Books Built to Last – Featured Forever Reads

These standout Kindle books continue to shine with lasting visibility and reader love. Handpicked for timeless appeal, each title remains permanently discoverable for readers around the world.

We Live Here Now: A Novel

By: Sarah Pinborough
Award-winning author of New York Times bestselling breakout novel (and hit Netflix show) Behind Her Eyes returns with a haunting Gothic novel about a house—and a marriage—gone terribly wrong.After an accident that nearly kills her, Emily and her husband, Freddie, move from London to a beautiful Dartmoor country house called Larkin Lodge. The house is gorgeous, striking—and to Emily, something about it feels deeply wrong.Old boards creak at night, fires go out, and books fall from the shelves, and all of it stems from the terrible presence she feels in the third-floor room. But these things happen only when Emily’s alone, so are they happening at all? She’s still medically fragile; ...
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The Shadow of the Soul: The Forgotten Gods: Book Two (The Forgotten Gods Trilogy 2)

By: Sarah Pinborough
The author of the “diabolically clever”* A Matter of Blood returns with another gritty supernatural thriller featuring hard-boiled homicide detective Cass Jones…A devastating terrorist attack has crippled London. To find a perpetrator who is more than human, Special Branch turns to Detective Inspector Cass Jones.Cass is already investigating a series of student suicides, but saying no to Special Branch isn’t an option—even when he’s hit with a much more personal and deeply disturbing mystery: a message left for him by his murdered brother revealing that Cass’s nephew was stolen at birth.Cass’s investigations and his search for the boy lead him down a dark labyrinth to the sha...
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King of Ashes: A Novel

By: S.A. Cosby
“Pick up the novel everyone will be talking about.” —The Atlantic“Dark, riveting, and accomplished.” —Washington Post“Propulsive and powerful. . . A gripping roller coaster ride of escalating danger.” —New York Times Book ReviewAward-winning, New York Times bestselling author S. A. Cosby returns with King of Ashes, a Godfather-inspired Southern crime epic and dazzling family drama.Amazon Best Books of the Year So Far 2025 • Indie Next pick for June 2025 • Library Reads pick for June 2025 • Book of the Month Club pick • Starred Library Journal • Starred Kirkus • Los Angeles Times 30 Must-Read Books for Summer • NPR’s 10 books we're looking forward to this spr...
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Orphans of Bliss: Tales of Addiction Horror

By: S.A. Cosby
"A powerhouse anthology" -Publishers Weekly"A must-add to all collections" -Library Journal, Starred Review"Visceral, cutting stories" -Booklist, Starred ReviewAddiction is the perpetual epidemic, where swarms of human moths flutter to the flames of hell. Because that warm blanket of a heroin high, that joyful intoxication of a pint of vodka, that electric energy from a line of cocaine, over time leaves you with a cold loneliness and a bitter heart. Relationships destroyed, bodies deteriorate, loved ones lost, yet the craving continues for that which is killing us—living, as the title suggests, like an Orphan of Bliss.Welcome to the third and final fix of addiction horror and the follow up...
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The Admiral's Gambit: Book 1 of the Khitai Conspiracy

By: S.A. Cosby
Secrets don’t remain secrets for long in the quest for world domination. A gesture of peace in a war-torn world turns out to be a deadly weapon that could affect the entire planet. In a world divided between two superpowers, a cast of unexpected characters may be the Federation’s only hope of survival. The notorious traitor, Simon De La Roche intends to get his hands on the weapon before it is delivered. His unsavory partners will share in the reward if they succeed. Caught in the middle of the intrigue is Doctor Elizabeth “Beth” McIntyre, a brilliant young research scientist serving in the Federation Air Corps and a daughter of a famous general in the Federation. Beth is well-educat...
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With a Vengeance: A Novel

By: Riley Sager
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROne train. No stops. A deadly game of survival and revenge.In 1942, six people destroyed Anna Matheson’s family. Twelve years later, she’s ready for retribution.Under false pretenses, Anna has lured those responsible for her family’s downfall onto a luxury train from Philadelphia to Chicago, an overnight journey of thirteen hours. Her goal? Confront the people who’ve wronged her, get them to confess their crimes, and deliver them into the hands of authorities waiting at the end of the line. Justice will at last be served.But Anna’s plan is quickly derailed by the murder of one of the passengers. As the train barrels through the night, it becomes...
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What Kind of Paradise: A Novel

By: Janelle Brown
A teenage girl breaks free from her father’s world of isolation to discover that her whole life is a lie in this propulsive new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Things and Watch Me Disappear.“A twisty, sharp coming-of-age story for our strange techno-utopian times.”—Rachel Khong, author of Real AmericansThe first thing you have to understand is that my father was my entire world.Growing up in an isolated cabin in Montana in the mid-1990s, Jane knows only the world that she and her father live in: the woodstove that heats their home, the vegetable garden where they try to eke out a subsistence, the books of nineteenth-century philosophy that her father gives ...
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This Is Where We Live: A Novel

By: Janelle Brown
Claudia and Jeremy, a young married couple (she’s an aspiring filmmaker, he’s an indie musician), are on the verge of making it. Her first film was a sensation at Sundance and is about to have its theatrical release; he’s assembled a new band and is a few songs shy of an album. They’ve recently purchased their first home—a mid-century bungalow with a breathtaking view of Los Angeles—with the magical assistance of an adjustable-rate mortgage. But a series of seismic events—the tanking of Claudia’s film, the return of Jeremy’s manipulative ex-girlfriend, and the staggering adjustment of their monthly mortgage payments—deal a crushing blow to their dreams of the bohemian lif...
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Fog and Fury (Haven Thrillers Book 1)

By: Rachel Howzell Hall
She’s a new PI in a beautiful seaside town. It’s dirtier than it looks—and more dangerous too—in a twisting novel of suspense by the Anthony Award–nominated author of These Toxic Things.After ten years on the force, LAPD cop Sonny Rush relocates with her elderly mother to peaceful Haven, California, to join her godfather’s burgeoning PI business. What crimes could possibly happen in a town nicknamed “Mayberry by the Sea”? Sonny’s first case: find Figgy, a missing goldendoodle last seen sporting a Versace collar. At least scouting out a dognapper gives Sonny a chance to get to know her new neighbors.Forty-eight hours in town and Figgy’s disappearance entangles Sonny in an ...
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Parents Weekend: A Novel

By: Alex Finlay
AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the bestselling author of If Something Happens to Me, comes one of the year’s most anticipated thrillers.In the glow of their children’s exciting first year of college at a small private school in Northern California, five families gather over dinner and cocktails for the opening festivities of Parents Weekend. As the parents stay out way past their bedtimes, their kids—five residents of Campisi Hall—never show up to dinner.At first, everyone thinks they’re just being college students, irresponsibly forgetting about the gathering or skipping out to go to a party. But as the hours tick by and another night falls with not so much as a text from the ...
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