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by Charles Martin
4.3(6,899)
A photographer, weighed down by his Southern estate's past and his late housekeeper's wisdom, must face his estranged father and a broken family to learn how to fight life with his heart.
by Thomas Berger
4.3(6,898)
Orphaned and raised among the Cheyenne, Jack Crabb navigates the brutal and often absurd American West as both an adopted "human being" and a white man, witnessing the demise of a culture he loves while clashing with legendary figures like Custer and Wild Bill.
by Sara Tuvel Bernstein
4.1(6,890)
Defying her father, throwing ink at an anti-Semitic priest, and surviving Ravensbrück, Sara Tuvel Bernstein's memoir tells a story of rebellion and resilience during the Holocaust.
by Iris Murdoch
3.8(6,884)
An academic's polite world of affairs collapses when his wife leaves him for her psychoanalyst, sending him into a dark, funny spiral through an incestuous maze of intense passions and unsettling self-discovery.
by Leonardo Sciascia
3.8(6,883)
In a sun-drenched Sicilian town, a determined captain, new to the job, battles an insidious wall of silence and an unseen network of power to expose the Mafia's ruthless hold after a seemingly random murder.
by Colleen McCullough
4.4(6,878)
As Caesar conquers Gaul, senators in Rome, fearing his ambition, plot to destroy the general whose power might save or enslave the Republic.
by Erin Hunter
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As a dark prophecy unfolds and old enemies return, ThunderClan's warrior cats face bloodshed and intertwined destinies to find peace by the red lake.
by Madeleine L'Engle
3.9(6,876)
On a cold Antarctic trip to see a friend, Vicky finds a conspiracy among her fellow travelers, turning her birthday into a dangerous journey where trust is hard to find.
by Melissa de la Cruz
4.0(6,873)
Mal, Evie, Carlos, and Jay face their greatest challenge yet as a new villain threatens both Auradon and the Isle, forcing them to confront their pasts and the true meaning of their friendships.
by Carol Berg
4.0(6,870)
A broken, enslaved former demon-warden, resigned to a life without hope, finds his carefully constructed peace shattered when he uncovers a demonic threat within the empire of his arrogant new master, forcing him to reclaim his lost power and purpose.
by Amitav Ghosh
3.9(6,869)
Through the fragmented memories of a young Bengali man, "The Shadow Lines" shows how borders and historical violence scar personal lives and identities, connecting two families across continents and generations.
by A.M. Homes
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by Nicki Pau Preto
4.1(6,862)
An orphaned girl, disguised as a boy, joins the last Phoenix Riders to fight an empire, uncovering a family betrayal that connects her to an ancient war.
by Robert Liparulo
3.9(6,859)
A teenage filmmaker discovers his new Victorian home is a portal to terrifying pasts, turning his dream of adventure into a nightmare of survival.
by Lisa Lutz
4.0(6,851)
After taking over her family's PI firm, Izzy Spellman battles her dysfunctional relatives and a failing business while fighting an embezzlement accusation from a wealthy, forgetful client.
by Bruno Schulz
4.1(6,849)
Bruno Schulz's Drogobych is a dreamlike world where a father's bird obsession and the city's streets blur the line between memory and surreal nightmare, all with chilling intensity.
by Alan Garner
4.0(6,847)
Two ordinary children stumble into an ancient war for a magical gemstone, becoming the last hope against a terrifying sorceress and her monstrous brood bent on destroying the slumbering knights of Alderley Edge.
by Benjamin Mee
3.5(6,840)
A grieving family risks everything to purchase a dilapidated zoo in the English countryside, embarking on a heartwarming and chaotic adventure of mending broken cages, taming wild animals, and healing their own hearts.
by Lisa Wingate
4.2(6,836)
A driven New York editor unearths a century-old manuscript detailing the forbidden love and hidden struggles of a mixed-race woman in Appalachia, forcing her to confront the mountain secrets and family ties she abandoned.
by Allan Folsom
4.0(6,835)
A relentless doctor, a haunted detective, and a shadowy cabal collide in a globe-spanning race to unravel a terrifying doomsday plot that blurs the lines between personal vengeance and global annihilation.
by Katherine Neville
3.3(6,824)
A woman from today and a 19th-century Albanian princess race against time and mysterious groups to find Charlemagne's legendary chess set before it falls into the wrong hands.
by Apostolos Doxiadis
4.0(6,823)
A mathematician's life unravels in his obsessive pursuit of Goldbach's Conjecture, only to find its beauty reflected through his nephew's eyes.
by Jamaica Kincaid
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In Antigua, a young girl's perfect world shatters when her mother becomes an adversary, forcing her to navigate adolescence and find herself.
by Diane Ackerman
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Diane Ackerman blends science and poetry to explore our senses, from an Antarctic iceberg's breath to a perfumer's artistry, revealing how we perceive the world.