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The Queen's Fortune
Allison Pataki

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Rules of Attraction
Bret Easton Ellis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Undomestic Goddess
Sophie Kinsella

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Wingman
Stephanie Archer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Thornhedge
T. Kingfisher

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2023

To Sir Phillip, With Love
Julia Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Two Thousand Seasons
Ayi Kwei Armah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

Very Valentine
Adriana Trigiani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

When He Was Wicked
Julia Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Where the Grass Is Green and the Girls Are Pretty
Lauren Weisberger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Why Didn't They Ask Evans
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

Worth Fighting For
Jesse Q. Sutanto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Eights
Joanna Miller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Given Day
Dennis Lehane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Starlight
Richard Wagamese

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Time in Between
María Dueñas, Transl. Daniel Hahn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Desperation
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Tommyknockers
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Best Served Cold
Joe Abercrombie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

This Inevitable Ruin
Matt Dinniman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

House of Suns
Alastair Reynolds

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Nemesis Games
James S. A. Corey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Best Man
Malcolm D. Lee, Jayne Allen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Chemist
Stephenie Meyer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Against the Day
Thomas Pynchon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Absolution
Jeff VanderMeer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Abundance
Jakob Guanzon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

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