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  1. Heart of Stone

    C.E. Murphy

    ★ 3.7 (4k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A lawyer's late-night jog through Central Park shatters her reality, pulling her into a hidden world of ancient gargoyles, deadly magic, and a murder mystery where her only hope for survival and justice lies with a stone-skinned suspect.

  2. Uncle Fred in the Springtime

    P.G. Wodehouse

    ★ 4.2 (4k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    Pongo's money troubles lead his Uncle Fred, with Polly Pott, to Blandings Castle, where he thwarts a pig-napping and creates delightful chaos.

  3. The Aspern Papers

    Henry James

    ★ 3.7 (4k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A literary scholar goes to Venice, trying to get a dead poet's private letters. He gets into a psychological fight with two reclusive women, learning the high cost of his obsession.

  4. Earthbound

    Aprilynne Pike

    ★ 3.7 (4k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A plane crash survivor discovers her visions are a call to save a crumbling world, forcing her to choose between her first love and a mysterious boy destined to be her partner in a cosmic battle.

  5. The Foundation Pit

    Andrei Platonov

    ★ 3.8 (4k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    Workmen dig a massive foundation pit in a desolate Soviet landscape, a monument to a utopian dream that slowly consumes their lives and the earth, promising collective happiness in an eerie, enforced silence.

  6. Sliver

    Ira Levin

    ★ 3.2 (4k) average on Goodreads

    A successful book editor in a Manhattan high-rise discovers a mysterious voyeur is watching her every move, drawing her into a dangerous game of obsession and control where digital privacy is nonexistent.

  7. Mexico

    James A. Michener

    ★ 3.7 (4k) average on GoodreadsLifestyle

    An American journalist uncovers his family's Mexican past while covering a bullfight, connecting with the nation's history of ancient rituals, Spanish conquest, and revolution.

  8. The Pathfinder

    James Fenimore Cooper

    ★ 3.9 (4k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    In the 1750s Great Lakes, legendary frontiersman Natty Bumppo guides a party through dangerous waters and shifting loyalties, as a new America struggles to define itself.

  9. The Mandarins

    Simone de Beauvoir

    ★ 4.2 (4k) average on GoodreadsPhilosophy

    In the heady aftermath of WWII, a circle of Parisian intellectuals grapples with the promise of a new France, their intertwined loves, and the very meaning of freedom, all while navigating the ghosts of their wartime pasts.

  10. The Dragonfly Pool

    Eva Ibbotson

    ★ 4.0 (4k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    During wartime, an English schoolgirl finds unexpected adventure and royal friendship at a whimsical boarding school, helping a reclusive prince save his threatened kingdom.

  11. Whichwood

    Tahereh Mafi

    ★ 4.0 (4k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In the quiet village of Whichwood, a young mordeshoor whose hands and hair are turning silver from washing the dead finds magic and friendship when two strangers arrive.

  12. Dear Killer

    Katherine Ewell

    ★ 3.5 (4k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A teenage assassin, guided by moral nihilism, faces a crisis when a mysterious letter makes her question the rules that define her deadly life.

  13. The Potion Diaries

    Amy Alward

    ★ 3.8 (4k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a world obsessed with social media, a disgraced alchemist's daughter races against a dashing rival and a powerful corporation on a global, magically perilous scavenger hunt to cure a princess who accidentally fell in love with her own reflection.

  14. Total Eclipse

    Rachel Caine

    ★ 4.1 (4k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A mysterious poison unravels magic, forcing Weather Warden Joanne Baldwin and her djinn husband to restore balance before Earth falls to chaos.

  15. Tiny Sunbirds Far Away

    Christie Watson

    ★ 4.1 (4k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    In Nigeria's Niger Delta, 12-year-old Blessing finds humor and tragedy, showing how family endures even in great hardship.

  16. The Man in My Basement

    Walter Mosley

    ★ 3.7 (4k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    A desperate young Black man, trying to save his family home, agrees to imprison a mysterious white man in his basement, leading to a dangerous journey of hidden identities, racial tensions, and moral choices that threaten his family's legacy and his own sense of self.

  17. Rip Tide

    Kat Falls

    ★ 4.0 (4k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Desperate to save his parents, Ty plunges back into the treacherous subsea world with Gemma, forming an uneasy alliance with the outlaw Seablite Gang to unravel the mystery of a vanishing township and aggressive marine life, only to discover they might be swimming into a deeper conspiracy.

  18. Hard Time

    Cara McKenna

    ★ 3.8 (4k) average on GoodreadsRomance

    A woman's world is turned upside down when she finds herself drawn to a captivating, dangerous inmate whose mysterious past and intense gaze promise both peril and undeniable passion.

  19. Cloud Nine

    Luanne Rice

    ★ 4.0 (4k) average on GoodreadsRelationships

    A cancer survivor's new beginning takes flight, as a plane ride introduces her to a kindred spirit who helps her navigate her past and embrace an uncertain but hopeful future.

  20. Alabama Moon

    Watt Key

    ★ 4.1 (4k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    After his father's death, a resourceful boy raised in the Alabama wilderness must navigate the complexities of civilization and evade government capture on his journey to Alaska.

  21. In This House of Brede

    Rumer Godden

    ★ 4.3 (4k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    A former London professional trades worldly success for spiritual devotion, navigating the challenges and joys of cloistered Benedictine life in Brede Abbey.

  22. Endymion Spring

    Matthew Skelton

    ★ 3.6 (4k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    An ancient, blood-bound book found in an Oxford library pulls a young boy into a centuries-old mystery, where hidden words on living pages reveal a secret far more dangerous and magical than he could ever imagine.

  23. The Rational Male

    Rollo Tomassi

    ★ 4.2 (4k) average on GoodreadsPsychology

    Rollo Tomassi examines power dynamics between men and women, challenging common ideas about relationships and the 'feminine imperative'.

  24. Middle Passage

    Charles R. Johnson

    ★ 3.8 (4k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    In 1830, a freed slave and roguish bachelor flees his debts and an unwanted marriage by stowing away on a slave ship bound for Africa, embarking on a harrowing voyage that forces him to confront the depths of human cruelty and the meaning of his own freedom.

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