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Strangers On A Train
Patricia Highsmith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1950

The Sweet Hereafter
Russell Banks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Never Fall Down
Patricia McCormick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Still Alice
Lisa Genova

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Boy, Snow, Bird
Helen Oyeyemi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Street
Ann Petry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1946

The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Moviegoer
Walker Percy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

Nineteen Minutes
Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

The Age Of Miracles
Karen Thompson Walker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

I Heard The Owl Call My Name
Margaret Craven

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

Misery
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

No One Writes To The Colonel
Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1961

The Yellow Birds
Kevin Powers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

Brave New World
Aldous Huxley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1932

The Last Book In The Universe
Rodman Philbrick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

That Hideous Strength
C. S. Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

Mama Day
Gloria Naylor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Dog Stars
Peter Heller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Potiki
Patricia Grace

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Player Piano
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1952

Hope And Other Dangerous Pursuits
Laila Lalami

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Madonnas of Echo Park
Brando Skyhorse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

A Tale For The Time Being
Ruth Ozeki

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Beloved
Toni Morrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

When the Emperor Was Divine
Julie Otsuka

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Prodigal Summer
Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Good Thief: A Novel
Hannah Tinti

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

A Long Way Down
Nick Hornby

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Wool
Hugh Howey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Journey to the East
Hermann Hesse

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1956

Home
Toni Morrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam
Bảo Ninh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Yacoubian Building
Alaa Al Aswany

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Flight Behavior
Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Alif the Unseen
G. Willow Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

History of Wolves
Emily Fridlund

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

My Year of Meats
Ruth Ozeki

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Black No More: Being an Account of the Strange and Wonderful Workings of Science in the Land of the Free
George Schuyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1931

The Monkey Wrench Gang
Edward Abbey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

A Wild Sheep Chase
Haruki Murakami

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

House Of Leaves
Mark Z. Danielewski

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

In the Midst of Winter
Isabel Allende

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Abeng
Michelle Cliff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

The Mixquiahuala Letters
Ana Castillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

The Painted Drum
Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Mordecai Richler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

Cotton Comes To Harlem
Chester Himes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

The Attack
Yasmina Khadra

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Ballad of Black Tom
Victor Lavalle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Coldest Winter Ever
Sister Souljah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Secret History
Donna Tartt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

We Are Called to Rise
Laura McBride

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Life We Bury
Allen Eskens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Gaudy Night
Dorothy L. Sayers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1935

The Dutch House
Ann Patchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Red River
Lalita Tademy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

House of Sand and Fog
Andre Dubus III

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Pillars of the Earth
Ken Follett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

A Discovery of Witches
Deborah Harkness

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem
Maryse Condé

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Gilda Stories
Jewelle Gomez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Disappearing Earth
Julia Phillips

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Bitter in the Mouth
Monique Truong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Giver of Stars
Jojo Moyes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Ask Again, Yes
Mary Beth Keane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Dry
Jane Harper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Artificial Silk Girl
Irmgard Keun

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1932

Beggars in Spain
Nancy Kress

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

The Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee
Anonymous

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1949

Maud Martha
Gwendolyn Brooks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

Left Neglected
Lisa Genova

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

American War
Omar El Akkad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Lullabies for Little Criminals
Heather O'Neill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Normal People
Sally Rooney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Fleishman Is in Trouble
Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Fifteen Dogs
Andre Alexis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Less
Andrew Sean Greer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Motherless Brooklyn
Jonathan Lethem

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Red, White, and Royal Blue
Casey McQuiston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

A Star Called Henry
Roddy Doyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Kim Edwards

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Zoo City
Lauren Beukes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Shell Shaker
LeAnne Howe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Girl, Woman, Other
Bernardine Evaristo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Sophie's Choice
William Styron

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

Claire of the Sea Light
Edwidge Danticat

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Truth About The Harry Quebert Affair
Joel Dicker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Starless Sea
Erin Morgenstern

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
P. D. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

The Overstory
Richard Powers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The True Story of Hansel and Gretel
Louise Murphy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Rainmaker
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

State of Fear
Michael Crichton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Nix
Nathan Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016