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Jane Steele

Lyndsay Faye

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Twenty Chickens for a Saddle

Robyn Scott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Twelve Days

Teresa Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

My Enemy's Cradle

Sara Young (Pennypacker)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Umbertina

Helen Barolini

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

Moscow 2042

Vladimir Voinovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Baltasar and Blimunda

José Saramago

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

The Zigzag Way

Anita Desai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Playmaker

Thomas Keneally

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Love of My Youth

Mary Gordon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Tin Flute

Gabrielle Roy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

Saint Mazie

Jami Attenberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Night Bird

Brian Freeman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

A Book of Common Prayer

Joan Didion

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

I See You

Clare Mackintosh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Flame Alphabet

Ben Marcus

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The 19th Wife

David Ebershoff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Winter Vault

Anne Michaels

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

White Houses

Amy Bloom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Operation Shylock: A Confession

Philip Roth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

A Conspiracy of Paper

David Liss

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Lying Awake

Mark Salzman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

That Old Cape Magic

Richard Russo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

What is Visible

Kimberly Elkins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

All Our Wrong Todays

Elan Mastai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Outerbridge Reach

Robert Stone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Last Werewolf

Glen Duncan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Rules For Old Men Waiting

Peter R. Pouncey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Kept

James Scott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Desolation Angels

Jack Kerouac

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

Until I Find You

John Irving

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Sisterland

Curtis Sittenfeld

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Loon Lake

E. L. Doctorow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

A Spot of Bother

Mark Haddon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

By Nightfall

Michael Cunningham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Delancey: A Man, A Woman, A Restaurant, A Marriage

Molly Wizenberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Crossbones

Nuruddin Farah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Winner

David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock

Imogen Hermes Gowar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

A Catskill Eagle

Robert B. Parker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Odds Against

Dick Francis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

Blood Relations

Lisa M. Tillman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Architect's Apprentice

Elif Shafak

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Say Goodnight, Gracie

Julie Reece Deaver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Finding Moon

Tony Hillerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Flight Attendant

Chris Bohjalian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Life Before Man

Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

Avenue of Mysteries

John Irving

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Beauty and Sadness

Yasunari Kawabata

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

The Wasted Vigil

Nadeem Aslam

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Missing, Presumed

Susie Steiner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Painter from Shanghai

Jennifer Cody Epstein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

A Flag for Sunrise

Robert Stone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

Dreams of Joy

Lisa See

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

36 Arguments for the Existence of God

Rebecca Goldstein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

America Is Not the Heart

Elaine Castillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Girl at War

Sara Novic

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Group Portrait with Lady

Heinrich Böll

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

Song of a Captive Bird

Jasmin Darznik

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Benediction

Kent Haruf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Edge of Eternity

Ken Follett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

You Were Wrong

Matthew Sharpe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Chicken with Plums

Marjane Satrapi

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Pretend It's Love

Stefanie London

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Playroom

John Connor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Words That Bind

Ash Krafton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Book of Embraces

Eduardo Galeano

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

The Sherlockian

Graham Moore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Larry's Party

Carol Shields

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

A Frolic of His Own

William Gaddis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Mr. Vertigo

Paul Auster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Englishman's Boy

Guy Vanderhaeghe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

61 Hours

Lee Child

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Girl Who Fell into the Sky

Kate Wilhelm

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1974

The Rice Mother

Rani Manicka

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

My Absolute Darling

Gabriel Tallent

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Thanksgiving

Janet Evanovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Waking Lions

Ayelet Gundar-Goshen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Sculptor

Scott McCloud

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Dead Father

Donald Barthelme

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Losing Battles

Eudora Welty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

The Waterworks

E. L. Doctorow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The American Heiress

Daisy Goodwin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Terra Nostra

Carlos Fuentes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Snow Bird

Lass Small

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

The Feast of Love

Charles Baxter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Saving Grace

Raeanne Thayne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Heloise

Mandy Hager

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Country Girls

Edna O'Brien

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

Night Crossing

Don J. Snyder

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

From a Distance

Tamera Alexander

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Tea Time for the Traditionally Built

Alexander McCall Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

UnGuarded

Ashley Robertson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Quichotte

Salman Rushdie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Night Boat to Tangier

Kevin Barry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Lanny

Max Porter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Mars Room

Rachel Kushner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Late Nights on Air

Elizabeth Hay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Sleepwalking Land

Mia Couto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Ways of Dying

Zakes Mda

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995