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Books are listed alphabetically by the author's last name.

A

Abbott, Jeff - The Last Minute
Aciman, Andre - Call Me By Your Name
Alam, Rumaan - Leave the World Behind
Ahlborn, Ania - Brother
Albertalli, Becky - Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
Albertalli, Becky and Adam Silvera - Here's to Us
                                                            What If It's Us
Albom, Mitch - The Little Liar
Ames, Jonathan - The Wheel of the Doll
Andrews, Jesse - Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Arnett, Kristen - With Teeth
Atwood, Margaret - Hag-Seed
                                In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination
Audrain, Ashley - The Push

B
Bagshawe, Tilly - Sidney Sheldon's Angel of the Dark
                             Sidney Sheldon's Chasing Tomorrow
Bailey, Catherine - Lucy Loves Sherman
Baker, Jo - The Body Lies
Ballantyne, Lisa - The Guilty One
Barclay, Linwood - A Noise Downstairs
Barnett, S.K. - Safe
Bass, Jefferson - The Inquisitor's Key
                           Without Mercy
Battle-Felton, Yvonne - Curdle Creek
Beevor, Antony - The Second World War
Benchley, Peter - Jaws
Berla, Kathryn - Going Places
Berney, Lou - Dark Ride
Blake, Melissa - Beautiful People
Blau, Jessica Anya - The Wonder Bread Summer
Bohjalian, Chris - The Flight Attendant
Boone, Ezekiel - The Mansion
Bradbury, Ray - Fahrenheit 451
Brandman, Michael - Robert B. Parker's Fool Me Twice
Brashears, Monica - House of Cotton
Brazier, Eliza Jane - If I Disappear
Britton, Andrew - The Operative
Brown, Dan - Inferno
                       Origin
Brown, Janelle - I'll Be You
                           Pretty Things
                           Watch Me Disappear
Brunt, Carol Rifka - Tell the Wolves I'm Home
Bunn, Curtis - Say Their Names
Bush, George W. - 41: A Portrait of My Father

C
Cain, Chelsea - The Night Season
Cass, Kiera - The Selection
Castro, Julian - An Unlikely Journey
Catmull, Ed - Creativity, Inc. 
Chaon, Dan - Ill Will
                      Sleepwalk
Chavez, Heather - Before She Finds Me
Chevalier, Tracy - New Boy
Christie, Agatha - Hallowe'en Party
                             Murder on the Orient Express
Christie, Katrell - Tiger Heart
Chu, Vincent - Like a Champion
Clark, Marcia - Snap Judgement
Cleave, Paul - A Killer Harvest
                       Trust No One
Cline, Emma - The Girls
Cline, Ernest - Ready Player One
Clinton, Hillary Rodham - What Happened
Coates, Ta-Nehisi - Between the World and Me
                                The Water Dancer
Coben, Harlan - I Will Find You
                          Think Twice
Cochrun, Alison - The Charm Offensive
Cole, Alyssa - When No One is Watching
Coleman, Reed Farrel - Robert B. Parker's The Hangman's Sonnet
Colgan, Jenny - Christmas on the Island
Collins, Suzanne - Catching Fire
                              Mockingjay
                              The Hunger Games
Comey, James - A Higher Loyalty
Compton, Johnny - Devils Kill Devils
Condie, Ally - The Unwedding
Connelly, Michael - The Late Show
Cornwell, Patricia - Autopsy
                                Chaos
                                Depraved Heart
                                Flesh and Blood
                                Identity Unknown
                                Livid
                                Unnatural Death
Cosby, S.A. - All the Sinners Bleed
                      Razorblade Tears
Cott, Jonathan - Dinner With Lenny
Crichton, Michael - Jurassic Park
                                Prey
                               Timeline
Cronin, Justin - The Ferryman
Crouch, Blake - Dark Matter
                          Recursion
                          Run
                          Upgrade
Cullen, Dave - Parkland
Cummins, Jeanine - American Dirt
Cutter, Nick - The Troop

D
Day, Jaime - One Big Happy Family
Degeneres, Ellen - Seriously...I'm Kidding
DiAngelo, Robin - White Fragility
Diaz, Hernan - Trust
Dickens, Charles - A Christmas Carol
Dionne, Karen - The Marsh King's Daughter
                           The Wicked Sister
Doiron, Paul - Pitch Dark
Donoghue, Emma - Akin
                                Haven
                                Learned by Heart
                                The Pull of the Stars
                                The Wonder
Donovan, James - The Blood of Heroes
Doolittle, Sean - Device Free Weekend
Doquang, Mailan - Blood Rubies
                    With a Kiss We Die
Doyle, Glennon - Untamed
Draper, Michael A. - Three Strikes and You're Dead
Duncan, Emmeline - Fresh Brewed Murder
Dunn, Matthew - Slingshot
Dybek, Nick - When Captain Flint Was Still a Good Man

E
Edwards, Gavin - Kindness and Wonder
Eisner, Peter - The Pope's Last Crusade
Ellison, J.T. - Good Girls Lie
                       Lie to Me
Elston, Ashley - First Lie Wins
Enriquez, Mariana - Things We Lost in the Fire: Stories
Ephron, Hallie - You'll Never Know, Dear
Erlick, Nikki - The Measure
                           The Wedding People
Everett, Percival - James
                              The Trees
Everhart, Donna - The Saints of Swallow Hill

F
Farrow, Ronan - Catch and Kill
Feeney, Alice - I Know Who You Are
                         Rock Paper Scissors
Fenton, Reuven - Stolen Years
Fernandez, Maria Elena - And Don't F&%k It Up
Fey, Tina - Bossypants
Finlay, Alex - What Have We Done
Flower, Amanda - Frozen Detective
Flynn, Gillian - Gone Girl
                         The Grownup
Flynn, Vince - American Assassin
Forgrave, Reid - Love, Zac
Franzen, Jonathan - Purity
Freeman, Castle - Go With Me
French, Erin - Finding Freedom
French, Nicci - Sunday Silence
                         The Day of the Dead
French, Tana - Broken Harbor

G
Gaige, Amity - Sea Wife
Gaiman, Neil - The Ocean at the End of the Lane
                        Stardust
Gaines, Chip and Joanna - The Magnolia Story
Gaines, Joanna - Magnolia Table, Volume 2
Galbraith, Robert - Career of Evil
                               The Cuckoo's Calling
                               The Silkworm
Gapper, John - A Fatal Debt
Gardner, Mark Lee - Shot All to Hell
Garmus, Bonnie - Lessons in Chemistry
Gibson, William - Neuromancer
Gigl, Robyn - By Way of Sorrow
                       Survivor's Guilt
Ginder, Grant - Let's Not Do That Again
Goldberg, Lee Matthew - The Great Gimmelmans
Goldberg, Whoopi - Bits and Pieces
Golden, Christopher - The House of Last Resort
                                    Road of Bones
Goldin, Megan - Dark Corners
                           Stay Awake
                           The Escape Room
                           The Night Swim
Gran, Sara - Come Closer
                    The Book of the Most Precious Substance
Grant, Kimi Cunningham - The Nature of Disappearing
Green, Elon - Last Call
Green, John - The Fault in Our Stars
                       Paper Towns
Greer, Andrew Sean - Less
Griffin, H. Terrell - Bitter Legacy
                              Blood Island
                              Collateral Damage
                              Fatal Decree
                              Found
                              Wyatt's Revenge
Grisham, John - Calico Joe
                          Camino Ghosts
                          Camino Island
                          Camino Winds
                          The Exchange
                          Framed
                          The King of Torts
                          Skipping Christmas
                          The Racketeer 
Groff, Lauren - Matrix
Grossman, Paul - The Sleepwalkers
Gross, Andrew - Everything To Lose
                           The One Man
Guterson, David - The Final Case
Gyasi, Yaa - Homegoing
                    Transcendent Kingdom

H
Haig, Matt - The Life Impossible
                    The Midnight Library
Hallett, Janice - The Christmas Appeal
Hand, Elizabeth - A Haunting on the Hill
Haney, D.R. - Banned For Life
Hannah, Sophie - Perfect Little Children
Harding, Robyn - The Drowning Woman
Hargrove, John - Beneath the Surface
Harper, Jordan - Everybody Knows
Harris, Robert - Conclave
Harry, Prince - Spare
Hart, Rob - The Paradox Hotel
                   The Warehouse
Haslett, Adam - Imagine Me Gone
Hauty, Chris - Deep State
Hawkins, Paula - The Girl on the Train
Hawkins, Rachel - Reckless Girls
                              The Heiress
                              The Villa
                              The Wife Upstairs
Hawley, Noah - Anthem
                          Before the Fall
Heath, Jack - Hangman
                      Just One Bite
Heiny, Katherine - Games and Rituals
Henderson, Alice - A Blizzard of Polar Bears
Hendricks, Greer - The Wife Between Us
                               You Are Not Alone
Susan, Hendricks - Down the Hill
Hendrix, Grady  - The Final Girl Support Group
Hepworth, Sally - Darling Girls
                             The Soulmate
Herbert, Frank - Dune
Herron, Mick - Slow Horses
Hiaasen, Carl - Bad Monkey
                         Nature Girl
Higgins, Peter - Wolfhound Century
Hilderbrand, Elin - Summer of '69
                               Winter Solstice
                               Winter Storms       
                               Winter Street
                               Winter Stroll
Hill, Joe - NOS4A2
                The Fireman
Hill, Nathan - Wellness
Hoffman, Alice - Magic Lessons
Holes, Paul - Unmasked 
Hooper, Judith - Alice in Bed
Hoover, Colleen - Verity
Howard, Catherin Ryan - 56 Days
Hrbek, Greg - Not on Fire, but Burning
Hurwitz, Gregg - Orphan X
Hutchison, Dot - The Butterfly Garden

I
Ide, Joe - IQ
Iger, Robert - The Ride of a Lifetime
Indrioason, Arnaldur - Operation Napoleon
Isaacson, Walter - Leonardo da Vinci
Isherwood, Christopher - A Single Man
Itzkoff, Dave - Robin
Ivey, Eowyn - The Snow Child

J
Jackson, Joshilyn - Mother May I
                               With My Little Eye
Jackson, Lisa - The Girl Who Survived
Jewell, Lisa - None of This is True
John, Elton - Me
Johnson, Adam - Fortune Smiles
Johnson, George M. - All Boys Aren't Blue
Johnson, Julia Claiborne - Be Frank With Me
Johnson, T. Geronimo - Welcome to Braggsville
Jonasson, Ragnar - Death at the Sanatorium
Jones, Stephen Graham - I Was a Teenage Slasher
                                         My Heart Is a Chainsaw
                                         The Only Good Indians
Jones, Tayari - An American Marriage
Jordan, Leslie - How Y'all Doing?

K
Kaiser, Alfons - Karl Lagerfeld: A Life in Fashion
Kaplan, Mitchell James - Rhapsody
Keegan, Claire - Small Things Like These
Kent, Minka - The Stillwater Girls
Kepler, Lars - The Spider
Kepnes, Caroline - You
Khaw, Cassandra - Nothing But Blackened Teeth
Kiernan, Stephan P. - The Baker's Secret
                                   The Curiosity
                                   The Hummingbird
Kincaid, Greg - Noelle
King, Stephen - Billy Summers
                          Cujo
                          Dr. Sleep
                          Elevation
                          End of Watch
                          Finders Keepers
                          Holly
                          If It Bleeds
                          The Institute
                          Joyland
                          Later
                          Mr. Mercedes
                          The Outsider
                          Pet Sematary
                          'Salem's Lot
                          You Like It Darker
Klaussmann, Liza - Tigers in Red Weather
Klavan, Andrew - When Christmas Comes
                   Somewhere Beyond the Sea
Koepp, David - Cold Storage
Korelitz, Jean Hanff - The Latecomer
                                    The Plot
                                    The Sequel
Koryta, Michael - How It Happened
                             If She Wakes
                             The Ridge
Kuang, R.F. - Yellowface
Kwan, Kevin - Crazy Rich Asians
Kyle, Chris - American Gun

L
LaCour, Nina - Yerba Buena
Lagercrantz, David - Dark Music
                                  The Girl in the Spider's Web
                                  The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye
Lane, Byron - Big Gay Wedding
Lankford, Andrea - Trail of the Lost
Laukkanen, Owen - Deception Cove
Lee, Harper - Go Set A Watchman
                      To Kill A Mockingbird
Lehane, Dennis - Small Mercies
Lepucki, Edan - Woman No. 17
Lewis, C.S. - The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe
Lindsay, Jeff - Dexter is Dead
                        Dexter is Delicious
                        Dexter's Final Cut
                        Double Dexter
                        Fool Me Twice
                        Just Watch Me
Lippman, Laura - Lady in the Lake
                             Sunburn
                             Wilde Lake
Lloyd, Ellery - The Club
Loomis, Jon - Fire Season
Love, Melissa Scrivner - Lola
Lupton, Rosamund - The Quality of Silence

M
Maas, Sarah J. - A Court of Thorns and Roses
Macmillan, Gilly - The Nanny
Maguire, Gregory - After Alice
                                Hiddensee
Malmquist, Tom - In Every Moment We Are Still Alive
Mandel, Emily St. John - Sea of Tranquility
Margolin, Phillip - An Insignificant Case
Márquez, Gabriel García - Until August
Marshall, Kate Alice - What Lies in the Woods
Mbue, Imbolo - How Beautiful We Were
McCain, John - The Restless Wave
McCarthy, Cormac - The Passenger
McConaghy, Charlotte - Once There Were Wolves
McCreight, Kimberly - Like Mother, Like Daughter
McDermott, Alice - Absolution
McDorman, Dann - West Heart Kill
McEwan, Ian - Atonement
McKinty, Adrian - The Chain
                              The Island
McMahon, Jennifer - My Darling Girl
McQuiston, Casey - One Last Stop
                                 The Pairing
                                 Red, White & Royal Blue
Mejia, Mindy - Everything You Want Me to Be
                         Leave No Trace
                         Strike Me Down
                         To Catch A Storm
Meltzer, Brad - The Escape Artist
Mendelson, Charlotte - The Exhibitionist
Michaelides, Alex - The Fury
                                 The Silent Patient
Michallon, Clémence - The Quiet Tenant
Milchman, Jenny - Cover of Snow
Miller, Madeline - Circe
Miller, Suzie - Prima Facie
Mitchell, David - Cloud Atlas
                            Slade House
Molesso, Ashley and Chess Needham - The Gay Agenda
Moody, Rick - On Celestial Music
Moore, Alan - Batman: The Killing Joke
Moore, Christopher - Sacre Bleu: A Comedy d'Art
Moore, Liz - The God of the Woods
                     Long Bright River
Moore, Meg Mitchell - Two Truths and a Lie
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia - Mexican Gothic
                                       Silver Nitrate
                                       Velvet Was the Night
Morgan, Ann - Beside Myself
Morrissey, Hannah - Hello, Transcriber
                                 The Widowmaker
                                 When I'm Dead
Mottley, Leila - Nightcrawling
Muir-Harmony, Teasel E - Apollo to the Moon
Mullen, Caitlin - Please See Us
Muller, Marcia - Ice and Stone
Murray, James S. - You Better Watch Out

N
Navin, Rhiannon - Only Child
Nelson, Willie - It's A Long Story: My Life
Nesbo, Jo - Macbeth
                   The Snowman
Nichols, Peter - Granite Harbor
North, Alex - The Shadows
                      The Whisper Man
Norton, Laurah - Lay Them to Rest
Novak, B.J. - The Book With No Pictures
Novak, Chase - Breed

O
Oakley, Tyler - Binge
Obama, Barack - A Promised Land
Obama, Michelle - Becoming
Obreht, Téa - The Morningside
O'Connell, Ryan - Just by Looking at Him 
Olafsson, Olaf - The Sacrament
O'Melveny, Regina - The Book of Madness and Cures
Osman, Richard - The Thursday Murder Club
                             We Solve Murders
Owen, Mark - No Easy Day

P
Parton, Dolly - Run Rose Run
Patchett, Anne - Tom Lake
Patterson, James -   Alert
                                Alex Cross Must Die
                                Alex Cross, Run
                                Burn
                                Criss Cross
                                Cross Down
                                Cross Justice
                                Cross Kill
                                Cross My Heart
                                Cross the Line
                                Deadly Cross
                                Gone
                                Hope to Die
                                I, Michael Bennett
                                James Patterson
                                Kill Alex Cross
                                Merry Christmas, Alex Cross
                                Murder Island
                                Private
                                Private LA
                                Roses are Red
                                Target: Alex Cross
                                Texas Outlaw
                                Texas Ranger
                                Toys
                                Triple Cross
Pearse, Sarah - The Sanatorium
Peguero, Robin - One in the Chamber
                            With Prejudice
Pekkanen, Sarah - Gone Tonight
                              House of Glass
Perrotta, Tom - Mrs. Fletcher
                         The Abstinence Teacher
Perry, Thomas - The Burglar
Phillips, Gin - Fierce Kingdom
Phillips, Helen - The Need
Picoult, Jodi - By Any Other Name
Pin, Cecile - Wandering Souls
Pinborough, Sarah - Cross Her Heart
Plantinga, Adam - The Ascent
Preston, Douglas - The Lost Tomb
Price, Amy - Behind the Door
Prose, Nita - The Maid
                     The Mistletoe Mystery
                     The Mystery Guest
Pulley, D.M. - The Buried Book

Q
Query, Matt & Harrison - Old Country
                                         Wilderness Reform
Quirk, Matthew - The 500

R
Ramsay, Gordon - Ramsay in 10
Rather, Dan - What Unites Us
Ray, Jeremy - The Gatherings
                       The House Plant
Rekulak, Jason - Hidden Pictures
                           The Last One at the Wedding
Ricard, Russell - The Truth About Goodbye
Riedel, Josh - Please Report Your Bug Here
Ripley, Nathan - Find You in the Dark
                           Your Life Is Mine
R.J., Travis - Magic By Fire: Spark of a Flame
Robotham, Michael - Bleed for Me
                                  Say You're Sorry
Rodgers, Nile - Le Freak: An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco, and Destiny
Rogan, Charlotte - The Lifeboat
Rollins, James - Bloodline: A Sigma Force Novel
Rose, Jeneva - Home is Where the Bodies Are
Rosenberg, Alex - Autumn in Oxford
Rowley, Steven - The Celebrants
Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Rushdie, Salman - Knife
Ruskovich, Emily - Idaho

S
Sager, Riley - Home Before Dark
                      Lock Every Door
                      Middle of the Night
                      The Last Time I Lied
                      The Only One Left
Sandberg, Jason - Candy and the Cankersaur
Sandford, John - Bad Blood
                            Bloody Genius
                            Dark of the Moon
                            Deadline
                            Deep Freeze
                            Escape Clause
                            Eyes of Prey
                            Heat Lightning
                            Holy Ghost
                            The Investigator
                            Judgement Prey
                            Mad River
                            Ocean Prey
                            Righteous Prey
                            Rough Country
                            Rules of Prey
                            Shadow Prey
                            Shock Wave
                            Silent Prey
                            Storm Front
                            Toxic Prey
                            Winter Prey
Saunders, George - Lincoln in the Bardo
Scarberry, Rebecca - Messages From Henry
Schlink, Bernhard - The Reader
Schneiderman, Davis - INK.
Schumer, Amy - The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
Scottoline, Lisa - Someone Knows
Sears, Michael - Black Fridays
Sedooteh, Ramin - Ladies Who Punch
Semple, Maria - Today Will Be Different
                           Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Sherwood, Kim - Double or Nothing
Shonkwiler, Eric - Moon Up, Past Full
Sittenfeld, Curtis - Rodham
Slaughter, Karin - Blonde Hair, Blue Eyes
                              The Good Daughter
                              Last Breath
                              Pretty Girls
Smith, Clayton - Anomaly Flats
Smith, Will - Will
Snow, Richard - Disney's Land
Soileau, Stephanie - Last One Out Shut Off the Lights
Somerville, Patrick - This Bright River
Spears, Britney - The Woman in Me
Stage, Zoje - Mothered
St. Aubyn, Edward - Dunbar
St. James, Simone - The Book of Cold Cases
                                The Broken Girls
                                The Sun Down Motel
Steinberg, Hank - Out of Range
Stockett, Kathryn - The Help
sturges, p.g. - Angel's Gate
Sullivan, Justine - He Said He Would Be Late
Sullivan, Mark - Rogue
Swanson, Peter - All the Beautiful Lies
                            Before She Knew Him
                            The Christmas Guest
                            Eight Perfect Murders
                            Every Vow You Break
                            Nine Lives
T
Tagame, Gengoroh - Our Colors
Talty, Stephan - Black Irish
Tetro, Tony & Giampiero Ambrosi - Con/Artist
Thoft, Ingrid - Loyalty
Thomas, Angie - The Hate U Give
Thomas, Elisabeth - Catherine House
Tierney, Marie - Deadly Animals
Tintera, Amy - Listen for the Lie
Todd, Charles - A Bitter Truth: A Bess Crawford Mystery
Toro, Guillermo del - The Night Eternal
Toyne, Simon - The Key
                          The Tower
Tremblay, Paul - A Head Full of Ghosts
                           Horror Movie
                           Survivor Song
                           The Cabin at the End of the World
Tudor, C.J. - A Sliver of Darkness
                     The Burning Girls
                     The Chalk Man
                     The Gathering
                     The Hiding Place
                     The Other People
Tuomainen, Antti - The Healer
Turow, Scott - Suspect
Tyson, Neil deGrasse - Starry Messenger

U
Umenhofer, Lance - And the Soft Wind Blows
Unger, Lisa - Christmas Presents
Urrea, Luis Alberto - Good Night, Irene

V
Vance, J.D. - Hillbilly Elegy
VanderMeer, Jeff - Annihilation
Van Pelt, Shelby - Remarkably Bright Creatures
Vernon, P.J. - Bath Haus
Villarreal-Moura - Like Happiness

W
Wallace, Nicolle - Eighteen Acres
Ware, Ruth - The Woman in Cabin 10
Waters, Sarah - The Little Stranger
Weiner, Jennifer - Big Summer
Weir, Andy - Artemis
                      Project Hail Mary
Westerson, Jeri - Courting Dragons
White, Kiersten - Hide
                            Mister Magic
Whitehead, Colson - Crook Manifesto
                                  Harlem Shuffle 
                                  The Nickel Boys
                                  The Underground Railroad
Williams, Amanda Kyle - Stranger in the Room
Williams, Shanora - The Perfect Ruin
Willingham, Stacy - A Flicker in the Dark
                                 All The Dangerous Things
                                 Only If You're Lucky
Willson, Daniel H. - Amped
Winn, Alice - In Memoriam
Winslow, Don - The Force
                          The Kings of Cool: A Prequel to Savages
                          The Power of the Dog
                             Rage
Wolfe, Toya - Last Summer on State Street
Wolff, Michael - Fire and Fury

Y
Young, Tom - The Renegades

Z
Zettel, Sarah - A Mother's Lie

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