Some Highly Rated Reading

Discover some highly rated reading picks with our curated list of top-rated books. Find your next favorite read from these critically acclaimed titles!

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The Brontë project

 

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The Lightning Keeper

by Starling Lawrence

The Lightning Keeper is a sweeping epic novel of ambition, love, and enterprise in America. It is the story of an unlikely Romeo and Juliet …
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The Night Watch

by Sarah Waters

The story of three women in post-World War II London, their love affairs and the mysterious young man who will have a powerful impact on …
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Desperation Moon

by Ken Douglas

When racecar driver Sara Hackett arrives home from a desert road race, she finds her niece and another girl have been kidnapped and a dead …
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Your Face Tomorrow

by Javier Marías

Part spy novel, part romance, part Henry James, Your Face Tomorrow is a wholly remarkable display of the immense gifts of Javier Marias. With Fever …
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The Nimrod Flipout

 

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The Book About Blanche and Marie

by Per Olov Enquist

This novel is based on a true story of the remarkable relationship between the famous scientist, Marie Curie, and her assistant, Blanche Wittman.
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The People's Act of Love

by James Meek

Historical fable.
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Black Swan Green

by David Stephen Mitchell

A meditative novel of a young boy on the cusp of adulthood follows a single year in the life of thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor as he …
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The Edge of Pleasure

by Philippa Stockley

An enormously gifted painter, staggeringly good looking, and profoundly self-absorbed, Gilver Memmer is a cross between every woman's dream and every woman's nightmare, but as …
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A Factory of Cunning

by Philippa Stockley

Set in late 18th-century England, Stockley's American debut transports readers to the world immortalized in "Dangerous Liaisons."
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Brookland

by Emily Barton

Set in eighteenth-century Brooklyn, this is the story of a determined and intelligent woman who is consumed by a vision of a bridge she devises …
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The Brief History of the Dead

by Kevin Brockmeier

From the author of the widely praised "The Truth About Celia" comes a mesmerizing new work that imagines the world of the afterlife and its …
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Astrid and Veronika

by Linda Olsson

"Readers of Anne Tyler and Jodi Picoult will appreciate the lyrical prose and expert rendering of the themes of heartbreakk and loss."—Booklist An unforgettable novel …
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The Whistling Season

by Ivan Doig

The saga of how a widow from Minneapolis and her brother--soon to become the new teacher in a tiny Montana community in 1909--change lives in …
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The Secret of Lost Things

by Sheridan Hay

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Sointula

 

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The Spellman Files

by Lisa Lutz

Izzy Spellman launches her career as a private investigator while working for the firm of her outlandishly dysfunctional family.
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Finn

by Jon Clinch

In this masterful debut by a major new voice in fiction, Jon Clinch takes us on a journey into the history and heart of one …
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Seeing

by José Saramago

Four years after a bizarre blindness plague hits the capital, the political arena is thrown into turmoil when election day is marked by an unprecedented …
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A Broken Mirror

by Merc_ Rodoreda

In its moment of great splendor the novel was held as a mirror of society: Merc_ Rodoreda shatters that mirror in this, her most ambitious …
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The Memory Artists

by Jeffrey Moore

Winner of the Canadian Authors Association Award for Best Novel Noel Burun has synesthesia and hypermnesia: he sees words in vibrant explosions of colors and …
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Shoot the Moon

by Billie Letts

From one of America's best-loved storytellers - the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller WHERE THE HEART IS - comes a tale of …
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Redeeming Love

by Francine Rivers

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • The classic story that has captured the hearts of millions worldwide: a tragically wounded soul, …
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For One More Day

by Mitch Albom

This is the story of Charley, a child of divorce who is always forced to choose between his mother and his father. He grows into …
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The Alchemist

by Paulo Coelho

"My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky." …
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Heyday

by Kurt Andersen

Englishman Benjamin Knowles heads for America to build a new life and joins up with three young Americans--journalist Timothy Skaggs, war veteran Duff Lucking, and …
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Boomsday

by Christopher Buckley

Inciting a culture war when she suggests that baby boomers should be given government incentives to commit suicide, twenty-nine-year-old blogger and political malcontent Cassandra Devine …
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Zoli

by Colum McCann

As fascism spreads across 1930s Europe, Zoli Novotna, a young Gypsy poet, and her grandfather seek refuge with a clan of Romani harpists, where her …
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The Mercy of Thin Air

by Ronlyn Domingue

Following her death in 1920s New Orleans, beautiful Raziela chooses to remain in The Between--a place between life and death--rather than pass on to what …
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Skylight Confessions

 

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The Memory Keeper's Daughter

by Kim Edwards

A #1 New York Times bestseller by Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter is a brilliantly crafted novel of parallel lives, familial secrets, and the …
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The Inheritance of Loss

by Kiran Desai

In a crumbling house in the remote northeastern Himalayas, an embittered, elderly judge finds his peaceful retirement turned upside down by the arrival of his …
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The Secret Life of Bees

by Sue Monk Kidd

The multi-million bestselling novel about a young girl's journey towards healing and the transforming power of love, from the award-winning author of The Invention of …
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The Five People You Meet in Heaven

by Mitch Albom

A specially produced paperback edition -- with flaps -- of the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller, that has sold more than six million copies …
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Ten Days in the Hills

 

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