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by Aldous Huxley
3.8(5,800)
Shipwrecked on a utopian island, a cynical journalist sent to orchestrate its downfall finds his own values transformed by the society he was sent to destroy.
by Frank Herbert
3.7(5,799)
Driven mad by his family's murder, a bioweapons expert unleashes a gender-specific plague, targeting women in his quest for vengeance.
by Shashi Tharoor
3.9(5,797)
Tharoor's reimagining of the Mahabharata as a satire on 20th-century Indian politics shows ancient heroes dealing with modern issues of democracy, corruption, and partition.
by Brooke McKinley
4.0(5,793)
An FBI agent's rigid view of good and bad breaks down when he falls for the drug runner he's trying to flip, leading them to flee a cartel boss and navigate their forbidden attraction.
by Mary Pope Osborne
4.1(5,792)
Jack, Annie, and Teddy journey through a world of selkies, spider queens, and a magical sword to confront a sea serpent and complete Merlin's mythical quest.
by Jennifer Donnelly
4.3(5,792)
Princess Serafina leads the Black Fin Resistance as her friends face capture, dark secrets, and death, fighting to reclaim their underwater world.
by Melanie Dickerson
4.0(5,782)
A medieval princess, initially drawn to a charming lord, uncovers his dangerous plot with an injured stranger's help, forcing her to become a spy to save her family and kingdom.
by Thrity Umrigar
3.8(5,782)
Decades after their student activism in 1970s Bombay, four women must confront buried secrets and shattered ideals when one faces a life-altering illness.
by April Henry
3.9(5,782)
Three teen rescuers, each dealing with personal issues, find a murdered girl in the Oregon wilderness, forcing them to work together and unmask a killer before they become the next victims.
by Kenneth Oppel
4.0(5,779)
A teenage boy navigates the complex bond with his chimpanzee 'brother,' forcing him to choose between scientific obedience and protecting the primate from a devastating experimental future.
by Michael Morpurgo
4.2(5,778)
In the final days of WWII, a German girl, her family, and a rescued zoo elephant travel through war-torn Germany, evading Russian troops and bombs.
by James A. Michener
4.0(5,774)
From Nazi rocket labs to lunar craters, Michener chronicles the intertwined fates of engineers, heroes, and reporters as humanity launches its audacious quest to conquer the final frontier.
by Thomas Mann
3.7(5,772)
Tonio Kröger, caught between his bourgeois background and his artistic pursuits, struggles with his dual identity amidst the ideas of Schopenhauer and Wagner.
by Sara Zarr
3.7(5,770)
A pastor's daughter's faith is tested when her mother enters rehab and a local girl is kidnapped, forcing her to confront the fragile line between belief and despair.
by Charlie Higson
4.1(5,763)
Before he was 007, a young James Bond deciphers cryptic clues to save a kidnapped professor and the world from a global threat.
by Carolyn Keene
3.9(5,757)
Nancy Drew must unravel a perplexing trail of stolen Chinese vases, missing persons, and a cryptic leaning chimney to save a pottery shop owner from financial ruin, only to discover it leads to even deeper mysteries.
by Mary Higgins Clark
3.6(5,754)
A former scam artist, newly out of prison, races against time and an unwitting public to reclaim a flask of priceless diamonds hidden in the branches of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, all while an amateur sleuth and her PI friend, along with a newly-missing victim of his past scheme, unknowingly close in.
by Hermann Hesse
3.9(5,753)
From Swiss peaks to European despair, Peter Camenzind learns that true peace comes not from grand ideas or romance, but from the quiet act of caring for another.
by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
3.4(5,752)
In a world where forgotten 'Nobodies' are trained as assassins, a teenage girl who slipped through the cracks finds her only connection to existence in the boy sent to eliminate her.
by Patricia MacLachlan
3.9(5,748)
During a severe prairie drought, a young girl named Anna struggles with her family's separation, as her mother, Sarah, longs for the sea, hoping her parents will reunite and their home will be whole again.
by Italo Calvino
3.9(5,748)
Mr. Palomar examines daily life, turning ordinary moments into philosophical questions about the world's hidden depths.
by Carolyn Keene
3.9(5,747)
Nancy Drew investigates stolen jewels, strange warnings, and a haunted mansion, all while fighting a hoax that convinces victims to avoid her help, leading her from River Heights to the French Quarter.
by Paul Gallico
4.2(5,747)
On the desolate Essex marshes, a reclusive, disfigured artist and a young girl form an unlikely friendship over a wounded snow goose, a bond that grows as war approaches and culminates in a heroic act at Dunkirk.
by Jane Gardam
4.0(5,739)
Through the eyes of his free-spirited wife, Elisabeth, 'The Man in the Wooden Hat' reveals the hidden depths and sad complexities of the reserved lawyer Filth's life, showing a marriage shaped by wit, resilience, and unspoken currents beneath a proper facade.