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The Space Between Worlds

by Micaiah Johnson

4.4

Cara can travel to parallel Earths — but only to those where her alternate selves are already dead. She's valuable precisely because she has died in so many other realities, and the wealthy corporation that employs her uses this to harvest resources from parallel worlds. Until she visits a world where she discovers why so many of her other selves have died young — and who is responsible.

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The Subtle Knife

by Philip Pullman

4.4

Will Parry crosses into a world with a city called Cittagazze and encounters Lyra Belacqua. He finds the Subtle Knife — a blade that can cut windows between worlds. The middle volume of His Dark Materials expands the multiverse and introduces the concept of Dust as a contested force between science and religion.

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The Sunlit Man

by Brandon Sanderson

4.4

Nomad is a man who can never stop moving — on a world where the sun kills everything it touches, and the only survival is to keep ahead of the terminator line. When he's drawn into the struggles of the planet's oppressed population, stopping means death, but abandoning them feels like its own kind of dying.

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The Sword of Summer

by Rick Riordan

4.4

A homeless Boston teen dies on his sixteenth birthday and wakes in a Norse afterlife of warriors and doomed gods. Rick Riordan trades Olympus for Asgard in a fast, funny adventure that reinvents Viking myth for a new generation of readers.

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The Tower of Nero

by Rick Riordan

4.4

Apollo and Meg return to New York for a final reckoning with Nero and the snake-god Python. Rick Riordan closes The Trials of Apollo, and a decade of Camp Half-Blood adventures, with a finale of courage, humor, and a god's hard-won understanding of mortality.

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The Trespasser

by Tana French

4.4

Detective Antoinette Conway and her partner Stephen Moran catch what looks like a routine domestic killing — but someone in the Murder Squad is pushing hard to close the case fast, and Conway can't tell who to trust.

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The Valley of Fear

by Arthur Conan Doyle

4.4

A cipher message leads Holmes to Birlstone Manor and a suspicious death, before the novel pivots to the Pennsylvania coalfields and the brutal secret society known as the Scowrers. The fourth and final Holmes novel draws on the real Molly Maguires to give its American backstory genuine historical weight.

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The Vampire Lestat

by Anne Rice

4.4

Lestat de Lioncourt — the vampire Louis blamed for everything — tells his own story, from an 18th-century French nobleman to a rock star in 1980s New Orleans, revealing the origins of the vampire race and the secrets Louis never knew.

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The War of Art

by Steven Pressfield

4.4

Steven Pressfield names the force that stops creative work — Resistance — and provides a philosophical framework for overcoming it through professional discipline.

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The Warren Buffett Way

by Robert Hagstrom

4.4

An analysis of Warren Buffett's investment principles and the business tenets, financial tenets, and management qualities he looks for before buying a company.

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The Wee Free Men

by Terry Pratchett

4.4

Nine-year-old Tiffany Aching, armed with a frying pan and ferocious common sense, ventures into Fairyland to rescue her stolen brother. Her only allies are the Nac Mac Feegle — tiny, blue, drunken, sword-swinging pictsies. The first Tiffany Aching adventure and a Discworld gateway for all ages.

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The Well of Ascension

by Brandon Sanderson

4.4

With the Lord Ruler dead, Elend Venture struggles to hold together a fragile new government while Vin faces threats from within and without — and begins to question the prophecy that supposedly guides them.

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The Zone of Interest

by Martin Amis

4.4

Set at a German concentration camp modelled on Auschwitz, Martin Amis's novel is narrated by three characters — a disgraced SS officer posted to the camp, the commandant's wife who begins to see the reality around her, and a Sonderkommando who bears witness — in a style that deploys Amis's characteristic dark comedy against the backdrop of industrial murder.

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Thief of Time

by Terry Pratchett

4.4

A clockmaker is commissioned to build a perfect clock that would stop time, bringing the Auditors of Reality one step closer to a universe without the messy unpredictability of life. The History Monks dispatch Lu-Tze, a sweeper with a formidable past, and his new apprentice Lobsang Ludd to prevent it. Death's granddaughter Susan is also involved.

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Thud!

by Terry Pratchett

4.4

A dwarf demagogue is murdered as Ankh-Morpork's dwarfs and trolls edge toward riot over an ancient battle. Commander Vimes must solve the killing before the city explodes — and he must, no matter what, be home by six to read his son Where's My Cow? A late Watch masterpiece.

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Traveling Mercies

by Anne Lamott

4.4

Anne Lamott's spiritual memoir traces her journey from alcoholism and despair to faith, motherhood, and community — a funny, honest, and fiercely unsentimental account of finding grace in the most ordinary places.

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Twisted Games

by Ana Huang

4.4

Princess Bridget of Eldorra has a bodyguard named Rhys who has one rule: don't fall for the client. He's good at his job and bad at that rule. A royal forced-proximity romance that takes the bodyguard trope and leans into its inherent power dynamics without ignoring them — Bridget is also subject to the rules of a royal institution that has opinions about who she loves.

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Twisted Lies

by Ana Huang

4.4

Stella Chen is a social media influencer with a stalker she is trying to ignore. Christian Harper is a billionaire with secrets he is trying to keep. When Stella needs protection and Christian needs a cover story, they strike a deal that is supposed to be purely transactional — but the arrangement keeps evolving into something neither planned for.

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4.4

Wallace Price was a ruthless lawyer who worked himself to death. Now he is a ghost, refusing to cross over, being escorted to a tea shop in a small town where a ferryman named Hugo helps the dead accept their deaths. Under the Whispering Door is about learning, too late and then not too late, what makes a life worth living.

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Vengeful

by V.E. Schwab

4.4

Five years after Vicious, Victor Vale is still evading capture and hunting Eli, while a new ExtraOrdinary named Marcella Riggins rises with destruction at her fingertips and an agenda of her own. Three storylines converge in Schwab's expansion of the Villains universe — a world where everyone with powers has reasons to use them.

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Vicious

by V.E. Schwab

4.4

Victor Vale and Eli Ever were college roommates and best friends — until their thesis research on near-death experiences led them to discover how to grant humans extraordinary powers. Ten years later, Victor has escaped from prison with one goal: to find the man who put him there and kill him. A superhero story told from the villain's perspective.

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Vile Bodies

by Evelyn Waugh

4.4

The Bright Young Things of 1920s London party relentlessly while Adam Fenwick-Symes tries and fails to marry Nina. Waugh's second novel captures the feverish emptiness of the interwar generation with satirical accuracy that becomes, by the end, something closer to despair.

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We Were Eight Years in Power

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.4

A collection of Ta-Nehisi Coates's most important essays from the Obama years, each introduced with a new personal reflection, tracing both the trajectory of his thinking about race in America and the arc from Obama's election to Trump's — arguing that white supremacy was the connective tissue between both.

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