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The Death Of The Heart

Elizabeth Bowen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1938

The Autobiography of My Mother

Jamaica Kincaid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Red Sorghum

Mo Yan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

The Meursault Investigation

Kamel Daoud

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Saint Maybe

Anne Tyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

River of Earth

James Still

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1940

Golden Son

Shilpi Somaya Gowda

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

13 Ways Of Looking At A Fat Girl

Mona Awad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Vernon God Little

D.B.C. Pierre

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

We the Living

Ayn Rand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1936

Cities Of Salt

Abdelrahman Munif

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Wolf Totem

Rong Jiang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard

Kiran Desai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Summer Before the War

Helen Simonson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

In a Free State

V.S. Naipaul

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

The March

E. L. Doctorow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

The Moor's Last Sigh

Salman Rushdie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Bamboo Dancers

N. V. M. Gonzalez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

An Artist of the Floating World

Kazuo Ishiguro

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper

Phaedra Patrick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Barkskins

Annie Proulx

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Past the Shallows

Favel Parrett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Desirable Daughters

Bharati Mukherjee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

River of Smoke

Amitav Ghosh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Man Without Qualities

Robert Musil

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1930

When the Moon is Low

Nadia Hashimi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Baumgartner's Bombay

Anita Desai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Savage Detectives

Roberto Bolano

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

Aimee Bender

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Glass Bead Game

Hermann Hesse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1943

Yonnondio

Tillie Olsen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

Monkey Bridge

Lan Cao

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Narcissus and Goldmund

Hermann Hesse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1930

Winter of the World

Ken Follett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Yellow Crocus

Laila Ibrahim

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Jack Maggs

Peter Carey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

The Dream of Scipio

Iain Pears

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Then We Came to the End

Joshua Ferris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Charming Billy

Alice McDermott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

More Joy in Heaven

Morley Callaghan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1937

We Are Not Ourselves

Matthew Thomas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

To a God Unknown

John Steinbeck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1933

Did You Ever Have a Family

Bill Clegg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

That Deadman Dance

Kim Scott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Beneath the Lion's Gaze

Maaza Mengiste

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Maps for Lost Lovers

Nadeem Aslam

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

A Gate at the Stairs

Lorrie Moore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Miller's Valley

Anna Quindlen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Family Matters

Rohinton Mistry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Shalimar the Clown

Salman Rushdie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Martha Quest

Doris Lessing

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1952

When God was a Rabbit

Sarah Winman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Ghost Road

Pat Barker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Orhan's Inheritance

Aline Ohanesian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

I Do Not Come to You by Chance

Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Queen of the Night

Alexander Chee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

An Imaginary Life

David Malouf

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1978

An Equal Music

Vikram Seth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Ghachar Ghochar

Vivek Shanbhag

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2013

Too Late the Phalarope

Alan Paton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

Circle of Friends

Maeve Binchy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

Mario Vargas Llosa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

Moonglow

Michael Chabon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives

Lola Shoneyin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Wolf in White Van

John Darnielle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Jim the Boy

Tony Earley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Chorus of Mushrooms

Hiromi Goto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Behind the Scenes at the Museum

Kate Atkinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Between the Assassinations

Aravind Adiga

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Women's Room

Marilyn French

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

The Emigrants

W.G. Sebald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Saving Fish from Drowning

Amy Tan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Rabbit Is Rich

John Updike

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

If I Grow Up

Todd Strasser

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Spotted Horses

William Faulkner

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1931

Blueback

Tim Winton

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1997

The Year of the Runaways

Sunjeev Sahota

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Cancer Ward

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

Saving Ceecee Honeycutt

Beth Hoffman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Sacred Hunger

Barry Unsworth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Feeding the Ghosts

Fred D'Aguiar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Waiting for an Angel

Helon Habila

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Running the Rift

Naomi Benaron

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Shadow on the Mountain

Margi Preus

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The White Boy Shuffle

Paul Beatty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Trail of Broken Wings

Sejal Badani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Memoirs of Hadrian

Marguerite Yourcenar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

Save Me the Waltz

Zelda Fitzgerald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1932

Seraph on the Suwanee

Zora Neale Hurston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1948

Mao II

Don DeLillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Mariette In Ecstasy

Ron Hansen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

The Rapture of Canaan

Sheri Reynolds

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Sportswriter

Richard Ford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Love Anthony

Lisa Genova

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

From Sleep Unbound

Andree Chedid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

American Son

Brian Ascalon Roley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Wedding Gift

Marlen Suyapa Bodden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Street Sweeper

Elliot Perlman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Girls of Riyadh

Rajaa Alsanea

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005