Haruki Murakami once said, “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”

It applies perfectly to reading, but when it comes to picking up a book to give as a gift, you should rather follow the opposite direction – and gift what everyone else is gifting.

Why are most gifted books the best possible way to avoid that ugly moment when someone is unboxing your present and finds it irrelevant? 

There is a general problem with other book recommendation tools: book bestseller lists, book awards, book reviews, or book recommendation from influencers.

Publications included in these lists are great when you are looking for something you’d like to read yourself.

The thing is that not every best selling book would make a great gift. And not every book that’s a great gift would make it to a bestseller list.

The problem with book reviews or book recommendations is even simpler. Someone, even the most renowned authority, can’t know what other bookworms love to read.

What about most gifted books? Thousands of people who have the same goal – find an appropriate gift – can’t be wrong. And you can follow their decisions because they are recommending specific books using their wallets.

Did you know that Amazon has a list of top 100 books ordered as gifts? 

For obvious reasons, the ranking is mostly populated by books for children, but you can also find here the ones that would make a perfect gift for an adult bookworm in your life.

If you’d like to learn more about the most popular books ordered as gifts on Amazon, make sure to read our expensive guide: Things to know about Amazon’s most gifted books and audiobooks.

Most gifted books are the safest gifts you can buy. However, if you still worry that the book you choose will not be met by the burst of enthusiasm, you should look for a non-book gift for a book lover in your life.

Tip: Most books in the following list are available in print (paperback and/or hardcover), Kindle edition, and as an Audible audiobook.

20 most gifted books to buy as gifts this season

1. The Light We Carry

Michelle Obama

In The Light We Carry, Michelle Obama shares stories and reflections on building relationships, finding strength in differences, managing self-doubt, and more.

She offers readers practices like “starting kind” and “going high” to help them adapt to change and overcome obstacles.

The book encourages readers to recognize their own light and use it to live with boldness.

Michelle Obama’s latest book is a rewarding blend of powerful stories and profound advice that will ignite conversation.

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2. Interesting Facts for Curious Minds

Jordan Moore

The book includes 1,572 mind-blowing facts about history, science, pop culture – and everything in between. It’s a great book for people of any age, who are curious about the world.

Interesting Facts For Curious Minds is a book divided into 63 chapters with 25 factoids each, giving readers a mix of science, history, pop culture, and more.

It can be read cover to cover or used to connect with friends and family, making it a great tool to pass time and learn new things.

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3. It Starts with Us

Colleen Hoover

It’s one of the most talked-about and awarded books of 2022, named by USA Today “the queen of the bestseller lists.” It’s the second book in the best selling series, It Ends with Us.

Lily, recently divorced, is unexpectedly reunited with her first love, Atlas, and is thrilled when he asks her out.

She knows, however, that Ryle, her ex-husband, will not be happy about it, and must find a way to balance her new romance with her coparenting relationship with Ryle. 

Both Lily and Atlas’s perspectives are explored as they attempt to make their relationship work despite the obstacles in their way.

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4. It Ends with Us

Colleen Hoover

It’s the first book from Colleen Hoover’s famous romance series. Therefore, I recommend buying for a gift both It Ends with Us (Book 1) and It Starts with Us (Book 2).

Lily has worked hard to move on from her small-town upbringing and is now living in Boston and running her own business.

She meets Ryle Kincaid, a successful neurosurgeon, and despite his aversion to relationships, they share a spark.

But when her first love, Atlas Corrigan, reappears, Lily’s world is thrown into chaos as she has to decide what she truly wants.

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5. Go-To Dinners: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook

Ina Garten

In Go-to Dinners, America’s favorite home cook presents delicious, crowd-pleasing, go-to recipes that you’ll want to make over and over again.

Ina Garten’s new book offers recipes for easy, satisfying meals that can be made ahead or with store-bought ingredients.

It provides recipes for one-dish meals, light dinners, family meals, breakfast-for-dinner, and desserts, as well as tips for turning leftovers into something new.

These recipes will give you the confidence to create dinners that will bring everyone to your table.

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6. Fairy Tale

Stephen King

In his newest book, Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination, telling the story about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world.

Charlie Reade is a seventeen-year-old high school student who lost his mom to a hit-and-run accident and whose dad is an alcoholic.

He meets a dog named Radar and her aging master, Howard Bowditch, and starts doing jobs for him.

When Bowditch dies, he leaves Charlie a cassette tape revealing a secret – that in his backyard shed is a portal to another world.

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7. Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

Matthew Perry

A memoir by a beloved star of Friends is a perfect gift, not only for fans of the legendary TV series.

Matthew Perry takes us on his journey from childhood to fame and addiction, detailing his fractured family, desire for recognition, and void that fame couldn’t fill.

He shares stories about his cast mates and other stars, and details his battle with addiction and what fueled it despite having it all.

“Hi, my name is Matthew, although you may know me by another name. My friends call me Matty. And I should be dead.”

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8. The Boys from Biloxi

John Grisham

John Grisham returns to Mississippi with the riveting story of two sons of immigrant families who grow up as friends, but ultimately find themselves on opposite sides of the law.

Two childhood friends in Biloxi, Keith and Hugh, chose different paths – Keith followed in his father’s footsteps and became a prosecutor, while Hugh’s father was the “Boss” of Biloxi’s criminal underground. Their families were headed for a showdown in a courtroom.

Grisham’s trademark twists and turns will keep you tearing through the pages until the stunning conclusion.

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9. Lessons in Chemistry

Bonnie Garmus

A new novel by Bonnie Garmus is among the best books picked by The New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, and Oprah Daily.

Elizabeth Zott is a chemist in the early 1960s who, against all odds, finds herself the star of a popular cooking show.

She uses her scientific background to revolutionize the way women cook and challenges the status quo.

Laugh-out-loud funny and studded with a dazzling cast of supporting characters, Lessons in Chemistry is as original and vibrant as its protagonist.

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10. Demon Copperhead

Barbara Kingsolver

From the acclaimed author of The Poisonwood Bible comes a brilliant novel that enthralls and captures the heart as it evokes a young hero’s unforgettable journey to maturity.

Many generations ago, Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield from his experience as a survivor of institutional poverty and its damages to children in his society.

Demon Copperhead is a story about a young boy from Appalachia who must overcome the hardships of foster care, addiction, and poverty to find his place in the world.

Despite his struggles, he maintains a fierce spirit and a talent for survival.

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Continued…

11. Faith Still Moves Mountains by Harris Faulkner

12. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

13. Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover

14. Atomic Habits by James Clear

15. I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

16. 50 States, 5,000 Ideas: Where to Go, When to Go, What to See, What to Do by Joe Yogerst

17. Life Skills for Teens by Karen Harris

18. The Book of Unusual Knowledge by Publications International

19. And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle by Jon Meacham

20. Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story by Bono

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The Kobo bookselling team selected the best new books in fiction and non-fiction. Editors’ picks in romance and other genres will be released in the coming days.

When it comes to annual book rankings, most book lovers are aware of the best books picked by Amazon editors or editorial teams of leading book websites.

If you are a Kobo user, you don’t have to check out the best books picked elsewhere so that you can go back to Kobo to browse for titles that you have added to your wish list.

The easiest thing you can do is check out the best books that were selected this year by the Kobo editorial team.

So far, Kobo revealed one Best of 2022 list. Next lists, including romance picks, will be published by the end of the year.

The first list includes Kobo’s Top 20 ebooks & audiobooks of 2022 in fiction and non-fiction.

What makes this list special is that it combines both ebooks and audiobooks.

The reason is simple: opposite to, for instance Kindle, you can get in the Kobo store either an ebook or audiobook version of a digital publication – and seamlessly enjoy it in a single Kobo app for your tablet or smartphone.

What’s included in the Top 20 Kobo Ebooks and Audiobooks of 2022?

You will find here All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir, a heart-wrenching novel steeped in “teenage longing to escape a stifling small town.”

The audiobook version of All My Rage, narrated by Deepti Gupta, Kamran R. Khan, and Kausar Mohammed, was also named one of the best audiobooks of 2022 on Audible.

Matthew Perry’s audiobook, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, touches on his pre-stardom childhood, including a successful stint in competitive tennis, and the struggles he faced in adulthood.

Babel by R. F. Kuang is a wickedly clever work of speculative fiction. It plays with the form of the academic novel while weaving in elements of fantasy.

Which book on the list is your favorite?

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The best books don’t always make the best gifts. That’s why it’s always good to know what most other users are giving as gifts. Amazon has a great tool for that – here is what you need to know.

How do you find the books you could give as gifts to your significant other, a family member, or a friend?

There are many well established tools for book finding (and I’m sure you’ve tested them many times already): book bestseller lists of all possible kinds, book awards, book reviews and gift lists from leading literary blogs, or book recommendations by social media influencers.

On Amazon only, you can easily find a few book recommendation tools and services:

▸ Annual and daily Top 100 book bestseller lists – these rankings list the most sold books in, respectively, the current year and current day. You can browse the lists of print books and Kindle ebooks, as well as Audible audiobooks.

▸ Best Books of the Year – these rankings list the Top 20 best books picked by Amazon editors in the most popular categories. The rankings are published twice a year (in June-July and in November-December).

▸ Amazon Charts – these weekly lists rank Top 20 books in two categories: Most Sold (based on the number of copies sold), and Most Read (based on the number of daily Kindle readers).

These tools are great if you are looking for a book you’d like to read yourself.

The problem is that not every best selling book would make a great gift. And not every book that’s a great gift would make it to a bestseller list. 

You may say that there is a special Editors’ Holiday Gift Picks section that puts together the rankings curated by Amazon editors, and that these rankings are intended specifically to help you find the best book to gift.

The problem here is the same as with book reviews or book recommendations. Someone, even the most renowned authority, may just be wrong.

And here is the solution: thousands of people who have the same goal – finding the best book to give as a gift – can’t be wrong. And you can follow their way, because they are recommending the books using their wallets.

Did you know Amazon curates the lists of most gifted items in almost every major product category? It’s a lesser-know feature many Amazon customers are still not aware of, so I have decided to give it a bit more attention.

Called Amazon Gift Ideas, this special store section puts together the Top 100 most popular products ordered by customers as gifts. These rankings are updated daily. By the way, this section’s title is misleading, because it doesn’t highlight the major benefit. The section should be called “Most Gifted on Amazon”.

As you know, you can order lots of products on Amazon as a gift. When you proceed to checkout, you will find gift options under product details. When you check the “this is a gift” option, the item you buy is automatically counted into the most gifted Top 100 list in the relevant category.

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How to find most gifted books on Amazon

1. Go to Amazon Gift Ideas front page on Amazon, and from the left sidebar choose “Books” for print books or “Audible Books & Originals” for audiobooks.

2. Products in the ranking are presented the same way as in the bestseller lists, with the orange rank in the top left corner, title, author, number of reviews, and average rating. You can click on either the book cover or book details to go to the product page.

3. If you want to see books in a specific genre, find it in the left sidebar. You will see that any major genre has subgenres you can click to further specify your needs. The category structure in the lists of most gifted products is the same as in the store.

For your convenience, here are the exact links to the most gifted books on Amazon:

▸ Books – print books that were ordered as gifts by Amazon customers. The list is updated every day.

▸ Audiobooks – Audible audiobooks, and Audible Originals that were ordered as gifts on Amazon. The list is updated every day. 

I guess that titles ordered as gifts directly on Audible website count into the list of most gifted audiobooks as well. Amazon and Audible platforms are highly integrated.

Make sure to bookmark these webpages in your browser to quickly access them the next time you want to buy a book or audiobook as a gift.

To bookmark any page in a browser, click on a star you should find in the search box. Alternatively, you can use a shortcut – Ctrl+D on a PC computer and Command+D on a Mac computer.

Most gifted books on Amazon – tips and facts

How to find most gifted Kindle ebooks on Amazon

As you have probably noticed, there is no Kindle ebooks category among Amazon Gift Ideas rankings.

In my opinion, it’s because of the Kindle for Groups feature, which is mainly used for corporate gifting. It lets you buy as many copies of a single Kindle ebook as you want, and send them to the recipients via email.

As a result, the list of most gifted Kindle ebooks would be populated by titles for professional development.

There are two alternative ways to find most gifted Kindle ebooks on Amazon:

1. Visit a page with Popular Gifted Kindle Books 

It’s a selection of Kindle ebooks that is probably put together manually by Amazon editors, but it should be based on the actual number of orders as gifts.

The list includes between 150 and 200 books and it includes evergreen titles such as A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin, Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander, or Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell.

2. Start browsing most gifted Amazon print books 

Browse the “Books” section of Amazon Gift Ideas. If you find a title that you believe is worth giving, go to its product page and order its Kindle version (if available).

Please keep in mind that many gifted print books are image-rich and usually their Kindle editions are not available.

Here are the best genres in the most gifted books category, where you can find both print and Kindle editions:

• Literature & Fiction
• Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
• Romance
• Biographies & Memoirs

Most gifted or bestsellers – which Amazon lists are better?

I have compared the lists of the most gifted books with bestsellers, and the conclusions are:

▸ On the top level – without going to specific genres – the lists overlap in less than 10%. It’s because the most gifted books are the ones for kids, while the bestselling titles are from various categories.

▸ When you compare “Literature & Fiction” category, between 30% and 50% of titles are present on both lists. The top 5 is occupied by the books everyone is talking about, for instance, the latest novel by Stephen King. But you don’t need any of these lists to take this book into consideration, do you?

▸ I have noticed that in categories that provide both print and Kindle editions – such as literary fiction, mysteries, biographies, or romance – the list of most gifted books are more relevant.

– The books come from recognized authors. These authors write for well-known publishers, such as Simon & Schuster or Penguin Random House.

– On the contrary, the books on the bestseller lists are offered by Amazon imprints, and come from many authors that write exclusively for Amazon.

– Also, there are lots of Kindle Unlimited titles among them. As a result you may see many best selling titles that you know nothing about.

▸ My advice is to use the lists of most gifted books instead of bestseller lists. You will find hot new releases from familiar authors much quicker. 

Most gifted books and audiobooks on Amazon – tips

▸ Please keep in mind that the lists of most gifted books are refreshed every day. If you visit them today, you will see the books that have been ordered as gifts in the past 24 hours.

▸ If you want to gift a book for Christmas, you should visit the lists at the time most users are buying Christmas gifts. 

▸ Make sure to bookmark the lists of the most gifted books and audiobooks on Amazon in your browser to quickly access them when the time comes. Click on a star you should find in the search box, or use a shortcut: Ctrl+D on a PC computer and Command+D on a Mac computer.

▸ If you want to find the books that were most gifted in the past, you can use an online tool called Wayback Machine. It’s a digital archive of the web and collects archived copies of web pages. For instance, if you want to buy a book for your Mom for Christmas, you can use Wayback Machine to learn which books were most gifted before Mother’s Day. Here is the archive of the page made two weeks before Mother’s Day 2022.

▸ If you start browsing Amazon from the lists of bestsellers, you can quickly jump to the most gifted items by clicking on the “Gift Ideas” tab at the top of the list. The navigation bar with bestsellers, new releases, movers & shakers, most wished for, and most gifted items is available only on the front page of Amazon Top 100 lists.

▸ The lists with most gifted products are obviously available not only for books and audiobooks. You can browse all major categories, from Amazon devices, to home appliances, games, personal care products, electronics, toys, or clothing. ⇢ Browse all categories

Most gifted books on Amazon – conclusions

I think the lists of most gifted books and audiobooks on Amazon are a very helpful but still overlooked way to find books you could give as gifts for Christmas, Mother’s Day, birthday, or wedding.

A recommendation based on other users’ gift buying choices is a way to increase the chances the book you give will not end up in the present drawer.

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Many users who consider getting Kindle Unlimited subscription, want to find out how many eligible titles are worth reading.

The easiest way is to explore the catalog of Kindle Unlimited eligible books, but you will see there – besides the titles that are featured by Amazon – only the books that are currently doing well.

Therefore, we recommend that you take a look at the table below. It includes Kindle Unlimited books that made it to the ultimate list of best Kindle books of all time.

You won’t be surprised to find here all three parts of the Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. The order should also not surprise you.

On the other hand, the poor performance of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter is quite surprising. All books from the series are available via Kindle Unlimited since the very beginning and are still heavily promoted as the superstars of the service. Despite this, only the first novel, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, made it to the list of top 100 Kindle books of all time.

Top 15 Kindle Unlimited bestsellers of all time

In a table below, you will see 15 Kindle Unlimited books that landed on the list of Top 100 Kindle books of all time. The list is based on annual bestseller lists from 2007-2017.

Here are the highlights of methodology. Every book on the annual list earns points. The higher the book is ranked, the more points it gets: the #1 book on the yearly list gets 100 points, and the last title gets 1 point.

When is Kindle Unlimited book counted as sold? When the user has read roughly the length of the free sample.

How to read the table:

• # – a position of the book in Top 100,
• #/100 – a position of the book on a list of top 100 Kindle books of all time,
• Title (series) – a title of the book and a name of the series it belongs to,
• Author – an author or authors of the book,
• Ratg – rating,
• Revs – number of reviews,
• Cat – a primary category the book is ranked in.

Top 15 Kindle Unlimited books of all time

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Here are the best books for your e-reader and app, from Danielle Steel, Anthony Doerr, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Ken Follett, and Jenny Colgan.

Are you looking for the most anticipated books you could add to your autumn and winter 2021 reading list?

Hundreds of books are being published every day, and autumn is the most intense season when it comes to new book releases. How to find the best reads without spending too much time on it?

The end-of-year book lists have not been released, yet, but it’s never too early to start a cozy winter reading season.

We have rounded up 12 most interesting books due to be released in autumn and winter 2021 (and some already published, too).

Among them, you will find our favorite: Flying Angels by Danielle Steel, a World War II story that brings together six remarkable young flight nurses who fly into enemy territory to rescue wounded soldiers from the battlefield.

My personal pick is a collection of stories by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The City of Mist, a return to the mythical Barcelona library known as the Cemetery of Forgotten Books.

If you love Ken Follet, you will be excited to read the master’s latest novel, Never – an action-packed, globe-spanning drama following a group of professionals struggling to prevent the outbreak of the new world war.

As usual, the list includes a quick blurb, release date, category, publisher, number of pages, and links to leading ebook stores: Kindle, Nook, Kobo, and Apple Books.

Which books are you going to read this winter or give as a gift to a book lover in your life?

Best ebooks for your winter 2021-22 reading list

Cloud Cuckoo Land

September 28

Anthony Doerr

A highly anticipated novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of All the Light We Cannot See.

The book’s plot is set in three dimensions: Constantinople in the fifteenth century; a small town in present-day Idaho; an interstellar ship decades from now.

Constantinople. Thirteen-year-old Anna learns to read, and in this ancient city, famous for its libraries, she finds a book, the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to a utopian paradise in the sky.

Five hundred years later, in a library in Idaho, octogenarian Zeno, rehearses five children in a play adaptation of Aethon’s story.

In a near future, on the interstellar ship Argos, Konstance is alone in a vault, copying on scraps of sacking the story of Aethon. She has never set foot on our planet.

• Category: Historical Fiction
• Publisher: Scribner
• Print book length: 637 pages

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Silverview

October 12

John le Carré

In his last completed novel, John le Carré turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past sixty years – the secret world itself.

Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the city for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian’s evening is disrupted by a visitor.

Edward, a Polish émigré living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, seems to know a lot about Julian’s family and is rather too interested in the inner workings of his modest new enterprise.

• Category: Espionage Thrillers
• Publisher: Viking
• Print book length: 223 pages

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The Christmas Bookshop

October 26

Jenny Colgan

A brand-new heartwarming Christmas novel from the beloved New York Times bestselling author of The Bookshop on the Corner and Christmas at the Island Hotel.

Laid off from her department store job, Carmen has perilously little cash and few options. The prospect of spending Christmas with her perfect sister Sofia, in Sofia’s perfect house with her perfect children and her perfectly ordered yuppie life does not appeal.

Frankly, Sofia doesn’t exactly want her prickly sister Carmen there either. But Sofia has yet another baby on the way, a mother desperate to see her daughters get along, and a client who needs help revitalizing his shabby old bookshop. So Carmen moves in and takes the job.

• Category: Friendship Fiction
• Publisher: William Morrow
• Print book length: 335 pages

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The Last Noel & Secret Surrogate

October 26

Heather Graham and Delores Fossen

From Harlequin Bestselling Author Collection comes a special volume that includes two reader-favorite holiday romance: The Last Noel by New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham, and Delores Fossen’s Secret Surrogate.

The story of The Last Noel follows the O’Boyle family who become prey to a pair of brutal escaped killers desperate to find refuge. Skyler O’Boyle’s one hope for rescue is that the men are unaware that her daughter, Kat, has escaped into the blizzard.

When Kat stumbles on a third felon, half-frozen and delirious, she recognizes him immediately. What is Craig Devon, the onetime love of her life, doing in such company? Craig is desperate to unload a crucial secret that could change their destiny.

• Category: Holiday Romance
• Publisher: Harlequin
• Print book length: 340 + 256 pages

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The Secret of Snow

October 26

Viola Shipman

When Sonny Dunes, a SoCal meteorologist, is replaced by a virtual meteorologist, the only station willing to give the fifty-year-old another shot is the very place Sonny’s been avoiding since the day she left for college—her northern Michigan hometown.

Sonny grudgingly returns to the long, cold, snowy winters of her childhood… with the added humiliation of moving back in with her mother.

To distract herself from the memories she’s spent her life trying to outrun, Sonny throws herself headfirst into covering every small-town winter event. But with someone trying to undermine her efforts to rebuild her career, Sonny must make peace with who she used to be and allow her heart to thaw if she’s ever going to find a place she can truly call home.

• Category: Holiday Fiction
• Publisher: Graydon House
• Print book length: 372 pages

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Immune: A Journey into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive

November 2

Philipp Dettmer

Immune is a gorgeously illustrated deep dive into the immune system that will forever change how you think about your body, from the creator of the popular science YouTube channel Kurzgesagt.

Second only to the human brain in its complexity, it is one of the oldest and most critical facets of life on Earth. Without it, you would die within days.

Each chapter delves into an element of the immune system, including defenses like antibodies and inflammation as well as threats like bacteria, allergies, and cancer.

Philipp Dettmer reveals why boosting your immune system is actually nonsense, how parasites sneak their way past your body’s defenses, how viruses work, and what goes on in your wounds when you cut yourself.

• Category: Anatomy Science
• Publisher: Random House
• Print book length: 312 pages

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Never

November 9

Ken Follett

The new must-read epic from master storyteller Ken Follett: more than a thriller, it’s an action-packed, globe-spanning drama set in the present day.

A shrinking oasis in the Sahara Desert; a stolen US Army drone; an uninhabited Japanese island; and one country’s secret stash of deadly chemical poisons: all these play roles in a relentlessly escalating crisis.

Struggling to prevent the outbreak of world war are a young woman intelligence officer; a spy working undercover with jihadists; a brilliant Chinese spymaster; and Pauline herself, beleaguered by a populist rival for the next president election.

• Category: Military Thrillers
• Publisher: Viking
• Print book length: 813 pages

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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

November 9

David Graeber and David Wengrow

The Dawn of Everything is a dramatically new understanding of human history. The book is challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution – from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality.

Drawing on pathbreaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we learn to throw off our conceptual shackles and perceive what’s really there.

If humans did not spend 95 percent of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they doing all that time? If agriculture, and cities, did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organization did they lead to?

The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of human history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful, hopeful possibilities, than we tend to assume.

• Category: History of Anthropology
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Print book length: 702 pages

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The Sentence

November 9

Louise Erdrich

In this stunning and timely novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich creates a wickedly funny ghost story, a tale of passion, of a complex marriage, and of a woman’s relentless errors.

A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store’s most annoying customer. Flora dies on All Souls’ Day, but she simply won’t leave the store.

Tookie, who has landed a job selling books after years of incarceration that she survived by reading “with murderous attention,” must solve the mystery of this haunting while at the same time trying to understand all that occurs in Minneapolis during a year of grief, astonishment, isolation, and furious reckoning.

• Category: Ghost Fiction
• Publisher: Harper
• Print book length: 416 pages

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Termination Shock

November 16

Neal Stephenson

Neal Stephenson’s sweeping new novel transports readers to a near-future world in which the greenhouse effect has inexorably resulted in a whirling-dervish troposphere of super storms, rising sea levels, global flooding, and deadly pandemics.

Ranging from the Texas heartland to the Dutch royal palace in the Hague, to the sunbaked Chihuahuan Desert, Termination Shock brings together a disparate group of characters from different cultures and continents who grapple with the real-life repercussions of global warming.

One man – visionary billionaire restaurant chain magnate T.R. Schmidt – has a big idea for reversing global warming, a master plan perhaps best described as “elemental.” But will it work?

• Category: Disaster Fiction
• Publisher: William Morrow
• Print book length: 736 pages

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The City of Mist: Stories

November 23

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Bestselling author Carlos Ruiz Zafón conceived of this collection of stories as an appreciation to the countless readers who joined him on the extraordinary journey that began with The Shadow of the Wind.

Comprising eleven stories, most of them never before published in English, The City of Mist offers the reader compelling characters, unique situations, and a gothic atmosphere reminiscent of his beloved Cemetery of Forgotten Books quartet.

A boy decides to become a writer when he discovers that his creative gifts capture the attentions of an aloof young beauty who has stolen his heart. A labyrinth maker flees Constantinople to a plague-ridden Barcelona, with plans for building a library impervious to the destruction of time. A strange gentleman tempts Cervantes to write a book like no other, each page of which could prolong the life of the woman he loves.

• Category: Magical Realism
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Print book length: 208 pages

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Flying Angels

November 23

Danielle Steel

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel, comes a World War II story that brings together six remarkable young flight nurses, who face the challenges of war and its many heartbreaks and victories as unsung heroes.

Risking their lives on perilous missions, they join the elite Medical Air Evacuation Transport Squadron and fly into enemy territory almost daily to rescue wounded soldiers from the battlefield.

Audrey and Lizzie make enormous sacrifices to save lives alongside an extraordinary group of nurses: Alex, who longs to make a difference in the world; Louise, a bright mind who faced racial prejudice growing up in the South; Pru, a selfless leader with a heart of gold; and Emma, whose confidence and grit push her to put everything on the line for her patients.

• Category: Historical Fiction
• Publisher: Delacorte Press
• Print book length: 288 pages

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Get ready for a long winter with exciting reads from George R.R. Martin, Michelle Obama, John Grisham, Veronica Roth, or Cormac McCarthy.

This winter is going to be full of books, hot tea, and candles. On October 18, 2022, alone, as many as five sure-fire ebook bestsellers were released.

Among them, you will find the newest novel by John Irving, the first one in seven years. The Last Chairlift is a ghost story, a love story, and a lifetime of sexual politics.

Paul Newman’s biography, The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man, is culled from thousands of pages of transcripts, based on conversations between Paul Newman and his closest friend, screenwriter Stewart Stern.

Lee Child and Andrew Child released the new Jack Reacher novel, No Plan B, just in time to meet the hype caused by the Amazon Prime Reacher TV series starring Alan Ritchson.

Veronica Roth returns with a new dystopian novel, following the poster girl of the oppressive regime. She is imprisoned by revolutionaries for ten years but can earn her freedom if she finds a missing girl who was stolen by the old regime.

Plus, there is a new memoir by Michelle Obama (The Light We Carry), an illustrated history of the Targaryen Dynasty (The Rise of the Dragon by George R.R. Martin), and, my favorite, The Philosophy of Modern Song – Bob Dylan’s poignant and profound essays that are ostensibly about music, but include meaningful reflections on the nature of the human condition.

As usual, the list includes a quick blurb, release date, category, publisher, number of pages, and links to leading ebook stores: Kindle, Nook, Kobo, and Apple Books.

Which books are you going to read this winter or give as a gift to a book lover in your life?

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Best hot new ebook releases for winter 2022-23

The Boys from Biloxi

October 18

John Grisham

The #1 New York Times bestselling author returns to Mississippi with the riveting story of two sons of immigrant families who grow up as friends, but ultimately find themselves on opposite sides of the law.

Keith Rudy and Hugh Malco grew up in Biloxi in the sixties and were childhood friends. As teenagers, their lives took them in different directions. Keith’s father became a legendary prosecutor. Hugh’s father became the “Boss” of Biloxi’s criminal underground. Keith went to law school and followed in his father’s footsteps. Hugh preferred the nightlife and worked in his father’s clubs.

The two families were headed for a showdown, one that would happen in a courtroom.

Life itself hangs in the balance in The Boys from Biloxi, a sweeping saga that’s rich with history and with a large cast of unforgettable characters.

• Category: Legal Thrillers
• Publisher: Doubleday
• Print book length: 453 pages

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Poster Girl

October 18

Veronica Roth

#1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth tells the story of a woman’s desperate search for a missing girl after the collapse of the oppressive dystopian regime.

For decades, everyone in the Seattle-Portland megalopolis lived under it, as well as constant surveillance in the form of the Insight, an ocular implant that tracked every word and every action.

Then there was a revolution. The Delegation fell. Its most valuable members were locked in the Aperture, a prison on the outskirts of the city.

Sonya, former poster girl for the Delegation, has been imprisoned for ten years when an old enemy comes to her with a deal: find a missing girl who was stolen from her parents by the old regime, and earn her freedom.

• Category: Dystopian Fiction
• Publisher: William Morrow
• Print book length: 288 pages

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The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man

October 18

Paul Newman

In 1986, Paul Newman and his closest friend, screenwriter Stewart Stern, began an extraordinary project. Stuart was to compile an oral history, to have Newman’s family and friends and those who worked closely with him, talk about the actor’s life. And then Newman would work with Stewart and give his side of the story.

The result is an extraordinary memoir, culled from thousands of pages of transcripts. The book is insightful, revealing, and surprising. Newman’s voice is powerful, sometimes funny, sometimes painful, always meeting that high standard of searing honesty.

The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man is the raw, candid, unvarnished memoir of an American icon. The greatest movie star of the past 75 years covers everything: his traumatic childhood, his career, his drinking, his thoughts on Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor, his greatest roles, acting, and his intimate life with Joanne Woodward.

• Category: Biographies
• Publisher: Knopf
• Print book length: 320 pages

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The Last Chairlift

October 18

John Irving

John Irving, one of the world’s greatest novelists, returns with his first novel in seven years—a ghost story, a love story, and a lifetime of sexual politics.

In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier at the National Downhill and Slalom Championships. Little Ray, as she is called, finishes nowhere near the podium, but she manages to get pregnant. Back home, in New England, Little Ray becomes a ski instructor.

Her son, Adam, grows up in a family that defies conventions and evades questions concerning the eventful past. Years later, looking for answers, Adam will go to Aspen. In the Hotel Jerome, where he was conceived, Adam will meet some ghosts; in The Last Chairlift, they aren’t the first or the last ghosts he sees.

• Category: Political Fiction
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Print book length: 908 pages

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The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962

October 18

Max Hastings

In The Abyss, Max Hastings turns his focus to one of the most terrifying events of the mid-twentieth century—the thirteen days in October 1962 when the world stood on the brink of nuclear war.

Hastings looks at the conflict with fresh eyes, focusing on the people at the heart of the crisis – the US President John F. Kennedy, Soviet First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev, Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro, and a host of their advisors.

Combining in-depth research with Hasting’s well-honed insights, The Abyss is a human history that unfolds on a wide, colorful canvas. As the action moves back and forth from Moscow to Washington, Hastings seeks to explain, as much as to describe, the attitudes and conduct of the Soviets, Cubans, and Americans, and to recreate the tension and heightened fears of countless innocent bystanders whose lives hung in the balance.

• Category: Warfare History
• Publisher: Harper
• Print book length: 576 pages

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The Passenger

October 25

Cormac McCarthy

The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the first of a two-volume masterpiece: The Passenger.

1980, Pass Christian, Mississippi: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wet suit and plunges from the Coast Guard tender into darkness. His dive light illuminates the sunken jet, nine bodies still buckled in their seats. Missing from the crash site are the pilot’s flight bag, the plane’s black box, and the tenth passenger. But how?

A collateral witness to machinations that can only bring him harm, Western is shadowed in body and spirit – by men with badges; by the ghost of his father, inventor of the bomb that melted glass and flesh in Hiroshima; and by his sister, the love and ruin of his soul.

The Passenger is the story of a salvage diver, haunted by loss, afraid of the watery deep, pursued for a conspiracy beyond his understanding, and longing for a death he cannot reconcile with God.

• Category: Psychological Literary Fiction
• Publisher: Knopf
• Print book length: 400 pages

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The Women of Rothschild: The Untold Story of the World’s Most Famous Dynasty

October 25

Natalie Livingstone

From the East End of London to the Eastern seaboard of the United States, from Bletchley Park to Buchenwald, and from the Vatican to Palestine, Natalie Livingstone follows the extraordinary lives of the Rothschild women from the dawn of the nineteenth century to the early years of the twenty-first.

As Jews in a Christian society and women in a deeply patriarchal family, they were outsiders. Excluded from the family bank, they forged their own distinct dynasty of daughters and nieces, mothers and aunts. They became influential hostesses and talented diplomats, choreographing electoral campaigns, advising prime ministers, advocating for social reform, and trading on the stock exchange.

Absorbing and compulsive, The Women of Rothschild gives voice to the complicated, privileged, and gifted women whose vision and tenacity shaped history.

• Category: Biographies
• Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
• Print book length: 707 pages

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No Plan B: A Jack Reacher Novel

October 25

Lee Child

After the success of an Amazon Prime Reacher TV series starring Alan Ritchson, many fans of Jack Reacher re-read earlier thrillers, but make sure to reach for the newest novel from Lee Child and Andrew Child: No Plan B.

In Gerrardsville, Colorado, a woman dies under the wheels of a moving bus. The death is ruled a suicide. But Jack Reacher saw what really happened: A man in a gray hoodie and jeans, moving stealthily, pushed the victim to her demise—before swiftly grabbing the dead woman’s purse and strolling away.

When another homicide is ruled an accident, Reacher knows this is no coincidence. With a killer on the loose, Reacher has no time to waste to track down those responsible.

According to Karin Slaughter, No Plan B is a perfectly plotted, fast-paced thriller, with bigger twists than ever before.

• Category: Thrillers
• Publisher: Delacorte Press
• Print book length: 361 pages

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The Rise of the Dragon: An Illustrated History of the Targaryen Dynasty

October 25

George R. R. Martin

This lavish visual history—featuring over 180 all-new illustrations—is a stunning introduction to House Targaryen, the iconic family at the heart of HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel series, House of the Dragon.

The Rise of the Dragon chronicles the creation and rise of Targaryen power in Westeros, covering the history first told in George R. R. Martin’s epic Fire & Blood, from Aegon Targaryen’s conquest of Westeros through to the infamous Dance of the Dragons – the bloody civil war that nearly undid Targaryen rule for good.

Packed with all-new artwork, the Targaryens – and their dragons – come vividly to life in this deluxe reference book. Perfect for fans steeped in the lore of Westeros, as well as those who first meet the Targaryens in the HBO series.

• Category: Fantasy
• Publisher: Ten Speed Press
• Print book length: 352 pages

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The Philosophy of Modern Song

November 1

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers his extraordinary insight into the nature of popular music. He writes over sixty essays focusing on songs by other artists, spanning from Stephen Foster to Elvis Costello, and in between ranging from Hank Williams to Nina Simone.

He analyzes what he calls the trap of easy rhymes, breaks down how the addition of a single syllable can diminish a song, and even explains how bluegrass relates to heavy metal.

These essays are written in Dylan’s unique prose. They are mysterious and mercurial, poignant and profound, and often laugh-out-loud funny. And while they are ostensibly about music, they are really meditations and reflections on the human condition.

• Category: Music Essays
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Print book length: 352 pages

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The Stroke of Winter

November 1

Wendy Webb

In the tourist town of Wharton, on the coast of Lake Superior, Tess Bell is renovating her old family home into a bed-and-breakfast during the icy dead of winter.

As the house’s restoration commences, a shuttered art studio is revealed. Inside are paintings Tess’s late grandfather, beloved and celebrated artist Sebastian Bell, hid away for generations. But these appear to be the works of a twisted mind, almost unrecognizable as paintings she and others familiar with his art would expect. 

The sinister canvases raise disturbing questions for Tess, sparking nightmares and igniting in her an obsession to unearth the truth around their origins.

Note: The ebook is available exclusively on Amazon.

• Category: Gothic Fiction
• Publisher: Lake Union Publishing
• Print book length:  300 pages

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Love and War in the Jewish Quarter

November 8

Dora Levy Mossanen

A breathtaking journey across Iran where war and superstition, jealousy and betrayal, and passion and loyalty rage behind the impenetrable walls of mansions and the crumbling houses of the Jewish Quarter.

Against the tumultuous background of World War II, Dr. Yaran will find himself caught in the thrall of the anti-Semitic Governor General, the most powerful man in the country. Dr. Yaran falls in love with the Governor General’s defiant wife, Velvet, upending not only the life of the doctor’s beloved daughter, but the entire community.

In his quest to save everything and everyone he loves, Dr. Yaran will navigate the intersections of magic, science, lust, and treachery.

• Category: Historical Fiction
• Publisher: Post Hill Press
• Print book length: 295 pages

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The Fall of Númenor: And Other Tales from the Second Age of Middle-earth

November 15

J.R.R. Tolkien

J.R.R. Tolkien famously described the Second Age of Middle-earth as a “dark age, and not very much of its history is (or need be) told.” 

And for many years readers would need to be content with the tantalizing glimpses of it found within the pages of The Lord of the Rings and its appendices, including the forging of the Rings of Power, the building of the Barad-dûr and the rise of Sauron.

Now, adhering to the timeline of “The Tale of Years” in the appendices to The Lord of the Rings, editor Brian Sibley has assembled into one comprehensive volume a new chronicle of the Second Age of Middle-earth, told substantially in the words of Tolkien from the various published texts, with new illustrations in watercolor and pencil by the doyen of Tolkien art, Alan Lee. 

• Category: Fantasy
• Publisher: William Morrow
• Print book length: 320 pages

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The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

November 15

Michelle Obama

In an inspiring follow-up to her critically acclaimed, #1 bestselling memoir Becoming, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in today’s highly uncertain world.

Michelle Obama offers readers a series of fresh stories and insightful reflections on change, challenge, and power, including her belief that when we light up for others, we can illuminate the richness and potential of the world around us, discovering deeper truths and new pathways for progress.

How can we discover strength and community inside our differences? What tools do we use to address feelings of self-doubt or helplessness? What do we do when it all starts to feel like too much?

The Light We Carry inspires readers to examine their own lives, identify their sources of gladness, and connect meaningfully in a turbulent world.

• Category: Biographies
• Publisher: Crown
• Print book length: 336 pages

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Prime Reading is one of the services included in Amazon Prime membership. It’s hard to understand why it’s still so underestimated. The service gives unlimited access to a list of customer-favorited Kindle books, as well as comics, magazines, and audiobooks from Audible.

The Prime Reading catalog includes between 1,000 and 3,000 items. The list is rotating, which means that – just like on Netflix – some titles are coming and some are leaving.

Some users wonder what is better – Prime Reading or Kindle Unlimited. If you are an avid reader, you should have no doubts: the latter service is much better because it includes over a million books.

However, Amazon Prime Reading works surprisingly well for people who read occasionally, want to have access to versatile content, and share their account with family members.

If you are an Amazon Prime subscriber, you should definitely check out what’s currently available in Amazon Prime Reading. The list is being refreshed every month. Although the number of eligible titles is growing, many interesting books are gone forever.

However, I’ve noticed an interesting pattern: some books – the ones that are most popular – stay longer on the list. Harry Potter series, The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, or Stephen R. Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People are on Prime Reading since the service was launched in October 2016.

The list you will see below includes most loved Amazon Prime eligible books, based on the time they have stayed in the catalog as well as customer reviews.

For more recommendations, check out the ranking of 100 best books in Amazon Prime Reading. This list is based on the current number of downloads, and is being updated every hour.

How to download Prime Reading books

There are two ways to do it:

• Via Amazon website – when you choose the book from the list below or the catalog of Prime Reading eligible books, you will be directed to the book’s product page. Click on the button saying “Read for Free,” and make sure to select the right device from a drop-down list under the button.
• Via Kindle app or e-reader – in a Kindle app (no matter whether it’s for iPhone/iPad or Android), tap the Discover icon on the bottom bar and look for “Prime Reading” link. On your Kindle, go to “Home” view, tap the three-dot menu in the top right corner, select Kindle Store and look for “Prime Reading” link.

How to sign up for Amazon Prime Reading

As I have mentioned above, Prime Reading is a part of Amazon Prime multi-benefit subscription. Most probably, you will join or rejoin Prime not only because of access to a few thousand digital books and audiobooks – for $12.99 per month you get much more than that.

Free delivery on 100 million products, original TV shows on Prime Video, plus several shopping benefits and exclusive deals – these are the most common reasons to buy the subscription.

To get the membership, visit Amazon Prime sign up page, select the plan (you can go for a monthly payment but you can also pick up one of the tailored subscriptions), confirm you credentials, and you are ready to enjoy free digital books, comics, and magazines!

25 best books on Amazon Prime Reading

The Handmaid’s Tale

Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid’s Tale is one of Amazon’s most popular books. It’s a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its images and its forecast.

Set in the near future, the tale describes life in what was once the United States and is now called the Republic of Gilead.

The story is told through the eyes of Offred, one of the unfortunate Handmaids under the new social order. In condensed but eloquent prose, she reveals to us the dark corners behind the establishment’s calm facade, as certain tendencies now in existence are carried to their logical conclusions.

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The Sun and Her Flowers

Rupi Kaur

From Rupi Kaur, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of milk and honey, comes her long-awaited second collection of poetry.

A vibrant and transcendent journey about growth and healing. Ancestry and honoring one’s roots. Expatriation and rising up to find a home within yourself.

Divided into five chapters and illustrated by Kaur, the sun and her flowers is a journey of wilting, falling, rooting, rising, and blooming. A celebration of love in all its forms.

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Nineteen Eighty-Four

George Orwell

George Orwell’s 1984 takes on new life with extraordinary relevance and renewed popularity.

Lionel Trilling said of Orwell’s masterpiece, “1984 is a profound, terrifying, and wholly fascinating book. It is a fantasy of the political future, and like any such fantasy, serves its author as a magnifying device for an examination of the present.”

Though the year 1984 now exists in the past, Orwell’s novel remains an urgent call for the individual willing to speak truth to power.

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Divergent

Veronica Roth

This first book in Veronica Roth’s #1 New York Times bestselling Divergent trilogy – a dystopian series set in a futuristic Chicago has captured the hearts of millions of teen and adult readers.

Perfect for fans of the Hunger Games and Maze Runner series, Divergent and its sequels, Insurgent and Allegiant, are the gripping story of a dystopian world transformed by courage, self-sacrifice, and love.

Fans of the Divergent movie will find the book packed with just as much emotional depth and exhilarating action as the film, all told in beautiful, rich language.

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The Selection

Kiera Cass

Discover the first book in the captivating, #1 New York Times bestselling series by Kiera Cass.

For thirty-five girls, the Selection is the chance of a lifetime. The opportunity to escape a rigid caste system, live in a palace, and compete for the heart of gorgeous Prince Maxon.

But for America Singer, being Selected is a nightmare. It means turning her back on her secret love with Aspen, who is a caste below her, and competing for a crown she doesn’t want.

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What the Wind Knows

Amy Harmon

This Washington Post bestseller follows Anne Gallagher who grew up enchanted by her grandfather’s stories of Ireland. Heartbroken at his death, she travels to his childhood home to spread his ashes.

The Ireland of 1921, teetering on the edge of war, is a dangerous place in which to awaken. Anne finds herself, hurt, disoriented, and under the care of Dr. Thomas Smith, guardian to a young boy who is oddly familiar. Mistaken for the boy’s long-missing mother, Anne adopts her identity, convinced the woman’s disappearance is connected to her own.

As tensions rise, Thomas joins the struggle for Ireland’s independence and Anne is drawn into the conflict beside him.

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The Color Purple

Alice Walker

Celie has grown up poor in rural Georgia, despised by the society around her and abused by her own family. She strives to protect her sister, Nettie, from a similar fate.

While Nettie escapes to a new life as a missionary in Africa, Celie is left behind without her best friend and confidante, married off to an older suitor, and sentenced to a life alone with a harsh and brutal husband.

In an attempt to transcend a life that often seems too much to bear, Celie begins writing letters directly to God.

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Born Survivors

Wendy Holden

In Born Survivors, a renowned biographer Wendy Holden recounts this extraordinary story of three children united by their mothers’ unbelievable – yet ultimately successful– fight for survival.

Eastern Europe, 1944: Three women believe they are pregnant, but are torn from their husbands before they can be certain.

Rachel is sent to Auschwitz, unaware that her husband has been shot. Priska and her husband travel there together, but are immediately separated. Also at Auschwitz, Anka hopes in vain to be reunited with her husband.

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Upstairs at the White House

J.B. West and Mary Lynn Kotz

In this New York Times bestseller, the White House chief usher for nearly three decades offers a behind-the-scenes look at America’s first families.

J. B. West, whom Jackie Kennedy called “one of the most extraordinary men I have ever met,” provides an absorbing, one-of-a-kind history of life among the first ladies.

Alive with anecdotes ranging from Eleanor Roosevelt’s fascinating political strategies to Jackie Kennedy’s tragic loss and the personal struggles of Pat Nixon, Upstairs at the White House is a rich account of a slice of American history that usually remains behind closed doors.

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True Fiction

Lee Goldberg

The New York Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg returns with a breakneck thriller where truth and fiction collide for the unluckiest writer alive.

When a passenger jet crashes onto the beaches of Waikiki, bestselling writer Ian Ludlow knows the horrific tragedy wasn’t an accident.

Years before, the CIA enlisted Ian to dream up terrorism scenarios to prepare the government for nightmares they couldn’t imagine. Now one of those schemes has come true, and Ian is the only person alive who knows how it was done… and who is behind the plot.

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The Killer Collective

Barry Eisler

In this fast-paced thriller, sex crimes detective Livia Lone, assassin John Rain, and former Marine sniper Dox form an unlikely team, determined to unveil one government conspiracy after another.

Facing uncertain loyalties and conflicting agendas, smoldering romantic entanglements, and brutal betrayals, the group edges closer and closer to the once untouchable big fish of the US government.

This gripping read has been leading the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal bestseller charts for a reason.

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The Atlantis Gene

A. G. Riddle

Off the coast of Antarctica, a research group discovers a strange ancient structure buried deep within an iceberg. At the same moment, in Jakarta, Indonesia, brilliant geneticist Kate Warner has just come up with a breakthrough treatment for autism. Or so she thinks.

What Kate found is far more deadly – not just for her, but for the entire human race. Her work could unleash the next stage of human evolution. And it holds the key to unlocking the mysterious structure off the coast of Antarctica.

As the first book in A. G. Riddle’s bestselling Origin Mystery series, this is the novel that started it all. Fast-paced and packed with action, it reads just like a well-made thriller movie.

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A Criminal Defense

William L. Myers, Jr.

When a young reporter is found dead and a prominent Philadelphia businessman is accused of her murder, Mick McFarland finds himself involved in the case of his life.

The defendant, David Hanson, was Mick’s close friend in law school, and the victim, a TV news reporter, had reached out to Mick for legal help only hours before her death.

Mick’s played both sides of Philadelphia’s courtrooms. As a top-shelf defense attorney and former prosecutor, he knows all the tricks of the trade. And he’ll need every one of them to win.

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Unlimited Memory

Kevin Horsley

Did you know most people never tap into 10% of their potential for memory?

In this Wall Street Journal bestseller, you will learn how the world’s best memory masters get themselves to concentrate at will, anytime they want.

When you can easily focus and concentrate on the task at hand, and store and recall useful information, you can easily double your productivity and eliminate wasted time, stress and mistakes at work.

Download and read this book and you will know how to use advanced learning strategies to learn faster, remember more and be more productive in everything you do.

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The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking

Chris Anderson

Done right, a talk can electrify a room and transform an audience’s worldview.

The book is an insider’s guide to creating unforgettable talks. It explains how the miracle of powerful public speaking is achieved, and equips you to give it your best shot.

There is no set formula; no two talks should be the same. The goal is for you to give the talk that only you can give. But don’t be intimidated. You may find it more natural than you think.

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The Storyteller’s Secret

Sejal Badani

From the bestselling author of Trail of Broken Wings comes an epic story of the unrelenting force of love, the power of healing, and the invincible desire to dream.

Nothing prepares Jaya, a New York journalist, for the heartbreak of her third miscarriage and the slow unraveling of her marriage in its wake. Desperate to assuage her deep anguish, she decides to go to India to uncover answers to her family’s past.

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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Stephen R. Covey

This classic self-help book has transformed the lives of Presidents and CEOs, educators, parents, and students.

In short, millions of people of all ages and occupations have benefited from Dr. Covey’s 7 Habits book. And, it can transform you.

The edition that’s available in Prime Reading is full of highly readable and understandable infographics. You will learn how to be proactive, how to put first things first, think win-win, and begin with the end in mind.

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The Whole30

Melissa Hartwig Urban and Dallas Hartwig

Since 2009, Melissa Hartwig Urban’s critically acclaimed Whole30 program has quietly led hundreds of thousands of people to effortless weight loss and better health—along with stunning improvements in sleep quality, energy levels, mood, and self-esteem.

The program accomplishes all of this by specifically targeting people’s habits and emotional relationships with food.

The Whole30 features real-life success stories, an extensive quick-reference FAQ, detailed elimination and reintroduction guidelines, and more than 100 recipes using familiar ingredients, from simple one-pot meals to complete dinner party menus.

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The Giving Tree

Shel Silverstein

As The Giving Tree turns fifty, this timeless classic is available for the first time ever in ebook format. This digital edition allows young readers and lifelong fans to continue the legacy and love of a household classic that will now reach an even wider audience.

Since it was first published fifty years ago, Shel Silverstein’s poignant picture book for readers of all ages has offered a touching interpretation of the gift of giving and a serene acceptance of another’s capacity to love in return.

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Laugh-Out-Loud Jokes for Kids

Rob Elliott

What happens to race car drivers when they eat too much? They get indy-gestion. Laugh-Out-Loud Jokes for Kids provides children ages 7-10 many hours of fun and laughter.

Young readers will have a blast sharing this collection of hundreds of one-liners, knock knock jokes, tongue twisters, and more with their friends and family!

This mega-bestselling book will have children rolling on the floor with laughter and is sure to be a great gift idea for any child.

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Star Wars: Darth Vader Vol. 1

Kieron Gillen

The original Dark Lord of the Sith stars in his first ongoing series! Ever since Darth Vader’s first on-screen appearance, he has become one of pop-culture’s most popular villains.

Now, follow Vader straight from the ending of A NEW HOPE (and the pages of the new STAR WARS comic book) into his own solo adventures — showing the Empire’s war with the Rebel Alliance from the other side! But when a Dark Lord needs help, who can he turn to?

As Vader pursues a very personal vengeance against the Rebels and investigates the Emperor’s secret machinations, he clashes with weapons scavenger Aphra and deadly Battle Droids, and returns to Geonosis to build an army.

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Sh*t My Dad Says

Justin Halpern

Tuesdays with Morrie meets F My Life in this hilarious book about a son’s relationship with his foul-mouthed father by the 29-year-old comedy writer who created the massively popular Twitter feed of the same name.

After being dumped by his longtime girlfriend, twenty-eight-year-old Justin Halpern found himself living at home with his seventy-three-year-old dad. Sam Halpern, who is “like Socrates, but angrier, and with worse hair,” has never minced words, and when Justin moved back home, he began to record all the ridiculous things his dad said to him.

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The Man in the High Castle

Philip K. Dick

This harrowing winner of the Hugo Award is the work that established Philip K. Dick as an innovator in science fiction while breaking the barrier between science fiction and the serious novel of ideas.

The Man in the High Castle is a haunting vision of history as a nightmare from which it may just be possible to wake. It’s America in 1962. Some twenty years earlier the United States lost a war – and is now occupied by Nazi Germany and Japan.

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The Fellowship of the Ring

J.R.R. Tolkien

The Fellowship of the Ring is the first part of J.R.R. Tolkien’s three-volume epic saga set in the imaginary world of Middle-earth – home to many strange beings, and most notably hobbits, a peace-loving “little people,” cheerful and shy.

In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task, as his elderly cousin Bilbo entrusts the Ring to his care.

Frodo must leave his home and make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Ring and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose.

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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

J.K. Rowling

Harry Potters series is on Amazon Prime since the very begging of the service in 2016. Besides Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, you can read free of charge also other books from a series.

Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle.

Then, on Harry’s eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news: Harry Potter is a wizard, and he has a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

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How to find book best sellers on Amazon

If you want to go beyond what’s available in Amazon Prime Reading, check out a few handy lists that put together most popular books and hot new releases available currently on Amazon.

Amazon Charts – innovative Top 20 lists that are updated weekly and include latest trending books across all reading formats: print, Kindle, audiobooks, and digital subscriptions. The charts will let you quickly spot most popular titles, based not only on sales but also user statistics, such as the speed of reading or number of pre-orders.

Today’s Top 100 Book Best Sellers – every major category in the Amazon store has a dedicated list of best-selling items. Top 100 lists get updated a few times a day, so they are a great tool to find the hottest titles. The lists, both for print and Kindle books, are split into genres and subgenres, making it easy to find most popular titles in your favorite category.

New York Times Best Sellers – Amazon runs special sections featuring books that made it to weekly best sellers lists complied by The New York Times. The NYT lists can be found in both print and Kindle sections. We link to the latter directory. It features books from combined charts (print and ebook editions) for both fiction and nonfiction.

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Audible Plus is an affordable audiobook subscription which lets you access, stream and download original audio productions, popular podcasts, documentaries, and full-length audiobooks.

For $7.95 per month, you get full and unlimited access to a special catalog of eligible audiobooks, called Plus Catalog, opposite to Premium Catalog which includes all other audiobooks that you can either buy or exchange for credits.

How many audiobooks are included in the Audible Plus subscription? At the launch of the service, some 11,000 titles were listed, but new audiobooks are added every week.

What’s good to keep in mind is that most bestselling audiobooks are not a part of Audible Plus. If you are a Plus member, and wanted to get one of the bestsellers or hot new releases, you would need to buy it – as credits do not come with this subscription. See a comparison of Audible subscriptions if you want to pick up the one that suits your needs the most.

If you want to quickly check out how good are the titles included in Audible Plus, we’ve prepared a list of Top 20 most interesting titles you can get right now, grouped into popular categories: biographies & memoirs, children’s books, health & self-help guides, mystery & thrillers, and classic novels.

On this list, you’ll find Scarlett Johansson’s brilliantly expressive reading of an all-time children’s classic, one quirky satirical story about a 100-year-old man who hopped out of his old people’s home window to embark on an unbelievable journey, a bold investigative piece that reveals that foods rich in saturated fats are not as bad for you as you’d think, and many more.

Our personal favorite is a short thriller about a man who, due to an extremely rare sleeping disorder, is awake for only one hour, from 3AM until 4AM, every day. And so when he hears a woman scream and just a second later sees the President of the United States quickly fleeing the house, he has no time to spare.

Top 20 Audible Plus audiobooks in 2023-24 season

Biographies & memoirs

Twelve Years a Slave

Written by Solomon Northup, narrated by Hugh Quarshie

Twelve Years a Slave tells the story of Solomon Northup, an educated, free black man living with his wife and kids in New York, whose life takes a drastic turn when he’s kidnapped and sold as a slave.

With the documents proving his freedom stolen and his identity snatched away, Solomon spends twelve years in bondage, experiencing inhumane cruelty every single day.

But, above all, Twelve Years a Slave is a story of the unfathomable atrocities of institutional racism in 19th-century America.

• What it’s like: From a respectable carpenter and father of two, Solomon becomes a nameless slave in Georgia in this brutally thought-provoking account of what it was like to be a slave in America.
• Length: 7 hours and 22 minutes

The Hiding Place

Written by Corrie ten Boom, John and Elizabeth Sherrill, narrated by Wanda McCaddon

Corrie ten Boom has lived a completely normal life – as a spinster living with her family in the tiny house over their shop in Haarlem, she’d spend her days making watches and learning from his wise, devout father.

When the Nazis invade and occupy Holland, the ten Boom family takes it upon themselves as Christians to save their neighbors, hiding Jewish people in their home and aiding their escape from the Nazis.

The Hiding Place tells the story of a courageous family who risked their very lives to save others.

• What it’s like: The Hiding Place is a story about selfless sacrifice and remaining forgiving, even in the face of unspeakable cruelty.
• Length: 8 hours and 14 minutes

Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter

Written by Kate Clifford Larson, narrated by Bernadette Dunne

The third child of Joseph and Rose Kennedy has long been treated as an afterthought – but now, the strikingly beautiful Rosemary takes center stage in this heartbreaking account of her tragic life.

Just like her siblings, she attended exclusive schools and traveled the world. But unlike her brothers and sisters, she was intellectually disabled – a fact kept secret by her ambitious family.

Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter takes a peek through the fiercely guarded façade, and reveals the tragic story of a family that cared for Rosemary but feared about their reputation, all against a backdrop of a stigma attached to mental illness in the 20th century.

• What it’s like: Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter is a carefully researched account, with fascinating new details into Rosemary’s life.
• Length: 7 hours and 44 minutes

Guides

The Compound Effect: Multiply Your Success One Simple Step at a Time

Written and narrated by Darren Hardy

Lose 30 pounds in a week! Fix your love life in a week! Rub 20 years off your face with a cream! Every day, we are bombarded with a plethora of marketing claims that promise to change our lives in the blink of an eye.

But change is a slow, habitual process, where even the smallest, seemingly insignificant everyday decisions snowball into long-lasting effects in your life, Darren Hardy argues in The Compound Effect. In this extremely practical, sobering guide, Hardy reveals the essence of success that has guided the most phenomenal achievements in business, relationships, and beyond.

Make sure, however, to listen to a sample of the audiobook before buying it because while the majority of listeners love Hardy’s energetic tone, it might not be for everyone.

• What it’s like: The Compound Effect is a major kick in the butt and a highly pragmatic, straight to the point must-have for those looking to improve themselves.
• Length: 4 hours and 44 minutes

Children’s books

Tales of Beatrix Potter

Written by Beatrix Potter, narrated by Nadia May

This brilliant collection features eighteen of Beatrix Potter’s most charming stories, narrated by the wonderful Nadia May. Run through the garden of Mr. McGregor with the mischievous and reckless Peter Rabbit, have a cup of tea with Tom the Kitten, and follow Mrs. Tittlemouse as she tries to keep her dwelling tidy, and many more – all in this short, but incredible audiobook.

Nadia May’s excellent narration brings the characters to life in a way that makes you want to snuggle by a fireplace with a cup of hot cocoa and just listen.

Keep in mind, however, that this audiobook does not allow skipping from one story to another.

• What it’s like: Tales of Beatrix Potter prove that these classic stories really do stand the test of time.
• Length: 3 hours and 11 minutes

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Signature Performance by Elijah Wood

Written by Mark Twain, narrated by Elijah Wood

“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn”, Ernest Hemingway famously declared.

One hundred years after its author’s death, this classic really does remain as relevant as ever – and in this brand-new edition, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is rediscovered in a refreshingly energetic performance by Elijah Wood.

Filled with narrative nuances and read in a youthful voice, it’s guaranteed to be one of the most enjoyable audiobooks you’ll ever listen to.

• What it’s like: A fresh new take on the all-time classic.
• Length: 10 hours and 10 minutes

The Secret Garden

Written by Frances Hodgson Burnett, narrated by Carrie Hope Fletcher

Even though published over a century ago, The Secret Garden is still considered a classic in the genre of children’s literature up to this day.

It tells the story of Mary Lennox, a petulant, neglected and unloved girl born in India to a wealthy British family, who returns to England having suffered the immense trauma by losing both her parents in a cholera epidemic.

Obnoxious, spoiled, and short-tempered, she dislikes her new home and the people living it. But everything changes when Mary discovers a secret garden, and is determined to revitalize it.

• What it’s like: Narrated by the wonderfully soothing Carrie Hope Fletcher, The Secret Garden is a coming-of-age children’s classic.
• Length: 7 hours and 38 minutes

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Written by Lewis Carroll, narrated by Scarlett Johansson

Take a trip down the rabbit hole with this brilliantly unique reading of an all-time classic that has inspired both children and adults for over 150 years.

Scarlett Johansson brings a unique voice to each and every character, from curious Alice, through the frantic White Rabbit, to the mischievous Cheshire Cat, creating an arsenal of memorable voices and an incredible listening experience.

With perfect pacing and wonderful expression, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a definitive tour de force of the Academy Award-nominated actress.

• What it’s like: Whimsical, curious, and wonderfully narrated, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is perfect for a bedtime story.
• Length: 2 hours and 44 minutes

Health

The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet

Written by Nina Teicholz, narrated by Erin Bennett

Yes, you read the title right. In this captivating narrative based on a nine-year-long investigation, journalist Nina Teicholz reveals how the misinformation about saturated fats took hold in the scientific community and the public imagination, and how recent findings have overturned these beliefs.

Above all, she exposes how ego, bias, and premature institutional consensus of the researchers have allowed dangerous misrepresentations to become dietary dogma.

She debunks the “commonsensical” beliefs of what constitutes a healthy diet, explains why the Mediterranean Diet might not be the healthiest and reveals how avoiding meat, cheese, and whole milk might do more damage than good – all exceptionally well-researched and comprehensive.

• What it’s like: Bold and thought-provoking, The Big Fat Surprise will make you re-evaluate of what a healthy diet means.
• Length: 13 hours and 26 minutes

Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

Written by Thich Nhat Hanh, narrated by Edoardo Ballerini

In this simple but powerful audiobook, world-renowned Zen master and spiritual leader Thich Nhat Hanh demonstrates how to approach everyday situations that usually pressure us – dirty dishes, traffic jams – and make positive use of them.

As one reviewer notes, Peace Is Every Step is an absolute must-have in this hectic, anxiety-inducing world of work and responsibility. What’s even more, the audiobook is narrated by the excellent Edoardo Ballerini, who gives it a uniquely soothing tone.

• What it’s like: Peace Is Every Step is a wonderful guide to healthy living that will teach you how to achieve peace within yourself.
• Length: 3 hours 29 minutes

History

A Higher Call: The Incredible True Story of Heroism and Chivalry During World War Two

Written by Adam Makos and Larry Alexander, narrated by Robertson Dean

When Charlie’s B-17 is riddled with bullets and half his crew lays wounded or dead after an unsuccessful first mission, Charlie thinks nothing could possibly make the situation worse.

So when a German Messerschmitt pulls up on the bomber’s tail with one of their best pilots on board, Franz Stigler, Charlie Brown believes he’s met his end. But Franz, instead of shooting him down, does the unthinkable – and what happens next defies imagination up to this day.

In this wonderful story of two war veterans, Makos provides all the descriptions of battle and heroism you’d expect in a historical book – but what he really focuses on is the human side of the conflict and demonstrates that some soldiers remained chivalrous and honorable, even during wartime.

• What it’s like: A Higher Call grips you like a movie from the very beginning up to the very end.
• Length: 13 hours and 21 minutes

Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West

Written and narrated by Blaine Harden

As a child, Shin Dong-hyuk knew nothing of civilized existence. Born in Camp 14 as a son to two political prisoners, he was condemned to a life of hunger and misery in forced labor.

Locked away in the hidden dystopia, he was taught to inform on his closest friends with no remorse and saw his mother as nothing but a competitor for food. Very few born in these camps have escaped. But Shin Donghyuk did.

A New York Times bestseller, Escape from Camp 14 is a harrowing story about one of the very few people born inside a North Korean prison to have escaped, meticulously chronicled and narrated by the brilliant Blaine Harden.

• What it’s like: Heart-wrenching and eye-opening, Escape from Camp 14 is a true story that reads like fiction.
• Length: 5 hours and 31 minutes

Mystery, thrillers & suspense

CyberStorm

Written by Matthew Mather, narrated by Tom Taylorson

Mike Mitchell is an upper-middle class businessman struggling to keep his family together and living the life of your everyday New Yorker when a bizarre string of disasters come crashing down on the City that Never Sleeps.

With blizzards cutting New York off from the rest of the world, both the real and the cyber begin to collapse, and the cracks in civilization start to show.

CyberStorm is a brilliant techno-thriller that asks an incredibly fascinating question: Are we capable of living without technology? As one reviewer notes, CyberStorm will definitely appeal to fans of Michael Chichton and Tom Clancy – it’s an incredibly fast-paced, cutting-edge dystopian read, impeccably narrated by Tom Taylorson.

• What it’s like: A gripping novel with an intriguing premise, especially in today’s world.
• Length: 11 hours and 15 minutes

The Stranger

Written by Harlan Coben, narrated by Eric Meyers

A big house, a good job, a beautiful wife and two wonderful sons – Adam Price has it all, or so he thinks. That is, until he runs into the Stranger – a mysterious individual who seems to know everyone’s dark secrets. Including that of Adam’s wife, Corinne.

When he confronts her, the mirage of perfection disappears as if it had never existed at all. But the Stranger is not yet done exposing dark secrets and ruining lives.

Only start listening to this audiobook if you have a bit of time on your hands – because once you start, it’s extremely difficult to put down. Packed with twists and turns, The Stranger is guaranteed to suck you in from the very first sentence.

• What it’s like: Intricate, fast-paced and engaging.
• Length: 10 hours and 21 minutes

3:00 a.m. (Henry Bins, Book 1)

Written by Nick Pirog, narrated by Jamie Renell

Henry Bins has Henry Bins.

A sleeping disorder, named after him.

He is awake for one hour a day.

He wakes up at 3 a.m. then falls asleep at 4 a.m.

Life is simple.

Until he hears the woman scream.

And sees the man leave the house across the street.

But not just any man.

The president of the United States.

• What it’s like: A brilliant short thriller with a refreshingly unique premise.
• Length: 2 hours and 31 minutes

Classics

1984: New Classic Edition

Written by George Orwell, narrated by Simon Prebble

“Big Brother is watching you,” the citizens of Airstrip One are reminded at every step. Big Brother stares out from every poster, peeks through every hidden camera, and controls everything you do – what you know, how you speak, what you want and what you believe.

In this reality, two plus two equals five and independent thinking is considered one of the most serious felonies.

As one of the most fascinating novels of all time, 1984 continues to shock, haunt, and force to reflect readers from all around the world.

And this time, it’s elevated even more with the incredible narration by Simon Prebble.

• What it’s like: An unforgettable, bone-chilling timeless classic everyone needs to listen to.
• Length: 11 hours and 22 minutes

Pride and Prejudice

Written by Jane Austen, narrated by Emma Messenger

Set in rural England in the early 19th century, where both expectations and reputation matter, Pride and Prejudice is a timeless tale about the turbulent relationship between Elizabeth Bennet, the daughter of a country gentleman, and Fitzwilliam Darcy, a rich aristocratic landowner, both of whom have to learn to overcome their biases and unlearn the titular pride and prejudice.

And this time, Emma Messenger’s brilliant interpretation of the timeless classic makes Pride and Prejudice not just thoroughly entertaining, but also straight up hilarious. Her shrill, loud Mrs. Bennet, combined with a lovely voice and dramatic inflection, makes listening to this version an experience unlike any other.

• What it’s like: A hilarious, enthusiastic and theatrical narration of an all-time classic.
• Length: 14 hours and 12 minutes

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Written by Arthur Conan Doyle, narrated by Derek Jacobi

Everyone knows Sherlock Holmes. The world’s most famous consulting detective has been reborn in popular culture time and time again: from Benedict Cumberbatch’s wonderfully clever arrogant prick with no social skills, through Robert Downey, Jr.’s goofy but charming eccentric.

But not many people have had the chance to get to know the original Sherlock – and this audiobook is the perfect place to start.

Derek Jacobi seems like he was made to narrate Arthur Conan Doyle’s books – his performance is fresh and entertaining, and he manages to squeeze out every ounce of emotion from the text.

• What it’s like: Derek Jacobi’s narration is truly one of a kind.
• Length: 11 hours and 4 minutes

Other

The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

Written by Jonas Jonasson, narrated by Peter Kenny

Allan Karlsson’s birthday is right around the corner (a one-hundredth birthday party, to be precise) and Allan could not be any less excited. The Mayor will be there. The press will be there. But, as it turns out, Allan will not. Instead, he hops out of his old people’s home and make his getaway…

In this extremely charming audiobook, the down right ridiculous plot, charismatic characters and quirky style are guaranteed to make you smile all the way through.

And, above all, Peter Kenny’s brilliant narration and skillful vocal jumping (from Einstein to an angry female Swede) will keep you wanting to hear more.

• What it’s like: This laugh-out-loud funny satire is a bit like Forrest Gump (in the best way possible).
• Length: 10 hours and 59 minutes

So You Want to Talk About Race

Written by Ijeoma Oluo, narrated by Bahni Turpin

In So You Want to Talk About Race, Oluo answers all the questions listeners don’t dare to ask to inspire better, more productive conversations on race.

She tackles all the most important contemporary issues: privilege, police brutality, intersectionality, micro-aggressions, the Black Lives Matter movement, the “N” word – in a way that’s raw and brutally honest, but also with a great deal of compassion and humor.

So You Want to Talk About Race is further complemented by Bahni Turpin’s wonderfully deep, slightly raspy voice, makes you feel like you’re listening to a friend while having a cup of tea.

• What it’s like: A current and constructive inquiry into today’s racial landscape, and a must-read for every American.
• Length: 7 hours and 41 minutes

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Make sure to add some of these top reads, available in print and Kindle, to your 2021 summer reading list.

Twice a year, Amazon editors announce their picks for The Best Book of the Year. It’s a great source of fresh books for summer and Christmas, as it highlights interesting new titles that would otherwise not get enough attention.

The summer ranking is being revealed in mid-June, and includes titles featured as the Best Books of the Month between January and June, as well as worthwhile new publications released in the recent weeks.

What is the best Amazon book for summer 2021? The editors have picked Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead, an epic novel that is “ambitious, literary, yet utterly accessible,” as Sarah Gelman, Amazon Books Editorial Director, described it.

The entire list of the best Amazon books of 2021 includes over 300 titles across twelve popular categories: biographies, children’s books, romance, history, literary fiction, and mysteries.

⇢ Best Books 2021

20 best Amazon Kindle and print books of 2021 so far

1. Great Circle

Maggie Shipstead

After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana.

At fourteen, Marian finds an unexpected patron in a wealthy bootlegger who provides a plane and subsidizes her lessons, an arrangement that will haunt her for the rest of her life: circumnavigating the globe by flying over the North and South Poles.

A century later, Hadley Baxter is cast to play Marian in a film that centers on Marian’s disappearance in Antarctica. Vibrant and canny, Hadley is eager to redefine herself after a romantic film franchise has imprisoned her in the grip of cult celebrity.

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2. Klara and the Sun

Kazuo Ishiguro

The first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, tells the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her.

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3. The Code Breaker

Walter Isaacson

The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a gripping account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies.

Doudna and her collaborators turned a curiosity of nature into an invention that will transform the human race: an easy-to-use tool that can edit DNA. Known as CRISPR, it opened a brave new world of medical miracles and moral questions.

The development of CRISPR and the race to create vaccines for coronavirus will hasten our transition to the next great innovation revolution. The past half-century has been a digital age, based on the microchip, computer, and internet. Now we are entering a life-science revolution.

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4. We Begin at the End

Chris Whitaker

Duchess Day Radley is a thirteen-year-old self-proclaimed outlaw. She is the fierce protector of her five-year-old brother, Robin, and the parent to her mother, Star, a single mom incapable of taking care of hersel.

Walk has never left the coastal California town where he and Star grew up. He may have become the chief of police, but he’s still trying to heal the old wound of having given the testimony that sent his best friend, Vincent King, to prison decades before. And he’s in overdrive protecting Duchess and her brother.

Now, thirty years later, Vincent is being released. And Duchess and Walk must face the trouble that comes with his return.

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5. What’s Mine and Yours

Naima Coster

A community in the Piedmont of North Carolina rises in outrage as a county initiative draws students from the largely Black east side of town into predominantly white high schools on the west.

For two students, Gee and Noelle, the integration sets off a chain of events that will tie their two families together in unexpected ways over the next twenty years.

When Gee and Noelle join the school play meant to bridge the divide between new and old students, their paths collide, and their two seemingly disconnected families begin to form deeply knotted, messy ties that will shape the trajectory of their adult lives.

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6. The Four Winds

Kristin Hannah

Texas, 1921. A time of abundance. The Great War is over, the bounty of the land is plentiful, and America is on the brink of a new and optimistic era.

But for Elsa Wolcott, deemed too old to marry in a time when marriage is a woman’s only option, the future seems bleak. Until the night she meets Rafe Martinelli and decides to change the direction of her life. With her reputation in ruin, there is only one respectable choice: marriage to a man she barely knows.

By 1934, the world has changed; millions are out of work and drought has devastated the Great Plains. Everything on the Martinelli farm is dying, including Elsa’s tenuous marriage; each day is a desperate battle against nature and a fight to keep her children alive.

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7. Punch Me Up to the Gods

Brian Broome

Punch Me Up to the Gods introduces a powerful new talent in Brian Broome, whose early years growing up in Ohio as a dark-skinned Black boy harboring crushes on other boys propel forward this gorgeous, aching, and unforgettable debut.

Brian’s recounting of his experiences—in all their cringe-worthy, hilarious, and heartbreaking glory—reveal a perpetual outsider awkwardly squirming to find his way in. Indiscriminate sex and escalating drug use help to soothe his hurt, young psyche, usually to uproarious and devastating effect.

A no-nonsense mother and broken father play crucial roles in our misfit’s origin story. But it is Brian’s voice in the retelling that shows the true depth of vulnerability for young Black boys that is often quietly near to bursting at the seams.

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8. Gold Diggers

Sanjena Sathian

A floundering second-generation teenager growing up in the Bush-era Atlanta suburbs, Neil Narayan is funny and smart but struggles to bear the weight of expectations of his family and their Asian American enclave. He tries to want their version of success, but mostly, Neil just wants his neighbor across the cul-de-sac, Anita Dayal.

When he discovers that Anita is the beneficiary of an ancient, alchemical potion made from stolen gold—a “lemonade” that harnesses the ambition of the gold’s original owner—Neil sees his chance to get ahead.

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9. The Plot

Jean Hanff Korelitz

Jacob Finch Bonner was once a promising young novelist with a respectably published first book. Today, he’s teaching in a third-rate MFA program and struggling to maintain what’s left of his self-respect; he hasn’t written—let alone published—anything decent in years.

When Evan Parker, his most arrogant student, announces he doesn’t need Jake’s help because the plot of his book in progress is a sure thing, Jake is prepared to dismiss the boast as typical amateur narcissism. But then… he hears the plot.

Jake returns to the downward trajectory of his own career and braces himself for the supernova publication of Evan Parker’s first novel.

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10. Chatter

Ethan Kross

In Chatter, acclaimed psychologist Ethan Kross explores the silent conversations we have with ourselves.

Interweaving groundbreaking behavioral and brain research from his own lab with real-world case studies—from a pitcher who forgets how to pitch, to a Harvard undergrad negotiating her double life as a spy – Kross explains how these conversations shape our lives, work, and relationships.

He warns that giving in to negative and disorienting self-talk—what he calls “chatter” – can tank our health, sink our moods, strain our social connections, and cause us to fold under pressure.

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11. Malibu Rising

Taylor Jenkins Reid

Malibu: August 1983. It’s the day of Nina Riva’s annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: Nina, the talented surfer and supermodel; brothers Jay and Hud, one a championship surfer, the other a renowned photographer; and their adored baby sister, Kit.

Together, the siblings are a source of fascination in Malibu and the world over—especially as the offspring of the legendary singer Mick Riva. The only person not looking forward to the party of the year is Nina herself, who never wanted to be the center of attention.

By midnight the party will be completely out of control. By morning, the Riva mansion will have gone up in flames.

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12. The Other Black Girl

Zakiya Dalila Harris

Twenty-six-year-old editorial assistant Nella Rogers is tired of being the only Black employee at Wagner Books. Fed up with the isolation and microaggressions, she’s thrilled when Harlem-born and bred Hazel starts working in the cubicle beside hers.

They’ve only just started comparing natural hair care regimens, though, when a string of uncomfortable events elevates Hazel to Office Darling, and Nella is left in the dust.

Then the notes begin to appear on Nella’s desk: Leave Wagner. Now.

It’s hard to believe Hazel is behind these hostile messages. But as Nella starts to spiral and obsess over the sinister forces at play, she soon realizes that there’s a lot more at stake than just her career.

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13. Infinite Country

Patricia Engel

Talia is being held at a correctional facility for adolescent girls in the forested mountains of Colombia after committing an impulsive act of violence that may or may not have been warranted.

She urgently needs to get out and get back home to Bogotá, where her father and a plane ticket to the United States are waiting for her. If she misses her flight, she might also miss her chance to finally be reunited with her family in the north.

How this family came to occupy two different countries, two different worlds, comes into focus like twists of a kaleidoscope. We see Talia’s parents, Mauro and Elena, fall in love in a market stall as teenagers against a backdrop of civil war and social unrest.

We see them leave Bogotá with their firstborn, Karina, in pursuit of safety and opportunity in the United States on a temporary visa, and we see the births of two more children, Nando and Talia, on American soil.

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14. The Good Sister

Sally Hepworth

Fern Castle works in her local library. She has dinner with her twin sister Rose three nights a week. And she avoids crowds, bright lights and loud noises as much as possible. Fern has a carefully structured life and disrupting her routine can be… dangerous.

When Rose discovers that she cannot get pregnant, Fern sees her chance to pay her sister back for everything Rose has done for her. Fern can have a baby for Rose. She just needs to find a father. Simple.

Fern’s mission will shake the foundations of the life she has carefully built for herself and stir up dark secrets from the past, in this quirky, rich and shocking story of what families keep hidden.

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15. Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir

Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish.

Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.

All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.

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16. Good Company

Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney

Flora Mancini has been happily married for more than twenty years. But everything she thought she knew about herself, her marriage, and her relationship with her best friend, Margot, is upended when she stumbles upon an envelope containing her husband’s wedding ring—the one he claimed he lost one summer when their daughter, Ruby, was five.

Flora and Julian struggled for years, scraping together just enough acting work to raise Ruby in Manhattan and keep Julian’s small theater company—Good Company—afloat.

A move to Los Angeles brought their first real career successes, a chance to breathe easier, and a reunion with Margot, now a bona fide television star. But has their new life been built on lies?

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17. One Two Three

Laurie Frankel

Everyone knows everyone in the tiny town of Bourne, but the Mitchell triplets are especially beloved. Mirabel is the smartest person anyone knows, and no one doubts it just because she can’t speak. Monday is the town’s purveyor of books now that the library’s closed—tell her the book you think you want, and she’ll pull the one you actually do from the microwave or her sock drawer. Mab’s job is hardest of all: get good grades, get into college, get out of Bourne.

For a few weeks seventeen years ago, Bourne was national news when its water turned green. The girls have come of age watching their mother’s endless fight for justice. But just when it seems life might go on the same forever, the first moving truck anyone’s seen in years pulls up and unloads new residents and old secrets.

Soon, the Mitchell sisters are taking on a system stacked against them and uncovering mysteries buried longer than they’ve been alive.

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18. How Lucky

Will Leitch

Daniel leads a rich life in the university town of Athens, Georgia. He considers himself to be a mostly lucky guy – despite the fact that he’s suffered from a debilitating disease since he was a small child, one that has left him unable to speak or to move without a wheelchair.

Largely confined to his home, Daniel spends the hours he’s not online communicating with irate air travelers, observing his neighborhood from his front porch.

One young woman passes by so frequently that spotting her out the window has almost become part of his daily routine. Until the day he’s almost sure he sees her being kidnapped…

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19. Somebody’s Daughter

Ashley C. Ford

Through poverty, adolescence, and a fraught relationship with her mother, Ashley C. Ford wishes she could turn to her father for hope and encouragement.

There are just a few problems: he’s in prison, and she doesn’t know what he did to end up there. She doesn’t know how to deal with the incessant worries that keep her up at night, or how to handle the changes in her body that draw unwanted attention from men. In her search for unconditional love, Ashley begins dating a boy her mother hates. When the relationship turns sour, he assaults her.

Still, reeling from the rape, which she keeps secret from her family, Ashley desperately searches for meaning in the chaos. Then, her grandmother reveals the truth about her father’s incarceration… and Ashley’s entire world is turned upside down.

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20. Girl A

Abigail Dean

Lex Gracie doesn’t want to think about her family. She doesn’t want to think about growing up in her parents’ House of Horrors. And she doesn’t want to think about her identity as Girl A: the girl who escaped, the eldest sister who freed her older brother and four younger siblings.

But when her mother dies in prison and leaves Lex and her siblings the family home, she can’t run from her past any longer.

Together with her sister, Evie, Lex intends to turn the home into a force for good. But first she must come to terms with her siblings–and with the childhood they shared.

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Here are the best new books you can download for free to you Kindle if you have an active Kindle Unlimited subscription.

Are you planning to start or reactivate your Kindle Unlimited membership? This popular digital subscription costs $9.99 per month and gives access to well over 1.5 million ebooks, plus comics, magazines, and audiobook companions powered by Audible.

Before making a decision whether to sign up for Kindle Unlimited, make sure to find enough interesting titles to justify the monthly cost of the service.

Obviously, you can check out the default catalog of Kindle Unlimited eligible titles (you can do it on your Kindle or in a Kindle app, too), but the problem is that it’s not easy to find there the new releases the readers actually love. The default “featured” sort option is what Amazon thinks you will like.

The following list of the best new Kindle Unlimited books includes the titles that we have discovered in a few sections across Amazon, from a list of hot new Kindle releases, to Prime Reading additions, to Kindle Exclusives, to Amazon Charts.

All these sources combined give a better overview of what Kindle Unlimited books are worth reading in the coming months.

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Finding most popular Kindle Unlimited books – the best ways

▸ Top 100 hot new Kindle books – opposite to the main Top 100 Kindle bestsellers, this list includes only the titles that have been released in the recent months. Approximately, 50-60% of the most popular new Kindle books are included in the Kindle Unlimited. You will see a large KU stripe at the top of a cover of each eligible book.

▸ New & Notable in Amazon Prime Reading – this Prime-exclusive service offers a rotating catalog of around 3,000 Kindle ebooks. Most of them are available in Kindle Unlimited, as well. The books are hand-picked by Amazon editors. It’s interesting to find out what they think should win the hearts of Kindle Prime readers.

▸ The newest Amazon Charts – the lists rank the top 20 most sold and most read Kindle books of the preceding week. Kindle Unlimited books can be found also in the most sold list. Each book that has been read in more than the length of the free sample is counted as sold. It’s easy to find KU books: look for the large gray logo at the bottom of book details.

▸ Kindle Ebook Exclusives – it’s a directory of over 1 million ebooks that are exclusive to Amazon. Well over 90% of the included titles are Kindle Unlimited eligible. Most importantly, you can use the left sidebar to filter books by your favorite author or series – a feature not displayed in the main Kindle Unlimited catalog.

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Best Kindle Unlimited books by category – highlights

Before we move to the main list, have a quick look at the best current titles in the most popular categories.

Kindle Unlimited – Best Mystery & Thrillers

• The Shadow Box by Luanne Rice – a haunting thriller about how far one wife is willing to go to expose the truth.
• Hadley and Grace by Suzanne Redfearn – a heart-pounding and emotional roller-coaster ride of self-discovery in the tradition of Thelma and Louise.
• Not One of Us by Debbie Herbert – a brooding thriller about a woman who must decide if safeguarding her family is worth burying a truth.

Kindle Unlimited – Best Romance

• The Wedding Game by Meghan Quinn – charming story of a crafting queen battling a jaded divorce lawyer on a wedding reality show.
• Make It Sweet by Kristen Callihan – a charming, emotional romance about redefining dreams and discovering unlikely love along the way.
• The Villain by L.J. Shen – an arranged marriage romance novel with teeth and claws.

Kindle Unlimited – Best Biographies & Memoirs

• The Psychopath by Mary Turner Thomson – in 2006, Mary Turner Thomson’s world shattered when she discovered her husband Will was a bigamist, con man and convicted sex offender.
• Black Boy Out of Time by Hari Ziyad – a restless, and enlightening memoir by one of the most thought-provoking journalists today about growing up Black and queer in America.
• Widowish by Melissa Gould – a hopeful memoir of grieving outside the box and the surprising nature of love.

Kindle Unlimited – Best Fanasy & Sci-fi

• Infinite by Brian Freeman – an explosive new psychological thriller that pushes the limits of reality as we know it.
• Wings of Fury by Emily R. King – an epic novel of ancient Greece, Titans and treachery, and the women who dare to rise up against the tyranny of the Golden Age.
• The Russian Cage by Charlaine Harris – a third part of the popular Gunnie Rose series where magic is an acknowledged but despised power.

Kindle Unlimited – Best Teen & Young Adult

• Rejected by Jaymin Eve – a new paranormal romance from USA Today bestselling author Jaymin Eve. The first book in Shadow Beast Shifters series).
• Year of the Chameleon by Shannon Mayer – the four book in the Shadowspell Academy is “Harry Potter meets the Hunger Games in a bold twist on a classic magical young adult adventure.”
• A Deal with the Elf King by Elise Kova – this fantasy romance about a human girl and her marriage to the Elf King is perfect for fans of Uprooted and A Court of Thorns and Roses.

Kindle Unlimited – Best Literature & Fiction

• The Speed of Light by Elissa Grossell Dickey – a provocative debut novel told in intersecting timelines over a tumultuous, defining year in one woman’s life.
• West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge – the incredible true story of two giraffes who made headlines and won the hearts of Depression-era America.
• After Alice Fell by Kim Taylor Blakemore – It’s 1865. Marion Abbott is summoned to Brawders House asylum to collect the body of her sister, Alice.

Kindle Unlimited – the best books to read in 2021

The Speed of Light

Elissa Grossell Dickey

Diagnosed with MS, Simone awaits the results of another anxiety-inducing MRI. She’s just walked away from Connor, “a fixer” but possibly the love of her life.

Then, on a December morning at the university where she works, jarring gunshots pierce the halls. In a temporary safe place and terrified, Simone listens and pretends this will all be over soon.

As she waits for silence, her mind racing, Simone’s past year comes into focus. Falling in love and missing it. Finding strength in family and enduring friendships. Planning for the future, fearing it, and hoping against hope in dark places.

Her life has been changing at the speed of light, and each crossroad brought Simone here, to this day, to endure the things she can’t control and to confront those that she can.

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Wings of Fury

Emily R. King

Cronus, God of Gods, whose inheritance is the world. Among his possessions: women, imprisoned and fated to serve. The strong-minded Althea Lambros controls her own fate and lives to honor her dying mother’s plea to protect her two sisters at all costs.

On the southern isle of Crete, hidden among mortal women who have fled the Titans, is the Boy God, son of Cronus and believed dead. He shares Althea’s destiny to vanquish the Almighty—fate willing.

There will be war. If she’s to survive to write their history, the indomitable Althea must soar higher than any god.

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The Accidental Text

Becky Monson

Once upon a time, Maggie Cooper lived for adventure. Now she can’t even work up the nerve to ask out her coworker.

For a bit of self-therapy, she begins to text her recently deceased mother’s phone—the only problem is that the number has been reassigned and for weeks she’s been unknowingly texting a stranger her deepest thoughts and feelings.

When Chase Beckett, the unsuspecting stranger who has more in common with Maggie than he’d like to admit, texts back, Maggie is beyond mortified. But message after message and night after night, Maggie realizes that Chase’s wit, charm, and advice are exactly what the doctor ordered.

Is it enough, though, to get her back up in the sky? And what about her heart?

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The Shadow Box

Luanne Rice

After artist Claire Beaudry Chase is attacked and left for dead in her home on the Connecticut coast, she doesn’t know who she can trust. But her well-connected husband, Griffin—who is running for governor—is her prime suspect.

Just before the attack, Claire was preparing for an exhibit of her shadow boxes, one of which clearly accuses Griffin of a violent crime committed twenty-five years ago.

If the public were to find out who her husband is, his political career would be over. Claire’s certain her husband and his powerful supporters would kill her to stop the truth from getting out.

Claire must decide how much she’s willing to lose to take down her husband and the corrupt group of elites who will do anything to protect Griffin’s interests and their own.

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Bone Canyon (Eve Ronin Book 2)

Lee Goldberg

The second book of the Eve Ronin crime series. A catastrophic wildfire scorches the Santa Monica Mountains, exposing the charred remains of a woman who disappeared years ago.

Bones don’t lie, and these have a horrific story to tell. Eve Ronin tirelessly digs into the past, unearthing dark secrets that reveal nothing about the case is as it seems.

With almost no one she can trust, her relentless pursuit of justice for the forgotten dead could put Eve’s own life in peril.

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A Splendid Ruin

Megan Chance

After her mother’s death, penniless May Kimble lives a lonely life until an aunt she didn’t know existed summons her to San Francisco. There she’s welcomed into the wealthy Sullivan family and their social circle.

Initially overwhelmed by the opulence of her new life, May soon senses that dark mysteries lurk in the shadows of the Sullivan mansion. Her glamorous cousin often disappears in the night. Her aunt wanders about in a laudanum fog. And a maid keeps hinting that May is in danger.

Trapped by betrayal, madness, and murder, May stands to lose everything, including her freedom, at the hands of those she trusts most.

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After Alice Fell

Kim Taylor Blakemore

New Hampshire, 1865. Marion Abbott is summoned to Brawders House asylum to collect the body of her sister, Alice. She’d been found dead after falling four stories from a steep-pitched roof. Officially: an accident. Confidentially: suicide. But Marion believes a third option: murder.

Returning to her family home to stay with her brother and his second wife, the recently widowed Marion is expected to quiet her feelings of guilt and grief—to let go of the dead and embrace the living. But that’s not easy in this house full of haunting memories.

Just when the search for the truth seems hopeless, a stranger approaches Marion with chilling words: I saw her fall.

Now Marion is more determined than ever to find out what happened that night at Brawders, and why.

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Rejected (Shadow Beast Shifters Book 1)

Jaymin Eve

As a wolf shifter growing up in a strong pack, I should be living my best life. But after my father tried to kill our leader, I’m labelled an outcast, traitor, less than dirt.

When I can’t take pack life any longer, I run, but apparently they don’t like losing their punching bag. Torin, the leader’s son, drags me back before my first shift… a shift that will reveal my true mate. I never could have predicted who mine would be, but the moment my wolf looks upon him, I’m filled with hope for a brighter future.

Afterall, no one ever rejects their true mate, right?

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The Psychopath

Mary Turner Thomson

In 2006, Mary Turner Thomson’s world shattered when she discovered her husband Will was a bigamist, con man and convicted sex offender.

Unbeknownst to her, this would be the start of a bold new chapter in her life, fighting to protect other women from his heartless gaslighting campaigns—and putting a stop to his endless deception.

When she discovered that her husband had continued to prey on new victims, she vowed to turn his betrayal into a force for good. On her mission to protect these women and others, Mary also learned more about the psychopathy behind Will’s duplicitous behaviour.

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Infinite

Brian Freeman

One rainy night, the unthinkable happens: Dylan Moran’s car plunges off the road into a raging river, his beautiful wife drowning as he struggles to shore.

In the aftermath, through his grief, Dylan experiences sudden, strange visions: wherever he goes, he’s haunted by glimpses of himself. Dylan initially chalks it up to trauma, but that changes when he runs into a psychiatrist who claims he’s her patient. She says he has been undergoing a unique hypnotherapy treatment built on the idea that with every choice, he creates an infinite number of parallel universes.

Now those parallel universes are unlocked—and Dylan’s doppelgänger has staked a claim to his world.

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Find Calm: Simple Tools to Help Children Cope in an Unpredictable World

Ashley Graber and Maria Evans

Do you want simple tools that work to find calm in your family? These mindfulness-based emotional regulation techniques for children ages 3-12 are easy to implement, fun, and designed with the busy caregiver in mind.

Child and family therapists Ashley Graber and Maria Evans packed this guidebook with coping strategies, sleep strategies, and step-by-step guidance for responding to your child’s big emotions with calm and confidence.

Learn to have conversations about difficult topics with your children and support them when unexpected changes occur in the home, at school, or in the greater community.

Find tools that work for your child from emotional regulation activities like the Glitter Jar, Finger Breathing, Calm Down Box, Code Word, Sleep Ninjas, and much more!

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Understanding Body Language

Scott Rouse

Scientific studies show that people use body language to express their true feelings about a given situation or topic.

With Understanding Body Language, you’ll discover essential information and how-to guidance for deciphering nonverbal communication so you can make better decisions about the people and situations you approach every day.

Start by learning how to properly observe people so you can uncover their subtle nonverbal cues without drawing attention to yourself. Then, practice on your friends and family with practical advice to help you better read social gatherings and telltale signs of disagreement. Finally, dive deeper with real-life scenarios you’ll likely encounter.

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Make It Sweet

Kristen Callihan

Life for Emma isn’t good. The world knows her as Princess Anya on Dark Castle, but then her character gets the axe—literally. The cherry on top is finding her boyfriend in bed with another woman. She needs a break, and sanctuary comes in the form of Rosemont, a gorgeous estate in California promising rest and relaxation.

Then she meets the owner’s equally gorgeous grandson, ex–hockey player and current recluse Lucian Osmond, and she sees her own pain and yearning reflected in his eyes.

Then there’s an impromptu nighttime skinny-dip, and Lucian’s luscious homemade tarts and cream cakes start arriving at Emma’s door, tempting her to taste life again…

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The German Girl

Lily Graham

Germany, 1938. Fifteen-year-old Asta and her twin brother Jurgen are stopped as they run home from school: “Your parents were taken. And if you go home, the Nazis will take you too…”

Heartbroken, Asta knows they must make the perilous journey across a hostile country that no longer feels like home to reach Denmark and their aunt Trine, a woman they barely know.

Crossing the border is punishable by death. In the middle of the snowy forest, barking dogs and armed soldiers capture Jurgen and Asta escapes.

The German Girl is a gripping and poignant story of a brave brother and sister seeking safety during one of the darkest times in our history.

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Not One of Us

Debbie Herbert

Thirteen years ago, Jori Trahan’s boyfriend vanished without a trace. Now, after moving back home to Alabama to care for her ailing grandmother and autistic brother, she comes face-to-face with the deadly mystery behind his disappearance.

Jori has a rare form of synesthesia, meaning she can “hear” colors; to her, tones of voice are as unique as fingerprints. With the help of this ability and a sympathetic cop, Jori comes dangerously close to uncovering the truth. But those responsible will go to any length—including murder—to keep their dark secrets buried.

Soon, it seems that no one in the sleepy bayou town is safe, and after Jori’s brother is kidnapped, she knows she must drop the investigation or risk losing her family.

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Firewall (The Firewall Spies Book 1)

Andrew Watts

With its genius CEO and breakthrough technology, the Silicon Valley-based Pax AI Corporation is one of the hottest companies in the sector. But when one of their top scientists is murdered at a prestigious tech conference, company executives and foreign spies are all on the suspect list.

In the aftermath of the killing, CIA officer Colt McShane has been assigned to a joint counterintelligence unit based in San Francisco. The unit’s leadership believes that an international espionage ring has been stealing classified technology from Pax AI.

Now they want Colt to use his past relationship with Pax AI executive Ava Klein to penetrate the company’s inner circle, and uncover the mole.

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West with Giraffes

Lynda Rutledge

Woodrow Wilson Nickel, age 105, feels his life ebbing away. But when he learns giraffes are going extinct, he finds himself recalling the unforgettable experience he cannot take to his grave.

It’s 1938. The Great Depression lingers. Hitler is threatening Europe, and world-weary Americans long for wonder. They find it in two giraffes who miraculously survive a hurricane while crossing the Atlantic.

What follows is a twelve-day road trip in a custom truck to deliver Southern California’s first giraffes to the San Diego Zoo.

West with Giraffes explores what it means to be changed by the grace of animals, the kindness of strangers, the passing of time, and a story told before it’s too late.

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Hadley and Grace

Suzanne Redfearn

Needing to escape her abusive marriage, Hadley flees with her two kids, knowing it might be her only chance. A woman who can’t even kill a spider, Hadley soon finds herself pushed to the limits as she fights to protect her family.

Grace, new mother of baby Miles, desperately wants to put her rough past behind her for good, but she finds it impossible when her path crosses with Hadley’s, and her quest for a new start quickly spirals out of control and turns into a terrifying flight for survival.

Stronger together than apart, the two find their fates inextricably entwined, and as the danger closes in, each must decide how much she is willing to risk for the other.

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Widowish

Melissa Gould

When Melissa Gould’s husband, Joel, was unexpectedly hospitalized, she could not imagine how her life was about to change. Overwhelmed with uncertainty as Joel’s condition tragically worsened, she offered him the only thing she could: her love and devotion. Her dedication didn’t end with his death.

Left to resume life without her beloved husband and raise their young daughter on her own, Melissa soon realized that her and Joel’s love lived on. Melissa found she didn’t fit the typical mold of widowhood or meet the expectations of mourning. She didn’t look like a widow or act like a widow, but she felt like one. Melissa was widowish.

Melissa’s personal journey through grief and beyond includes unlikely inspiration from an evangelical preacher, the calming presence of some Real Housewives, and the unexpected attention of a charming musician.

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The Wedding Game

Meghan Quinn

Luna Rossi is a veritable crafting genius—she can bedazzle and bead so hard her Etsy site is one of the hottest in the world. So it’s only natural that Luna would convince her brother and his husband-to-be to compete on The Wedding Game, a “do-it-yourself” TV show, for the title of Top DIY Wedding Expert.

As a jaded divorce lawyer, Alec Baxter scoffs at weddings and romance. But when his recently engaged brother begs him to participate in The Wedding Game, Alec grudgingly picks up a glue gun and prepares for some family bonding.

Both fierce competitors, Luna and Alec clash on national TV as harsh words and glitter fly with abandon. But as they bicker over color swatches and mood boards, they find themselves fighting something else: their growing mutual attraction. While Luna is torn between family loyalty and her own feelings, Alec wonders if he might have been wrong about love and marriage all along…

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