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A Breach of Promise

by Anne Perry

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A Confederacy of Dunces

by John Kennedy Toole

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A Constant Heart

by Siri Mitchell

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A Summons to Memphis

by Peter Taylor

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A Thousand Acres

by Jane Smiley

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A Visit from the Goon Squad

by Jennifer Egan

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Alive : The Story of the Andes Survivors

by Piers Paul Read

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Almost Paradise

by Susan Isaacs

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American Pastoral

by Philip Roth

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Beginning of the Wheel of Time

by Robert Jordan

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Beloved

by Toni Morrison

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Blindspot

by Jane Kamensky

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Breathing Lessons

by Anne Tyler

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Byzantium

by Stephen Lawhead

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Certain Prey

by John Sanford

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Drums of Autumn

by Diana Gabaldon

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Empire Falls

by Richard Russo

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Exclusive

by Sandra Brown

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Firefly Lane

by Kristin Hannan

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Follow the River

by James Thom

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Foreign Affairs

by Allison Lurie

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Gilead

by Marilynne Robinson

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High Crimes

by Joseph Finder

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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

by Jamie Ford

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Independence Day

by Richard Ford

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Ironweed

by William Kennedy

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Judas Child

by Carol O'Connell

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Kolymsky Heights

by Lionel Davidson

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Lonesome Dove

by Lary McMurtry

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March

by Gerladine Brooks

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Middlesex

by Jeffrey Eugenides

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Mistress Shakespeare

by Karen Harper

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North and South

by John Jakes

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Olive Kitteridge

by Elizabeth Strout

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People of the Lightning

by Kathleen Oneal Gear

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Presumed Innocent

by Scott Turow

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Primal Fear

by William Diehl

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Rabbit at Rest

by John Updike

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Rabbit is Rich

by John Updike

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River of Darkness

by Renee Airth

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Roanoke: The Lost Colony

by Angela Elwell Hunt

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Rosehaven

by Catherine Coulter

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Stones from the River

by Ursula Hegi

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The Alienist

by Caleb Carr

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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

by Michael Chabon

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The Black Tower

by Louis Bayard

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The Blue Flower

by Penelope Fitzgerald

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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

by Junot Diaz

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The Cage

by Audrey Schulman

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The Cattle Killing

by John Edgar Wideman

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The Clan of the Cave Bear

by Jean Auel

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The Coffin Dancer

by Jeffrey Deaver

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The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

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The Day After Tomorrow

by Alan Folsom

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The English Patient

by Michael Ondaatje

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The Executioner's Song

by Norman Mailer

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The Firemasters Mistress

by Christie Dickason

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The Giants House

by Elizabeth McCracken

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The Goldfinch

by Donna Tartt

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The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

by Sharyn McCrumb

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The Hours

by Michael Cunningham

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The Interpreter of Maladies

by Jhumpa Lahiri

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The Journal of Callie Wade

by Dawn Miller

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The Known World

by Edward P. Jones

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The List of 7

by Mark Frost

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The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

by Oscar Hijuelos

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The Name of the Rose

by Umberto Eco

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The Orphan Master's Son

by Adam Johnson

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The Other Side of Midnight

by Sidney Sheldon

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The Road

by Cormac McCarthy

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The Shipping News

by E. Anne Proulx

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The Stone Diaries

by Carol Shields

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The Westing Game

by Ellen Raskin

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Tinkers

by Paul Harding

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Walk Two Moons

by Sharon Creech

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