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Courtesan

Diane Haeger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The Jewel in the Crown

Paul Scott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

Landline

Rainbow Rowell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Murder as a Fine Art

David Morrell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Still Waters

Sara Warner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Allegiance

Francine J. Harris

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 2012

The Dream Lover

Elizabeth Berg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon

Kaye Gibbons

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Wolf Winter

Cecilia Ekbäck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Child

Fiona Barton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Industry of Souls

Martin Booth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Wangs vs. the World

Jade Chang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The End of the Point

Elizabeth Graver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Women in the Castle

Jessica Shattuck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

On the Water

H.M. van den Brink

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Believers

Zoë Heller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Book of You

Claire Kendal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Killing Commendatore

Haruki Murakami

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Ten Thousand Saints

Eleanor Henderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Gold

Chris Cleave

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Swan Thieves

Elizabeth Kostova

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Murder

David Halliday

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1978

Sorrow

Claribel Alegría

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1978

The Book of Names: New and Selected Poems

Barton Sutter

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1993

Land of Love and Ruins

Oddný Eir

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.

Neal Stephenson, Nicole Galland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Dark Tide

Andrew Gross

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Talk Talk

T.C. Boyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Spoils

Brian Van Reet

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Life Under Water

Maura Dooley

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1992

Sleeping on Jupiter

Anuradha Roy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Square

Marguerite Duras

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

Five Seasons

A.B. Yehoshua

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

A Fairly Honourable Defeat

Iris Murdoch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

The White Raven

Diana L. Paxson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

A Man Like Smith

Marilyn Pappano

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Watch Me Disappear

Janelle Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Down River

John Hart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Each Vagabond by Name

Margo Orlando Littell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

What Was Promised

Tobias Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Bitter Grounds

Sandra Benitez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Color of the Sea

John Hamamura

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

As She Left It

Catriona McPherson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Saying Grace

Beth Gutcheon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Words to Say It

Marie Cardinal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Something of Value

Robert Ruark

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

Sugar

Seressia Glass

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Lost in the Forest

Sue Miller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Farewell, My Queen

Chantal Thomas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Horns

Joe Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Bruno's Dream

Iris Murdoch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

The Auroras of Autumn

Wallace Stevens

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1950

Mantissa

John Fowles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

The Painted Girls

Cathy Marie Buchanan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Mathilda Savitch

Victor Lodato

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Gutenberg's Apprentice

Alix Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Pearl of China

Anchee Min

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Book of Joan

Lidia Yuknavitch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

All the Stars in the Heavens

Adriana Trigiani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

To the Bright Edge of the World

Eowyn Ivey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

An Unnecessary Woman

Rabih Alameddine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Mississippi Blood

Greg Iles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Incendiaries

R. O. Kwon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Lily and the Octopus

Steven Rowley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Good in Bed

Jennifer Weiner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Arrugas

Paco Roca

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Gingerbread

Helen Oyeyemi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Hollow Kingdom

Kira Jane Buxton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Horse Soldier

Merline Lovelace

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Inside the Black Horse

Ray Berard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Shooting Star

Peter Temple

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

A Son of the Circus

John Irving

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

A Question of Guilt

Frances Fyfield

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Breathing Out the Ghost

Kirk Curnutt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

This Time of Dying

Reina James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Open

Lisa Moore

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 2002

The Stories We Tell

Patti Callahan Henry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Family Tree

Barbara Delinsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

Good Me, Bad Me

Ali Land

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Alpha

Jasinda Wilder

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Chatham School Affair

Thomas H. Cook

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Dreamers

Karen Thompson Walker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Bowlaway

Elizabeth McCracken

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

American Spy

Lauren Wilkinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Inland

Tea Obreht

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Coming Up Roses

Staci Hart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

An Unwanted Guest

Shari Lapena

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Animal

Lisa Taddeo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Bodily Harm

Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

Boy Swallows Universe

Trent Dalton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Clay's Ark

Octavia E. Butler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Dr. No: A Novel

Percival Everett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Elektra

Jennifer Saint

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Five-Carat Soul

James McBride

Fiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Flower Net

Lisa See

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

From the Dust Returned

Ray Bradbury

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

If You Believe

Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Keeping Faith

Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Mistress of Rome

Kate Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Night Watch

Sergei Lukyanenko, Transl. Andrew Bromfield

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006