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Swiss Sonata

Gwethalyn Graham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1938

Sworn Virgin

Elvira Dones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Taking Flight

Sheena Wilkinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Talk Talk

T.C. Boyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Taste of Salt

Frances Temple

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Tears of the Giraffe

Alexander McCall Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Tea Time for the Traditionally Built

Alexander McCall Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Telegraph Avenue

Michael Chabon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Telex from Cuba

Rachel Kushner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Tell Me Your Dreams

Sidney Sheldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Ten Thousand Saints

Eleanor Henderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Terra Nostra

Carlos Fuentes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Tess

Kirsten Mcdougall

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Texaco

Patrick Chamoiseau

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Thanksgiving

Janet Evanovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

That Deadman Dance

Kim Scott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

That Kind of Mother

Rumaan Alam

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

That Long Silence

Shashi Deshpande

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

That Old Cape Magic

Richard Russo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The 13th Valley

John M. Del Vecchio

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

The 19th Wife

David Ebershoff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Affair

C. P. Snow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

The African Queen

C. S. Forester

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1935

The Aguero Sisters: A Novel

Cristina García

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

The Alexandria Quartet

Lawrence Durrell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

The Almost Moon

Alice Sebold

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Almost Sisters

Joshilyn Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Amateur

Robert Littell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

The American Heiress

Daisy Goodwin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Appeal

John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Appointment

Herta Müller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

The Architect's Apprentice

Elif Shafak

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Art Forger

B A. Shapiro

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Artist of Disappearance

Anita Desai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Art of Deception

Stephanie Burgis

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2013

The Art of Love

A.B. Michaels

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Ash Garden

Dennis Bock

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Assistant

Bernard Malamud

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

The Associate

Phillip Margolin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Association of Small Bombs

Karan Mahajan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Atlantis Plague

A.G. Riddle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Auroras of Autumn

Wallace Stevens

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1950

The Auschwitz Escape

Joel C. Rosenberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

Ernest J. Gaines

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

The Autobiography of My Mother

Jamaica Kincaid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Autumn Republic

Brian McClellan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Bamboo Dancers

N. V. M. Gonzalez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

The Bark Tree

Raymond Queneau

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1933

The Baron in the Trees

Italo Calvino

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

The Beach Trees

Karen White

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Beautiful Room Is Empty

Edmund White

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Believers

Zoë Heller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Berlin Stories

Christopher Isherwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

The Best Laid Plans

Terry Fallis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Betrayal

Helen Dunmore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Big Bad Wolf

James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Big Money

John Dos Passos

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1936

The Big Over Easy

Jasper Fforde

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Bingo Palace

Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Bird Artist

Howard Norman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Bitter Season

Tami Hoag

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Blackwater Lightship

Colm Tóibín

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Blazing World

Siri Hustvedt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Blood of Flowers

Anita Amirrezvani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Blue Flower

Penelope Fitzgerald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Blue Sword

Robin McKinley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

The Body Artist

Don DeLillo

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2001

The Body Farm

Patricia Cornwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Bonesetter's Daughter

Amy Tan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Bone Tree

Greg Iles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Book of Aron

Jim Shepard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Book of Chameleons

Jose Eduardo Agualusa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Book of Disquiet

Fernando Pessoa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

The Book of Embraces

Eduardo Galeano

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

The Book of Essie

Meghan MacLean Weir

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Book of Evidence

John Banville

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

The Book of Fate

Brad Meltzer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Book of Joan

Lidia Yuknavitch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Milan Kundera

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

The Book of Memory

Petina Gappah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Book of Merlyn

T. H. White

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

The Book of Names: New and Selected Poems

Barton Sutter

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1993

The Book of Saladin

Tariq Ali

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Book of Strange New Things

Michel Faber

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Book of the Dun Cow

Walter Wangerin Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

The Book of You

Claire Kendal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Boston Girl

Anita Diamant

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Bottle Factory Outing

Beryl Bainbridge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

The Box Man

Kōbō Abe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

The Boys in the Trees

Mary Swan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Boys of Winter

Wilfrid Sheed

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

The Brethren

John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Bride Price

Buchi Emecheta

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

The Bride Test

Helen Hoang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Brief History of the Dead

Kevin Brockmeier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Bright Forever

Lee Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Brothers K

David James Duncan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Burning Girl

Claire Messud

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Bushwhacked Piano

Thomas McGuane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

The Butcher Boy

Patrick Mccabe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992