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The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
Katherine Howe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Gray Mountain
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Museum of Extraordinary Things
Alice Hoffman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Cane River
Lalita Tademy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Almost Moon
Alice Sebold

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Eyre Affair
Jasper Fforde

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Last Child
John Hart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Book of Strange New Things
Michel Faber

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

As a Driven Leaf
Milton Steinberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

Beautiful Losers
Leonard Cohen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

Broken for You
Stephanie Kallos

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Appeal
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Finding Nouf
Zoe Ferraris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Beatrice And Virgil
Yann Martel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Wizard of the Crow
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Shadow of the Crescent Moon
Fatima Bhutto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Be Frank With Me
Julia Claiborne Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Midnight At The Dragon Cafe
Judy Fong Bates

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Lake Wobegon Days
Garrison Keillor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

The Lifeboat
Charlotte Rogan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Boomsday
Christopher Buckley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself
Radclyffe Hall

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

The Book of Aron
Jim Shepard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Let Me Be Frank With You
Richard Ford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Distant Hours
Kate Morton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

True At First Light
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Mango Season
Amulya Malladi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Telex from Cuba
Rachel Kushner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Memory of Running
Ron McLarty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Black Dogs
Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Women of the Silk
Gail Tsukiyama

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Light on Snow
Anita Shreve

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

South of Broad
Pat Conroy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Conservationist
Nadine Gordimer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

The God of Animals
Aryn Kyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

War and Turpentine
Stefan Hertmans

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Bingo Palace
Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Bright Forever
Lee Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Three Sisters, Three Queens
Philippa Gregory

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Mystic Masseur
V.S. Naipaul

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

Mama's Bank Account
Kathryn Forbes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1943

The Pale King
David Foster Wallace

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Man's Fate
Andre Malraux

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1933

Moderato Cantabile
Marguerite Duras

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1958

Fatelessness
Imre Kertesz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Who Has Seen the Wind
W. O. Mitchell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1947

The African Queen
C. S. Forester

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1935

Notes on a Scandal
Zoë Heller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Indignation
Philip Roth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The World Made Straight
Ron Rash

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Taming of the Queen
Philippa Gregory

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Alexandria Quartet
Lawrence Durrell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

The Story of B
Daniel Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Matryona's House
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1963

Desert Places
Blake Crouch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Heat and Dust
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Fugitive Pieces
Anne Michaels

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Nanny Diaries
Nicola Kraus, Emma McLaughlin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
Thomas Keneally

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

The Line of Beauty
Alan Hollinghurst

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Breathing Lessons
Anne Tyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Assassins
Jerry B. Jenkins, Tim LaHaye

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Mandarins
Simone de Beauvoir

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1954

The Monsters of Templeton
Lauren Groff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Postmistress
Sarah Blake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Honolulu
Alan Brennert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Keepers of the House
Shirley Ann Grau

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

The Hummingbird
Stephen P. Kiernan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

One Good Dog
Susan Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Book of Chameleons
Jose Eduardo Agualusa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

As Close to Us As Breathing
Elizabeth Poliner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Life and Death are Wearing Me Out
Mo Yan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

A Place Called Freedom
Ken Follett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Children's Book
A. S. Byatt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Book of Fate
Brad Meltzer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Bonesetter's Daughter
Amy Tan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Emperor of Ice Cream
Brian Moore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

Call It Sleep
Henry Roth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

The Woman Who Walked Into Doors
Roddy Doyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Scarlet Song
Mariama Ba

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

Possessing the Secret of Joy
Alice Walker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

A Piece of the World
Christina Baker Kline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Herzog
Saul Bellow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

The Association of Small Bombs
Karan Mahajan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Stones From the River
Ursula Hegi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Shock of the Fall
Nathan Filer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Started Early, Took my Dog
Kate Atkinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Horse Whisperer
Nicholas Evans

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Whiskey Rebels
David Liss

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
Heinrich Böll

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

The School of Essential Ingredients
Erica Bauermeister

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

James Bond
Ian Fleming

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

The Care and Management of Lies
Jacqueline Winspear

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Eat the Document
Dana Spiotta

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Memory of Love
Aminatta Forna

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Funny Girl
Nick Hornby

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Rock of Tanios
Amin Maalouf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The Book of Memory
Petina Gappah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Last Ballad
Wiley Cash

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Children of the New World
Alexander Weinstein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016