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Ignite Me

by Tahereh Mafi

4.5

The original Shatter Me trilogy concludes — Juliette must finally embrace her power and decide who she truly is, as the world around her collapses toward revolution.

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In Cold Blood

by Truman Capote

4.5

On November 15, 1959, Herbert Clutter, his wife, and two of their children were murdered in their farmhouse in Holcomb, Kansas — and Truman Capote's six-year investigation into the crime, the investigators, and the killers Perry Smith and Dick Hickock produced the work that invented the literary nonfiction genre.

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4.5

The second volume of In Search of Lost Time follows the narrator's adolescent infatuations, his deepening friendships, and above all his summer at the seaside resort of Balbec — where he meets the circle of girls, including Albertine, who will dominate his inner life.

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Lady Midnight

by Cassandra Clare

4.5

Los Angeles, five years after the events of City of Heavenly Fire. Emma Carstairs is a Shadowhunter obsessed with finding the truth about her parents' murders, and her parabatai Julian Blackthorn is hiding feelings for her that Shadowhunter law forbids. As a series of ritual murders echoes the killings that took Emma's parents, the first Dark Artifices novel opens a new chapter in the Shadowhunter world.

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Leadership: In Turbulent Times

by Doris Kearns Goodwin

4.5

Doris Kearns Goodwin examines four American presidents — Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, FDR, and LBJ — asking how they developed the qualities of leadership and how they deployed those qualities in moments of crisis.

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Libra

by Don DeLillo

4.5

DeLillo's fictional account of Lee Harvey Oswald — the conspiracy theorists who recruited him, the forces that shaped him, and the day in Dallas — is the most formally rigorous of the many Kennedy assassination novels. DeLillo is not interested in whether Oswald did it but in what kind of person could be shaped into such an act: a man made entirely of images, ideologies, and other people's narratives.

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Lila

by Marilynne Robinson

4.5

The third Gilead novel tells the story of John Ames's young wife — the drifter Lila, who grew up in poverty on the American roads, cared for by the woman Doll who stole her as an infant — and how she came to arrive in Gilead and sit down in the back of an old preacher's church.

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London Rules

by Mick Herron

4.5

A populist politician is using terrorism for political gain. Slough House is pulled into the middle of a crisis that combines the worst instincts of Westminster with the worst capabilities of the intelligence world — and the rules, as always, are being made by whoever has the most to hide.

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Mansfield Park

by Jane Austen

4.5

Fanny Price is brought from poverty to Mansfield Park, her wealthy cousins' estate, where she watches and witnesses while others perform and transgress. Austen's most morally serious novel — quieter, deeper, and more uncomfortable than her others.

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Maybe Someday

by Colleen Hoover

4.5

Sydney discovers her boyfriend has been cheating on her with her best friend. She moves in with Ridge — a musician and songwriter who happens to be deaf — and the two collaborate on music through written notes and an undeniable connection neither of them wants to acknowledge. A love story about the ethics of attraction and the power of music.

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Men at Arms

by Terry Pratchett

4.5

The Ankh-Morpork City Watch is being diversified — trolls, dwarfs, a werewolf — and someone has stolen the Gonne, the Disc's first and only firearm. Sam Vimes is about to retire to marry Lady Sybil. Corporal Carrot, possibly the rightful heir to the throne, begins to understand what kind of man he wants to be.

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Northanger Abbey

by Jane Austen

4.5

Catherine Morland, a thoroughly unromantic heroine raised on gothic novels, visits Bath and then a genuine abbey and finds — to her disappointment and then relief — that real life obeys very different rules from fiction. Austen's earliest and most playful novel is a literary parody of the gothic tradition that also manages to be a sincere coming-of-age story.

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Obviously Awesome

by April Dunford

4.5

A step-by-step process for positioning technology products that cuts through the confusion about what positioning is, why it matters, and how to do it well.

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Oliver Twist

by Charles Dickens

4.5

An orphan boy escapes the workhouse only to fall in with a gang of London pickpockets led by the scheming Fagin. Dickens's second novel is his most socially radical — a direct attack on the Poor Laws and a vivid portrait of the Victorian criminal underworld.

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Pale Blue Dot

by Carl Sagan

4.5

Inspired by the famous photograph of Earth from four billion miles away, Sagan's visionary meditation on humanity's place in the cosmos argues for space exploration as a moral imperative — and offers some of the most beautiful science writing ever put to paper.

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Pale Fire

by Vladimir Nabokov

4.5

A 999-line poem by fictional American poet John Shade, followed by an obsessive commentary by his neighbour Charles Kinbote — who may be the exiled king of a fictional country called Zembla. One of the most formally inventive novels ever written.

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Queen of Air and Darkness

by Cassandra Clare

4.5

The Shadowhunter world is fracturing: the Cohort has seized control of the Clave, Emma and Julian's parabatai bond has become something that threatens to destroy them both, and an invasion from the faerie realm hangs over everything. The Dark Artifices concludes in Clare's longest single volume — 912 pages that resolve multiple series' worth of threads.

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Queen of Shadows

by Sarah J. Maas

4.5

Aelin Galathynius — the assassin formerly known as Celaena — returns to Rifthold with one goal: free her friend Aedion and destroy the king who murdered her family. But the city she returns to is darker than the one she left, and her old enemies have become new allies in ways she never expected.

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4.5

How two Canadians retired at 31 by building a million-dollar portfolio on middle-class salaries, with detailed guidance on the index-fund-based investing strategy they used.

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Real Tigers

by Mick Herron

4.5

When one of the slow horses is kidnapped, Slough House is suddenly, involuntarily useful to Diana Taverner and Regent's Park. But the price of their cooperation may be higher than anyone at Slough House anticipated.

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Reaper Man

by Terry Pratchett

4.5

Death is fired by the Auditors of Reality and given a finite lifespan. Taking the name Bill Door, he becomes a farmhand and experiences for the first time what it means to be mortal. Meanwhile, in Ankh-Morpork, the life-force that would have been collected by Death has nowhere to go — and the city starts filling up with something very strange.

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Red Country

by Joe Abercrombie

4.5

Shy South returns from a supply run to find her home burned and her siblings taken. She follows into the Far Country — the frontier beyond the Union's maps — on a wagon train west. Red Country is Abercrombie's conscious Western, a genre transplant that puts the First Law world's moral cynicism into the mythology of the American frontier.

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Rhythm of War

by Brandon Sanderson

4.5

The fourth Stormlight Archive novel follows the war against the Fused as Kaladin confronts depression, Navani discovers the nature of anti-Stormlight, and Eshonai's past is finally told.

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