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Lou Clark returns in the sequel to Me Before You, navigating grief, unexpected new connections, and the question of how to live fully after catastrophic loss — including a visit from someone from Will Traynor's past.

A Norton Aircraft wide-body transatlantic flight arrives in Los Angeles with three dead and fifty-six injured after a mysterious in-flight incident nobody can explain. Quality Assurance VP Casey Singleton has 72 hours to reconstruct what happened before a damaging television news investigation airs — and before the company loses a billion-dollar sale to China.

Framed as a story Alex Cross wrote about his own family's past, this historical novel follows Ben Corbett, a Washington lawyer sent by President Roosevelt to investigate a resurgence of Ku Klux Klan terror in 1906 Mississippi — where he confronts lynching, injustice, and a town's buried conscience.

Curtis Sittenfeld's acclaimed novel loosely inspired by Laura Bush. Alice Lindgren, a quiet Midwestern librarian, marries into a powerful, wealthy family and finds herself, improbably, the First Lady of the United States — a sympathetic, psychologically rich exploration of conscience, complicity, and a private woman in a public life.

Country girl Polly Milton visits fashionable Boston and discovers that her plain, warm, old-fashioned values stand in refreshing contrast to the shallow vanities of city society — and later returns to prove her independence as a working woman.

A crusading civil-rights attorney who made his name suing the LAPD is shot dead on the Angels Flight funicular railway. Harry Bosch catches a case that could set the whole city alight — and that forces him to investigate the police department he serves, knowing the wrong answer could spark a second Los Angeles riot.

The fourth Anne of Green Gables novel. Engaged to Gilbert but separated by his medical studies, Anne spends three years as principal of Summerside High School, boarding at Windy Poplars and winning over a town wary of newcomers — told largely through her letters home.

Stan and Joy Delaney — retired tennis coaches and parents of four adult children — seem to have the perfect marriage. Then Joy disappears, and each of her children has a theory about what happened. Told across multiple perspectives over the year before and after Joy's disappearance, the novel dissects a family's myths about itself.

Sonchai is sent a snuff film by an anonymous source — a murder so perfectly executed that it functions as art. The investigation leads into the world of the Thai sex industry, the Buddhist concept of karma and rebirth, and a case that forces Sonchai to examine his own complicity in the system he polices. The third Sonchai novel, the most Buddhist in its philosophical dimension.

A CIA agent is found murdered in a Bangkok brothel, his body covered in religious tattoos. Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep investigates — navigating between the American intelligence community, the Thai sex industry, the Buddhist spirit world, and his mother's complex position as a mamasan. The second Sonchai novel deepens the portrait of Bangkok as a city where Western and Thai moral frameworks operate in permanent collision.

Sy Baumgartner, a 71-year-old philosophy professor, has spent nine years living in the aftermath of his wife Anna's death in a swimming accident — still surrounded by her manuscripts, her presence in every corner of the house, and the ongoing conversation with her that he cannot stop having.

A novelist travels to Kyoto to hear the New Year's bell and reconnect with his former lover, now a celebrated painter. But she has sent her young student in her place—and the student has her own agenda. The novel becomes a story of obsession, revenge, and the destruction that art can carry. Kawabata's darkest novel.

Kerouac retreats to Lawrence Ferlinghetti's cabin in Big Sur to escape fame and alcohol, fails to escape either, and has a breakdown. His most autobiographically honest novel is also his darkest — the romantic road narrative collapsed into the specific hell of alcoholism and celebrity.

Greta transcribes sex therapy sessions in Hudson, New York, and becomes obsessed with a patient she has never met — a Swiss woman she calls Big Swiss — until they meet through a dog, and things become extremely complicated.

Medway is drawn into the toxic world of Nigerian oil money and the corruption that surrounds it — a missing girl, a lethal cargo, and the specific violence of Lagos. Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of the Year. The third and finest Medway novel.

The fourth and final Rain Wild Chronicles novel. As the keepers and dragons fight to claim Kelsingra and master their transformations, the rapacious empire of Chalced sends hunters after dragon blood, forcing a reckoning that will decide the fate of dragons and Elderlings alike.

Retired FBI profiler Terry McCaleb is recovering from a heart transplant when a woman asks him to investigate a murder: her sister's. The victim was McCaleb's heart donor. Bound by an unpayable debt to the dead, McCaleb takes the case — and uncovers a connection between the murder and his own second chance at life that is more sinister than he could imagine.

Nathan Glass, a retired insurance salesman who has moved to Brooklyn to die in peace, gradually finds himself drawn back into life through his nephew Tom, a failed academic working in a bookshop, and a series of warm, eccentric characters who make Brooklyn feel like the best possible place to rediscover the will to live.

Pilar and her childhood friend reunite in Spain after eleven years apart. He has become a spiritual teacher; she has become practical and cautious. As they travel through France and Spain together, the question of whether to love — really love, with all the vulnerability that requires — becomes the central conflict. Coelho's most romantic novel.

Bobby Callahan barely survived the car crash that left him broken and partly amnesiac, but he's certain it wasn't an accident — someone tried to kill him, and he can't remember why. He hires Kinsey Millhone to find out. Then Bobby dies, and a case of attempted murder becomes a case of murder.

Five original F. Scott Fitzgerald manuscripts are stolen from Princeton's rare books vault. A young novelist struggling with her career is recruited by an insurance company to befriend a Florida bookseller suspected of brokering their sale. Grisham's most bookish novel — more literary caper than legal thriller.

A young Scottish woman goes to occupied France during World War II ostensibly to find her missing RAF boyfriend, but discovers more about herself and the French under occupation than she expected. The third volume of Faulks's loose French trilogy, following Birdsong.

The continuation of Cecilia Klein's story from The Tattooist of Auschwitz — after liberation, Cilka is convicted by the Soviets of collaboration and sent to a Siberian labour camp, where she must survive again.

The Mortal War is over, but Clary and Jace's happiness is short-lived. Someone is murdering Shadowhunters and turning their bodies into weapons. As Jace struggles with dark visions that threaten his relationship with Clary, a new and terrifying enemy emerges — one whose connection to Valentine's legacy runs deeper than anyone suspected.