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Ancillary Sword

by Ann Leckie

4.2

The sequel to Ancillary Justice: Breq, now a Ship Captain, is sent to a remote station to maintain order while the Radch empire tears itself apart over its ruler's divided consciousness.

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Anne's House of Dreams

by L.M. Montgomery

4.2

Newly married, Anne and Gilbert settle in their dream home by the sea in Four Winds Harbour, where Anne befriends the tragic and beautiful Leslie Moore and the loveable ship's captain Jim Boyd.

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Appointment with Death

by Agatha Christie

4.2

An American family on holiday in Petra, Jordan, is controlled by a tyrannical matriarch, Mrs Boynton. When she is found dead at an archaeological dig, Poirot must determine which of her long-oppressed family members finally snapped.

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Arrowsmith

by Sinclair Lewis

4.2

Martin Arrowsmith, a doctor and scientist, moves through the American medical world — country practice, public health, pharmaceutical research — trying to maintain his commitment to pure science against the commercial and social pressures that corrupt everything around him. Lewis's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is his most sympathetic — Arrowsmith is the only Lewis hero who earns genuine admiration — and the most thorough of his institutional satires.

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Attachments

by Rainbow Rowell

4.2

It's 1999 and Lincoln works the night shift reading flagged emails at a newspaper — intercepting private conversations between two friends, Beth and Jennifer, who have no idea anyone is reading. As Lincoln falls in love with Beth through her emails without ever meeting her, Rowell's debut raises uncomfortable questions about connection, voyeurism, and what it means to know someone.

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Beyond Order

by Jordan B. Peterson

4.2

The follow-up to 12 Rules for Life, offering twelve new principles focused on navigating the dangers of too much order — rigid thinking, bureaucratic tyranny, and the stagnation of the over-controlled life.

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Birds Without Wings

by Louis de Bernières

4.2

In a small Turkish village in Anatolia, Christians and Muslims have lived together for centuries — until WWI, Gallipoli, the Greek-Turkish War, and the population exchanges of the 1920s destroy everything. A companion in scope and grief to Captain Corelli's Mandolin.

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Black Swan Green

by David Mitchell

4.2

Thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor navigates a year of his life in a small Worcestershire village in 1982 — a stammer, a dissolving marriage, and the specific brutality of adolescent social hierarchies.

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Blood Meridian

by Cormac McCarthy

4.2

A nameless teenager joins a gang of mercenary scalp-hunters in the 1850s Southwest, entering a world of almost incomprehensible violence presided over by the monstrous Judge Holden.

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Blue Mars

by Kim Stanley Robinson

4.2

The conclusion of Robinson's Mars trilogy — Mars is now green and blue, the terraforming essentially complete. The political, ecological, and personal questions opened by Red Mars and Green Mars are resolved, as the original colonists age and the generation they created comes into its own.

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Calamity

by Brandon Sanderson

4.2

The Reckoners track the source of Epic powers to Ildithia — the former Atlanta — and David confronts the cosmic force behind Calamity itself, with the future of both Epics and ordinary humans at stake.

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Captain Blood

by Rafael Sabatini

4.2

Peter Blood, an Irish physician unjustly condemned for treason after the Monmouth Rebellion of 1685, is transported to Barbados as a slave and ultimately escapes to become the Caribbean's most celebrated — and principled — pirate captain.

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Cat's Cradle

by Kurt Vonnegut

4.2

A writer researching the life of the atomic bomb's inventor discovers ice-nine — a form of water that freezes solid at room temperature — in the hands of dangerous and careless people. Vonnegut's darkest comedy.

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Childhood's End

by Arthur C. Clarke

4.2

Alien Overlords arrive over Earth and usher in an unprecedented era of peace and prosperity — but the price is humanity's future.

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Children of Ruin

by Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.2

The spiders of Kern's World encounter an alien civilization of uplifted cephalopods — octopuses who have evolved sapience along entirely different lines. Tchaikovsky's sequel to Children of Time raises the stakes and deepens the alien cognition that made its predecessor so extraordinary.

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4.2

The maji have their powers back — but so do the kosidan nobles who once oppressed them. As civil war breaks out across Orïsha, Zélie and Amari must fight enemies on multiple fronts, including each other. The second book in the Legacy of Orïsha trilogy deepens the world's moral complexity and raises the cost of revolution.

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Cibola Burn

by James S.A. Corey

4.2

The first human colony on an exoplanet beyond the ring gates faces a conflict between Belter settlers who arrived first and a corporate expedition claiming legal authority — while the planet itself wakes up.

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City of Ashes

by Cassandra Clare

4.2

Clary Fray must protect those she loves as Valentine prepares to raise a demon army, while the revelation about her relationship to Jace casts a shadow over everything.

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Contact

by Carl Sagan

4.2

SETI researcher Ellie Arroway detects a signal from the star Vega containing construction plans for a mysterious machine. Sagan's only novel is a rigorous and emotionally powerful exploration of first contact, faith versus science, and what humanity might say about itself to the universe.

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Crossing the Chasm

by Geoffrey A. Moore

4.2

The definitive guide to the critical gap in technology adoption — the chasm between early adopters and the mainstream market — and how to cross it.

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Cytonic

by Brandon Sanderson

4.2

Spensa enters the Nowhere — a dimension outside normal space-time — to master her cytonic abilities and find a way to save humanity from the Superiority, encountering fragments of ancient civilizations and the truth about why cytonics are feared.

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Daughter of Fortune

by Isabel Allende

4.2

Eliza Sommers, a young Chilean woman, follows her lover to California during the Gold Rush of 1849 and, dressed as a man, makes her way across a country shaped by greed, violence, and the collision of races and cultures. Allende's most adventurous novel in structure — a picaresque across two continents.

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Dear John

by Nicholas Sparks

4.2

John Tyree is a soldier on leave when he meets Savannah Curtis during a summer on the Carolina coast. Their brief romance deepens through years of letters — until the world changes and the letters stop coming. A love story about what happens when duty and desire pull in opposite directions.

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Doctor Zhivago

by Boris Pasternak

4.2

Set against the upheavals of the Russian Revolution, World War I, and the ensuing Civil War, Doctor Zhivago follows the poet-physician Yuri Zhivago and his consuming love for Larissa Antipova across years of revolution, separation, and survival in a Russia being remade against its own will.

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