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The Doll Factory
by Elizabeth Macneal
A young woman in Victorian London dreams of becoming an artist, but becomes entangled with a sinister collector of curiosities.
The Doll Factory, the debut novel by Elizabeth Macneal, is an intoxicating story of art, obsession and possession. London. 1850. The Great Exhibition is being erected in Hyde Park and among the crowd ... (Goodreads)
The Wall
by John Lanchester
A dystopian novel set in a society where a wall separates the privileged from the excluded. A thought-provoking commentary on social inequality.
Shortlisted for the 2020 Orwell Prize, , "Thrilling…A topical and deftly satirical novel." —Anna Mundow,, Wall Street Journal, In this taut, dystopian tale, an island nation ravaged by the Change has ... (Barnes & Noble)
The Water Cure
by Sophie Mackintosh
Three sisters are raised on an isolated island by their parents, who teach them to fear men. When men arrive, their world is turned upside down.
The Handmaid’s Tale meets The Virgin Suicides in this dystopic feminist revenge fantasy about three sisters on an isolated island, raised to fear men. King has tenderly staked out a territory for his ... (Goodreads)
Journey Under the Midnight Sun
by Keigo Higashino
A decades-long murder mystery unravels in Tokyo, revealing the interconnected lives of two families.
When a man is found murdered in an abandoned building in Osaka in 1973, unflappable detective Sasagaki is assigned to the case. He begins to piece together the connection of two young people who are ... (Goodreads)
Sixkill
by Robert B. Parker
Private investigator Spenser takes on a case involving a troubled young actor and his entourage.
On location in Boston, bad-boy actor Jumbo Nelson is accused of the rape and murder of a young woman. From the start the case seems fishy, so the Boston PD calls on Spenser to investigate. Things ... (Goodreads)
Thirteen
by Richard K. Morgan
A former government agent is hired to solve a murder in a world where people can transfer their consciousness between bodies.
The future isn’t what it used to be since Richard K. Morgan arrived on the scene. He unleashed Takeshi Kovacs–private eye, soldier of fortune, and all-purpose antihero–into the body-swapping, ... (Goodreads)
The Lock Artist
by Steve Hamilton
A young man with a talent for lock-picking navigates life as a criminal and falls in love with a girl who needs his help.
"I was the Miracle Boy, once upon a time. Later on, the Milford Mute. The Golden Boy. The Young Ghost. The Kid. The Boxman. The Lock Artist. That was all me.,But you can call me Mike." Marked by ... (Goodreads)
World of Trouble
by Ben H. Winters
A detective in a post-apocalyptic world investigates a mysterious cult that threatens to destroy humanity.
Only weeks and then days remain, as asteroid 2011GV1 is on the final stage of its deadly course towards Earth and it will impact within the Indonesian archipelago, which will obliterate humanity in ... (Wikipedia)
The Neon Rain
by James Lee Burke
A detective's search for justice in a crime-ridden city, uncovering long-buried truths.
While fishing on a back country bayou New Orleans Police Department officer Dave Robicheaux finds a body. Robicheaux, once a U.S. Army infantry lieutenant who fought in the Vietnam War , , becomes ... (Wikipedia)
A Symphony of Echoes
by Jodi Taylor
A thrilling time-travel adventure to save the future from destruction.
Book Two in the madcap time-travel series based at the St Mary's Institute of Historical Research that seems to be everyone's cup of tea. In the second book in the Chronicles of St Mary's series, Max ... (Goodreads)
Shoeless Joe
by W.P. Kinsella
A man's magical journey of redemption, as he learns to heal from the past.
Ray Kinsella lives and farms in Iowa where he grows corn with his wife Annie and their five-year-old daughter Karin. Kinsella is obsessed with the beauty and history of American baseball , ... (Wikipedia)
March Violets
by Philip Kerr
In 1936 Berlin, detective Bernie Gunther investigates a wealthy industrialist's daughter's murder.
Bernhard Gunther, a 38-year-old Berlin ex-cop turned private detective, is hired in the summer of 1936 by rich industrialist Hermann Six to recover a diamond necklace stolen from his daughter Grete's ... (Wikipedia)
Nevernight
by Jay Kristoff
Adventure and revenge in a world of darkness and secrets, as a young woman embarks on a quest for justice.
In a land where three suns almost never set, a fledgling killer joins a school of assassins, seeking vengeance against the powers who destroyed her family. Daughter of an executed traitor, Mia ... (Goodreads)
Superman: Birthright
by Mark Waid
The origin story of Superman, his evolution from a young boy to a superhero.
The story begins with a retelling of the destruction of planet Krypton . Jor-El laments the fact that his world accomplished "miracles no one will remember" while he is busy preparing infant Kal-El's ... (Wikipedia)
The Turn of the Key
by Ruth Ware
A young nanny takes a job in a remote Scottish mansion, but strange occurrences and a murder trial leave her questioning her sanity.
INSTANT, NEW YORK TIMES, BESTSELLER “A superb suspense writer...Brava, Ruth Ware. I daresay even Henry James would be impressed.” —Maureen Corrigan, author of, So We Read On, “This appropriately ... (Barnes & Noble)
The Testaments
by Margaret Atwood
Sequel to "The Handmaid's Tale," following the lives of three women in Gilead. Reveals the inner workings of the oppressive regime and the resistance movement.
When the van door slammed on Offred's future at the end of The Handmaid's Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead for her–freedom, prison or death.With The Testaments, the wait is ... (Goodreads)
A Painted House
by John Grisham
A young boy's journey of growing up on an Arkansas cotton farm, learning life lessons along the way.
"The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with three weeks to go, and the season looked ... (Goodreads)
American War
by Omar El Akkad
A vivid account of a second American Civil War and its devastating consequences.
In 2074, after the passage of a bill that bans the use of fossil fuels anywhere in the United States, Mississippi , Alabama , Georgia , South Carolina and Texas secede from the Union, starting the ... (Wikipedia)
Record of a Spaceborn Few
by Becky Chambers
A group of humans, the last of their kind, struggle to maintain their culture and way of life aboard a fleet of aging spaceships.
Centuries after the last humans left Earth, the Exodus Fleet is a living relic, a place many are from but few outsiders have seen. Humanity has finally been accepted into the galactic community, but ... (Goodreads)
The Godwulf Manuscript
by Robert B. Parker
Detective investigates a mysterious case involving an ancient manuscript.
Set in the early 1970s, this novel serves as the introduction to Spenser , a private investigator in Boston . Spenser, who served as an infantryman in the 1st Infantry Division during the Korean War ... (Wikipedia)
Severance
by Ling Ma
A millennial office worker navigates a post-apocalyptic world plagued by a deadly virus.
The narrative follows Candace Chen after societal collapse due to the Shen Fever pandemic and in flashbacks to her earlier life. Candace and her parents emigrate from Fuzhou , China to Salt Lake City ... (Wikipedia)
Duma Key
by Stephen King
A man moves to a remote island to recover from a traumatic accident and discovers his artistic talent has a dark power.
Wealthy Minnesotan building-contractor Edgar Freemantle barely survives a severe work-site accident wherein his truck is crushed by a crane. Freemantle loses his right arm, and suffers severe head ... (Wikipedia)
Shutter Island
by Dennis Lehane
A U.S. Marshal investigates a psychiatric hospital on a remote island, uncovering chilling secrets and an unexpected truth.
In 1954, widower U.S. Marshal Edward "Teddy" Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, go on a ferry boat to Shutter Island, the home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the criminally insane, to investigate ... (Wikipedia)
A Drink Before the War
by Dennis Lehane
Private detectives investigate a kidnapping case, uncovering dark secrets of the city.
Boston private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro receive a job from three state politicians, Sterling Mulkern, Jim Vurnan and Brian Paulson, to recover documents from a former cleaning ... (Wikipedia)
Spin
by Robert Charles Wilson
A mysterious force disrupts the Earth, transforming the planet and its inhabitants in unexpected ways.
The story opens when Tyler Dupree is twelve years old. Tyler and his mother live in a guest house on the property of aerospace millionaire E.D. Lawton and his alcoholic wife, Carol. Tyler is friends ... (Wikipedia)
Wolves of the Calla
by Stephen King
A small town in the Wild West faces a mysterious threat and must rely on a gunslinger to save them.
After escaping the alternate Topeka and the evil wizard Walter O'Dim and weathering the starkblast , Roland's ka-tet begin to sense they are being followed in their travels. During this time, Eddie ... (Wikipedia)
The Long Walk
by Richard Bachman
Fourteen boys face a grueling test of endurance and willpower as they compete in a life-or-death march.
One hundred teenage boys join an annual walking contest called "The Long Walk" or just "The Walk". Each contestant, called a "Walker", must maintain a speed of at least four miles per hour; if he ... (Wikipedia)
Under the Dome
by Stephen King
Small town experiences a sudden and mysterious isolation, leading to chaos and terror.
At 11:44 a.m. on October 21, 2017, the small Maine town of Chester's Mill is abruptly and gruesomely separated from the outside world by an invisible, semipermeable barrier of unknown origin. The ... (Wikipedia)
The War of the Worlds
by H.G. Wells
A Martian invasion of Earth, exploring the limits of human resilience.
The narrative opens by stating that as humans on Earth busied themselves with their own endeavours during the mid-1890s, aliens on Mars began plotting an invasion of Earth because their own resources ... (Wikipedia)
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
by Shirley Jackson
A family isolated from society, struggling to cope with prejudice and tragedy.
My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two ... (Goodreads)
