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A strong match for readers drawn to literary science fiction about power, caste, resistance, racism, and survival under authoritarian rule.
An Unkindness of Ghosts
People of Color · Sci-Fi
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Called “intensely thought-provoking,” An Unkindness of Ghosts follows Aster, a lowdeck resident aboard the HSS Matilda, a generation ship structured like the antebellum South, as she confronts oppression, a brutal overseer, and the possibility of civil war, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 1,800 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers drawn to literary science fiction about power, caste, resistance, racism, and survival under authoritarian rule.
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An "intensely thought-provoking" science fiction debut from a worthy successor to Octavia Butler (LeVar Burton Reads).
One of Esquire magazine's 50 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time
Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her an ogre and a freak. She's used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she was truly a monster, she'd be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her until nothing remained of her world.
Aster lives in the lowdeck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space vessel organized much like the antebellum South. For generations, Matilda has ferried the last of humanity to a mythical Promised Land. On its way, the ship's leaders have imposed harsh moral restrictions and deep indignities on dark-skinned sharecroppers like Aster. Embroiled in a grudge with a brutal overseer, Aster learns there may be a way to improve her lot—if she's willing to sow the seeds of civil war.
"Solomon debuts with a raw distillation of slavery, feudalism, prison, and religion that kicks like rotgut moonshine . . . Stunning." —Publishers Weekly, starred review
"What Solomon achieves with this debut—the sharpness, the depth, the precision—puts me in mind of a syringe full of stars. . . . its only imperfection is that it ended." —NPR
"It's structurally and thematically daring and manages to include a little bit of hope while leveling a devastating critique at racism and fascism." —Los Angeles Times
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Jodi Picoult’s Plain Truth—a New York Times bestseller with 4.4 out of 5 stars on Amazon—blends legal drama with Amish tradition in a gripping, emotional tale.
Plain Truth
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Psychological Fiction · Women's Fiction
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Jodi Picoult’s Plain Truth—a New York Times bestseller with 4.4 out of 5 stars on Amazon—blends legal drama with Amish tradition in a gripping, emotional tale. When a young woman is accused of infanticide, a disillusioned attorney must defend her in a world far removed from her own. A haunting, thought-provoking read from a master storyteller.
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Lancaster County is rocked when a dead infant is discovered in an Amish barn. The evidence points to Katie Fisher, an eighteen-year-old unmarried Amish woman who quietly insists on her innocence. In a community defined by tradition, her alleged crime is unthinkable.
Enter Ellie Hathaway, a weary defense attorney who flees her high-profile city career for a fresh start. But when she’s drawn into Katie’s case, Ellie finds herself trapped between two worlds: a justice system that demands answers and a Plain culture that resists intrusion.
As Ellie searches for truth, she must also confront her own past when an old love resurfaces. In a case where every revelation cuts deeper, the line between guilt and innocence is as fragile as faith itself.
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A strong match for readers drawn to emotional family fiction about survival, guilt, loss, and moral choices.
In an Instant
Literary Fiction · Thriller · Women's Fiction
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A #1 Amazon and USA Today bestseller and Goodreads Choice Awards finalist, In an Instant follows sixteen-year-old Finn Miller after a car accident sends her and ten others over the side of a mountain. Suspended between worlds, Finn watches the survivors confront grief and the consequences of the choices they made, with a 4.4-star average from more than 106,000 Goodreads ratings. A strong match for readers drawn to emotional family fiction about survival, guilt, loss, and moral choices.
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An Amazon Charts bestseller.
A deeply moving story of carrying on even when it seems impossible.
Life is over in an instant for sixteen-year-old Finn Miller when a devastating car accident tumbles her and ten others over the side of a mountain. Suspended between worlds, she watches helplessly as those she loves struggle to survive.
Impossible choices are made, decisions that leave the survivors tormented with grief and regret. Unable to let go, Finn keeps vigil as they struggle to reclaim their shattered lives. Jack, her father, who seeks vengeance against the one person he can blame other than himself; her best friend, Mo, who bravely searches for the truth as the story of their survival is rewritten; her sister Chloe, who knows Finn lingers and yearns to join her; and her mother, Ann, who saved them all but is haunted by her decisions. Finn needs to move on, but how can she with her family still in pieces?
Heartrending yet ultimately redemptive, In an Instant is a story about the power of love, the meaning of family, and carrying on…even when it seems impossible.
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Readers who enjoy YA fantasy built from East Asian folklore, sibling bonds, curses, hidden magic, and fairy-tale adventure should find plenty to like here.
Six Crimson Cranes
Fantasy · Teen + Young Adult · Asian Fiction
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A New York Times bestseller called “A dazzling fairytale full of breathtaking storytelling” by Stephanie Garber, Six Crimson Cranes follows Princess Shiori after her forbidden magic is exposed and her stepmother curses her six brothers into cranes, with a 4.6-star rating from more than 5,100 Amazon reviewers. Readers who enjoy YA fantasy built from East Asian folklore, sibling bonds, curses, hidden magic, and fairy-tale adventure should find plenty to like here.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A princess in exile, a shapeshifting dragon, six enchanted cranes, and an unspeakable curse... Drawing from fairy tales and East Asian folklore, this original fantasy from the author of Spin the Dawn is perfect for fans of Shadow and Bone.
"A dazzling fairytale full of breathtaking storytelling." --Stephanie Garber, New York Times bestselling author of Caraval
Shiori'anma, the only princess of Kiata, has a secret. Forbidden magic runs through her veins. Normally she conceals it well, but on the morning of her betrothal ceremony, Shiori loses control. At first, her mistake seems like a stroke of luck, forestalling the wedding she never wanted. But it also catches the attention of Raikama, her stepmother.
A sorceress in her own right, Raikama banishes the young princess, turning her brothers into cranes. She warns Shiori that she must speak of it to no one: for with every word that escapes her lips, one of her brothers will die.
Penniless, voiceless, and alone, Shiori searches for her brothers, and uncovers a dark conspiracy to seize the throne. Only Shiori can set the kingdom to rights, but to do so she must place her trust in a paper bird, a mercurial dragon, and the very boy she fought so hard not to marry. And she must embrace the magic she's been taught all her life to forswear--no matter what the cost.
Weaving together elements of The Wild Swans, Cinderella, the legend of Chang E, and the Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, Elizabeth Lim has crafted a fantasy like no other, and one that will stay with readers long after they've turned the last page.
"A stunning remake of a fairytale. Six Crimson Cranes is the perfect blend of whimsy and ferociousness, with twists and turns that will tug at your heartstrings." —Chloe Gong, New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights
"Fast-paced excitement is balanced with a satisfyingly intricate plot that weaves in elements from Western fairy tales and East Asian folklore." —SLJ, starred review
“A richly imagined landscape . . . vibrant, fast-paced.”
—Publishers Weekly, starred review
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A strong match for readers drawn to historical fiction about political idealism, divided loyalties, and young lives shaped by approaching war.
The Palace at the End of the Sea
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction
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As the Great Depression and a family tragedy upend his life, Theo Sterling travels from New York to England and Spain in search of identity, purpose, and a cause worth fighting for. Set against the political unrest leading to the Spanish Civil War, this coming-of-age historical saga has a 4.1-star rating from more than 6,700 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers drawn to historical fiction about political idealism, divided loyalties, and young lives shaped by approaching war.
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A young man comes of age and crosses continents in search of an identity—and a cause—at the dawn of the Spanish Civil War in a thrilling, timely, and emotional historical saga.
New York City, 1929. Young Theo Sterling’s world begins to unravel as the Great Depression exerts its icy grip. He finds it hard to relate to his parents: His father, a Jewish self-made businessman, refuses to give up on the American dream, and his mother, a refugee from religious persecution in Mexico, holds fast to her Catholic faith. When disaster strikes the family, Theo must learn who he is. A charismatic school friend and a firebrand girl inspire him to believe he can fight Fascism and change the world, but each rebellion comes at a higher price, forcing Theo to question these ideologies too.
From New York’s Lower East Side to an English boarding school to an Andalusian village in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, Theo’s harrowing journey from boy to man is set against a backdrop of societies torn apart from within, teetering on the edge of a terrible war to which Theo is compulsively drawn like a moth to a flame.
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Visionary, cerebral, and breathtaking in scope, it is perfect for fans of Clarke and Greg Bear.
Diaspora
Literary Fiction · Sci-Fi · Hard Sci-Fi · Speculative Fiction
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Greg Egan’s Diaspora is a hard science fiction masterpiece hailed for its ambition and rigor. With 4.3 out of 5 stars on Amazon, it follows digital minds and human survivors after a cosmic disaster launches thousands of polises on an interstellar quest. Visionary, cerebral, and breathtaking in scope, it is perfect for fans of Clarke and Greg Bear.
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The year is 2975. Humanity has split into flesh-and-blood descendants and digital minds known as citizens of the polises. Yatima, an orphan born from a random mutation in a digital seed, is one of them.
When a cataclysmic gamma-ray burst devastates Earth, survivors resolve to uncover why two neutron stars collided millions of years earlier than expected. Their search for truth launches thousands of polises into interstellar space.
Across strange worlds and unimaginable frontiers, Yatima and others encounter civilizations both alien and ancient. Each revelation pushes them closer to a terrifying truth: the universe itself is more fragile than anyone dared believe.
Greg Egan’s Diaspora is a mind-expanding journey across physics, philosophy, and possibility, where survival may require escaping reality itself.
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Larry Niven’s Ringworld is a Hugo and Nebula Award–winning classic that redefined science fiction.
Ringworld
Literary Fiction · Sci-Fi · Hard Sci-Fi · Speculative Fiction
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Larry Niven’s Ringworld is a Hugo and Nebula Award–winning classic that redefined science fiction. With 4.4 out of 5 stars on Amazon, this mind-bending tale follows Louis Wu and his unforgettable companions as they explore an alien megastructure with mysteries vast enough to rival Dune and Foundation. Epic, ingenious, and essential, it remains a must-read for sci-fi fans.
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The year is 2850, and Louis Wu is bored. Humanity has spanned the stars, yet adventure feels out of reach—until he is recruited by Nessus, a two-headed alien with a ship unlike any other.
Alongside Teela, a woman bred for improbable luck, and Speaker-to-Animals, a ferocious feline-like warrior, Louis sets out to explore a colossal mystery: the Ringworld. A massive artificial ring encircling a sun, it holds three million times the surface area of Earth. Its origins are unknown. Its secrets are deadly.
What begins as exploration quickly becomes survival. The Ringworld is crumbling, and the travelers must navigate its dangers to escape.
Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, Ringworld is a cornerstone of hard science fiction.
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One brief transgression in the shadow of World War II binds two Ohio families to a secret neither time nor distance can fully bury.
Buckeye
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · World War 2
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One brief transgression in the shadow of World War II binds two Ohio families to a secret neither time nor distance can fully bury. In Buckeye, Cal, Becky, Margaret, and Felix move through love, loss, spiritual longing, and postwar change as one choice reshapes generations. This is intimate historical fiction about regret, loyalty, forgiveness, and the quiet aftermath of lives altered by what cannot be undone.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY • “A glorious sweep of a novel” (Ann Patchett) that weaves the intimate lives of two midwestern families across generations, from World War II to the late twentieth century.
“Mesmerizing.”—People
“Captivating.”—The New York Times Book Review
“A once-in-a-decade novel . . . I fell in love with these characters.”—Jenna Bush Hager
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, NPR, People, Minnesota Star Tribune, New York Post, Chicago Public Library
LONGLISTED FOR THE JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE
That, as he saw it now, was his life’s work: trying to make right what he’d gotten wrong. Wasn’t that a fair measure of a person, what they did with their mistakes?
In the jubilant aftermath of the Allied victory in Europe, Cal Jenkins, a man wounded not in war but by his inability to serve in it, shares a single, life-altering moment with Margaret Salt, a woman determined to outrun her past. Cal is married to Becky, whose spiritual gifts help the living speak to the dead, while Margaret’s husband, Felix, is serving at sea, believed to be safe—until a telegram suggests otherwise.
What begins as a fleeting transgression becomes a complex secret that irrevocably binds all four of them in unexpected ways. As their small Ohio town remakes itself in the postwar boom, the Salt and Jenkins families remain in each other’s orbit, and the consequences of choices made long ago begin to emerge, reshaping their lives in ways that will forever impact the next generation.
Sweeping yet intimate, resplendent with moments of deep emotion and unforgettable characters, Buckeye is a transportive story of love, loyalty, sacrifice, and forgiveness.
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Ideal for readers looking for prehistoric historical fiction centered on ancient communities, Stonehenge, leadership, and conflict.
Circle of Days
Historical Literary Fiction · Literary Fiction
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An instant New York Times bestseller called “Superb.” by Lee Child, Circle of Days follows Seft, a gifted flint miner, and Joia, a visionary priestess, as a great stone circle becomes their life’s work while drought, mistrust, and violence push the communities of the Great Plain toward war, with a 4.1-star rating from more than 21,800 Amazon reviewers. Ideal for readers looking for prehistoric historical fiction centered on ancient communities, Stonehenge, leadership, and conflict.
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
From a bestselling author of epic fiction comes the deeply human story of one of the world’s greatest mysteries: the building of Stonehenge.
"Superb." —Lee Childs, New York Times bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series
A FLINT MINER WITH A GIFT
Seft, a talented flint miner, walks the Great Plain in the high summer heat, to witness the rituals that signal the start of a new year. He is there to trade his stone at the Midsummer Fair, and to find Neen, the girl he loves. Her family lives in prosperity and offer Seft an escape from his brutish father and brothers within their herder community.
A PRIESTESS WHO BELIEVES THE IMPOSSIBLE
Joia, Neen’s sister, is a priestess with a vision and an unmatched ability to lead. As a child, she watches the Midsummer ceremony, enthralled, and dreams of a miraculous new monument, raised from the biggest stones in the world. But trouble is brewing among the hills and woodlands of the Great Plain.
A MONUMENT THAT WILL DEFINE A CIVILIZATION
Joia’s vision of a great stone circle, assembled by the divided tribes of the Plain, will inspire Seft and become their life’s work. But as drought ravages the earth, mistrust grows between the herders, farmers and woodlanders—and an act of savage violence leads to open warfare ...
Truly ambitious in scope, Circle of Days invites you to join master storyteller Ken Follett in exploring one of the greatest mysteries of all time.
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Before Salem, there was Margaret Jones.
The First Witch of Boston
Historical Fiction · Romance · Women's Fiction
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Before Salem, there was Margaret Jones. In The First Witch of Boston, Andrea Catalano reimagines the life of the first woman convicted of witchcraft in seventeenth-century Massachusetts, turning court records and diary entries into a deeply human story of love, suspicion, and survival. As Margaret’s skill as a healer and her outspoken nature make her a target in a rigid Puritan community, the novel builds into a tense, heartbreaking portrait of how quickly fear can turn cruel.
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2025 Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Readers’ Favorite Historical Fiction
A gripping and intimate novel based on the true story of Margaret Jones, the first woman to be found guilty of witchcraft in seventeenth-century Massachusetts.
Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1646. Thomas and Margaret Jones arrive from England to build a life in the New World. Though of differing temperaments, cautious Thomas and fiery Margaret, a healer, are bound by a love that has lasted decades. With a child on the way, their new beginning promises only blessings.
But in this austere Puritan community, comely faces hide malicious intent. Wrong moves or words are met with suspicion, and Margaret’s bold and unguarded nature draws scorn. Soon, Margaret is mistrusted as more cunning woman than kind caregiver. And when personal tragedies, religious hysteria, and wariness of the unknown turn most against her, even the devotion Margaret and her husband share is at risk.
Inspired by actual diary entries and court records, The First Witch of Boston is at once the riveting story of a woman unjustly accused and a love story set amid the political and social turmoil of both Old and New England. Harrowing, and with a deep understanding of the human heart, history is brilliantly imagined.
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Matt Haig’s How to Stop Time—soon to be a major film starring Benedict Cumberbatch—is a witty, poignant love story across centuries.
How to Stop Time
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Speculative Fiction · Time Travel
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Matt Haig’s How to Stop Time—soon to be a major film starring Benedict Cumberbatch—is a witty, poignant love story across centuries. With 4.4 out of 5 stars on Amazon, Haig (author of The Midnight Library) delivers a novel that blends history, romance, and heartache. Bighearted and unforgettable, it asks: is love worth breaking the rules of time?
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Tom Hazard looks like an ordinary 41-year-old history teacher. In reality, he’s been alive for centuries.
He’s strummed a lute with Shakespeare, sailed with Captain Cook, and shared drinks with F. Scott Fitzgerald. But after centuries of running, all Tom wants is something simple: a normal life. Maybe even love.
Enter Camille, the French teacher who seems to see through him. She could be the answer to a loneliness that’s lasted lifetimes—except Tom belongs to the Albatross Society, a secret group that protects long-lifers like him. Their rule is clear: never fall in love.
As Tom’s past collides with the present, he must decide if he’ll keep hiding in history or risk everything for a future worth living.
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Neena Viel’s Listen to Your Sister is one of the year’s Most Anticipated books (Goodreads, People, BookRiot, and more).
Listen to Your Sister
Horror · Thriller · People of Color
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Neena Viel’s Listen to Your Sister is one of the year’s Most Anticipated books (Goodreads, People, BookRiot, and more). With 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon, this speculative horror debut blends Jordan Peele vibes, Stranger Things nostalgia, and razor-sharp family drama. Terrifying, heartfelt, and unforgettable—this is the knockout novel everyone’s talking about.
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Calla Williams didn’t ask to become the glue holding her family together. At twenty-five, she’s worn thin by responsibility, haunted by recurring nightmares of her brothers dying in ways she can’t prevent.
Her younger brother Jamie is sixteen, reckless, and more interested in fighting for causes—or finding trouble—than staying safe. Dre, the middle brother, promised to help but disappeared once the paperwork was signed. Calla is left to pick up the pieces.
When Jamie’s protest spirals into chaos, the siblings flee to a remote cabin straight out of a slasher film. But Calla’s visions aren’t just dreams. They’re warnings. And the thing she fears most isn’t outside—it’s already unraveling their reality.
They should have listened. Now survival means facing the nightmare head-on.
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