Top 5 Novels Worth Missing Your Stop For
Books that grab you so hard you look up and realize the train has already left your station behind.
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The Secret History — Donna Tartt
You find out who dies on page one and still can't stop reading, which says everything about how good Tartt is.
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Project Hail Mary — Andy Weir
It's science homework posing as a thriller, and somehow the friendship at its center is the part that wrecks you.
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Gone Girl — Gillian Flynn
The midpoint twist works like a trapdoor, and you'll want to text someone about it before you even get off the bus.
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow — Gabrielle Zevin
It's a novel about making video games that turns out to be about thirty years of a friendship, and it's devastating in the best way.
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Station Eleven — Emily St. John Mandel
A pandemic novel that's tender rather than grim, so you'll miss your stop and then call your parents.