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  • A Lantern in the Dark by Stacey Reynolds

    A Lantern in the Dark by Stacey Reynolds

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In a sleepy beach town in Coastal Carolina, two lost souls learn the destructive nature of secrets and the healing power of love. Captain Aidan O’Brien is a decorated officer of the Royal Irish Regiment. While on a personal mission with his brother to retrieve Michael’s would-be mate, Aidan visits an old friend on the local Marine Corps base...
  • Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky

    Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is a work of alternate-universe Harry Potter fan-fiction wherein Petunia Evans has married an Oxford biochemistry professor and young genius Harry grows up fascinated by science and science fiction. When he finds out that he is a wizard, he tries to apply scientific principles to his study of magic, with sometimes surprising results...
  • Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh

    Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    Brace yourself, America, for Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting—the novel and the film that became the cult sensations of Britain. Trainspotting is the novel that first launched Irvine Welsh's spectacular career—an authentic, unrelenting, and strangely exhilarating episodic group portrait of blasted lives. It accomplished for its own time and place what Hubert Selby, Jr...
  • The Humans by Matt Haig

    The Humans by Matt Haig

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 63 ratings
    Body-snatching has never been so heartwarming . . .The Humans is a funny, compulsively readable novel about alien abduction, mathematics, and that most interesting subject of all: ourselves. Combine Douglas Adams’s irreverent take on life, the universe, and everything with a genuinely moving love story, and you have some idea of the humor, originality, and poignancy of Matt Haig’s latest novel...
  • Cherry Bomb by J.A. Konrath

    Cherry Bomb by J.A. Konrath

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    At the end of Fuzzy Navel, J. A. Konrath surprised readers with an agonizing cliff-hanger: One of Lieutenant Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels's loved ones is dead. But who Readers were left clamoring to know more.Cherry Bomb, the sixth Jack Daniels mystery, opens at the funeral. While Jack stands graveside, tears in her eyes, her cell phone rings...
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    crime  drama  humor  suspense  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book
  • Bury the Lead by David Rosenfelt

    Bury the Lead by David Rosenfelt

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The hero of Rosenfelt's previous novels, Edgar-nominated Open and Shut, and First Degree, Andy Carpenter returns to prove the innocence of a reporter accused of being a serial killer. Defense attorney Andy Carpenter has been successfully avoiding taking on new cases until his sometime friend and newspaper owner Vince Sanders, calls and asks him for a favor...
  • The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

    The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 47 ratings
    An international sensation, this hilarious, feel-good novel is narrated by an oddly charming and socially challenged genetics professor on an unusual quest: to find out if he is capable of true love.Don Tillman, professor of genetics, has never been on a second date...
  • Rusty Nail by J.A. Konrath

    Rusty Nail by J.A. Konrath

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Lee Child, David Morrell, and M.J. Rose all agree: Jack Daniels is the one to watch! Anthony Award finalist J.A. Konrath's latest novel featuring the feisty female police detective serves up another thrillerLt. Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels of the Chicago Police Department is back, and once again she's up to her Armani in murder. Someone is sending Jack snuff videos...
  • Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk

    Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 66 ratings
    She's a catwalk model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. But when a sudden motor 'accident' leaves her disfigured and incapable of speech, she goes from being the beautiful centre of attention to being an invisible monster, so hideous that no one will acknowledge she exists...
  • Brother Odd by Dean Koontz

    Brother Odd by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 54 ratings
    Loop me in, odd one.The words, spoken in the deep of night by a sleeping child, chill the young man watching over her. For this was a favorite phrase of Stormy Llewellyn, his lost love, and Stormy is dead, gone forever from this world. In the haunted halls of the isolated monastery where he had sought peace, Odd Thomas is stalking spirits of an infinitely darker nature...
  • Life Expectancy by Dean Koontz

    Life Expectancy by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    In the dazzling new thriller from the master of dark suspense, the hand of fate reaches out to touch an ordinary man with greatness. So long as he is ready. So long as he is, above all, afraid.Jimmy Tock comes into the world on the very night his grandfather leaves it...
  • Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz

    Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 73 ratings
    The dead don't talk. I don't know why. But they do try to communicate, with a short-order cook in a small desert town serving as their reluctant confidant. Sometimes the silent souls who seek out Odd want justice. Occasionally their otherworldly tips help him prevent a crime. But this time it’s different...
  • Factotum by Charles Bukowski

    Factotum by Charles Bukowski

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    One of Bukowski's best, this beer-soaked, deliciously degenerate novel follows the wanderings of aspiring writer Henry Chinaski across World War II-era America. Deferred from military service, Chinaski travels from city to city, moving listlessly from one odd job to another, always needing money but never badly enough to keep a job...
  • Bellwether by Connie Willis

    Bellwether by Connie Willis

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Connie Willis has won more Hugo and Nebula awards than any other science fiction author. Now, with her trademark wit and inventiveness, she explores the intimate relationship between science, pop culture, and the arcane secrets of the heart.Sandra Foster studies fads - from Barbie dolls to the grunge look - how they start and what they mean...
  • Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple

    Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 51 ratings
    Bernadette Fox has vanished.When her daughter Bee claims a family trip to Antarctica as a reward for perfect grades, Bernadette, a fiercely intelligent shut-in, throws herself into preparations for the trip. But worn down by years of trying to live the Seattle life she never wanted, Ms. Fox is on the brink of a meltdown...
  • The President's Hat by Antoine Laurain

    The President's Hat by Antoine Laurain

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Dining alone in an elegant Parisian brasserie, accountant Daniel Mercier can hardly believe his eyes when President François Mitterrand sits down to eat at the table next to him.Daniel’s thrill at being in such close proximity to the most powerful man in the land persists even after the presidential party has gone, which is when he discovers that Mitterrand’s black felt hat has been left behind...
  • The Scarecrow by Ronald Hugh Morrieson

    The Scarecrow by Ronald Hugh Morrieson

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    'The same week our fowls were stolen, Daphne Moran had her throat cut.' The greatest opening line in New Zealand literature opens this hilarious Gothic melodrama. Klynham is a sleepy little New Zealand town in which not a lot happens. But then one moonlit night the Scarecrow arrives, swilling brandies and looking for victims. Something sordid and even macrabre lies ahead...
  • The Murder After the Night Before by Katy Brent

    The Murder After the Night Before by Katy Brent

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From the author of How to Kill Men and Get Away With It , don’t miss this utterly thrilling and laugh-out-loud novel, perfect for fans of Bella Mackie, Dawn O’Porter and Killing Eve. Available to pre-order now! Something terrible happened last night. My best friend Posey is dead. The police think it was a tragic accident, but something doesn’t feel right...
  • Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk

    Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 65 ratings
    From the author of the underground sensation Fight Club comes this wickedly incisive second novel, a mesmerizing, unnerving, and hilarious vision of cult and post-cult life.Tender Branson—last surviving member of the so-called Creedish Death Cult—is dictating his life story into the flight recorder of Flight 2039, cruising on autopilot at 39,000 feet somewhere over the Pacific Ocean...
  • Rock-a-bye Baby by Willow Rose

    Rock-a-bye Baby by Willow Rose

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Lisa Rasmussen just had a baby and everything in her life seems perfect at this point. Only she wishes that everyone else around her would be as flawless as she is and stop getting in her way. And if they won't listen, then she'll make them.ROCK-A-BYE BABY, is a thriller novella from Willow Rose, author of the International Bestselling horror-series starring the Danish reporter Rebekka Franck...
  • How to Kill a Guy in Ten Ways by Eve Kellman

    How to Kill a Guy in Ten Ways by Eve Kellman

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Are you on a date that doesn’t feel right?Can’t shake that creepy guy at the bar?Worried you’re being followed home?Message M.After one too many terrifying encounters, Millie Masters sets up a hotline for women who feel unsafe walking home alone at night: Message M.But very quickly she realises that there’s much more to be done to help the women who call in...
  • Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay

    Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 66 ratings
    Meet Dexter Morgan, a polite wolf in sheep's clothing. He's handsome and charming, but something in his past has made him abide by a different set of rules. He's a serial killer whose one golden rule makes him immensely likeable: he only kills bad people. And his job as a blood spatter expert for the Miami police department puts him in the perfect position to identify his victims...
  • Black Flies by Shannon Burke

    Black Flies by Shannon Burke

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A "raw and fascinating" novel based on the author's experiences as a New York City paramedic during the crack epidemic--"Burke is a poet of trauma" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).Black Flies is the story of paramedic Ollie Cross and his first year on the job in mid-'90s Harlem...
  • The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson

    The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson

    Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Begun in 1959 by a twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary is a tangled love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the late 1950s...
  • 15 Days Without a Head by Dave Cousins

    15 Days Without a Head by Dave Cousins

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A compelling US debut about family, forgiveness, and hopeDespite having a depressed alcoholic mother and a little brother who's convinced he's a dog, fifteen year-old Laurence Roach is trying to live a normal life. But when his mom doesn't come home after work one night, Laurence is terrified that child services will find out she's gone and separate him from his brother...
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    drama  family  humor  realistic  abuse  action-adventure  book  comedy
  • Dearly Devoted Dexter by Jeff Lindsay

    Dearly Devoted Dexter by Jeff Lindsay

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    See alternate cover edition: hereHe's a charming monster... A macabre hero... A serial killler who only kills bad people.Dexter Morgan has been under considerable pressure. It's just not easy being an ethical serial killer - especially while trying to avoid the unshakable suspicions of the dangerous Sergeant Doakes (who believes Dexter is a homicidal maniac...which, of course, he is)...
  • Rant by Chuck Palahniuk

    Rant by Chuck Palahniuk

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    Buster “Rant” Casey just may be the most efficient serial killer of our time. A high school rebel, Rant Casey escapes from his small town home for the big city where he becomes the leader of an urban demolition derby called Party Crashing. Rant Casey will die a spectacular highway death, after which his friends gather the testimony needed to build an oral history of his short, violent life...
  • Revenge (aka The Stars’ Tennis Balls) by Stephen Fry

    Revenge (aka The Stars’ Tennis Balls) by Stephen Fry

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    "We are merely the stars' tennis balls, struck and --bandied/Which way please them." ----The Duchess of Malfi --by John WebsterEverything about Stephen Fry's new novel, including the title, will be a surprise, perhaps even a shock. The only thing that can be guaranteed is that it will be his next earth-movingly funny bestseller...
  • Insane City by Dave Barry

    Insane City by Dave Barry

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A dark comic masterpiece—the first solo adult novel in more than a decade from the Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times–bestselling author.Seth Weinstein knew Tina was way out of his league in pretty much any way you could imagine, which is why it continued to astonish him that he was on the plane now for their destination wedding in Florida...
  • Skinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen

    Skinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen

    Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Marine biologist Chaz Perrone can't tell a sea horse from a sawhorse. And when he throws his beautiful wife, Joey, off a cruise liner, he really should know better. An expert swimmer, Joey makes her way to a floating bale of Jamaican pot-and then to an island inhabited by an ex-cop named Mick Stranahan, whose ex-wives include five waitresses and a TV producer...
  • Double Dexter by Jeff Lindsay

    Double Dexter by Jeff Lindsay

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The dark and witty New York Times bestselling series...The inspiration for Showtime's critically acclaimed show...Double Dexter is Jeff Lindsay's completely new, wickedly entertaining novel.A witness. Such a simple concept - and yet for Dexter Morgan, the perfectly well-disguised monster, the possibility of a witness is unthinkable...
  • Dexter Is Delicious by Jeff Lindsay

    Dexter Is Delicious by Jeff Lindsay

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    The newest novel in the New York Times bestselling series that inspired Showtime's #1 hit, Dexter. Jeff Lindsay now delivers his most macabre, witty, and purely entertaining new adventure for America's dark defender.Dexter Morgan's happy homicidal life is undergoing some major changes. He's always live by a single golden rule - he kills only people who deserve it...
  • Company by Max Barry

    Company by Max Barry

    Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Stephen Jones is a shiny new hire at Zephyr Holdings...
  • Something Missing by Matthew Dicks

    Something Missing by Matthew Dicks

    Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A career criminal with OCD tendencies and a savant-like genius for bringing order to his crime scenes, Martin considers himself one of the best in the biz. After all, he’s been able to steal from the same people for years on end—virtually undetected. Of course, this could also be attributed to his unique business model—he takes only items that will go unnoticed by the homeowner...
  • The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty

    The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Every decade seems to produce a novel that captures the public's imagination with a story that sweeps readers up and takes them on a thrilling, unforgettable ride.Ron McLarty's The Memory of Running is this decade's novel. By all accounts, especially his own, Smithson "Smithy" Ide is a loser...
  • Swipe Right for Murder by Polly Harris

    Swipe Right for Murder by Polly Harris

    Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Dating is tough. Especially if the guy you like might be a murderer.After a devastating heartbreak and a string of short-lived, failed relationships, college student Georgie Itoyama has now decided to approach dating in the same way that she approaches everything else: methodically, logically, and efficiently...
  • Anything Considered by Peter Mayle

    Anything Considered by Peter Mayle

    Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Peter Mayle sets his latest irresistible tale in the thyme- and lavender-scented south of France. Bennett, a suave if slightly threadbare English ex-patriot who is fast approaching the end of his credit, advertises his "services" in The International Herald Tribune. In no time, he is being paid handsomely to impersonate the mysterious and very wealthy Julian Poe...
  • Felicia's Journey by William Trevor

    Felicia's Journey by William Trevor

    Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    William Trevor's Last Stories is forthcoming from Viking.Felicia is unmarried, pregnant, and penniless. She steals away from a small Irish town and drifts through the industrial English Midlands, searching for the boyfriend who left her. Instead she meets up with the fat, fiftyish, unfailingly reasonable Mr. Hilditch, who is looking for a new friend to join the five other girls in his Memory Lane...
  • Dexter By Design by Jeff Lindsay

    Dexter By Design by Jeff Lindsay

    Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    The macabre, witty New York Times bestselling series (and inspiration for the #1 Showtime series, Dexter) continues as our darkly lovable killer matches wits with a sadistic artiste--who is creating bizarre murder tableaux of his own all over Miami.After his surprisingly glorious honeymoon in Paris, life is almost normal for Dexter Morgan...
  • What Rose Forgot by Nevada Barr

    What Rose Forgot by Nevada Barr

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In New York Times bestselling author Nevada Barr's gripping standalone, a grandmother in her sixties emerges from a mental fog to find she's trapped in her worst nightmare Rose Dennis wakes up in a hospital gown, her brain in a fog, only to discover that she's been committed to an Alzheimer's Unit in a nursing home...
    Categorized as:
    crime  drama  family  humor  suspense  action-adventure  adult  aging
  • Number 11 by Jonathan Coe

    Number 11 by Jonathan Coe

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    This is a novel about the hundreds of tiny connections between the public and private worlds and how they affect us all.It's about the legacy of war and the end of innocence.It's about how comedy and politics are battling it out and comedy might have won.It's about how 140 characters can make fools of us all...
  • How the Dead Dream by Lydia Millet

    How the Dead Dream by Lydia Millet

    Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    As a wealthy, young real-estate developer in Los Angeles, T. lives an isolated life. He has always kept his distance from people — from his doting mother to his crass fraternity brothers — but remains unaware of his loneliness until one night, while driving to Las Vegas, he hits a coyote on the highway. The experience unnerves him and inspires a transformation that leads T...
  • The Grotesque by Patrick McGrath

    The Grotesque by Patrick McGrath

    Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Paralysed, mute and confined to a wheelchair, former palaeontologist Sir Hugo Coal recounts the events that led to his 'cerebral accident', as well as his suspicions of his butler Fledge, who he suspects is plotting to replace him as Lord of Crook Manor...
  • Ticktock by Dean Koontz, Paul Michael

    Ticktock by Dean Koontz, Paul Michael

    Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Tommy Phan is a successful detective novelist living the American Dream in southern California. One evening he comes home to find a small rag doll on his doorstep. It’s a simple doll, covered entirely in white cloth, with crossed black stitches for the eyes and mouth, and another pair forming an X over the heart. Curious, he brings it inside...
  • The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

    The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

    Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy, meets some extremely interesting characters, and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self knowledge...
  • Choke by Chuck Palahniuk, Javier Calvo

    Choke by Chuck Palahniuk, Javier Calvo

    Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars
    · 66 ratings
    Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times.Needing to pay elder care for his mother, Victor has devised an ingenious scam: he pretends to choke on pieces of food while dining in upscale restaurants. He then allows himself to be “saved” by fellow patrons who, feeling responsible for Victor’s life, go on to send checks to support him...
  • Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff

    Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff

    Rated: 3.62 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Jane Charlotte has been arrested for murder.She tells police that she is a member of a secret organization devoted to fighting evil; her division is called the Department for the Final Disposition of Irredeemable Persons—"Bad Monkeys" for short...
  • The Fantastic Book of Everybody's Secrets by Sophie Hannah

    The Fantastic Book of Everybody's Secrets by Sophie Hannah

    Rated: 3.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Everybody has their secrets.Who, for instance, is the hooded figure hiding in the bushes outside a young man’s house? Why does the same stranger keep appearing in the background of a family’s holiday photographs? What makes a woman stand mesmerized by two children in a school playground, children she’s never met but whose names she knows well? All will be revealed . . . but at a cost...
  • Diary by Chuck Palahniuk, Martha Plimpton

    Diary by Chuck Palahniuk, Martha Plimpton

    Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Misty Wilmot has had it. Once a promising young artist, she’s now stuck on an island ruined by tourism, drinking too much and working as a waitress in a hotel. Her husband, a contractor, is in a coma after a suicide attempt, but that doesn’t stop his clients from threatening Misty with lawsuits over a series of vile messages they’ve found on the walls of houses he remodeled...
  • Dietland by Sarai Walker

    Dietland by Sarai Walker

    Rated: 3.59 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The diet revolution is here. And it’s armed. Plum Kettle does her best not to be noticed, because when you’re fat, to be noticed is to be judged. Or mocked. Or worse. With her job answering fan mail for a popular teen girls’ magazine, she is biding her time until her weight-loss surgery. Only then can her true life as a thin person finally begin...
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