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  1. The Black Circle

    Patrick Carman

    ★ 4.0 (50k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Siblings Amy and Dan race against time and a secret organization in the Russian wilderness to find a Nazi-stolen treasure and the truth about a royal family's murder, all while facing the mystery of their parents' deaths.

  2. The End of Your Life Book Club

    Will Schwalbe

    ★ 3.8 (50k) average on GoodreadsBiography

    With his mother facing a terminal illness, a son and his parent create a book club, turning hospital waiting rooms into places for shared stories and final conversations that show the power of literature and family love.

  3. The Pilgrimage

    Paulo Coelho

    ★ 3.6 (50k) average on GoodreadsMemoir

    Paulo Coelho and his mentor, Petrus, travel across Spain, facing challenges, seeking a special sword, and learning about self-discovery and the extraordinary things in everyday life.

  4. Seduction and Snacks

    Tara Sivec

    ★ 4.1 (50k) average on GoodreadsRomance

    A single mom selling sex toys finds her world delightfully upended when the amnesiac one-night stand who fathered her sassy son reappears, forcing them to navigate stretch marks, shock, and sizzling chemistry on their rocky road to a happily ever after.

  5. Blood Brothers

    Willy Russell

    ★ 4.2 (50k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Separated at birth by poverty and reunited by friendship, two Liverpudlian twin brothers unknowingly head towards a tragic destiny.

  6. One False Note

    Gordon Korman

    ★ 3.9 (50k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a frantic global scavenger hunt for 39 Clues, siblings Amy and Dan must decipher a coded Mozart score in Vienna, all while outsmarting their treacherous relatives who will stop at nothing to claim the ultimate power.

  7. The Ship of the Dead

    Rick Riordan

    ★ 4.4 (49k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Magnus Chase, a demigod son of Frey, must overcome his non-combative nature and outwit the trickster god Loki to prevent Ragnarok by racing across Norse realms to stop the Ship of the Dead.

  8. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

    Tom Robbins

    ★ 3.8 (49k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    Sissy Hankshaw, with thumbs as unusual as her desire to travel, hitchhikes across America, a free spirit looking for identity, love, and the real story behind the 'cowgirl' image.

  9. Christy

    Catherine Marshall

    ★ 4.2 (49k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    Nineteen-year-old Christy Huddleston ventures into the isolated, impoverished world of Cutter Gap, where her faith, heart, and modern ideas clash with ancient traditions and the fierce love of two very different men.

  10. The Templar Legacy

    Steve Berry

    ★ 3.8 (49k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A retired Justice Department operative returns to a global chase to uncover the Knights Templar's true, world-altering secret, hidden beneath centuries of myth and murder.

  11. The Murder on the Links

    Agatha Christie

    ★ 3.9 (49k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Hercule Poirot uncovers a web of lies, secret identities, and a double murder on a French golf course after a millionaire's urgent plea for help ends in his mysterious death.

  12. The Power of a Praying Wife

    Stormie Omartian

    ★ 4.3 (49k) average on GoodreadsSpirituality

    Learn how a wife's focused prayers can change her husband's spiritual life, emotions, and roles, bringing new life to their marriage through God's power.

  13. The Sugar Queen

    Sarah Addison Allen

    ★ 4.0 (49k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A shy Southern woman's secret candy closet becomes a portal to unexpected magic and self-discovery when a sassy waitress with a knack for tough love and a touch of the fantastical moves in.

  14. Tell Me Three Things

    Julie Buxbaum

    ★ 4.1 (49k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    Grieving her mother and adrift in a new Los Angeles prep school, Jessie finds an anonymous emailer offering to guide her through the social maze, sparking a desperate reliance and a burning desire to unmask her mysterious lifeline.

  15. Ficciones

    Jorge Luis Borges

    ★ 4.4 (49k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Explore Borges's intricate mind, where reality breaks into endless libraries, philosophical puzzles, and dreams that reshape existence.

  16. Les Fleurs du Mal

    Charles Baudelaire

    ★ 4.3 (49k) average on GoodreadsFiction

    Baudelaire's 1857 masterpiece, a work of decadent beauty and startling depravity, is now available in its first complete American translation, presented alongside the original French.

  17. A Town Like Alice

    Nevil Shute

    ★ 4.1 (49k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    After a surprising inheritance, a woman goes back to postwar Malaya, hoping to find the Australian prisoner of war who showed her kindness during captivity.

  18. Bury Your Dead

    Louise Penny

    ★ 4.3 (49k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    In Quebec City during Winter Carnival, Chief Inspector Gamache, still recovering from a past case, must solve a murder at a historical society involving Samuel de Champlain's remains and a 400-year-old secret, while also re-investigating a possible wrongful conviction in Three Pines.

  19. One Second After

    William R. Forstchen

    ★ 3.9 (49k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    In a single devastating second, an EMP attack plunges a small American town into a desperate fight for survival, forcing a history professor to confront the brutal realities of a post-apocalyptic world and protect his family from chaos and starvation.

  20. You Are Special

    Max Lucado

    ★ 4.5 (49k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a village where wooden people are judged by stickers, a small Wemmick named Punchinello discovers his true worth through the love of his creator, Eli, proving that external opinions do not diminish inherent value.

  21. The Rose Society

    Marie Lu

    ★ 4.1 (49k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Betrayed and fueled by darkness, a young woman known as the White Wolf forms an army of supernaturally gifted outcasts, battling her former allies and her own descent into villainy to get revenge on those who wronged her.

  22. The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty

    A.N. Roquelaure

    ★ 3.3 (49k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a daring reimagining of the classic fairy tale, a prince's kiss is replaced by a sensual awakening, binding Sleeping Beauty to a century of erotic enslavement rather than a simple happily-ever-after.

  23. Doomsday Book

    Connie Willis

    ★ 4.0 (49k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A 21st-century historian, inoculated and with an alibi, finds herself stranded in the Black Death, becoming an unexpected source of hope amid medieval plague.

  24. Taltos

    Anne Rice

    ★ 3.8 (49k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    An ancient Taltos faces his destiny, uncovering centuries of secrets and the legacy of his origins, as ancient bloodlines meet modern desires.

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