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items this is my bookANABLE list hope yall like it. Check out my books recs Part 2 after this one ❤️ Books are little portals to other worlds. They smell like magic, feel like comfort, and speak straight to your soul. One page in, and suddenly you’re anywh...
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This is a list of books I really like but don't really have a category to put them under. Anyways add them to your to-read list because I promise you they are amazing!
Best friends b and Rang are all each other have. Their parents are absent, their teachers avert their eyes when they walk by. Everyone else in town acts like they live in Seoul even though it's painfully obvious they don’t. When Rang begins to be bul...
b, Book, and Kim, Sagwa
Frances is a coolheaded and darkly observant young woman, vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Her best friend is the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi. At a local poetry performance one night, they meet a well-kn...
Conversations With Friends | Sally Rooney
What would you do if you could travel back in time? Discover the internationally bestselling novels of Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, now a worldwide phenomenon and BookTok sensation, in this special new box set. Step insid...
BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD - Toshikazu Kawaguchi
As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how sp...
Never Let Me Go: Ishiguro, Kazuo
Amid a violent student uprising in South Korea, a young boy named Dong-ho is shockingly killed. The story of this tragic episode unfolds in a sequence of interconnected chapters as the victims and the bereaved encounter suppression, denial, and the e...
Human Acts| Han Kang
An absentee father collects his son from boarding school after a shocking act of violence. A nanny to a celebrity family hides out in Laurel Canyon in the aftermath of a tabloid scandal. A young woman sells her underwear to strangers. A notorious gue...
Daddy: Stories| Emma Cline
NOW THE ACCLAIMED HBO SERIES GAME OF THRONES—THE MASTERPIECE THAT BECAME A CULTURAL PHENOMENON
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire #1)|Paperback
On a planet where men are contained in ghettoised isolation, women enjoy the fruits of a queer matriarchal utopia -- until a boy escapes and a young woman's perception of the world is violently interupted. Two old friends enjoy cocktails on a holiday...
Terminal Boredom: Stories a book by Izumi Suzuki, Polly Barton, Sam Bett, et al.
Incisive, controversial and startlingly funny, The Rules of Attraction examines a group of affluent students at a small, self-consciously bohemian, liberal-arts college on America’s East Coast. Lauren, who changes the man in her bed even more often t...
The Rules of Attraction a book by Bret Easton Ellis.
Margot is the child of renowned musicians and the product of a particularly punky upbringing. Burnt-out from the burden of expectation and the bad end of the worst relationship yet, she leaves New York and heads to Montana. She's seeking to escape bo...
I Fear My Pain Interests You: A Novel a book by Stephanie LaCava.
Ambition will fuel him. Competition will drive him. But power has its price. It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory a...
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (A Hunger Games Novel) a book by Suzanne Collins.
'Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice' Gabriel García Márquez's great masterpiece is the story of seven generations of the Buendía fa...
One Hundred Years Of Solitude a book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Gregory Rabassa.
A young woman is in love with a successful surgeon: a man torn between his love for her and his womanising. His mistress, a free-spirited artist, lives her life as a series of betrayals, while her other lover stands to lose everything because of his ...
The Unbearable Lightness of Being: 'A dark and brilliant achievement' (Ian McEwan) a book by Milan Kundera and Michael Henry Heim.
Joana, a young woman very much in the mode of existential contemporaries like Camus and Sartre, ponders the meaning of life, the freedom to be one's self, and the purpose of existence. Near to the Wild Heart does not have a conventional narrative plo...
Near to the Wild Heart a book by Clarice Lispector and Alison Entrekin.
A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the autumn evenings, escape the typhoon rains, share meals in small cafes and restaurants, and visit galleries to see some of the city’s most radical modern...
Cold Enough for Snow a book by Jessica Au.
'I wonder what I have to do for people to recognise me as a threat. Do I have to smash a glass over the head of every single man I come into contact with, just so I leave a mark?' Irina takes erotic photos of average-looking men. Always behind the le...
Boy Parts: A Novel|Paperback
She's human in every way that matters. Annie is the perfect girlfriend. She has dinner ready for Doug every night, wears the outfits he buys for her, and caters to his every sexual whim. Maybe her cleaning isn’t always good enough, but she’s trying r...
Annie Bot a book by Sierra Greer.
The English-language debut of one of Japan's most exciting new writers, The Factory follows three workers at a sprawling industrial factory. Each worker focuses intently on the specific task they've been assigned: one shreds paper, one proofreads doc...
The Factory|Paperback
Like an elegantly chilling postscript to The Metamorphosis, this classic of postwar Japanese literature describes a bizarre physical transformation that exposes the duplicities of an entire world. The narrator is a scientist hideously deformed in a l...
The Face of Another|Paperback
he demands of human longing contend with the weight of centuries of custom in acclaimed author Ha Jin’s Waiting, a novel of unexpected richness and universal resonance. Every summer Lin Kong, a doctor in the Chinese Army, returns to his village to en...
Waiting|Paperback
Could you write what you write if you weren’t so tiny, Joan? —Eve Babitz, in a letter to Joan Didion, 1972 Eve Babitz died on December 17, 2021. Found in the wrack, ruin, and filth of her apartment, a stack of boxes packed by her mother decades befor...
Didion and Babitz|Hardcover
Ren Yu is a swimmer. Her daily life starts and ends with the pool. Her teammates are her only friends. Her coach is her guiding light. If she swims well enough, she will be scouted, get a scholarship, go to a good school. Her parents will love her. H...
Chlorine: A Novel|Paperback
Jane Dorner has two modes: PR Jane, twenty-five, chummy, and eager to sell you a feminist vibrator or a self-care/bereavement subscription box; and Actual Jane, twenty-nine, drifting through mediocre workdays and lackluster dates while paralyzed by h...
The Glow: A Novel|Paperback
It is the fall of 1995 at Rocky Barrens University, hidden amidst the pine trees and starry skies of Northern Ontario. Aurelle Taylor, daughter of a world-famous fashion designer becomes the closest friend of burgeoning painter Diana Martin; they hav...
Stargazer|Paperback
A funny, transporting, surprising, and poignant novel that was one of the highest-selling debuts of recent years in Korea, Love in the Big City tells the story of a young gay man searching for happiness in the lonely city of Seoul Love in the Big Cit...
Love in the Big City|Paperback
Sayaka Murata has proven herself to be one of the most exciting chroniclers of the strangeness of society, x-raying our contemporary world to bizarre and troubling effect. Her depictions of a happily unmarried retail worker in Convenience Store Woman...
Vanishing World|Hardcover
Remy and Alicia, a couple of insecure service workers, are not particularly happy together. But they are bound by a shared obsession with Jen, a beautiful former co-worker of Remy’s who now seems to be following her bliss as a globe-trotting jewelry ...
A Touch of Jen|Paperback
Girl Hysteria
“I can fix her” lol MY FAV girl rage books drama, anger, obsession, revenge etc. I support female rage always & forever
Crystal toils day and night to earn top grades at her cram school. She’s also endlessly texting, shopping, drinking, vexing her boyfriends, cranking up her mp3s, and fantasizing about her next slice of cheesecake. Her non- stop frenzy never quite man...
Mina: Sagwa, Kim
The phenomenon that waltzed right into Hollywood, it's the dark and twisted story of a married couple marred by deceipt and duplicitousness. As pressure mounts and you triple-question what's really going on, the ending will leave you short of breath....
Gone Girl: Flynn, Gillian
Celebrated by critics around the world, The Vegetarian is a darkly allegorical, Kafka-esque tale of power, obsession, and one woman’s struggle to break free from the violence both without and within her.
The Vegetarian - Han Kang
One day, the mother was a mother, but then one night, she was quite suddenly something else...
Nightbitch: A Novel| Rachel Yoder
A 29-year-old copywriter realizes that beauty is possible—at a terrible cost—in this surreal, satirical send-up of NYC It-girl culture.
youthjuice| E. K. Sathue
Bieker, author of B&N Monthly Fiction pick Godshot, stunned us with a twists-and-turns story of mothers and family, trauma and survival, truth and lies. This is White Oleander for a new generation
Madwoman| Chalsea Bieker
Snow White meets Eyes Wide Shut in this surreal descent into the dark side of beauty, envy, grief, and the complicated love between mothers and daughters. With black humor and seductive horror, Rouge explores the cult-like nature of the beauty indust...
Rouge: A Novel| Mona Awad
Through the fictional clique of the Bunnies, Awad offers a candid and barbed portrait of the nuances of femininity and societal expectations forced onto women. With dynamic characters and an ever-twisting plot, this is a masterpiece just waiting to b...
Bunny: A Novel| Mona Awad
Filled with her signature dark humor, Mona Awad's All's Well is a biting, surrealist satire of love, loss, female pain — and Shakespeare!
All's Well: A Novel| Mona Awad
The Woman in the Purple Skirt is being watched. Someone is following her, always perched just out of sight, monitoring which buses she takes; what she eats; whom she speaks to. But this invisible observer isn't a stalker - it's much more complicated ...
The Woman in the Purple Skirt a book by Natsuko Imamura and Lucy North.
In South Korea, where impossible beauty standards and ruthless social hierarchies dictate your every move, four women are balancing on a razor's edge: Kyuri, a beautiful 'room salon' girl paid to entertain wealthy businessmen after hours. Miho, an ar...
If I Had Your Face: 'Assured, bold, and electrifying' Taylor Jenkins Reid, bestselling author of MALIBU RISING a book by Frances Cha.
It’s as if her life only began once Moon appeared in it. The desultory copywriting work, the boyfriend, and the want of anything not-Moon quickly fall away when she beholds the idol in concert, where Moon dances as if his movements are creating their...
Y/N: A novel a book by Esther Yi.
Patricia Campbell’s life has never felt smaller. Her husband is a workaholic, her teenage kids have their own lives, her senile mother-in-law needs constant care, and she’s always a step behind on her endless to-do list. The only thing keeping her sa...
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires: A Novel a book by Grady Hendrix.
A dark, shimmering slice into womanhood, Her Body and Other Parties is wicked and exquisite.
Her Body And Other Parties a book by Carmen Maria Machado.
A provocative, razor-sharp, and timely novel about a beloved English professor facing a slew of accusations against her husband from his former students – a situation that becomes more complicated when she herself develops an obsession of her own . ....
Vladimir a book by Julia May Jonas.
Dorothy Daniels has always had a voracious - and adventurous - appetite. From her idyllic farm-to-table childhood (homegrown tomatoes, thick slices of freshly baked bread) to the heights of her career as a food critic (white truffles washed down with...
A Certain Hunger a book by Chelsea G. Summers.
While on her daily walk with her dog in the woods near her home, Vesta comes across a chilling handwritten note. Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn't me. Here is her dead body. Shaky even on her best days, Vesta is also...
Death in Her Hands a book by Ottessa Moshfegh.
“Maybe I was just crazy. Maybe it was the 60’s. Or maybe I was just a girl… interrupted.”
Girl, Interrupted: a book by Susanna Kaysen.
From the outside, she has an enviable life- a successful career, stunning looks, a beautiful house in the suburbs, two healthy children, and most importantly, an ideal husband. After fifteen years together, she is still besotted with him. But she's n...
My Husband a book by Maud Ventura and Emma Ramadan.
Trapped in her attic bedroom and isolated from her newborn baby, the nameless narrator of The Yellow Wallpaper keeps a secret diary in which she charts the sprawling patterns of the room’s lurid yellow wallpaper as she slowly sinks into madness. This...
The Yellow Wallpaper & Herland|Hardcover
Mary is a quiet, middle-aged woman doing her best to blend into the background. Unremarkable. Invisible. Unknown even to herself. But lately, things have been changing inside Mary. Along with the hot flashes and body aches, she can’t look in a mirror...
Mary: An Awakening of Terror|Paperback
A lean, taut novel about an artist—a painter—at the height of her career; about the art world; about love, fidelity, fame, betrayal and the prices paid in the quest for art for art's sake. Eve Laing, celebrated artist, once the muse of legendary pain...
Nightshade: A novel|Paperback
An exhilarating, provocative novel of motherhood in extremis Tiny is pregnant. Her husband is delighted. “You think this baby is going to be like you, but it’s not like you at all,” she warns him. “This baby is an owl-baby.” When Chouette is born sma...
Chouette|Paperback
Jessamyn St. Germain is meant to be a star. Not an actor who occasionally books yogurt commercials and certainly not a lowly usher at one of Vancouver’s smallest regional theaters. No, she is bound for greatness, and that’s why the part of Maria in t...
She's a Lamb!: A Novel|Paperback
It's 2005 and Alexa wants to be famous. Alexa Valentine came to LA to be an actress, what she found was something far darker. As her ambition grows insatiable, so does the shadow inside her, demanding blood for glory. In a story of fame, debauchery, ...
We All Rot Eventually: A horror novella
Dark Academia
One of my fav aesthetics, grab a cup of black coffee and read the book below
A classic among the dark academia genre, The Secret History is a captivating thriller about a group of college students who slowly lose their morality as they search to transcend the triviality of their own lives. Tartt’s writing is lyrically hauntin...
The Secret History | Donna Tartt
A supremely sarcastic sorceress, and supposed harbinger of death, does her best to survive and thrive in this first book in the Scholomance series. Novik maintains her stunning world-building and intriguing characters with this first-in-class novel, ...
A Deadly Education (Scholomance Series #1)|Paperback
A dark academia standalone that dives into the power of language and evils of imperialism, student revolutions, and colonial resistance. Babel swirls with magic, lore, and Kuang’s signature attention to detail.
Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution|Paperback
Acclaimed author R.F. Kuang journeys into the depths of the underworld in her latest fantasy swirling with dark academia vibes in this gripping tour de force. This is perfect for fans of Olivie Blake and Leigh Bardugo.
Katabasis (Deluxe Limited Edition): A Novel|Hardcover
Much like Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, M. L. Rio’s sparkling debut is a richly layered story of love, friendship, and obsession...will keep you riveted through its final, electrifying moments
If We Were Villains: A Novel|Paperback
Leigh Bardugo’s Ninth House is a dark academia novel packed with murder, mystery, and ghosts. When Alex Stern, who has the uncanny talent to communicate with the dead, is offered a spot in Yale’s incoming freshmen class, she’s more than skeptical of ...
Ninth House|Paperback
The opening salvo of this epic fantasy series introduces readers to a compelling cast of characters rich with complexities and flaws. With a deep connection to dark academia, this tale of ambition and survival perfectly positions itself for a sprawli...
The Atlas Six (B&N Exclusive Edition)|BN Exclusive
Once Upon a Time meets Pretty Little Liars in this queer, dark academia story about four reimagined fairy tale heroines who must uncover their ancient curses before it's too late. After the mysterious death of their best friend, Ella, Yuki, and Rory ...
The Grimrose Girls|Paperback
Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue never sees them—until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks to her.His name is Gansey, a rich student at Aglionby, the local privat...
The Raven Boys (Raven Cycle Series #1)|Paperback
Allie's world is falling apart... She hates her school. Her brother has run away. She's just been arrested. Again. And now her parents are sending her away. But instead of hating boarding school, Allie is happy. She's making friends. And there's Cart...
Night School by C. J. Daugherty | Waterstones
Love and loyalty run deeper than blood. St. Vladimir’s Academy isn’t just any boarding school—it’s a hidden place where vampires are educated in the ways of magic and half-human teens train to protect them. Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, a bodyguard for...
Vampire Academy (Vampire Academy Series #1)|Paperback
at first glance, the sisters of ultra-exclusive Kappa Rho Nu—the Ravens—seem like typical sorority girls. Ambitious, beautiful, and smart, they’re the most powerful girls on Westerly College’s Savannah, Georgia, campus. But the Ravens aren’t just reg...
The Ravens|Paperback
Sumptuous and addictive, An Education in Malice is a dark academia tale of blood, secrets and insatiable hungers from S.T. Gibson, author of the cult hit A Dowry of Blood. Deep in the forgotten hills of Massachusetts stands Saint Perpetua’s College. ...
An Education in Malice|Paperback
Ten years ago, four students lost their lives in the infamous unsolved North Tower murders at the elite Carvell Academy of the Arts, forcing the school to close its doors. Now Carvell is reopening, and fearless freshman Lottie Fitzwilliam is determ...
The Society for Soulless Girls|Paperback
Effy Sayre has always believed in fairy tales. Haunted by visions of the Fairy King since childhood, she’s had no choice. Her tattered copy of Angharad—Emrys Myrddin’s epic about a mortal girl who falls in love with the Fairy King, then destroys him—...
A Study in Drowning|Hardcover
We were always The Four. From our very first day at High Realms. The four scholarship pupils. Outsiders in a world of power and privilege. And, according to everyone else, we were dangerous. It would have made our lives a lot easier if Marta had simp...
The Four: A Novel|Paperback
Edinburgh, Scotland: a moody city of labyrinthine alleyways, oppressive fog, and buried history; the ultimate destination for someone with something to hide. Perfect for Clare, then, who arrives utterly alone and yearning to reinvent herself. And wha...
The Things We Do to Our Friends: A Novel|Paperback
For 150 years, high above rocky Scottish cliffs, Caldonbrae Hall has sat untouched, a beacon of excellence in an old ancestral castle. A boarding school for girls, it promises that the young women lucky enough to be admitted will emerge "resilient an...
Madam: A Novel|Paperback
A beguiling, sinister collection of 12 dark academia short stories from masters of the genre, including Olivie Blake, M.L. Rio, Susie Yang and more! In these stories, dear student, retribution visits a lothario lecturer; the sinister truth is reveale...
In These Hallowed Halls: A Dark Academia anthology|Paperback
Self care books
My favorite self care books for everyone who wants to heal or work on themselves
A timeless business classic, Who Moved My Cheese? uses a simple parable to reveal profound truths about dealing with change so that you can enjoy less stress and more success in your work and in your life.
Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life|Hardcover
Thoughtful and easy to understand, James Clear’s Atomic Habits is a must for anyone trying to change their productivity. This simple guide will help create a strong foundation for building good habits and make it easy to say goodbye to bad habits for...
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones|Hardcover
The title says it all. This is a book that has been helping people maximize their potential for decades. It’s a how-to guide to success across disciplines. There’s not a soul alive who couldn’t learn something from Dale Carnegie.
How to Win Friends and Influence People|Paperback
Don’t let the daunting title scare you off. Greene is essentially magic when it comes to making big subjects approachable. In Laws of Human Nature, he pulls from some of the most influential people in history to outline why people do what they do.
The Laws of Human Nature|Paperback
Put challenges in perspective, reduce stress and anxiety through small daily changes, and find the path to achieving your goals with this groundbreaking inspirational guide—a self-help classic.
Don't Sweat the Small Stuff . . . and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life|Paperback
Increasing your mental strength can change your entire attitude. It takes practice and hard work, but with Morin's specific tips, exercises, and troubleshooting advice, it is possible to not only fortify your mental muscle but also drastically improv...
13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do: Take Back Your Power, Embrace Change, Face Your Fears, and Train Your Brain for Happiness and Success|Paperback
Becoming Supernatural draws on epigenetics, quantum physics & neuroscience research conducted at his advanced workshops since 2012 to explore how common people are doing the uncommon to transform their consciousness, mindset, and beliefs to heal ...
Becoming Supernatural: How Common People Are Doing the Uncommon|Paperback
This book is here to help you recondition yourself into a brand new you. Equal parts scientific insights and actionable steps, it’s perfect for anyone stuck in their usual rut, desperate to break out.
Breaking The Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One|Paperback
The truth is that it happens more often than you might expect. In You Are the Placebo, best-selling author, international speaker, chiropractor, and renowned researcher of epigenetics, quantum physics, & neuroscience, Dr. Joe Dispenza shares nume...
You Are the Placebo: Making Your Mind Matter|Paperback
housands of books have been written about the latest and greatest diets that will help people lose weight and improve health. But a key element in any successful nutritional health program is a tried-and-true method that most people haven’t thought a...
Complete Guide To Fasting: Heal Your Body Through Intermittent, Alternate-Day, and Extended Fasting|Paperback
Getting rich is not just about luck; happiness is not just a trait we are born with. These aspirations may seem out of reach, but building wealth and being happy are skills we can learn. So what are these skills, and how do we learn them? What are th...
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness|eBook
If you’re tired of caring too much about things that just aren’t worth it, look no futher. The unapologetic and in-your-face Mark Manson is here to help you find real happiness, as opposed to pretending to be happy; to focus on the what you should ca...
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life|Hardcover
Sad books
sad core books
A deeply profound, moving and emotional work that examines the intimate ties between families bound by choice rather than blood. This is a heartbreaking story sure to be solidified as a modern classic — you'll want to keep the tissues close by.
A Little Life|Paperback
California's fertile Salinas Valley is home to two families whose destinies are fruitfully, and fatally, intertwined. Over the generations, between the beginning of the twentieth century and the end of the First World War, the Trasks and the Hamilton...
East of Eden a book by John Steinbeck.
Classics I devour
These are the classics but my fav ones
The story of an introverted young man coming of age in the 60's, which should provide plenty of context already. With the help of his first love, he breaks free of his reservedness and finds himself. If you've loved anything by Murakami, know that th...
Norwegian Wood - Murakami, Haruki
Pushkin's incomparable poem has at its center a young Russian dandy much like Pushkin in his attitudes and habits. Eugene Onegin, bored with the triviality of everyday life, takes a trip to the countryside, where he encounters the young and passionat...
Eugene Onegin : Alexanger Pushkin
The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or a pr...
The Trial: Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka’s 1915 novella of unexplained horror and nightmarish transformation became a worldwide classic and remains a century later one of the most widely read works of fiction in the world. It is the story of traveling salesman Gregor Samsa, who ...
The Metamorphosis: Franz Kafka
Arriving in a village to take up the position of land surveyor for the mysterious lord of a castle, the character known as K. finds himself in a bitter and baffling struggle to contact his new employer and go about his duties.
The Castle: Franz Kafka
Handsome young Dorian Gray sees a painter’s stunning portrait of him and becomes transfixed by his own beauty. Troubled by the knowledge that the painting will remain handsome while he himself will wither, Dorian exchanges his soul for eternal youth....
The Picture of Dorian Gray : Oscar Wilde
When Nick Carraway moves to West Egg, Long Island, he has no idea that the lavishly outfitted mansion next to his modest house is home to Jay Gatsby. Eventually, Nick becomes aware of Gatsby’s intense interest in his cousin Daisy Buchanan, and when D...
The Great Gatsby| F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
One of the most profound character portraits of mental illness, The Bell Jar tells the story of a brilliant young artist who is losing her mind. Grappling with themes of feminism, societal pressures, and ambition, this is a deep dive into a mind capa...
The Bell Jar : Sylvia Plath
It recounts the story of Sheikh Nuruddin, a dervish residing in an Islamic monastery in Sarajevo in the eighteenth century during the Ottoman Turk hegemony over the Balkans. When his brother is arrested, he must descend into the Kafkaesque world of t...
Death and the Dervish| Mesa Selimovic
A national bestseller, Dictionary of the Khazars was cited by The New York Times Book Review as one of the best books of the year. Written in two versions, male and female (both available in Vintage International), which are identical save for sevent...
Dictionary of the Khazars | Milorad Pavic
Ahmet Shabo returns home to seventeenth-century Sarajevo from the war in Russia, numbed by the death in battle or suicide of nearly his entire military unit. In time he overcomes the anguish of war, only to find that he has emerged a reflective and c...
The Fortress: A Novel| Mesa Selimovic
At first sight Harry Haller seems a respectable, educated man. In reality he is the Steppenwolf: wild, strange, alienated from society and repulsed by the modern age. But as he is drawn into a series of dreamlike and sometimes savage encounters - acc...
Steppenwolf a book by Hermann Hesse and David Horrocks.
Crime and Punishment is one of the greatest and most readable novels ever written. From the beginning we are locked into the frenzied consciousness of Raskolnikov who, against his better instincts, is inexorably drawn to commit a brutal double murder...
Crime and Punishment: a book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Dr Keith
'I am a sick person. I am a spiteful person. An unattractive person, too . . .' In the depths of a cellar in St. Petersburg, a retired civil servant spews forth a passionate and furious note on the ills of society. The underground man's manifesto rev...
Notes From Underground a book by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Natasha Randall.
May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then' Wuthering Heights is the tale of two families both joined and riven by love and hate. Cathy is a beautiful and wilful young woman torn between her soft-hearted husband ...
Wuthering Heights (Vintage Classics Bronte Series) a book by Emily Bronte.
Across two parallel narratives, Murakami draws readers into a mind-bending universe in which Lauren Bacall, Bob Dylan, a split-brained data processor, a deranged scientist, his shockingly undemure granddaughter, and various thugs, librarians, and sub...
End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland: A New Translation|Hardcover
Girlhood
Basically books about girlhood
When sixty-nine-year-old So-nyo is separated from her husband among the crowds of the Seoul subway station, her family begins a desperate search to find her. Yet as long-held secrets and private sorrows begin to reveal themselves, they are forced to ...
Please Look After Mom : Kyungsook Shin
One of the most notable novels of the year, hailed by both critics and K-pop stars alike, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 follows one woman’s psychic deterioration in the face of rampant misogyny. In a tidy apartment on the outskirts of Seoul, millennial “eve...
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982: A Novel - Cho Namjoo
A legendary love letter to Los Angeles by the city's most charming daughter, complete with portraits of rock stars at Chateau Marmont, surfers in Santa Monica, prostitutes on sunset, and Eve's own beloved cat, Rosie.
Eve's Hollywood | Eve Babitz
Sophie and Lola, like the many other women who move in and out of this electric saga know that while L.A. is constantly changing it is essentially eternal; through their eyes we see the mixture of high culture and low, the promises of youth and the f...
L.A. Woman | Eve Babitz
A stylish, uncommonly clever novel about the things we want and the things we think we want, Piglet is both an examination of women’s often complicated relationship with food and a celebration of the messes life sometimes makes for us.
Piglet: A Novel| Lottie Hazell
An indelible portrait of girls, the women they become, and that moment in life when everything can go horribly wrong
The Girls| Emma Cline
I Who Have Never Known Men is a post-apocalyptic novel that has cemented itself as a classic of feminist literature. See the desolate world through the eyes of a young woman on her journey through entrapment and survival. Eerie and haunting, this is ...
I Who Have Never Known Men| Jacqueline Harpman
A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor—including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother—and how she retook co...
I'm Glad My Mom Died|Hardcover
A beguiling debut novel about friendship and failure
The Last Sane Woman: A Novel|Paperback
Ji-won's life is in disarray. Her father's affair has ripped her family to shreds, leaving her to piece their crappy lives back together. So, when her mother's obnoxious new white boyfriend enters the scene, bragging about his flawed knowledge of Kor...
The Eyes Are The Best Part: The Sunday Times bestselling 'good for her' novel a book by Monika Kim.
Charlotte Davis is in pieces. At seventeen she’s already lost more than most people do in a lifetime. But she’s learned how to forget. The broken glass washes away the sorrow until there is nothing but calm. You don’t have to think about your father ...
Girl in Pieces|Paperback
When Daphne arrives in Berlin, the last thing she expects is to run into more drama than she left behind. Of course, she knew she'd need to do the usual: make friends, acquire lovers, grapple with German and a whole new way of life. She even expected...
Berlin: A Novel|Paperback
In this razor-sharp, diabolical debut thriller, a young woman steps into her deceased twin’s influencer life, only to discover dark secrets hidden behind her social media façade. Julie Chan has nothing. Her twin sister has everything. Except a pulse....
Julie Chan Is Dead: A Novel|Hardcover
Dark psychology
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A fascinating exploration of a subtle, often overlooked power, The Art of Seduction gives readers the tools (and/or weapons) needed to wield that power. It’s kind of like The Art of War, but with persuasion instead of killing.
The Art of Seduction|Paperback
Do you feel like you are just a pawn in someone else' chess game? Are you tired of being manipulated at every turn? Would you like to be able to detect and discern genuine emotions in others so that you can protect yourself from being emotionally abu...
Dark Psychology: The Practical Uses and Best Defenses of Psychological Warfare in Everyday Life - How to Detect and Defend Against Manipulation, Deception, Dark Persuasion, and Covert NLP|eBook
The Prince shocked Europe on publication with its advocacy of ruthless tactics for gaining absolute power and its abandonment of conventional morality. Niccoló Machiavelli drew on his own experience of office under the turbulent Florentine republic, ...
The Prince|Paperback
Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this multi-million-copy New York Times bestseller is the definitive manual for anyone interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control – from the author of The Laws of Human Nature. T...
The 48 Laws of Power|Paperback
From the master of understanding and attaining power comes a study of mastery and how to become one. If you want to excel in your field, look at others who have done so before you. Mastery has all that and more.
Mastery|Paperback
One of the best-known motivational guides in history, Dale Carnegie’s groundbreaking book has sold tens of millions of copies, been translated into almost every known language, and has helped countless people succeed. Originally published during the ...
How to Win Friends and Influence People|Paperback
Romance books
Some of these are romance books some are almost there ? lol
Normal People is a poignant and deeply moving story about identity, friendship, and young love. Rooney perfectly captures the loneliness of growing up and the desire to feel understood by peers. Every reader will see a bit of themselves in the vulner...
Normal People | Sally Rooney
In no other work does Franz Kafka reveal himself as in Letters to Milena, which begins as a business correspondence but soon develops into an epistolary love affair. Kafka's Czech translator, Milena Jesenská, was a gifted and charismatic twenty-three...
Letters to Milena| Franz Kafka
We all caught the Sally Rooney bug with her stunning debut Conversations with Friends — now we’re ready to fall in love all over again. Intermezzo absolutely soars with complicated relationships (romantic and familial) and the signature writing we ca...
Intermezzo: A Novel| Sally Rooney
The year is 1926, and Shanghai hums to the tune of debauchery. A blood feud between two gangs runs the streets red, leaving the city helpless in the grip of chaos. At the heart of it all is eighteen-year-old Juliette Cai, a former flapper who has ret...
These Violent Delights|Paperback
“Every decent friendship comes with a drop of hatred. But that hatred is like honey in the tea. It makes it addictive.” Charismatic Marie Antoine is the daughter of the richest man in 19th century Montreal. She has everything she wants, except for a ...
When We Lost Our Heads: A Novel|Paperback
A heartfelt novel about love and loss and what it means to say goodbye. Seventeen-year-old Julie Clarke has her future all planned out—move out of her small town with her boyfriend Sam, attend college in the city; spend a summer in Japan. But then Sa...
You've Reached Sam: A Novel|Paperback
If he had been with me, everything would have been different… Autumn and Finn used to be inseparable. But then something changed. Or they changed. Now, they do their best to ignore each other. Autumn has her boyfriend Jamie, and her close-knit group ...
If He Had Been with Me|Paperback
wo best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love. Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, eve...
People We Meet on Vacation|Paperback
Greek mythology
The title says it, it's not straight up Greek mythology but based on
A journey to self-discovery of epic proportions, Circe is a retelling from the queen of mythology herself: Madeline Miller. A lyrical, action-packed dive into the origin of an unforgettable and unparalleled woman, Circe cements herself in the pantheo...
Circe: Miller, Madeline
How do you describe a book that absolutely and undeniably changed you? Miller’s retelling of The Iliad draws attention to Achilles the man rather than the hero, looking at his intimate relationship with the tragic figure Patroclus. The story of The S...
The Song of Achilles | Madeline Miller
All time favorite books
You don't just read these books, you read them and think about them for a month
A scary look into a society where free thought is punishable. Disturbing and thought-provoking, 1984 warns us of the dangerous possibilities of what would happen if everyone became completely submissive to the state. Remember, Big Brother is always w...
1984
: George Orwell
Set in the religious patriarchy of Gilead, The Handmaid's Tale is a haunting narrative of what America could be. As the threat of Gilead looms ever closer, this seems less like a dystopian novel and more like a prescient warning. Read it before you l...
The Handmaid's Tale | Margaret Atwood
More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically...
The Testaments: A Novel| Margaret Atwood
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland lif...
Fahrenheit 451: Ray Bradbury
In this gloriously over-the-top tale, Aoyama, a widower who has lived alone with his son ever since his wife died seven years before, finally decides it is time to remarry. Since Aoyama is a bit rusty when it comes to dating, a filmmaker friend propo...
Audition: Murakami, Ryu
apvona flips all the conventions of familial and parental relations, putting hatred where love should be or a negotiation where grief should be . . . Through a mix of witchery, deception, murder, abuse, grand delusion, ludicrous conversations, and cr...
Lapvona| Ottessa Moshfegh
'If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but...
The Catcher in the Rye a book by J. D. Salinger.
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is abandoned on the filthy streets of eighteenth-century Paris as a baby, but grows up to discover he has an extraordinary gift: a sense of smell more powerful than any other human's. Gradually he learns how to exploit this g...
Perfume a book by Patrick Suskind.
Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined lo...
Brave New World: Special 3D Edition a book by Aldous Huxley.
I like to dissect girls. Did you know I’m utterly insane? Patrick Bateman has it all: good looks, youth, charm, a job on Wall Street, and reservations at every new restaurant in town. He is also a psychopath. A man addicted to his superficial, perfec...
American Psycho a book by Bret Easton Ellis.
No Longer Human is the story of Yozo Oba, who, from early childhood, finds it impossible to form meaningful relationships with family or friends. As a child he copes by acting the fool—mocking himself while entertaining others. As an adult he turns t...
No Longer Human a book by Osamu Dazai
The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo. A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls ...
1Q84|Paperback
Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates w...
The Goldfinch (Pulitzer Prize Winner)|Paperback