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  1. The Power of Your Subconscious Mind

    Joseph Murphy

    ★ 4.1 (45k) average on GoodreadsBusiness

    Use the power of your subconscious mind to change your life, find healing, and create a life full of success, happiness, and peace.

  2. Here on Earth

    Alice Hoffman

    ★ 3.7 (45k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    A woman returns to her childhood home and the magnetic pull of her first love, forcing her to confront the choices that shaped her life and the hidden passions of those she left behind.

  3. Knowing God

    J.I. Packer

    ★ 4.3 (45k) average on GoodreadsSpirituality

    J.I. Packer shows God's character, connecting theological knowledge with a close relationship to change how believers see their Creator.

  4. Dearly Devoted Dexter

    Jeff Lindsay

    ★ 3.9 (45k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Miami's favorite vigilante serial killer, Dexter Morgan, struggles to maintain his 'normal' facade and evade a suspicious detective while a new, shockingly brutal psychopath reignites his own dark urges, forcing him into a twisted hunt where only a monster can catch a monster.

  5. Narcissus and Goldmund

    Hermann Hesse

    ★ 4.2 (45k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    In medieval Germany, a devout monk and a restless wanderer form a lifelong bond, exploring the eternal tension between spiritual devotion and physical experience.

  6. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

    Barbara Robinson

    ★ 4.2 (45k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Six notoriously unruly siblings, lured by snacks, hijack their town's annual Christmas pageant, transforming the traditional nativity story into a hilariously chaotic and unexpectedly heartfelt spectacle.

  7. Second Chance Summer

    Morgan Matson

    ★ 4.2 (45k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    Forced to confront her past at a nostalgic summer lake house, a runaway teen grapples with first love, rekindled friendships, and a devastating family secret she can no longer escape.

  8. It Happened One Autumn

    Lisa Kleypas

    ★ 4.1 (45k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    An American heiress and a British earl clash and fall in love during a London social season, challenging society and their own stubborn hearts.

  9. The Ten Thousand Doors of January

    Alix E. Harrow

    ★ 4.1 (45k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A young woman discovers a book that reveals hidden doors to other realities, uncovering her extraordinary past in a world that suppresses such passages.

  10. The Husband

    Dean Koontz

    ★ 3.8 (45k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A landscaper has 72 hours to raise two million dollars to save his kidnapped wife, embarking on a desperate quest that will test the limits of his love and plunge him into a deadly mystery.

  11. Memorial Day

    Vince Flynn

    ★ 4.3 (45k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    As Washington D.C. prepares for Memorial Day, CIA agent Mitch Rapp uncovers a nuclear terror plot from an al-Qaeda base in Afghanistan, beginning a desperate race to stop a catastrophe on American soil.

  12. Iron Gold

    Pierce Brown

    ★ 4.2 (45k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Haunted by a decade of war he inadvertently started, Darrow, the legendary Reaper, must face the broken promise of his revolution as new heroes and villains emerge to shape a dangerous future from the ruins of a broken Society.

  13. My Name Is Red

    Orhan Pamuk

    ★ 3.9 (45k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    In 16th-century Istanbul, a murdered miniaturist's death uncovers a dangerous plot within a secret art commission, forcing a master illuminator to solve the crime before the Sultan's deadline, while dealing with forbidden Western styles, love, and religious extremism.

  14. Lord of Misrule

    Rachel Caine

    ★ 4.2 (45k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    As a devastating storm approaches, student Claire Danvers and her friends must defend their vampire-human college town from Bishop, a master vampire determined to unleash chaos and an army of the evil dead.

  15. Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy

    Cassandra Clare

    ★ 4.4 (45k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    After losing his memories as both human and vampire, Simon Lewis starts over at the Shadowhunter Academy, fighting demons, bias, and his own amnesia to create a new self while trying to recall a life—and love—he barely remembers.

  16. Debt of Honor

    Tom Clancy

    ★ 4.0 (45k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    When a vengeful Japanese industrialist orchestrates a devastating economic and military assault on the United States, newly appointed National Security Advisor Jack Ryan must uncover the mastermind before America is brought to its knees.

  17. Dear Martin

    Nic Stone

    ★ 4.4 (45k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    After a racially charged police encounter, an Ivy League-bound Black teenager deals with injustice by journaling to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., then finds himself in a shooting that starts a media storm.

  18. Ender in Exile

    Orson Scott Card

    ★ 3.9 (45k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Haunted by his past as humanity's savior, Ender Wiggin embarks on an interstellar quest for redemption, only to find himself entangled in new political intrigue and the target of a vengeful colonist determined to destroy his hard-won peace.

  19. The Penelopiad

    Margaret Atwood

    ★ 3.7 (45k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    Margaret Atwood reclaims the ancient myth of Odysseus's return through the eyes of Penelope and her twelve hanged maids, revealing untold truths and injustices behind the epic.

  20. Just So Stories

    Rudyard Kipling

    ★ 4.1 (45k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Enter a world where camels got humps, butterflies learned to stamp, and the alphabet was born from Rudyard Kipling's inventive tales.

  21. The Day the Crayons Quit

    Drew Daywalt

    ★ 4.4 (45k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    When Duncan's crayons collectively declare their resignation over grievances ranging from overuse to underappreciation, he must find a way to make peace and bring color back to his world.

  22. Carmilla

    J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Sheridan Le Fanu

    ★ 3.8 (45k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A lonely young woman in a secluded Styrian castle finds her life, and perhaps her very soul, taken by the mysterious Countess Carmilla, whose nightly habits and chilling secrets hint at a monstrous, immortal hunger.

  23. A Kingdom of Dreams

    Judith McNaught

    ★ 4.2 (45k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    A defiant Scottish noblewoman, taken by her English captor, finds her resistance melting into a dangerous, irresistible passion for the notorious 'Wolf' who holds her heart as tightly as her body.

  24. Count Zero

    William Gibson

    ★ 4.0 (45k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a future city glowing with neon, a corporate soldier, brought back to life, must rescue a bio-chipped defector from a dangerous corporate network while battling cybernetic ghosts and non-human enemies.

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