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  1. Tunnel of Bones

    Victoria Schwab

    ★ 4.1 (12k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In the ghostly catacombs beneath Paris, Cassidy Blake confronts a powerful, awakened spirit threatening the city, all while navigating her parents' haunted TV show and her ghost best friend.

  2. The Americans

    Robert Frank

    ★ 4.2 (12k) average on GoodreadsReference

    Robert Frank's influential photobook, with an introduction by Jack Kerouac, captures the reality of 1950s American life through simple yet revealing images of its people and places.

  3. Eyes Like Stars

    Lisa Mantchev

    ★ 3.7 (12k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a magical theater where every play ever written comes to life, a parentless girl named Bertie fights to save her eccentric family of actors and her home from an ancient, destructive force, while caught in a love triangle between a dashing pirate and a seductive air spirit.

  4. Goodbye Stranger

    Rebecca Stead

    ★ 3.9 (12k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Three best friends in seventh grade deal with new relationships, body image, and betrayal, while an accident survivor finds her purpose and a new boy questions what friendship means.

  5. Fools Rush In

    Janice Thompson

    ★ 3.6 (12k) average on GoodreadsRomance

    An Italian-Texan wedding planner, new to country music, finds romance and humor while organizing a 'Boot Scoot'n' wedding for her mob-adjacent family.

  6. Hero at the Fall

    Alwyn Hamilton

    ★ 4.4 (12k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Amani, a sharpshooting Demdji, must lead a desperate band of rebels across a mythical desert to rescue her imprisoned prince and ignite a revolution, all while battling ghouls, enemy soldiers, and her own doubts about leadership.

  7. Kingdom of the Wicked

    Derek Landy

    ★ 4.5 (12k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A magical plague gives unstable powers to ordinary teens. Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain must stop a new group of corrupted, god-like beings from destroying the city.

  8. Dial L for Loser

    Lisi Harrison

    ★ 3.8 (12k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    New girl Claire must navigate the treacherous social world of Octavian Country Day, where queen bee Massie Block rules with perfectly coiffed ruthlessness, friendships are fragile, and popularity is a full-contact sport.

  9. She Stoops to Conquer

    Oliver Goldsmith

    ★ 3.6 (12k) average on Goodreads

    In a delightful twist of fate, a quick-witted heiress masquerades as a barmaid to disarm a suitor whose shyness with gentlewomen is matched only by his audacious flirtations with commoners.

  10. Timbuktu

    Paul Auster

    ★ 3.7 (12k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    Through the eyes of a loyal and philosophical dog, Mr. Bones, we follow the final journey of his brilliant, homeless owner, Willy G. Christmas, as they travel from Brooklyn to Baltimore to find Mr. Bones a new home before Willy dies.

  11. Sunset Park

    Paul Auster

    ★ 3.6 (12k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    After the 2008 economic collapse, a young man's photographs of abandoned items connect squatters, artists, and dreamers in Brooklyn, all dealing with their pasts and an uncertain future in a broken America.

  12. Royal Blood

    Ellen Schreiber

    ★ 4.0 (12k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    Raven's immortal romance with Alexander is tested when his mysterious parents arrive, turning a thrilling dinner party into a potential future-altering revelation.

  13. Tell Me Lies

    Jennifer Crusie

    ★ 3.7 (12k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    Amidst marital betrayal, a suspicious daughter, and a long-lost lover's reappearance, Maddie Faraday navigates the scandals of small-town Ohio, where every secret threatens to unravel her life.

  14. Life on the Mississippi

    Mark Twain

    ★ 3.9 (12k) average on GoodreadsLifestyle

    Before Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain navigated the mighty Mississippi, chronicling its vanished grandeur, humorous eccentricities, and the formative steamboat days that launched a literary legend.

  15. Ghostopolis

    Doug TenNapel

    ★ 4.0 (12k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A boy accidentally zapped into the afterlife discovers he has unique powers that could save or doom Ghostopolis, making him team up with his spectral grandfather and the wrangler who sent him there to find a way home.

  16. My Fair Godmother

    Janette Rallison

    ★ 3.9 (12k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    When a cell phone-wielding fairy godmother messes up a prom wish, a heartbroken sophomore lands in a medieval quest, turning classic fairy tales into a scramble for a prince, a prom, and survival against trolls and dragons.

  17. A Sudden Light

    Garth Stein

    ★ 3.6 (12k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A teenage boy in a Puget Sound mansion, built from trees his family cut down, uncovers a century of timber-baron secrets and a vengeful ghost. He must face a legacy of environmental damage to save his family and their ancestral land.

  18. Dead Beautiful

    Yvonne Woon

    ★ 4.0 (12k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    After discovering her parents' bizarre murder, a grieving teen is sent to a mysterious boarding school where she falls for an enigmatic boy, only to uncover a dark secret connecting him, the academy, and the very nature of life and death.

  19. Missing May

    Cynthia Rylant

    ★ 3.8 (12k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    After Aunt May dies, a young girl and her uncle search for a sign of her presence, eventually learning that grief and the quiet continuation of life can exist together.

  20. A Curse Dark as Gold

    Elizabeth C. Bunce

    ★ 3.6 (12k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a town built on wool and shadowed by an old curse, Charlotte Miller must bargain with a stranger who spins straw into gold, risking her heart and family legacy to break a dark enchantment before it destroys everything she loves.

  21. Peaches

    Jodi Lynn Anderson

    ★ 3.6 (12k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    Three teenage girls, sent to a Georgia peach orchard for the summer, find friendship and discover themselves amidst new romances and personal challenges.

  22. The Thin Red Line

    James Jones

    ★ 4.0 (12k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    On Guadalcanal, 'The Thin Red Line' shows how brutal combat strips C-for-Charlie Company of meaning, leaving only a raw fight for survival and identity.

  23. Ketchup Clouds

    Annabel Pitcher

    ★ 3.8 (12k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A guilt-ridden teenager anonymously confesses her involvement in a tragic love triangle to a death row inmate, hoping to find peace through letters across continents.

  24. Lost Souls

    Poppy Z. Brite

    ★ 3.9 (12k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    In the goth clubs of Missing Mile and the shadowy streets of New Orleans, young outcasts meet ancient vampires, beginning a violent road trip where love, hunger, and fate collide.

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