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The ABC Murders

by Agatha Christie

4.4

Hercule Poirot receives a taunting letter predicting a murder — and the victim's name begins with A, the murder location begins with A, and a copy of the ABC railway guide is left at the scene. The killer works alphabetically, and the police assume a serial killer with no motive. Poirot is certain the obvious answer is a decoy.

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The Alloy of Law

by Brandon Sanderson

4.4

Set 300 years after the events of the original Mistborn trilogy, Waxillium Ladrian is a lawman who returns to the city to find himself caught up in a series of mysterious robberies with allomantic involvement.

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The Awakening

by Kate Chopin

4.4

Edna Pontellier, a married woman in nineteenth-century New Orleans, awakens to her own desires — for independence, for art, for love — in a society that offers her no way to live them.

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The Blood of Olympus

by Rick Riordan

4.4

The final prophecy reaches its climax as the seven demigods race to Athens to face the Giants and prevent Gaea from awakening. The conclusion resolves five books of buildup and sends Percy and Annabeth's story in a new direction.

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4.4

The story of Oscar de León — an overweight, sci-fi-obsessed Dominican-American from New Jersey who has never had a girlfriend — and the multigenerational curse his family carries from the Dominican Republic under the Trujillo dictatorship.

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The Burning God

by R.F. Kuang

4.4

The war enters its final phase. Rin controls the south, the Republic controls the north, and the foreign Hesperians are expanding their influence over both. To win, Rin must use the shamanic power that has already cost her everything she cared about — and the final cost will be higher than she has let herself imagine. The Poppy War concludes.

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The Burning Room

by Michael Connelly

4.4

A man shot ten years ago in a drive-by shooting finally dies of his wound — the bullet lodged too close to his spine to remove — making it a homicide a decade after the fact. Bosch and his new partner Lucia Soto must reconstruct a crime that the city has long since moved on from.

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The Circadian Code

by Satchin Panda

4.4

Dr. Satchin Panda, the world's leading researcher on circadian rhythms, explains how aligning your eating, sleeping, and activity with your internal clock dramatically improves health outcomes.

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The Client

by John Grisham

4.4

Eleven-year-old Mark Sway witnesses a lawyer's suicide and learns a dangerous secret — the location of a murdered Senator's body. Now the mob wants Mark dead, the federal government wants him as a witness, and Mark is too smart to trust either side. He hires his own lawyer: Reggie Love, a Memphis attorney who believes him.

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The Closers

by Michael Connelly

4.4

Harry Bosch comes out of retirement to join the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit, working cold cases. His first assignment: the 1988 murder of sixteen-year-old Rebecca Verloren, whose case was buried in ways a DNA match on the murder weapon has just made impossible to ignore.

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4.4

Haidt and Lukianoff argue that three 'great untruths' — that fragility is real, that emotional reasoning is reliable, and that society is a battle between good and evil — have taken hold on university campuses, harming students and undermining the goals of liberal education.

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The Concrete Blonde

by Michael Connelly

4.4

Harry Bosch is being sued for wrongful death by the family of a man he shot — a man he believed was the Dollmaker, a serial killer who preyed on prostitutes. As the civil trial grinds forward, a new body surfaces with the Dollmaker's signature, suggesting Bosch may have killed the wrong man.

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The Daily Stoic

by Ryan Holiday

4.4

366 days of Stoic philosophy — a meditation for each day of the year, drawn from Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, and Seneca, with commentary by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman.

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The Dhandho Investor

by Mohnish Pabrai

4.4

Mohnish Pabrai's value investing framework inspired by the Patels' low-risk, high-return business philosophy — heads I win, tails I don't lose much.

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The Dispossessed

by Ursula K. Le Guin

4.4

A physicist from an anarchist moon travels to its capitalist twin planet in this dual-narrative exploration of two radically different societies and the meaning of freedom.

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The Dragon Reborn

by Robert Jordan

4.4

Rand al'Thor abandons his companions and sets out alone for Tear, drawn by prophecy toward a destiny he can no longer postpone — while Egwene, Nynaeve, and Mat are pulled by separate threads toward the same inevitable convergence.

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The Fall of Hyperion

by Dan Simmons

4.4

The seven pilgrims' fates converge as the Ousters invade and the Time Tombs open. Simmons resolves the mysteries of its predecessor while expanding the stakes to civilizational scale — a Hugo Award-winning conclusion to what many consider SF's greatest duology.

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The Fifth Elephant

by Terry Pratchett

4.4

Commander Sam Vimes is sent to Uberwald as Ankh-Morpork's Ambassador during the Low King of the Dwarfs' coronation, a politically fraught moment involving ancient tensions between dwarfs, vampires, and werewolves. Carrie takes charge of the Watch. Vimes navigates foreign politics with his characteristic bluntness — and then has to run for his life.

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The Fires of Heaven

by Robert Jordan

4.4

Rand leads the Aiel across the Westlands in a campaign to unite the continent, while Nynaeve and Elayne pursue the Black Ajah through Tarabon and beyond. The series deepens its politics and raises its stakes as the Dragon Reborn begins to shape history.

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The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys

by Doris Kearns Goodwin

4.4

An epic multigenerational saga tracing the rise of two Irish-Catholic Boston families — the Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys — from immigrant poverty to the pinnacle of American political power.

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The Friend Zone

by Abby Jimenez

4.4

Kristen is stuck in the friend zone with the man she is falling for — partly because she doesn't want him to know about the medical situation that will define her future choices. Josh has his own reasons for keeping things uncomplicated. Their forced proximity — and the problem of her best friend dating his best friend — makes the distance untenable.

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The God of Small Things

by Arundhati Roy

4.4

Set in the small town of Ayemenem in Kerala, India, Arundhati Roy's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the lives of fraternal twins Rahel and Estha and the catastrophic consequences of their family's transgression of the Love Laws — the laws that determine who can love whom, and how, and how much.

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The Gold Bug Variations

by Richard Powers

4.4

Two love stories separated by twenty-five years, united by the shared structure of DNA, Bach's Goldberg Variations, and Poe's cryptography tale — a novel about what science, music, and love have in common.

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