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The Bad Girl

Mario Vargas Llosa · 288 pages

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Yellowface

R F Kuang · 331 pages

White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences… Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn’t write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American—in this chilling and hilariously cutting novel from R.F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel. Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars. But At

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Reaper's Property

Joanna Wylde · 328 pages

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The Boy Who Followed Ripley

Patricia Highsmith · 336 pages

When a troubled young runaway arrives on Tom Ripley's French estate, he is drawn into a world he thought he'd left behind: the seedy underworld of Berlin, with its kidnapping plots, lies and deception. Frank Pierson, son a wealthy American family, has traced Tom Ripley to his home in France. Frank has committed a crime - a murder - and senses that Tom, not above the odd killing himself, is the bes

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The Rules of Attraction

Bret Easton Ellis · 283 pages

First Sentence: “And it’s a story that might bore you, but you don’t have to listen, she told me, because she always knew it was going to be like that, and it was, she thinks, her first year, or actually weekend, really a Friday, in September, and Camden, and this was three or four years ago, and she got so drunk that she ended up in bed, lost her virginity (late, she was eighteen) in Lorna Slavin

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A Far Better Thing

H.G. Parry · 416 pages

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Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded

Samuel Richardson

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The Doll

Taylor Stevens · 335 pages

Kidnapped by a human trafficking ring that demands that she help transport a high-profile starlet or risk the murder of her best friend, maverick information specialist Vanessa Michael Munroe is plunged into a harrowing underground world under the brutal control of a shadowy overlord.

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The Vampire Lestat

Anne Rice · 550 pages

Returning to the hypnotic world she so brilliantly created in Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice demonstrates once again her power to enthrall. With the same richness of drama, atmosphere and incident, she tells the fantastic story of the vampire Lestat, whom we first perceived as the seductive devil-vampire of Interview with the Vampire and whom we now follow through the ages as he searches fo

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As Good as Dead: The Finale to a Good Girl's Guide to Murder

Holly Jackson · 480 pages

An amazing thriller part of the 3 part series, and the final book. the main character, Pip Fitz-Amobi is about to head to college, but she is still daunted by the results of her previous investigations regarding other crimes (see *a good girls guide to murder*, and *as good as dead*). These days, she is death threats in the wake of her well known-true-crime podcast, but she can't help noticing an

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The Hoarder

Jess Kidd · 352 pages

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Left Bank

Kate Muir · 384 pages

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The Coldest Winter Ever

Sister Souljah · 360 pages

A New York Times and USA TODAY Bestseller “50 Most Impactful Black Books of the Last 50 Years.” —Essence Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read The instant classic from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Life After Death brings the streets of New York to life in a powerful and utterly unforgettable first novel. I came busting into the worl

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The Sisters Brothers

Patrick deWitt · 379 pages

Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Commodore has ordered it, and his henchmen, Eli and Charlie Sisters, will make sure of it. Though Eli doesn't share his brother's appetite for whiskey and killing, he's never known anything else. But their prey isn't an easy mark, and on the road from Oregon City to Warm's gold-mining claim outside Sacramento, El

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The Red and the Black

Stendhal · 472 pages

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Nothing to See Here

Kevin Wilson

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Butcher & Blackbird: The Ruinous Love Trilogy

Brynne Weaver · 351 pages

Every serial killer needs a friend. Every game must have a winner. When a chance encounter sparks an unlikely bond between rival murderers Sloane and Rowan, the two find something elusive—the friendship of a like-minded, pitch-black soul. From small town West Virginia to upscale California, from downtown Boston to rural Texas, the two hunters collide in an annual game of blood and suffering, o

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To Die For

Joyce Maynard · 368 pages

Behind her facade of a high achievment, attractive middle-class newlywed Suzanne Maretto nurtures her true desires, which include violent heavy metal music, the manipulation, sexual and otherwise, of teenagers, and murder.

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The Housemaid / The Housemaid's Secret

Freida McFadden · 340 pages

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Re Jane

Patricia Park · 352 pages

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Savage Son: A Thriller

Jack Carr · 432 pages

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Alys, Always

Harriet Lane · 213 pages

Comforting a dying car crash victim before being invited to meet the woman's privileged family, Frances is transformed through her friendships with two family members from an unknown editor to a sought-after figure in literary society.

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The Phantom of the Opera

Gaston Leroux · 274 pages

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