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Colin Singleton has dated nineteen girls named Katherine and been dumped by all nineteen. A child prodigy now between his last Katherine and his uncertain future, Colin and his best friend Hassan embark on a post-graduation road trip to Gutshot, Tennessee, where Colin tries to derive a mathematical theorem to predict the rise and fall of romantic relationships.

Sri Lanka in the 1980s civil war: Anil Tissera, a forensic anthropologist sent by a human rights organization, works with archaeologist Sarath Diyasena to identify the victims of atrocity. Ondaatje's Booker Prize-shortlisted novel explores testimony, identity, and what it means to bear witness.

Elisabeth Demand, a young woman, visits Daniel Gluck, her hundred-year-old neighbour, who is dreaming in a care home. The novel moves between their past friendship and the present moment — post-Brexit Britain, 2016, a country divided in ways it cannot articulate. The first of the Seasonal Quartet.

A simple job — find a woman's missing sister so a will can be settled — turns sinister when Kinsey Millhone realizes Elaine Boldt didn't just go to Florida for the winter. A trail of a burglary, an apartment fire, and a body leads Kinsey to suspect she's chasing not a missing person but a murder.

Pandora picks up her brother Edison from the airport and barely recognizes him — he has gained nearly two hundred pounds. What follows is her attempt to save him, and the question of how much we owe the people we love when they are destroying themselves.

Tracker, a hunter with a nose that can follow anyone anywhere, is hired to find a missing boy across a mythological Africa of shapeshifters, witches, and ancient gods. The first volume of the Dark Star Trilogy, told as Tracker's interrogation-room account of what happened and why the boy is now dead.

Twenty-four short stories spanning twenty-five years of Murakami's career, many translated into English for the first time in this collection. A frog saves Tokyo, a man's dead wife appears as a crab, a couple separates over a mysterious birthday present. The full range of his imagination in a single volume.

A simple good deed for an elderly couple drops Jack Reacher into the middle of a brutal gang war between Ukrainian and Albanian mobs. Lee Child's twenty-fourth Reacher thriller is among the most violent in the series, trading subtlety for relentless, body-stacking momentum.

A middle-aged professor is found wandering and amnesiac. As psychiatrists attempt to restore his 'normal' mind, the reader experiences the world he inhabits—visions of a cosmic mission, a tropical island, the war between light and dark. Lessing's most experimental novel, a challenge to the very concept of normality.

The third Inheritance Cycle novel finds Eragon torn between competing oaths — to the Varden, to his cousin Roran, to the elf Arya, and to the dragon Saphira — as the war against Galbatorix accelerates and the secrets of his own origins finally come to light.

Two shapeshifting alien entities — one benign, one predatory — have lived on Earth for millions of years, each gradually learning to pass as human. A mysterious artifact discovered on the ocean floor draws them both toward the same location.

The sixth and final Dune novel Frank Herbert lived to write. With the Honored Matres burning worlds across the galaxy, the surviving Bene Gesserit retreat to their hidden homeworld of Chapterhouse and gamble everything on transforming a planet — and themselves — to endure.

A mild-mannered art-history professor leads a secret life as a predator, photographing and murdering women and burying them where no one will look. When his careful concealment begins to unravel, Lucas Davenport closes in on a killer whose ordinary surface hides a monstrous appetite.

The third Rain Wild Chronicles novel. The keepers and dragons reach the long-sought Elderling city of Kelsingra, but the ruined city lies across an impassable river, and its rediscovery draws rival powers, traders, and schemers toward a treasure the world wants to claim.

Two college friends in Dublin become entangled with a married couple, and the relationships that develop test every assumption both women hold about themselves.

Eric Packer, a 28-year-old billionaire currency trader, crosses midtown Manhattan in his stretch limousine on a day when his bet against the yen is going catastrophically wrong, the city is gridlocked by a presidential motorcade, and someone — possibly himself — is trying to kill him.

Alex Cross returns to his North Carolina hometown to help defend a cousin accused of a horrifying murder. But Starksville holds more than one secret, and as Cross digs into the case he unearths buried truths about his own family — and the father he believed was long dead.

Multiple storylines converge around the aftermath of Rand's cleansing of saidin, each character reacting to a distant magical event they witnessed but did not understand. The series' most divisive entry for its pacing, yet a necessary bridge to the series' final acceleration.

Chicago, 1942. Joseph, waiting to be drafted, keeps a journal for seven months. He has left his job; he cannot do anything else; he hangs in suspension. Bellow's first novel—written under the influence of Dostoevsky and Kafka—is the purest statement of the anxious intellectual that would define his career.

Ellie has always avoided the Elites — the four students who run Elites Academy with brutal authority. Now Aiden King, the most dangerous of them, has decided she is his. She has no idea why. She is not sure she wants to find out.

When $5,000 appears in her bank account, Kinsey Millhone realizes she's being framed — set up to look like she took a bribe in an arson investigation. To clear her name, she must turn detective on her own case, untangling a wealthy family's secrets and the personal enemy who engineered her downfall.

A world-famous supermodel and a teenage boy are found dead after a glittering party, and the case drags Lucas Davenport into the glamorous, treacherous world of high fashion. As the bodies and the suspects multiply, Davenport must sort the truth from the beautiful lies of people who have built their lives on appearances.

Maria, a young Brazilian woman, travels to Geneva dreaming of fame and fortune. Instead, she becomes a high-end prostitute, all while searching for — and philosophising about — the nature of love, desire, and the sacred in the profane.

Between jobs and restless, Lucas Davenport agrees to help a presidential candidate he respects, hunting a credible threat of assassination as the Iowa caucuses approach. Somewhere in the heartland, a pair of true believers has decided that killing is justified to change the country — and Lucas has only days to find them.