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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

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

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

Throne of Secrets
Kerri Maniscalco

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

A Box Full of Darkness
Simone St. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Dream Girl Drama
Tessa Bailey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

God of War
Rina Kent

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Regulators
Richard Bachman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Hawksmoor
Peter Ackroyd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

The White Book
Han Kang, Transl. Deborah Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Desertion
Abdulrazak Gurnah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Sunlight on a Broken Column
Attia Hosain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

The Tale of the Body Thief
Anne Rice

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Love Arranged
Lauren Asher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Au Pair Affair
Tessa Bailey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Casanova
T. L. Swan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Cat Who Could Read Backwards
Lilian Jackson Braun

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

The Forget-Me-Not Library
Heather Webber

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Last One
Rachel Howzell Hall

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Summer Children
Dot Hutchison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Viper
Brad Meltzer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

The Visitor
Lee Child

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Wild Card
Stephanie Archer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Woom
Duncan Ralston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Straight Man
Richard Russo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Edgedancer
Brandon Sanderson

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2016

The Nightshade God
Hannah Whitten

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

In America
Susan Sontag

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Summer House
Brendan DuBois, James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Dark Half
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Aftertaste
Daria Lavelle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Watching Over Her
Jean-Baptiste Andrea

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

The Blonde Who Came in From the Cold
Ally Carter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Cat Dragon
Samantha Birch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Evil Bones
Kathy Reichs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun
Elle Cosimano

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice
Elle Cosimano

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Five Little Pigs
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1942

Frenchman's Creek
Daphne du Maurier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1941

Love and Ruin: A Novel
Paula McLain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Memorial
Bryan Washington

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

More Than You'll Ever Know
Katie Gutierrez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Paranoia
James Patterson, James O. Born

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Still Life With Bread Crumbs
Anna Quindlen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014