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Broken April
Ismail Kadare

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

The Stranger
Albert Camus

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1942

One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

Grendel
John Gardner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

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

Sula
Toni Morrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

The House of the Spirits
Isabel Allende

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

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

Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

Signs Preceding the End of the World
Yuri Herrera

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Jazz
Toni Morrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Crooked House
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1949

In the Heat of the Night
John Dudley Ball

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

Foundation
Isaac Asimov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

The Martian Chronicles
Ray Bradbury

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1950

The Buddha in the Attic
Julie Otsuka

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

House Made of Dawn
N. Scott Momaday

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

Tracks
Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Kitchen
Banana Yoshimoto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

My Sister, the Serial Killer
Oyinkan Braithwaite

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Art of Racing in the Rain
Garth Stein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Jamie Ford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Caleb's Crossing
Geraldine Brooks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Montana 1948
Larry Watson

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1993

The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Mohsin Hamid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Salvage the Bones
Jesmyn Ward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Half Broke Horses
Jeannette Walls

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Winter's Bone
Daniel Woodrell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Ella Minnow Pea
Mark Dunn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Cellist of Sarajevo
Steven Galloway

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Orphan Train
Christina Baker Kline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

City of Thieves
David Benioff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Indian Horse
Richard Wagamese

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

In the Time of the Butterflies
Julia Alvarez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

No Country for Old Men
Cormac McCarthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Monkey Beach
Eden Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Heart's Invisible Furies
John Boyne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood
Richard E. Kim

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

Aura
Carlos Fuentes

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1962

All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

If Beale Street Could Talk
James Baldwin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

The Guest List
Lucy Foley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The House in the Cerulean Sea
T. J. Klune

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Midnight Library
Matt Haig

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Girl with the Louding Voice
Abi Daré

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Poisonwood Bible
Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Interior Chinatown
Charles Yu

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Body
Stephen King

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1982

The Night Watchman
Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The ABC Murders
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1936

Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Only Good Indians
Stephen Graham Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Mist
Stephen King

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1980

A Thousand Ships
Natalie Haynes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Hag-Seed: William Shakespeare's The Tempest Retold
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Severance
Ling Ma

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Shirley Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

No Longer Human
Osamu Dazai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1948

Gods of Jade and Shadow
Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Ministry for the Future
Kim Stanley Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Motorcycles and Sweetgrass
Drew Hayden Taylor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Sentence
Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Moon of the Crusted Snow
Waubgeshig Rice

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Our Missing Hearts
Celeste Ng

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022