Great Expectations
Orphan Pip chases wealth and Estella through London fog and prison ships.
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Green Eggs and Ham
Sam-I-Am will not stop asking until his friend tries green eggs and ham.
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Heartstopper: Volume One
Charlie and Nick go from rugby mates to something tender and true.
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Hopeless
Homeschooled Sky starts public school and falls for Holder, whose past links to hers in painful ways.
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House of Earth and Blood
Bryce Quinlan hunts a killer in Crescent City with fallen angel Hunt Athalar.
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Hush, Hush
Nora Grey's new biology partner Patch is gorgeous, infuriating, and hiding wings he was never meant to keep.
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In Cold Blood
Capote reconstructs the Clutter murders and the killers' flight in the book that invented true crime.
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Interview with the Vampire
Louis tells a reporter how Lestat made him and how Claudia doomed them all in New Orleans and Paris.
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It Happened One Summer
LA It girl Piper is cut off and sent to Westport where gruff captain Brendan challenges her glitter.
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Kingdom of Ash
Aelin is chained in a glass coffin while her court fights Erawan's darkness across every front of the war.
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Love and Other Words
Childhood friends Macy and Elliot reunite after eleven years apart and face the night that broke them.
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Man's Search for Meaning
Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl survived Auschwitz and argued that humans can endure anything by finding meaning in it.
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Matched
Cassia matched to Xander sees Ky's face flash and starts to doubt.
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
Sedaris on French classes, family chaos, and learning to speak badly in two languages.
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Middlesex
Cal Stephanides traces three generations from Greece to Detroit to explain being intersex and becoming himself.
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milk and honey
Kaur's illustrated debut moves through hurting, loving, breaking, and healing in short lowercase poems.
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Misery
A novelist crashes in Colorado snow and wakes in the home of his self-declared number one fan, who will not let him leave.
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Murder on the Orient Express
Poirot is trapped by snow with thirteen strangers after an American is found stabbed in his berth.
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Never Let Me Go
Kathy looks back on Hailsham, the English school where she and her friends were raised for an unspoken purpose.
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None of This Is True
Podcaster Alix meets birthday-twin Josie, whose dark past becomes the series that consumes them both.
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Norwegian Wood
Toru recalls 1969 Tokyo, torn between fragile Naoko and lively Midori after a friend's suicide.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Rebel McMurphy takes on Nurse Ratched's ward, narrated by the silent Chief Bromden who sees everything.
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Outliers: The Story of Success
Success comes from practice, timing, and hidden chances more than talent alone.
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Persuasion
Anne Elliot, twenty-seven and unmarried, meets the sailor she once refused when his fortunes rise.
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