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by F. Scott Fitzgerald
3.8(113,650)
On the 1920s French Riviera, psychiatrist Dick Diver's magnetic but fragile marriage to his wealthy wife Nicole collapses under the weight of mental illness, infidelity, and the allure of young starlet Rosemary Hoyt.
by W. Bruce Cameron
4.3(113,613)
A dog goes through multiple lives, seeking its purpose and showing the strong bond between humans and their dogs.
by Amie Kaufman
4.3(113,548)
In 2575, a planet-wide invasion forces Kady and her ex-boyfriend Ezra to flee on a spaceship where a deadly plague, a rogue AI, and corporate secrets threaten their survival, all documented through hacked files.
by Susan Beth Pfeffer
3.9(113,432)
After a meteor shifts the moon, plunging the world into an Arctic winter, a teenage girl's journal records her family's fight to survive tsunamis, earthquakes, and an ash-choked sky.
by S.C. Stephens
4.4(113,408)
Haunted by the fallout of a past love triangle, Kiera fights to protect her rekindled romance with Denny from new tests, discovering that while love may be effortless, rebuilding trust is the hardest battle of all.
by Italo Calvino
4.0(113,391)
You, the reader, embark on a meta-fictional search for the true beginning of ten different novels, each a fragment of a story interrupted, in a playful look at reading itself.
by Michael Ondaatje
3.9(113,375)
In an abandoned Italian villa at the close of WWII, four damaged people gather around a burned English patient, whose fragmented memories of love, betrayal, and desert exploration reveal their own scarred pasts.
by Stephen King
4.0(113,160)
Trapped in a supermarket by a strange mist with unseen monsters, survivors must face their fears and the truth behind a secret government project to fight an otherworldly invasion.
by Joanne Harris
4.0(113,117)
In a quiet French village, a mysterious chocolatier arrives during Lent, sparking a quiet revolution with her sweets and her ability to help villagers embrace their hidden desires.
by Neil deGrasse Tyson
4.1(113,066)
Neil deGrasse Tyson explains the universe's biggest questions, from the Big Bang to dark energy, in a short and engaging cosmic tour for busy readers.
by Robert A. Heinlein
4.2(112,987)
In a future where Earth's lunar penal colony revolts for independence, a one-armed computer technician, a female activist, a wise professor, and a self-aware supercomputer lead a revolution against an oppressive government, battling for freedom and the meaning of humanity.
by Jane Green
3.6(112,967)
An overweight, overlooked journalist creates a glamorous online persona to attract an American man, then struggles to make her real life match her digital fantasy.
by Janet Evanovich
4.2(112,857)
Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum navigates murder, mobsters, and triple kidnappings, all while juggling a marriage proposal and a dangerous offer, as she searches for a bail jumper and two missing friends.
by Sophie Kinsella
3.8(112,831)
Manhattan's glittering boutiques and Luke's demanding career collide with Becky's insatiable shopping habits and a looming financial disaster, threatening her American dream and their relationship.
by Arthur Conan Doyle
3.9(112,782)
A mysterious annual pearl, a vanished father, and a wooden-legged ruffian lead Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson through London's foggy underbelly to a hidden Indian treasure and a blossoming romance.
by Scott Lynch
4.2(112,764)
After barely surviving a gang war, master thief Locke Lamora and his partner Jean dive into the ultimate con: swindling their way to the top of the most exclusive, death-defying gambling house in the world, only to find their past catching up to them in the most dangerous way imaginable.
by James Patterson
4.2(112,484)
Max, a genetically engineered bird-kid, must navigate the terrifying normalcy of an FBI-run 'school' while uncovering her destiny to save the world and facing her greatest enemy: a clone of herself.
by Beth Revis
3.8(112,463)
Waking fifty years too early on a generational spaceship, a frozen girl must uncover a murderer among the isolated, future-shocked inhabitants before her parents become the next victims, all while navigating a forbidden romance with the ship's enigmatic young leader.
by Nicholas Sparks
4.2(112,204)
Ninety-one-year-old Ira, after a car crash, relives his decades-long love with his deceased wife, Ruth. Miles away, college senior Sophia falls for a cowboy with a dangerous secret. Their two romances entwine in a story of lasting love and fateful choices.
by Elizabeth Strout
3.5(112,203)
Confined to a hospital bed, Lucy Barton’s unexpected reunion with her estranged mother reveals a lifetime of buried longings, echoes of an impoverished past, and the complex love and hurt that defines their unbreakable bond.
by Lois Lowry
3.9(112,098)
As a sinister closed-mindedness seeps into his once-welcoming village, a young messenger must journey through a treacherous forest, relying on a newfound inner power to deliver one last, vital message.
by John Steinbeck
4.0(111,988)
In the vibrant, post-Depression tide pools of Monterey, a motley crew of outcasts and philosophers navigates life's hilarious and heartbreaking currents, finding solace and survival in their shared humanity amidst the clatter of cannery machinery.
by Margaret Peterson Haddix
4.0(111,903)
Confined to his home as an illegal third child, Luke discovers a defiant kindred spirit who challenges him to join a dangerous rebellion against a totalitarian regime that forbids his very existence.
by Jodi Picoult
4.0(111,876)
A mother sues her obstetrician, believing she was denied the choice to terminate her pregnancy, forcing her to confront the worth of her daughter's life, born with a severe brittle bone disease.