Salem Staff Picks – Adult Fiction

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