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The Female Eunuch
by Germaine Greer
Genres: Feminism, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Politics, Womens, Gender, Classics
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.70

The clarion call to change that galvanized a generation.When Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch was first published it created a shock wave of recognition in women, one that could be felt around the world. It went on to become an international bestseller, translated into more than twelve languages, and a landmark in the history of the women's movement. Positing that sexual liberation is the key to women's liberation, Greer looks at the inherent and unalterable biological differences between men and women as well as at the profound psychological differences that result from social conditioning. Drawing on history, literature, biology, and popular culture, Greer's searing examination of women's oppression is a vital, passionately argued social commentary that is both an important historical record of where we've been and a shockingly relevant treatise on what still remains to be achieved.
The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
by Robert Galbraith
Genres: Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Audiobook, Adult
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.88

After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: His sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry, famously fell to her death a few months earlier. The police ruled it a suicide, but John refuses to believe that. The case plunges Strike into the world of multimillionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, and desperate designers, and it introduces him to every variety of pleasure, enticement, seduction, and delusion known to man.
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
by Anne Fadiman
Genres: Nonfiction, Medicine, Anthropology, Medical, Science, Memoir, Biography
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.19

Lia Lee was born in 1982 to a family of recent Hmong immigrants, and soon developed symptoms of epilepsy. By 1988 she was living at home but was brain dead after a tragic cycle of misunderstanding, over-medication, and culture clash: "What the doctors viewed as clinical efficiency the Hmong viewed as frosty arrogance." The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down is a tragedy of Shakespearean dimensions, written with the deepest of human feeling. Sherwin Nuland said of the account, "There are no villains in Fadiman's tale, just as there are no heroes. People are presented as she saw them, in their humility and their frailty—and their nobility.
The Luminaries
by Eleanor Catton
Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Historical, Literary Fiction, Contemporary, Literature
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.74

It is 1866, and young Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On the stormy night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men who have met in secret to discuss a series of unexplained events: A wealthy man has vanished, a prostitute has tried to end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery: a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely ornate as the night sky. Richly evoking a mid-nineteenth-century world of shipping, banking, and gold rush boom and bust, The Luminaries is a brilliantly constructed, fiendishly clever ghost story and a gripping page-turner.
Hairspray and Lighter
by J. Jupes
Genres: Novels, Contemporary, Book Club, Fiction, Drama
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.48

All Detective Eckerly wanted to do that day was place a bet on a horse. He didn't expect Darlene Johnson to walk into his office with her chocolate box. And certainly didn't expect what followed. . Book One of the Detectives That Don't Fit Series.
Positive Thoughts Positive Outcomes: Master the Fourteen Principles to Transform Your Life
by Shane Senior
Genres: Health, Self Help
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.02

Do you wish you could start all over again? Have you ever wondered if there was a way to change your life for the better? Positive Thoughts, Positive Outcomes is the quintessential step-by-step guide to transforming your life, using fourteen key tried and tested principles that others, including Author Shane Senior, has used for the past four years. Not only did the principles change his life for the better, but they've inspired him to help others reach their full potential and live the life they've always aspired to live. Take it from him, these principles work if applied correctly. There is no one size fits all for living the life of your dreams. Every individual needs to find their way. This book will help you find the best approach for you and provides the answers as to why they work and how to apply them to all aspects of your life, personal and professional.Inside, you'll learn: - How to use the Law of Attraction and what it is - How your environment affects your outcomes - How to build better, healthier habits for success - How the sub-conscious mind plays a crucial role in your everyday life - How living a life filled with gratitude can make your life better - How your health affects your mood and motivation - How positive affirmations can lead to success - And so much more! A book containing this much valuable information is hard to come by. There is life-changing value on every page. This guide has everything you need to know about your health, crystals, meditation, emotions, desires, and everything in between. Don't miss the opportunity to have all this information at your fingertips, contained within one book that's second to none.
A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
by Karen Armstrong
Genres: Religion, History, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Spirituality, Islam, Theology
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.88

Over 700,000 copies of the original hardcover and paperback editions of this stunningly popular book have been sold. Karen Armstrong's superbly readable exploration of how the three dominant monotheistic religions of the world - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - have shaped and altered the conception of God is a tour de force. One of Britain's foremost commentators on religious affairs, Armstrong traces the history of how men and women have perceived and experienced God, from the time of Abraham to the present. From classical philosophy and medieval mysticism to the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and the modern age of skepticism, Armstrong performs the near miracle of distilling the intellectual history of monotheism into one compelling volume.
Blood and Guts in High School
by Kathy Acker
Genres: Fiction, Feminism, Novels, Literature, Classics, 20th Century, Womens
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.46

Janey lived in the locked room. Twice a day the Persian slave trader came in and taught her to be a whore. Otherwise there was nothing. One day she found a pencil stub and scrap of paper in a forgotten corner of the room. She began to write down her life, starting with "Parents stink" (her father, who is also her boyfriend, has fallen in love with another woman and is about to leave her). With Blood and Guts in High School, Kathy Acker, whose work has been labeled everything from post-punk porn to post-punk feminism, has created a brilliantly subversive narrative built from conversation, description, conjecture, and moments snatched from history and literature.~ groveatlantic.com
The Sunne in Splendour
by Sharon Kay Penman
Genres: Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Medieval, British Literature, 15th Century, Plantagenet
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.40

A glorious novel of the controversial Richard III - a monarch betrayed in life by his allies and betrayed in death by history.In this beautifully rendered modern classic, Sharon Kay Penman redeems Richard III - vilified as the bitter, twisted, scheming hunchback who murdered his nephews, the princes in the Tower - from his maligned place in history with a dazzling combination of research and storytelling. Born into the treacherous courts of fifteenth-century England, in the midst of what history has called The War of the Roses, Richard was raised in the shadow of his charismatic brother, King Edward IV. Loyal to his friends and passionately in love with the one woman who was denied him, Richard emerges as a gifted man far more sinned against than sinning. This magnificent retelling of his life is filled with all of the sights and sounds of battle, the customs and lore of the fifteenth century, the rigors of court politics, and the passions and prejudices of royalty.
Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #1)
by Laurell K. Hamilton
Genres: Urban Fantasy, Vampires, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Horror, Fiction
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.02

Anita Blake is small, dark, and dangerous. Her turf is the city of St. Louis. Her job: re-animating the dead and killing the undead who take things too far. But when the city’s most powerful vampire asks her to solve a series of vicious slayings, Anita must confront her greatest fear—her undeniable attraction to master vampire Jean-Claude, one of the creatures she is sworn to destroy...
I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced
by Nujood Ali
Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir, Biography, Feminism, Biography Memoir, Autobiography, Religion
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.81

“I’m a simple village girl who has always obeyed the orders of my father and brothers. Since forever, I have learned to say yes to everything. Today I have decided to say no.” Nujood Ali's childhood came to an abrupt end in 2008 when her father arranged for her to be married to a man three times her age. With harrowing directness, Nujood tells of abuse at her husband's hands and of her daring escape. With the help of local advocates and the press, Nujood obtained her freedom—an extraordinary achievement in Yemen, where almost half of all girls are married under the legal age. Nujood's courageous defiance of both Yemeni customs and her own family has inspired other young girls in the Middle East to challenge their marriages.Hers is an unforgettable story of tragedy, triumph, and courage.
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
by Thomas Mann
Genres: Classics, Fiction, German Literature, Germany, Literature, Historical Fiction, Novels
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.18

Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1901, when Mann was only twenty-six, has become a classic of modern literature.It is the story of four generations of a wealthy bourgeois family in northern Germany facing the advent of modernity; in an uncertain new world, the family’s bonds and traditions begin to disintegrate. As Mann charts the Buddenbrooks’ decline from prosperity to bankruptcy, from moral and psychic soundness to sickly piety, artistic decadence, and madness, he ushers the reader into a world of stunning vitality, pieced together from births and funerals, weddings and divorces, recipes, gossip, and earthy humor.In its immensity of scope, richness of detail, and fullness of humanity, buddenbrooks surpasses all other modern family chronicles. With remarkable fidelity to the original German text, this superb translation emphasizes the magnificent scale of Mann’s achievement in this riveting, tragic novel.
The Eight (The Eight, #1)
by Katherine Neville
Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Historical Fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Adventure, Historical
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.92

Computer expert Cat Velis is heading for a job to Algeria. Before she goes, a mysterious fortune teller warns her of danger, and an antique dealer asks her to search for pieces to a valuable chess set that has been missing for years...In the South of France in 1790 two convent girls hide valuable pieces of a chess set all over the world, because the game that can be played with them is too powerful....
Annabel Horton, Lost Witch of Salem
by Olivia Hardy Ray
Genres: Witches, Historical Fiction, Paranormal, Fantasy, Historical, Fiction
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.21

From the Salem Witch trials through the Nineteenth Century and beyond, Annabel Horton is pursued by the devil’s disciple, Urban Grandier, the demonic priest from the incident at Loudon. She must take the bodies of those that the devil favors to protect her family. She must uncover the motive behind the illusive Ursula/Louis Bossidan, the scandalous cross-dresser who is pursuing her beautiful granddaughter, and she must learn, being one of God’s most powerful witches, how to use her power. But will it be enough to save her husband from Urbain’s fiery inferno? Will it be enough to save her children from demons greater than themselves? Read on, you will learn more…
Pleasant Day
by Vera Jane Cook
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary, Mystery Thriller, Novels
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.31

In the town of Hollow Creek, South Carolina two separate murders, fifteen years apart, unite fifteen-year-old Pleasant Day and sixty-year-old Clarissa Blackwell. As Pleasant struggles with her mother's distance, her father's infidelity and the death of her best friend, she draws closer to Clarissa, an older woman with an uncanny, almost psychic, ability to 'read people.'As Clarissa uncovers the stories behind the murders, both Pleasant and Clarissa's worlds are transformed by the truths they’re forced to accept, and both find solace and strength in the shared histories that have shaped them.
Where She Went (If I Stay, #2)
by Gayle Forman
Genres: Young Adult, Romance, Contemporary, Fiction, Realistic Fiction, Music, New Adult
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.99

It's been three years since the devastating accident... three years since Mia walked out of Adam's life forever.Now living on opposite coasts, Mia is Juilliard's rising star and Adam is LA tabloid fodder, thanks to his new rock star status and celebrity girlfriend. When Adam gets stuck in New York by himself, chance brings the couple together again, for one last night. As they explore the city that has become Mia's home, Adam and Mia revisit the past and open their hearts to the future - and each other.Told from Adam's point of view in the spare, lyrical prose that defined If I Stay, Where She Went explores the devastation of grief, the promise of new hope, and the flame of rekindled romance.
The Information
by Martin Amis
Genres: Fiction, Novels, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, British Literature, Thriller
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.59

Fame, envy, lust, violence, intrigues literary and criminal - they're all here in The Information. How does one writer hurt another writer? This is the question novelist Richard Tull mills over, for his friend Gwyn Barry has become a darling of book buyers, award committees, and TV interviewers, even as Tull himself sinks deeper into the sub-basement of literary failure. The only way out of this predicament, Tull believes, is to plot the demise of Barry."With The Information, Amis delivers a portrait of middle-age realignment with more verbal felicity and unbridled reach than [anyone] since Tom Wolfe forged Bonfire of the Vanities."—Houston Chronicle
Stavros
by Juddy Anderson C. Punzalan
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.40

It's not just about another family who lives in the woods. This is a powerful story of isolation and grief.Meet Stavros, one of the most powerful characters in the SOVEREIGN SERIES
Fables of the Reconstruction
by Jez Jones
Genres: Zombies, Short Stories, Paranormal, Erotica, Horror, Steampunk
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.13

Secrets, fantasies, and desires mingle as an author and her lover explore new depths of sexual intrigue through sensual pleasures. Part Victorian steampunk, part contemporary erotic discovery, Masquerade will leave you craving more.
Anansi Boys (American Gods, #2)
by Neil Gaiman
Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Mythology, Audiobook, Science Fiction Fantasy, Humor
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.04

God is dead. Meet the kids.Fat Charlie Nancy's normal life ended the moment his father dropped dead on a Florida karaoke stage. Charlie didn't know his dad was a god. And he never knew he had a brother. Now brother Spider's on his doorstep -- about to make Fat Charlie's life more interesting... and a lot more dangerous.
Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen
by Julie Powell
Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir, Food, Cooking, Biography, Chick Lit, Biography Memoir
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.71

With the humor of Bridget Jones and the vitality of Augusten Burroughs, Julie Powell recounts how she conquered every recipe in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking and saved her soul!Julie Powell is 30-years-old, living in a rundown apartment in Queens and working at a soul-sucking secretarial job that’s going nowhere. She needs something to break the monotony of her life, and she invents a deranged assignment. She will take her mother's dog-eared copy of Julia Child's 1961 classic Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and she will cook all 524 recipes. In the span of one year. At first she thinks it will be easy. But as she moves from the simple Potage Parmentier (potato soup) into the more complicated realm of aspics and crépes, she realizes there’s more to Mastering the Art of French Cooking than meets the eye. With Julia’s stern warble always in her ear, Julie haunts the local butcher, buying kidneys and sweetbreads. She sends her husband on late-night runs for yet more butter and rarely serves dinner before midnight. She discovers how to mold the perfect Orange Bavarian, the trick to extracting marrow from bone, and the intense pleasure of eating liver. And somewhere along the line she realizes she has turned her kitchen into a miracle of creation and cuisine. She has eclipsed her life’s ordinariness through spectacular humor, hysteria, and perseverance.
Delta of Venus
by Anaïs Nin
Genres: Fiction, Erotica, Short Stories, Classics, Romance, Sexuality, France
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.62

Fifteen short stories by Anaïs Nin published posthumously in 1977 - though largely written in the 1940s as erotica for a private collector. In Delta of Venus Anaïs Nin penned a lush, magical world where the characters of her imagination possess the most universal of desires and exceptional of talents. Among these provocative stories, a Hungarian adventurer seduces wealthy women then vanishes with their money; a veiled woman selects strangers from a chic restaurant for private trysts; and a Parisian hatmaker named Mathilde leaves her husband for the opium dens of Peru. Delta of Venus is an extraordinarily rich and exotic collection from the master of erotic writing.Part of the Quality Paperback Book Club series with limited-edition art cover. Cover art painted by Monica Elias.
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
by Michael   Lewis
Genres: Nonfiction, Business, Finance, Economics, History, Audiobook, Technology
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.14

#1 New York Times Bestseller — With a new AfterwordIn Michael Lewis's game-changing bestseller, a small group of Wall Street iconoclasts realize that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders. They band together—some of them walking away from seven-figure salaries—to investigate, expose, and reform the insidious new ways that Wall Street generates profits. If you have any contact with the market, even a retirement account, this story is happening to you.
The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1)
by Maggie Stiefvater
Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult, Paranormal, Romance, Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Magic
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.05

“There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve,” Neeve said. “Either you’re his true love . . . or you killed him.”It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive.Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them—not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her.His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble.But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can’t entirely explain. He has it all—family money, good looks, devoted friends—but he’s looking for much more than that. He is on a quest that has encompassed three other Raven Boys: Adam, the scholarship student who resents all the privilege around him; Ronan, the fierce soul who ranges from anger to despair; and Noah, the taciturn watcher of the four, who notices many things but says very little.For as long as she can remember, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love to die. She never thought this would be a problem. But now, as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she’s not so sure anymore.
Fever 1793
by Laurie Halse Anderson
Genres: Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Fiction, Historical, Middle Grade, Childrens, School
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.93

It's late summer 1793, and the streets of Philadelphia are abuzz with mosquitoes and rumors of fever. Down near the docks, many have taken ill, and the fatalities are mounting. Now they include Polly, the serving girl at the Cook Coffeehouse. But fourteen-year-old Mattie Cook doesn't get a moment to mourn the passing of her childhood playmate. New customers have overrun her family's coffee shop, located far from the mosquito-infested river, and Mattie's concerns of fever are all but overshadowed by dreams of growing her family's small business into a thriving enterprise. But when the fever begins to strike closer to home, Mattie's struggle to build a new life must give way to a new fight—the fight to stay alive.
Master of the Game
by Sidney Sheldon
Genres: Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Romance, Drama
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.14

One of Sidney Sheldon's most popular and bestselling titles, repackaged and reissued for a new generation of fans. Kate Blackwell is one of the richest and most powerful women in the world. She is an enigma, a woman surrounded by a thousand unanswered questions. Her father was a diamond prospector who struck it rich beyond his wildest dreams. Her mother was the daughter of a crooked Afrikaaner merchant. Her conception was itself an act of hate-filled vengeance. At the extravagent celebrations of her ninetieth birthday, there are toasts from a Supreme Court Judge and a telegram from the White House. And for Kate there are ghosts, ghosts of absent friends and of enemies. Ghosts from a life of blackmail and murder. Ghosts from an empire spawned by naked ambition! Sidney Sheldon is one of the most popular storytellers in the world. This is one of his best-loved novels, a compulsively readable thriller, packed with suspense, intrigue and passion. It will recruit a new generation of fans to his writing.
Fall on Your Knees
by Ann-Marie MacDonald
Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Canada, Historical, Literary Fiction, Novels, Canadian Literature
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.97

They are the Pipers of Cape Breton Island — a family steeped in lies and unspoken truths that reach out from the past, forever mindful of the tragic secret that could shatter the family to its foundations. Chronicling five generations of this eccentric clan, Fall on Your Knees follows four remarkable sisters whose lives are filled with driving ambition, inescapable family bonds, and forbidden love. Their experiences will take them from their stormswept homeland, across the battlefields of World War I, to the freedom and independence of Jazz-era New York City.Compellingly written, running the literary gamut from menacingly dark to hilariously funny, this is an epic saga of one family’s trials and triumphs in a world of sin, guilt, and redemption.