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A Time To Kill

A riveting court-room drama and a compelling tale of retribution and justicea in small town Mississippi, where both the crime and the fallout are highly racially charged...

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Memoirs of a Geisha

A world where women's artistry is to entice the most powerful men; where their virginity is auctioned to the highest bidder, and where love is scorned...

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The Killing Floor

Jack Reacher. Ex-Military Police, current drifter, is passing through a small town when he is suddenly arrested for a murder he knows nothing about. He expects the case of mistaken identity to be quickly resolved, but soon finds out that he is connected to the case... very intimately.

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The Big Sleep

The first book featuring tough-as-nails P.I. Philip Marlowe... private eye, educated, heroic, streetwise, rugged individualist, hero... a complete man, a common man, and yet, a highly unusual man.

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Divergent

Tedious and pretentious young adult novel set in an unrealistic dystopian Chicago

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Hyperion

Seven pilgrims set out on a potentially fatal one-way trip to visit the Time Tombs on the planet of Hyperion, where a godlike killing machine called the Shrike will possibly grant one of them a wish -- and probably slaughter the rest...

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Murder on the Orient Express

A train stopped at midnight in the snow. A dead body found in a compartment. Twelve stab wounds leave no doubt it was murder. And Hercule Poirot, tasked with solving the crime, is certain the culprit is a passenger on the Orient Express.

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Into Thin Air

A personal account of the Mount Everest disaster of 1996 by one of the climbers.

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

A classic study of shallowness, vanity, casual cruelty and hedonistic selfishness, all presented as a suspenseful Gothic horror novel

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Rosemary's Baby

Dark and twisted horror novel with a slow build-up of a sense of unease, with both the reader and the protagonist asking themselves, "Is there something ominous, or are we reading too much into nothing?"

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Station Eleven

Story detailing the lives of a group people living before, through and after a pandemic wipes most of humanity. 'Survival is insufficient' - Star Trek Voyager

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A Wrinkle in Time

Not entirely sure which genre to slot this book into, but that's OK, since it would be embarrassing for that genre to count this book in its ilk.

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