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  1. In Our Time

    Ernest Hemingway

    ★ 3.8 (19k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    Hemingway's 'In Our Time' uses stark, simple stories to show the broken lives of soldiers, boxers, and bullfighters, revealing the harsh truth of post-World War I disappointment and the search for meaning in a damaged world.

  2. Temple

    Matthew Reilly

    ★ 4.1 (19k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    An American linguist races a shadowy group and ancient Incan guardians to find a hidden, alien idol in the Peruvian jungle—an artifact with the power to save or destroy humanity.

  3. Tales from Earthsea

    Ursula K. Le Guin

    ★ 4.0 (19k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Five tales explore Earthsea's hidden histories, forgotten magic, and the human hearts navigating its dangerous beauty.

  4. The Goddess Inheritance

    Aimee Carter

    ★ 4.0 (19k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A young mother faces an impossible choice: save her child, her loved ones, or the entire world from a vengeful Titan king.

  5. The Lady in the Lake

    Raymond Chandler

    ★ 4.1 (19k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    In sun-drenched, shadow-laden Los Angeles, Philip Marlowe investigates disappearing wives, where truth shifts and deceit lingers.

  6. We All Looked Up

    Tommy Wallach

    ★ 3.6 (19k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    With an asteroid hurtling towards Earth, a diverse group of high school seniors sheds their labels to discover love, purpose, and their true selves in the two months before the world ends.

  7. The Replacement

    Brenna Yovanoff

    ★ 3.5 (19k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A changeling boy allergic to iron and holy ground must navigate his monstrous origins and forbidden human crush when his beloved's sister is stolen into the dark, magical underworld he desperately tries to escape.

  8. On the Genealogy of Morals

    Friedrich Nietzsche

    ★ 4.1 (19k) average on GoodreadsPsychology

    Nietzsche unearths Judaeo-Christian values of compassion and equality not as divine truths, but as chains designed to shackle humanity's primal, aristocratic spirit.

  9. Outcast of Redwall

    Brian Jacques

    ★ 3.9 (19k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Torn between the father who abandoned him and the adoptive mother who loved him, a young ferret named Veil must choose whether to embrace his birthright of evil or defend the abbey that cast him out.

  10. The Princesse De Cleves

    Madame Lafayette

    ★ 3.4 (19k) average on GoodreadsFiction

    In a 16th-century French court, a virtuous princess, ensnared by an unspoken love for a charismatic duke, confesses her forbidden desires to her devoted husband, unraveling a tragic cascade of honor, passion, and despair.

  11. Sisters Red

    Jackson Pearce

    ★ 3.6 (19k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Scarlett, a fierce werewolf hunter with a hatchet and blood-red cloak, seeks vengeance for her lost eye while her sister Rosie, bound by debt and love, yearns for a life beyond the hunt, caught between loyalty and a forbidden romance with their only ally.

  12. Dead End in Norvelt

    Jack Gantos

    ★ 3.7 (19k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Grounded for the summer and prone to nosebleeds, young Jack finds his summer plans upended when he types obituaries for his utopian town's founders, uncovering murder, molten wax, and historical secrets that bring the past dangerously to life.

  13. Pebble in the Sky

    Isaac Asimov

    ★ 3.9 (19k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A 1949 tailor, accidentally sent 20,000 years into the future, must navigate a radioactive, ageist Earth in a vast Galactic Empire that despises its origins, all while trying to avoid a mandatory death sentence for being two years too old.

  14. The Informers

    Bret Easton Ellis

    ★ 3.4 (19k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    In 1980s Los Angeles, privileged, disconnected people drift through betrayal, sex, and dread, their lives unraveling into quiet desperation and unseen violence.

  15. Foundryside

    Robert Jackson Bennett

    ★ 4.2 (19k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A master thief with the power to rewrite objects' very natures finds an artifact that could unravel a city built on magical capitalism, forcing her to embrace a terrifying transformation or watch the world be rewritten by those who would enslave it.

  16. Harvest

    Tess Gerritsen

    ★ 4.1 (19k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A medical resident's morally charged decision to re-route a harvested heart plunges her into a terrifying conspiracy within Boston's elite transplant world, where falsified records and a hidden ship in the harbor conceal a murderous truth.

  17. The Jesus I Never Knew

    Philip Yancey

    ★ 4.2 (19k) average on GoodreadsSpirituality

    Philip Yancey explores two millennia of religious thought to uncover a complex, unpredictable, and transforming Jesus often hidden by modern Christian views.

  18. Dietland

    Sarai Walker

    ★ 3.6 (19k) average on GoodreadsFiction

    A disillusioned, overweight woman seeking bariatric surgery finds a radical feminist underground, which forces her to confront society's beauty standards and her own body image as a violent revolution against misogyny begins around her.

  19. If You Find Me

    Emily Murdoch

    ★ 4.1 (19k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    After a decade of secluded forest life with their mentally ill mother, two sisters are thrust into modern society, forcing the elder to confront the dark secrets of their past and the true reason for their abduction before it shatters their fragile new world.

  20. Carrion Comfort

    Dan Simmons

    ★ 3.9 (19k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A Holocaust survivor hunts a secret society of psychic manipulators who feed on human violence and orchestrate history's darkest atrocities, leading to a confrontation that will decide the fate of mankind.

  21. Hornet Flight

    Ken Follett

    ★ 3.9 (19k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    In the dangerous summer of 1941, an ordinary Danish teenager uncovers a secret that could change World War II, forcing him to risk everything on a broken biplane he can barely fly to deliver the information to England.

  22. The Professor

    Charlotte Brontë

    ★ 3.6 (19k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    Penniless and proud, William Crimsworth navigates the currents of ambition and unrequited love in a Belgian boarding school, finding his voice and an unexpected intellectual kinship.

  23. Memoirs of Hadrian

    Marguerite Yourcenar

    ★ 4.3 (19k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    This novel shows the burdens of power, the comfort of philosophy, and the human search for meaning through the eyes of a dying emperor.

  24. Crimson Bound

    Rosamund Hodge

    ★ 3.6 (19k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Haunted by a reckless choice that bound her to darkness, a warrior akin to Red Riding Hood must guard the prince she despises to find a legendary sword and avert an eternal night, all while navigating treacherous palace secrets and an unexpected, dangerous love.

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