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by Robert C. O'Brien
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A widowed mouse with a sick child discovers a secret society of intelligent, escapee lab rats who might just save her family from the farmer's plow.
by Jonathan Safran Foer
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A young American Jew goes on a funny, difficult journey through post-Soviet Ukraine with a translator who misuses words, a blind, haunted elder, and an 'undersexed' dog. He wants to find out about his grandfather's past and the woman who saved him from the Nazis.
by George Orwell
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A pig's revolution becomes a tyranny, and Big Brother's gaze crushes freedom, showing the chilling depths of totalitarian control.
by Lori Lansens
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Joined at the head yet seeking individual lives, conjoined twins Rose and Ruby experience love, loss, and the journey of their shared existence as one sister writes their story.
by Jodi Picoult
4.0(163,677)
A big-city lawyer defending an Amish woman accused of infanticide must navigate a clash of cultures, a client who refuses to cooperate, and her own buried desires to uncover the truth in a seemingly peaceful Pennsylvania town.
by Erik Larson
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A luxury liner, a German U-boat, and a web of secrets, arrogance, and wartime goals lead to the sinking of the Lusitania, showing the world the true horrors of WWI.
by Ishmael Beah
4.2(163,098)
A twelve-year-old boy's innocence is shattered as he transforms from a refugee into a child soldier, forced to commit unspeakable acts in the brutal civil war of Sierra Leone.
by Dennis Lehane
4.1(163,029)
A U.S. Marshal investigates a vanished patient from a remote asylum for the criminally insane, only to confront a spiraling hurricane, sinister medical secrets, and the terrifying possibility that his own identity is the most dangerous illusion of all.
by James Dashner
3.7(162,915)
After sun flares and a fast-spreading, rage-inducing disease devastate Earth, two survivors navigate a dangerous world where humanity's last hope is a risky cure, and every life has a price.
by Brian Selznick
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In a 1930s Paris train station, an orphaned clockmaker's quest to fix a broken automaton reveals a secret linking his past to a reclusive toymaker and the start of cinema.
by Jim Butcher
4.0(162,240)
When a gruesome murder with animal hallmarks appears under a full moon, Chicago's only professional wizard, Harry Dresden, must hunt a monstrous killer before more victims die from a lycanthropic curse.
by Shirley Jackson
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Four strangers seeking proof of the paranormal find themselves ensnared by Hill House, a malevolent entity that hungers for the fragile mind of one lonely woman to claim as its own.
by Lionel Shriver
4.0(162,192)
A mother grapples with her own complicity and chilling dislike for her son, who has committed an unspeakable high school massacre, in a series of searing letters to her estranged husband.
by Michael Ende
4.2(161,944)
A lonely boy named Bastian literally enters a magical book, going on a quest through Fantastica to save it from a creeping Nothingness, finding courage and himself along the way.
by Kate DiCamillo
4.0(161,837)
A small mouse with big ears defies his kind to save a princess, intertwining the lives of a lonely rat and a simple serving girl.
by Sue Grafton
3.9(161,746)
A twice-divorced P.I. with a soft spot for lost causes takes on the cold case of a woman convicted of killing her husband, only to uncover a second corpse and a sharper edge to her own investigation.
by Rick Riordan
4.2(161,734)
With the world on the edge of chaos, teenage magicians Carter and Sadie Kane must bring back the ancient, senile sun god Ra by finding his lost spell book, all while escaping a monstrous serpent set on destroying the world.
by John Scalzi
4.2(161,551)
At 75, John Perry leaves his wife's grave for an interstellar battlefield, where the Colonial Defense Force turns retirees into enhanced soldiers to fight alien wars for humanity's survival and a chance at a new life.
by Frank Miller
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An aging, embittered Bruce Wayne emerges from a decade of retirement to don the cowl once more, battling a new wave of savage criminals, a psychopathic Joker, and even Superman in a decaying, near-future Gotham.
by J.R. Ward
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A tormented vampire warrior, scarred by a brutal past, finds his savage heart awakened by a compassionate aristocrat. His thirst for vengeance then threatens their fragile new love amidst an ancient war.
by Kristin Cashore
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In a kingdom on the brink of civil war, a striking human with fiery hair and the power to control minds must confront her past to save the monarchy that fears her.
by John Irving
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In a world of ether addiction, unwanted pregnancies, and the sweet-sour tang of cider, an orphan named Homer navigates love, loyalty, and the moral complexities of his mentor's controversial legacy in rural Maine.
by Erik Larson
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by Veronica Roth
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Before Tris, a sixteen-year-old Tobias renames himself 'Four' and plunges into Dauntless, battling his past and the corrupt faction system, only to find his true self unlocked by a fearless initiate two years later.