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The King Must Die

Mary Renault

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

The King of Torts

John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Kitchen God's Wife

Amy Tan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

The Kreutzer Sonata

Margriet De Moor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The Lace Reader

Brunonia Barry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Land of Green Plums

Herta Müller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Last

Hanna Jameson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Last Ballad

Wiley Cash

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Last Child

John Hart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Last Crossing

Guy Vanderhaeghe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Last Juror

John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Last Mile

David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Last of the Just

André Schwarz-Bart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

The Last of the Wine

Mary Renault

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1956

The Last Patriot

Brad Thor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Last Picture Show

Larry Mcmurtry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

The Last Policeman

Ben H. Winters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Last Sin Eater

Francine Rivers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Last Song

Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Last Temptation of Christ

Nikos Kazantzakis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

The Last Thing I Remember

Andrew Klavan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Last Town On Earth

Thomas Mullen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Last Werewolf

Glen Duncan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Laughing Policeman

Maj Sjöwall, Per Wahlöö

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

The Lazarus Project

Aleksandar Hemon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Leisure Seeker

Michael Zadoorian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Lemon Orchard

Luanne Rice

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Length of a String

Elissa Brent Weissman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Lesser Blessed

Richard Van Camp

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Lie and How We Told It

Tommi Parrish

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

The Lies That Bind

Judith Van Gieson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The Lieutenant

Kate Grenville

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Lifeboat

Charlotte Rogan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Light In The Ruins

Chris Bohjalian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Line of Beauty

Alan Hollinghurst

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Little Red Chairs

Edna O'Brien

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Little Stranger

Sarah Waters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Lives of Others

Neel Mukherjee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Living End

Lisa Samson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Lizard Cage

Karen Connelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Lonely Londoners

Samuel Selvon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1956

The Loney

Andrew Michael Hurley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Longest Memory

Fred D'Aguiar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Longest Second

Bill S. Ballinger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

The Lost Books of the Odyssey

Zachary Mason

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

Heinrich Böll

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

The Love of My Youth

Mary Gordon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Lover

Robin Schone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Love Wife

Gish Jen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Madonna of Excelsior

Zakes Mda

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Madonnas of Leningrad

Debra Dean

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Magician of Lublin

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

The Magic Toyshop

Angela Carter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

The Magus

John Fowles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

The Makioka Sisters

Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1943

The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

Oscar Hijuelos

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

The Manchurian Candidate

Richard Condon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

The Mandarins

Simone de Beauvoir

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1954

The Mango Season

Amulya Malladi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Man in My Basement

Walter Mosley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Manticore

Robertson Davies

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

The Man Who Loved Children

Christina Stead

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1940

The Man Without Qualities

Robert Musil

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1930

The March

E. L. Doctorow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

The Mark

Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Mars Room

Rachel Kushner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Master Butchers Singing Club

Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Meaning of Consuelo

Judith Ortiz Cofer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Member of the Wedding

Carson McCullers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1946

The Memory of Love

Aminatta Forna

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Memory of Running

Ron McLarty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Mephisto Club

Tess Gerritsen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock

Imogen Hermes Gowar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Mermaid Chair

Sue Monk Kidd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Messenger

Daniel Silva

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Meursault Investigation

Kamel Daoud

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Mezzanine

Nicholson Baker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

The Middlesteins

Jami Attenberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Mimic Men

V.S. Naipaul

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

The Monogram Murders

Sophie Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Monsters of Templeton

Lauren Groff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Moor's Last Sigh

Salman Rushdie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Mothers

Brit Bennett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Museum of Extraordinary Things

Alice Hoffman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Museum of Innocence

Orhan Pamuk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Music of Chance

Paul Auster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

The Mystic Masseur

V.S. Naipaul

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

The Naked And The Dead

Norman Mailer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1948

The Nanny Diaries

Nicola Kraus, Emma McLaughlin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Natural

Bernard Malamud

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1952

The Need

Helen Phillips

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The New Yorkers

Cathleen Schine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Night Bird

Brian Freeman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Night Gardener

George Pelecanos

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Ninth Hour

Alice McDermott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Ninth Life of Louis Drax

Liz Jensen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Noise of Time

Julian Barnes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The North Water: A Novel

Ian Mcguire

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Then We Came to the End

Joshua Ferris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Old Gringo

Carlos Fuentes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985