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  1. Emma

    Jane Austen

    ★ 3.2 (13k) average on GoodreadsRomance

    A lively socialite who loves to meddle in others' love lives learns humility and self-awareness through her own romantic missteps in a small village.

  2. Bad Kitty

    Michele Jaffe

    ★ 4.2 (13k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Jasmine, an aspiring 'Model Daughter' and forensic supersleuth, finds her Vegas vacation and snack hut crush interrupted when she must outwit a crazed killer before he ends ten lives, including her own, all while dealing with one very bad kitty.

  3. Nine Coaches Waiting

    Mary Stewart

    ★ 4.0 (13k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    In a secluded French chateau, a young governess uncovers a sinister plot against her orphaned charge, forcing her to distinguish between genuine protectors and charming manipulators amidst a web of family secrets and burgeoning romance.

  4. The Festival of Insignificance

    Milan Kundera

    ★ 3.3 (13k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    In a world without humor, Milan Kundera writes about the 'unserious,' showing readers how to find laughter and wisdom in life's small moments.

  5. The Absolutist

    John Boyne

    ★ 4.1 (13k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    A young man, shaped by WWI and a forbidden love, travels to deliver letters. He really wants to share a secret about passion, betrayal, and war's senselessness.

  6. The Warden

    Anthony Trollope

    ★ 3.7 (13k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    In a quiet cathedral town, an upright warden's peaceful life is disrupted when a newspaper accuses him of embezzling charity funds, sparking public debate and personal distress.

  7. Where Angels Fear to Tread

    E.M. Forster

    ★ 3.6 (13k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    An English family's attempt to 'rescue' an orphaned baby from its Italian father exposes their cultural biases and the tragic results of colonial-era meddling.

  8. Free Food for Millionaires

    Min Jin Lee

    ★ 3.7 (13k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    In 1990s New York City, a sharp-witted Korean American Princeton graduate finds herself adrift between her immigrant parents' traditional world and the glittering, unattainable lives of Manhattan's elite, grappling with identity, ambition, and the harsh realities of class.

  9. The Cleaner

    Mark Dawson

    ★ 3.7 (13k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A government assassin, haunted by a decade of sanctioned kills, seeks redemption by protecting a desperate mother and her son from a ruthless London gang, only to find himself hunted by his former employers amidst a city in chaos.

  10. Black Cherry Blues

    James Lee Burke

    ★ 4.2 (13k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Haunted by a past he can't escape, ex-cop Dave Robicheaux is dragged from the Louisiana bayou into a deadly web of Mafia hitmen, federal agents, and personal demons, all while battling a homicide rap and his own alcoholism across the American West.

  11. The Fall of Berlin 1945

    Antony Beevor

    ★ 4.3 (13k) average on GoodreadsHistory

    Antony Beevor tells the story of World War II's final months, when the Red Army advanced into Germany, bringing mass rape, pillage, and destruction, as millions of civilians were caught between Soviet terror and Nazi fanaticism.

  12. In Patagonia

    Bruce Chatwin

    ★ 3.7 (13k) average on GoodreadsLifestyle

    Prompted by a childhood fascination with a piece of brontosaurus hide, Bruce Chatwin travels through Patagonia, finding forgotten stories, unique people, and the remnants of Butch Cassidy's hideout in a land still holding onto its wild past.

  13. The Clue in the Diary

    Carolyn Keene

    ★ 4.0 (13k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Nancy Drew's quick thinking turns a mansion fire rescue into a perplexing quest to decipher an anonymous diary and unmask a mysterious stranger.

  14. The Accidental Empress

    Allison Pataki

    ★ 3.9 (13k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    In a dazzling imperial court, a spirited Bavarian duchess inadvertently steals her sister's fiancé, becoming an accidental empress who must navigate treacherous Hapsburg politics and win the love of an empire she never sought.

  15. Lucky in Love

    Kasie West

    ★ 3.5 (13k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    After a spontaneous lottery win catapults pragmatic Maddie into a world of unexpected wealth and swirling rumors, she finds herself navigating newfound fame and the delicate secret she's keeping from the charming coworker who sees her for more than just a jackpot.

  16. Woman of God

    James Patterson

    ★ 3.8 (13k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A compassionate doctor with a difficult past in Sudan becomes the unexpected and controversial frontrunner for Pope, starting a deadly power struggle within the Vatican where old ways clash with a new vision for the Church's future.

  17. Lamentation

    C.J. Sansom

    ★ 4.4 (13k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    As King Henry VIII lies dying, his court is on the verge of religious war. Hunchbacked lawyer Matthew Shardlake must find Queen Catherine Parr's secret manuscript before it destroys her and her allies.

  18. The Upanishads

    Anonymous

    ★ 4.2 (13k) average on GoodreadsHistory

    Explore ancient Sanskrit wisdom as sages reveal that divine truth lives within each person's eternal spirit, not in dogma.

  19. It Was Me All Along

    Andie Mitchell

    ★ 3.8 (13k) average on GoodreadsBiography

    After a childhood of trauma and secret binge eating, a young food blogger shares her honest journey to lose half her body weight, changing her relationship with food and herself.

  20. The Dragon Republic

    R.F. Kuang

    ★ 4.3 (13k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Haunted by genocide and fueled by opium, the shaman-warrior Rin joins a warlord's bloody quest for a republic, only to discover that her vengeance and love for Nikan may demand an even greater, more monstrous sacrifice.

  21. Ethan of Athos

    Lois McMaster Bujold

    ★ 3.8 (13k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    On a world without women and facing a reproductive crisis, a naive male obstetrician must travel into the galaxy to secure his planet's future.

  22. Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau

    ★ 3.8 (13k) average on GoodreadsPolitics

    Rousseau explores how humanity fell from a good, pre-social state into tyranny, showing how systems meant to protect us instead corrupt our nature through growing inequality.

  23. The Association of Small Bombs

    Karan Mahajan

    ★ 3.6 (13k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    After a marketplace bombing shatters two families, a surviving boy deals with trauma and radicalization, while the bomber's story shows the effects of political violence.

  24. Coriolanus

    William Shakespeare

    ★ 3.7 (13k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    In the early Roman Republic, a proud warrior's contempt for common people and his mother's ambition drive him from battlefield glory to bitter exile and a devastating alliance with his deadliest enemy.

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