Some Very Good Novels

Discover a curated list of some very good novels that every book lover should read. Explore timeless classics, modern masterpieces, and hidden gems in this must-read collection.

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The Zahir

by Paulo Coelho

When his war correspondent wife goes missing with a friend who may be a lover, a celebrity novelist comes under suspicion, until the friend reappears …
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Brokeback Mountain

by Annie Proulx

"Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two ranch hands, come together when they're working a sheepherder and camp tender one summer on a range above …
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Fan-Tan

by Marlon Brando

While serving time in a Hong King prison in 1927, Anatole Doultry saves the life of a Chinese prisoner whose employer is Madame Lai Choi …
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Good Grief

by Lolly Winston

Thirty-six-year-old Sophie Stanton desperately wants to be a good widow-a graceful, composed, Jackie Kennedy kind of widow. Alas, she is more of the Jack Daniels …
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The Diviners

 

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Genevieve

by Eric Jerome Dickey

Eric Jerome Dickey's boldly sensual new novel centres on what his fans love best - steamy romance and shocking betrayal. This is an edge-of-your-seat novel …
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The Dew Breaker

by Edwidge Danticat

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A "brilliant book, undoubtedly the best one yet by an enormously talented writer” (The Washington Post Book World), about love, remorse, and …
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Freshwater Road

by Denise Nicholas

Celeste Tyree, a young black collegian, leaves Michigan for Mississippi in the summer of 1964 to help found a Freedom School and a voter registration …
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Zorro

by Isabel Allende

A swashbuckling adventure story that reveals for the first time how Diego de la Vega became the masked man we all know so well Born …
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Tooth and Claw

by T. Coraghessan Boyle

Since Descent of Manappeared in 1979, T. C. Boyle has transformed the nature of short fiction in our time; in a review of his most …
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Last Night

by James Salter

A superbly accomplished new collection explores the acclaimed author's signature themes: love, honor, sacrifice, friendship, and abandon. In these taut, powerful stories, Salter portrays men …
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Envy

by Kathryn Harrison

A New York psychoanalyst in the midst of a midlife crisis, William Moreland comes face to face with a woman he had loved twenty-five years …
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Something Borrowed

by Emily Giffin

In this "New York Times" bestselling novel, a woman wakes up the day after her 30th birthday to find her best friend's fianc in her …
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Something Blue

by Emily Giffin

Her belief in the power of beauty shattered when her fiancé dumps her for a plain woman, a pregnant Darcy flees to London and struggles …
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Small Island

by Andrea Levy

Told in four distinct voices, the winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction 2004 is a courageous novel of tender emotion and sparkling wit, encapsulating …
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Fallen

by David Maine

The author of "The Preservationist" pens a provocative epic of temptation and murder, of exile and loss, in this convincing portrait of a family driven …
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Appaloosa

by Robert B. Parker

Itinerant lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch attempt to rid Appaloosa of renegade rancher Randall Bragg.
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72 Hour Hold

by Bebe Moore Campbell

Fed up with the mental health community and desperate to save her daughter, who is suffering from bipolar disorder, Keri enlists the assistance of the …
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44 Scotland Street

 

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In the Company of Cheerful Ladies

by Alexander McCall Smith

Precious Ramotswe finds herself overburdened at the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency and faces more complications when she finds a strange intruder in her house …
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The Jane Austen Book Club

by Karen Joy Fowler

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A book club discuss the works of Jane Austen and experience their own affairs of the heart in this charming …
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Specimen days

 

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The city of falling angels

 

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