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by Janet Fitch
4.0(321,703)
Adrift in the treacherous currents of the Los Angeles foster care system, a young girl navigates a series of surrogate mothers and their harsh realities, forging her own identity in the shadow of her incarcerated, poet mother's powerful, destructive love.
by Charles Dickens
3.9(319,238)
In 19th-century London, orphan Oliver Twist escapes the workhouse only to be caught by Fagin's gang, exposing the city's harsh reality through memorable characters.
by Rick Riordan
4.1(318,529)
Separated siblings, a brilliant Egyptologist father, and a Christmas Eve visit to the British Museum spiral into a globe-trotting quest to stop the awakening Egyptian gods and rescue their dad from the clutches of Set.
by Wally Lamb
3.9(316,234)
From a childhood marked by trauma, a morbidly obese and sharp-tongued Dolores Price journeys to reclaim her life and find redemption before she completely unravels.
by Terry Pratchett
4.0(316,186)
On a flat world on the back of a giant turtle, a jaded wizard is reluctantly saddled with the Discworld's first tourist and his sentient luggage, going on a chaotic journey to the edge of their belief-powered world.
by Frances Mayes
3.8(315,731)
An American writer buys a run-down Tuscan villa, beginning a journey of restoration, cooking, and self-discovery in the Italian countryside.
by Leigh Bardugo
4.4(315,707)
In the grimy, gas-lit canals of Ketterdam, a cutthroat criminal mastermind assembles a crew of six dangerous outcasts for an impossible heist, where the only thing riskier than their target is trusting each other.
by William Shakespeare
3.9(315,131)
A respected general's love for his wife turns into murderous jealousy, fueled by a vengeful ensign's lies, leading to a tragic end.
by Colleen McCullough
4.2(314,471)
Set in the Australian outback, a woman and a priest have a forbidden love that spans decades, making them confront faith, family, and fate.
by John Green
4.0(314,236)
Aza Holmes, a young woman dealing with escalating obsessive thoughts, searches for a missing billionaire, uncovering the complexities of friendship, unexpected love, and her own mind.
by Roald Dahl
4.2(313,894)
A young boy and his grandmother must stop a coven of child-hating witches, led by the Grand High Witch, before they turn all children in England into mice.
by James Patterson
4.0(313,347)
Detective Alex Cross races against time to unmask two cunning serial killers terrorizing the nation, whose synchronized murders escalate into a deadly competition.
by Pittacus Lore
3.9(312,327)
An alien teenager, the fourth of nine powerful fugitives hiding on Earth, must embrace his developing superpowers and fight for survival as an ancient enemy hunts down and murders his kind.
by David McCullough
4.1(311,423)
Explore the life of John Adams, a determined patriot whose commitment helped build a nation, and whose marriage to Abigail shows the personal cost of revolution.
by E.H. Gombrich
3.9(310,840)
Explore thousands of years of human creativity, from ancient cave art to modern masterpieces, with Gombrich's classic account, updated with new insights into art's changing story.
by Sylvia Day
4.3(310,810)
Eva Tramell is drawn to the troubled Gideon Cross; their shared pasts fuel an obsessive love that borders on destructive.
by Laini Taylor
4.0(310,751)
A blue-haired art student in Prague, whose sketchbooks teem with monsters, discovers her true identity is entwined with an ancient, violent war between angels and devils, sparked by a forbidden love that transcends worlds and time.
by Daniel Kahneman
4.2(309,325)
Explore how your mind's fast intuition clashes with slow logic, revealing the hidden biases that shape every decision, from investing to vacation planning.
by Gary Paulsen
3.7(308,544)
Stranded in the unforgiving Canadian wilderness with only a hatchet, thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson must transform from a self-pitying boy to a resourceful survivor, battling hunger, fear, and the elements while grappling with the secret that shattered his family.
by Leigh Bardugo
4.0(306,949)
An ordinary orphan finds a unique power to summon light, pulling her into a world of magic, war, and dangerous romance as she fights to destroy a monstrous darkness threatening her country.
by Haruki Murakami
4.1(305,688)
In a world where cats talk, fish fall from the sky, and old prophecies connect, a teenage runaway and an elderly man with a secret past go on a strange journey to escape fate and find out why their lives are linked.
by Margaret Wise Brown
4.3(305,442)
In a great green room, a little bunny softly bids goodnight to every cherished object, from a red balloon to the quiet old lady whispering 'hush,' in a rhythmic dance towards slumber.
by Brandon Sanderson
4.6(304,529)
On a storm-swept world where mystical Shardblades grant godlike power, a slave fights for his men's survival, a highprince grapples with ancient visions, and a young woman plots a daring theft, all while the echoes of a fallen order threaten to reshape their shattered reality.
by Tana French
3.8(304,217)
Twenty years after being the sole, amnesiac survivor of three children who vanished into the woods, a detective must confront his own shattered past when a new murder in the same woods reopens the chilling, unsolved mystery of his childhood.