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All Your Perfects

Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Alone with You in the Ether: A Love Story

Olivie Blake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Along Came a Spider

James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

A Long Long Time Ago And Essentially True

Brigid Pasulka

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

A Long Petal of the Sea

Isabel Allende

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

A Long Way Down

Nick Hornby

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

A Love Letter to Whiskey

Kandi Steiner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

Tia Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

A Man Called Ove

Fredrik Backman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

A Man In Full

Tom Wolfe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

A Man of the People

Chinua Achebe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

A Marvellous Light

Freya Marske

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

A Master of Djinn

P. Djèlí Clark

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Amazing Grace Adams

Fran Littlewood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Ambiguous Adventure

Cheikh Hamidou Kane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

A Memory Called Empire

Arkady Martine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

A Mercy

Toni Morrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Americanah

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

American Dirt

Jeanine Cummins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

American Gods

Neil Gaiman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

American Pastoral

Philip Roth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

American Psycho

Bret Easton Ellis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

American Rust: A Novel

Philipp Meyer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

American War

Omar El Akkad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

America's First Daughter

Stephanie Dray, Laura Kamoie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

A Merry Little Meet Cute

Julie Murphy, Sierra Simone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Amongst Women

John McGahern

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

A Month in the Country

J.L. Carr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

A Murder Is Announced

Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1950

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

Hank Green

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

An Academy for Liars

Alexis Henderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

An American Beauty: A Novel of the Gilded Age Inspired by the True Story of Arabella Huntington Who Became the Richest Woman in the Country

Shana Abe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

An American Marriage

Tayari Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

An Anonymous Girl: A Novel

Sarah Pekkanen, Greer Hendricks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Anansi Boys

Neil Gaiman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Anathema

Keri Lake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Ancillary Justice

Ann Leckie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

And The Earth Did Not Devour Him

Tomás Rivera

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

And the Mountains Echoed

Khaled Hosseini

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

And Then There Were None

Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

A Nearly Normal Family

M. T. Edvardsson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

An Echo in the Bone

Diana Gabaldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Angels and Demons

Dan Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Angle of Repose

Wallace Stegner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons

Lorna Landvik

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Anil's Ghost

Michael Ondaatje

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Animal Farm

George Orwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

Animal's People

Indra Sinha

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Anita de Monte Laughs Last

Xóchitl González

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Anna O

Matthew Blake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Annie Bot

Sierra Greer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Annihilation

Jeff VanderMeer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

An Offer From a Gentleman

Julia Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Another Brooklyn

Jacqueline Woodson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Another Country

James Baldwin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

A Not So Meet Cute

Meghan Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Antelope Woman

Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Anthem

Ayn Rand

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1938

An Unkindness of Ghosts

Rivers Solomon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

P. D. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

Anxious People

Fredrik Backman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Anything Is Possible

Elizabeth Strout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

A Painted House

John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

A Pale View of Hills

Kazuo Ishiguro

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Apeirogon

Colum McCann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

A Perfect Spy

John le Carré

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Apex Hides the Hurt

Colson Whitehead

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

A Place for Us

Fatima Farheen Mirza

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

A Place Where the Sea Remembers

Sandra Benitez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

A Pocket Full of Rye

Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

Apples Never Fall

Liane Moriarty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Apprentice to the Villain (Assistant to the Villain, #2)

Hannah Nicole Maehrer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

A Prayer for Owen Meany

John Irving

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

Becky Chambers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

A Psalm for the Wild-Built

Becky Chambers

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2021

Arcadia

Lauren Groff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Archer's Voice

Mia Sheridan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Ariadne

Jennifer Saint

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

A River Enchanted

Rebecca Ross

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

A River Runs Through It

Norman Maclean

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1976

A River Sutra

Gita Mehta

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Arrow of God

Chinua Achebe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

Arsenic and Adobo

Mia P. Manansala

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Artemis

Andy Weir

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Artificial Condition

Martha Wells

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

A Rule Against Murder

Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

As Bright As Heaven

Susan Meissner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

A Scanner Darkly

Philip K. Dick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

A Sea of Unspoken Things

Adrienne Young

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

A Shadow in the Ember

Jennifer L. Armentrout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

A Short Walk Through a Wide World

Douglas Westerbeke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

As I Lay Dying

William Faulkner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1930

A Simple Favor

Darcey Bell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

A Single Man: A Novel

Christopher Isherwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

Ask Again, Yes

Mary Beth Keane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Ask for Andrea

Noelle W. Ihli

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Ask The Dust

John Fante

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

A Slow Fire Burning

Paula Hawkins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

A Song to Drown Rivers

Ann Liang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

A Sorceress Comes to Call

T. Kingfisher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024