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  1. Every Breath

    Nicholas Sparks

    ★ 4.0 (60k) average on GoodreadsRomance

    A chance meeting on Sunset Beach starts a decades-long love between a woman making big life choices and a safari guide looking for his past. They must face whether their responsibilities or their own happiness will win out.

  2. Villette

    Charlotte Brontë

    ★ 3.8 (60k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    In the foreign city of Villette, the orphaned Lucy Snowe navigates unrequited love and societal limits, all while protecting her independent spirit.

  3. Finding Cinderella

    Colleen Hoover

    ★ 4.2 (60k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    A fleeting, make-believe romance in the dark haunts a young man. A year later, he finds a new love, but a secret from his past threatens to shatter their future.

  4. Roses are Red

    James Patterson

    ★ 4.0 (60k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A meticulous criminal mastermind terrorizes Washington D.C. with a series of bank robberies and murders, forcing Detective Alex Cross to untangle the psychopath's web while dealing with personal issues before a devastating final crime.

  5. The Omen

    David Seltzer

    ★ 4.0 (60k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A diplomat's perfect life shatters when he learns his young son is the prophesied Antichrist, meant to bring about evil.

  6. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

    Aimee Bender

    ★ 3.2 (60k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    A young girl who tastes emotions in food navigates her family's hidden feelings and the complexities of growing up, learning that some truths are too subtle even for her special palate.

  7. Forrest Gump

    Winston Groom

    ★ 4.1 (60k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    From gridiron glory to jungle warfare and even outer space, an unwitting giant blunders through the most iconic moments of the 20th century, exposing the absurdities of history with every step.

  8. Geek Love

    Katherine Dunn

    ★ 4.0 (60k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    The Binewskis, a family of self-made human oddities, run a carny act fueled by ambition and arsenic, blurring the lines between beauty and grotesque, love and depravity, and making you question what normalcy means.

  9. Chain Reaction

    Simone Elkeles

    ★ 4.1 (60k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    An aspiring astronaut's dreams and his family's peace are threatened when a forbidden love affair pulls him into a dangerous underworld, revealing a shocking truth about his own past.

  10. Jewels of the Sun

    Nora Roberts

    ★ 4.2 (60k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In the magical hills of Ireland, a woman seeking comfort in folklore finds her destiny tied to a pub owner whose passion ignites a love as old and powerful as the land itself.

  11. Foucault's Pendulum

    Umberto Eco

    ★ 3.9 (60k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Three jaded editors, playing a dangerous game with occult manuscripts and a supercomputer, accidentally conjure a real-world conspiracy that drags them into a deadly hunt for an ancient secret.

  12. Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit

    Jeanette Winterson

    ★ 3.7 (60k) average on GoodreadsSpirituality

    Raised in the intense world of evangelical Christianity, a young woman's missionary path changes when her heart and faith are challenged by loving another woman.

  13. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

    Jean-Dominique Bauby

    ★ 4.0 (60k) average on GoodreadsBiography

    Trapped in a paralyzed body and able to communicate only by blinking one eyelid, a magazine editor dictates his memoir, turning an impossible situation into a story about the strength of the human spirit.

  14. Dangerous Liaisons

    Choderlos de Laclos

    ★ 4.0 (60k) average on GoodreadsFiction

    In pre-revolutionary France, two jaded aristocrats wage a cruel war of seduction and betrayal through letters, orchestrating the downfall of innocents only to find their deceptions leading to an unforeseen, deadly reckoning.

  15. From a Buick 8

    Stephen King

    ★ 3.5 (59k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A mysterious, otherworldly Buick Roadmaster in a rural Pennsylvania state police shed becomes a silent, breathing entity that consumes lives and fuels a young man's dangerous quest for answers after his father's death.

  16. Utopia

    Thomas More

    ★ 3.5 (59k) average on GoodreadsPolitics

    A seasoned traveler describes the radical, communal, and often unsettling customs of the isolated island of Utopia, making readers question their own 'civilized' world.

  17. The Bourne Ultimatum

    Robert Ludlum

    ★ 4.0 (59k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    David Webb must awaken his deadly alter ego, Jason Bourne, for a final, explosive confrontation with his nemesis, the Jackal, amidst a global conspiracy.

  18. When the Bough Breaks

    Jonathan Kellerman

    ★ 4.0 (59k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A child psychologist helps a seven-year-old witness to a murder, uncovering a forty-year-old conspiracy that links to his own past and endangers the girl's life.

  19. Stalking Jack the Ripper

    Kerri Maniscalco

    ★ 4.0 (59k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A defiant lord's daughter secretly dissects corpses to unmask Jack the Ripper, only to find the killer's shadow creeping closer to her privileged world.

  20. Battle Royale

    Koushun Takami

    ★ 4.2 (59k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    In a dystopian twist on adolescence, a class of junior high students is thrust onto a deserted island, armed, forced into a brutal deathmatch where friendship and morality clash against the urge to be the last one standing.

  21. El Deafo

    Cece Bell

    ★ 4.2 (59k) average on GoodreadsBiography

    Armed with a powerful hearing aid that grants her unexpected 'superpowers,' a young Cece navigates the isolating and often hilarious journey of finding friendship while embracing her deafness in a new school.

  22. This One Summer

    Mariko Tamaki

    ★ 3.7 (59k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    At Awago Beach, parental fights and new independence make Rose and her friend Windy deal with growing up, revealing secrets and the journey of adolescence.

  23. Authority

    Jeff VanderMeer

    ★ 3.5 (59k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A new director unearths unsettling truths behind the Southern Reach's failed expeditions into the anomalous Area X, only to find the agency's secrets are as corrupting and inscrutable as the mysterious zone itself.

  24. Swing Time

    Zadie Smith

    ★ 3.6 (59k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    From London to West Africa, two childhood friends, linked by dance and the challenges of race and class, navigate ambition, betrayal, and the lasting impact of a broken bond.

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