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Dust

Hugh Howey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Blackouts

Justin Torres

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Drawing of the Three

Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

A Town Called Solace

Mary Lawson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

My Lovely Wife

Samantha Downing

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Someone We Know: A Novel

Shari Lapena

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Whalebone Theatre

Joanna Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Children of Dune

Frank Herbert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Woke Up Like This

Amy Lea

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Free Food for Millionaires

Min Jin Lee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Trespasses

Louise Kennedy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Ariadne

Jennifer Saint

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Before I Let Go

Kennedy Ryan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Stone Blind

Natalie Haynes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Yours Truly

Abby Jimenez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Spectacular

Fiona Davis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Sea Prayer

Khaled Hosseini

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Adulthood Rites

Octavia E. Butler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Code Name Hélène

Ariel Lawhon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

About Grace

Anthony Doerr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Florence Adler Swims Forever

Rachel Beanland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

When We Cease to Understand the World

Benjamín Labatut, Transl. Adrian Nathan West

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

A Nearly Normal Family

M. T. Edvardsson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

A Certain Hunger

Chelsea G. Summers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?

Crystal Smith Paul

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Ink Blood Sister Scribe

Emma Törzs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Look Closer

David Ellis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Searching for Sylvie Lee

Jean Kwok

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Lost Bookshop

Evie Woods

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Mitford Affair

Marie Benedict

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Hand That First Held Mine

Maggie O'Farrell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers

Jesse Q. Sutanto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Clytemnestra

Costanza Casati

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Bee Sting

Paul Murray

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The First Ladies

Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Slow Horses

Mick Herron

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Berry Pickers

Amanda Peters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The London Séance Society: A Novel

Sarah Penner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

When We Left Cuba

Chanel Cleeton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Requiem for a Dream: A Novel

Hubert Selby Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

The Book of Daniel

E. L. Doctorow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

Prophet Song

Paul Lynch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Lucky

Marissa Stapley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Bookish Life of Nina Hill

Abbi Waxman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Practice Makes Perfect

Sarah Adams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Only the Beautiful

Susan Meissner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Each Tiny Spark

Pablo Cartaya

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Stella Maris

Cormac McCarthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Everyone Here Is Lying: A Novel

Shari Lapena

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Miracle at St. Anna

James McBride

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Either/Or

Elif Batuman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Confessions of Frannie Langton

Sara Collins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Assistant to the Villain

Hannah Nicole Maehrer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Mother Daughter Murder Night

Nina Simon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Just Another Missing Person

Gillian McAllister

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Echo of Old Books: A Novel

Barbara Davis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Little Liar

Mitch Albom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Wellness

Nathan Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide

Rupert Holmes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Mostly True Story of Tanner & Louise

Colleen Oakley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

They Never Learn

Layne Fargo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Handle With Care

Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Woman of Light

Kali Fajardo-Anstine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Waiting to Exhale

Terry McMillan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Things We Left Behind

Lucy Score

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Postcard

Anne Berest

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Intimacies

Katie Kitamura

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Tar Baby

Toni Morrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

Home Front

Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker

Jennifer Chiaverini

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

North Woods

Daniel Mason

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Poor Things

Alasdair Gray

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Elevation: A Novel

Stephen King

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2018

Watching You: A Novel

Lisa Jewell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The People of Paper

Salvador Plascencia

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Hamlet

William Faulkner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1940

A Week in Winter

Maeve Binchy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Little Monsters

Adrienne Brodeur

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

Heather Fawcett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Fine Print

Lauren Asher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

How the Penguins Saved Veronica

Hazel Prior

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Family Chao

Lan Samantha Chang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty

Akwaeke Emezi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

When We Believed in Mermaids: A Novel

Barbara O'Neal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Butcher and the Wren

Alaina Urquhart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

I Will Find You

Harlan Coben

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Before She Disappeared

Lisa Gardner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Rachel Incident

Caroline O'Donoghue

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Victory City

Salman Rushdie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Necessary Lies

Diane Chamberlain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Arsenic and Adobo

Mia P. Manansala

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Critical Chain

Eliyahu M. Goldratt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Calling for a Blanket Dance

Oscar Hokeah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

You Shouldn't Have Come Here

Jeneva Rose

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

A History Of Wild Places

Shea Ernshaw

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Simon the Fiddler

Paulette Jiles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

First Lie Wins

Ashley Elston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The 6:20 Man

David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Breakfast With Buddha

Roland Merullo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Lady in the Lake

Laura Lippman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019