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by Mary Beth Keane
4.0(115,212)
Two NYPD families in the suburbs find their lives shattered by a single act of violence, forcing their children to navigate a lifetime of love, trauma, and the difficult path to forgiveness.
by Lois Lowry
4.0(115,198)
A mother's desperate search for her stolen child ignites a final, world-altering battle against a society that has eradicated love and memory.
by Isabel Allende
3.9(115,142)
In the chaos of the 1849 California Gold Rush, a sheltered Chilean orphan searches for a lost love, finding her own independence among prospectors and prostitutes.
by Joe Abercrombie
4.3(114,951)
A crippled torturer defends a city, a spoiled prince leads an army, and a cynical mage guides misfits on a quest, as an ancient war unravels with betrayal and bloody reckoning for all.
by Jessie Burton
3.6(114,904)
In 17th-century Amsterdam, a young bride's miniature dollhouse becomes a prophetic mirror of her opulent yet secretive new life, revealing the dangerous truths hidden within her wealthy merchant husband's household.
by P.L. Travers
4.0(114,882)
A mysterious nanny arrives on Cherry Tree Lane, making chores magical and showing the Banks children that wonder exists everywhere.
by James Herriot
4.3(114,546)
Journey alongside a young, compassionate veterinarian as he navigates the humorous, heartwarming, and often challenging realities of treating creatures great and small amidst the rugged beauty of rural Yorkshire.
by Catherine Steadman
3.6(114,496)
A newlywed couple finds millions in cash during their Bora Bora honeymoon, leading them into a dangerous secret and a fight for their lives.
by Jim Fergus
3.9(114,179)
Banished for 'lunacy,' socialite May Dodd volunteers for a secret 1875 government program, journeying with 999 other white women into the heart of the American West to marry Cheyenne warriors and chronicle a clash of cultures that will forever change her.
by Katie McGarry
4.1(114,086)
A scarred, withdrawn girl finds an unexpected connection with a notorious loner, forcing them both to confront their hidden pasts and the dangerous possibility of falling in love.
by Walter Isaacson
4.0(113,854)
by Garth Nix
4.2(113,821)
Lirael, the new Abhorsen-in-Waiting, gathers her allies to confront an ancient evil, Orannis, in the realms of Life and Death before it destroys the world.
by Lauren Groff
3.6(113,696)
A dazzling portrait of a marriage, "Fates and Furies" dissects the two radically different sides of a seemingly perfect union, revealing the volatile truths and carefully guarded secrets that bind a couple over two decades.
by Abbi Glines
4.2(113,658)
After a devastating secret shatters her world, Blaire returns home to rebuild her life, only to face a web of lies and the one man she can never forgive, yet desperately needs to trust.
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
3.8(113,650)
On the 1920s French Riviera, psychiatrist Dick Diver's magnetic but fragile marriage to his wealthy wife Nicole collapses under the weight of mental illness, infidelity, and the allure of young starlet Rosemary Hoyt.
by W. Bruce Cameron
4.3(113,613)
A dog goes through multiple lives, seeking its purpose and showing the strong bond between humans and their dogs.
by Amie Kaufman
4.3(113,548)
In 2575, a planet-wide invasion forces Kady and her ex-boyfriend Ezra to flee on a spaceship where a deadly plague, a rogue AI, and corporate secrets threaten their survival, all documented through hacked files.
by Susan Beth Pfeffer
3.9(113,432)
After a meteor shifts the moon, plunging the world into an Arctic winter, a teenage girl's journal records her family's fight to survive tsunamis, earthquakes, and an ash-choked sky.
by S.C. Stephens
4.4(113,408)
Haunted by the fallout of a past love triangle, Kiera fights to protect her rekindled romance with Denny from new tests, discovering that while love may be effortless, rebuilding trust is the hardest battle of all.
by Italo Calvino
4.0(113,391)
You, the reader, embark on a meta-fictional search for the true beginning of ten different novels, each a fragment of a story interrupted, in a playful look at reading itself.
by Michael Ondaatje
3.9(113,375)
In an abandoned Italian villa at the close of WWII, four damaged people gather around a burned English patient, whose fragmented memories of love, betrayal, and desert exploration reveal their own scarred pasts.
by Stephen King
4.0(113,160)
Trapped in a supermarket by a strange mist with unseen monsters, survivors must face their fears and the truth behind a secret government project to fight an otherworldly invasion.
by Joanne Harris
4.0(113,117)
In a quiet French village, a mysterious chocolatier arrives during Lent, sparking a quiet revolution with her sweets and her ability to help villagers embrace their hidden desires.
by Neil deGrasse Tyson
4.1(113,066)
Neil deGrasse Tyson explains the universe's biggest questions, from the Big Bang to dark energy, in a short and engaging cosmic tour for busy readers.