Ten Really Good Reads (Just Plain Good Stories)
Discover ten really good reads packed with unforgettable stories, from George R.R. Martin's epic fantasy *A Game of Thrones* to Stephen King's chilling *It* and Victor Hugo's timeless classic *Les Misérables*. This curated list of plain good stories spans gripping fiction, crime thrillers, and literary drama, featuring page-turners by David Baldacci and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Perfect for book lovers seeking compelling narrative reads and standout novels that deliver pure storytelling at its best.
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Les Misérables
by Victor Hugo
A magnificent story set against the political upheaval in France during the post-Napoleonic era.
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The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Dostoyevskys masterpiece introduces a world filled with greed, passion, depravity, and complex moral issues, as three brothers become involved in the brutal murder of their own father. This edition features an Afterword by bestselling author Sara Peretsky. Revised reissue.
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A Game of Thrones
by George R. R. Martin
NOW THE ACCLAIMED HBO SERIES GAME OF THRONES—THE MASTERPIECE THAT BECAME A CULTURAL PHENOMENON Here is the first book in the landmark series that has redefined imaginative fiction and become a modern masterpiece. A GAME OF THRONES In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the North of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdom’s protective Wall. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the land they were born to. Sweeping from a land of brutal cold to a distant summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, here is a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens. Amid plots and counterplots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, the fate of the Starks, their allies, and their enemies hangs perilously in the balance, as each endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones. A GAME OF THRONES • A CLASH OF KINGS • A STORM OF SWORDS • A FEAST FOR CROWS • A DANCE WITH DRAGONS
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It
by Stephen King
A group of teenagers stumbles upon an evil force that will eventually draw them all back to Derry, Maine, for a final showdown. Reissue.
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Absolute Power
by David Baldacci
A cat burglar has evidence that links the President to the murder of the wife of a wealthy contributor.
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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.
