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Alex Stern is done waiting. To rescue Darlington from hell, she'll break every rule of the secret societies that govern her. Leigh Bardugo's second Alex Stern novel plunges deeper into Yale's occult underworld with a descent-into-hell plot, fresh murders, and demons closing in.

Ibram X. Kendi argues that there is no neutral position on racism — only racist and antiracist policies and ideas — and weaves this argument through memoir, examining his own history of internalized racism and the process of thinking himself out of it.

John Wade, a Vietnam veteran and politician, retreats to a lakeside cabin after a catastrophic election defeat. Then his wife Kathy disappears. The novel assembles evidence — testimonies, documents, O'Brien's own speculations — without ever resolving what happened.

Set in a near-future North America where years are sponsored by corporations, David Foster Wallace's sprawling novel interweaves two main locations — the Enfield Tennis Academy and the Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House — around the search for a film so entertaining that viewers lose all will to do anything else.

A journalist shipwrecked on the fictional island of Pala discovers a society that has successfully integrated Eastern and Western wisdom — meditation, psychedelics, rational education, and cooperative economics — into a functional utopia. Huxley's final novel is his deliberate answer to Brave New World.

Mary Yellan arrives at Jamaica Inn on the Cornish moors to live with her aunt, and finds a place of terror run by her brutal uncle Joss Merlyn, who is involved in wrecking ships on the coast for their cargo.

In 1926 Harlem, a man shoots his young lover at her funeral while his wife grieves, attacks the dead girl's face, and attempts to understand what the city and their history have made of them all.

John Buddy Pearson, a Black man of great physical beauty and rhetorical power, becomes a Baptist preacher in Florida and cannot resist the women who desire him. Hurston's first novel — published before Their Eyes Were Watching God — uses her father's life as raw material and her folk research as language.

A Mumbai developer offers the residents of a crumbling housing society an enormous sum to vacate — all but one agree. Masterji, a retired schoolteacher, refuses. What happens to him is the novel.

Peter Aaron narrates the story of his friend and fellow writer Benjamin Sachs, who died in an explosion while detonating a replica of the Statue of Liberty — and gradually reconstructs, from memory and from investigation, how a man of political ideals became a bomber.

Jaromil is a poet from birth — his mother has decided so — and grows up to be a genuine revolutionary lyric poet who informs on his girlfriend to the secret police. Kundera's Prix Médicis-winning novel is a satire of the Romantic artist's egoism and the way revolutionary politics and artistic grandiosity feed each other.

A wealthy family needs its long-lost black sheep found before a fortune can be divided. Kinsey Millhone traces Guy Malek — vanished eighteen years ago, now a gentle, born-again man — and reunites him with the brothers who never wanted him back. Then Guy is murdered, and the family's old wounds turn lethal.

Carol Milford, idealistic and educated, marries a doctor and moves to Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, where she attempts to bring culture and reform to a town that does not want them. Lewis's breakthrough novel is the first great satire of American small-town life — the conformity, the anti-intellectualism, the material comfort as a substitute for meaning — and it made Lewis famous overnight.

Reformed con man Moist von Lipwig has tamed the Post Office and is bored — so Lord Vetinari hands him the Royal Bank and Mint, plus a small dog who is now legally the chairman. To save the city's money, Moist must invent paper currency and out-con an ancient banking dynasty.

Down to two witches and needing a third, Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg head to Ankh-Morpork to recruit the gifted young Agnes Nitt — who has fled to sing at the Opera House. But the Opera has a masked Ghost, and the bodies are starting to pile up among the arias.

Muriel Spark's mordant, brilliant comedy of old age. A group of elderly Londoners begins receiving anonymous phone calls from a voice that says only, 'Remember you must die.' Spark turns this eerie premise into a sharp, witty meditation on mortality, vanity, and the secrets of a lifetime.

A divorced journalist finds a heartbreaking love letter in a bottle on the beach and tracks down its author — a widower still grieving his lost wife — and must discover whether love can exist alongside grief that refuses to be finished.

NYPD Detective Kat Donovan finds a dating website profile that appears to be her father — the man who went missing eighteen years ago. Following it leads her into something far darker than she expected.

Professional assassin Clara Rinker has retired to a quiet life in Mexico — until a hit meant for her kills her lover instead. Bent on vengeance against the people who tried to kill her, she returns to the United States on a one-woman war, and the FBI recruits Lucas Davenport, the one cop who truly understands her, to stop her.

At an airport bar, a chance encounter leads a narrator to spend hours with a former acquaintance who tells the story of saving a drowning stranger's life — and of what happened when that stranger became enormously successful.

A humble charwoman is beaten to death and her lodger is sentenced to hang for it. But the policeman who built the case cannot shake his doubts and begs Hercule Poirot to look again. Buried in an old newspaper, Poirot finds a clue that links a long-dead scandal to a quiet English village.

Will, a 'coloured' South African teenager, discovers his father Sonny—a political activist—is having an affair with a white woman who works for the anti-apartheid movement. The novel is narrated by Will and is about the cost of the political life on the family that sustains it. Gordimer's most personal meditation on the activist's divided loyalties.

Nana, daughter of the Lantier-Maheu family from L'Assommoir, rises from the Parisian slums to become the most celebrated courtesan of the Second Empire. Men ruin themselves for her; she ruins them. A study of female power and its relationship to the corruption of the Bonapartist regime.

Jean-Paul Sartre's first novel and a foundational text of existentialism. Through the diary of Antoine Roquentin, a solitary historian gripped by a creeping 'nausea' at the sheer, meaningless existence of things, Sartre dramatizes the confrontation with a universe without inherent purpose.