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Utopia

by Thomas More

3.9

A dialogue in which the traveller Raphael Hythloday describes the island of Utopia — a society with communal property, religious tolerance, and rational social organisation. Written in Latin by Thomas More in 1516, the book gave the word 'utopia' (no-place) to all subsequent thinking about ideal societies.

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Violets Are Blue

by James Patterson

3.9

A pair of killers obsessed with vampirism drain their victims of blood across the country, while the Mastermind who shattered Alex Cross's life in Roses Are Red continues to taunt him from the shadows. Cross must close two cases at once — one grotesque, one personal — in this two-front thriller.

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Vulture Peak

by John Burdett

3.9

Sonchai is sent to Dubai and beyond to investigate a human organ-trafficking operation — the harvesting and sale of kidneys, corneas, and hearts from the living poor to the wealthy dying. The fifth Sonchai novel takes the series global, from Bangkok to Shanghai to Dubai, asking what Buddhist teachings have to say about the commodification of the human body.

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W Is for Wasted

by Sue Grafton

3.9

Two dead men, seemingly unconnected: a sleazy private investigator Kinsey Millhone knew, shot in a parking lot, and a homeless man found dead on the beach with Kinsey's name and number in his pocket. As Kinsey untangles how they're linked, she discovers the homeless man was family — and that he left her a fortune.

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Weather

by Jenny Offill

3.9

Lizzie Benson is a librarian, a mother, a sister to a difficult brother in recovery. Her former mentor, a climate scientist, asks her to answer listener mail for her podcast on environmental collapse. The novel moves between Lizzie's domestic life and the approaching catastrophe — climate anxiety as the ambient condition of contemporary American life.

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Wind/Pinball

by Haruki Murakami

3.9

The two novellas that launched Murakami's career — 'Hear the Wind Sing' (1979) and 'Pinball, 1973' (1980) — published together for the first time in English. The unnamed narrator and his friend 'the Rat' move through a coastal Japanese town, listening to music, drinking beer, and circling the losses of youth. Quieter and more elliptical than Murakami's later work, these novellas show the essential qualities of his sensibility in concentrated form.

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Without Fail

by Lee Child

3.9

A Secret Service agent recruits Jack Reacher to do the impossible: assassinate the Vice President-elect — on paper — to expose the holes in his protection before a real killer exploits them. As credible death threats mount, Reacher's war game becomes a desperate race to stop an assassination for real.

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Without Merit

by Colleen Hoover

3.9

A young woman living in a converted church with her deeply dysfunctional family falls for a boy hiding his own secrets while navigating depression and family dysfunction.

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Young Jane Young

by Gabrielle Zevin

3.9

Aviva Grossman has an affair with the congressman she interns for — the internet destroys her life, but not her. A multi-perspective novel about women, politics, and the asymmetry of public scandal.

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Zone One

by Colson Whitehead

3.9

Mark Spitz is a sweeper — part of a civilian unit tasked with clearing zombies from lower Manhattan after a plague. The novel covers three days of his work, interspersed with flashbacks to the collapse and his survival of it. A literary zombie novel about grief, memory, and the texture of the American city in ruins.

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15th Affair

by James Patterson

3.8

A luxury-hotel murder scene yields a shocking clue: a news photo places Lindsay Boxer's own husband, Joe, at the scene — with another woman. When Joe vanishes, Lindsay must investigate the man she married, uncovering a possible double life tangled in espionage and national security.

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23rd Midnight

by James Patterson

3.8

An imprisoned serial killer's reign of terror seems to be over — until a copycat begins killing in his style, and reporter Cindy Thomas, writing a book about the original murderer, finds herself drawn dangerously close to both. Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club race to stop a protégé finishing his mentor's work.

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25 Alive

by James Patterson

3.8

When her longtime mentor and former partner Warren Jacobi is brutally stabbed to death, Lindsay Boxer vows to find his killer at any cost. The murder links to a string of clue-leaving killings — and to a brutal cartel that has drawn her husband Joe to Mexico, as Yuki prosecutes a case of her own.

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7th Heaven

by James Patterson

3.8

A pair of arsonists is burning wealthy families alive in their own homes, leaving taunting Latin clues amid the ashes. As Lindsay Boxer hunts the fire-setters, the cold case of a missing young man — the son of a former governor — resurfaces to test the Women's Murder Club on two fronts.

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3.8

A short Winter Solstice bridge novella set after the war of A Court of Wings and Ruin, following Feyre, Rhysand, and the Night Court's inner circle as they recover from trauma and prepare a Solstice celebration in Velaris.

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A Slow Fire Burning

by Paula Hawkins

3.8

A young man is found dead on a houseboat in London. Three women — each damaged, each with a connection to the dead man — become suspects in an investigation that reaches back through years of loss and resentment.

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A Week in December

by Sebastian Faulks

3.8

Seven interconnected characters in contemporary London — a hedge fund manager shorting bank stocks before the 2008 financial crisis, a footballer's wife, a Muslim radicalisation plot, a reality TV contestant, a tube driver, a book reviewer. A state-of-England novel of pre-crash London.

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Acceptance

by Jeff VanderMeer

3.8

The Southern Reach trilogy concludes with three parallel timelines: Control and Ghost Bird inside Area X, the former Director on the last expedition she ever launched, and the original lighthouse keeper in the years before Area X appeared.

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After Dark

by Haruki Murakami

3.8

One night in Tokyo, told in real time and in the second person plural — 'we' observe, as if a camera, the city between midnight and dawn. Mari, a student, sits in a Denny's with a book; her sister Eri sleeps in their apartment, apparently unable to wake. The night connects them to musicians, a Chinese woman beaten in a love hotel, and the city's insomniac underside. Murakami's shortest and most experimental novel.

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Alex Cross Must Die

by James Patterson

3.8

A passenger plane is shot out of the sky over Washington, and Alex Cross is drawn into the hunt for whoever turned the capital's airspace into a killing ground. As the investigation deepens, a separate executioner is at work — and the title is no idle threat: someone wants Cross dead.

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Amnesty

by Aravind Adiga

3.8

Danny, an undocumented Sri Lankan immigrant cleaning houses in Sydney, recognises that a client of one of his regular houses may know something about a murder — and spends a single day deciding whether to go to the police, knowing that doing so will mean deportation.

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An Acceptable Time

by Madeleine L'Engle

3.8

Polly O'Keefe — daughter of Meg Murry — discovers a time gate near her grandparents' New England farm that opens into the world of three thousand years ago, where she becomes entangled in a conflict between two ancient peoples and a druid named Karralys.

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Artemis

by Andy Weir

3.8

Jazz Bashara is a porter and small-time smuggler in Artemis — humanity's first and only city on the Moon. When she's offered an opportunity to pull off a corporate heist that could solve her financial problems permanently, she discovers the job connects to a conspiracy that threatens the entire lunar colony.

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At Fault

by Kate Chopin

3.8

Chopin's first novel follows Thérèse Lafirme, a Louisiana plantation widow whose moral convictions force a divorced man to remarry his alcoholic ex-wife, with tragic consequences that challenge her certainties.

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