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A morbidly obese lawyer accidentally kills an old Romani woman with his car and receives a single word from her ancient father — 'thinner' — triggering an unstoppable supernatural curse that begins to consume him.

Ray Garrett's wife has died — a probable suicide — and her father, Ed Coleman, blames Ray and has tried to shoot him in Rome. The novel follows the two men as they circle each other through Venice and its islands — Coleman hunting Ray, Ray unable to leave, drawn back to a man who wants to kill him in a city that seems to conspire with grief.

A group of history students and their professor are sent back to fourteenth-century France using quantum technology — arriving in the middle of the Hundred Years' War. They have six hours to find their missing colleague and return to the present. Crichton applies his techno-thriller formula to medieval history.

Harry Morgan, a boat captain in Depression-era Key West, is forced into smuggling and running rum to survive. The novel Hemingway considered his worst tracks Morgan's degradation against the backdrop of wealthy vacationers whose money insulates them from consequence.

A young man comes to Kinsey Millhone with a fragment of buried memory: as a six-year-old, he believes he saw two men digging a hole in the woods — perhaps burying a child kidnapped twenty-one years ago. The recollection is unreliable, the witness is suspect, but Kinsey can't let it go, and the past begins to surface.

Barbara Kingsolver's dual-timeline novel set at the same New Jersey corner. A present-day family struggles with economic precarity and a crumbling house, while in the 1870s a science teacher defends Darwin against a hostile town — a meditation on upheaval, certainty, and what it means when our shelters fail.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.