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Best for readers already invested in Ruby and James and looking for relationship drama, family pressure, and the conclusion to their story.
Save Us
Romance · Teen + Young Adult · Coming of Age · Contemporary Romance
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The third and final book in the international bestselling Maxton Hall series, Save Us finds Ruby’s Oxford dreams at risk while James tries to clear her name at school and once again challenge his father’s expectations. Best for readers already invested in Ruby and James and looking for relationship drama, family pressure, and the conclusion to their story.
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The third and final book in the international bestselling Maxton Hall series, now in English for the first time.
Can they save themselves? Or will they destroy each other?
Ruby is in shock: Her worst nightmare has come true, and now Oxford and all her dreams that finally seemed within reach are at risk. Worst of all, everything points to James as the one responsible, even after everything they’ve been through together. Ruby thought that she had met the real James—the one who has his own dreams, the one who makes her laugh and makes her heart beat faster with a single glance.
However, after an explosive fight between the two, they discover a terrible truth. Together, Ruby fights to graduate, as James tries to clear her name at school. But that means once again James must challenge his father and his expectations for him. And despite everything, James still threatens to break under the obligations to his family. Ruby and James must ask themselves if the worlds they live in are perhaps too different after all, or if they can finally find a way back to each other.
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A strong match for readers drawn to sweeping historical fiction about justice, redemption, sacrifice, and social inequality.
Les Misérables
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · War Fiction
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Les Misérables follows ex-convict Jean Valjean as he tries to rebuild his life while Inspector Javert relentlessly pursues him, set against poverty, political unrest, and revolution in 19th-century France. A strong match for readers drawn to sweeping historical fiction about justice, redemption, sacrifice, and social inequality.
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A brilliant modern translation by Christine Donougher of Victor Hugo's thrilling masterpiece, with an introduction by Robert Tombs.
This is the best translation of the novel available in English, as recommended by David Bellos in The Novel of the Century.
Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. But his attempts to become a respected member of the community are constantly put under threat: by his own conscience, and by the relentless investigations of the dogged policeman Javert. It is not simply for himself that Valjean must stay free, however, for he has sworn to protect the baby daughter of Fantine, driven to prostitution by poverty.
'A magnificent achievement. It reads easily, sometimes racily, and Hugo's narrative power is never let down ... An almost flawless translation, which brings the full flavour of one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century to new readers in the twenty-first' - William Doyle, Times Literary Supplement
'The year's most interesting publication from Penguin Classics was [...] a new translation by Christine Donougher of the novel we all know as Les Misérables. You may think that 1,300 pages is a huge investment of time when the story is so familiar, but no adaptation can convey the addictive pleasure afforded by Victor Hugo's narrative voice: by turns chatty, crotchety, buoyant and savagely ironical, it's made to seem so contemporary and fresh in Donougher's rendering that the book has all the resonance of the most topical state-of-the-nation novel' - Telegraph
'Christine Donougher's seamless and very modern translation of Les Misérables has an astonishing effect in that it reminds readers that Hugo was going further than any Dickensian lament about social conditions [...]The Wretched touches the soul' - Herald Scotland
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Ideal for readers looking for epic fantasy with political conflict, elemental magic, rebellion, romance, and difficult choices about power.
Bird King Rising
Fantasy · Asian Fiction · Epic Fantasy · Historical Fantasy
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Newly crowned Queen Laya faces whispers of rebellion and the possible return of her ex-lover and rival Luntok, pushing her to seek greater magical power as she fights to hold the throne, with a 4.50-star average from more than 20 Goodreads ratings. Ideal for readers looking for epic fantasy with political conflict, elemental magic, rebellion, romance, and difficult choices about power.
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A new queen reigns. A rebellion stirs. Will she risk it all to rule?
Newly crowned queen Laya Gatdula is determined to prove her worth to her subjects, her family, her rivals—and herself. When whispers of rebellion and rumored sightings of a giant raptor in the mountainous Skylands reach the capital, Laya must face the terrifying realization that her ex-lover and rival, Luntok, might still be alive and coming for the throne. Though she already wields power over wind and rain, to quell the threat from the north, Laya seeks the ultimate weapon: lightning.
Torn between the counsel of two men—her beloved confidant and her ruthless uncle—Laya must trust herself to cement her legacy and hold the throne. Is it better to earn her nation’s loyalty through benevolent rule, or risk everything to become an all-powerful god? And with Luntok rapidly gathering his army, will she live long enough to make the choice?
From Samantha Bansil, a brilliant, fresh voice in AAPI fiction, Bird King Rising returns to the world of Black Salt Queen with the gripping conclusion to an epic story of duty and strength, passion and betrayal, and the devastating cost of war.
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A strong match for romantasy readers who like political marriages, enemies-to-lovers tension, epic warfare, and couples caught between love and duty.
This Shattered Tempest
Romantasy · Asian Fiction
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A New York Times bestselling trilogy concludes as a devastating attack tears Talasyn and Alaric apart and sends their rival nations toward a final battle, with a 4.3-star average from more than 400 Goodreads ratings. A strong match for romantasy readers who like political marriages, enemies-to-lovers tension, epic warfare, and couples caught between love and duty.
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The highly anticipated conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Hurricane Wars trilogy makes landfall— and as the winds of war sweep through Lir, Talasyn and Alaric must confront the truth of their hearts and decide whether duty or desire will lead them forward.
When the storm swallows the world, who will be left standing?
Throughout their political marriage, Alaric and Talasyn struggled to resist the undeniable pull between them, even as rising tensions forced them on opposite sides of a looming war. Hand in hand, they vanquished the cataclysmic threat of the Moonless Dark—and started to hope for a future together.
That hope is shattered when a devastating attack sets off a chain of events that tears them apart once more. Now, as two rival nations prepare for a final, decisive clash, the Master of the Shadowforged Legion and the last Lightweaver fight to find their way back to each other. But the odds are stacked against them, and time is running out…
Is love enough to rewrite destiny? Can a new beginning rise from the ruins of the past? Or are Alaric and Talasyn doomed to meet as enemies on one last battlefield? This explosive third and final book brings the beloved Hurricane Wars series to a stunning conclusion—where passion and power collide, and the fate of a divided world hangs in the balance.
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Ideal for readers looking for contemporary literary fiction about midlife change, family, friendship, identity, and rebuilding after loss.
skin & bones
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · People of Color
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At 40, Lena Baker believes her life is steady until a confession on her wedding day upends her future. As she navigates heartbreak, motherhood, friendship, and her own self-worth, she also works to preserve the often-overlooked Black history of Oregon, with a 4.3-star average from more than 3,200 Goodreads ratings. Ideal for readers looking for contemporary literary fiction about midlife change, family, friendship, identity, and rebuilding after loss.
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Best Book of May 2024 by New York Post. Finalist for the 2024 Westport Prize for Literature.
From the acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a soulful and lyrical novel exploring sisterhood, motherhood, faith, love, and ultimately what gets passed down from one generation to the next
At 40, Lena Baker is at a steady and stable moment in life—between wine nights with her two best friends and her wedding just weeks away, she’s happy in love and in friendship until a confession on her wedding day shifts her world.
Unmoored and grieving a major loss, Lena finds herself trying to teach her daughter self-love while struggling to do so herself. Lena questions everything she’s learned about dating, friendship, and motherhood, and through it all, she works tirelessly to bring the oft-forgotten Black history of Oregon to the masses, sidestepping her well-meaning co-workers that don’t understand that their good intentions are often offensive and hurtful.
Through Watson’s poetic voice, skin & bones is a stirring exploration of who society makes space for and is ultimately a story of heartbreak and healing.
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Readers who enjoy supernatural mysteries with cold cases, an older protagonist, punk-rock history, and fractured memories should find plenty to like here.
Hear the Dead
Horror · Literary Fiction · Magical Realism
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Retired punk photographer Elena Altieri is pulled back into her New York past when she begins hearing the final screams of murdered women, including her long-dead best friend. It has a 3.9-star average from more than 70 Goodreads ratings. Readers who enjoy supernatural mysteries with cold cases, an older protagonist, punk-rock history, and fractured memories should find plenty to like here.
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"Full of twists and turns with just the right hint of the supernatural...a rollicking ride into the heyday of the New York City punk scene." — Jennifer McMahon, New York Times bestselling author of The Winter People and Stay Buried
From award-winning author Ann Dávila Cardinal comes an edgy, genre-bending thriller following a retired photographer who begins to hear the murders of women she knew in her punk youth, forcing her to reckon with the past she's desperate to forget.
One woman. A string of unsolved murders. Only she can hear the victims.
For more than forty years, Elena Altieri has been hiding from the tragedies of her New York City punk rock youth. Tragedies that left her best friend, Sin, dead, and other women in their orbit missing. Now, the past is catching up with her in more ways than one. Not only is she hearing strange noises under the hum of her tinnitus, but the photographs she took of a recently deceased musician are going viral, thrusting her back into a world she hoped would remain locked away forever.
When Elena begins to hear the screams of a woman ringing in her ears, she becomes convinced that she's somehow hearing Sin's murder. Desperate for answers, she has no choice but to revisit her past, and what she'll uncover will not only force her to reckon with her own fractured memories, but might prove that Sin, and other innocent women from their youth, were the victims of an unspeakable crime that only she can solve.
Old punks never die, and Elena's going to prove that.
Edgy, mysterious, and full of heart, Hear the Dead is at once an inventive and biting story following one aging woman desperate to solve crimes from her past, and a thought-provoking meditation on friendship, justice, and what it means to remember who we are.
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This will appeal to readers who want YA mystery built around multiple suspects, community ties, secrets, and shifting trust.
Looking for Smoke
Mystery · Teen + Young Adult · Indigenous Fiction
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Four Blackfeet teens become persons of interest after a girl they were last seen with is murdered, forcing them to work together to clear their names despite their mistrust and complicated histories with the victim, with a 3.9-star average from more than 8,100 Goodreads ratings. This will appeal to readers who want YA mystery built around multiple suspects, community ties, secrets, and shifting trust.
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A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK
In her powerful debut novel, Looking for Smoke, author K. A. Cobell (Blackfeet) weaves loss, betrayal, and complex characters into a thriller that will illuminate, surprise, and engage readers until the final word. A must-pick for readers who enjoy books by Angeline Boulley and Karen McManus!
When local girl Loren includes Mara in a traditional Blackfeet Giveaway to honor Loren’s missing sister, Mara thinks she’ll finally make some friends on the Blackfeet reservation.
Instead, a girl from the Giveaway, Samantha White Tail, is found murdered.
Because the four members of the Giveaway group were the last to see Samantha alive, each becomes a person of interest in the investigation. And all of them—Mara, Loren, Brody, and Eli—have a complicated history with Samantha.
Despite deep mistrust, the four must now take matters into their own hands and clear their names. Even though one of them may be the murderer.
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This will appeal to readers who want literary fiction built around premonitions, family separation, regret, and the natural world.
About Grace
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Psychological Fiction
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David Winkler sometimes dreams events before they happen, but when he dreams that his infant daughter will drown, he flees his family in an attempt to prevent the future he has seen. Years later, he begins a journey back toward the people he left behind, with a 3.8-star average from more than 2,600 Goodreads ratings. This will appeal to readers who want literary fiction built around premonitions, family separation, regret, and the natural world.
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The first novel by Anthony Doerr, the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning author of Cloud Cuckoo Land, and the Pulitzer Prize–winning #1 New York Times bestseller All the Light We Cannot See, a luminous work of literary fiction and one of the most beautiful, wise, and compelling debuts of recent times.
David Winkler begins life in Anchorage, Alaska, a quiet boy drawn to the volatility of weather and obsessed with snow. Sometimes he sees things before they happen—a man carrying a hatbox will be hit by a bus; Winkler will fall in love with a woman in a supermarket. When David dreams that his infant daughter will drown in a flood as he tries to save her, he comes undone. He travels thousands of miles, fleeing family, home, and the future itself, to deny the dream.
On a Caribbean island, destitute, alone, and unsure if his child has survived or his wife can forgive him, David is sheltered by a couple with a daughter of their own. Ultimately it is she who will pull him back into the world, to search for the people he left behind.
Doerr's characters are full of grief and longing, but also replete with grace. His compassion for human frailty is extraordinarily moving. In luminous prose, he writes about the power and beauty of nature and about the tiny miracles that transform our lives. About Grace is heartbreaking, radiant, and astonishingly accomplished.
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This will appeal to readers who want thoughtful speculative fiction about time, secrecy, fate, and difficult choices.
The Other Valley
Literary Fiction · Magical Realism · Speculative Fiction
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A national bestseller called “a mind-bending take on time travel” by The New York Times, this literary speculative novel follows sixteen-year-old Odile, who lives in a town bordered by versions of itself twenty years in the past and future and discovers that the boy she cares about is going to die, with a 3.9-star average from more than 28,300 Goodreads ratings. This will appeal to readers who want thoughtful speculative fiction about time, secrecy, fate, and difficult choices.
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*Soon to be a TV series*
Jimmy Fallon’s Book Club Top Four Pick and a PBS Book Club Pick
For fans of Kazuo Ishiguro and Emily St. John Mandel, this “mind-bending take on time travel” (The New York Times) is about an isolated town neighbored by its own past and future, and a young girl who spots two elderly visitors from across the border: the grieving parents of the boy she loves.
Sixteen-year-old Odile vies for a coveted seat on the Conseil. If she earns the position, she’ll decide who may cross her town’s heavily guarded borders. To the east, the town is twenty years ahead in time. To the west, it’s twenty years behind. The towns repeat in an endless sequence across the wilderness.
When Odile recognizes two visitors she wasn’t supposed to see, she realizes that the parents of her friend Edme have been escorted across the border from the future, on a mourning tour, to view their son while he’s still alive in Odile’s present.
Edme—who is brilliant, funny, and the only person to truly know Odile—is going to die. Sworn to secrecy to preserve the timeline, Odile now becomes the Conseil’s top candidate. Yet she finds herself drawing closer to the doomed boy, jeopardizing her entire future.
“The Other Valley is a brilliant take on time travel and a thought-provoking exploration of the boundaries between fate and choice. Make room on your shelves, folks, this book is going to knock your socks off” (Sylvain Neuvel, author of Sleeping Giants).
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Best for readers who appreciate dark comedy, antiwar fiction, absurd logic, and satire of military bureaucracy.
Catch-22
Literary Fiction
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A bestseller, Catch-22 follows World War II bombardier Yossarian as he tries to survive both the enemy and an army that continually increases the number of missions he must fly, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 13,700 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who appreciate dark comedy, antiwar fiction, absurd logic, and satire of military bureaucracy.
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This fiftieth-anniversary edition commemorates Joseph Heller’s masterpiece with a new introduction; critical essays and reviews by Norman Mailer, Alfred Kazin, Anthony Burgess, and others; rare papers and photos; and much more.
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.
Now a Hulu limited series starring Christopher Abbott, George Clooney, Kyle Chandler, and Hugh Laurie.
Fifty years after its original publication, Catch-22 remains a cornerstone of American literature and one of the funniest—and most celebrated—books of all time. In recent years it has been named to “best novels” lists by Time, Newsweek, the Modern Library, and the London Observer.
Set in Italy during World War II, this is the story of the incomparable, malingering bombardier, Yossarian, a hero who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. But his real problem is not the enemy—it is his own army, which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. Yet if Yossarian makes any attempt to excuse himself from the perilous missions he’s assigned, he’ll be in violation of Catch-22, a hilariously sinister bureaucratic rule: a man is considered insane if he willingly continues to fly dangerous combat missions, but if he makes a formal request to be removed from duty, he is proven sane and therefore ineligible to be relieved.
This fiftieth-anniversary edition commemorates Joseph Heller’s masterpiece with a new introduction by Christopher Buckley; a wealth of critical essays and reviews by Norman Mailer, Alfred Kazin, Anthony Burgess, and others; rare papers and photos from Joseph Heller’s personal archive; and much more. Here, at last, is the definitive edition of a classic of world literature.
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This will appeal to readers who want literary fiction with psychological mystery, old guilt, complicated relationships, and an unresolved death.
Road Longer Than Memory
Literary Fiction · Psychological Fiction
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Road Longer Than Memory follows Sara Barlow as she returns to Arlington, Virginia, and is forced to confront an unsolved classmate's death, her sister's fatal accident, and memories she has tried to suppress. This will appeal to readers who want literary fiction with psychological mystery, old guilt, complicated relationships, and an unresolved death.
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Sometimes the road home runs through everything you tried to forget
After a failed relationship and an unsettled teaching career, Sara Barlow returns to her childhood home in Arlington, Virginia, hoping for a fresh start. But when she applies for a job at her old high school, a chance glimpse into the gymnasium shakes her to the core—she spots the man she suspects was involved in a classmate's violent death a decade earlier.
Haunted by the past, Sara confronts the memories she's spent years trying to suppress: her sister Suzanne's fatal car crash, her secret summer with the reckless Devlin Barrie, and the anonymous 911 call she made after witnessing what she believes was a murder. As the construction of Interstate 66 physically fractures her community, Sara grapples with emotional fault lines of her own—guilt, silence, and buried truth.
Set against the backdrop of suburban upheaval in the 1970s and '80s, Road Longer Than Memory is a compelling story of memory, reckoning, and the cost of what we leave unsaid.
Perfect for fans of Tana French and William Kent Krueger
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Best for readers who like near-future science fiction thrillers built around hacking, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and questions of identity.
All That We See or Seem
Literary Fiction · Sci-Fi · Psychological Fiction · Techno-Thriller
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All That We See or Seem follows former teenage hacker Julia Z as she risks her carefully hidden life to help find a kidnapped artist who creates shared dreams using AI. Best for readers who like near-future science fiction thrillers built around hacking, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and questions of identity.
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From Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award–winning author Ken Liu, the first in a high-stakes sci-fi thriller series following an infamous hacker as she attempts to unravel a virtual reality mystery in the near future.
Julia Z, a young woman who gained notoriety at 14 as the “orphan hacker,” is trying to live a life of digital obscurity in a Boston suburb.
But when a lawyer named Piers barges into her life after his famous artist wife, Elli, was kidnapped by dangerous criminals, Julia decides she must help Piers and Elli. Nor step away from the challenge of this digital puzzle. Elli is an onierofex, a dream artist, who can weave the dreams of an audience together through a shared virtual landscape, live, in a concert-like experience by tapping into each attendee’s waking dream and providing an emotionally resonant and narrative experience. While attendees’ dreams are anonymous, Julia discovers that Elli was also providing a one-on-one dream experience for the head of an international criminal enterprise, and he’s demanding his dreams in return for Elli.
Unraveling the real and unreal will lead Julia on an adventure that will take her across the country and deep into the shadows of her psyche in this fresh “marvel from a perennially innovative author” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
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