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  1. Run with the Horsemen

    Ferrol Sams

    ★ 4.3 (3k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    In Depression-era Georgia, a sensitive boy named Porter navigates adolescence, from farm life to school antics, while his eccentric family shapes him into a man strong enough to 'run with the horsemen' amidst life's painful truths.

  2. The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip

    George Saunders

    ★ 4.1 (3k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In the quirky seaside village of Frip, a young girl named Capable must confront her neighbors' selfishness when a swarm of milk-stopping, orange gappers decide to exclusively plague her family's goats.

  3. Curfewed Night

    Basharat Peer

    ★ 4.0 (3k) average on GoodreadsPolitics

    In a land where ancient Sufi shrines are destroyed and temples become army bunkers, a Kashmiri's firsthand account exposes the brutality and 'painful romances' that draw youth into a separatist movement, changing paradise into a curfewed night.

  4. Maggie

    Charles Martin

    ★ 4.3 (3k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    A husband's world reignites when his wife wakes from a coma, forcing them to face their son's death and rebuild their future.

  5. A Dog Called Kitty

    Bill Wallace

    ★ 4.1 (3k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Haunted by a childhood dog attack, a young boy must conquer his deep-seated fear to save a starving, friendly stray puppy who might just become his most cherished companion.

  6. Comstock Lode

    Louis L'Amour

    ★ 4.1 (3k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    In the Nevada desert, a prospector and a spirited woman find their lives intertwined during the treacherous silver rush of the Comstock Lode, battling nature and greed for a love as rich as the ore they seek.

  7. Love in the Ruins

    Walker Percy

    ★ 3.9 (3k) average on GoodreadsSpirituality

    Dr. Tom More, using a miraculous stethoscope, diagnoses humanity's spiritual sickness, beginning a darkly comedic journey to heal souls before society collapses.

  8. The Possessed

    Fyodor Dostoevsky

    ★ 3.9 (3k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a provincial town, intellectuals and revolutionaries, some genuine and some deluded, face nihilism, faith, and the destructive power of ideology, leading to chaos and murder.

  9. Ill Fares the Land

    Tony Judt

    ★ 4.0 (3k) average on GoodreadsPolitics

    Tony Judt examines the decline of the postwar social contract, calling for a return to social democratic principles and collective responsibility to fix our current problems.

  10. Life of Christ

    Fulton Sheen

    ★ 4.6 (3k) average on GoodreadsSpirituality

    Archbishop Sheen's 'Life of Christ' explores Jesus' Incarnation, public ministry, Passion, and Resurrection, revealing the divine love story at the heart of human existence.

  11. Amongst Women

    John McGahern

    ★ 3.9 (3k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    After Irish independence, a tyrannical widower on a struggling farm fights a losing battle to control his five children as the modern world approaches.

  12. Guardian

    Alex London

    ★ 3.8 (3k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    As the face of a revolution, former Proxy Syd must uncover a deadly plague's origins while battling assassins and an indifferent government, all while his Rebooter bodyguard Liam struggles with his duty and a growing connection to Syd.

  13. Man on Fire

    A.J. Quinnell

    ★ 4.2 (3k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A burnt-out mercenary, awakened to love by his young charge, unleashes a terrifying, single-minded rampage of revenge when she is brutally taken from him.

  14. The Photographer

    Emmanuel Guibert

    ★ 4.3 (3k) average on GoodreadsLifestyle

    Amidst the brutal Soviet-Afghan War, a photographer's gripping visual diary, intertwined with Guibert's art, chronicles a perilous journey with Doctors Without Borders to heal a ravaged nation.

  15. Crusade

    Nancy Holder

    ★ 3.7 (3k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Torn between her sacred duty to hunt vampires and a forbidden love, a young warrior must navigate betrayal and a city overrun by the undead to save humanity and herself.

  16. The Brand Gap

    Marty Neumeier

    ★ 4.0 (3k) average on GoodreadsBusiness

    Marty Neumeier explains how branding connects business strategy with good design to create brands that customers remember.

  17. Affliction

    Russell Banks

    ★ 4.0 (3k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    In desolate New Hampshire, a former high-school football star turned bitter well-digger and part-time cop descends into violence, exposing the inherited trauma of a small-town macho legacy, seen through his younger brother's haunted eyes.

  18. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

    James Agee

    ★ 4.0 (3k) average on GoodreadsBiography

    Through stark prose and haunting photographs, Agee and Evans show the desperate dignity of Depression-era sharecroppers, turning a journalistic assignment into an enduring, empathetic American epic.

  19. Robin Hood

    Henry Gilbert

    ★ 3.9 (3k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Join Robin Hood and his Merry Men as they outwit the Sheriff of Nottingham and Guy of Gisborne, fighting for justice and King Richard's return in Sherwood Forest.

  20. Transparent Things

    Vladimir Nabokov

    ★ 3.7 (3k) average on GoodreadsFiction

    In Nabokov's "Transparent Things," a gawky publisher's four Swiss trips become a haunting spiral of love, murder, madness, and a desperate attempt to find a past as elusive and fragmented as the objects he observes.

  21. My Life in Dog Years

    Gary Paulsen

    ★ 4.1 (3k) average on GoodreadsBiography

    From the loyal sled dog Cookie who saved his life to the brilliant Border Collie Josh, Gary Paulsen's memoir is a heartfelt tribute to the dozens of extraordinary canine companions who shaped his journey.

  22. Morality Play

    Barry Unsworth

    ★ 3.8 (3k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    In a snowbound 14th-century English village, a group of actors staging a play about a recent murder become entangled in a dangerous conspiracy that blurs the lines between performance and reality.

  23. Pied Piper

    Nevil Shute

    ★ 4.2 (3k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    During the 1940 Blitzkrieg, an elderly Englishman leads a group of war-orphaned children across France, escaping the Nazi-occupied coast.

  24. Escape from Memory

    Margaret Peterson Haddix

    ★ 3.8 (3k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    After a party hypnotism unlocks fragmented memories of a forgotten past and a vanished mother, Kira must journey to the clandestine country of Crythe with a mysterious 'aunt' to unearth the dangerous truths hidden within her own mind before those same memories become a death sentence.

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