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True Colors: A Novel
Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

True Grit
Charles Portis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

Truly Madly Guilty
Liane Moriarty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Trumpet
Jackie Kay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Trust
Hernan Diaz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Trust Exercise
Susan Choi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Truth and Bright Water
Thomas King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Twenty Years Later
Charlie Donlea

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Twisted
Emily McIntire

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Twisted Games
Ana Huang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Twisted Hate
Ana Huang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Twisted Lies (Twisted, #4)
Ana Huang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Twisted Love
Ana Huang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Two Nights in Lisbon
Chris Pavone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Two Old Women
Velma Wallis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Typical American
Gish Jen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Ubik
Philip K. Dick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

Ugly Love
Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Under the Dome
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Under The Feet Of Jesus
Helena Maria Viramontes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Under the Udala Trees
Chinelo Okparanta

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Under the Volcano
Malcolm Lowry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1947

Under the Whispering Door
T. J. Klune

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Underworld
Don DeLillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Unlikely Animals
Annie Hartnett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Unmissing
Minka Kent

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Unsheltered
Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Unspeakable Things
Jess Lourey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Untouchable
Mulk Raj Anand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1935

Upgrade
Blake Crouch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Us Against You
Fredrik Backman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror
Junji Ito, Transl. Yuji Oniki

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2000

V.
Thomas Pynchon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

Valentine
Elizabeth Wetmore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Valley of the Dolls
Jacqueline Susann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

Vampires of El Norte
Isabel Cañas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Vanishing Acts
Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Variation
Rebecca Yarros

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Velvet Was the Night
Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man)
Jesse Q. Sutanto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
Jesse Q. Sutanto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Verity
Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Veronika Decides To Die
Paulo Coelho

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

V for Vendetta
Alan Moore

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 1990

Vicious
L. J. Shen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Victory City
Salman Rushdie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Vile Bodies
Evelyn Waugh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1930

Vineland
Thomas Pynchon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Violeta
Isabel Allende

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Virgil Wander
Leif Enger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Volkswagen Blues
Jacques Poulin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Voyage In The Dark
Jean Rhys

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

Voyager
Diana Gabaldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Waiting for the Barbarians
J. M. Coetzee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

Waiting to Exhale
Terry McMillan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Wandering Stars: A Novel
Tommy Orange

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Want to Know a Secret?
Freida McFadden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Ward D
Freida McFadden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Warlight
Michael Ondaatje

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

War with the Newts
Karel Čapek

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1936

Washington Black
Esi Edugyan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Watching You: A Novel
Lisa Jewell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Water for Elephants
Sara Gruen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Waterland
Graham Swift

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Waterlily
Ella Cara Deloria

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
Dan Millman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

We All Live Here
Jojo Moyes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

We All Want Impossible Things
Catherine Newman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Karen Joy Fowler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

We Are All Guilty Here
Karin Slaughter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

We Are All the Same in the Dark
Julia Heaberlin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

We Are Called to Rise
Laura McBride

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
Dennis E. Taylor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

We Are Not Like Them
Jo Piazza, Christine Pride

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

We Are the Brennans
Tracey Lange

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

We Cast a Shadow
Maurice Carlos Ruffin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

We Do Not Part
Han Kang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Shirley Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop
Hwang Bo-Reum, Transl. Shanna Tan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

We Live Here Now
Sarah Pinborough

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Wellness
Nathan Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

We Must Not Think of Ourselves: A Novel
Lauren Grodstein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

We Need New Names
NoViolet Bulawayo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

We Need To Talk About Kevin
Lionel Shriver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Wenjack
Joseph Boyden

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2016

We Solve Murders
Richard Osman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

We The Animals
Justin Torres

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

We Used to Live Here
Marcus Kliewer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

We Were Never Here
Andrea Bartz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

We Were the Lucky Ones
Georgia Hunter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

We Were the Mulvaneys
Joyce Carol Oates

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Weyward
Emilia Hart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Whalefall
Daniel Kraus

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

What Alice Forgot
Liane Moriarty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

What Comes After
JoAnne Tompkins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

What Happened to the Bennetts
Lisa Scottoline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

What Have You Done (Adler and Dwyer, #0.5)
Shari Lapena

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

What Is The What
Dave Eggers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

What Kind of Paradise
Janelle Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

What Lies Between Us
John Marrs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020