The 10 books on this stack
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Meg Mason 2026
Why it's on the stack
Tender and sad at once · funny and sad at once
It shares this with 1 more book on this stack
Sophie Pattison loves books. And as well as a dream job at a local book festival, she has a husband she adores; a lifelong best friend, Emma; and a brother she’s always been close to.
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Bothayna Al-Essa 2024 1 want to read
Why it's on the stack
It gets under your skin · properly strange
It shares this with 2 more books on this stack
FINALIST, National Book Award for Translated Literature, 2024 A perilous and fantastical satire of banned books, secret archives, and the looming eye of an all-powerful government.
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Ava Reid 2023
Why it's on the stack
The truth comes out bit by bit · love in the middle of danger
It shares this with 1 more book on this stack
Effy Sayre has always believed in fairy tales. Haunted by visions of the Fairy King since childhood, she’s had no choice.
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Robin Sloan 2012 1 want to read
Why it's on the stack
A cozy mystery, no gore · odd and endearing
It shares this with 1 more book on this stack
A charming and hilarious adventure that has it all: secret societies, unbreakable codes, underground lairs, cutting-edge technology, the googleplex...and lots of books!
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón 2006 1 want to read
Why it's on the stack
Tender and sad at once · it leaves you thinking
It shares this with 1 more book on this stack
Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the 'cemetery of lost books', a labyrinthine library of obscure and forgotten titles that have long gone out of print.
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Stephen King 2002 3 want to read
Why it's on the stack
It ties your stomach in a knot · it tells it straight
It shares this with 2 more books on this stack
Bestselling novelist Paul Sheldon thinks he’s finally free of Misery Chastain.
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Arturo Pérez-Reverte 1993
Why it's on the stack
It messes with your head · you can't put it down
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Lucas Corso searches for a book which supposedly contains the secret to summoning The Devil.
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A. S. Byatt 1890
Why it's on the stack
It messes with your head · a love story that makes you laugh
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'Byatt has contrived a masterly ending to a fine work; intelligent, ingenious and humane, Possession bids fair to be looked back upon as one of the most memorable novels of the 1990s' Times Literary…
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Michael Ende 2006 1 want to read
Why it's on the stack
A cozy mystery, no gore · a story hidden inside another
It shares this with 1 more book on this stack
Only the right name gives beings and things their reality. A wrong name makes everything unreal.
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Umberto Eco 2003 2 want to read
Why it's on the stack
Nothing is quite what it seems · a crime, and the clues to solve it yourself
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The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate.