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Libby Day survived the massacre of her family when she was seven years old and testified that her teenage brother Ben was responsible. Twenty-five years later, a true crime enthusiast group called the Kill Club convinces her to reinvestigate — and what she uncovers suggests the conviction was built on a child's traumatized misremembering.

After nuclear war destroys civilization, Lilith Iyapo wakes aboard an alien ship. The Oankali offer humanity survival — but at the cost of genetic merger. Butler's Xenogenesis trilogy opener explores consent, power, and what it means to remain human.

Vic Van Allen is the model suburban husband — except that he allows his wife Melinda to carry on a series of affairs openly, to prevent her from leaving him. When one of her lovers is found dead, Vic lets it be known that he killed him. He didn't — but the bluff establishes something. A portrait of suburban American life as a theatre of controlled violence, and one of Highsmith's most chilling studies in the psychology of a particular kind of man.

Meddy Chan accidentally kills her blind date with a stun gun, and now she has to hide the body — at the luxurious Californian wedding she's just been hired to photograph, with her mother and three aunties all in attendance.

A provocative argument that optimizing for maximum wealth accumulation is the wrong goal — that the aim should be to use your money to create maximum life experiences before you die.

Dirk Gently, self-styled holistic detective, investigates a case involving a ghost, an electric monk, a time machine, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge — all of which, he insists, are fundamentally connected.

Accused of murdering her elderly employer, blunt Maine housekeeper Dolores Claiborne tells the whole truth — including the far older crime she really did commit. Stephen King delivers the entire novel as a single, unbroken first-person confession of astonishing power.

Orphaned Rose Campbell comes to live with her seven aunts and eight boy cousins, and her unconventional guardian Uncle Alec sets about raising her according to his progressive ideas about health, fresh air, and genuine education.

Sophocles' searing tragedy of grief and revenge. Consumed by mourning for her murdered father Agamemnon and hatred for her mother Clytemnestra, Electra waits for her brother Orestes to return and exact vengeance — a relentless study of obsession, justice, and the cost of retribution.

A dying wizard hands his staff to an eighth son of an eighth son who turns out to be a daughter. Esk's path to the all-male Unseen University drags Granny Weatherwax into the wider world for the first time, and Discworld's sharpest witch is born.

Lydia Lee — the favourite daughter of a mixed-race family in 1970s Ohio — is found dead in the local lake. The investigation into how she got there unravels the secrets and silences at the heart of the Lee family: the expectations her parents poured into her, the loneliness she could not admit, and the ways families fail each other while trying to love.

A brilliant, drug-addled pathologist and a charming, sociopathic actor strike a murderous bargain. As bodies turn up with their eyes destroyed, Lucas Davenport — himself sunk in a deep depression — must climb out of his own darkness to outthink a pair of killers as theatrical as they are deadly.

DeLillo's 9/11 novel follows Keith Neudecker, who walks away from the World Trade Center on the morning of the attacks carrying a stranger's briefcase, and the weeks afterward as he and his wife Lianne try to rebuild — and the performance artist who falls from buildings in a harness, recreating the image of the falling man. DeLillo writes around the event rather than depicting it, which is the only honest formal strategy for something that defeated language.

A obsessed fan murders a reclusive novelist for his unpublished notebooks, then buries the loot — until, decades later, a teenage boy unearths it, and a paroled killer comes hunting. Stephen King's literary-obsession thriller and the second Bill Hodges novel.

Andy McGee and his eight-year-old daughter Charlie are on the run from a shadowy government agency called The Shop after years of experiments have left Charlie with pyrokinetic abilities she can barely control. The more frightened Charlie becomes, the larger and less predictable her fires.

Six friends on a road trip to spring break. The RV breaks down in the middle of nowhere. A sniper pins them in place. Someone in the RV is the target — and someone knows who.

Casey Han, the daughter of Korean immigrants in New York City, graduates from Princeton and finds herself navigating a world she was educated to enter but never quite allowed to inhabit — a big, ambitious novel about class, identity, and the cost of assimilation.

The Berglunds — an outwardly ideal liberal family in St. Paul — fall apart across decades as Walter, Patty, and their son Joey pursue freedom in ways that destroy the people around them.

An orphan who can see the dead is summoned to a crumbling family estate where a wall divides the living world from a hungry shadow realm. V.E. Schwab crafts a hauntingly atmospheric gothic fantasy about belonging, grief, and the things that wait behind locked doors.

Glyndon Doyle arrives at Reinar University determined to start over. Killian Carson — cold, brilliant, and the undisputed ruler of campus — decides her fresh start belongs to him.

A woman who has lost her language — who has gone mute following personal losses — attends a class in ancient Greek taught by a man who is losing his sight. A novel about language, loss, and the possibility of connection when ordinary communication fails.

Decades after the events of Red Mars, the terraforming debate intensifies as the planet's surface slowly changes. Robinson's Hugo Award-winning middle volume deepens the political and ecological complexity of the trilogy while advancing its multi-generational saga.

An unnamed researcher interviews dozens of people about Leni Pfeiffer—a German woman who survived the Nazi period, the war, and the postwar economic miracle by simply being, refusing ideology and staying human. The novel is assembled from testimony. Böll's most humanist and most comprehensive work—the book that won him the Nobel Prize.

The conclusion of the Shattered Sea trilogy. As the High King's power threatens to crush the lands around the Shattered Sea, a young princess, a cunning minister, and the series' returning heroes are drawn into a war that will demand terrible compromises to win.