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by Paulo Coelho
3.6(60,361)
A mysterious stranger offers a secluded village a difficult choice: kill someone for riches or stay poor, as a young woman tries to guide their moral decisions.
by Emily Carroll
3.9(60,204)
Emily Carroll's collection invites readers into five unsettling tales, where the forest's whispers lure travelers into nightmares, blurring reality and dread with every rustle of leaves.
by Karin Slaughter
4.1(60,178)
A serial killer's gruesome methods grip Atlanta. A disgraced detective, his ex-lover, and an ex-con race to find the killer whose victims expose the city's dark secrets.
by Nicholas Sparks
4.0(60,139)
A chance meeting on Sunset Beach starts a decades-long love between a woman making big life choices and a safari guide looking for his past. They must face whether their responsibilities or their own happiness will win out.
by Charlotte Brontë
3.8(60,125)
In the foreign city of Villette, the orphaned Lucy Snowe navigates unrequited love and societal limits, all while protecting her independent spirit.
by Colleen Hoover
4.2(59,975)
A fleeting, make-believe romance in the dark haunts a young man. A year later, he finds a new love, but a secret from his past threatens to shatter their future.
by James Patterson
4.0(59,835)
A meticulous criminal mastermind terrorizes Washington D.C. with a series of bank robberies and murders, forcing Detective Alex Cross to untangle the psychopath's web while dealing with personal issues before a devastating final crime.
by David Seltzer
4.0(59,821)
A diplomat's perfect life shatters when he learns his young son is the prophesied Antichrist, meant to bring about evil.
by Aimee Bender
3.2(59,771)
A young girl who tastes emotions in food navigates her family's hidden feelings and the complexities of growing up, learning that some truths are too subtle even for her special palate.
by Winston Groom
4.1(59,758)
From gridiron glory to jungle warfare and even outer space, an unwitting giant blunders through the most iconic moments of the 20th century, exposing the absurdities of history with every step.
by Katherine Dunn
4.0(59,733)
The Binewskis, a family of self-made human oddities, run a carny act fueled by ambition and arsenic, blurring the lines between beauty and grotesque, love and depravity, and making you question what normalcy means.
by Simone Elkeles
4.1(59,723)
An aspiring astronaut's dreams and his family's peace are threatened when a forbidden love affair pulls him into a dangerous underworld, revealing a shocking truth about his own past.
by Nora Roberts
4.2(59,717)
In the magical hills of Ireland, a woman seeking comfort in folklore finds her destiny tied to a pub owner whose passion ignites a love as old and powerful as the land itself.
by Umberto Eco
3.9(59,687)
Three jaded editors, playing a dangerous game with occult manuscripts and a supercomputer, accidentally conjure a real-world conspiracy that drags them into a deadly hunt for an ancient secret.
by Jeanette Winterson
3.7(59,586)
Raised in the intense world of evangelical Christianity, a young woman's missionary path changes when her heart and faith are challenged by loving another woman.
by Jean-Dominique Bauby
4.0(59,577)
Trapped in a paralyzed body and able to communicate only by blinking one eyelid, a magazine editor dictates his memoir, turning an impossible situation into a story about the strength of the human spirit.
by Choderlos de Laclos
4.0(59,508)
In pre-revolutionary France, two jaded aristocrats wage a cruel war of seduction and betrayal through letters, orchestrating the downfall of innocents only to find their deceptions leading to an unforeseen, deadly reckoning.
by Stephen King
3.5(59,490)
A mysterious, otherworldly Buick Roadmaster in a rural Pennsylvania state police shed becomes a silent, breathing entity that consumes lives and fuels a young man's dangerous quest for answers after his father's death.
by Thomas More
3.5(59,452)
A seasoned traveler describes the radical, communal, and often unsettling customs of the isolated island of Utopia, making readers question their own 'civilized' world.
by Robert Ludlum
4.0(59,449)
David Webb must awaken his deadly alter ego, Jason Bourne, for a final, explosive confrontation with his nemesis, the Jackal, amidst a global conspiracy.
by Jonathan Kellerman
4.0(59,411)
A child psychologist helps a seven-year-old witness to a murder, uncovering a forty-year-old conspiracy that links to his own past and endangers the girl's life.
by Kerri Maniscalco
4.0(59,169)
A defiant lord's daughter secretly dissects corpses to unmask Jack the Ripper, only to find the killer's shadow creeping closer to her privileged world.
by Koushun Takami
4.2(59,129)
In a dystopian twist on adolescence, a class of junior high students is thrust onto a deserted island, armed, forced into a brutal deathmatch where friendship and morality clash against the urge to be the last one standing.
by Cece Bell
4.2(59,121)
Armed with a powerful hearing aid that grants her unexpected 'superpowers,' a young Cece navigates the isolating and often hilarious journey of finding friendship while embracing her deafness in a new school.