Ten Praised Fiction and Non-Fiction Books

Title: Dune

Opposing forces struggle for control of the universe when the archenemy of the cosmic emperor is banished to a barren world where savages fight for water

Author(s): Frank Herbert

ISBN 13: 9780441172719
Pages: 535

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Title: Finders Keepers

Finders Keepers is spectacular, heart-pounding suspense, but it is also King writing about how literature shapes a life—for good, for bad, forever.

Author(s): Stephen King

ISBN 13: 9781501100079
Pages: 448

Title: Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

Barbarian Days is William Finnegan’s memoir of an obsession, a complex enchantment. Surfing only looks like a sport. To initiates, it is something else entirely: a beautiful addiction, a demanding course of study, a morally dangerous pastime, a way of life. Raised in California and Hawaii, Finnegan started surfing as a child. He has chased waves all over the world, wandering for years through the South Pacific, Australia, Asia, Africa. A bookish boy, and then an excessively adventurous young man, he went on to become a distinguished writer and war reporter. Barbarian Days takes us deep into unfamiliar worlds, some of them right under our noses—off the coasts of New York and San Francisco. It immerses the reader in the edgy camaraderie of close male friendships annealed in challenging waves.

Author(s): William Finnegan

ISBN 13: 9781594203473
Pages: 464

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Title: Hyperbole and a Half

Collects autobiographical, illustrated essays and cartoons from the author's popular blog and related new material that humorously and candidly deals with her own idiosyncrasies and battles with depression.

Author(s): Allie Brosh

ISBN 13: 9781451666175
Pages: 369

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Title: Six of Crows

Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price--and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can't pull it off alone...

Author(s): Leigh Bardugo

ISBN 13: 9781627792127
Pages: 480

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Title: Inferno

In his international blockbusters The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, and The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown masterfully fused history, art, codes, and symbols. In this riveting new thriller, Brown returns to his element and has crafted his highest-stakes novel to date.

In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology, Robert Langdon, is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history’s most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces…Dante’s Inferno.

Against this backdrop, Langdon battles a chilling adversary and grapples with an ingenious riddle that pulls him into a landscape of classic art, secret passageways, and futuristic science. Drawing from Dante’s dark epic poem, Langdon races to find answers and decide whom to trust…before the world is irrevocably altered.

Author(s): Dan Brown

ISBN 13: 9780385537858
Pages: 480

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Title: The Remains of the Day

Author(s): Kazuo Ishiguro

ISBN 13: 9780679731726

Title: Red Queen

From debut author Victoria Aveyard comes a lush, vivid fantasy series where loyalty and desire can tear you apart and the only certainty is betrayal.

Author(s): Victoria Aveyard

ISBN 13: 9780062310637
Pages: 400

Title: We Were Liars

Spending the summers on her family's private island off the coast of Massachusetts with her cousins and a special boy named Gat, teenaged Cadence struggles to remember what happened during her fifteenth summer.

Author(s): E. Lockhart

ISBN 13: 9780385741262
Pages: 227

Title: Library of Souls

Time is running out for the Peculiar Children.

Author(s): Ransom Riggs

ISBN 13: 9781594747588
Pages: 400