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  1. Twilight Director's Notebook: The Story of How We Made the Movie Based on the Novel by Stephenie Meyer

    Catherine Hardwicke

    ★ 4.3 (116k) average on GoodreadsReference

    Director Catherine Hardwicke offers an intimate look into her creative process, using sketches, photos, and personal notes to show how she brought *Twilight* to the screen.

  2. The Angel's Game

    Carlos Ruiz Zafón

    ★ 3.9 (116k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In 1920s Barcelona, a struggling author accepts a mysterious offer to write a transcendent book, only to find himself entangled in a gothic labyrinth of obsession, murder, and supernatural secrets hidden within an abandoned mansion.

  3. The Slow Regard of Silent Things

    Patrick Rothfuss

    ★ 3.9 (115k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Auri, a damaged girl, navigates the silent, orderly, and beautiful hidden world of the Underthing, honoring forgotten things.

  4. The Unhoneymooners

    Christina Lauren

    ★ 4.0 (115k) average on GoodreadsRomance

    An unlucky maid of honor and the best man, her enemy, must pretend to be a happily married couple on a Hawaiian honeymoon after the wedding party gets food poisoning, making them face if their dislike is as strong as their attraction.

  5. Ask Again, Yes

    Mary Beth Keane

    ★ 4.0 (115k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    Two NYPD families in the suburbs find their lives shattered by a single act of violence, forcing their children to navigate a lifetime of love, trauma, and the difficult path to forgiveness.

  6. The Giver Quartet

    Lois Lowry

    ★ 4.0 (115k) average on Goodreads

    A mother's desperate search for her stolen child ignites a final, world-altering battle against a society that has eradicated love and memory.

  7. Daughter of Fortune

    Isabel Allende

    ★ 3.9 (115k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    In the chaos of the 1849 California Gold Rush, a sheltered Chilean orphan searches for a lost love, finding her own independence among prospectors and prostitutes.

  8. Before They Are Hanged

    Joe Abercrombie

    ★ 4.3 (115k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A crippled torturer defends a city, a spoiled prince leads an army, and a cynical mage guides misfits on a quest, as an ancient war unravels with betrayal and bloody reckoning for all.

  9. The Miniaturist

    Jessie Burton

    ★ 3.6 (115k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In 17th-century Amsterdam, a young bride's miniature dollhouse becomes a prophetic mirror of her opulent yet secretive new life, revealing the dangerous truths hidden within her wealthy merchant husband's household.

  10. Mary Poppins

    P.L. Travers

    ★ 4.0 (115k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A mysterious nanny arrives on Cherry Tree Lane, making chores magical and showing the Banks children that wonder exists everywhere.

  11. All Creatures Great and Small

    James Herriot

    ★ 4.3 (115k) average on GoodreadsBiography

    Journey alongside a young, compassionate veterinarian as he navigates the humorous, heartwarming, and often challenging realities of treating creatures great and small amidst the rugged beauty of rural Yorkshire.

  12. Something in the Water

    Catherine Steadman

    ★ 3.6 (114k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A newlywed couple finds millions in cash during their Bora Bora honeymoon, leading them into a dangerous secret and a fight for their lives.

  13. One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd

    Jim Fergus

    ★ 3.9 (114k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    Banished for 'lunacy,' socialite May Dodd volunteers for a secret 1875 government program, journeying with 999 other white women into the heart of the American West to marry Cheyenne warriors and chronicle a clash of cultures that will forever change her.

  14. Pushing the Limits

    Katie McGarry

    ★ 4.1 (114k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    A scarred, withdrawn girl finds an unexpected connection with a notorious loner, forcing them both to confront their hidden pasts and the dangerous possibility of falling in love.

  15. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

    Walter Isaacson

    ★ 4.0 (114k) average on GoodreadsBusiness
  16. Abhorsen

    Garth Nix

    ★ 4.2 (114k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Lirael, the new Abhorsen-in-Waiting, gathers her allies to confront an ancient evil, Orannis, in the realms of Life and Death before it destroys the world.

  17. Fates and Furies

    Lauren Groff

    ★ 3.6 (114k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    A dazzling portrait of a marriage, "Fates and Furies" dissects the two radically different sides of a seemingly perfect union, revealing the volatile truths and carefully guarded secrets that bind a couple over two decades.

  18. Never Too Far

    Abbi Glines

    ★ 4.2 (114k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    After a devastating secret shatters her world, Blaire returns home to rebuild her life, only to face a web of lies and the one man she can never forgive, yet desperately needs to trust.

  19. Tender is the Night

    F. Scott Fitzgerald

    ★ 3.8 (114k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    On the 1920s French Riviera, psychiatrist Dick Diver's magnetic but fragile marriage to his wealthy wife Nicole collapses under the weight of mental illness, infidelity, and the allure of young starlet Rosemary Hoyt.

  20. A Dog's Purpose

    W. Bruce Cameron

    ★ 4.3 (114k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A dog goes through multiple lives, seeking its purpose and showing the strong bond between humans and their dogs.

  21. Illuminae

    Amie Kaufman

    ★ 4.3 (114k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    In 2575, a planet-wide invasion forces Kady and her ex-boyfriend Ezra to flee on a spaceship where a deadly plague, a rogue AI, and corporate secrets threaten their survival, all documented through hacked files.

  22. Life As We Knew It

    Susan Beth Pfeffer

    ★ 3.9 (113k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    After a meteor shifts the moon, plunging the world into an Arctic winter, a teenage girl's journal records her family's fight to survive tsunamis, earthquakes, and an ash-choked sky.

  23. Effortless

    S.C. Stephens

    ★ 4.4 (113k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    Haunted by the fallout of a past love triangle, Kiera fights to protect her rekindled romance with Denny from new tests, discovering that while love may be effortless, rebuilding trust is the hardest battle of all.

  24. If on a Winter's Night a Traveller

    Italo Calvino

    ★ 4.0 (113k) average on GoodreadsFiction

    You, the reader, embark on a meta-fictional search for the true beginning of ten different novels, each a fragment of a story interrupted, in a playful look at reading itself.

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