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by Patrick dewitt
3.8(82,759)
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.
by Iain Banks
3.8(82,590)
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.
by Philippa Gregory
3.9(82,534)
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.
by Lee Child
4.1(82,518)
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.
by Boris Pasternak
4.0(82,469)
During the Russian Revolution, a poet-physician navigates war, finding solace and sorrow in his love for the enigmatic Lara.
by Jill Santopolo
3.9(82,436)
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.
by Jacqueline Winspear
3.9(82,428)
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.
by Agatha Christie
4.0(82,349)
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.
by Margot Lee Shetterly
3.9(82,348)
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.
by Chip Gaines
4.2(82,243)
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.
by Jhumpa Lahiri
4.1(82,206)
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.
by Holly Black
4.0(82,184)
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.
by Georges Perec
3.9(82,104)
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.
by Ally Carter
4.1(82,021)
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.
by Michael Connelly
4.2(81,935)
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.
by C.C. Hunter
4.1(81,877)
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.
by Lois Lowry
4.0(81,503)
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.
by Nina George
3.5(81,453)
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.
by Michael Crichton
3.7(81,438)
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.
by Simone Elkeles
4.2(81,364)
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.
by Sophie Kinsella
3.4(81,358)
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.
by Carrie Ryan
3.6(81,147)
Mary lives in a village surrounded by the reanimated dead. She uncovers its dark secrets, forcing her to choose between a life built on lies and the dangerous freedom beyond the fence.
by Ottessa Moshfegh
3.7(81,105)
A rich, disaffected young woman in Y2K Manhattan tries to medically induce a year-long hibernation to escape her existential boredom, guided by an incompetent psychiatrist and powerful drugs.
by Linda Holmes
3.9(81,103)
In a charming Maine town, a young widow hiding a devastating secret and a fallen baseball star battling the 'yips' find an unexpected second chance at love and honesty when they agree to mend their broken lives under the same roof.