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Fight Club

by Chuck Palahniuk

4.4 (1)

An unnamed insomniac narrator forms an underground bare-knuckle fighting club with charismatic soap salesman Tyler Durden, and watches it escalate from transgressive therapy into something far more dangerous. A diagnosis of consumer capitalism and male alienation that became one of the defining cult novels of the 1990s.

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Financial Freedom

by Grant Sabatier

4.4

A proven path to all the money you will ever need, showing how to reach financial independence and retire early through saving, investing, and income growth.

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Fly Away

by Kristin Hannah

4.4

Tully Hart has lost her best friend, her career, and her sense of who she is. Marah — Kate's daughter — is in free fall without her mother. The sequel to Firefly Lane follows both women as they try to piece together lives shattered by loss, finding in each other an unlikely path forward. Picks up directly from Firefly Lane's devastating ending.

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Foundation and Empire

by Isaac Asimov

4.4

The Foundation has survived its first two centuries through Hari Seldon's psychohistory — until the Mule arrives. A mutant of immeasurable mental power, the Mule is the one event psychohistory could not predict, and his conquest of the Foundation threatens to collapse thousands of years of carefully planned history into chaos.

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Giovanni's Room

by James Baldwin

4.4

David, a young American man in Paris, is engaged to Hella but falls into a consuming love affair with Giovanni, an Italian bartender — a passion he cannot accept, a shame he cannot suppress, and a tragedy he might have prevented.

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Golden Fool

by Robin Hobb

4.4

Fitz is Tom Badgerlock, hidden servant to Lord Golden (the Fool in disguise), while navigating court intrigues involving Prince Dutiful, the Piebald conspiracy, and his own complicated feelings about everyone he has to pretend not to care about. The middle volume of the Tawny Man trilogy.

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Gone Tomorrow

by Lee Child

4.4

On a New York City subway at 2am, Reacher spots a woman exhibiting the eleven behavioural signs of a suicide bomber. What follows spirals into a conspiracy reaching back to Afghanistan and forward into a senator's carefully constructed political future.

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4.4

Sasha Jensen, an aging Englishwoman alone in Paris on borrowed money, drinks and remembers and encounters a young man who may be a gigolo. Rhys's fourth novel is the most formally accomplished of her pre-Wide Sargasso Sea work — the stream-of-consciousness narration spirals inward toward a final scene that is simultaneously sexual, violent, and ambiguous. The title is from Emily Dickinson.

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Harrow the Ninth

by Tamsyn Muir

4.4

Harrowhark Nonagesimus has become a Lyctor — one of the Emperor's immortal saints — but her mind is fracturing. She must navigate court politics, buried trauma, and a reality that keeps shifting in ways only she seems to notice.

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Heart Bones

by Colleen Hoover

4.4

Beyah has grown up in poverty and been largely invisible to the world. When she spends one summer at a lake house where wealthy families vacation, she meets Samson — a boy carrying his own grief and secrets. A love story about class difference, survival instinct, and what it means to be truly seen for the first time.

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Home

by Marilynne Robinson

4.4

The companion novel to Gilead retells the same events from the perspective of John Ames's friend Robert Boughton and his prodigal son Jack — who comes home after twenty years of absence bearing a secret that would destroy his father's world.

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Horse

by Geraldine Brooks

4.4

Inspired by the true story of Lexington, the most successful American racehorse of the nineteenth century, Horse moves between antebellum Kentucky, Civil War-era Washington, and present-day New York — examining the intersecting histories of race, art, and the animal whose image persisted while the humans who cared for it were erased from the record.

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Inspired

by Marty Cagan

4.4

The definitive guide to modern technology product management — how the best product teams at companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix discover and deliver products that customers love.

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Leaders Eat Last

by Simon Sinek

4.4

Why some teams pull together and others don't — an investigation into the biology and anthropology of leadership and organisational safety.

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Liberation Day

by George Saunders

4.4

Nine stories from the Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo — set in dystopian near-futures, historical pasts, and uncanny present moments — exploring power, complicity, compassion, and the specific moral failures of ordinary people under pressure.

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Lives of the Stoics

by Ryan Holiday

4.4

Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman profile twenty-six Stoic philosophers — from Zeno of Citium to Marcus Aurelius — examining how each lived, and how each often fell short of the principles they taught. The book treats the Stoics as flawed human beings rather than marble icons, which makes their philosophy more honest and more usable.

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Lord Jim

by Joseph Conrad

4.4

Jim, a first mate on a passenger ship, abandons eight hundred Muslim pilgrims during an apparent emergency — and must spend the rest of his life with the knowledge of what he did. Conrad's novel of cowardice, guilt, and the impossibility of redemption is narrated by Marlow, who reconstructs Jim's story from fragments.

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Lords and Ladies

by Terry Pratchett

4.4

The elves are returning to Lancre — and Pratchett's elves are nothing like Tolkien's. They are beautiful, pitiless, and feed on human misery. Granny Weatherwax faces the most powerful adversary of her career while Magrat Garlick prepares to marry King Verence. The novel that restored elves to their original folkloric terror.

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Loving What Is

by Byron Katie

4.4

Byron Katie presents The Work — a four-question inquiry method that dismantles stressful thoughts and reveals the peace that remains when we stop arguing with reality.

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Make Me

by Lee Child

4.4

Reacher stops at a town called Mother's Rest with no reason other than curiosity about the name. A journalist searching for a missing colleague pulls him into something far darker — a secret that explains the town's strange, unsettled atmosphere and that proves to be genuinely horrifying.

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Mama's Last Hug

by Frans de Waal

4.4

Frans de Waal uses the filmed farewell between a dying chimpanzee named Mama and a human friend she had known for decades to explore the science of animal emotions — arguing that the emotional lives of non-human animals are more complex, more varied, and more continuous with human emotional experience than most scientific orthodoxy acknowledges.

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Momofuku

by David Chang

4.4

David Chang's memoir and cookbook tells the story of how a Korean-American chef opened a ramen shop with almost no money and built one of the most influential restaurant empires in American culinary history.

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Monstrous Regiment

by Terry Pratchett

4.4

Polly Perks disguises herself as a boy to join the army and find her missing brother. Her regiment — the last hope of a small nation losing a war — is full of soldiers who seem to be hiding their own secrets. Pratchett's most overtly political Discworld novel takes on war, religion, patriotism, and gender with characteristic wit.

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My Cousin Rachel

by Daphne du Maurier

4.4

Philip Ashley becomes obsessed with Rachel — the widow who may have poisoned his cousin Ambrose in Italy and who may now be poisoning Philip. Du Maurier's most disturbing novel is an exercise in sustained ambiguity that never resolves.

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