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The third Hyperion Cantos novel, set 274 years after the fall of the Hegemony. Raul Endymion is charged with protecting a girl named Aenea, who may be humanity's messiah, from the theocratic Church that now rules the worlds — beginning a chase across the galaxy.

An unnamed man is buried. The novel is the story of his life told backward from that grave — marriages, affairs, children, his body's progressive failures, the operations that punctuate his later years. Roth's meditation on mortality is his most compressed and perhaps most personal later novel.

Jonathan Safran Foer's acclaimed debut. A young American named Jonathan travels to Ukraine to find the woman who may have saved his grandfather from the Nazis, guided by a hilariously mistranslating young guide named Alex — a novel that braids comedy, history, and the weight of the Holocaust.

Joyce's final novel is written in a multilingual dream-prose of puns, portmanteaux, and allusions, narrating the sleep and dream of HCE in a Dublin pub. The greatest single act of formal ambition in the novel's history.

Eight stories, each narrated by a reflective, often-lonely man who keeps blurring into Haruki Murakami himself. Memory, jazz, the Beatles, baseball and a name-stealing talking monkey weave through a late-career collection preoccupied with aging, identity, and the elusiveness of the past.

Millions of monarch butterflies, blown off their migration route by climate disruption, settle in a Tennessee sheep farmer's pasture — and Dellarobia Turnbow, trapped in a stalled life, finds her world transformed.

Harry Dresden investigates a series of brutal murders during the full moon — and discovers that werewolves in Chicago are far more complicated than folklore suggests.

In 2043, American soldiers fight a distant war by remotely operating robotic killing machines called soldierboys — linked neurally in teams of ten — while a physicist discovers a plot to recreate the Big Bang that would destroy the universe.

Set in Crete during the late 19th-century struggle for independence from Ottoman rule, the novel follows Captain Michalis — a man of elemental passions — as he leads his people in revolt.

A bored aristocrat escapes her London life for the Cornwall coast, where she discovers a French pirate ship hidden in a creek and falls in love with its captain — du Maurier's most overtly romantic novel and a study of the desire for freedom.

Kinsey Millhone is hired to find an elderly woman lost in the Mojave Desert — and learns, at the same time, that a man she once helped put away has placed a contract on her life. With a hit man closing in, Kinsey hires bodyguard Robert Dietz, and two cases collide as she races to stay alive.

A short story retelling the myth of Galatea and Pygmalion, told from the perspective of the marble statue brought to life by the sculptor who loves her — and controls her.

In a brutal, medieval village far from the Giver's Community, the orphaned girl Kira is spared from abandonment because of her gift for embroidery, and is put to work restoring the Robe that tells her people's history.

When Letty, Lucas Davenport's adopted daughter, gets a desperate call from a young drifter she once helped, Lucas is drawn into the hunt for a roving cult led by a charismatic monster called Pilate — a band of killers preying on the 'travelers' who drift along the margins of America.

When a bedroom game goes catastrophically wrong, Jessie Burlingame is left handcuffed to a bed in an isolated lake house — alone, with her husband dead on the floor. Stephen King spins a single, claustrophobic predicament into a harrowing psychological survival story.

Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux's raw, unfiltered diary of obsessive love. Kept during an all-consuming affair with a younger, married Russian diplomat, Getting Lost records desire, waiting, and self-abandonment with a candor that strips passion to its rawest reality — the unmediated source behind her novel Simple Passion.

Scout Finch, now Jean Louise and twenty-six, returns to Maycomb from New York to visit her father — and discovers that Atticus Finch holds views on race and segregation she cannot reconcile with the man she idolized.

Lewis spent a year embedded with Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX before the cryptocurrency exchange's catastrophic collapse. The result is a portrait of the man at the centre of one of the largest financial frauds in history — a portrait that refuses easy categorisation of SBF as either visionary or villain.

Now a U.S. Marshal with a roving national brief, Lucas Davenport takes on his first big case: hunting a vicious robber who stole millions from a drug cartel and left a trail of bodies. But Lucas isn't the only one chasing the money — the cartel has sent two of its most ruthless killers to find the thief first.

Mary Roach investigates the science behind military research — the labs, researchers, and experimental programs working on problems of survival in combat. Chapters cover uniforms that resist bacteria, the acoustics of IED blasts, the psychology of diarrhea in the field, and the science of keeping soldiers alive in increasingly hostile conditions.

Seven years after the events of The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal Lecter is living freely in Florence under an assumed identity, pursued simultaneously by a vengeful Mason Verger — the only surviving victim — and by Clarice Starling, now an embattled FBI agent.

Charles Dickens's shortest novel and his fiercest social critique. Set in the grim industrial town of Coketown, it skewers the cold utilitarian philosophy of 'facts, facts, facts' through the Gradgrind family, indicting an age that starves the imagination and crushes the human spirit.

Harlem, 1960s: Ray Carney sells furniture by day and fences stolen goods on the side, telling himself he's only "slightly bent." Whitehead's crime novel is a departure from his recent literary fiction — a Harlem panorama that celebrates a world and an era while examining the costs of respectability.

Eugene Henderson — a huge, rich, impossible Connecticut pig farmer with a voice in his head that insists 'I want, I want' — abandons everything and travels to Africa, where he becomes entangled with two tribes and discovers something about what he wants.