Salem Staff Picks – Adult Fiction

Shuggie Bain : A Novel by Stuart, Douglas
Size 12 Is Not Fat : A Heather Wells Mystery by Cabot, Meg
The Thursday Murder Club by Osman, Richard
The Arsonists' City by Alyan, Hala
When the Apricots Bloom : A Novel by Wilkinson, Gina
This Is How You Lose the Time War by El-Mohtar, Amal
Parable of the Sower by Butler, Octavia E
The Kill Clause : A Novel by Hurwitz, Gregg
When Women Were Dragons : A Novel by Barnhill, Kelly Regan
False Witness : A Novel by Slaughter, Karin
Twice Shy by Hogle, Sarah
Lucy Undying : A Dracula Novel by White, Kiersten
A Dangerous Business by Smiley, Jane
The Arsonists' City by Alyan, Hala
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Clarke, Susanna
Whereabouts by Lahiri, Jhumpa
Lilac Girls : A Novel by Kelly, Martha Hall
Welcome to Dorley Hall by Greaves, Alyson
The Passenger by McCarthy, Cormac
Going Home : A Novel by Lamont, Tom
Miss Benson's Beetle : A Novel by Joyce, Rachel
The Maidens by Michaelides, Alex
Antkind : A Novel by Kaufman, Charlie
The VIolin Conspiracy by Slocumb, Brendan
Margreete's Harbor : A Novel by Morse, Eleanor Lincoln
The Henna Artist by Joshi, Alka
The Martian : A Novel by Weir, Andy
The Island of Sea Women by See, Lisa
The Cat Who Saved Books by Natsukawa, Sōsuke
Elizabeth Finch : A Novel by Barnes, Julian
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow : A Novel by Zevin, Gabrielle
Gilded Mountain : A Novel by Manning, Kate
All That Man Is by Szalay, David
Stella Maris by McCarthy, Cormac
The Lying Room by French, Nicci
The Haunting of Hill House by Jackson, Shirley
How the Penguins Saved Veronica by Prior, Hazel
How to Sell A Haunted House by Hendrix, Grady
In the Time of Our History by Pari, Susanne
Lisey's Story : A Novel by King, Stephen
The Paris Apartment : A Novel by Foley, Lucy
The Rim of Morning by Sloane, William
The New Wilderness : A Novel by Cook, Diane
When We Believed In Mermaids : A Novel by O'Neal, Barbara
The Twyford Code : A Novel by Hallett, Janice
'Salem's Lot by King, Stephen
The September House by Orlando, Carissa
Circe : A Novel by Miller, Madeline
The Devil's Bed by Krueger, William Kent
The Marlow Murder Club : A Novel by Thorogood, Robert
The Song of Achilles by Miller, Madeline
Killers of A Certain Age by Raybourn, Deanna
Surface Detail by Banks, Iain
The Wolves of Andover : A Novel by Kent, Kathleen
Black Sun by Roanhorse, Rebecca
What Happened to the Bennetts by Scottoline, Lisa
One Last Stop by McQuiston, Casey
Cloud Cuckoo Land : A Novel by Doerr, Anthony
Theft of Swords by Sullivan, Michael J
Everything's Eventual : 14 Dark Tales by King, Stephen
The Book of Essie : A Novel by Weir, Meghan Maclean
The Night Swim by Goldin, Megan
Moonflower Murders by Horowitz, Anthony
The Women of the Copper Country:   A Novel by Russell, Mary Doria
The Good Sister by Hepworth, Sally
The Dead Zone by King, Stephen
Plain Bad Heroines : A Novel by Danforth, Emily M
The Girl With the Louding Voice : A Novel by Daré, Abi
Separation Anxiety : A Novel by Zigman, Laura
Written In the Stars : A Novel by Bellefleur, Alexandria
The Paris Wife : A Novel by McLain, Paula
The Hotel Nantucket : A Novel by Hilderbrand, Elin
Redhead by the Side of the Road by Tyler, Anne
Every Heart A Doorway by McGuire, Seanan
Hamnet : A Novel of the Plague by O'Farrell, Maggie
Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone by Stevenson, Benjamin
The Given Day : A Novel by Lehane, Dennis
My Best Friend's Exorcism : A Novel by Hendrix, Grady
This Tender Land : A Novel by Krueger, William Kent
The Paris Library : A Novel by Skeslien Charles, Janet
The God of the Woods : A Novel by Moore, Liz
The Final Girl Support Group by Hendrix, Grady
East of Eden by Steinbeck, John
Thornhedge by Kingfisher, T
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Chambers, Becky
Leviathan Wakes by Corey, James S. A
Olga Dies Dreaming by Gonzalez, Xochitl
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Hendrix, Grady
Picnic At Hanging Rock by Lindsay, Joan Weigall, Lady
The Fraud : A Novel by Smith, Zadie
Deacon King Kong : A Novel by McBride, James
An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good : [stories] by Tursten, Helene
The Gilded Ones by Forna, Namina
A Tale for the Time Being by Ozeki, Ruth L
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem by Condé, Maryse
The Refrigerator Monologues by Valente, Catherynne M
Light From Uncommon Stars by Aoki, Ryka
Bewilderment : A Novel by Powers, Richard
Where the Crawdads Sing by Owens, Delia
Malice by Walter, Heather
The Darkness Outside Us by Schrefer, Eliot
The Friend by Nunez, Sigrid
Thistlefoot : A Novel by Nethercott, Gennarose
The Institute : A Novel by King, Stephen
Dolores Claiborne : A Novel by King, Stephen
The Darkness Outside Us by Schrefer, Eliot
The Kaiju Preservation Society by Scalzi, John
The Long Walk by King, Stephen
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