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Nathan Glass, a retired insurance salesman who has moved to Brooklyn to die in peace, gradually finds himself drawn back into life through his nephew Tom, a failed academic working in a bookshop, and a series of warm, eccentric characters who make Brooklyn feel like the best possible place to rediscover the will to live.

Pilar and her childhood friend reunite in Spain after eleven years apart. He has become a spiritual teacher; she has become practical and cautious. As they travel through France and Spain together, the question of whether to love — really love, with all the vulnerability that requires — becomes the central conflict. Coelho's most romantic novel.

Bobby Callahan barely survived the car crash that left him broken and partly amnesiac, but he's certain it wasn't an accident — someone tried to kill him, and he can't remember why. He hires Kinsey Millhone to find out. Then Bobby dies, and a case of attempted murder becomes a case of murder.

Five original F. Scott Fitzgerald manuscripts are stolen from Princeton's rare books vault. A young novelist struggling with her career is recruited by an insurance company to befriend a Florida bookseller suspected of brokering their sale. Grisham's most bookish novel — more literary caper than legal thriller.

A young Scottish woman goes to occupied France during World War II ostensibly to find her missing RAF boyfriend, but discovers more about herself and the French under occupation than she expected. The third volume of Faulks's loose French trilogy, following Birdsong.

The continuation of Cecilia Klein's story from The Tattooist of Auschwitz — after liberation, Cilka is convicted by the Soviets of collaboration and sent to a Siberian labour camp, where she must survive again.

The Mortal War is over, but Clary and Jace's happiness is short-lived. Someone is murdering Shadowhunters and turning their bodies into weapons. As Jace struggles with dark visions that threaten his relationship with Clary, a new and terrifying enemy emerges — one whose connection to Valentine's legacy runs deeper than anyone suspected.

The Cinderella story retold from the perspective of Iris, one of the stepsisters — set in seventeenth-century Haarlem among Dutch painters and tulip merchants, asking who is really the beautiful one and what beauty costs.

A tech consortium races into the Congo rainforest to find a lost city — and the deposits of industrial diamonds it holds. They are joined by a primatologist and her signing gorilla named Amy, who may hold the key to what killed the previous expedition. Crichton combines African adventure, corporate espionage, and animal intelligence research.

The first of Iain M. Banks's Culture novels. Against the backdrop of a vast war between the post-scarcity, AI-run utopia of the Culture and the religious Idiran Empire, the shape-shifting mercenary Horza — who hates the Culture — hunts a fugitive Mind across the galaxy.

A group of intellectuals and eccentrics gather at Crome, a country house, for a summer of endless conversation about art, philosophy, sex, and the nature of reality — while accomplishing nothing whatsoever.

Now a private psychologist, Alex Cross is pulled back into the field when his old partner asks for help with a sadistic rapist. The case reopens the oldest wound of Cross's life — the unsolved murder of his wife Maria — and sets him on the trail of the mob enforcer who may have pulled the trigger.

A friendly St. Bernard contracts rabies and traps a mother and her young son inside a broken-down car on a sweltering summer day in rural Maine. With no supernatural element, King strips horror down to its barest components: an animal, heat, thirst, and time running out.

Working the late show — the LAPD's lonely overnight shift — Detective Renée Ballard finds a stranger going through old files at her station. He is Harry Bosch, chasing the long-cold murder of a teenage runaway no one else cares about. Two relentless detectives, a generation apart, join forces over a girl the system forgot.

An Andean village where three people have disappeared. A corporal and his assistant investigate: the suspects are Shining Path guerrillas, but the mystery deepens into something older and stranger—the Andean world of pishtacos (fat-extracting demons) and ancient violence. Vargas Llosa's novel about Peru's civil conflict as seen from the highlands.

On an afternoon flight from Paris to London, a moneylender is found dead in her seat, apparently killed by a poisoned dart from a blowpipe. The cabin was sealed, the passengers few — and one of them is Hercule Poirot, who slept through the perfect murder.

In a small unnamed country, death simply stops. No one dies. The immediate consequences—the chaos for funeral homes, hospitals, insurance companies, and the Church—are comedic and precise. Then death resumes, but only announces her arrivals by violet letter seven days in advance. In the second half, death falls in love with a cellist who refuses to die.

Renée Ballard, now running the LAPD's revived cold-case unit, recruits a retired Harry Bosch with an irresistible lure: the chance to finally solve the case that has haunted him for years — the slaughter of an entire family, buried in the desert. As they chase two cold cases, Bosch confronts his white whale.

Descartes's account of how he came to doubt everything that could be doubted and arrived at the one certainty that could not be doubted — I think, therefore I am (cogito ergo sum). The founding document of modern Western philosophy, written in French rather than Latin to be readable by non-specialists.

The second Rain Wild Chronicles novel. As the expedition of misfit keepers and stunted dragons struggles up the perilous Rain Wild River toward the lost Elderling city of Kelsingra, both dragons and humans begin to change in ways no one expected.

The first Rain Wild Chronicles novel follows the misfits assigned to tend a group of deformed dragons — creatures that hatched wrong and cannot fly — as they journey upriver to find the lost Elderling city of Kelsingra. A new entry point to the Realm of the Elderlings set after the events of the Liveship Traders.

Edith Howland keeps a diary. In it, her son Cliffie is successful, married, fulfilling his potential. In reality, Cliffie is a parasitic failure who has moved back into her house and contributes nothing. Her husband has left her. Her diary diverges from reality and then departs from it altogether — becoming not delusion but an act of private creation, a novel within the novel. Highsmith's most feminist work and one of her most devastating.

Elizabeth Costello is an elderly Australian novelist who travels to give lectures—on animal rights, on evil, on the existence of the good—and returns home to her son's discomfort. The novel is a series of lectures that Coetzee himself gave, presented as fiction; the distinction between author and character is deliberately uncertain.

Brady Hartsfield should be a vegetable in a hospital bed — but something has awakened in him, a power to reach into minds and drive the vulnerable to suicide. Bill Hodges and Holly Gibney face their oldest enemy one last time in the trilogy's chilling finale.