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by Carmen Maria Machado
3.9(37,773)
Carmen Maria Machado's collection is a visceral, genre-bending journey through the female body, where reality frays into the fantastical, revealing the haunting violence and surreal beauty of women's lives.
by Ian McEwan
3.6(37,763)
After a shared glance during a tragic ballooning accident, a science journalist's perfect life with his lover unravels as he becomes the target of an obsessive stranger's terrifying and relentless delusion of love.
by Cressida Cowell
3.9(37,734)
A small Viking heir, good with words but not muscles, goes on a funny journey to make a wild dragon his friend, showing that unlikely heroes can connect with animals and change the world.
by Charlie Jane Anders
3.6(37,728)
A witch and a mad scientist, separated by a magical middle school incident, must reunite in a near-future San Francisco to either mend a broken world or witness its final unraveling.
by Melissa de la Cruz
3.9(37,656)
Schuyler races across continents to protect humanity's last defenses from Lucifer. Her sister Mimi battles a deadly new threat to the vampire coven in New York, forcing both to confront old secrets and hard choices that will shape their lives and hearts.
by Laini Taylor
4.5(37,653)
A god and a ghost battle new identities and a vengeful captor, uncovering their world's chilling origins and questioning if love can redeem the monsters they were born to fight.
by Kasie West
3.9(37,643)
Trapped in a library for a weekend, a girl who follows rules and a quiet loner find a connection that changes their ideas about themselves and threatens their lives once the doors open.
by Ravinder Singh
3.6(37,592)
After finding love on a matrimonial site, Ravin and Khushi's tender romance is brutally tested by fate, proving that not all love stories are destined for a perfect ending.
by Ben Goldacre
4.1(37,578)
With a healthy dose of skepticism and a Barbie doll, Ben Goldacre hilariously dissects the poor science peddled by the media and advertisers, empowering readers to spot the 'brown sludge' in everyday claims.
by Thomas Mann
4.1(37,578)
In a Swiss Alps sanatorium, a young engineer's quest for health becomes a philosophical journey, reflecting Europe's pre-war introspection.
by Alan Weisman
3.8(37,575)
Explore a post-human Earth where New York's subways flood, cities become forests, and our most lasting legacies are plastic, bronze, and radio waves.
by Richard Matheson
3.8(37,559)
Four strangers, each with their own problems, enter the notorious Belasco House, a mansion known for its horror, which offers either answers or destruction to anyone who dares to go inside.
by Steven Erikson
4.3(37,528)
From a tribal warrior's brutal beginnings to an untested Malazan army's desperate fight against a sister's rebellion in the Holy Desert, 'House of Chains' tells a story of fate, betrayal, and the weight of command.
by Nikos Kazantzakis
4.1(37,504)
A reserved intellectual's life changes when he meets Zorba, a Greek working man who embraces life's joys and wisdom on Crete.
by Alessandro Baricco
3.9(37,482)
A French merchant's dangerous journey to exotic, forbidden Japan in the 1860s starts a silent, world-spanning love affair that goes beyond language and distance, as he tries to save his village's silk trade.
by Penelope Douglas
4.0(37,477)
A woman's long-held obsession with her boyfriend's terrifying older brother turns into a dangerous game of cat and mouse when he and his friends, fresh out of prison, come to collect on a past betrayal.
by Brandon Sanderson
4.4(37,476)
Haunted by her father's past and connected to the stars, a defiant pilot must infiltrate an alien academy to uncover galactic truths and prevent humanity's destruction.
by Nora Roberts
4.1(37,471)
On a mystical island steeped in witchcraft and ancient secrets, a wary sheriff's deputy with burgeoning powers finds herself drawn to a determined researcher who sees beyond her guarded exterior, forcing her to confront both a dangerous past and the possibility of a magical future.
by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.
4.0(37,451)
Meet the Gilbreths, a family of twelve children whose efficiency-expert parents apply their industrial principles to everything from chore charts to synchronized tonsillectomies, all with hilarious and heartwarming results.
by Amy Ewing
3.9(37,395)
Violet Lasting is sold into opulent servitude in the brutal Jewel, forced to bear an heir for a ruthless Duchess while fighting to keep her identity and forbidden love.
by Arthur Conan Doyle
4.3(37,353)
From outwitting a German spy before WWI to feigning death to catch a murderer, Sherlock Holmes proves that even retirement can't dull his intellect in this collection of his most clever cases.
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
4.3(37,311)
In a Russian town, a charismatic nihilist leads well-meaning but deluded revolutionaries into violence and murder, a prophetic warning about ideological extremism.
by Louise Penny
4.2(37,242)
A boy known for wild stories disappears, making the quiet village of Three Pines wonder if his tale of a monster in the woods was real. This unearths an old crime and a deep betrayal.
by Tim LaHaye
4.0(37,204)
After global disappearances and judgments, a pilot, a journalist, a pastor, and a student form the Tribulation Force, risking everything to expose the Antichrist and rally resistance against his new world order during Earth's final seven years.