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Odd and The Frost Giants

★★★☆☆
Norse mythology retold as a children's adventure story

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The Dark Tower 2: The Drawing of the Three

★★★★☆
The gunslinger travels to New York, in our world, and enters the minds of three different people at different times

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We have always lived in the Castle

★★★★☆
A psychological horror novel which defined the genre, taking gothic horror to the next level

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Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine

★★★★☆
A lonely and isolated 30-something woman makes a friend, and starts to open herself up

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Carrie

★★★★☆
Stephen King's debut novel about a shy teen with telekinetic powers is a tour-de-force, which established him as a master of his craft

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Pachinko

★★★★★
A grand saga detailing the life of Sunja, from a small fishing village in occupied Korea to her life in Japan, and the repercussions of a decision she took as a teenager

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The Arabian Nights Entertainments

★★★☆☆
A collection of folk-tales from the Arab world, from the Islamic golden age

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Something Fresh

★★★★☆
The first ever Blandings castle book and, as it always happens, there are visitors to the castle under an assumed identity

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The Name of the Wind

★★★★★
Kvothe relates the story of his life, the tale of how he grew from a gifted child to be the most notorious wizard his world has ever seen

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Maltese Falcon

★★☆☆☆
Private eye Sam Spade finds himself surrounded by several parties all vying to get hold of a jewel encrusted bird

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Mickey7

★★★★☆
Mickey Barnes tries to survive in a "beachhead" colony on an alien world

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Contact

★★★★★
Humanity's search for extra-terrestrial intelligence is fruitful

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Crooked House

★★★☆☆
The wealthy Aristide Leonides is dead, poisoned through his medicine. But who has poisoned him?

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The Dark Tower 1: The Gunslinger

★★★★☆
Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came...

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The Exorcist

★★★★★
A young girl is possessed by a demon, and a pair of Jesuit priests perform the exorcism

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A Scanner Darkly

★★★☆☆
In a dystopian future, drug culture and use have been normalized and taken over the mainstream

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