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by Maria Dahvana Headley
3.0(1,485)
A witty memoir about one woman's year-long dating experiment across New York City, embracing every suitor from taxi drivers to writers in a quest to redefine love and fix her bad taste.
by Adam Rapp
3.6(1,485)
A meth-addicted fourteen-year-old punk navigates a raw, cross-country odyssey of seedy motels and dangerous strangers, writing letters to his dying gay brother in Memphis, hoping to reach him before time runs out.
by Bruce Coville
4.1(1,483)
A curious boy in a secret-filled castle goes on a nighttime quest to find out why it moans, discovering a world of goblins, magic, and unexpected fate.
by Simon Rich
3.5(1,482)
A shy, unpopular high schooler's life takes a hilariously dark turn when a wealthy new student decides to buy him popularity, only to reveal the true cost of engineered social success.
by Jackie French
4.2(1,480)
From cream cakes in Nazi Germany to rationing in wartime London and the unknown of Australia, a young boy's journey through WWII reveals how kindness can be as contagious as hatred.
by Gary Gibson
3.8(1,479)
As a galaxy-consuming war rages, a desperate fleet commander must rescue a prisoner who holds the key to humanity's survival, all while dodging assassination attempts and the wrath of a vengeful bounty hunter.
by Joan London
3.6(1,479)
In 1937 rural Australia, two sisters' lives change when they hear the tales of Gilgamesh and face the coming WWII. One sister embarks on a journey across continents, like the ancient king's search for meaning after loss.
by Michael H. Stone
4.0(1,476)
Dr. Michael Stone explores the minds of notorious killers, dissecting the range of human evil, mapping its psychological roots, and proposing a hierarchical understanding beyond religious dogma.
by Ken Follett
4.1(1,475)
During the Cold War, five families from America, Germany, Russia, England, and Wales navigate a world of political upheaval and social change, their personal lives reflecting the monumental shifts of the 1960s to 1980s.
by Kelley Armstrong
3.7(1,474)
A teenage girl who can see ghosts is committed to a mysterious group home for 'troubled teens,' only to discover her fellow residents possess supernatural abilities and the institution harbors dark secrets that threaten them all.
by Jen Calonita
3.6(1,473)
Four best friends get their own reality TV show, but the glamour fades fast as scripted drama and ratings battles threaten their real friendships, leading one girl to expose the truth behind the cameras.
by Richie Tankersley Cusick
3.6(1,472)
On a glamorous island where sunny beaches hide a dark secret, a teenager’s summer dream turns into a nightmare of suspicious drownings and the chilling realization that the lifeguards meant to save lives might be the ones taking them.
by Guus Kuijer
4.2(1,469)
In 1951 Amsterdam, a young boy named Thomas records his visions of tropical fish, a kind witch, and a conversational Jesus, finding comfort and strength to confront his abusive father in a world both brutal and miraculous.
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
3.6(1,468)
An overlooked spinster's quiet life changes when a powerful marquis notices her, altering her world and challenging Edwardian social norms.
by Rupert Thomson
3.4(1,466)
After a dancer is abducted and tortured for eighteen days by three mysterious women, he is released into a new kind of hell: the isolating torment of an unbelievable truth and the sinister connection between sexuality and power.
by Hilary McKay
4.0(1,466)
Amid Valentine's Day chaos and graveyard meetings, the Casson siblings experience the joys and challenges of first love, as Caddy pursues a 'Real Thing' who isn't who anyone expects.
by Kathryn Erskine
3.6(1,465)
Sent to a rural Pennsylvania farm to prove his worth through engineering, a math-challenged boy named Mike instead finds his true value helping an eccentric aunt, a homeless man, and a punk rock girl adopt a Romanian orphan.
by Jean Ferris
4.0(1,464)
When his bumbling, greedy uncles accidentally put his parents and a chicken into a mysterious coma with a poisoned birthday cake, Sandy, with the help of his loyal butler and a quirky nurse, must unravel the mystery to save his family and their fortune.
by William Gaddis
3.8(1,463)
A man's fight against legal absurdity shows how justice can be both farcical and tragic.
by Fern Michaels
4.0(1,460)
A grieving police detective, still reeling from a tragic raid, convinces her high-rolling identical twin sister to impersonate her and infiltrate the criminal underworld, only for the 'wild card' twin to find unexpected love and danger while navigating a web of lies.
by Philip Roth
3.7(1,456)
In 1950s New York, a graduate student's well-meaning but interfering attempts to guide his bohemian friends' lives unravel into a sad comedy of errors, showing the era's strict social rules and how little control one has over others' futures.
by Plutarch
4.1(1,455)
Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives' pairs the lives of Greek and Roman figures, not to chronicle history, but to show character through anecdote and detail, revealing how virtue and vice shaped their destinies.
by Kate Morgenroth
4.2(1,455)
After seeing his father murdered, fifteen-year-old Jude navigates silence, political schemes, and family secrets in a desperate bid for his DA mother's approval, only to find his quest for acceptance turning into a burning desire for revenge.
by Frederic Manning
4.0(1,454)
In the mud and camaraderie of World War I trenches, a private confronts the absurdities of military life and the constant threat of death, finding brief moments of humanity amid the slaughter.