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Books on My Bookshelf That You Should Be Dying to Read (Updated 6/26/26)
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items A trip through my bookshelves. Romance, horror, thriller picks.
Sections
6
Horror
Thriller
Literary Fiction
Contemporary Fiction
TBR
Romantasy
Horror
Bite, Brains, and no emotional safety railings.
The fictional monsters give historical horror a visible face.
Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark
Even the undead know better to underestimate women with casseroles and unresolved rage.
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
A creepy estate that needs an emotional exorcist.
Hazelthorn by C.G. Drews
The workplace got weird and white people made it worse.
The Other Black Girl | Book by Zakiya Dalila Harris | Official Publisher Page
Should come with a trigger warning. But it was a pleasurable read nonetheless.
Tender Is the Flesh - by Agustina Bazterrica
I really loved both this and Hazelthorn.
Don't Let the Forest In - by CG Drews
Gen X “I Know What You Did Last Summer”. Flannel, grunge rock, and unreliable narrators. Like high school in the 90s.
Head Like a Hole - by Andrew Van Wey
Every member of The House, the most exclusive sorority on campus, and all its alumnae, are beautiful, high-achieving, and universally respected.
After a freshman year she would rather forget, sophomore Nina Kaur knows being one of the chosen few acc...
Girl Dinner
Thriller
Edge of your seat surprises where no one would dare look for them.
Family secrets dont stay buried, but they are emotionally exhausting.
Love, Mom by Iliana Xander
Disappearing black girls and the only one willing to do anything is a woman returning to her hometown.
Review: Jackal - Erin A. Adams
Literary Fiction
Stories with mood, meaning, complicated people, and emotions.
Literary gut punch about domestic unhappiness curdling into murder.
The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg
Included in this volume is a selection from a remarkable series of letters between Leopold von Sacher-Masoch and Emilie Mataja, an aspiring writer, translated into English for the first time, and an extraordinary insight into the compulsive imaginati...
Venus in Furs (Penguin Classics)
Contemporary Fiction
Everything (almost!) Else.
Setting lives on fire with WiFi.
The List by Yomi Adegoke
Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and crazy—as in standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-strangers crazy. She is also Elsa’s best, and only, friend. At night Elsa takes refuge in her grandmoth...
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert to ease political tensions in Kingston, seven gunmen stormed the singer's house, machine guns blazing. The attack woun...
A Brief History of Seven Killings (Booker Prize Winner) - by Marlon James
TBR
Books that I have that I’m dying to read.
I’ve been trying to read this since it started as Harry Potter fan fic on AO3. I never got to, but now I get to read it as a whole new story.
Alchemised - by Senlinyu (Hardcover)
Romantasy
Stories with magic, longing, dangerous worlds, impossible choices, and love interests who are probably bad news.
After a lifetime of bounties and bloodshed, Viv is hanging up her sword for the last time.
The battle-weary orc aims to start fresh, opening the first ever coffee shop in the city of Thune. But old and new rivals stand in the way of success—not to m...
Legends & Lattes