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Interior Chinatown

Charles Yu

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Plot

Jean Hanff Korelitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

A Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Sanatorium

Sarah Pearse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Malibu Rising

Taylor Jenkins Reid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The World That We Knew

Alice Hoffman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Of Women and Salt

Gabriela Garcia

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Glass Hotel

Emily St. John Mandel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Other Black Girl

Zakiya Dalila Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Body

Stephen King

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1982

Infinite Country

Patricia Engel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Pull of the Stars

Emma Donoghue

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Maidens

Alex Michaelides

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

We Cast a Shadow

Maurice Carlos Ruffin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Verity

Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Bewilderment

Richard Powers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Things We Cannot Say

Kelly Rimmer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

George Washington Gómez: A Mexicotexan Novel

Américo Paredes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Paris Library: A Novel

Janet Skeslien Charles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Great Circle

Maggie Shipstead

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Beach Read

Emily Henry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Night Watchman

Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

Grady Hendrix

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Kiss of the Fur Queen

Tomson Highway

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Harlem Shuffle

Colson Whitehead

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Wife Upstairs

Rachel Hawkins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

State of Terror

Hillary Rodham Clinton, Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Nine Tailors

Dorothy L. Sayers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

How to Stop Time

Matt Haig

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The ABC Murders

Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1936

The Rose Code

Kate Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Caraval

Stephanie Garber

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

All the Devils are Here

Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Cloud Cuckoo Land

Anthony Doerr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Last House Guest

Megan Miranda

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Searcher

Tana French

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Book of Lost Names

Kristin Harmel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

We Were Never Here

Andrea Bartz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Apples Never Fall

Liane Moriarty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Beautiful Ruins

Jess Walter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Sharks In The Time Of Saviors

Kawai Strong Washburn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

My Dark Vanessa

Kate Elizabeth Russell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

We Are Not Like Them

Christine Pride, Jo Piazza

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

One by One

Ruth Ware

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Book of Ruth

Jane Hamilton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Death of Vivek Oji

Akwaeke Emezi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The One

John Marrs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Beautiful World, Where Are You

Sally Rooney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Night She Disappeared

Lisa Jewell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Paper Palace

Miranda Cowley Heller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Only Good Indians

Stephen Graham Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Duke and I

Julia Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Mist

Stephen King

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1980

The Lincoln Highway

Amor Towles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Death of the Moth

Virginia Woolf

Fiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1942

The Sun Down Motel

Simone St. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Storyteller's Secret

Sejal Badani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Paterson

William Carlos Williams

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1946

A Single Man: A Novel

Christopher Isherwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

Another Country

James Baldwin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

The Thursday Murder Club

Richard Osman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Once and Future Witches

Alix E. Harrow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Damnation Spring

Ash Davidson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Prince of Tides

Pat Conroy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Crossroads

Jonathan Franzen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Vile Bodies

Evelyn Waugh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1930

The Outsider

Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

No One is Talking About This

Patricia Lockwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Wish You Were Here

Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Miss Benson's Beetle

Rachel Joyce

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Oh, William

Elizabeth Strout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

11.22.63

Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Haruki Murakami, Transl. Jay Rubin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Homeland Elegies: A Novel

Ayad Akhtar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Love Hypothesis

Ali Hazelwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Black Cake

Charmaine Wilkerson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

How Beautiful We Were

Imbolo Mbue

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Bell

Iris Murdoch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

The Mirror and the Light

Hilary Mantel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

At Swim-Two-Birds

Flann O'Brien

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

Black Sun

Rebecca Roanhorse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Home

Marilynne Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Efuru

Flora Nwapa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

Mildred Pierce

James M. Cain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1941

Valentine

Elizabeth Wetmore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Get a Life, Chloe Brown

Talia Hibbert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

A Thousand Ships

Natalie Haynes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Redhead by the Side of the Road

Anne Tyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

What the Wind Knows

Amy Harmon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Christie Affair

Nina de Gramont

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Personal Librarian

Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Big Summer

Jennifer Weiner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Blacktop Wasteland

S. A. Cosby

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Haruki Murakami

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror

Junji Ito, Transl. Yuji Oniki

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Hag-Seed: William Shakespeare's The Tempest Retold

Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Guardians

John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Pale Horse

Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

The Lover

Marguerite Duras

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984