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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

2666
Roberto Bolano

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

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

A Brief History of Seven Killings
Marlon James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

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 Clash of Kings
George R. R. Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

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

A Handful of Dust
Evelyn Waugh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

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

A Land More Kind than Home
Wiley Cash

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

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 My Puny Sorrows
Miriam Toews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

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 In Full
Tom Wolfe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

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