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The Female Persuasion

Meg Wolitzer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Picturing Will

Ann Beattie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

Mistress of the Bones

Patricia Marie Janeshutz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Sleepless Nights

Elizabeth Hardwick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

Reputations

Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Mason & Dixon

Thomas Pynchon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

The Island of the Day Before

Umberto Eco

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Saints and Villains

Denise Giardina

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

That Kind of Mother

Rumaan Alam

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Cast of Shadows

Kevin Guilfoile

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Master Georgie

Beryl Bainbridge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Betrayed by Rita Hayworth

Manuel Puig

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

Maria's Girls

Jerome Charyn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

Music of the Ghosts

Vaddey Ratner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Fade Out

Ed Brubaker

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Swiss Sonata

Gwethalyn Graham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1938

The Need

Helen Phillips

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Side-Kicked

Russell Brettholtz

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Flood of Fire

Amitav Ghosh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

This Dog for Hire

Carol Lea Benjamin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Crooked

Brian M. Wiprud

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Antonietta

John Hersey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

The Throat

Peter Straub

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Prudence

David Treuer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Song of the Shank

Jeffery Renard Allen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Red Doc>

Anne Carson

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 2013

Sailor Song

Ken Kesey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

A Replacement Life

Boris Fishman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

After Lunch with Frank O'Hara

Craig Cotter

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 2021

My Education

Susan Choi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Skels

Maggie Dubris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Everything Under

Daisy Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Feral Detective

Jonathan Lethem

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Haj

Leon Uris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

A Cure for Night

Justin Peacock

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Caricature

Daniel Clowes

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 1989

Captive Trail

Susan Page Davis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

A Garden to Keep

Jamie Langston Turner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Grave Silence

Rose Beecham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

They All Ran After the President's Wife

Mary Higgins Clark

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1992

The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving

Jonathan Evison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Lord of Misrule

Jaimy Gordon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

This Side of Brightness

Colum McCann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Ilustrado

Miguel Syjuco

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis

José Saramago

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Katalin Street

Magda Szabó

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

Lunar Park

Bret Easton Ellis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Monogram Murders

Sophie Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Wallcreeper

Nell Zink

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Chemistry of Tears

Peter Carey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Visible Worlds

Marilyn Bowering

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

A Taste of Eternity

Gisèle Pineau

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Great House

Nicole Krauss

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Road Home

Rose Tremain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

A Midnight Clear

William Wharton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Something Happened

Joseph Heller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

Broken Trail

Alan Geoffrion

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Associate

Phillip Margolin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Master of the Game

Sidney Sheldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

The First Circle

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

The Boys in the Trees

Mary Swan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Memoirs of a Polar Bear

Yoko Tawada

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Wilde Lake

Laura Lippman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

In the Light of What We Know

Zia Haider Rahman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Birds of Paradise

Diana Abu-Jaber

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Artist of Disappearance

Anita Desai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Children of Light

Robert Stone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Measuring the World

Daniel Kehlmann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

What Belongs to You

Garth Greenwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Magician of Lublin

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

Ah, but Your Land Is Beautiful

Alan Paton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1948

Good to a Fault

Marina Endicott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Night Train

Martin Amis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Historias del Kronen

José Ángel Mañas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Zuckerman Unbound

Philip Roth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

The Gold Bug Variations

Richard Powers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All

Allan Gurganus

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

The Revolt of the Cockroach People

Oscar Zeta Acosta

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

Last of the Menu Girls

Denise Chavez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

For the Sake of Elena

Elizabeth George

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

More Than an Echo

Linda Kay Silva

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Slipping

John Toomey

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1998

Far to Go

Alison Pick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

High Hearts

Rita Mae Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

All the Little Live Things

Wallace Stegner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

Winter Prey

John Sandford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

After Alice

Gregory Maguire

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Spoonbenders

Daryl Gregory

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Autonomous

Annalee Newitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Children of God

Mary Doria Russell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Gone to Ground

Brandilyn Collins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Longest Second

Bill S. Ballinger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

Your Blues Ain't Like Mine

Bebe Moore Campbell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

To Capture What We Cannot Keep

Beatrice Colin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Winter Garden

Adele Ashworth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Tenderness of Wolves

Stef Penney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Almost Sisters

Joshilyn Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

A Sudden Light

Garth Stein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

A Question of Blood

Ian Rankin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Honor

Elif Shafak

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012