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New & Noteworthy

recent prize-winners · checked 19 July 2026

New books chosen on published prize results, with the edition record and award source kept beside each title.

Contemporary & Literary

quiet, beautifully written, here and now

George Orwell · 1945

4.2 · 578 ratings on Open Library

Animal Farm is a political satire following a group of farm animals who overthrow their neglectful owner and establish a society of their own, guided by ideals…

Harper Lee

4.1 · 260 ratings on Open Library

A theatrical program accompanying a stage adaptation of Harper Lee's classic story of racial injustice and moral courage.

Alan Moore, David Lloyd

4.2 · 98 ratings on Open Library

A complete ten-issue graphic novel story, illustrated in full colour by David Lloyd, exploring anarchism and totalitarianism in fiction.

Rachel Renée Russell

4.6 · 26 ratings on Open Library

Nikki Maxwell and her band head to Paris, facing roadblocks and unreliable French skills in this fifteenth Dork Diaries installment.

Bobbie Ann Mason · 1985

Sam Hughes is a teenage girl in rural Kentucky whose father was killed in Vietnam before she was born, and she lives with her uncle Emmett, a veteran suffering…

Percival Everett · 2024

A reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn told from enslaved Jim's perspective as he flees south and journeys by raft down the Mississippi.

Catherine Newman · 2024

Paul Murray · 2023

Steven Rowley · 2021

Crime & Mystery

detectives, secrets, shadows

Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons

4.5 · 235 ratings on Open Library

A murder mystery unfolds into an epic saga spanning two generations of masked crime-fighters against a Cold War backdrop.

Agatha Christie

4.3 · 171 ratings on Open Library

Agatha Christie's most difficult novel to write, first published in 1939, follows a plot structured around a classic counting rhyme.

Arthur Conan Doyle

4.2 · 171 ratings on Open Library

Twelve short stories featuring consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, narrated by Dr. Watson, first published in The Strand Magazine in 1891–1892.

Stephen King · 1996

4.3 · 108 ratings on Open Library

A death row supervisor recounts his encounter with an unusual inmate who displays inexplicable healing and empathetic abilities.

Delia Owens · 2018

4.3 · 99 ratings on Open Library

Kya Clark has lived alone for years in the marshes of coastal North Carolina, where she finds companionship in the natural world and slowly opens herself to…

Arthur Conan Doyle · 1889

4.3 · 88 ratings on Open Library

First published in 1890, The Sign of Four is Arthur Conan Doyle's second Sherlock Holmes novel, following a complex case involving a secret pact among four…

Alice Walker

4.2 · 87 ratings on Open Library

A Pulitzer Prize-winning epistolary novel by Alice Walker, frequently challenged and widely celebrated as one of the UK's best-loved novels.

Toni Morrison · 1987

3.9 · 73 ratings on Open Library

In post-Civil War Ohio, escaped slave Sethe struggles to beat back a painful past while an unsettling presence called Beloved haunts her household.

Shirley Jackson

4.3 · 55 ratings on Open Library

Merricat Blackwood lives quietly with her sister Constance and Uncle Julian in the family home, shielding their fragile existence from a hostile outside world.…

Arthur Conan Doyle

4.5 · 47 ratings on Open Library

This complete collection brings together all four novels and fifty-six short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, including The Hound of the…

Kazu Kibuishi · 2008

4.6 · 42 ratings on Open Library

Emily and Navin enter a magical world to rescue their mother, guided by a powerful amulet from their inventor grandfather.

Jim Butcher

4.4 · 41 ratings on Open Library

Warden Morgan, accused of treason against the White Council, turns to Harry Dresden in a desperate bid to clear his name.

Thrillers & Suspense

won't let you look away

Stephen King · 1986

4.1 · 492 ratings on Open Library

Seven childhood friends return to Derry, Maine as adults to confront a nameless evil they first encountered as teenagers.

Stephen King · 1977

4.2 · 282 ratings on Open Library

A struggling writer takes a winter caretaker job at a remote Colorado hotel, where supernatural forces threaten his snowbound family.

Neal Stephenson · 1992

4.1 · 197 ratings on Open Library

Within the Metaverse, Hiro is offered a datafile named Snow Crash by a man named Raven who hints that it is a form of narcotic. Hiro's friend and fellow hacker…

Michael Crichton

4.2 · 194 ratings on Open Library

Isaac Asimov

4.2 · 189 ratings on Open Library

Earth is governed by master-machines bound by the Three Laws of Robotics, a carefully designed hierarchy meant to keep humans safe and in control. The stories…

Agatha Christie

4.3 · 171 ratings on Open Library

Agatha Christie's most difficult novel to write, first published in 1939, follows a plot structured around a classic counting rhyme.

James S. A. Corey · 2009

4.2 · 164 ratings on Open Library

Leviathan Wakes is a science fiction novel by James S. A. Corey set in a future where humanity has colonized the solar system. It follows intertwining stories…

Stephen King · 1978

4.2 · 142 ratings on Open Library

Paul Sheldon is a bestselling novelist who, after a devastating automobile accident, finds himself in the care of Annie Wilkes — his biggest fan and his…

Neal Stephenson · 2021

Termination Shock is a visionary near-future techno thriller from Neal Stephenson that centres on the realities of climate change. It explores how technology…

Laura Dave · 2021

Ray Nayler · 2022

Kristin Hannah · 2024

A young nursing student joins the Army Nurse Corps during Vietnam and struggles to reclaim her life upon returning to a divided America.

Romance

love stories in every key

Colleen Hoover

4.2 · 1.1k ratings on Open Library

Lily has built a new life in Boston, starting her own business and falling for a brilliant neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, but her carefully constructed world…

Jane Austen · 1813

4.2 · 395 ratings on Open Library

Elizabeth Bennet navigates courtship and social pressures while learning to distinguish superficial goodness from true character.

John Green

4.2 · 214 ratings on Open Library

Hazel has lived with a terminal cancer diagnosis for years, her story feeling already written. The arrival of Augustus Waters at a Cancer Kid Support Group…

Jenny Han

4.3 · 132 ratings on Open Library

Belly has spent every summer at a beach house with Conrad and Jeremiah, always hoping something would change between them. The summer she turned pretty,…

William Goldman · 1973

4.2 · 98 ratings on Open Library

A fantasy adventure novel presented with additional commentary, map art, a study guide, and narrative from Goldman about a promised sequel.

Anne Rice

4.3 · 48 ratings on Open Library

The second Vampire Chronicles novel follows Lestat de Lioncourt as narrator, offering his perspective on events also depicted in Interview with the Vampire.

Julia Quinn

4.4 · 44 ratings on Open Library

A determined London rake sets his sights on a wife, but her meddlesome older sister proves an unexpected obstacle—and temptation.

Sarah J. Maas

4.6 · 41 ratings on Open Library

Celaena Sardothien has returned to the empire with vengeance in her heart, embracing her true identity as Aelin Galathynius, Queen of Terrasen. She fights for…

Kristin Hannah · 2000

4.7 · 41 ratings on Open Library

"The nightingale tells the story of two sisters, separated by years and experiences, by ideals, passion, and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous…

Sarah J. Maas

4.4 · 38 ratings on Open Library

Nesta Archeron, proud and quick to anger since being made High Fae against her will, struggles to find her place in the Night Court while training alongside…

Sarah J. Maas

4.8 · 33 ratings on Open Library

Only the greatest sacrifice can turn the tide of war. War is brewing in the fifth book in this complete, #1 bestselling Throne of Glass series by Sarah J.…

Sophie Irwin · 2022

Fantasy

other worlds entirely

J. K. Rowling

4.2 · 1k ratings on Open Library

This special Hufflepuff House Edition celebrates the 20th anniversary of J. K. Rowling's modern classic, featuring the Hufflepuff crest, house-coloured sprayed…

George R. R. Martin

4.2 · 759 ratings on Open Library

A Game of Thrones is the first novel in George R. R. Martin's epic series A Song of Ice and Fire, set across the fictional continents of Westeros and Essos.…

J.R.R. Tolkien

4.3 · 498 ratings on Open Library

A story involving hobbits, wizards, dragons, dwarves, elves, and men, featuring invisibility, eagles, and the Battle of Five Armies.

J.R.R. Tolkien

4.3 · 397 ratings on Open Library

In the peaceful Shire, young Frodo Baggins inherits a mysterious Ring of immense and dangerous power from his elderly cousin Bilbo, and must undertake a…

J.R.R. Tolkien

4.4 · 229 ratings on Open Library

The company of the Ring is torn asunder, and Frodo and Sam continue their journey alone down the great River Anduin, shadowed by a mysterious creeping figure.…

Rick Riordan

4.4 · 170 ratings on Open Library

Three teens with mysterious pasts are swept into a world of gods, monsters, and a dangerous curse at Camp Half-Blood.

Brandon Sanderson · 2010

4.5 · 155 ratings on Open Library

An epic fantasy set in a world of kings, rulers, and magic, where war, slavery, and ancient manuscripts shape the fate of nations.

Brandon Sanderson

4.4 · 153 ratings on Open Library

For a thousand years, the Lord Ruler has reigned absolutely while ash falls and the enslaved skaa live in misery and fear.

Terry Pratchett

4.0 · 152 ratings on Open Library

A tourist named Twoflower and his wizard guide Rincewind embark on the first adventure through the legendary land of Discworld.

Brandon Sanderson

4.4 · 135 ratings on Open Library

With the Lord Ruler vanquished, Vin and her allies must navigate the immense challenge of governing a shattered empire while three armies lay siege to the city…

Madeline Miller · 2011

4.3 · 134 ratings on Open Library

Patroclus, an exiled and overlooked young prince, finds an unexpected bond with the golden hero Achilles in ancient Greece, and their friendship deepens into…

Terry Pratchett

4.2 · 129 ratings on Open Library

Death takes on an apprentice who is something of an individual thinker, with curious consequences for the natural order of things. Set in the Discworld, the…

Science Fiction

tomorrow, imagined

George R. R. Martin

4.2 · 759 ratings on Open Library

A Game of Thrones is the first novel in George R. R. Martin's epic series A Song of Ice and Fire, set across the fictional continents of Westeros and Essos.…

Frank Herbert

4.3 · 426 ratings on Open Library

On the desert planet Arrakis, young Paul Atreides navigates betrayal, destiny, and the politics of a universe dependent on precious spice.

George Orwell · 1949

4.3 · 408 ratings on Open Library

Winston Smith lives under the constant surveillance of Big Brother in a society where Newspeak suppresses political thought and Thoughtcrimes invite terrible…

Orson Scott Card

4.3 · 405 ratings on Open Library

Ender Wiggin is a child hero thrust into a desperate battle against a deadly alien race, with the survival of mankind resting on his shoulders. The story…

Andy Weir

4.4 · 331 ratings on Open Library

An astronaut is stranded alone on Mars with no way to communicate with Earth, facing a cascade of life-threatening dangers from failing equipment to dwindling…

Kurt Vonnegut

4.2 · 258 ratings on Open Library

Slaughterhouse-Five is one of the world's great antiwar books, centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden. Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects…

Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons

4.5 · 235 ratings on Open Library

A murder mystery unfolds into an epic saga spanning two generations of masked crime-fighters against a Cold War backdrop.

J.R.R. Tolkien

4.4 · 229 ratings on Open Library

The company of the Ring is torn asunder, and Frodo and Sam continue their journey alone down the great River Anduin, shadowed by a mysterious creeping figure.…

Neal Stephenson · 1992

4.1 · 197 ratings on Open Library

Within the Metaverse, Hiro is offered a datafile named Snow Crash by a man named Raven who hints that it is a form of narcotic. Hiro's friend and fellow hacker…

Andy Weir · 2021

4.5 · 171 ratings on Open Library

An astronaut wakes alone in deep space, memories gone, facing an extinction-level threat to humanity with an unexpected ally.

Stephen Markley · 2023

Set in the early decades of the 21st century, this sweeping American epic follows an interconnected cast of characters navigating ecological crisis, violent…

Ray Nayler · 2022

Historical Fiction

other centuries, up close

Jane Austen · 1813

4.2 · 395 ratings on Open Library

Elizabeth Bennet navigates courtship and social pressures while learning to distinguish superficial goodness from true character.

Kurt Vonnegut

4.2 · 258 ratings on Open Library

Slaughterhouse-Five is one of the world's great antiwar books, centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden. Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects…

Joseph Heller

4.1 · 204 ratings on Open Library

A bombardier named Yossarian grows frantic as thousands of strangers keep trying to kill him in a WWII American bomber squadron off Italy.

Arthur Conan Doyle

4.2 · 171 ratings on Open Library

Twelve short stories featuring consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, narrated by Dr. Watson, first published in The Strand Magazine in 1891–1892.

Brandon Sanderson

4.4 · 153 ratings on Open Library

For a thousand years, the Lord Ruler has reigned absolutely while ash falls and the enslaved skaa live in misery and fear.

Markus Zusak · 2005

4.2 · 141 ratings on Open Library

The extraordinary, beloved novel about the ability of books to feed the soul even in the darkest of times. When Death has a story to tell, you listen. It is…

Madeline Miller · 2011

4.3 · 134 ratings on Open Library

Patroclus, an exiled and overlooked young prince, finds an unexpected bond with the golden hero Achilles in ancient Greece, and their friendship deepens into…

Kathryn Stockett, Álvaro Abella Villar · 2009

4.3 · 105 ratings on Open Library

Three women in 1962 Mississippi — a young graduate, and two black maids — unite for a secret project that puts them all at risk.

Delia Owens · 2018

4.3 · 99 ratings on Open Library

Kya Clark has lived alone for years in the marshes of coastal North Carolina, where she finds companionship in the natural world and slowly opens herself to…

Upton Sinclair

4.3 · 96 ratings on Open Library

A Lithuanian immigrant family struggles against brutal conditions in Chicago's meatpacking stockyards at the turn of the nineteenth century.

Sophie Irwin · 2022

Kristin Hannah · 2024

A young nursing student joins the Army Nurse Corps during Vietnam and struggles to reclaim her life upon returning to a divided America.

Horror & Gothic

properly unsettling

Stephen King · 1986

4.1 · 492 ratings on Open Library

Seven childhood friends return to Derry, Maine as adults to confront a nameless evil they first encountered as teenagers.

Stephen King · 1977

4.2 · 282 ratings on Open Library

A struggling writer takes a winter caretaker job at a remote Colorado hotel, where supernatural forces threaten his snowbound family.

Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth · 1991

4.3 · 78 ratings on Open Library

Morpheus, Dream of the Endless, escapes decades of imprisonment and must reclaim his objects of power from dangerous adversaries.

Terry Pratchett

4.0 · 74 ratings on Open Library

On the Discworld, three witches — Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg, and Magrat Garlick — gather on a lonely heath as a king is cruelly murdered and his throne…

Mark Z. Danielewski · 1998

4.3 · 64 ratings on Open Library

A layered narrative built around manuscripts, documentary films, and labyrinths exploring the paranormal mysteries of a house.

Edgar Allan Poe · 1845

4.5 · 60 ratings on Open Library

A distraught lover receives a mysterious visit from a talking raven, descending slowly into madness in this atmospheric 1845 narrative poem.

Anne Rice

4.3 · 48 ratings on Open Library

The second Vampire Chronicles novel follows Lestat de Lioncourt as narrator, offering his perspective on events also depicted in Interview with the Vampire.

Neil Gaiman, Marc Hempel

4.5 · 46 ratings on Open Library

An annotated edition of Gaiman's celebrated Sandman series, offering page-by-page commentary, references, and insights into the acclaimed comic.

Neil Gaiman, Jill Thompson

4.3 · 44 ratings on Open Library

An attempt to summon and imprison Death instead results in the capture of her brother Morpheus, the Sandman, who must escape and reclaim the tools of his…

Edgar Allan Poe · 1966

4.5 · 28 ratings on Open Library

Stephen King

4.8 · 22 ratings on Open Library

This omnibus collects four of Stephen King's early works: Carrie, Night Shift, 'Salem's Lot, and The Shining. Together they showcase the breadth of his horror…

Stephen King · 1987

Roland the Last Gunslinger travels through three doors into 1980s America, joining forces with new companions to continue his quest.

Adventure

quests, wilds and open water

J.R.R. Tolkien

4.3 · 498 ratings on Open Library

A story involving hobbits, wizards, dragons, dwarves, elves, and men, featuring invisibility, eagles, and the Battle of Five Armies.

Frank Herbert

4.3 · 426 ratings on Open Library

On the desert planet Arrakis, young Paul Atreides navigates betrayal, destiny, and the politics of a universe dependent on precious spice.

Orson Scott Card

4.3 · 405 ratings on Open Library

Ender Wiggin is a child hero thrust into a desperate battle against a deadly alien race, with the survival of mankind resting on his shoulders. The story…

J.R.R. Tolkien

4.3 · 397 ratings on Open Library

In the peaceful Shire, young Frodo Baggins inherits a mysterious Ring of immense and dangerous power from his elderly cousin Bilbo, and must undertake a…

Andy Weir

4.4 · 331 ratings on Open Library

An astronaut is stranded alone on Mars with no way to communicate with Earth, facing a cascade of life-threatening dangers from failing equipment to dwindling…

Joseph Heller

4.1 · 204 ratings on Open Library

A bombardier named Yossarian grows frantic as thousands of strangers keep trying to kill him in a WWII American bomber squadron off Italy.

Douglas Adams · 1979

4.5 · 176 ratings on Open Library

A comedy science fiction novel adapted from Adams's radio series, following interstellar hitchhiking with a fictional encyclopaedic guide.

Andy Weir · 2021

4.5 · 171 ratings on Open Library

An astronaut wakes alone in deep space, memories gone, facing an extinction-level threat to humanity with an unexpected ally.

Rick Riordan

4.4 · 170 ratings on Open Library

Three teens with mysterious pasts are swept into a world of gods, monsters, and a dangerous curse at Camp Half-Blood.

Terry Pratchett

4.0 · 152 ratings on Open Library

A tourist named Twoflower and his wizard guide Rincewind embark on the first adventure through the legendary land of Discworld.

Stephen King · 1978

4.2 · 142 ratings on Open Library

Paul Sheldon is a bestselling novelist who, after a devastating automobile accident, finds himself in the care of Annie Wilkes — his biggest fan and his…

Neal Stephenson · 2021

Termination Shock is a visionary near-future techno thriller from Neal Stephenson that centres on the realities of climate change. It explores how technology…

True Stories

faction — real lives, told like novels

Stephen Hawking

4.1 · 234 ratings on Open Library

Stephen Hawking's ‘A Brief History of Time* has become an international publishing phenomenon. Translated into thirty languages, it has sold over ten million…

Yuval Noah Harari · 2011

4.2 · 209 ratings on Open Library

A historian integrates biology and history to explore humanity's evolution from early cognition to our potential to redesign ourselves.

Art Spiegelman

4.5 · 157 ratings on Open Library

A cartoonist grapples with his father's account of surviving Hitler's Europe in this landmark graphic memoir.

Markus Zusak · 2005

4.2 · 141 ratings on Open Library

The extraordinary, beloved novel about the ability of books to feed the soul even in the darkest of times. When Death has a story to tell, you listen. It is…

Jared Diamond · 1997

4.0 · 139 ratings on Google Books

Richard Phillips Feynman, Ralph Leighton

4.2 · 114 ratings on Open Library

A collection of anecdotes in which Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman recounts his life personally and professionally.

Ted Chiang

4.4 · 90 ratings on Open Library

This debut collection gathers eight stories by Ted Chiang, a multiple award-winning writer celebrated for rigorously imagined premises — from a tower reaching…

Richard Dawkins

4.4 · 73 ratings on Open Library

A landmark exposition of evolutionary thought presenting a gene's-eye view of evolution and Neo-Darwinism for wide audiences.

Marjane Satrapi

4.3 · 56 ratings on Open Library

A graphic memoir of growing up in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution, navigating exile, and the contradictions of public and private life.

Victor Hugo · 1862

4.3 · 54 ratings on Open Library

Jean Valjean, an unjustly imprisoned peasant, is relentlessly pursued by detective Javert in Hugo's transcendent tale of destiny and suffering.

Walter Isaacson · 2021

A scientific biography of Jennifer Doudna, a founder and co-developer of the CRISPR gene-editing mechanism, and an examination of what happened after CRISPR…

David Grann · 2023