A Treasury of Great Mysteries, Volume 1
By: Howard Haycraft
3.94
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
A collection of novels, novelettes, and short stories Murder in the Calais Coach (Murder on the Or…
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1. Slouching Towards Bethlehem
By: Joan Didion
4.19
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Joan Didion's S… read more
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- classics
- short stories
"Happiness is,' after all, a consumption ethic."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"There is a common superstition that “self-respect"-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
2. Robinson Crusoe
By: Virginia Woolf , Daniel Defoe , Gerald McCann
3.68
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Daniel Defoe relates the tale of an English sailor marooned on a desert island for nearly three dec… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first. "-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe
"On a horse? I was married on a horse? Gillian looked like she could kill the groom"-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe
"All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them."-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe
"for me to think of such a voyage was the most preposterous thing that ever man in such circumstances could be guilty of."-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe
3. The End of the Battle (Sword of Honour, #3)
By: Evelyn Waugh
4.04
Format: 337 pages, Paperback
This is the third volume in the 'Sword of Honor' trilogy. The other volumes in this trilogy include… read more
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- classics
- fiction
4. North and South
By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Alan Shelston
4.15
Format: 521 pages, Paperback
When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her com… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"No one loves me, - no one cares for me, but you, mother."-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
"One may be clogged with honey and unable to rise and fly."-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
"But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be. "-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
"He is my first olive: let me make a face while I swallow it."-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
5. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
By: Fannie Flagg
4.28
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a now-c… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"Quienes más sufren son quienes menos lo dicen."-Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
"Face it girls. I'm older and I have more insurance."-Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
"By the way, is there anything sadder than toys on a grave?"-Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
"Are you a politician or does lying just run in your family?"-Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
6. The Rose Rent (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #13)
By: Ellis Peters
4.17
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A late spring in 1142 brings dismay to the Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, for there may be no… read more
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- mystery
- mystery thriller
- fiction
"In happiness or unhappiness, living is a duty, and must be done thoroughly."-Ellis Peters, The Rose Rent (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #13)
"Questions are as supple as willow wands, it's easy to brush by them and slip them aside, and no one the worse for it."-Ellis Peters, The Rose Rent (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #13)
7. Magpie Murders
By: Anthony Horowitz
4.25
Format: 159 pages, Hardcover
When editor Susan Ryeland is given the manuscript of Alan Conway's latest novel, she has no reason … read more
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- mystery
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- fiction
8. Tropic of Cancer
By: Henry Miller
0.00
Format: None pages,
Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller's masterpiece, was banned as obsc… read more
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- classics
- fiction
9. Two for the Dough (Stephanie Plum, #2)
By: Janet Evanovich
4.11
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
This one's double the fun! Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is still learning the ropes at her cousi… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
"You sure you don't want to go?"-Janet Evanovich, Two for the Dough (Stephanie Plum, #2)
"It's not a nice thing to send a penis to a woman. It's disrespectful."-Janet Evanovich, Two for the Dough (Stephanie Plum, #2)
"Stephanie: “I have a list of Kenny's friends. I'm going to run through it."-Janet Evanovich, Two for the Dough (Stephanie Plum, #2)
"It's a penis,' Grandma said. 'Stephanie got it in the mail. It's a pretty good one too."-Janet Evanovich, Two for the Dough (Stephanie Plum, #2)
10. The Agony and the Ecstasy
By: Irving Stone , None
4.40
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Celebrating the 500th anniversary of Michelangelo's David, New American Library releases a special … read more
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- classics
- fiction
11. The Children of Men
By: None
4.00
Format: None pages,
In the year 2021, the world is a bleak place where all human males have become sterile, and no chil… read more
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12. Journey Into Fear
By: Eric Ambler
2.65
Format: 34 pages, Paperback
Returning to his hotel room after a late-night flirtation with a cabaret dancer at an Istanbul boit… read more
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13. The Racketeer
By: John Grisham
3.99
Format: 11 pages, Hardcover
Given the importance of what they do, and the controversies that often surround them, and the viole… read more
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14. The Poisonwood Bible
By: Barbara Kingsolver
3.78
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evan… read more
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15. Dead Man's Ransom (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #9)
By: Ellis Peters
3.53
Format: None pages, Paperback
The year is 1141 and civil war continues to rage. When the sheriff of Shropshire is taken prisoner,… read more
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16. Middlemarch
By: Michel Faber , George Eliot
4.02
Format: 912 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"People are almost always better than their neighbours think they are" George Eliot’s most ambit… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"After all, the true seeing is within."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"I shall do everything it becomes me to do."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"I protest against any absolute conclusion."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
17. The Pilgrim of Hate (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #10)
By: Ellis Peters
3.64
Format: 211 pages, Paperback
The fourth anniversary of the transfer of Saint Winifred's bones to the Abbey at Shrewsbury is a ti… read more
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18. The Confession of Brother Haluin (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #15)
By: Ellis Peters
4.33
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
Brother Cadfael is witness to a shocking near-death confession and accompanies a fellow Benedictine… read more
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19. If I Survive You
By: Jonathan Escoffery
3.69
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
In the 1970s, Topper and Sanya flee to Miami as political violence consumes their native Kingston. … read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"What does Whiteness feel like?... I imagine it's like walking barefoot…"-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You
"Why don't stars make any sounds in the winter? What sounds? Ethan said."-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You
"Every boy deserves to believe him father is good, but if each father were good, we’d be living in a different kind of world."-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You
"I imagined I could have begged an old girlfriend from college to send money; enough of them had expressed ambivalence about their trust funds that this seemed a plausible path down which I might drag…"-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You
20. A Spell of Good Things
By: Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Ayobami Adebayo, the celebrated author of Stay With Me unveils a dazzling story of modern Nigeria a… read more
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- fiction
"Time was unforgiving, it didn’t stop, not even to give people a chance to scrape themselves off the floor if they’d been shattered."-Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things
"He stared back at her, unconcerned. She had always marvelled at his calm assurance that everything good in his life would either remain the same or get better. He took good fortune for granted. As th…"-Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things
21. This Other Eden
By: Paul Harding
3.78
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Set at the beginning of the twentieth century and inspired by historical events, This Other Eden te… read more
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- fiction
22. The Fraud
By: Zadie Smith
3.30
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary first historical novel from bestselling author of White Teeth Zadie Smith It i… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
23. Cold, Cold Bones (Temperance Brennan, #21)
By: Kathy Reichs
4.03
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“Reichs has written her masterpiece—smart, scary, complicated, and engrossing.” —Michael Connelly “… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- suspense
24. Moonflower Murders (Susan Ryeland, #2)
By: Anthony Horowitz
4.05
Format: 608 pages, Paperback
Featuring his famous literary detective Atticus Pund and Susan Ryeland, hero of the worldwide bests… read more
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- mystery
- mystery thriller
- fiction
"Everything in life has a pattern and a coincidence is simply the moment when the pattern becomes briefly visible."-Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders (Susan Ryeland, #2)
"I would kill myself tomorrow and I would except for the one brightness in my life, the one dawn that gives me hope."-Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders (Susan Ryeland, #2)
"The greatest evil occurs when people, no matter what their aims or their motives, become utterly convinced that they are right. [Atticus Pūnd]"-Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders (Susan Ryeland, #2)
25. The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)
By: Ellis Peters
4.17
Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition
The winter of 1139 will disrupt Brother Cadfael’s tranquil life in Shrewsbury with the most disturb… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
"Love shared is no sin."-Ellis Peters, The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)
"There never was, for all I could ever learn, a time when living was easy and peaceful."-Ellis Peters, The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)
26. Saint Peter's Fair (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #4)
By: Ellis Peters
4.11
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
In the twelfth century, merchants gather at a summertime fair—but when one of them is found dead in… read more
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- fiction
"Child, [death] is with us always,"-Ellis Peters, Saint Peter's Fair (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #4)
"There has many a man gone through that gate without a safe-conduct, who will reach heaven ahead of some who were escorted through with absolution and ceremony, and had their affairs in order. Kings a…"-Ellis Peters, Saint Peter's Fair (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #4)
27. Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life
By: Dacher Keltner
3.64
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Awe is mysterious. How do we begin to quantify the goose bumps we feel when we see the Grand Canyon… read more
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28. The Bone Code (Temperance Brennan, #20)
By: Kathy Reichs
4.02
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with her twentieth gripping novel featuri… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- suspense
29. A Game of Fear (Inspector Ian Rutledge, #24)
By: Charles Todd
4.27
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In this newest installment of the acclaimed New York Times bestselling series, Scotland Yard’s Ian … read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- suspense
30. A Treasury of Great Mysteries, Volume 1
By: Howard Haycraft
3.94
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
A collection of novels, novelettes, and short stories Murder in the Calais Coach (Murder on the Or… read more
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