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Books Everyone Should Read at Least Once

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Since I was little I have always loved reading, it was a difficult task prying me away from a book! This list contains books I've read, are yet to read and some best sellers I think are shelf worthy. This will be a rolling list which will constantly ...
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Romance

A list of romance or love based books

 
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The viral TikTok sensation about situationships, heartbreak, mistakes. You can call it what you want―but was it love?
Call It What You Want: A Novel
 
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A striking, powerful, and moving love story following an ambitious lawyer who experiences an astonishing vision that could change her life forever.
In Five Years: A Novel
 
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This witty, slow-burn rom-com is the ideal beach read.
Just for the Summer
 
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This warm, wise, highly entertaining twenty-first century love story is about what happens when the person who makes you happiest is someone you never expected.
Just Like You: A Novel
 
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A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters.
Beach Read
 
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One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn't see coming...
Book Lovers
 
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A couple who broke up months ago pretend to still be together for their annual weeklong vacation with their best friends in this glittering and wise new novel.
Happy Place
 
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A novel of terrible first impressions, hilarious second chances, and the joy in finding your perfect match
Yours Truly
 
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The hilarious and addictive Sunday Times bestseller
Just Got Real: Hilarious Sunday Times Bestseller
 
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Told in alternating timelines, THE THINGS WE LEAVE UNFINISHED examines the risks we take for love, the scars too deep to heal, and the endings we can’t bring ourselves to see coming.
The Things We Leave Unfinished
 
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Amelie loved Reese. And she thought he loved her. But she's starting to realise love isn't supposed to hurt like this.
The Places I've Cried in Public
 
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A disillusioned millennial ghostwriter who, quite literally, has some ghosts of her own, has to find her way back home
The Dead Romantics: A GMA Book Club Pick
 
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From New York Times bestselling author and BookTok sensation Ana Huang comes a billionaire brother's best friend romance!
Twisted Love
 
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From New York Times bestselling author and BookTok sensation Ana Huang comes a contemporary royal romance!
Twisted Games
 
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A diverse steamy enemies-to-lovers romance from New York Times bestselling author and BookTok sensation Ana Huang
Twisted Hate
 
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A fake-dating billionaire romance from New York Times bestselling author and BookTok sensation Ana Huang.
Twisted Lies
 
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Fall in love with Lily and Lo in this edgy new adult romance set in a world of lust, fame, swoon-worthy men, and friendships that run deeper than blood
Addicted to You
 
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Bearded, bad-boy barber Knox prefers to live his life the way he takes his coffee: Alone. Unless you count his basset hound, Waylon. Knox doesn’t tolerate drama, even when it comes in the form of a stranded runaway bride.
Things We Never Got Over
 
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Nash Morgan was always known as the good Morgan brother, with a smile and a wink for everyone. But now, this chief of police is recovering from being shot and his Southern charm has been overshadowed by panic attacks and nightmares.
Things We Hide from the Light
 
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There was only one woman who could set me free. But I would rather set myself on fire than ask Sloane Walton for anything.
Things We Left Behind
 
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An achingly authentic and raw portrait of love, regret, and the life-altering impact of the relationships we hold closest to us
If He Had Been with Me
 
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If only I'd told her that I loved her years ago, then I wouldn't be here now.
If Only I Had Told Her
 
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There’s no life without death and no love without loss in this devastating yet uplifting story about two people whose lives change over the course of one unforgettable day.
They Both Die at the End
 
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In this prequel to the bestselling phenomenon They Both Die at the End, two new strangers spend a life-changing day together after Death-Cast first makes their fateful calls.
The First to Die at the End
 
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a poignant book that realistically looks at the lasting effects of trauma on love, relationships, and life
The Way I Used to Be
 
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Much anticipated sequel to The Way I Used to Be that highlights with painful honesty the process of moving forward following trauma
The Way I Am Now
 
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Three women. Three secrets. Three tangled lives...
Other Women
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A troubled young mother yearns for a shot at redemption in this heartbreaking yet hopeful story.
Reminders of Him: A Novel
 
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A novel about family, first love, grief, and betrayal that will touch the hearts of both mothers and daughters.
Regretting You
 
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Two sworn enemies are forced to play nice while on a roadtrip to find a missing bride
Mistakes We Never Made
 
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A story about love and the unbreakable bonds of friendship
You're the One That I Want
 
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Heartrending tale about three sisters—identical triplets—who all fall in love with the same man.
The One We Fell in Love With
 
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An unforgettable and heartbreaking love story with an earth-shattering secret at its core that asks the question: Is love worth risking everything for?
Only Love Can Hurt Like This

Life

Books that make you think about decisions in life

 
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A genre-bending story about love and loss, hope and heartbreak, and the healing to be found in life’s little limbos, those in-between spaces where you’re no longer who you were and not yet the person you will be
Better by Far: A Novel
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EW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK. In this rich, complex family saga full of long-buried family secrets, two people fall in love in the 1970s, blithely ignorant of all that awaits them.
The Most Fun We Ever Had
 
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Brilliantly observed novel of a woman in midlife on the verge of upending everything when sudden family events threaten to unearth her painful past..
Same As It Ever Was: A Novel
 
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A BROTHER. A SISTER. A LOT OF EMOTION IN ONE APARTMENT.
Greta and Valdin: Waterstones Debut Prize 2024
 
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Riveting new suspense novel about three ambitious women whose lives are turned upside down in the aftermath of a horrifying fire, which destroys a successful advertising agency and threatens to expose a tangled web of lies.
Three Perfect Liars: A Novel
 
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Between life and death there is a library.
The Midnight Library: A Novel
 
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If life gave you a second chance, would you take it?
The Sun in Her Eyes
 
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A bitingly honest, darkly funny debut about ambition, sex, power, and love, Imogen Crimp's A Very Nice Girl cracks open the timeless questions of what it is to be young, what it is to want to be wanted, and what it is to find your calling but lose yo...
A Very Nice Girl: A Novel
 
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A novel of love, homelessness, and learning to be fearless
Flamingo
 
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This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question, What makes a life worth living?
When Breath Becomes Air
 
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A vibrantly illustrated primer on modern feminism for the Instagram generation encouraging us to question the insidious narratives that would hold us back from self-acceptance, self-love, and our own power.
Women Don't Owe You Pretty
 
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A tale of one man's courage and a remarkable portrait of love and family
Small Things Like These (Oprah's Book Club)
 
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A charming, internationally bestselling Japanese novel about how the perfect book recommendation can change a readers’ life.
What You Are Looking For Is in the Library
 
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If you could go back in time, who would you want to meet?
Before the Coffee Gets Cold: A Novel
 
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Sometimes it's easy to fall between the cracks...
Careless
 
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But will hitting rock bottom help Rachel learn to love herself, at last?
Rachel's Holiday
 
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Prepare to laugh and cry by turns with Rachel and the Walsh family.
Again, Rachel

Adventure

Books with plot twists, other world and imagination

 
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A desperate family seeks a new beginning in the near-isolated wilderness of Alaska only to find that their unpredictable environment is less threatening than the erratic behaviour found in human nature.
The Great Alone: A Novel
 
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She survived against all odds. The first girl born in fifty years. They called her EVE.
Eve of Man
 
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Eve ­- the last girl on Earth - is finally free . . .
The Eve Illusion
 
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Apocalyptic nightmare, a daring escape and a passionate love story
Eve of Man: Book 3