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  1. The Looking Glass

    Richard Paul Evans

    ★ 4.0 (3k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    On the Utah frontier, a grieving minister risks everything for his daughter's future, only to find a shocking discovery in a blizzard that renews his faith and hope for love.

  2. Educating Rita

    Willy Russell

    ★ 3.6 (3k) average on GoodreadsFiction

    A spirited, working-class hairdresser from Liverpool yearns to transcend her predetermined life through literature, embarking on a transformative journey with her cynical Open University tutor.

  3. The Rumpelstiltskin Problem

    Vivian Vande Velde

    ★ 3.9 (3k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Vivian Vande Velde wittily unravels the nonsensical threads of Rumpelstiltskin, spinning six ingenious and often hilarious alternative tales that finally make sense of the absurd.

  4. The Secret Identity of Devon Delaney

    Lauren Barnholdt

    ★ 4.1 (3k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Devon's summer of made-up popularity and a fake boyfriend backfires when her new friend, who knows all her lies, transfers to her school, sending Devon on a desperate, funny, and identity-searching quest to make her fictional life real.

  5. Fault Lines

    Nancy Huston

    ★ 3.7 (3k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    From present-day California to World War II Germany, a child's birthmark reveals generations of family secrets, showing how love, music, and faith endure against evil.

  6. When Friendship Followed Me Home

    Paul Griffin

    ★ 4.2 (3k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    A lonely foster boy finds comfort and a new definition of family when a scruffy dog and the librarian's daughter enter his life, only to face loss and discover his own inner magic.

  7. The Runaway Dolls

    Ann M. Martin

    ★ 4.1 (3k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Two adventurous dolls try to prove a mysterious newcomer is their long-lost sister before she is shipped back to London, encountering human-sized challenges.

  8. Do They Hear You When You Cry

    Fauziya Kassindja

    ★ 4.2 (3k) average on GoodreadsBiography

    Fauziya Kassindja's memoir tells of her escape from forced marriage and genital mutilation in Togo, her fight for asylum in American detention, and a legal battle that changed human rights for women globally.

  9. The Collection

    Bentley Little

    ★ 3.9 (3k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Bentley Little, called the 'Master of the Macabre' by Stephen King, presents 32 unsettling horror stories in this collection, including four new tales designed to get under your skin.

  10. Within These Walls

    Ania Ahlborn

    ★ 3.6 (3k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A desperate true-crime writer, seeking a comeback, investigates a cult leader's farmhouse, only to find the 'faithful departed' are still present.

  11. Tiger

    Laurann Dohner

    ★ 4.0 (3k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A human's drunken mistake leads her into the arms of a stoic, mate-avoidant New Species operative, sparking an undeniable passion that threatens his carefully built solitude during a dangerous mission.

  12. Picture Us in the Light

    Kelly Loy Gilbert

    ★ 4.1 (3k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    A scholarship artist deals with his best friend's failing love life and the anniversary of a tragedy. Then, a hidden box of letters makes him face his parents' secret past and the powerful Silicon Valley family involved in their lies.

  13. The Education of Henry Adams

    Henry Adams

    ★ 3.6 (3k) average on GoodreadsPolitics

    Haunted by the gap between his 19th-century Brahmin upbringing and the dizzying, fragmented start of the 20th, Henry Adams explores his own intellectual obsolescence and an education that left him unprepared for the modern world.

  14. Teeth

    Hannah Moskowitz

    ★ 3.8 (3k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    On a remote island, Rudy falls for a mysterious boy with violent secrets, forcing him to choose between a forbidden love and his dying brother's life.

  15. The Seventh Cross

    Anna Seghers

    ★ 4.0 (3k) average on GoodreadsFiction

    Seven crosses stand in a Nazi concentration camp. A man's desperate escape through Germany exposes the choices ordinary people made under Hitler's terrifying regime.

  16. Till Death Do Us Part

    Lurlene McDaniel

    ★ 4.2 (3k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    An 18-year-old with an inoperable brain tumor finds forbidden love with a charming race car driver battling cystic fibrosis, only to face a heart-wrenching decision when his condition takes a turn for the worse after a devastating accident.

  17. The Wrong Man

    John Katzenbach

    ★ 3.8 (3k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A college professor's rational world shatters when his daughter becomes ensnared by a possessive stalker, forcing her estranged parents into a desperate, no-holds-barred war to reclaim her life from the predator's grasp.

  18. The Young Lions

    Irwin Shaw

    ★ 4.2 (3k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    Through the lives of a Nazi, an American, and a Jewish newlywed, "The Young Lions" shows the human experience of World War II.

  19. The Bells

    Richard Harvell

    ★ 4.0 (3k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    A castrated opera singer, haunted by the secret of his son's parentage, narrates his extraordinary life from a Swiss belfry to the grand stages of Europe, where his divine voice is both his salvation and his curse.

  20. The Ravishing of Lol Stein

    Marguerite Duras

    ★ 3.6 (3k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    Haunted by the public loss of her fiancé years ago, a beautiful woman orchestrates and spies on an affair between her friend and a lover, seeking to reclaim or re-enact her own forgotten pain through their stolen moments.

  21. Forevermore

    Cathy Marie Hake

    ★ 4.1 (3k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    An illiterate cook with an unusual way of speaking turns a widower's farm upside down and wins his heart, even as a past threat puts their new peace in danger.

  22. Three Guineas

    Virginia Woolf

    ★ 3.9 (3k) average on GoodreadsPolitics

    Virginia Woolf uses three requests for money to explore women's freedom, patriarchy, and the causes of war.

  23. After the First Death

    Robert Cormier

    ★ 3.7 (3k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    In a political terrorism game, radical teens kidnap children, forcing the general's son into a mission where the line between hero and villain blurs, and every choice leads closer to a tragic death.

  24. Wherever Nina Lies

    Lynn Weingarten

    ★ 3.8 (3k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Two years after her sister vanishes, a mysterious drawing leads Ellie on a cross-country road trip with her new crush, uncovering lies, love, and the truth behind Nina's disappearance.

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