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Mister Pip
Lloyd Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

In the Country of Men
Hisham Matar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Guide
R. K. Narayan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

Small Island
Andrea Levy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Shades
Marguerite Poland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Every Secret Thing
Laura Lippman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Everyman
Philip Roth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

Weep Not, Child
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

The Ninth Life of Louis Drax
Liz Jensen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Hunters in the Snow
Daisy Hildyard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Breakfast of Champions
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

My Last Duchess
Daisy Goodwin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Death Comes to Pemberley
P. D. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud
Ben Sherwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

She Walks In Beauty
Siri L. Mitchell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Gladiator
Philip Wylie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1930

Down and Out in Paris and London
George Orwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1933

Dharma Bums
Jack Kerouac

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

Reconstructing Amelia
Kimberly McCreight

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Birdsong
Sebastian Faulks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

City of Heavenly Fire
Cassandra Clare

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Stand By Me
Sheila O'Flanagan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Remembering Babylon
David Malouf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The Secret River
Kate Grenville

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Regeneration
Pat Barker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Enduring Love
Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

The Poison Tree
Erin Kelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Interestings
Meg Wolitzer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Graduate
Charles Webb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

Silence
Shūsaku Endō

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

The Great Santini
Pat Conroy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

What Dreams May Come
Richard Matheson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

Strange Meeting
Susan Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

The Sound of Waves
Yukio Mishima

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1954

The Ox Bow Incident
Walter Van Tilburg Clark

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1940

The Bride Price
Buchi Emecheta

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Henderson the Rain King
Saul Bellow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

The Shipping News
Annie Proulx

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Little Big Man
Thomas Berger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

The Human Comedy
William Saroyan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1943

In Dubious Battle
John Steinbeck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1936

A Morbid Taste For Bones
Ellis Peters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

Casino Royale
Ian Fleming

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

Spirited Away
Cindy Miles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Slumdog Millionaire
Vikas Swarup

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Seth Grahame-Smith, Jane Austen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

I Claudius
Robert Graves

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

Child 44
Tom Rob Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Fifth Business
Robertson Davies

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

Petals on the Wind
V. C. Andrews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

The Naked And The Dead
Norman Mailer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1948

The Boston Girl
Anita Diamant

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Imagine Me Gone
Adam Haslett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

A Bell for Adano
John Hersey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1944

The Baron in the Trees
Italo Calvino

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

The Robber Bridegroom
Eudora Welty

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1942

Survivor
Chuck Palahniuk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Jennifer Government
Max Barry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Plain Truth
Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Extraordinary Means
Robyn Schneider

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Tulip Fever
Deborah Moggach

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Paulo Coelho

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Lives of Others
Neel Mukherjee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Fire on the Mountain
Anita Desai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

A Town Like Alice
Nevil Shute

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1950

In Custody
Anita Desai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Tenth Circle
Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Gods and Generals
Jeffrey Shaara

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Libra
Don DeLillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Winner Stands Alone
Paulo Coelho

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Ghost Writer
Philip Roth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

The Mermaid Chair
Sue Monk Kidd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Cove
Ron Rash

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend
Matthew Dicks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

House Rules
Rachel Sontag

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Stone Angel
Margaret Laurence

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

Beasts of No Nation
Uzodinma Iweala

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Green Road
Anne Enright

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Those Who Save Us
Jenna Blum

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

A Personal Matter
Kenzaburo Oe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

The Robe
Lloyd C. Douglas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1942

Humboldt's Gift
Saul Bellow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Twilight in Delhi
Ahmed Ali

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1940

City of Joy
Dominique Lapierre

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Red Sky at Morning
Richard Bradford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

Crossing the River
Caryl Phillips

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Sure Thing
David Ives

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

A Suitable Boy
Vikram Seth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The Great Indian Novel
Shashi Tharoor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Graceland
Chris Abani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Life and Times of Michael K
J. M. Coetzee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

The House Girl
Tara Conklin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Wife of Martin Guerre
Janet Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1941

The Mimic Men
V.S. Naipaul

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

The Turner House
Angela Flournoy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Spies
Michael Frayn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Noise of Time
Julian Barnes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Burger's Daughter
Nadine Gordimer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

The Stone Carvers
Jane Urquhart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Lonely Londoners
Samuel Selvon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1956