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Innocent Erendira

Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1972

In Her Shoes

Jennifer Weiner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Commitments

Roddy Doyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Tom Robbins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Sweetness in the Belly

Camilla Gibb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Affinity

Sarah Waters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Clay's Quilt

Silas House

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Lost City Radio

Daniel Alarcon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Every Man Dies Alone

Hans Fallada

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1947

The Well and the Mine

Gin Phillips

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

To Say Nothing of the Dog

Connie Willis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Mink River

Brian Doyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

When Will There Be Good News?

Kate Atkinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

A Secret Kept

Tatiana de Rosnay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

A Patch of Blue

Elizabeth Kata

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

On Canaan's Side

Sebastian Barry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

TransAtlantic

Colum McCann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Jonah's Gourd Vine

Zora Neale Hurston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

Think Like a Dinosaur

James Patrick Kelly

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1995

A Dog Named Christmas

Greg Kincaid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Young Lions

Irwin Shaw

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1948

The Blazing World

Siri Hustvedt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Tell Me Your Dreams

Sidney Sheldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Natchez Burning

Greg Iles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Dream House

Valerie Laken

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Echo Burning

Lee Child

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Color of Law

Mark Gimenez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Sound of Things Falling

Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Betrayal

Helen Dunmore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

WWW: Wake

Robert J. Sawyer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Bone Tree

Greg Iles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

School Days

Patrick Chamoiseau

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Good As Gone

Amy Gentry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Dance Hall Of The Dead

Tony Hillerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

By the Light of My Father's Smile

Alice Walker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Forty Words For Sorrow

Giles Blunt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Enchanted

Rene Denfeld

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Dante Club

Matthew Pearl

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Proof of Heaven

Mary Curran Hackett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Exposure

Helen Dunmore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

When the Killing's Done

T.C. Boyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Poland

James A. Michener

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Admission

Jean Hanff Korelitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Gone

Mo Hayder

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Achilles

Elizabeth Cook

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Executive

Piers Anthony

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Pleasantville

Attica Locke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Day the Cowboys Quit

Elmer Kelton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio

Amara Lakhous

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Easter Island

Jennifer Vanderbes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Be Careful What You Wish For

Jeffrey Archer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Enemy Of The State

Vince Flynn, Kyle Mills

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Woman Upstairs

Claire Messud

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The House Of Silk

Anthony Horowitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Do Not Become Alarmed

Maile Meloy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Last Mile

David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

A Thief Of Time

Tony Hillerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Weight of Silence

Heather Gudenkauf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Loney

Andrew Michael Hurley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Calico Joe

John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Ice Twins

S.K. Tremayne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Death In The Andes

Mario Vargas Llosa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Eyes Of The Emperor

Graham Salisbury

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Everyone Brave Is Forgiven

Chris Cleave

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

A Reliable Wife

Robert Goolrick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Auschwitz Escape

Joel C. Rosenberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Norwegian By Night

Derek B. Miller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Star Side of Bird Hill

Naomi Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

A Walk Across The Sun

Corban Addison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Peony In Love

Lisa See

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Imperfectionists

Tom Rachman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Let Me Die In His Footsteps

Lori Roy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Light In The Ruins

Chris Bohjalian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Wild at Heart

Patricia Gaffney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Black and Blue

Anna Quindlen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Last Night at the Lobster

Stewart O'Nan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Loving Day

Mat Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Last Man Standing

David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Third and Indiana

Steve Lopez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Fifth Gospel

Ian Caldwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Every Fifteen Minutes

Lisa Scottoline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Mistress Of The Art Of Death

Ariana Franklin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Monstrous Regiment

Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

All Is Not Forgotten

Wendy Walker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Last Patriot

Brad Thor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Leaving the Atocha Station

Ben Lerner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

W Is for Wasted

Sue Grafton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Hamilton Affair

Elizabeth Cobbs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Sea Captain's Wife

Beth Powning

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Frog Music

Emma Donoghue

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Red Necklace

Sally Gardner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Madonnas of Leningrad

Debra Dean

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

B Is for Burglar

Sue Grafton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Zeroboxer

Fonda Lee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

All the Birds in the Sky

Charlie Jane Anders

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Drop

Michael Connelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Enter Three Witches

Caroline B. Cooney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Girl Waits with Gun

Amy Stewart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Beach Trees

Karen White

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Revelation

C. J. Sansom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008