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Ernaux's account of her mother — a woman who left the rural working class through running a café-grocery in Normandy, who was proud but not educated, who developed Alzheimer's late in life. Written after her mother's death, it is also a reckoning with class, ambition, and the distance that education creates.

The protomolecule has constructed a massive ring gate beyond Uranus. A fleet of ships from all three factions converges on it, and inside the ring is something that will change humanity's relationship with the universe permanently.

Elizabeth Warren and her daughter present the 50/30/20 budget — allocating 50% of income to needs, 30% to wants, and 20% to savings — as the foundation of financial security.

Senior year, college applications, and the question of what happens to Lara Jean and Peter when they go to different schools — or don't. The trilogy's conclusion navigates the practical anxieties of senior year with the same emotional clarity that made the first two books work, and brings Lara Jean's story to a warm, considered close.

Fat Charlie Nancy has always been mortified by his embarrassing father — who turns out to have been Anansi, the African spider god of stories. When Charlie's estranged brother Spider shows up after their father's death, the deity's mischief-making powers come with him, and Charlie's ordinary life is invaded by mythology, magic, and consequences.

The conclusion of the Imperial Radch trilogy: Breq faces a choice between the survival of her ship and crew and the larger question of what kind of empire the Radch should become.

Anne Shirley is now sixteen and a teacher at Avonlea school, navigating new friendships, her growing responsibilities at Green Gables, and the same imaginative intensity that has always defined her.

Baldwin's sprawling novel of race, sexuality, and grief in 1950s New York begins with the suicide of jazz drummer Rufus Scott and follows the reverberations through his circle of friends — Black and white, gay and straight — as each tries to find love across the divisions that American life makes almost impossible to cross.

Three friends from school — Sam, who has become a military dictator; Chris, his Information Commissioner; and Ikem, a poet and newspaper editor — find themselves on opposite sides of an impossible situation in the fictional West African state of Kangan. Achebe's final novel, written after twenty years of silence, is his most formally experimental and his most searching account of the failure of African independence.

A failed bank robber takes a group of apartment hunters hostage at an open house. When police arrive, the hostage-taker has vanished and no one in the group is talking. Told across multiple perspectives and timelines, Anxious People is a comedy-mystery about failure, loneliness, and the quiet kindnesses people extend to strangers when no one is watching.

Ravic, a German surgeon living illegally in Paris in 1939, practises medicine under a false name and pursues the Gestapo officer who destroyed his life. Remarque's wartime novel was written in American exile and captures the atmosphere of Paris just before the German occupation with the precision of someone who knew the city and understood what was about to happen to it.

George F. Babbitt, a real estate agent in the fictional Midwestern city of Zenith, is the model American businessman — boosterish, conformist, self-satisfied — who attempts a brief, doomed rebellion against his own life. Lewis's most famous novel gave English a common noun and remains the defining portrait of the American businessman as a social type.

A Wall Street lawyer hires a copyist named Bartleby who performs his duties adequately, then one day begins responding to every request with 'I would prefer not to.' Melville's most modern story anticipates Kafka, Beckett, and the literature of passive resistance.

Peter Lynch's sequel to One Up on Wall Street — covering his management of the Magellan Fund after the 1987 crash and his stock-picking process in practice. More hands-on than the first book, with specific examples of how Lynch evaluated individual companies across different sectors.

Journalist David Sheff chronicles his son Nic's methamphetamine addiction from the first terrifying signs through years of recovery attempts, relapse, and survival — a memoir that examines addiction from the parent's perspective with unflinching honesty and reportorial rigor.

Billy Budd, a young sailor of exceptional beauty and goodness, is falsely accused by the malicious master-at-arms Claggart, strikes him accidentally and kills him, and must be hanged for mutiny. Melville's posthumously published final work is a philosophical meditation on innocence, law, and justice.

The second volume of Gerald Durrell's Corfu trilogy continues the story of the Durrell family's years on the Greek island. With the same warmth and comic genius as the first, it introduces more extraordinary animals and eccentric characters.

The first full Witcher novel follows Geralt raising and training Ciri after the fall of Cintra, while war engulfs the continent and powerful forces move to claim the girl of prophecy. The first book of the Witcher Saga proper.

Hawking's final book addresses ten of humanity's most pressing questions: Is there a God? Will we survive on Earth? Is time travel possible? Should we colonize space? Assembled posthumously from his notes and essays, it is the clearest expression of his intellectual legacy.

Therese Belivet, a young woman working in a New York department store, meets Carol Aird — older, wealthy, in the midst of a difficult divorce. A love story told with Highsmith's characteristic precision, remarkable for its time because it ends happily. Originally published in 1952 under the pseudonym Claire Morgan as 'The Price of Salt', it was the first novel in American publishing to portray a lesbian relationship without punishment or renunciation. Filmed in 2015 with Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara.

Everyone in the town knows that Santiago Nasar is going to be killed. The Vicario brothers announced it. The narrator reconstructs the hours before the murder, interviewing survivors years later to understand how a community can know a man is about to die and do nothing to stop it. García Márquez's most formally precise work.

The conclusion of the Border Trilogy — John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are both working on a New Mexico cattle ranch in the early 1950s when John Grady falls in love with Magdalena, an epileptic prostitute across the border in Juárez.

Saunders's debut collection establishes his signature mode: corporate dystopia rendered in the language of the corporation itself, with genuine human feeling trying to survive inside systems designed to prevent it. The title story, set in a failing Civil War theme park besieged by gangs, demonstrates the absurdist logic at full stretch. Neither the title story nor the novella 'Bounty' has dated.

Eliot's final novel follows Gwendolen Harleth, who makes a disastrous marriage to a cruel man for financial security, and Daniel Deronda, who discovers his Jewish heritage and commits himself to the Zionist cause — a dual portrait of what English society does to intelligent women and what Jewish identity means.