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Ringaren i Notre-Dame

av Victor Hugo • 1831

A priest's obsession. A bellringer's devotion. A dancer's life. All hang in Notre-Dame's shadow.

4.02

200 000+

🗼 Medieval Paris 🖤 Gothic Tragedy 💔 Unrequited Obsession 🎭 Tragic Antihero 🔔 Outcast Protagonist

Ringaren i Notre-Dame

A priest's obsession. A bellringer's devotion. A dancer's life. All hang in Notre-Dame's shadow.

av Victor Hugo 1831 510 sidor

4.02

200 000+ betyg

🗼 Medieval Paris 🖤 Gothic Tragedy 💔 Unrequited Obsession 🎭 Tragic Antihero 🔔 Outcast Protagonist

Spectacular Things

av Beck Dorey-Stein • 2025

An Olympic goalkeeper wins gold, then discovers she is her sister's only kidney match.

4.04

58 000+

⚽ Women's Soccer 👯‍♀️ Sisterhood 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Sacrifice 🤝 Rivals To Friends 🌈 Queer Awakening

Spectacular Things

An Olympic goalkeeper wins gold, then discovers she is her sister's only kidney match.

av Beck Dorey-Stein 2025 368 sidor

4.04

58 000+ betyg

⚽ Women's Soccer 👯‍♀️ Sisterhood 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Sacrifice 🤝 Rivals To Friends 🌈 Queer Awakening

The Antidote

av Oliver Burkeman • 2012

Positive thinking backfires. The case for embracing failure, mortality, and worst-case scenarios.

4.04

16 000+

🔄 Anti-Self-Help 📚 Happiness Studies 🏛️ Modern Stoicism 🧘 Buddhist Psychology 🧠 Mindfulness Practice

The Antidote

Positive thinking backfires. The case for embracing failure, mortality, and worst-case scenarios.

av Oliver Burkeman 2012 236 sidor

4.04

16 000+ betyg

🔄 Anti-Self-Help 📚 Happiness Studies 🏛️ Modern Stoicism 🧘 Buddhist Psychology 🧠 Mindfulness Practice

Samhällets olycksbarn

av Victor Hugo • 1987

An escaped convict builds a virtuous life while a relentless inspector hunts him down.

4.21

800 000+

🏛️ Historical Epic 📖 Social Novel 🕊️ Redemption Arc 🔗 Ex-Convict Protagonist 🏴 Revolutionary Paris

Immersiv

Samhällets olycksbarn

An escaped convict builds a virtuous life while a relentless inspector hunts him down.

av Victor Hugo 1987 1488 sidor

4.21

800 000+ betyg

🏛️ Historical Epic 📖 Social Novel 🕊️ Redemption Arc 🔗 Ex-Convict Protagonist 🏴 Revolutionary Paris

Many Lives, Many Masters

av Brian L. Weiss • 1988

A skeptical psychiatrist hypnotizes a patient and uncovers 86 past lives and messages from beyond.

4.17

84 000+

🔮 Past-Life Regression 💫 Karmic Healing 🌌 Channeled Wisdom 📜 Past Life Stories 🧠 New Age Psychology

Many Lives, Many Masters

A skeptical psychiatrist hypnotizes a patient and uncovers 86 past lives and messages from beyond.

av Brian L. Weiss 1988 219 sidor

4.17

84 000+ betyg

🔮 Past-Life Regression 💫 Karmic Healing 🌌 Channeled Wisdom 📜 Past Life Stories 🧠 New Age Psychology

A Matter of Death and Life

av Irvin D. Yalom • 2021

A dying woman and her psychiatrist husband trade chapters. When her voice stops, his grief begins.

4.40

9 000+

🪦 Grief Memoir 🛋️ Existential Therapy 💀 Death Acceptance 💔 Spousal Loss ✍️ Writing As Therapy

A Matter of Death and Life

A dying woman and her psychiatrist husband trade chapters. When her voice stops, his grief begins.

av Irvin D. Yalom 2021 223 sidor

4.40

9 000+ betyg

🪦 Grief Memoir 🛋️ Existential Therapy 💀 Death Acceptance 💔 Spousal Loss ✍️ Writing As Therapy

The Five Invitations

av Frank Ostaseski • 2017

What a hospice founder learned at the bedside: five shifts that make mortality a guide.

4.45

4 000+

🕰️ Impermanence 💀 Death And Dying 🤲 Radical Acceptance 🧘 Buddhist Psychology ❤️ Compassion

The Five Invitations

What a hospice founder learned at the bedside: five shifts that make mortality a guide.

av Frank Ostaseski 2017 304 sidor

4.45

4 000+ betyg

🕰️ Impermanence 💀 Death And Dying 🤲 Radical Acceptance 🧘 Buddhist Psychology ❤️ Compassion

Intervju med en vampyr

av Anne Rice • 1976

A vampire recounts his life: from 1791 Louisiana to Parisian vampire theater, an eternity of sorrow.

4.02

600 000+

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🎙️ Framed Narrative 🧛 Reluctant Vampire 👧 Eternal Child 🥀 Immortal Melancholy

Intervju med en vampyr

A vampire recounts his life: from 1791 Louisiana to Parisian vampire theater, an eternity of sorrow.

av Anne Rice 1976 346 sidor

4.02

600 000+ betyg

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🎙️ Framed Narrative 🧛 Reluctant Vampire 👧 Eternal Child 🥀 Immortal Melancholy

Harry Potter och den flammande bägaren

av J.K. Rowling • 2000

Forced into a deadly magical tournament, Harry Potter uncovers a plot to resurrect the Dark Lord.

4.57

4 000 000+

🏰 Magical Boarding School 🏆 Magical Tournament ⚡ Unlikely Champion 🔮 Chosen One 🐍 Dark Lord Returns

Harry Potter och den flammande bägaren

Forced into a deadly magical tournament, Harry Potter uncovers a plot to resurrect the Dark Lord.

av J.K. Rowling 2000 734 sidor

4.57

4 000 000+ betyg

🏰 Magical Boarding School 🏆 Magical Tournament ⚡ Unlikely Champion 🔮 Chosen One 🐍 Dark Lord Returns

Trädens hemliga liv

av Richard Powers • 2018

Trees summon nine lives across a century to a final stand for the last ancient forests.

4.11

200 000+

🌲 Forest Ecology ✊ Eco-Activism 🌳 Generational Saga 🍄 Tree Communication 🔗 Braided Narrative

Trädens hemliga liv

Trees summon nine lives across a century to a final stand for the last ancient forests.

av Richard Powers 2018 502 sidor

4.11

200 000+ betyg

🌲 Forest Ecology ✊ Eco-Activism 🌳 Generational Saga 🍄 Tree Communication 🔗 Braided Narrative

En dans med drakar

av George R.R. Martin • 2011

An eastern dragon queen's peace ignites war, while a frozen commander's honor sparks a mutiny.

4.34

700 000+

🖤 Grimdark Fantasy 👑 Political Fantasy 🐉 Dragon Riders 😈 Morally Grey Characters 🏰 Exiled Nobility

En dans med drakar

An eastern dragon queen's peace ignites war, while a frozen commander's honor sparks a mutiny.

av George R.R. Martin 2011 1125 sidor

4.34

700 000+ betyg

🖤 Grimdark Fantasy 👑 Political Fantasy 🐉 Dragon Riders 😈 Morally Grey Characters 🏰 Exiled Nobility

Harry Potter och dödsrelikerna

av J.K. Rowling • 2007

Three young wizards hunt a dark lord's hidden soul fragments before his army finds them first.

4.62

4 000 000+

🏰 Wartime Fantasy 🫂 Found Family ⚡ Chosen One Sacrifice 🕯️ Hidden Mentor Secrets 🖤 Redemptive Reveal

Harry Potter och dödsrelikerna

Three young wizards hunt a dark lord's hidden soul fragments before his army finds them first.

av J.K. Rowling 2007 759 sidor

4.62

4 000 000+ betyg

🏰 Wartime Fantasy 🫂 Found Family ⚡ Chosen One Sacrifice 🕯️ Hidden Mentor Secrets 🖤 Redemptive Reveal

Vinnarna

av Fredrik Backman • 2021

A small hockey town braces for a storm that unearths its buried secrets and oldest wounds.

4.45

100 000+

🏘️ Small Town Drama 🏒 Literary Sports 🎭 Ensemble Cast 🔄 Redemption Arc 💔 Trauma Survivor

Vinnarna

A small hockey town braces for a storm that unearths its buried secrets and oldest wounds.

av Fredrik Backman 2021 671 sidor

4.45

100 000+ betyg

🏘️ Small Town Drama 🏒 Literary Sports 🎭 Ensemble Cast 🔄 Redemption Arc 💔 Trauma Survivor

Heart Bones

av Colleen Hoover • 2020

Two guarded strangers agree to one summer with no strings. But the truth will pull them under.

4.20

600 000+

☀️ Summer Fling 💰 Class Divide 🏠 Found Family 🎭 Hidden Identity 🏖️ Beach Town

Heart Bones

Two guarded strangers agree to one summer with no strings. But the truth will pull them under.

av Colleen Hoover 2020 338 sidor

4.20

600 000+ betyg

☀️ Summer Fling 💰 Class Divide 🏠 Found Family 🎭 Hidden Identity 🏖️ Beach Town

Den sista djävulen att dö

av Richard Osman • 2023

After a dealer is shot, the Thursday Murder Club uncovers a priceless box worth killing for.

4.46

200 000+

🏘️ Retirement Community 🕵️ Amateur Sleuths 🎭 Ensemble Mystery 💔 Dementia Storyline 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family

Den sista djävulen att dö

After a dealer is shot, the Thursday Murder Club uncovers a priceless box worth killing for.

av Richard Osman 2023 421 sidor

4.46

200 000+ betyg

🏘️ Retirement Community 🕵️ Amateur Sleuths 🎭 Ensemble Mystery 💔 Dementia Storyline 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family

Allt jag aldrig berättat

av Celeste Ng • 2014

She was the daughter they pinned their hopes on. The lake knew what they never asked.

3.83

600 000+

🧬 Biracial Family 🏘️ Small Town Secrets 😰 Parental Expectations 🖤 Quiet Devastation 🇺🇸 1970s America

Allt jag aldrig berättat

She was the daughter they pinned their hopes on. The lake knew what they never asked.

av Celeste Ng 2014 297 sidor

3.83

600 000+ betyg

🧬 Biracial Family 🏘️ Small Town Secrets 😰 Parental Expectations 🖤 Quiet Devastation 🇺🇸 1970s America

Kärlekens bödel och andra berättelser från psykoterapin

av Irvin D. Yalom • 1989

A therapist admits: his own boredom, lust, and dread are the real instruments of cure.

4.25

42 000+

🏛️ Existential Therapy 📋 Clinical Case Studies 💀 Death Anxiety 🪞 Countertransference 🤝 Therapeutic Alliance

Kärlekens bödel och andra berättelser från psykoterapin

A therapist admits: his own boredom, lust, and dread are the real instruments of cure.

av Irvin D. Yalom 1989 304 sidor

4.25

42 000+ betyg

🏛️ Existential Therapy 📋 Clinical Case Studies 💀 Death Anxiety 🪞 Countertransference 🤝 Therapeutic Alliance

Life Between Lives

av Michael Newton • 2004

The hypnotic method that heals present-day suffering by finding its origins in past lives.

4.24

1 000+

🌀 Past Life Regression 💤 Spiritual Hypnotherapy ⚡ Karmic Healing 🌅 Afterlife Exploration 📚 Reincarnation Studies

Life Between Lives

The hypnotic method that heals present-day suffering by finding its origins in past lives.

av Michael Newton 2004 240 sidor

4.24

1 000+ betyg

🌀 Past Life Regression 💤 Spiritual Hypnotherapy ⚡ Karmic Healing 🌅 Afterlife Exploration 📚 Reincarnation Studies

Flaskpost

av Nicholas Sparks • 1998

His bottled love letter led her to him. Now she must compete with a ghost.

3.98

200 000+

🕯️ Grieving Widower 🖤 Tragic Romance 💔 Second Chance Love 📝 Found Letters 🏘️ Coastal Small Town

Flaskpost

His bottled love letter led her to him. Now she must compete with a ghost.

av Nicholas Sparks 1998 342 sidor

3.98

200 000+ betyg

🕯️ Grieving Widower 🖤 Tragic Romance 💔 Second Chance Love 📝 Found Letters 🏘️ Coastal Small Town

The Book of Unknown Americans

av Cristina Henríquez • 2014

A Mexican mother stakes everything on a Delaware apartment that was supposed to save her daughter.

3.90

46 000+

🗺️ Immigrant Literature 🎙️ Polyphonic Narrative 💔 Tragic First Love 😔 Parental Guilt 👩‍👧 Mother Daughter Bond

The Book of Unknown Americans

A Mexican mother stakes everything on a Delaware apartment that was supposed to save her daughter.

av Cristina Henríquez 2014 286 sidor

3.90

46 000+ betyg

🗺️ Immigrant Literature 🎙️ Polyphonic Narrative 💔 Tragic First Love 😔 Parental Guilt 👩‍👧 Mother Daughter Bond

The Happy Ever After Playlist

av Abby Jimenez • 2020

A stray dog pulls a grieving artist into the orbit of a musician she cannot resist.

4.17

300 000+

🎸 Musician Romance 💔 Grieving Heroine 💌 Strangers To Lovers 📱 Long Distance Love 🕊️ Love After Loss

The Happy Ever After Playlist

A stray dog pulls a grieving artist into the orbit of a musician she cannot resist.

av Abby Jimenez 2020 401 sidor

4.17

300 000+ betyg

🎸 Musician Romance 💔 Grieving Heroine 💌 Strangers To Lovers 📱 Long Distance Love 🕊️ Love After Loss

Amerikanska gudar

av Neil Gaiman • 2001

A grieving ex-con drives for a one-eyed grifter raising an army of forgotten gods.

4.10

900 000+

🏚️ Forgotten Gods 🛣️ Road Trip Odyssey 👻 Dead Wife Returns 🕷️ Trickster Gods 🌙 Dark Roadside Americana

Immersiv

Amerikanska gudar

A grieving ex-con drives for a one-eyed grifter raising an army of forgotten gods.

av Neil Gaiman 2001 635 sidor

4.10

900 000+ betyg

🏚️ Forgotten Gods 🛣️ Road Trip Odyssey 👻 Dead Wife Returns 🕷️ Trickster Gods 🌙 Dark Roadside Americana

Before I Let Go

av Kennedy Ryan • 2022

Co-parenting exes and restaurant partners. Moving on is impossible when love hasn't moved out.

4.32

100 000+

💔 Second Chance Love 👫 Co-Parenting Exes 🌿 Southern Romance 🍽️ Restaurant Setting 🖤 Grief And Healing

Before I Let Go

Co-parenting exes and restaurant partners. Moving on is impossible when love hasn't moved out.

av Kennedy Ryan 2022 391 sidor

4.32

100 000+ betyg

💔 Second Chance Love 👫 Co-Parenting Exes 🌿 Southern Romance 🍽️ Restaurant Setting 🖤 Grief And Healing

Idioten

av Fjodor Dostojevskij • 1869

A guileless prince returns from a Swiss sanatorium into a Russia of love, obsession, and ruin.

4.21

200 000+

🧠 Philosophical Fiction 🕊️ Holy Fool 💔 Doomed Love 🔥 Obsessive Passion 🫀 Psychological Depth

Idioten

A guileless prince returns from a Swiss sanatorium into a Russia of love, obsession, and ruin.

av Fjodor Dostojevskij 1869 667 sidor

4.21

200 000+ betyg

🧠 Philosophical Fiction 🕊️ Holy Fool 💔 Doomed Love 🔥 Obsessive Passion 🫀 Psychological Depth

Losing Hope

av Colleen Hoover • 2013

After his twin's suicide, a guilt-ridden boy meets his missing childhood friend's mirror image.

4.09

200 000+

🖤 Angsty Romance 🎭 Hidden Identity 💔 Childhood Trauma 🔥 Tortured Hero 🌱 Survivor Love Story

Losing Hope

After his twin's suicide, a guilt-ridden boy meets his missing childhood friend's mirror image.

av Colleen Hoover 2013 321 sidor

4.09

200 000+ betyg

🖤 Angsty Romance 🎭 Hidden Identity 💔 Childhood Trauma 🔥 Tortured Hero 🌱 Survivor Love Story

I Know What You Did Last Summer

av Lois Duncan • 1973

Four friends covered up a fatal hit-and-run. One year later, someone is hunting them down.

3.38

21 000+

🔪 Teen Suspense 🚗 Fatal Cover-Up 🎯 Revenge Thriller 💔 Crumbling Friendships 🧠 Psychological Horror

I Know What You Did Last Summer

Four friends covered up a fatal hit-and-run. One year later, someone is hunting them down.

av Lois Duncan 1973 199 sidor

3.38

21 000+ betyg

🔪 Teen Suspense 🚗 Fatal Cover-Up 🎯 Revenge Thriller 💔 Crumbling Friendships 🧠 Psychological Horror

Havskvinnornas ö

av Lisa See • 2019

Two haenyeo divers share a bond deeper than the sea until a massacre tears them apart.

4.32

100 000+

🧜‍♀️ Haenyeo Divers 💔 Broken Friendship 🕯️ Political Massacre 👩‍👩‍👧 Matrifocal Culture 🌱 Generational Healing

Havskvinnornas ö

Two haenyeo divers share a bond deeper than the sea until a massacre tears them apart.

av Lisa See 2019 374 sidor

4.32

100 000+ betyg

🧜‍♀️ Haenyeo Divers 💔 Broken Friendship 🕯️ Political Massacre 👩‍👩‍👧 Matrifocal Culture 🌱 Generational Healing

The Cancer Journals

av Audre Lorde • 1980

A Black lesbian poet, after mastectomy, rejects the prosthesis and discovers what silence costs.

4.43

5 000+

🩺 Cancer Memoir ✊🏾 Intersectional Feminism 🖤 Black Feminism 💪 Bodily Autonomy 🏥 Feminist Health

The Cancer Journals

A Black lesbian poet, after mastectomy, rejects the prosthesis and discovers what silence costs.

av Audre Lorde 1980 104 sidor

4.43

5 000+ betyg

🩺 Cancer Memoir ✊🏾 Intersectional Feminism 🖤 Black Feminism 💪 Bodily Autonomy 🏥 Feminist Health

The Museum of Innocence

av Orhan Pamuk • 2008

An Istanbul bachelor's obsession with a lost love becomes a museum of the objects she touched.

3.78

39 000+

🇹🇷 Turkish Literature 💔 Obsessive Love 🔺 Love Triangle 🌧️ Melancholy 🌆 Istanbul Setting

The Museum of Innocence

An Istanbul bachelor's obsession with a lost love becomes a museum of the objects she touched.

av Orhan Pamuk 2008 536 sidor

3.78

39 000+ betyg

🇹🇷 Turkish Literature 💔 Obsessive Love 🔺 Love Triangle 🌧️ Melancholy 🌆 Istanbul Setting

The Thing About Jellyfish

av Ali Benjamin • 2015

After her best friend drowns, a girl stops speaking and searches for answers in jellyfish.

4.10

45 000+

🔬 Young Scientist 🤫 Chosen Silence 💔 Grieving A Friend 🥲 Bittersweet ✨ Lyrical Middle Grade

The Thing About Jellyfish

After her best friend drowns, a girl stops speaking and searches for answers in jellyfish.

av Ali Benjamin 2015 343 sidor

4.10

45 000+ betyg

🔬 Young Scientist 🤫 Chosen Silence 💔 Grieving A Friend 🥲 Bittersweet ✨ Lyrical Middle Grade

How to Make Friends with the Dark

av Kathleen Glasgow • 2019

After her mother dies, a teen in foster care must trust a half-sister she's never met.

4.07

42 000+

🖤 Grief And Loss 🏠 Foster Care 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bond 👭 Sister Bond 🤝 Found Family

How to Make Friends with the Dark

After her mother dies, a teen in foster care must trust a half-sister she's never met.

av Kathleen Glasgow 2019 421 sidor

4.07

42 000+ betyg

🖤 Grief And Loss 🏠 Foster Care 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bond 👭 Sister Bond 🤝 Found Family

Min mormor hälsar och säger förlåt

av Fredrik Backman • 2013

Delivering her grandmother's apologies, a girl discovers the fairy tales they shared are real.

4.07

200 000+

✉️ Posthumous Letters 👵 Eccentric Elder 📖 Fairy Tale Motifs 🌍 Imaginary Worlds 🏠 Found Family

Min mormor hälsar och säger förlåt

Delivering her grandmother's apologies, a girl discovers the fairy tales they shared are real.

av Fredrik Backman 2013 372 sidor

4.07

200 000+ betyg

✉️ Posthumous Letters 👵 Eccentric Elder 📖 Fairy Tale Motifs 🌍 Imaginary Worlds 🏠 Found Family

Konsten att köra i regn

av Garth Stein • 2008

A philosophical dog chronicles his owner's fight to keep his daughter after his wife's death.

4.23

500 000+

🐕 Dog Narrator 👨‍👧 Single Father ⚖️ Custody Battle 🎭 Wrongful Accusation 💔 Terminal Illness

Konsten att köra i regn

A philosophical dog chronicles his owner's fight to keep his daughter after his wife's death.

av Garth Stein 2008 336 sidor

4.23

500 000+ betyg

🐕 Dog Narrator 👨‍👧 Single Father ⚖️ Custody Battle 🎭 Wrongful Accusation 💔 Terminal Illness

The Outsiders

av S.E. Hinton • 1967

A sensitive greaser hides out after his friend kills a Soc, learning what innocence costs.

4.15

1 000 000+

🏭 Working Class Fiction 🔪 Gang Rivalry 🫂 Found Family 🍂 Loss Of Innocence ⚖️ Class Divide

The Outsiders

A sensitive greaser hides out after his friend kills a Soc, learning what innocence costs.

av S.E. Hinton 1967 208 sidor

4.15

1 000 000+ betyg

🏭 Working Class Fiction 🔪 Gang Rivalry 🫂 Found Family 🍂 Loss Of Innocence ⚖️ Class Divide

Notes from the Midnight Driver

av Jordan Sonnenblick • 2006

A sixteen-year-old's drunken crash earns him a hundred hours with a hostile, jazz-obsessed old man.

4.05

9 000+

🫂 Intergenerational Bond ⚖️ Community Service 🏥 Nursing Home 🎶 Music Heals 💕 Friends To Lovers

Notes from the Midnight Driver

A sixteen-year-old's drunken crash earns him a hundred hours with a hostile, jazz-obsessed old man.

av Jordan Sonnenblick 2006 265 sidor

4.05

9 000+ betyg

🫂 Intergenerational Bond ⚖️ Community Service 🏥 Nursing Home 🎶 Music Heals 💕 Friends To Lovers

Aghora

av Robert E. Svoboda • 1986

Most paths avoid darkness. This one walks into the cremation ground and stays.

4.26

2 000+

🕉️ Tantric Traditions ⬅️ Left-Hand Path 💀 Death Contemplation 🪷 Tantric Ritual 🔄 Karma And Rebirth

Aghora

Most paths avoid darkness. This one walks into the cremation ground and stays.

av Robert E. Svoboda 1986 327 sidor

4.26

2 000+ betyg

🕉️ Tantric Traditions ⬅️ Left-Hand Path 💀 Death Contemplation 🪷 Tantric Ritual 🔄 Karma And Rebirth

A Short Stay in Hell

av Steven L. Peck • 2011

After death, a man faces an infinite library. To escape Hell, he must find the book of his life.

4.15

70 000+

🧠 Philosophical Horror 👻 Afterlife Horror 🔢 Mathematical Horror 💔 Love Across Eternity 🎭 Absurdist Afterlife

A Short Stay in Hell

After death, a man faces an infinite library. To escape Hell, he must find the book of his life.

av Steven L. Peck 2011 108 sidor

4.15

70 000+ betyg

🧠 Philosophical Horror 👻 Afterlife Horror 🔢 Mathematical Horror 💔 Love Across Eternity 🎭 Absurdist Afterlife

Den tidsresandes hustru

av Audrey Niffenegger • 2003

When a time traveler meets his wife, she has already loved him since she was six years old.

4.00

1 000 000+

🔗 Time-Crossed Lovers ✨ Fated Love 🖋️ Lyrical Prose 💔 Melancholy Romance 😢 Bittersweet Ending

Den tidsresandes hustru

When a time traveler meets his wife, she has already loved him since she was six years old.

av Audrey Niffenegger 2003 537 sidor

4.00

1 000 000+ betyg

🔗 Time-Crossed Lovers ✨ Fated Love 🖋️ Lyrical Prose 💔 Melancholy Romance 😢 Bittersweet Ending

My Sweet Orange Tree

av José Mauro de Vasconcelos • 1968

A Brazilian boy talks to an orange tree until an old man teaches him what love is.

4.38

86 000+

💰 Childhood Poverty 💔 Grief And Loss 🌌 Imagination As Refuge 👴 Father Figure 🇧🇷 Brazilian Childhood

My Sweet Orange Tree

A Brazilian boy talks to an orange tree until an old man teaches him what love is.

av José Mauro de Vasconcelos 1968 208 sidor

4.38

86 000+ betyg

💰 Childhood Poverty 💔 Grief And Loss 🌌 Imagination As Refuge 👴 Father Figure 🇧🇷 Brazilian Childhood

The Lover

av Marguerite Duras • 1984

A French girl, a Chinese millionaire, and a colonial affair that becomes her lifelong wound.

3.70

75 000+

📖 Autofiction 🇫🇷 French Colonialism 💰 Transactional Desire 💔 Age Gap Romance 🌸 Sexual Awakening

The Lover

A French girl, a Chinese millionaire, and a colonial affair that becomes her lifelong wound.

av Marguerite Duras 1984 117 sidor

3.70

75 000+ betyg

📖 Autofiction 🇫🇷 French Colonialism 💰 Transactional Desire 💔 Age Gap Romance 🌸 Sexual Awakening

The Reality Slap

av Russ Harris • 2011

When reality cracks, four paths can lead you from anguish to a life worth living.

4.08

1 000+

🕊️ Coping With Loss ⛈️ Navigating Adversity 🧘 Mindfulness ❤️ Self-Compassion 🧭 Values-Based Living

The Reality Slap

When reality cracks, four paths can lead you from anguish to a life worth living.

av Russ Harris 2011 208 sidor

4.08

1 000+ betyg

🕊️ Coping With Loss ⛈️ Navigating Adversity 🧘 Mindfulness ❤️ Self-Compassion 🧭 Values-Based Living

The Labors of Hercules Beal

av Gary D. Schmidt • 2023

A grieving boy named Hercules is assigned the hero's twelve labors as a seventh-grade project.

4.48

7 000+

🏫 School Project Story 💔 Loss Of Parents 📚 Mentor Teacher 🏘️ Small Town 🐕 Boy And His Dog

The Labors of Hercules Beal

A grieving boy named Hercules is assigned the hero's twelve labors as a seventh-grade project.

av Gary D. Schmidt 2023 352 sidor

4.48

7 000+ betyg

🏫 School Project Story 💔 Loss Of Parents 📚 Mentor Teacher 🏘️ Small Town 🐕 Boy And His Dog

The Lost Year

av Katherine Marsh • 2023

Pandemic lockdown forces a boy to investigate his great-grandmother's hidden past in Soviet Ukraine.

4.46

5 000+

🇺🇦 Ukrainian Famine 🎭 Assumed Identity ⏳ Dual Timeline 🔍 Family Secrets 🦠 Covid Lockdown

The Lost Year

Pandemic lockdown forces a boy to investigate his great-grandmother's hidden past in Soviet Ukraine.

av Katherine Marsh 2023 368 sidor

4.46

5 000+ betyg

🇺🇦 Ukrainian Famine 🎭 Assumed Identity ⏳ Dual Timeline 🔍 Family Secrets 🦠 Covid Lockdown

All the Beauty in the World

av Patrick Bringley • 2023

He guarded Picassos and Rembrandts for a decade. Grief brought him there; stillness made him stay.

4.01

27 000+

🕯️ Grief Memoirs 🏛️ Museum Life 🐢 Slow Living 🎨 Art And Healing 👁️ Mindful Observation

All the Beauty in the World

He guarded Picassos and Rembrandts for a decade. Grief brought him there; stillness made him stay.

av Patrick Bringley 2023 240 sidor

4.01

27 000+ betyg

🕯️ Grief Memoirs 🏛️ Museum Life 🐢 Slow Living 🎨 Art And Healing 👁️ Mindful Observation

Sköldpaddor hela vägen ner

av John Green • 2017

She spirals. A missing billionaire, his son, and a reward pull her into the world.

3.87

600 000+

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Sköldpaddor hela vägen ner

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A retired brewer walks across England, certain his walk alone can keep a dying friend alive.

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A domineering father in frozen Ardabil breeds rebellion and a shattering family betrayal.

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A domineering father in frozen Ardabil breeds rebellion and a shattering family betrayal.

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The Kill Order

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A mind-shredding virus sweeps the wasteland. One immune child is the cure; her protectors go mad.

3.71

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The Kill Order

A mind-shredding virus sweeps the wasteland. One immune child is the cure; her protectors go mad.

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3.71

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Suicide, a weeping child, then a dream: a despairing man enters a pristine, sinless world.

4.03

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Suicide, a weeping child, then a dream: a despairing man enters a pristine, sinless world.

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4.41

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When Breath Becomes Air

A neurosurgeon spent years facing other people's death. Terminal lung cancer at 36 made it personal.

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4.41

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