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The Happiest Man on Earth

av Eddie Jaku • 2020

Auschwitz, Buchenwald, then Australia: how a man who lost everything rebuilt a life he calls happy.

4.62

100 000+

📖 Holocaust Testimony 🛡️ Moral Resilience 🤝 Friendship And Survival 🕊️ Postwar Family Healing 🇦🇺 Australian Immigration

The Happiest Man on Earth

Auschwitz, Buchenwald, then Australia: how a man who lost everything rebuilt a life he calls happy.

av Eddie Jaku 2020 200 sidor

4.62

100 000+ betyg

📖 Holocaust Testimony 🛡️ Moral Resilience 🤝 Friendship And Survival 🕊️ Postwar Family Healing 🇦🇺 Australian Immigration

The 57 Bus

av Dashka Slater • 2017

Two teens share an Oakland bus eight minutes a day. A lighter flicks, a skirt ignites.

4.09

44 000+

🏳️ Agender Experience ⚖️ Juvenile Justice 🤝 Restorative Justice 🔍 Race And Justice 💌 Forgiveness Journey

The 57 Bus

Two teens share an Oakland bus eight minutes a day. A lighter flicks, a skirt ignites.

av Dashka Slater 2017 320 sidor

4.09

44 000+ betyg

🏳️ Agender Experience ⚖️ Juvenile Justice 🤝 Restorative Justice 🔍 Race And Justice 💌 Forgiveness Journey

Små eldar överallt

av Celeste Ng • 2017

In a planned suburb, an artist's secrets and a custody battle leave a house in ashes.

4.07

1 000 000+

🔍 Domestic Suspense ⚖️ Custody Battle 🤫 Secrets And Lies 👑 Class And Privilege 💔 Mother-Daughter Conflict

Små eldar överallt

In a planned suburb, an artist's secrets and a custody battle leave a house in ashes.

av Celeste Ng 2017 338 sidor

4.07

1 000 000+ betyg

🔍 Domestic Suspense ⚖️ Custody Battle 🤫 Secrets And Lies 👑 Class And Privilege 💔 Mother-Daughter Conflict

Vi måste prata om Kevin

av Lionel Shriver • 2003

A mother writes her dead husband, tracing the childhood of the boy who massacred his classmates.

4.08

200 000+

📝 Epistolary Novel 🖤 Psychological Horror 💔 Maternal Ambivalence 😨 Difficult Child 🏘️ American Suburbia

Vi måste prata om Kevin

A mother writes her dead husband, tracing the childhood of the boy who massacred his classmates.

av Lionel Shriver 2003 400 sidor

4.08

200 000+ betyg

📝 Epistolary Novel 🖤 Psychological Horror 💔 Maternal Ambivalence 😨 Difficult Child 🏘️ American Suburbia

Gästlistan

av Lucy Foley • 2020

A storm traps wedding guests on a remote Irish island. By dawn, the groom is dead.

3.79

1 000 000+

🔐 Closed Circle Mystery 🎙️ Multiple Narrators 🔪 Revenge Plot 💔 Toxic Friendship 🌑 Gothic Atmosphere

Gästlistan

A storm traps wedding guests on a remote Irish island. By dawn, the groom is dead.

av Lucy Foley 2020 319 sidor

3.79

1 000 000+ betyg

🔐 Closed Circle Mystery 🎙️ Multiple Narrators 🔪 Revenge Plot 💔 Toxic Friendship 🌑 Gothic Atmosphere

Vegetarianen

av Han Kang • 2007

A Seoul wife quits meat. Her family fights for her body. She has begun to leave it.

3.65

400 000+

🩸 Body Horror 🧠 Psychological Horror ✊ Bodily Autonomy 🎨 Artistic Obsession 🥗 Food Refusal

Vegetarianen

A Seoul wife quits meat. Her family fights for her body. She has begun to leave it.

av Han Kang 2007 158 sidor

3.65

400 000+ betyg

🩸 Body Horror 🧠 Psychological Horror ✊ Bodily Autonomy 🎨 Artistic Obsession 🥗 Food Refusal

1984

av SparkNotes • 2014

Orwell's 1984 decoded: surveillance, mind control, and the language that makes them possible.

4.30

10 000+

💀 Dystopian Fiction 🏴 Totalitarian Regimes 🧠 Mind Control 🗣️ Language And Power 👁️ Surveillance Society

1984

Orwell's 1984 decoded: surveillance, mind control, and the language that makes them possible.

av SparkNotes 2014 80 sidor

4.30

10 000+ betyg

💀 Dystopian Fiction 🏴 Totalitarian Regimes 🧠 Mind Control 🗣️ Language And Power 👁️ Surveillance Society

By Any Other Name

av Jodi Picoult • 2024

Her ancestor wrote for Shakespeare in secret. Now her own play wears a man's name too.

4.10

100 000+

🕰️ Dual Timeline 📜 Shakespeare Authorship ✍️ Hidden Authorship 🎭 Women In Theater 🌳 Ancestral Legacy

By Any Other Name

Her ancestor wrote for Shakespeare in secret. Now her own play wears a man's name too.

av Jodi Picoult 2024 528 sidor

4.10

100 000+ betyg

🕰️ Dual Timeline 📜 Shakespeare Authorship ✍️ Hidden Authorship 🎭 Women In Theater 🌳 Ancestral Legacy

Före dig

av Jojo Moyes • 2012

A caregiver falls for her quadriplegic client, only to discover he has a plan to end his life.

4.26

1 000 000+

🖤 Tragic Romance ☀️ Grumpy Sunshine ⚖️ Right To Die 💔 Bittersweet Ending 🌿 English Village Life

Före dig

A caregiver falls for her quadriplegic client, only to discover he has a plan to end his life.

av Jojo Moyes 2012 369 sidor

4.26

1 000 000+ betyg

🖤 Tragic Romance ☀️ Grumpy Sunshine ⚖️ Right To Die 💔 Bittersweet Ending 🌿 English Village Life

Den vita tigern

av Aravind Adiga • 2008

Writing to China's Premier, an Indian driver confesses to killing his boss for his freedom.

3.77

200 000+

🎭 Dark Social Satire 🔗 Servant Narrative 💰 Rags To Riches ⚖️ Moral Descent 👁️ Unreliable Narrator

Den vita tigern

Writing to China's Premier, an Indian driver confesses to killing his boss for his freedom.

av Aravind Adiga 2008 288 sidor

3.77

200 000+ betyg

🎭 Dark Social Satire 🔗 Servant Narrative 💰 Rags To Riches ⚖️ Moral Descent 👁️ Unreliable Narrator

Table for Two

av Amor Towles • 2024

A peasant couple is uprooted by revolution; an art dealer schemes for a family's prized painting.

4.19

74 000+

🖇️ Linked Novellas 🇷🇺 Russian Revolution 🤫 Quiet Protagonist 💔 Marriage Under Strain ✨ Elegant Prose

Table for Two

A peasant couple is uprooted by revolution; an art dealer schemes for a family's prized painting.

av Amor Towles 2024 451 sidor

4.19

74 000+ betyg

🖇️ Linked Novellas 🇷🇺 Russian Revolution 🤫 Quiet Protagonist 💔 Marriage Under Strain ✨ Elegant Prose

So You've Been Publicly Shamed

av Jon Ronson • 2015

180 years without public shaming ended when the internet made everyone a potential mob member.

3.93

66 000+

🖥️ Digital Shaming 🚫 Cancel Culture 🕊️ Restorative Justice 👥 Mob Psychology 😳 Psychology Of Shame

So You've Been Publicly Shamed

180 years without public shaming ended when the internet made everyone a potential mob member.

av Jon Ronson 2015 304 sidor

3.93

66 000+ betyg

🖥️ Digital Shaming 🚫 Cancel Culture 🕊️ Restorative Justice 👥 Mob Psychology 😳 Psychology Of Shame

En man som heter Ove

av Fredrik Backman • 2012

A curmudgeonly widower's suicide plans keep getting interrupted by neighbors who actually need him.

4.38

1 000 000+

🧓 Curmudgeon Hero 🫂 Found Family 🏘️ Small-Town Life 💔 Bittersweet 😐 Deadpan Humor

En man som heter Ove

A curmudgeonly widower's suicide plans keep getting interrupted by neighbors who actually need him.

av Fredrik Backman 2012 337 sidor

4.38

1 000 000+ betyg

🧓 Curmudgeon Hero 🫂 Found Family 🏘️ Small-Town Life 💔 Bittersweet 😐 Deadpan Humor

Klara och solen

av Kazuo Ishiguro • 2021

An Artificial Friend thinks the Sun can heal her sick companion. She means to prove it.

3.74

400 000+

🖋️ Literary Science Fiction 🌅 Gentle Dystopia 🤖 Artificial Companion 👁️ Nonhuman Perspective 🏥 Sick Child

Klara och solen

An Artificial Friend thinks the Sun can heal her sick companion. She means to prove it.

av Kazuo Ishiguro 2021 303 sidor

3.74

400 000+ betyg

🖋️ Literary Science Fiction 🌅 Gentle Dystopia 🤖 Artificial Companion 👁️ Nonhuman Perspective 🏥 Sick Child

Everything Sad Is Untrue

av Daniel Nayeri • 2020

An Iranian refugee boy tells family legends to an Oklahoma school that sees only an outsider.

4.30

44 000+

📦 Refugee Narrative 🌱 Immigrant Coming Of Age 🌍 Iranian Diaspora 📖 Storytelling As Survival 🏫 Classroom Outcast

Everything Sad Is Untrue

An Iranian refugee boy tells family legends to an Oklahoma school that sees only an outsider.

av Daniel Nayeri 2020 368 sidor

4.30

44 000+ betyg

📦 Refugee Narrative 🌱 Immigrant Coming Of Age 🌍 Iranian Diaspora 📖 Storytelling As Survival 🏫 Classroom Outcast

Normala människor

av Sally Rooney • 2018

A popular boy and a wealthy outcast girl hide their magnetic connection in small-town Ireland.

3.81

1 000 000+

📚 Literary Coming Of Age 🤫 Secret Relationship 💷 Class Difference 😶‍🌫️ Emotional Repression 🏘️ Small Town Ireland

Normala människor

A popular boy and a wealthy outcast girl hide their magnetic connection in small-town Ireland.

av Sally Rooney 2018 273 sidor

3.81

1 000 000+ betyg

📚 Literary Coming Of Age 🤫 Secret Relationship 💷 Class Difference 😶‍🌫️ Emotional Repression 🏘️ Small Town Ireland

The Ghostwriter

av Julie Clark • 2025

Returning to write her dying father's memoir, a disgraced author finds a murder confession.

4.04

95 000+

🔍 Cold Case Mystery 🔐 Family Secrets 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 💔 Estranged Father Daughter 🎞️ Archival Mystery

The Ghostwriter

Returning to write her dying father's memoir, a disgraced author finds a murder confession.

av Julie Clark 2025 328 sidor

4.04

95 000+ betyg

🔍 Cold Case Mystery 🔐 Family Secrets 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 💔 Estranged Father Daughter 🎞️ Archival Mystery

En geishas memoarer

av Arthur Golden • 1997

Sold to a Kyoto geisha house, a fisherman's daughter is sustained by one stranger's kindness.

4.16

2 000 000+

🎎 Geisha Life 🎭 Secret Benefactor 📚 Mentor And Student 👘 Female Rivalry ⚔️ Wartime Survival

En geishas memoarer

Sold to a Kyoto geisha house, a fisherman's daughter is sustained by one stranger's kindness.

av Arthur Golden 1997 503 sidor

4.16

2 000 000+ betyg

🎎 Geisha Life 🎭 Secret Benefactor 📚 Mentor And Student 👘 Female Rivalry ⚔️ Wartime Survival

Cutting for Stone

av Abraham Verghese • 2009

Twins born to a dead nun and vanished surgeon, raised by two doctors in revolutionary Ethiopia.

4.34

400 000+

📜 Epic Family Saga 🏥 Medical Drama 🧬 Twin Brothers 👪 Surrogate Parents 💔 Sibling Betrayal

Cutting for Stone

Twins born to a dead nun and vanished surgeon, raised by two doctors in revolutionary Ethiopia.

av Abraham Verghese 2009 560 sidor

4.34

400 000+ betyg

📜 Epic Family Saga 🏥 Medical Drama 🧬 Twin Brothers 👪 Surrogate Parents 💔 Sibling Betrayal

The Happiness Project

av Gretchen Rubin • 2009

One woman's year-long resolution experiment: can happiness be built one month at a time?

3.65

100 000+

🧠 Positive Psychology 🧪 Self Experimentation 📝 Stunt Memoir 📋 Habit Tracking ☀️ Daily Practices

The Happiness Project

One woman's year-long resolution experiment: can happiness be built one month at a time?

av Gretchen Rubin 2009 301 sidor

3.65

100 000+ betyg

🧠 Positive Psychology 🧪 Self Experimentation 📝 Stunt Memoir 📋 Habit Tracking ☀️ Daily Practices

The Other Valley

av Scott Alexander Howard • 2024

Odile guards the border between her valley and the past. Her oldest friend is trying to cross.

3.87

26 000+

🕰️ Literary Time Travel 🌫️ Quiet Speculative Fiction 🏔️ Isolated Valley Town 💔 Maternal Expectations 🕯️ Grief And Closure

The Other Valley

Odile guards the border between her valley and the past. Her oldest friend is trying to cross.

av Scott Alexander Howard 2024 290 sidor

3.87

26 000+ betyg

🕰️ Literary Time Travel 🌫️ Quiet Speculative Fiction 🏔️ Isolated Valley Town 💔 Maternal Expectations 🕯️ Grief And Closure

Vägen

av Cormac McCarthy • 2006

A dying father pushes his son through an ashen wasteland, hunted by cannibals, driven by love.

4.00

1 000 000+

🏚️ Ashen Wasteland 👨‍👦 Father-Son Bond 💀 Bleak Survival Horror 🛤️ Survival Journey 🍖 Cannibal Threat

Vägen

A dying father pushes his son through an ashen wasteland, hunted by cannibals, driven by love.

av Cormac McCarthy 2006 241 sidor

4.00

1 000 000+ betyg

🏚️ Ashen Wasteland 👨‍👦 Father-Son Bond 💀 Bleak Survival Horror 🛤️ Survival Journey 🍖 Cannibal Threat

Midnattsfesten

av Lucy Foley • 2024

A luxury hotel on the Dorset coast. A fire. A body. And the woods are watching.

3.57

200 000+

🏚️ Folk Horror 🔒 Locked Room Mystery ⚔️ Locals Vs Outsiders 🌾 Rural Gothic 🌙 Seasonal Ritual

Midnattsfesten

A luxury hotel on the Dorset coast. A fire. A body. And the woods are watching.

av Lucy Foley 2024 368 sidor

3.57

200 000+ betyg

🏚️ Folk Horror 🔒 Locked Room Mystery ⚔️ Locals Vs Outsiders 🌾 Rural Gothic 🌙 Seasonal Ritual

Another Life

av Kristin Hannah • 2004

A childless woman bonds with a pregnant teen, until the birth threatens to break them.

4.18

100 000+

🫂 Found Family 🤰 Teen Pregnancy 💘 Second Chance Romance 🏘️ Small Town 💔 Infertility

Another Life

A childless woman bonds with a pregnant teen, until the birth threatens to break them.

av Kristin Hannah 2004 422 sidor

4.18

100 000+ betyg

🫂 Found Family 🤰 Teen Pregnancy 💘 Second Chance Romance 🏘️ Small Town 💔 Infertility

Murder in the Family

av Cara Hunter • 2023

A filmmaker revisits his stepfather's murder on camera, dragging his family into a fresh nightmare.

3.71

53 000+

🥶 Cold Case Mystery 🎬 Documentary Mystery 🤫 Family Cover-Up 🕵️ Fake Identity 💔 Abuse Survivor

Murder in the Family

A filmmaker revisits his stepfather's murder on camera, dragging his family into a fresh nightmare.

av Cara Hunter 2023 466 sidor

3.71

53 000+ betyg

🥶 Cold Case Mystery 🎬 Documentary Mystery 🤫 Family Cover-Up 🕵️ Fake Identity 💔 Abuse Survivor

Motorcycles & Sweetgrass

av Drew Hayden Taylor • 2010

Summoned by a dying elder, a Trickster rides a vintage motorcycle into a grieving reserve.

3.64

3 000+

🦊 Trickster Mythology 🪶 Indigenous Storytelling 🇨🇦 Small Town Canada ⚡ Myth Meets Modernity 😏 Wry Humor

Motorcycles & Sweetgrass

Summoned by a dying elder, a Trickster rides a vintage motorcycle into a grieving reserve.

av Drew Hayden Taylor 2010 368 sidor

3.64

3 000+ betyg

🦊 Trickster Mythology 🪶 Indigenous Storytelling 🇨🇦 Small Town Canada ⚡ Myth Meets Modernity 😏 Wry Humor

Berättaren

av Jodi Picoult • 2013

An elderly SS officer asks a reclusive Jewish baker to forgive and end his life.

4.30

200 000+

🕯️ Holocaust Survival 🔗 Intergenerational Trauma ⚖️ Moral Complexity ⚔️ World War Ii 🕰️ Dual Timeline

Berättaren

An elderly SS officer asks a reclusive Jewish baker to forgive and end his life.

av Jodi Picoult 2013 461 sidor

4.30

200 000+ betyg

🕯️ Holocaust Survival 🔗 Intergenerational Trauma ⚖️ Moral Complexity ⚔️ World War Ii 🕰️ Dual Timeline

Folk med ångest

av Fredrik Backman • 2019

A desperate bank robber crashes an apartment viewing, turning it into an accidental hostage crisis.

4.16

800 000+

🏔️ Nordic Literary Fiction 🫂 Found Family 🤦 Bungled Crime 🇸🇪 Small Town Sweden 🎭 Ensemble Cast

Folk med ångest

A desperate bank robber crashes an apartment viewing, turning it into an accidental hostage crisis.

av Fredrik Backman 2019 336 sidor

4.16

800 000+ betyg

🏔️ Nordic Literary Fiction 🫂 Found Family 🤦 Bungled Crime 🇸🇪 Small Town Sweden 🎭 Ensemble Cast

The Boys in the Boat

av Daniel James Brown • 2013

Left for dead by his family, Joe Rantz climbed into a boat bound for Hitler's Berlin.

4.39

300 000+

🏅 Olympic History 📉 Depression-Era America 🚣 Crew Racing 🎭 Olympic Propaganda 🐶 Underdog Stories

The Boys in the Boat

Left for dead by his family, Joe Rantz climbed into a boat bound for Hitler's Berlin.

av Daniel James Brown 2013 416 sidor

4.39

300 000+ betyg

🏅 Olympic History 📉 Depression-Era America 🚣 Crew Racing 🎭 Olympic Propaganda 🐶 Underdog Stories

Hamnet

av Maggie O'Farrell • 2020

After her son dies of plague, her husband writes Hamlet and buries his grief on stage.

4.21

400 000+

🏰 Elizabethan England 📜 Shakespearean Fiction 🦠 Plague Narrative 💔 Grieving Mother 👤 Absent Husband

Hamnet

After her son dies of plague, her husband writes Hamlet and buries his grief on stage.

av Maggie O'Farrell 2020 372 sidor

4.21

400 000+ betyg

🏰 Elizabethan England 📜 Shakespearean Fiction 🦠 Plague Narrative 💔 Grieving Mother 👤 Absent Husband

Bossypants

av Tina Fey • 2011

How a scarred, self-doubting improv nerd became SNL's head writer and the force behind 30 Rock.

3.96

1 000 000+

🎤 Comedy Memoir 👩‍🎤 Women In Comedy 🎬 Hollywood Memoir 😂 Self-Deprecating Humor 🤔 Imposter Syndrome

Bossypants

How a scarred, self-doubting improv nerd became SNL's head writer and the force behind 30 Rock.

av Tina Fey 2011 290 sidor

3.96

1 000 000+ betyg

🎤 Comedy Memoir 👩‍🎤 Women In Comedy 🎬 Hollywood Memoir 😂 Self-Deprecating Humor 🤔 Imposter Syndrome

Evicted

av Matthew Desmond • 2016

Poverty isn't the cause of eviction. Eviction is the cause of poverty, and the market profits.

4.47

100 000+

🏙️ Urban Poverty 🏚️ Housing Insecurity ✊ Racial Inequality 🔄 Poverty Cycle 📖 Narrative Ethnography

Evicted

Poverty isn't the cause of eviction. Eviction is the cause of poverty, and the market profits.

av Matthew Desmond 2016 418 sidor

4.47

100 000+ betyg

🏙️ Urban Poverty 🏚️ Housing Insecurity ✊ Racial Inequality 🔄 Poverty Cycle 📖 Narrative Ethnography

Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

av Olivia Ford • 2024

A 77-year-old secretly enters a baking show. The spotlight could expose the baby she surrendered.

4.09

22 000+

🧁 Baking Competition 👵 Later In Life 👶 Adoption Reunion 💕 Long Marriage 🤫 Family Secrets

Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

A 77-year-old secretly enters a baking show. The spotlight could expose the baby she surrendered.

av Olivia Ford 2024 384 sidor

4.09

22 000+ betyg

🧁 Baking Competition 👵 Later In Life 👶 Adoption Reunion 💕 Long Marriage 🤫 Family Secrets

En halv gul sol

av Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie • 2006

In Nigeria's civil war, a professor's household discovers that love and ideas cannot stop the bombs.

4.34

100 000+

🇳🇬 Nigerian Literature 🌍 Postcolonial Fiction 💔 Biafran War 👯 Twin Sisters 🧹 Servant Perspective

En halv gul sol

In Nigeria's civil war, a professor's household discovers that love and ideas cannot stop the bombs.

av Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2006 435 sidor

4.34

100 000+ betyg

🇳🇬 Nigerian Literature 🌍 Postcolonial Fiction 💔 Biafran War 👯 Twin Sisters 🧹 Servant Perspective

Min fantastiska väninna

av Elena Ferrante • 2011

When brilliant Lila vanishes, Elena reopens their history of fierce love and rivalry in Naples.

4.05

400 000+

🇮🇹 Post-War Italy 🏘️ Neapolitan Setting 🧠 Intellectual Rivalry 🤝 Lifelong Bond 🔥 Ambition And Envy

Min fantastiska väninna

When brilliant Lila vanishes, Elena reopens their history of fierce love and rivalry in Naples.

av Elena Ferrante 2011 331 sidor

4.05

400 000+ betyg

🇮🇹 Post-War Italy 🏘️ Neapolitan Setting 🧠 Intellectual Rivalry 🤝 Lifelong Bond 🔥 Ambition And Envy

The Devil in the White City

av Erik Larson • 2003

An architect builds a wonder. A doctor builds a hotel next door for murder. Chicago, 1893.

4.00

700 000+

📯 Gilded Age 🎡 World's Fairs 🔪 Serial Killers 🏙️ Urban History 🏛️ Architectural History

The Devil in the White City

An architect builds a wonder. A doctor builds a hotel next door for murder. Chicago, 1893.

av Erik Larson 2003 464 sidor

4.00

700 000+ betyg

📯 Gilded Age 🎡 World's Fairs 🔪 Serial Killers 🏙️ Urban History 🏛️ Architectural History

Q & A

av Vikas Swarup • 2005

After winning a fortune on a quiz show, a penniless waiter must defend his impossible knowledge.

4.03

39 000+

🪙 Rags To Riches 🧒 Orphan Protagonist 👨‍👩‍👦 Found Family 🎭 Dark Comedy 🇮🇳 Contemporary India

Q & A

After winning a fortune on a quiz show, a penniless waiter must defend his impossible knowledge.

av Vikas Swarup 2005 318 sidor

4.03

39 000+ betyg

🪙 Rags To Riches 🧒 Orphan Protagonist 👨‍👩‍👦 Found Family 🎭 Dark Comedy 🇮🇳 Contemporary India

Mannens hemlighet

av Liane Moriarty • 2013

When Cecilia reads her husband's forbidden letter, his confession links three women to an old crime.

3.95

700 000+

🏠 Domestic Suspense 🔍 Unsolved Murder 💔 Marriage In Crisis 😢 Grieving Mother 🏡 Suburban Secrets

Mannens hemlighet

When Cecilia reads her husband's forbidden letter, his confession links three women to an old crime.

av Liane Moriarty 2013 396 sidor

3.95

700 000+ betyg

🏠 Domestic Suspense 🔍 Unsolved Murder 💔 Marriage In Crisis 😢 Grieving Mother 🏡 Suburban Secrets

Pachinko

av Min Jin Lee • 2017

Abandoned and pregnant, Sunja weds a minister. In Japan, her family fights a century to belong.

4.34

600 000+

🏠 Multigenerational Saga 🇰🇷 Korean Diaspora 🤫 Secret Parentage 💔 Forbidden Love 🪷 Quiet Resilience

Pachinko

Abandoned and pregnant, Sunja weds a minister. In Japan, her family fights a century to belong.

av Min Jin Lee 2017 496 sidor

4.34

600 000+ betyg

🏠 Multigenerational Saga 🇰🇷 Korean Diaspora 🤫 Secret Parentage 💔 Forbidden Love 🪷 Quiet Resilience

Flyga drake

av Khaled Hosseini • 2003

One call from Pakistan forces an Afghan-American back to Kabul, where a betrayal still waits.

4.36

3 000 000+

🔄 Redemption Arc 🇦🇫 Afghan Fiction 💔 Childhood Betrayal 👨‍👦 Father And Son 🏠 Return To Homeland

Immersiv

Flyga drake

One call from Pakistan forces an Afghan-American back to Kabul, where a betrayal still waits.

av Khaled Hosseini 2003 371 sidor

4.36

3 000 000+ betyg

🔄 Redemption Arc 🇦🇫 Afghan Fiction 💔 Childhood Betrayal 👨‍👦 Father And Son 🏠 Return To Homeland

Tell Me Lies

av Carola Lovering • 2018

Her charming college ex returns, still lying, and her New York life unravels.

3.45

98 000+

🎓 College Romance 🖤 Toxic Relationship 🗽 New York Setting ⏳ Dual Timelines 🧩 Unreliable Narrator

Tell Me Lies

Her charming college ex returns, still lying, and her New York life unravels.

av Carola Lovering 2018 352 sidor

3.45

98 000+ betyg

🎓 College Romance 🖤 Toxic Relationship 🗽 New York Setting ⏳ Dual Timelines 🧩 Unreliable Narrator

Nitton minuter

av Jodi Picoult • 2007

A bullied boy's school shooting forces his mother to face the everyday cruelty the town ignored.

4.18

400 000+

🏫 School Shooting ⚖️ Legal Drama 😞 Survivor Guilt 😔 Parental Guilt 💔 Bullying Trauma

Nitton minuter

A bullied boy's school shooting forces his mother to face the everyday cruelty the town ignored.

av Jodi Picoult 2007 440 sidor

4.18

400 000+ betyg

🏫 School Shooting ⚖️ Legal Drama 😞 Survivor Guilt 😔 Parental Guilt 💔 Bullying Trauma

The Phoenix Pencil Company

av Allison King • 2025

A granddaughter's search for a lost cousin uncovers a magical family secret hidden in pencils.

3.49

20 000+

✨ Magical Historical Fiction ⏳ Dual Timeline 💕 Sapphic Slow Burn 🔍 Family Secrets 🌿 Inherited Magic

The Phoenix Pencil Company

A granddaughter's search for a lost cousin uncovers a magical family secret hidden in pencils.

av Allison King 2025 362 sidor

3.49

20 000+ betyg

✨ Magical Historical Fiction ⏳ Dual Timeline 💕 Sapphic Slow Burn 🔍 Family Secrets 🌿 Inherited Magic

Min systers liv

av Jodi Picoult • 2004

Born to save her sister, a thirteen-year-old sues her parents for control of her own body.

4.11

1 000 000+

🩺 Medical Ethics 🧬 Designer Baby 👭 Sibling Sacrifice 🫂 Childhood Illness 👩‍👧 Mother Daughter Rift

Min systers liv

Born to save her sister, a thirteen-year-old sues her parents for control of her own body.

av Jodi Picoult 2004 423 sidor

4.11

1 000 000+ betyg

🩺 Medical Ethics 🧬 Designer Baby 👭 Sibling Sacrifice 🫂 Childhood Illness 👩‍👧 Mother Daughter Rift

Städerskan

av Nita Prose • 2022

A hotel maid discovers a dead guest, and her social awkwardness makes her the prime suspect.

3.75

700 000+

🧠 Neurodivergent Protagonist 🔍 Amateur Sleuth 🫂 Found Family 🚪 Locked Room Mystery 🎭 Quirky Narrator

Städerskan

A hotel maid discovers a dead guest, and her social awkwardness makes her the prime suspect.

av Nita Prose 2022 289 sidor

3.75

700 000+ betyg

🧠 Neurodivergent Protagonist 🔍 Amateur Sleuth 🫂 Found Family 🚪 Locked Room Mystery 🎭 Quirky Narrator

A House in the Sky

av Amanda Lindhout • 2013

460 days in a dark room: how one woman built an escape inside her own mind.

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460 days in a dark room: how one woman built an escape inside her own mind.

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4.28

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Sympatisören

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4.01

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Sympatisören

A communist spy in Saigon's army follows his general to America and a brewing counter-revolution.

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4.01

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4.30

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De fyra vindarna

A mother loses her Texas farm to dust and drives west toward California's broken promise.

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4.30

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A Street Cat Named Bob

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A Street Cat Named Bob

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3.99

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The River of Doubt

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An unmapped Amazon tributary, a former president, and the expedition that nearly killed him.

4.21

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The River of Doubt

An unmapped Amazon tributary, a former president, and the expedition that nearly killed him.

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4.21

79 000+ betyg

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