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Bestseller

Still Life

by Louise Penny

4.4

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec investigates the suspicious death of a beloved woman in the idyllic village of Three Pines.

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Bestseller

The 4-Hour Workweek

by Tim Ferriss

4.4

Tim Ferriss dismantles the assumption that the standard life script — work 40+ hours a week for 40 years, then retire — is either necessary or desirable. He outlines a practical system for outsourcing, automating, and liberating your work life to create what he calls 'lifestyle design'.

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Bestseller

The Alice Network

by Kate Quinn

4.4

Two women separated by thirty years — a WWI spy and a postwar American girl — are connected by the real-life Alice Network, a ring of female spies embedded in German-occupied France.

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Bestseller

The Artist's Way

by Julia Cameron

4.4

A twelve-week program for recovering and developing creativity through two core practices: Morning Pages (three pages of stream-of-consciousness writing each morning) and the Artist's Date (a weekly solo creative excursion).

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Bestseller

The Bell Jar

by Sylvia Plath

4.4

Esther Greenwood, a brilliant college student in 1950s New York, descends into mental illness and attempted suicide in Sylvia Plath's semi-autobiographical masterpiece.

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Bestseller

The Courage to Be Disliked

by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga

4.4

A dialogue between a philosopher and a young man across five nights explores Alfred Adler's psychology of freedom — the idea that unhappiness is a choice, trauma is a story, and happiness requires the courage to be disliked.

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Bestseller

The Eye of the World

by Robert Jordan

4.4

Three young men from the isolated village of Emond's Field are driven from their homes by dark forces — and drawn into a world-spanning conflict they barely understand, in the opening of one of fantasy's greatest and most ambitious epic series.

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Bestseller

The 5 Love Languages

by Gary Chapman

4.4

Marriage counselor Gary Chapman identifies five distinct ways people express and receive love — words of affirmation, quality time, receiving gifts, acts of service, and physical touch — and argues that mismatches cause most relationship conflict.

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Bestseller

The Four Agreements

by Don Miguel Ruiz

4.4

Drawing on ancient Toltec wisdom, Don Miguel Ruiz identifies four agreements — be impeccable with your word, don't take anything personally, don't make assumptions, always do your best — that can transform life by dismantling the limiting beliefs we absorbed in childhood.

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Bestseller

The Four Winds

by Kristin Hannah

4.4

A Texas farm woman faces an impossible choice during the Great Depression's Dust Bowl: stay on the land that is killing them or take her children to California's labor camps.

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Bestseller

The Glass Castle

by Jeannette Walls

4.4

Jeannette Walls recounts her extraordinary childhood, raised by brilliant but dysfunctional nomadic parents who flouted convention and neglected their children's basic needs.

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Bestseller

The Good Earth

by Pearl S. Buck

4.4

Pearl S. Buck's Pulitzer Prize–winning epic follows Wang Lung, a poor Chinese farmer, from his wedding day through poverty, famine, and hard-won wealth, tracing the rise and moral cost of a family bound to the land across a time of vast upheaval.

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Bestseller

The Great Alone

by Kristin Hannah

4.4

In 1974, a Vietnam vet moves his family to remote Alaska wilderness, where the land's magnificent isolation amplifies his PTSD and the family's survival depends on his wife and daughter's strength.

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Bestseller

The Laws of Human Nature

by Robert Greene

4.4

Robert Greene analyzes eighteen fundamental aspects of human psychology — from narcissism and envy to grandiosity and conformism — and shows how understanding them enables better navigation of people and situations.

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Bestseller

The Lincoln Lawyer

by Michael Connelly

4.4

Criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller operates out of the back seat of his Lincoln Town Car, traveling between Los Angeles courthouses. When a wealthy Beverly Hills client hires him to fight a serious assault charge, Haller begins to suspect the man is guilty of something far worse — and that he has defended it before.

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Bestseller

The Remains of the Day

by Kazuo Ishiguro

4.4

Stevens, an aging English butler, takes a motoring trip through the English countryside and reflects on a lifetime of dedicated service — and the opportunities for love and meaning he declined in its name.

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Bestseller

The Silk Roads

by Peter Frankopan

4.4

A radical reorientation of world history centered on the Silk Roads — the trade routes connecting East and West — arguing that Asia, the Middle East, and Central Asia have been the world's true centers for most of recorded history.

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Bestseller

The Song of Achilles

by Madeline Miller

4.4

Patroclus, the unassuming son of a minor Greek king, tells the story of his life alongside Achilles — the most beautiful and most doomed of Greek heroes — and the love between them.

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Bestseller

The Story of a New Name

by Elena Ferrante

4.4

The second Neapolitan novel follows Lila into her disastrous marriage and Elena through her university entrance exams and early years of higher education, as their friendship navigates the widening gap of their diverging lives.

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