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  1. In Falling Snow

    Mary-Rose MacColl

    ★ 3.9 (3k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    An elderly Iris returns to France, revisiting the WWI abbey hospital where she found love, purpose, and heartbreak while searching for her brother amidst a world at war.

  2. The Shadow Project

    Scott Mariani

    ★ 4.1 (3k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    An ex-SAS operative, now a billionaire's bodyguard, uncovers a neo-Nazi plot to rewrite history, forcing him to confront a past ghost and race across Europe to protect loved ones and prevent global disaster.

  3. Perception

    Lee Strauss

    ★ 3.7 (3k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a genetically perfected future, a privileged teenager's quest to avenge her murdered brother forces her to trust an outsider, unraveling a conspiracy that threatens the very definition of life.

  4. The Second Jungle Book

    Rudyard Kipling

    ★ 3.8 (3k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Mowgli faces new challenges in India's wild, and the jungle has stories of ancient power and cunning. Kipling wrote these tales from Vermont.

  5. Slice of Cherry

    Dia Reeves

    ★ 3.7 (3k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    In a town where strange is normal, two sisters with a killer family history find an urge to kill and a door to another dimension, ensuring their 'justified' murders leave no trace.

  6. I Am Morgan le Fay

    Nancy Springer

    ★ 3.8 (3k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    With mismatched eyes and growing magic, a young Morgan defies a war-torn Britain, determined to make her own way amid kings and betrayals.

  7. Today Tonight Tomorrow

    Rachel Lynn Solomon

    ★ 4.3 (3k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    On the last day of senior year, two academic rivals go on an all-night scavenger hunt across Seattle. They find their long-standing animosity hides a growing romance.

  8. Happiness

    Will Ferguson

    ★ 3.8 (3k) average on GoodreadsFiction

    An editor finds a self-help manuscript so effective it changes his life and threatens to reshape global contentment.

  9. Guilty

    Karen Robards

    ★ 3.8 (3k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A prosecutor's new life shatters when a ghost from her past—a fellow participant in a deadly teenage robbery—emerges from the defendant's dock, threatening to expose her secret and destroy everything she holds dear, forcing her into a dance with a suspicious, yet alluring, homicide detective.

  10. A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali

    Gil Courtemanche

    ★ 4.0 (3k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    In 1994 Kigali, a cynical foreign journalist falls for a Tutsi waitress at the Mille-Collines hotel, their affair leading to a desperate fight for survival as the Rwandan genocide erupts.

  11. The Shadow Wand

    Laurie Forest

    ★ 4.1 (3k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Hunted and alone, Elloren must use her forbidden Black Witch powers and ally with her enemy, Lukas Grey, to stop the Shadow Wand from destroying her world and everyone she loves.

  12. The Social Animal

    Elliot Aronson

    ★ 4.3 (3k) average on GoodreadsPsychology

    Aronson explores the social forces—from conformity to cults—that shape our choices and destiny.

  13. Women of Trachis

    Sophocles

    ★ 3.9 (3k) average on Goodreads

    Deianira tries to win back Heracles's love with a supposed charm, but it turns out to be a poison that kills them both.

  14. The Queen of Water

    Laura Resau

    ★ 4.1 (3k) average on GoodreadsLifestyle

    Torn from her Andean village at seven to serve a mestizo family, Virginia navigates a world of prejudice and cultural clashes, ultimately finding her voice and identity in Ecuador.

  15. Prisoners in the Palace

    Michaela MacColl

    ★ 3.8 (3k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    In 1838 London, penniless Liza works as a lady's maid to Princess Victoria, uncovering palace intrigues and finding her own way amidst secrets, betrayals, and a romance.

  16. The White Bone

    Barbara Gowdy

    ★ 3.8 (3k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    Threatened by humans, a young, clairvoyant elephant calf named Mud goes on a dangerous quest to find the mythical 'White Bone,' believed to be the key to her herd's survival.

  17. The Village by the Sea

    Anita Desai

    ★ 3.6 (3k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    In the timeless fishing village of Thul, two children, Hari and Lila, grapple with their parents' despair and the encroaching modern world as their family teeters on the brink of collapse.

  18. Dance of the Happy Shades

    Alice Munro

    ★ 4.1 (3k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    Alice Munro writes about women in rural Ontario, showing their hidden desires and quiet struggles with love, betrayal, and self-discovery in everyday life.

  19. The Hearing Trumpet

    Leonora Carrington

    ★ 4.1 (3k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Armed with a magical hearing trumpet, 92-year-old Marian Leatherby uncovers a surreal murder mystery and a gateway to the underworld within the bizarre, birthday-cake-shaped walls of her new asylum.

  20. White Horse

    Alex Adams

    ★ 3.5 (3k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A pregnant woman wakes in a broken, post-apocalyptic world; her scattered memories are the only way to understand what happened and fight the monsters hunting her.

  21. God's Bits of Wood

    Ousmane Sembène

    ★ 4.0 (3k) average on Goodreads

    Senegalese railway workers strike for dignity, and women, driven by hunger and injustice, march to Dakar, breaking colonial oppression and traditional norms to secure their families' future.

  22. Art Geeks and Prom Queens

    Alyson Noel

    ★ 3.6 (3k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    A New York transplant navigates the social hierarchy of a Southern California private school, learning that popularity comes with a hidden cost and the unspoken rule of never crossing the queen bee.

  23. Smith of Wootton Major

    J.R.R. Tolkien

    ★ 3.9 (3k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A young man from a traditional village finds a magical star in his birthday cake, allowing him to enter the dangerous, beautiful land of Faery for a lifetime of adventure.

  24. Chronicle of a Blood Merchant

    Yu Hua

    ★ 4.1 (3k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    During Mao's Cultural Revolution, a cart-pusher learns the true cost of survival and the complicated strength of family, both by blood and by choice, in a world that threatens to take everything from him.

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