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One Shot

★★★☆☆

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The Time Traveler's Wife

★★★★☆

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The Girl on the Train

★★★☆☆

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The Chrysalids

★★★★☆

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Luckiest Girl Alive

★★★☆☆
Ani seems to have it all; fancy job, glamourous life, rich fiancé. But her past hides horrendous secrets which still haunt her...

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Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

★★★★★
Years after English magic is thought dead, a magician Mr. Norrell comes forth to help England in the Napoleonic wars

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Flatland: A romance of many dimensions

★★★★☆
An brief and entertaining mathematical satire, where a 2-dimensional being encounters a 3-dimensional one

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Cosmos

★★★★★
An epic treatise describing how the entire universe has evolved over 14 billion years, and how the human civilization and our own understanding of science has evolved in parallel

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Odd and The Frost Giants

★★★☆☆
Norse mythology retold as a children's adventure story

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The Dark Tower 2: The Drawing of the Three

★★★★☆
The gunslinger travels to New York, in our world, and enters the minds of three different people at different times

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We have always lived in the Castle

★★★★☆
A psychological horror novel which defined the genre, taking gothic horror to the next level

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Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine

★★★★☆
A lonely and isolated 30-something woman makes a friend, and starts to open herself up

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Carrie

★★★★☆
Stephen King's debut novel about a shy teen with telekinetic powers is a tour-de-force, which established him as a master of his craft

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Pachinko

★★★★★
A grand saga detailing the life of Sunja, from a small fishing village in occupied Korea to her life in Japan, and the repercussions of a decision she took as a teenager

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The Cuckoo's Egg

★★★★☆
In the early days of the internet, one astronomer turned part-time sysadmin uncovers a hacker trying to steal sensitive military information

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The Arabian Nights Entertainments

★★★☆☆
A collection of folk-tales from the Arab world, from the Islamic golden age

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