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Tex McCormick is fourteen, easy-going, and content with his life in rural Oklahoma — unlike his older brother Mason, who resents everything about it. When their absent father stays away too long, the differences between the brothers deepen toward breaking point.

A philosophical meditation on why we travel, what we hope to find, and why the reality so rarely matches the anticipation — structured around de Botton's own journeys and the writers, artists, and thinkers who have illuminated the meaning of travel.

Croaker, the Black Company's physician and annalist, chronicles the mercenary band's bloody journey as they are hired into the service of a terrifying sorceress called the Lady — and slowly realise there may be no good side in this war.

Steven Pinker's ambitious case against the 'blank slate' view of the mind. Marshalling evidence from genetics, neuroscience, and evolutionary psychology, Pinker argues that human nature is real and shaped by evolution — and confronts the moral and political fears that idea provokes.

Inspector Javier Falcón of the Seville homicide squad is called to the scene of a man found dead in front of a painting of Goya's Saturn Devouring His Son — eyes burnt out, posed with deliberate horror. The investigation pulls Falcón into his own family history, specifically the life of his celebrated father, the painter Francisco Falcón. Set against Seville's streets and its Moorish architecture, the first Falcón novel establishes one of crime fiction's most psychologically complex detectives.

An empire is maintained by a dark magic: bone shards cut from the living are used to power constructs — mechanical servants and soldiers. Lin, the Emperor's daughter, must uncover a conspiracy that threatens everything she thinks she knows about her family and her world.

Devon is a Book Eater — one of a secret species that literally consumes books rather than food, absorbing their contents. Her son Cai is different: a mind eater who craves the stories inside human minds. She will do anything to protect him.

Grayson and Jameson Hawthorne find themselves on separate, dangerous missions — Grayson drawn into a high-stakes game that threatens everything his family built, Jameson on a globe-trotting adventure that tests the limits of his recklessness. A dual POV expansion of the Hawthorne brothers' world.

K. arrives in a village dominated by an enormous castle and attempts to gain access to the authorities who have apparently summoned him as a land surveyor — an attempt that proves endlessly deferred, interrupted, and obscured.

Olivia Fox Cabane dismantles the myth that charisma is an innate quality and provides a science-based framework for developing presence, power, and warmth.

Fabrizio del Dongo, a young Italian nobleman, wanders onto the field of Waterloo (without understanding what is happening), flees various entanglements, falls in love with the actress Marietta, and becomes caught in the political intrigues of the court of Parma, where his aunt, the Duchess Sanseverina, rules through her relationship with the Count.

Two city-states occupy the same geography but citizens must 'unsee' the other city on pain of intervention by a mysterious force called Breach. A noir detective novel and a meditation on perception.

Arthur C. Clarke's visionary novel set a billion years in the future. In the enclosed, eternal city of Diaspar, where its immortal inhabitants have not ventured outside for aeons, a restless young man named Alvin sets out to discover what lies beyond — and uncovers the lost truth of humanity's past.

A Cro-Magnon girl orphaned by an earthquake is taken in by a Neanderthal clan, and her different nature — her upright posture, her ability to learn and innovate — puts her in perpetual conflict with a social order not built for her.

A comprehensive framework for understanding and building network effects — the most powerful and most misunderstood force in technology — from a partner at Andreessen Horowitz who has studied them across dozens of companies.

Styron's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel inhabits the first-person voice of Nat Turner, leader of the 1831 Virginia slave rebellion, as he awaits execution. The most controversial American novel of the 1960s — attacked by ten Black writers as a white man's appropriation of Black history — it is also a work of extraordinary formal achievement and moral seriousness.

Six philosophers — Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche — applied to six common sources of human unhappiness: unpopularity, not having enough money, frustration, inadequacy, a broken heart, and difficulties.

Poppy learns the truth about her origins and what she truly is — a revelation that shifts the entire Blood and Ash series into a larger, more mythological conflict. The third book takes the story from personal stakes to civilisational ones.

Still trapped as a mortal teen, Apollo journeys to Indianapolis to free a captive Oracle from the cruel emperor Commodus. Rick Riordan's second Trials of Apollo book deepens the fallen god's humbling, adding new allies and a chilling second member of the Triumvirate.

Set between Wizard and Glass and Wolves of the Calla, the ka-tet takes shelter from a deadly storm called a starkblast. As they wait, Roland tells a story from his early days as a gunslinger, within which young Roland tells a fairy tale to a frightened boy. Three nested narratives — frame, memory, and fable — make this the series' most structurally playful and tonally gentle entry.

Roland and his ka-tet arrive at Calla Bryn Sturgis, a farming village terrorised by the Wolves — armoured riders who sweep in every generation to steal one child from every pair of twins, returning them as 'roont' adults, permanently diminished. King structures the novel as a western, drawing directly on The Magnificent Seven, as the gunslingers agree to help the Calla defend itself.

Olga's husband of fifteen years announces he is leaving her for a younger woman. The novel follows the weeks that follow — the rage, the dissolution, the terrifying loss of self that abandonment can produce in someone whose identity was built around a partnership. Ferrante's most concentrated and most visceral novel.

Ray Smith and the poet Japhy Ryder climb mountains, attend rucksack parties, and discuss Buddhism — embodying the 'rucksack revolution' Kerouac imagined for young Americans who had dropped out of the postwar dream. More focused and more spiritually serious than On the Road.

Physicist Brian Greene explains superstring theory and the quest for a unified theory of everything — the attempt to reconcile quantum mechanics and general relativity in a single mathematical framework.