Best Fiction Books

The war against Voldemort is not going well: even Muggle governments are noticing. Ron scans the obituary pages of The Daily Prophet looking for familiar names.

Beep! Beep! Beep! Meet Blue. A muddy country road is no match for this little pick upthat is, until he gets stuck while pushing a dump truck out of the muck. Luckily, Blue has made a pack of farm animal friends along his route.

A Game of Thrones reads like a wide-angle historical saga transplanted into fantasy: dozens of named players, shifting third-person POV chapters, and slow-building conflicts that reward patience. The useful part is its dense political maneuvering and richly textured setting—good for readers who like watching alliances form and unravel. Its main limitation is pacing and scale: early setup stretches long, and frequent POV tosses can dilute momentum. Also expect explicit violence and morally ambiguous characters that won't provide tidy catharsis.

Maya Angelou's poetic celebration of the courage within each person is matched by the daring vision of artist Basquiat, whose childlike style reveals the fanciful imaginings of childhood.

In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves including one Jack Shaftoe, aka King of the Vagabonds, aka HalfCocked Jack devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure ensues a perilous race for an enormous prize of silver ... nay, gold ...

"UNLESS someone like you...cares a whole awful lot...nothing is going to get better...It's not." Long before saving the earth became a global concern, Dr.

Once they were heroes, but the age of heroes has long since passed. Banished from existence by a multiversal crisis, the old champions of Spiral CityAbraham Slam, Golden Gail, Colonel Weird, Madame Dragonfly, and Barbaliennow lead simple lives in an idyllic, timeless farming…

A fascinating discussion on sex, gender, and human instincts, as relevant today as ever.In the course of a lively drinking party, a group of Athenian intellectuals exchange views on eros, or desire.

At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. It is huge, weighing more than ten trillion tons. And it is hurtling through the solar system at an inconceivable speed.

He is a brilliant math Professor with a peculiar problemever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of shortterm memory. She is an astute young Housekeeper, with a tenyearold son, who is hired to care for him.

A manmade plague has swept the earth, but a small group survives, along with the greeneyed Crakers ? a gentle species bioengineered to replace humans.

"You can leave the army, but the army doesn't leave you. Not always. Not completely," notes Jack Reacher and sure enough, the retired military cop is soon pulled back into service.

Beloved author Bruce Coville's classic tale about a boy who accidentally hatches a dragon. Sixthgrader Jeremy Thatcher discovers a strange magic shop he has never seen before. He enters, and his life is changed forever.

Capturing the violence, tragedy, history, and drama of the French Revolution, this novel focuses on the families and loves of three men who led the RevolutionDanton, the charismatic leader and orator; Robespierre, the cold rationalist; and Desmoulins, the rabblerouser.

Gordon Krantz survived the Doomwar only to spend years crossing a postapocalypse United States looking for something or someone he could believe in again.

Singapore, 1939: life on the eve of World War II just isn't what it used to be for Walter Blackett, head of British Singapore's oldest and most powerful firm. No matter how forcefully the police break one strike, the natives go on strike somewhere else.

Naima is a talented painter of traditional alpana patterns, which Bangladeshi women and girls paint on their houses for special celebrations. But Naima is not satisfied just painting alpana.

From the time she was just a young girl, Georgia O'Keeffe viewed the world in her own way. While other girls played with toys and braided their hair, Georgia practiced her drawing and let her hair fly free.

This is a poem of protest drawn from the life of the gaucho, who was forced to yield his freedom and individuality to the social and material changes that invaded his beloved pampasa protest which arose from years of abuse and neglect suffered from landowners, militarists, and…

A Printz Honor Book "Gorgeous and evocative . . . magnificent."The New York Times Medieval France: Dolssa is an uppercrust city girl with a secret lover and an uncanny gift.

With a welcome mix of humor, heart, and highstakes drama, Sabina Khan provides a timely and honest portrait of what it's like to grow up feeling unwelcome in your own culture.Seventeenyearold Rukhsana Ali has always been fascinated by the universe around her and the laws of…

Congratulations! Your monster is growing up and up, and UP! Now it's time to potty train him! Potty training is not always the easiest task to navigateespecially for growing monsters.

This is an Alternative Cover Edition for ISBN13: 9780375866227In her New York Times bestselling and Morris Awardwinning debut, Rachel Hartman introduces mathematical dragons in an alternativemedieval world to Fantasy, and sciencefiction readers of all ages.

Into the house. Down the stairs. Through the dripping dark of the cellar. Someone is there. Someone that shouldn_x0092_t be there.As a building awaits demolition, a horrifying discovery is made inside the basement: a cage made of human bones_x0097_with a terrified, feral child…

Eternity Road is set 1000 years from now, when the world as we know it has been dead for eight centuries, destroyed by a plague that killed most of humanity.

What if the most terrifying person you know is your tenyearold sisterSeventeenyearold Aussie Che Taylor loves his younger sister, Rosa. But he's also certain that she's a psychopathclinically, threateningly, dangerously. Recently Rosa has been making trouble, hurting things.

A multicultural cast of children imagines what it would be like to be president.

On a January day, a Presidential inauguration day, a onemegaton blast ripped through the Soviet embassy in Washington, D.C. Subsequent explosions around the globe changed the face and the shape of the earth forever. Out of the ruins emerged Deathlands.

In 1872, New Orleans is a city ruled by the dead. But to seventeenyearold Celine Rousseau, New Orleans provides her a refuge after she's forced to flee her life as a dressmaker in Paris.

A Texas map marked with three red dots like drops of blood. A serial killer who claims to have dementia. A mysterious young woman who wants answers. What could go wrong"Fast and furious . . .

This beautiful book is the latest addition to the National Geographic Little Kids First Big Book series. These colorful pages will introduce young children to the wonders of space, with colorful illustrations by David Aguilar and simple text that is perfect for beginning readers…

In this moving story that celebrates cultural diversity, a shy girl brings her West African grandmotherwhose face bears traditional tribal markingsto meet her classmates.

Princess Bea isn_x0092_t like other princesses_x0097_she prefers pirate ships above tea parties, the salty sea over silly dolls. But what_x0092_s a landlocked princess to doAhoy, Captain Jack to the rescue!

Adrienne Tacke delivers a bright, activity-first introduction to Python aimed at kids around ten and up, organized as fifty short, game-style projects. Instructions are concise, emphasize typing and tweaking code, and reward early wins with visible results. The practical payoff is immediate confidence and a pile of small playable programs. The main limitation is shallow conceptual depth: explanations rarely dig into underlying principles, and many activities reuse the same scaffolding, so older learners may crave more rigor.

The #1 New York Times bestselling children's book now available in board book! An unabridged board book for kids version of the bestselling, bestbeloved hardcover, perfect for small hands!

Willa Knight: Dead Alive Damned to a state of eternal bad luckWilla and the Abcurse brothers are back, and more determined than ever to stick by each other.

Richard Siken_x0092_s Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful collection of poems driven by obsession and love. Siken writes with ferocity, and his reader hurtles unstoppably with him.

"When I Was Eight" was called "utterly compelling" by "Kirkus"in a starred review."Margaret can't wait to see her family, but her homecoming is not what she expected."Two years ago, Margaret left her Arctic home for the outsiders' school.

The kids in Room 207 were misbehaving again. Spitballs stuck to the ceiling. Paper planes whizzing through the air. They were the worstbehaved class in the whole school.So begins this quirky classic, first published in 1977 and still relevant today as a lighthearted reminder to…

Roddy Doyle's winning trio of comic novels depicting the daily life and times of the Rabbitte family in workingclass Dublin.The CommitmentsStill one of the freshest and funniest rock 'n' roll novels ever written, Doyle's first book portrays a group of aspiring musicians on a…

The third book in the muchloved Mr. Magee seriesA snowy adventure with Mr. Magee and his dog, Dee: One winter morning, Mr. Magee and his little dog, Dee, head out bright and early to learn how to ski.

Welcome to Richard Scarry's Busytown! Home to Huckle Cat, Lowly Worm, Goldbug, and more, precshoolers can tour the town on an adventure of discovery and see what fire fighters, construction workers, doctors, pilots, train conductors, and farmers do all day!

For readers who were enthralled by Alan Gratz's Prisoner B3087 comes a gripping novel about a lesserknown part of WWII.Lida thought she was safe. Her neighbors wearing the yellow star were all taken away, but Lida is not Jewish.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Grand Admiral Thrawn faces the ultimate test of his loyalty to the Empire in this epic Star Wars novel from bestselling author Timothy Zahn.

Start the school year right with New York Times bestselling author Danica McKellar's fun and accessible introduction to the essentials of math.

Take a world tour through 200 countries with this brand new edition of the bestselling kids' version of Lonely Planet's popular The Travel Book, loaded with thousands of amazing facts on wildlife, how people live, sports, hideous and mouthwatering food, festivals and a wide…

Bright, padded board format and 100 bold photos make this a very tactile, visually simple primer for toddlers. Each spread pairs a single, easy word with a colorful image; pages are thick enough for repeated handling and household wear. What works best is quick, repeatable exposure to first words and colors; the main limitation is lack of narrative, activities, or phonetic guidance—adults supply the play. Expect short, repeat reads rather than a story-driven session.

Alternate cover edition for ISBN 9781480169111For previous cover edition see hereShortlisted for Outdoor Book of the Year by The Great Outdoors Magazine The second book from award winning writer Keith Foskett The Pacific Crest Trail stretches some 2,650 miles from the Mexican…

"I'm not the hero in this story, girl. You'd do best to remember that." Once upon a time, I was an eighteen year old psychology student. Now, I'm a man's property. Stolen and sold, I've been decorated in bruises since the day my world changed two years ago.

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Awarded a 2011 Caldecott Honor!A favorite joke inspires this charming tale, in which a little chicken_x0092_s habit of interrupting bedtime stories is gleefully turned on its head.It_x0092_s time for the little red chicken_x0092_s bedtime story _x0097_and a reminder from Papa to…

One of Isaac Asimov's SF masterpieces, this standalone novel is a monument of the flowering of SF in the 20th century. It is widely regarded as Asimov's single best SF novel and one every SF fan should read.Andrew Harlan is an Eternal, a member of the elite of the future.

Shea Serrano is back, and his new book, Movies (And Other Things), combines the fury of a John Wick shootout, the sly brilliance of Regina George holding court at a cafeteria table, and the sheer power of a Denzel monologue, all into one.Movies (And Other Things) is a book…

Rachel's father called it the running game. Count the exits, calculate the routes, and always be ready to run.On the surface, Rachel is just an ordinary doctor, but she has a secret.

It is seldom that a practical guide to gardening attains the level of a literary masterpiece, still more seldom that a book on gardening can amuse and instruct even those who have no garden to plant., nor the faintest interest in acquiring one.

Writing separately, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle are responsible for a number of science fiction classics, such as the Hugo and Nebula Awardwinning Ringworld, Debt of Honor, and The Integral Trees.

When fifteenyearold Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air.

A shooting party at the Earl of Witton_x0092_s remote country house is a high treat for champion shot Patricia Merton_x0097_until unexpected guests turn the social atmosphere dangerously sour.That_x0092_s not Pat_x0092_s biggest problem.

Adapted from one of Bob Marley's most beloved songs, One Love brings the joyful spirit and unforgettable lyrics of his music to life for a new generation.

Based on the experience of reallife Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust.Fourteenyearold Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz.

High School Debut, Vol. 1 opens as a breezy shojo rom-com: Haruna decides to pursue a textbook high-school romance and hires upperclassman Yoh to coach her through dating skills. Expect playful makeover scenes, awkward misunderstandings, and earnest character-behavior beats that aim for charm more than realism. What works best is light, character-driven entertainment and the comfortable rhythm of serialized manga pacing; the main limitation is predictable tropes and occasional repetition of the same romantic-lesson beats.

Greg Tang has built his career as an author and math missionary on the power of creative problem solving. Now, through winsome "fables" about concepts that are relevant to the very youngest math learners sharing, teamwork, etc.

Getting ready for bedtime has never been so much fun! These colorful books are the perfect way to help tiny ones wind down on their way to dreamland.

Considered one of the great dystopian novels_x0097_alongside Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World_x0097_Ira Levin's frightening glimpse into the future continues to fascinate readers even forty years after publication.The story is set in a…

Begins with two teens trapped in adjacent cells and interrogated about events that haven't happened yet, so the immediate feeling is tense and tightly wound. Best value comes from the pressure between the pair: overheard fragments, memory slivers, and a lean narrative that keeps focus on their relationship and the central time mystery. Main limitation is deliberate opacity—key facts are withheld and scenes repeat to maintain suspense, which some readers will find opaque or frustrating rather than clever. Not designed for slow, explanatory worldbuilding.

Time and Again begins with a straightforward premise—a midcentury man recruited into a government time-travel experiment—and then settles into an immersive stay in 1882 Manhattan. Its useful part is the dense, tactile rendering of streets, customs and maps that make the past feel lived-in. The novel rewards patience: it prioritizes mood, small social scenes and romantic attachment over chase sequences or technical explanation. The main limitation is a slow middle and a midcentury narrator voice that some readers will find sentimental or dated.

Librarian's Note: Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here.After spending three London seasons searching for a husband, Daisy Bowman's father has told her in no uncertain terms that she must find a husband. Now.

The world has watched, stunned, the bloodshed in Mexico. Forty thousand murdered since 2006; police chiefs shot within hours of taking office; mass graves comparable to those of civil wars; car bombs shattering storefronts; headless corpses heaped in town squares.

"Something is murdering my men."Thus reads the message received from a Nazi commander stationed in a small castle high in the remote Transylvanian Alps.

_x0093_Brilliant_x0085_as fascinating as it is original._x0094__x0097_St. Louis PostDispatchFrom New York Times bestselling author Tony Hillerman, the first novel in his series featuring Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn & Officer Jim Chee who encounter a bizarre case that borders between…

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the internationally bestselling author of Love Her Wild comes The Dark Between Stars, a new illustrated collection of heartfelt, whimsical, and romantic poems from Instagram poetry sensation, Atticus.Atticus, has captured the hearts and minds of…

Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on the verge of discovering space flight. Now one scientist, Dan Sylveste, will stop at nothing to solve the Amarantin riddle before ancient history repeats itself.

There is an alternate cover edition for this ASIN here.From strip clubs and truck stops to southern coast mansions and prep schools, one girl tries to stay true to herself.These Royals will ruin you_x0085_Ella Harper is a survivor_x0097_a pragmatic optimist.

_x0093_Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices . . .