Adult Fiction

Adult fiction, by contrast with childrens or young adult, is fiction intended for (and usually about) adults. ...more

Cursed Daughters
The Burning Library
The Merge
Next Time Will Be Our Turn
The Bookshop Below
Second Chance Romance (Harlot's Bay, #2)
Like Family
Not You Again
The Forest of Missing Girls
The Dramatic Life of Jonah Penrose
The Marriage Narrative
A Love Story from the End of the World: Stories
The Ivory City
Other People's Fun
P.S. You're the Worst
The Intruder
The Tenant
The Correspondent
Gone Before Goodbye
The Widow
People We Meet on Vacation
The Cinnamon Bun Book Store (Dream Harbor, #2)
Heart the Lover
Remarkably Bright Creatures
The Crash
Beach Read
The Secret of Secrets (Robert Langdon, #6)
The Seven Rings (The Lost Bride Trilogy, #3)
Beautiful Ugly
The Gingerbread Bakery (Dream Harbor, #5)
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichiePurple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieAmericanah by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieSo Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ
African Fiction
600 books — 427 voters

The Song of Achilles by Madeline MillerA Little Life by Hanya YanagiharaCall Me by Your Name by André AcimanMaurice by E.M. ForsterLie With Me by Philippe Besson
Literary Gay Romantic Novels
105 books — 259 voters
The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniA Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Best South Asian Fiction
733 books — 1,892 voters

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo IshiguroThe Four Winds by Kristin HannahMalibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins ReidThe Lost Apothecary by Sarah PennerThe Kindest Lie by Nancy    Johnson
Anticipated 2021 Literary Fiction
446 books — 587 voters
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCulloughThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Best Family Sagas
618 books — 674 voters

Gone Girl
The Help
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
The Girl on the Train
Where the Crawdads Sing
The Handmaid's Tale
The Midnight Library
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
The Great Gatsby
The Kite Runner
Little Fires Everywhere
A Man Called Ove
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
All the Light We Cannot See
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)

Barbara Casey
Look, Charlie," said Vince leaning back in his chair. "It's real simple. We will be four people--two men and two women--I figure it's better to have two women instead of three men and one woman so she'll have someone she can confide in and all. Women need that kind of thing. Anyway, we'll be four people--friends--housemates--equal partners. We'll be an alliance. We'll be just like family. And we'll help take care of one another. We'll have a nice home, each with our own private bedroom and bathr ...more
Barbara Casey, Just Like Family

Barbara Casey
Someone must be having a big party, Shyla thought as she turned into her neighborhood, the rhythmic salsa beat of Latin music was so loud. A car she didn't recognize was parked in the middle of her driveway. She had to drive over the grass in order to get around it. She pushed the automatic opener to raise the garage door. Another car was parked where she normally parked, and it wasn't Carl's. It belonged to Pilar. Leaving her car where it was, she got out and went into the house through the ba ...more
Barbara Casey, Shyla's Initiative

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