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  1. The Executor

    Jesse Kellerman

    ★ 3.2 (1k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A poor philosophy student's search for conversation with a rich, mysterious woman turns into a deadly inheritance game where intellectual arguments become a fight for survival.

  2. The Warriors

    Sol Yurick

    ★ 3.5 (1k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    On a sweltering July 4th, a Coney Island gang must fight their way through a treacherous, night-long odyssey across 1960s New York City after being framed for the murder of a powerful rival leader at a city-wide peace rally.

  3. The Ballad of the White Horse

    G.K. Chesterton

    ★ 4.3 (1k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    In an epic poem, King Alfred's desperate stand against the Danes in 878 becomes a timeless allegory for the clash between Christendom and nihilistic heathenism, brought to life with battles, mystical visions, and Chesterton's artistry.

  4. V

    A.C. Crispin

    ★ 3.9 (1k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Beneath a guise of peaceful refugees, reptilian aliens with a chilling agenda of global subjugation begin a systematic purge of humanity, forcing a desperate resistance against overwhelming odds.

  5. How to Invest

    David M. Rubenstein

    ★ 3.9 (1k) average on GoodreadsBusiness

    David M. Rubenstein interviews financial leaders like Stan Druckenmiller and Larry Fink, revealing the strategies and principles that built their investment empires in venture capital, real estate, and crypto.

  6. Sad Perfect

    Stephanie Elliot

    ★ 3.8 (1k) average on GoodreadsPsychology

    A sixteen-year-old with a hidden eating disorder finds that new love can't silence her inner struggles; only family and a devoted boyfriend can help her reclaim her life.

  7. Finders Keepers

    Stephen King

    ★ 3.9 (1k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A super-fan's obsession with a reclusive author's unpublished manuscripts leads to a decades-long game of cat and mouse after a young boy finds the hidden literary treasure.

  8. Heat

    Mike Lupica

    ★ 3.9 (1k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Orphaned Cuban refugee Michael Arroyo, a twelve-year-old pitching star, must hide his age and work to keep his family together while leading his team towards the Little League World Series, all while avoiding authorities who threaten to separate him from his brother.

  9. The Huntress

    Susan Carroll

    ★ 3.9 (1k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In 1585, a weapon-wielding Huntress must protect a prophesied girl with world-altering powers from Catherine de Medici and the courts of Elizabeth I, even as the girl's own father poses a threat.

  10. Notes from a Liar and Her Dog

    Gennifer Choldenko

    ★ 3.7 (1k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Trapped in a family of perfectionists who misunderstand her, a young girl named Ant spins a web of lies, her only confidant a dog named Pistachio, until a perceptive teacher offers a lifeline to the truth.

  11. At the Bottom of the River

    Jamaica Kincaid

    ★ 3.8 (1k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    Jamaica Kincaid's collection of lyrical short stories captures the vivid, often unsettling memories of a Caribbean childhood, exploring family ties, nature's duality, and the quiet power of everyday things through a voice both whimsical and deeply resonant.

  12. North Dallas Forty

    Peter Gent

    ★ 3.9 (1k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    In the drug-fueled, pain-riddled world of 1970s professional football, a rebellious receiver fights for survival and meaning as his body and mind are pushed to their breaking point over eight brutal days.

  13. Marketing Warfare

    Al Ries

    ★ 4.1 (1k) average on GoodreadsBusiness

    This updated classic shows how to outmaneuver competitors with proven tactics and learn from the successes and failures of marketing's biggest players, helping you strategize like a general to win market share.

  14. Cupid and Psyche

    Apuleius

    ★ 4.3 (1k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A mortal princess, cursed by Venus and loved by her son, embarks on a perilous, allegorical quest for her divine husband, enduring impossible trials to unite her soul with love itself.

  15. Agaat

    Marlene van Niekerk

    ★ 4.0 (1k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    On an isolated South African farm, a dying white matriarch's fragmented memories reveal her complicated bond with her black maidservant, Agaat, against a backdrop of love, power, and racial tension.

  16. Moving On

    Larry McMurtry

    ★ 3.8 (1k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    In 1960s Texas, the sharp-tongued Patsy Carpenter drifts through a world of rodeo clowns, academics, and suburban boredom, always chasing a sense of belonging and love.

  17. Journey to the West

    Wu Cheng'en

    ★ 4.3 (1k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A mischievous monkey king, a pig, a friar, and a dragon horse escort a devout monk through a fantastical, demon-infested ancient China on a perilous quest for sacred Buddhist scriptures.

  18. Searching for Sky

    Jillian Cantor

    ★ 3.7 (1k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    Stranded in California after a lifetime on an isolated island, Sky navigates a world of strange technology and hidden truths, desperate to reunite with her lost love River and uncover the reality behind their past.

  19. Answer to Job

    C.G. Jung

    ★ 4.2 (1k) average on GoodreadsPsychology

    Jung's most controversial work analyzes the biblical Book of Job not as theology, but as an exploration of how divine and evil archetypes appear in the human mind.

  20. A Collapse of Horses

    Brian Evenson

    ★ 4.0 (1k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In Brian Evenson's 'A Collapse of Horses,' ordinary life shatters into the monstrous, as a stuffed bear's heartbeat echoes a dead infant and reality itself unravels.

  21. Rabelais and His World

    Mikhail Bakhtin

    ★ 4.3 (1k) average on GoodreadsHistory

    Bakhtin describes the revolutionary laughter of Rabelais's carnival as a timeless force of popular renewal, subtly defying the oppressive orthodoxies of his own Stalinist era.

  22. Chester and Gus

    Cammie McGovern

    ★ 4.3 (1k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    A determined dog who flunks out of service school finds his true purpose (and his person) by learning to love and support a boy with autism in ways he never trained for.

  23. Black Juice

    Margo Lanagan

    ★ 3.7 (1k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Margo Lanagan's "Black Juice" takes readers into unsettling, darkly magical worlds that reveal primal desires and hidden monstrousness, showing the powerful, often terrifying essence of humanity.

  24. Night of the Howling Dogs

    Graham Salisbury

    ★ 3.8 (1k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    In 1975 Hawaii, a scout troop's beach camping trip turns into a fight for survival against a tsunami and earthquake, forcing two feuding boys to unite and discover leadership.

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