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  1. After the Flood

    Bill Cooper

    ★ 4.4 (373) average on Goodreads

    Tracing two millennia of forgotten history, 'After the Flood' connects European lineage to Noah's ark through the documented journey of Japheth's descendants.

  2. Tree Castle Island

    Jean Craighead George

    ★ 4.1 (373) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Stranded in the vast Okefenokee Swamp after an alligator attack, fourteen-year-old Jack must decipher an ancient island mystery that unexpectedly unravels secrets from his own past.

  3. Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor

    Rob Nixon

    ★ 4.4 (371) average on GoodreadsPolitics

    Rob Nixon's 'slow violence' concept explains how gradual environmental harm affects the global poor most, requiring new ways to see and address crisis.

  4. Dust

    Hugh Howey

    ★ 4.2 (368) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Jules faces the toxic truth of her silo's origins and a new internal threat, even if it means awakening Silo 1's terrifying power.

  5. Progress and Poverty

    Henry George

    ★ 4.3 (367) average on GoodreadsPolitics

    Henry George's 1879 book explores why poverty deepens as wealth grows, proposing a solution to industrial slumps and inequality that influenced figures like Einstein and Tolstoy.

  6. Dominion

    Julie Hall

    ★ 4.5 (367) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    When her beloved is dragged into the fiery abyss, demon hunter Audrey must descend into Hell itself to rescue him from Satan's clutches, only to discover that some prices are too high for a happily ever after.

  7. The Glory

    Lauren St. John

    ★ 4.5 (366) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    A headstrong girl and a determined boy race horses from Colorado to Oregon, outriding danger and outsmarting pursuers, all while their hearts and horses race for glory.

  8. The Constant Wife

    W. Somerset Maugham

    ★ 4.0 (362) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    A wife with her own secret outsmarts her unfaithful husband and gossiping friends, commenting on societal expectations and personal freedoms.

  9. The Blind Colt

    Glen Rounds

    ★ 3.9 (362) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Born blind on the Dakota plains, a courageous wild mustang navigates the prairie's dangers before finding an unexpected connection and purpose with a determined ten-year-old boy.

  10. The Uncanny

    Sigmund Freud

    ★ 3.2 (357) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Freud explores the unsettling familiarity of the 'uncanny,' showing how deep fears and desires can be hidden by trivial memories and imagination.

  11. Blood Relations

    A.J. Butcher

    ★ 3.8 (355) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Bond Team's ultimate spy school final exams push them to the brink of collapse, forcing them to betray friends and face memory wipes if they fail a gauntlet of simulated terror.

  12. A Sky Beyond the Storm

    Sabaa Tahir

    ★ 4.3 (351) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    An ancient evil brings apocalyptic chaos, forcing a grieving scholar, a haunted soldier, and a tormented soul catcher to face their fears, unlock powers, and save their world.

  13. Film as Art

    Rudolf Arnheim

    ★ 3.9 (349) average on GoodreadsCreativity

    Rudolf Arnheim's "Film as Art" argues that cinema's true artistry came from using its early limitations—silence, black-and-white, and flat images—creatively.

  14. Bad

    Jean Ferris

    ★ 3.7 (347) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    After a joyride lands her in a girls' rehabilitation center, sixteen-year-old Dallas must face her past and navigate the journey of redemption among other 'bad' girls.

  15. Rapture

    Lauren Kate

    ★ 3.9 (347) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    As the world nears its end, an immortal love faces its biggest challenge, making an angel choose between her past and saving everything.

  16. Keats

    Andrew Motion

    ★ 4.2 (346) average on GoodreadsBiography

    Andrew Motion's biography removes layers of myth to show a "skinned alive" Keats, a Romantic genius whose letters, like jazz, pulse with the "headlong charge" of a mind moving through the social and political worlds of his time.

  17. Risk

    Colin Harrison

    ★ 3.5 (345) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A Manhattan insurance lawyer investigates a socialite's son's violent death, uncovering secrets involving a Czech hand model and Christmas ornaments in a volatile city.

  18. Remembering the Good Times

    Richard Peck

    ★ 3.8 (344) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Three high school friends, seemingly inseparable, face a terrible question about how well they knew each other when one dies by suicide.

  19. Ghost in the Machine

    C.E. Kilgore

    ★ 3.7 (344) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    An empathic woman with a dark past and a logical android with new emotions find their paths changed by a forbidden love. This love threatens to expose hidden alien societies and redefine their understanding of the universe.

  20. Footloose

    Rudy Josephs

    ★ 3.9 (343) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    When a big-city teen moves to a small town that has outlawed dancing, he ignites a rebellion to challenge restrictive traditions and win the heart of the local preacher's daughter.

  21. Jerusalem

    Cecelia Holland

    ★ 3.9 (341) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    In the Holy Land of 1187 A.D., amidst clashing empires and religious fervor, a woman's passionate journey unfolds against the backdrop of Jerusalem's fate.

  22. The Mikado

    W.S. Gilbert

    ★ 3.9 (341) average on GoodreadsFiction

    In a Japanese town, a minstrel in love navigates a Lord High Executioner's absurd rules and Victorian society's quirks in this operatic satire of love and power.

  23. Goblin

    Josh Malerman

    ★ 3.7 (340) average on GoodreadsFiction

    Welcome to Goblin, a town where severed body parts are love letters, ghost traps are home décor, and a child's magic show ticket might be a one-way trip to another dimension, all under the terrifying eye of the North Woods.

  24. Mimi

    Lucy Ellmann

    ★ 3.2 (340) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    After a Christmas Eve fall introduces him to an unconventional woman, a jaded plastic surgeon finds his meticulously constructed Manhattan life, and his understanding of love and feminism, radically upended.

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