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by Anthony Horowitz
3.9(67,851)
An editor reads a beloved author's manuscript and finds a real murder mystery hidden in the fictional tale of a sleepy English village.
by John Grisham
3.7(67,828)
A judge's deathbed summons reveals a hidden secret, forcing his estranged law professor son to navigate small-town deceit and family betrayal before the truth, and the inheritance, disappear.
by Alice Hoffman
4.0(67,827)
In a prequel to 'Practical Magic,' the Owens siblings navigate forbidden love and growing powers in 1960s New York, trying to outrun a centuries-old curse that promises heartbreak to all who love.
by Angie Sage
4.0(67,793)
A year after embracing his wizarding destiny, Septimus Heap faces lingering Darke Magyk and his brother's vengeful plot, threatening the fragile peace of the Castle and his ExtraOrdinary apprenticeship.
by Nelson Mandela
4.3(67,778)
Nelson Mandela's autobiography chronicles his transformative journey from tribal upbringing to anti-apartheid revolutionary, detailing his 27 years of imprisonment and eventual leadership in dismantling racial oppression in South Africa.
by Honore De Balzac
3.9(67,705)
In 19th-century Paris, an old father sacrifices everything for his ungrateful daughters, while a young student tries to climb the city's ruthless social ladder.
by Angie Thomas
4.4(67,665)
In a world where King Lord blood demands loyalty, a seventeen-year-old dealer named Maverick must navigate the treacherous path to manhood when he unexpectedly becomes a father, forcing him to choose between the streets and a future for his son.
by Gail Carson Levine
4.0(67,589)
A timid princess, armed with enchanted gifts and a sorcerer's whispered love, must conquer her deepest fears and outwit cunning mythical beasts to find a cure for her brave, ailing sister before the dreaded Gray Death claims her.
by Patricia Cornwell
4.0(67,574)
A reclusive writer is nearly decapitated in her home, and Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta must uncover literary jealousy and personal secrets to learn why the victim let her killer in, as Scarpetta's own life becomes a nightmare.
by Nicholas Sparks
3.9(67,552)
A devoted husband's picture-perfect life shatters, forcing him to navigate the harrowing yet rewarding wilderness of single fatherhood after his wife's sudden departure.
by Alice Hoffman
4.0(67,460)
During the Roman siege of Masada, four independent women, working as dovekeepers, navigate love, loss, and survival while confronting their hidden pasts.
by Frank Herbert
3.9(67,279)
For 3,500 years, the immortal, part-sandworm God Emperor Leto Atreides II has ruthlessly guided humanity along his 'Golden Path,' manipulating destiny and sacrificing his own humanity to ensure mankind's ultimate survival against an unknowable, existential threat.
by Samantha Downing
3.9(67,260)
A suburban couple, bored with their fifteen-year marriage, finds a shared secret involving murder to be a twisted aphrodisiac.
by Nora Roberts
4.0(67,245)
After a New Year's Eve plague brings magic and chaos, survivors navigate society's ruins, finding purpose and new beginnings as ancient good and evil awaken.
by Brandon Sanderson
4.5(67,237)
On a planet where humans fight for survival against aliens, a determined girl finds her calling as a pilot by befriending an ancient, sentient spaceship.
by Isaac Asimov
4.1(67,173)
In a vast galactic empire nearing collapse, a young mathematician, Hari Seldon, invents a science that predicts the future, making him central to humanity's survival or ruin.
by Kim Stanley Robinson
3.9(67,089)
A hundred colonists set out to terraform Mars, battling the hostile planet and their own clashing ideas, ambitions, and loyalties as they try to build a new world.
by Tina Reber
4.0(67,072)
A small-town bartender, nursing a broken heart, finds her world upended when a global movie star, seeking refuge from his chaotic fame, crashes into her quiet pub and her life, igniting an unexpected romance that Hollywood's glare threatens to tear apart.
by John Flanagan
4.2(67,035)
Young Will endures Skandian slavery, while his mentor Halt, a disgraced Ranger, defies kings and travels a dangerous path with Horace to reclaim him before hope fades.
by Michael Crichton
3.5(66,876)
In a future where genetic manipulation is common, 'Next' is a thriller about stolen genes, chimp-human hybrids, and a collapsing sense of reality, showing humanity's dangerous relationship with its own genetic future.
by Patricia Cornwell
4.0(66,825)
Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta investigates a secluded 'body farm' to solve the murder of an 11-year-old girl, uncovering a truth that shatters a small North Carolina town.
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
4.0(66,810)
In 1957 Barcelona, a mysterious visitor to a bookshop uncovers a two-decade-old secret, making Daniel Sempere and Fermín Romero de Torres face the dangers of Franco's dictatorship and the truths hidden in the Cemetery of Forgotten Books.
by Karen Joy Fowler
3.1(66,741)
Six modern people in sunny California discuss Jane Austen novels, finding their own lives reflect the books' romantic and social challenges.
by Friedrich Nietzsche
4.0(66,727)
Nietzsche dismantles conventional morality and religious dogma, urging individuals to create their own values and embrace a 'will to power' in a complete re-evaluation of Western thought.