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Look Again

Lisa Scottoline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

White Shark

Peter Benchley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

Old Filth

Jane Gardam

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Debt of Honor

Tom Clancy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Secrets to the Grave

Tami Hoag

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Patriot Threat

Steve Berry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Second Chance Summer

Morgan Matson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Work of Wolves

Kent Meyers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Waiting

Ha Jin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Affair

C. P. Snow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

The Big Bad Wolf

James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust

Alan Bradley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Concealed in Death

J. D. Robb (Nora Roberts)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Festival of Insignificance

Milan Kundera

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

V is for Vengeance

Sue Grafton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

A Graveyard for Lunatics

Ray Bradbury

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

The Girl in the Red Coat

Kate Hamer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Wrong Mother

Sophie Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Selection Day

Aravind Adiga

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Purity in Death

J. D. Robb (Nora Roberts)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

David Mitchell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Prague Cemetery

Umberto Eco

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Violets Are Blue

James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Crazed

Ha Jin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Bitter Season

Tami Hoag

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Hammer of Eden

Ken Follett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Four Blind Mice

James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Good People

Marcus Sakey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Overton Window

Glenn Beck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Star of the Sea

Joseph O'Connor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Janissary Tree

Jason Goodwin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Pocket Wife

Susan Crawford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Coffin Dancer

Jeffery Deaver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Divided in Death

J. D. Robb (Nora Roberts)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Lost in Translation

Nicole Mones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Mephisto Club

Tess Gerritsen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Lie Down with Lions

Ken Follett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

The Silver Pigs

Lindsey Davis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

The Inexplicable Logic of My Life

Benjamin Saenz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

Vladimir Nabokov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1941

The Forgotten Man

Robert Crais

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Dragonsdawn

Anne McCaffrey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Highwire Moon

Susan Straight

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Inhabited Woman

Gioconda Belli

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Point Omega

Don DeLillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Journey to Munich

Jacqueline Winspear

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

A Parchment of Leaves

Silas House

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Roses Are Red

James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Glory Road

Robert A. Heinlein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

Only Daughter

Anna Snoekstra

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Deep River

Shusaku Endo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Elizabeth Costello

J. M. Coetzee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Matigari

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Next to Normal

Brian Yorkey

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 2008

Vinegar Girl

Anne Tyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

A Most Wanted Man

John le Carré

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Time in Between

David Bergen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

A Heart So White

Javier Marías

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

A Pigeon and a Boy

Meir Shalev

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

An Officer and a Spy

Robert Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Briefing for a Descent Into Hell

Doris Lessing

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

A Stranger is Watching

Mary Higgins Clark

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

Cockroach

Rawi Hage

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Poe Shadow

Matthew Pearl

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Valhalla Rising

Clive Cussler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

If Only It Were True

Marc Levy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Jam on the Vine

Lashonda Katrice Barnett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Death is a Lonely Business

Ray Bradbury

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Second Life

S. J. Watson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Sacred Clowns

Tony Hillerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Me and Orson Welles

Robert Kaplow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Murder on a Kibbutz

Batya Gur

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

The Fifth Witness

Michael Connelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Survivor in Death

J. D. Robb (Nora Roberts)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

One Minute to Midnight

Nico Rosso

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Lucky Jim

Kingsley Amis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1954

Safely Home

Randy Alcorn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Saffron Dreams

Shaila M. Abdullah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Samarkand

Amin Maalouf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Scar Tissue

Michael Ignatieff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Cold Sassy Tree

Olive Ann Burns

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

The Ash Garden

Dennis Bock

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Big Over Easy

Jasper Fforde

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Blood of Flowers

Anita Amirrezvani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Book of the Dun Cow

Walter Wangerin Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

The Brief History of the Dead

Kevin Brockmeier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein

Peter Ackroyd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Spill Simmer Falter Wither

Sara Baume

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Perfume Collector

Kathleen Tessaro

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Dead Fathers Club

Matt Haig

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Distant Marvels

Chantel Acevedo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Driver's Seat

Muriel Spark

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1970

The 13th Valley

John M. Del Vecchio

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

The Kindness of Enemies

Leila Aboulela

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Ground Beneath Her Feet

Salman Rushdie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

BZRK

Michael Grant

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Last Policeman

Ben H. Winters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Last Sin Eater

Francine Rivers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Laughing Policeman

Maj Sjöwall, Per Wahlöö

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

Where They Found Her

Kimberly McCreight

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015