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A Breath of Life

Clarice Lispector · 1978

A posthumous work built around the dialogue between an author and the woman he creates, blurring authorship, existence, and voice.

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A Court of Mist and Fury

Sarah J. Maas · 2016

A Court of Mist and Fury is the second book in Sarah J. Maas’s A Court of Thorns and Roses series. After the events of the first book, Feyre must face the emotional cost of survival, the pressure of power, and the dangerous politics of the fae world. The story expands beyond the Spring Court, introducing new alliances, deeper magic, and a darker, more complex side of Prythian. Blending fantasy, romance, trauma recovery, court intrigue, and high-stakes conflict, this book is often seen as the point where the series becomes bigger, more emotional, and more addictive.

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Alias Grace

Margaret Atwood · 1996

Inspired by a real nineteenth-century case, Alias Grace follows Grace Marks, a servant convicted in a notorious murder case, as memory, truth, and storytelling blur.

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Beach Read

Emily Henry · 2020

Two writers with very different approaches to storytelling become neighbors for the summer and challenge each other to write outside their comfort zones.

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Bodily Harm

Margaret Atwood · 1981

Rennie Wilford, a travel journalist recovering from illness and emotional shock, travels to the Caribbean and finds herself drawn into political violence and personal danger.

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Book Lovers

Emily Henry · 2022

A sharp literary agent and a serious book editor keep crossing paths in a small town, where the usual romance rules are gently turned upside down.

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Bride

Ali Hazelwood · 2024

Ali Hazelwood moves into paranormal romance with a story of alliances, hidden motives, and a marriage arrangement that becomes much more emotionally dangerous than planned.

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Cat's Eye

Margaret Atwood · 1988

Elaine Risley, a painter returning to Toronto for a retrospective of her work, confronts childhood memories of friendship, cruelty, art, shame, and survival.

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Complete Stories

Clarice Lispector · 2015

A major collection gathering Clarice's short fiction across decades, from early experiments to mature stories of domestic revelation and inner shock.

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Counselor Aires's Memorial

Machado de Assis · 1908

Machado's final novel takes the form of a diary, observing affection, aging, diplomacy, and emotional restraint with quiet precision.

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Dom Casmurro

Machado de Assis · 1899

Bentinho tells the story of his love for Capitu, but his jealousy and narrative control make every memory unstable.

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Esau and Jacob

Machado de Assis · 1904

Twin brothers embody rivalry, politics, and divided futures in a novel shaped by irony, observation, and national transition.

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Fourth Wing

Rebecca Yarros · 2023

At Basgiath War College, Violet Sorrengail is forced into the deadly world of dragon riders, where survival depends on strength, loyalty, strategy, and the bond between rider and dragon.

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Hag-Seed

Margaret Atwood · 2016

Atwood reimagines Shakespeare's The Tempest through Felix, a theatre director seeking revenge by staging the play inside a prison literacy program.

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Iron Flame

Rebecca Yarros · 2023

The second book in The Empyrean series raises the danger, the political pressure, and the emotional cost of Violet's place among the dragon riders.

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It Ends with Us

Colleen Hoover · 2016

Lily Bloom's new beginning in Boston becomes complicated when love, memory, family history, and painful choices collide.

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Lady Oracle

Margaret Atwood · 1976

Joan Foster, a writer of gothic romances, fakes her own death and looks back on a life shaped by secrets, reinvention, body image, fantasy, and performance.

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Life Before Man

Margaret Atwood · 1979

Set in Toronto, this novel follows three emotionally entangled adults whose relationships, losses, betrayals, and private disappointments reveal the quiet brutality of modern life.

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Love on the Brain

Ali Hazelwood · 2022

A neuroscientist lands a dream project at NASA, only to discover she will be working with a scientist from her past who may not be the enemy she imagined.

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MaddAddam

Margaret Atwood · 2013

The final book in the MaddAddam trilogy brings together survivors, myths, memories, and new forms of humanity in the aftermath of a broken world.

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Near to the Wild Heart

Clarice Lispector · 1943

Clarice's debut follows Joana's interior life in language that feels restless, intimate, and radically alive.

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Onyx Storm

Rebecca Yarros · 2025

The third book in The Empyrean series continues Violet's journey through war, power, loyalty, and dangerous truths that reshape everything she thought she understood.

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Oryx and Crake

Margaret Atwood · 2003

In a devastated future shaped by biotechnology, corporate greed, and ecological collapse, Snowman remembers the brilliant and dangerous figures of Oryx and Crake.

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People We Meet on Vacation

Emily Henry · 2021

Poppy and Alex are best friends who used to take a vacation together every year, until something changed between them. Now one last trip may decide what they really mean to each other.

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Quincas Borba

Machado de Assis · 1891

Rubião inherits a fortune and a philosophy, then enters a world of manipulation, vanity, and social performance.

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Reminders of Him

Colleen Hoover · 2022

After years away, Kenna Rowan returns to the town where everything changed, hoping to rebuild her life and reconnect with the daughter she has barely known.

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Surfacing

Margaret Atwood · 1972

A woman returns to a remote island in northern Quebec to search for her missing father, but the journey becomes an unsettling descent into memory, nature, nationalism, and fractured selfhood.

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The Alienist

Machado de Assis · 1882

A brilliant doctor opens an asylum and begins classifying sanity and madness in ways that turn an entire town into a satire of authority.

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The Blind Assassin

Margaret Atwood · 2000

A layered novel of family secrets, lost love, social decline, and stories within stories, The Blind Assassin moves between memoir, newspaper fragments, and a mysterious science-fiction tale.

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The Edible Woman

Margaret Atwood · 1969

Margaret Atwood's debut novel follows Marian McAlpin, a young woman whose ordinary life begins to feel strangely unstable as marriage, work, identity, and appetite close in around her.

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The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood · 1985

In the Republic of Gilead, Offred lives under a rigid authoritarian society that controls women's bodies, language, relationships, and memory.

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The Heart Goes Last

Margaret Atwood · 2015

In a collapsing economy, a couple joins a social experiment that promises stability, but its perfect order hides control, exploitation, and disturbing secrets.

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The Hour of the Star

Clarice Lispector · 1977

Macabéa, a poor typist from Brazil's Northeast, is narrated by a male writer who cannot escape the ethical discomfort of telling her story.

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The Love Hypothesis

Ali Hazelwood · 2021

A Ph.D. candidate enters a fake-dating arrangement with a famously intimidating professor, only to find that the experiment may become more complicated than expected.

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The Passion According to G.H.

Clarice Lispector · 1964

A woman enters a maid's room, encounters a cockroach, and experiences a terrifying philosophical and spiritual dissolution of the self.

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The Penelopiad

Margaret Atwood · 2005

Atwood retells the story of Penelope from The Odyssey , giving voice to the famous waiting wife and the twelve maids whose deaths haunt the myth.

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The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

Machado de Assis · 1881

A dead narrator writes his memoirs with wit, vanity, cruelty, and astonishing freedom, turning the novel itself into a game with the reader.

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The Robber Bride

Margaret Atwood · 1993

Three women are haunted by Zenia, a charismatic and destructive figure who has entered their lives, taken what she wanted, and left emotional wreckage behind.

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The Testaments

Margaret Atwood · 2019

Set years after The Handmaid's Tale , The Testaments expands the world of Gilead through multiple voices and a closer look at power from inside the system.

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The Year of the Flood

Margaret Atwood · 2009

The second novel in the MaddAddam trilogy tells the story of survivors connected to God's Gardeners, a religious ecological group living in the shadow of corporate collapse.

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Verity

Colleen Hoover · 2018

A struggling writer is hired to complete a bestselling author's unfinished series and discovers a manuscript that may reveal more than anyone expected.

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Água Viva

Clarice Lispector · 1973

A lyrical, fragmented work that feels like a voice thinking, painting, desiring, and trying to capture the instant before it disappears.

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