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Rich People Problems

Kevin Kwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Red at the Bone

Jacqueline Woodson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Institute

Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Other Americans

Laila Lalami

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Lost Children Archive

Valeria Luiselli

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Frankissstein

Jeanette Winterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

A Spark of Light

Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Bluebird, Bluebird

Attica Locke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Orphan's Tale

Pam Jenoff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Petals of Blood

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

Elif Shafak

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Duma Key

Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

By Night in Chile

Roberto Bolaño

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2000

China Rich Girlfriend

Kevin Kwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Perfect Nanny

Leïla Slimani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The End We Start From

Megan Hunter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Cruelest Month

Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Word is Murder

Anthony Horowitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Haruki Murakami

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013