Top 100 General Fiction Books

📘 Nineteen Eighty-Four

Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often referred to as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction novel by the English novelist George Orwell (the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair). It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime.

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📘 Cien años de soledad

*Cien años de soledad* es una novela del escritor colombiano Gabriel García Márquez, ganador del Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1982. Es considerada una obra maestra de la literatura hispanoamericana y universal, cumbre del denominado "realismo mágico". Es asimismo una de las obras más traducidas y leídas en español.

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📘 The Midnight Library

Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices . . .

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📘 Great Expectations

Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. It depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip (the book is a bildungsroman; a coming-of-age story). It is Dickens' second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person.

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📘 Gulliver's Travels

A parody of traveler’s tales and a satire of human nature, “Gulliver’s Travels” is Jonathan Swift’s most famous work which was first published in 1726. An immensely popular tale ever since its original publication, “Gulliver’s Travels” is the story of its titular character, Lemuel Gulliver, a man who loves to travel.

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📘 Fight Club

A man who struggles with insomnia meets a colorful extremist, and they create a secret organization together. Chuck Palahniuk showed himself to be his generation’s most visionary satirist in this, his first book.

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📘 Atlas Shrugged

Set in a near-future U.S.A. whose economy is collapsing as a result of the mysterious disappearance of leading innovators and industrialists, this novel presents an astounding panorama of human life-from the productive genius who becomes a worthless playboy...

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📘 Night Shift

A chilling anthology of nineteen Stephen King short stories, Night Shift turns everyday settings—high schools, factories, truck stops—into realms of horror, where monsters, demons, and uncanny dread lurk in the night.

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📘 Ostatnie Życzenie

Pozycja, która przedstawia początki historii słynnego Geralta z Rivii. Sięgnij po tę lekturę i zanurz się w świecie, pełnym niebezpiecznych stworzeń, nierzadko napadających na ludzkie osady.

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📘 I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

This is a story set in a post-apocalyptic future. The Cold War progressed until it was too complicated for humans to manage, so the three major superpowers each developed a computer program to help run the war. When one of the programs becomes sentient it eliminates all of the human race except five persons, which it tortures for eternity.

Genre: General Fiction Subgenre: Anthologies

📘 Different Seasons

Stephen King's Different Seasons brings together four interconnected novellas—Rita Hayworth & Shawshank Redemption, Apt Pupil, The Body, and The Breathing Method—examining themes of injustice, survival, and the shadows of past sins.

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📘 Full Dark, No Stars

Full Dark, No Stars, published in November 2010, is a collection of four novellas by American author Stephen King, all dealing with the theme of retribution.

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📘 The Return of Sherlock Holmes

The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a 1905 collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1903–1904, by Arthur Conan Doyle. The stories were published in the Strand Magazine in Britain and Collier's in the United States. Contains: [Adventure of the Empty House](https://openlibrary.

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📘 Dubliners

James Joyce’s Dubliners is a landmark collection of fifteen short stories set in late‑19th‑century Dublin, capturing ordinary lives and suppressed dreams while exploring themes of lost innocence, paralysis, and the moral fabric of Irish society.

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📘 Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí

Interweaves story and dream, past and present, and philosophy and poetry in a sardonic and erotic tale of two couples--Tomas and Teresa, and Sabina and her Swiss lover, Gerhart.

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📘 Four Past Midnight

Stephen King’s acclaimed 1990 collection ‘Four Past Midnight’ brings together four unsettling novellas—The Langoliers, Secret Window/Secret Garden, The Library Policeman, and The Sun Dog—garnering a Bram Stoker Award for Best Collection.

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📘 Pulang

"Aku tahu sekarang, lebih banyak luka di hati bapakku dibanding di tubuhnya. Juga mamakku, lebih banyak tangis di hati Mamak dibanding di matanya." Sebuah kisah tentang perjalanan pulang, melalui pertarungan demi pertarungan, untuk memeluk erat semua kebencian dan rasa sakit.

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📘 The Pearl

A novel.

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📘 Hearts in Atlantis

Hearts in Atlantis (1999) is a collection of two novellas and three short stories by Stephen King, all connected to one another by recurring characters and taking place in roughly chronological order.

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📘 Just After Sunset

Just After Sunset is Stephen King's fifth collection of short stories, featuring pieces such as "Willa", "The Gingerbread Girl", and "Rest Stop".

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📘 the words i wish i said

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📘 The ones who walk away from Omelas

Some inhabitants of a peaceful kingdom cannot tolerate the act of cruelty that underlies its happiness.

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📘 Dead poets society

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📘 One Indian Girl

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📘 El túnel

Juan Pablo Castel is a tormented and insane painter who falls for Maria, a woman he meets at an art exhibition. She is married to a blind man -the subject of Sabato and Saramago's obsession- and has a house in the countryside. She is also the mistress of her own cousin. Castel discovers this and goes mad with jealousy.

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📘 Track Edition Uk

Told in the alternating voices of a wise Chippewa Indian leader, and a young, embittered mixed-blood woman, the novel chronicles the drama of daily lives overshadowed by the clash of cultures and mythologies.

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📘 Kusasana Kunoparira

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📘 The Yellow Wallpaper

Specially printed limited edition release for the Miskatonic Literary Society.

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📘 Poirot investigates

in published order, the first 10 Christie mystery books featuring Poirot are: 1) The Mysterious Affair at Styles, 2) The Murder on the Links, 3) Poirot Investigates, 4) The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, 5) The Big Four, 6) The Mystery of the Blue Train, 7) Black Coffee: A Mystery Play in Three Acts [Charles Osborne novelized the play in 1998 under the t...

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📘 The Illustrated Man

A science fiction collection with themes of technology and human psychology.

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📘 Anthem

Anthem is a tale of a future dark age of the great “we” – a world that deprives individuals of name, independence, and values. He lived in the dark ages of the future. In a loveless world he dared to love the woman of his choice. In an age that had lost all traces of science and civilization he had the courage to seek and find knowledge.

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📘 Trainspotting

Scottish writer Irvine Welsh's first novel, Trainspotting, is a collection of short-stories revolving around a group of friends, their drug use, and struggles in the city of Edinburgh.

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📘 Dekada '70

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📘 Labyrinths

Labyrinths is Jorge Luis Borges’ celebrated volume of short stories and essays, containing classics such as “TLON, UQBAR, ORBIS TERTIUS,” “The Library of Babel,” and philosophical parables that explore language, reality, and fiction.

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📘 Sideways Stories from Wayside School

Presents humorous episodes from the classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside School, which was accidentally built sideways with one classroom on each story.

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📘 Gravity's Rainbow

I changed the Publication year from 1973 to 1980. This digital edition is a scan copy of the 9th printing edition of this book (1980) not the first printing(1973)

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📘 Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

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📘 Amazing Son-In-law

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📘 Eva Luna

A woman's rise from poverty to political influence, inspired by stories told by a storyteller's daughter.

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📘 Stories of Your Life and Others

Ted Chiang's first published story, "Tower of Babylon," won the Nebula Award in 1990. Subsequent stories have won the Asimov's SF Magazine reader poll, a second Nebula Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, and the Sidewise Award for alternate history. He won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1992.

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📘 Sex and the City

A chronicle of the mating habits and rituals of America's cultural elite offers a look at topics including sex clubs, suburban sexuality, and celebrity affairs.

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📘 Flyy girl

From a fresh new voice with talent to burn comes this brash, bitter-sweet novel about Tracy Ellison, a young, middle-class teen coming of age in Philadelphia's ostentatious eighties. Tracy is willing to go much further than any of her girlfriends as she sets out to lure the most popular boys in her neighborhood.

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📘 Love and other words

Macy Sorensen has decided to settle for marriage to an older man until she bumps into Elliot Petropoulos--her first and most intense love, who eventually broke her heart--sending her reeling into reminiscence and doubt.

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📘 Ethan Frome

*Edith Wharton wrote Ethan Frome as a frame story — meaning that the prologue and epilogue constitute a "frame" around the main story* **How It All Goes Down** It's winter. A nameless engineer is in Starkfield, Massachusetts on business and he first sees Ethan Frome at the post office.

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📘 Tambaoga mwanangu

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📘 Decamerone

Decameron, collection of tales by Giovanni Boccaccio, probably composed between 1349 and 1353. The work is regarded as a masterpiece of classical Italian prose. While romantic in tone and form, it breaks from medieval sensibility in its insistence on the human ability to overcome, even exploit, fortune.

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📘 Bonjour tristesse

The literary sensation of Paris in 1954 was *"Bonjour Tristesse,"* a novel written by an eighteen year, old girl. By 1955 in translation it was offered to American readers. Some found it shocking but here was a talent extraordinary for its maturity of style and its adult perceptiveness of human character.

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📘 White oleander

Everywhere hailed as a novel of rare beauty and power, White Oleander tells the unforgettable story of Ingrid, a brilliant poet imprisoned for murder, and her daughter, Astrid, whose odyssey through a series of Los Angeles foster homes-each its own universe, with its own laws, its own dangers, its own hard lessons to be learned-becomes a redeeming ...

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📘 Смерть Ивана Ильича

This satirical novella tells the story of the life and early death of a high court judge. Ivan Ilych is proud of his achievements and his status in society, despite his poor relations with his wife which renders his home life bleak and joyless.

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📘 The Art of Racing in the Rain

Enzo knows he is different from other dogs: a philosopher with a nearly human soul (and an obsession with opposable thumbs), he has educated himself by watching television extensively, and by listening very closely to the words of his master, Denny Swift, an up-and-coming race car driver.

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📘 The passport of Mallam Ilia

It's an English reader for Nigerian secondary schools

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📘 Quién eres tú y qué haces aquí-El Libro de iO

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📘 Cantik Itu Luka

Di satu sore, seorang perempuan bangkit dari kuburannya setelah dua puluh satu tahun kematian. Kebangkitannya menguak kutukan dan tragedi keluarga, yang terentang sejak akhir masa kolonial perpaduan antara epik keluarga yang dibalut roman, kisah hantu, kekejaman politik, mitologi, dan petualangan.

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📘 Anak Semua Bangsa

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📘 What We Talk about When We Talk about Love

In his second collection of stories, as in his first, Carver's characters are peripheral people--people without education, insight or prospects, people too unimaginative to even give up. Carver celebrates these men and women.

Genre: General Fiction Subgenre: Short Stories

📘 Interpreter of maladies

Title: Interpreter of maladies. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin. "Interpreter of Maladies" is a collection of nine short stories by Jhumpa Lahiri, exploring the lives of Indian and Indian-American characters who are grappling with issues of identity, displacement, and the complexities of human relationships.

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📘 Short stories

This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he thought worthy of publication.

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📘 Mythos

Here are the thrills, grandeur, and unabashed fun of the Greek myths, stylishly retold by Stephen Fry.

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📘 Chocolate Flava

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📘 The food of the gods and how it came to earth

The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells that was first published in 1904. Wells called it "a fantasia on the change of scale in human affairs. . . . I had hit upon [the idea] while working out the possibilities of the near future in a book of speculations called Anticipations (1901)".

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📘 The Ugly American

This book is a fictionally written depiction of America^s failed foreign policy, tactics and blunders in a country depicted as an area similar to Viet Nam. The journalist author was entrenched in the region for several years as the French tried, without success, to exploit the area. Shortly thereafter the U.S.

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📘 Sara Crewe, Little Saint Elizabeth, and other stories

Sara Crewe, Little Saint Elizabeth and Other Stories is collection of short stories by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

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📘 Half Girlfriend Chetan Bhagat

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📘 The Norton Anthology of English Literature

Collects literature written by the most well-known English authors.

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📘 The doors of perception

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📘 Story of O (Histoire d'O)

An erotic novel about dominance and submission which has gained a certain notoriety, possibly due to the seal of approval given it by Graham Greene who claimed it was the best pornographic novel he had ever read.

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📘 アフターダーク

A sleek, gripping novel of encounters set in Tokyo during the spooky hours between midnight and dawn, by an internationally renowned literary phenomenon.Murakami's trademark humor, psychological insight, and grasp of spirit and morality are here distilled with an extraordinary, harmonious mastery.

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📘 Her Body and Other Parties

In this electric and provocative debut, Carmen Maria Machado bends genre to shape startling narratives that map the realities of women's lives and the violence visited upon their bodies. A wife refuses her husband's entreaties to remove the green ribbon from around her neck.

Genre: General Fiction Subgenre: Short Stories

📘 The Complete Robot

Isaac Asimov’s The Complete Robot gathers all his celebrated robot short stories, from "Runaround" to "The Bicentennial Man," where the Three Laws of Robotics shape human‑machine relations and explore the evolving autonomy of artificial beings.

Genre: General Fiction Subgenre: Anthologies

📘 Parable of the Talents

Environmental devastation and economic chaos have turned America into a land of depravity. Taking advantage of the situation, a zealous bigot wins his way into the White House. Lauren Olamina leads a new faith group directly opposed to the new government. This is the story of the group's struggle to preserve its vision.

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📘 The Witcher

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📘 Peer E Kamil

Pir-e-Kamil meaning The Perfect Mentor, is a novel written by Pakistani writer Umera Ahmad. It was first published in Urdu in 2004 and later in English in 2011. The book deals with the turning points in intervening lives of two people: a runaway girl named Imama Hashim; and a boy named Salar Sikander with an IQ of more than 150.

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📘 Wag lang di makaraos

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📘 Auggie & Me

Trade edition

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📘 Nothing but the Truth

(From Scholastic (publisher) website): In this thought provoking examination of freedom, patriotism, and respect, ninth grader Philip Malloy, is kept from joining the track team by his failing grades in English class. Convinced that the teacher just doesn't like him, Philip concocts a plan to get transferred out of her class.

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📘 Green days by the river

"A boy named Shellie lives in Trinidad and his father becomes ill. He takes to his neighbor for work and falls in love with the neighbors daughter. Then he falls for another, which angers the neighbor. This will keep you intrigued by the honesty and sensitive story.

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📘 Laleur Bodas

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📘 Anne of the Island

Anne Shirley embarks on a new adventure as she leaves her old life in Prince Edward Island for college in Kingsport, Nova Scotia.

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📘 The Thing Around Your Neck

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie burst onto the literary scene with her remarkable debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, which critics hailed as "one of the best novels to come out of Africa in years" (Baltimore Sun), with "prose as lush as the Nigerian landscape that it powerfully evokes" (The Boston Globe); The Washington Post called her "the twenty-first-centur...

Genre: General Fiction Subgenre: Short Stories

📘 Runaway Wife

Francesca had been married to Oliver Ransom for 10 years. They started out as a poor but happy couple, passionately in love. But as years went by and Oliver became more and more successful, they began drifting apart. Oliver spent most of his time in London while Francesca was tucked away in a beautiful house in the country.

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📘 House Across the Lake

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📘 The House of Mirth

Beautiful, intelligent, and hopelessly addicted to luxury, Lily Bart is the heroine of this Wharton masterpiece. But it is her very taste and moral sensibility that render her unfit for survival in this world.

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📘 Play It as It Lays

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📘 Boulevard

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📘 The most dangerous game

The Most Dangerous Game is the popular short story originally published in 1924 which was written by Richard Connell. This is the story of a big game hunter who is trapped on an island with a fellow hunter, who is uninterested in hunting stereotypical prey, and instead decides that the only prey worthy of his skills is other humans.

Genre: General Fiction Subgenre: Short Stories

📘 If It Bleeds

A collection of four uniquely wonderful long stories, including a stand-alone sequel to the No. 1 bestseller THE OUTSIDER. News people have a saying: 'If it bleeds, it leads'. And a bomb at Albert Macready Middle School is guaranteed to lead any bulletin.

Genre: General Fiction Subgenre: Short Stories

📘 Jilted

Alexa's best friend had married Mark, the man Alexa had loved. Suddenly all her dreams were shattered, & she no longer wanted to live. But she was not allowed that refuge. Scott Kelsey, Mark's brother, would not have such scandal affect their family's proud reputation.

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📘 One second after

"New York Times best selling author William R. Forstchen now brings us a story which can be all too terrifyingly real...a story in which one man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war, in one second, a war that will send America back to the Dark Ages...

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📘 Uncle Arthur's Bedtime Stories

Presents many stories which illustrate Christian teachings of such things as gratitude, faith, and prayer.

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📘 Perdido Street Station

Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies New Crobuzon, a squalid city where humans, Re-mades, and arcane races live in perpetual fear of Parliament and its brutal militia.

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📘 The Bonfire of the Vanities

A satirical novel set in 1980s New York City about ambition, racism, social class, politics, and greed.

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📘 The black heel

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📘 Fragrance of a Dead Rose

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📘 Fiela se kind

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📘 Бѣсы

Fictional depiction of political divisions in Russia during the 1870s.

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📘 Ticklish sensation

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📘 Son of fate

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📘 Mysterious skin

At the age of eight Brian Lackey is found bleeding under the crawl space of his house, having endured something so traumatic that he cannot remember an entire five–hour period of time.

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📘 Franny and Zooey

Meet Franny and her younger brother, Zooey, in two Salinger stories.

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📘 My father, Sun-Sun Johnson

gay book

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