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A Slight Trick of the Mind

Mitch Cullin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Blaze

Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Cards on the Table

Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1936

Cradle and All

James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

Crow Talk

Eileen Garvin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Focus

Arthur Miller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

Gardens in the Dunes

Leslie Marmon Silko

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Glory

NoViolet Bulawayo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Little, Big

John Crowley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

Planet of the Apes

Pierre Boulle, Transl. Xan Fielding

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

River Thieves

Michael Crummey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Roadwork

Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

The Beautiful Ones

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Sword at Sunset

Rosemary Sutcliff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

Abaddon's Gate

James S. A. Corey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Europe Central

William T. Vollmann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

A Little Hatred

Joe Abercrombie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Sleeping Beauties

Owen King, Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Dreamcatcher

Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

10:04

Ben Lerner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Apt Pupil

Stephen King

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1982

As for Me and My House

Sinclair Ross

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1941

Family

J. California Cooper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Farewell My Concubine

Lilian Lee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Flight to Canada

Ishmael Reed

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Four Souls

Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Gwendy's Final Task

Richard Chizmar, Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Half a Life

V. S. Naipaul

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

My Uncle Oswald

Roald Dahl

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

The Book Club Hotel

Sarah Morgan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Colorado Kid

Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Deep Dark Descending

Allen Eskens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Legacy

Elle Kennedy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Morning Star

Karl Ove Knausgård

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Other Typist

Suzanne Rindell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Ship of Fools

Katherine Anne Porter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

Spellbound

Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2005

The Barracks Thief

Tobias Wolff

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1986

The Mirror House Girls

Faith Gardner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Mouse on the Mile

Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Years

Virginia Woolf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1937

Matchmaking for Beginners

Maddie Dawson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Heavenbreaker

Sara Wolf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Running Grave

Robert Galbraith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Skull Beneath the Skin

P. D. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

The Sun Dog

Stephen King

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1990

Thinner

Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Unnatural Exposure

Patricia Cornwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Untamed Shore

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Where the Air Is Clear

Carlos Fuentes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

Good Spirits

B. K. Borison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

All That Is

James Salter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Crescent

Diana Abu-Jaber

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Murder Must Advertise

Dorothy L. Sayers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1933

My Notorious Life

Kate Manning

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

One With You

Sylvia Day

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Persuader

Lee Child

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Silver Nitrate

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Somewhere in France: A Novel of the Great War

Jennifer Robson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Innocent

David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Street of a Thousand Blossoms

Gail Tsukiyama

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Wind Through the Keyhole: A Dark Tower Novel

Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

To the North

Elizabeth Bowen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1932

Black House

Stephen King, Peter Straub

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

A Burnt-Out Case

Graham Greene

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

Acts of Desperation

Megan Nolan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Blockade Billy

Stephen King

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2010

He Sees You When You're Sleeping

Alta Hensley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Memory of Departure

Abdulrazak Gurnah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Mrs. Caliban

Rachel Ingalls

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Nobody's Fool

Richard Russo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Pretty Baby

Mary Kubica

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction

J. D. Salinger

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1955

Saving Emma: A Novel

Allen Eskens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Staying On

Paul Scott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

The Stranger Diaries

Elly Griffiths

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Whispers Underground

Ben Aaronovitch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Bone Crossed

Patricia Briggs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Cycle of the Werewolf

Stephen King

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1983

Dark Sisters

Kristi DeMeester

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Déjà Dead

Kathy Reichs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Catch Her If You Can

Tessa Bailey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Borne

Jeff VanderMeer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Danish Girl

David Ebershoff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Stolen Hours

Allen Eskens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Naked in Death

Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Widow

Fiona Barton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Bread and Wine

Ignazio Silone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1937

Cell

Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Last Argument of Kings

Joe Abercrombie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

L.A. Confidential

James Ellroy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Our Vicious Oaths

N. E. Davenport

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Butcher's Masquerade

Matt Dinniman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Sun House

David James Duncan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Gwendy's Magic Feather

Richard Chizmar, Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Ink Black Heart

Robert Galbraith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Langoliers

Stephen King

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1990

The Prestige

Christopher Priest

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Lost Metal

Brandon Sanderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

Matt Dinniman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023