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by Jon Stone
4.4(120,014)
Join the lovable, furry Grover on a hilariously self-aware adventure as he frantically tries to prevent you from reaching the inevitable, and surprisingly familiar, monster at the end of the book.
by Robert Galbraith
4.2(119,925)
A mentally distressed man's fragmented memory of a childhood murder sends private investigators Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott spiraling through London's hidden elite, Parliament's shadowy corridors, and a sinister country estate, all while navigating their own complicated, fame-addled partnership.
by Willa Cather
3.8(119,909)
Through Jim Burden's nostalgic eyes, witness the strong spirit and struggles of Bohemian immigrant Ántonia Shimerda as she navigates love, loss, and the Nebraska prairie.
by Marjane Satrapi
4.4(119,881)
Through black-and-white graphic panels, Marjane Satrapi tells about her childhood in revolutionary Iran, her adolescence in Vienna, and her return, showing a nation's trouble through one girl's coming-of-age.
by Dante Alighieri
4.0(119,745)
Join Dante as he travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise on a quest for divine love and salvation.
by Harlan Coben
4.1(119,524)
Eight years after his wife's murder, a doctor receives an impossible email suggesting she's alive, thrusting him into a desperate, hunted search for a truth someone will kill to keep buried.
by Jasper Fforde
3.9(119,366)
In an alternate 1985 where literary detectives can jump into novels, Special Operative Thursday Next must chase a master criminal through the pages of Jane Eyre to prevent the beloved character's murder and preserve literary history amidst a world obsessed with dodo cloning, time travel, and Shakespearean conspiracies.
by Jodi Picoult
3.5(119,235)
When his daughter accuses her boyfriend of rape, a mild-mannered comic book artist confronts the violent past he thought he'd buried, showing how far a father will go to protect his child.
by Lemony Snicket
4.0(119,092)
In a village obsessed with crows and rules, the Baudelaire orphans confront an angry mob, unjust arrests, and the mystery of V.F.D., all while sporting very strange hats.
by Gertrude Chandler Warner
4.1(119,026)
Four orphaned siblings turn an abandoned boxcar into a secret home, starting a self-sufficient adventure to stay together before finding the grandfather they never knew.
by Ransom Riggs
4.1(119,021)
Armed with a new power and accompanied by a pyrokinetic girl and a peculiar dog, Jacob Portman plunges into the grimy depths of Victorian London's Devil's Acre to rescue his friends and decide the fate of all peculiardom.
by Lewis Carroll
4.1(118,950)
Alice tumbles through a mirror into a backwards world of chess pieces and Red Queens, where logic is a game and nonsense reigns supreme.
by Robin Sharma
3.7(118,815)
Two strangers meet an eccentric tycoon who shares the 5 AM routine used by history's greatest achievers, promising to improve productivity, well-being, and calm before the day begins.
by Madeleine L'Engle
4.0(118,811)
When her brilliant younger brother, Charles Wallace, is threatened by a cosmic illness that mirrors the extinguishing of stars, Meg Murry must journey with a fiery, winged cherubim and her friend Calvin into the heart of creation to confront the Echthroi, beings of pure hate, and restore the universe's harmonious song.
by Richard Matheson
4.0(118,698)
In a world overrun by the living dead, the last human survivor hunts vampires by day and barricades himself against their siege by night, questioning who the true monster has become.
by Rick Yancey
3.9(118,694)
In a world where alien invaders have shattered trust, Cassie and her allies must find their humanity to fight the 5th Wave, which aims to wipe out humankind.
by Katherine Arden
4.1(118,636)
In a snow-laden medieval Russia, a young woman who sees ancient spirits must defy her devout stepmother and a rising demonic evil to protect her family and village from a winter demon.
by Roald Dahl
4.0(118,212)
When the world's most revolting couple, the Twits, push their pranks too far, their mistreated monkeys and a family of Roly-Poly birds conspire to turn the tables in a hilariously grotesque act of poetic justice.
by Maggie Stiefvater
4.3(118,197)
Ley lines awaken and ancient sleepers stir. Blue Sargent and the Raven Boys face shifting loyalties and the unraveling of their certainties, all while getting closer to the truth of a lost Welsh king and the cost of magic.
by Robin Hobb
4.2(118,179)
Resurrected and scarred, the former assassin Fitz embarks on a desperate, magic-infused quest for vengeance against the treacherous Prince Regal, hoping to save his crumbling kingdom and the last vestiges of his soul.
by William Makepeace Thackeray
3.8(118,061)
In the ballrooms and battlefields of Napoleonic England, two women—one a social climber and the other an idealist—live in a society where ambition and virtue clash.
by Robert Dugoni
4.0(118,017)
Twenty years after her sister's murder, a Seattle homicide detective reopens the cold case, uncovering dangerous small-town secrets that shatter her past and put her life at risk.
by Virginia Woolf
4.2(118,000)
To write, a woman needs talent, a room of her own, and money, making a physical and mental space for her voice in a male-dominated world.
by Ernest Hemingway
4.0(117,896)
In this posthumous memoir, Ernest Hemingway vividly recaptures the intoxicating poverty and creative camaraderie of his youth among literary giants in 1920s Paris, a time when he discovered his voice while living on the edge of starvation and brilliance.