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The Cardinal of the Kremlin
Tom Clancy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Lost Books of the Odyssey
Zachary Mason

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Residue Years
Mitchell S. Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Time It Never Rained
Elmer Kelton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

Taste of Salt
Frances Temple

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Appointment in Samarra
John O'Hara

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

The White Bone
Barbara Gowdy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Lucy
Jamaica Kincaid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

You Never Can Tell
Kathleen Eagle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

You Will Know Me
Megan Abbott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Day of the Locust
Nathanael West

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

Gold Fame Citrus
Claire Vaye Watkins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Gun, with Occasional Music
Jonathan Lethem

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith
Gina B. Nahai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Shadow Tag
Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Love Story
Erich Segal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
Michael Dorris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Raw Shark Texts
Steven Hall

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

One-Way
Didier Van Cauwelaert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Whistling in the Dark
Tamara Allen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Digital Fortress
Dan Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Nights in Rodanthe
Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Omon Ra
Victor Pelevin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Robopocalypse
Daniel H. Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Assistant
Bernard Malamud

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

Shelter
Jung Yun

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Freshwater Road
Denise Nicholas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

A Song of Ice and Fire
George R. R. Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Mistaken Identity
Alyssa J. Montgomery

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Dressmaker
Beryl Bainbridge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

The Book of Essie
Meghan MacLean Weir

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Green
Sam Graham-Felsen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

A Death in the Family
James Agee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

Kane and Abel
Jeffrey Archer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

Bellweather Rhapsody
Kate Racculia

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Sunset Song
Lewis Grassic Gibbon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1932

From a Buick 8
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Under the Net
Iris Murdoch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1954

Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
Chris Ware

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2000

The King Must Die
Mary Renault

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

The House That Lou Built
Mae Respicio

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Fixer
Bernard Malamud

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

Birds Without Wings
Louis De Bernières

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

When the Legends Die
Hal Borland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

The Length of a String
Elissa Brent Weissman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Money
Martin Amis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Possession
A. S. Byatt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Burning Midnight
Loren D. Estleman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Khirbet Khizeh
S. Yizhar

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1949

The Double Bind
Chris Bohjalian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Last Town On Earth
Thomas Mullen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Rescue
Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Canada
Richard Ford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Story Of Beautiful Girl
Rachel Simon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Twentieth Wife
Indu Sundaresan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Downriver
Iain Sinclair

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

My Name is Mary Sutter
Robin Oliveira

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Radetzky March
Joseph Roth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1932

Floating in My Mother's Palm
Ursula Hegi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Pope Joan
Donna Woolfolk Cross

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
Walter Mosley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

The Casual Vacancy
J. K. Rowling

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Morality Play
Barry Unsworth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

No One is Coming to Save Us
Stephanie Powell Watts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Another Man's Moccasins
Craig Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Red Sparrow
Jason Matthews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Night Gardener
George Pelecanos

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

High Noon
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Hocus Pocus
Teresa Roblin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

PS, I Love You
Cecelia Ahern

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Five Quarters of the Orange
Joanne Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree
Tariq Ali

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Whose Names Are Unknown
Sanora Babb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The River Why
David James Duncan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Adrift: A Mer Cavallo Mystery
Micki Browning

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

We Love You, Charlie Freeman
Kaitlyn Greenidge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Cosmopolis
Don DeLillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Family of Pascual Duarte
Camilo José Cela

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1942

Transit
Abdourahman A. Waberi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Endymion
Dan Simmons

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

The First Phone Call from Heaven
Mitch Albom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
Gregory Maguire

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Cal
Bernard Maclaverty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Chesapeake
James Michener

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

Citizen Tom Paine
Howard Fast

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1943

In Search of Lost Time
Stéphane Heuet

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 1998

South of the Border, West of the Sun
Haruki Murakami

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Difference Engine
Bruce Sterling, William Gibson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

The Land of Green Plums
Herta Müller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Songs of Willow Frost
Jamie Ford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Book of the Dead
Greig Beck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Art of Love
A.B. Michaels

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

47 Ronin
Mike Richardson

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 1994

From Here to Eternity
James Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

Contact
Susan Grant

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Once Upon a River
Bonnie Jo Campbell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Shades of Grey
Jasper Fforde

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Chaneysville Incident
David Bradley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

Bombingham
Anthony Grooms

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Kreutzer Sonata
Margriet De Moor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993