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by Rick Rubin
4.0(87,966)
Rick Rubin, the renowned music producer, shares his insights on creativity, defining artistry not by its output but as a way of relating to the world and a cultivated state of being, accessible to everyone.
by Lev Grossman
3.9(87,821)
Thrust back into the mundane world they desperately escaped, the royal magicians of Fillory must confront the dark, street-honed magic of an outcast to reclaim their glittering kingdom.
by Ursula K. Le Guin
4.2(87,815)
On a barren anarchist moon, a brilliant physicist grapples with the sacrifices of freedom and the allure of a hierarchical, resource-rich homeworld he's forbidden to embrace.
by Kate Atkinson
3.8(87,599)
Thirty years after a little girl vanishes, an office worker is brutally murdered, and a new mother commits a grisly act of rage, private investigator Jackson Brodie unearths the shocking, interwoven truths behind these seemingly disparate Cambridge tragedies.
by Richard K. Morgan
4.0(87,462)
In a future where death is a mere inconvenience and consciousness can be 'resleeved' into new bodies, a cynical ex-envoy is resurrected into a world of corporate intrigue and violent conspiracy to solve the murder of a billionaire's previous self.
by Justin Cronin
4.0(87,427)
In a man-made apocalypse, society collapses, and an ancient evil evolves. Survivors, including a pregnant doctor, a lone warrior, and a protective teenager, struggle for hope and connection as humanity faces an enemy more terrifying than extinction.
by Julia Quinn
4.0(87,418)
A clever fake courtship, meant to fend off London's eager mothers, sparks an undeniable, real passion between a commitment-phobic duke and a smart, overlooked debutante.
by Janet Evanovich
4.1(87,325)
When her ex-husband vanishes after a public brawl, bounty hunter Stephanie Plum gets caught in a web of old relationships, disappearances, and a dangerous game where her own life is at risk.
by James Patterson
4.2(87,324)
With the world facing a genetic 'Re-evolution,' Max and her winged Flock must reunite across continents and escape captors to save humanity from a scientifically engineered master race.
by Cornelia Funke
4.0(87,079)
In Venice, two runaway orphans find refuge with a gang of child thieves and their leader, only to discover a magical carousel that can steal their childhoods and a detective looking for them.
by J. M. Coetzee
3.8(87,023)
by Walter Scott
3.8(87,022)
Amidst the clashing swords of Norman overlords and dispossessed Saxons, the banished knight Ivanhoe returns to a land of jousts and sieges, battling for his forbidden love and the rightful king against the treacherous Prince John.
by Allen Eskens
4.0(86,992)
A college student's simple writing assignment unravels a dying veteran's murder conviction, forcing him to confront a dangerous past while battling his own fractured family and a haunting childhood memory.
by Leigh Bardugo
4.0(86,766)
A street-smart survivor of a brutal murder gets a scholarship to Yale, only to find herself policing the dark, occult rituals of its secret societies, where the dead walk and power comes at a terrifying cost.
by Don DeLillo
3.9(86,742)
A professor of Hitler studies and his family face their own mortality when a toxic chemical spill forces them to confront the real, yet often invisible, threats of modern life.
by Sarah Addison Allen
4.1(86,660)
In a town where an enchanted apple tree dictates destiny and edible magic stirs the soul, two estranged sisters must reconcile their past to embrace a future where love blooms as unexpectedly as the mystical garden they inherit.
by Terry Brooks
3.8(86,347)
A sheltered youth, the last of an ancient lineage, must embrace his destiny and wield a mythical sword against a resurrected Warlock Lord to save his world from encroaching darkness.
by Jean-Paul Sartre
3.9(86,235)
A historian in a French town faces the crushing absurdity of being, removing all comforting illusions.
by John Grisham
3.7(86,107)
Three disbarred judges running a lucrative mail scam from a minimum-security prison find their con spiraling into a deadly game when they inadvertently swindle a man with dangerous connections.
by Rebecca Donovan
4.2(85,953)
In a town obsessed with appearances, a bruised and hidden girl finds unexpected love that threatens to expose the violent secret she desperately conceals beneath a facade of perfection.
by Fred Gipson
4.1(85,936)
On the Texas frontier, a young boy's initial dislike for a thieving stray named Old Yeller turns into a deep bond of love and courage, as the dog becomes a vital protector, teaching the boy about loyalty and sacrifice.
by Munro Leaf
4.4(85,800)
A peace-loving bull named Ferdinand, who prefers the scent of flowers to the fight, faces his greatest challenge when he's chosen for the bullfighting arena in Madrid.
by Emily Henry
4.1(85,798)
A jaded romance novelist and a cynical literary writer, both battling writer's block in neighboring beach houses, challenge each other to swap genres, risking their hearts and their definitions of happily ever after along the way.
by David Mitchell
3.8(85,735)
From a teenage runaway's psychic awakening in rural England to an epic, centuries-spanning war between immortal souls, Holly Sykes's life becomes the unexpected fulcrum of humanity's hidden destiny.