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Eldest

by Christopher Paolini

3.8

Eragon travels to the elvish homeland to train with the Dragon Riders while Roran leads the villagers of Carvahall in a desperate flight from the Empire. The second Inheritance Cycle novel deepens its world's mythology and pushes Eragon's powers and understanding to new levels.

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Enduring Love

by Ian McEwan

3.8

A picnic in the Chilterns is interrupted when a hot-air balloon accident brings two strangers together. One of them — Joe Rose, a science journalist — becomes the obsessive focus of the other's deranged love. McEwan's clinical thriller dissects the boundary between reason and madness.

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Good as Gold

by Joseph Heller

3.8

Bruce Gold, a Jewish English professor in New York, is offered a vague but enticing position in Washington and navigates the absurdist bureaucracy of politics while colliding with his chaotic family and a government that speaks entirely in meaningless language.

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Hannibal Rising

by Thomas Harris

3.8

The origin story of Hannibal Lecter: from his aristocratic Lithuanian childhood through the traumatic events of the Second World War that broke something fundamental, to the first murders in post-war Europe and Japan. A prequel that traces the specific losses and grievances that created the most celebrated fictional cannibal.

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Heaven's My Destination

by Thornton Wilder

3.8

George Brush is a travelling textbook salesman in Depression-era America who is also a fundamentalist Christian — sincere, principled, and a constant source of comic chaos wherever he goes.

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Her Fearful Symmetry

by Audrey Niffenegger

3.8

American twins inherit a flat overlooking Highgate Cemetery in London from an aunt they never met — and find themselves entangled with a ghost, the aunt's former lover, and a mystery about the family's past.

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Imagine Me

by Tahereh Mafi

3.8

The sixth and final Shatter Me novel. With Ella weaponized against the people she loves and the Reestablishment closing in, Juliette must reclaim herself for a last stand that ends the saga of touch, power, and identity that began with Shatter Me.

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John Henry Days

by Colson Whitehead

3.8

J. Sutter is a junk journalist attending a press junket in Talcott, West Virginia, where the US Postal Service is issuing a John Henry commemorative stamp. Whitehead weaves Sutter's contemporary story with the legend of John Henry, the steel-driving man who raced a machine and won — and then died — and various other perspectives across American history.

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Lea

by Pascal Mercier

3.8

A man searches for his estranged daughter Lea, a violinist who has disappeared, travelling across Europe following the traces she has left — a meditation on parenthood, music, and the distances we create between those we love.

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Lust

by Elfriede Jelinek

3.8

A factory director in rural Austria uses his wife Gerti as a sexual object, while Gerti seeks an escape through a brief affair with a student. Jelinek's most controversial novel uses pornographic imagery and flat, repetitive prose to expose the mechanics of male power over female bodies—a feminist provocation that repelled and fascinated in equal measure.

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Meet Me in Atlantis

by Mark Adams

3.8

Mark Adams travels the world in search of the lost city of Atlantis — interviewing scholars, crackpots, archaeologists, and believers — in a witty and surprisingly serious investigation of one of history's most persistent myths.

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Of Permanent Value

by Andrew Kilpatrick

3.8

Andrew Kilpatrick's sprawling, encyclopedic biography of Warren Buffett chronicles the investor's life from childhood in Omaha through the building of Berkshire Hathaway into one of the world's most valuable companies. Updated across multiple editions, it serves as the most comprehensive single-volume reference on Buffett's personal and professional history.

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Peerless Flats

by Esther Freud

3.8

Lisa, sixteen, arrives in London from the country with her mother and younger sister, and tries to make sense of the city, boys, and her own desires. Esther Freud's second novel — a coming-of-age story set in Hackney.

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Ripley Under Water

by Patricia Highsmith

3.8

The fifth and final Ripley novel. An American couple, David and Janice Pritchard, move to the village near Ripley's Belle Ombre and begin investigating the disappearance of Dickie Greenleaf — whose killing, thirty years earlier, is the foundational crime of the entire series. Ripley must manage this threat with the same composure he has brought to every crisis, in a novel that is both a thriller and a late meditation on how long a constructed life can hold.

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Magyk

by Angie Sage

3.8

On the night the seventh son of the seventh son is born to the Heap family, the baby is presumed dead — but Septimus Heap's story is only beginning, as a decade later a young girl with a mysterious past arrives to turn the magical world upside down.

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Son of a Witch

by Gregory Maguire

3.8

Ten years after the events of Wicked, Liir — possibly Elphaba's son — stumbles out of the wilderness near death and must piece together what happened to him and what he is meant to do. The Wicked Years sequence continues as Oz descends further into political darkness.

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3.8

A MIT graduate student accidentally builds a time machine that can only travel forward — each jump taking him exponentially further into the future — and must find a way back or keep jumping into an ever more distant Earth.

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The Bangkok Asset

by John Burdett

3.8

Sonchai encounters a man of extraordinary physical capability — an American military asset, a product of a black-ops enhancement programme — whose presence in Bangkok is connected to CIA operations that go back to the Vietnam War and forward into a disturbing future of human augmentation. The sixth Sonchai novel, the darkest and most politically charged.

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The Immortality Key

by Brian C. Muraresku

3.8

Brian Muraresku's provocative investigation into the hidden history of psychedelics and Western religion. Across a twelve-year quest through archaeology, ancient languages, and secret archives, he argues that a psychedelic sacrament may lie at the origins of Greek mystery cults and early Christianity.

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Labyrinth

by Kate Mosse

3.8

In 2005, a young archaeologist discovers two skeletons and an ancient ring near Carcassonne; in 1209, a young woman becomes the guardian of three books containing the secret of the Holy Grail during the brutal Cathar Crusade — two women separated by eight centuries but bound by the same ancient mystery.

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3.8

Stoker's final novel pits a young Englishman against an ancient, monstrous entity lurking beneath the English countryside — part gothic horror, part folk legend, part fever dream. Lady Arabella March conceals a terrifying secret in her estate, and only Adam Salton can confront the primordial evil coiled beneath Mercy Farm.

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The Last Patriot

by Brad Thor

3.8

Brad Thor's seventh Scot Harvath thriller. Counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath races across Europe and the Middle East to recover a lost secret about the origins of Islam — a revelation powerful enough to change history, and one that ruthless enemies will kill to keep buried.

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The Lost Symbol

by Dan Brown

3.8

Robert Langdon is called to Washington D.C. under false pretenses and plunged into a frantic one-night race through the Capitol's corridors of power. Freemason symbolism, Ancient Mysteries, and a villain whose identity reshapes the entire narrative — Brown's most American thriller.

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The Maidens

by Alex Michaelides

3.8

A Cambridge group therapist becomes obsessed with a charismatic Greek Tragedy professor she suspects of murder, convinced he is connected to the ritualistic killings of young women who belong to his secret society — The Maidens.

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