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  1. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian

    Marina Lewycka

    ★ 3.4 (27k) average on GoodreadsFiction

    When their 84-year-old father falls for a glamorous Ukrainian divorcée half his age, two estranged sisters must unite to save him from her mercenary intentions, uncovering a comedic and moving history of family secrets and European upheaval.

  2. The Partly Cloudy Patriot

    Sarah Vowell

    ★ 3.9 (27k) average on GoodreadsPolitics

    Sarah Vowell takes a witty, unusual journey through America's historical sites, connecting the nation's past to her own patriotic feelings.

  3. A Piece of Cake

    Cupcake Brown

    ★ 4.2 (27k) average on GoodreadsBiography

    Orphaned and in a sadistic foster home, Cupcake Brown's life goes from preteen tragedy to an odyssey of addiction, gang violence, and street survival. She ultimately reclaims her life from near death.

  4. Fix Her Up

    Tessa Bailey

    ★ 3.6 (27k) average on GoodreadsRomance

    A party planner, eager for respect, enlists a retired baseball star to fake a romance, only to find their staged kisses spark a real, passionate attraction.

  5. The Double Bind

    Chris Bohjalian

    ★ 3.6 (27k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    A college student, recovering from an assault, becomes obsessed with a homeless man's past, finding photographs that hint at a glamorous life and a connection to her own Long Island childhood, blurring reality, memory, and echoes of The Great Gatsby.

  6. A Nearly Normal Family

    M.T. Edvardsson

    ★ 3.8 (27k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A pastor and a criminal defense attorney must face their family's dark secrets when their daughter is accused of murder, challenging their love and morality.

  7. The Overcoat

    Nikolai Gogol

    ★ 4.1 (27k) average on GoodreadsFiction

    A lowly clerk's life unravels into a darkly comedic and tragic obsession with a new overcoat, only to find himself haunting the streets of St. Petersburg in its spectral pursuit.

  8. The Supernaturalist

    Eoin Colfer

    ★ 3.9 (27k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a future of corporate orphanages and deadly product testing, a runaway boy sees life-draining specters, joins a team of teen hunters, and uncovers a conspiracy bigger than the monsters themselves.

  9. Lila

    Marilynne Robinson

    ★ 3.9 (27k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    Lila, a wanderer with a protective past, finds refuge in an Iowa church, leading to an unexpected marriage, a spiritual awakening, and a new understanding of love and belonging.

  10. Promise Me

    Harlan Coben

    ★ 4.0 (27k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A promise to two girls for a safe ride home puts Myron in a desperate race against time when one vanishes, making him the prime suspect.

  11. Pivot Point

    Kasie West

    ★ 4.1 (27k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A 'Searcher' who sees both outcomes of every choice faces her greatest dilemma when her parents divorce, forcing her to live two distinct futures, each with love, loss, and a murder mystery connecting both realities.

  12. The Shadow of What Was Lost

    James Islington

    ★ 4.2 (27k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    After a war that wiped out god-like Augurs, a student with minor magic discovers he has forbidden power, which awakens old enemies and an amnesiac stranger whose fate is tied to his.

  13. The Guest Room

    Chris Bohjalian

    ★ 3.7 (27k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A suburban bachelor party ends in murder when two escorts kill their bodyguards, destroying a man's life, marriage, and freedom as he gets caught up in crime and escape.

  14. Out

    Natsuo Kirino

    ★ 3.9 (27k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    In the quiet Tokyo suburbs, a desperate night-shift worker strangles her deadbeat husband, plunging her and her lunch-making co-workers into a grim, blood-soaked pact with the yakuza to dispose of the body and escape their suffocating lives.

  15. House of Salt and Sorrows

    Erin A. Craig

    ★ 3.9 (27k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Twelve sisters dance in a haunted manor by the sea, but as mysterious deaths claim them one by one, Annaleigh must uncover if their midnight revels are with charming princes or the very forces trying to drag them to their watery graves.

  16. Building a StoryBrand

    Donald Miller

    ★ 4.3 (27k) average on GoodreadsMarketing

    Grow your business by changing your brand's message from confusing to clear, showing customers your solution will help them succeed.

  17. Dauntless

    Jack Campbell

    ★ 4.0 (27k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A resurrected hero, idealized beyond belief, must reluctantly lead a crippled fleet through enemy territory and live up to his own impossible legend to save humanity from annihilation.

  18. Mastery

    Robert Greene

    ★ 4.3 (27k) average on GoodreadsBusiness

    Robert Greene's book explores the universal path to mastery, showing how anyone can develop their passion into skill and influence by debunking myths about genius.

  19. Blindsight

    Peter Watts

    ★ 4.0 (27k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A crew of augmented but broken humans, including a resurrected vampire and a linguist with multiple personalities, travels to the solar system's edge to face an alien intelligence that communicates in silence, making humanity question consciousness and self.

  20. Friday

    Robert A. Heinlein

    ★ 3.9 (27k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Genetically engineered for peak performance and loyalty, a courier named Friday navigates a fractured future Earth, outsmarting assassins and political intrigue with lethal grace and sharp wit, all while grappling with her own humanity.

  21. Our Man in Havana

    Graham Greene

    ★ 3.9 (27k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    In Graham Greene's satirical thriller, a vacuum cleaner salesman in Havana invents elaborate spy reports to keep his MI6 salary, only to find his fictional world of secret weapons and double agents materialize around him.

  22. A Hologram for the King

    Dave Eggers

    ★ 3.3 (27k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    In a shimmering Saudi Arabian city, a desperate American businessman battles the twin specters of personal and global economic collapse while waiting endlessly for a king who might hold the key to his family's last hope.

  23. Ghostwritten

    David Mitchell

    ★ 4.0 (27k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    Nine different lives across the globe, from a museum attendant to a Mongolian spirit, are subtly connected by a shared consciousness, showing the depth of human connection, creation, and destruction.

  24. A Lion Among Men

    Gregory Maguire

    ★ 3.3 (27k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Through the eyes of the Cowardly Lion, now a seasoned wanderer named Brrr, Oz is on the brink of civil war while he seeks answers about Elphaba from a dying oracle, forced to trade his own fragmented, difficult past for the truth.

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