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Netherland

Joseph O'Neill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Homer & Langley

E. L. Doctorow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Sport of Kings

C.E. Morgan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Woman Who Lost Her Soul

Bob Shacochis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Blue Angel

Francine Prose

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Family Life

Akhil Sharma

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Emperor's Children

Claire Messud

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Home Fires

Gene Wolfe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Mischling

Affinity Konar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Egyptologist

Arthur Phillips

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

All Grown Up

Jami Attenberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Evidence of Things Unseen

Marianne Wiggins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

To Rise Again at a Decent Hour

Joshua Ferris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

One Good Turn

Carla Kelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Thirteen Moons

Charles Frazier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Ninth Hour

Alice McDermott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Devil All the Time

Donald Ray Pollock

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Circling the Sun

Paula McLain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Satin Island

Tom Mccarthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Painter

Peter Heller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Book of Evidence

John Banville

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Divisadero

Michael Ondaatje

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Bushwhacked Piano

Thomas McGuane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

A Cure for Suicide

Jesse Ball

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Godfather Returns

Mark Winegardner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

God Save the Child

Robert B. Parker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

The Schooldays of Jesus

J. M. Coetzee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Golden House

Salman Rushdie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Breath

Tim Winton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Clay Walls

Ronyoung Kim

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Parrot and Olivier in America

Peter Carey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Gravedigger's Daughter

Joyce Carol Oates

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Hotel World

Ali Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Love and Other Consolation Prizes

Jamie Ford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Land of Love and Drowning

Tiphanie Yanique

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Burning Girls

Veronica Schanoes

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2013

Pavilion of Women

Pearl S. Buck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1946

The Solitude of Prime Numbers

Paolo Giordano

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Manticore

Robertson Davies

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

Us

David Nicholls

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

To My Senses

Alexandrea Weis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Emperor of Ocean Park

Stephen L. Carter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Eventide

Kent Haruf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Some Luck

Jane Smiley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Sudden Death

Álvaro Enrigue

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

22 Britannia Road

Amanda Hodgkinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Love Wife

Gish Jen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Faithful Place

Tana French

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

What's Bred in the Bone

Robertson Davies

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

The Museum of Innocence

Orhan Pamuk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Counterlife

Philip Roth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Youngblood

Matt Gallagher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Welcome to the World, Baby Girl

Fannie Flagg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Orchardist

Amanda Coplin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Forgetting Time

Sharon Guskin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Full Dark, No Stars

Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Oscar and Lucinda

Peter Carey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Dark At The Crossing

Elliot Ackerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Earthly Powers

Anthony Burgess

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

God's Grace

Bernard Malamud

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

A Free Life

Ha Jin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Girl in the Spider's Web

David Lagercrantz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

In a Strange Room

Damon Galgut

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Good Husband

Gail Godwin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Second Coming

John Niven

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Dinner at the Center of the Earth

Nathan Englander

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Bright, Precious Days

Jay Mcinerney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Heroes of the Frontier

Dave Eggers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Horseman, Pass By

Larry Mcmurtry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

A Tiger for Malgudi

R. K. Narayan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Set This House on Fire

William Styron

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

The Mark

Jerry B. Jenkins, Tim LaHaye

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Golden Legend

Nadeem Aslam

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Just City

Jo Walton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Nine Days

Toni Jordan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Here I Am

Jonathan Safran Foer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Days of Awe

Achy Obejas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Stranger's Child

Alan Hollinghurst

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Improvement

Joan Silber

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Incendiary

Chris Cleave

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Bellefleur

Joyce Carol Oates

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

Centennial

James A. Michener

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

End Zone

Don DeLillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

Eligible

Curtis Sittenfeld

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

I Feel Bad About My Neck

Nora Ephron

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Saints for All Occasions

J. Courtney Sullivan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Alternate Side

Anna Quindlen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Believers: A Novella and Stories

Charles Baxter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

The Red-Haired Woman

Orhan Pamuk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Stars are Fire

Anita Shreve

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Girls Burn Brighter

Shobha Rao

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Green on Blue

Elliot Ackerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Beautiful Room Is Empty

Edmund White

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Garden of Beasts

Jeffery Deaver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Strawberry Fields

Marina Lewycka

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

How to Read the Air

Dinaw Mengestu

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

My Age of Anxiety

Scott Stossel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Black Water Rising

Attica Locke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Enemy Women

Paulette Jiles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Dear Life

Alice Munro

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012