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  1. Flyte

    Angie Sage

    ★ 4.0 (68k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A year after embracing his wizarding destiny, Septimus Heap faces lingering Darke Magyk and his brother's vengeful plot, threatening the fragile peace of the Castle and his ExtraOrdinary apprenticeship.

  2. Long Walk to Freedom

    Nelson Mandela

    ★ 4.3 (68k) average on GoodreadsPolitics

    Nelson Mandela's autobiography chronicles his transformative journey from tribal upbringing to anti-apartheid revolutionary, detailing his 27 years of imprisonment and eventual leadership in dismantling racial oppression in South Africa.

  3. Old Man Goriot

    Honore De Balzac

    ★ 3.9 (68k) average on GoodreadsFiction

    In 19th-century Paris, an old father sacrifices everything for his ungrateful daughters, while a young student tries to climb the city's ruthless social ladder.

  4. Concrete Rose

    Angie Thomas

    ★ 4.4 (68k) average on GoodreadsRomance

    In a world where King Lord blood demands loyalty, a seventeen-year-old dealer named Maverick must navigate the treacherous path to manhood when he unexpectedly becomes a father, forcing him to choose between the streets and a future for his son.

  5. The Two Princesses of Bamarre

    Gail Carson Levine

    ★ 4.0 (68k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A timid princess, armed with enchanted gifts and a sorcerer's whispered love, must conquer her deepest fears and outwit cunning mythical beasts to find a cure for her brave, ailing sister before the dreaded Gray Death claims her.

  6. Body of Evidence

    Patricia Cornwell

    ★ 4.0 (68k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A reclusive writer is nearly decapitated in her home, and Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta must uncover literary jealousy and personal secrets to learn why the victim let her killer in, as Scarpetta's own life becomes a nightmare.

  7. Two By Two

    Nicholas Sparks

    ★ 3.9 (68k) average on GoodreadsRomance

    A devoted husband's picture-perfect life shatters, forcing him to navigate the harrowing yet rewarding wilderness of single fatherhood after his wife's sudden departure.

  8. The Dovekeepers

    Alice Hoffman

    ★ 4.0 (67k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    During the Roman siege of Masada, four independent women, working as dovekeepers, navigate love, loss, and survival while confronting their hidden pasts.

  9. God Emperor of Dune

    Frank Herbert

    ★ 3.9 (67k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    For 3,500 years, the immortal, part-sandworm God Emperor Leto Atreides II has ruthlessly guided humanity along his 'Golden Path,' manipulating destiny and sacrificing his own humanity to ensure mankind's ultimate survival against an unknowable, existential threat.

  10. My Lovely Wife

    Samantha Downing

    ★ 3.9 (67k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A suburban couple, bored with their fifteen-year marriage, finds a shared secret involving murder to be a twisted aphrodisiac.

  11. Year One

    Nora Roberts

    ★ 4.0 (67k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    After a New Year's Eve plague brings magic and chaos, survivors navigate society's ruins, finding purpose and new beginnings as ancient good and evil awaken.

  12. Skyward

    Brandon Sanderson

    ★ 4.5 (67k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    On a planet where humans fight for survival against aliens, a determined girl finds her calling as a pilot by befriending an ancient, sentient spaceship.

  13. Prelude to Foundation

    Isaac Asimov

    ★ 4.1 (67k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a vast galactic empire nearing collapse, a young mathematician, Hari Seldon, invents a science that predicts the future, making him central to humanity's survival or ruin.

  14. Red Mars

    Kim Stanley Robinson

    ★ 3.9 (67k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A hundred colonists set out to terraform Mars, battling the hostile planet and their own clashing ideas, ambitions, and loyalties as they try to build a new world.

  15. Love Unscripted

    Tina Reber

    ★ 4.0 (67k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    A small-town bartender, nursing a broken heart, finds her world upended when a global movie star, seeking refuge from his chaotic fame, crashes into her quiet pub and her life, igniting an unexpected romance that Hollywood's glare threatens to tear apart.

  16. The Icebound Land

    John Flanagan

    ★ 4.2 (67k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Young Will endures Skandian slavery, while his mentor Halt, a disgraced Ranger, defies kings and travels a dangerous path with Horace to reclaim him before hope fades.

  17. Next

    Michael Crichton

    ★ 3.5 (67k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    In a future where genetic manipulation is common, 'Next' is a thriller about stolen genes, chimp-human hybrids, and a collapsing sense of reality, showing humanity's dangerous relationship with its own genetic future.

  18. The Body Farm

    Patricia Cornwell

    ★ 4.0 (67k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta investigates a secluded 'body farm' to solve the murder of an 11-year-old girl, uncovering a truth that shatters a small North Carolina town.

  19. The Prisoner of Heaven

    Carlos Ruiz Zafón

    ★ 4.0 (67k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In 1957 Barcelona, a mysterious visitor to a bookshop uncovers a two-decade-old secret, making Daniel Sempere and Fermín Romero de Torres face the dangers of Franco's dictatorship and the truths hidden in the Cemetery of Forgotten Books.

  20. The Jane Austen Book Club

    Karen Joy Fowler

    ★ 3.1 (67k) average on GoodreadsRomance

    Six modern people in sunny California discuss Jane Austen novels, finding their own lives reflect the books' romantic and social challenges.

  21. Beyond Good and Evil

    Friedrich Nietzsche

    ★ 4.0 (67k) average on GoodreadsPsychology

    Nietzsche dismantles conventional morality and religious dogma, urging individuals to create their own values and embrace a 'will to power' in a complete re-evaluation of Western thought.

  22. How to Stop Time

    Matt Haig

    ★ 3.8 (67k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A centuries-old man, tired of outliving loved ones, risks everything for a forbidden romance. This relationship might teach him to live in the present, despite a secret society watching him and his past memories.

  23. Ghost World

    Daniel Clowes

    ★ 3.8 (67k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    In a post-graduation summer, cynical best friends Enid and Becky navigate the awkward start of adulthood and the unsettling prospect of their inseparable bond fracturing.

  24. The Body in the Library

    Agatha Christie

    ★ 3.9 (67k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    When a glamorous, unknown corpse appears in their library, the respectable Bantry couple must rely on Miss Marple's sharp wit to unravel a web of deceit and prevent village gossip from unraveling their lives.

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