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The Pale Horse

Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

The Lover

Marguerite Duras

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

The Authenticity Project

Clare Pooley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Once There Were Wolves

Charlotte McConaghy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Severance

Ling Ma

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Eleven Minutes

Paulo Coelho

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Five Little Indians

Michelle Good

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Soulmate Equation

Christina Lauren

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Foundation and Empire

Isaac Asimov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1952

The Mercies

Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Whisper Network

Chandler Baker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

My Favorite Thing Is Monsters

Emil Ferris

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Apeirogon

Colum McCann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Hunting Party

Lucy Foley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Rock Paper Scissors

Alice Feeney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Shirley Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

The Priory of the Orange Tree

Samantha Shannon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Still Me

Jojo Moyes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Exiles

Christina Baker Kline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Seven Days in June

Tia Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

No Longer Human

Osamu Dazai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1948

Convenience Store Woman

Sayaka Murata, Transl. Ginny Tapley Takemori

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

World Without End

Ken Follett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

Jonas Jonasson, Transl. Rod Bradbury

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Beekeeper of Aleppo

Christy Lefteri

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Last Mrs. Parrish

Liv Constantine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

When No One Is Watching

Alyssa Cole

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Turn of The Key

Ruth Ware

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Flights

Olga Tokarczuk, Transl. Jennifer Croft

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Ottessa Moshfegh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Fresh Water for Flowers

Valérie Perrin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Mountains Sing

Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Evening and the Morning

Ken Follett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Great Hunt

Robert Jordan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Gods of Jade and Shadow

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Power of the Dog

Thomas Savage

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

Ugly Love

Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Viscount Who Loved Me

Julia Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Other Einstein: A novel

Marie Benedict

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Independence Day

Richard Ford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Evvie Drake Starts Over

Linda Holmes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Orphan Collector: A Heroic Novel of Survival During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic

Ellen Marie Wiseman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Ministry for the Future

Kim Stanley Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Kiss Quotient

Helen Hoang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Fledgling

Octavia E. Butler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Killer Angels

Michael Shaara

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

Blood of Elves

Andrzej Sapkowski, Transl. Danusia Stok

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Spanish Love Deception

Elena Armas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

What Strange Paradise

Omar El Akkad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Dragonfly in Amber

Diana Gabaldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Paris Apartment

Lucy Foley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Ragtime

E. L. Doctorow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Machines Like Me

Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell

Robert Dugoni

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Sirens of Titan

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

If We Were Villains

M. L. Rio

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Book Lovers

Emily Henry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

This Is How You Lose the Time War

Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2019

Matrix

Lauren Groff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Motorcycles and Sweetgrass

Drew Hayden Taylor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Sentence

Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Guncle

Steven Rowley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Lessons in Chemistry

Bonnie Garmus

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

All Systems Red

Martha Wells

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2017

The Gown

Jennifer Robson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

One Last Stop

Casey McQuiston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Once Upon a River

Diane Setterfield

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Hating Game

Sally Thorne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Murmur of Bees

Sofía Segovia, Transl. Simon Bruni

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

November 9

Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Last Flight

Julie Clark

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Unhoneymooners

Christina Lauren

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Dictionary of Lost Words

Pip Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Dark Matter

Blake Crouch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Migrations

Charlotte McConaghy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Crossing

Cormac McCarthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Island

Aldous Huxley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

Olive, Again

Elizabeth Strout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The General in His Labyrinth

Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

The Hunt for Red October

Tom Clancy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Reminders of Him

Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Run, Rose, Run

Dolly Parton, James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Wise Man's Fear

Patrick Rothfuss

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Dawn

Elie Wiesel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

Johnny Got His Gun

Dalton Trumbo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

Hell of a Book

Jason Mott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Moon of the Crusted Snow

Waubgeshig Rice

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Book of Form and Emptiness

Ruth Ozeki

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

What Alice Forgot

Liane Moriarty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

V.

Thomas Pynchon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

The Color of Magic

Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

She Who Became the Sun

Shelley Parker-Chan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Nature of Fragile Things

Susan Meissner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Fairy Tale

Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Survivors

Jane Harper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Sea of Tranquility

Emily St. John Mandel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Fire & Blood

George R. R. Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Carrie Soto Is Back

Taylor Jenkins Reid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Final Girl Support Group

Grady Hendrix

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Killing Floor

Lee Child

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997