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The Garden of Evening Mists
Tan Twan Eng

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Fall Of Giants
Ken Follett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Cereus Blooms At Night
Shani Mootoo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Cold Comfort Farm
Stella Gibbons

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1932

Clear Light of Day
Anita Desai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

Jews Without Money
Michael Gold

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1930

The Gift of Rain
Tan Twan Eng

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
Dinaw Mengestu

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Lila
Marilynne Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Anthills Of The Savannah
Chinua Achebe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Enchantress Of Florence
Salman Rushdie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

A Brief History of Seven Killings
Marlon James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Ambiguous Adventure
Cheikh Hamidou Kane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

The Death of Artemio Cruz
Carlos Fuentes, Transl. Alfred J. MacAdam

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

Across the River and into the Trees
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1950

The Price of Salt
Patricia Highsmith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1952

Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Lives of the Saints
Nino Ricci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

The Story of the Lost Child
Elena Ferrante

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Secret Chord
Geraldine Brooks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Confessions of a Mask
Yukio Mishima

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1949

The Housekeeper and the Professor
Yoko Ogawa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Floating Opera
John Barth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1956

Bring Up The Bodies
Hilary Mantel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar
Robert Alexander

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Fall on your Knees
Ann-Marie MacDonald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Journey to the End of the Night
Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Transl. Ralph Manheim

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1932

Shanghai Girls
Lisa See

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Signature of All Things
Elizabeth Gilbert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Heretic's Daughter
Kathleen Kent

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Jayber Crow
Wendell Berry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Amsterdam
Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Echo Maker
Richard Powers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

American Rust: A Novel
Philipp Meyer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Shogun
James Clavell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Skippy Dies
Paul Murray

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Flamethrowers
Rachel Kushner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Invitation to a Beheading
Vladimir Nabokov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1935

Remarkable Creatures
Tracy Chevalier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Stoner
John Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

How to Be Both
Ali Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Swallows of Kabul
Yasmina Khadra

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Coming Up for Air
George Orwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

Pale Horse, Pale Rider
Katherine Anne Porter

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1939

Empire of the Sun
J. G. Ballard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

The Lacuna
Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Salt Eaters
Toni Cade Bambara

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

Moon Tiger
Penelope Lively

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

A Great Reckoning
Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Seveneves
Neal Stephenson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Good Girl
Mary Kubica

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Bone Clocks
David Mitchell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Art Forger
B A. Shapiro

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Eye of the World
Robert Jordan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

The Lost Symbol
Dan Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Harbinger: The Ancient Mystery that Holds the Secret of America's Future
Jonathan Cahn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Sycamore Row
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

A Land More Kind than Home
Wiley Cash

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

A River Sutra
Gita Mehta

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Joyland
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Time and Again
Jack Finney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Richard Bach

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

Gwendy's Button Box
Stephen King, Richard Chizmar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Orchard Keeper
Cormac McCarthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

A Column of Fire
Ken Follett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Garden Spells
Sarah Addison Allen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

A Handful of Dust
Evelyn Waugh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

Once Were Warriors
Alan Duff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

1Q84
Haruki Murakami

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Sometimes a Great Notion
Ken Kesey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

The Loved One
Evelyn Waugh

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1948

The Clan of the Cave Bear
Jean M. Auel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

How Green Was My Valley
Richard Llewellyn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

Hawaii
James A. Michener

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

A Month in the Country
J.L. Carr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

Beach Music
Pat Conroy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

We Were the Mulvaneys
Joyce Carol Oates

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel Of Obsession
Irvin D. Yalom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Christmas Box
Richard Paul Evans

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Riddley Walker
Russell Hoban

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

The Accidental Tourist
Anne Tyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Fingersmith
Sarah Waters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Miniaturist
Jessie Burton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Skipping Christmas
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Last Exit to Brooklyn
Hubert Selby Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

Salt Houses
Hala Alyan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

In The Shadow Of The Banyan
Vaddey Ratner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Our Sister Killjoy
Ama Ata Aidoo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

The Mosquito Coast
Paul Theroux

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

The Last Letter From Your Lover
Jojo Moyes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

I Am Pilgrim
Terry Hayes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Eye of the Needle
Ken Follett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

Valley of the Dolls
Jacqueline Susann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

Bridget Jones's Diary
Helen Fielding

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Prayers for the Stolen
Jennifer Clement

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

You
Caroline Kepnes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd
Jim Fergus

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Gardens of the Moon
Steven Erikson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

After Dark
Haruki Murakami

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004