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Two interweaving storylines — one set during World War II, one in the late 1990s tech boom — converge on a buried treasure, a data haven, and the mathematics of cryptography.

Poirot and Hastings return to Styles Court for the last time. Poirot is elderly and gravely ill, but he has identified a murderer who has never been convicted — and he intends to act. Written during World War II, published posthumously in 1975.

The long letter Wilde wrote to Lord Alfred Douglas from Reading Gaol, where he was imprisoned for homosexuality, is simultaneously a self-examination, an accusation, a meditation on suffering, and a statement of aesthetic faith. It is among the most extraordinary prose documents of the nineteenth century: the most brilliant wit of the age writing in extremis, finding in Christ the artist who suffered for beauty, rethinking everything he had written in the light of what had been done to him.

The conclusion of the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy follows Cheng Xin across centuries of Earth's future as she makes two decisions that determine the fate of humanity — while Liu Cixin expands the scale to cosmological: dimensions collapse, the universe degrades, and survival is asked at the level of the laws of physics themselves.

Paul Pennyfeather is expelled from Oxford for indecent behaviour not his own, becomes a schoolmaster at a chaotic Welsh school, enters the English aristocracy through an engagement, and is imprisoned for white slavery not his own — Waugh's first novel and the funniest debut in the English language.

The second Stoic Virtues book focuses on temperance — the ability to govern the self, to choose the harder right over the easier wrong. Holiday examines Queen Elizabeth II, Lou Gehrig, and Antoninus Pius to argue that self-discipline is not deprivation but the highest form of freedom.

A German composer of genius makes a Faustian bargain — syphilitic infection in exchange for twenty-four years of musical creativity — as Germany makes its own bargain with Nazism. Told through the biography of his lifelong friend, Mann's most ambitious novel.

Fifteen stories of Dublin life, from childhood through public life to death, structured as an account of paralysis — the inability to escape, to act, to live fully. The collection ends with 'The Dead,' one of the greatest short stories ever written.

Thelonious 'Monk' Ellison, a Black literary novelist whose experimental work is dismissed as 'not Black enough,' writes a savage parody of the ghetto-lit novels the publishing industry craves — and watches in horror as it becomes a bestseller.

Greg McKeown makes the case for a radical new discipline: the pursuit of less, but better. Essentialism is the art of discerning what is essential and eliminating everything else — so you can make your highest possible contribution.

Berlin, 1964. The Reich has won the war. A routine murder investigation draws SS detective Xavier March into a conspiracy that could expose the greatest secret of the Nazi empire — the secret that the rest of the world must never learn.

bell hooks argues that mainstream feminism has failed by centering the experiences of white, middle-class women, and calls for a feminist movement rooted in the lives of those at the margins — women of color, the poor, and the working class.

Jorge Luis Borges's most celebrated collection of stories — including The Garden of Forking Paths, The Library of Babel, Pierre Menard Author of the Quixote, and The Lottery in Babylon — stories that read like philosophical thought experiments and have influenced nearly every significant fiction writer since.

Sixteen years after artist Amyas Crale was poisoned, his daughter asks Poirot to clear her mother's name. Poirot interviews the five witnesses who were present that summer, and each gives a different account of the same events.

John Ames, a seventy-six-year-old Congregationalist minister in Gilead, Iowa in 1956, knowing he is dying, writes a long letter to his young son — a letter about faith, memory, his father and grandfather, and the complicated situation of his old friend's son John Ames Boughton.

Darrow has risen within Gold society as a decorated student, but his mission to dismantle the Society from within deepens as he navigates treacherous political and military warfare across the solar system.

Joshua McFadden's companion to Six Seasons, applying his bold, flavour-forward, seasonal approach to grains — from salads and soups to pizzas, breads, and beyond.

Set during the Nigerian-Biafran War of the late 1960s, the novel follows three characters — twin sisters and a British writer — through one of Africa's most devastating postcolonial conflicts.

Written for his son during the fatwa years, Rushdie's fable follows Haroun Khalifa, whose father — a professional storyteller — has lost the ability to tell stories. The quest to restore this gift takes Haroun to the Sea of Stories, where an army of Silence is trying to poison the ocean from which all stories flow. The most direct allegory in Rushdie's work, it is also his most purely enjoyable — a defense of storytelling as a fundamental human right.

The Hogfather — Discworld's version of Father Christmas — has gone missing, and someone has hired the Assassins' Guild to make sure he stays that way. Death must put on the red suit and fill in, delivering presents on a flying sleigh, while his granddaughter Susan investigates the conspiracy behind the disappearance of belief itself.

Two sisters, Ruth and Lucille, grow up in the small lakeside town of Fingerbone after their mother drives into the lake, looked after by a succession of unsuitable relatives, until their drifting aunt Sylvie arrives.

Cognitive behavioral therapist Donald Robertson weaves together Marcus Aurelius's biography with the Stoic philosophy he practiced, showing how ancient techniques map onto modern psychological methods.

The author of the world's standard AI textbook argues that the standard model of AI development — building systems that optimise for fixed objectives — is fundamentally flawed, and proposes a new model based on building machines that are uncertain about what humans want.

Tish Rivers, nineteen years old and pregnant, narrates the story of her fiancé Fonny, a sculptor falsely accused of rape and imprisoned in the Tombs. Baldwin's most tender novel is also his most explicitly political — a love story told inside an indictment of American racial injustice that is both heartbreaking and precise.