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by V.C. Andrews
3.8(160,654)
Trapped in an attic by their greedy mother and cruel grandmother, four beautiful children fight for survival and sanity as years of isolation twist their innocence into a desperate struggle for freedom and revenge.
by Abbi Glines
4.2(160,648)
A naive Southern girl is drawn to her jaded, rockstar stepbrother, a forbidden desire threatening to consume them both in a world of privilege and hidden truths.
by Lois Lowry
3.8(160,630)
An orphan with a talent for weaving uncovers her society's dark truths, forcing her to choose between complacency and a dangerous quest for change.
by Samuel Beckett
3.8(160,324)
Two tramps wait endlessly by a barren tree for Godot, filling the void with absurd, poetic banter while grappling with the meaninglessness of existence.
by Jhumpa Lahiri
4.2(160,157)
Jhumpa Lahiri's "Interpreter of Maladies" explores the emotions of Indian and Indian-American characters as they deal with love, identity, and displacement across different places and times.
by Lemony Snicket
3.9(159,908)
Three resourceful orphans face hungry leeches, a treacherous hurricane, and a villain's disguise while trying to uncover the truth behind their guardian's suspicious 'accident' in a house teetering over a perilous lake.
by Michael Crichton
3.6(159,416)
A primatologist and a talking gorilla join a desperate expedition into the heart of the Congo, where a lost city, deadly diamond mines, and a terrifying, intelligent species of ape guard the secrets of a massacred research team.
by Hugh Howey
4.2(159,188)
In a post-apocalyptic world where humanity lives in a vast underground silo, a sheriff's quest to understand why her loved ones were sent to their deaths outside uncovers a conspiracy that could shatter their last refuge.
by Marjane Satrapi
4.3(158,488)
In a vivid black-and-white graphic memoir, a spirited young girl navigates the bewildering contradictions and brutal realities of the Islamic Revolution and war with Iraq, all while trying to find her place in a country rapidly losing its own.
by William Faulkner
3.9(158,429)
Faulkner's novel explores the decay of a Southern family, the Compsons, through the fragmented thoughts of its siblings, haunted by their past and consumed by their present.
by Jeffery Deaver
4.2(158,217)
A quadriplegic forensic genius, confined to his bed, guides a young detective through New York's streets to decipher clues left by a serial killer who dismembers victims based on a forgotten historical terror.
by Colleen Hoover
4.3(158,121)
A writer ghostwriting for an injured author finds a chilling autobiography that blurs truth and manipulation, forcing a choice between love and a devastating secret.
by Henry David Thoreau
3.8(157,871)
Thoreau's Walden chronicles his two-year experiment in simple living by Walden Pond, offering insights into nature and human existence.
by William Shakespeare
3.8(157,847)
In Venice, a desperate loan for love leads to a chilling demand for a pound of flesh, ultimately unraveling in a courtroom where cleverness triumphs over vengeful contracts.
by Eckhart Tolle
4.1(157,778)
Eckhart Tolle guides readers to move past ego-driven suffering and embrace a spiritually awakened life, finding personal fulfillment and global peace.
by Stephen King
4.2(157,345)
Roland and his group must protect a village from child-abducting 'Wolves' and use a dangerous seeing sphere, all while rushing to save the Dark Tower's earthly form from corporate evil.
by Elizabeth Gilbert
4.0(157,326)
In 1940s New York City, a young woman's theatrical awakening leads her to a life of pleasure, self-discovery, and unconventional love, told from her ninety-five-year-old perspective.
by Aravind Adiga
3.7(156,970)
A driver's journey from rural Indian poverty to entrepreneurial wealth becomes a dark comedy about ambition, corruption, and class, culminating in a chilling act of rebellion.
by Jon Krakauer
4.0(156,956)
Krakauer examines the 'divinely inspired' double murder by two fundamentalist Mormon brothers, showing the intersection of faith, polygamy, and violence in America's religious fringes.
by Ralph Ellison
3.9(156,730)
A nameless Black man's journey from the Jim Crow South to Harlem shows the invisibility of racial identity in 1950s America.
by Jess Walter
3.7(156,704)
A romance starts on the Italian coast in 1962 and affects fifty years of lives, Hollywood dreams, and 'Beautiful Ruins'.
by Jonathan Franzen
3.8(156,297)
As the patriarch gets Parkinson's and his wife anxiously plans a final family Christmas, the adult Lambert children deal with their own messy lives, forcing them all to confront uncomfortable truths and old grievances that define their fractured American family.
by Isaac Asimov
4.2(156,207)
As the First Galactic Empire crumbles, the Foundation, guided by psychohistory, confronts the unexpected emergence of the Mule, a mutant capable of shattering Seldon's plan for humanity's future.
by Jane Harper
4.0(155,534)
Amidst a devastating drought, a federal agent returns to his isolated hometown to investigate a friend's murder, only to unearth a shared, long-buried secret that threatens to expose the town's darkest truths.