en-US Sun, 27 Apr 2025 06:59:24 -0700 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg 58778536
To avoid spending her life in prison, Quinn makes a run for it. She leaves behind her home, her job, and her family. She grabs her passport and heads for the northern border before the police can discover what she’s done.

But when an unexpected snowstorm forces her off the road, Quinn must take refuge at the broken-down, isolated Baxter Motel. The handsome and kindly owner, Nick Baxter, is only too happy to offer her a cheap room for the night.

Unfortunately, the Baxter Motel isn’t the quiet, safe haven it seemed to be. The motel has a dark and disturbing past. And in the dilapidated house across the way, the silhouette of Nick's ailing wife is always at the window. Always watching.

In the morning, Quinn must leave the motel. She'll pack up her belongings and get back on the road to freedom.

But first, she must survive the night.

Do Not Disturb is a Hitchcock-style psychological thriller that will keep you tearing through the pages until you reach the shocking conclusion!]]> 325 Freida McFadden Niranjan 2 3.93 2021
author: Freida McFadden
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2021
rating: 2
read at: 2025/04/27
date added: 2025/04/27
shelves:
review:

]]> 194020321
While going through their parents' belongings, the siblings stumble upon a collection of home videos and decide to revisit those happier memories. However, the nostalgia is cut short when one of the VHS tapes reveals a night back in 1999 that none of them have any recollection of. On screen, their father appears covered in blood. What follows is a dead body and a pact between their parents to get rid of it, before the video abruptly ends.

Beth, Nicole, and Michael must now decide whether to leave the past in the past or uncover the dark secret their mother took to her grave.]]> 256 Jeneva Rose Niranjan 0 to-read 3.77 2024
author: Jeneva Rose
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.77
book published: 2024
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/04/19
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 57795665
While eleven-year-old Nora Davis was up in her bedroom doing homework, she had no idea her father was killing women in the basement.

Until the day the police arrived at their front door.

Decades later, Nora’s father is spending his life behind bars, and Nora is a successful surgeon with a quiet, solitary existence. Nobody knows her father was a notorious serial killer. And she intends to keep it that way.

Then Nora discovers one of her young female patients has been murdered. In the same unique and horrific manner that her father used to kill his victims.

Somebody knows who Nora is. Somebody wants her to take the fall for this unthinkable crime. But she’s not a killer like her father. The police can’t pin anything on her.

As long as they don’t look in her basement.]]> 313 Freida McFadden Niranjan 4 4.00 2021
author: Freida McFadden
name: Niranjan
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2021
rating: 4
read at: 2025/04/15
date added: 2025/04/15
shelves:
review:

]]> 164749374
Separated from Dolly and driven by desperate rage, Cutter won't stop until she exacts her revenge on Erica.]]> 31 James Tynion IV 1637968434 Niranjan 0 currently-reading 4.27 2023
author: James Tynion IV
name: Niranjan
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/04/11
shelves: currently-reading
review:

]]> 123471696 And even if she can save the town and make it out alive, she’s still a rogue hunter, and the Order isn’t known for their mercy…]]> 28 James Tynion IV 1939867738 Niranjan 3 4.22 2023
author: James Tynion IV
name: Niranjan
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2023
rating: 3
read at: 2025/04/11
date added: 2025/04/11
shelves:
review:

]]> 122923180 But Cutter’s looming arrival isn’t the only thing competing for the rogue Black Mask’s attention.
Gabi has her own plans–ones that put her in grave danger.]]> 31 James Tynion IV 1939867371 Niranjan 4 4.29 2023
author: James Tynion IV
name: Niranjan
average rating: 4.29
book published: 2023
rating: 4
read at: 2025/04/11
date added: 2025/04/11
shelves:
review:

]]> 74965693 25 James Tynion IV 1939867088 Niranjan 4 4.31 2023
author: James Tynion IV
name: Niranjan
average rating: 4.31
book published: 2023
rating: 4
read at: 2025/04/11
date added: 2025/04/11
shelves:
review:

]]> 63345348 29 James Tynion IV Niranjan 3 4.23 2022
author: James Tynion IV
name: Niranjan
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2022
rating: 3
read at: 2025/04/11
date added: 2025/04/11
shelves:
review:

]]> 134590362 136 James Tynion IV 1534398651 Niranjan 0 to-read 4.11 2023
author: James Tynion IV
name: Niranjan
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/04/11
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 146500895
Meet Ellie "Bloody El" Hawthorne, occultist-for-hire. After the death of her uncle Alfie, an infamous magician and occult detective, the 72 devils of the Ars Goetia are mysteriously freed from their infernal realm. It’s now up to Ellie to track down each of these demons and damn them right back to Hell� using holy water, conjuration, or just her trusty, rusty claw hammer. Meanwhile Dora, a detective traumatized by the same events as Ellie, is suspicious of the untimely death of Alfie. As new terrors unfold, the two witness strange changes to the political landscape of a gibbering madness infecting the population. Alfie’s meddling made more than just the mortal realm a nightmare, so it’s up to Bloody El to set things right� with only eternity at stake. Legendary The Walking Dead artist Charlie Adlard teams up with Step By Bloody Step scribe Simon Spurrier to bring readers the most macabre and tenacious new occult antihero since John Constantine! Includes Damn Them All issue #1-6!]]> 176 Simon Spurrier 1684159113 Niranjan 0 to-read 3.71
author: Simon Spurrier
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.71
book published:
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/04/11
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 63129587 29 James Tynion IV Niranjan 3 4.27 2022
author: James Tynion IV
name: Niranjan
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2022
rating: 3
read at: 2025/04/11
date added: 2025/04/11
shelves:
review:

]]> 4982 224 Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Niranjan 4 4.16 1959
author: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
name: Niranjan
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1959
rating: 4
read at: 2025/04/11
date added: 2025/04/11
shelves:
review:

]]> 19691 Somewhere under the Atlantic, a Soviet sub commander has just made a fateful decision. The Red October is heading west. The Americans want her. The Russians want her back. And the most incredible chase in history is on...

]]> 432 Tom Clancy 0425172902 Niranjan 2 4.11 1984
author: Tom Clancy
name: Niranjan
average rating: 4.11
book published: 1984
rating: 2
read at: 2025/04/11
date added: 2025/04/11
shelves:
review:

]]> 221733727 There’s no place like home�

Blake Porter is riding high, until he's not. Fired abruptly from his job as a VP of marketing and unable to make the mortgage payments on the new brownstone that he shares with his fiancee, he's desperate to make ends meet.

Enter Whitney. Beautiful, charming, down-to-earth, and looking for a room to rent. She's exactly what Blake's looking for. Or is she?

Because something isn't quite right. The neighbors start treating Blake differently. The smell of decay permeates his home, no matter how hard he scrubs. Strange noises jar him awake in the middle of the night. And soon Blake fears someone knows his darkest secrets...

Danger lives right at home, and by the time Blake realizes it, it'll be far too late. The trap is already set.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden knocks at your door with a gripping story of revenge, privilege, and secrets turned sour�]]> 368 Freida McFadden 1464238812 Niranjan 0 to-read 4.28 2025
author: Freida McFadden
name: Niranjan
average rating: 4.28
book published: 2025
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/04/06
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 212375021 Three women. Three smouldering secrets. Who will make it out alive?

It’s 5 November, and a woman awakens to a nightmare. Bound and gagged, she lies trapped in the heart of a towering bonfire. As the smoke thickens, panic sets in � she’s moments away from being engulfed in flames. How did it come to this?

Rewind eleven months: Margot, a faded TV star, and her long-suffering friend Anna watch as glamorous Liv and her flawless family move into their street. The three women soon fabricate the perfect pretence of friendship, but each harbours her own deadly secret � and newcomer Liv senses something is terribly wrong beneath the polished exteriors.

As cracks widen in the veneer of perfection and lies escalate out of control, tension ignites. Bonfire Night is approaching and someone is set to burn…But who will it be?]]> 385 John Marrs 166250649X Niranjan 0 to-read 3.96 2025
author: John Marrs
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2025
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/04/06
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 19227888 "Tk'Tk'Tk" won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 2006.

"Tk'Tk'Tk," a short story, is also available as part of Space Magic, an award-winning collection of science fiction and fantasy stories by David D. Levine.]]> 26 David D. Levine 161138219X Niranjan 3 3.74 2012
author: David D. Levine
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.74
book published: 2012
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 2025/04/03
shelves:
review:

]]> 18214414 Private investigator Cormoran Strike returns in a new mystery from Robert Galbraith, author of the #1 international bestseller The Cuckoo's Calling.

When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, Mrs. Quine just thinks her husband has gone off by himself for a few days—as he has done before—and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home.

But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realizes. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. If the novel were to be published, it would ruin lives—meaning that there are a lot of people who might want him silenced.

When Quine is found brutally murdered under bizarre circumstances, it becomes a race against time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer, a killer unlike any Strike has encountered before...]]> 464 Robert Galbraith 0316206873 Niranjan 4 4.02 2014
author: Robert Galbraith
name: Niranjan
average rating: 4.02
book published: 2014
rating: 4
read at: 2025/03/28
date added: 2025/03/28
shelves:
review:

]]> 6288
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other.

The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, “each the other’s world entire,� are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.]]> 241 Cormac McCarthy 0307265439 Niranjan 3 3.99 2006
author: Cormac McCarthy
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2006
rating: 3
read at: 2025/03/24
date added: 2025/03/24
shelves:
review:

]]> 223101131 Winner Best Short Story Hugo Award 2023
Winner Best Short Story Nebula Award 2023]]> 26 Samantha Mills Niranjan 4 4.26
author: Samantha Mills
name: Niranjan
average rating: 4.26
book published:
rating: 4
read at: 2025/03/07
date added: 2025/03/07
shelves:
review:

]]> 16160797 456 Robert Galbraith 0316206849 Niranjan 5 3.88 2013
author: Robert Galbraith
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2013
rating: 5
read at: 2025/03/04
date added: 2025/03/04
shelves:
review:

]]> 12125412 10 Frank R. Stockton Niranjan 3 3.94
author: Frank R. Stockton
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.94
book published:
rating: 3
read at: 2013/05/01
date added: 2025/02/28
shelves:
review:

]]> 216351856 When a daring art heist takes place at the Regency Grand, Molly’s life is threatened. The question is who’s out to get her, and why? Long-buried secrets will be revealed in this intriguing and heartwarming novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Maid and The Mystery Guest

A wedding. A heist. A secret.

Molly Gray’s life is about to change in ways she could never have imagined. As the esteemed Head Maid and recently promoted Special Events Manager of the Regency Grand Hotel, good things are just around the corner, including her marriage to her beloved fiancé, Juan Manuel, only two months away. 

But Molly’s entire existence is upended when a film crew descends upon the hotel to shoot the hit reality TV show Hidden Treasures, starring popular art appraisers Brown and Beagle. On a whim, Molly brings in a shoebox containing a few of her gran’s old things for appraisal, and much to everyone's surprise, one item turns out to be a rare and priceless treasure. Instantly, Molly is both a multi-millionaire and a media sensation—the world’s rags-to-riches darling—until the priceless piece vanishes from the hotel in the boldest, brashest antiquities heist in recent memory.

The key to the mystery lies in the past, in a long-forgotten diary written by Molly’s gran. For the first time ever, Molly learns about Gran’s true-to-life fairytale, a young girl to the manor born, the only child of a wealthy magnate. But when Gran falls head over heels in love with a young man her parents deem below her station, her life is thrown into turmoil. As fate would have it, the greatest love of Gran’s life is someone Molly knows quite well�.

Together with her friends, Molly combs the past and the present to catch the thief before looming threats against her become real.

A spirited heist caper and an epic love story, The Maid’s Secret is a spellbinding whodunnit that will capture and warm your heart.]]> 336 Nita Prose 0593875419 Niranjan 0 to-read 3.94 2025
author: Nita Prose
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2025
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/02/25
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 195474144 From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, a richly detailed and sharply drawn collection of stories set in New York and Los Angeles. The millions of readers of Amor Towles are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter six stories set in New York City and a novella in Los Angeles. The New York stories, most of which are set around the turn of the millennium, take up everything from the death-defying acrobatics of the male ego, to the fateful consequences of brief encounters, and the delicate mechanics of compromise which operate at the heart of modern marriages. In Towles’s novel, Rules of Civility, the indomitable Evelyn Ross leaves New York City in September, 1938, with the intention of returning home to Indiana. But as her train pulls into Chicago, where her parents are waiting, she instead extends her ticket to Los Angeles. Told from seven points of view, “Eve in Hollywood� describes how Eve crafts a new future for herself—and others—in the midst of Hollywood’s golden age. Throughout the stories, two characters often find themselves sitting across a table for two where the direction of their futures may hinge upon what they say to each other next. Written with his signature wit, humor, and sophistication, Table for Two is another glittering addition to Towles’s canon of stylish and transporting historical fiction.]]> 451 Amor Towles 0593296370 Niranjan 0 to-read 4.15 2024
author: Amor Towles
name: Niranjan
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2024
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/02/25
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 216223604 The nightmare she’s running from is nothing compared to where she’s headed.

Tegan is eight months pregnant, alone, and desperately wants to put her crumbling life in the rearview mirror. So she hits the road, planning to stay with her brother until she can figure out her next move. But she doesn’t realize she’s heading straight into a blizzard.

She never arrives at her destination.

Stranded in rural Maine with a dead car and broken ankle, Tegan worries she’s made a terrible mistake. Then a miracle she is rescued by a couple who offers her a room in their warm cabin until the snow clears.

But something isn’t right. Tegan believed she was waiting out the storm, but as time ticks by, she comes to realize she is in grave danger. This safe haven isn’t what she thought it was, and staying here may have been her most deadly mistake yet.

And now she must do whatever it takes to save herself—and her unborn child.

A gut-wrenching story of motherhood, survival, and twisted expectations, #1 New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden delivers a snowbound thriller that will chill you to the bone.
]]> 384 Freida McFadden 1464232989 Niranjan 0 to-read 3.58 2025
author: Freida McFadden
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.58
book published: 2025
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/02/25
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 46000520
But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, the Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their first live case. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron might be pushing eighty but they still have a few tricks up their sleeves.

Can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer before it's too late?

Alternate cover edition can be found here .]]> 382 Richard Osman Niranjan 0 currently-reading 3.87 2020
author: Richard Osman
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2020
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/02/25
shelves: currently-reading
review:

]]> 131359
Who is also on board? Christie's great detective Hercule Poirot is on holiday. He recalls an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: �I’d like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger.� Despite the exotic setting, nothing is ever quite what it seems…]]> 352 Agatha Christie Niranjan 4 4.13 1937
author: Agatha Christie
name: Niranjan
average rating: 4.13
book published: 1937
rating: 4
read at: 2025/02/25
date added: 2025/02/25
shelves:
review:

]]> 75364067 27 Dennis McNicholas Niranjan 0 to-read 3.70
author: Dennis McNicholas
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.70
book published:
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/02/25
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 16344
So, on April 17th she wrote about her anxieties and suspicions in a letter to Hercule Poirot. And included a request that he consult with her as soon as possible. Mysteriously he didn’t receive the letter until June 28th � by which time Emily was already dead.]]> 317 Agatha Christie 0007120796 Niranjan 2 3.88 1937
author: Agatha Christie
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.88
book published: 1937
rating: 2
read at: 2025/02/21
date added: 2025/02/21
shelves:
review:

]]> 33153548
Old soldiers never die…and some of them don’t even fade away. Cursed with immortality, Andromache of Scythia and her comrades-in-arms ply their trade for those who can find—and afford—their services. But in the 21st century, being immortal is a difficult secret to keep, and when you live long enough, you learn that there are many fates far worse than death.

Collects THE OLD GUARD #1-5]]> 169 Greg Rucka Niranjan 0 to-read 3.99 2017
author: Greg Rucka
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2017
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/02/16
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 13627214 "This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper."

'The Hollow Men' is a poem by T. S. Eliot written in 1925, divided into five parts and consists of 98 lines. Eliot's New York Times obituary in 1965 identified the final four as "probably the most quoted lines of any 20th-century poet writing in English".

The poem follows the otherworldly journey of the spiritually dead. These "hollow men" are broken, lost souls. They fail to transform their motions into actions, conception to creation, desire to fulfillment. They did not put any good or evil into the world, so they cannot move on into the afterlife.

T.S. Elliot was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic, and editor. Born in 1888 in St. Louis (MO, USA), he is considered one of the 20th century's major poets, and a central figure in English-language Modernist poetry."In ten years' time," wrote Edmund Wilson in Axel's Castle (1931), "Elliot has left upon English poetry a mark more unmistakable than that of any other poet writing in English." In 1948, Eliot was awarded the Nobel Price "for his work as a trail-blazing pioneer of modern poetry."]]> 4 T.S. Eliot Niranjan 4 4.32 1925
author: T.S. Eliot
name: Niranjan
average rating: 4.32
book published: 1925
rating: 4
read at: 2025/02/15
date added: 2025/02/15
shelves:
review:

]]> 9276512 32 Books LLC 115636938X Niranjan 4 3.69 2010
author: Books LLC
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.69
book published: 2010
rating: 4
read at: 2025/02/14
date added: 2025/02/14
shelves:
review:

]]> 75523433 Lisbeth Salander returns, in a trailblazing new installment to the best-selling Millennium series.

Change is coming to Sweden’s far north: its untapped natural resources are sparking a gold rush with the criminal underworld leading the charge. But it’s not the prospect of riches that brings Lisbeth Salander to the small town of Gasskas. She has been named guardian to her niece Svala, whose mother has disappeared. Two things soon become clear: Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager—and she’s being watched.

Mikael Blomkvist is also heading north. He has seen better days. Millennium magazine is in its final print issue, and relations with his daughter are strained. Worse still, there are troubling rumors surrounding the man she’s about to marry. When the truth behind the whispers explodes into violence, Salander emerges as Blomkvist’s last hope.

A pulse-pounding thriller, The Girl in the Eagle’s Talons sees Salander and Blomkvist navigating a world of conspiracy and betrayal, old enemies and new friends, ice-bound wilderness and the global corporations that threaten to tear it apart.]]> 368 Karin Smirnoff 059353669X Niranjan 3 3.29 2022
author: Karin Smirnoff
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.29
book published: 2022
rating: 3
read at: 2025/02/12
date added: 2025/02/12
shelves:
review:

]]> 60795459
Passing into the Archive should be cause for celebration, but Antigone’s parents were murdered, leaving her father’s throne vacant. As her militant uncle Kreon rises to claim it, all Antigone feels is rage. When he welcomes her and her siblings into his mansion, Antigone sees it for what it really is: a gilded cage, where she is a captive as well as a guest.

But her uncle will soon learn that no cage is unbreakable. And neither is he.

From dystopian visionary and bestselling phenomenon Veronica Roth comes a razor-sharp reimagining of Antigone. In Arch-Conspirator, Roth reaches back to the root of legend and delivers a world of tomorrow both timeless and unexpected.]]> 112 Veronica Roth 1250855462 Niranjan 0 to-read 3.43 2023
author: Veronica Roth
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.43
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/02/10
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 6597651
Emiko is the Windup Girl, a strange and beautiful creature. One of the New People, Emiko is not human; instead, she is an engineered being, creche-grown and programmed to satisfy the decadent whims of a Kyoto businessman, but now abandoned to the streets of Bangkok. Regarded as soulless beings by some, devils by others, New People are slaves, soldiers, and toys of the rich in a chilling near future in which calorie companies rule the world, the oil age has passed, and the side effects of bio-engineered plagues run rampant across the globe.

What Happens when calories become currency? What happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits, when said bio-terrorism's genetic drift forces mankind to the cusp of post-human evolution? Award-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi delivers one of the most highly acclaimed science fiction novels of the twenty-first century.]]> 359 Paolo Bacigalupi 1597801577 Niranjan 0 to-read 3.75 2009
author: Paolo Bacigalupi
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.75
book published: 2009
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/02/10
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 18298399
However the lead inspector, our friend Japp, was sufficiently doubtful about the cause of death that he called in the help of Hercule Poirot. Where will the inconsistencies lead?

Librarian's note: this entry is for the short story, "Murder in the Mews." Collections of stories by the author, including the collection with this one as the lead story, can be found elsewhere on Ĺ·±¦ÓéŔÖ. The individual entries for all Poirot short stories can be found by searching Ĺ·±¦ÓéŔÖ for: "a Hercule Poirot Short Story."]]> 78 Agatha Christie Niranjan 3 3.86 1937
author: Agatha Christie
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.86
book published: 1937
rating: 3
read at: 2025/02/08
date added: 2025/02/08
shelves:
review:

]]> 214922164 35 Naomi Kritzer Niranjan 3 4.18 2023
author: Naomi Kritzer
name: Niranjan
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2023
rating: 3
read at: 2025/02/08
date added: 2025/02/08
shelves:
review:

]]> 22137606
Nel grande classico di John Wood Campbell jr "La cosa", dal quale sono stati tratti ben tre film, abbiamo seguito la storia degli uomini della base nell'antartico che scoprono nei ghiacci una creatura aliena, un mostro, una "cosa" terrificante. Ma la storia può essere vista anche da un altro punto di vista. Quello di un viaggiatore dello spazio che dopo un incidente si risveglia circondato da esseri alieni che gli danno la caccia. Esseri che a loro volta, dal "suo" punto di vista, sono mostri, sono "cose" altrettanto terrificanti. Finalista a tutti i maggiori premi del settore e vincitore del premio Shirley Jackson per il suspense psicologico, un piccolo classico che non vi farà più vedere i mostri nello stesso modo.

Canadese, classe 1958, Peter Watts ha vinto il premio Hugo nel 2010 col racconto "L'isola", ma c'era giĂ  arrivato vicino nel 2006 col romanzo "Blindsight". Biologo specializzato nei mammiferi marini, Watts ha sfruttato le sue conoscenze scientifiche nel romanzo con cui ha esordito, "Starfish", al quale ha dato finora tre seguiti.]]> 52 Peter Watts Niranjan 5 4.30 2010
author: Peter Watts
name: Niranjan
average rating: 4.30
book published: 2010
rating: 5
read at: 2014/09/20
date added: 2025/02/08
shelves:
review:

]]> 16299
"Ten little boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were nine. Nine little boys sat up very late; One overslept himself and then there were eight. Eight little boys traveling in Devon; One said he'd stay there then there were seven. Seven little boys chopping up sticks; One chopped himself in half and then there were six. Six little boys playing with a hive; A bumblebee stung one and then there were five. Five little boys going in for law; One got in Chancery and then there were four. Four little boys going out to sea; A red herring swallowed one and then there were three. Three little boys walking in the zoo; A big bear hugged one and then there were two. Two little boys sitting in the sun; One got frizzled up and then there was one. One little boy left all alone; He went out and hanged himself and then there were none."

When they realize that murders are occurring as described in the rhyme, terror mounts. One by one they fall prey. Before the weekend is out, there will be none. Who has choreographed this dastardly scheme? And who will be left to tell the tale? Only the dead are above suspicion.]]> 264 Agatha Christie 0312330871 Niranjan 5 4.28 1939
author: Agatha Christie
name: Niranjan
average rating: 4.28
book published: 1939
rating: 5
read at: 2025/02/07
date added: 2025/02/07
shelves:
review:

]]> 211004123 The million-copy bestselling Queen of Twists Alice Feeney returns with a gripping and deliciously dark thriller about marriage. . .
. . . and revenge.

Author Grady Green is having the worst best day of his life.

Grady calls his wife to share some exciting news as she is driving home. He hears Abby slam on the brakes, get out of the car, then nothing. When he eventually finds her car by the cliff edge the headlights are on, the driver door is open, her phone is still there. . . but his wife has disappeared.

A year later, Grady is still overcome with grief and desperate to know what happened to Abby. He can’t sleep, and he can’t write, so he travels to a tiny Scottish island to try to get his life back on track. Then he sees the impossible � a woman who looks exactly like his missing wife.

Wives think their husbands will change but they don’t.
Husbands think their wives won’t change but they do.]]> 306 Alice Feeney 125033778X Niranjan 0 to-read 3.64 2025
author: Alice Feeney
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.64
book published: 2025
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/02/01
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 57127277 “I was born on the full moon under an auspicious constellation, the holiest of positions—much good it did me.�

So begins Kaikeyi’s story. The only daughter of the kingdom of Kekaya, she is raised on tales about the might and benevolence of the gods: how they churned the vast ocean to obtain the nectar of immortality, how they vanquish evil and ensure the land of Bharat prospers, and how they offer powerful boons to the worthy. Yet she watches as her father unceremoniously banishes her mother, listens as her own worth is reduced to the marriage alliance she can secure. And when she calls upon the gods for help, they never seem to hear.

Desperate for independence, she turns to the texts she once read with her mother and discovers a magic that is hers alone. With it, Kaikeyi transforms herself from an overlooked princess into a warrior, diplomat, and most favored queen.

But as the evil from her childhood stories threatens the cosmic order, the path she has forged clashes with the destiny the gods have chosen for her family. And Kaikeyi must decide if resistance is worth the destruction it will wreak—and what legacy she intends to leave behind.

The unforgettable tale of a woman determined to leave her mark in a world gods and men dictate the shape of things to come. "Patel's mesmerizing debut shines a brilliant light on the vilified queen from the Ramayana"
(Publishers Weekly, starred review).]]> 478 Vaishnavi Patel 0759557330 Niranjan 0 to-read 4.18 2022
author: Vaishnavi Patel
name: Niranjan
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2022
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/02/01
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 223889699
But Prague is an old and dangerous city, steeped in folklore and mystery. For over two thousand years, the tides of history have washed back and forth over it, leaving behind echoes of everything that has gone before. Little can Langdon know that he is being stalked by a spectre from that dark past. He must use all of his arcane knowledge to decipher the world around him before he too is consumed by the rings of treachery and deception that have swallowed Katherine.

Against a backdrop of vast castles, towering churches, graveyards buried twelve deep and labyrinthine underground passages, Langdon must navigate a shadow city hiding in plain sight, a city which has successfully kept its secrets for centuries and will not readily deliver them. This is a battlefield unlike any he has previously experienced, one on which he must fight not for his only life, but for the future of humanity itself.

The Secret Of Secrets is Dan Brown’s first novel for over eight years and sees the stunning return of Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, this time pitting his wits against a conspiracy which will test even his considerable brainpower and take him to the edge of losing all that he holds dear…]]> 688 Dan Brown 0385546890 Niranjan 0 to-read 4.47 2025
author: Dan Brown
name: Niranjan
average rating: 4.47
book published: 2025
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/02/01
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 195967140 A mind-bending, psychological thriller from Freida McFadden, the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Housemaid!

Lesson #1: trust no one

Eve has a good life. She gets up each day, gets a kiss from her husband Nate, and heads off to teach math at the local high school. All is as it should be. Except�

Last year, Caseham High was rocked by a scandal involving a student-teacher affair, with one student, Addie, at its center. But Eve knows there is far more to these ugly rumors than meets the eye.

Addie can't be trusted. She lies. She hurts people. She destroys lives. At least, that's what everyone says.

But nobody knows the real Addie. Nobody knows the secrets that could destroy her. And Addie will do anything to keep it quiet.

From the New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden comes a story of twisting secrets and long-awaited revenge.]]> 379 Freida McFadden 1728296218 Niranjan 4 3.82 2024
author: Freida McFadden
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2024
rating: 4
read at: 2025/02/01
date added: 2025/02/01
shelves:
review:

]]> 199743738 Secrets. Lies. Murder. Let the festivities begin...

It’s the opening night of The Manor, and no expense, small or large, has been spared. The infinity pool sparkles; crystal pouches for guests� healing have been placed in the Seaside Cottages and Woodland Hutches; the “Manor Mule� cocktail (grapefruit, ginger, vodka, and a dash of CBD oil) is being poured with a heavy hand. Everyone is wearing linen.

But under the burning midsummer sun, darkness stirs. Old friends and enemies circulate among the guests. Just outside the Manor’s immaculately kept grounds, an ancient forest bristles with secrets. And the Sunday morning of opening weekend, the local police are called. Something’s not right with the guests. There’s been a fire. A body’s been discovered.

THE FOUNDER * THE HUSBAND * THE MYSTERY GUEST * THE KITCHEN HELP

It all began with a secret, fifteen years ago. Now the past has crashed the party. And it’ll end in murder at� The Midnight Feast.]]> 354 Lucy Foley 0063003104 Niranjan 4 3.55 2024
author: Lucy Foley
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.55
book published: 2024
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/31
date added: 2025/01/31
shelves:
review:

]]> 33139434 24 Garth Ennis Niranjan 3 3.77
author: Garth Ennis
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.77
book published:
rating: 3
read at: 2019/10/06
date added: 2025/01/29
shelves:
review:

]]> 33139432 24 Garth Ennis Niranjan 4 3.55
author: Garth Ennis
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.55
book published:
rating: 4
read at: 2019/10/06
date added: 2025/01/29
shelves:
review:

]]> 33139430 24 Garth Ennis Niranjan 4 3.65
author: Garth Ennis
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.65
book published:
rating: 4
read at: 2019/10/06
date added: 2025/01/29
shelves:
review:

]]> 33139420 24 Garth Ennis Niranjan 3 3.70
author: Garth Ennis
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.70
book published:
rating: 3
read at: 2019/10/06
date added: 2025/01/29
shelves:
review:

]]> 33139417 24 Garth Ennis Niranjan 4 3.81
author: Garth Ennis
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.81
book published:
rating: 4
read at: 2019/10/06
date added: 2025/01/29
shelves:
review:

]]> 33136054 23 Garth Ennis Niranjan 4 3.81
author: Garth Ennis
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.81
book published:
rating: 4
read at: 2019/10/06
date added: 2025/01/29
shelves:
review:

]]> 33136052 24 Garth Ennis Niranjan 4 3.90
author: Garth Ennis
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.90
book published:
rating: 4
read at: 2019/10/06
date added: 2025/01/29
shelves:
review:

]]> 33136046 24 Garth Ennis Niranjan 5 4.10
author: Garth Ennis
name: Niranjan
average rating: 4.10
book published:
rating: 5
read at: 2019/10/06
date added: 2025/01/29
shelves:
review:

]]> 33131796 24 Garth Ennis Niranjan 4 3.89
author: Garth Ennis
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.89
book published:
rating: 4
read at: 2019/10/06
date added: 2025/01/29
shelves:
review:

]]> 33136042 24 Garth Ennis Niranjan 4 3.90
author: Garth Ennis
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.90
book published:
rating: 4
read at: 2019/10/06
date added: 2025/01/29
shelves:
review:

]]> 33131791 24 Garth Ennis Niranjan 3 3.86
author: Garth Ennis
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.86
book published:
rating: 3
read at: 2019/10/06
date added: 2025/01/29
shelves:
review:

]]> 33131769 24 Garth Ennis Niranjan 4 3.78 2014
author: Garth Ennis
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2014
rating: 4
read at: 2019/10/06
date added: 2025/01/29
shelves:
review:

]]> 33131766 24 Garth Ennis Niranjan 4 3.77 2014
author: Garth Ennis
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.77
book published: 2014
rating: 4
read at: 2019/10/06
date added: 2025/01/29
shelves:
review:

]]> 33131759 24 Garth Ennis Niranjan 5 3.87
author: Garth Ennis
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.87
book published:
rating: 5
read at: 2019/10/06
date added: 2025/01/29
shelves:
review:

]]> 33131643 24 Garth Ennis Niranjan 4 3.89
author: Garth Ennis
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.89
book published:
rating: 4
read at: 2019/10/06
date added: 2025/01/29
shelves:
review:

]]> 33131634 23 Garth Ennis Niranjan 5 3.79
author: Garth Ennis
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.79
book published:
rating: 5
read at: 2019/10/06
date added: 2025/01/29
shelves:
review:

]]> 33131632 24 Garth Ennis Niranjan 4 3.84
author: Garth Ennis
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.84
book published:
rating: 4
read at: 2019/10/06
date added: 2025/01/29
shelves:
review:

]]> 32311438 24 Garth Ennis Niranjan 4 3.83
author: Garth Ennis
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.83
book published:
rating: 4
read at: 2019/10/06
date added: 2025/01/29
shelves:
review:

]]> 33121060 22 Garth Ennis Niranjan 4 3.69
author: Garth Ennis
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.69
book published:
rating: 4
read at: 2019/08/31
date added: 2025/01/29
shelves:
review:

]]> 33127532 23 Garth Ennis Niranjan 5 3.85
author: Garth Ennis
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.85
book published:
rating: 5
read at: 2019/09/01
date added: 2025/01/29
shelves:
review:

]]> 33127533 23 Garth Ennis Niranjan 5 3.84
author: Garth Ennis
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.84
book published:
rating: 5
read at: 2019/09/01
date added: 2025/01/29
shelves:
review:

]]> 33127549 24 Garth Ennis Niranjan 5 3.70
author: Garth Ennis
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.70
book published:
rating: 5
read at: 2019/10/06
date added: 2025/01/29
shelves:
review:

]]> 33131571 24 Garth Ennis Niranjan 4 3.62
author: Garth Ennis
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.62
book published:
rating: 4
read at: 2019/10/06
date added: 2025/01/29
shelves:
review:

]]> 32311409 24 Garth Ennis Niranjan 4 3.64
author: Garth Ennis
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.64
book published:
rating: 4
read at: 2019/10/06
date added: 2025/01/29
shelves:
review:

]]> 33121062 22 Garth Ennis Niranjan 4 3.77
author: Garth Ennis
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.77
book published:
rating: 4
read at: 2019/08/31
date added: 2025/01/29
shelves:
review:

]]> 16297
Mr. Shaitana was famous, as were his parties. He was also a man of whom everybody was a little afraid. So, when he boasted to Poirot that he considered murder an art form, the detective had some reservations about accepting a party invitation of cards and viewing Shaitana’s private art collection. Indeed, what began as an absorbing evening of bridge was to turn into a more dangerous game altogether…]]> 324 Agatha Christie 0425205959 Niranjan 4 3.94 1936
author: Agatha Christie
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.94
book published: 1936
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/26
date added: 2025/01/26
shelves:
review:

]]> 16360
It was clear to nurse Amy Leatheran that something sinister was going on at the Hassanieh dig, something associated with the presence of �Lovely Louise�, the wife of the celebrated archaeologist Dr. Leidner. But she couldn't pinpoint it.

In a few days� time Hercule Poirot was due to drop in at the excavation site. With Louise suffering terrifying hallucinations, and tension within the group becoming almost unbearable, Poirot might just be too late…]]> 264 Agatha Christie 0007113803 Niranjan 4 3.92 1936
author: Agatha Christie
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.92
book published: 1936
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/26
date added: 2025/01/26
shelves:
review:

]]> 16322
There's a serial killer on the loose. His macabre calling card is to leave the ABC Railway Guide beside each victim's body. But if A is for Alice Asher, bludgeoned to death in Andover, and B is for Betty Bernard, strangled with her belt on the beach at Bexhill, who will then be Victim C? More importantly, why is this happening?

Often considered to be one of Agatha Christie's best.

Librarian's note: the first fifteen novels in the Hercule Poirot series are 1) The Mysterious Affair at Styles, 1920; 2) The Murder on the Links, 1923; 3) The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, 1926; 4) The Big Four, 1927; 5) The Mystery of the Blue Train, 1928; 6) Peril at End House, 1932; 7) Lord Edgware Dies, 1933; 8) Murder on the Orient Express, 1934; 9) Three Act Tragedy, 1935; 10) Death in the Clouds, 1935; 11) The A.B.C. Murders, 1936; 12) Murder in Mesopotamia, 1936; 13) Cards on the Table, 1936; 14) Dumb Witness, 1937; and 15) Death on the Nile, 1937. These are just the novels; Poirot also appears in this period in a play, Black Coffee, 1930, and two collections of short stories, Poirot Investigates, 1924, and Murder in the Mews, 1937. Each novel, play and short story has its own entry on Ĺ·±¦ÓéŔÖ.]]> 232 Agatha Christie 1579126243 Niranjan 4 4.03 1936
author: Agatha Christie
name: Niranjan
average rating: 4.03
book published: 1936
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/26
date added: 2025/01/26
shelves:
review:

]]> 16326
From seat No.9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers. Over to his right sat a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite; ahead, in seat No.13, sat a Countess with a poorly-concealed cocaine habit; across the gangway in seat No.8, a detective writer was being troubled by an aggressive wasp. What Poirot did not yet realize was that behind him, in seat No.2, sat the slumped, lifeless body of a woman.

How could this happen with the world's No. 1 private detective on board?]]> 336 Agatha Christie 000711933X Niranjan 4 3.84 1935
author: Agatha Christie
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.84
book published: 1935
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/18
date added: 2025/01/18
shelves:
review:

]]> 140360
Unfortunately, thirteen guests arrived at the actor's house, most unlucky. One of them was a vicar. It was to be a particularly unlucky evening for the mild-mannered Reverend Stephen Babbington, who choked on his cocktail, went into convulsions and died. But when his martini glass was sent for chemical analysis, there was no trace of poison -- just as Hercule Poirot, also in attendance, had predicted. Even more troubling for the great detective, there was absolutely no motive!

Librarian's note: the first fifteen novels in the Hercule Poirot series are 1) The Mysterious Affair at Styles, 1920; 2) The Murder on the Links, 1923; 3) The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, 1926; 4) The Big Four, 1927; 5) The Mystery of the Blue Train, 1928; 6) Peril at End House, 1932; 7) Lord Edgware Dies, 1933; 8) Murder on the Orient Express, 1934; 9) Three Act Tragedy, 1935; 10) Death in the Clouds, 1935; 11) The A.B.C. Murders, 1936; 12) Murder in Mesopotamia, 1936; 13) Cards on the Table, 1936; 14) Dumb Witness, 1937; and 15) Death on the Nile, 1937. These are just the novels; Poirot also appears in this period in a play, Black Coffee, 1930, and two collections of short stories, Poirot Investigates, 1924, and Murder in the Mews, 1937. Each novel, play and short story has its own entry on Ĺ·±¦ÓéŔÖ.]]> 336 Agatha Christie 0425205975 Niranjan 4 3.84 1934
author: Agatha Christie
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.84
book published: 1934
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/18
date added: 2025/01/18
shelves:
review:

]]> 12287209
Or you'll get what you wish for.]]> 56 Hugh Howey Niranjan 5 4.14 2012
author: Hugh Howey
name: Niranjan
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2012
rating: 5
read at: 2024/01/24
date added: 2025/01/09
shelves:
review:

]]> 19161835 Her pupils killed her daughter.
Now, she will have her revenge.

After calling off her engagement in wake of a tragic revelation, Yuko Moriguchi had nothing to live for except her only child, four-year-old Manami. Now, following an accident on the grounds of the middle school where she teaches, Yuko has given up and tendered her resignation.

But first she has one last lecture to deliver. She tells a story that upends everything her students ever thought they knew about two of their peers, and sets in motion a maniacal plot for revenge.

Narrated in alternating voices, with twists you'll never see coming, Confessions explores the limits of punishment, despair, and tragic love, culminating in a harrowing confrontation between teacher and student that will place the occupants of an entire school in danger. You'll never look at a classroom the same way again.]]> 240 Kanae Minato 0316200921 Niranjan 0 to-read 3.91 2008
author: Kanae Minato
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.91
book published: 2008
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/01/07
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 61885029
Charlie's life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the bank will approve his loan.

Then his long-lost uncle Jake dies and leaves his supervillain business (complete with island volcano lair) to Charlie.

But becoming a supervillain isn't all giant laser death rays and lava pits. Jake had enemies, and now they're coming after Charlie. His uncle might have been a stand-up, old-fashioned kind of villain, but these are the real thing: rich, soulless predators backed by multinational corporations and venture capital.

It's up to Charlie to win the war his uncle started against a league of supervillains. But with unionized dolphins, hyperintelligent talking spy cats, and a terrifying henchperson at his side, going bad is starting to look pretty good.

In a dog-eat-dog world...be a cat.]]> 264 John Scalzi 0765389223 Niranjan 5 4.09 2023
author: John Scalzi
name: Niranjan
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2023
rating: 5
read at: 2025/01/06
date added: 2025/01/06
shelves:
review:

]]> 853510
One of the passengers is none other than detective Hercule Poirot. On vacation.

Isolated and with a killer on board, Poirot must identify the murderer—in case he or she decides to strike again.]]> 274 Agatha Christie 0007119313 Niranjan 4 4.22 1934
author: Agatha Christie
name: Niranjan
average rating: 4.22
book published: 1934
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/05
date added: 2025/01/05
shelves:
review:

]]> 215492
Now the man was dead. And yet the great Belgian detective couldn’t help feeling that he was being taken for a ride. After all, how could Jane have stabbed her thoroughly detestable husband to death in his library at exactly the same time she was seen dining with friends? And what could be her motive now that the aristocrat had finally agreed to grant her a divorce?

Librarian's note: the first fifteen novels in the Hercule Poirot series are 1) The Mysterious Affair at Styles, 1920; 2) The Murder on the Links, 1923; 3) The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, 1926; 4) The Big Four, 1927; 5) The Mystery of the Blue Train, 1928; 6) Peril at End House, 1932; 7) Lord Edgware Dies, 1933; 8) Murder on the Orient Express, 1934; 9) Three Act Tragedy, 1935; 10) Death in the Clouds, 1935; 11) The A.B.C. Murders, 1936; 12) Murder in Mesopotamia, 1936; 13) Cards on the Table, 1936; 14) Dumb Witness, 1937; and 15) Death on the Nile, 1937. These are just the novels; Poirot also appears in this period in a play, Black Coffee, 1930, and two collections of short stories, Poirot Investigates, 1924, and Murder in the Mews, 1937. Each novel, play and short story has its own entry on Ĺ·±¦ÓéŔÖ.]]> 219 Agatha Christie 0002314576 Niranjan 3 3.94 1933
author: Agatha Christie
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.94
book published: 1933
rating: 3
read at: 2025/01/05
date added: 2025/01/05
shelves:
review:

]]> 58468990 From the New York Times bestselling author of The Guest List comes a new locked room mystery, set in a Paris apartment building in which every resident has something to hide�

Jess needs a fresh start. She’s broke and alone, and she’s just left her job under less than ideal circumstances. Her half-brother Ben didn’t sound thrilled when she asked if she could crash with him for a bit, but he didn’t say no, and surely everything will look better from Paris. Only when she shows up � to find a very nice apartment, could Ben really have afforded this? � he’s not there.

The longer Ben stays missing, the more Jess starts to dig into her brother’s situation, and the more questions she has. Ben’s neighbors are an eclectic bunch, and not particularly friendly. Jess may have come to Paris to escape her past, but it’s starting to look like it’s Ben’s future that’s in question.

The socialite � The nice guy � The alcoholic � The girl on the verge � The concierge

Everyone’s a neighbor. Everyone’s a suspect. And everyone knows something they’re not telling.]]> 360 Lucy Foley 0063003058 Niranjan 4 3.63 2022
author: Lucy Foley
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.63
book published: 2022
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/02
date added: 2025/01/02
shelves:
review:

]]> 199235727
I used to clean other people’s houses—now, I can’t believe this home is actually mine. The charming kitchen, the quiet cul-de-sac, the huge yard where my kids can play. My husband and I saved for years to give our children the life they deserve.

Even though I’m wary of our new neighbor Mrs. Lowell, when she invites us over for dinner it’s our chance to make friends. Her maid opens the door wearing a white apron, her hair in a tight bun. I know exactly what it’s like to be in her shoes.

But her cold stare gives me chills�

The Lowells� maid isn’t the only strange thing on our street. I’m sure I see a shadowy figure watching us. My husband leaves the house late at night. And when I meet a woman who lives across the way, her words chill me to the bone: Be careful of your neighbors.

Did I make a terrible mistake moving my family here?

I thought I’d left my darkest secrets behind. But could this quiet suburban street be the most dangerous place of all?]]> 364 Freida McFadden 1464223319 Niranjan 3 3.79 2024
author: Freida McFadden
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.79
book published: 2024
rating: 3
read at: 2024/12/29
date added: 2024/12/29
shelves:
review:

]]> 216655823
The stakes couldn’t be higher. Darcy, who once seemed to be our only hope for surviving the vampire apocalypse, has gone to the dark side—she’s now the reigning vampire queen. Meanwhile, her sister Hope must lead the charge to save humanity—on a path that’s taking her straight to Darcy.

Will an emboldened Hope destroy her own sister to save the world? Would a godlike Darcy ever allow that to happen? They say hope is a dangerous thing, and they just might be right.

Please note: This content is for mature audiences only. It contains adult language and themes. Discretion is advised.]]> 8 Travis Beacham Niranjan 4 4.13 2024
author: Travis Beacham
name: Niranjan
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2024
rating: 4
read at: 2024/12/29
date added: 2024/12/29
shelves:
review:

]]> 220921867 The Housemaid’s Wedding is a winter-themed short story meant to fill in the long gap between Book 2 of the Housemaid series (The Housemaid’s Secret) and Book 3 (The Housemaid is Watching). It can be read either between Book 2 and Book 3, or after Book 3.

Today is supposed to be the happiest day of my life.

I'm engaged to the man of my dreams, and in a few short hours, I'm going to stand before a judge, who will declare us husband and wife, till death does us part. Despite some bumps in the road, this day is everything I dreamed it would be.

There's only one problem:

Someone out there doesn't want me to live long enough to say my vows.

And if I'm not careful, they may very well get their wish.]]> 76 Freida McFadden Niranjan 0 to-read 3.40 2024
author: Freida McFadden
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.40
book published: 2024
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/12/27
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 40097951
Alicia’s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the tabloids and spotlight at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London.

Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. His determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations—a search for the truth that threatens to consume him....

The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman’s act of violence against her husband—and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive.]]> 336 Alex Michaelides 1250301696 Niranjan 0 to-read 4.17 2019
author: Alex Michaelides
name: Niranjan
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2019
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/12/26
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 214329001 The future of storytelling is here.

Life has thrown Zelu some curveballs over the years, but when she's suddenly dropped from her university job and her latest novel is rejected, all in the middle of her sister's wedding, her life is upended. Disabled, unemployed and from a nosy, high-achieving, judgmental family, she's not sure what comes next.

In her hotel room that night, she takes the risk that will define her life - she decides to write a book VERY unlike her others. A science fiction drama about androids and AI after the extinction of humanity. And everything changes.

What follows is a tale of love and loss, fame and infamy, of extraordinary events in one world, and another. And as Zelu's life evolves, the lines between fiction and reality begin to blur.

Because sometimes a story really does have the power to reshape the world.]]> 448 Nnedi Okorafor 0063391155 Niranjan 0 to-read 4.05 2025
author: Nnedi Okorafor
name: Niranjan
average rating: 4.05
book published: 2025
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/12/26
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 211003759 In the tradition of Station Eleven, a literary thriller set partly on the roof of New York’s Museum of Natural History in a flooded future.

All the Water in the World is told in the voice of a girl gifted with a deep feeling for water. In the years after the glaciers melt, Nonie, her older sister and her parents and their researcher friends have stayed behind in an almost deserted New York City, creating a settlement on the roof of the American Museum of Natural History. The rule: Take from the exhibits only in dire need. They hunt and grow their food in Central Park as they work to save the collections of human history and science. When a superstorm breaches the city’s flood walls, Nonie and her family must escape north on the Hudson. They carry with them a book that holds their records of the lost collections. Racing on the swollen river towards what may be safety, they encounter communities that have adapted in very different and sometimes frightening ways to the new reality. But they are determined to find a way to make a new world that honors all they've saved.

Inspired by the stories of the curators in Iraq and Leningrad who worked to protect their collections from war, All the Water in the World is both a meditation on what we save from collapse and an adventure story—with danger, storms, and a fight for survival. In the spirit of From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler and Parable of the Sower, this wild journey offers the hope that what matters most � love and work, community and knowledge � will survive.]]> 304 Eiren Caffall 1250353521 Niranjan 0 to-read 3.56 2025
author: Eiren Caffall
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.56
book published: 2025
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/12/26
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 52397
Lauren Olamina and her family live in one of the only safe neighborhoods remaining on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Behind the walls of their defended enclave, Lauren’s father, a preacher, and a handful of other citizens try to salvage what remains of a culture that has been destroyed by drugs, disease, war, and chronic water shortages. While her father tries to lead people on the righteous path, Lauren struggles with hyperempathy, a condition that makes her extraordinarily sensitive to the pain of others.

When fire destroys their compound, Lauren’s family is killed and she is forced out into a world that is fraught with danger. With a handful of other refugees, Lauren must make her way north to safety, along the way conceiving a revolutionary idea that may mean salvation for all mankind.]]> 345 Octavia E. Butler 0446675504 Niranjan 0 to-read 4.21 1993
author: Octavia E. Butler
name: Niranjan
average rating: 4.21
book published: 1993
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/12/26
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 37642030 Everyone's invited...everyone's a suspect...

For fans of Ruth Ware and Tana French, a shivery, atmospheric, page-turning novel of psychological suspense in the tradition of Agatha Christie, in which a group of old college friends are snowed in at a hunting lodge . . . and murder and mayhem ensue.

All of them are friends. One of them is a killer.

During the languid days of the Christmas break, a group of thirtysomething friends from Oxford meet to welcome in the New Year together, a tradition they began as students ten years ago. For this vacation, they’ve chosen an idyllic and isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands—the perfect place to get away and unwind by themselves.

They arrive on December 30th, just before a historic blizzard seals the lodge off from the outside world.

Two days later, on New Year’s Day, one of them is dead.

The trip began innocently enough: admiring the stunning if foreboding scenery, champagne in front of a crackling fire, and reminiscences about the past. But after a decade, the weight of secret resentments has grown too heavy for the group’s tenuous nostalgia to bear. Amid the boisterous revelry of New Year’s Eve, the cord holding them together snaps.

Now one of them is dead . . . and another of them did it.

Keep your friends close, the old adage goes. But just how close is too close?]]> 406 Lucy Foley 0008297126 Niranjan 3 3.59 2018
author: Lucy Foley
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.59
book published: 2018
rating: 3
read at: 2024/12/24
date added: 2024/12/24
shelves:
review:

]]> 55196813
Since Gran died a few months ago, twenty-five-year-old Molly has been navigating life's complexities all by herself. No matter—she throws herself with gusto into her work as a hotel maid. Her unique character, along with her obsessive love of cleaning and proper etiquette, make her an ideal fit for the job. She delights in donning her crisp uniform each morning, stocking her cart with miniature soaps and bottles, and returning guest rooms at the Regency Grand Hotel to a state of perfection.

But Molly's orderly life is upended the day she enters the suite of the infamous and wealthy Charles Black, only to find it in a state of disarray and Mr. Black himself dead in his bed. Before she knows what's happening, Molly's unusual demeanor has the police targeting her as their lead suspect. She quickly finds herself caught in a web of deception, one she has no idea how to untangle. Fortunately for Molly, friends she never knew she had unite with her in a search for clues to what really happened to Mr. Black—but will they be able to find the real killer before it's too late?

A Clue-like, locked-room mystery and a heartwarming journey of the spirit, The Maid explores what it means to be the same as everyone else and yet entirely different—and reveals that all mysteries can be solved through connection to the human heart.]]> 304 Nita Prose 0593356152 Niranjan 4 3.71 2022
author: Nita Prose
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.71
book published: 2022
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 2024/12/18
shelves:
review:

]]> 221633230 From master storyteller Stephen King comes an extraordinary new novel with intertwining storylines—one about a killer on a diabolical revenge mission, and another about a vigilante targeting a feminist celebrity speaker—featuring the beloved Holly Gibney and a dynamic new cast of characters.

When the Buckeye City Police Department receives a disturbing letter from a person threatening to “kill thirteen innocents and one guilty� in “an act of atonement for the needless death of an innocent man,� Detective Izzy Jaynes has no idea what to think. Are fourteen citizens about to be slaughtered in an unhinged act of retribution? As the investigation unfolds, Izzy realizes that the letter writer is deadly serious, and she turns to her friend Holly Gibney for help.

Meanwhile, controversial and outspoken women’s rights activist Kate McKay is embarking on a multi-state lecture tour, drawing packed venues of both fans and detractors. Someone who vehemently opposes Kate’s message of female empowerment is targeting her and disrupting her events. At first, no one is hurt, but the stalker is growing bolder, and Holly is hired to be Kate’s bodyguard—a challenging task with a headstrong employer and a determined adversary driven by wrath and his belief in his own righteousness.

Featuring a riveting cast of characters both old and new, including world-famous gospel singer Sista Bessie and an unforgettable villain addicted to murder, these twinned narratives converge in a chilling and spectacular conclusion—a feat of storytelling only Stephen King could pull off.

Thrilling, wildly fun, and outrageously engrossing, Never Flinch is one of King’s richest and most propulsive novels.]]> 448 Stephen King 1668089335 Niranjan 0 to-read 3.69 2025
author: Stephen King
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.69
book published: 2025
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/12/17
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 211004190
It's a whole new moooooon.

One day soon, suddenly and without explanation, the moon as we know it is replaced with an orb of cheese with the exact same mass. Through the length of an entire lunar cycle, from new moon to a spectacular and possibly final solar eclipse, we follow multiple characters -- schoolkids and scientists, billionaires and workers, preachers and politicians -- as they confront the strange new world they live in, and the absurd, impossible moon that now hangs above all their lives.]]> 326 John Scalzi 0765389096 Niranjan 0 to-read 3.86 2025
author: John Scalzi
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2025
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/12/17
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 219449299 A brand new series. An iconic new detective duo. And a puzzling new murder to solve...

Steve Wheeler is enjoying retired life. He does the odd bit of investigation work, but he prefers his familiar habits and routines: the pub quiz, his favorite bench, his cat waiting for him when he comes home. His days of adventure are over: adrenaline is daughter-in-law Amy’s business now.

Amy Wheeler thinks adrenaline is good for the soul. As a private security officer, she doesn’t stay still long enough for habits or routines. She’s currently on a remote island keeping world-famous author Rosie D’Antonio alive. Which was meant to be an easy job...

Then a dead body, a bag of money, and a killer with their sights on Amy have her sending an SOS to the only person she trusts. A breakneck race around the world begins, but can Amy and Steve stay one step ahead of a lethal enemy?]]> 387 Richard Osman 059365322X Niranjan 0 to-read 4.06 2024
author: Richard Osman
name: Niranjan
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2024
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/12/15
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 42846882 The sixth in the Millennium series featuring THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO

"What will you do now?"
"I shall be the hunter and not the hunted"

The girl with the dragon tattoo is finally ready to confront her nemesis, the only woman who is evidently and in many ways her match. Salander will not wait to be hunted. When she strikes it will be a double blow: vengeance for recent atrocities, and the settling of lifelong scores.

For months now Salander has been closing in on her target. She has moved from Stockholm, her hair is newly styled, her piercings are gone. She could pass for any other businesswoman. But not all businesswomen have a Beretta Cheetah beneath their jacket. They do not wield the lethal power of a hacker's genius. They do not carry scars and tattoos to remind them that they have survived the unsurvivable.

The new episode in David Lagercrantz's acclaimed, internationally bestselling continuation of Stieg Larsson's Dragon Tattoo series is a thrilling ride that scales the heights of Everest and plunges the depths of Russian troll factories. It begins with the discovery of Mikael Blomkvist's number at Millennium magazine in the pocket of an unidentified homeless man who died with the name of a government minister on his lips.

Blomkvist, at extreme risk to himself, tracks down his old friend and will protect her as far as he can. But he is powerless to crush her enemies on his own.

And for Lisbeth Salander, the personal is always political - and deadly.]]> 368 David Lagercrantz 0857056360 Niranjan 3 3.65 2019
author: David Lagercrantz
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.65
book published: 2019
rating: 3
read at: 2024/12/15
date added: 2024/12/15
shelves:
review:

]]> 672235 160 J.M. DeMatteis 078512330X Niranjan 0 to-read 4.33 1987
author: J.M. DeMatteis
name: Niranjan
average rating: 4.33
book published: 1987
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/12/14
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 43427298 Brian Russell Niranjan 4 3.48 2013
author: Brian Russell
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.48
book published: 2013
rating: 4
read at: 2019/01/27
date added: 2024/12/09
shelves:
review:

]]> 52656911
The bride � The plus one � The best man � The wedding planner � The bridesmaid � The body

On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one. The groom: handsome and charming, a rising television star. The bride: smart and ambitious, a magazine publisher. It’s a wedding for a magazine, or for a celebrity: the designer dress, the remote location, the luxe party favors, the boutique whiskey. The cell phone service may be spotty and the waves may be rough, but every detail has been expertly planned and will be expertly executed.

But perfection is for plans, and people are all too human. As the champagne is popped and the festivities begin, resentments and petty jealousies begin to mingle with the reminiscences and well wishes. The groomsmen begin the drinking game from their school days. The bridesmaid not-so-accidentally ruins her dress. The bride’s oldest (male) friend gives an uncomfortably caring toast.

And then someone turns up dead. Who didn’t wish the happy couple well? And perhaps more important, why?]]> 319 Lucy Foley Niranjan 4 3.82 2020
author: Lucy Foley
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2020
rating: 4
read at: 2024/12/08
date added: 2024/12/08
shelves:
review:

]]> 199700434 When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide.

Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn’t just any thirteen-year-old: she’s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the region’s residents. And this isn’t the first time a Van Laar child has disappeared. Barbara’s older brother similarly vanished fourteen years ago, never to be found.

As a panicked search begins, a thrilling drama unfolds. Chasing down the layered secrets of the Van Laar family and the blue-collar community working in its shadow, Moore’s multi-threaded story invites readers into a rich and gripping dynasty of secrets and second chances.

Liz Moore’s most ambitious and wide-reaching novel yet, The God of the Woods is a story of inheritance and second chances, the tensions between a family and a community, and a history that will not let any of them go.]]> 478 Liz Moore 0593418913 Niranjan 0 to-read 4.09 2024
author: Liz Moore
name: Niranjan
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2024
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/12/07
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 197108968 From the acclaimed author of The One and The Marriage Act, The Family Experiment is a dark and brilliant speculative thriller about families: real and virtual.

Some families are virtually perfect�

The world's population is soaring, creating overcrowded cities and an economic crisis. And in the UK, the breaking point has arrived. A growing number of people can no longer afford to start families, let alone raise them.

But for those desperate to experience parenthood, there is an alternative. For a monthly subscription fee, clients can create a virtual child from scratch who they can access via the metaverse and a VR headset. To launch this new initiative, the company behind Virtual Children has created a reality TV show called The Substitute. It will follow ten couples as they raise a Virtual Child from birth to the age of eighteen but in a condensed nine-month time period. The prize: the right to keep their virtual child, or risk it all for the chance of a real baby�

Set in the same universe as John Marrs's bestselling novel The One and The Marriage Act, The Family Experiment is a dark and twisted thriller about the ultimate Tamagotchi—a virtual baby.]]> 384 John Marrs 1335000364 Niranjan 0 to-read 4.00 2024
author: John Marrs
name: Niranjan
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2024
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/12/07
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 201930181
Caught up in academic intrigue and affairs of the heart, Dafyd Alkhor is pleased just to be an assistant to a brilliant scientist and his celebrated research team.  Then the Carryx ships descend, decimating the human population and taking the best and brightest of Anjiin society away to serve on the Carryx homeworld, and Dafyd is swept along with them. They are dropped in the middle of a struggle they barely understand, set in a competition against the other captive species with extinction as the price of failure.

Only Dafyd and a handful of his companions see past the Darwinian contest to the deeper game that they must play to learning to understand � and manipulate � the Carryx themselves. With a noble but suicidal human rebellion on one hand and strange and murderous enemies on the other, the team pays a terrible price to become the trusted servants of their new rulers. Dafyd Alkhor is a simple man swept up in events that are beyond his control and more vast than his imagination.  He will become the champion of humanity and its betrayer, the most hated man in history and the guardian of his people. This is where his story begins.]]> 422 James S.A. Corey 031652557X Niranjan 4 4.11 2024
author: James S.A. Corey
name: Niranjan
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2024
rating: 4
read at: 2024/12/04
date added: 2024/12/04
shelves:
review:

]]> 215760525
The first novella set in the universe of James S. A. Corey's epic Captive's War series.]]> 90 James S.A. Corey 0316575348 Niranjan 0 to-read 4.33 2024
author: James S.A. Corey
name: Niranjan
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2024
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/12/04
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 36687393 542 Robert McCammon Niranjan 0 to-read 3.97 1988
author: Robert McCammon
name: Niranjan
average rating: 3.97
book published: 1988
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/11/25
shelves: to-read
review:

]]>