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Redemption Arc Books

A flawed or villainous character earns their way back.

11 books
The Kite Runner
Literary Fiction

The Kite Runner

by Khaled Hosseini

Amir grows up privileged in Kabul with Hassan, the son of his family's servant. A moment of cowardice in 1975 haunts him for decades — and sends him back to a Taliban-controlled Afghanistan to right a…

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The Stormlight Archive: Words of Radiance
Epic Fantasy

The Stormlight Archive: Words of Radiance

by Brandon Sanderson

Shallan travels to the Shattered Plains to unravel the secrets of the ancient Voidbringers, while Kaladin faces a betrayal that tests everything he has come to believe about leadership and sacrifice.

A Man Called Ove
Literary Fiction

A Man Called Ove

by Fredrik Backman

Ove is a curmudgeon with a strict moral code and a profound sense of loss — whose plan to die is repeatedly interrupted by the noisy, needy neighbors who need him to live.

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The Midnight Library
Literary Fiction

The Midnight Library

by Matt Haig

Nora Seed finds a library between life and death where each book is a life she could have lived.

The Pilgrim's Progress
Christian Allegory

The Pilgrim's Progress

by John Bunyan

Christian flees the City of Destruction and travels toward the Celestial City, facing every temptation, doubt, and enemy the soul encounters on its journey toward God.

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The Way of Kings
Epic Fantasy

The Way of Kings

by Brandon Sanderson

On the shattered plains of Roshar, a war has been fought for years over the body of a slain king. Three people — a surgeon-turned-soldier, a highprince's ward, and a thief — are pulled toward a secret…

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Anxious People
Literary Fiction

Anxious People

by Fredrik Backman

A failed bank robber takes hostages at an apartment viewing — and everyone's life changes.

Circe
Mythological Fiction

Circe

by Madeline Miller

The daughter of the Sun god discovers her powers as a witch and carves a life from myth and exile.

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Literary Fiction

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

by Gail Honeyman

Eleanor Oliphant leads a rigid, solitary life governed by routines she cannot explain — until a small act of kindness begins to unravel the trauma she has been holding at arm's length for years.

Mistborn
Fantasy

Mistborn

by Brandon Sanderson

A street thief with an impossible power joins a band of rebels plotting to overthrow an immortal god-emperor — in a world where ash falls from the sky and the good guys lost a thousand years ago.

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The Goldfinch
Literary Fiction

The Goldfinch

by Donna Tartt

Thirteen-year-old Theo Decker survives a bombing at a New York museum and walks away with a small, famous painting — a secret that shapes the next thirty years of his life.