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  1. Enduring Love

    Ian McEwan

    ★ 3.6 (38k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    After a shared glance during a tragic ballooning accident, a science journalist's perfect life with his lover unravels as he becomes the target of an obsessive stranger's terrifying and relentless delusion of love.

  2. How to Train Your Dragon

    Cressida Cowell

    ★ 3.9 (38k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A small Viking heir, good with words but not muscles, goes on a funny journey to make a wild dragon his friend, showing that unlikely heroes can connect with animals and change the world.

  3. All the Birds in the Sky

    Charlie Jane Anders

    ★ 3.6 (38k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A witch and a mad scientist, separated by a magical middle school incident, must reunite in a near-future San Francisco to either mend a broken world or witness its final unraveling.

  4. Misguided Angel

    Melissa de la Cruz

    ★ 3.9 (38k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Schuyler races across continents to protect humanity's last defenses from Lucifer. Her sister Mimi battles a deadly new threat to the vampire coven in New York, forcing both to confront old secrets and hard choices that will shape their lives and hearts.

  5. Muse of Nightmares

    Laini Taylor

    ★ 4.5 (38k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A god and a ghost battle new identities and a vengeful captor, uncovering their world's chilling origins and questioning if love can redeem the monsters they were born to fight.

  6. By Your Side

    Kasie West

    ★ 3.9 (38k) average on GoodreadsPsychology

    Trapped in a library for a weekend, a girl who follows rules and a quiet loner find a connection that changes their ideas about themselves and threatens their lives once the doors open.

  7. I Too Had a Love Story

    Ravinder Singh

    ★ 3.6 (38k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    After finding love on a matrimonial site, Ravin and Khushi's tender romance is brutally tested by fate, proving that not all love stories are destined for a perfect ending.

  8. Bad Science

    Ben Goldacre

    ★ 4.1 (38k) average on GoodreadsPsychology

    With a healthy dose of skepticism and a Barbie doll, Ben Goldacre hilariously dissects the poor science peddled by the media and advertisers, empowering readers to spot the 'brown sludge' in everyday claims.

  9. The Magic Mountain

    Thomas Mann

    ★ 4.1 (38k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    In a Swiss Alps sanatorium, a young engineer's quest for health becomes a philosophical journey, reflecting Europe's pre-war introspection.

  10. The World Without Us

    Alan Weisman

    ★ 3.8 (38k) average on GoodreadsHistory

    Explore a post-human Earth where New York's subways flood, cities become forests, and our most lasting legacies are plastic, bronze, and radio waves.

  11. Hell House

    Richard Matheson

    ★ 3.8 (38k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Four strangers, each with their own problems, enter the notorious Belasco House, a mansion known for its horror, which offers either answers or destruction to anyone who dares to go inside.

  12. House of Chains

    Steven Erikson

    ★ 4.3 (38k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    From a tribal warrior's brutal beginnings to an untested Malazan army's desperate fight against a sister's rebellion in the Holy Desert, 'House of Chains' tells a story of fate, betrayal, and the weight of command.

  13. Zorba the Greek

    Nikos Kazantzakis

    ★ 4.1 (38k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    A reserved intellectual's life changes when he meets Zorba, a Greek working man who embraces life's joys and wisdom on Crete.

  14. Silk

    Alessandro Baricco

    ★ 3.9 (37k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    A French merchant's dangerous journey to exotic, forbidden Japan in the 1860s starts a silent, world-spanning love affair that goes beyond language and distance, as he tries to save his village's silk trade.

  15. Corrupt

    Penelope Douglas

    ★ 4.0 (37k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A woman's long-held obsession with her boyfriend's terrifying older brother turns into a dangerous game of cat and mouse when he and his friends, fresh out of prison, come to collect on a past betrayal.

  16. Starsight

    Brandon Sanderson

    ★ 4.4 (37k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Haunted by her father's past and connected to the stars, a defiant pilot must infiltrate an alien academy to uncover galactic truths and prevent humanity's destruction.

  17. Heaven and Earth

    Nora Roberts

    ★ 4.1 (37k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    On a mystical island steeped in witchcraft and ancient secrets, a wary sheriff's deputy with burgeoning powers finds herself drawn to a determined researcher who sees beyond her guarded exterior, forcing her to confront both a dangerous past and the possibility of a magical future.

  18. Cheaper by the Dozen

    Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.

    ★ 4.0 (37k) average on GoodreadsBiography

    Meet the Gilbreths, a family of twelve children whose efficiency-expert parents apply their industrial principles to everything from chore charts to synchronized tonsillectomies, all with hilarious and heartwarming results.

  19. The Jewel

    Amy Ewing

    ★ 3.9 (37k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Violet Lasting is sold into opulent servitude in the brutal Jewel, forced to bear an heir for a ruthless Duchess while fighting to keep her identity and forbidden love.

  20. His Last Bow

    Arthur Conan Doyle

    ★ 4.3 (37k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    From outwitting a German spy before WWI to feigning death to catch a murderer, Sherlock Holmes proves that even retirement can't dull his intellect in this collection of his most clever cases.

  21. Demons

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    ★ 4.3 (37k) average on GoodreadsPolitics

    In a Russian town, a charismatic nihilist leads well-meaning but deluded revolutionaries into violence and murder, a prophetic warning about ideological extremism.

  22. The Nature of the Beast

    Louise Penny

    ★ 4.2 (37k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A boy known for wild stories disappears, making the quiet village of Three Pines wonder if his tale of a monster in the woods was real. This unearths an old crime and a deep betrayal.

  23. Tribulation Force

    Tim LaHaye

    ★ 4.0 (37k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    After global disappearances and judgments, a pilot, a journalist, a pastor, and a student form the Tribulation Force, risking everything to expose the Antichrist and rally resistance against his new world order during Earth's final seven years.

  24. The Seeing Stone

    Kevin Crossley-Holland

    ★ 3.9 (37k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A young Arthur de Caldicot's ordinary medieval life as a page turns into a mystical journey when a seeing stone from Merlin connects his fate with the legendary King Arthur.

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