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  1. Vision in White

    Nora Roberts

    ★ 4.1 (127k) average on GoodreadsRomance

    A wedding photographer, jaded by her own fractured family, finds unexpected romance with a stable high school teacher, forcing her to confront her past and embrace the possibility of her own happy ending amidst the chaos of planning perfect days for others.

  2. Conversations with Friends

    Sally Rooney

    ★ 3.8 (127k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    In Dublin, a sharp but emotionally guarded college student watches her intellectual life unravel as she navigates an unexpected affair with an older, married actor, challenging her beliefs about love, class, and vulnerability.

  3. Harold and the Purple Crayon

    Crockett Johnson

    ★ 4.3 (127k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    With a single purple crayon, a young boy sketches an entire world of adventure, showing how imagination helps with life's unexpected turns.

  4. The Institute

    Stephen King

    ★ 4.2 (127k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    In a secret facility, children with psychic powers are harvested, forcing a defiant boy to escape his captors before his unique ability is weaponized.

  5. Oathbringer

    Brandon Sanderson

    ★ 4.6 (127k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    As an apocalyptic storm awakens enslaved parshmen to their justified rage, Dalinar Kholin must unite a fractured world against a vengeful foe by confronting his own bloody past, even as ancient secrets and rediscovered powers emerge from the depths of Urithiru.

  6. Chronicle of a Death Foretold

    Gabriel García Márquez

    ★ 4.0 (127k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    In a small Colombian town, the collective memory of an honor killing unravels, revealing not who committed the murder, but why an entire community allowed it to happen despite knowing the victim's fate.

  7. The Long Walk

    Richard Bachman

    ★ 4.1 (127k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    In a future dystopia, one hundred teenage boys begin a march where the only prize for survival is life, and the cost of failure is death.

  8. Winter of the World

    Ken Follett

    ★ 4.3 (127k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    As the Third Reich rises and World War II begins, five families from America, Germany, Russia, England, and Wales navigate battlefields, politics, and personal sacrifices that define a generation caught between fascism, communism, and the atomic age.

  9. New Moon: The Complete Illustrated Movie Companion

    Mark Cotta Vaz

    ★ 4.3 (126k) average on GoodreadsReference

    Explore the making of 'New Moon' with interviews, stories, and stunning full-color images that bring Stephenie Meyer's world to the screen.

  10. Dolores Claiborne

    Stephen King

    ★ 3.9 (126k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Accused of murdering her employer, a sharp-tongued island woman reveals a lifetime of secrets, including the truth behind her abusive husband's death and her complex bond with the manipulative heiress she served.

  11. A Crown of Swords

    Robert Jordan

    ★ 4.0 (126k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    As the Shadow's grip tightens, Rand al'Thor must master an ancient, forbidden power and rally a fractured world against the encroaching darkness, even as betrayal lurks within his closest allies.

  12. Gilead (Oprah's Book Club)

    Marilynne Robinson

    ★ 3.9 (126k) average on GoodreadsFiction

    An aging Iowa pastor writes a letter to his young son, sharing his family's abolitionist history, his faith, and the quiet moments of an ordinary life.

  13. Tell the Wolves I'm Home

    Carol Rifka Brunt

    ★ 4.0 (126k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    In 1987, a fourteen-year-old girl, grieving her artist uncle's death, connects with his secret partner, uncovering family truths and finding a path to healing.

  14. Guess How Much I Love You

    Sam McBratney

    ★ 4.4 (126k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    A little hare tries to measure his love for his father, who always shows his own love is even bigger, stretching beyond the moon and back.

  15. Dragonflight

    Anne McCaffrey

    ★ 4.1 (126k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A telepathically linked dragon queen and her young, underestimated rider must awaken old powers and unite a broken world against a deadly, world-devouring alien threat.

  16. The Turn of the Key

    Ruth Ware

    ★ 3.9 (126k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A nanny's job in a Scottish mansion turns into a nightmare of surveillance, sinister children, and malfunctioning smart home technology, ending in a child's death and her wrongful imprisonment.

  17. The Big Sleep

    Raymond Chandler

    ★ 4.0 (126k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    In Los Angeles, detective Philip Marlowe navigates a world of dangerous women and deadly secrets, uncovering blackmail and murder to find that some truths are best left buried.

  18. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

    James Clear

    ★ 4.3 (126k) average on GoodreadsBusiness

    Achieve remarkable results by mastering small, incremental "atomic" habits that build powerful systems for personal change.

  19. About a Boy

    Nick Hornby

    ★ 3.8 (126k) average on GoodreadsFiction

    A commitment-phobic bachelor invents a son to meet single mothers, only to find himself unexpectedly growing up when a peculiar twelve-year-old attaches himself to him, forcing both to confront their arrested development.

  20. King's Cage

    Victoria Aveyard

    ★ 4.0 (126k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Imprisoned and stripped of her lightning, Mare Barrow navigates the betrayals of a king she once loved, while the rebellion she started burns stronger without her, threatening to consume a kingdom already at war.

  21. The House on Mango Street

    Sandra Cisneros

    ★ 3.6 (126k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    Esperanza Cordero's short stories show a young Latina girl finding her voice as she navigates identity, dreams, and the realities of her Chicago neighborhood on Mango Street.

  22. The Likeness

    Tana French

    ★ 4.0 (126k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A detective must infiltrate a seemingly idyllic house of students by impersonating her own doppelgänger, found murdered with the detective's former undercover identity, to unravel a mystery where her past and present collide.

  23. I Am Pilgrim

    Terry Hayes

    ★ 4.3 (126k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A former black ops agent, code-named Pilgrim, must piece together a global trail of seemingly unrelated atrocities to thwart a brilliant terrorist's plot to unleash a devastating biological weapon on America.

  24. Less

    Andrew Sean Greer

    ★ 3.7 (126k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    To escape the awkward wedding of an ex-lover, a perpetually failing novelist embarks on a chaotic, globe-trotting literary tour, accidentally finding himself and love along the way.

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