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Double Indemnity
James M. Cain

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1936

My Name is Red
Orhan Pamuk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Catch-22
Joseph Heller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

1984
George Orwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1949

East of Eden
John Steinbeck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1952

The Good Earth
Pearl S. Buck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1931

Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

Animal Farm
George Orwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

Fight Club
Chuck Palahniuk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Life of Pi
Yann Martel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Road
Cormac McCarthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

Gone With The Wind
Margaret Mitchell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1936

The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Color Purple
Alice Walker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

The Shining
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

The White Tiger
Aravind Adiga

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

A Lesson Before Dying
Ernest J. Gaines

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1930

Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1952

The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1952

A Game of Thrones
George R. R. Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Out of the Silent Planet
C. S. Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1938

Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

The Fifth Child
Doris Lessing

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Wicked: Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Gregory Maguire

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Angels and Demons
Dan Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Carrie
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

Cujo
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

Dark Places
Gillian Flynn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Dune
Frank Herbert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
David Wroblewski

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Exodus
Leon Uris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

Hinds’ Feet on High Places
Hannah Hurnard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

Interview with the Vampire
Anne Rice

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Invisible Monsters
Chuck Palahniuk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Jaws
Peter Benchley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

Neuromancer
William Gibson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Outlander
Diana Gabaldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

Psycho
Robert Bloch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

Disgrace
J. M. Coetzee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Red Dragon
Thomas Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

Room
Emma Donoghue

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

'Salem's Lot
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

High Fidelity
Nick Hornby

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Portnoy's Complaint
Philip Roth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

The Lathe Of Heaven
Ursula K. Le Guin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

The Time Traveler's Wife
Audrey Niffenegger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

True Grit
Charles Portis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

We Need To Talk About Kevin
Lionel Shriver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

A Murder Is Announced
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1950

American Pastoral
Philip Roth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Breakfast at Tiffany's
Truman Capote

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1958

Cutting for Stone
Abraham Verghese

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Daughter Of Fortune
Isabel Allende

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Eva Luna
Isabel Allende, Transl. Margaret Sayers Peden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

Cloud Atlas
David C. Mitchell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Less Than Zero
Bret Easton Ellis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Life After Life
Kate Atkinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Nervous Conditions
Tsitsi Dangarembga

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Tropic of Orange
Karen Tei Yamashita

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Max Brooks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Thank You for Smoking
Christopher Buckley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Patrick Süskind

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Childhood's End
Arthur C. Clarke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

Eaters Of The Dead
Michael Crichton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

The Heart of the Matter
Graham Greene

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1948

The World According To Garp
John Irving

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

Thousand Cranes
Yasunari Kawabata

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1952

The Bonfire of the Vanities
Tom Wolfe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

The Silence Of The Lambs
Thomas Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Wall
Marlen Haushofer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

The Wasp Factory
Iain Banks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

The Edible Woman
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

The Winter Of Our Discontent
John Steinbeck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

To Have And Have Not
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1937

Winter In The Blood
James Welch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Girl On The Train
Paula Hawkins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Time Keeper
Mitch Albom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Swamplandia
Karen Russell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Man In The High Castle
Philip K. Dick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

Earth Abides
George R. Stewart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1949

The Chrysalids
John Wyndham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

Being There
Jerzy Kosiński

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The French Lieutenant's Woman
John Fowles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

The River Between
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965