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Bestseller

In the Heart of the Sea

by Nathaniel Philbrick

4.4

Nathaniel Philbrick's National Book Award–winning history of the whaleship Essex, sunk by an enraged sperm whale in 1820 — the true event that inspired Moby-Dick. The survivors' ordeal in open boats, including the desperate choices they faced, makes for a gripping and harrowing tale of the sea.

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Bestseller
4.4

Louis de Pointe du Lac, transformed into a vampire in 1791 New Orleans, tells his centuries-long story to a young journalist — a meditation on immortality, guilt, grief, and what it means to remain human while feeding on the living.

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Bestseller

It

by Stephen King

4.4

Seven children in a small Maine town band together to fight an ancient evil that preys on their fears — and are called back as adults to finish what they started.

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Bestseller

Liar's Poker

by Michael Lewis

4.4

Michael Lewis's memoir of his years as a bond salesman at Salomon Brothers in the 1980s, capturing the greed and absurdity of Wall Street's most explosive decade.

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Bestseller
4.4

In the carefully planned suburb of Shaker Heights, Ohio, the arrival of an artist and her daughter ignites tensions about motherhood, race, class, and the rules that hold carefully ordered lives together.

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Bestseller

Lord of Chaos

by Robert Jordan

4.4

Rand struggles to unite the world's factions while two rival groups of Aes Sedai compete to control him, culminating in the Battle of Dumai's Wells — one of the most celebrated action sequences in epic fantasy. The series crosses the thousand-page threshold for the first time.

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Bestseller

Mastery

by Robert Greene

4.4

Robert Greene examines the lives of history's greatest masters — Leonardo da Vinci, Charles Darwin, Mozart, Bobby Fischer — to identify the common path toward genuine mastery of any field.

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Bestseller

Me Before You

by Jojo Moyes

4.4

A cheerful working-class woman becomes caregiver to a cynical, recently paralyzed man, and the relationship that develops challenges everything both of them believe about a life worth living.

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Bestseller

Misery

by Stephen King

4.4

A bestselling novelist is nursed back to health by his self-proclaimed number one fan after a car accident, and discovers that his rescue has become his captivity.

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Bestseller

Mother of Death and Dawn

by Carissa Broadbent

4.4

The conclusion of the War of Lost Hearts trilogy, in which Tisaanah, Max, and Aefe face the final reckoning of war, the gods, and the sacrifices required to win the freedom they have fought for.

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Bestseller

My Brilliant Friend

by Elena Ferrante

4.4

Elena Greco narrates her lifelong friendship with the brilliant, volatile Lila Cerullo, beginning in their postwar Naples neighborhood and following both girls through childhood and into their teenage years.

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Bestseller

Ocean Prey

by John Sandford

4.4

Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers investigate a drug smuggling operation off the Florida coast that is leaving federal agents dead — a crossover entry between Sandford's two major series.

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Bestseller

Outlander

by Diana Gabaldon

4.4

In 1945, a British combat nurse is mysteriously transported to eighteenth-century Scotland, where she becomes entangled with the Jacobite rising and a Highland warrior named Jamie Fraser.

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Bestseller

Piranesi

by Susanna Clarke

4.4

A man lives alone in a vast, labyrinthine House of endless halls filled with statues, tides, and clouds, keeping meticulous journals of a world he believes to be complete — until anomalies in his journals suggest a truth he has been prevented from remembering.

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Bestseller

Ready Player One

by Ernest Cline

4.4

In a future dystopia, teenager Wade Watts escapes reality in the OASIS virtual reality world and joins a global competition to find a hidden treasure that will determine control of the internet.

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Bestseller

Rich Dad Poor Dad

by Robert T. Kiyosaki

4.4

The #1 personal finance book of all time. Kiyosaki contrasts the money lessons he learned from his own 'poor dad' — his biological father — with those of his best friend's 'rich dad', arguing that what you're taught in school about money is dangerously incomplete.

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Bestseller

Ruthless Vows

by Rebecca Ross

4.4

The conclusion of the Letters of Enchantment duology, in which separated lovers and rival journalists fight to reunite and to survive a deepening war between gods that threatens everyone they love.

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Bestseller

Same as Ever

by Morgan Housel

4.4

A collection of 23 short essays on the timeless behaviors and patterns that drive human decision-making — the things that never change even as the world changes around them.

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Bestseller

Small Mercies

by Dennis Lehane

4.4

In the broiling summer of 1974, as Boston erupts over court-ordered busing, hard-edged Southie mother Mary Pat Fennessy goes searching for her missing teenage daughter — a search that drags her into the city's racial fault lines and the secrets of her own neighborhood.

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Bestseller

Song of Solomon

by Toni Morrison

4.4

Milkman Dead journeys from his prosperous Michigan family into the American South in search of gold and discovers instead his family's history, his people's mythology, and the meaning of flight.

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Bestseller

SPQR

by Mary Beard

4.4

A comprehensive, revisionist history of ancient Rome from its murky origins to the extension of citizenship across the empire, written with the authority of Britain's greatest living classicist.

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