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Amor Towles

Sentenced to house arrest in a grand Moscow hotel, an unrepentant aristocrat must build a whole life within its walls.

Celeste Ng

A free-spirited artist and her daughter upend a picture-perfect Ohio suburb, and a custody battle splits the town in two.

Ann Patchett

Two siblings, exiled from the grand house of their childhood, spend fifty years circling back to it, and to each other.

Delia Owens

A murder, a marsh, and the Marsh Girl.

Matt Haig

Every life you could have lived.

Bonnie Garmus

A chemist teaches a nation to think.

Ian McEwan

A thirteen-year-old's single misreading of an adult scene destroys two lives, and she spends a lifetime trying to atone in the only way a writer can.

Richard Osman

Four residents of a retirement village who meet weekly to pick over cold cases suddenly have a fresh, real murder on their doorstep.