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  1. A Torch Against the Night

    Sabaa Tahir

    ★ 4.3 (92k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A Scholar slave and a former Mask flee a tyrannical Empire, infiltrating its most brutal prison to save a brother. They are hunted by an emperor, a commandant, and a former friend turned Blood Shrike.

  2. Sometimes I Lie

    Alice Feeney

    ★ 3.8 (92k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Trapped in a coma, Amber Reynolds pieces together the chilling truth of her accident, only to discover her own memories might be the most dangerous lie of all.

  3. The Country of the Pointed Firs

    Sarah Orne Jewett

    ★ 4.1 (92k) average on GoodreadsFiction

    A summer visitor to a remote Maine fishing village discovers the quiet dignity, lasting friendships, and solitude in the lives of its resilient, sea-weathered inhabitants.

  4. The President Is Missing

    Bill Clinton

    ★ 3.8 (91k) average on GoodreadsPolitics

    When a cyberterror plot threatens America and a traitor lurks within his cabinet, the President of the United States vanishes, becoming both suspect and victim in a real-time race against an unprecedented attack.

  5. On the Banks of Plum Creek

    Laura Ingalls Wilder

    ★ 4.2 (91k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Laura Ingalls's childhood in Minnesota, from a sod house on Plum Creek to the dangers of blizzards and grasshopper plagues, shows family strength and the comfort of Pa's fiddle on the frontier.

  6. The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales

    Jon Scieszka

    ★ 4.2 (91k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Classic fairy tales are turned upside down with silly characters and a strong-smelling cheese man in this funny, chaotic collection.

  7. Exodus

    Leon Uris

    ★ 4.3 (91k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    An American nurse and an Israeli freedom fighter start a dangerous journey to build a new nation from an ancient homeland, fighting against great challenges and world skepticism in post-WWII Europe.

  8. Death Comes to Pemberley

    P.D. James

    ★ 3.3 (91k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    Six years into their marriage, Darcy and Elizabeth's peaceful Pemberley is broken by a midnight chaise carrying a hysterical Lydia, who claims her husband, Wickham, has been murdered in the dark woods.

  9. Switched

    Amanda Hocking

    ★ 3.9 (91k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Hunted by her mother and drawn into a hidden world of enchanting yet dangerous Trylle, Wendy Everly must embrace a heritage she never knew existed, guided by the enigmatic Finn Holmes.

  10. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

    David Wroblewski

    ★ 3.6 (91k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    A mute boy, loyal to his unique dog breed, flees into the Wisconsin wilderness to escape his uncle's treachery and find out how his father died, only to be drawn back by an unbreakable connection to home and a need for revenge.

  11. The Sky Is Everywhere

    Jandy Nelson

    ★ 4.0 (91k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    After her sister's sudden death, a flutist is caught between her sister's grieving boyfriend and a new boy in town, forcing her to choose between the past and an uncertain future.

  12. The Widow

    Fiona Barton

    ★ 3.5 (91k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    After years of silent complicity, a widow finds her voice and a dangerous new power to manipulate the truth about her late husband's sinister past.

  13. The Tombs of Atuan

    Ursula K. Le Guin

    ★ 4.1 (91k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A young woman, stripped of her name and confined as high priestess to ancient powers in a labyrinthine tomb, finds her desolate life upended by a wizard seeking stolen treasure, who ultimately offers her a perilous path to freedom.

  14. Dreamfever

    Karen Marie Moning

    ★ 4.4 (90k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A sidhe-seer with a Fae hunger navigates a dangerous Dublin, battling seductive masters and unraveling her sister's secrets, as an ancient power threatens to shatter her world and reveal a truth about herself.

  15. In a Sunburned Country

    Bill Bryson

    ★ 4.1 (90k) average on GoodreadsLifestyle

    Join Bill Bryson as he humorously travels across Australia, meeting its resilient people and dangerous animals, all while discovering interesting history with his usual wit.

  16. Let the Right One In

    John Ajvide Lindqvist

    ★ 4.0 (90k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    In a bleak 1980s Swedish suburb, a lonely, bullied boy finds an unlikely and dangerous friendship with the mysterious, ageless girl next door, whose arrival coincides with a string of gruesome, blood-drained murders.

  17. Her Fearful Symmetry

    Audrey Niffenegger

    ★ 3.3 (90k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Two American twins inherit their mysterious aunt's London flat next to Highgate Cemetery, only to discover that the line between life and death—and their own identities—is blurred within its spectral walls.

  18. Leaves of Grass

    Walt Whitman

    ★ 4.1 (90k) average on GoodreadsPhilosophy

    Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass' uses free verse to celebrate the divine in nature and the human body, showing how the self, nature, and the cosmos are connected.

  19. The Day of the Triffids

    John Wyndham

    ★ 4.0 (90k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Amidst a world blinded by a celestial event, a sighted few must navigate the ruins of civilization while fending off towering, carnivorous plants that now freely stalk the Earth.

  20. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

    Anne Brontë

    ★ 4.0 (90k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    Defying Victorian rules, a woman escapes her abusive, alcoholic husband, creating an independent life under a new name to protect her son.

  21. Summer Sisters

    Judy Blume

    ★ 3.8 (90k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    A bond formed during Martha's Vineyard summers breaks under the weight of privilege, betrayal, and a friendship that still has the power to shatter hearts.

  22. Twelve Sharp

    Janet Evanovich

    ★ 4.2 (89k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum's chaotic life in Trenton turns deadly when a mysterious woman stalks her, forcing Stephanie to work with Ranger to find a killer, rescue a child, and outrun danger, all while her boyfriend Joe Morelli watches.

  23. The Last of the Mohicans

    James Fenimore Cooper

    ★ 3.7 (89k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    During the French and Indian War, two English sisters, guided by the scout Hawk-eye and the last Mohicans, travel through a dangerous wilderness, pursued by a Huron warrior, as war threatens to end an old way of life.

  24. The Maltese Falcon

    Dashiell Hammett

    ★ 3.9 (89k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A cynical private eye navigates a web of lies, betrayals, and murder in 1930s San Francisco, all while hunting for a jewel-encrusted falcon and the truth behind his partner's death.

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