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by Robert Jordan
4.1(129,336)
As Rand struggles with prophecy and a divided world, light and shadow meet, threatening his sanity and unleashing chaos.
by Rohinton Mistry
4.3(129,262)
In 1975 India, as a state of emergency unravels society, four strangers—a feisty widow, a displaced student, and two village tailors—forge an unlikely family amidst the chaos, clinging to dignity and hope in a cramped apartment.
by Louise Rennison
3.8(129,202)
Join Georgia Nicolson in her hilariously cringeworthy journal as she navigates the epic highs and lows of teenage life, from disastrous parties to under-the-skin spots, all while searching for love and dodging her annoying little sister.
by Sarah J. Maas
4.3(128,965)
A crippled captain, a skilled healer with a haunted past, and a fierce warrior travel to a southern continent. There, politics and ancient magic mix with their desperate search for alliances and healing, all while a looming war threatens their world.
by Ron Chernow
4.2(128,855)
From an illegitimate orphan to a leading architect of American finance and government, Alexander Hamilton's turbulent life was a relentless fight against obscurity and opposition, forging the very foundations of a nation.
by Upton Sinclair
3.8(128,835)
In Chicago's turn-of-the-century meatpacking plants, Jurgis Rudkus and his family are destroyed by capitalism, showing the brutal cost of the American dream.
by Thomas Hardy
3.9(128,802)
Bathsheba Everdene, a spirited woman in Victorian Wessex, navigates love and independence among stoic shepherds and dashing sergeants.
by Ken Follett
4.2(128,677)
A Nazi master spy races against time to deliver critical D-Day intelligence, only to find his escape and the fate of the war resting with a lonely Englishwoman on a remote island.
by David Allen
4.0(128,554)
Master David Allen's "Getting Things Done" to improve your workflow by organizing your mind and boosting productivity through stress-free methods.
by Janet Evanovich
4.2(128,139)
With suspects vanishing, bodies piling up, and caught between a vice cop and a mysterious bounty hunter, Stephanie Plum navigates her childhood rival, a gambling grandma, and a transvestite rock musician while trying to catch a thief and stay alive.
by Elif Shafak
4.1(128,118)
A modern woman's stagnant life changes when she reads a manuscript about the mystical, love-filled bond between Rumi and his mentor, Shams of Tabriz, mirroring her own journey to freedom.
by Shel Silverstein
4.3(128,030)
Shel Silverstein's collection brings a world where eyebrows steam from screams, eels accompany girls, and a nose garden waits, all with his playful poetry and quirky drawings.
by James Joyce
3.6(128,028)
Through the eyes of Stephen Dedalus, Joyce crafts the journey of a young man grappling with Irish Catholicism and nationalism as he forges his own path toward artistic freedom.
by Eoin Colfer
4.0(127,702)
A vengeful pixie, newly awake from a coma, plans to cause chaos in the fairy world and target a memory-wiped Artemis Fowl, who must remember his past to stop a war between species.
by Jim Butcher
4.3(127,628)
A down-on-his-luck wizard, Harry Dresden, needing to escape a debt to his fae godmother, investigates a murder among the warring Summer and Winter Courts, where the fate of reality rests on his ability to navigate faerie politics.
by Dennis Lehane
4.2(127,579)
Twenty-five years after a traumatic childhood abduction, three men are violently reunited when the daughter of one is murdered, forcing a detective to investigate his own haunted past and the prime suspect—another childhood friend.
by David Grann
4.1(127,328)
In the 1920s, a series of murders targeting the oil-rich Osage Nation leads a new FBI to send an undercover team into a web of greed and conspiracy to find those behind a terrifying period of violence.
by John Grisham
3.8(127,324)
A young lawyer confronts his family's dark past and a ticking clock as he fights to save his Klansman grandfather from the gas chamber for a 1967 bombing.
by Randall Munroe
4.1(127,231)
This book explores the dangerous scientific realities behind absurd 'what if' questions, explained with humor and simple illustrations.
by Agatha Christie
4.1(127,217)
A luxurious Nile cruise turns deadly when the glamorous Linnet Ridgeway is murdered, leaving Hercule Poirot to untangle jealousy and hidden motives under the Egyptian sun.
by Nora Roberts
4.1(127,192)
A wedding photographer, jaded by her own fractured family, finds unexpected romance with a stable high school teacher, forcing her to confront her past and embrace the possibility of her own happy ending amidst the chaos of planning perfect days for others.
by Sally Rooney
3.8(127,092)
In Dublin, a sharp but emotionally guarded college student watches her intellectual life unravel as she navigates an unexpected affair with an older, married actor, challenging her beliefs about love, class, and vulnerability.
by Crockett Johnson
4.3(126,975)
With a single purple crayon, a young boy sketches an entire world of adventure, showing how imagination helps with life's unexpected turns.
by Stephen King
4.2(126,897)
In a secret facility, children with psychic powers are harvested, forcing a defiant boy to escape his captors before his unique ability is weaponized.