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by Brian Selznick
4.2(162,904)
In a 1930s Paris train station, an orphaned clockmaker's quest to fix a broken automaton reveals a secret linking his past to a reclusive toymaker and the start of cinema.
by Jim Butcher
4.0(162,240)
When a gruesome murder with animal hallmarks appears under a full moon, Chicago's only professional wizard, Harry Dresden, must hunt a monstrous killer before more victims die from a lycanthropic curse.
by Shirley Jackson
3.8(162,196)
Four strangers seeking proof of the paranormal find themselves ensnared by Hill House, a malevolent entity that hungers for the fragile mind of one lonely woman to claim as its own.
by Lionel Shriver
4.0(162,192)
A mother grapples with her own complicity and chilling dislike for her son, who has committed an unspeakable high school massacre, in a series of searing letters to her estranged husband.
by Michael Ende
4.2(161,944)
A lonely boy named Bastian literally enters a magical book, going on a quest through Fantastica to save it from a creeping Nothingness, finding courage and himself along the way.
by Kate DiCamillo
4.0(161,837)
A small mouse with big ears defies his kind to save a princess, intertwining the lives of a lonely rat and a simple serving girl.
by Sue Grafton
3.9(161,746)
A twice-divorced P.I. with a soft spot for lost causes takes on the cold case of a woman convicted of killing her husband, only to uncover a second corpse and a sharper edge to her own investigation.
by Rick Riordan
4.2(161,734)
With the world on the edge of chaos, teenage magicians Carter and Sadie Kane must bring back the ancient, senile sun god Ra by finding his lost spell book, all while escaping a monstrous serpent set on destroying the world.
by John Scalzi
4.2(161,551)
At 75, John Perry leaves his wife's grave for an interstellar battlefield, where the Colonial Defense Force turns retirees into enhanced soldiers to fight alien wars for humanity's survival and a chance at a new life.
by Frank Miller
4.3(161,494)
An aging, embittered Bruce Wayne emerges from a decade of retirement to don the cowl once more, battling a new wave of savage criminals, a psychopathic Joker, and even Superman in a decaying, near-future Gotham.
by J.R. Ward
4.4(161,481)
A tormented vampire warrior, scarred by a brutal past, finds his savage heart awakened by a compassionate aristocrat. His thirst for vengeance then threatens their fragile new love amidst an ancient war.
by Kristin Cashore
4.1(161,240)
In a kingdom on the brink of civil war, a striking human with fiery hair and the power to control minds must confront her past to save the monarchy that fears her.
by John Irving
4.1(161,199)
In a world of ether addiction, unwanted pregnancies, and the sweet-sour tang of cider, an orphan named Homer navigates love, loyalty, and the moral complexities of his mentor's controversial legacy in rural Maine.
by Erik Larson
3.9(160,937)
by Veronica Roth
4.0(160,897)
Before Tris, a sixteen-year-old Tobias renames himself 'Four' and plunges into Dauntless, battling his past and the corrupt faction system, only to find his true self unlocked by a fearless initiate two years later.
by V.C. Andrews
3.8(160,654)
Trapped in an attic by their greedy mother and cruel grandmother, four beautiful children fight for survival and sanity as years of isolation twist their innocence into a desperate struggle for freedom and revenge.
by Abbi Glines
4.2(160,648)
A naive Southern girl is drawn to her jaded, rockstar stepbrother, a forbidden desire threatening to consume them both in a world of privilege and hidden truths.
by Lois Lowry
3.8(160,630)
An orphan with a talent for weaving uncovers her society's dark truths, forcing her to choose between complacency and a dangerous quest for change.
by Samuel Beckett
3.8(160,324)
Two tramps wait endlessly by a barren tree for Godot, filling the void with absurd, poetic banter while grappling with the meaninglessness of existence.
by Jhumpa Lahiri
4.2(160,157)
Jhumpa Lahiri's "Interpreter of Maladies" explores the emotions of Indian and Indian-American characters as they deal with love, identity, and displacement across different places and times.
by Lemony Snicket
3.9(159,908)
Three resourceful orphans face hungry leeches, a treacherous hurricane, and a villain's disguise while trying to uncover the truth behind their guardian's suspicious 'accident' in a house teetering over a perilous lake.
by Michael Crichton
3.6(159,416)
A primatologist and a talking gorilla join a desperate expedition into the heart of the Congo, where a lost city, deadly diamond mines, and a terrifying, intelligent species of ape guard the secrets of a massacred research team.
by Hugh Howey
4.2(159,188)
In a post-apocalyptic world where humanity lives in a vast underground silo, a sheriff's quest to understand why her loved ones were sent to their deaths outside uncovers a conspiracy that could shatter their last refuge.
by Marjane Satrapi
4.3(158,488)
In a vivid black-and-white graphic memoir, a spirited young girl navigates the bewildering contradictions and brutal realities of the Islamic Revolution and war with Iraq, all while trying to find her place in a country rapidly losing its own.