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Amazing First Fiction

Boris Akunin	The Winter Queen
Mitch Albom	The Five People You Meet In Heaven
Monica Ali	Brick Lane
Cunningham M. Allen	The Green Age of Asher Witherow
Niccolo Ammaniti	I’m Not Scared
Michel Basilières	Black Bird
Charles Benoit	Relative Danger
Dennis Bock	The Ash Garden
Jeanne Braselton	A False Sense of Well Being
Ann Brashares	Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
William Brodrick	The 6th Lamentation
Dan Brown	Angels & Demons
Ian Caldwell	The Rule of Four
Tracy Chevalier	Girl With A Pearl Earring
Susanna Clarke	Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
Breena Clarke	River, Cross My Heart
Susann Cokal	Mirabilis
Jodi Compton	The 37th Hour
Gil Courtemanche	A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali
Hannah Crafts	The Bondwoman’s Narrative
David Czuchlewski	The Muse Asylum
John Dalton	Heaven Lake
Kavita Daswani	For Matrimonial Purposes
Meghan Daum	The Quality of Life Report
Kristen den Hartog	Water Wings
Anita Diamant	The Red Tent
Andre Dubus III	House of Sand and Fog
Barry Eisler	Rain Fall
Leif Enger	Peace Like A River
Jasper Fforde	The Eyre Affair
Janet Fitch	White Oleander
Charles Frazier	Cold Mountain
Julia Glass	Three Junes
Arthur Golden	Memoirs of a Geisha
Carol Goodman	The Lake of Dead Languages
Allegra Goodman	Kaaterskill Falls
Lee Gowan	Make Believe Love
Andrew S. Greer	The Confessions of Max Tivoli
Michael Gruber	Tropic of Night
Mark Haddon	The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
George Hagen	The Laments
Sarah Hall	Haweswater
Denise Hamilton	The Jasmine Trade
Diane Hammond	Going to Bend
Melinda Haynes	Mother of Pearl
Lian Hearn	Across the Nightingale Floor
Judith R. Hendricks	Bread Alone
Tess U. Holthe	When the Elephants Dance
Khaled Hosseini	The Kite Runner
Edward P. Jones	The Known World
Stephanie Kallos	Broken For You
Seth Kantner	Ordinary Wolves
Jack Kerley	The Hundredth Man
Sue M. Kidd	The Secret Life of Bees
Dave King	The Ha-Ha
Harley J. Kozak	Dating Dead Men
Peter D. Kramer	Spectacular Happiness
Hari Kunzru	The Impressionist
Jhumpa Lahiri	The Namesake
Adam Langer	Crossing California
Lori Lansens	Rush Home Road
Mary Lawson	Crow Lake
Caroline Leavitt	Coming Back To Me
Jim Lehrer	The Special Prisoner
Keith Maillard	Gloria
Renee Manfredi	Above the Thunder
James McBride	Miracle At St. Anna
Elizabeth McCracken	Niagara Falls All Over Again
Ron McLarty	The Memory of Running
Maile Meloy	Liars and Saints
Jeffrey Moore	Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain
Laura Moriarty	The Center of Everything
Audrey Niffenegger	The Time Traveler’s Wife
Nuala O’Faolain	My Dream of You
Julia Otsuka	When The Emperor Was Divine
Ann Packer	The Dive From Clausen’s Pier
Christopher Paolini	Eragon
Suzan-Lori Parks	Getting Mother’s Body
Tony Parsons	Man and Boy
Matthew Pearl	The Dante Club
Allison Pearson	I Don’t Know How She Does It
Arthur Phillips	Prague
Jonathan Raymond	The Half-Life
Richard Rayner	The Cloud Sketcher
Nancy Reisman	The First Desire
Stella Rimington	At Risk
Elizabeth Robinson	The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters
Elizabeth Rosner	The Speed of Light
Meg Rosoff	How I Live Now
Alice Sebold	The Lovely Bones
John Shors	Beneath a Marble Sky
Gary Shteyngart	The Russian Debutante’s Handbook
Zadie Smith	White Teeth
Mark Spragg	The Fruit of Stone
Patricia Stacey	The Boy Who Loved Windows
Lalita Tademy	Cane River
Graham Taylor	Shadowmancer
Simon Tolkien	Final Witness
P.J. Tracy	Monkeewrench
Andriana Trigani	The Big Stone Gap
Monique Truong	The Book of Salt
Brady Udall	The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint
Jennifer Vanderbes	Easter Island
Janet Wallach	Seraglio
Liza Ward	Outside Valentine
Jennifer Weiner	Good In Bed
Lauren Weisberger	The Devil Wears Prada
Lolly Winston	Good Grief
Marnie Woodrow	Spelling Mississippi
Gao Xingjian	Soul Mountain
Carlos R. Zafon	Shadow of the Wind
Simone Zelitch	Louisa