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Jack

by Marilynne Robinson

4.3

Jack Boughton and Della Miles, a Black schoolteacher, meet in St. Louis in the late 1940s and fall in love in a state where their relationship is illegal.

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Just for the Summer

by Abby Jimenez

4.3

Emma and Justin have a theory: the person they date before each of their subsequent relationships always goes on to find their perfect match. They agree to date each other for the summer — just to break the curse — with a strict expiration date.

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King of Scars

by Leigh Bardugo

4.3

King Nikolai Lantsov of Ravka battles a dark curse living within him while navigating the political threats gathering at his borders — and two women he trusts with his kingdom but not his secret.

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Layla

by Colleen Hoover

4.3

Leeds and Layla fall in love, but after a violent incident at a bed and breakfast leaves Layla with a changed personality, Leeds returns to the B&B alone. There he meets a ghost named Willow — and the situation becomes stranger and more morally complicated than he anticipated. Hoover's most genre-defying novel.

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Lie Down in Darkness

by William Styron

4.3

The Loftis family of Port Warwick, Virginia, is disintegrating: the father drinks, the mother is cold, the beautiful daughter Peyton has been driven mad by the love and hatred of both parents. Styron's first novel — written in the shadow of Faulkner but not trapped by it — is the most accomplished American debut novel of the postwar period, and its account of Peyton's stream-of-consciousness interior monologue rivals the master's best.

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Life's Too Short

by Abby Jimenez

4.3

Vanessa lives fully and chaotically, making impulsive decisions and oversharing her life online as a social media personality. Adrian is a serious lawyer who has just moved in next door and is unimpressed by either her lifestyle or her volume. A forced-proximity romance about what happens when two philosophies of life collide in a hallway.

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Lirael

by Garth Nix

4.3

Lirael is a Daughter of the Clayr who has not received the Sight — the gift that defines her people. While she searches for her identity in the Great Library of the Clayr, Prince Sameth struggles with a destiny he doesn't want. The second book in the Old Kingdom series deepens its extraordinary world.

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Long Way Round

by Ewan McGregor & Charley Boorman

4.3

Actor Ewan McGregor and his friend Charley Boorman ride motorcycles east from London through Europe, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Siberia, and Alaska to New York — 31,000 miles through some of the most extreme terrain on earth.

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MaddAddam

by Margaret Atwood

4.3

The conclusion of the MaddAddam Trilogy — survivors of the waterless flood, including the Crakers (Crake's genetically engineered humans), form an uneasy community. Toby must tell the Crakers stories about the old world as they all try to build something new.

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Magician: Master

by Raymond E. Feist

4.3

The second half of the original Magician novel: Pug becomes the great magician Milamber in the Tsurani world while Thomas rises to lead the elves and becomes something more than human. The Riftwar reaches its climax as two worlds are drawn toward war or reconciliation.

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Metabolical

by Robert Lustig

4.3

Robert Lustig argues that chronic disease is driven by processed food and metabolic dysfunction — and that the current medical and food industry response actively worsens the problem.

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Mortal Engines

by Philip Reeve

4.3

In a far-future world where cities have been mounted on enormous wheels and move across a barren landscape devouring smaller towns for resources, young historian Tom Natsworthy is thrown from London and must survive alongside a scarred girl who wants to assassinate London's most powerful man.

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Mules and Men

by Zora Neale Hurston

4.3

Hurston's collection of Southern Black folklore — gathered during fieldwork in Florida and Louisiana in the early 1930s — is both a scholarly work of anthropology and a literary performance. The tales, sayings, and voodoo practices are presented inside a frame narrative that shows how the material was collected.

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My Ántonia

by Willa Cather

4.3

Jim Burden looks back on the Bohemian immigrant girl who defined his Nebraska childhood and shaped everything he has become.

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Neverwhere

by Neil Gaiman

4.3

Richard Mayhew helps a wounded girl on a London street and falls through the cracks of reality into London Below — a dark mirror city beneath the streets, populated by the people society forgot.

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Night Flight

by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

4.3

Three mail pilots fly dangerous night routes over South America while their director, Rivière, drives them beyond human limits in service of a vision of what aviation can be — a meditation on duty, mortality, and the cost of achievement.

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Night School

by Lee Child

4.3

Hamburg, 1996. Reacher is pulled from his regular Army assignment and placed in a clandestine inter-agency team — the so-called night school — tasked with identifying an unknown buyer who is about to pay $100 million for something unknown. A prequel-in-spirit showing Reacher at his military peak.

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No One Writes to the Colonel

by Gabriel García Márquez

4.3

An elderly colonel waits, every week, for a pension that has been promised but never arrives. He has waited for fifteen years. His wife is ill, their money is nearly gone, and their only valuable possession is a fighting rooster that may be their last chance at financial survival. García Márquez's most restrained and most heartbreaking novella.

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Norse Mythology

by Neil Gaiman

4.3

Neil Gaiman retells the Norse myths — from the creation of the Nine Worlds to Ragnarök — in his own voice, bringing the gods of the northern tradition vividly to life.

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Old Man's War

by John Scalzi

4.3

On his 75th birthday, John Perry enlists in an interstellar military that promises old soldiers a new young body — but at a cost he couldn't have imagined.

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Our Dark Duet

by V.E. Schwab

4.3

Six months after This Savage Song, Kate and August are in different cities, changed by what they survived. A new kind of monster — one that neither side of Verity created — emerges, and the only way to face it requires both of them to confront what they're becoming. The Monsters of Verity duology concludes.

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Packing for Mars

by Mary Roach

4.3

The actual science and logistics of sending human beings into space — what zero gravity does to the body, how astronauts eat and use the toilet, the psychology of confinement, the history of space medicine research, and why Mars is significantly harder than the moon.

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Past Tense

by Lee Child

4.3

Reacher decides to visit the New Hampshire town where his father was born — and finds no record of the Reacher family ever existing there. Simultaneously, a young Canadian couple becomes trapped at a remote motel where nothing is as it appears. A rare entry in the series that invites the reader to think about who Reacher really is.

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Personal

by Lee Child

4.3

A near-impossible sniper shot attempted against the French president — from 1,400 yards — points to one of four living marksmen, including Reacher's old adversary John Kott. Reacher is sent to Paris and London to find the shooter before a G8 summit becomes a killing ground.

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