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Hild
Nicola Griffith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Independence
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Universality
Natasha Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Language of Sycamores
Lisa Wingate

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Redbreast
Jo Nesbø

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Hell House
Richard Matheson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

Otherwise Engaged
Susan Mallery

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Artist
Lucy Steeds

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Cockroaches
Jo Nesbø

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Descent
Tim Johnston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

In One Person
John Irving

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Break-In
Katherine Faulkner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Last Russian Doll
Kristen Loesch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Seven Days of Us
Francesca Hornak

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

A Love Like the Sun
Riss M. Neilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Four Squares
Bobby Finger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Noor
Nnedi Okorafor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Bat
Jo Nesbø

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter
Heather Fawcett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

The Club Dumas
Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The Busybody Book Club
Freya Sampson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

These High, Green Hills
Jan Karon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Under the Stars
Beatriz Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Lion & Lamb
Duane Swierczynski, James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Chasing Shelter
Catherine Cowles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Lost in Time
A. G. Riddle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Sunflower Sisters
Martha Hall Kelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

When I Kill You
B. A. Paris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

House of Bone and Rain
Gabino Iglesias

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Wife
Meg Wolitzer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Not Safe for Work
Nisha J. Tuli

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Fifty Fifty
Steve Cavanagh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Strange Folk
Alli Dyer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Beasts of a Little Land
Juhea Kim

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Gray Man
Mark Greaney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Group
Mary Mccarthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

Banal Nightmare
Halle Butler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Blood Ties
Jo Nesbø

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret
Benjamin Stevenson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Alternatives
Caoilinn Hughes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

And There He Kept Her
Joshua Moehling

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Starving Saints
Caitlin Starling

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
Noor Naga

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Stardust Grail
Yume Kitasei

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Bookshop
Penelope Fitzgerald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

In This Mountain
Jan Karon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Wolf Hour
Jo Nesbø

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

The 1 Lawyer
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Sittaford Mystery
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1931

Confessions of the Dead
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Retirement Plan
Sue Hincenbergs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

A Case of Need
Michael Crichton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

The Society of Unknowable Objects
Gareth Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Bloomsbury Girls
Natalie Jenner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

33 Place Brugmann
Alice Austen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Book of Phoenix
Nnedi Okorafor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Gone for Good
Harlan Coben

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Tending Roses
Lisa Wingate

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Snow
John Banville

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

His Majesty's Dragon
Naomi Novik

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

A Light in the Window
Jan Karon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

She Who Knows
Nnedi Okorafor

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2024

Out to Canaan
Jan Karon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

The Bone Collector
Jeffery Deaver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

He Falls First
Jill Shalvis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

All the Lives We Never Lived
Anuradha Roy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Daughters' War
Christopher Buehlman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The First Four Years
Laura Ingalls Wilder

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

The Ex Talk
Rachel Lynn Solomon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Deal Breaker
Harlan Coben

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Forgotten Book Club
Kate Storey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Bone Shard Daughter
Andrea Stewart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina
Zoraida Córdova

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Across the Vanishing Sky
Catherine Cowles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

The Underground Library
Jennifer Ryan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Vengeance of Mothers
Jim Fergus

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Star Shipped
Cat Sebastian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

You Had Me at Hola
Alexis Daria

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

I Almost Forgot About You
Terry McMillan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

On Wings of Blood
Briar Boleyn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Immaculate Conception
Ling Ling Huang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Great Mann
Kyra Davis Lurie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Two Lives of Lydia Bird
Josie Silver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Secret Lives of Murderers' Wives
Elizabeth Arnott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

The Summer Wives
Beatriz Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

See How They Run
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

The Red Winter
Cameron Sullivan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Those Across the River
Christopher Buehlman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Masquerade
O. O. Sangoyomi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Killing Moon
Jo Nesbø

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Lake Effect
Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Kill Your Darlings
Peter Swanson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Impossible Thing
Belinda Bauer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Knife
Jo Nesbø

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

What Does It Feel Like?
Sophie Kinsella

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Graceless Heart
Isabel Ibañez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Murder Is Easy
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

Just for the Cameras
Meghan Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

The 24th Hour
James Patterson, Maxine Paetro

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1940