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Heaven's My Destination

by Thornton Wilder

3.8

George Brush is a travelling textbook salesman in Depression-era America who is also a fundamentalist Christian — sincere, principled, and a constant source of comic chaos wherever he goes.

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Her Fearful Symmetry

by Audrey Niffenegger

3.8

American twins inherit a flat overlooking Highgate Cemetery in London from an aunt they never met — and find themselves entangled with a ghost, the aunt's former lover, and a mystery about the family's past.

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Hope to Die

by James Patterson

3.8

Thierry Mulch has Alex Cross's entire family — Bree, Nana Mama, and the children — and forces Cross to dance to his commands or watch them die. Desperate and half-broken, Cross must obey a madman's escalating demands while racing to find the people he loves before it's too late.

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I, Michael Bennett

by James Patterson

3.8

After Michael Bennett helps capture a ruthless South American crime lord, the man swears vengeance from his cell — and makes good on it. With his family in danger, Bennett flees the city for a small town upstate, but his enemy's reach is long, and the war he has started will not stay behind him.

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Imagine Me

by Tahereh Mafi

3.8

The sixth and final Shatter Me novel. With Ella weaponized against the people she loves and the Reestablishment closing in, Juliette must reclaim herself for a last stand that ends the saga of touch, power, and identity that began with Shatter Me.

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John Henry Days

by Colson Whitehead

3.8

J. Sutter is a junk journalist attending a press junket in Talcott, West Virginia, where the US Postal Service is issuing a John Henry commemorative stamp. Whitehead weaves Sutter's contemporary story with the legend of John Henry, the steel-driving man who raced a machine and won — and then died — and various other perspectives across American history.

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Lea

by Pascal Mercier

3.8

A man searches for his estranged daughter Lea, a violinist who has disappeared, travelling across Europe following the traces she has left — a meditation on parenthood, music, and the distances we create between those we love.

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London Bridges

by James Patterson

3.8

A town in the Nevada desert is wiped off the map as a demonstration of power, and a mastermind threatens to destroy the world's great cities unless he is paid billions. Alex Cross joins forces with MI6 and Interpol to stop the Wolf — and the returning Weasel — in a globe-spanning race against catastrophe.

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Lust

by Elfriede Jelinek

3.8

A factory director in rural Austria uses his wife Gerti as a sexual object, while Gerti seeks an escape through a brief affair with a student. Jelinek's most controversial novel uses pornographic imagery and flat, repetitive prose to expose the mechanics of male power over female bodies—a feminist provocation that repelled and fascinated in equal measure.

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Mary, Mary

by James Patterson

3.8

A killer who signs emails 'Mary Smith' is murdering Hollywood stars and sending taunting accounts of each crime to a celebrity reporter. Alex Cross, pulled from a family vacation, hunts a murderer whose motive proves more painful and personal than the glamorous victims suggest.

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Meet Me in Atlantis

by Mark Adams

3.8

Mark Adams travels the world in search of the lost city of Atlantis — interviewing scholars, crackpots, archaeologists, and believers — in a witty and surprisingly serious investigation of one of history's most persistent myths.

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N Is for Noose

by Sue Grafton

3.8

A widow hires Kinsey Millhone to find out what was troubling her husband, a respected detective, in the weeks before he died. The job takes Kinsey to the small Sierra town of Nota Lake, where the questions she asks are not welcome — and where someone is willing to hurt her badly to keep the answers buried.

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Of Permanent Value

by Andrew Kilpatrick

3.8

Andrew Kilpatrick's sprawling, encyclopedic biography of Warren Buffett chronicles the investor's life from childhood in Omaha through the building of Berkshire Hathaway into one of the world's most valuable companies. Updated across multiple editions, it serves as the most comprehensive single-volume reference on Buffett's personal and professional history.

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P Is for Peril

by Sue Grafton

3.8

A respected doctor vanishes nine weeks before Kinsey Millhone is hired to find him, his nursing-home empire already under investigation for Medicare fraud. As Kinsey untangles his disappearance, a separate danger creeps in from a charming new acquaintance whose interest in her turns out to be anything but innocent.

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Peerless Flats

by Esther Freud

3.8

Lisa, sixteen, arrives in London from the country with her mother and younger sister, and tries to make sense of the city, boys, and her own desires. Esther Freud's second novel — a coming-of-age story set in Hackney.

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Phantom Prey

by John Sandford

3.8

A wealthy woman's daughter vanishes, and soon young people in the Twin Cities Goth scene begin turning up dead. The only witness describes a shadowy figure no one else can find — a phantom. Lucas Davenport must determine whether the killer is real, imagined, or something stranger still.

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R Is for Ricochet

by Sue Grafton

3.8

A wealthy father hires Kinsey Millhone for a simple job: collect his wayward daughter Reba from prison and ease her back into respectable life. But Reba is wild, loyal to the wrong people, and tangled with a married money launderer — and Kinsey finds herself caught between minding her client and helping the woman she's come to like.

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Ripley Under Water

by Patricia Highsmith

3.8

The fifth and final Ripley novel. An American couple, David and Janice Pritchard, move to the village near Ripley's Belle Ombre and begin investigating the disappearance of Dickie Greenleaf — whose killing, thirty years earlier, is the foundational crime of the entire series. Ripley must manage this threat with the same composure he has brought to every crisis, in a novel that is both a thriller and a late meditation on how long a constructed life can hold.

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Run for Your Life

by James Patterson

3.8

A meticulous killer who calls himself the Teacher is murdering New York's rich and entitled, punishing the rude and the privileged in a campaign of class rage. Detective Michael Bennett must stop him before the lessons turn into a citywide bloodbath — all while raising ten children at home.

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Running Blind

by Lee Child

3.8

Women Jack Reacher once knew in the army are turning up dead — no wounds, no poison, no cause of death the experts can name, just a chilling signature. When the FBI's profile of the killer points squarely at Reacher himself, he must catch the real murderer to clear his own name.

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Magyk

by Angie Sage

3.8

On the night the seventh son of the seventh son is born to the Heap family, the baby is presumed dead — but Septimus Heap's story is only beginning, as a decade later a young girl with a mysterious past arrives to turn the magical world upside down.

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Son of a Witch

by Gregory Maguire

3.8

Ten years after the events of Wicked, Liir — possibly Elphaba's son — stumbles out of the wilderness near death and must piece together what happened to him and what he is meant to do. The Wicked Years sequence continues as Oz descends further into political darkness.

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The 5th Horseman

by James Patterson

3.8

Patients are dying at a San Francisco hospital under circumstances that look less like misfortune than murder, each death marked by a strange symbolic token. As Lindsay Boxer hunts a killer hiding behind a white coat, Yuki Castellano fights a wrenching malpractice trial with the hospital — and the truth — on the line.

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The 6th Target

by James Patterson

3.8

A gunman opens fire on a crowded San Francisco commuter ferry, and one of the wounded is someone Lindsay Boxer loves. As the club races to understand the shooter, a separate horror unfolds: children are vanishing from wealthy neighborhoods, taken by someone who knows exactly how to disappear.

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