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Bad Actors

by Mick Herron

4.4

Diana Taverner's position as First Desk is under threat, someone is running a hostile influence operation through Westminster, and the slow horses of Slough House are, as usual, in the middle of something they were never meant to touch.

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4.4

Members of Reacher's old Special Investigations unit are being murdered one by one, and someone has wired $30,000 into Reacher's bank account — the unit's old distress signal. For the first time in the series, Reacher assembles a team to find out who is hunting his people.

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Beartown

by Fredrik Backman

4.4

A small Swedish town has pinned its hopes for survival on its junior hockey team reaching the national semi-finals. The night before the decisive game, something happens at a party that fractures the town — and the fissures reveal everything about what Beartown chooses to value, protect, and sacrifice.

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Breakfast at Tiffany's

by Truman Capote

4.4

Holly Golightly, a young woman from Texas who has reinvented herself as a New York socialite and escort, befriends the unnamed narrator in their brownstone. Capote's most beloved novella is a study of performance, identity, and the particular freedom available to women who refuse to be possessed by anyone.

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Bring Up the Bodies

by Hilary Mantel

4.4

Thomas Cromwell orchestrates the fall of Anne Boleyn so that Henry VIII can pursue Jane Seymour — a second act of court destruction more morally troubling than the first. Winner of the Man Booker Prize.

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Broken Harbor

by Tana French

4.4

Detective Mick 'Scorcher' Kennedy investigates the brutal murder of a young family in a half-built ghost estate — and discovers a connection to his own past he cannot afford to acknowledge.

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Built to Last

by Jim Collins

4.4

A six-year research project examining eighteen visionary companies that had outperformed the general stock market by a factor of 15 since 1926.

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Carry On

by Rainbow Rowell

4.4

Simon Snow is the Chosen One at the Watford School of Magicks — and also the worst student in the school's history. His roommate and nemesis Baz is a vampire who has been missing all term. When Baz returns, the quest to defeat the Insidious Humdrum collides with feelings Simon has been trying to ignore. A deliberate and affectionate riff on the Harry Potter archetype.

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Choose FI

by Chris Mamula

4.4

The Choose FI community's guide to financial independence — optimising income, slashing expenses, tax hacking, and building the portfolio that sets you free.

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City of Heavenly Fire

by Cassandra Clare

4.4

Sebastian Morgenstern's endgame unfolds as he attacks the Institutes across the world, turning Shadowhunters into his Endarkened army. Clary and her friends must descend into the demon realms to stop him — and the cost of the final confrontation will reach into the very foundation of the Shadow World.

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4.4

Jared Diamond examines why some of the world's great civilizations collapsed while others survived, identifying five key factors — environmental damage, climate change, hostile neighbors, lost trading partners, and societal response — that determine a society's fate.

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Consider the Lobster

by David Foster Wallace

4.4

Essay collection including 'Consider the Lobster' on the Maine Lobster Festival and animal pain, a 60-page essay on a usage dictionary, 'Up, Simba' on John McCain's 2000 presidential campaign, and 'Roger Federer as Religious Experience.'

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Crooked House

by Agatha Christie

4.4

When Aristide Leonides, the wealthy patriarch of a three-generation household, is poisoned in his own home, his granddaughter Sophia asks her fiancé Charles Hayward to uncover which family member is responsible. Christie called this one of her personal favourites.

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Defiant

by Brandon Sanderson

4.4

Spensa returns from the Nowhere with new understanding of her cytonic abilities as humanity makes its final stand against the Superiority, and the truth about the Delvers and the nature of consciousness itself must be resolved.

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Demons

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.4

A novel based on a real 1869 political murder — a charismatic revolutionary named Stavrogin and the nihilist cell he inspires drive a provincial Russian town toward catastrophe.

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Echo Park

by Michael Connelly

4.4

A man arrested for a current murder offers a confession to a cold case as a bargaining chip — the 1993 disappearance of Marie Gesto, a case Harry Bosch has never stopped working. But as the confession is entered and the case is closed, Bosch's instincts tell him something is wrong.

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Edgedancer

by Brandon Sanderson

4.4

A novella set between Words of Radiance and Oathbringer, following Lift — an irreverent teenage Radiant who can metabolize food into Stormlight — as she pursues the dangerous Herald Nale through the city of Yeddaw.

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Emily of New Moon

by L.M. Montgomery

4.4

After her father's death, Emily Starr goes to live with her strict Murray aunts at New Moon Farm on Prince Edward Island, where she discovers her calling as a writer and resists every pressure to suppress it.

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Empire of Storms

by Sarah J. Maas

4.4

Aelin races to gather allies and the keys to an ancient power that could seal the portal allowing the Valg to invade her world — while Manon Blackbeak discovers truths about herself that will shatter the life she has always known.

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Faithful Place

by Tana French

4.4

Undercover detective Frank Mackey's carefully constructed life unravels when the suitcase of the girl he loved — and believed had abandoned him twenty-two years ago — is found in a derelict house on Faithful Place.

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Fall of Giants

by Ken Follett

4.4

Five families from England, Germany, Russia, America, and Wales are swept up in the cataclysm of World War One and the Russian Revolution. Follett's Century Trilogy opens with his most ambitious canvas yet — a panoramic story of the early twentieth century told through interconnected lives across five nations.

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Feet of Clay

by Terry Pratchett

4.4

Someone is slowly poisoning the Patrician, and golems are being found smashed in the streets. Sam Vimes investigates both crimes simultaneously while navigating the city's aristocratic politics. At the centre of it all is the question of what a golem is — and whether a creature built to serve can want freedom.

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Field of Prey

by John Sandford

4.4

Lucas Davenport investigates a series of bodies found in an isolated Minnesota field — a killer who has been operating undetected for years in small-town America.

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