October 2020

An Amazon Original Story from horror writer Paul Tremblay. A woman dying of cancer undergoes an experimental procedure to upload her consciousness, but the process raises disturbing questions about identity, death, and what it means to be human.

An Amazon Original Story from the author of A Gentleman in Moscow. A couple considering designer babies must choose their unborn child's traits from possible futures, raising profound questions about parenting, determinism, and the nature of choice.

An Amazon Original Story from the author of The Martian. A casino security expert must figure out how a gambler is beating the house with seemingly impossible consistency, leading to a clever exploration of randomness, probability, and technology.

A profound memoir by neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi, written as he faced terminal lung cancer at age 36. An extraordinary meditation on life, death, meaning, and what makes life worth living when facing mortality. A modern classic of the genre.

An Amazon Original Story from the award-winning author of The Broken Earth trilogy. A pilot is sent from a human colony in space back to a supposedly dead Earth to retrieve genetic material, but what he finds challenges everything he's been taught about humanity's past and future.

An Amazon Original Story from the author of Dark Matter and Recursion. A video game designer discovers that her game's AI character may have achieved true consciousness, raising profound questions about artificial intelligence, personhood, and what we owe sentient beings we create.

An Amazon Original Story from the author of Divergent. A thought-provoking short story about a generation ship carrying humanity's last survivors, exploring themes of sacrifice, duty, and what it means to preserve humanity's future.

The second book in the Hunger Games trilogy. Katniss and Peeta's victory tour sparks rebellion across Panem, and President Snow forces them back into the arena for the Quarter Quell—a special Games featuring previous victors. The stakes have never been higher.

In a dystopian future, sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen volunteers to take her sister's place in the Hunger Games—a televised fight to the death where only one of twenty-four tributes can survive. A cultural phenomenon that revitalized YA dystopian fiction.

A contemporary women's fiction novel about a mother and daughter whose lives are upended when a long-buried secret about the daughter's adoption comes to light, forcing both to reckon with identity, belonging, and what makes a family.

A personal finance guide from a self-proclaimed spender who paid off $23,605.10 of debt in 15 months through her "Spending Fast" method. Practical advice for people who struggle with spending habits.

Often considered the world's first novel, this ancient Greek romance tells the story of star-crossed lovers Chaereas and Callirhoe as they face separation, pirates, slavery, and the machinations of powerful men across the Mediterranean world.

The ninth book in the Joanna Brady mystery series. Sheriff Brady must solve a murder case that hits close to home when a body is discovered in the desert, leading to revelations about secrets hidden in her small Arizona community.

S.E. Hinton's groundbreaking YA classic about teenage gang rivalry, social class divisions, and the universal struggles of adolescence. Written when Hinton was just 16, this remains one of the most influential young adult novels ever published.

A powerful and haunting YA novel about a high school student who receives cassette tapes from a classmate who committed suicide, explaining the thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life.