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  1. Phoenix Rising

    JoLynne Valerie

    ★ 3.9 (2k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    A reclusive artist, haunted by a secret past, finds her painted muse come to life in a wolf biologist, leading them on a magical Winter Solstice journey of second chances and unexpected revelations.

  2. Picture the Dead

    Adele Griffin

    ★ 3.5 (2k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In 1860s New York, a grieving orphan haunted by her dead fiancé's doppelgänger must decipher spectral clues to unravel the mystery of his true fate and reclaim her future.

  3. The Darkness

    L.A. Banks

    ★ 4.4 (2k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Ancient prophecies unfold as the Neteru team fights an unprecedented war in San Diego. Lilith's day-walking vampires multiply under a resurrected anti-Christ, threatening to plunge the world into eternal night.

  4. Understanding Human Nature

    Alfred Adler

    ★ 4.0 (2k) average on GoodreadsPsychology

    Adler's 1927 guide explores the roots of our daily actions, helping us understand ourselves better and live more cooperatively.

  5. Dancing on the Edge

    Han Nolan

    ★ 3.9 (2k) average on GoodreadsPsychology

    Haunted by a mystical past, a young woman named Miracle faces the fiery results of her own unreality to find her place in a world she was never taught to inhabit.

  6. Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist

    Charles Brockden Brown

    ★ 3.4 (2k) average on GoodreadsFiction

    Wieland shows the fragile minds of an early American family and the new republic, while Carwin's memoirs reveal the dark tricks behind a charismatic leader's plan.

  7. Passion

    Lauren Kate

    ★ 3.9 (2k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    To break a cursed cycle of reincarnation and tragic loss, Luce explores her past lives, reliving centuries of forbidden romance with Daniel while he desperately pursues her, fearing she might unravel their very existence.

  8. Sir Gibbie

    George MacDonald

    ★ 4.3 (2k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Gibbie, an orphaned, mute boy, lives in the Scottish Highlands. His pure heart and selfless spirit change the lives around him as he seeks to live honestly and with sacrifice.

  9. Velocity

    Dean Koontz

    ★ 3.9 (2k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A bartender's ordinary life shatters into a high-speed nightmare when he's forced to choose which innocent person dies next, making him the unwilling puppet in a psychopath's deadly game.

  10. A Midnight Clear

    William Wharton

    ★ 4.2 (2k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    On Christmas Eve in the Ardennes, a small group of American soldiers in an isolated chateau find themselves in a surreal game with an enigmatic enemy, whose intentions are as mysterious as the holiday truce they seem to offer.

  11. The Crocodile

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    ★ 3.7 (2k) average on GoodreadsFiction

    A pompous civil servant is swallowed by a crocodile and continues to lecture from its belly, forcing his wife and friends to navigate absurd bureaucracy and public indifference.

  12. I Want to Eat Your Pancreas

    Yoru Sumino

    ★ 4.1 (2k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    A solitary high school boy finds his popular classmate's secret diary and learns she has a terminal pancreatic illness, making him the only one outside her family who knows. Their lives become intertwined during her last months.

  13. Londonstani

    Gautam Malkani

    ★ 3.4 (2k) average on GoodreadsFiction

    In "Londonstani," Jas navigates a complex world of cultural identity, street gangs, and forbidden love, trying to define himself amid clashing expectations and the harsh realities of a divided city.

  14. Layer Cake

    J.J. Connolly

    ★ 4.0 (2k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A smooth-talking London cocaine dealer, aiming for early retirement, finds his exit from the criminal underworld unraveling into a deadly 'layer cake' of double-crosses, neo-Nazis, and a missing socialite, forcing him to become a hitman just to survive.

  15. Fair Stood the Wind For France

    H.E. Bates

    ★ 4.0 (2k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    In WWII Occupied France, an injured English pilot and a brave French farm girl find their lives entwined by war and an unexpected love.

  16. The Story of Civilization

    Will Durant

    ★ 4.4 (2k) average on GoodreadsPolitics

    Durant’s "Story of Civilization" is an eleven-volume series that covers human history from ancient Mesopotamia to the Napoleonic era, detailing the rise and fall of empires, philosophies, and the evolution of art and science.

  17. Never Go Back

    Lee Child

    ★ 3.7 (2k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    An ex-military drifter returns to his old unit's headquarters to meet a captivating voice, only to be charged with a 16-year-old murder and forcibly reinstated into the army. His nostalgic visit quickly becomes a fight for freedom and survival.

  18. Lamb in His Bosom

    Caroline Miller

    ★ 3.8 (2k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    In the unforgiving antebellum Georgia wilderness, a tenacious young woman named Cean carves out a life of love and loss, enduring fourteen births, five burials, and the relentless brutality of nature and history itself.

  19. The Madman of Piney Woods

    Christopher Paul Curtis

    ★ 4.0 (1k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    In 1901 Michigan, the unlikely friendship between a Black boy and a white boy from neighboring towns blossoms as they uncover the truth behind the mysterious 'Madman of Piney Woods' haunting their shared forest.

  20. Homestuck

    Andrew Hussie

    ★ 4.6 (1k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Four internet friends play a game that creates universes, then must navigate a chaotic adventure through time, space, and meme-fueled paradoxes to save reality.

  21. Cat

    Freya North

    ★ 3.7 (1k) average on GoodreadsRomance

    A determined sports journalist, known only as Cat, cycles through the French countryside with the Tour de France, hoping to outrun the ghost of a past love and pedal her way to professional triumph.

  22. Achingly Alice

    Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

    ★ 3.9 (1k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Alice wants to set up her father with her favorite teacher, but she learns that loving two people at once is a confusing reality when her own long-term relationship is challenged by a new boy.

  23. An Essay on Man

    Alexander Pope

    ★ 3.7 (1k) average on GoodreadsPhilosophy

    Alexander Pope's poetic essay explores the universe's order and humanity's place, urging readers to use reason and accept that 'whatever is, is right.'

  24. Contagion

    Erin Bowman

    ★ 3.8 (1k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A routine rescue mission to a desolate mining planet turns into a horrifying fight for survival when a skeleton crew unearths a parasitic alien horror that can reanimate the dead and rewrite human minds.

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