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Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny island not far from Antarctica. Home to the world’s largest seed bank, Shearwater was once full of researchers, but with sea levels rising, the Salts are now its final inhabitants. Until,... View Book →
Wild Dark Shore4.4 ⭐

Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove Spaceships aren't programmed to seek revenge, but for Dracula, Demeter will make an exception. Demeter just wants to do her job: shuttling humans between Earth and Alpha Centauri. Unfortunately, her passengers keep dying--and not from equipment failures, as... View Book →
Of Monsters and Mainframes4.5 ⭐

The Compound by Aisling Rawle Lily, a bored, beautiful twenty something wakes up on a remote desert compound, alongside nineteen other contestants competing on a massively popular reality show. To win, she must outlast her housemates to stay in the Compound the longest, while competing in ... View Book →
The Compound3.7 ⭐

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab This is a story about hunger. 1532. Santo Domingo de la Calzada. A young girl grows up wild and wily—her beauty is only outmatched by her dreams of escape. But María knows she can only ever be a prize, or a pawn, in the games played by men. When an alluring ... View Book →
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil4.2 ⭐

First-Time Caller by B.K. Borison Aiden Valentine has a secret: he’s fallen out of love with love. And as the host of Baltimore’s romance hotline, that’s a bit of a problem. But when a young girl calls in to the station asking for dating advice for her mom, the interview goes viral, thrusting ... View Book →
First-Time Caller4.2 ⭐

Old Man's War by John Scalzi John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined the army. The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarce-and aliens willing to ... View Book →
Old Man's War4.5 ⭐

The Favorites by Layne Fargo She might not have a famous name, funding, or her family’s support, but Katarina Shaw has always known that she was destined to become an Olympic skater. When she meets Heath Rocha, a lonely kid stuck in the foster care system, their instant connection makes t... View Book →
The Favorites4.2 ⭐

The West Passage by Jared Pechaček When the Guardian of the West Passage died in her bed, the women of Grey Tower fed her to the crows and went back to their chores. No successor was named as Guardian, no one took up the fallen blade; the West Passage went unguarded. Now, snow blankets Grey ... View Book →
The West Passage4.5 ⭐

The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury Ray Bradbury brings wonders alive. For this peerless American storyteller, the most bewitching force in the universe is human nature. In these eighteen startling tales unfolding across a canvas of tattooed skin, living cities take their vengeance, technology a... View Book →
The Illustrated Man4.5 ⭐

The Strength of the Few by James Islington The Hierarchy still call me Vis Telimus. Still hail me as Catenicus. They still, as one, believe they know who I am. But with all that has happened—with what I fear is coming—I am not sure it matters anymore. I am no longer one. I won the Iudicium, and l... View Book →
The Strength of the Few4.6 ⭐

Honey and Spice by Bolu Babalola Sweet like plantain, hot like pepper. They taste the best when together... Sharp-tongued (and secretly soft-hearted) Kiki Banjo has just made a huge mistake. As an expert in relationship-evasion and the host of the popular student radio show Brown Sugar, she'... View Book →
Honey and Spice4.2 ⭐

The God of the Woods by Liz Moore Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn’t just any thirteen-year-old: she’s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the region’s reside... View Book →
The God of the Woods4.3 ⭐

Broken Country (Reese's Book Club) by Clare Leslie Hall The farmer is dead. He is dead, and all anyone wants to know is who killed him. Beth and her gentle, kind husband Frank are happily married, but their relationship relies on the past staying buried. But when Beth’s brother-in-law shoots a dog going after th... View Book →
Broken Country (Reese's Book Club)4.4 ⭐

The Electric State by Simon Stålenhag A teen girl and her robot embark on a cross-country mission in this illustrated science fiction story, perfect for fans of Fallout and Black Mirror. In late 1997, a runaway teenager and her small yellow toy robot travel west through a strange American lands... View Book →
The Electric State4.7 ⭐

Debout les morts by Fred Vargas Un hêtre peut-il pousser en une seule nuit dans un jardin, à Paris, sans que personne ne l'ait planté ? Oui. Chez la cantatrice Sophia Siméonidis, et elle n'en dort plus. Puis elle disparaît sans que cela préoccupe son époux. Après une série de meurtres si... View Book →
Debout les morts4.3 ⭐

Caught Up by Navessa Allen I wanted this woman, and I was a man who always got what he wanted. Nico Junior Trocci knows Lauren Marchetti is off limits. She is sweetness and laughter, whereas Junior exists in a world of violence and depravity. Men like him don’t get to have women like... View Book →
Caught Up4.2 ⭐

The Bright Years by Sarah Damoff One family. Four generations. A secret son. A devastating addiction. A Texas family is met with losses and surprises of inheritance, but they’re unable to shake the pull back toward each other in this family saga perfect for readers of Mary Beth Keane and Clai... View Book →
The Bright Years4.4 ⭐

The Family Recipe by Carolyn Huynh Duc Tran, the eccentric founder of the Vietnamese sandwich chain Duc's Sandwiches, has decided to retire. No one has heard from his wife, Evelyn, in two decades. She abandoned the family without a trace, and clearly doesn’t want anything to do with Duc, the bu... View Book →
The Family Recipe4.0 ⭐

Helm by Sarah Hall Helm is a ferocious, mischievous wind — a subject of folklore and awe, part-elemental god, part-aerial demon blasting through the sublime landscape of Northern England since the dawn of time. Through the stories of those who’ve obsessed over Helm, an extrao... View Book →
Helm4.6 ⭐

Black-Owned by Char Adams Longtime NBC News reporter Char Adams writes a deeply compelling and rigorously reported history of Black political movements told through the lens of Black-owned bookstores, which have been centers for organizing from abolition to the Civil Rights Movement to... View Book →
Black-Owned4.0 ⭐

Cursed Daughters: A Read with Jenna Pick by Oyinkan Braithwaite When Ebun gives birth to her daughter, Eniiyi, on the day they bury her cousin Monife, there is no denying the startling resemblance between the child and the dead woman. So begins the belief, fostered and fanned by the entire family, that Eniiyi is the actual... View Book →
Cursed Daughters: A Read with Jenna Pick4.3 ⭐

The Will of the Many by James Islington I tell them my name is Vis Telimus. I tell them I was orphaned after a tragic accident three years ago, and that good fortune alone has led to my acceptance into their most prestigious school. I tell them that once I graduate, I will gladly join the rest of ci... View Book →
The Will of the Many4.7 ⭐

Earthlings by Sayaka Murata As a child, Natsuki doesn't fit in with her family. Her parents favor her sister, and her best friend is a plush toy hedgehog named Piyyut, who talks to her. He tells her that he has come from the planet Popinpobopia on a special quest to help her save the Ear... View Book →
Earthlings3.8 ⭐

You Like It Darker by Stephen King “You like it darker? Fine, so do I,” writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of life—both metaphorical and literal. King has, for half a century, been a master of the form, and t... View Book →
You Like It Darker4.6 ⭐

Neuromancer by William Gibson Case was the sharpest data-thief in the matrix—until he crossed the wrong people and they crippled his nervous system, banishing him from cyberspace. Now a mysterious new employer has recruited him for a last-chance run at an unthinkably powerful artificial in... View Book →
Neuromancer4.3 ⭐

The Girls Who Grew Big by Leila Mottley Adela Woods is sixteen years old and pregnant. Her parents banish her from her comfortable upbringing in Indiana to her grandmother’s home in the small town of Padua Beach, Florida. When she arrives, Adela meets Emory, who brings her newborn to high school, de... View Book →
The Girls Who Grew Big4.3 ⭐

The Persians by Sanam Mahloudji The women of the Valiat family are in crisis. Elizabeth, the regal matriarch, remained in Tehran despite the revolution and only has Niaz, her Islamic law–breaking granddaughter for company. In America, Elizabeth’s daughters, the flamboyantly high-flying Shiri... View Book →
The Persians3.8 ⭐

The Merge by Grace Walker Earth and its resources have been pushed to breaking point, giving rise to a revolutionary and highly controversial procedure in which two people’s consciousness can be combined to exist in one body. How far would you go to never say goodbye? Laurie is s... View Book →
The Merge4.5 ⭐

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy Charlie Mackesy offers inspiration and hope in uncertain times in this beautiful book, following the tale of a curious boy, a greedy mole, a wary fox and a wise horse who find themselves together in sometimes difficult terrain, sharing their greatest fears and... View Book →
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse4.8 ⭐

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein Raised by Martians on Mars, Valentine Michael Smith is a human who has never seen another member of his species. Sent to Earth, he is a stranger who must learn what it is to be a man. But his own beliefs and his powers far exceed the limits of humankind, and a... View Book →
Stranger in a Strange Land4.3 ⭐

Chocky by John Wyndham David Gore becomes concerned that his twelve-year-old son, Matthew, is too old to have an imaginary friend. His concerns deepen as Matthew becomes increasingly distressed and blames it on arguments with this unseen companion, whom he calls "Chocky". As the... View Book →
Chocky4.4 ⭐

The Dream Hotel: A Read with Jenna Pick by Laila Lalami Sara has just landed at LAX, returning home from a conference abroad, when agents from the Risk Assessment Administration pull her aside and inform her that she will soon commit a crime. Using data from her dreams, the RAA’s algorithm has determined that she i... View Book →
The Dream Hotel: A Read with Jenna Pick3.9 ⭐

Heart the Lover by Lily King You knew I'd write a book about you someday. Our narrator understands good love stories, their secrets and subtext, their highs and free falls. But her greatest love story, the one she lived, never followed the simple rules. In the fall of her senior year ... View Book →
Heart the Lover4.6 ⭐

The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus by Emma Knight Arriving at the University of Edinburgh for her first term, Pen knows her divorced parents back in Canada are hiding something from her. She believes she’ll find the answer here in Scotland, where an old friend of her fathers now a famous writer known as Lord ... View Book →
The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus4.0 ⭐

Lucky Seed by Justinian Huang Succession meets Crazy Rich Asians in this chaotic, darkly funny romp about the lengths a wealthy family will take to ensure the birth of a male heir from the gay black sheep of their clan. The billionaire Sun Clan of Greater Los Angeles is your typical Ame... View Book →
Lucky Seed4.6 ⭐

The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue Based on an 1895 disaster that went down in history when it was captured in a series of surreal, extraordinary photographs, The Paris Express is a propulsive novel set on a train packed with a fascinating cast of characters who hail from as close as Brittany a... View Book →
The Paris Express4.0 ⭐

Pick a Colour by Souvankham Thammavongsa Ning is a retired boxer, but to the customers who visit her nail salon, she is just another worker named Susan. On this summer's day, much like any other, the Susans buff and clip and polish and tweeze. They listen and smile and nod. But beneath this superfici... View Book →
Pick a Colour3.8 ⭐

Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan From the smoky bars of pre-war Berlin to the salons of Paris, the narrator of Half-Blood Blues, musician Sid Griffiths, leads the reader through a fascinating, little-known world and into the heart of his own guilty conscience. The bestselling, award-winning H... View Book →
Half-Blood Blues4.5 ⭐

The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien Lina and her father arrive at an enclave called The Sea, a staging post between migrations, with only a few possessions. In this mysterious and shape-shifting place, a building made of time, pasts and futures collide. Lina befriends her neighbors: Bento, a Jew... View Book →
The Book of Records4.0 ⭐

The Antidote by Karen Russell The Antidote opens on Black Sunday, as a historic dust storm ravages the fictional town of Uz, Nebraska. But Uz is already collapsing—not just under the weight of the Great Depression and the dust bowl drought but beneath its own violent histories. The Antidot... View Book →
The Antidote4.2 ⭐

Finding My Way by Malala Yousafzai This is not the story you think you know. It’s the one I’ve been waiting to tell. Thrust onto the public stage at fifteen years old after the Taliban’s brutal attack on her life, Malala Yousafzai quickly became an international icon known for bravery and re... View Book →
Finding My Way4.8 ⭐

Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams An explosive memoir charting one woman’s career at the heart of one of the most influential companies on the planet, Careless People gives you a front-row seat to Facebook, the decisions that have shaped world events in recent decades, and the people who made ... View Book →
Careless People4.4 ⭐

Audition by Katie Kitamura Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. She’s an accomplished actress in rehearsals for an upcoming premiere. He’s attractive, troubling, young—young enough to be her son. Who is he to her, and who is she to him? In this compulsively readable, bri... View Book →
Audition3.8 ⭐

The Emperor of Gladness: Oprah's Book Club by Ocean Vuong The hardest thing in the world is to live only once… One late summer evening in the post-industrial town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on the edge of a bridge in pelting rain, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across t... View Book →
The Emperor of Gladness: Oprah's Book Club4.0 ⭐

Awake by Jen Hatmaker At 2:30 a.m. on July 11, 2020, Jen Hatmaker woke up to her husband of twenty-six years whispering in his phone to another woman from their bed. It was the end of life as she knew it. In the months that followed, she went from being a shiny, funny, popular lead... View Book →
Awake4.6 ⭐

All the Way to the River: Oprah's Book Club by Elizabeth Gilbert In 2000, Elizabeth Gilbert met Rayya. They became friends, then best friends, then inseparable. When tragedy entered their lives, the truth was finally laid bare: The two were in love. They were also a pair of addicts, on a collision course toward catastrophe.... View Book →
All the Way to the River: Oprah's Book Club4.4 ⭐

All That We See Or Seem by Ken Liu Julia Z, a young woman who gained notoriety at fourteen as the orphan hacker, is trying to live a life of digital obscurity in a quiet Boston suburb. But when a lawyer named Piers—whose famous artist wife, Elli, has been kidnapped by dangerous criminals—bar... View Book →
All That We See Or Seem4.0 ⭐

The Widow by John Grisham Simon Latch is a lawyer in rural Virginia, making just enough to pay his bills while his marriage slowly falls apart. Then into his office walks Eleanor Barnett, an elderly widow in need of a new will. Apparently, her husband left her a small fortune, and no o... View Book →
The Widow4.5 ⭐

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami Here we meet fifteen-year-old runaway Kafka Tamura and the elderly Nakata, who is drawn to Kafka for reasons that he cannot fathom. As their paths converge, acclaimed author Haruki Murakami enfolds readers in a world where cats talk, fish fall from the sky, an... View Book →
Kafka on the Shore4.4 ⭐

Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi In America's Gulf Coast region, grounded oil tankers are being broken down for parts by crews of young people. Nailer, a teenage boy, works the light crew, scavenging for copper wiring just to make quota-and hopefully live to see another day. But when, by ... View Book →
Ship Breaker4.3 ⭐

Flesh by David Szalay Teenaged István lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. Shy and new in town, he is a stranger to the social rituals practiced by his classmates and is soon isolated, drawn instead into a series of events that leave him forever a stranger... View Book →
Flesh4.1 ⭐

Wonder by R. J. Palacio I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse. August Pullman was born with a facial difference that, up until now, has prevented him from going to a mainstream school. Starting 5th grade at Beecher Prep, he wants nothing ... View Book →
Wonder4.7 ⭐

The Black Wolf by Louise Penny Somewhere out there, in the darkness, a black wolf is feeding. Several weeks ago, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec and his team uncovered and stopped a domestic terrorist attack in Montréal, arresting the person behind it. A man they c... View Book →
The Black Wolf4.5 ⭐

Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix November 2021: an inflatable dinghy carrying migrants from France to the UK capsizes in the Channel, causing the deaths of 27 people on board. How and why did it happen? Despite receiving numerous calls for help, the French authorities wrongly told the migr... View Book →
Small Boat4.2 ⭐

Run for the Hills by Kevin Wilson Ever since her dad left them twenty years ago, it’s been just Madeline Hill and her mom on their farm in Coalfield, Tennessee. While it’s a bit lonely, she sometimes admits, and a less exciting life than what she imagined for herself, it’s mostly okay. Mostly.... View Book →
Run for the Hills4.1 ⭐

Old School Indian by Aaron John Curtis Abe Jacobs is Kanien’kehá:ka from Ahkwesáhsne―or, as white people say, a Mohawk Indian from the Saint Regis Tribe. At eighteen, Abe left the reservation where he was raised and never looked back. He met the love of his life, started writing poetry, and began a... View Book →
Old School Indian4.1 ⭐

Girl Warrior by Joy Harjo An inspirational work of wisdom, warmth, and generosity from a three-term US poet laureate. To know ourselves is the most profound and difficult endeavor. Though we are all made of the same questions, we have individual routes to the answers, or to reframin... View Book →
Girl Warrior4.9 ⭐

Hole in the Sky by Daniel H. Wilson On the Great Plains of Oklahoma, in the heart of the Cherokee Nation, a strange atmospheric disturbance is noticed by Jim Hardgray, a down-on-his-luck single father trying to reconnect with his teenage daughter, Tawny. At NASA’s headquarters in Houston, Texas,... View Book →
Hole in the Sky4.0 ⭐

The El by Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. An ordinary day in August 1979 dawns hot and humid in Chicago. Teenager Teddy is living with his dad after being kicked out of his mom’s house due to his gang activity. But Teddy has thrived in the Simon City Royals, and today, he'll be helping to lead a posse... View Book →
The El3.6 ⭐

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific v... View Book →
Lessons in Chemistry4.3 ⭐