Atlas Shrugged

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#1 Books Like The Inheritance Games

Avery Grambs has a strategy for a better future: go through high school, secure a scholarship, then leave. But when millionaire Tobias Hawthorne passes away and leaves Avery nearly his entire fortune, her circumstances quickly shift. The problem? Avery doesn’t even know who Tobias Hawthorne is, let alone why. Avery must relocate to the enormous, secret passageway-filled Hawthorne House in order to claim her fortune. Here, every area has been touched by the old man, who also loved puzzles, riddles, and codes.

Unfortunately for Avery, the family that Tobias Hawthorne just evicted also lives in Hawthorne House. The four Hawthorne grandchildren are among them; they are charismatic, intelligent, and dangerous youths who grew up knowing they will one day inherit billions. Heir evident Avery must be a scam artist, in Grayson Hawthorne’s opinion, and he is determined to expose her. Jameson, his brother, sees her as their grandfather’s final act: a convoluted conundrum that must be unlocked. Avery will have to play the game herself in order to survive because she is trapped in a world of luxury and wealth, where danger lurks around every corner.

#2 My Lovely Wife

The fifteen-year marriage of a couple has now become too interesting… Our love tale is straightforward. I met a stunning lady. We experienced love. We had children. We relocated to a suburb. We shared our deepest secrets and our loftiest aspirations with one another. We eventually became bored. We appear to be a typical couple. We are your neighbors, the guardians of your child’s playmate, and the friends you definitely plan to invite to dinner. Each of us has a method for preserving a marriage. It just so happens that ours has gotten away with murder.

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#3 Books Like Cain’s Jawbone

Six homicides, about 100 pages, and there are countless combinations, but only one is accurate. Can you solve the murder mystery of Torquemada? Edward Powys Mathers (aka Torquemada), the creator of the Observer’s cryptic crosswords, published a book in 1934 that was both a murder mystery and the most challenging literary puzzle ever created.

Although the pages are printed in an utterly random order, it is possible to arrange them in the one and only correct order by using logic and intelligent reading, so exposing the identities of six murder victims and their individual killers. Can you join the two puzzle solvers who have already cracked the enigma of Cain’s Jawbone? Please take note that this puzzle is really challenging and not for the faint of heart.

#4 Midnight Mass

Eastern Europe has historically been home to vampires. However, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, they spread throughout the continent and eventually the entire world, transforming entire populations into vampires—or human cattle. The troops of Night are currently extending into the countryside to further solidify their conquest after conquering India, the far east, and the major cities of North and South America.

The vampires and their human minions, the cowboys, have recently arrived at a town on the New Jersey coast. In exchange for the promise of perpetual life — later — the cowboys round up human livestock for the vampire rulers. Because vampires only want a select handful of their own kind to dominate and subsist. The source of life’s blood, the remainder of humanity, will be reduced to helpless herds.

#5 Greenglass House

The season is winter in Greenglass House. The ancient smuggler’s inn is always quiet at this time of year, and Milo, the innkeeper’s 12-year-old adopted son, intends to unwind. But out of blue, the visitor bell sounds on the first chilly night of the vacation. Then rings again. once more. Milo’s mansion quickly fills up with strange, secretive visitors, each of whom has a strange tale to tell that is somehow related to the sprawling old house. In order to find out the truth regarding Greenglass House—and themselves—Milo and Meddy, the cook’s daughter, must discern hints and unravel the web of growing riddles.

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#6 Boxcar Children

The Alden family settles on a boxcar to start their adventure. They seek to remain as a unit and discover a grandfather in the process.

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#7 Maisie Dobbs

Maisie Dobbs, a psychologist, and investigator started her career at the age of thirteen as a servant in a Belgravia estate. However, her employer, Lady Rowan Compton, later found her reading in the library. Maisie, who was afraid of being fired, is taken aback when she learns that Lady Rowan and a close family friend, Dr. Maurice Blanche, will fund her hunger for knowledge. However, The Great War deters Maisie from following through with her ambitions, and soon after beginning her studies at Girton College in Cambridge, Maisie enlists for nursing service abroad.

Later, in 1929, after serving as an apprentice to the illustrious Maurice Blanche, who is renowned for his work with Scotland Yard, Maisie launches her own company. Her first task, a seemingly pointless investigation into a case of alleged adultery, leads her not just on the hunt for a murderer but also back to the conflict she had worked so hard to avoid.

#8 The Naturals

Cassie, who is seventeen, has a natural talent for reading people. She can determine who you are and what you desire by piecing together the smallest details. She hasn’t, however, ever taken it seriously as a skill. That is until the FBI shows up at her door. They are in need of Cassie as part of a secret program that the FBI has started to use extraordinary youngsters to solve infamous cold cases.

Cassie is sent to live with a group of kids whose skills are as strange as her own, but she has no idea that there is more in danger than a few unsolved murders. Michael is sarcastic and affluent, and he exploits his talent for reading people’s emotions to get into Cassie’s head and get under her skin. Although he shares Cassie’s talent for profiling, brooding Dean keeps her at a distance.

#9 Inherent Vice

Shasta Fay, Doc Sportello’s ex-girlfriend, hasn’t been seen in a while. She suddenly appears out of nowhere with a tale of a scheme to abduct a billionaire land developer with whom she just so happens to be in love. She can say it with ease. In Los Angeles near the end of the psychedelic sixties, Doc is aware that “love” is one of the current buzzwords, along with “trip” and “groovy,” but that this one typically results in trouble.

Despite this, he quickly becomes entangled in a bizarre web of motivations and desires that features a cast of characters that includes surfers, hustlers, dopers, and rockers, as well as a murderous loan shark, a tenor saxophonist working secret agents, an ex-con with a swastika tattoo and a deep affection for Ethel Merman, and a strange entity known as the Golden Fang that may only be a tax.

#10 Pretty Little Lies

INCLUDING HIGH SCHOOL JUNIORS SPENCER, ARIA, EMILY, AND HANNA, EVERYONE HAS SOMETHING TO HIDE. Spencer wants the lover of her sister. Aria is daydreaming about her English professor. Emily has a thing going on with the new student. Hanna employs unsightly methods to maintain her beauty. But since their friend Alison disappeared, they have all harbored an even bigger secret.

How am I aware? Because I am fully aware of the sinister females they are, the mischievous girls they were, and the dark secrets they have maintained. And what’s this? Telling you.

#11 Altered Carbon

In 400 years, humanity will be dispersed across an area of interstellar space that was left behind by an old civilization that was discovered on Mars. Hyperspatial data-casting and infrequent sublight colony ship trips connect the colonies. Human awareness is routinely transferred into bodies and digitally freighted between the stars.

However, some things never alter. Takeshi Kovacs, a former envoy who is now incarcerated, shouldn’t be shocked when his consciousness and abilities are downloaded into the body of a former thug who is addicted to nicotine. When a billionaire hired Kovacs to find out who killed his last victim, Kovacs became embroiled in a frightening plot that reached all the way to the top of society and across known space.

#12 Two Can Keep A Secret

Echo Ridge is a typical American community. Ellery has heard a lot about it but has never gone there. At the age of seventeen, her aunt vanished there. And just five years ago, the murder of a homecoming queen made the community famous. Ellery is currently required to relocate there to reside with a grandma she hardly knows.

Although the community appears idyllic, secrets are being kept there. In addition, someone has proclaimed homecoming open season and promised to make it just as deadly as it was just five years ago before Ellery even starts school. Then, seemingly as proof, another girl vanishes. Ellery is an expert on secrets. They are owned by both her mother and grandma. Additionally, it becomes more obvious that everyone in Echo Ridge is hiding something the longer she is there. The problem is that most people struggle to keep secrets, despite the fact that they are deadly. It is therefore ideal to keep your thoughts to yourself at Echo Ridge.

#13 Truly Devious

The best thinkers, creators, and artists attend Vermont’s renowned private Ellingham Academy. Albert Ellingham, a business magnate from the early 20th century, founded it with the intention of creating a magical area filled with puzzles, winding paths, and gardens. He described it as “a place where learning is a fun.”

His wife and daughter were taken away not long after school started. The only real lead was a sarcastic riddle outlining murderous techniques that were written under the ominous alias “Truly, Devious.” One of the biggest unsolved crimes in American history resulted from it.

#14 Pretty Little Liars

The once-great nation of Ravka has been split in two by the Shadow Fold, a region of nearly impenetrable darkness filled with monsters that feed on human flesh. Ravka is surrounded by adversaries. One lone refugee may now decide the country’s future.

Nothing Alina Starkov has ever been excellent at. However, when her regiment is assaulted on the Fold and her closest friend is horribly hurt, Alina discovers a hidden power that protects his life and may hold the secret to freeing her war-torn nation.