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A fictional account of the Salem witch trials narrated by Sarah Carrier, daughter of Martha Carrier, one of the accused women hanged in 1692. Based on the author's own family history, the novel renders the hysteria and its human costs with precise, unflinching attention.

Joseph Campbell's hugely influential study of comparative mythology. Drawing on myths from across cultures, he argues that they share a single underlying structure — the 'monomyth' or Hero's Journey — and explores its psychological meaning, in a book that has shaped storytelling for generations.

A retelling of the medieval legend of Gregorius — a man born of incest who unknowingly marries his own mother and atones by living on a rocky island for seventeen years before being elected Pope — Mann's most playful late novel.

An alien assumes the identity of a Cambridge mathematician who has just solved the Riemann hypothesis. As it learns what it means to be human — through peanut butter, Emily Dickinson, and a dog named Newton — the novel becomes an unexpected meditation on why life is worth living.

A novel in documents — letters, journals, and dispatches — reconstructing the final months of Julius Caesar's life, from his point of view and those of everyone around him.

Gregory Reeves grows up among Latinos in East Los Angeles, serves in Vietnam, becomes a lawyer in San Francisco, and tries to outrun the poverty and violence of his childhood. Allende's first novel set in North America — a bildungsroman structured around the myth of self-invention and a portrait of the Latino community in California.

When the eminent Egyptologist Abel Trelawny falls into a mysterious coma, his daughter Margaret and young barrister Malcolm Ross find themselves drawn into the terrifying legacy of an ancient Egyptian queen — and an experiment in resurrection that may unleash something the modern world is wholly unprepared for.

David Gemmell's second Drenai novel, set generations after Legend. Tenaka Khan — despised for his mixed Drenai and Nadir blood — leads a desperate rebellion against a cruel, decadent empire, in a fast, brutal, and emotionally charged tale of heroism, redemption, and the cost of war.

Exiled to the LAPD's overnight shift after filing a harassment complaint, Detective Renée Ballard works the cases no one else wants and hands them off by dawn. But two brutal crimes in a single night — the beating of a young woman and a deadly nightclub shooting — are ones she refuses to let go, even if it costs her what's left of her career.

Two brothers in Calcutta: one becomes a revolutionary, killed in the Naxalite uprising; the other escapes to America, inheriting his brother's widow and her grief. Lahiri's most ambitious novel spans continents and decades, tracing the long aftermath of a single act of political violence.

Hans Castorp, a young Hamburg engineer, visits his cousin at a tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alps and stays for seven years — drawn into a world where illness, intellectual debate, and the distortion of time separate the inhabitants from ordinary life on the plains below.

Matty, a boy from Gathering Blue, now lives in Village — a community of outcasts and refugees — as it begins to close itself off to newcomers and the surrounding forest becomes deadly.

Roy's second novel, twenty years after The God of Small Things, follows Anjum — a hijra who lives in a graveyard — and Tilo, an architect entangled in the Kashmir conflict, through a fragmented, polyphonic account of India's multiple political crises.

The widow of Harry Bosch's friend Terry McCaleb asks him to look into the retired profiler's death, which she refuses to believe was natural. Bosch's investigation collides with an FBI hunt for a resurrected serial killer — the Poet — and pulls him into the deadliest pursuit of his career, alongside agent Rachel Walling.

Ann Beattie's collected New Yorker stories, spanning 1974 to 2006. Forty-eight spare, wry, precisely observed tales chronicle the drift, disappointments, and quiet epiphanies of the American middle class — the work of a master of the short story whose name became an adjective: 'Beattiesque.'

At the funeral of his old mentor, Harry Bosch is handed the dead man's secret: a murder book he stole decades ago and never returned, a case he hid for reasons no one understands. With Renée Ballard, Bosch sets out to learn why his mentor took the file — and to finally close the case he left undone.

Paul Theroux's classic travelogue of a journey by train from Boston to the tip of South America. Riding the rails through the Americas to the remote Patagonian express, Theroux observes landscapes, fellow passengers, and his own restlessness with the sharp eye and acerbic wit that made him a master of travel writing.

An Irish woman in Mexico encounters a political and religious movement attempting to revive the ancient Aztec religion and displace Christianity — Lawrence's most politically troubling and visually extraordinary novel.

Anthony Hope's classic swashbuckling adventure. Holidaying in the fictional kingdom of Ruritania, the English gentleman Rudolf Rassendyll is recruited to impersonate the king — his distant look-alike — when the monarch is drugged and abducted, plunging him into court intrigue, swordplay, and forbidden love.

The conclusion of The Queen's Rising duology, in which a newly restored queen and her allies must defend a fragile new order against the deposed enemies determined to reclaim their power.

Rebecca Ross's debut, a young adult fantasy in which a young woman trained in the art of knowledge becomes embroiled in a dangerous plot to restore a fallen queen to her throne.

Eight stories exploring the lives of Vietnamese refugees and immigrants caught between cultures — the ghost-haunted, the displaced, the American-born, and those who never made it out — drawn from two decades of Nguyen's work.

Sonia, a British woman, travels to Granada to learn flamenco after her relationship ends. Staying with family friends, she discovers letters and photographs that reveal the story of the Ramirez family during the Spanish Civil War — a story of love, betrayal, and the violence that divided Spain. Alternating between the present day and the 1930s, The Return is Hislop's portrait of Granada and the civil war's lasting trauma.

When DNA evidence frees a convicted child-killer after twenty-four years, defense attorney Mickey Haller is recruited to do the unthinkable: switch sides and prosecute the retrial. With his ex-wife as co-counsel and Harry Bosch as investigator, Haller must convict a man the system already let go.