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Winning the Loser's Game

by Charles Ellis

4.4

The investment classic arguing that for most investors, the winning strategy is to stop trying to beat the market and instead minimise costs, taxes, and mistakes.

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Winter Garden

by Kristin Hannah

4.4

Two sisters discover their cold, distant mother was once something entirely different — a young woman in Leningrad during the Siege, telling a fairy tale that is really the story of her own survival. Alternating between contemporary Oregon and wartime Soviet Russia, Winter Garden is about secrets kept across generations.

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Work Optional

by Tanja Hester

4.4

A guide to designing a financially independent life where work is a choice, not a necessity — covering early retirement, semi-retirement, and career pivots.

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Yours Truly

by Abby Jimenez

4.4

Two rival doctors begin a fake relationship to fend off their respective annoying ex and overbearing family — and discover, via a series of increasingly heartfelt letters, that their feelings have stopped being fictional.

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Zodiac Academy: Ruthless Fae

by Caroline Peckham

4.4

The Vega twins return to Zodiac Academy for their second semester — and the Heirs' campaign to break them intensifies even as unexpected alliances and undeniable attractions begin to complicate everything.

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A Crown of Swords

by Robert Jordan

4.3

In the aftermath of Dumai's Wells, Rand hunts the Forsaken Sammael in Illian while Mat and Elayne seek the Bowl of the Winds in Ebou Dar. The series' political complexity deepens as the Dragon Reborn's actions reshape nations.

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A Death in the Family

by Karl Ove Knausgaard

4.3

The first volume of Karl Ove Knausgaard's epic six-book autobiographical cycle My Struggle. Moving between childhood, adolescence, and the bleak aftermath of his father's death, Knausgaard turns the raw material of his own ordinary life into an addictive, searingly honest meditation on memory, family, and grief.

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4.3

The direct sequel to A Psalm for the Wild-Built — Sibling Dex and the robot Mosscap leave the wilderness and enter the human world, where Mosscap asks its central question: what do people need?

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A Room with a View

by E.M. Forster

4.3

Lucy Honeychurch travels to Florence with her cousin and chaperone, encounters a room with a view and a young man who insists on honesty, and discovers that choosing her own life is harder than she expected.

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4.3

Wallace's first essay collection includes his piece on the Illinois State Fair, an extended essay on David Lynch, 'E Unibus Pluram' on television and American fiction, and the title essay on a Caribbean cruise — the funniest and most formally inventive piece of literary journalism of the 1990s.

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A Woman's Story

by Annie Ernaux

4.3

Ernaux's account of her mother — a woman who left the rural working class through running a café-grocery in Normandy, who was proud but not educated, who developed Alzheimer's late in life. Written after her mother's death, it is also a reckoning with class, ambition, and the distance that education creates.

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Abaddon's Gate

by James S.A. Corey

4.3

The protomolecule has constructed a massive ring gate beyond Uranus. A fleet of ships from all three factions converges on it, and inside the ring is something that will change humanity's relationship with the universe permanently.

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Adulthood Rites

by Octavia E. Butler

4.3

The second book of the Lilith's Brood (Xenogenesis) trilogy. Akin, the first male human-Oankali construct, is born into a transformed Earth and kidnapped by human resisters, growing up between two species and forced to decide what humanity deserves.

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All American Boys

by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely

4.3

A powerful, dual-narrated YA novel about a police beating and its aftermath. Rashad, a Black teenager, is brutalized by a white officer who wrongly assumes he is shoplifting; Quinn, a white classmate, witnesses it. Told in their alternating voices, the novel traces how one act of violence forces a community to choose where it stands.

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All Fours

by Miranda July

4.3

A semi-autobiographical novel in which a woman in her mid-forties, setting out on a cross-country drive, checks into a motel forty-five minutes from home and stays — becoming obsessed with a young man at a rental car counter and transformed by what perimenopause and desire are doing to her body and mind.

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All Your Worth

by Elizabeth Warren

4.3

Elizabeth Warren and her daughter present the 50/30/20 budget — allocating 50% of income to needs, 30% to wants, and 20% to savings — as the foundation of financial security.

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4.3

Senior year, college applications, and the question of what happens to Lara Jean and Peter when they go to different schools — or don't. The trilogy's conclusion navigates the practical anxieties of senior year with the same emotional clarity that made the first two books work, and brings Lara Jean's story to a warm, considered close.

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Anansi Boys

by Neil Gaiman

4.3

Fat Charlie Nancy has always been mortified by his embarrassing father — who turns out to have been Anansi, the African spider god of stories. When Charlie's estranged brother Spider shows up after their father's death, the deity's mischief-making powers come with him, and Charlie's ordinary life is invaded by mythology, magic, and consequences.

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Ancillary Mercy

by Ann Leckie

4.3

The conclusion of the Imperial Radch trilogy: Breq faces a choice between the survival of her ship and crew and the larger question of what kind of empire the Radch should become.

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Anne of Avonlea

by L.M. Montgomery

4.3

Anne Shirley is now sixteen and a teacher at Avonlea school, navigating new friendships, her growing responsibilities at Green Gables, and the same imaginative intensity that has always defined her.

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Another Country

by James Baldwin

4.3

Baldwin's sprawling novel of race, sexuality, and grief in 1950s New York begins with the suicide of jazz drummer Rufus Scott and follows the reverberations through his circle of friends — Black and white, gay and straight — as each tries to find love across the divisions that American life makes almost impossible to cross.

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Anthills of the Savannah

by Chinua Achebe

4.3

Three friends from school — Sam, who has become a military dictator; Chris, his Information Commissioner; and Ikem, a poet and newspaper editor — find themselves on opposite sides of an impossible situation in the fictional West African state of Kangan. Achebe's final novel, written after twenty years of silence, is his most formally experimental and his most searching account of the failure of African independence.

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