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• Various Authors: Love Stories (2009)
• Various Authors: Golf Stories (2011)
• Various Authors: Cat Stories (2011)
• Various Authors: The Persephone Book of Short Stories (2012)
• Various Authors: London Stories (2013)
• Various Authors: Stories from the Kitchen (2015)
• Various Authors: Wedding Stories (2017)
• Various Authors: Capital Crimes: London Mysteries (2015)
• Various Authors: The Long Arm of the Law: Classic Police Stories (2017) 
• Various Authors: The Christmas Card Crime and Other Stories (2018)
• Various Authors: Deep Waters: Mysteries on the Waves (2019)
• Various Authors: Moonrise: The Golden Age of Lunar Adventures (2018)
• Various Authors: Lost Mars: The Golden Age of the Red Planet (2018)
• Various Authors: The End of the World: and Other Catastrophes (2019)

A

• Adebayo, Ayobami: Stay with Me (2017)
• Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi: Half of a Yellow Sun (2006)
• Adler, Renata: Pitch Dark (1983)
• Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound (~480 BC)
• Alderman, Naomi: The Power (2016)
• Alharthi, Jokha: Celestial Bodies (2010)
• Allende, Isabel: In the Midst of Winter (2017)
• Altan, Ahmet: Like a Sword Wound (1998)
• Anderson, James: Lullaby Road (2018)
• Armstrong, Ken & Miller, T. Christian: A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America (2018)
• Atwood, Margaret: Stone Mattress (2014), Hag-Seed (2016)
• Aubyn, Edward St.: Dunbar (2017)

B

• Backman, Fredrik: A Man Called Ove (2012)
• Barker, Pat: The Silence of the Girls (2018)
• Banville, John: The Sea (2005)
• Barkan, Josh: Mexico: Stories (2017)
• Barnes, Julian: The Noise of Time (2016)
• Batuman, Elif: The Idiot (2017)
• Beck, Haylen: Here and Gone (2017)
• Berdzenishvili, Levan: Sacred Darkness (2019)
• Berg, Laura van den: The Third Hotel (2018)
• Bond, Cynthia: Ruby (2014)
• Booth, Michael: Three Tigers, One Mountain: A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan (2020)
• Boylan, Jennifer Finney: Long Black Veil (2017)
• Boyne, John: The Heart’s Invisible Furies (2017), A Ladder to the Sky (2018)
• Braithwaite, Oyinkan: My Sister, the Serial Killer (2018)
• Bruce, Camilla: You Let Me In (2020)
• Bude, John: Death in White Pyjamas and Death Knows no Calendar (1944/42), Death Makes a Prophet (1947),
• Burnet, Graeme Macrae: His Bloody Project (2015)
• Burnett, Frances Hodgson: The Shuttle (1906)
• Burns, Anna: Milkman (2018)
• Busquets, Milena: This Too Shall Pass (2015)

C

• Campbell, Michele: She Was the Quiet One (2018)
• Cannon, Joanna: Three Things About Elsie (2018)
• Card, Maisy: These Ghosts Are Family (2020)
• Carter, Bella Mahaya: Raw: My Journey from Anxiety to Joy (2018)
• Chapman, Julia: Date with Malice (2018)
• Chevalier, Tracy: Girl With a Pearl Earring (1999), New Boy (2017)
• Christie, Agatha: The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920), The Murder on the Links (1923), Poirot Investigates (1924), The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926), The Big Four (1927), The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928), The A.B.C. Murders (1936)
• Comyns, Barbara: The Juniper Tree (1985)
• Cooper, Duff: Operation Heartbreak (1951)
• Cooper, Ellison: Caged (2018)
• Crouch, Blake: Dark Matter (2016)
• Crucet, Jennine Capo: My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education (2019)

D

• Dalcher, Christina: Vox (2018), Master Class (2020)
• Di Pietrantonio, Donatella: A Girl Returned (2017)
• Déry, Tibor: Niki: The Story of a Dog (1956)
• Dimberg, Kelsey Rae: Girl in the Rearview Mirror (2019)
• Downes, Mollie Panter: My Husband Simon (1931), Good Evening, Mrs Craven: The Wartime Stories (1999)

E

• Eggers, Dave: The Parade (2019)
• Enright, Anne: The Green Road (2015)
• Enríquez, Mariana: Things We Lost in the Fire: Stories (2017)
• Escobar, Mario: Auschwitz Lullaby (2016)

F

• Farjeon, J. Jefferson: The Z Murders (1932), Thirteen Guests (1936)
• Farrell, J. G.: Troubles (1970), The Siege of Krishnapur (1973)
• Faulks, Sebastian: Paris Echo (2018)
• Feeney, Alice: Sometimes I Lie (2017)
• Finn, A. J.: The Woman in the Window (2018)
• Foer, Jonathan Safran: We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast (2019)
• Fowler, Therese Anne: A Well-Behaved Woman (2018)
• Fox, Candice: Redemption Point (2019)
• Franzen, Jonathan: End of the End of the Earth (2018)
• Frear, Caz: Sweet Little Lies (2017)

G

• Gavalda, Anna: French Leave (2001), Billie (2013)
• George, Nina: The Little French Bistro (2017)
• Giddings, Megan: Lakewood (2020)
• Gilbert, Michael: Smallbone Deceased (1950), Death Has Deep Roots (1951), Death in Captivity (1952)
• Gotthelf, Jeremias: The Black Spider (1842)
• Gowar, Imogen Hermes: The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock (2018)
• Grant, Linda: The Dark Circle (2016)
• Greengrass, Jessie: Sight (2018)
• Gregory, Philippa: The Virgin’s Lover (2004)
• Grodstein, Lauren: Our Short History (2017)
• Groff, Lauren: Fates and Furies (2015)
• Grossman, David: A Horse Walks into a Bar (2014)

H

• Hall, Rachel Howzell: They All Fall Down (2019)
• Hamilton, Cicely: William – An Englishman (1919)
• Handler, Leslie: Rats, Mice, And Other Things You Can’t Take to The Bank (2018)
• Harris, Thomas: Cari Mora (2019)
• Hawkins, Paula: The Girl on the Train (2015)
• Hendricks, Greer & Pekkanen, Sarah: The Wife Between Us (2018), An Anonymous Girl (2019)
• Hoffman, Alice: The World That We Knew (2019)
• Honeyman, Gail: Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (2017)
• Hrabal, Bohumil: Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age (1964)
• Hutchins, Maude: Victorine (1959)

I

• Isherwood, Christopher: A Single Man (1964)

J

• Jackson, Shirley: The Lottery and Other Stories (1948)
• Jaeger, Muriel: The Man with Six Senses (1927)
• Jefferies, Dinah: The Tea Planter’s Wife (2015)
• Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer: Heat and Dust (1975)
• Johnson, Daisy: Everything Under (2018)
• Jones, Sandie: The Other Woman (2018), The First Mistake (2019)
• Jones, Tayari: An American Marriage (2018)

K

• Kang, Han: The Vegetarian (2007), The White Book (2016)
• Kawakami, Hiromi: The Ten Loves of Nishino (2003)
• Khong, Rachel: Goodbye, Vitamin (2017)
• Kingsolver, Barbara: Unsheltered (2018)
• Knight, Renée: The Secretary (2019)
• Kumarasamy, Akil: Half Gods (2018)

L

• Lacey, Catherine: Certain American States: Stories (2018)
• Lacey, Robert: The Crown: The Official Companion, Volume 1 (2017)
• Lapena, Shari: A Stranger in the House (2017)
• Levin, Ira: The Stepford Wives (1972)
• Levinson, David Samuel: Tell Me How This Ends Well (2017)
• Levy, Andrea: Six Stories and an Essay (2014)
• Levy, Lawrence H.: Last Stop in Brooklyn (2018)
• Lewis, Phillip: The Barrowfields (2017)
• Li, Lillian: Number One Chinese Restaurant (2018)
• Lin, Chia-Chia: The Unpassing (2019)
• Lindstrøm, Merethe: Days in the History of Silence (2013)
• Logan, T. M.: Lies (2018), 29 Seconds (2019)
• Lorac, E. C. R.: Murder by Matchlight (1945), Murder in the Mill-Race: A Devon Mystery (1952)
• Love, Melissa Scrivner: Lola (2017)
• Luiselli, Valeria: Lost Children Archive (2019)
• Lunde, Maja: The End of the Ocean (2017)

M

• Marriott, Emma: Downton Abbey: The Official Film Companion (2019)
• Martin, Andrew: Early Work (2018)
• Maupassant, Guy de: Like Death (1888)
• Maurensig, Paolo: Theory of Shadows (2015)
• Maynard, Joyce: Under the Influence (2014)
• Mbue, Imbolo: Behold the Dreamers (2016)
• Miller, Madeline: Circe (2018)
• Miller, T. Christian & Armstrong, Ken: A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America (2018)
• Modiano, Patrick: Young Once (1981)
• Morgan, C. E.: The Sport of Kings (2016)
• Moriarty, Jaclyn: Gravity is the Thing (2019)
• Moshfegh, Ottessa: Eileen (2015)
• Munaweera, Nayomi: What Lies Between Us (2016)
• Murakami, Haruki: Killing Commendatore (2017)

N

• Naipaul, V. S.: In a Free State (1971)
• Némirovsky, Irène: The Misunderstanding (1924), David Golder (1929), Le Bal (1930), The Courilof Affair (1933), The Wine of Solitude (1935), Jezebel (1936), The Dogs and the Wolves (1940), All Our Worldly Goods (1947), The Fires of Autumn (1957), Suite Française (2004), Fire in the Blood (2007), Dimanche and Other Stories (2010)
• Nguyen, Viet Thanh: The Sympathizer (2015), The Refugees (2017)

O

• Ondaatje, Michael: Warlight (2018)
• Origo, Iris: War in Val d’Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944 (1947), A Chill in the Air: An Italian War Diary 1939–1940 (2017)
• Osborne, Lawrence: Hunters in the Dark (2015)

P

• Parsons, Kimberly King: Black Light (2019)
• Plath, Sylvia: Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom (1952)
• Pujol, Pascale: Little Culinary Triumphs (2018)

R

• Rachman, Tom: The Imperfectionists (2010), The Italian Teacher (2018)
• Reid, Taylor Jenkins: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (2017)
• Riley, Gwendoline: First Love (2017)
• Robertson, Robin: The Long Take (2018)
• Robson, Jennifer: The Gown: A Novel of the Royal Wedding (2018)
• Rosnay, Tatiana de: The Rain Watcher (2018)
• Rooney, Kathleen: Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk (2017)
• Russo, Richard: Chances Are… (2019)
• Ryan, Jennifer: The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir (2017)

S

• Salih, Tayeb: The Wedding of Zein (1969)
• Saunders, George: Tenth of December (2013)
• Savage, Lila: Say Say Say (2019)
• Schmidt, Sarah: See What I Have Done (2017)
• Seiffert, Rachel: A Boy in Winter (2017)
• Shamsie, Kamila: Home Fire (2017)
• Shelton, Paige: Lost Books and Old Bones (2018)
• Shriver, Lionel: We Need to Talk About Kevin (2003)
• Simenon, Georges: Pietr the Latvian (1931), Maigret and the Lazy Burglar (1961), Maigret and the Saturday Caller (1962), Maigret and the Tramp (1963), Maigret’s Anger (1963), Maigret and the Ghost (1964), Maigret Defends Himself (1964), Maigret’s Patience (1965), Maigret and the Nahour Case (1966), Maigret’s Pickpocket (1967)
• Skaife, Christopher: The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London (2018)
• Slimani, Leïla: The Perfect Nanny (2016)
• Sloan, Robin: Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore (2012)
• Smith, Ali: The First Person and Other Stories (2008)
• Stanton, David: The Judges of the Secret Court (1961)
• Symons, Julian: The Colour of Murder (1957), The Belting Inheritance (1965)

T

• Taylor, Elizabeth: A View of the Harbour (1947)
• Taylor, Goldie: Paper Gods (2018)
• Temple, William F.: Four-Sided Triangle (1949), Shoot at the Moon (1966)
• Thien, Madeleine: Do Not Say We Have Nothing (2016)
• Towers, Frances: Tea with Mr. Rochester (1949)
• Tudor, C. J.: The Chalk Man (2018), The Hiding Place (2019)
• Tyce, Harriet: Blood Orange (2019)
• Tyler, Anne: Clock Dance (2018)

U

• Uglow, Jenny: Mr. Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense (2018)

V

• Vapnyar, Lara: Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love (2008)
• von Rezzori, Gregor: An Ermine in Czernopol (1958)

W

• Waldman, Adelle: The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. (2013)
• Walker, Wendy: Emma in the Night (2017), The Night Before (2019)
• Ware, Ruth: The Woman in Cabin 10 (2016)
• Wells, H. G.: The Time Machine (1895)
• Wescott, Glenway: The Pilgrim Hawk (1940)
• Westover, Tara: Educated (2018)
• White, T. H.: The Goshawk (1951)
• Whitehead, Colson: The Underground Railroad (2016)
• Winman, Sarah: Tin Man (2017)
• Wilkinson, Ellen: The Division Bell Mystery (1932)
• Wilson, Daniel H.: The Andromeda Evolution (2019)

Y

• Yates, Christopher J.: Grist Mill Road (2018)
• Youngson, Anne: Meet Me at the Museum (2018)