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3) A Woman in Jerusalem by A. B. Yehoshua

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5) Theft by Peter Carey

6) Old Filth by Jane Gardam

7) Cripple Creek by James Sallis

8) Breakable You by Brian Morton

9 Golden Country by Jennifer Gilmore

10) The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud

1) Morning Spy, Evening Spy by Colin Mackinnon

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5) Intuition by Allegra Goodman (amazon )

6) Piece of My Heart by Peter Robinson

7) Everyman by Philip Roth

8) Jane Austen in Scarsdale by Paula M. Cohen

9) Crippen by John Boyne

10) Gentlemen and Players by Joanne Harris

1) The Echo Maker by Richard Powers

2) Imperial Life in Emerald City by Rajiv Chandraskekaran (amazon )

3) Death of a Writer by Michael Collins

4) The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

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3) A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris

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12) Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver

13) Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl

14) Florence of Arabia by Christopher Buckley

15) Saturday by Ian McEwan

16) Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg

1) The Girls by Lori Lansens

2) Wolf Boy by Evan Khulman

3) The Secret Memoirs of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis by Ruth Francisco

4) Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

5) The Kindness of Strangers by Katrina Kittle

6) A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian by Marina Lewycka

7) Wolves Eat Dogs by Martin Cruz Smith

8) Eve Green by Susan Fletcher

9) Magic Street by Orson Scott Card

10) Ludmilla's Broken English by DBC Pierre

11) Lost and Found by Carolyn Parkhurst

12) Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson

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3) The Secret Memoirs of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis by Ruth Francisco

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4) Havana Red by Leonardo Pedura

5) Beautiful Lies by Lisa Unger

6) The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue

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3) On Writing by Stephen King

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5) The Bonesetters Daughter by Amy Tan

6) Titan (The Grand Tour) by Ben Bova

7) Rainbow's End by Vernor Vinge

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9) Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech (amazon )

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2) Echo Park by Michael Connelly

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5) Free Fall by Robert Crais

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Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits by Laila Lalami

Cellophane by Marie Arana

The Sea by John Banville

City of Tiny Lights by Patrick Neate

Love and Other Impossible Pursuits by Ayelet Waldman

A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore

The Conjurer's Bird by Martin Davies

Tenderwire by Claire Kilroy

Slipping Into Darkness by Peter Blauner

Bad Debts by Peter Temple

Wolves of Memory by Bill James

Boot Tracks by Matthew F. Jones

Point of Entry by Peter Schecter

Carte Blanche by Carlo Lucarelli

Chourmo by Jean-Claude Izzo

Aftermath by Brian Shawver