👤 Samantha Shannon
📚 «The Priory of the Orange Tree»
✔️ Level: Advanced
📌 Description:
A captivating story about queens, priestesses, warriors, and dragons, The Priory of the Orange Tree is an epic fantasy that is perfect for fans of Game of Thrones ... set in an intricately built world ruled by women ... Through its layered narrative and its inclusion, and often subversion, of fantasy tropes, The Priory of the Orange Tree explores the slippery nature of storytelling itself. The author's presentation of many different versions of the same legend invites the reader to consider the conflict between truth and the histories and cultural narratives you believe to be true.
#Advanced
📚 «The Priory of the Orange Tree»
✔️ Level: Advanced
📌 Description:
A captivating story about queens, priestesses, warriors, and dragons, The Priory of the Orange Tree is an epic fantasy that is perfect for fans of Game of Thrones ... set in an intricately built world ruled by women ... Through its layered narrative and its inclusion, and often subversion, of fantasy tropes, The Priory of the Orange Tree explores the slippery nature of storytelling itself. The author's presentation of many different versions of the same legend invites the reader to consider the conflict between truth and the histories and cultural narratives you believe to be true.
#Advanced
👤 Kaira Rouda
📚 «Best Day Ever»
✔️ Level: Upper_Intermediate
📌 Description:
Paul Strom has the perfect life: a glittering career as an advertising executive, a beautiful wife, two healthy boys and a big house in a wealthy suburb. And he’s the perfect husband: breadwinner, protector, provider. That’s why he’s planned a romantic weekend for his wife, Mia, at their lake house, just the two of them. And he's promised today will be the best day ever.
#Upper_Intermediate
📚 «Best Day Ever»
✔️ Level: Upper_Intermediate
📌 Description:
Paul Strom has the perfect life: a glittering career as an advertising executive, a beautiful wife, two healthy boys and a big house in a wealthy suburb. And he’s the perfect husband: breadwinner, protector, provider. That’s why he’s planned a romantic weekend for his wife, Mia, at their lake house, just the two of them. And he's promised today will be the best day ever.
#Upper_Intermediate
👤 Peter Heller
📚 «The River»
✔️ Level: Upper_Intermediate
📌 Description:
From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, this is a masterful tale of wilderness survival in the vein of Into the Wild and The Call of the Wild. It is the story of two college friends on a wilderness canoe trip--a gripping tale of a friendship tested by fire, whitewater, starvation, and brutality.
#Upper_Intermediate
📚 «The River»
✔️ Level: Upper_Intermediate
📌 Description:
From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, this is a masterful tale of wilderness survival in the vein of Into the Wild and The Call of the Wild. It is the story of two college friends on a wilderness canoe trip--a gripping tale of a friendship tested by fire, whitewater, starvation, and brutality.
#Upper_Intermediate
👤 Amy Harmon
📚 «What the Wind Knows»
✔️ Level: Upper_Intermediate
📌 Description:
Anne Gallagher grew up enchanted by her grandfather’s stories of Ireland. Heartbroken at his death, she travels to his childhood home to spread his ashes. There, overcome with memories of the man she adored and consumed by a history she never knew, she is pulled into another time.
#Upper_Intermediate
📚 «What the Wind Knows»
✔️ Level: Upper_Intermediate
📌 Description:
Anne Gallagher grew up enchanted by her grandfather’s stories of Ireland. Heartbroken at his death, she travels to his childhood home to spread his ashes. There, overcome with memories of the man she adored and consumed by a history she never knew, she is pulled into another time.
#Upper_Intermediate
👤 Taylor Jenkins Reid
📚 «Daisy Jones & The Six»
✔️ Level: Upper_Intermediate
📌 Description:
Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock and roll she loves most. By the time she’s twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things.
#Upper_Intermediate
📚 «Daisy Jones & The Six»
✔️ Level: Upper_Intermediate
📌 Description:
Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock and roll she loves most. By the time she’s twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things.
#Upper_Intermediate
👤 Andrew Sean Greer
📚 «Less»
✔️ Level: Upper_Intermediate
📌 Description:
You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. You can't say yes--it would be too awkward--and you can't say no--it would look like defeat. On your desk are a series of invitations to half-baked literary events around the world.
#Upper_Intermediate
📚 «Less»
✔️ Level: Upper_Intermediate
📌 Description:
You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. You can't say yes--it would be too awkward--and you can't say no--it would look like defeat. On your desk are a series of invitations to half-baked literary events around the world.
#Upper_Intermediate
👤 Ginger Scott
📚 «Cry Baby»
✔️ Level: Upper_Intermediate
📌 Description:
Tristan Lopez is loyal to his brothers. He doesn’t really have a choice, born into a gang that has a chokehold on every kid that roams its streets. He gave his life to them willingly, knowing if he did then one day this kingdom, led by boys drunk with power and ruled by fear, would all be his.
#Upper_Intermediate
📚 «Cry Baby»
✔️ Level: Upper_Intermediate
📌 Description:
Tristan Lopez is loyal to his brothers. He doesn’t really have a choice, born into a gang that has a chokehold on every kid that roams its streets. He gave his life to them willingly, knowing if he did then one day this kingdom, led by boys drunk with power and ruled by fear, would all be his.
#Upper_Intermediate
👤 Margaret Rogerson
📚 «Sorcery of Thorns»
✔️ Level: Upper_Intermediate
📌 Description:
All sorcerers are evil. Elisabeth has known that as long as she has known anything. Raised as a foundling in one of Austermeer’s Great Libraries, Elisabeth has grown up among the tools of sorcery—magical grimoires that whisper on shelves and rattle beneath iron chains. If provoked, they transform into grotesque monsters of ink and leather. She hopes to become a warden, charged with protecting the kingdom from their power.
#Upper_Intermediate
📚 «Sorcery of Thorns»
✔️ Level: Upper_Intermediate
📌 Description:
All sorcerers are evil. Elisabeth has known that as long as she has known anything. Raised as a foundling in one of Austermeer’s Great Libraries, Elisabeth has grown up among the tools of sorcery—magical grimoires that whisper on shelves and rattle beneath iron chains. If provoked, they transform into grotesque monsters of ink and leather. She hopes to become a warden, charged with protecting the kingdom from their power.
#Upper_Intermediate
👤 Max Porter
📚 «Lanny»
✔️ Level: Intermediate
📌 Description:
This village belongs to the people who live in it and to the people who lived in it hundreds of years ago. It belongs to England’s mysterious past and its confounding present. But it also belongs to Dead Papa Toothwort, a figure schoolchildren used to draw green and leafy, choked by tendrils growing out of his mouth.
#Intermediate
📚 «Lanny»
✔️ Level: Intermediate
📌 Description:
This village belongs to the people who live in it and to the people who lived in it hundreds of years ago. It belongs to England’s mysterious past and its confounding present. But it also belongs to Dead Papa Toothwort, a figure schoolchildren used to draw green and leafy, choked by tendrils growing out of his mouth.
#Intermediate
👤 Iain Rob Wright
📚 «Escape!»
✔️ Level: Upper_Intermediate
📌 Description:
Cheryl is the new girl at work, which is why she feels like she doesn't have a choice when she's asked to go on a "company outing." She and six of her colleagues are to be locked inside a room with only their wits to aid them. If they escape in time, there'll be prize money. Fail, and the repercussions could be deadly.
#Upper_Intermediate
📚 «Escape!»
✔️ Level: Upper_Intermediate
📌 Description:
Cheryl is the new girl at work, which is why she feels like she doesn't have a choice when she's asked to go on a "company outing." She and six of her colleagues are to be locked inside a room with only their wits to aid them. If they escape in time, there'll be prize money. Fail, and the repercussions could be deadly.
#Upper_Intermediate
👤 Tiffany D. Jackson
📚 «Allegedly»
✔️ Level: Advanced
📌 Description:
Allegedly. She didn’t say much in that first interview with detectives, and the media filled in the only blanks that mattered: A white baby had died while under the care of a churchgoing black woman and her nine-year-old daughter. The public convicted Mary and the jury made it official. But did she do it? She wouldn’t say.
#Advanced
📚 «Allegedly»
✔️ Level: Advanced
📌 Description:
Allegedly. She didn’t say much in that first interview with detectives, and the media filled in the only blanks that mattered: A white baby had died while under the care of a churchgoing black woman and her nine-year-old daughter. The public convicted Mary and the jury made it official. But did she do it? She wouldn’t say.
#Advanced
👤 Jennifer Weiner
📚 «Mrs. Everything»
✔️ Level: Upper_Intermediate
📌 Description:
Jo and Bethie survive traumas and tragedies. As their lives unfold against the background of free love and Vietnam, Woodstock and women’s lib, Bethie becomes an adventure-loving wild child who dives headlong into the counterculture and is up for anything (except settling down). Meanwhile, Jo becomes a proper young mother in Connecticut, a witness to the changing world instead of a participant. Neither woman inhabits the world she dreams of, nor has a life that feels authentic or brings her joy. Is it too late for the women to finally stake a claim on happily ever after?
#Upper_Intermediate
📚 «Mrs. Everything»
✔️ Level: Upper_Intermediate
📌 Description:
Jo and Bethie survive traumas and tragedies. As their lives unfold against the background of free love and Vietnam, Woodstock and women’s lib, Bethie becomes an adventure-loving wild child who dives headlong into the counterculture and is up for anything (except settling down). Meanwhile, Jo becomes a proper young mother in Connecticut, a witness to the changing world instead of a participant. Neither woman inhabits the world she dreams of, nor has a life that feels authentic or brings her joy. Is it too late for the women to finally stake a claim on happily ever after?
#Upper_Intermediate
👤 Nicole Melleby
📚 «Hurricane Season»
✔️ Level: Intermediate
📌 Description:
Fig, a sixth grader, wants more than anything to see the world as her father does. The once-renowned pianist, who hasn’t composed a song in years and has unpredictable good and bad days, is something of a mystery to Fig. Though she’s a science and math nerd, she tries taking an art class just to be closer to him, to experience life the way an artist does. But then Fig’s dad shows up at school, disoriented and desperately searching for Fig. Not only has the class not brought Fig closer to understanding him, it has brought social services to their door.
#Intermediate
📚 «Hurricane Season»
✔️ Level: Intermediate
📌 Description:
Fig, a sixth grader, wants more than anything to see the world as her father does. The once-renowned pianist, who hasn’t composed a song in years and has unpredictable good and bad days, is something of a mystery to Fig. Though she’s a science and math nerd, she tries taking an art class just to be closer to him, to experience life the way an artist does. But then Fig’s dad shows up at school, disoriented and desperately searching for Fig. Not only has the class not brought Fig closer to understanding him, it has brought social services to their door.
#Intermediate
👤 Margaret Atwood
📚 «Alias Grace»
✔️ Level: Advanced
📌 Description:
It's 1843, and Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer and his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Now serving a life sentence, Grace claims to have no memory of the murders.
#Advanced
📚 «Alias Grace»
✔️ Level: Advanced
📌 Description:
It's 1843, and Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer and his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Now serving a life sentence, Grace claims to have no memory of the murders.
#Advanced
👤 Beth O'Leary
📚 «The Flatshare»
✔️ Level: Upper_Intermediate
📌 Description:
Tiffy Moore needs a cheap flat, and fast. Leon Twomey works nights and needs cash. Their friends think they’re crazy, but it’s the perfect solution: Leon occupies the one-bed flat while Tiffy’s at work in the day, and she has the run of the place the rest of the time.
#Upper_Intermediate
📚 «The Flatshare»
✔️ Level: Upper_Intermediate
📌 Description:
Tiffy Moore needs a cheap flat, and fast. Leon Twomey works nights and needs cash. Their friends think they’re crazy, but it’s the perfect solution: Leon occupies the one-bed flat while Tiffy’s at work in the day, and she has the run of the place the rest of the time.
#Upper_Intermediate
👤 Maureen Johnson
📚 «The Vanishing Stair»
✔️ Level: Upper_Intermediate
📌 Description:
The tantalizing riddles behind the Ellingham murders are still waiting to be unraveled, and Stevie knows she’s so close. But the path to the truth has more twists and turns than she can imagine—and moving forward involves hurting someone she cares for. In New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson’s second novel of the Truly Devious series, nothing is free, and someone will pay for the truth with their life.
#Upper_Intermediate
📚 «The Vanishing Stair»
✔️ Level: Upper_Intermediate
📌 Description:
The tantalizing riddles behind the Ellingham murders are still waiting to be unraveled, and Stevie knows she’s so close. But the path to the truth has more twists and turns than she can imagine—and moving forward involves hurting someone she cares for. In New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson’s second novel of the Truly Devious series, nothing is free, and someone will pay for the truth with their life.
#Upper_Intermediate
👤 Christina Henry
📚 «The Girl in Red»
✔️ Level: Upper_Intermediate
📌 Description:
It's not safe for anyone alone in the woods. There are predators that come out at night: critters and coyotes, snakes and wolves. But the woman in the red jacket has no choice. Not since the Crisis came, decimated the population, and sent those who survived fleeing into quarantine camps that serve as breeding grounds for death, destruction, and disease. She is just a woman trying not to get killed in a world that doesn't look anything like the one she grew up in, the one that was perfectly sane and normal and boring until three months ago.
#Upper_Intermediate
📚 «The Girl in Red»
✔️ Level: Upper_Intermediate
📌 Description:
It's not safe for anyone alone in the woods. There are predators that come out at night: critters and coyotes, snakes and wolves. But the woman in the red jacket has no choice. Not since the Crisis came, decimated the population, and sent those who survived fleeing into quarantine camps that serve as breeding grounds for death, destruction, and disease. She is just a woman trying not to get killed in a world that doesn't look anything like the one she grew up in, the one that was perfectly sane and normal and boring until three months ago.
#Upper_Intermediate
👤 Blake Crouch
📚 «Recursion»
✔️ Level: Upper_Intermediate
📌 Description:
Memory makes reality. That’s what New York City cop Barry Sutton is learning as he investigates the devastating phenomenon the media has dubbed False Memory Syndrome—a mysterious affliction that drives its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived.
#Upper_Intermediate
📚 «Recursion»
✔️ Level: Upper_Intermediate
📌 Description:
Memory makes reality. That’s what New York City cop Barry Sutton is learning as he investigates the devastating phenomenon the media has dubbed False Memory Syndrome—a mysterious affliction that drives its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived.
#Upper_Intermediate
👤 Patricia Highsmith
📚 «The Talented Mr.Ripley»
✔️ Level: Upper_Intermediate
📌 Description:
In late 1950s New York, Tom Ripley, a young underachiever, is sent to Italy to retrieve Dickie Greenleaf, a rich and spoiled millionaire playboy. But when the errand fails, Ripley takes extreme measures.
#Upper_Intermediate
📚 «The Talented Mr.Ripley»
✔️ Level: Upper_Intermediate
📌 Description:
In late 1950s New York, Tom Ripley, a young underachiever, is sent to Italy to retrieve Dickie Greenleaf, a rich and spoiled millionaire playboy. But when the errand fails, Ripley takes extreme measures.
#Upper_Intermediate
👤 Agatha Christie
📚 «The Labours of Hercules»
✔️ Level: Upper_Intermediate
📌 Description:
Poirot's pursuit of an infamous art thief leads him to a snowbound hotel in the Swiss Alps, where he is met with a plethora of mysteries and the reappearance of a familiar face from the past.
#Upper_Intermediate
📚 «The Labours of Hercules»
✔️ Level: Upper_Intermediate
📌 Description:
Poirot's pursuit of an infamous art thief leads him to a snowbound hotel in the Swiss Alps, where he is met with a plethora of mysteries and the reappearance of a familiar face from the past.
#Upper_Intermediate
