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How to Sell a Haunted House

Grady Hendrix

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Terms and Conditions

Lauren Asher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Pineapple Street

Jenny Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Forest of Vanishing Stars

Kristin Harmel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Without Merit

Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Inmate

Freida McFadden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

When Women Were Dragons

Kelly Barnhill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Happy Place

Emily Henry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Golden Couple

Sarah Pekkanen, Greer Hendricks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

That Summer

Jennifer Weiner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Take My Hand

Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

One Italian Summer

Rebecca Serle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Lady Clementine

Marie Benedict

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Second Mrs. Astor: A Heartbreaking Historical Novel of the Titanic

Shana Abe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Funny You Should Ask

Elissa Sussman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Chosen and the Beautiful

Nghi Vo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Things You Save in a Fire

Katherine Center

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Night Road

Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Harrow the Ninth

Tamsyn Muir

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Archer's Voice

Mia Sheridan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Other Birds

Sarah Addison Allen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Secret Keeper of Jaipur

Alka Joshi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Nightcrawling

Leila Mottley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Yellowface

R. F. Kuang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

A Good Neighborhood

Therese Anne Fowler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

My Heart Is a Chainsaw

Stephen Graham Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Icebreaker

Hannah Grace

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Oona Out of Order

Margarita Montimore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Heart Bones

Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Dial A for Aunties

Jesse Q. Sutanto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Fourth Wing

Rebecca Yarros

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post: A Novel

Allison Pataki

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Anomaly

Hervé Le Tellier, Transl. Adriana Hunter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Three-Body Problem

Liu Cixin, Transl. Ken Liu

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Snowman

Jo Nesbø

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Sofia Petrovna

Lydia Chukovskaya

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1965

Moloka'i

Alan Brennert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

God Emperor of Dune

Frank Herbert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

Paradise

Abdulrazak Gurnah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Underworld

Don DeLillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

The Caves of Steel

Isaac Asimov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

The Venice Sketchbook

Rhys Bowen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Under the Whispering Door

T. J. Klune

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Lost Daughter

Elena Ferrante

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone

Benjamin Stevenson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Layla

Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

False Witness

Karin Slaughter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Atlas Paradox

Olivie Blake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Shift

Hugh Howey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Lawn Boy

Jonathan Evison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

War with the Newts

Karel Čapek

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1936

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

Sangu Mandanna

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Yellow Wife

Sadeqa Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Last Green Valley

Mark Sullivan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Club

Ellery Lloyd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Love, Theoretically

Ali Hazelwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Secrets We Kept

Lara Prescott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The River

Peter Heller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Run

Ann Patchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

A Master of Djinn

P. Djèlí Clark

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The World Played Chess

Robert Dugoni

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Trees

Percival Everett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Daughters of the Dust

Julie Dash

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Sorrow and Bliss

Meg Mason

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

If I Had Your Face

Frances Cha

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Mystery of Mrs. Christie

Marie Benedict

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Space Between Us

Thrity Umrigar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

End of Watch

Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

We Are the Brennans

Tracey Lange

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Counterfeit

Kirstin Chen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Confessions on the 7:45

Lisa Unger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Eight Hundred Grapes

Laura Dave

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Big Swiss

Jen Beagin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Picture Bride

Yoshiko Uchida

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Brutal Telling

Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Things We Do in the Dark

Jennifer Hillier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Birnam Wood

Eleanor Catton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Break

Katherena Vermette

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Overnight Guest

Heather Gudenkauf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Everything Here Is Beautiful

Mira T. Lee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Surviving Savannah

Patti Callahan Henry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Second Class Citizen

Buchi Emecheta

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

The Lives of Animals

J. M. Coetzee

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1999

Power: A Novel

Linda Hogan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Summer Book

Tove Jansson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

The Chain

Adrian McKinty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Prep

Curtis Sittenfeld

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Mrs. Everything

Jennifer Weiner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

When the Stars Go Dark

Paula McLain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Big Lies in a Small Town: A Novel

Diane Chamberlain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

A Fable

William Faulkner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

The Serpent and the Wings of Night

Carissa Broadbent

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Tipping the Velvet

Sarah Waters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Dreamland

Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Losing Hope

Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Guest

Emma Cline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Covenant of Water

Abraham Verghese

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

On Mystic Lake

Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The American Roommate Experiment

Elena Armas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Loving Frank

Nancy Horan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007