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The Art of Deception

Stephanie Burgis

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2013

The Cutting Season

Attica Locke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Girl Who Played Go

Shan Sa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Pleasure of My Company

Steve Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Shattered

Jay Bonansinga

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Dress Lodger

Sheri Holman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Hondo

Louis L'Amour

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

Tobacco Road

Erskine Caldwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1932

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

Ben Fountain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Gilded Age

Claire Mcmillan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Gate to Women's Country

Sheri S. Tepper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Kitchen God's Wife

Amy Tan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Walden Two

B. F. Skinner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1948

The Manchurian Candidate

Richard Condon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

Other Voices, Other Rooms

Truman Capote

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1948

On Chesil Beach

Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Surrounded

D'Arcy Mcnickle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1936

Absolution

Patrick Flanery

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Promise

Ann Weisgarber

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Fig Orchard

Layla Fiske

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Thirteen Ways of Looking

Colum McCann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Gertrude and Claudius

John Updike

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

A Thread of Grace

Mary Doria Russell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Rabbit at Rest

John Updike

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Shadows on the Rock

Willa Cather

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1931

The Book of Merlyn

T. H. White

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

The Eye in the Door

Pat Barker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish

David Rakoff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Story of Lucy Gault

William Trevor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Wedding

Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Doomsday Book

Connie Willis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Bleeding Edge: A Novel

Thomas Pynchon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Centaur

John Updike

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

Closer

Dennis Cooper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Corelli's Mandolin

Louis De Bernières

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Douglas Adams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Dollmaker

Harriette Simpson Arnow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1954

Fields of Fire: A Novel

James Webb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

King Rat

China Miéville

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Last Man In Tower

Aravind Adiga

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Mort

Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Next: A Novel

James Hynes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Nutshell: A Novel

Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

On a Pale Horse

Piers Anthony

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

One For The Money

Janet Evanovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Animal Dreams

Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Tortilla Flat

John Steinbeck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1935

Skinwalkers

Tony Hillerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

The Brethren

John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Constant Princess

Philippa Gregory

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Financial Lives of the Poets

Jess Walter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The North Water: A Novel

Ian Mcguire

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Slaughterhouse

Carla H. Krueger

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2009

The Rum Diary: A Novel

Hunter S. Thompson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Testament of Mary

Colm Tóibín

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Ambush

James O. Born, James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Nightwoods

Charles Frazier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Cyclops

Clive Cussler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Under the Skin: A Novel

James Carlos Blake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Faceless Killers

Henning Mankell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Ghost World

Daniel Clowes

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Life, the Universe and Everything

Douglas Adams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Montana

Gwen Florio

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Cement Garden

Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

Maya's Notebook: A Novel

Isabel Allende

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Blackout

John J. Nance

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Etta and Otto and Russell and James

Emma Hooper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Refuge

Dot Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Portable Beat Reader

Ann Charters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Drowning Ruth

Christina Schwarz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

Ernest J. Gaines

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

The Last Juror

John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Sand Dollar

Sebastian Cole

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Zero

Jess Walter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Force

Don Winslow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Not in the Heart

Chris Fabry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Goodnight!

Andrei Sinyavsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

The Appointment

Herta Müller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

It was Only a Kiss

Joss Wood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Walkin' the Dog

Walter Mosley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Polar Star

Martin Cruz Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Staring at the Sun

Julian Barnes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Seeing Things

Seamus Heaney

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1991

Little Gods

Meng Jin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

When We Were Vikings

Andrew David MacDonald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Farm

Joanne Ramos

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Last Kiss

Luanne Rice

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

No Place Like Rome

Julie Moffett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Charm City

Laura Lippman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Too Good to Be True

Kristan Higgins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Piece of My Heart

Peter Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

How to Misbehave

Ruthie Knox

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Beaufort

Ron Leshem

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Brimstone

Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Sophie and the Rising Sun

Augusta Trobaugh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Changeover

Margaret Mahy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Hoodwink

Bill Pronzini

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

Horses of God

Mahi Binebine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

A Stranger Among Us

Stacy Bierlein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

End Times at Ridgemont High

Ian Welke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021