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The iCandidate

Mikael Carlson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Silk

Alessandro Baricco

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1996

Varina

Charles Frazier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Cape May

Chip Cheek

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Light from Other Stars

Erika Swyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Shadow Dancer

Margaret Coel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Figures of Enchantment

Zulfikar Ghose

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

A Gift for Tenderness

Peggy Webb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The Daughter

Pavlos Matesis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Sunday Jews

Hortense Calisher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

Dead in Center Field

Paul Engleman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The Other Side of Silence

Ted Allbeury

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

The Lies That Bind

Judith Van Gieson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Shards

Ismet Prcic

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Voyeur

Daniel Judson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Songs for the New Depression

Kergan Edwards-Stout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Mozart's Sister

Nancy Moser

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Land Mines

Sheilah Vance

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Living End

Lisa Samson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Amateur

Robert Littell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

Love on the Dotted Line

David E. Talbert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

To Siberia

Per Petterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Butler Did It

Kasey Michaels

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Unraveled

C.J. Barry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Building Stories

Chris Ware

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Our Daily Bread

Lauren B. Davis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Someone to Watch Over Me

Lisa Kleypas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Hard Man of the Swings

Jeanne Willis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Rachel Papers

Martin Amis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

Tik-Tok

John Sladek

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Ducks, Newburyport

Lucy Ellmann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Anonymous

Christine Benedict

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Starting Out in the Evening

Brian Morton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Free World

David Bezmozgis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Styx

Jonathon King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The White King

György Dragomán

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

White Dog

Peter Temple

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

You Can't Stop Me

Max Allan Collins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Arctic Summer

Damon Galgut

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Dark Universe

Daniel F. Galouye

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

Ed King

David Guterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Happy are the Happy

Yasmina Reza

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Just a Kiss

Denise Hunter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Last Friends

Jane Gardam

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

On Borrowed Time

Lawrence Edward Watkin

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1938

Sombrero Fallout

Richard Brautigan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Afghanistan

Alex Ullmann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Green: The Light Within

S.M. Huggins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Moving Day

Terence Young

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 2021

Learning Curve

Rachel Spangler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Houseguest

Thomas Berger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

The Cloning of Joanna May

Franklin Birkinshaw

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Rain Village

Carolyn Turgeon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

To Swallow the Earth

Ransom Wilcox

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Closet

R.D. Zimmerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Des Hommes

Laurent Mauvignier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Good Neighbors

Ryan David Jahn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Winter in Wartime

Jan Terlouw

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

The Fakir

Sunil Gangopadhyay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Glamour

Christopher Priest

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Wrinkles

Charles Simmons

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

Finding Emilie

Laurel Corona

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Flight Portfolio

Julie Orringer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Guest Book

Sarah Blake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Bride Test

Helen Hoang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Forgive Me

Amanda Eyre Ward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Abby

Verna Clay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Last

Hanna Jameson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The White Lie

Andrea Gillies

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Song Is You

Arthur Phillips

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Sworn Virgin

Elvira Dones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Leisure Seeker

Michael Zadoorian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Gospel of Judas

Simon Mawer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Whitegirl

Kate Manning

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Feast Your Eyes

Myla Goldberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Ragged Edge of Night

Olivia Hawker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Kill Hole

Jamake Highwater

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

Cantoras

Carolina De Robertis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Courting Mr. Lincoln

Louis Bayard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The New Yorkers

Cathleen Schine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

For the Clan

Archer Kay Leah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

No Survivors

Tom Cain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Hill of Evil Counsel

Amos Oz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Human Capital

Stephen Amidon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Silver Swan

Elena Delbanco

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Cleanness

Garth Greenwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Weather

Jenny Offill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

What Will People Say?

Rehana Rossouw

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Box Man

Kōbō Abe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

Watching TV with the Red Chinese

Luke Whisnant

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Blue Calhoun

Reynolds Price

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Act of God

Jeremiah Healy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

But That Was Yesterday

Kathleen Eagle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Lovers Leap

J.L. Merrow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

New Times

Rehana Rossouw

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Loverboy

Victoria Redel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Golden Mean

Annabel Lyon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Hope Springs

Lynne Hinton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

White Lies

Jeremy Bates

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Kiss Me First

Lottie Moggach

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013