North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell (1855)
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell explores the contrast between England’s industrial North and agrarian South through Margaret Hale’s perspective.
Historical
Romance
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Adventure
Science Fiction
Thriller
Congo – Michael Crichton (1980)
A high-tech expedition into the Congo rainforest uncovers a deadly secret guarded by monstrous intelligence, where science, greed, and survival collide in primal darkness.
Romance
Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami (1999)
A haunting journey through unrequited love, identity, and disappearance, where longing echoes across continents and hearts fracture in the silence between worlds.
Psychological
Supernatural
Thriller
Billy Summers – Stephen King (2021)
Billy Summers by Stephen King is a crime thriller about a hitman who takes on one last job, disguising himself as a writer while navigating betrayal and redemption.
Historical
Romance
The Girl You Left Behind – Jojo Moyes (2012)
The Girl You Left Behind by Jojo Moyes follows Sophie Lefèvre, whose portrait by her husband Édouard sparks a legal and emotional battle a century later.
Fantasy
Psychological
Paradise Lost – John Milton (1667)
Paradise Lost by John Milton is an epic poem recounting Satan’s rebellion, the fall of man, and the battle between good and evil.
Fantasy
Psychological
Thriller
Gerald’s Game – Stephen King (1992)
Gerald’s Game by Stephen King is a psychological horror novel about a woman handcuffed to a bed in an isolated cabin, battling trauma, hallucinations, and a lurking terror.
Adventure
Fantasy
Thriller
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon – Stephen King (1999)
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King follows a lost girl in the wilderness, relying on survival instincts and her imagined baseball hero to stay alive.
Historical
Satire
Middlemarch – George Eliot (1872)
Middlemarch by George Eliot is a social novel exploring ambition, marriage, and reform in 19th-century provincial England.
Non Fiction
Half Broke Horses – Jeannette Walls (2009)
A fearless woman battles dust, drought, and destiny in the unforgiving American West, carving her life from grit, wit, and an unbreakable will to survive and lead.