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by Timothy Ferriss
3.9(181,437)
Learn how to leave the traditional work-life by creating automated income, outsourcing tasks, and taking 'mini-retirements' to live a life of freedom and adventure, all while working only four hours a week.
by Stephenie Meyer
3.5(181,389)
In this dark companion to the Twilight Saga, a young newborn vampire named Bree Tanner navigates a brutal existence, a fleeting romance, and a deadly conspiracy as she hurtles towards an inevitable, tragic confrontation.
by Deborah Harkness
4.0(181,047)
In Elizabethan London, a modern witch and an ancient vampire face political plots, old romances, and dangerous magic while seeking a lost manuscript and confronting Matthew's dark past.
by Stephen King
3.9(180,890)
A man awakens from a coma with the psychic ability to foresee the future, forcing him to decide whether to assassinate a presidential candidate to prevent an apocalypse.
by William Shakespeare
3.9(180,662)
An aging king, swayed by flattery, disowns his loyal daughter, setting off a chain of madness, betrayal, and suffering that destroys his kingdom and his mind.
by William Peter Blatty
4.2(180,610)
In the terrifying 40th-anniversary edition, a desperate mother and two priests battle a malevolent supernatural entity for a little girl's soul.
by Susanna Kaysen
3.9(180,556)
Confined to a 1960s psychiatric hospital, Susanna Kaysen navigates sanity and madness, offering a sharp look into the lives of "interrupted" girls and the blurry lines that define them.
by Kody Keplinger
3.8(179,270)
A cynical teen, labeled the 'ugly fat friend,' unexpectedly falls for the school's most known player after a humiliating nickname starts a volatile, secret relationship.
by Sylvia Day
4.2(179,028)
Eva Tramell and Gideon Cross navigate their intense romance, confronting shared traumatic pasts and the dangerous pull of complete possession.
by James Joyce
3.8(178,804)
Fifteen linked stories show turn-of-the-century Dublin through lives marked by desire, deceit, and despair, ending with the reflective 'The Dead.'
by Patti Smith
4.2(178,728)
Patti Smith's 'Just Kids' tells the story of her early life and artistic journey with Robert Mapplethorpe in 1970s New York, centered around the Chelsea Hotel.
by Friedrich Nietzsche
4.1(178,660)
A lone prophet leaves the mountains to announce God's death, the coming of the Overman, and the terrifying truth of eternal recurrence, urging humanity to forge its own values beyond good and evil.
by Barbara Ehrenreich
3.6(177,502)
Barbara Ehrenreich's undercover expose on minimum-wage work reveals that even two jobs are not enough to escape poverty.
by Karin Slaughter
4.0(176,999)
A woman's search for her sister, missing for twenty years, uncovers a grotesque web of secrets, showing that the past is not just haunting—it is actively hunting.
by Stephen King
4.3(176,769)
Stephen King's 'Different Seasons' tells four stories: a man's prison escape, a boy's bond with a Nazi, four friends finding a corpse, and a woman's determination to give birth. The collection explores human strength, evil, and growing up.
by Anne Rice
4.1(176,682)
From the decadent salons of pre-revolutionary France to the stages of 1980s rock, the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt navigates centuries of immortal existence, seeking the truth of his terrifying nature amidst a world both beautiful and monstrous.
by Allie Brosh
4.2(176,611)
Allie Brosh hilariously recounts her chaotic life, from debilitating depression to the absurdities of dog ownership, with stick-figure drawings that perfectly capture the human experience of being human.
by Alice Clayton
4.0(176,419)
A woman's dating break is hilariously interrupted by her new apartment's thin walls, which provide an intimate, unwanted soundtrack to her unseen, womanizing neighbor's nightly adventures.
by Brandon Sanderson
4.2(176,059)
Divine magic becomes a curse, forcing a fallen prince, a cunning princess, and a zealous priest into conflict over a kingdom's fate, unaware that salvation lies in the very city that caused their despair.
by Danielle Lori
4.0(175,883)
A sheltered woman's quest for answers in Moscow takes a terrifying turn when her enigmatic lover becomes her captor, forcing her to thaw his icy heart to survive the brutal Russian winter and his thirst for revenge.
by Jeanine Cummins
4.3(175,771)
After her journalist husband exposes a cartel boss, a Mexican bookstore owner and her son are thrust into a harrowing journey as migrants, desperately fleeing north on 'la bestia' to escape the cartel's vengeful reach.
by Patricia Briggs
4.2(175,592)
A coyote shapeshifter and mechanic named Mercy Thompson lives an ordinary life in the Tri-Cities, until she gets caught between powerful magical groups. Vampires ride buses, werewolves live next door, and chaos starts.
by Jennifer Egan
3.7(175,124)
Jennifer Egan's "A Visit From the Goon Squad" connects the lives of a music executive and his assistant, showing how ambition, decay, and redemption unfold over decades in the music industry.
by Yaa Gyasi
4.4(174,785)
From 18th-century Ghanaian castles to Mississippi plantations, "Homegoing" traces two half-sisters' diverging paths and their descendants across eight generations, showing slavery's lasting impact.