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Let the Right One In
John Ajvide Lindqvist

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Angel's Game
Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Daisy Jones & The Six
Taylor Jenkins Reid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
Luis Sepulveda

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

NW
Zadie Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Leaving Atlanta
Tayari Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Good Morning, Midnight
Jean Rhys

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

The Water Dancer
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Sailing to Sarantium
Guy Gavriel Kay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Stone Diaries
Carol Shields

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Midnight Robber
Nalo Hopkinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Husband's Secret
Liane Moriarty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Three Wishes
Liane Moriarty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

About a Boy
Nick Hornby

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Blackthorn Key
Kevin Sands

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

A Place Where the Sea Remembers
Sandra Benitez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

What Night Brings
Carla Trujillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
Tom Franklin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Someone Knows My Name
Lawrence Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Praisesong For The Widow
Paule Marshall

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Saints at the River
Ron Rash

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Home Fire
Kamila Shamsie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Roadside Picnic
Arkady Strugatsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

The Chaperone
Laura Moriarty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

His Bloody Project: A Historical Thriller
Graeme Macrae Burnet

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Play It As It Lays
Joan Didion

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

The Stand
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

The Thorn Birds
Colleen McCullough

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

The Barbarian Nurseries
Héctor Tobar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

March
Geraldine Brooks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Last Painting of Sara De Vos
Dominic Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Silent Patient
Alex Michaelides

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Recursion
Blake Crouch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

An Unkindness of Ghosts
Rivers Solomon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Half-Blood Blues
Esi Edugyan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Mystic River
Dennis Lehane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

One Day in December
Josie Silver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Lying Game
Ruth Ware

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The House of God
Samuel Shem

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

Dear Edward
Ann Napolitano

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Miracle Creek
Angie Kim

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Map of Love
Ahdaf Soueif

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Odd Thomas
Dean Koontz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Bared To You
Sylvia Day

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Beautiful Disaster
Jamie McGuire

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Everything I Never Told You
Celeste Ng

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Pines
Blake Crouch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

A Dance With Dragons
George R. R. Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

A Mercy
Toni Morrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

American Gods
Neil Gaiman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

I Am Legend
Richard Matheson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1954

Native Speaker
Chang-rae Lee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Reader
Bernhard Schlink

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

V for Vendetta
Alan Moore

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

Waiting for the Barbarians
J. M. Coetzee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

The Pact
Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

July's People
Nadine Gordimer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

A Thousand Acres
Jane Smiley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Housekeeping
Marilynne Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

Falling Man
Don DeLillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Cat's Eye
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Postmortal
Drew Magary

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Choice
Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Great Divorce
C. S. Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

To Sir with Love
E. R. Braithwaite

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

Mother Night
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

Rifleman Dodd
C. S. Forester

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1932

Coolie
Mulk Raj Anand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1936

Anil's Ghost
Michael Ondaatje

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Brooklyn
Colm Tóibín

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Talented Mr. Ripley
Patricia Highsmith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

The Children of Men
P. D. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

I, Robot
Isaac Asimov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1950

Veronika Decides To Die
Paulo Coelho

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Shack
William P. Young

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

So Long a Letter
Mariama Ba

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

The Namesake
Jhumpa Lahiri

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Maltese Falcon
Dashiell Hammett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1930

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

Atonement
Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Philip K. Dick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

On Beauty
Zadie Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Five People You Meet In Heaven
Mitch Albom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Help
Kathryn Stockett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Luckiest Girl Alive
Jessica Knoll

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Tortilla Curtain
T.C. Boyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Dai Sijie, Transl. Ina Rilke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Peace Like a River
Leif Enger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Moon Is Down
John Steinbeck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1942

The Satanic Verses
Salman Rushdie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Karen Joy Fowler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013