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The Mysterious Affair at Styles

The first novel by Dame Agatha, and also the first in which the iconic Poirot makes an appearance

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Fooled by Randomness

A treatise on the role of randomness in all ventures, and how everyone often models all behaviour on repeating that one random outcome

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City of Bones

A young girl accidentally steps into a world of magic and discovers a lot about herself and her family

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The Alchemist

A young shepherd follows his dreams, quite literally, and learns alchemy along the way.

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Flood of Fire

The conclusion of the magnificent Ibis trilogy, and another foray into the language and history of the British Raj

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The Black Echo

LA detective and Vietnam vet Harry Bosch is called in to examine a body found in a drainage tunnel, but the case hits closer to home when he recognises the body as an old comrade

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Behind Her Eyes

A doctor's secretary get involved in the middle of having an affair with the doctor, while being a close confidant of his wife.

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Little Women

A coming-of-age novel set around the American Civil war, detailing the lives of four sisters from childhood to womanhood.

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Flowers for Algernon

A diary of an intellectually challenged young man detailing his experience being part of an experimental procedure to increase his intelligence

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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

An absent minded engineer's reality comes crashing down, and he ropes in the mysterious detective Dirk Gently to make sense of it

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The Assassin’s Apprentice

A young boy is taken in by the king’s men and trained to be an assassin, where he uses his unique gifts and intelligence to achieve his goals

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The Left Hand of Darkness

In a world far away, and a culture even further away, one human works to bridge the chasm of differences

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