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  1. The Queen of the Tearling

    Erika Johansen

    ★ 4.0 (83k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Nineteen-year-old Kelsea, an exiled, bookish princess, must reclaim her mother's throne and outwit a malevolent sorceress, all while discovering the true horrors of her kingdom and the dormant power within herself.

  2. Unfu*k Yourself

    Gary John Bishop

    ★ 3.8 (83k) average on GoodreadsSelf-Help

    Gary John Bishop's "Unfu*k Yourself" is a blunt guide that helps readers overcome self-imposed limits with seven strong statements, encouraging them to find their inner strength and stop negative self-talk.

  3. Eat That Frog!

    Brian Tracy

    ★ 3.9 (83k) average on GoodreadsProductivity

    Tackle your hardest task first to boost productivity and achieve more.

  4. The Sisters Brothers

    Patrick dewitt

    ★ 3.8 (83k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    Two hitman brothers, Eli and Charlie Sisters, travel through the 1850s Old West, dealing with their violent job and their changing relationship while tracking a mysterious prospector.

  5. The Wasp Factory

    Iain Banks

    ★ 3.8 (83k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A dark, funny, and unsettling story about a Scottish teenager whose ritualistic violence and strange family life lead to a shocking truth when his institutionalized brother escapes.

  6. The Boleyn Inheritance

    Philippa Gregory

    ★ 3.9 (83k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    In a court where the king's favor can mean death, three women — the cunning survivor Jane Rochford, the defiant Anne of Cleves, and the naive Katherine Howard — navigate dangerous intrigues, their lives connected by the chilling legacy of the Boleyn curse.

  7. The Affair

    Lee Child

    ★ 4.1 (83k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Before becoming a drifter, Major Jack Reacher goes undercover in a small Mississippi town. He gets caught in a murder case that pits military secrets against a beautiful, mysterious sheriff, making him choose between his uniform and his conscience.

  8. Doctor Zhivago

    Boris Pasternak

    ★ 4.0 (82k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    During the Russian Revolution, a poet-physician navigates war, finding solace and sorrow in his love for the enigmatic Lara.

  9. The Light We Lost

    Jill Santopolo

    ★ 3.9 (82k) average on GoodreadsRomance

    Thirteen years after a chance Columbia University meeting, a woman must decide if the deep love she shared with a photojournalist, now continents away, was a bond to reclaim or a beautiful dream to finally release.

  10. Maisie Dobbs

    Jacqueline Winspear

    ★ 3.9 (82k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    After World War I, a former servant turned psychologist opens her practice in 1929 London, only for her first infidelity case to become a murder investigation that forces her to confront her own war experiences.

  11. The Man in the Brown Suit

    Agatha Christie

    ★ 4.0 (82k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    An English girl named Anne is caught in a web of stolen diamonds, international plots, and a hunt for a killer called 'The Colonel,' after a deadly fall in a London tube station, a strangled ballerina, and a dangerous trip to Africa.

  12. Hidden Figures

    Margot Lee Shetterly

    ★ 3.9 (82k) average on GoodreadsBiography

    During the Civil Rights era, a team of African-American women mathematicians at NASA overcame racial and gender segregation to calculate the trajectories that launched America's astronauts into space.

  13. The Magnolia Story

    Chip Gaines

    ★ 4.2 (82k) average on GoodreadsBusiness

    Chip and Joanna Gaines's journey from a chance meeting and early business challenges to building a design company and renovating homes, one fixer-upper at a time.

  14. Unaccustomed Earth

    Jhumpa Lahiri

    ★ 4.1 (82k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    Lahiri reveals the quiet complexities of love, guilt, and secrets that shape our closest relationships, exploring the hidden divisions within immigrant families across continents and generations.

  15. The Iron Trial (Magisterium #1)

    Holly Black

    ★ 4.0 (82k) average on Goodreads

    A boy determined to fail at magic to escape a dark destiny instead finds himself entangled in a sinister magical school with deep ties to his forbidden past.

  16. Life

    Georges Perec

    ★ 3.9 (82k) average on GoodreadsBiography

    In a Paris apartment building, an artist's grand painting opens a window into the peculiar lives of its residents, revealing decades of intertwined fates, strange hobbies, and lingering secrets, all seen through the building's walls.

  17. Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

    Ally Carter

    ★ 4.1 (82k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    When a prestigious all-boys spy school visits, Cammie Morgan’s world of covert operations and teenage crushes collides with a dangerous security breach that frames her, forcing her and her Gallagher Girls to clear her name and save their academy’s top-secret status.

  18. The Poet

    Michael Connelly

    ★ 4.2 (82k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A crime reporter, investigating his detective brother's apparent suicide, uncovers a chilling trail of poetic clues left by a serial killer who hunts cops, turning his personal tragedy into the most dangerous story of his career.

  19. Born at Midnight

    C.C. Hunter

    ★ 4.1 (82k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Sent to a camp for 'troubled teens,' an ordinary girl discovers she's actually a supernatural anomaly caught between a fae and a werewolf, forcing her to confront a destiny she never imagined.

  20. Son

    Lois Lowry

    ★ 4.0 (82k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A mother, stripped of her son and her past in a world without emotion, embarks on a quest to reclaim her child and confront the truths of her dystopian society.

  21. The Little Paris Bookshop

    Nina George

    ★ 3.5 (81k) average on GoodreadsLifestyle

    A bookseller on a floating Parisian bookshop, haunted by a past love, travels down the Seine to heal his own heart after helping countless others.

  22. State of Fear

    Michael Crichton

    ★ 3.7 (81k) average on GoodreadsPolitics

    An intelligence agent races from Parisian labs to Antarctic volcanoes to connect seemingly unrelated events as a global conspiracy to weaponize natural disasters unfolds, aiming to stop eco-terrorists before they cause catastrophic climate chaos.

  23. Rules of Attraction

    Simone Elkeles

    ★ 4.2 (81k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    A former gang member finds unexpected love with his professor's daughter while hiding from a drug lord, forcing him to choose between his dangerous past and a new future.

  24. Wedding Night

    Sophie Kinsella

    ★ 3.4 (81k) average on GoodreadsRomance

    After a failed proposal, a heartbroken Lottie marries an old boyfriend on a whim, starting a hilarious race against her determined sister, Fliss, who tries to stop the wedding.

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