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by Nicole Krauss
3.9(121,146)
A forgotten Yiddish novel intertwines the lives of a lonely Polish émigré still yearning for his lost love and a tenacious teenage girl determined to cure her mother's solitude by finding its elusive author.
by Douglas Adams
4.0(121,083)
A disarmingly holistic detective, a couch, and an ancient ghost's time-traveling suicide attempt collide in a hilariously convoluted plot to save humanity from its own past.
by Amy Tan
4.0(121,064)
A mother's fading memories unlock a hidden past of ancestral curses, forbidden love, and shocking betrayals in a remote Chinese village, forever altering her daughter's understanding of their tumultuous bond.
by Art Spiegelman
4.4(120,866)
In this graphic memoir's haunting conclusion, a son confronts his aging, Holocaust-survivor father's past in Auschwitz and their difficult present in the Catskills, grappling with inherited trauma through the unforgettable metaphor of mice and cats.
by Hiromu Arakawa
4.5(120,836)
Alchemy comes at a brutal cost in this story of two brothers. One is a living suit of armor, the other an alchemist with prosthetic limbs. They hunt for a mythical stone to restore their bodies, but they uncover a conspiracy more dangerous than their own forbidden experiments.
by Jesse Andrews
3.5(120,732)
A self-deprecating film nerd and his only friend must face the difficult realities of dying and real connection when they try to make a last, terrible movie for a classmate.
by Stephen King
3.8(120,724)
When a simple road trip becomes a nightmare involving a monstrous sheriff, a group of strangers in the desolate town of Desperation, Nevada, must join forces against an ancient, evil entity to survive.
by J.R. Ward
4.3(120,438)
A seer's curse and endless war define Vishous's life until a human surgeon thaws his heart, but their forbidden love risks being lost to his solitary destiny.
by Ursula K. Le Guin
4.1(120,189)
On a frozen world where people have a single, fluid gender, an envoy from another planet challenges their isolation and customs, making them confront identity, love, and belonging.
by Sophie Kinsella
3.8(120,062)
As Becky Brandon shops for two, her perfect pregnancy unravels when her husband's ex-girlfriend becomes her obstetrician, forcing her to confront what else is on sale in her marriage.
by Jon Stone
4.4(120,014)
Join the lovable, furry Grover on a hilariously self-aware adventure as he frantically tries to prevent you from reaching the inevitable, and surprisingly familiar, monster at the end of the book.
by Robert Galbraith
4.2(119,925)
A mentally distressed man's fragmented memory of a childhood murder sends private investigators Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott spiraling through London's hidden elite, Parliament's shadowy corridors, and a sinister country estate, all while navigating their own complicated, fame-addled partnership.
by Willa Cather
3.8(119,909)
Through Jim Burden's nostalgic eyes, witness the strong spirit and struggles of Bohemian immigrant Ántonia Shimerda as she navigates love, loss, and the Nebraska prairie.
by Marjane Satrapi
4.4(119,881)
Through black-and-white graphic panels, Marjane Satrapi tells about her childhood in revolutionary Iran, her adolescence in Vienna, and her return, showing a nation's trouble through one girl's coming-of-age.
by Dante Alighieri
4.0(119,745)
Join Dante as he travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise on a quest for divine love and salvation.
by Harlan Coben
4.1(119,524)
Eight years after his wife's murder, a doctor receives an impossible email suggesting she's alive, thrusting him into a desperate, hunted search for a truth someone will kill to keep buried.
by Jasper Fforde
3.9(119,366)
In an alternate 1985 where literary detectives can jump into novels, Special Operative Thursday Next must chase a master criminal through the pages of Jane Eyre to prevent the beloved character's murder and preserve literary history amidst a world obsessed with dodo cloning, time travel, and Shakespearean conspiracies.
by Jodi Picoult
3.5(119,235)
When his daughter accuses her boyfriend of rape, a mild-mannered comic book artist confronts the violent past he thought he'd buried, showing how far a father will go to protect his child.
by Lemony Snicket
4.0(119,092)
In a village obsessed with crows and rules, the Baudelaire orphans confront an angry mob, unjust arrests, and the mystery of V.F.D., all while sporting very strange hats.
by Gertrude Chandler Warner
4.1(119,026)
Four orphaned siblings turn an abandoned boxcar into a secret home, starting a self-sufficient adventure to stay together before finding the grandfather they never knew.
by Ransom Riggs
4.1(119,021)
Armed with a new power and accompanied by a pyrokinetic girl and a peculiar dog, Jacob Portman plunges into the grimy depths of Victorian London's Devil's Acre to rescue his friends and decide the fate of all peculiardom.
by Lewis Carroll
4.1(118,950)
Alice tumbles through a mirror into a backwards world of chess pieces and Red Queens, where logic is a game and nonsense reigns supreme.
by Robin Sharma
3.7(118,815)
Two strangers meet an eccentric tycoon who shares the 5 AM routine used by history's greatest achievers, promising to improve productivity, well-being, and calm before the day begins.
by Madeleine L'Engle
4.0(118,811)
When her brilliant younger brother, Charles Wallace, is threatened by a cosmic illness that mirrors the extinguishing of stars, Meg Murry must journey with a fiery, winged cherubim and her friend Calvin into the heart of creation to confront the Echthroi, beings of pure hate, and restore the universe's harmonious song.