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A Column of Fire

by Ken Follett

4.0

In sixteenth-century Europe, Ned Willard and Margery Fitzgerald are caught on opposing sides of the religious wars tearing apart England, France, and the Netherlands, as Protestant and Catholic factions fight for the soul of the continent.

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A Fire in the Flesh

by Jennifer L. Armentrout

4.0

Awakened to a power that could reshape the realms, Sera must master what she has become while war gathers and her bond with Nyktos faces its hardest test. Jennifer L. Armentrout drives the Flesh and Fire saga toward its climax with escalating stakes and high romance.

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A Guest of Honor

by Nadine Gordimer

4.0

James Bray, a British colonial official who was expelled from a newly independent African country for supporting the independence movement, is invited back ten years later to advise the government. He discovers the revolutionary leaders have become the new oppressors. Gordimer's most geopolitically ambitious novel.

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A Is for Alibi

by Sue Grafton

4.0

Eight years ago, divorce attorney Laurence Fife was poisoned, and his wife Nikki went to prison for it. Now released, Nikki hires private investigator Kinsey Millhone to find out who really killed him — a cold case that will lead Kinsey to a second poisoning, an old web of betrayals, and the first kill of her own career.

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A Light in the Flame

by Jennifer L. Armentrout

4.0

Reeling from a devastating betrayal, Seraphena must reckon with who — and what — she truly is, while the Primal of Death she was meant to kill becomes the one person she cannot resist. Jennifer L. Armentrout's second Flesh and Fire novel deepens the romance and the mythology.

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A Wind in the Door

by Madeleine L'Engle

4.0

Meg Murry must journey inside her brother Charles Wallace's cells to battle a cosmic evil called the Echthroi, accompanied by a Teacher named Blajeny and a strange creature called Proginoskes, in a quest that turns on the power of naming and love.

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Adversary to the Villain

by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

4.0

The fourth and final Assistant and the Villain book, releasing August 4, 2026. A prophecy threatens the magic of Rennedawn and keeps pointing toward Evie Sage as the series' cozy-fantasy romcom heads to its conclusion.

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4.0

A California oil millionaire obsessed with immortality, his entourage, and a visiting English scholar encounter evidence that an eighteenth-century Earl found the key to extending life indefinitely — with grotesque consequences.

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After You

by Jojo Moyes

4.0

Lou Clark returns in the sequel to Me Before You, navigating grief, unexpected new connections, and the question of how to live fully after catastrophic loss — including a visit from someone from Will Traynor's past.

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Airframe

by Michael Crichton

4.0

A Norton Aircraft wide-body transatlantic flight arrives in Los Angeles with three dead and fifty-six injured after a mysterious in-flight incident nobody can explain. Quality Assurance VP Casey Singleton has 72 hours to reconstruct what happened before a damaging television news investigation airs — and before the company loses a billion-dollar sale to China.

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Alex Cross's Trial

by James Patterson

4.0

Framed as a story Alex Cross wrote about his own family's past, this historical novel follows Ben Corbett, a Washington lawyer sent by President Roosevelt to investigate a resurgence of Ku Klux Klan terror in 1906 Mississippi — where he confronts lynching, injustice, and a town's buried conscience.

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American Wife

by Curtis Sittenfeld

4.0

Curtis Sittenfeld's acclaimed novel loosely inspired by Laura Bush. Alice Lindgren, a quiet Midwestern librarian, marries into a powerful, wealthy family and finds herself, improbably, the First Lady of the United States — a sympathetic, psychologically rich exploration of conscience, complicity, and a private woman in a public life.

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An Old-Fashioned Girl

by Louisa May Alcott

4.0

Country girl Polly Milton visits fashionable Boston and discovers that her plain, warm, old-fashioned values stand in refreshing contrast to the shallow vanities of city society — and later returns to prove her independence as a working woman.

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Angels Flight

by Michael Connelly

4.0

A crusading civil-rights attorney who made his name suing the LAPD is shot dead on the Angels Flight funicular railway. Harry Bosch catches a case that could set the whole city alight — and that forces him to investigate the police department he serves, knowing the wrong answer could spark a second Los Angeles riot.

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Anne of Windy Poplars

by L.M. Montgomery

4.0

The fourth Anne of Green Gables novel. Engaged to Gilbert but separated by his medical studies, Anne spends three years as principal of Summerside High School, boarding at Windy Poplars and winning over a town wary of newcomers — told largely through her letters home.

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Apples Never Fall

by Liane Moriarty

4.0

Stan and Joy Delaney — retired tennis coaches and parents of four adult children — seem to have the perfect marriage. Then Joy disappears, and each of her children has a theory about what happened. Told across multiple perspectives over the year before and after Joy's disappearance, the novel dissects a family's myths about itself.

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Bangkok Haunts

by John Burdett

4.0

Sonchai is sent a snuff film by an anonymous source — a murder so perfectly executed that it functions as art. The investigation leads into the world of the Thai sex industry, the Buddhist concept of karma and rebirth, and a case that forces Sonchai to examine his own complicity in the system he polices. The third Sonchai novel, the most Buddhist in its philosophical dimension.

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Bangkok Tattoo

by John Burdett

4.0

A CIA agent is found murdered in a Bangkok brothel, his body covered in religious tattoos. Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep investigates — navigating between the American intelligence community, the Thai sex industry, the Buddhist spirit world, and his mother's complex position as a mamasan. The second Sonchai novel deepens the portrait of Bangkok as a city where Western and Thai moral frameworks operate in permanent collision.

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Baumgartner

by Paul Auster

4.0

Sy Baumgartner, a 71-year-old philosophy professor, has spent nine years living in the aftermath of his wife Anna's death in a swimming accident — still surrounded by her manuscripts, her presence in every corner of the house, and the ongoing conversation with her that he cannot stop having.

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Beauty and Sadness

by Yasunari Kawabata

4.0

A novelist travels to Kyoto to hear the New Year's bell and reconnect with his former lover, now a celebrated painter. But she has sent her young student in her place—and the student has her own agenda. The novel becomes a story of obsession, revenge, and the destruction that art can carry. Kawabata's darkest novel.

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Big Sur

by Jack Kerouac

4.0

Kerouac retreats to Lawrence Ferlinghetti's cabin in Big Sur to escape fame and alcohol, fails to escape either, and has a breakdown. His most autobiographically honest novel is also his darkest — the romantic road narrative collapsed into the specific hell of alcoholism and celebrity.

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Blood Is Dirt

by Robert Wilson

4.0

Medway is drawn into the toxic world of Nigerian oil money and the corruption that surrounds it — a missing girl, a lethal cargo, and the specific violence of Lagos. Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of the Year. The third and finest Medway novel.

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Blood of Dragons

by Robin Hobb

4.0

The fourth and final Rain Wild Chronicles novel. As the keepers and dragons fight to claim Kelsingra and master their transformations, the rapacious empire of Chalced sends hunters after dragon blood, forcing a reckoning that will decide the fate of dragons and Elderlings alike.

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Blood Work

by Michael Connelly

4.0

Retired FBI profiler Terry McCaleb is recovering from a heart transplant when a woman asks him to investigate a murder: her sister's. The victim was McCaleb's heart donor. Bound by an unpayable debt to the dead, McCaleb takes the case — and uncovers a connection between the murder and his own second chance at life that is more sinister than he could imagine.

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