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My library of curated reads
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items Reading introduces me to new places and new experiences and lives. I get to immerse myself in this whole alternate reality that is far from mine and sometimes very similar. Books are my happy place and I hope you get to love these books the way I do.
Sections
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Mystery & Thriller
Comedy & Satire
Horror & Slasher
Mystery & Thriller
Classic whodunnits and bone chilling thrillers
The best YA dark academia thriller I've ever read. It's engaging, it's thought provoking, and the big reveal is jaw dropping. This book gives off vibes that can be closely related to Get Out, Gossip Girl, and Pretty Little Liars, but my oh my it's so...
Ace of Spades
Also written by Faridah Abike. The writing was beautiful and brilliant the plot was top notch and the characters were so interesting and eccentric. The setting was so good and the way the surroundings were written into the story, you’d know that the ...
Where Sleeping Girls Lie
Bloodthirsty, brilliant, and exactly the kind of high-octane satire I like to read. Described as Ace of Spades meets Squid Games with a Sprinkling of The Bachelor. A group of female contestants are competing in a game called "The Finish" in which mos...
Their Vicious Games
The plot was described as mean girls meets dear white people. I loved the main characters Kitan and Iyana so much, they were great complex characters. The school vibes reminded of the drama that went on in boarding schools and it was fun to read. I l...
Everyone's Thinking It
Move aside, Nancy Drew! There's a new teen detective in town. Pip never truly believed what all of Fairview has accepted: that Sal Singh murdered his beautiful and popular girlfriend Andie Bell and then killed himself. Five years later, Pip is a seni...
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
The plot: Eighteen year old Red and her friends are on a road trip in an RV, heading to the beach for Spring Break. It’s a long drive but spirits are high. Until the RV breaks down in the middle of nowhere. There’s no mobile phone reception and nobod...
Five Survive
Five kids, one room, one mysterious death and endless possibilities. ((dun dun dunnnn)). One of Us Is Lying is the classic set-up for one of my favorite Mystery subgenres: the locked-room. Each chapter is told from the perspective of one of the suspe...
One of Us Is Lying
"The serial killer isn't on trial. He's on the jury...". Those lines alone got me hooked from the start. Thirteen follows conman-turned-attorney Eddie Flynn as he argues a case in defense of Hollywood “It Boy” Robert Soloman, who has been accused of ...
Thirteen
“No one is born evil. As Winnicott put it, “A baby cannot hate the mother, without the mother first hating the baby.” This book is definitely a page turner with a bizarre ending twist. The suspense builds as we learn about the people in Alicia's life...
The Silent Patient
A college reunion turns dark and deadly in this chilling and propulsive suspense novel about six friends, one unsolved murder, and the dark secrets they’ve been hiding from each other—and themselves—for a decade.
In My Dreams I Hold a Knife: A Novel
This was such a fun read because it has a really unique format. It follows a fictional true crime tv series so the book is written as a script. It also has graphs, pictures, newspaper articles, etc. So very visually fun! Cara Hunter plants you right ...
Murder in the Family by Cara Hunter
When sixteen-year-old Amy returns home, she can’t tell her family what’s happened to her. She can’t tell them where she’s been since she and her best friend, her cousin Dee, were kidnapped six years ago—who stole them from their families or what’s be...
Amy Chelsea Stacie Dee
Eve is the lone survivor of the slaughter of her family by a serial taunter, rapist, killer, and creep known as the The Nothing Man. He is still on the loose years after his crimes stopped and Eve seeks closure and justice, not just for herself but f...
The Nothing Man
Sydney has had terrible luck with dating. When she meets Dr. Tom Brewer, he seems too good to be true. Told in before and present day timelines, The Boyfriend is a suspense story that kept me guessing, with multiple theories, for the majority of the ...
The Boyfriend
Hannah, the MC, becomes obsessed with a serial killer after hearing about a few bodies that are found in the same area. She spends all her time on a forum researching the killings until it completely takes over her life and she loses everything else....
Love Letters to a Serial Killer
If you are looking for a darkly comic, entertaining book-this one might fit the bill! Gwen Turner recently broke up with her boyfriend and so she’s singlehandedly running the coffee shop that was supposed to be a joint business venture. She starts us...
Don't Swipe Right
Comedy & Satire
Romcoms, dark humor, contemporary romance
This was fun! I loved the Singapore setting and learning about Singapore culture and society. I had a blast following the MC, Samantha’s journey in trying to fit in with a class she has never belonged to. The characters were fun to follow, and I enjo...
The Fraud Squad
This book? This book is a wild ride, filled with clichés that you want to happen, but may or may not happen, living on the wild side, angst, and lots and lots of music! I absolutely loved this book. I loved the main character even though I could reco...
Ride or Die
This book really worked for me. It follows Nora, her girlfriend, and ex-boyfriend as they’re taken hostage during a bank robbery. The story goes between the present day story of the robbery and flashing back to Nora growing up as the daughter of a co...
The Girls I've Been
This book is a compilation of short stories and all the stories were 🤯🤯. I loved everything about this book! The quickness of each story.. the drama, the varied yet related nature of each story. I’ve laughed, teared up, gotten angry, screamed! Ever...
Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad
The author, Damilare Kuku, is a social commentator. There were many things addressed in this book, body dysmorphia being the main topic, but other things such as grief, friendship, sex, etc ( can’t name all of them so as not to spoil it). She’s one o...
Only Big Bumbum Matters Tomorrow: A Novel
A story about dysfunctional relationship between two sisters set in Nigeria. Korede is the elder sister, living under the shadow of her beautiful, selfish, murdering psycho of a younger sister, Ayoola, with men who flock towards her, finding her jus...
My Sister, the Serial Killer: A Novel
I loveeee the structural concept of this book matching stories to songs. Having listened to the playlist and read, I think they really fit well and was well executed. Sometimes I was just blown away by how much emotion could be packed into such short...
A Broken People's Playlist: Stories (from Songs)
Imogen, Obviously follows our certified heterosexual and biggest ally. When Imogen visits her friend Lili at the college she’ll be attending next year, she gets roped into pretending to be Lili’s ex-girlfriend… which means acting like she’s bi and ly...
Imogen, Obviously
Plot: In this sapphic dual POV Young Adult romance by Adiba Jaigirdar, Meghna and Rani (ex-best-friends-turned-rivals) realize they're dating the same guy, so they team up to beat and expose him at a big science competition! This story was a fun YA c...
Rani Choudhury Must Die by Adiba Jaigirdar
It had all my favourite things. Childhood best friends who become estranged by distance and miscommunications are forced to work together and even co-parent a cat. FOUR EIDS AND A FUNERAL was absolutely lovely, full of heart and humor, it had me root...
Four Eids and a Funeral
Snarky and romantic, I Hope This Doesn't Find You is Never Have I Ever meets To All the Boys if Lara Jean wrote hate emails instead of love letters. The author’s writing has a way of making you question if you can actually feel their emotions. Some o...
I Hope This Doesn't Find You
Words cannot describe how POWERFUL this is... and as somebody that doesn’t even practice Islam, I’m blessed that I got the opportunity to encounter this story. It’s raw love, it’s passion, it’s a true representation of a REAL relationship and honestl...
Broken: Not a halal love story
Horror & Slasher
Gore, Satire, Psychological, Sci-fi
Scary movie lover Noelle wanted to throw the best halloween party ever, but the scary clown she hired to play tag with her friends makes the game way too deadly. Now Noelle has to find a way out while her classmates drop like flies around her. The au...
There's No Way I'd Die First
Final Girls was brutal, violent, and wicked fun. It's about three girls, Quincy, Sam and Lisa, sole survivors of three separate murderous killing sprees but linked by their trauma. When Lisa dies mysteriously and Sam suddenly turns up on Quincy's doo...
Final Girls: A Novel
Alice is a horror movie enthusiast who (gasp) hates Halloween and anything remotely scary in real life. So she very begrudgingly attends a Halloween party, in a cornfield, on Halloween night with Claire, her big sister who she adores. And all of Alic...
How to Survive Your Murder
If you like psychological thrillers with cult elements, a serial killer, complicated family dynamics, and a protagonist who tries to seem perfect and happy on the outside while seething on the inside, then Tender Beasts is for you. I don't want to gi...
Tender Beasts
Out of Body is a Jordan Peele-esque YA thriller. Megan and LC, fast friends who decide to celebrate their three-month "friendsversary" with matching piercings. But things take a wild turn when they wake up after a night of partying... in each other's...
Out of Body