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Razumov, a Russian student in St Petersburg, witnesses a fellow student's assassination of a government minister — and is forced to choose between betraying his colleague to the police or destroying his own future. Conrad's most explicitly political novel is a study of betrayal, guilt, and the way political ideology consumes individual moral life.

Horselover Fat — a thinly veiled version of Philip K. Dick — receives a beam of pink light that reveals divine information to him in 1974. VALIS is Dick's attempt to rationalise this experience through science fiction, Gnostic theology, and painful self-examination. Part novel, part theological treatise, part mental breakdown.

Veronika is twenty-four, beautiful, and has everything — and decides to kill herself because her life seems to be going nowhere different from where it already is. She survives, is confined to a psychiatric facility, and told she has only days to live. In the face of certain death, she begins to actually live for the first time.

A young man calling himself Victor Chmara has fled Paris to a lake town near the Swiss border, avoiding a danger he can't quite name. He falls in with a beautiful actress and her circle of summer people. Twenty years later, he reconstructs what happened that summer—and what he lost when it ended. Modiano's most romantic novel.

Georges Perec's haunting, formally daring memoir-novel. Alternating chapters braid Perec's fragmentary memories of a childhood shadowed by the Holocaust with a chilling fictional allegory of an island society obsessed with sport — two narratives that converge on the unspeakable horror at the heart of his lost family.

Rebecca Solnit's wide-ranging history and philosophy of walking. From peripatetic philosophers and Romantic poets to pilgrims, protesters, and flâneurs, Solnit explores how walking has shaped thought, culture, politics, and the body — a discursive, erudite meditation on putting one foot in front of the other.

Texas detective Odette Tucker is obsessed with the cold case of her best friend Trumanell, who vanished a decade ago. When a mute girl is found wandering in a field near the old Tucker property, Odette must confront a past she has spent years trying to escape.

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's landmark debut, the first English-language novel by an East African writer. Through the hopes of young Njoroge, who longs for education, it tells of a Kenyan family and community torn apart by the Mau Mau uprising and the violence of British colonial rule.

Murakami has run at least one marathon a year for over twenty-five years. This memoir — written during training for the 2005 New York City Marathon — is about running, but also about writing, ageing, and the relationship between physical and mental endurance. The most personal and direct thing he has published: a self-portrait through the discipline of long-distance running.

A vicar's son finds a man dying at the foot of a cliff. The stranger's last gasped words — 'Why didn't they ask Evans?' — make no sense, but they will not leave Bobby Jones alone. With the dauntless Lady Frankie at his side, he sets out to learn who Evans is and what they should have asked.

In the frozen north woods of Wisconsin, a family is butchered and their house burned. Lucas Davenport, living in self-imposed exile at his cabin, is pulled into the hunt for a killer known as the Iceman — a predator who knows the snowbound country far better than the law does, and who will kill again to protect his secret.

Rand attempts a desperate and unprecedented gambit to cleanse saidin — the male half of the One Power — of the Dark One's taint, while Mat is trapped in Ebou Dar under Seanchan occupation and Perrin searches for his captured wife.

Thomas Bernhard's part-memoir, part-fiction account of a friendship. While confined to a hospital, the narrator reflects on his bond with Paul Wittgenstein — nephew of the philosopher — a brilliant, doomed man given to madness, in a mordant, obsessive meditation on illness, friendship, genius, and Austrian society.

Vienna in the late 1950s: four young people from different classes terrorise random strangers in a park, acting out their rage against an Austria that refuses to acknowledge its Nazi past.

A penetration tester comes home to find her husband murdered — and herself the prime suspect. On the run and armed only with her hacking skills, Jacintha Cross must clear her name before the police close in. Ruth Ware delivers a breathless, propulsive chase thriller.

In Tokyo in 1984, a fitness instructor named Aomame and a maths teacher and aspiring novelist named Tengo are on parallel tracks that gradually converge. Aomame assassinates abusive men; Tengo ghost-writes a novel about a world with two moons. Both become entangled with a sinister religious cult. Murakami's most ambitious novel — nearly a thousand pages, three books, a full reimagining of what a Murakami novel can hold.

In sixteenth-century Europe, Ned Willard and Margery Fitzgerald are caught on opposing sides of the religious wars tearing apart England, France, and the Netherlands, as Protestant and Catholic factions fight for the soul of the continent.

Awakened to a power that could reshape the realms, Sera must master what she has become while war gathers and her bond with Nyktos faces its hardest test. Jennifer L. Armentrout drives the Flesh and Fire saga toward its climax with escalating stakes and high romance.

James Bray, a British colonial official who was expelled from a newly independent African country for supporting the independence movement, is invited back ten years later to advise the government. He discovers the revolutionary leaders have become the new oppressors. Gordimer's most geopolitically ambitious novel.

Eight years ago, divorce attorney Laurence Fife was poisoned, and his wife Nikki went to prison for it. Now released, Nikki hires private investigator Kinsey Millhone to find out who really killed him — a cold case that will lead Kinsey to a second poisoning, an old web of betrayals, and the first kill of her own career.

Reeling from a devastating betrayal, Seraphena must reckon with who — and what — she truly is, while the Primal of Death she was meant to kill becomes the one person she cannot resist. Jennifer L. Armentrout's second Flesh and Fire novel deepens the romance and the mythology.

Meg Murry must journey inside her brother Charles Wallace's cells to battle a cosmic evil called the Echthroi, accompanied by a Teacher named Blajeny and a strange creature called Proginoskes, in a quest that turns on the power of naming and love.

The fourth and final Assistant and the Villain book, releasing August 4, 2026. A prophecy threatens the magic of Rennedawn and keeps pointing toward Evie Sage as the series' cozy-fantasy romcom heads to its conclusion.

A California oil millionaire obsessed with immortality, his entourage, and a visiting English scholar encounter evidence that an eighteenth-century Earl found the key to extending life indefinitely — with grotesque consequences.