Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil – VE Schwab (2025)
Five women across centuries are bound by longing, love, and loss as they defy death, rewrite fate, and bloom where the world tried to bury them.
Fantasy
Historical
Restart Reading
Mystery
Thriller
Bleachers – John Grisham (2003)
A once-revered quarterback returns home to confront the coach who shaped him, uncovering buried truths, fractured loyalties, and the cost of chasing glory.
Adventure
Fantasy
Historical
Eaters of the Dead – Michael Crichton (1976)
An Arab envoy is swept into a Viking quest to confront a nameless terror from the mist - where myth, survival, and fate collide in a battle beyond the edge of the known world.
Classics
Satire
My Man Jeeves – PG Wodehouse (1919)
My Man Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse follows Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves, whose clever schemes rescue Bertie from comic predicaments in early 20th-century London.
Historical
Psychological
Fifth Mountain – Paulo Coelho (1996)
Set in biblical times, this novel follows the prophet Elijah as he struggles with faith, exile, and destiny while facing trials that test his resilience and purpose.
Historical
The Valley of Amazement – Amy Tan (2013)
Amid war, betrayal, and forbidden love, a woman fights to reclaim her stolen identity and lost daughter in a world where survival demands both grace and defiance.
Historical
An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro (1986)
In postwar Japan, a retired painter confronts shifting values, buried guilt, and the fragile truth of memory in a quiet, haunting reflection on art, honor, and legacy.
Adventure
Mystery
Thriller
The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan (1915)
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan follows Richard Hannay, who flees across Scotland to uncover a deadly pre-war conspiracy while pursued by spies and the police.
Classics
Satire
Science Fiction
Slapstick, or Lonesome No More! – Kurt Vonnegut Jr (1976)
In a crumbling world, Wilbur Swain, a towering outcast turned president, seeks to heal loneliness with makeshift families as love, loss, and absurdity shape his fading empire.
Supernatural
The Masque of the Red Death – Edgar Allan Poe (1842)
The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe follows Prince Prospero’s futile attempt to escape a deadly plague within his secluded, decadent abbey.