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  1. Desperation

    Stephen King

    ★ 3.8 (121k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    When a simple road trip becomes a nightmare involving a monstrous sheriff, a group of strangers in the desolate town of Desperation, Nevada, must join forces against an ancient, evil entity to survive.

  2. Lover Unbound

    J.R. Ward

    ★ 4.3 (120k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A seer's curse and endless war define Vishous's life until a human surgeon thaws his heart, but their forbidden love risks being lost to his solitary destiny.

  3. The Left Hand Of Darkness

    Ursula K. Le Guin

    ★ 4.1 (120k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    On a frozen world where people have a single, fluid gender, an envoy from another planet challenges their isolation and customs, making them confront identity, love, and belonging.

  4. Shopaholic & Baby

    Sophie Kinsella

    ★ 3.8 (120k) average on GoodreadsRomance

    As Becky Brandon shops for two, her perfect pregnancy unravels when her husband's ex-girlfriend becomes her obstetrician, forcing her to confront what else is on sale in her marriage.

  5. The Monster at the End of this Book

    Jon Stone

    ★ 4.4 (120k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Join the lovable, furry Grover on a hilariously self-aware adventure as he frantically tries to prevent you from reaching the inevitable, and surprisingly familiar, monster at the end of the book.

  6. Lethal White

    Robert Galbraith

    ★ 4.2 (120k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A mentally distressed man's fragmented memory of a childhood murder sends private investigators Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott spiraling through London's hidden elite, Parliament's shadowy corridors, and a sinister country estate, all while navigating their own complicated, fame-addled partnership.

  7. My Ántonia

    Willa Cather

    ★ 3.8 (120k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    Through Jim Burden's nostalgic eyes, witness the strong spirit and struggles of Bohemian immigrant Ántonia Shimerda as she navigates love, loss, and the Nebraska prairie.

  8. The Complete Persepolis

    Marjane Satrapi

    ★ 4.4 (120k) average on GoodreadsBiography

    Through black-and-white graphic panels, Marjane Satrapi tells about her childhood in revolutionary Iran, her adolescence in Vienna, and her return, showing a nation's trouble through one girl's coming-of-age.

  9. The Divine Comedy

    Dante Alighieri

    ★ 4.0 (120k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Join Dante as he travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise on a quest for divine love and salvation.

  10. Tell No One

    Harlan Coben

    ★ 4.1 (120k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Eight years after his wife's murder, a doctor receives an impossible email suggesting she's alive, thrusting him into a desperate, hunted search for a truth someone will kill to keep buried.

  11. The Eyre Affair

    Jasper Fforde

    ★ 3.9 (119k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In an alternate 1985 where literary detectives can jump into novels, Special Operative Thursday Next must chase a master criminal through the pages of Jane Eyre to prevent the beloved character's murder and preserve literary history amidst a world obsessed with dodo cloning, time travel, and Shakespearean conspiracies.

  12. The Tenth Circle

    Jodi Picoult

    ★ 3.5 (119k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    When his daughter accuses her boyfriend of rape, a mild-mannered comic book artist confronts the violent past he thought he'd buried, showing how far a father will go to protect his child.

  13. The Vile Village

    Lemony Snicket

    ★ 4.0 (119k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a village obsessed with crows and rules, the Baudelaire orphans confront an angry mob, unjust arrests, and the mystery of V.F.D., all while sporting very strange hats.

  14. The Boxcar Children

    Gertrude Chandler Warner

    ★ 4.1 (119k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Four orphaned siblings turn an abandoned boxcar into a secret home, starting a self-sufficient adventure to stay together before finding the grandfather they never knew.

  15. Library of Souls

    Ransom Riggs

    ★ 4.1 (119k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Armed with a new power and accompanied by a pyrokinetic girl and a peculiar dog, Jacob Portman plunges into the grimy depths of Victorian London's Devil's Acre to rescue his friends and decide the fate of all peculiardom.

  16. Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There

    Lewis Carroll

    ★ 4.1 (119k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Alice tumbles through a mirror into a backwards world of chess pieces and Red Queens, where logic is a game and nonsense reigns supreme.

  17. The 5AM Club

    Robin Sharma

    ★ 3.7 (119k) average on GoodreadsProductivity

    Two strangers meet an eccentric tycoon who shares the 5 AM routine used by history's greatest achievers, promising to improve productivity, well-being, and calm before the day begins.

  18. A Wind in the Door

    Madeleine L'Engle

    ★ 4.0 (119k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    When her brilliant younger brother, Charles Wallace, is threatened by a cosmic illness that mirrors the extinguishing of stars, Meg Murry must journey with a fiery, winged cherubim and her friend Calvin into the heart of creation to confront the Echthroi, beings of pure hate, and restore the universe's harmonious song.

  19. I Am Legend and Other Stories

    Richard Matheson

    ★ 4.0 (119k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a world overrun by the living dead, the last human survivor hunts vampires by day and barricades himself against their siege by night, questioning who the true monster has become.

  20. The Infinite Sea

    Rick Yancey

    ★ 3.9 (119k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a world where alien invaders have shattered trust, Cassie and her allies must find their humanity to fight the 5th Wave, which aims to wipe out humankind.

  21. The Bear and the Nightingale

    Katherine Arden

    ★ 4.1 (119k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a snow-laden medieval Russia, a young woman who sees ancient spirits must defy her devout stepmother and a rising demonic evil to protect her family and village from a winter demon.

  22. The Twits

    Roald Dahl

    ★ 4.0 (118k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    When the world's most revolting couple, the Twits, push their pranks too far, their mistreated monkeys and a family of Roly-Poly birds conspire to turn the tables in a hilariously grotesque act of poetic justice.

  23. Blue Lily, Lily Blue

    Maggie Stiefvater

    ★ 4.3 (118k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Ley lines awaken and ancient sleepers stir. Blue Sargent and the Raven Boys face shifting loyalties and the unraveling of their certainties, all while getting closer to the truth of a lost Welsh king and the cost of magic.

  24. Assassin's Quest

    Robin Hobb

    ★ 4.2 (118k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Resurrected and scarred, the former assassin Fitz embarks on a desperate, magic-infused quest for vengeance against the treacherous Prince Regal, hoping to save his crumbling kingdom and the last vestiges of his soul.

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