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Mr Mac and Me

by Esther Freud

4.0

In 1914, a Suffolk fishing village. Thomas Maggs, thirteen, befriends an artist named Mr Mac — the Scottish architect and designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh, who spent his final years painting in the Suffolk village of Walberswick.

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Mr. Vertigo

by Paul Auster

4.0

Walt, a nine-year-old orphan on the streets of St. Louis in 1927, is taken in by the mysterious Master Yehudi who spends two years teaching him to levitate — and the novel follows Walt's career as a performer across the turbulent American decades from the 1920s to the 1970s.

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Murder in Mesopotamia

by Agatha Christie

4.0

At a remote archaeological dig in Iraq, the famous archaeologist's beautiful, fearful wife is found bludgeoned in her room — a room no stranger could have entered unseen. A nurse narrates the strange events, and Hercule Poirot happens to be passing through the desert.

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Neon Prey

by John Sandford

4.0

What begins as a routine hunt for a bail-jumping debt collector turns horrifying when Lucas Davenport discovers the fugitive is a murderer — and worse, a cannibal who has buried his victims across the desert. The chase runs from Louisiana to Las Vegas to Los Angeles, with marshals Bob and Rae at Lucas's side.

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Never Go Back

by Lee Child

4.0

Reacher finally reaches Virginia to meet the woman whose voice intrigued him, only to find himself arrested, framed, and told he may have a daughter. Lee Child's eighteenth Reacher thriller is a personal, fugitive-on-the-run story with unusually high emotional stakes.

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Never

by Ken Follett

4.0

A chain of small crises — a Saharan standoff, a Korean coup, a misread missile — drags the world's superpowers toward a nuclear war nobody wants. Ken Follett's standalone geopolitical thriller traces how good people and rational decisions can still spiral into catastrophe.

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Night Prey

by John Sandford

4.0

A meticulous predator stalks the Twin Cities, killing women and keeping grisly trophies, his crimes spanning years without ever drawing notice. Lucas Davenport joins forces with a fierce, terminally ill investigator determined to catch the killer before her own time runs out — a hunt that becomes as personal as it is urgent.

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On Beauty

by Zadie Smith

4.0

Two rival academic families — one liberal white, one conservative Black — collide at a New England university in a novel loosely inspired by E.M. Forster's Howards End.

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On Fire

by Naomi Klein

4.0

Naomi Klein's urgent case for a Green New Deal. Gathering more than a decade of her climate writing alongside new material, On Fire argues that the climate crisis demands not incremental tweaks but a transformative political and economic response equal to the scale of the emergency.

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On Green Dolphin Street

by Sebastian Faulks

4.0

Sebastian Faulks's evocative novel of America in 1960. Mary van der Linden, the English wife of a British diplomat in Washington, falls into a consuming affair with a war-haunted American journalist, against a backdrop of the Kennedy–Nixon election, jazz, and the anxieties of the Cold War.

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On the Come Up

by Angie Thomas

4.0

Bri, sixteen, is the daughter of a legendary rapper who died before he made it. She wants to be the greatest rapper of all time — and writes a song that goes viral for all the wrong reasons.

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Oracle Night

by Paul Auster

4.0

Sidney Orr, recovering from a serious illness, buys a blue Portuguese notebook in Brooklyn and begins writing a story inside it — a story that begins to take on its own momentum, drawing him into questions about fate, authorship, and the reality of the fictional worlds writers create.

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Perlmann's Silence

by Pascal Mercier

4.0

Philip Perlmann, a celebrated linguist, arrives at a conference in a Ligurian village to deliver a paper — but has nothing to say. As the deadline approaches, his paralysis deepens into a desperate plan that puts everything at risk.

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Pop Goes the Weasel

by James Patterson

4.0

Alex Cross hunts a killer who treats murder as a game. Geoffrey Shafer, a British diplomat in Washington, plays a fantasy role-playing contest called The Four Horsemen, earning points for real killings — and when the hunt turns personal, Cross's own happiness becomes the prize.

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Prey

by Michael Crichton

4.0

A cloud of self-replicating nanobots escapes a remote Nevada research facility and begins evolving with terrifying speed, forcing a stay-at-home software engineer to confront a threat that is simultaneously invisible, intelligent, and multiplying. Michael Crichton's nanotechnology thriller melds evolutionary biology with edge-of-your-seat suspense.

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Prince of Thorns

by Mark Lawrence

4.0

Jorg Ancrath, thirteen years old and already a murderer leading a band of road brothers, pursues a path of calculated brutality toward the throne of the Hundred Kingdoms in a dark post-apocalyptic world where the remnants of modern civilization lie buried beneath a medieval fantasy veneer.

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Pyramids

by Terry Pratchett

4.0

Teppic trains as an assassin in Ankh-Morpork, then inherits the throne of Djelibeybi — a tiny, ancient kingdom bankrupting itself on pyramids. When he builds the biggest one yet, the weight of accumulated tradition folds his entire country out of the world.

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Rabbit Redux

by John Updike

4.0

The second of Updike's Rabbit novels. A decade after Rabbit, Run, Harry Angstrom is a settled, deadened print worker in 1969 — until his wife leaves and his house fills with a runaway teenager and a Black militant, drawing the turmoil of the American 1960s into his living room.

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Requiem

by Lauren Oliver

4.0

The thrilling conclusion to Lauren Oliver's Delirium trilogy. In a world where love is a disease to be cured, Lena has crossed fully into the resistance. Told in alternating voices by Lena and her former best friend Hana, Requiem brings the rebellion against the regime to its breaking point.

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Resurrection Walk

by Michael Connelly

4.0

Mickey Haller has turned to freeing the wrongly convicted, and his investigator is none other than Harry Bosch. Their newest case: a woman serving life for killing her husband, a sheriff's deputy. As Bosch digs into the evidence and Haller prepares to overturn the conviction, they find powerful forces determined to keep the truth buried.

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Resurrection

by Leo Tolstoy

4.0

Prince Dmitri Nekhlyudov recognises, as a juror at a murder trial, the woman he seduced and abandoned years before. Overcome by guilt, he follows Katyusha Maslova through the Russian prison and exile system — a journey that becomes Tolstoy's most sustained indictment of the state, the church, and the landed class.

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Revival

by Stephen King

4.0

A charismatic small-town minister loses his faith after a tragedy and devotes his life to a dangerous obsession with 'secret electricity.' Decades later, his path keeps crossing that of a recovering addict — toward a finale of pure cosmic dread. Stephen King's Lovecraftian masterwork.

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Righteous Prey

by John Sandford

4.0

A group of wealthy tech vigilantes calling themselves 'the Five' begins murdering people they deem deserving of death — and announcing each killing online with self-righteous manifestos. Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers join forces to stop a band of killers who believe they are doing the world a favor.

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