“Do not accept an evil you can change.” The novel We Were Liars follows Cadence Sinclair Eastman, a teenage girl from a wealthy and seemingly perfect family who […]
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The Paper Palace
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” — William Faulkner Chapter 1: The Morning After Elle Bishop wakes up at “The Paper Palace,” her family’s rustic […]
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A Man Called Ove
“We always think there’s enough time to do things with other people. Time to say things to them. And then something happens and then we stand there holding […]
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Ugly Love
“Love isn’t always pretty. Sometimes you spend all your time hoping it’ll eventually be something different. Something better. Then, before you know it, you’re back to square one, […]
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Verity
“I’m not sure what it is about this woman, but I’m drawn to her in a way I can’t explain.” Chapter 1-5: The Offer Lowen Ashleigh, a struggling […]
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It Ends with Us
“There is no such thing as bad people. We’re all just people who sometimes do bad things.” Chapter 1: Meeting Atlas Lily Bloom, a recent college graduate, moves […]
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Malibu Rising
“The water was warm, but the world was cold.” Part One: June 1956 – August 1983 The novel opens with the backstory of Mick Riva, a famous singer […]
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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, […]
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Daisy Jones & The Six
“I had absolutely no interest in being somebody else’s muse. I am not a muse. I am the somebody.” The novel unfolds as an oral history of the […]
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The Secret History
“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.” Prologue The novel opens with Richard Papen, the narrator, confessing his involvement in the murder of his […]