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The 9th Judgment

by James Patterson

3.8

A killer is murdering young mothers and their children in San Francisco parking garages, terrorizing the city. At the same time, a brazen jewel thief is robbing the rich and famous — and the two cases pull Lindsay Boxer in directions that test her judgment, and Yuki's, to the breaking point.

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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 Big Bad Wolf

by James Patterson

3.8

Alex Cross's first case as an FBI agent pits him against the Wolf, a Russian crime lord running a business that abducts people to order and sells them to the highest bidder. As Cross learns the Bureau's ropes, a custody battle over his youngest son threatens the family he is fighting to protect.

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The Brethren

by John Grisham

3.8

Three disgraced former judges run a blackmail scam from inside a Florida prison, extorting closeted, wealthy men through fake letters. When one of their marks turns out to be a CIA-backed presidential candidate, their petty hustle collides with the most ruthless power players in Washington.

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The House of Cross

by James Patterson

3.8

A string of murders — a federal judge, a lawyer, others who should have had nothing in common — draws Alex Cross and John Sampson into a conspiracy that reaches toward the highest levels of power. As Cross weighs a life-changing career decision, a familiar shadow returns to test him one more time.

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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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The Judge's List

by John Grisham

3.8

An investigator for the agency that polices judicial misconduct receives a chilling tip: a sitting Florida judge is a meticulous serial killer who has eluded detection for years. As Lacy Stoltz digs into his hidden list of victims, she realizes her own name may be added to it.

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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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3.8

The Mandible family, expecting to inherit a great fortune, watches the American economy collapse in 2029 under sovereign debt crisis and currency destruction — a multigenerational economic dystopia that follows one family's survival over nearly two decades.

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The Painted Bird

by Jerzy Kosinski

3.8

Jerzy Kosinski's harrowing, controversial classic. A dark-haired boy, taken for a Jew or Gypsy, wanders the brutal countryside of Eastern Europe during World War II, enduring relentless cruelty at the hands of superstitious peasants — a nightmarish allegory of war, otherness, and human savagery.

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These Hollow Vows

by Lexi Ryan

3.8

Lexi Ryan's BookTok-favorite faerie romantasy. To free her sister from the Unseelie king, Brie agrees to steal three magical relics from the Seelie court, posing as a potential bride for its prince — and finds herself caught between two dangerous, seductive faerie princes and two treacherous courts.

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Triple Cross

by James Patterson

3.8

A killer is murdering entire families in their homes, vanishing without a trace, and the press has dubbed him the most meticulous murderer in history. As Alex Cross hunts him, a celebrated true-crime writer who has made Cross his subject inserts himself into the investigation — with an agenda of his own.

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V Is for Vengeance

by Sue Grafton

3.8

Kinsey Millhone reports a shoplifting team she spots in a department store — a small good deed with deadly consequences. When one of the women is soon found dead, an apparent suicide, her grieving fiancé hires Kinsey, and the trail leads into a sophisticated organized-theft operation run by people who do not forgive interference.

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Valperga

by Mary Shelley

3.8

Set in fourteenth-century Italy, Valperga follows the rise of the condottiere Castruccio Castracani — a real historical figure — from boyhood idealism to tyrannical power, through the eyes of Euthanasia, the remarkable Countess of Valperga, who loves him and watches him be destroyed by ambition.

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Void Moon

by Michael Connelly

3.8

Cassie Black, an ex-convict trying to go straight, agrees to one last high-stakes heist in Las Vegas — the score that will fund a new life and let her reclaim the daughter she gave up. But the job goes wrong, and a ruthless fixer is dispatched to recover what she took, hunting her across the desert in a deadly cat-and-mouse.

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Worst Case

by James Patterson

3.8

A kidnapper is abducting the children of New York's wealthiest families and quizzing them on the suffering of the poor — and when they fail his lessons in inequality, they die. Detective Michael Bennett and FBI agent Emily Parker race to stop a killer who has turned class guilt into a death sentence.

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X

by Sue Grafton

3.8

A devious divorcée cons Kinsey Millhone into helping locate an estranged son, the first thread in a web of deceit. Meanwhile, a dead colleague's files reveal a coded list — the record of a methodical killer who has murdered women for years without detection. The lone 'X' marks the series' darkest, most ruthless adversary.

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Xenocide

by Orson Scott Card

3.8

The third Ender novel expands to three worlds simultaneously: Lusitania, where Ender and Valentine race to prevent a deadly descolada virus from spreading; Path, a Chinese-influenced planet whose most gifted citizens are afflicted with obsessive-compulsive rituals they believe are divine; and a Starways Congress determined to eliminate the threat by destroying an entire planet.

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Zero K

by Don DeLillo

3.8

Jeffrey Lockhart is summoned to a remote facility in central Asia where the ultra-wealthy can cryonically preserve their bodies until medicine can cure what ails them. His father has paid for Jeffrey's stepmother to be preserved as she dies of multiple sclerosis. The novel meditates on death, technology, and the human refusal to accept mortality.

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