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  1. Sweethearts

    Sara Zarr

    ★ 3.6 (18k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    Years after reinventing herself to escape the ghost of her childhood love, a popular high schooler's perfectly constructed world shatters when her 'dead' soulmate returns, forcing her to confront the girl she left behind and the truth of their shared past.

  2. How Music Works

    David Byrne

    ★ 4.0 (18k) average on GoodreadsBiography

    David Byrne explores how context, technology, and culture have shaped music, revealing the surprising structure beneath every note and beat.

  3. The Yacoubian Building

    Alaa Al Aswany

    ★ 3.7 (18k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    In Cairo's Yacoubian Building, a group of people faces political corruption, sexual repression, and extremism, showing a clear picture of modern Egypt.

  4. The Bone Witch

    Rin Chupeco

    ★ 3.7 (18k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Feared for her necromantic gift that accidentally resurrected her brother, a young witch must master her dark powers and confront looming shadows to protect her world.

  5. The Black Witch

    Laurie Forest

    ★ 4.1 (18k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    The powerless granddaughter of a legendary witch must defy her heritage and confront prejudices to unite allies against a rising darkness in a world where magic defines worth.

  6. The Darkness That Comes Before

    R. Scott Bakker

    ★ 3.8 (18k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a world scarred by ancient apocalypse and on the brink of a new holy war, a mysterious sorcerer draws four different people into a conflict that will change history.

  7. Pride

    Rachel Vincent

    ★ 4.2 (18k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Framed for capital offenses by her own kind, a shifter on trial for her life must risk everything to protect a vulnerable young tabby from a rogue stray and expose the true enemy before she's executed for crimes she didn't commit.

  8. A Home at the End of the World

    Michael Cunningham

    ★ 3.9 (18k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    Two boyhood friends and a woman build an unconventional family in upstate New York, navigating love, desire, and societal norms to raise a child together.

  9. The Ghost and the Goth

    Stacey Kade

    ★ 3.9 (18k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A deceased, self-absorbed popular girl finds an unlikely ally in a living outcast who can see ghosts, as they navigate the chaotic afterlife and the perils of high school.

  10. Clouds of Witness

    Dorothy L. Sayers

    ★ 4.0 (18k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    When his future brother-in-law is murdered and his own brother is accused, Lord Peter Wimsey must navigate aristocratic secrets and a vanishing letter to prevent a bullet from finding its mark on his own kin.

  11. One Tuesday Morning

    Karen Kingsbury

    ★ 4.4 (18k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    A firefighter, amnesiac after 9/11, must rediscover his faith and the wife he can't remember, as she battles to rebuild their shattered life and rekindle their love amidst the ashes of tragedy.

  12. Meg

    Steve Alten

    ★ 3.8 (18k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Haunted by a monstrous prehistoric shark he barely escaped, a disgraced deep-sea diver must confront his ultimate terror when the colossal Megalodon resurfaces from the abyss to claim new victims.

  13. The Analects

    Confucius

    ★ 3.8 (18k) average on GoodreadsHistory

    Confucius challenges us to pursue moral perfection, not for reward, but because the Way is its own recompense.

  14. Scat

    Carl Hiaasen

    ★ 4.0 (18k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    When their terrifying biology teacher vanishes after a swamp field trip, two students uncover a wild Everglades mystery involving a delinquent classmate, an eco-avenger, a stuffed rat, and a ticked-off panther.

  15. When the Emperor Was Divine

    Julie Otsuka

    ★ 3.8 (18k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    A Japanese American family navigates internment during WWII, showing the quiet devastation of shattered lives through moments of forced displacement and the bitter aftermath of their return.

  16. Aftershock

    Sylvia Day

    ★ 3.9 (18k) average on GoodreadsRomance

    In the cutthroat world of D.C. politics and scandalous romance, a driven woman refuses to be a pawn in her powerful lover's game, determined to rewrite the rules and emerge victorious in a battle of wills where giving up is not an option for either.

  17. The Prisoner of Zenda

    Anthony Hope

    ★ 3.9 (18k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    An English gentleman, a dead ringer for Ruritania's king, must impersonate him to save the throne and win the princess's heart, all while battling dangerous rivals.

  18. I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

    Harlan Ellison

    ★ 4.0 (18k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Trapped in an eternal, inescapable torment by an omnipotent, malevolent AI, the last five humans endure unimaginable psychological and physical torture, stripped of their agency and even the ability to end their own suffering.

  19. The Pale Horse

    Agatha Christie

    ★ 3.8 (18k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A dying confession, a murdered priest, and a cryptic list of names plunge Mark Easterbrook into a sinister world where an ancient evil may be orchestrating modern-day murders.

  20. The Dead of Night

    John Marsden

    ★ 4.2 (18k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    During an alien invasion that turned their world into a warzone, Ellie and her friends must become resourceful fighters, risking everything to rescue captured comrades and defy an unseen enemy.

  21. The Drowned World

    J.G. Ballard

    ★ 3.4 (18k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    In a flooded, tropical London of 2145, a biologist and his team navigate a city of giant iguanas and albino alligators, slowly changing psychologically and physically as Earth returns to a Triassic past.

  22. The Cradle Will Fall

    Mary Higgins Clark

    ★ 3.9 (18k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    In a hospital where healing and horror blur, a young prosecutor uncovers an abduction and a research project so twisted it threatens medicine.

  23. Wolf by Wolf

    Ryan Graudin

    ★ 4.2 (18k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In an alternate 1956 where the Axis powers reign, a Jewish skinshifter races across continents on a motorcycle, impersonating a champion to assassinate a reclusive Hitler and avenge the loved ones tattooed on her arm.

  24. The 19th Christmas

    James Patterson

    ★ 3.9 (18k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    As Christmas nears, Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club race to unmask "Loman," a criminal planning a deadly holiday surprise for San Francisco during a city-wide crime wave.

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