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Maigret's Dead Man
by Georges Simenon
“A chance find leads to a violent crime a Man with no real luck runs out of luck just as he has found the clue he wanted to give the Great.”
The Grand Banks Café
by Georges Simenon
“Maigret is asked by an old friend to look into the case of a former pupil of his who has been arrested for murder in the fishing port of Fécamp.”
My Friend Maigret
by Georges Simenon
“By the end of the novel, Maigret has been both seduced and repulsed by Porquerelles.”

Top 10 Best Mary Kay Andrews Books

Added 2026-02-08 · 10 books
The Fixer Upper: A Novel
by Mary Kay Andrews
“Entertaining, yet timely story line.”
Spring Fever: A Novel
by Mary Kay Andrews
“Andrews deftly combines a winsome love story and compelling family drama.”
The Santa Suit: A Novel
by Mary Kay Andrews

bookandnovel

Added 2026-02-15 · 30 books
Switch: Alien Invasion/Violence&S*x
by Unknown
“Your planet will be used as bait while my race flees to an unknown world.”
Record of a Demon's Cultivation
by Unknown
“The MC is pretty intelligent, and his past is unknown.”
The Cockroach-like Girl Is My Beast
by Unknown
“The story is engaging and the characters are well-developed.”

The 100 Best YA Books of All Time

Added 2026-02-15 · 49 books
The Hunger Games
by Suzanne Collins
“This is my favorite dystopian read.”
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
“Rereading the novel as an adult, I came to admire it for its clear-eyed depiction of American tribalism in its three major manifestations: race, class, and gender.”
Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
“It gave you a sense of what it was like to be a normal family in the 1800s.”

Most Recommended Books

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In Cold Blood

In Cold Blood

by Truman Capote On 16 lists
“If the moral clash between Herb Clutter and his killers lies at the core of In Cold Blood, a clash of a cultural kind lay behind its writing.”
★ 4.35 / 5 True Crime
Beloved

Beloved

by Toni Morrison On 14 lists
“The characters are complex.”
★ 4.42 / 5 Literary Fiction
The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games

by Suzanne Collins On 13 lists
“This is my favorite dystopian read.”
Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen On 12 lists
“Up until about page one hundred I found this book vexing, frivolous and down right tedious.”
★ 4.37 / 5 Romance
To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee On 11 lists
“Rereading the novel as an adult, I came to admire it for its clear-eyed depiction of American tribalism in its three major manifestations: race, class, and gender.”
★ 4.55 / 5 Literary Fiction