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BOOKS 📚 That Actually Changed the Way I View the World
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items No filler books, no overhyped flops, just pure, addictive storytelling. 📚 This list contains my absolute favorite five-star reads that completely command your attention from chapter one. Save this collection to your profile so your next incredible r...
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Books for romance lovers 🪩
Arguably Emily Henry’s absolute best work. It completely flips the 'cold city girl gets dumped for a small-town baker' trope on its head. It follows a fierce literary agent and a brilliant, moody editor who end up in the same tiny town. The banter is...
BOOK LOVERS (TARGET DELUXE EDITION) - by Emily Henry
If you ask romance readers to name their ultimate fictional book boyfriend, Ryan Shay from this book is always at the top of the list. He’s a grumpy, hyper-protective basketball player who takes in his teammate's bubbly sister as a roommate. The slow...
The Right Move - (Windy City) by Liz Tomforde (Paperback) - Target
The brilliant mind behind the Chestnut Springs series kicks off a brand new world with Emerald Lake. It delivers everything readers love about her books: a deeply layered, swoon-worthy hero, an incredibly strong heroine, high steam, and a small-town ...
Fever Dream Target Exclusive - by Elsie Silver (Paperback)
Tessa Bailey delivers a brilliant mix of a high-octane chase and laugh-out-loud romantic comedy. It’s spicy, quick-moving, and features a hero who falls first and falls hard. Perfect for anyone who wants a romance with a fast, exciting plot and a mas...
Catch Her If You Can - (Big Shots) by Tessa Bailey - Target
If you ask any romance reader to name the ultimate, undisputed king of fictional book boyfriends, 99% of them will say Noah Riley from this exact book. It's a college football romance that handles a devastating heartbreak with so much raw emotion, an...
Say You Swear - (Boys of Avix) by Meagan Brandy (Paperback)
Imagine writing draft emails unleashing all your unfiltered, angry thoughts about the people who annoy you especially your insufferable, brilliant academic rival and then waking up to find they were all accidentally sent. This book is an absolute mas...
I Hope This Doesn't Find You - by Ann Liang (Hardcover) - Target
you want a book that feels exactly like a classic 2000s romantic comedy movie, this is it. It follows Liz, who is obsessed with rom-coms, and her annoying next-door neighbor Wes, who agrees to help her fake-date him so she can get the attention of he...
Better Than the Movies (Collector's Edition) - by Lynn Painter ...
An extraordinarily beautiful romance with a touch of magic. Clementine's late aunt leaves her an apartment that exists seven years in the past and it currently houses a charming, struggling chef named Iwan from that timeline. It is a stunning, comfor...
The Seven Year Slip - by Ashley Poston (Paperback) - Target
If you want a romance that feels like a warm hug and a sunny afternoon, this is an absolute must-read. It follows Daisy, a hopeless rom-com-obsessed college senior, who runs into her childhood best friend (and first heartbreak) Levi after years apart...
Picking Daisies on Sundays - Target
Imagine Gossip Girl meets a touch of magic. Alice Sun is a scholarship student at an elite Beijing boarding school who suddenly develops the ability to turn completely invisible. To afford her tuition, she teams up with her insufferable, ridiculously...
If You Could See the Sun - by Ann Liang (Hardcover) - Target
Thrillers
The Set Up: Brooke gets her high school ex, Shane, out of prison because she thinks she falsely accused him of a mass murder 11 years ago and starts dating her sweet childhood friend, Tim.
The Inmate - by Freida McFadden (Paperback) - Target
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The Set Up: Alicia shoots her husband and goes mute. Theo, a brilliant therapist, becomes obsessed with getting her to speak again.
Silent Patient - by Alex Michaelides (Paperback) - Target
The Set Up: An ordinary woman named Josie stalks a glamorous podcaster named Alix and convinces Alix to make a true-crime podcast about her "boring" life.
None of This Is True - by Lisa Jewell (Paperback) - Target
The Set Up: Kit is hired as a home health aide for Lenora Hope, a 71-year-old woman who was accused of brutally murdering her entire family in a cliffside mansion in 1929. Lenora is paralyzed and can only communicate by tapping on a typewriter.🥲
The Only One Left - by Riley Sager (Hardcover) - Target
The Set Up: A husband (Adam) who suffers from face-blindness meaning he physically cannot recognize facial featuresand his wife (Amelia) spend a weekend at a creepy, converted chapel in the middle of nowhere to save their marriage.
Rock Paper Scissors - by Alice Feeney (Hardcover) - Target
A quiet neighborhood is shattered when a mother (Shelby) and her toddler daughter (Delilah) vanish into thin air. Eleven years later, Delilah unexpectedly escapes from a basement and returns home🙈
Local Woman Missing - by Mary Kubica (Paperback) - Target
glamorous celebrity wedding on a remote, stormy Irish island. A body is found, but the book keeps you guessing about who died and who did it until the final pages.
The Guest List - by Lucy Foley (Paperback) - Target
Up: Everyone in town knows Sal Singh killed his girlfriend, Andie Bell, and then killed himself out of guilt. Case closed. Five years later, high schooler Pip investigates to clear Sal's name
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder - by Holly Jackson (Paperback) - Target