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Kiss Me First
Lottie Moggach

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Rooster Bar
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Accordion Crimes
Annie Proulx

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Comfort of Strangers
Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

The Whispering Room
Dean Koontz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Good House
Ann Leary

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

After This
Alice McDermott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Death Was the Other Woman
Linda L. Richards

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance
Richard Powers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Dancing at the Rascal Fair
Ivan Doig

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Time Pimp
Garrett Cook

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Dying in New York
Ekow Duker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

First Kill
Michael Kronenwetter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Mothers and Daughters
Rae Meadows

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

In His Stead: A Father's War
Judith Sanders

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Learning to Drive: A Novel
Mary Hays

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Wild Decembers
Edna O'Brien

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Waking Gods
Sylvain Neuvel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Taking Flight
Sheena Wilkinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Deadeye Dick
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Life is Elsewhere
Milan Kundera

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

Get Shorty
Elmore Leonard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

A Certain Justice
P.D. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

The Bark Tree
Raymond Queneau

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1933

A Salty Piece of Land
Jimmy Buffett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Gorky Park
Martin Cruz Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

The Displaced Person
Flannery O'Connor

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1955

A Taste of Honey
Kai Ashante Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Female Man
Joanna Russ

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

A Gathering of Old Men
Ernest J. Gaines

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Obasan
Joy Kogawa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

The Homecoming
Earl Hamner Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

The Unvanquished
William Faulkner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1938

My Name Is Asher Lev
Chaim Potok

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

Pnin
Vladimir Nabokov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

The Reivers
William Faulkner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

Seize the Day
Saul Bellow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1956

Fire and Ice
Anne Stuart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

The Slave
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

Boy's Life
Robert Mccammon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Big Sur
Jack Kerouac

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

Harvest
Jim Crace

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Meridian
Alice Walker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Miss Lonelyhearts
Nathanael West

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1933

The Darling
Russell Banks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Age of Iron
John Maxwell Coetzee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

The Boys of Winter
Wilfrid Sheed

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

Juliet
Anne Fortier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Cloud Nine
Luanne Rice

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Natural
Bernard Malamud

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1952

Surfacing
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

Londonstani
Gautam Malkani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
Orson Scott Card

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Fifth Mountain
Paulo Coelho

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
Philip K. Dick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

419
Will Ferguson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Camel Bookmobile
Masha Hamilton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Everything Good Will Come
Sefi Atta

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

This Perfect Day
Ira Levin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

Felicia's Journey
William Trevor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Miss New India
Bharati Mukherjee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The River of No Return
Bee Ridgway

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Another Roadside Attraction
Tom Robbins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

Clear and Present Danger
Tom Clancy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Ringworld
Larry Niven

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

One True Thing
Anna Quindlen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Salem Falls
Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The High Mountains of Portugal
Yann Martel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Little Red Chairs
Edna O'Brien

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Story of My Teeth
Valeria Luiselli

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Ender's Shadow
Orson Scott Card

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Of Love and Shadows
Isabel Allende

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Dessa Rose
Sherley A. Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Ghana Must Go
Taiye Selasi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Molloy
Samuel Beckett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

Give Me Liberty
Frank Miller

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2004

The Reapers are the Angels
Alden Bell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Death with Interruptions
José Saramago

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War
Karl Marlantes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Triangle
Teri White

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Confucius
Yasushi Inoue

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

Caesar
Colleen McCullough

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Murambi, The Book of Bones
Boubacar Boris Diop

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Double
George Pelecanos

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Old Gringo
Carlos Fuentes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Alcestis
Katharine Beutner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Member of the Wedding
Carson McCullers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1946

Fifty Shades Freed
E. L. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Pursuit of Happiness
Douglas Kennedy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Seth Grahame-Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Machine Man
Max Barry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Enemy
Lee Child

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
Steven Millhauser

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Caine Mutiny
Herman Wouk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

The Snow Queen
Michael Cunningham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Helen of Troy
Margaret George

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Thief
Fuminori Nakamura

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Lesser Blessed
Richard Van Camp

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Magic Toyshop
Angela Carter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

The Orenda
Joseph Boyden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013