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The Lies of Locke Lamora

Scott Lynch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Broken April

Ismail Kadare

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

Moth Smoke

Mohsin Hamid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Secret Daughter

Shilpi Somaya Gowda

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Fear of Flying

Erica Jong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

Rendezvous with Rama

Arthur C. Clarke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

Dead Until Dark

Charlaine Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Xala

Ousmane Sembène

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

The Heart Goes Last

Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Mornings in Jenin

Susan Abulhawa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

An Echo in the Bone

Diana Gabaldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Winter King

Bernard Cornwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Shell Seekers

Rosamunde Pilcher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Anansi Boys

Neil Gaiman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Runaway Jury

John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

Neal Stephenson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Temple of My Familiar

Alice Walker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

A Voice in the Wind

Francine Rivers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Mountain Between Us

Charles Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Island of a Thousand Mirrors

Nayomi Munaweera

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

A Place of Greater Safety

Hilary Mantel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Dovekeepers

Alice Hoffman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Patron Saint of Liars

Ann Patchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Dictee

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

The Book of Disquiet

Fernando Pessoa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

The Grass Dancer

Susan Power

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Couple Next Door

Shari Lapena

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Before the Fall

Noah Hawley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Silent Wife

A. S. A. Harrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Street Lawyer

John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Sweet Tooth

Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

A Simple Favor

Darcey Bell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Beekeeper's Apprentice

Laurie R. King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Bean Trees

Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Native Son

Richard Wright

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1940

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

Maggie O'Farrell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Fifty Shades Darker

E. L. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

One Foot in Eden

Ron Rash

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Bone People

Keri Hulme

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

When We Were Orphans

Kazuo Ishiguro

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Tinkers

Paul Harding

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Austerlitz

W.G. Sebald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Prey

Michael Crichton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Last Kingdom

Bernard Cornwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Wish You Well

David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Testament

John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The King of Torts

John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Little Friend

Donna Tartt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Black Echo

Michael Connelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Magician's Assistant

Ann Patchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

The Girl with All the Gifts

M. R. Carey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

A Man In Full

Tom Wolfe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Zero Day

David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Bright Lights, Big City

Jay Mcinerney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

The Third Man

Graham Greene

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1949

At the Mountains of Madness

H. P. Lovecraft

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1936

Doctor Sleep

Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey

Walter Mosley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

A Great Deliverance

Elizabeth George

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Burnt Shadows

Kamila Shamsie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Beautiful Mystery

Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Crossing the Mangrove

Maryse Condé

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Call Me By Your Name

André Aciman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

My Name is Lucy Barton

Elizabeth Strout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

A Painted House

John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Troop

Nick Cutter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Septembers Of Shiraz

Dalia Sofer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Best of Me

Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Expats

Chris Pavone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Power

Naomi Alderman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Corrections

Jonathan Franzen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

A Feast for Crows

George R. R. Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Daytripper

Fábio Moon, Gabriel Bá

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Maisie Dobbs

Jacqueline Winspear

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Stranger

Albert Camus

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1942

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Ken Kesey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

Cry, the Beloved Country

Alan Paton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1948

Grendel

John Gardner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

Words of Radiance

Brandon Sanderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Parable of the Talents

Octavia E. Butler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Bless Me, Ultima

Rudolfo Anaya

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

Like Water for Chocolate

Laura Esquivel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Kindred

Octavia E. Butler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

The Joy Luck Club

Amy Tan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Sula

Toni Morrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

The Plague

Albert Camus

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1947

Light in August

William Faulkner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1932

On the Road

Jack Kerouac

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

The House of the Spirits

Isabel Allende

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Hannibal

Thomas Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Autumn of the Patriarch

Gabriel García Márquez, Transl. Gregory Rabassa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Pompeii: A Novel

Robert Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1940

Love in the Time of Cholera

Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Cat's Cradle

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

Cannery Row

John Steinbeck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

The Crying of Lot 49

Thomas Pynchon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966