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The Lie and How We Told It

Tommi Parrish

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

The Silence of the Girls

Pat Barker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Stone Virgins

Yvonne Vera

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Wandering Falcon

Jamil Ahmad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Veil of Roses

Laura Fitzgerald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Warrior's Heart

Jackie Kramer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Death and the Dervish

Meša Selimović

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

The Unraveling of Mercy Louis

Keija Parssinen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Best Laid Plans

Terry Fallis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Blackwater Lightship

Colm Tóibín

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Colonel's Lady

Laura Frantz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Soul Catcher

Leigh Bridger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Forgotten

Elie Wiesel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Book of Saladin

Tariq Ali

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali

Gil Courtemanche

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Night Sea Journey: A Tale of the Supernatural

Paula Cappa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Wartime Lies

Louis Begley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

A Season in the Life of Emmanuel

Marie-Claire Blais

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

Bruised Hibiscus

Elizabeth Nunez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Glass

Alex Christofi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Keep

Jennifer Egan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Coram Boy

Jamila Gavin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Far Tortuga

Peter Matthiessen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Hotel du Lac

Anita Brookner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Small World

David Lodge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Last Orders

Graham Swift

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Sweetland

Michael Crummey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Siege of Krishnapur

J.G. Farrell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

The White Castle

Orhan Pamuk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

The Enigma of Arrival

V.S. Naipaul

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Longest Memory

Fred D'Aguiar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Passion of New Eve

Angela Carter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

The Pickup

Nadine Gordimer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Master Butchers Singing Club

Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

War Trash

Ha Jin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Days of Abandonment

Elena Ferrante

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Noon Wine

Katherine Anne Porter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1937

The Healers

Ayi Kwei Armah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

The Madonna of Excelsior

Zakes Mda

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Twelve

Nick McDonell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Wise Children

Angela Carter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

The Child in Time

Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Last of the Just

André Schwarz-Bart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

The Women

T.C. Boyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Cloudstreet

Tim Winton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Stone Cold

David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Draw the Circle

Mashuq Mushtaq Deen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Slap

Christos Tsiolkas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The English Teacher

Yiftach Reicher Atir

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Sam's Letters to Jennifer

James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

City of Refuge

Kenzo Kitakata

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

American Wife

Curtis Sittenfeld

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

Salman Rushdie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Forest Dark

Nicole Krauss

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Middlesteins

Jami Attenberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Rainbows End

Vernor Vinge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Subterraneans

Jack Kerouac

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

A Dog's Way Home

W. Bruce Cameron

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

A Good Man in Africa

William Boyd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

A Jest of God

Margaret Laurence

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

A Kiss Before Dying

Ira Levin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian

Marina Lewycka

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

A Patchwork Planet

Anne Tyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Beowulf for Cretins: A Love Story

Ann Mcman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Chronology

Zahra Patterson

Fiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

Coconut

Kopano Matlwa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Church of Marvels

Leslie Parry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Down the River Unto the Sea

Walter Mosley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Dream Children

A. N. Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Feel Free

Zadie Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

House of Names

Colm Tóibín

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Histories of the Transgender Child

Julian Gill-Peterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

If I Die Tonight

Alison Gaylin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Life As We Know It

Michael Bérubé

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Little Fish

Casey Plett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Alamut

Judith Tarr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Our Twisted Hero

Yi Mun-Yol

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Smaller and Smaller Circles

F.H. Batacan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Spring Moon

Bette Bao Lord

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

The Honk and Holler Opening Soon

Billie Letts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley

Hannah Tinti

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Tinderbox

Robert W. Fieseler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Winter People

John Ehle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

Raw

Belle Aurora

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Gate of Angels

Penelope Fitzgerald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

The Burning Girl

Claire Messud

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The End of Eddy

Édouard Louis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Prospero's Daughter

Elizabeth Nunez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Lizard Cage

Karen Connelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Rules of Backyard Cricket

Jock Serong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

Jon Mcgregor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Sky Fisherman

Craig Lesley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Sentinel

Mark Oldfield

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Infatuations

Javier Marías

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

A Summons to Memphis

Peter Taylor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

The Twelve

Justin Cronin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Golden Hill: A Novel of Old New York

Francis Spufford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Fourth of July Creek

Smith Henderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Elmet

Fiona Mozley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Finkler Question

Howard Jacobson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010