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Einstein's Dreams

Alan Lightman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Lost Horizon

James Hilton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1933

Ceremony

Leslie Marmon Silko

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

Devil In A Blue Dress

Walter Mosley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Bastard Out Of Carolina

Dorothy Allison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Intruder In The Dust

William Faulkner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1948

Giovanni's Room

James Baldwin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1956

A Canticle For Leibowitz

Walter M. Miller Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

Anthem

Ayn Rand

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1938

Everything Is Illuminated

Jonathan Safran Foer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

My Sister's Keeper

Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Rebecca

Daphne du Maurier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1938

Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption

Stephen King

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1982

The Thirteenth Tale

Diane Setterfield

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Brideshead Revisited

Evelyn Waugh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

The Girl Who Fell From The Sky

Heidi W. Durrow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Deliverance

James Dickey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

Paradise

Toni Morrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Roots: The Saga of an American Family

Alex Haley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Ishmael

Daniel Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Dreaming in Cuban

Cristina García

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

A Is For Alibi

Sue Grafton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

The History of Love

Nicole Krauss

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

This Earth of Mankind

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Junot Díaz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Milan Kundera

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Snow Falling on Cedars

David Guterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

A Scanner Darkly

Philip K. Dick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

Pedro Paramo

Juan Rulfo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days

Jerry B. Jenkins, Tim LaHaye

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Virgin Suicides

Jeffrey Eugenides

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Go Set A Watchman

Harper Lee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Sister of My Heart

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Finnegans Wake

James Joyce

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

The Fountainhead

Ayn Rand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1943

The Women of Brewster Place

Gloria Naylor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

The Collector

John Fowles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

A Clockwork Orange

Anthony Burgess

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

She's Come Undone

Wally Lamb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Inferno

Dan Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Tender Is the Night

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Muriel Barbery

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

All The Pretty Horses

Cormac McCarthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Girl Who Played With Fire

Stieg Larsson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Safe Haven

Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Water for Elephants

Sara Gruen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

Ice Candy Man

Bapsi Sidhwa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

A Man of the People

Chinua Achebe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

Year of Wonders

Geraldine Brooks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Andromeda Strain

Michael Crichton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

Snow Country

Yasunari Kawabata

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1937

Schindler's List

Thomas Keneally

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Palace Walk

Naguib Mahfouz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1956

Murder on the Orient Express

Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

Midnight's Children

Salman Rushdie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

Love Medicine

Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

Ellen Foster

Kaye Gibbons

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Alas, Babylon

Pat Frank

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

The Godfather

Mario Puzo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

Jurassic Park

Michael Crichton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

The Martian

Andy Weir

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Me Before You

Jojo Moyes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Invisible Cities

Italo Calvino

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

The Storyteller

Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Rosaura A Las Diez

Marco Denevi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

Message In A Bottle

Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Alexander McCall Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Ender's Game

Orson Scott Card

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Out Stealing Horses

Per Petterson, Transl. Anne Born

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Train Dreams

Denis Johnson

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2002

Ordinary People

Judith Guest

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Rooftops of Tehran

Mahbod Seraji

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Power and the Glory

Graham Greene

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1940

A House for Mr. Biswas

V. S. Naipaul

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

The Leftovers

Tom Perrotta

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Atlantis Gene

A.G. Riddle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Timeline

Michael Crichton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Last Tycoon

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1941

The Beach

Alex Garland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Japanese Lover

Isabel Allende

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Marriage Plot

Jeffrey Eugenides

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

John le Carré

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

The Bridges of Madison County

Robert James Waller

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1992

The Beet Queen

Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

The Sheltering Sky

Paul Bowles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1949

Our Souls At Night

Kent Haruf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Joke

Milan Kundera

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

Address Unknown

Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1938

A Pale View of Hills

Kazuo Ishiguro

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

The Razor's Edge

W. Somerset Maugham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1944

Miracle's Boys

Jacqueline Woodson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Please Look After Mom

Kyung-Sook Shin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Suite Francaise

Irene Nemirovsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Thief and the Dogs

Naguib Mahfouz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

2666

Roberto Bolano

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Pincher Martin

William Golding

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1956

All My Puny Sorrows

Miriam Toews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Between The Acts

Virginia Woolf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1941