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BestsellerEditor's Pick
4.4

Soviet submarine captain Marko Ramius attempts to defect to the United States with his entire crew and the USSR's most advanced nuclear submarine — and CIA analyst Jack Ryan must convince a skeptical Navy the defection is real before both superpowers open fire.

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The Underground Railroad

by Colson Whitehead

4.3

Cora, a slave on a Georgia plantation, escapes on a literal underground railroad — a secret network of actual trains and tunnels — and is hunted across an alternate-history antebellum America. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award.

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Wolf Hall

by Hilary Mantel

4.3

Thomas Cromwell rises from a blacksmith's son to become Henry VIII's chief minister, navigating court intrigue, the fall of Cardinal Wolsey, and the king's desire for Anne Boleyn. Winner of the Man Booker Prize.

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Editor's Pick

Man's Search for Meaning

by Viktor E. Frankl

4.8

Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's harrowing account of surviving Auschwitz forms the foundation of logotherapy — the idea that the primary human drive is not pleasure but the pursuit of meaning. One of the most important psychological texts of the 20th century.

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Editor's Pick

Middlemarch

by George Eliot

4.8

A sweeping portrait of English provincial society in the 1830s, centering on the idealistic Dorothea Brooke and the ambitious Dr. Lydgate as they pursue their aspirations and confront their disappointments.

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Editor's Pick

Say Nothing

by Patrick Radden Keefe

4.8

The story of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, told through the abduction and murder of Jean McConville and the lives of IRA members Dolours Price and Gerry Adams.

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The Master and Margarita

by Mikhail Bulgakov

4.8

Satan visits Stalinist Moscow, accompanied by a giant black cat, a hitman, and a naked witch — exposing Soviet bureaucracy's absurdities while a novelist's story of Pontius Pilate and Jesus unfolds within the novel.

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Editor's Pick

War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy

4.8

Tolstoy's vast panorama of Russian society during Napoleon's invasion, following five aristocratic families across fifteen years of war, love, loss, and transformation.

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Invisible Man

by Ralph Ellison

4.7

An unnamed Black man's journey from the South through Harlem, joining and leaving organisations that all fail to see him as an individual — a meditation on identity, race, and visibility in America.

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Editor's Pick

Jerusalem

by Yotam Ottolenghi & Sami Tamimi

4.7

London chefs Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi — one Jewish Israeli, one Palestinian Muslim — grew up on opposite sides of Jerusalem and share a profound love for the same city's food. Their cookbook is both a culinary journey and a remarkable act of cultural bridge-building.

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Editor's Pick

The Iliad

by Homer

4.7

The final weeks of the Trojan War, focusing on Achilles's wrath, his withdrawal from battle, the death of Patroclus, and his return to fight — and to mourn — with devastating consequence.

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Editor's Pick

The Intelligent Investor

by Benjamin Graham

4.7

Warren Buffett calls it 'the best book about investing ever written.' First published in 1949, Graham's value investing principles have stood up to every market cycle since. The revised edition includes commentary by Jason Zweig placing Graham's timeless wisdom in modern context.

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Editor's Pick

The Way of Kings

by Brandon Sanderson

4.7

The first book in Brandon Sanderson's epic Stormlight Archive series, set on the storm-ravaged world of Roshar and following three protagonists navigating war, politics, and the discovery of ancient magic.

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Editor's Pick

Behave

by Robert M. Sapolsky

4.6

A comprehensive exploration of the biological underpinnings of human behaviour — from the neural firing a second before an act to the evolutionary pressures that shaped our species over millions of years.

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Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.6

Dostoevsky's psychological masterpiece follows Raskolnikov, a student who murders a pawnbroker to test his theory that exceptional men are above conventional morality — and the psychological disintegration that follows.

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Emma

by Jane Austen

4.6

The story of Emma Woodhouse — handsome, clever, and rich — whose well-intentioned meddling in the romantic lives of others leads to one comic disaster after another.

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Flowers for Algernon

by Daniel Keyes

4.6

Charlie Gordon, a man with intellectual disabilities, undergoes experimental brain surgery that dramatically increases his intelligence — and must grapple with the emotional and social consequences.

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