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  1. Between a Rock and a Hard Place

    Aron Ralston

    ★ 3.8 (20k) average on GoodreadsLifestyle

    Trapped by an 800-pound boulder in a remote Utah canyon, Aron Ralston's memoir recounts his six-day fight for survival, ending in self-amputation to escape death.

  2. Wires and Nerve

    Marissa Meyer

    ★ 4.1 (20k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    An android, Iko, goes on a mission with a royal guard to find rogue wolf-hybrid soldiers, making her face complex realities of love, loyalty, and her own changing self during a fragile intergalactic peace.

  3. Where Things Come Back

    John Corey Whaley

    ★ 3.8 (20k) average on GoodreadsSpirituality

    A small Arkansas town erupts in 'woodpecker-mania' over a rediscovered, supposedly extinct bird. A teenager grapples with his brother's disappearance, intertwining their search for meaning with a missionary's crisis of faith across continents.

  4. The Red Garden

    Alice Hoffman

    ★ 3.7 (20k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    For three centuries, the magical red garden of Blackwell, Massachusetts, watches the intertwined lives of its residents, where fate, dark secrets, and lasting love grow amidst the town's haunting history.

  5. The Fixed Trilogy

    Laurelin Paige

    ★ 4.3 (20k) average on GoodreadsRomance

    A woman with obsessive love disorder gets involved with a magnetic, secretive nightclub owner, forcing them both to face their pasts and fractured trust in a high-stakes romance where healing and heartbreak are intertwined.

  6. A Sick Day for Amos McGee

    Philip C. Stead

    ★ 4.2 (20k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    When kind zookeeper Amos McGee is too sick to visit his animal friends, they return his devotion with a heartwarming house call.

  7. Concealed in Death

    J.D. Robb

    ★ 4.3 (20k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    When demolition unearths a dozen skeletal remains of teenage girls in a forgotten shelter, Lieutenant Eve Dallas must uncover the dark secrets of 'The Sanctuary' and confront the evil hidden in a familiar heart.

  8. UnDivided

    Neal Shusterman

    ★ 4.5 (20k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    As America nears civil war, three teens uncover a conspiracy that could save a generation from forced organ harvesting or push the nation into a bloodier rebellion.

  9. The Winter Rose

    Jennifer Donnelly

    ★ 4.3 (20k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    In 1900s East London, a female doctor's dedication to healing clashes with a gangster's dangerous charm, forcing her to choose between duty and a forbidden love.

  10. The Wednesday Letters

    Jason F. Wright

    ★ 3.6 (20k) average on GoodreadsRomance

    Decades of weekly love letters, discovered after a couple's shared death, unravel a hidden family secret that forces their children to confront a life-altering truth.

  11. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More

    Roald Dahl

    ★ 4.1 (20k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    From a man who learns to see without his eyes to a boy who talks with a giant turtle, Roald Dahl tells stories where the unusual is always close, showing that even a pickpocket can be a hero and lost treasure holds a sad truth.

  12. Now We Are Six

    A.A. Milne

    ★ 4.3 (20k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Enter the world of childhood with A.A. Milne's poems, where the wonder of growing up to six years old comes alive through Ernest H. Shepard's illustrations.

  13. 100 Cupboards (100 Cupboards Book 1)

    N.D. Wilson

    ★ 3.8 (20k) average on Goodreads

    When mysterious doors appear in his bedroom wall, a reluctant boy must follow his adventurous cousin into other worlds to stop the evil lurking behind them from escaping into his own.

  14. The Bone Tree

    Greg Iles

    ★ 4.2 (20k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A Southern prosecutor's search for his fugitive father unravels a decades-old conspiracy involving the KKK, the Mafia, and the JFK assassination, all converging on a legendary killing ground known as the Bone Tree.

  15. The Best We Could Do

    Thi Bui

    ★ 4.4 (20k) average on GoodreadsBiography

    Thi Bui's illustrated memoir explores the impact of war and displacement on her family, from their escape from Vietnam to her own journey into motherhood.

  16. The Day of the Locust

    Nathanael West

    ★ 3.8 (20k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    In 1930s Hollywood, a young artist sees the desperation and violence beneath the city's glamour, leading to an explosive riot.

  17. The Rest of the Story

    Sarah Dessen

    ★ 4.1 (20k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    A summer with her mother's estranged family at a lake makes Emma understand her two identities and her past, while she falls for a boy who helps her discover her heritage.

  18. Rose Under Fire

    Elizabeth Wein

    ★ 4.1 (20k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    An American ATA pilot, captured by Nazis and sent to Ravensbrück, finds strength in sisterhood and hope amidst unimaginable brutality.

  19. If You Take a Mouse to the Movies

    Laura Joffe Numeroff

    ★ 4.2 (20k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A small, hungry mouse turns a movie trip into a flurry of holiday decorating and demands, all from one piece of popcorn.

  20. The Art Spirit

    Robert Henri

    ★ 3.9 (20k) average on GoodreadsReference

    Robert Henri's timeless wisdom guides you to see, feel, and express the world with passion and authenticity, helping you find joy in creativity.

  21. The Bone People

    Keri Hulme

    ★ 4.0 (20k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    On the wild South Island shores, a reclusive artist, a mute shipwreck survivor, and his volatile Maori foster father are drawn into a maelstrom of longing and violence, battling the very attachments they crave.

  22. Beatrice and Virgil

    Yann Martel

    ★ 3.2 (20k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    A taxidermist gives a writer a strange manuscript about a donkey and a monkey, sending him on a quest to uncover hidden meanings of the Holocaust.

  23. The Consequences of Fear

    Jacqueline Winspear

    ★ 4.3 (20k) average on GoodreadsFiction

    In Nazi-occupied Europe, Maisie Dobbs, working for the SOE, must solve a murder witnessed by a young messenger. The crime unexpectedly connects to her secret war efforts and threatens to expose a dangerous conspiracy from the Great War.

  24. True History of the Kelly Gang

    Peter Carey

    ★ 3.8 (20k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    Ned Kelly, Australia's most infamous bushranger, reclaims his story through raw, unpunctuated prose, shifting his image from an outlaw into a misunderstood folk hero shaped by colonial injustice and family silence.

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