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Gorky Park
Martin Cruz Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

Graceland
Chris Abani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Grave Silence
Rose Beecham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Gray Mountain
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Great House
Nicole Krauss

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Green
Sam Graham-Felsen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Green on Blue
Elliot Ackerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Green: The Light Within
S.M. Huggins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Grendel's Mother: The Saga of the Wyrd-Wife
Susan Signe Morrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Group Portrait with Lady
Heinrich Böll

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

Gun, with Occasional Music
Jonathan Lethem

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Gutenberg's Apprentice
Alix Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Habibi
Craig Thompson

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Happy are the Happy
Yasmina Reza

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Harvest
Jim Crace

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Harvey
Hervé Bouchard

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Heat and Dust
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Heat Wave
Richard Castle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Helen of Troy
Margaret George

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Heloise
Mandy Hager

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Henderson the Rain King
Saul Bellow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

Here I Am
Jonathan Safran Foer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Her Fearful Symmetry
Audrey Niffenegger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Heroes of the Frontier
Dave Eggers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Herzog
Saul Bellow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

High Hearts
Rita Mae Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

High Noon
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Highwire Moon
Susan Straight

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Historias del Kronen
José Ángel Mañas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Histories of the Transgender Child
Julian Gill-Peterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Hocus Pocus
Teresa Roblin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Hollow Kingdom
Kira Jane Buxton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Home Fires
Gene Wolfe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Homer & Langley
E. L. Doctorow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Hondo
Louis L'Amour

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

Honolulu
Alan Brennert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Honor
Elif Shafak

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Hoodwink
Bill Pronzini

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

Hoops
Patricia Mclinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Hope Springs
Lynne Hinton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Horns
Joe Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Horseman, Pass By
Larry Mcmurtry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

Horses of God
Mahi Binebine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Hotel du Lac
Anita Brookner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Hotel World
Ali Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Hot Milk
Deborah Levy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

House of Names
Colm Tóibín

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

House Rules
Rachel Sontag

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

How to Be Both
Ali Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

How to Misbehave
Ruthie Knox

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

How to Read the Air
Dinaw Mengestu

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
Kiran Desai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Human Capital
Stephen Amidon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Humboldt's Gift
Saul Bellow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Hunters in the Snow
Daisy Hildyard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

I Claudius
Robert Graves

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

Icy Sparks
Gwyn Hyman Rubio

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

I Do Not Come to You by Chance
Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

I Feel Bad About My Neck
Nora Ephron

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2006

If I Die Tonight
Alison Gaylin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

If I Grow Up
Todd Strasser

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
Jon Mcgregor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

If Only It Were True
Marc Levy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
Philip K. Dick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

I Know This Much Is True
Wally Lamb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Ilustrado
Miguel Syjuco

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Imagine Me Gone
Adam Haslett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Improvement
Joan Silber

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

In a Free State
V.S. Naipaul

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

In a Strange Room
Damon Galgut

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Incendiary
Chris Cleave

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

In Custody
Anita Desai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Independent People
Halldor K Laxness

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

Indignation
Philip Roth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

In Dubious Battle
John Steinbeck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1936

In Evil Hour
Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

In Her Shoes
Jennifer Weiner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

In His Stead: A Father's War
Judith Sanders

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Inland
Tea Obreht

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Innocent Erendira
Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1972

In Search of Lost Time
Stéphane Heuet

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Inside the Black Horse
Ray Berard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

In the Company of the Courtesan
Sarah Dunant

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

In the Country of Men
Hisham Matar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

In the Heart of the Country
J. M. Coetzee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

In the Light of What We Know
Zia Haider Rahman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

I See You
Clare Mackintosh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

It was Only a Kiss
Joss Wood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Jack Maggs
Peter Carey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

James Bond
Ian Fleming

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

Jam on the Vine
Lashonda Katrice Barnett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Jane Steele
Lyndsay Faye

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Jennifer Government
Max Barry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
Chris Ware

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Jim the Boy
Tony Earley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

John Henry Days
Colson Whitehead

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Jonah's Gourd Vine
Zora Neale Hurston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

Journey to Munich
Jacqueline Winspear

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Journey to the End of the Night
Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1932

Juliet
Anne Fortier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010