The 7 books on this stack
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Christopher Priest 1995
Why it's on the stack
You need to know how it ends · a narrator who doesn't tell you the truth
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Two 19th century stage illusionists, the aristocratic Rupert Angier and the working-class Alfred Borden, engage in a bitter and deadly feud; the effects are still being felt by their respective…
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Lionel Shriver 2003
Why it's on the stack
Nobody is entirely good · told in letters, diaries or messages
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Now, two years after her son's horrific rampage, Eva comes to terms with her role as Kevin's mother in a series of startlingly direct correspondences with her absent husband Franklyn about their…
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Sarah Waters 2002
Why it's on the stack
It grabs you with a mystery · a twist at the end that changes everything
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Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raised her with unusual tenderness, as if Sue were her own.
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Yann Martel 2003
Why it's on the stack
One to read slowly · surviving with everything scarce
Life of Pi (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by Yann Martel Making the reading experience fun!
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Agatha Christie 1926 1 want to read
Why it's on the stack
A mystery you want to solve · a crime, and the clues to solve it yourself
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One of Agatha Christie’s most famous novels, featuring her beloved detective Hercule Poirot—and her most surprising twist.
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Dennis Lehane 2003
Why it's on the stack
The truth comes out bit by bit · it'll scare you
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The year is 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, have come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate the disappearance of a…
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Chuck Palahniuk 1996
Why it's on the stack
You end up rooting for the wrong people · pitch-black comedy
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An insomniac drifts through the meaninglessness of modern life - until he finds purpose in violence.