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13 Ways Of Looking At A Fat Girl

Mona Awad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

22 Britannia Road

Amanda Hodgkinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

36 Arguments for the Existence of God

Rebecca Goldstein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

419

Will Ferguson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

47 Ronin

Mike Richardson

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 1994

61 Hours

Lee Child

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Abby

Verna Clay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

A Bell for Adano

John Hersey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1944

A Bend in the Road

Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

A Book of Common Prayer

Joan Didion

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

Above Us Only Sky

Michele Young-Stone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Seth Grahame-Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Absolution

Patrick Flanery

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

A Case of Exploding Mangoes

Mohammed Hanif

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

A Catskill Eagle

Robert B. Parker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Accordion Crimes

Annie Proulx

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

A Certain Justice

P.D. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Achilles

Elizabeth Cook

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

A Coffin for Dimitrios

Eric Ambler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

A Conspiracy of Paper

David Liss

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

A Cool Million: The Dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin

Nathanael West

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

Across the River and into the Trees

Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1950

A Crucible of Souls

Mitchell Hogan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Act of God

Jeremiah Healy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

A Cure for Night

Justin Peacock

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

A Cure for Suicide

Jesse Ball

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

A Dance to the Music of Time

Anthony Powell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

Vladimir Nabokov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

A Death in the Family

James Agee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

Admission

Jean Hanff Korelitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

A Dog Named Christmas

Greg Kincaid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

A Dog's Way Home

W. Bruce Cameron

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Adrift: A Mer Cavallo Mystery

Micki Browning

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

A Drink before the War

Dennis Lehane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

A Dry White Season

André Brink

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

A Fairly Honourable Defeat

Iris Murdoch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

Affinity

Sarah Waters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Afghanistan

Alex Ullmann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

A Fire Upon the Deep

Vernor Vinge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

A Flag for Sunrise

Robert Stone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

A Free Life

Ha Jin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

A Friend of the Earth

T.C. Boyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

A Frolic of His Own

William Gaddis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

After Alice

Gregory Maguire

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

After Lunch with Frank O'Hara

Craig Cotter

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 2021

After This

Alice McDermott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

A Garden to Keep

Jamie Langston Turner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

A Gate at the Stairs

Lorrie Moore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

A Gathering of Old Men

Ernest J. Gaines

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Age of Iron

John Maxwell Coetzee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

A Gift for Tenderness

Peggy Webb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

A Good Man in Africa

William Boyd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

A Gracious Plenty

Sheri Reynolds

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

A Graveyard for Lunatics

Ray Bradbury

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

A Great Deliverance

Elizabeth George

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Ah, but Your Land Is Beautiful

Alan Paton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1948

A Heart So White

Javier Marías

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

A Hologram for the King

Dave Eggers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

A Jest of God

Margaret Laurence

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

A Kiss Before Dying

Ira Levin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

Alamut

Judith Tarr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Alcestis

Katharine Beutner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Alex Cross

James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Ali and Nino

Kurban Said

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1937

Allegiance

Francine J. Harris

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 2012

All Grown Up

Jami Attenberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

All Is Not Forgotten

Wendy Walker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

All Our Names

Dinaw Mengestu

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

All Our Wrong Todays

Elan Mastai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

All Over Creation

Ruth Ozeki

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

All That Is Solid Melts into Air

Darragh Mckeon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

All the Birds in the Sky

Charlie Jane Anders

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

All the Birds, Singing

Evie Wyld

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

All the Little Live Things

Wallace Stegner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

All the Stars in the Heavens

Adriana Trigiani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Alpha

Jasinda Wilder

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Alternate Side

Anna Quindlen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned

Walter Mosley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

A Man Like Smith

Marilyn Pappano

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Ambush

James O. Born, James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

America Is Not the Heart

Elaine Castillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

American Son

Brian Ascalon Roley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

American Spy

Lauren Wilkinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

American Wife

Curtis Sittenfeld

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

A Midnight Clear

William Wharton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

A Morbid Taste For Bones

Ellis Peters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

A Most Wanted Man

John le Carré

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Amsterdam

Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Amy and Isabelle

Elizabeth Strout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

An Artist of the Floating World

Kazuo Ishiguro

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Andersonville

MacKinlay Kantor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

An Equal Music

Vikram Seth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

An Imaginary Life

David Malouf

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1978

Animal Dreams

Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Anita and Me

Meera Syal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

An Officer and a Spy

Robert Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Anonymous

Christine Benedict

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Another Man's Moccasins

Craig Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Another Roadside Attraction

Tom Robbins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

Antonietta

John Hersey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945