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The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey by Walter Mosley

The Distant Hours by Kate Morton

Bad Marie by Marcy Dermansky

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
by David Mitchell

Chalcot Crescent by Fay Weldon

Diary of a Djinn by Gini Alhadeff

God on the Rocks by Jane Gardam

Room: A Novel by Emma Donoghue

The Widower's Tale by Julia Glass

Beneath The Marble Sky by John Shors

Bound by Antonya Nelson

To the End of the Land by David Grossman

Swallow  by Tonya Plank

The Great Bay: Chronicles of the Collapse
by Dale Pendell

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

The Golden Mean by Annabel Lyon

A Novel Bookstore by Laurence Cossé

The Homecoming Party by Carmine Abate

Stiltsville by Susanna Daniel

Beautiful Maria of My Soul by Oscar Hijuelos

My Hollywood by Mona Simpson

One Day by David Nicholls

Walks with Men by Anne Beattie

Affinity by Sarah Waters

Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich

Shadow of the Swords by Kamran Pasha

Your Presence is Requested at Suvanto by Maile Chapman

The Companion by Lorcan Roche

The Lotus Eaters  by Tatjana Soli

The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman

Last Train from Cuernavaca by Lucia St. Clair Robson

Cecilia by Linda Ferri

A Body At Rest by Susan Petrone

The California Roll by John Vorhaus

Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel

How Clarissa Burden Learned to Fly by Connie May Fowler

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Good to a Fault by Marina Endicott

Rolling the Bones by Kyle Jarrard

The Love Ceiling by Jean Davies Okimoto

The Surrendered by Chang-Rae Lee

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

Impatient with Desire by Gabrielle Burton

The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom

The Vera Wright Trilogy by Elizabeth Jolley

The Book of Jamaica by Russell Banks

Standing Still by Kelly Simmons

Three Days Before the Shooting,
The Unfinished Second Novel  by Ralph Ellison

A Field Guide to Burying Your Parents by Liza Palmer

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

The Queen's Governess by Karen Harper

The Girl with the Golden Shoes by Colin Channer

Beneath the Lion's Gaze by Maaza Mengiste

Bird in Hand by Christina Baker Kline

One Amazing Thing  by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Old Filth by Jane Gardam

The Price of Silence by Camilla Trinchieri

Lucinella by Lore Segal

Back When We Were Grown-Ups by Anne Tyler

The Passport by Herta Muller

Where Is She Now  by Frances Gilbert

Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann

The Plague Dogs by Richard Adams

Dirty Little Angels  by Chris Tusa

Push by Sapphire

Hold Love Strongby Matthew Aaron Goodman

Spooner by Pete Dexter

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
by Rainier Maria Rilke

The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

In Time of Peace by Thomas Boyd

A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter

Bombay Time by Thrity Umrigar

John Crow's Devil by Marlon James

Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips

The Grotesque by Patrick McGrath

How to Paint a Dead Man by Sarah Hall

The Lost Art of Gratitude by Alexander McCall Smith

The German Mujahid by Boualem Sansal

A Rogue's Life by Wilkie Collins

The Duppy by Anthony C. Winkler

They Who Do Not Grieve by Sia Figiel

The Plated City by Bliss Perry

Explorers of the New Century
by Magnus Mills

Anna In-Between by Elizabeth Nunez

The Fall by Albert Camus

Songs My Mother Never Taught Me by Selcuk Altun

All That I Have by Castle Freeman, Jr.

A Happy Marriage by Rafael Yglesias

Rage by Sergio Bizzio

The Old Man and Me by Elaine Dundy

The Best Place to Be by Lesley Dormen

Better by John O'Brien

The Skating Rink by Roberto Bolano

Tamburlaine Must Die by Louise Welsh

Cheese by Willem Elsschot

Desperate Characters by Paula Fox

Address Unknown by Kressman Taylor

The Servants' Quarters by Lynn Freed

Beauty Salon by Mario Bellatin

The African Queen by C.S. Forester

Brooklyn by Colm Toibin

The Venice Train by Georges Simenon

Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathaniel West

The Guernsey Literary and
Potato Peel Pie Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

My House in Umbria by William Trevor

Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster

Vanessa and Virginia by Susan Sellers

A Great Day for a Ballgame by Fielding Dawson

The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy

Camera by Jean-Philippe Toussaint

The Perfectionists by Gail Godwin

In the Meantime by Robin Lippincott

Conjugal Love by Alberto Moravia

Dreamers by Knut Hamsun

The Bridges at Toko-Ri by James Michener

Dead Horse by Walter Satterthwait

Gold by Dan Rhodes

The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder

Jacob's Hands by Aldous Huxley and Chistopher Isherwood

Pilate's Wife by H.D.

A Short History of Women by Kate Walbert

Where You Once Belonged by Kent Haruf

How I Became A Nun by Cesar Aira

Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao   
by Junot Diaz

Frida's Bed by Slavenka Drakulic

Fight Scenes by Greg Bottoms

The Fairacre Festival by Miss Read

The Sun Field by Heywood Braun

The Palestinian Lover by Selim Nassib

The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa

In Her Absence by Antonio Munoz Molina

Stardust by Neil Gaiman

The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama

Seize the Day by Saul Bellow

The Vicar of Sorrows by A. N. Wilson

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta

Where 3 Roads Meet by John Barth   

Grief by Andrew Holleran

Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O'Nan

About Schmidt by Louis Begley

Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively

The Simulacra by Philip K. Dick

Little Bee by Chris Cleave

Indignation by Philip Roth

The Swap by Antony Moore

Act of the Damned by Antonio Lobo Antunes

Ruins by Achy Obejas

Disquiet by Julia Leigh

Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat

The Assault by Harry Mulisch

The Believers by Zoe Heller

Laura Rider's Masterpiece by Jane Hamilton

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

A History of Love by Nicole Krauss

The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid  

The Provincial Lady in London by E.M. Delafield

Family Business by Laurie Colwin

Jerusalem by Selma Lagerlof 

A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines

Alice Fantastic by Maggie Estep

The Weekend by Peter Cameron

Onitsha by J.M.G. Le Clezio

Life on the Refrigerator Door by Alice Kuipers

Waiting in Vain by Colin Channer

Towards the End of Morning by Michael Frayn

The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford

The Law of Similars by Chris Bohjalian

The Moon Opera by Bi Feiyu

Bellwether by Connie Willis

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

The Age of Dreaming by Nina Revoyr

Good Behaviour by Molly Keane

Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

Miss Misery by Andy Greenwald

The House Beautiful by Allison Burnett

The Body Artist by Don Delillo

Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje

The Granny by Brendan O'Carroll

The Art of Racing in the Rain
 by Garth Stein

Esther's Inheritance by Sandor Marai

The Open Door by Elizabeth Maguire

The Pisstown Chaos by David Ohle

Dogs, Dreams, and Men by Joan Kaufman

Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto

The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh

The House on Eccles Road by Judith Kitchen

The Sin Eater by Alice Thomas Ellis

Pulpy and Midge by Jessica Westhead

The Poorhouse Fair by John Updike

Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling

The Third Angel  by Alice Hoffman

Love Walked In by Marisa de los Santos

The Rules of Engagement by Anita Brookner

The Curriculum Vitae of Aurora Ortiz
by Almudena Solana
        
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

Deaf Sentence  by David Lodge

All Souls by Christine Schutt

A Smile of Fortune  by Joseph Conrad

By Chance by Martin Corrick

Hairstyles of the Damned by Joe Meno

On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

The Session by Aaron Petrovich

Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry

The Howling Miller by Arto Paasalinna

The Love Song of Monkey by Michael S. A. Graziano

The Love of the Last Tycoon  by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith

The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain  by Charles Dickens

All My Friends Are Superheroes by Andrew Kaufman

In the Pond by Ha Jin

The Book of Chameleons by Jose Eduardo Agualusa

A Mercy by Toni Morrison

The Emperor's Tomb by Joseph Roth

Under the Frangipani by Mia Couto

The English Major by Jim Harrison

To Siberia by Per Petterson

The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing

Respected Sir by Naguib Mahfouz

The Man in the Picture by Susan Hill

Man in the Dark by Paul Auster

Mr. Pip by Lloyd Jones

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

The Emigrants by WG Sebald

 A Sun for the Dying by Jean Claude Izzo

 The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti

 A Celibate Season by Carol Shields and Blanche Howard

 The Man Who Was Thursday  by G.K. Chesterton

Death With Interruptions by Jose Saramago

 The Touchstone by Edith Wharton

The Master of Petersburg by J.M. Coetzee

Two Marriages by Phillip Lopate 

The Tempest Tales by Walter Mosley

The Unknown Masterpiece and Gambara by Honore de Balzac

 The Abbot's  Ghost by Louisa May Alcott
                      
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