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Bourdain's follow-up to Kitchen Confidential — a decade later, more famous, more conflicted, and harder on the food world and on himself.

Meridian Hill, a young Black woman from Georgia, gives up her child and her education to join the civil rights movement, and spends years questioning whether violence is ever justified in the service of justice. Walker's most politically direct novel — a nonlinear account of the movement and its costs.

Twilight retold from Edward Cullen's point of view. After a partial manuscript leaked online in 2008, Stephenie Meyer spent twelve years completing the full novel. Reading the original story through Edward's immortal, analytical, perpetually-conflicted mind transforms a familiar love story into something darker and more psychologically complex.

A brilliant, obsessive madman abducts a prominent psychiatrist and her two daughters, holding them captive while he plays a deadly game of wits with the police. Lucas Davenport faces a kidnapper smarter than anyone he has hunted — a man who knows more about the human mind, and how to break it, than Davenport himself.

Nobel laureate Richard Thaler's history of behavioral economics, told as memoir. Tracing his decades-long campaign to convince economists that real humans are not the rational 'Econs' of theory, he combines the science of irrational decision-making with the story of an intellectual revolution.

Marco Stanley Fogg arrives at Columbia University in 1965 as an orphan with a modest inheritance, spends it all on books, comes close to starvation, and is gradually drawn into a series of coincidences that reveal his family history across two more generations of lost and wandering American men.

A retired detective haunted by an unsolved massacre — a stolen Mercedes driven into a crowd of job-seekers — is taunted back into the hunt when the killer contacts him directly. Stephen King's Edgar Award-winning leap into the pure crime thriller.

Wheelan uses real-world examples to explain the core concepts of economics — incentives, markets, the price system, human capital, financial markets, trade, and the limitations of GDP. Aimed at readers who want to understand how the economy works without a textbook.

Aristotle asks: what is the good life for a human being? His answer — eudaimonia, often translated as happiness but better understood as flourishing — requires virtue, practical wisdom, and the right social conditions. The foundational text of virtue ethics and one of the most influential works in the history of moral philosophy.

The murder of a Hong Kong immigrant liquor store owner in South Los Angeles leads Bosch into a confrontation with triad extortion networks — and then to Hong Kong itself, when a video surfaces appearing to show his daughter Maddie in danger.

A high school dropout who can see ghosts is offered a full ride to Yale — in exchange for policing its secret societies and their real, dangerous magic. Leigh Bardugo's first adult novel is a dark, propulsive thriller about privilege, trauma, and the occult beneath the Ivy League.

Marc Seidman wakes in hospital — shot, his wife dead, his infant daughter missing. Six months later a ransom demand arrives, and the investigation into who took his daughter opens questions about who his wife actually was.

Nora Webster, recently widowed in a small Irish town at the end of the 1960s, rebuilds her life. Not dramatically, not quickly — she takes a clerical job, joins a choral society, gradually reclaims the person she was before her marriage subsumed her.

In the fictional South American republic of Costaguana, revolution tears the country apart while the silver mine that funds both sides becomes the novel's true subject — the material interest that corrupts every idealism. Conrad's most ambitious novel is the first great political novel of the twentieth century.

Alexandra Bergson inherits her immigrant father's Nebraska farm and builds it into a prosperous enterprise over decades, while the land itself becomes the novel's most enduring presence.

Gregory Bridgerton falls for a woman who loves someone else — and must stop a wedding to claim his own happy ending in the final chapter of Julia Quinn's beloved Regency series.

A tech startup's team-building ski trip in the French Alps turns deadly when an avalanche traps employees in a luxury chalet with no rescue in sight — and someone is killing them off while they wait. An Agatha Christie-style closed-room mystery in a contemporary setting, with a cast of colleagues who each have reasons to want each other dead.

August moves to New York and meets Jane on the Q train — a punk girl stuck in 1977 who should not exist in 2020. Impossible and inexplicable, Jane is somehow trapped in a moment in time, and August is the only one who can see her. A queer love story about memory, identity, and what we're willing to change to keep something worth keeping.

Thirteen-year-old Joel Harrison Knox travels to a decaying Louisiana mansion to find the father he has never met, and discovers instead a world of eccentrics, decay, and his own nascent desires. Capote's debut is the definitive Southern Gothic coming-of-age novel.

While vacationing in London, CIA analyst Jack Ryan foils an IRA assassination attempt on the Prince of Wales and becomes the target of a vengeful splinter faction determined to kill him and his family on American soil.

Cayce Pollard, a coolhunter with a pathological sensitivity to corporate branding, is hired to trace the source of mysterious film footage appearing anonymously online — footage that obsesses millions of people worldwide.

How do artists and entrepreneurs create work that sells not for a season but for decades? Ryan Holiday examines the principles behind books, albums, films, and businesses that become classics — and the specific disciplines that separate creators of lasting work from those chasing momentary attention.

A documentary filmmaker's account of discovering the FIRE movement and transforming his family's finances to pursue early retirement and a more intentional life.

A roman à clef of London intellectual and artistic life in the 1920s, following dozens of characters through parties and arguments and affairs, structured like a fugue in prose with multiple themes developed simultaneously.