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  1. The Home and the World

    Rabindranath Tagore

    ★ 3.8 (4k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    In a Bengal on the cusp of Swadeshi, a sheltered wife's awakening to political fervor and illicit love threatens to shatter the traditional world of her zamindar husband.

  2. Fighting Ruben Wolfe

    Markus Zusak

    ★ 3.8 (4k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    In the grimy, spit-and-blood-soaked world of underground boxing, two working-class brothers discover that fighting for survival means battling for their very souls, their dignity, and the fragile bond that holds their fractured family together.

  3. The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant

    Tae Kim

    ★ 4.3 (4k) average on Goodreads
  4. Trespass

    Rose Tremain

    ★ 3.5 (4k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    An Englishman's desire for a neglected French farmhouse unearths buried family secrets and resentments, threatening to destroy everyone involved.

  5. Spark

    Brigid Kemmerer

    ★ 3.9 (4k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Accused of arson he didn't commit, a fire-wielding teen finds his only ally in a brilliant, secretive girl who ignites a different kind of spark in his life.

  6. Leaf by Niggle

    J.R.R. Tolkien

    ★ 4.2 (4k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A painter focused on every detail of a single leaf must choose between his artistic vision and his community's urgent needs.

  7. Rise of the Isle of the Lost

    Melissa de la Cruz

    ★ 4.1 (4k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    When King Triton's trident washes ashore on the Isle of the Lost, Uma assembles a pirate crew to seize its power, forcing Mal and her friends to race against time and their villainous past to retrieve it before the Isle falls into chaos.

  8. Miss Lonelyhearts

    Nathanael West

    ★ 3.6 (4k) average on GoodreadsFiction

    A cynical reporter struggles with his advice column, facing the absurd pleas of readers and the grotesque realities of Hollywood's broken promises, while a disillusioned artist confronts similar issues.

  9. Black Rednecks and White Liberals

    Thomas Sowell

    ★ 4.4 (4k) average on GoodreadsPolitics

    Sowell shows the shared cultural roots of Southern 'rednecks' and some Black communities, arguing that well-meaning white liberals hurt these communities by defending a destructive subculture.

  10. The Prada Plan

    Ashley Antoinette

    ★ 4.6 (4k) average on GoodreadsFiction

    Disaya Morgan's carefully built double life falls apart when her secret hustle clashes with a dangerous love, proving that in her high-stakes game, every player eventually loses.

  11. A Little Princess

    Frances Hodgson Burnett

    ★ 4.2 (4k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    An orphan girl, stripped of her wealth and sent to an attic, uses her imagination to turn her bleak life into a kingdom, showing that true strength comes from within.

  12. Tarnsman of Gor

    John Norman

    ★ 3.4 (4k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Abducted from Earth, Tarl Cabot is thrust into the brutal, caste-bound world of Counter-Earth to be forged into a Tarnsman, a warrior whose destiny is intertwined with the planet's violent traditions.

  13. Banner in the Sky

    James Ramsey Ullman

    ★ 3.8 (4k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    A determined Swiss boy climbs the unconquered Citadel, the same dangerous mountain that killed his father, to honor his memory and plant his own banner in the sky.

  14. The Best of Times

    Penny Vincenzi

    ★ 3.8 (4k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    A catastrophic motorway accident in 1950s summer heat connects strangers, uncovering secrets, love, and betrayals that span generations.

  15. Cry of the Kalahari

    Mark Owens

    ★ 4.3 (4k) average on GoodreadsLifestyle

    Abandoning civilization, two young scientists brave the unforgiving beauty and brutal realities of the Kalahari, forging an intimate, dangerous bond with its iconic wildlife amidst a landscape sculpted by drought, fire, and storm.

  16. The Twisted Ones

    Scott Cawthon

    ★ 4.3 (4k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Haunted by the animatronic horrors of her past, Charlie is dragged back into a nightmarish hunt when new, twisted creations begin to stalk her, blurring the lines between memory and a terrifying, inescapable present.

  17. The Gates of Evangeline

    Young, Hester Young

    ★ 3.8 (4k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A grieving journalist's disturbing visions propel her into a Louisiana family's dark, thirty-year-old mystery of lost children, betrayal, and murder.

  18. The Fallen

    Charlie Higson

    ★ 4.4 (4k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    In a London full of flesh-eating adults, teens at the Natural History Museum search for a cure, but find the real enemy is more dangerous than the 'sickos' they fight.

  19. Snakes and Earrings

    Hitomi Kanehara

    ★ 3.2 (4k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    Nineteen-year-old Lui enters Tokyo's underground, changing her body with a forked tongue and dragon tattoo while navigating a dangerous love triangle that blurs the lines between pain and pleasure.

  20. Plagues and Peoples

    William H. McNeill

    ★ 3.9 (4k) average on GoodreadsHistory

    McNeill shows how disease, from smallpox to plague, has shaped human civilization and history.

  21. Animorphs

    K.A. Applegate

    ★ 4.4 (4k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Five ordinary teens are thrust into an intergalactic war, secretly morphing into animals to fight parasitic alien slugs bent on enslaving humanity from within.

  22. No Man Is an Island

    Thomas Merton

    ★ 4.1 (4k) average on GoodreadsSpirituality

    Merton explores the paradox of spiritual existence, showing how true solitude leads to connection, and love must be shared to last.

  23. The Shunned House

    H.P. Lovecraft

    ★ 3.6 (4k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A crumbling Rhode Island mansion, avoided for centuries, slowly reveals its horrifying secret: an ancient, protoplasmic evil that consumes all who dare to uncover its truth.

  24. A World Without You

    Beth Revis

    ★ 3.7 (4k) average on GoodreadsPsychology

    Haunted by delusions of time travel and the suicide of the girl he loves, a young man journeys through his own mind to save her, even if it means losing himself to the madness he fights.

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