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Follows astronaut Mark Watney, who is accidentally stranded on Mars and presumed dead during a severe dust storm. Relying on botany, engineering, and his signature dark humor, Watney uses scientific ingenuity and duct tape to survive until NASA disco...
The Martian (Hardcover)
The story follows Ryland Grace, a lone astronaut and former science teacher who wakes up from a coma with amnesia, light-years from Earth, tasked with saving humanity from a microscopic, star-dimming alien organism.
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
It follows a mysterious, kindly 86-year-old Portuguese man named Theo who arrives in the small Southern town of Golden, Georgia, and begins anonymously purchasing pencil portraits of local residents from a coffeehouse to gift them back to their subje...
Theo of Golden - Levi, Allen
The Five People You Meet in Heaven follows Eddie, an elderly amusement park mechanic, who dies trying to save a little girl. In the afterlife, he meets five individuals—ranging from a former soldier to his lost love—who reveal the profound, interconn...
Five People You Meet in Heaven
The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson follows three protagonists on the world of Roshar. Kaladin transforms from a broken slave into a heroic leader; Dalinar Kholin struggles to unite warring Alethi princes while plagued by visions of the ancient Kni...
The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky is a sweeping sci-fi epic contrasting a dying humanity's desperate search for a new home with the rapid, parallel evolution of a highly intelligent spider civilization on a terraformed exoplanet.
Children of Time Children of Time Hardcover Box Set
The Lies of Locke Lamora is the acclaimed debut fantasy novel by American author Scott Lynch and the first book in the Gentleman Bastards series. It follows Locke Lamora, a brilliant thief and con artist, as he and his crew execute elaborate heists a...
Scott Lynch: The Lies of Locke Lamora (Paperback)
The Woman in the Window is a 2018 psychological thriller by American author A. J. Finn. It follows Anna Fox, an agoraphobic child psychologist in New York City who witnesses a crime while spying on her new neighbors, leading to a terrifying web of de...
The Woman in the Window
It follows Nora Seed, a depressed woman who attempts suicide and finds herself in a mystical, liminal library between life and death. There, she navigates infinite parallel realities to experience the lives she could have lived if she had made differ...
The Midnight Library
The heartwarming story follows Tova Sullivan, a widow who takes a night cleaning job at the local Sowell Bay Aquarium, where she forms an unlikely and profound bond with Marcellus, a remarkably intelligent giant Pacific octopus.
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein is a Gothic story about Robert Walton, Victor Frankenstein, and the nameless creature. Victor brings a grotesque monster to life, the rejected creature seeks revenge through murder, and both ultimately perish in...
Frankenstein (Paperback)
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa is a dystopian novel about an unnamed island where objects and concepts mysteriously vanish from both the physical world and the minds of its inhabitants. Key elements include collective amnesia, a draconian enforcemen...
Yoko Ogawa, The Memory Police
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides is a psychological thriller about Alicia, a painter who shoots her husband Gabriel and refuses to ever speak again. A psychotherapist named Theo becomes obsessed with treating her, leading to a shocking twist in...
Alex Michaelides The Silent Patient Psychological Thriller Paperback