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The Whiskey Rebels

David Liss

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Whispering Room

Dean Koontz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The White Bone

Barbara Gowdy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The White Boy Shuffle

Paul Beatty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The White Castle

Orhan Pamuk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

The White Hotel

D.M. Thomas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

The White King

György Dragomán

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The White Lie

Andrea Gillies

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The White Raven

Diana L. Paxson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Wife of Martin Guerre

Janet Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1941

The Winner

David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

The Winner Stands Alone

Paulo Coelho

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Winter People

John Ehle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

The Winter Vault

Anne Michaels

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Woman Upstairs

Claire Messud

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Woman Who Lost Her Soul

Bob Shacochis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Woman Who Walked Into Doors

Roddy Doyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Women

T.C. Boyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Women in the Castle

Jessica Shattuck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Women's Room

Marilyn French

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

The Words to Say It

Marie Cardinal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

The Work of Wolves

Kent Meyers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The World Made Straight

Ron Rash

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Wrong Mother

Sophie Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

They All Ran After the President's Wife

Mary Higgins Clark

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1992

The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis

José Saramago

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

The Year of the Runaways

Sunjeev Sahota

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Yiddish Policemen's Union

Michael Chabon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Young Lions

Irwin Shaw

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1948

The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession

Paulo Coelho

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Zero

Jess Walter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Zigzag Way

Anita Desai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Thief of Time

Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Think Like a Dinosaur

James Patrick Kelly

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1995

Third and Indiana

Steve Lopez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Thirteen Moons

Charles Frazier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Thirteen Ways of Looking

Colum McCann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

This Dog for Hire

Carol Lea Benjamin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

This Perfect Day

Ira Levin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

This Side of Brightness

Colum McCann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

This Time of Dying

Reina James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Those Who Save Us

Jenna Blum

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Three Dark Crowns

Kendare Blake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance

Richard Powers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Three Sisters, Three Queens

Philippa Gregory

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Tik-Tok

John Sladek

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Time Pimp

Garrett Cook

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Time's Arrow

Martin Amis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Tinderbox

Robert W. Fieseler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

To a God Unknown

John Steinbeck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1933

Tobacco Road

Erskine Caldwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1932

Toby's Room

Pat Barker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

To Capture What We Cannot Keep

Beatrice Colin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

To My Senses

Alexandrea Weis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Too Good to Be True

Kristan Higgins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Too Late the Phalarope

Alan Paton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

To Rise Again at a Decent Hour

Joshua Ferris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Tortilla Flat

John Steinbeck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1935

To Say Nothing of the Dog

Connie Willis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

To Siberia

Per Petterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

To Swallow the Earth

Ransom Wilcox

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

To the Bright Edge of the World

Eowyn Ivey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Trail of Broken Wings

Sejal Badani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Train Dreams

Denis Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Train Whistle Guitar

Albert Murray

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

TransAtlantic

Colum McCann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Transit

Abdourahman A. Waberi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Tree of Smoke

Denis Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Triangle

Teri White

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Tripmaster Monkey

Maxine Hong Kingston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Trouble on Triton

Samuel R. Delany

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

True At First Light

Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

True Grit

Charles Portis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

True History of the Kelly Gang

Peter Carey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Tulip Fever

Deborah Moggach

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Twelve

Nick McDonell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Twelve Days

Teresa Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Twenty Chickens for a Saddle

Robyn Scott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Twilight in Delhi

Ahmed Ali

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1940

Two Solitudes

Hugh Maclennan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

Salman Rushdie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Umbertina

Helen Barolini

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

Underground Airlines

Ben H. Winters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Under the Net

Iris Murdoch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1954

Under the Skin: A Novel

James Carlos Blake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

UnGuarded

Ashley Robertson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Unique

Alison Allen-Gray

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Unraveled

C.J. Barry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Until I Find You

John Irving

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Uprooted

Naomi Novik

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Us

David Nicholls

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Valhalla Rising

Clive Cussler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Varina

Charles Frazier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Veil of Roses

Laura Fitzgerald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Vernon God Little

D.B.C. Pierre

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Vinegar Girl

Anne Tyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Violets Are Blue

James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Virgil

Steve Orlando

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2020

V is for Vengeance

Sue Grafton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Visible Worlds

Marilyn Bowering

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997