Excellent Fiction

Discover a curated list of excellent fiction books that captivate and inspire. Find your next great read with our top picks in literary masterpieces and must-read novels.

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City of Bones

by Michael Connelly

On New Year's Day, a dog finds a bone in the Hollywood Hills--and unearths a murder committed more than twenty years earlier. It's a cold …
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The Monkey's Raincoat

by Robert Crais

First published 1987. Elvis Cole mystery. Elvis is on the case when a client's estranged husband kidnaps their son.
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Man Down

by John E. Douglas

Now in paperback--the action-packed sequel to "Broken Wings." Hollywood Jake Donovan is on the trail of two missing persons--one of whom may have weapons secrets--and …
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Free Fall

by Robert Crais

Elvis Cole investigates a case that erupts in gang violence in South Central Los Angeles.
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Digital Fortress

by Dan Brown

A former National Security Agency programmer threatens to release a mathematical formula that will allow organized crime and terrorism to skyrocket.
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Cryptonomicon

by Neal Stephenson

With this extraordinary first volume in what promises to be an epoch-making masterpiece, Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private …
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Plum Island

by Nelson DeMille

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER CELEBRATING THE 20th ANNIVERSARY WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR Wounded in the line of duty, NYPD homicide detective …
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Pale Horse Coming

by Stephen Hunter

Pale Horse Coming, featuring Stephen Hunter’s beloved sniper heroes Earl and Bob Lee Swagger, the first Swagger thriller from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author. The time …
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Prayer for the Dead

by David Wiltse

A gripping cat-and-mouse tale of wide-eyed terror concerning a diabolical psychopath who's found the will to kill and a detective who's lost the will to …
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Still Life with Crows

by Douglas Preston

A small Kansas town has turned into a killing ground. Is it a serial killer, a man with the need to destroy? Or is it …
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Absolute Zero

by Chuck Logan

In the icy jaws of an early winter, three big-city professionals joined Phil Broker on a canoe trip across Minnesota's remotest lake. Nature's unexpected fury …
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Killing Floor

by Lee Child

A former military policeman, Jack Reacher is passing through Margrave, Georgia, on his way to nowhere in particular when four policemen arrive to arrest him …
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Master and Commander (Vol. Book 1) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)

by Patrick O'Brian

The beginning of the sweeping Aubrey-Maturin series. "The best sea story I have ever read."—Sir Francis Chichester This, the first in the splendid series of …
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Post Captain (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)

by Patrick O'Brian

"Master and Commander raised almost dangerously high expectations, Post Captain triumphantly surpasses them...a brilliant book." —Mary Renault "We've beat them before and we'll beat them …
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Gates of Fire

by Steven Pressfield

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Steven Pressfield brings the battle of Thermopylae to brilliant life.”—Pat Conroy At Thermopylae, a rocky mountain pass in northern Greece, the feared …
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The Alienist

by Caleb Carr

In 1896 New York, psychologist--or in period terminology, an alienist--Laszlo Kreizler joins forces with journalist John Schuyler Moore to track a vicious serial killer.
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Snow Crash

by Neal Stephenson

The “brilliantly realized” (The New York Times Book Review) breakthrough novel from visionary author Neal Stephenson, a modern classic that predicted the metaverse and inspired …