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by Diane Chamberlain
4.0(63,178)
When a woman discovers her presumed-dead sister is alive and living under a new identity, she unravels a twenty-year-old family conspiracy that forces her to question everything she thought she knew about her past.
by Robin Wall Kimmerer
4.3(63,020)
Robin Wall Kimmerer uses the serviceberry and Indigenous knowledge to show how an economy based on gratitude and reciprocity makes everyone better off, not just those who hoard.
by Peter Mayle
4.0(62,905)
Peter Mayle moves to a 200-year-old farmhouse in Provence, where he learns to live by the seasons, not the clock, navigating frosty mistrals, goat races, and regional cuisine with humor and charm.
by Jeff Kinney
4.3(62,888)
Middle school mayhem ensues when Greg Heffley, abandoned by his best friend, resorts to the whims of chance to navigate the treacherous waters of friendship and avoid a perpetual streak of hard luck.
by Marissa Meyer
4.2(62,882)
This collection of short stories explores the hidden origins and connections of cyborg mechanics, soldiers, and hackers within the Lunar Chronicles universe, revealing its romantic core.
by Philippa Gregory
3.8(62,825)
Orphaned and widowed, Margaret Beaufort, a child-bride to Edmund Tudor, meticulously schemes and manipulates her way through the treacherous War of the Roses to ensure her son, Henry Tudor, seizes the English throne and establishes the Tudor dynasty.
by Hillary Jordan
4.0(62,796)
On a Mississippi Delta farm in the Jim Crow South, a white veteran and a Black veteran form a forbidden friendship, igniting racial prejudice and familial secrets that lead to tragedy.
by Tana French
3.9(62,789)
A cryptic note from a boarding school girl thrusts two detectives into the insular, venomous world of teenage cliques to unravel a year-old murder, revealing that the secrets of adolescence can be as deadly as any adult crime.
by Arlene Mosel
4.2(62,753)
A boy with an impossibly long and honorable name falls into a well, leading to a frantic, name-mangling rescue that changes ancient Chinese naming conventions forever.
by Patricia Briggs
4.4(62,727)
When her werewolf pack vanishes, shifter Mercy Thompson must navigate a treacherous political underworld and forge unlikely alliances to rescue her mate and stepdaughter before their enemies exploit the chaos.
by Ian McEwan
3.6(62,529)
On a single Saturday, a contented neurosurgeon's ordinary London day off unravels into a terrifying confrontation with a disturbed young man, forcing him to use his medical knowledge to protect his family amidst a city on the brink of war.
by Elizabeth Acevedo
4.4(62,484)
In Harlem, a fierce Afro-Latina teenager named Xiomara writes secret poems, using them as a microphone to fight her mother's religious rules and a world that tries to quiet her voice and forbidden love.
by Audrey Penn
4.4(62,436)
A mother raccoon shares a secret 'Kissing Hand' with her son to magically deliver her love and comfort him through the anxieties of starting school.
by Dean Koontz
4.0(62,327)
In an isolated monastery, psychic Odd Thomas seeks solace from a lost love, only to find himself stalked by sinister, death-heralding specters and an ancient, inexorable adversary threatening innocent children.
by Edgar Allan Poe
4.1(62,319)
A connoisseur's pride becomes his tomb as a vengeful friend lures him into catacombs with the promise of a rare vintage, only to entomb him alive.
by Janet Evanovich
3.9(62,297)
Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum navigates vanishing felons, a sassy grandma undercover in assisted living, and a dangerous double-duty guarding her enigmatic mentor, all while trying to solve a Trenton mystery and avoid an excess of taffeta.
by Italo Calvino
4.1(62,127)
Marco Polo tells Kublai Khan about many imagined cities, but each one is Venice, his home.
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
3.7(62,099)
Fitzgerald's semi-autobiographical debut explores the Jazz Age's glamorous parties and sad disappointments through the eyes of an idealistic Princeton student dealing with love, ambition, and a changing generation.
by John Grisham
3.7(62,075)
A brilliant Yale Law graduate is blackmailed into infiltrating a cutthroat corporate law firm, where he must lie, steal, and navigate a deadly conspiracy to protect a dark secret from his past.
by Marissa Meyer
4.2(61,966)
In a city rebuilt by superpowered heroes, a vengeful assassin with the power to steal sleep infiltrates their ranks, only to find herself drawn to the artistic prodigy son of her sworn enemies, who champions the very justice she seeks to dismantle.
by Nora Roberts
4.2(61,964)
A woman who escaped her serial killer father's legacy finds new love and a fragile peace, only for his dark past to resurface, threatening to shatter her carefully built world once more.
by George Orwell
4.1(61,959)
Orwell exposes the truths of poverty in Parisian kitchens and among London tramps, using wit and a sharp eye for societal hypocrisy.
by Deborah Howe
3.9(61,873)
A suspicious cat and his loyal dog companion must uncover the truth about their new, fanged bunny housemate before his nocturnal, vegetable-draining habits turn their home into a produce-less wasteland.
by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
4.5(61,856)
A young girl with a clubfoot escapes abuse in WWII London, finds a new home, learns to ride a pony and read, and forms a loving family amidst the war.