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by Allie Brosh
4.2(176,611)
Allie Brosh hilariously recounts her chaotic life, from debilitating depression to the absurdities of dog ownership, with stick-figure drawings that perfectly capture the human experience of being human.
by Alice Clayton
4.0(176,419)
A woman's dating break is hilariously interrupted by her new apartment's thin walls, which provide an intimate, unwanted soundtrack to her unseen, womanizing neighbor's nightly adventures.
by Brandon Sanderson
4.2(176,059)
Divine magic becomes a curse, forcing a fallen prince, a cunning princess, and a zealous priest into conflict over a kingdom's fate, unaware that salvation lies in the very city that caused their despair.
by Danielle Lori
4.0(175,883)
A sheltered woman's quest for answers in Moscow takes a terrifying turn when her enigmatic lover becomes her captor, forcing her to thaw his icy heart to survive the brutal Russian winter and his thirst for revenge.
by Jeanine Cummins
4.3(175,771)
After her journalist husband exposes a cartel boss, a Mexican bookstore owner and her son are thrust into a harrowing journey as migrants, desperately fleeing north on 'la bestia' to escape the cartel's vengeful reach.
by Patricia Briggs
4.2(175,592)
A coyote shapeshifter and mechanic named Mercy Thompson lives an ordinary life in the Tri-Cities, until she gets caught between powerful magical groups. Vampires ride buses, werewolves live next door, and chaos starts.
by Jennifer Egan
3.7(175,124)
Jennifer Egan's "A Visit From the Goon Squad" connects the lives of a music executive and his assistant, showing how ambition, decay, and redemption unfold over decades in the music industry.
by Yaa Gyasi
4.4(174,785)
From 18th-century Ghanaian castles to Mississippi plantations, "Homegoing" traces two half-sisters' diverging paths and their descendants across eight generations, showing slavery's lasting impact.
by Philip K. Dick
3.6(174,628)
In an alternate 1962 where the Axis powers won WWII, an antique dealer, a resistance fighter, and a mysterious author's forbidden novel ignite a dangerous search for truth across a divided America.
by Andy Weir
3.7(174,569)
On the moon's only city, a small-time smuggler named Jazz Bashara dives into a high-stakes heist that plunges her into a dangerous conspiracy for control of Artemis itself, forcing her to gamble everything for survival.
by Richard Bachman
3.7(174,548)
After a Romani elder's curse causes a morbidly obese lawyer to waste away following a hit-and-run, he must desperately fight a supernatural affliction that promises a slow, agonizing death.
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
4.5(174,513)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie blends personal stories with clear analysis to redefine twenty-first-century feminism as an urgent, inclusive call to action that benefits everyone, exposing both obvious and subtle gender inequalities across cultures.
by Paulo Coelho
3.7(174,383)
After a failed suicide attempt, Veronika finds a new will to live as she faces society's idea of madness and the beauty of her own existence in a mental institution.
by Arthur Conan Doyle
4.5(174,295)
Don your deerstalker and prepare for Victorian London's most perplexing crimes, where Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson unravel mysteries from the scarlet-stained streets to the moors of Baskerville.
by Charlaine Harris
4.0(174,267)
After Hurricane Katrina and a vampire summit explosion, Sookie Stackhouse deals with betrayal, a missing boyfriend, and changing supernatural loyalties, forever altering her world as a human caught between warring factions.
by Robin Sloan
3.7(174,164)
A jobless web designer finds a peculiar 24-hour bookstore, discovering its cryptic patrons and the ancient secret they guard, which forces him to solve a mystery combining modern technology with centuries-old lore.
by Charlaine Harris
4.0(173,922)
Werewolves and shapeshifters reveal themselves, drawing telepathic Sookie Stackhouse into a murder investigation and an ancient war, while her brother becomes a panther and her boss hides secrets.
by Nick Hornby
3.9(173,566)
A record store owner obsessed with his top five break-ups confronts his inability to move past his latest split, forcing him to re-evaluate love, life, and the women he's pushed away.
by Colleen Hoover
4.3(173,444)
A practical arrangement of no-strings-attached passion between a busy nurse and a haunted pilot unravels as unspoken pasts and feelings collide, proving that even difficult love can demand everything.
by Ally Carter
3.8(173,292)
At a boarding school for spies, a teenage operative fluent in fourteen languages and trained to kill finds her most perilous mission isn't espionage, but navigating a normal romance with a boy who can never know her true identity.
by Toni Morrison
4.1(173,284)
In a 1940s Ohio town, a young Black girl's desperate yearning for blue eyes reveals the devastating, internalized racism of a society that equates whiteness with worth.
by Robert Ludlum
4.1(173,216)
A phantom assassin haunted by his past must confront a deadly imposter who is using his name to plunge the world into chaos.
by Stephen King
3.9(173,166)
Four years after his wife's death, a grieving novelist returns to his haunted Maine summerhouse, only to be pulled into a custody battle and a terrifying supernatural mystery demanding he confront the malevolent secrets lurking within Sara Laughs.
by John Grisham
4.0(172,918)
A broke, unproven law school graduate takes on a monolithic, corrupt insurance giant to expose a billion-dollar scam and fight for a dying boy's denied medical care, risking everything against the nation's most formidable legal defense.