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by Carl Hiaasen
3.8(97,359)
When a new kid in Florida crosses paths with a shoeless, running boy, he's pulled into a quirky, eco-mystery involving burrowing owls, a pancake-house conspiracy, and a cast of eccentric characters determined to save their natural habitat.
by Jodi Picoult
3.7(97,341)
A desperate hostage negotiator faces his worst nightmare when his own daughter is trapped inside a women's reproductive health clinic under siege by a gunman. An intense countdown reveals the interwoven lives that led everyone to that fateful, divided day.
by Johann David Wyss
3.9(97,144)
Shipwrecked on an island, the Robinson family uses their skills to build a self-sufficient home, facing challenges with cleverness and determination.
by Charles Dickens
4.0(97,024)
In Victorian London, the endless Jarndyce and Jarndyce lawsuit slowly consumes fortunes and exposes society's decay, trapping both aristocrats and paupers in its tragic grip.
by Emily Giffin
3.9(97,013)
A single scandalous photograph shatters the privileged lives of Nashville's elite, forcing a wealthy socialite, a struggling single father, and a scholarship student to confront their deepest values and redefine what family truly means.
by Wendelin Van Draanen
4.0(96,940)
A charming story of first crushes and changing views, 'Flipped' shows how two neighbors, initially at odds, discover what attraction really means as they grow up.
by Lauren DeStefano
3.8(96,833)
In a future where women die at twenty and are forced into polygamous marriages, a kidnapped bride must escape her enigmatic husband and his corpse-hoarding father.
by Stephen King
3.7(96,708)
Fleeing her abusive husband, Rosie discovers a mysterious painting that offers both refuge and a dangerous gateway to a mythical world where she must confront her past and fight for her future.
by Julie Kagawa
4.2(96,667)
As an army of Iron fey threatens her peace, Meghan Chase must face an inescapable war, leaving her banished prince behind to confront a conflict with no return.
by Elizabeth Wein
4.0(96,652)
A British spy, captured by the Gestapo, writes a confession while facing execution. Her story is a fight for survival and a look at her bond with the pilot she left behind.
by Jaycee Dugard
3.9(96,524)
Abducted at eleven, Jaycee Dugard's memoir recounts eighteen years living in a hidden backyard camp, raising two daughters fathered by her captor, and her difficult return to a world she barely knew.
by Louise Erdrich
3.9(96,446)
When his mother is attacked on their Ojibwe reservation, a teenage boy named Joe seeks justice, forcing him to deal with tribal law, family loyalty, and how one violent act affects everything.
by Lemony Snicket
4.0(96,323)
The Baudelaire orphans confront a submarine mystery, battling mechanical monsters, a deadly fungus, and their own despair while searching for a lost friend in a perpetually damp world.
by Patricia Briggs
4.3(96,168)
Coyote shapeshifter Mercy Thompson must navigate vampire and werewolf politics to protect her loved ones from a vengeful vampire queen in a world full of the supernatural.
by H.G. Wells
3.7(96,035)
On a remote Pacific island, a shipwrecked man finds a doctor's horrifying experiments in vivisection, blurring the lines between man and beast and forcing a terrifying confrontation with the dark side of science.
by Jeff Kinney
4.2(95,974)
Trapped indoors by a blizzard and under suspicion for school property damage, Greg Heffley must survive the holidays with his eccentric family, only to face an even greater reckoning when the snow finally melts.
by Elizabeth Gilbert
3.8(95,897)
Alma Whittaker, a brilliant 19th-century botanist, explores the scientific and spiritual mysteries of evolution and desire, falling for an enigmatic artist while traveling the world from Philadelphia to Tahiti.
by Lee Child
4.2(95,708)
When a simple sniper case turns into a complex plot, ex-military investigator Jack Reacher must find the truth, even if it means facing a dangerous enemy.
by Richard Matheson
4.1(95,560)
As the last man on Earth, Robert Neville lives in a desolate world where he is a hunter by day and the hunted by night, pursued by the vampiric hordes that now inhabit the planet.
by James Redfield
3.6(95,528)
In a quest through Peru, an ancient manuscript reveals nine spiritual ideas about synchronicity, energy, and humanity's growth towards a new global awareness.
by Solomon Northup
4.2(95,491)
A free black man's harrowing twelve-year odyssey from Northern liberty to the brutal cotton plantations of the South, exposing the raw, dehumanizing machinery of American slavery.
by Louise Fitzhugh
4.0(95,082)
Armed with a trusty notebook and an unsparing wit, Harriet M. Welsch chronicles the hilariously harsh truths of her world, only to discover the explosive consequences when her candid observations fall into the wrong hands.
by Cassandra Clare
4.5(94,941)
Two Shadowhunter parabatai, bound by a forbidden love that could destroy them, navigate dangerous faerie courts and extremist plots to find a dark spell book, all while the Unseelie King hunts their bloodline.
by Liane Moriarty
3.8(94,857)
Sophie inherits an island house tied to an unsolved mystery. She rekindles a past romance and uncovers the hidden lives of the eccentric women around her, making her redefine her own path to happiness.