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Cutting for Stone Abraham Verghese 2009 · Historical
Daisy Jones & the Six Taylor Jenkins Reid 2019 · Literary
Demian Hermann Hesse 1919 · Literary
Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver 2022 · Literary
Disgrace J.M. Coetzee 1999 · Literary
Doctor Zhivago Boris Pasternak 1957 · Literary
Down and Out in Paris and London George Orwell 1933 · Memoir
Dubliners James Joyce 1914 · Short stories
East of Eden John Steinbeck 1952 · Classics
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine Gail Honeyman 2017 · Literary
Exhalation Ted Chiang 2019 · Science fiction
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1874 · Classics
Fight Club Chuck Palahniuk 1996 · Classics
Franny and Zooey J. D. Salinger 1957 · Literary
Gilead Marilynne Robinson 2004 · Literary
Gravity's Rainbow Thomas Pynchon 1973 · Literary
Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2006 · Literary
Hamnet Maggie O'Farrell 2019 · Historical
Homegoing Yaa Gyasi 2016 · Literary
House of Leaves Mark Z. Danielewski 2000 · Horror
In Cold Blood Truman Capote 1959 · True crime
Intermezzo Sally Rooney 2024 · Literary
Invisible Cities Italo Calvino 1972 · Literary
Invisible Man Ralph Ellison 1952 · Classics
Invisible Monsters Chuck Palahniuk 1999 · Literary
Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy 1895 · Classics
Kafka on the Shore Haruki Murakami 2002 · Literary
Klara and the Sun Kazuo Ishiguro 2021 · Science fiction
Lessons in Chemistry Bonnie Garmus 2022 · Literary
Life After Life Kate Atkinson 2013 · Literary
Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders 2017 · Literary
Little Fires Everywhere Celeste Ng 2017 · Literary
Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry 1985 · Historical
Lord of the Flies William Golding 1954 · Classics
Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel García Márquez 1985 · Literary
Malibu Rising Taylor Jenkins Reid 2021 · Literary
Martin Eden Jack London 1909 · Classics
Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden 1997 · Historical
Memoirs of Hadrian Marguerite Yourcenar 1951 · Historical
Middlemarch George Eliot 1871 · Classics
Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides 2002 · Literary
Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie 1981 · Literary
Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf 1925 · Classics
My Ántonia Willa Cather 1918 · Classics
My Sister's Keeper Jodi Picoult 2004 · Literary
My Year of Rest and Relaxation Ottessa Moshfegh 2013 · Literary
Native Son Richard Wright 1940 · Classics
Nausea Jean-Paul Sartre 1938 · Literary
Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro 2005 · Literary
Nineteen Minutes Jodi Picoult 2007 · Literary
No Country for Old Men Cormac McCarthy 2005 · Crime
Normal People Sally Rooney 2018 · Literary
Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck 1937 · Classics
Olive Kitteridge Elizabeth Strout 2008 · Literary
On Beauty Zadie Smith 2005 · Literary
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Ocean Vuong 2019 · Literary
On the Road Jack Kerouac 1957 · Classics
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey 1962 · Classics
Orbital Samantha Harvey 2023 · Literary
Orlando Virginia Woolf 1928 · Literary

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