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Beartown

Fredrik Backman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Middle Passage

Charles R. Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Where the Crawdads Sing

Delia Owens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

It Ends with Us

Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

My Brilliant Friend

Elena Ferrante

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Little Fires Everywhere

Celeste Ng

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Small Great Things

Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Exit West

Mohsin Hamid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Parable of the Sower

Octavia E. Butler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Season of Migration to the North

Tayeb Salih

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

Pachinko

Min Jin Lee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Leavers

Lisa Ko

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Dawn

Octavia E. Butler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Haunting Of Hill House

Shirley Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

Binti

Nnedi Okorafor

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2015

Little Bee

Chris Cleave

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Two Old Women

Velma Wallis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The Rent Collector

Camron Wright

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Tattooist of Auschwitz

Heather Morris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Lovely Bones

Alice Sebold

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Medicine Walk

Richard Wagamese

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Purple Hibiscus

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

There There

Tommy Orange

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

A Confederacy of Dunces

John Kennedy Toole

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

A Man Called Ove

Fredrik Backman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Circe

Madeline Miller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Song of Achilles

Madeline Miller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Uncommon Reader

Alan Bennett

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2007

The Silmarillion

J. R. R. Tolkien

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

White Noise

Don DeLillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

The Underground Railroad

Colson Whitehead

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

A Walk to Remember

Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

This Is How It Always Is

Laurie Frankel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Blindness

José Saramago

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Sing, Unburied, Sing

Jesmyn Ward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1937

Flight: A Novel

Sherman Alexie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

Alan Bradley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Ready Player One

Ernest Cline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights

John Steinbeck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Norse Mythology

Neil Gaiman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Betty Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1943

Q & A

Vikas Swarup

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions

Daniel Wallace

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

To Live

Yu Hua

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

And The Earth Did Not Devour Him

Tomás Rivera

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

Death On The Nile

Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1937

The Sparrow

Mary Doria Russell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Book of Negroes

Lawrence Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow

Faiza Guene

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Neverwhere

Neil Gaiman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Nineteen Minutes

Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Age Of Miracles

Karen Thompson Walker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Misery

Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1932

The Last Book In The Universe

Rodman Philbrick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Potiki

Patricia Grace

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Player Piano

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1952

Beloved

Toni Morrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam

Bảo Ninh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Dry

Jane Harper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Overstory

Richard Powers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

Ocean Vuong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

About a Boy

Nick Hornby

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

A Place Where the Sea Remembers

Sandra Benitez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Home Fire

Kamila Shamsie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Silent Patient

Alex Michaelides

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Great Divorce

C. S. Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

I, Robot

Isaac Asimov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1950

So Long a Letter

Mariama Ba

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

The Namesake

Jhumpa Lahiri

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

Philip K. Dick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

Station Eleven

Emily St. John Mandel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

And Then There Were None

Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

1984

George Orwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1949

Animal Farm

George Orwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

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

The Kite Runner

Khaled Hosseini

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Shining

Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

As I Lay Dying

William Faulkner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1930

Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1952

Song of Solomon

Toni Morrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

Dune

Frank Herbert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

Max Brooks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

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

Ceremony

Leslie Marmon Silko

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

Rebecca

Daphne du Maurier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1938

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Junot Díaz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Jurassic Park

Michael Crichton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

The Martian

Andy Weir

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Ender's Game

Orson Scott Card

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

The Thief and the Dogs

Naguib Mahfouz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

Homegoing

Yaa Gyasi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Housekeeper and the Professor

Yoko Ogawa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003