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  1. They Never Came Home

    Lois Duncan

    ★ 3.5 (2k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    When a cryptic phone call shatters the fragile peace surrounding her brother and boyfriend's disappearance, Joan is pulled into a terrifying game of cat and mouse where the truth is far more sinister than their presumed deaths.

  2. Shiver

    Maggie Stiefvater

    ★ 4.0 (2k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A girl whose heart belongs to a yellow-eyed wolf must fight the encroaching winter that threatens to steal her human love back into the wild, furry unknown.

  3. Keeping Corner

    Kashmira Sheth

    ★ 3.8 (2k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Confined to widowhood at twelve, a spoiled Indian girl discovers the quiet power of education and Gandhi's satyagraha, realizing it might just liberate both her country and herself from the shackles of tradition.

  4. Julius Caesar

    William Shakespeare

    ★ 4.3 (2k) average on GoodreadsBiography

    In the shadow of ambition and betrayal, Rome's most powerful general, Julius Caesar, discovers that even the closest friends can wield the deadliest daggers.

  5. The Drowning of Arthur Braxton

    Caroline Smailes

    ★ 3.9 (2k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    In an abandoned Edwardian bathhouse, a lonely runaway teenager discovers a mysterious, naked woman swimming, plunging him into a dark, fantastical first love that will irrevocably transform his painful adolescence.

  6. The Gold Bug Variations

    Richard Powers

    ★ 4.1 (2k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    A reclusive molecular biologist and a data entry clerk find their lives, and the mysteries of love, music, and science, linked by a forgotten computer program and the ghost of Bach.

  7. Den of Thieves

    Julia Golding

    ★ 4.2 (2k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Disguised as a prissy ballerina in revolutionary Paris, street-smart Cat Royal uncovers treason and the power of the people as she navigates a web of intrigue, secret reporting, and baffling suitors, all while narrowly escaping the gallows.

  8. The Man Who Loved Clowns

    June Rae Wood

    ★ 4.5 (2k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    A shy girl, Delrita, struggles with how people see her uncle with Down Syndrome. Tragedy changes their quiet life, forcing her to face her fears and learn to trust and love.

  9. Taste

    Kate Evangelista

    ★ 4.0 (2k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A forbidden attraction to two mysterious boys plunges a young woman into a centuries-old feud between ancient civilizations hidden beneath her academy, all while a terrifying secret threatens to consume her.

  10. Bury the Chains

    Adam Hochschild

    ★ 4.3 (2k) average on GoodreadsPolitics

    Twelve determined men in a London printing shop started the world's first grassroots movement, using boycotts and celebrity endorsements to end the British Empire's slave trade against strong opposition.

  11. The Love Potion

    Sandra Hill

    ★ 3.9 (2k) average on GoodreadsRomance

    A shy chemist's life gets explosively complicated when her experimental love potion, disguised as a jelly bean, accidentally turns a wildly virile lawyer into her overwhelmingly smitten human guinea pig.

  12. China Men

    Maxine Hong Kingston

    ★ 3.7 (2k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    From railroad camps to laundry rooms, Kingston’s epic saga unfurls the paper sons' dreams and trials, tracing three generations of Chinese men battling exclusion and forging identity within the mythical yet brutal landscape of America.

  13. Leaving Home

    Garrison Keillor

    ★ 3.8 (2k) average on GoodreadsFiction

    Return to Lake Wobegon, a comforting, quirky place where familiar faces and new characters navigate small-town life. This story reminds us that home stays with us, even when we leave.

  14. Pretty Little Devils

    Nancy Holder

    ★ 3.8 (2k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    To join the Pretty Little Devils, Hazel must sacrifice more than her innocence; their exclusive parties hide a sinister price for popularity.

  15. Blast from the Past

    Meg Cabot

    ★ 4.0 (2k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Allie's excitement for a bus-riding field trip to a historic schoolhouse crumbles when she's paired with her former best friend, Mary Kay, who betrayed her before she moved.

  16. Downfall

    Rob Thurman

    ★ 4.1 (2k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A half-human monster's growing power forces him and his brother into a desperate fight for survival against supernatural forces and the monstrous darkness within him, even if it means embracing the very thing they've always fought against.

  17. Under the Hawthorn Tree

    Ai Mi

    ★ 3.6 (2k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    During Mao's re-education movement, a high-school girl with a 'capitalist' mother and a geology student with a 'rightist' past fall in love under a hawthorn tree, their romance ending tragically.

  18. Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths

    Shigeru Mizuki

    ★ 4.0 (2k) average on GoodreadsHistory

    In the harrowing, semi-autobiographical graphic novel, 'Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths,' Shigeru Mizuki plunges readers into the final, futile weeks of a Japanese infantry unit in World War II, where soldiers are condemned to a 'glorious' death in battle or execution for daring to survive.

  19. Going Wild

    Lisa McMann

    ★ 4.2 (2k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    When a mysterious bracelet gives Charlie Wilde animal abilities, she must master her new powers with friends to uncover its secrets before they overwhelm her.

  20. Becket

    Jean Anouilh

    ★ 4.0 (2k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    Anouilh's 'Becket' explores the souls of men caught between earthly power and divine conviction during the Norman conquest, from a king's prayer to a saint's sacrifice.

  21. Science Fair

    Dave Barry

    ★ 3.9 (2k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    When a middle school science fair becomes the battleground for a cash-strapped kid with Discount Warehouse shoes and his friends against an international dictator's plot to infiltrate the U.S. government with corrupting software, a laser-eyed owl, and disgruntled eBay buyers, levitating frogs are the least of their worries.

  22. Holocaust

    Gerald Green

    ★ 4.3 (2k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    Amidst the rise of Nazism, an ambitious SS officer and a doomed Jewish family face the personal horrors and heartbreaking choices of the Holocaust.

  23. White Fur Flying

    Patricia MacLachlan

    ★ 3.9 (2k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    In a house filled with the joyful chaos of rescued dogs and white fur, a young girl named Zoe finds that the same love and patience used to heal abandoned animals might help the silent boy across the street.

  24. Digital Zettelkasten

    David Kadavy

    ★ 3.7 (2k) average on Goodreads

    Transform your digital notes into a powerful second brain with the Zettelkasten method, reimagined for the modern age, to unlock your creative potential.

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