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Sometimes a Great Notion
by Ken Kesey
Staff Pick
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Gone Girl
by Gillian Flynn
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The Shadow of the Wind
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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie: A Flavia de Luce Mystery
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Sharp Objects: A Novel
by Gillian Flynn
Staff Pick
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Dark Places
by Gillian Flynn
Staff Pick
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The Likeness
by Tana French
Staff Pick
The Likeness is another masterpiece of suspense by Tana French. Reminiscent of The Secret History, this psychological thriller is wonderfully written and impeccably paced — a perfect summer read.... (read more)

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by Tana French
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The only thing more exciting than a great thriller is a terrific debut by a great thriller writer! Tana French makes a tremendous splash with In the Woods, a harrowing mystery in the vein of Mystic River that wholly earns the comparison. I dare you to... (read more)

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by Stieg Larsson
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by Henning Mankell
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Rebecca
by Daphne du Maurier
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (The Millennium Trilogy #3)
by Stieg Larsson
Staff Pick
Picking up mere moments after the cliffhanger ending of The Girl Who Played with Fire, this final book in Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy brings the adventures of Salander and Blomkvist to a thunderous and satisfying conclusion.... (read more)

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (The Millennium Trilogy #1)
by Stieg Larsson
Staff Pick
In The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, corporate intrigue, subtle psychology, explosive content, and a sensational heroine make for a high-caliber novel.... (read more)

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The Lost Symbol
by Dan Brown
Staff Pick
While the rest of the world seems disappointed in Dan Brown's newest Robert Langdon book, I enjoyed it immensely. Yes, it follows a similar pattern as the previous books and, yes, Langdon again is called upon to save the world from some menacing threat... (read more)

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The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next #01)
by Jasper Fforde
Staff Pick
The Eyre Affair took me a little time to really get into, but once Thursday Next — a literary detective from the future — enters Charlotte Bronte's novel and tries to save Jane and the story, the book is thoroughly fun, with all the digs at the... (read more)

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A Reliable Wife
by Robert Goolrick
Staff Pick
Come a day, you might get sick of hearing about A Reliable Wife — so many people will have read it and raved to you about it. Here's some preventative medicine: read it first. Seduction, marriage, money, sex, drugs, murder... when Catherine Land... (read more)

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Kiss the Girls
by James Patterson
Staff Pick
Patterson didn't write all our Best Jet Bets, but no thriller list from the nineties would be complete without this slickly written punch to the gut. Detective Alex Cross returns to spar with a self-styled Casanova, a co-ed killer who sometimes stalks... (read more)

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