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  1. Be More Chill

    Ned Vizzini

    ★ 3.6 (12k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    To win the girl and climb the social ladder, an awkward high schooler swallows a supercomputer pill that promises to make him cool, but at what cost to his humanity and free will?

  2. The Castle Of Crossed Destinies

    Italo Calvino

    ★ 3.4 (12k) average on GoodreadsFiction

    In a castle where speech is forbidden, silent travelers tell their stories using tarot cards, weaving a narrative of human experience.

  3. The Amaranth Enchantment

    Julie Berry

    ★ 3.7 (12k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Trapped in servitude, a jeweler's apprentice discovers a magical heirloom and a mysterious stranger, setting her on a perilous quest to uncover the truth about her parents' disappearance, break a witch's curse, and restore justice to a kingdom.

  4. The Invention of Solitude

    Paul Auster

    ★ 3.8 (12k) average on GoodreadsBiography

    After his emotionally distant father's sudden death uncovers a sixty-year-old murder mystery, Paul Auster confronts inherited silences and the challenge of defining himself as a father and a writer.

  5. Into the Forest

    Jean Hegland

    ★ 3.8 (12k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    Two sisters in a remote Northern California forest must abandon their modern lives and confront the brutal realities of survival as civilization subtly unravels around them.

  6. Drop City

    T. Coraghessan Boyle

    ★ 3.9 (12k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    In the unforgiving Alaskan wilderness of 1970, a naive California commune's idealistic quest for a back-to-the-land utopia clashes with reality, sparking rivalries and desperate struggles for survival among the homesteaders.

  7. Going After Cacciato

    Tim O'Brien

    ★ 3.9 (12k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    In the hallucinatory haze of the Vietnam War, a young soldier abandons his post and embarks on an improbable, dreamlike trek from the steaming jungles of Indochina to the romantic streets of Paris, blurring the lines between desertion and a desperate quest for peace.

  8. Finnegans Wake

    James Joyce

    ★ 3.7 (12k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    Enter a swirling stream of dream-logic and rich language, where Dublin's subconscious mind awakens to betrayals, humor, and echoes of human history.

  9. The Secret of Red Gate Farm

    Carolyn Keene

    ★ 3.9 (12k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    When a seemingly innocent perfume purchase leads Bess Marvin, Nancy Drew, George Fayne, and their new friend Jo into a web of deceit, they must unmask a secretive cult and a counterfeiting ring hidden within the tranquil Red Gate Farm.

  10. Decline and Fall

    Evelyn Waugh

    ★ 3.9 (12k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    Unjustly expelled from Oxford, the naive Paul Pennyfeather enters a morally corrupt world as a schoolmaster at Llanabba Castle, where eccentric staff and the captivating Margot Beste-Chetwynde lead him on an absurd journey through society's farcical underbelly.

  11. Out Of Range

    C.J. Box

    ★ 4.2 (12k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Game warden Joe Pickett investigates the suspicious death of a friend in the Tetons, uncovering corruption that makes him a target.

  12. The Year I Met You

    Cecelia Ahern

    ★ 3.6 (12k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    Fired from her job and left to care for her sister, a young woman finds an unexpected connection with her controversial neighbor during their shared unemployment, forcing them both to re-evaluate their lives.

  13. Unweaving the Rainbow

    Richard Dawkins

    ★ 4.0 (12k) average on GoodreadsScience

    Richard Dawkins argues that scientific understanding enhances, rather than diminishes, the beauty and wonder of the universe, transforming Keats's 'unweaving the rainbow' into a celebration of discovery.

  14. The Road from Coorain

    Jill Ker Conway

    ★ 4.0 (12k) average on GoodreadsLifestyle
  15. Far from You

    Lisa Schroeder

    ★ 4.0 (12k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Trapped by a deadly snowstorm, a grieving teen discovers a celestial connection to her lost mother, forcing her to confront the fractured family she's been avoiding.

  16. The Shadow Over Innsmouth

    H.P. Lovecraft

    ★ 4.1 (12k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A college student's genealogical quest to a decaying, isolated New England fishing village unearths a horrifying family secret and the monstrous, aquatic truth behind Innsmouth's inbred inhabitants.

  17. The Eternal Ones

    Kirsten Miller

    ★ 3.8 (12k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Haunted by past-life visions of a tragic love, Haven Moore flees to New York City to confront a playboy who may be her soulmate or her murderer, all while navigating a secret society that controls her reincarnated destiny.

  18. The Good Thief

    Hannah Tinti

    ★ 3.6 (12k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    An orphan boy with one hand escapes a bleak orphanage with a charming stranger claiming to be his brother, only to be drawn into a world of grave robbers and con artists where the truth about his past is as hard to grasp as a phantom limb.

  19. In the Country of Last Things

    Paul Auster

    ★ 3.9 (11k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    In a city where the living scavenge and the dead are fuel, a young woman searches for her vanished brother, documenting humanity's last stand in a world near collapse.

  20. In Dubious Battle

    John Steinbeck

    ★ 3.9 (11k) average on GoodreadsPolitics

    In California's apple country, a young man's search for purpose leads him into a violent migrant worker strike, transforming him into a leader consumed by the cause.

  21. Off the Page

    Jodi Picoult

    ★ 3.7 (11k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A fairytale romance literally leaps from the pages of a book when a prince falls for a real girl, forcing them to defy the universe itself to write their own ending.

  22. The General

    Robert Muchamore

    ★ 4.3 (11k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Forty British commandos, outmatched by an American battalion in the Nevada desert, secretly deploy a squad of ten elite CHERUB agents to win the world's largest urban warfare simulation.

  23. The Journal of Curious Letters

    James Dashner

    ★ 3.9 (11k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A mysterious letter pulls an ordinary 13-year-old into a dangerous quest across alternate realities, where solving twelve riddles is the only way to save existence from an unknown threat.

  24. The Wild Duck

    Henrik Ibsen

    ★ 3.8 (11k) average on Goodreads

    An idealistic son shatters the fragile peace of his childhood friend's home by unearthing a buried truth, forcing the question of whether some illusions are better left undisturbed, even at the cost of honesty.

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