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The Silmarillion

by J.R.R. Tolkien

4.2

The mythological history of Middle-earth, from the creation of the world by the god-like Ainur through the ages of the Elves, the forging of the Silmarils, and the great wars of the First Age — assembled posthumously by Christopher Tolkien from his father's lifelong writings.

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The Stolen Heir

by Holly Black

4.2

Set eight years after The Queen of Nothing, a new protagonist — Oak, the young prince of Elfhame — ventures into the north to recover a kidnapped human girl. What he finds is Suren, the former Queen of the Unseelie Court, living as an exile with a power she cannot control. A new duology in the Elfhame world begins.

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4.2

A grieving, difficult bookshop owner on a small island finds his life transformed when a toddler is left among his stacks — a sentimental, intelligent novel about books, community, and the surprising arcs of human lives.

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4.2

In an overcrowded future Earth, colonists escape their misery through illegal hallucinations mediated by a corporate drug called Can-D. When the magnate Palmer Eldritch returns from Proxima Centauri with a new drug called Chew-Z, reality itself becomes uncertain — because Chew-Z hallucinations may not be hallucinations at all. Dick's most theologically disturbing novel.

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The Tin Drum

by Günter Grass

4.2

Oskar Matzerath, narrating from a mental institution, recounts how at age three he decided to stop growing, and how he witnessed the rise of Nazism, World War II, and the collapse of Danzig through the perspective of a child in an adult world — beating his tin drum and shattering glass with his voice.

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4.2

Rowan Caine writes a letter from prison, claiming to be innocent of the child's death she is accused of. She was a nanny at a remote Scottish smart-house — a high-tech home that watched her every move, recorded every conversation, and whose previous nannies kept leaving without explanation. A locked-room thriller for the surveillance age.

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The Water Dancer

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.2

Ta-Nehisi Coates's debut novel follows Hiram Walker, a enslaved young man in antebellum Virginia who discovers he possesses a mysterious power called Conduction — a magical ability linked to memory and loss — and who becomes involved with the Underground Railroad.

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4.2

Drawing on fifty years of fieldwork in New Guinea, Jared Diamond examines what traditional societies — in conflict resolution, child-rearing, diet, aging, multilingualism, and religion — can teach the modern world, and what we have lost in the transition to state societies.

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4.2

Nine stories, most narrated by Yunior, about the serial infidelity that destroys his relationships. Díaz's second collection extends the world of Drown and Oscar Wao into a sustained examination of masculinity, Dominican machismo, and the specific ways men sabotage the love they need.

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This Savage Song

by V.E. Schwab

4.2

In Verity, violence creates monsters — literally. Kate Harker is the ruthless daughter of the man who runs half the city by selling monster protection. August Flynn is a Sunai, a monster who feeds on souls — and who desperately wants to be human. When they become unlikely allies, the line between predator and prey disappears.

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4.2

Eloise Bridgerton has been writing letters to a widowed botanist for months. When she decides to meet Sir Phillip Crane in person, she discovers that a man on paper and a man in a home are not the same man at all.

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Ubik

by Philip K. Dick

4.2

Joe Chip works for a psychic-shielding agency in a world of commercial telepaths, until a bomb blast sends his team into a reality that keeps regressing — a mind-bending exploration of reality, death, and consumerism.

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Under the Tuscan Sun

by Frances Mayes

4.2

Frances Mayes, a poet and university professor, buys a ruined villa in the Tuscan hills, restores it with her partner Ed, and discovers the rhythms of Italian rural life — its food, its seasons, its ancient craftsmanship, and its unhurried beauty.

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Washington Square

by Henry James

4.2

A plain, good-natured heiress in 1840s New York is courted by a charming fortune hunter — with her sardonic, brilliant father watching and diagnosing everything.

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When He Was Wicked

by Julia Quinn

4.2

Michael Stirling falls in love with Francesca Bridgerton at first sight — and discovers that she is about to marry his cousin. This is the darkest, most formally daring novel in the Bridgerton series.

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4.1

Twenty-one meditations on pressing questions of our time — from artificial intelligence and political disillusionment to terrorism, nationalism, and the challenge of staying sane in the information age.

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4 3 2 1

by Paul Auster

4.1

Archibald Isaac Ferguson is born in 1947 in Newark, New Jersey — and Auster follows four parallel versions of his life, diverging from the same starting point based on small accidents of circumstance, through the turbulent American 1960s and into the early 1970s.

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A Drink Before the War

by Dennis Lehane

4.1

Boston private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are hired to find a missing government worker who stole documents from a state senator. What begins as a routine job draws them into Dorchester's gang wars, racial politics, and the violence that underlies South Boston's civic surface.

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A Feast for Crows

by George R.R. Martin

4.1

In the aftermath of the Red Wedding and the fall of King's Landing, power vacuums open across Westeros. Cersei Lannister consolidates control in the capital, Brienne of Tarth searches for the Stark girls, and Arya begins her training with the Faceless Men in Braavos — while the Iron Islands hold a kingsmoot that will reshape the shape of the war.

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A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

by Jennifer L. Armentrout

4.1

Poppy has been taken captive and must survive with Hawke — revealed as Hawke Flynn, a Prince and not the Royal Guard she believed him to be. With truths unravelling around her, Poppy must decide who to trust in a kingdom that has kept her blind.

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4.1

On a far-future moon where humanity has retreated to let nature reclaim the continent, a tea monk named Dex leaves their comfortable life seeking something they can't name. In the wilderness, they encounter Mosscap — a robot who wants to understand what humans need. A Hugo Award-winning novella of gentle philosophy.

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A Room of One's Own

by Virginia Woolf

4.1

Woolf's extended essay argues that a woman must have money and a room of her own to write fiction. Through invention, irony, and a fictional woman narrator, she examines why women have historically been excluded from literary culture — and what would change if they weren't.

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A Swiftly Tilting Planet

by Madeleine L'Engle

4.1

Charles Wallace, now fifteen, travels through time on the back of the unicorn Gaudior to change the course of history and prevent a nuclear war, while Meg participates from a distance through kything — a form of telepathic sharing.

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