54. Holy Smoke de Anne Campion

Ruth, uma jovem rebelde, é a protagonista deste romance por vezes erótico, e sempre surpreendente, que a celebrada realizadora de O Piano, Jane Campion, escreveu juntamente com a sua irmã e que depois adaptou ao cinema.Ruth é uma australiana pertencente à classe médica que um dia se revolta contra o seu meio, abandonando a universidade e partindo para a Índia à procura de um Deus que dê sentido à sua vida. Encontra então o guru de uma obscura seita e fica completamente “enfeitiçada”. Mas os pais, recorrendo à chantagem afectiva, conseguem trazê-la de volta e submetem-na a um tratamento de choque ás moas de um renomeado 2desprogramador” norte-americano, uma espécie de exorcista dos tempos modernos, especialista em recuperar vítimas de charlatães religiosos.Inicia-se então num sufocante confronto entre a jovem Ruth e esse homem muito mais velho do que ela – e aquilo que começa como uma luta espiritual sobre a essência da fé rapidamente se transforma numa perturbadora história de obsessão sexual.

53. Deception Point by Dan Brown

When a new NASA satellite spots evidence of an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory… a victory that has profound implications for U.S. space policy and the impending presidential election.
With the Oval Office in the balance, the President dispatches White House Intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton to the Milne Ice Shelf to verify the authenticity of the find. Accompanied by a team of experts, including the charismatic academic Michael Tolland, Rachel uncovers the unthinkable—evidence of scientific trickery—a bold deception that threatens to plunge the world into controversy.
But before Rachel can contact the President, she and Michael are attacked by a deadly task force…a private team of assassins controlled by a mysterious powerbroker who will stop at nothing to hide the truth. Fleeing for their lives in an environment as desolate as it is lethal, they possess only one hope for survival: to find out who is behind this masterful ploy. The truth, they will learn, is the most shocking deception of all…
In his most thrilling novel to date, bestselling author Dan Brown transports readers from the ultra-secret National Reconnaissance Office to the towering ice shelves of the Arctic Circle, and back again to the hallways of power inside the West Wing. Heralded for masterfully intermingling science, history, and politics in his critically acclaimed thriller Angels & Demons, Brown has crafted another novel in which nothing is as it seems—and behind every corner is a stunning surprise. DECEPTION POINT is pulse-pounding fiction at its best.