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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1937

Flight: A Novel
Sherman Alexie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Volkswagen Blues
Jacques Poulin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Celestial Bodies
Jokha Alharthi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Trainspotting
Irvine Welsh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

A Land Remembered
Patrick D. Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Burmese Days
George Orwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

Spinning Silver
Naomi Novik

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Into the Water
Paula Hawkins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Alan Bradley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Michael Chabon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Alice Network
Kate Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Commonwealth
Ann Patchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

White Teeth
Zadie Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Good Lord Bird
James McBride

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Day of the Triffids
John Wyndham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

Angle of Repose
Wallace Stegner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

The Paying Guests
Sarah Waters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Testaments
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Illegal
Lawrence Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

When Crickets Cry: a Novel of the Heart
Charles Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Ready Player One
Ernest Cline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
John Steinbeck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

I Let You Go
Clare Mackintosh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Wars
Timothy Findley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

Super Sad True Love Story
Gary Shteyngart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

In the Name of Salome
Julia Alvarez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Wife Between Us
Sarah Pekkanen, Greer Hendricks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Palace of Illusions
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Norse Mythology
Neil Gaiman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Memory Police
Yoko Ogawa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Silver Sparrow
Tayari Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Betty Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1943

The Last Days of Night
Graham Moore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Mother to Mother
Sindiwe Magona

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

City of Girls
Elizabeth Gilbert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Song Yet Sung
James McBride

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Q & A
Vikas Swarup

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Magpie Murders
Anthony Horowitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Book of Unknown Americans
Cristina Henríquez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Round House
Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

An American Marriage
Tayari Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Firefly Lane
Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Caramelo
Sandra Cisneros

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Storming Heaven
Denise Giardina

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Coffee Trader
David Liss

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Manhattan Beach
Jennifer Egan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Ecotopia
Ernest Callenbach

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Mercy Among the Children
David Adams Richards

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Fair and Tender Ladies
Lee Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

He, She and It
Marge Piercy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

The Bridge on the Drina
Ivo Andric

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

Forrest Gump
Winston Groom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Sharp Objects
Gillian Flynn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions
Daniel Wallace

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Of Love And Other Demons
Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Ubik
Philip K. Dick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

New York 2140
Kim Stanley Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Pigeon English
Stephen Kelman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Birth House
Ami McKay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

To Live
Yu Hua

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

And The Earth Did Not Devour Him
Tomás Rivera

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

Carmilla
Joseph Sheridan le Fanu

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2012

The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto
Mitch Albom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

God’s Bits of Wood
Ousmane Sembène

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

Perelandra
C. S. Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1943

The Human Stain
Philip Roth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Icarus Girl
Helen Oyeyemi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Zone One
Colson Whitehead

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Buried Giant
Kazuo Ishiguro

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

So Far from God
Ana Castillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Lost in the Funhouse
John Barth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

Sarah’s Key
Tatiana de Rosnay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Fifth Season
N. K. Jemisin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Autobiography Of Red
Anne Carson

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1998

The Valley of Amazement
Amy Tan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Ask The Dust
John Fante

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

The Feast of the Goat
Mario Vargas Llosa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Death On The Nile
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1937

The Painted Bird
Jerzy Kosiński

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

Stone Butch Blues
Leslie Feinberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The Sparrow
Mary Doria Russell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Green Mile
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Book of Negroes
Lawrence Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Pay It Forward
Catherine Ryan Hyde

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Kiss of the Spider Woman
Manuel Puig

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Not Without Laughter
Langston Hughes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1930

Diary of an Oxygen Thief
Anonymous

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Ordinary Grace
William Kent Krueger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Flivver King: A Story of Ford-America
Upton Sinclair

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1937

Shutter Island
Dennis Lehane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Assault
Harry Mulisch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

The Kingdom Of This World
Alejo Carpentier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1949

Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow
Faiza Guene

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Voyage In The Dark
Jean Rhys

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

Neverwhere
Neil Gaiman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1937

Fools Crow
James Welch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958