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Crime journalist Camille Preaker is sent back to her small Missouri hometown to cover the murders of two young girls, and back into the orbit of her controlling mother Adora and half-sister Amma. Flynn's debut is a novel about women's violence against women, and the ways trauma writes itself permanently on the body.

US Marshal Teddy Daniels arrives at Ashecliffe Hospital for the criminally insane on Shutter Island to investigate the disappearance of a patient — and finds himself questioning his own grip on reality as the investigation deepens and the island refuses to give up its secrets.

Alina Starkov is on the run from the Darkling — the powerful Grisha commander who wants to use her light-summoning abilities to control all of Ravka. Seeking safety at sea, she instead discovers a new amplifier and a privateer named Sturmhond whose motives are far more complicated than they appear.

Rico joins the Terran Mobile Infantry to fight in an interstellar war against insectoid aliens. Heinlein's Hugo-winning novel is a passionate defence of civic virtue, military service, and the idea that citizenship must be earned — one of SF's most celebrated and most debated books.

An examination of why we care so much about our position in the social hierarchy — and a survey of the philosophers, artists, and thinkers who have offered alternatives to that anxiety.

Three people — a suburban mother hiding her past, a detective haunted by an unsolved case, and a paparazzo watching a nightclub — are all circling the same disappearance from seventeen years ago.

Alicia Western, Bobby's sister, checks herself into a psychiatric facility in Wisconsin in 1972. The entire novel is her dialogues with her psychiatrist: mathematics, consciousness, the nature of reality, and her decision to die.

Harry Haller, a middle-aged intellectual who believes himself to be half-man and half-wolf — the Steppenwolf — is drawn by a young woman named Hermine into a world of dance, pleasure, and eventually the surreal Magic Theatre, where he must confront the multiplicity of selves he has denied.

Three novellas bound by common themes: a child left by his parents with a group of dubious characters in suburban Paris; a writer who reconstructs the people his father knew in the Paris underworld; an attempt to recover a woman who appears and disappears across decades. Modiano's most autobiographically transparent fiction.

Bryon and Mark have been inseparable since childhood — more brothers than friends — but as they move into their mid-teens, Bryon begins to change in ways that will make their bond impossible to sustain.

A satellite crashes in rural Arizona, and everyone in the nearest town is dead within minutes. A team of scientists races to a secret underground lab to identify and contain an extraterrestrial microorganism before it escapes — and before the government's nuclear failsafe triggers and makes everything catastrophically worse.

A chemical company facing a massive jury verdict quietly funds the election of a handpicked judge to the Mississippi Supreme Court, ensuring a favourable ruling on appeal. Grisham's most overtly political novel strips legal fiction of its heroics to expose the machinery of judicial corruption.

A catalogue of 99 cognitive errors, logical fallacies, and psychological biases — from confirmation bias and survivorship bias to the sunk cost fallacy — presented as short, standalone chapters with vivid examples.

The conclusion of the Atlas trilogy: the Alexandrians must face the full consequences of the choices they made across the first two books, with the fate of the Society — and the world's accumulated knowledge — in the balance. Blake resolves the question of who among the six can be trusted and at what cost.

Ricardo Somocurcio, a Peruvian exile in Paris, has loved the same woman since he was fifteen—a woman who appears and disappears, reinventing herself as a Peruvian guerrilla, a Cuban revolutionary, a diplomat's wife, a gangster's moll. Each time she returns she uses him and leaves. Vargas Llosa's most Flaubert-influenced novel.

Gerald Durrell's account of his second animal-collecting expedition to the British Cameroons in 1949, and his extraordinary friendship with the Fon of Bafut — a remarkable ruler with a taste for whisky and dancing.

Taylor Greer leaves rural Kentucky driving west, and ends up in Tucson, Arizona, unexpectedly with a Native American toddler left in her care. She makes a life with the child, forms a family with her neighbour Mattie and Guatemalan refugee Lou Ann, and confronts what it means to be responsible for another person.

Anthony Patch, heir to a great fortune, and his beautiful wife Gloria dazzle New York society while waiting for Anthony's grandfather to die. The wait — and the drinking and the parties — destroy them both before the inheritance arrives.

A girl's impulsive act in 1984 draws her into a centuries-long conflict between two secret factions; the novel spans her entire life across six decades.

David Zimmer loses his wife and sons in a plane crash and, through grief, becomes obsessed with the silent films of Hector Mann, a forgotten comedian from the 1920s — until a letter arrives claiming that Mann is still alive.

When a series of brutal murders in Copenhagen is linked by small figures made of chestnuts left at each scene, detectives Naia Thulin and Mark Hess discover a connection to the missing daughter of a prominent politician — a girl who has been gone for a year and is assumed dead.

Fiona Maye, a High Court judge in London, must rule on whether a seventeen-year-old Jehovah's Witness may refuse a life-saving blood transfusion on religious grounds. The case intersects with the collapse of her marriage.

The first Discworld novel follows the hapless failed wizard Rincewind and the naive tourist Twoflower across a flat world balanced on the backs of four elephants standing on a giant star turtle — a comic masterpiece that parodies epic fantasy.

Undine Spragg arrives in New York society from the Midwest, marriages her way through American and European aristocracy, and discards each world when it ceases to serve her. Wharton's most savage novel is a brilliant portrait of the American appetite for reinvention at any cost.