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by Amanda Marrone
3.6(2,523)
As her 18th birthday looms, a rebellious witch with a crush must uncover the terrifying truth behind her coven's initiation rites before she and her monster-hunting friends become the next victims.
by Margaret Drabble
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In 1960s London, an intellectual woman's casual encounter leads to an unplanned pregnancy, forcing her to navigate single motherhood and discover an unexpected maternal devotion amidst societal judgment.
by Aldous Huxley
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In a satirical Hollywood, a millionaire's fear of death leads to a horrifying discovery about the true cost of eternal life.
by Patrick White
3.8(2,521)
In the unforgiving 19th-century Australian outback, a German explorer's perilous journey across the continent mirrors the growing, telepathic obsession that binds him to a young Sydney woman he barely knows.
by H.P. Lovecraft
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This collection blends cosmic horror with the fragile nature of reality, showing ancient terrors, forgotten gods, and the vastness beyond human understanding.
by J. M. Coetzee
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A celebrated novelist's firm belief about human cruelty to animals alienates her from family and colleagues, sparking an uncomfortable look at our moral duties to the non-human world.
by Charlotte Lennox
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An 18th-century heiress, raised on chivalric romances, creates comical chaos as she tries to live a knightly life in Georgian England.
by Young-Ha Kim
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In neon-lit Seoul, a mysterious narrator subtly encourages self-destruction in a love triangle, revealing the city's hidden desires.
by Jess Ryder
3.7(2,514)
A woman finds a chilling videotape from her childhood, revealing a dark secret about her estranged mother and a decades-old murder that makes her question everything she thought she knew about her past.
by Nadine Gordimer
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In Nadine Gordimer's "The Conservationist," a wealthy South African industrialist finds his privilege challenged as his relationships, his workers, and the land itself resist his control, leaving him isolated amid the ruins of his possessions and a changing world.
by Gayle Forman
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In the final moments of their romance, Allyson and Willem confront the bittersweet reality of their love story's end amidst the magic of Paris.
by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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A young painter navigates loss and self-discovery, uncovering her deceased mother's secret life as a dream-teller through hidden journals, all while dealing with love, cultural identity, and Berkeley.
by Robert J. Sawyer
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A man who escapes death by uploading his consciousness into an android body finds his new existence threatened when his original, biological self returns to reclaim its mind, forcing him to confront love, identity, and the nature of existence.
by Richelle Mead
4.6(2,502)
In a hidden Montana academy, a loyal dhampir bodyguard must navigate forbidden romance and vampire politics to protect her best friend, a Moroi princess, from becoming an immortal monster.
by Allen Zadoff
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A skilled teenage assassin, known as Boy Nobody, must infiltrate an extremist camp and eliminate its leader, only to question his identity and the organization he serves when the mission turns into a web of deceit.
by Douglas Kennedy
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A woman who trades her bohemian 60s upbringing for a conventional life in Maine finds her carefully constructed world shattered when a long-buried transgression from her past resurfaces, forcing her to confront the rebellious spirit she thought she'd escaped.
by Aleister Crowley
3.9(2,492)
A collection of cryptic poems, bizarre rituals, and qabalistic riddles, penned by Aleister Crowley, guiding readers through 93 pages of esoteric thought.
by Iris Murdoch
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In a remote Irish castle, a young governess becomes entangled in the unsettling, ritualistic imprisonment of its enigmatic lady, revealing a gothic web of obsession, sacrifice, and the terrifying beauty of delusion.
by Steven L. Peck
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After a Mormon geologist dies, he awakens in a cosmic library of Hell, where his only escape is to find the book of his life in an eternity where all his earthly beliefs are wrong.
by Samuel R. Delany
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An illiterate genocide survivor and a powerful diplomat from different worlds discover they are perfect erotic matches, sparking an interstellar crisis that threatens to unravel society.
by Autumn Cornwell
4.0(2,484)
Sixteen-year-old Vassar Spore's carefully planned life of AP classes and Pulitzer Prizes shatters into Southeast Asian backpacking, unexpected romance, and a family secret that redefines her future.
by H. Richard Niebuhr
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H. Richard Niebuhr's work, with new insights, asks Christians to manage the tension between loyalty to Christ and the pull of secular culture in a materialistic world.
by Aimee Friedman
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In a summer split by a single choice, Summer Everett navigates two parallel realities of romance, self-discovery, and a family secret, one in French lavender fields and the other in her hometown.
by Lori Wick
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A former Denver prostitute, changed by faith and kindness, navigates new love and a hidden past with a Montana pastor, fearing her redemption isn't enough to bridge the gap of her former life.