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Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance by Alison Espach For much of her life, Sally Holt has been mystified by the things her older sister, Kathy, seems to have been born knowing. Kathy has answers for all of Sally’s questions... read more →
Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance4.3 ⭐

Bald-Faced Liar by Victoria Helen Stone Traveling nurse Elizabeth May has a promising new home in Santa Cruz. And another new identity. It's a pattern of reinvention for a woman escaping her traumatic childhood... read more →
Bald-Faced Liar4.0 ⭐

Cross and Sampson by James Patterson, Brian Sitts Metro PD detective John Sampson stands in a crater in the middle of a DC street, calling in the bomb squad. Dispatch, this is Sampson. Contact the FBI and the ATF. We've ... read more →
Cross and Sampson4.6 ⭐

Flashlight by Susan Choi One summer night, Louisa and her father take a walk on the breakwater. Her father is carrying a flashlight. He cannot swim. Later, Louisa is found on the beach, soaked to... read more →
Flashlight4.3 ⭐

FDR Drive by James Comey After a stint in the private sector, working at the largest hedge fund in the world, Nora Carleton has returned to her former role as a New York City federal prosecutor. ... read more →
FDR Drive4.4 ⭐

House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas Bryce Quinlan had the perfect life-working hard all day and partying all night-until a demon murdered her closest friends, leaving her bereft, wounded, and alone. When th... read more →
House of Earth and Blood4.7 ⭐

This Book Is Full of Spiders by Jason Pargin, David Wong Warning: You may have a huge, invisible spider living in your skull. THIS IS NOT A METAPHOR. You will dismiss this as ridiculous fear-mongering. Dismissing things as r... read more →
This Book Is Full of Spiders4.6 ⭐

Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin This is the story of five women... Meet Rachel Grossman. She’ll stop at nothing to protect her daughter, Aviva, even if it ends up costing her everything. Meet Jan... read more →
Young Jane Young4.2 ⭐

Skirting Danger by Kay Keppler Suspended for a hunch gone wrong, CIA language analyst Phoebe Renfrew is desperate to get her job back. But when she uncovers a terrorist plot at a Las Vegas start-up car... read more →
Skirting Danger4.2 ⭐

Twist by Colum McCann Anthony Fennell, an Irish journalist and playwright, is assigned to cover the underwater cables that carry the world’s information. The sum of human existence words, imag... read more →
Twist4.3 ⭐

Behind These Four Walls by Yasmin Angoe Isla Thorne had a rough start in life. Orphaned young, she spent her formative years in a group home where she met her best friend, Eden Galloway. At sixteen, they decide... read more →
Behind These Four Walls4.1 ⭐

The Heart of Everything by Marc Levy There's nothing too unusual about a father asking his son for a favor unless, of course, the father in question has been dead for five years. Thomas, a young virtuoso ... read more →
The Heart of Everything4.3 ⭐

The Flightless Birds of New Hope by Farah Naz Rishi Upon the sudden deaths of their bird-obsessed parents, the three Shah siblings reunite. Aliza has spent years holding their crumbling family together, caring for their... read more →
The Flightless Birds of New Hope4.1 ⭐

I Who Have Never Known Men (B&N Exclusive Edition) by Jacqueline Harpman As the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl--the fortieth prisoner--sits alone and outcast in the corner. Soon she will sh... read more →
I Who Have Never Known Men (B&N Exclusive Edition)4.1 ⭐

Women of a Promiscuous Nature by Donna Everhart On a brisk February morning while walking to the diner where she works, 24 year-old Ruth Foster is stopped by the local sheriff. He insists she accompany him to a health ... read more →
Women of a Promiscuous Nature4.2 ⭐

I Will Kill Your Imaginary Friend for $200 by Robert Brockway To bright and anxious eight-year-old Kay Washington, the worst thing in the world is being alone with the quiet. That's why Eddie Video makes the perfect imaginary friend... read more →
I Will Kill Your Imaginary Friend for $2004.8 ⭐

Dawn by Octavia E. Butler When Lilith lyapo wakes from a centuries-long sleep, she finds herself aboard the vast spaceship of the Oankali. She discovers that the Oankali a seemingly benevolent ali... read more →
Dawn4.4 ⭐

Black AF History by Michael Harriot From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly hilarious retelling of untold American history that corrects the record... read more →
Black AF History4.8 ⭐

The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami Truth is not found in fixed stillness, but in ceaseless change/movement. Isn't this the quintessential core of what stories are all about? Haruki Murakami, from the after... read more →
The City and Its Uncertain Walls4.3 ⭐

Twelve Months by Jim Butcher Harry Dresden has been through a lot, and so has his city. After Harry and his allies narrowly managed to save Chicago from being razed to the ground, everything is diffe... read more →
Twelve Months4.8 ⭐

Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King Red's a guy who can get you whatever you want here in Maine's corrupt and hard-edged Shawshank State Penitentiary (for a price, of course), but the one thing he doesn't c... read more →
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption4.7 ⭐

The Green Mile by Stephen King Welcome to Cold Mountain Penitentiary, home to the Depression-worn men of E Block. Convicted killers all, each awaits his turn to walk 'the Green Mile', the lime-colored ... read more →
The Green Mile4.8 ⭐

This House Will Feed by Maria Tureaud County Clare, 1848: In the scant few years since the potato blight first cast its foul shadow over Ireland, Maggie O'Shaughnessy has lost everything—her entire family and... read more →
This House Will Feed4.3 ⭐

Is This a Cry for Help? by Emily Austin Darcy's life turned out better than she could have ever imagined. She is a librarian at the local branch, while her wife Joy runs a book binding service. Between the two ... read more →
Is This a Cry for Help?4.2 ⭐

Keeper of Lost Children by Sadeqa Johnson Ethel Gathers, the proud wife of an American Officer, is living in Occupied Germany in the 1950s. After discovering a local orphanage filled with the abandoned mixed-race... read more →
Keeper of Lost Children4.5 ⭐

Outrage: Why the Fight for LGBTQ+ Equality Is Not Yet Won and What We Can Do About It by Ellen Jones An eye-opening and essential look at the discrimination still faced by LGBTQIA+ people today, woven throughout with moving and jaw-dropping personal accounts, plus practi... read more →
Outrage: Why the Fight for LGBTQ+ Equality Is Not Yet Won and What We Can Do About It4.9 ⭐

Dog Man: Big Jim Believes: a Graphic Novel (Dog Man #14): from the Creator of Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey The celebration comes to a halt for our heroes in Dog Man: Big Jim Believes when the mischievous Space Cuties From Space return. Our caped crusaders -- Dog Man (aka Scarl... read more →
Dog Man: Big Jim Believes: a Graphic Novel (Dog Man #14): from the Creator of Captain Underpants4.8 ⭐

Land of Dreams by Gian Sardar It's 1933, and though the country is stuck in the Great Depression, movies are the ultimate escape. But Hollywood is skilled at selling lies, and nothing is as it seems. ... read more →
Land of Dreams4.1 ⭐

Hollow by Celina Myers Mia Adair isn't even twenty five yet, but she's starting to wonder if her peak has already passed. She’s spent years working at her local bookstore, a job that was suppos... read more →
Hollow4.5 ⭐

The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler The transnational tech corporation DIANIMA has sealed off the remote Con Dao Archipelago, where a species of octopus has been discovered that may have developed its own l... read more →
The Mountain in the Sea4.3 ⭐

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson Hiro lives in a Los Angeles where franchises line the freeway as far as the eye can see. The only relief from the sea of logos is within the autonomous city-states, where... read more →
Snow Crash4.6 ⭐

Quicksilver by Callie Hart Do not touch the sword. Do not turn the key. Do not open the gate. Twenty-four-year-old Saeris Fane is good at keeping secrets. No one knows about the strange powers s... read more →
Quicksilver4.6 ⭐

Dear Debbie by Freida McFadden Debbie Mullen is losing it. For years, she has compiled all of her best advice into her column, Dear Debbie, where the wives of New England come for sympathy and neighbor... read more →
Dear Debbie4.4 ⭐

Woman Down by Colleen Hoover Her words used to set the page on fire. But a viral backlash over her latest film adaptation forced Petra Rose to take a hiatus, resulting in missed deadlines and an over... read more →
Woman Down3.7 ⭐

Carl's Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman The aliens have come, and they've transformed Earth into a multilevel, video game–like dungeon. It's the newest season of the galaxy's most watched game show, Dungeon Cra... read more →
Carl's Doomsday Scenario4.5 ⭐

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the st... read more →
A Gentleman in Moscow4.6 ⭐

The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham When a freak cosmic event renders most of the Earth’s population blind, Bill Masen one of the lucky few to wake up with his sight—finds himself trapped in a London packed... read more →
The Day of the Triffids4.4 ⭐

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami In a Tokyo suburb, a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife's missing cat—and then for his wife as well in a netherworld beneath the city's placid surface. As t... read more →
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle4.3 ⭐

Jade City by Fonda Lee Jade is the lifeblood of the island of Kekon. It has been mined, traded, stolen, and killed for—and for centuries, honorable Green Bone warriors like the Kaul family have... read more →
Jade City4.7 ⭐

The Friend of the Family by Dean Koontz The human "oddities" in the Museum of the Strange are less wondrous than the gawking rubes had been promised. But Alida is something else. The real thing. Traveling Depre... read more →
The Friend of the Family4.6 ⭐

Departure by A. G. Riddle En route to London from New York, Flight 305 suddenly loses power and crash-lands in the English countryside, plunging a group of strangers into a mysterious adventure th... read more →
Departure4.2 ⭐

Seascraper by Benjamin Wood Twenty-year-old Thomas Flett lives a slow, deliberate life with his mother in Longferry, Northern England, working his grandpa’s trade as a shanker. He rises early to tak... read more →
Seascraper4.3 ⭐

Pines by Blake Crouch One way in. No way out. Secret Service agent Ethan Burke arrives in Wayward Pines, Idaho, with a mission: locate two federal agents who went missing in the bucolic tow... read more →
Pines4.1 ⭐

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee Yeongdo, Korea, 1911. Teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a fisherman, falls for a wealthy yakuza. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant, a... read more →
Pachinko4.5 ⭐

A Midlife Holiday by Cary J. Hansson Meet Helen. She worries that the walls are closing in. With her children grown and her selfish husband away again, she's full of regrets at not taking the exciting paths ... read more →
A Midlife Holiday3.9 ⭐

Anxious People by Fredrik Backman Viewing an apartment normally doesn’t turn into a life-or-death situation, but this particular open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes ... read more →
Anxious People4.3 ⭐

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the sh... read more →
The Vanishing Half4.3 ⭐

The Unnoticeables by Robert Brockway There are angels, and they are not beneficent or loving. But they do watch over us. They watch our lives unfold, analyzing us for repeating patterns and redundancies. Whe... read more →
The Unnoticeables4.2 ⭐

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls lined with thousands upon thousands of statues. Within the labyrinth of... read more →
Piranesi4.4 ⭐

Cibola Burn by James S. A. Corey An empty apartment, a missing family, that's creepy. But this is like finding a military base with no one on it. Fighters and tanks idling on the runway with no drivers. ... read more →
Cibola Burn4.6 ⭐

Fauves by Mélissa Da Costa Je veux jouer avec le feu, trembler, sentir la morsure de la mort. Défier les instincts les plus brutaux, les plus sauvages, et les dépasser. Comment s'échapper de sa ... read more →
Fauves4.0 ⭐

The Strange House (Manga) Vol. 4 by Uketsu, Kyo Ayano As Yuzuki and I investigate the Katabuchi family home, our unease grows. What dark secrets has her family been hiding? The mysteries deepen, but at least one has been sol... read more →
The Strange House (Manga) Vol. 44.6 ⭐

The Love Wager by Lynn Painter Hallie Piper is turning over a new leaf. After belly-crawling out of a hotel room (hello, rock bottom), she decides it’s time to become a full-on adult. She gets a new ap... read more →
The Love Wager4.2 ⭐

His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass (Book 1) by Philip Pullman A war is brewing in Lyra's world between those who would keep people in ignorance and those willing to fight for freedom. Lyra is thrust into the middle of the conflict w... read more →
His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass (Book 1)4.4 ⭐

Little Bosses Everywhere by Bridget Read Companies like Amway, Mary Kay, and Herbalife advertise the world’s greatest opportunity: the chance to be your own boss via an enigmatic business model called multilevel... read more →
Little Bosses Everywhere4.3 ⭐

Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor Disabled, disinclined to marry, and more interested in writing than a lucrative career in medicine or law, Zelu has always felt like the outcast of her large Nigerian fam... read more →
Death of the Author4.4 ⭐

Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite When Ebun gives birth to her daughter, Eniiyi, on the day they bury her cousin Monife, there is no denying the startling resemblance between the child and the dead woman.... read more →
Cursed Daughters4.3 ⭐

Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman You know what’s worse than breaking up with your girlfriend? Being stuck with her prize-winning show cat. And you know what’s worse than that? An alien invasion, the dest... read more →
Dungeon Crawler Carl4.7 ⭐

Against the Grain by Terry O'Reilly In Terry’s bestselling book, My Best Mistake, he uncovers the surprising power of screwing up. Now, he turns his incredible eye to the mavericks who go “against the grain... read more →
Against the Grain4.8 ⭐

In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robots—fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, an... read more →
In the Lives of Puppets4.3 ⭐