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The 1000 Hour Day – Chris Bray
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After the Circus – Patrick Modiano
Agent 6 – Tom Rob Smith
Airmail: Women of Letters – Michaela McGuire & Marieke Hardy
Alchemist, The – Paolo Coelho
All These Perfect Strangers – Aoife Clifford
A Man of Some Repute – Elizabeth Edmonson
A Robot in the Garden – Deborah Install
Art of Reading, The – Damon Young
A Simpler Time – Peter FitzSimons
Astray – Emma Donoghue
A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
A Thousand Nights – E.K. Johnston
A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
A Visit From the Goon Squad – Jennifer Egan
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Before I Go To Sleep – S.J. Watson
Before the Fall – Noah Hawley
Bereft – Chris Womersley
Big Bad Book of Bill Murray, The – Robert Schnakenberg
Birdman’s Wife, The – Melissa Ashley
Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
Bitterblue – Kristin Cashore
Black-Eyed Susans – Julia Heaberlin
Book of Speculation, The – Erika Swlyer
Bossy Pants – Tina Fey
Boy Who Stole Attila’s Horse, The – Iván Repila
Brisingr – Christopher Paolini
Broken Shore, The – Peter Temple
Butchers of Berlin, The – Chris Petit
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Career of Evil – Robert Galbraith
Casual Vacancy, The – J.K. Rowling
Chavasse: Double V.C. – Ann Clayton
Child 44 – Tom Rob Smith
City of Mirrors, The – Justin Cronin
Cleo – Helen Brown
Collected Novellas of Stefan Zweig, The – Stefan Zweig
Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell
Crash – J.G. Ballard
Crow Hollow – Michael Wallace
Cuckoo’s Calling, The – Robert Galbraith
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Dark Matter – Michelle Paver
Dear Reader – Paul Fournel
Dirt Music – Tim Winton
Django/Zorro – Quentin Tarantino/Matt Wagner, Esteve Polls (Illustrator)
Dust That Falls From Dreams, The – Louis de Bernieres
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Eldest – Christopher Paolini
Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card
Ender in Exile – Orson Scott Card
Eragon – Christopher Paolini
Eyre Affair, The – Jasper Fforde
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Fates and Furies – Lauren Groff
Femme Fatale – Guy de Maupassant
Fever at Dawn – Péter Gárdos (translated by Liz Szász)
Fifty Shades of Grey – E.L. James (don’t judge me)
The Forgotten Garden – Kate Morton
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Gap of Time, The – Jeanette Winterson
Giant, O’Brien, The – Hilary Mantel
Girl in the Photograph, The – Kate Riordan
Girl Under the Olive Tree, The – Leah Fleming
God of Small Things, The – Arundhati Roy
GodPretty in the Tobacco Field – Kim Michele Richardson
Go Set A Watchman – Harper Lee
Graceling – Kristin Cashore
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, The – Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
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Hare With Amber Eyes, The – Edmund De Waal
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany and Jack Thorne
Hey There, Dumpling! – Kenny Lao
Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All – Jonas Jonasson
Homesman, The – Glendon Swarthout
Hotel of the Three Roses, The – Augusto De Angelis
House of Thieves – Charles Belfoure
How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are – Anne Berest, Audrey Diwan, Caroline de Maigret, and Sophie Mas
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Ice Diaries: An Antarctic Memoir – Jean McNeil
Inferno – Dan Brown
Inheritance – Christopher Paolini
Inside the Head of Bruno Schulz – Maxim Biller
Inside the O’Briens – Lisa Genova
Interrogation of Ashala Wolf, The – Ambelin Kwaymullina
In the Month of the Midnight Sun – Cecilia Ekbäck
In the Shadow of Winter – Lorna Gray
Invisible History of the Human Race, The – Christine Kenneally
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Jasper Jones – Craig Silvey
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Kite Runner, The – Khaled Hosseini
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Language of Flowers, The – Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Last Unicorn, The – Peter S. Beagle
Lawless – Matt Bondurant
Left Hand of God, The – Paul Hoffman
Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster, The – Scott Wilbanks
Liar’s Bench – Kim Michele Richardson
Library At Mount Char, The – Scott Hawkins
Life of I: The New Culture of Narcissism, The – Anne Manne
Life On Air – Sir David Attenborough
Light Between Oceans, The – M.L. Stedman
Little Coffee Shop of Kabul, The – Deborah Rodriguez
Loaded – Christos Tsiolkas
Lone Star – Paullina Simons
Loney, The – Andrew Michael Hurley
Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime – Oscar Wilde
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Made to Kill – Adam Christopher
Maestra – L.S. Hilton
Magician – Raymond E- Feist
Magicians, The – Lev Grossman
Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
Man Who Was Thursday, The – G.K. Chesterton
Marley & Me – John Grogan
Mawson and the Ice Men of the Heroic Age: Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen – Peter FitzSimons
Meek One, The – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Memory Keeper’s Daughter, The – Kim Edwards
Messages from a Lost World – Stefan Zweig
Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
Miniaturist, The – Jessie Burton
Mothers, The – Brit Bennett
Mr Holmes – Mitch Cullin
Mr Splitfoot – Samantha Hunt
Mr Wigg – Inga Simpson
Murdered Banker, The – Augusto De Angelis
Museum of Modern Love, The – Heather Rose
My Life As A Fake – Peter Carey
My Sister’s Keeper – Jodie Piccoult
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Natural Way of Things, The – Charlotte Wood
Night Circus, The – Erin Morgenstern
Night Manager, The – John le Carre
North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell
North Water, The – Ian McGuire
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Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey
Other Daughter, The – Lauren Willig
Other People’s Trades – Primo Levi (translated by Raymond Rosenthal)
Outlander – Diana Gabaldon
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Passage, The – Justin Cronin
Periodic Table, The – Primo Levi (translated by Raymond Rosenthal)
Perks of Being A Wallflower, The – Stephen Chbosky
Persuasion – Jane Austen
Pigeon Tunnel, The – John le Carré
Pillars of the Earth, The – Ken Follett
Poisonwood Bible, The – Barbara Kingsolver
Pop Sonnets – Eric Didrikson
Printer’s Devil Court – Susan Hill
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Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend, The – Katarina Bivald
Remembering Babylon – David Malouf
Rhymes of Early Jungle Folk – The Wharton Esherick Museum, Mary E. Marcy, & Wharton Esherick
Road, The – Cormac McCarthy
Rosie Project, The – Graeme Simsion
Running With Scissors – Augusten Burroughs
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Salvation Creek – Susan Duncan
Secret Chord, The – Geraldine Brooks
Secret Pilgrim, The – John le Carre
Secret Speech, The – Tom Rob Smith
Sense of An Ending, The – Julian Barnes
Seven Skeletons – Lydia Pyne
Shackleton – Roland Huntford
Shifting Fog, The – Kate Morton
Silver Linings Playbook, The – Matthew Quick
Sisters Brothers, The – Patrick deWitt
Sketchy, Doubtful, Incomplete Jottings – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Sleeping Giants – Sylvain Neuvel
Snowpiercer – Jacques Lob (author), Jean-Marc Rochette (artist)
Snow Queen, The – Hans Christian Andersen (translated by Misha Hoekstra, illustrated by Lucie Arnoux)
Speaker For the Dead – Orson Scott Card
South Pole: 1910-1913 – Christine Dell’Amore
Stammered Songbook: A Mother’s Book of Hours – Erwin Mortier
Surgeon of Crowthorne, The – Simon Winchester
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Talented Mr Ripley, The – Patricia Highsmith
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy – John le Carre
Tom Houghton – Todd Alexander
Traitor Baru Cormorant, The – Seth Dickinson
Tristano Dies: A Life – Antonio Tabucchi
True History of the Kelly Gang – Peter Carey
Truth According to Us, The – Annie Barrows
Tuesdays With Morrie – Mitch Albom
Turn of the Screw, The – Henry James
Twelve, The – Justin Cronin
Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman – Stefan Zweig
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Undermajordomo Minor – Patrick deWitt
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Vegetarian, The – Han Kang (translated by Deborah Smith)
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Warhorse – Michael Morpurgo
Warren the 13th and The All-Seeing Eye – Tania del Rio (illustrated by Will Staehle)
Watchmen – Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
Wayward Heroes – Halldór Laxness
We Eat Our Own – Kea Wilson
We Need to Talk About Kevin – Lionel Shriver
The White Tiger – Aravind Adiga
Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel
The Wonder Lover – Malcolm Knox
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Year of Wonders – Geraldine Brooks
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