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Loving

Henry Green

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

The Bird Artist

Howard Norman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Girl Who Could Fly

Victoria Forester

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

What We Lose

Zinzi Clemmons

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Where the Line Bleeds

Jesmyn Ward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Santa Evita

Tomás Eloy Martínez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Comfort Woman

Nora Okja Keller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

The Berlin Stories

Christopher Isherwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

The Ginger Man

J. P. Donleavy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

The Waiting Years

Fumiko Enchi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty

Ramona Ausubel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Heat Wave

Richard Castle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

In the Company of the Courtesan

Sarah Dunant

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Gilded Years

Karin Tanabe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Sexing the Cherry

Jeanette Winterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

The Stars My Destination

Alfred Bester

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1956

Mostly Harmless

Douglas Adams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Serena

Ron Rash

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Startide Rising

David Brin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

The Lace Reader

Brunonia Barry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Lady Macbeth

Susan Fraser King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Dodger

Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Fontamara

Ignazio Silone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1933

Kallocain

Karin Boye

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1940

White Tears

Hari Kunzru

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Young Jane Young

Gabrielle Zevin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Above Us Only Sky

Michele Young-Stone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

A Case of Exploding Mangoes

Mohammed Hanif

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Eagle Has Landed

Jack Higgins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Lady Oracle

Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

On Black Sisters Street

Chika Unigwe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Dog Soldiers

Robert Stone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

My Brother Jack

George Johnston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

Scoop

Evelyn Waugh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1938

The Lazarus Project

Aleksandar Hemon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Man Who Loved Children

Christina Stead

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1940

A Dance to the Music of Time

Anthony Powell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

Welcome to Braggsville

T. Geronimo Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Alex Cross

James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Austenland

Shannon Hale

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Zero K

Don DeLillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Chasing the Valley

Skye Melki-Wegner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Sent for You Yesterday

John Edgar Wideman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

The Invisible Bridge

Julie Orringer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

When She Woke

Hillary Jordan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Embassytown

China Mieville

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Blue Lily, Lily Blue

Maggie Stiefvater

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Atlantis Plague

A.G. Riddle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

A Friend of the Earth

T.C. Boyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Armada

Ernest Cline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Deception Point

Dan Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Sleeping Giants

Sylvain Neuvel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

A Fire Upon the Deep

Vernor Vinge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Sword of Truth

Terry Goodkind

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Mila 18

Leon Uris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

The Gargoyle

Andrew Davidson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Midnight Crossroad

Charlaine Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

A Gracious Plenty

Sheri Reynolds

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Children of Gebelawi

Naguib Mahfouz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

The House on the Strand

Daphne du Maurier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

League of Dragons

Naomi Novik

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Autumn Republic

Brian McClellan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Delta Wedding

Eudora Welty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1946

The Sound of the Mountain

Yasunari Kawabata

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1954

The Space Between Us

Zoya Pirzad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Unique

Alison Allen-Gray

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Perdido Street Station

China Mieville

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Peach Keeper

Sarah Addison Allen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Voices in the City

Anita Desai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

Underground Airlines

Ben H. Winters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Girl Who Chased the Moon

Sarah Addison Allen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse

Robert Rankin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Calculating God

Robert J. Sawyer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Radiance of Tomorrow

Ishmael Beah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Scorpion Rules

Erin Bow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

A Crucible of Souls

Mitchell Hogan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Supernaturalist

Eoin Colfer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Friday Night Knitting Club

Kate Jacobs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Andersonville

MacKinlay Kantor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

Coming Through Slaughter

Michael Ondaatje

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

The Wedding Date

Jasmine Guillory

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Point Blank

Anthony Horowitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Bottle Factory Outing

Beryl Bainbridge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

The Unconsoled

Kazuo Ishiguro

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

A Soldier of the Great War

Mark Helprin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Mona in the Promised Land

Gish Jen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

City of Lost Souls

Cassandra Clare

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Blood and Chocolate

Annette Curtis Klause

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Amy and Isabelle

Elizabeth Strout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Lucky Boy

Shanthi Sekaran

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Ponder Heart

Eudora Welty

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1954

The Last Temptation of Christ

Nikos Kazantzakis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

Life's Golden Ticket

Brendon Burchard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Choke

Chuck Palahniuk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Makioka Sisters

Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1943

The Last Thing I Remember

Andrew Klavan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Laughter in the Dark

Vladimir Nabokov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1932

Desperate Characters

Paula Fox

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden

Jonas Jonasson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

City on Fire

Garth Risk Hallberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015