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  1. Dreams

    C.G. Jung

    ★ 4.1 (2k) average on GoodreadsPsychology

    Jung explores the symbolic language of dreams, connecting them to alchemy and personal change.

  2. The Pesthouse

    Jim Crace

    ★ 3.5 (2k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a desolate, post-apocalyptic America, where civilization has fallen and a toxic landscape forces a dangerous eastward migration, a man with a crippled knee and a feverish woman form an unexpected love as they trek through ruins, evading slavers and strange cults in a desperate search for passage to Europe.

  3. A Murder for Her Majesty

    Beth Hilgartner

    ★ 4.2 (2k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Disguised as a choirboy within the walls of a Yorkshire cathedral, eleven-year-old Alice Tuckfield must outwit Queen Elizabeth's agents to uncover her father's murderers and save herself.

  4. The Affluent Society

    John Kenneth Galbraith

    ★ 4.0 (2k) average on GoodreadsBusiness

    Galbraith criticizes classical economics, showing how an affluent society still focuses on scarcity, creating artificial desires while neglecting public good for private spending.

  5. The Insufferable Gaucho

    Roberto Bolaño

    ★ 3.8 (2k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction
  6. The Keys of the Kingdom

    A.J. Cronin

    ★ 4.3 (2k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    In 1920s China, a Scottish priest finds spiritual triumph despite civil war, plague, and church disapproval.

  7. The Secret History

    Donna Tartt

    ★ 3.9 (2k) average on GoodreadsPolitics

    Under their charismatic Classics professor's influence, a group of eccentric Hampden College students fall into a world of ancient rituals, moral ambiguity, and murder.

  8. Sleepless

    Charlie Huston

    ★ 3.7 (2k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    In a Los Angeles suffering from an insomnia plague, an undercover cop who can still sleep navigates martial law, drug cartels, and corporate conspiracy to find a cure for his sleepless wife and daughter, all while being hunted by a mercenary.

  9. The Zero

    Jess Walter

    ★ 3.5 (2k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    In a post-attack city shrouded in smoke and amnesia, a detective with a self-inflicted gunshot wound and a son who believes he's dead must piece together his fragmented reality while working for a shadowy agency and hunting the most elusive target of all: himself.

  10. Brazil

    John Updike

    ★ 3.5 (2k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    In Brazil, two lovers from different worlds face poverty, crime, and social divides to build a love that overcomes all odds.

  11. The Fugitive

    Pittacus Lore

    ★ 4.1 (2k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    On the run from alien invaders and the FBI, blogger Mark James races to save Sarah Hart while uncovering the true identity of his mysterious, weapon-supplying ally, GUARD, whose secrets will change everything he knows about the Loric.

  12. Fool Me Once

    Harlan Coben

    ★ 3.7 (2k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A former special ops pilot's life changes when her supposedly murdered husband appears on her nanny cam, forcing her to confront the possibility that everything she believes about her past, her husband, and even herself, is a lie.

  13. Without a Trace

    Colleen Coble

    ★ 4.0 (2k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    Haunted by a plane crash that killed her family, a search-and-rescue K9 handler searches the Michigan wilderness for answers, only to find a violent crime in her town linked to her husband's disappearance, promising either peace or a reunion.

  14. The Dark Tide

    Dennis L. McKiernan

    ★ 3.9 (2k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    An unnatural winter and a creeping blizzard threaten to consume the land. A tiny Warrow named Tuck must brave a world too large and dangerous for his kind to answer the High King's call, only to find himself swallowed by a monstrous war that scatters his companions and may doom them all.

  15. Recovery Road

    Blake Nelson

    ★ 3.8 (2k) average on GoodreadsPsychology

    In teen rehab, Madeline finds forbidden love with Stewart, but their shared struggles threaten to consume them both as they pursue sobriety in the outside world.

  16. The Courage to Create

    Rollo May

    ★ 4.1 (2k) average on GoodreadsPsychology

    Rollo May argues that embracing the anxiety of creation, and courageously engaging our imagination, is essential for a fully realized human existence.

  17. The Dreamers

    Gilbert Adair

    ★ 3.6 (2k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    In the midst of Paris's 1968 upheaval, three film lovers withdraw into a self-made world of obsessive games and growing intimacy, only to have their sealed reality shattered by the encroaching outside world.

  18. Houseboy

    Ferdinand Oyono

    ★ 3.7 (2k) average on Goodreads

    Through the eyes of a young Cameroonian houseboy, Ferdinand Oyono exposes the brutal absurdities and soul-crushing hypocrisies of French colonialism, revealing how 'civilizing' missions strip away identity while failing to deliver on their promises of progress.

  19. Into the Wild

    Jon Krakauer

    ★ 3.7 (2k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A privileged young man, eager to escape society, heads into the Alaskan wilderness, only to find that his radical pursuit of freedom comes at a high cost.

  20. The Wanderer

    Sharon Creech

    ★ 3.7 (2k) average on GoodreadsSpirituality

    On a perilous sea voyage to England, cousins Sophie and Cody navigate the unpredictable ocean and their family's shadowed past through journal entries, each searching for their own place in a world as vast and mysterious as the sea itself.

  21. James Joyce

    Richard Ellmann

    ★ 4.3 (2k) average on GoodreadsBiography

    Ellmann explores James Joyce's genius, showing his great intellect and human flaws, from writing 'Ulysses' to drunken stumbles and scandalous letters.

  22. Red Sky at Morning

    Richard Bradford

    ★ 4.1 (2k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    In 1944 New Mexico, a young boy grows up during WWII, learning about family, friendship, and independence under an amber sky.

  23. The Lost Conspiracy

    Frances Hardinge

    ★ 4.1 (2k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a land where prophets are revered and the dead are hunted for their ashes, a quiet attendant must unravel her sister's carefully constructed lies to expose a deadly island-wide conspiracy before it consumes them both.

  24. Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

    Jerome K. Jerome

    ★ 3.9 (2k) average on GoodreadsNon-Fiction

    An 'idle fellow' charmingly admits his book offers only humorous, purposeless relief from 'improving' literature.

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