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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'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 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
William Gibson, Bruce Sterling

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 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

The Enigma of Arrival
V.S. Naipaul

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Executioner's Song
Norman Mailer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

The Eye in the Door
Pat Barker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The Eyre Affair
Jasper Fforde

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Fade Out
Ed Brubaker

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Fakir
Sunil Gangopadhyay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Family of Pascual Duarte
Camilo José Cela

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1942

The Farm
Joanne Ramos

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Feast of Love
Charles Baxter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Female Man
Joanna Russ

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

The Female Persuasion
Meg Wolitzer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Feral Detective
Jonathan Lethem

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Festival of Insignificance
Milan Kundera

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Fifth Child
Doris Lessing

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Fifth Gospel
Ian Caldwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Fifth Mountain
Paulo Coelho

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Fifth Witness
Michael Connelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Fig Orchard
Layla Fiske

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Financial Lives of the Poets
Jess Walter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Finkler Question
Howard Jacobson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010