All Books

On a deserted road near the Arizona-Mexico border, Jack Reacher meets Michaela Fenton, a former army investigator hunting for her missing twin brother. Their search leads to a secretive operation run by an elusive figure named Dendoncker — and to a fight Reacher has no intention of walking away from.

Home in New York and back at Manhattan North Homicide, Michael Bennett catches a case that begins with reports of a grotesque occult ritual and a burned body. As he digs, the trail leads into a hidden world of the wealthy and depraved, where money buys the freedom to indulge the darkest appetites.

The massacre of a family Alex Cross once loved sends him chasing a brutal warlord known as the Tiger — a trail that leads off the streets of Washington and into the war-torn heart of West Africa, where Cross faces child soldiers, corruption, and a brand of violence beyond anything he has known.

Burned out and in need of a break, Michael Bennett takes his family to a quiet town in Maine — and walks straight into a wave of drug-fueled violence the locals would rather keep buried. As bodies pile up and no one will talk, Bennett finds his vacation turning into the most isolating case of his career.

The fifth and final book Douglas Adams wrote in the Hitchhiker's Guide series — which he subtitled 'the fifth book in the increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker's Trilogy.' Arthur Dent searches for a home across parallel Earths while a darker, more fatalistic comedy takes hold.

Pauline Réage's notorious 1954 French erotic novel. A Parisian fashion photographer known only as O submits to extreme sexual and psychological domination in the name of love — a controversial, elegantly written, and deeply unsettling exploration of desire, submission, and the erasure of the self.

Thornton Wilder's debut novel — a young American writer arrives in Rome and is drawn into the orbit of a secretive aristocratic circle whose members may be the old gods of Olympus in disguise.

A historical novel about Perkin Warbeck, the pretender who claimed to be Richard, Duke of York — the younger of the two Princes in the Tower — and whose attempt to claim the English throne from Henry VII ended in defeat and execution. Shelley treats Warbeck as a genuine prince, making the novel a sustained meditation on legitimacy, loyalty, and the human cost of failed causes.

Rupert Sent Leger inherits a fortune and travels to a Balkan land called the Land of the Blue Mountains, where he encounters a mysterious woman in a shroud who may be a vampire — or a princess in disguise. Gothic horror merges with Ruritanian adventure in Stoker's politically ambitious late novel.

In 1992, a string of suspicious deaths links men who once shared a dangerous government secret. Major Jack Reacher is assigned to a secretive interagency task force to investigate — but the deeper he digs, the clearer it becomes that someone powerful wants the past to stay buried, whatever the cost.

A favor for a neighbor — sorting out a dead man's missing military records — pitches Kinsey Millhone into a madcap, cross-country chase after loot from a decades-old heist. Far from Santa Teresa and out of her depth, Kinsey trades detection for improvisation in the series' most caper-like, comic adventure.

Michael Crichton's satirical thriller weaves together multiple storylines involving biotech corporations, genetic patents, talking transgenic animals, and the researchers, lawyers, and patients caught in the commercialization of the human genome. It is a darkly comedic indictment of an industry racing ahead of its own ethics.

Four north Londoners — each shaped by the same council estate — navigate adulthood differently. Smith's most formally adventurous novel abandons the warm sociability of White Teeth for fragmented, pressured prose that tries to catch consciousness in the act.

A man is beaten into a coma on the London Underground and wakes into a world he cannot trust — uncertain whether he is conscious, dreaming, or still under. A short, unsettling meditation on consciousness and reality.

Sophie Honeywell inherits a house on Scribbly Gum Island from her great-aunt Connie — an island famous for the unsolved Munro Baby Mystery of 1932 — and finds herself drawn into a community of women keeping secrets that have lasted for generations.

The long-awaited sequel to Shantaram, returning to Lin and the Bombay underworld for another epic of crime, philosophy, love, and the city that never lets its inhabitants go.

In a near-future America where women are restricted to 100 words per day by government-issued wrist counters, neurolinguist Dr. Jean McClellan must rediscover her voice when the regime suddenly needs her expertise.