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The Book of Names: New and Selected Poems

Barton Sutter

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1993

The Book of Saladin

Tariq Ali

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Book of Strange New Things

Michel Faber

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Book of the Dun Cow

Walter Wangerin Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

The Book of You

Claire Kendal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Boston Girl

Anita Diamant

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Bottle Factory Outing

Beryl Bainbridge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

The Box Man

Kōbō Abe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

The Boys in the Trees

Mary Swan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Boys of Winter

Wilfrid Sheed

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

The Brethren

John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Bride Price

Buchi Emecheta

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

The Bride Test

Helen Hoang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Brief History of the Dead

Kevin Brockmeier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Bright Forever

Lee Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Brothers K

David James Duncan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Burgess Boys

Elizabeth Strout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Burning Girl

Claire Messud

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Bushwhacked Piano

Thomas McGuane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

The Butcher Boy

Patrick Mccabe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Butler Did It

Kasey Michaels

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Caine Mutiny

Herman Wouk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

The Camel Bookmobile

Masha Hamilton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Cardinal of the Kremlin

Tom Clancy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Care and Management of Lies

Jacqueline Winspear

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein

Peter Ackroyd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Casual Vacancy

J. K. Rowling

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Cement Garden

Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

The Centaur

John Updike

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

The Chamber

John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Chaneysville Incident

David Bradley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

The Changeover

Margaret Mahy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

Thomas Keneally

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

The Chatham School Affair

Thomas H. Cook

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Chemistry of Tears

Peter Carey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Child

Fiona Barton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Child in Time

Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Children Act

Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Children's Book

A. S. Byatt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Circus in Winter

Cathy Day

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Cloning of Joanna May

Franklin Birkinshaw

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

The Cloven Viscount

Italo Calvino

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1952

The Coffin Dancer

Jeffery Deaver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Collected Works of Billy the Kid

Michael Ondaatje

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

The Colonel's Lady

Laura Frantz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Color of Law

Mark Gimenez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Comfort of Strangers

Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

The Commitments

Roddy Doyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Conservationist

Nadine Gordimer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

The Constant Gardener

John le Carré

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Constant Princess

Philippa Gregory

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Counterlife

Philip Roth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

The Country Girls

Edna O'Brien

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

The Cove

Ron Rash

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Crazed

Ha Jin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Cure for Death by Lightning

Gail Anderson-Dargatz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper

Phaedra Patrick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Cutting Season

Attica Locke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Dante Club

Matthew Pearl

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Dark Tide

Andrew Gross

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Dark Tower

Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

The Darling

Russell Banks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Daughter

Pavlos Matesis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Day of the Locust

Nathanael West

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

The Days of Abandonment

Elena Ferrante

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Day the Cowboys Quit

Elmer Kelton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

The Dead Father

Donald Barthelme

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

The Dead Fathers Club

Matt Haig

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud

Ben Sherwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Death Of The Heart

Elizabeth Bowen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1938

The Devil All the Time

Donald Ray Pollock

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Difference Engine

Bruce Sterling, William Gibson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

The Displaced Person

Flannery O'Connor

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1955

The Distant Hours

Kate Morton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Distant Marvels

Chantel Acevedo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Dogs of Babel

Carolyn Parkhurst

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Dollmaker

Harriette Simpson Arnow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1954

The Doll's House

Louise Phillips

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Double

George Pelecanos

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Double Bind

Chris Bohjalian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Dreamers

Karen Thompson Walker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Dream Lover

Elizabeth Berg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Dream of Scipio

Iain Pears

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

The Dress Lodger

Sheri Holman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Dressmaker

Beryl Bainbridge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

The Driver's Seat

Muriel Spark

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1970

The Drop

Michael Connelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Drowned World

J. G. Ballard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

The Dry Grass of August

Anna Jean Mayhew

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Eagle Has Landed

Jack Higgins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

The Egyptologist

Arthur Phillips

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Emigrants

W.G. Sebald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Emperor of Ocean Park

Stephen L. Carter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Emperor's Children

Claire Messud

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Enchanted

Rene Denfeld

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The End of Eddy

Édouard Louis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The End of the Point

Elizabeth Graver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Enemy

Lee Child

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Englishman's Boy

Guy Vanderhaeghe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The English Teacher

Yiftach Reicher Atir

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014