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Gavin Sasaki, a journalist demoted after fabricating a quote, returns to his Florida hometown to investigate a decade-old mystery involving his high school jazz quartet and a girl who disappeared. Mandel's third novel is her most explicitly crime-shaped and demonstrates the quality that would make Station Eleven great: the ability to make nostalgia and grief do the work of suspense.

Leda, a middle-aged professor, takes a solo holiday on the Ionian coast and becomes obsessed with a young mother and her daughter on the beach — an obsession that forces her to confront the choices she made as a young mother herself. A novella about maternal ambivalence, guilt, and the parts of ourselves we cannot reconcile.

Marine Sergeant Logan Thibault survives three tours in Iraq carrying a photograph of a woman he doesn't know, believing it brought him luck. When he tracks down the woman — Beth Clayton, a dog trainer in small-town North Carolina — he doesn't tell her why he came, and the secret becomes its own kind of weight.

Quentin Coldwater is now a king of Fillory, but restlessness drives him on a quest that leads back to Earth — while Julia's parallel story reveals how she gained her devastating magical power outside the Brakebills system. The most emotionally sophisticated volume in the Magicians trilogy.

An alternate history set in an Axis-occupied America where the Allies lost WWII — Philip K. Dick's Hugo Award-winning masterwork of speculative fiction.

Gwynplaine, whose mouth was surgically carved into a permanent grin as a child by a gang called the Comprachicos, grows up as a carnival performer and discovers he is an English peer. Hugo's most melodramatic novel is also his most direct examination of disfigurement, spectacle, and the face made into a mask by forces outside the self.

A West Point class ring in a pawn shop window sends Jack Reacher across the West to find the woman who earned it. Lee Child's twenty-second Reacher thriller becomes a quieter, more humane mystery about opioids, sacrifice, and the wounded veterans the country forgot.

Two teenagers in a close-knit Black Southern California church community make a decision that will follow them — and the women who witness it — for decades.

Chieko, a merchant's daughter in Kyoto, discovers she has a twin sister—Naeko, who was given away and grew up in poverty in the mountains. The seasons of Kyoto (cherry blossoms, gion festival, autumn maples, winter snow) structure the novel as the two sisters negotiate whether to acknowledge each other. Kawabata's most accessible work.

Rand's military campaign through the Westlands takes a dark turn as the One Power begins to behave strangely around him, while Egwene al'Vere leads the rebel Aes Sedai in an audacious campaign to reclaim the White Tower from Elaida.

Friedrich Dürrenmatt's darkly comic Cold War classic. In a Swiss sanatorium, three patients claim to be physicists — one believes he is Newton, another Einstein, a third hears Solomon — but nothing is as it seems in this tragicomic parable about science, responsibility, and the terror of knowledge in the nuclear age.

Isabel Archer, a spirited American woman, inherits a fortune and goes to Europe seeking freedom and experience — only to make a catastrophically wrong marriage. James's defining novel is the supreme portrait of a consciousness discovering the limits of its own idealism.

On a birthday dinner that her partner misses, Irina is tempted to kiss Ramsey, a charismatic snooker player. The novel follows both paths: the life she lives if she kisses him, and the life she lives if she doesn't.

The third Cemetery of Forgotten Books novel returns to Daniel Sempere and reveals the backstory of Fermín Romero de Torres — his imprisonment in Montjuïc Castle during the early Franco years — connecting the series' mysteries to the specific historical violence of the Spanish Civil War's aftermath.

Willa Cather's subtle, melancholy novel of middle age. Professor Godfrey St. Peter, having achieved every success, finds himself unable to leave his old study and strangely estranged from his own life — a quiet meditation on disillusion, memory, and the lost promise of youth.

Eighteen years ago, Bel Price's mother vanished without a trace. Now a true crime documentary crew arrives to revisit the cold case — and Rachel Price suddenly reappears, alive, turning everything Bel thought she knew about her family upside down.

Locke and Jean are coerced by the Bondsmagi into rigging an election in Karthain — and Locke discovers his opponent is Sabetha, the one woman he has always loved and never quite managed to win.

On Egdon Heath, Clym Yeobright returns from Paris to improve the lives of the local people through education. His plans collide with the ambitions of Eustacia Vye, who yearns to escape the heath, and with the web of desire and disappointment that connects them both to others.

The fourth and final Hyperion Cantos novel. As Aenea grows into her role as messiah and her teachings spread, the theocratic Pax moves to crush her, and the saga builds toward a revelation about love, faith, and the fate of human consciousness across the galaxy.

The direct sequel to All Quiet on the Western Front follows the surviving soldiers as they return to a Germany that has changed beyond recognition — where their sacrifice is simultaneously celebrated and disregarded, and where the civilian world has no framework for what they have seen. Remarque's second novel asks what happens after the war ends: harder to read and less celebrated than its predecessor, but in some ways more honest.

In a brutal near-future America, desperate man Ben Richards enters a televised game show where contestants are hunted across the country and killed for entertainment — and prize money his family cannot survive without.

During the Reign of Terror following the French Revolution, a mysterious English nobleman known only as the Scarlet Pimpernel leads a daring league to rescue condemned French aristocrats from the guillotine, while his wife Marguerite desperately tries to uncover his true identity.

Cal Hooper, a retired Chicago detective, buys a fixer-upper in rural Ireland seeking quiet and distance from his old life. A boy named Trey asks him to find his missing brother — and what Cal uncovers pulls him into a community with deep roots and older loyalties than he understands.

Sebastian Barry's Booker-shortlisted novel of memory and Irish history. Roseanne McNulty, nearing one hundred and confined for decades in a mental hospital, secretly writes the story of her life, while her psychiatrist investigates her past — two accounts that circle a buried tragedy of love, faith, and a punishing society.