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The Furies
Suzy Mckee Charnas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

A Hologram for the King
Dave Eggers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Junky
William S. Burroughs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

Sweet Thursday
John Steinbeck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1954

The Mezzanine
Nicholson Baker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

The Outlander
Gil Adamson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

From Russia, With Love
Ian Fleming

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

Snow in August
Pete Hamill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

True History of the Kelly Gang
Peter Carey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Hollow Men
Rob Mccarthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Pigs In Heaven
Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The Village
Nikita Lalwani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Ice Palace
Tarjei Vesaas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

All That Is Solid Melts into Air
Darragh Mckeon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Virgil
Steve Orlando

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2020

The Messenger
Daniel Silva

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Hoops
Patricia Mclinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Marriage is a Private Affair
Judith Kelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The Red Queen
Margaret Drabble

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

The Tiger's Bride
Merline Lovelace

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Ransom
Julie Garwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Doll's House
Louise Phillips

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Crash
J. G. Ballard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

Grendel's Mother: The Saga of the Wyrd-Wife
Susan Signe Morrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Some Kind of Fairy Tale
Graham Joyce

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Baudolino
Umberto Eco

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Lemon Orchard
Luanne Rice

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Dogs of Babel
Carolyn Parkhurst

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Barney's Version
Mordecai Richler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Broken Verses
Kamila Shamsie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Citizen Vince
Jess Walter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

That Long Silence
Shashi Deshpande

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Harp in the South
Ruth Park

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1948

Come, Thou Tortoise
Jessica Grant

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Out of the Night that Covers Me
Pat Cunningham Devoto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Cure for Death by Lightning
Gail Anderson-Dargatz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Testament of Gideon Mack
James Robertson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Toby's Room
Pat Barker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Sandcastle Girls
Chris Bohjalian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Dietland
Sarai Walker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Tess
Kirsten Mcdougall

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Fox
Frederick Forsyth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

All the Birds, Singing
Evie Wyld

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Lust for Life
Irving Stone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

Red Storm Rising
Tom Clancy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Tears of the Giraffe
Alexander McCall Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Telegraph Avenue
Michael Chabon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Gap of Time: The Winter's Tale Retold
Jeanette Winterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The River King
Alice Hoffman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Wench
Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

A Cool Million: The Dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin
Nathanael West

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

Les Belles Images
Simone de Beauvoir

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

All Over Creation
Ruth Ozeki

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Blue Hole Back Home
Joy Jordan-Lake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

England, England
Julian Barnes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet
Xue Xinran

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Golden Gate
Vikram Seth

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1991

The Last Crossing
Guy Vanderhaeghe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Meaning of Consuelo
Judith Ortiz Cofer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Rule of Four
Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Shades of Gray
Jessica James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Remember Me Like This
Bret Anthony Johnston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Small Gods
Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Arabian Nights and Days
Naguib Mahfouz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

The Girls
Lori Lansens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Paris Trout
Pete Dexter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Song of the Sparrow
Lisa Ann Sandell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Trouble on Triton
Samuel R. Delany

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Monsignor Quixote
Graham Greene

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Wings of Fire
Charles Todd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo
Ntozake Shange

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

All Our Names
Dinaw Mengestu

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Queen of Palmyra
Minrose Gwin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Unquiet Earth
Denise Giardina

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Where We Once Belonged
Sia Figiel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Risk Pool
Richard Russo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Lies of Silence
Brian Moore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Little Scarlet
Walter Mosley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

None to Accompany Me
Nadine Gordimer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Soul Mountain
Gao Xingjian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

The Circus in Winter
Cathy Day

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Two Solitudes
Hugh Maclennan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

Texaco
Patrick Chamoiseau

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Local Girls
Alice Hoffman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Coyote Waits
Tony Hillerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Davita's Harp
Chaim Potok

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Philadelphia Fire
John Edgar Wideman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

The Body Artist
Don DeLillo

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2001

The Sea, the Sea
Iris Murdoch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

Tripmaster Monkey
Maxine Hong Kingston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

A Coffin for Dimitrios
Eric Ambler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

Anita and Me
Meera Syal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Fools and Other Stories
Njabulo S. Ndebele

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

The Lieutenant
Kate Grenville

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The First Stone
Mark Anthony

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Golden Age
Gore Vidal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1950

Crashing Upwards
S.C. Wynne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Disoriental
Négar Djavadi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Lie and How We Told It
Tommi Parrish

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2017