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  1. A Lot like Love

    Julie James

    ★ 4.1 (30k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A billionaire's daughter and an FBI agent fake a relationship to infiltrate the mob, only to find their pretend passion igniting into a real romance amidst a high-stakes investigation.

  2. Vampire Mountain

    Darren Shan

    ★ 4.2 (30k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    On Vampire Mountain, Darren Shan faces ancient vampire traditions, treacherous enemies, and the truth of his half-vampire identity during an initiation that will define his future.

  3. The Middle Place

    Kelly Corrigan

    ★ 3.9 (30k) average on GoodreadsBiography

    A daughter, strengthened by her father's spirit, faces her own battle with breast cancer only to confront his mortality, ultimately finding her own identity during their shared fight.

  4. Tinkers

    Paul Harding

    ★ 3.4 (30k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    As a dying clock repairer nears his end, his mind turns to his poor Maine childhood, his epileptic peddler father, and his mad preacher grandfather, connecting time, nature, and old longings.

  5. Joker

    Brian Azzarello

    ★ 4.0 (30k) average on GoodreadsFiction

    Fresh out of Arkham, the Joker begins a brutal, neon-soaked rampage across Gotham to reclaim his criminal empire, leaving chaos and blood.

  6. The Moving Finger

    Agatha Christie

    ★ 3.9 (30k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A quiet English village, perfect for recovery, turns into a place of suspicion and suicide when anonymous, mean letters expose its secrets, all observed by Miss Marple.

  7. Hocus Pocus

    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

    ★ 3.8 (30k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    A cynical Vietnam veteran and college professor predicts society's hilarious and horrifying collapse, all while trying to keep his chaotic life and the bizarre events at Tarkington College from spiraling out of control.

  8. The Princess and the Goblin

    George MacDonald

    ★ 4.0 (30k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Princess Irene's mystical grandmother and the brave miner boy Curdie must combine their unique insights to outwit the subterranean goblins plotting to steal the royal children and claim the mountain.

  9. Common Sense

    Thomas Paine

    ★ 4.0 (30k) average on GoodreadsPolitics

    In "Common Sense," Thomas Paine argues forcefully for American independence, dismantling the idea of monarchy and urging the colonies to create a new republican future.

  10. Godsgrave

    Jay Kristoff

    ★ 4.5 (30k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Mia Corvere, an assassin haunted by her past, navigates political schemes and ancient magic to avenge her family, battling the very guild she serves.

  11. Everless

    Sara Holland

    ★ 3.8 (30k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a kingdom where time flows as blood and can be bought, sold, and stolen, a young woman returns to the estate she left years ago, only to find secrets that could unravel her past, her future, and existence itself.

  12. Lockwood & Co.: The Empty Grave

    Jonathan Stroud

    ★ 4.6 (30k) average on Goodreads

    Lockwood, Lucy, and George raid a booby-trapped mausoleum, fighting spectral and human enemies to uncover the sinister truth behind Marissa Fittes and save their agency.

  13. Ice Station

    Matthew Reilly

    ★ 4.1 (30k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Beneath Antarctica's ice, a US Marine team finds a chilling secret and fights for survival against elite assassins and the continent's deadly environment.

  14. Island of the Sequined Love Nun

    Christopher Moore

    ★ 3.8 (30k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A disgraced corporate pilot crash-lands into a Micronesian island paradise teeming with cargo cults, cannibals, and a sequined love nun, forcing him to navigate a ludicrous world of talking fruit bats and mad scientists to save his own skin.

  15. The Edible Woman

    Margaret Atwood

    ★ 3.7 (30k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    As Marian gets ready for a seemingly normal marriage, her body rebels, turning her fiancé and the wedding plans into a growing, unbearable nightmare of societal pressure.

  16. The Chase

    Elle Kennedy

    ★ 3.9 (30k) average on GoodreadsRomance

    When a driven, image-conscious student lives with her brother's brooding, hockey-playing best friend, their attraction threatens to ignite a house-wide blaze despite his insistence they're wrong for each other.

  17. Deliverance

    James Dickey

    ★ 3.9 (30k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    Four city men on a Georgia whitewater canoe trip find their adventure shatter into a fight for survival against the wilderness and human evil, forcing one to become the hunter to save them from their choices.

  18. The Blue Castle

    L.M. Montgomery

    ★ 4.3 (30k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    A spinster trapped by her demanding family finds liberation and unexpected love after a life-altering diagnosis propels her to chase the fantastical 'Blue Castle' of her dreams.

  19. The Great Santini

    Pat Conroy

    ★ 4.1 (30k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    In a searing portrait of a military family, a defiant son battles for his identity against the tyrannical love and unyielding expectations of his fighter-pilot father, the explosive Bull Meecham.

  20. City of the Beasts

    Isabel Allende

    ★ 3.7 (30k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A skeptical teenager, joining his intrepid grandmother on a perilous Amazonian expedition to find a mythical Beast, instead uncovers his own inner jaguar spirit and the jungle's ancient magic alongside a native girl and her eagle guide.

  21. One Crazy Summer

    Rita Williams-Garcia

    ★ 4.0 (30k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    In the summer of 1968, three Brooklyn sisters go to Oakland to live with their estranged poet mother, where they attend a Black Panther summer camp and learn about family, identity, and a changing nation.

  22. Cat Among the Pigeons

    Julia Golding

    ★ 3.8 (30k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    To save her friend from slavery, the irrepressible Cat Royal dives into London's high society and its grimy underbelly, donning disguises and stirring up trouble to fight for justice.

  23. Paris for One and Other Stories

    Jojo Moyes

    ★ 3.5 (30k) average on GoodreadsLifestyle

    When her boyfriend cancels their romantic Parisian trip, a shy Nell finds an unexpected, adventurous side of herself in the City of Lights, proving that sometimes, the best company is your own.

  24. Saving Fish from Drowning

    Amy Tan

    ★ 3.4 (30k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    A San Francisco art patron, now a ghost, watches her planned Burma Road tour turn into a comedic and tragic journey of cultural mistakes, tribal curses, and disappearing tourists, as she grapples with the ironies of good intentions and unexpected outcomes.

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