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by Edgar Allan Poe
4.1(62,319)
A connoisseur's pride becomes his tomb as a vengeful friend lures him into catacombs with the promise of a rare vintage, only to entomb him alive.
by Janet Evanovich
3.9(62,297)
Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum navigates vanishing felons, a sassy grandma undercover in assisted living, and a dangerous double-duty guarding her enigmatic mentor, all while trying to solve a Trenton mystery and avoid an excess of taffeta.
by Italo Calvino
4.1(62,127)
Marco Polo tells Kublai Khan about many imagined cities, but each one is Venice, his home.
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
3.7(62,099)
Fitzgerald's semi-autobiographical debut explores the Jazz Age's glamorous parties and sad disappointments through the eyes of an idealistic Princeton student dealing with love, ambition, and a changing generation.
by John Grisham
3.7(62,075)
A brilliant Yale Law graduate is blackmailed into infiltrating a cutthroat corporate law firm, where he must lie, steal, and navigate a deadly conspiracy to protect a dark secret from his past.
by Marissa Meyer
4.2(61,966)
In a city rebuilt by superpowered heroes, a vengeful assassin with the power to steal sleep infiltrates their ranks, only to find herself drawn to the artistic prodigy son of her sworn enemies, who champions the very justice she seeks to dismantle.
by Nora Roberts
4.2(61,964)
A woman who escaped her serial killer father's legacy finds new love and a fragile peace, only for his dark past to resurface, threatening to shatter her carefully built world once more.
by George Orwell
4.1(61,959)
Orwell exposes the truths of poverty in Parisian kitchens and among London tramps, using wit and a sharp eye for societal hypocrisy.
by Deborah Howe
3.9(61,873)
A suspicious cat and his loyal dog companion must uncover the truth about their new, fanged bunny housemate before his nocturnal, vegetable-draining habits turn their home into a produce-less wasteland.
by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
4.5(61,856)
A young girl with a clubfoot escapes abuse in WWII London, finds a new home, learns to ride a pony and read, and forms a loving family amidst the war.
by Sarah Dessen
3.9(61,813)
Shy, self-conscious Colie finds her voice and a place to belong during a summer working at the Last Chance Cafe with two friends.
by Nathan Hill
4.1(61,799)
A struggling writer's quest to understand his estranged, radicalized mother's past after she becomes a media sensation reveals a complex family story, forcing him to confront hidden truths and reclaim his own life.
by George Saunders
4.0(61,783)
In a world of backyard pole decorations and unsettling drug trials, George Saunders illuminates the struggles of ordinary people lost within their own minds and a subtly crumbling America.
by Paul Auster
3.9(61,768)
In New York City, a detective's search for a missing person turns into an investigation of identity, coincidence, and existence.
by Clare Pooley
4.1(61,749)
A group of seniors, a daycare, and a teen dad team up to save their community center, showing that age does not limit friendship or grand larceny.
by Veronica Roth
3.8(61,654)
In a galaxy where unique currentgifts define destiny, a resilient woman with the power to inflict pain and a loyal man who can disrupt it are forced together, challenging the brutal tyranny of her brother and the deep-seated animosity between their worlds.
by Walter Isaacson
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Walter Isaacson shows Leonardo da Vinci as the ultimate Renaissance man, whose curiosity and imagination joined art and science, from the Mona Lisa to flying machines, revealing a genius at the crossroads of humanistic creativity and scientific inquiry.
by Colleen Hoover
4.3(61,536)
A story about a marriage struggling with infertility and unspoken resentments, where a forgotten promise might help mend a broken love.
by Chuck Palahniuk
3.8(61,508)
In a world near a viral apocalypse, the oral history of Buster 'Rant' Casey, a rebel who turned urban demolition derbies into biological terrorism, reveals the truth behind his highway death and the pandemic he may have started.
by Holly Black
4.0(61,470)
A boy warned his whole life to avoid magic finds himself drawn into a dangerous sorcery school, where a dark destiny and a loyal puppy await.
by Ann-Marie MacDonald
4.0(61,441)
On Cape Breton, four sisters face a multigenerational saga of forbidden love, ambition, and a secret that threatens to shatter their family's web of sin, guilt, and redemption.
by Charles Bukowski
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Henry Chinaski, a defiant, drunken poet, stumbles through WWII-era America, leaving a trail of broken jobs and sordid encounters.
by Amie Kaufman
3.9(61,408)
Stranded on a desolate planet after a spaceliner crash, a privileged heiress and a working-class war hero must survive the alien wilderness and a dangerous truth about their survival.
by Melissa Albert
3.6(61,392)
A nomadic teen, haunted by bad luck, must enter the sinister world of her reclusive grandmother's dark fairy tales to rescue her abducted mother, uncovering the truth behind her own cursed life.