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Editor's Pick

The Stone Sky

by N.K. Jemisin

4.5

Three timelines converge as Essun and her daughter Nassun race toward opposite ends — one to save humanity, one to end it — in the Hugo Award-winning conclusion to the Broken Earth trilogy.

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Editor's Pick

The Trial

by Franz Kafka

4.5

Josef K. is arrested one morning without explanation, prosecuted by an opaque authority for an unnamed crime, and gradually consumed by a legal process he can never understand.

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Editor's Pick
4.4

Young Fitz, the royal bastard of the Six Duchies, is brought to the court of his grandfather King Shrewd and apprenticed to the royal assassin — learning to navigate palace politics, a forbidden magical bond with animals, and the profound isolation of being useful but never truly belonging.

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Editor's Pick

Enlightenment Now

by Steven Pinker

4.4

Steven Pinker's comprehensive argument that the Enlightenment values of reason, science, humanism, and progress have dramatically improved the human condition — and why we should defend them.

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Editor's Pick

Flow

by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

4.4

The landmark study of the state of optimal experience — deep concentration and complete involvement that makes an activity intrinsically rewarding.

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Editor's Pick

Knife of Dreams

by Robert Jordan

4.4

Robert Jordan's final completed novel before his death in 2007: the storylines that had stalled across the previous two volumes suddenly and decisively accelerate, resolving long-running threads and propelling every major character toward the Last Battle.

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Editor's Pick

Lifespan

by David A. Sinclair

4.4

A Harvard geneticist argues that aging is a disease — one that can be treated — and shares the cutting-edge research on sirtuins, NAD+, and the information theory of aging.

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Editor's Pick

No Rules Rules

by Reed Hastings

4.4

Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings reveals the unorthodox culture that drives the company's success — and the specific practices behind radical candor, talent density, and freedom with responsibility.

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Editor's Pick

Snow Crash

by Neal Stephenson

4.4

A pizza delivery driver who moonlights as a hacker navigates the Metaverse — Stephenson's invented virtual reality — to unravel a conspiracy involving a powerful new drug and ancient Sumerian linguistics.

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Editor's Pick

The Left Hand of Darkness

by Ursula K. Le Guin

4.4

Le Guin's landmark science fiction novel about an envoy from a galactic federation who visits a planet whose inhabitants are ambisexual — neither male nor female — and the profound implications for society and consciousness.

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Editor's Pick

The Likeness

by Tana French

4.4

Detective Cassie Maddox is pulled back into undercover work when a murder victim is found bearing her exact face — and carrying the identity Cassie once used as an alias.

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Editor's Pick

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

4.4

The decline of the Compson family of Jefferson, Mississippi, told four times from four radically different perspectives — including the interior monologue of a 33-year-old man with the mind of a child.

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