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  1. Sadie

    Courtney Summers

    ★ 4.1 (64k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    After her younger sister is brutally murdered, Sadie seeks vengeance, leaving clues for a podcast host to follow through rural America.

  2. Midnight Sun

    Stephenie Meyer

    ★ 3.8 (64k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Experience the familiar, forbidden romance of Edward and Bella anew, this time through the tormented eyes of a vampire battling his predatory instincts against an overwhelming, dangerous love.

  3. The Grand Design

    Stephen Hawking

    ★ 4.0 (64k) average on GoodreadsHistory

    Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow challenge our deepest ideas about creation, reality, and the universe's origin, proposing a multiverse born from quantum fluctuations where observation shapes history, and M-theory is the ultimate quest for everything.

  4. The Black Ice

    Michael Connelly

    ★ 4.1 (63k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    When a detective's apparent suicide unravels into a series of murders from Hollywood to Mexico, Harry Bosch must navigate a deadly game where the truth is as elusive as 'black ice'.

  5. On the Come Up

    Angie Thomas

    ★ 4.3 (63k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    Sixteen-year-old Bri has to use her father's rap legacy to save her family from eviction, all while finding her own voice in a world of lyrical battles.

  6. The Midnight Line

    Lee Child

    ★ 4.1 (63k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    An ex-military drifter finds a woman's West Point ring in a pawn shop. His quest to return it uncovers a criminal conspiracy in the American Midwest.

  7. The Sparrow

    Mary Doria Russell

    ★ 4.1 (63k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A Jesuit mission to a planet of singing aliens finds a universe so beautiful and brutal, it shatters their faith and changes what they think it means to be human.

  8. The Silent Sister

    Diane Chamberlain

    ★ 4.0 (63k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    When a woman discovers her presumed-dead sister is alive and living under a new identity, she unravels a twenty-year-old family conspiracy that forces her to question everything she thought she knew about her past.

  9. The Serviceberry

    Robin Wall Kimmerer

    ★ 4.3 (63k) average on GoodreadsEconomics

    Robin Wall Kimmerer uses the serviceberry and Indigenous knowledge to show how an economy based on gratitude and reciprocity makes everyone better off, not just those who hoard.

  10. A Year in Provence

    Peter Mayle

    ★ 4.0 (63k) average on GoodreadsLifestyle

    Peter Mayle moves to a 200-year-old farmhouse in Provence, where he learns to live by the seasons, not the clock, navigating frosty mistrals, goat races, and regional cuisine with humor and charm.

  11. Hard Luck

    Jeff Kinney

    ★ 4.3 (63k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Middle school mayhem ensues when Greg Heffley, abandoned by his best friend, resorts to the whims of chance to navigate the treacherous waters of friendship and avoid a perpetual streak of hard luck.

  12. Stars Above

    Marissa Meyer

    ★ 4.2 (63k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    This collection of short stories explores the hidden origins and connections of cyborg mechanics, soldiers, and hackers within the Lunar Chronicles universe, revealing its romantic core.

  13. The Red Queen

    Philippa Gregory

    ★ 3.8 (63k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    Orphaned and widowed, Margaret Beaufort, a child-bride to Edmund Tudor, meticulously schemes and manipulates her way through the treacherous War of the Roses to ensure her son, Henry Tudor, seizes the English throne and establishes the Tudor dynasty.

  14. Mudbound

    Hillary Jordan

    ★ 4.0 (63k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    On a Mississippi Delta farm in the Jim Crow South, a white veteran and a Black veteran form a forbidden friendship, igniting racial prejudice and familial secrets that lead to tragedy.

  15. The Secret Place

    Tana French

    ★ 3.9 (63k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A cryptic note from a boarding school girl thrusts two detectives into the insular, venomous world of teenage cliques to unravel a year-old murder, revealing that the secrets of adolescence can be as deadly as any adult crime.

  16. Tikki Tikki Tembo

    Arlene Mosel

    ★ 4.2 (63k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    A boy with an impossibly long and honorable name falls into a well, leading to a frantic, name-mangling rescue that changes ancient Chinese naming conventions forever.

  17. Frost Burned

    Patricia Briggs

    ★ 4.4 (63k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    When her werewolf pack vanishes, shifter Mercy Thompson must navigate a treacherous political underworld and forge unlikely alliances to rescue her mate and stepdaughter before their enemies exploit the chaos.

  18. Saturday

    Ian McEwan

    ★ 3.6 (63k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    On a single Saturday, a contented neurosurgeon's ordinary London day off unravels into a terrifying confrontation with a disturbed young man, forcing him to use his medical knowledge to protect his family amidst a city on the brink of war.

  19. The Poet X

    Elizabeth Acevedo

    ★ 4.4 (62k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    In Harlem, a fierce Afro-Latina teenager named Xiomara writes secret poems, using them as a microphone to fight her mother's religious rules and a world that tries to quiet her voice and forbidden love.

  20. The Kissing Hand

    Audrey Penn

    ★ 4.4 (62k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A mother raccoon shares a secret 'Kissing Hand' with her son to magically deliver her love and comfort him through the anxieties of starting school.

  21. Brother Odd

    Dean Koontz

    ★ 4.0 (62k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    In an isolated monastery, psychic Odd Thomas seeks solace from a lost love, only to find himself stalked by sinister, death-heralding specters and an ancient, inexorable adversary threatening innocent children.

  22. The Cask of Amontillado

    Edgar Allan Poe

    ★ 4.1 (62k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A connoisseur's pride becomes his tomb as a vengeful friend lures him into catacombs with the promise of a rare vintage, only to entomb him alive.

  23. Notorious Nineteen

    Janet Evanovich

    ★ 3.9 (62k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum navigates vanishing felons, a sassy grandma undercover in assisted living, and a dangerous double-duty guarding her enigmatic mentor, all while trying to solve a Trenton mystery and avoid an excess of taffeta.

  24. Invisible Cities

    Italo Calvino

    ★ 4.1 (62k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Marco Polo tells Kublai Khan about many imagined cities, but each one is Venice, his home.

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