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The Island of Missing Trees

Elif Shafak

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Less Is Lost

Andrew Sean Greer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Cuckoo's Calling

Robert Galbraith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Ex Hex

Erin Sterling

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Before the Coffee Gets Cold

Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Transl. Geoffrey Trousselot

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Love on the Brain

Ali Hazelwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Pieces of Her

Karin Slaughter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Man Who Died Twice

Richard Osman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Killers of a Certain Age

Deanna Raybourn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Love of My Life

Rosie Walsh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

It Starts with Us

Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Where the Forest Meets the Stars

Glendy Vanderah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

While Justice Sleeps

Stacey Abrams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Small Things Like These

Claire Keegan

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2021

Remarkably Bright Creatures

Shelby Van Pelt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Things We Never Got Over

Lucy Score

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of The Oxford Translators' Revolution

R. F. Kuang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Even As We Breathe

Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

A Slow Fire Burning

Paula Hawkins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Horse

Geraldine Brooks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Demon Copperhead

Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Our Missing Hearts

Celeste Ng

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Local Woman Missing

Mary Kubica

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Sweetness of Water

Nathan Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Book Woman's Daughter

Kim Michele Richardson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Queenie

Candice Carty-Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Razorblade Tears

S. A. Cosby

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Judge's List

John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Light We Lost

Jill Santopolo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Book of Cold Cases

Simone St. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Rabbit Hutch

Tess Gunty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Poppy War

R. F. Kuang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Billy Summers

Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Confess

Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

It Happened One Summer

Tessa Bailey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Good Sister

Sally Hepworth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Wrong Place Wrong Time

Gillian McAllister

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Mad Honey

Jodi Picoult, Jennifer Finney Boylan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Kitchen Front: A Novel

Jennifer Ryan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

What Happened to the Bennetts

Lisa Scottoline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Moon Witch, Spider King

Marlon James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Regretting You

Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Boys from Biloxi

John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

To Paradise

Hanya Yanagihara

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

How High We Go in the Dark

Sequoia Nagamatsu

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Gideon the Ninth

Tamsyn Muir

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The World We Make

N. K. Jemisin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

One True Loves

Taylor Jenkins Reid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Upgrade

Blake Crouch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Notes on an Execution

Danya Kukafka

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

2001: A Space Odyssey

Arthur C. Clarke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

Trumpet

Jackie Kay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Candy House

Jennifer Egan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

True Biz

Sara Novic

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family

Joshua Cohen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Young Mungo

Douglas Stuart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Love and Other Words

Christina Lauren

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Rules of Magic

Alice Hoffman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Lore Olympus: Volume One

Rachel Smythe

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2021

The Books of Jacob

Olga Tokarczuk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

All Good People Here

Ashley Flowers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Housemaid

Freida McFadden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

Christopher Paolini

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Gone

Michael Grant

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Hotel Nantucket

Elin Hilderbrand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

A Happy Death

Albert Camus

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

Olga Dies Dreaming

Xóchitl González

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Obelisk Gate

N. K. Jemisin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Now Is Not the Time to Panic

Kevin Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Lapvona

Ottessa Moshfegh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

Shehan Karunatilaka

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Ruby

Cynthia Bond

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Marriage Portrait

Maggie O'Farrell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Later

Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Trust

Hernan Diaz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

All Your Perfects

Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

What's Mine and Yours

Naima Coster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Hopeless

Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Summer of '69

Elin Hilderbrand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

This Time Tomorrow

Emma Straub

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Ragged Company

Richard Wagamese

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Hook, Line, and Sinker

Tessa Bailey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Maybe in Another Life

Taylor Jenkins Reid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Book of Two Ways

Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

French Braid

Anne Tyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

All Adults Here

Emma Straub

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Find Me

André Aciman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Home Before Dark

Riley Sager

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Seed Keeper

Diane Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Everyone in This Room Will Someday be Dead

Emily Austin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Woman in the Library

Sulari Gentill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Every Summer After

Carley Fortune

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Still Life

Sarah Winman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Tokyo Ueno Station

Yu Miri, Transl. Morgan Giles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Human Acts

Han Kang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Last House on Needless Street

Catriona Ward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Nightbitch

Rachel Yoder

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Weight of Ink

Rachel Kadish

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Second Life of Mirielle West

Amanda Skenandore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The House We Grew Up In

Lisa Jewell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013