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  1. See Jane Run

    Joy Fielding

    ★ 3.9 (8k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A woman with amnesia, found in a blood-stained dress and $10,000, races against time to uncover her identity and the truth behind her mysterious past before it destroys her future.

  2. The Class

    Erich Segal

    ★ 3.9 (8k) average on GoodreadsRomance

    Five Harvard graduates and the women they love navigate 25 years of triumphs, betrayals, and self-discovery, culminating in a reunion where they confront their past.

  3. Rise to Rebellion

    Jeff Shaara

    ★ 4.2 (8k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    Idealistic lawyer John Adams, audacious Ben Franklin, and dashing George Washington start a revolution against British tyranny, turning colonial grievances into a fight for American independence.

  4. True to the Game

    Teri Woods

    ★ 4.5 (8k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Gena's passionate love for cartel millionaire Quadir pulls them into a deadly fight with the Junior Mafia in Philadelphia, where loyalty is tested, and escaping the drug game proves a brutal, if not impossible, fight for survival.

  5. Vengeance Road

    Erin Bowman

    ★ 3.8 (8k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Disguised as a boy, a vengeful daughter rides across the Arizona Territory, hunting her father's murderers and a legendary gold mine, only to find allies along the trail.

  6. Phantastes

    George MacDonald

    ★ 3.9 (8k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Anodos journeys through a fantastical realm, mirroring the soul's difficult but joyful path to self-surrender and spiritual truth.

  7. Walking on Water

    Richard Paul Evans

    ★ 4.3 (8k) average on GoodreadsSpirituality

    As Alan Christoffersen nears Key West, his cross-country walk becomes a journey of final goodbyes and new friendships, forcing him to face a new crisis that tests his lessons of love, forgiveness, and hope.

  8. The Mismeasure of Man

    Stephen Jay Gould

    ★ 4.0 (8k) average on GoodreadsPsychology

    Stephen Jay Gould examines centuries of biased scientific attempts to measure human intelligence, showing how measurement has been twisted to perpetuate social hierarchies and justify prejudice.

  9. The Forest

    Edward Rutherfurd

    ★ 4.0 (8k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    Edward Rutherfurd's 'The Forest' spans the Norman conquest to the present, blending the history and legends of England's New Forest with stories of royalty, outlaws, and the lasting passions of its people, all linked by a crime that echoes through centuries to Jane Austen's Bath and beyond.

  10. Masterminds

    Gordon Korman

    ★ 4.3 (8k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    In the perfect town of Serenity, Eli and his friends find a shocking secret: their crime-free lives connect to the world's worst criminals, making their parents and community suspects.

  11. A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

    Robert Olen Butler

    ★ 4.0 (8k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    Robert Olen Butler's Pulitzer-winning collection uses the voices of Vietnamese immigrants and ghosts to show the lasting effects of war and memory after the Vietnam War.

  12. Igraine the Brave

    Cornelia Funke

    ★ 3.9 (8k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    When a baron plots to steal her family's singing spell books and accidentally transforms her parents into pigs, young Igraine journeys with a Gentle Giant and a Sorrowful Knight to save her home and become a knight.

  13. Buffalo Before Breakfast

    Mary Pope Osborne

    ★ 3.9 (8k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Jack, Annie, and their enchanted dog Teddy are whisked to the 1800s Great Plains where a buffalo hunt with a Lakota boy turns into a thrilling race against a thousand stampeding buffalo.

  14. The Fire Chronicle

    John Stephens

    ★ 4.2 (8k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Separated by a century and pursued by dark forces, three orphaned siblings must master ancient elemental magic across a time-warped New York City and a hidden polar world to find their parents and prevent a magical catastrophe.

  15. Hope for the Flowers

    Trina Paulus

    ★ 4.3 (8k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Two ambitious caterpillars, Stripe and Yellow, climb a dangerous pile of peers. They learn their destiny is not found in climbing, but in letting go and learning to fly.

  16. Carnival of Souls

    Melissa Marr

    ★ 3.7 (8k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a dangerous city of daimons where a carnival competition offers a path to power, a witch in hiding is drawn into a dark destiny connected to the world her father fled.

  17. Six Months Later

    Natalie D. Richards

    ★ 3.8 (8k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Amnesiac Chloe awakens to a perfect life she doesn't recognize, only to discover the six missing months might hide a terrifying truth more dangerous than her forgotten past.

  18. The Devil of Nanking

    Mo Hayder

    ★ 3.9 (8k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    An Englishwoman's search for a lost film of the 1937 Nanking Massacre pulls her into a dangerous world of reclusive scholars, criminals, and dark romance in modern Japan.

  19. Sacred Games

    Vikram Chandra

    ★ 3.9 (8k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A jaded Sikh inspector's pursuit of Mumbai's most elusive gangster unravels a sprawling tale of betrayal, violence, and the city's hidden darkness, echoing the epic scope of classic literature and Bollywood.

  20. Concrete Island

    J.G. Ballard

    ★ 3.6 (8k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    After a car crash traps him on a desolate concrete island beneath a highway, a man fights for survival against the strange place and its reclusive inhabitants. This becomes a terrifying look into his own mind.

  21. Homecoming

    Cynthia Voigt

    ★ 4.0 (8k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    Abandoned by their mother, four siblings embark on a desperate, cross-country journey to find a place to belong, only to uncover a deeper history that reshapes their understanding of family and home.

  22. Orphan Island

    Laurel Snyder

    ★ 3.7 (8k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    On a mysterious, idyllic island where children live in perfect harmony, a young girl named Jinny grapples with the heartbreaking tradition of a boat arriving each year to replace the eldest child with a new one, forcing her to confront her own impending departure.

  23. Night and Day

    Virginia Woolf

    ★ 3.8 (8k) average on GoodreadsRomance

    Katharine Hilbery, caught between tradition and modern ideas, chooses between a pragmatic poet and a passionate suitor. She faces the complexities of love, expectation, and self-discovery, shaped by the feminist ideas and literary pursuits of the women around her.

  24. The Princess in Black

    Shannon Hale

    ★ 4.1 (8k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Princess Magnolia, a proper princess, secretly becomes the monster-fighting Princess in Black, all while hiding her double life from a nosy duchess.

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