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  1. Being Henry David

    Cal Armistead

    ★ 3.7 (3k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    An amnesiac teen renames himself after Thoreau and travels to Walden Pond, hoping the retreat will unlock his tragic memories and reveal his identity.

  2. Cashvertising

    Drew Eric Whitman

    ★ 4.3 (3k) average on Goodreads

    Learn Madison Avenue's psychological secrets to create ads that make people buy, whether you run a big corporation or a small shop.

  3. The Song of Hiawatha

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    ★ 3.9 (3k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    This epic poem follows Hiawatha's life, exploring Native American legends, folklore, and myth. It shows the connection between indigenous cultures and the natural world, with over 400 original Remington illustrations.

  4. Practical Ethics

    Peter Singer

    ★ 4.1 (3k) average on GoodreadsPolitics

    Peter Singer's "Practical Ethics" applies utilitarian principles to controversial real-world dilemmas, from animal rights to euthanasia, making readers confront the logical (and often uncomfortable) conclusions of their moral beliefs.

  5. The Hunt

    Andrew Fukuda

    ★ 4.2 (3k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A hidden human survives in a vampire-ruled world by hunting his own kind, all while battling forbidden love and the threat of exposure.

  6. Good Old Secret Seven

    Enid Blyton

    ★ 3.8 (3k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    The Secret Seven are on the case when mysterious lights and disturbed jackdaws at Torkling Castle hint at a secret lurking within its ruined tower, far more intriguing than a simple ghost story.

  7. Jennie Gerhardt

    Theodore Dreiser

    ★ 4.0 (3k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    In a society quick to judge, Jennie Gerhardt finds love and motherhood outside of marriage, her compassion clashing with the era's strict moral code.

  8. The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness

    Erich Fromm

    ★ 4.2 (3k) average on GoodreadsPolitics

    Erich Fromm explores the origins of human violence, arguing against both instinctual and behavioral explanations, to show how society and psychology can turn our potential for good into destructive acts.

  9. The Tears of Dark Water

    Corban Addison

    ★ 4.2 (3k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A desperate family's round-the-world sailing trip collides with a Somali pirate's quest for vengeance and an FBI negotiator's past, igniting a global crisis where survival hinges on confronting buried truths.

  10. Vengeance

    Kate Brian

    ★ 4.0 (3k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Haunted by a fiery past and relentless adversaries, Reed fights to resurrect her beloved boarding school from literal and metaphorical ashes, all while a sinister legacy threatens to consume her and the remaining Billings girls.

  11. Win

    Vera Nazarian

    ★ 4.5 (3k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    On the alien world of Atlantis, an awkward Earth-nerd with a powerful voice must navigate deadly games, treacherous alliances, and an impending cosmic war to save her loved ones and two planets, all before her wedding day.

  12. The British Museum Is Falling Down

    David Lodge

    ★ 3.7 (3k) average on GoodreadsSpirituality

    A Catholic literature graduate student struggles with the gap between academic theory and his growing family in pre-Pill London.

  13. Fräulein Else

    Arthur Schnitzler

    ★ 3.9 (3k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    Trapped by her family's financial ruin, Fräulein Else confronts the shattering cost of virtue and society's predatory gaze in a desperate bid to save her father.

  14. Camille

    Tess Oliver

    ★ 3.7 (3k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a world of strict societal rules, a young woman's life hunting werewolves takes a dangerous turn when her latest scientific 'specimen' sparks an forbidden passion, making her choose between love and humanity as he changes into the monster she hunts.

  15. Wizard of the Crow

    Ngugi wa Thiongo

    ★ 4.2 (3k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    In the fantastical Free Republic of Aburiria, a tyrannical ruler's quest for ultimate power clashes with an unemployed man who unexpectedly wields the magic of the 'Wizard of the Crow,' igniting a battle for the very soul of a nation.

  16. Shadow Rising

    Yasmine Galenorn

    ★ 4.2 (3k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A vampire jian-tu, Menolly D'Artigo, balances a promise ceremony with two world-ending threats, uniting her witch and werecat sisters against an ancient necromancer and the Lord of Ghosts to save Earthside and Otherworld from war.

  17. Once Were Warriors

    Alan Duff

    ★ 4.0 (3k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    In the brutal, impoverished world of a Maori shantytown, Beth Heke must find the strength to transcend her husband's violence and the crushing despair of her community to forge a new path for her children.

  18. Hawkes Harbor

    S.E. Hinton

    ★ 3.1 (3k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Jamie Sommers, an orphan and lifelong sinner, used to the world's dark corners, faces an unimaginable evil in Hawkes Harbor that threatens his sanity and cursed existence.

  19. What the Body Remembers

    Shauna Singh Baldwin

    ★ 3.9 (3k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    In India's 1947 Partition era, two wives in a wealthy Sikh household, one barren and one young, navigate duty, desire, and destiny as their lives reflect the fracturing nation.

  20. The Fugitive Factor

    Gordon Korman

    ★ 4.1 (3k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    On the run from the FBI, a killer, and the entire nation, Aiden and Meg Falconer must find evidence to clear their wrongly imprisoned parents.

  21. Giant

    Edna Ferber

    ★ 4.0 (3k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    In a land as vast and untamed as the Texas it depicts, a spirited Virginia socialite marries a powerful cattle baron, only to discover their love is tested by searing heat, immense wealth, entrenched racism, and the shift from cattle to oil that defines a changing era.

  22. Pack Up the Moon

    Anna McPartlin

    ★ 3.9 (3k) average on GoodreadsRomance

    After a sudden tragedy ends her life with her childhood sweetheart, a witty Dubliner must navigate grief, friendship, and new connections to find the courage to live again.

  23. The Apple Tart of Hope

    Sarah Moore Fitzgerald

    ★ 3.9 (3k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    When the boy who baked the world's most perfect apple tarts disappears and everyone thinks he's dead, his best friend and little brother search for the truth, showing that even in deep sadness, hope is a strong force.

  24. Jupiter

    Ben Bova

    ★ 3.9 (3k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A scientist, embedded by a religious group to disprove alien life on Jupiter's ocean, faces a crisis of faith and duty when he finds the intelligence he was sent to deny.

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