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Red Dragon

by Thomas Harris

4.4

Retired FBI profiler Will Graham, who was nearly killed capturing Hannibal Lecter, is called back to help catch a serial killer called the Tooth Fairy — and must return to Lecter's cell to get inside the new killer's mind.

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Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen

4.4

Sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood navigate love and social constraint in Regency England — embodying the novel's central opposition between prudent sense and passionate sensibility.

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Shadows of Self

by Brandon Sanderson

4.4

A shape-shifting kandra is orchestrating political unrest in the city of Elendel, and Wax and Wayne must stop an assassin who can wear any face before the city tears itself apart.

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Skyward

by Brandon Sanderson

4.4

Spensa dreams of becoming a pilot in humanity's fight against the alien Krell, but her father's disgrace as a supposed coward has barred her from flight school. When she discovers a crashed, ancient starfighter with an unlikely AI, she finds a path to the sky — and to truths about the war her society would rather keep buried.

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Speaker for the Dead

by Orson Scott Card

4.4

Three thousand years after Ender's Game, the now-ancient Ender Wiggin becomes a Speaker for the Dead on a world where a second contact with aliens threatens to become the second genocide.

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The Alloy of Law

by Brandon Sanderson

4.4

Set 300 years after the events of the original Mistborn trilogy, Waxillium Ladrian is a lawman who returns to the city to find himself caught up in a series of mysterious robberies with allomantic involvement.

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The Awakening

by Kate Chopin

4.4

Edna Pontellier, a married woman in nineteenth-century New Orleans, awakens to her own desires — for independence, for art, for love — in a society that offers her no way to live them.

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The Circadian Code

by Satchin Panda

4.4

Dr. Satchin Panda, the world's leading researcher on circadian rhythms, explains how aligning your eating, sleeping, and activity with your internal clock dramatically improves health outcomes.

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The Daily Stoic

by Ryan Holiday

4.4

366 days of Stoic philosophy — a meditation for each day of the year, drawn from Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, and Seneca, with commentary by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman.

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The Dispossessed

by Ursula K. Le Guin

4.4

A physicist from an anarchist moon travels to its capitalist twin planet in this dual-narrative exploration of two radically different societies and the meaning of freedom.

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The Dragon Reborn

by Robert Jordan

4.4

Rand al'Thor abandons his companions and sets out alone for Tear, drawn by prophecy toward a destiny he can no longer postpone — while Egwene, Nynaeve, and Mat are pulled by separate threads toward the same inevitable convergence.

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The Fires of Heaven

by Robert Jordan

4.4

Rand leads the Aiel across the Westlands in a campaign to unite the continent, while Nynaeve and Elayne pursue the Black Ajah through Tarabon and beyond. The series deepens its politics and raises its stakes as the Dragon Reborn begins to shape history.

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The Great Hunt

by Robert Jordan

4.4

Rand al'Thor and his companions pursue the stolen Horn of Valere across the world — a legendary instrument that can call the dead heroes of the Ages back from beyond death — while Rand struggles to accept a destiny he cannot escape.

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The Idiot

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.4

Prince Lev Myshkin returns to Russia after years of Swiss treatment for epilepsy — gentle, sincere, and incapable of the social calculus that governs everyone around him. Dostoevsky's attempt to portray a truly good man, and what happens when such a man meets the world.

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The Lean Startup

by Eric Ries

4.4

Eric Ries argues that startups can shorten their product development cycles and discover what customers actually want through validated learning, scientific experimentation, and iterative product releases. The Lean Startup changed how the world builds companies.

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The Martian Chronicles

by Ray Bradbury

4.4

A series of linked stories following the colonisation of Mars by humans fleeing an increasingly troubled Earth — a work less concerned with the science of space travel than with what humanity brings with it, and what it destroys in the process.

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The Obelisk Gate

by N.K. Jemisin

4.4

Essun searches for her daughter while learning to control the obelisks — floating crystals that could either save or destroy the world — in the second Hugo Award-winning volume of the Broken Earth trilogy.

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The Omnivore's Dilemma

by Michael Pollan

4.4

Michael Pollan traces four meals from their origins to the table — industrial, industrial organic, local pastoral, and hunted-gathered — and asks what we should eat in a world of infinite choice.

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The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

4.4

A spoiled orphan comes to live on the Yorkshire moors and discovers a secret walled garden that transforms her — and everyone around her.

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The Shock Doctrine

by Naomi Klein

4.4

Naomi Klein's investigation into how disaster capitalism exploits crises to implement radical free-market policies that could not survive democratic scrutiny in normal times.

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The Sunlit Man

by Brandon Sanderson

4.4

Nomad is a man who can never stop moving — on a world where the sun kills everything it touches, and the only survival is to keep ahead of the terminator line. When he's drawn into the struggles of the planet's oppressed population, stopping means death, but abandoning them feels like its own kind of dying.

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The Trespasser

by Tana French

4.4

Detective Antoinette Conway and her partner Stephen Moran catch what looks like a routine domestic killing — but someone in the Murder Squad is pushing hard to close the case fast, and Conway can't tell who to trust.

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