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Kindle List Sept 2020.Xlsx Kindle list until 9-2020 Title Author dop The Silent Wife: The gripping bestselling novel of A. S. A. Harrison August 8, 2013 betrayal, revenge and murder… Pandemic (The Extinction Files Book 1) A.G. Riddle April 27, 2017 The Atlantis Gene: A Thriller (The Origin Mystery, A.G. Riddle July 11, 2013 Book 1) A Rising Man: Sam Wyndham Book 1 Abir Mukherjee November 6, 2019 Lies Lies Lies: The Sunday Times Number One Adele Parks October 1, 2019 bestselling domestic thriller from Adele Parks The Cold Cold Ground (Detective Sean Duffy Adrian McKinty May 6, 2018 Book 1) Cage of Souls: Shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Adrian Tchaikovsky July 7, 2020 Award 2020 Children of Ruin (The Children of Time Novels) Adrian Tchaikovsky February 12, 2020 Children of Time: Winner of the 2016 Arthur C. Adrian Tchaikovsky October 14, 2016 Clarke Award (The Children of Time Novels) Permafrost Alastair Reynolds July 22, 2019 The Reapers are the Angels (The Reapers Novels) Alden Bell June 24, 2012 After Anna Alex Lake January 15, 2016 A Crown for Cold Silver: Book One of the Crimson Alex Marshall May 13, 2017 Empire The Darkest Secret Alex Marwood January 21, 2017 The Silent Patient: The Richard and Judy bookclub Alex Michaelides March 30, 2019 pick and Sunday Times Bestseller The Ten Thousand Doors of January Alix E. Harrow February 10, 2020 Kindle User's Guide 3rd Edition Amazon.com May 12, 2011 A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel Amor Towles December 24, 2017 Rules of Civility: The stunning debut by the million- copy bestselling author of A Gentleman in Amor Towles January 8, 2012 Moscow Lucky Us: A Novel Amy Bloom August 26, 2015 The Roanoke Girls: the addictive Richard & Judy thriller 2017, and the #1 ebook bestseller: the Amy Engel May 22, 2017 gripping Richard & Judy thriller and #1 bestseller RIFT (The Rift Saga Book 1) Andreas Christensen February 16, 2018 Aurora (The Exodus Trilogy Book 2) Andreas Christensen January 30, 2018 Exodus (The Exodus Trilogy Book 1) Andreas Christensen January 6, 2018 The Last Summer Andrée A. Michaud May 24, 2017 Rotherweird: Rotherweird Book I Andrew Caldecott May 14, 2018 The Lion, the Lamb, the Hunted: A Psychological Andrew E. Kaufman April 15, 2013 Thriller Noah's Ark Andrew J. Morgan November 8, 2014 The Killing Circle Andrew Pyper December 16, 2013 An Air That Kills: The Lydmouth Crime Series Book 1 Andrew Taylor January 11, 2019 Andrew Taylor 2-Book Collection: The American Andrew Taylor December 20, 2018 Boy, The Scent of Death Blood of Elves: Witcher 1 – Now a major Netflix Andrzej Sapkowski July 20, 2019 show (The Witcher) 1 Kindle list until 9-2020 Title Author dop The Last Wish: Introducing the Witcher - Now a Andrzej Sapkowski February 5, 2017 major Netflix show Evil Games: A gripping, heart-stopping thriller Angela Marsons August 5, 2015 (Detective Kim Stone Crime Thriller Series Book 2) Silent Scream: An edge of your seat serial killer thriller (Detective Kim Stone Crime Thriller Series Angela Marsons August 5, 2015 Book 1) The Long Call (Two Rivers) Ann Cleeves September 4, 2019 Ancillary Justice: THE HUGO, NEBULA AND ARTHUR C. 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