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Naked Prey

by John Sandford

3.9

Two bodies are found hanging from a tree in rural Minnesota — a black man and a white woman — and the scene screams racial hate crime. Newly appointed to a roving post with the state's Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, Lucas Davenport is sent to investigate, and discovers that the truth is stranger and more personal than the politics suggest.

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Nine Perfect Strangers

by Liane Moriarty

3.9

Nine stressed, broken, or otherwise lost people arrive at Tranquillum House — a boutique wellness retreat run by the enigmatic Masha. Over ten days, Masha's radical approach to healing crosses lines they didn't know existed. A satirical thriller about the wellness industry, grief, and what people will try when conventional living has failed them.

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No Bones

by Anna Burns

3.9

Amelia Lovett grows up in a Catholic enclave of North Belfast from the 1960s through the 1990s, in a family shaped by proximity to violence — the novel follows her through fifteen vignette chapters, each presenting a distinct moment in the Troubles and its effects on ordinary family life.

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No Plan B

by Lee Child

3.9

Reacher witnesses a woman pushed under a bus in a staged suicide and refuses to let it lie. Lee and Andrew Child's twenty-seventh Reacher thriller widens into a conspiracy involving a corrupt private prison, weaving multiple storylines toward a violent collision.

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3.9

Kahneman, Sibony, and Sunstein argue that human judgment suffers from two distinct problems: bias (consistent error) and noise (random variability). Noise is under-studied and under-corrected — and its costs in medicine, law, and business are enormous.

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One August Night

by Victoria Hislop

3.9

The sequel to The Island, set fifty years after the events of the original novel. The island of Spinalonga has been empty since the leper colony was closed; the families of Plaka on the Cretan shore have rebuilt their lives. But one August night, a violent act resurfaces history and forces the characters — and their descendants — to confront what was never fully resolved. A companion piece to Hislop's most famous novel.

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One Perfect Couple

by Ruth Ware

3.9

Five couples maroon themselves on a remote island to film a reality dating show — then a storm cuts them off, the crew vanishes, and the bodies start to pile up. Ruth Ware delivers a sun-soaked, survival-horror riff on the locked-room thriller, with a nod to Agatha Christie.

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Orlando

by Virginia Woolf

3.9

Orlando lives for centuries, transforming from an Elizabethan nobleman into a woman in the eighteenth century, and waking finally in 1928. Woolf's joyful fantasy — a love letter to Vita Sackville-West — is her most accessible novel and an enduring meditation on gender, identity, and literary tradition.

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Pandemonium

by Lauren Oliver

3.9

The sequel to Delirium follows Lena as she survives in the Wilds and infiltrates the resistance movement, alternating between 'then' and 'now' chapters that build toward a shocking revelation about the man she thought she lost.

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Pirate Latitudes

by Michael Crichton

3.9

Jamaica, 1665: privateer Captain Edward Hunter assembles a crew to raid the heavily fortified Spanish galleon El Trinidad, moored at Matanceros under the guns of a famously cruel Spanish commander. Published posthumously from a completed manuscript found on Crichton's computer after his death.

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Secret Prey

by John Sandford

3.9

When the CEO of a major bank is shot dead on a hunting trip, the list of suspects is a who's who of ambitious executives, each with motive and opportunity. Lucas Davenport must navigate a world of corporate intrigue and personal rivalry to find a killer hiding among the ruthless men and women competing to take the dead man's place.

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Selection Day

by Aravind Adiga

3.9

Two brothers from rural India are brought to Mumbai by their obsessive father to become cricket stars — but Manju, the more talented of the two, is not sure he wants what his father wants for him.

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Shadow Prey

by John Sandford

3.9

A string of ritual knife killings is cutting down public officials across the country, the victims linked by their roles in crimes against Native Americans. Lucas Davenport joins forces with a tough New York detective to hunt the assassins — and to untangle a conspiracy with roots in decades of injustice.

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She

by H. Rider Haggard

3.9

H. Rider Haggard's hugely influential Victorian adventure. Following an ancient relic into the African interior, Holly and Leo Vincey discover a lost kingdom ruled by Ayesha — 'She-who-must-be-obeyed' — a beautiful, immortal queen who has waited two thousand years for the return of her murdered love.

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Silken Prey

by John Sandford

3.9

A dirty political trick — incriminating material planted on a senate candidate's computer — explodes into something far worse when the operative behind it disappears and a body turns up. Lucas Davenport is pulled into a high-stakes election-year investigation where the players are wealthy, ruthless, and willing to kill to win.

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Silverthorn

by Raymond E. Feist

3.9

The second book of the Riftwar Saga. When Princess Anita is struck down by a poisoned crossbow bolt on her wedding day, Prince Arutha sets out on a quest for the mystic herb silverthorn — while a dark new power, the Brotherhood of the Dark Path, stirs in the north.

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3.9

The fourth Hitchhiker's Guide novel returns Arthur Dent to an Earth that should have been destroyed, where he finds something he never expected in this series: a love story, with a woman named Fenchurch and the mystery of why the dolphins vanished.

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3.9

Hajime, a successful jazz bar owner in Tokyo with a comfortable marriage, is reunited with Shimamoto — his only close childhood friend, with whom he spent hours listening to records. Their reunion opens something he cannot close. A quiet, compressed novel about the specific grief of the road not taken and the women who persist as figures of the unlived life.

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Southern Mail

by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

3.9

Saint-Exupéry's debut novel follows a mail pilot flying routes over the Sahara and a narrator's meditation on love, duty, and the life of aviation against the backdrop of a woman waiting on the ground.

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Spook Country

by William Gibson

3.9

Three storylines converge around a mysterious shipping container in post-9/11 America: a journalist investigating locative art, a drug-addicted translator working for a shadowy operative, and a Cuban-Chinese crime family tracking the same cargo.

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Sputnik Sweetheart

by Haruki Murakami

3.9

K loves Sumire, who loves a married older woman named Miu. When Sumire disappears on a Greek island where she and Miu have been travelling, K is called to help. A quiet, triangular love story about people who orbit each other without connecting — Murakami's most explicitly about the loneliness of desire and the distances between people who want each other across unbridgeable gaps.

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Step on a Crack

by James Patterson

3.9

NYPD Detective Michael Bennett faces a hostage crisis when a criminal mastermind seizes mourners at a former First Lady's funeral inside St. Patrick's Cathedral. As Bennett negotiates for the lives of the powerful, his wife is dying at home and his ten adopted children need him too.

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Still Me

by Jojo Moyes

3.9

In the third Lou Clark novel, Louisa travels to New York City as a personal assistant to a wealthy family, navigating a new world, a complicated love triangle, and the ongoing question of what it means to live the life Will Traynor urged her toward.

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Stolen Prey

by John Sandford

3.9

An entire family is slaughtered in an affluent Minnesota suburb, the savagery of the killings a message in itself. Lucas Davenport's investigation leads to a Mexican drug cartel, a laundering operation, and a stolen fortune — and to cartel enforcers who treat torture and murder as ordinary business.

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