1. Title: Safe Haven
Author: Nicholas Sparks
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Synopsis: Katie, a young woman has just relocated to the small town of Southport in North Carolina. Naturally, the neighbours are intrigued by her self-effacing nature. Slowly, she drops her guard and starts opening up to Alex, a widower with two kids and Jo, her next door neighbour. Katie is apprehensive about revealing her tumultuous past that led her to travel across another country, nevertheless, she begins to confide in them. Jo's empathetic support and Alex's kind love eases her troubles of the dark past and she eventually realises that it is nothing but love that will rescue her to a safe haven.
2. Title: Gone Girl
Author: Gillian Flynn
Publisher: Crown Publishing
Synopsis: On her fifth wedding anniversary Amy Dunne suddenly goes missing without a trace from her rented home in North Carthage, Missouri. Under pressure from the police, media and Amy's doting parents, Husband-of-the Year, Nick grapples with a never-ending chain of lies, deceits, and his own oddly evasive behaviour. As events get murkier, the needle of suspicion points at Nick as the killer of his beautiful wife. With his sister Margo by his side, Nick pleads innocence. Then what was in that silver gift box in the back of Amy's bedroom closet?
3. Title: The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden
Author: Jessica Sorensen
Publisher: Jessica Sorensen
Synopsis: Callie's twelfth birthday turns out to be the most unfortunate day of her life. Everything gets stolen and she retreats into her solitude, cutting off from the world. But after six years too she is unable to come to terms with what had happened. Kayden has been silently obedient to life's instructions until one day, he makes a huge mistake. He is sure that his life is on the verge of ending but coincidentally Callie comes across to him as a saviour. Now that he and Callie are in the same college, he will do everything to get to know her and more importantly, save her from the reservations of her dejected life.
4. Title: Fifty Shades of Grey
Author: E.L. James
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing
Synopsis: E.L James, a former TV journalist and mom of two in West London, fulfills her childhood dream of writing a book with Fifty Shades of Grey, the first of the trilogy, and turns into a bestselling author. Serving erotica to the audience with a plot that revolves around a drop-dead-gorgeous billionaire Christian Grey and his dangerous liaison with literature student Anastasia Steele who goes to interview the young tycoon, and ends up falling for him. They embark on a passionate physical affair while Ana unravels Grey's dark desires including her own.
5. Title: Hopeless
Author: Colleen Hoover
Publisher: Colleen Hoover
Synopsis: This book is about the struggle of a 17-year-old girl named Sky who is on a journey to discovering the truth while believing the lies that surround her. When Sky first meets Dean Holder, she knows that the guy is nothing but trouble. However, Sky is captivated by Holder's charms and his ability to kindle feelings in her that she'd never experienced. Memories from a past that Sky wishes to keep at a distance seem knocking at the door again. Holder on the other hand comes across as a parasite who wants to learn everything about Sky. What about Holder's hidden truths? What is to become of Sky when his secrets are finally revealed?
6. Title: The Racketeer
Author: John Grisham
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing
Synopsis: Malcolm Bannister, an ex-lawyer currently serving jail sentence at the Federal Prison Camp, Maryland, knows why Judge Raymond Fawcett was murdered and by whom. From the site of murder, the FBI couldn't deduce much for there was no forced entry, no sign of struggle, only two dead bodies, one of the Judge and the other of his young secretary's, and an opened and emptied extremely secure safe. Malcolm would like to give out every last detail, but there is one tiny hitch. He wants his freedom in exchange.
7. Title: Merry Christmas, Alex Cross
Author: James Patterson
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
Synopsis: Nineteenth in James Patterson's bestselling 'Alex Cross' series, Merry Christmas, Alex Cross is a poignant tale of a man who is on a mission to save a family from a terrible hostage situation but at the same time misses being home on Christmas eve. Alex left a mission behind him when he decided to come back home and decorate the Christmas tree with his kids and wife. However, he could not stay for long. A phone call informs him about an out-of-control situation learning which he rushes to the site. Separated from his own family to save another, will Alex Cross return alive on this festive day? For readers, this can be a holiday classic read this Christmas.
8. Title: Fifty Shades Darker
Author: E.L James
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing
Synopsis: The second of the trilogy, Fifty Shades Darker explores the dilemma of Anastasia after her separation from Grey. She has moved on in her career, yet desires to go back to him, for the memories of their torrid physical affair still dominate her mind, and eventually she lands up with him in a new arrangement. Grey's inner demons grow darker, and as Ana delves deeper into his harrowing past, she is faced with the anger and jealousy of the women who came in his life before her.
9. Title: The Forgotten
Author: David Baldacci
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Synopsis: Agent John Puller has till date cracked the toughest crimes facing the nation and that makes him the most reliable man in the US Army. He's a veteran of combat and a relentless one at that. But now he is faced with a personal loss. His aunt has been found dead in the beach town Paradise in Florida and the local police have shrugged off responsibility by calling the incident as simply unfortunate and tragic. However, a letter from his aunt to Puller's father confirms the grimy details behind the picture-perfect facade of Paradise. Puller sets off on a personal mission to probe the truth behind his aunt's mysterious death and to unveil the conspiracies beneath Paradise's sandy beaches and palm trees.
10. Title: Life of Pi
Author: Yann Martel
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishers
Synopsis: Yann Martel's Booker Prize-winning novel is back in news, this time for its adaptation into a film by director Ang Lee. Pondicherry-based Piscine Molitor Patel, known as Pi, is a bookish fellow. His family runs the local zoo and he spends most of his time among goats, bears, hippos and swans. He is sixteen when his parents decide to move to Canada along with their animals. Tragedy strikes and their ship sinks, leaving behind Pi as the lone human survivor on the lifeboat, along with a zebra, an orangutan, a hyena, and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. An epic story begins spread over 227 days spent castaway, teaching Pi the lessons - adventure, survival and companionship.
11. Title: Fifty Shades Freed
Author: E.L James
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing
Synopsis: Since their first encounter, the third of the trilogy, and driven by their searing sexual desire for each other, Anastasia and Grey's lives have changed irrevocably. Initially repelled by Grey's need to control in bed, and his erotic tastes, Ana subsequently comes to terms with it, and demands from him a greater commitment. Grey agrees, and now they have everything going for them, from love, wealth, passion, to intimacy. But deep down Ana fears they'll never be able to stay together without her sacrificing her own identity.
12. Title: Notorious Nineteen
Author: Janet Evanovich
Publisher: Random House Publishing
Synopsis: Stephanie Plum is a New Jersey based bounty hunter who takes on the assignment to trace Geoffrey Cubbin. Cubbin was being tried for duping Trenton's premier assisted-living facility until he disappears from the hospital after undergoing an emergency appendectomy. That leaves Stephanie with no option but to work alongside Trenton's hottest cop, Joe Morelli. Notorious for finding trouble, Stephanie's case complicates when another felon manages to escape from the hospital. With two con men on the loose and no rent to pay, Stephanie takes up a secondary job of guarding Ranger. But the troubles don't end here. Threatening notes, some food poisoning, and an unidentified bridesmaid's dress pushes away her chances of acquiring a stable pay check.
13. Title: The Host
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
Synopsis: Moving away from the conventions of a vampire fiction, Stephenie Meyer, this time, explores the arid Arizona Desert in her science-fiction novel, The Host. Fans of Twilight series will, however, be delighted to discover a similar narrative style in Meyer's latest and learn about romantic love through the lens of Melanie Stryder. The world has been invaded by aliens that take possession of the minds of human beings and leave their bodies intact. Melanie is one such human 'host' whose invading soul, Wanderer is struggling to put away the former tenant of her body, still in control of Melanie's mind. Melanie manipulates Wanderer's thoughts and unable to completely keep away from her body's desires, Wanderer and Melanie, both as allies embark on a journey in search of the man they both love. One of the riveting love triangles by Meyer, The Host is about the essence of humanity and the emotion of love.
14. Title: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Author: Stieg Larsson
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday
Synopsis: Set in Sweden, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo tells the story of Mikael Blomkvist, a journalist who recently lost a libel case, and Lisabath Salander, a computer hacker with a foul temper, as they team up to unravel the mystery surrounding the disappearance of Harriet Vanger about 40 years ago from a little island that belonged to her own family.
15. Title: 11/22/63
Author: Stephen King
Publisher: Scribner
Synopsis: It is the story of an English teacher who is on a mission. He goes back in time through a time portal to 1958; a year that saw the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Will he be able to prevent Kennedy's assassination? Stephen King in the book explores historical events through the lens of science fiction.
(Compiled by Anwesha Mittra, Arunima Mazumdar and Ipshita Mitra)
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