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Beautiful World, Where Are You book cover
3.8

Alice, a novelist recovering from a breakdown, and Eileen, a literary editor in Dublin, exchange long emails about love, politics, art, and how to live ethically in the present. Meanwhile, their respective relationships — Alice with Felix, Eileen with Simon — test what they believe against what they actually do.

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Birnam Wood

by Eleanor Catton

3.8

A New Zealand guerrilla gardening collective called Birnam Wood begins farming unused land without permission; when their activities bring them into contact with a reclusive American tech billionaire with interests in the land, the collision between their idealism and his power becomes increasingly dangerous.

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Brida

by Paulo Coelho

3.8

Brida O'Fern is a young Irish woman driven by a hunger for spiritual knowledge. She seeks out two teachers — a wise man in the forest and a witch who teaches through the Wiccan Tradition of the Sun — in search of magic, purpose, and her soulmate.

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Camino Winds

by John Grisham

3.8

A monster hurricane batters Camino Island, and in its chaos a bestselling thriller writer turns up dead. Bookseller Bruce Cable suspects the storm didn't kill his friend. Using clues hidden in the dead author's unpublished manuscript, Bruce sets out to unmask a killer.

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Cell

by Stephen King

3.8

One afternoon in Boston, a mysterious signal called the Pulse turns every cell-phone user into a mindless, murderous savage. Artist Clay Riddell sets out across a collapsing New England to find his son. Stephen King's breakneck apocalyptic zombie thriller.

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3.8

At twenty, Tsukuru Tazaki was suddenly cut off by his four closest friends without explanation. Sixteen years later, at his girlfriend's urging, he sets out to find out why. A quieter and more realist Murakami — a novel about the wounds that friendship inflicts and the years of recovery they require, structured around a pilgrimage to three countries.

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Cross Fire

by James Patterson

3.8

As Alex Cross plans his long-awaited wedding to Bree Stone, a sniper begins assassinating Washington's most corrupt politicians and power brokers, dividing a city that half-cheers the killings. Then Cross's oldest nemesis, Kyle Craig, returns to turn the chaos into a personal trap.

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Cross My Heart

by James Patterson

3.8

A criminal genius named Thierry Mulch becomes obsessed with Alex Cross, watching his every move and orchestrating an elaborate campaign to prove he can outthink and destroy him. As Mulch closes in, the danger gathers around the one thing Cross can't protect: his family.

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Cross the Line

by James Patterson

3.8

When Washington's police chief — Cross's friend and mentor — is gunned down, Alex Cross steps back into the force to find the killer. But the murder is only the start: a wave of vigilante killings is sweeping the capital, as someone decides the law is too slow and begins executing criminals in the streets.

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D Is for Deadbeat

by Sue Grafton

3.8

A shady stranger hires Kinsey Millhone to deliver a $25,000 check to a teenage boy — a simple errand that turns out to be anything but. The client, John Daggett, is a drunk, a liar, and an ex-con responsible for deaths he never paid for, and when he turns up drowned, Kinsey is left to untangle who wanted him dead.

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Dear Thief

by Samantha Harvey

3.8

A woman writes a series of unsent letters to a childhood friend who vanished thirty years ago — examining what was taken when she left, what remained, and what a friendship between women actually contains.

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Double Cross

by James Patterson

3.8

A killer who stages elaborate murders for a watching audience terrorizes Washington, just as Alex Cross is trying to build a peaceful life with Bree Stone. Then his oldest nemesis, the brilliant Kyle Craig, escapes and resurfaces — with a new face and a single obsession: destroying Cross.

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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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Fear No Evil

by James Patterson

3.8

Alex Cross and John Sampson set out on a wilderness canoe trip to clear their heads, but their old enemy M has other plans. Stalked through the Montana backcountry by snipers and drones, the two friends fight for their lives, while Bree pursues a dangerous trafficking case of her own back home.

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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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H Is for Homicide

by Sue Grafton

3.8

Investigating an insurance fraud that turns deadly, Kinsey Millhone finds herself drawn deep undercover into the world of staged-accident scams — and trapped in the orbit of a volatile, dangerous man whose jealousy could get her killed. To get out, she'll have to play a role and pray her cover holds.

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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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Hope to Die

by James Patterson

3.8

Thierry Mulch has Alex Cross's entire family — Bree, Nana Mama, and the children — and forces Cross to dance to his commands or watch them die. Desperate and half-broken, Cross must obey a madman's escalating demands while racing to find the people he loves before it's too late.

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I, Michael Bennett

by James Patterson

3.8

After Michael Bennett helps capture a ruthless South American crime lord, the man swears vengeance from his cell — and makes good on it. With his family in danger, Bennett flees the city for a small town upstate, but his enemy's reach is long, and the war he has started will not stay behind him.

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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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