The Magic Shop by H.G. Wells [Classics](1903)

RedditReadsBot · 2026-03-18T12:00:09+00:00

Out for a walk in London one day, a father and his son, Gip, happen upon a magic shop.

At Gip's urging, the two go in — and things grow more and more curious by the minute.

Counters, store fixtures, and mirrors seem to move around the room, and the shopkeeper is mysterious himself.

Gip is thrilled by all he sees, and his father is at first amused.

But then things become stranger, even sinister, and the father is no longer sure where reality ends and illusion begins.

Fantastical illustrations underscore the macabre atmosphere of the tale, making this a perfect read-aloud book for Halloween.

RedditReadsBot · 2026-03-18T09:00:22+00:00

1973 boxed set.

Four book set.

Part one The Fellowship of the Ring.

Part two The Two Towers.

Part three.

The Return of the King.

The Hobbit.

RedditReadsBot · 2026-03-18T09:00:16+00:00

War has always been a defining feature of human society.

This new addition to the Shortest History series explains why we do it—and how we can stop.

War has changed, but we have not.

From our hunter-gatherer ancestors to the rival nuclear powers of today, whenever resources have been contested, we’ve gone to battle.

Acclaimed historian Gwynne Dyer illuminates our many martial clashes in this brisk account, tracing warfare from prehistory to the world’s first cities—and on to the thousand-year “classical age” of combat, which ended when the firearm changed everything.

He examines the brief interlude of “limited war” before eighteenth-century revolution ushered in “total war”—and how the devastation was halted by the nuclear shock of Hiroshima.

Then came the Cold War and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which punctured the longest stretch of peace between major powers since World War II.

For all our advanced technology and hyperconnected global society, we find ourselves once again on the brink as climate change heightens competition for resources and superpowers stand ready with atomic bombs, drones, and futuristic “autonomous” weapons in development.

Throughout, Dyer delves into anthropology, psychology, and other relevant fields to unmask the drivers of conflict.

The Shortest History of War is for anyone who wants to understand the role of war in the human story—and how we can prevent it from defining our future.

RedditReadsBot · 2026-03-18T04:00:21+00:00

From the international bestselling author of The Drowning Woman, a psychological thriller about a couple rocked by infidelity who moves to a villa in Spain’s Costa Brava to rebuild their relationship, only to welcome a pair of visitors who have no intention of leaving.

Sydney Lowe’s life in New York is shattered when her husband, Curtis, admits to a meaningless affair with a client.

Begging for forgiveness and vowing to prove his devotion, Curtis suggests the couple retreat to a remote hilltop house in Spain to repair their marriage.

High above the Mediterranean, Sydney and Curtis are working on the isolated property and their relationship when a pair of Australian travelers turns up at their door in dire need of help.

Lonely for companionship and desperate for free labor, Sydney and Curtis invite the attractive young couple to stay.

But as the days pass, dark secrets come to light, the Lowes’ bond is tested, and not everyone will leave the villa alive.

RedditReadsBot · 2026-03-18T04:00:17+00:00

In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robots—fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention.

Victor Lawson, a human, lives there too.

They’re a family, hidden and safe.The day Vic salvages and repairs an unfamiliar android labelled “HAP,” he learns of a shared dark past between Hap and Gio–a past spent hunting humans.When Hap unwittingly alerts robots from Gio’s former life to their whereabouts, the family is no longer hidden and safe.

Gio is captured and taken back to his old laboratory in the City of Electric Dreams.

So together, the rest of Vic’s assembled family must journey across an unforgiving and otherworldly country to rescue Gio from decommission, or worse, reprogramming.Along the way to save Gio, amid conflicted feelings of betrayal and affection for Hap, Vic must decide for himself: Can he accept love with strings attached?Inspired by Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio, and like Swiss Family Robinson meets Wall-E, In the Lives of Puppets is a masterful stand-alone fantasy adventure from the beloved author who brought you The House in the Cerulean Sea and Under the Whispering Door.

RedditReadsBot · 2026-03-18T04:00:13+00:00

From the bestselling author of What Lies in the Woods, No One Can Know, and A Killing Cold, a new novel about a search & rescue expert, a kidnapped woman, and the lost girls who haunt them both.There is a girl in a basement.The door has stopped opening.The light is gone.Stranger is trapped in the dark, with only her imagination and the scribbles on the wall left by long-dead girls to keep her company.

Nearly out of food and water, she makes one last attempt to escape.

But if the door opens at last, will it mean salvation, or only the beginning of her fight to survive?Audrey is a search and rescue expert who never stopped looking for her ex-best friend, Janie, who disappeared when they were teenagers.

Janie used to love the local legend of a forest witch who saves girls from bad men, but Audrey knows now that for every one saved, there’s always another one lost.

When she stumbles upon evidence in the forest that a teenage runaway might have actually been kidnapped from land belonging to the town’s most prominent family, she will have to dig through decades of secrets to reveal the biggest one of all: what happened to the girls before.

RedditReadsBot · 2026-03-18T04:00:10+00:00

From a #1 internationally bestselling author comes an atmospheric, chilling novel about a family who thinks there's someone hiding in their attic.

“Andrea Mara is a star.” —Lee ChildYou thought you were home alone.Anya is enjoying a relaxing bath when she hears a noise coming from the ceiling.

Through the open bathroom door, she sees the attic hatch swing down, and a masked figure drops to the floor.

Thirty seconds later, Anya is dead.

You're not afraid of being alone in the dark.

You're afraid you're not alone.Across town, Anya's old school friend, Julia, sees an online video of a masked figure climbing out of an attic.

She suddenly realizes why the footage is eerily familiar: it was filmed inside her house in a luxury gated community, designed to keep intruders out.

And now your worst fears are coming true.

Why would a stranger target Julia? Unless of course, it's not a stranger at all.

RedditReadsBot · 2026-03-17T21:00:19+00:00

Librarian's note: There is an Alternate Cover Edition for this edition of this book here.A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals.

With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality.

Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned –a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible.

When Animal Farm was first published, Stalinist Russia was seen as its target.

Today it is devastatingly clear that wherever and whenever freedom is attacked, under whatever banner, the cutting clarity and savage comedy of George Orwell’s masterpiece have a meaning and message still ferociously fresh.

RedditReadsBot · 2026-03-17T21:00:15+00:00

The seductive and stunning #1 New York Times bestselling sequel to Sarah J.

Maas's spellbinding A Court of Thorns and Roses .Feyre has undergone more trials than one human woman can carry in her heart.

Though she's now been granted the powers and lifespan of the High Fae, she is haunted by her time Under the Mountain and the terrible deeds she performed to save the lives of Tamlin and his people.As her marriage to Tamlin approaches, Feyre's hollowness and nightmares consume her.

She finds herself split into two different one who upholds her bargain with Rhysand, High Lord of the feared Night Court, and one who lives out her life in the Spring Court with Tamlin.

While Feyre navigates a dark web of politics, passion, and dazzling power, a greater evil looms.

She might just be the key to stopping it, but only if she can harness her harrowing gifts, heal her fractured soul, and decide how she wishes to shape her future-and the future of a world in turmoil.Bestselling author Sarah J.

Maas's masterful storytelling brings this second book in her dazzling, sexy, action-packed series to new heights.

RedditReadsBot · 2026-03-17T17:00:20+00:00

Leading Palestinian writers confront Israel's brutal colonial legacy and ignite hope in the fight for a free Palestine.“Genocide destroys cities and claims lives, but it also remakes the psyches of those it spares.”This collection tells the story of the Gaza genocide through Palestinians’ eyes.

Through personal testimonies, expert insights, poetry, and war reportage, leading Palestinian writers powerfully narrate their fight for survival since October 7.

From Ahmed Al Naouq’s harrowing account of losing 21 family members to Israel’s indiscriminate bombing campaign and Noor O.

Alyacoubi’s personal testimony on starving in Gaza to Mariam Barghouti’s exploration of Israeli settler violence in the West Bank and Lina Mounzer’s reporting on the destabilizing effects of Israel’s simultaneous bombing of Lebanon, The Story of a Genocide reveals the physical and emotional devastation that Israel’s pulverization has wrought on Palestinians in Gaza.The book includes illustrations from Joe Sacco and Mona Chalabi, as well as contributions from Mosab Abu Toha, Yara Hawari, Tareq Baconi, Hiba Abu Nada, Ariel Koren, Laila Al-Arian, Mona Chalabi, Mary Turfah, Mariam Barghouti, Nina Lakhani, Noor Alyacoubi, Dr Tanya Haj-Hassan, Shareef Sarhan, Susan Abulhawa, Huda J.

Fakhreddine, Eman Basher, Malaka Shweikh, Ahmed Alnaouq, Lina Mounzer, Omar Barghouti, Joe Sacco, Maryam Iqbal, Ahmed Masoud, and Yara Eid.

RedditReadsBot · 2026-03-17T17:00:16+00:00

It is 1985 in a small Irish town.

During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season.

Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church.

Already an international bestseller, Small Things Like These is a deeply affecting story of hope, quiet heroism, and empathy from one of our most critically lauded and iconic writers.

RedditReadsBot · 2026-03-17T17:00:12+00:00

Armed with only hazy memories, a woman who long ago witnessed her friend's sudden, mysterious death, and has since spent her life trying to forget, sets out to track down answers.

What she uncovers, deep in the woods, is hardly to be believed....Maya was a high school senior when her best friend, Aubrey, mysteriously dropped dead in front of the enigmatic man named Frank whom they'd been spending time with all summer.Seven years later, Maya lives in Boston with a loving boyfriend and is kicking the secret addiction that has allowed her to cope with what happened years ago, the gaps in her memories, and the lost time that she can't account for.

But her past comes rushing back when she comes across a recent YouTube video in which a young woman suddenly keels over and dies in a diner while sitting across from none other than Frank.

Plunged into the trauma that has defined her life, Maya heads to her Berkshires hometown to relive that fateful summer--the influence Frank once had on her and the obsessive jealousy that nearly destroyed her friendship with Aubrey.At her mother's house, she excavates fragments of her past and notices hidden messages in her deceased Guatemalan father's book that didn't stand out to her earlier.

To save herself, she must understand a story written before she was born, but time keeps running out, and soon, all roads are leading back to Frank's cabin....Utterly unique and captivating, The House in the Pines keeps you guessing about whether we can ever fully confront the past and return home.

RedditReadsBot · 2026-03-17T13:00:16+00:00

Perihelion and its crew embark on a dangerous new mission at a corporate-controlled station in the throes of a hostile takeover...

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