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The Stars are Fire

Anita Shreve

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Star Side of Bird Hill

Naomi Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Stars My Destination

Alfred Bester

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1956

The Stolen Child

Keith Donohue

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Stone Angel

Margaret Laurence

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

The Stone Carvers

Jane Urquhart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Stone Virgins

Yvonne Vera

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Stories We Tell

Patti Callahan Henry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Story of B

Daniel Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Story Of Beautiful Girl

Rachel Simon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Story of Lucy Gault

William Trevor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Story of My Teeth

Valeria Luiselli

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Stranger's Child

Alan Hollinghurst

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Street Sweeper

Elliot Perlman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Styx

Jonathon King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Subterraneans

Jack Kerouac

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

The Summer Before the War

Helen Simonson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Supernaturalist

Eoin Colfer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Surrounded

D'Arcy Mcnickle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1936

The Swan Thieves

Elizabeth Kostova

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Sword of Truth

Terry Goodkind

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Taming of the Queen

Philippa Gregory

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Tenderness of Wolves

Stef Penney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Tenth Circle

Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Testament of Gideon Mack

James Robertson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Testament of Mary

Colm Tóibín

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Thanatos Syndrome

Walker Percy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Thief

Fuminori Nakamura

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Third Life of Grange Copeland

Alice Walker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

The Third Policeman

Flann O'Brien

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

David Mitchell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Thousandth Floor

Katharine Mcgee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

Philip K. Dick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

The Throat

Peter Straub

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The Tiger's Bride

Merline Lovelace

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Time in Between

David Bergen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Time It Never Rained

Elmer Kelton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

The Time of the Hero

Mario Vargas Llosa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

The Tin Flute

Gabrielle Roy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

The Town

Conrad Richter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1950

The Turner House

Angela Flournoy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Twelve

Justin Cronin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley

Hannah Tinti

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Twentieth Wife

Indu Sundaresan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Unconsoled

Kazuo Ishiguro

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Underground Man

Mick Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

The Unquiet Earth

Denise Giardina

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Unraveling of Mercy Louis

Keija Parssinen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Unvanquished

William Faulkner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1938

The Usual Rules

Joyce Maynard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Village

Nikita Lalwani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Waiting Years

Fumiko Enchi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

The Wall

Marlen Haushofer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

The Wallcreeper

Nell Zink

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Wandering Falcon

Jamil Ahmad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Wangs vs. the World

Jade Chang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Wapshot Chronicle

John Cheever

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

The Wasted Vigil

Nadeem Aslam

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Waterworks

E. L. Doctorow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Wedding

Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Wedding Date

Jasmine Guillory

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Wedding Gift

Marlen Suyapa Bodden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Weight of Silence

Heather Gudenkauf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Well and the Mine

Gin Phillips

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Whiskey Rebels

David Liss

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Whispering Room

Dean Koontz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The White Bone

Barbara Gowdy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The White Boy Shuffle

Paul Beatty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The White Castle

Orhan Pamuk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

The White Hotel

D.M. Thomas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

The White King

György Dragomán

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The White Lie

Andrea Gillies

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The White Raven

Diana L. Paxson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Wife of Martin Guerre

Janet Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1941

The Winner

David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

The Winner Stands Alone

Paulo Coelho

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Winter People

John Ehle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

The Winter Vault

Anne Michaels

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Woman Upstairs

Claire Messud

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Woman Who Lost Her Soul

Bob Shacochis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Woman Who Walked Into Doors

Roddy Doyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Women

T.C. Boyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Women in the Castle

Jessica Shattuck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Women's Room

Marilyn French

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

The Words to Say It

Marie Cardinal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

The Work of Wolves

Kent Meyers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The World Made Straight

Ron Rash

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Wrong Mother

Sophie Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

They All Ran After the President's Wife

Mary Higgins Clark

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1992

The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis

José Saramago

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

The Year of the Runaways

Sunjeev Sahota

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Yiddish Policemen's Union

Michael Chabon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Young Lions

Irwin Shaw

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1948

The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession

Paulo Coelho

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Zero

Jess Walter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Zigzag Way

Anita Desai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Thief of Time

Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Think Like a Dinosaur

James Patrick Kelly

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1995

Third and Indiana

Steve Lopez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Thirteen Moons

Charles Frazier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006