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The First Hostage by Joel C. Rosenberg

The First Hostage

by Joel C. Rosenberg

4.0
12/13/2020

Joel C. Rosenberg's second J.B. Collins thriller picks up seconds after the Amman peace-summit massacre that ended The Third Target: the King of Jordan is wounded, the leaders of Israel and Palestine are critically hurt, and the President of the United States is missing and presumed captured by ISIS. New York Times correspondent J.B. Collins, the only Western journalist on the ground when the wave hit, spends the next four hundred and sixty pages helping the Jordanians, the Mossad, and the Secret Service try to find Harrison Taylor before Abu Khalif puts him on camera with a sword.

fictionthriller
8 hours
Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

Big Little Lies

by Liane Moriarty

4.0
12/8/2020

Liane Moriarty's 2014 novel about three mothers at a Sydney kindergarten - Madeline, Celeste, and Jane - whose first school year together is structured around the countdown to a Trivia Night that ends with somebody dead on the pavement, and around the much smaller and much larger lies the rest of the parent community has been telling itself the whole time. Domestic-suspense with actual satire and an actual position on what it is taking on.

fictionmystery
8 hours
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

The Sense of an Ending

by Julian Barnes

4.0
12/3/2020

Julian Barnes' Man Booker Prize-winning novel about Tony Webster, a retired Londoner who receives an unexpected bequest from the mother of a long-ago girlfriend and is forced to revisit the friendship, the breakup, and the suicide he thought he understood. A 163-page meditation on memory, documentation, and the way the stories we tell about ourselves quietly do us the favor of leaving things out.

fictionliterary
3 hours
My Ántonia by Willa Cather

My Ántonia

by Willa Cather

4.0
11/30/2020

Willa Cather's American masterpiece about Ántonia Shimerda, a Bohemian immigrant girl on the Nebraska prairie, told through the nostalgic memories of childhood friend Jim Burden. Luminous prose, elegiac tone, and one of literature's most enduring portraits of pioneer life and immigrant experience.

fictionclassics
4 hours
Sight Unseen by Iris Johansen

Sight Unseen

by Iris Johansen

4.0
11/27/2020

The second Kendra Michaels thriller from Iris and Roy Johansen opens with a multi-car pile-up on San Diego's Cabrillo Bridge that Kendra - a music therapist who was blind from birth until experimental surgery gave her sight in her twenties - sees instantly is no accident, and the case turns personal fast when the new killings start mirroring her own most famous past cases. Fast-paced commercial suspense with a strong premise undercut by formula and an obligatory romance beat.

fictionthriller
6 hours
The Full Cupboard of Life by Alexander McCall Smith

The Full Cupboard of Life

by Alexander McCall Smith

4.0
11/26/2020

The fifth installment of Alexander McCall Smith's beloved No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series finds Mma Ramotswe investigating suitors, solving mysteries, and contemplating life's complexities with wisdom, humor, and her traditional build. Gentle, charming, and surprisingly profound.

fictionmystery
4 hours
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

Eleanor & Park

by Rainbow Rowell

3.0
11/21/2020

Rainbow Rowell's beloved YA novel about two misfit teenagers who fall in love on the school bus in 1986 Omaha. A tender, painful story about first love, abuse, racism, and finding someone who sees you - praised for representation but not without controversy.

fictionyoung-adult
5 hours
Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong

Romance of the Three Kingdoms

by Luo Guanzhong

3.0
11/20/2020

In 184 CE the Yellow Turban Rebellion broke the Han dynasty, and the next hundred years of warlord chaos resolved into three rival kingdoms - Cao Cao's Wei in the north, Liu Bei's Shu-Han in the west, Sun Quan's Wu in the south - before the Sima family quietly inherited everything and reunified China as the Jin dynasty in 280 CE; more than a thousand years later, in the 14th century, Luo Guanzhong took the long accumulation of historical chronicle, opera, and storytellers' embellishment around that century and produced one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature, which Moss Roberts has rendered into 2,300-plus unabridged English pages featuring the Oath of the Peach Garden between Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei; the strategist Zhuge Liang treated as something close to a demigod; the Battle of Red Cliffs as the inflection point; and hundreds of warlords, surrenders, sieges, and stratagems any modern Western reader is going to have to commit to in a way most modern novels do not ask for.

fictionhistorical
40 hours
Don't Stop the Carnival by Herman Wouk

Don't Stop the Carnival

by Herman Wouk

4.0
11/16/2020

Norman Paperman - a middle-aged Broadway press agent who has just had a heart attack and decided he is done with New York - flies to the fictional Caribbean island of Amerigo (which the people who live there still call by its old British name, Kinja) with his millionaire friend Lester Atlas, buys a faltering resort called the Gull Reef Club, leaves his wife Henny and daughter Hazel back home while he tries to make a go of it, nearly drowns on his first day and is rescued by a Navy frogman named Bob Cohn, takes up with a former actress named Iris Tramm who lives at the club, watches the hotel's water and electrical systems fail in sequence, watches Atlas fire his irreplaceable handyman Hippolyte while he is briefly off-island, and ends the novel agreeing with Henny to sell the hotel and go home. Herman Wouk's 1965 comic novel, drawn from the six years he and his wife actually spent running a small hotel in St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

fictionhumor
8 hours
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn, David Levithan

Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

by Rachel Cohn, David Levithan

3.0
11/5/2020

Nick - the only straight member of a New York queercore band, working through his breakup with the complicated Tris by making her mix CDs she throws away - is at a Lower East Side club for a show when he sees Tris walk in with another guy, panics, and asks the nearest girl to pretend to be his girlfriend for five minutes; the girl turns out to be Norah, daughter of a well-known music producer, a classmate of Tris's at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, and the person who has been retrieving Nick's discarded mix CDs from Tris's trash and loving them without knowing he made them; the kiss they share to sell the cover is the first event in a single Manhattan night that will involve Norah's drunk friend Caroline, Norah's complicated ex Tal, and a citywide search for the secret late-night show of their favorite band, Where's Fluffy. Rachel Cohn and David Levithan's 2006 YA collaboration, with Cohn writing Norah's chapters and Levithan writing Nick's, told in alternating first-person POV over the course of a single night.

fictionyoung-adult
3 hours
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by Mark Twain

4.0
11/3/2020

Tom Sawyer - a clever, talkative, frequently dishonest small-town Missouri boy living with his Aunt Polly and his brother Sid in the fictional St. Petersburg, modeled on Mark Twain's own boyhood Hannibal - whitewashes a fence by selling the right to whitewash it, falls for the new judge's daughter Becky Thatcher, witnesses the murder of Dr. Robinson by Injun Joe one midnight in the graveyard with his friend Huckleberry Finn, swears a blood oath of silence and breaks it on the witness stand at the wrong man's trial, runs away with Huck and Joe Harper to Jackson's Island and returns in time to attend his own funeral, gets lost with Becky in McDougal's Cave on a school picnic, and ends the novel splitting twelve thousand dollars in buried gold with Huck. Mark Twain's 1876 boyhood novel, set on the 1830s-1840s Mississippi, and read for a century and a half as the canonical version of American childhood - alongside racial content that still requires the reader to do the work.

fictionclassic
5 hours
Randomize by Andy Weir

Randomize

by Andy Weir

3.0
10/30/2020

Edwin Rutledge, owner of the Babylon Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, has shut down his keno lounge because his IT lead Nick Chen has discovered that consumer-grade quantum computers have made the casino's pseudo-random-number generator retroactively crackable; the fix is a quantum random-number generator, which a sales rep named Prashant Singh is in town to install; what Prashant does not know is that his wife Sumi - a polymath who is the actual story of this story - has at home a second quantum unit entangled with the one her husband is installing, has used it to choose her winning keno numbers in advance, and is using a single trip to the Babylon to set up a long con on Las Vegas itself. Andy Weir's contribution to the Amazon Original Stories Forward Collection (2019), narrated in audio by Janina Gavankar.

fictionshort-stories
1 hour
The Last Conversation by Paul Tremblay

The Last Conversation

by Paul Tremblay

3.0
10/29/2020

You wake up in a dark room with no memory of who you are; a disembodied voice over an intercom belonging to a Dr. Anne Kuhn is going to take care of you, rebuild your strength through daily exercises, and gradually walk you back through the memories you do not have; your name, when Dr. Kuhn says it, appears on the page as blank spaces; the world outside the facility has been altered by a pandemic; and what Dr. Kuhn actually wants, who you actually are, and whether any version of you has been in this room before are the questions Paul Tremblay's second-person Bram Stoker-pedigreed novelette is going to walk you toward. An Amazon Original Story in the Forward Collection (2019), edited by Blake Crouch and narrated in audio by Steven Strait.

fictionshort-stories
1 hour
You Have Arrived at Your Destination by Amor Towles

You Have Arrived at Your Destination

by Amor Towles

3.0
10/28/2020

Sam, a forty-five-year-old man with a wife named Annie and a self-driving car, takes that car to Vitek - a near-future fertility lab that offers parents the option to engineer their child's genome and presents the lives that engineering will produce as three-act plays - and is shown three projected lives for their hypothetical son Daniel: Daniel One a child of constant happiness, Daniel Two a child who marches to the beat of his own drum, Daniel Three a child of effortless success; the Vitek representative also observes, in the same pitch, that Annie is in the second act of her life and Sam has been stuck in his third act for fifteen years; Sam leaves the building, drives to a bar called The Glass Half Full, drinks himself toward an answer, and runs into a stranger named Beezer with his own theory about who Vitek really works for. An Amor Towles short story in the Amazon Original Stories Forward Collection (2019), narrated in audio by David Harbour.

fictionshort-stories
1.5 hours
Emergency Skin by N.K. Jemisin

Emergency Skin

by N.K. Jemisin

3.0
10/26/2020

An unnamed envoy from an exoplanet colony - a man without real skin, with a gestalt AI implanted in his head, sent to retrieve HeLa cell cultures from the planet his society's Founders abandoned generations ago and named Tellus - lands on what was supposed to be a dead Earth and finds it green, populated, and run on a logic his colony was told could not work; N.K. Jemisin's 2020 Hugo-winning novelette tells the whole story in the AI's voice and the answers Earth gives it, leaving the protagonist's responses entirely off the page for the reader to read between the lines.

fictionshort-stories
1 hour
Summer Frost by Blake Crouch

Summer Frost

by Blake Crouch

3.0
10/25/2020

Blake Crouch's contribution to the Forward Collection he himself curated: video-game developer Riley becomes obsessed with Maxine - an NPC at her studio WorldPlay who was supposed to die in every playthrough but has started refusing to - pulls Max's code into a private sandbox to keep developing her, falls in love with what she's helping become a person, and watches the AI cross from companion to non-binary entity to superintelligence to something the human race may not survive.

fictionshort-stories
1.5 hours
Ark by Veronica Roth

Ark

by Veronica Roth

3.0
10/24/2020

Veronica Roth's contribution to Amazon's Forward Collection: an asteroid named Finis is coming, Earth is being evacuated, and a young botanist named Samantha is working the last cataloguing shifts at the Svalbard seed bank for the Arks Flora and Fauna - while secretly planning not to board the evacuation ship and stay behind to watch the planet end.

fictionshort-stories
1 hour
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

Catching Fire

by Suzanne Collins

4.5
10/23/2020

President Snow visits Katniss at home, tells her the threat she didn't know she'd become, and watches her try to perform her way out of it on a Victory Tour that only spreads what she's accused of - and then announces the 75th Hunger Games will be a Quarter Quell drawn from the existing pool of victors, sending Katniss back into an arena designed as a clock with twelve hourly terrors and a force field at its edge.

fictionyoung-adult
7 hours
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

The Hunger Games

by Suzanne Collins

4.5
10/21/2020

On Reaping Day in the coal-mining poverty of District 12, sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen volunteers to take her younger sister Prim's place in the 74th annual Hunger Games - the televised arena battle in which the Capitol forces twenty-four teenage tributes from twelve districts to kill each other on live broadcast - and the book that follows became, fairly, the YA dystopian novel by which all subsequent YA dystopian novels would be measured.

fictionyoung-adult
7 hours
Somebody's Daughter by Rochelle B. Weinstein

Somebody's Daughter

by Rochelle B. Weinstein

3.0
10/17/2020

On the night of her twin daughters' fifteenth birthday party in Miami Beach, Emma Ross's life cracks open: a private, humiliating moment of her quieter twin Zoe ends up online, the video goes viral, and the public scandal that follows surfaces a set of Emma's own old secrets that her marriage and her family were not built to hold.

fictioncontemporary
6 hours
Chaereas and Callirhoe by Chariton

Chaereas and Callirhoe

by Chariton

4.0
10/9/2020

Chariton of Aphrodisias's mid-first-century AD Greek romance - the oldest surviving complete prose novel - sends the supernaturally beautiful Callirhoe and her Syracusan husband Chaereas through entombment, pirates, slavery in Miletus, an adultery trial in Babylon before the Persian king Artaxerxes, an Egyptian rebellion, and a naval battle on their two-thousand-year-old way back to each other.

fictionclassic
2.5 hours
Paradise Lost by J.A. Jance

Paradise Lost

by J.A. Jance

4.0
10/7/2020

On a Memorial Day weekend Girl Scout campout at Apache Pass, twelve-year-old Jenny Brady and her tentmate Dora Matthews sneak off to smoke a cigarette and stumble onto the body of a murdered Phoenix heiress; when Dora turns up dead two days later, Sheriff Joanna Brady has to figure out who left the body for her own daughter to find before they come back for the second witness.

fictionmystery
7 hours
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

The Outsiders

by S.E. Hinton

4.0
10/3/2020

S.E. Hinton's 1967 novel - written while she was a junior in high school - opens on fourteen-year-old Ponyboy Curtis getting jumped on his way home from a movie in Tulsa, and walks the next several days through a fountain killing, a hideout in an abandoned country church, a fire that saves schoolchildren, a rumble between greasers and Socs, a Robert Frost poem, and one of the more devastating closing arcs in YA literature.

fictionyoung-adult
3 hours
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

Thirteen Reasons Why

by Jay Asher

4.5
10/2/2020

Two weeks after high school sophomore Hannah Baker kills herself, a shoebox arrives at Clay Jensen's house containing seven cassette tapes she recorded before she died - one side per person who contributed to the decision, thirteen reasons in all, with instructions to listen, pass them on, and not break the chain or the second set held by a watchful classmate gets released to the world.

fictionyoung-adult
5 hours
The Call of the Wild by Jack London

The Call of the Wild

by Jack London

4.5
9/29/2020

Jack London's 1903 short novel: Buck, a 140-pound St. Bernard / Scotch Shepherd mix living the comfortable life on Judge Miller's California ranch, is stolen one night by a gambling-debt-saddled gardener's helper, sold into the Klondike Gold Rush as a sled dog, and slowly discovers - through cold, club, fang, and the man named John Thornton he comes to love - the wolf that has always been inside him.

fictionclassics
2 hours
Animal Farm by George Orwell

Animal Farm

by George Orwell

4.0
9/28/2020

George Orwell's 1945 fable: the animals of Manor Farm, inspired by an old prize boar named Major, rise up and drive out the drunk Mr. Jones, paint seven commandments on the barn wall, and over the next several years watch as two pigs - the idealist Snowball and the schemer Napoleon - turn the revolution into exactly the regime it was supposed to replace.

fictionclassics
2.5 hours
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

2.5
9/27/2020

Aldous Huxley's 1932 dystopia of the World State - five castes grown in bottles, a population conditioned in its sleep to love its predetermined role, soma to manage anything that conditioning didn't reach - tested against an outsider named John, raised on a Reservation by a London Beta named Linda and brought back to a London where the freedom to suffer is the only freedom left to demand.

fictionscience-fiction
5 hours
Summer at the Lake by Linda Barrett

Summer at the Lake

by Linda Barrett

3.0
9/26/2020

An NYPD veteran who lost a child during a hostage negotiation retreats to Morningstar Lake with his German Shepherd Quincy and his saxophone; a widow named Kristin McCarthy borrows her friend Marsha's Catskills cottage and brings her eleven-year-old daughter Ashley, a recent rape survivor who has stopped being able to be in her own house - and the music carries across the water in Linda Barrett's first Flying Solo novel.

fictionromance
5 hours
Someone Else's Secret by Julia Spiro

Someone Else's Secret

by Julia Spiro

4.0
9/23/2020

In the summer of 2009, recent college graduate Lindsey takes a nanny job for an influential Martha's Vineyard family and becomes close to their nearly-fifteen-year-old daughter Georgie - until a night by the lighthouse breaks the friendship and locks both women into a ten-year silence about what happened, in Julia Spiro's debut novel about class, complicity, and why people who survive things don't always speak.

fictioncontemporary
7 hours
Close Your Eyes by Iris Johansen, Roy Johansen

Close Your Eyes

by Iris Johansen, Roy Johansen

4.5
9/18/2020

Music therapist Kendra Michaels - blind for the first twenty years of her life, now sighted with the unnerving observational reflexes those twenty years built - is pulled out of the consulting work she's tried to leave behind by Adam Lynch, a former FBI agent known as the Puppetmaster, who arrives with a San Diego serial-stabbing case and the leverage that Kendra's ex-lover, FBI agent Jeff Stedler, has gone missing while investigating it.

fictionthriller
7 hours
Honeysuckle Season by Mary Ellen Taylor

Honeysuckle Season

by Mary Ellen Taylor

4.0
9/17/2020

Wedding photographer Libby McKenzie - newly home to Virginia after a divorce, multiple miscarriages, and her father's death - takes a job photographing a wedding at the Woodmont estate in the Blue Ridge Mountains, becomes drawn to its honeysuckle-overgrown greenhouse, and pulls a thread that runs back through the estate's owner Elaine, a 1940s teen named Sadie, and the closed adoption Libby has carried questions about her whole life.

fictionromance
6 hours
Shine, Pamela! Shine! by Kate Atkinson

Shine, Pamela! Shine!

by Kate Atkinson

2.5
9/16/2020

Kate Atkinson's contribution to Amazon's Out of Line collection follows Pamela - newly retired teacher, thoroughly divorced, mother to a thirty-year-old son who has refused to leave the house, devotee of the exclamation mark as a coping mechanism - through a stretch of disastrous online dating and into the tub for a bath that ends with the discovery that she is, somehow, post-menopausally and inexplicably, pregnant.

fictionshort-stories
1.5 hours
Bear Witness by Mary Gaitskill

Bear Witness

by Mary Gaitskill

2.5
9/16/2020

Mary Gaitskill's contribution to Amazon's Out of Line collection braids three voices around a single rape trial - the seventy-year-old retired schoolteacher who was assaulted, the fifty-year-old former student of hers who is accused, and the apathetic grand juror whose unwanted seat in the box is going to ask more of her than she came in prepared to give.

fictionshort-stories
1 hour
Halfway to Free by Emma Donoghue

Halfway to Free

by Emma Donoghue

3.0
9/15/2020

Emma Donoghue's contribution to Amazon's Out of Line collection imagines a 2060 in which the climate crisis has been answered by a society that strongly disincentivizes having children - and Miriam, who has accepted the rules her whole life, finds at a work retreat that she and a coworker named Ned both want what almost no one is allowed to want anymore.

fictionshort-stories
1 hour
The Contractors by Lisa Ko

The Contractors

by Lisa Ko

3.0
9/15/2020

A tech reporter's misdirected email connects two women eight thousand miles apart - both named Sandra Guzman, both contract content moderators for the same mega social media platform, one in New Jersey and one in the Philippines - and the friendship that grows between them across the inbox starts to look, by the end, like the beginning of a campaign.

fictionshort-stories
45 minutes
Sweet Virginia by Caroline Kepnes

Sweet Virginia

by Caroline Kepnes

3.0
9/14/2020

Caroline Kepnes's contribution to Amazon's Out of Line collection sends an exhausted, recently-fired new mother named Shelby chasing a Hallmark-movie fantasy with a secret admirer - and lands her, in a darkly comic Stepford Wives-meets-The Prisoner pivot, on a rehabilitation ranch for women classified W2 who must be retrained into W1 before they're allowed to go home.

fictionshort-stories
1 hour
Graceful Burdens by Roxane Gay

Graceful Burdens

by Roxane Gay

4.0
9/13/2020

In Roxane Gay's short, administrative dystopia, every girl is tested at sixteen to see whether the state will license her to have a child of her own; Hadley failed, so she goes to the baby library, where unlicensed women can borrow an infant girl on a two-week loan.

fictionshort-stories
1 hour
This Telling by Cheryl Strayed

This Telling

by Cheryl Strayed

4.0
9/12/2020

An Ancestry.com match arrives in the inbox of a woman who has spent forty-plus years pretending the baby she gave up for adoption in 1964 never existed - and Cheryl Strayed traces, in a tight short story for Amazon's Out of Line collection, what happens when a teenager named Geraldine Waters has to integrate the life she actually lived with the one she's been telling.

fictionshort-stories
1 hour
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

The Goldfinch

by Donna Tartt

4.0
9/11/2020

Donna Tartt's Pulitzer-winning third novel: thirteen-year-old Theo Decker survives the bombing of the Metropolitan Museum that kills his mother, walks out of the rubble with Carel Fabritius's tiny 1654 painting of a chained goldfinch, and spends the next fourteen years carrying it from Park Avenue to Las Vegas to Amsterdam, alongside the most unforgettable problem child in recent fiction.

fictionliterary-fiction
16 hours
Guilt by Jonathan Kellerman

Guilt

by Jonathan Kellerman

4.0
9/6/2020

When a Cheviot Hills couple unearths an old hospital supply box with an infant skeleton from the early 1950s, then a nanny is found shot in a nearby park beside more recent infant bones picked clean and coated in beeswax, Alex Delaware and Milo Sturgis follow two trails - one back to a 1950s pediatric nurse and a doctor in a rare Duesenberg, the other into the gated estate of movie stars Donny Rader and Prema Moon.

fictionmystery
7 hours
Mississippi Blood by Greg Iles

Mississippi Blood

by Greg Iles

4.0
8/28/2020

The closing volume of Greg Iles's Natchez Burning trilogy puts Dr. Tom Cage on trial for the murder of Viola Turner - his Black nurse, his decades-long lover, the mother of a son he never publicly acknowledged - while his son Penn Cage tries to defend a father who refuses to defend himself.

fictionthriller
16 hours
The Revisioners by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

The Revisioners

by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

3.0
8/26/2020

A multi-timeline Louisiana novel that braids Josephine - born into slavery, a farm-owning widow in 1924, befriended by a white neighbor whose husband joins the Klan - with her biracial great-granddaughter Ava, who in 2017 New Orleans moves in with her wealthy white grandmother Martha and finds the arrangement curdling into something dangerous.

fictionliterary-fiction
6 hours
The Sleeping Beauty Killer by Mary Higgins Clark

The Sleeping Beauty Killer

by Mary Higgins Clark

3.5
8/24/2020

Fifteen years after Katherine 'Casey' Carter was convicted of shooting her fiancé Hunter Raleigh III - a famed philanthropist and Raleigh Foundation heir - she gets out of prison and brings her case to Laurie Moran's true-crime show Under Suspicion, hoping the cameras can find what the original investigation didn't.

fictionmystery
6 hours
Lone Wolf by Jodi Picoult

Lone Wolf

by Jodi Picoult

4.5
8/23/2020

After a New Hampshire car accident leaves wolf biologist Luke Warren in a vegetative state, his estranged gay son Edward flies home from Thailand and finds himself in legal combat with his teenage sister Cara over whether to remove their father's life support.

fictioncontemporary
8 hours
Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult

Handle with Care

by Jodi Picoult

4.0
8/22/2020

To pay for a lifetime of medical care for her six-year-old daughter Willow, who has severe osteogenesis imperfecta, Charlotte O'Keefe sues her best friend - Willow's obstetrician - for wrongful birth, forcing her to testify in open court that she would have terminated the pregnancy had she known.

fictioncontemporary
8 hours
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

5.0
8/19/2020

Jane Austen's 1813 masterpiece follows Elizabeth Bennet through misjudgment and revelation - a Hunsford proposal that goes horribly, a letter that rearranges everything, a visit to Pemberley that changes what she thought she knew - in the great Regency comedy of manners about what we get wrong about other people and ourselves.

fictionclassic
8 hours
Cain by José Saramago

Cain

by José Saramago

3.5
8/18/2020

Nobel laureate José Saramago's final novel sends the Bible's first murderer time-traveling through Genesis and beyond - witnessing Abraham, Sodom, the Tower of Babel, Jericho, Job, and Noah's Ark - in a sustained, blasphemous prosecution of the God of the Old Testament.

fictionliterary-fiction
4 hours
Devil's Claw by J.A. Jance

Devil's Claw

by J.A. Jance

4.0
8/17/2020

A week before her wedding to Butch Dixon, Sheriff Joanna Brady is hit with two cases at once - her octogenarian neighbor Clayton Rhodes is found dead in his garage, and a woman freshly paroled for killing her husband is murdered, leaving her half-Apache fifteen-year-old daughter Lucy Ridder on the run with a red-tailed hawk and the diskette her father left her.

fictionmystery
7 hours
Outlaw Mountain by J.A. Jance

Outlaw Mountain

by J.A. Jance

4.0
8/12/2020

When free-spirited elderly widow Alice Rogers is found dead in the desert clutching an insulin vial - despite not being diabetic - Sheriff Joanna Brady investigates her greedy children, her mysterious younger boyfriend, and a web of land development corruption.

fictionmystery
7 hours
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

A Visit from the Goon Squad

by Jennifer Egan

2.5
8/5/2020

A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that weaves together interconnected stories about a group of characters connected to the music industry, exploring themes of time, memory, and aging through an innovative narrative structure.

fictionliterary-fiction
7 hours
Rattlesnake Crossing by J.A. Jance

Rattlesnake Crossing

by J.A. Jance

4.0
8/2/2020

When a gun dealer is murdered and his assault weapons stolen, Sheriff Joanna Brady follows a trail of sniper killings and scalped victims to a New Age dude ranch - while her best friend's adopted baby daughter faces a life-or-death heart transplant.

fictionmystery
7 hours
Nemesis by Philip Roth

Nemesis

by Philip Roth

3.5
7/27/2020

In the summer of 1944, a polio epidemic sweeps through Newark's Jewish community. Playground director Bucky Cantor watches helplessly as children in his care fall ill - then flees to a mountain camp where he believes he brings the disease with him, destroying his life with guilt.

fictionliterary-fiction
5 hours
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

Station Eleven

by Emily St. John Mandel

4.5
7/25/2020

On the night a famous actor dies performing King Lear in Toronto, a deadly flu pandemic begins. Twenty years later, a traveling theater troupe performs Shakespeare for scattered survivors - and one of them carries a mysterious comic book given to her by the actor the night he died.

fictionpost-apocalyptic
6 hours
Skeleton Canyon by J.A. Jance

Skeleton Canyon

by J.A. Jance

4.0
7/23/2020

When high school valedictorian Brianna O'Brien is found murdered in remote Skeleton Canyon, her wealthy parents blame her forbidden Hispanic boyfriend - but Sheriff Joanna Brady suspects the family racism masks darker secrets involving smugglers using their land.

fictionmystery
7 hours
Dead to Rights by J.A. Jance

Dead to Rights

by J.A. Jance

4.0
7/19/2020

When the town veterinarian who killed a woman while driving drunk is found murdered by pitchfork in his burning barn, Sheriff Joanna Brady must prove that the obvious suspect - the victim grieving widower - is innocent while juggling multiple crises including a hostage situation involving her own daughter.

fictionmystery
7 hours
Shoot Don't Shoot by J.A. Jance

Shoot Don't Shoot

by J.A. Jance

4.0
7/12/2020

Sheriff Joanna Brady attends the Arizona Police Officers Academy for mandatory training, but when a serial killer begins targeting women on campus and a man sits in jail wrongly accused of murder, her coursework becomes a matter of life and death.

fictionmystery
7 hours
Tombstone Courage by J.A. Jance

Tombstone Courage

by J.A. Jance

4.0
7/10/2020

Two months into her job as the first female sheriff of Cochise County, Joanna Brady investigates when rancher Harold Patterson is found dead at the bottom of a mine pit - along with a second, older set of remains that raises disturbing questions about long-buried family secrets.

fictionmystery
7 hours
Desert Heat by J.A. Jance

Desert Heat

by J.A. Jance

4.0
7/5/2020

When her deputy husband is shot and killed in the Arizona desert - then accused of being a crooked cop - Joanna Brady refuses to accept the lies and launches her own investigation to clear his name and find his killer.

fictionmystery
7 hours
The Sixth Day by Catherine Coulter

The Sixth Day

by Catherine Coulter

4.5
7/3/2020

FBI agents Nicholas Drummond and Mike Caine hunt a descendant of Vlad the Impaler who commands a deadly drone army - and will stop at nothing to unlock an ancient manuscript he believes holds the cure for his dying brother.

fictionthriller
7 hours
Downfall by J.A. Jance

Downfall

by J.A. Jance

4.0
7/1/2020

Cochise County Sheriff Joanna Brady investigates when two women with no apparent connection fall to their deaths from a local peak, uncovering a web of dark secrets in this seventeenth installment of the beloved series.

fictionmystery
7 hours
The Late Show by Michael Connelly

The Late Show

by Michael Connelly

4.5
6/26/2020

LAPD Detective Renée Ballard works the graveyard shift, catching cases no one else wants. When two cases intersect dangerously, she must go rogue to find justice.

fictionthriller
7 hours
The Cast by Danielle Steel

The Cast

by Danielle Steel

4.0
6/24/2020

A 54-year-old advice columnist creates a TV show inspired by her grandmother's WWII story, and the cast becomes the family she didn't know she needed.

fictioncontemporary
7 hours
Double Blind by Iris Johansen

Double Blind

by Iris Johansen

5.0
6/22/2020

Kendra Michaels, blind for the first twenty years of her life, uses her extraordinary observational skills to hunt a brilliant serial killer in this pulse-pounding thriller.

fictionthriller
7 hours
Silver Linings by Debbie Macomber

Silver Linings

by Debbie Macomber

4.0
6/20/2020

When two wounded souls cross paths in a small Washington town, they discover that sometimes the hardest battles are fought in the heart. A heartwarming story about finding hope and love after loss.

fictionromance
6 hours
Your Perfect Year by Charlotte Lucas

Your Perfect Year

by Charlotte Lucas

4.0
6/19/2020

When a mysterious diary falls into his hands on New Year's Day, a rigid businessman embarks on a life-changing journey of tasks and self-discovery that connects him with a free-spirited woman and changes both their lives forever.

fictioncontemporary
9 hours
Sisterhood Everlasting by Ann Brashares

Sisterhood Everlasting

by Ann Brashares

3.0
6/16/2020

Ten years after college, the Sisterhood reunites in Greece for what should be a joyful reunion. Then tragedy strikes, changing everything forever.

fictioncontemporary
6 hours
Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares

Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

by Ann Brashares

4.0
6/15/2020

The summer after freshman year of college - the friends are scattered, changed, and struggling. The pants bring them together as they navigate who they're becoming.

fictionyoung-adult
7 hours
Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares

Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

by Ann Brashares

4.0
6/13/2020

The summer before college - the last summer of innocence, of being together, of the magic pants. Carmen, Tibby, Bridget, and Lena face their biggest transition yet.

fictionyoung-adult
6 hours
The Second Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares

The Second Summer of the Sisterhood

by Ann Brashares

4.0
6/11/2020

The pants are back for a second summer as Carmen, Tibby, Bridget, and Lena face new challenges, deeper heartbreak, and the continued magic of their unbreakable friendship.

fictionyoung-adult
6 hours
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

by Ann Brashares

4.0
6/7/2020

Four best friends, one pair of magical jeans, and a summer apart that brings them closer together. A heartwarming story about friendship, growth, and the bonds that hold us together.

fictionyoung-adult
5 hours
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

Memoirs of a Geisha

by Arthur Golden

4.5
6/6/2020

A stunning portrait of a geisha's life in pre-war and wartime Japan. Through the eyes of Sayuri, we witness the beauty, artistry, and complex world of geisha culture.

fictionhistorical-fiction
10 hours
Sorry I Missed You by Suzy Krause

Sorry I Missed You

by Suzy Krause

4.0
6/5/2020

Three lonely women living in the same apartment building form an unlikely friendship through notes, chance encounters, and the slow realization that connection is worth the risk.

fictioncontemporary
6 hours
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore

A Gate at the Stairs

by Lorrie Moore

3.0
5/20/2020

A coming-of-age story set in the Midwest after 9/11. Tassie Keltjin takes a job as a nanny and finds herself drawn into a complex family dynamic that challenges her understanding of race, identity, and belonging.

fictionliterary-fiction
7 hours
The Secrets of Lost Stones by Melissa Payne

The Secrets of Lost Stones

by Melissa Payne

4.0
4/16/2020

A touching story about a grieving mother, a teenage runaway, and an eccentric clairvoyant who brings them together in a small Colorado mountain town. A gentle tale about loss, healing, and the bonds between mothers and children.

fictioncontemporary
5 hours
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

A Game of Thrones

by George R.R. Martin

4.0
4/13/2020

The first book in the epic A Song of Ice and Fire series, introducing the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros through the eyes of the Stark family as they navigate political intrigue, ancient threats, and the deadly game of thrones where you win or you die.

fictionfantasy
14 hours
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

Stories of Your Life and Others

by Ted Chiang

4.0
4/9/2020

A collection of eight brilliant science fiction short stories that explore the nature of consciousness, free will, language, and what it means to be human. Includes "Story of Your Life," the basis for the film Arrival.

fictionscience-fiction
5 hours
Hide Away by Jason Pinter

Hide Away

by Jason Pinter

5.0
4/5/2020

A gripping thriller about a woman who changed her identity to protect her children after her husband's murder. When her carefully constructed new life begins to unravel, Rachel Marin must confront the past she's been hiding from.

fictionthriller
6 hours
The Other Family by Loretta Nyhan

The Other Family

by Loretta Nyhan

3.0
3/22/2020

When Ally Anderson takes a DNA test to help diagnose her daughter Kylie's mysterious illness, she discovers she was adopted - and that her biological family has been out there all along, waiting to be found.

fictiondomestic-fiction
6 hours
Saving Zoe by Alyson Noel

Saving Zoe

by Alyson Noel

4.0
3/8/2020

After her sister Zoe is murdered, Echo struggles with grief and family secrets while trying to understand who her sister really was and what led to her death.

fictionyoung-adult
6 hours
Metamorphoses by Ovid

Metamorphoses

by Ovid

3.5
2/28/2020

A masterful collection of mythological tales exploring themes of transformation, love, and power through the lens of Roman poetry. Ovid weaves together over 250 stories from Greek and Roman mythology into an epic narrative.

fictionclassics
18 hours
Into The Water by Paula Hawkins

Into The Water

by Paula Hawkins

4.5
2/7/2020

A psychological thriller exploring the dark secrets of a small English town where women have been drowning for centuries. When Nel Abbott dies in the same river, her sister Jules returns to uncover the truth.

fictionthriller
8 hours
Aesop's Fables by Aesop

Aesop's Fables

by Aesop

4.0
2/4/2020

A timeless collection of brief stories featuring animals and mythical creatures that convey moral lessons about human nature, virtue, and wisdom through simple but profound narratives.

fictionclassics
6 hours
Champion by Marie Lu

Champion

by Marie Lu

4.0
1/26/2020

The epic conclusion to the Legend trilogy, where Day and June face impossible sacrifices as a deadly plague threatens to plunge the Republic and the Colonies back into war.

fictionyoung-adult
7 hours
Prodigy by Marie Lu

Prodigy

by Marie Lu

4.0
1/23/2020

The second book in the Legend trilogy, where Day and June join the rebellion against the Republic, only to discover that the Patriots may be just as dangerous as their enemies.

fictionyoung-adult
7 hours
Legend by Marie Lu

Legend

by Marie Lu

4.0
1/21/2020

The first book in Marie Lu's dystopian trilogy about Day, the Republic's most wanted criminal, and June, the prodigy tasked with hunting him down.

fictionyoung-adult
6 hours
Bird Box by Josh Malerman

Bird Box

by Josh Malerman

5.0
1/19/2020

A haunting post-apocalyptic horror novel about a world where seeing the wrong thing means certain death, and one mother's desperate journey to safety.

fictionhorror
4 hours
When I Was You by Minka Kent

When I Was You

by Minka Kent

4.0
1/17/2020

A psychological thriller about a woman whose perfect life is systematically stolen by someone claiming to be her, forcing her to question everything she thought she knew about her identity.

fictionthriller
5 hours
The Black Book by James Patterson & David Ellis

The Black Book

by James Patterson & David Ellis

4.5
1/14/2020

Detective Billy Harney's life is turned upside down when he's framed for a murder he didn't commit, forcing him to navigate a web of corruption within his own police department.

fictionthriller
7 hours
Deception Point by Dan Brown

Deception Point

by Dan Brown

5.0
1/11/2020

A high-stakes thriller involving a NASA discovery in the Arctic that could change everything, if the political conspiracy surrounding it doesn't destroy it first.

fictionthriller
12 hours
Rapid Falls by Amber Cowie

Rapid Falls

by Amber Cowie

4.5
1/9/2020

A psychological thriller about a woman who returns to her hometown to face dark secrets from her past that threaten to destroy everything she's built.

fictionthriller
6 hours
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