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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

For the Sake of Elena
Elizabeth George

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

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

The Fortunes
Peter Ho Davies

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Michael Chabon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Here
Richard McGuire

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Gathering
Anne Enright

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Force of Nature
Jane Harper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Death of Mrs. Westaway
Ruth Ware

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Ghosted
Rosie Walsh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

The Room on Rue Amélie
Kristin Harmel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Iain Reid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Heart's Invisible Furies
John Boyne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Ghost Bride
Yangsze Choo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Breakdown
B.A. Paris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Olga Tokarczuk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Mr. Mercedes
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Topeka School
Ben Lerner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Huntress
Kate Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Stuart Turton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Leaf Storm
Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1955

The Whisper Man
Alex North

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Women Talking
Miriam Toews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Nothing to See Here
Kevin Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Nine Perfect Strangers
Liane Moriarty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Only Woman in the Room
Marie Benedict

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

A Woman Is No Man
Etaf Rum

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

When the Elephants Dance
Tess Uriza Holthe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Year of the Flood
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

A Place for Us
Fatima Farheen Mirza

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Through the Arc of the Rain Forest
Karen Tei Yamashita

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

A Grain of Wheat
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

The Submission
Amy Waldman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

One Amazing Thing
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Girl Who Was Plugged In
James Tiptree Jr.

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1973

Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood
Richard E. Kim

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

The Tain
Transl. Thomas Kinsella

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Leo Africanus
Amin Maalouf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Starship Troopers
Robert A. Heinlein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

Do Not Say We Have Nothing
Madeleine Thien

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Aura
Carlos Fuentes

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1962

Red Rising
Pierce Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Cracking India
Bapsi Sidhwa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Typical American
Gish Jen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Frankenstein in Baghdad
Ahmed Saadawi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Fruit of the Drunken Tree
Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Great Believers
Rebecca Makkai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The House of Broken Angels
Luis Alberto Urrea

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Us Against You
Fredrik Backman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

If Beale Street Could Talk
James Baldwin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

Sold on a Monday
Kristina McMorris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Vanishing Half: A Novel
Brit Bennett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Keeper of Lost Things
Ruth Hogan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Guest List
Lucy Foley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The House in the Cerulean Sea
T. J. Klune

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Leave the World Behind
Rumaan Alam

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Deacon King Kong
James McBride

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
Kim Michele Richardson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

A Burning
Megha Majumdar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Island of Sea Women
Lisa See

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
V. E. Schwab

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Henna Artist
Alka Joshi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Night Tiger
Yangsze Choo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Book of Longings
Sue Monk Kidd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Midnight Library
Matt Haig

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Anxious People
Fredrik Backman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Transcendent Kingdom
Yaa Gyasi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Hamnet
Maggie O’Farrell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Girl with the Louding Voice
Abi Daré

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Luster
Raven Leilani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stuart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

How Much Of These Hills Is Gold
C Pam Zhang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

In West Mills
De'Shawn Charles Winslow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Ready Player Two
Ernest Cline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The City We Became
N. K. Jemisin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Long Bright River
Liz Moore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Poisonwood Bible
Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Book of Lost Friends
Lisa Wingate

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Fifty Words for Rain
Asha Lemmie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

In Five Years
Rebecca Serle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Piranesi
Susanna Clarke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Four Winds
Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Lovecraft Country
Matt Ruff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016