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Books to End Your Reading Slump 📚 (all genres)
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items The books that I found entertaining, inspiring, or captivating over the years. There’s bound to be something to end your reading slump in this list with several genres to choose from! 📖🙇🏽♀️📚
Sections
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Thriller / Mystery
Lit Fic
Memoir
Romance
Thriller / Mystery
Thriller / Mystery about a babysitter and a young boy who draws disturbing pictures. The pictures are printed in the book making for a really fun reading experience!
Hidden Pictures - by Jason Rekulak (Hardcover)
After a Florida theme park is hit with a hurricane, a group of stranded employees band together in tribes to gain dominance and survive. Told through interviews by the journalists investigating the events, this story shows the effects of isolation an...
Fantasticland - by Mike Bockoven (Paperback)
Thriller / Sci-fi that is easily digestible for those like myself that don’t normally read the genre. I recommend this to everyone! It makes you think about your life in a new way.
Dark Matter - by Blake Crouch (Paperback)
Lit Fic
A socially awkward girl with an uneventful life starts to change up her routine and goes on a journey of self discovery. Go into this one blind and you’ll be amused, touched, and inspired.
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (Reese's Book Club)
A young boy pursues his dreams and is met with life changing experiences along the way. A classic for a reason. A simple message that can inspire you if you let it.
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho: 25th Anniversary Edition
A woman finds herself imprisoned with 39 other woman with no memory of how they got there. They are watched by gaurds, men who don’t speak. This book stuck with me for a while after reading.
I Who Have Never Known Men - by Jacqueline Harpman (Paperback)
A rich and beautiful young man becomes a muse for a painter. His painted portrait holds the power to keep him eternally youthful, but not without moral struggle.
The Picture of Dorian Gray - by Oscar Wilde (Paperback)
A coming-of-age story of a girl in foster care after her mother goes to prison for murder. A word to summarize this book would be resilience.
White Oleander - By Janet Fitch
Memoir
Julia’s childhood in Italy and New York is turbulent to say the least. She grows up in a neglectful environment and navigates young life in the midst of addiction, love, and trauma. An inspiring story of survival and identity.
Down the Drain - by Julia Fox (Hardcover)
We all know Britney Spears but here we discover her story from the beginning. Teen pop star turned global icon, her challenges lead to her reclaiming her voice in this memoir.
The Woman in Me - by Britney Spears (Hardcover)
Viral internet personality, Drew Afualo, shares her personal journey growing up and how she found her self-confidence in a society that prefers silent women.
Drew Afualo: Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve (Hardcover)
Caroline Calloway is known for romanticizing her lifestyle at a prestigious university and popularizing long-form Instagram captions to document her experience to her large following. She’s also know as a scammer who failed to write a book after secu...
Scammer by Caroline Calloway
Pamela Anderson shares her story as a woman from a small town launched into superstardom. A story of resilience as someone scrutinized in the public eye becoming a mother and navigating her love life. She shares this story through poetry and prose al...
Love, Pamela - by Pamela Anderson (Hardcover)
Child star, Jojo, recounts her early rise to fame followed by the struggles of the music industry impacting her self-confidence. Her story is one of an artist that learns to find her own voice and rediscover her artistic goals on her own terms.
Over the Influence - by Joanna Jojo Levesque (Hardcover)
Romance
Emma and Justin meet on Reddit and decide to fake date for the summer to break a “curse” that their exes find their soulmates after breaking up with them. When real feelings develop, they deal with struggles due to past trauma and big life responsibi...
Just for the Summer - by Abby Jimenez
Lilith has been sick and dying since she was born, but when a mysterious plague starts to kill everyone around her she searches for answers. She approaches an isolated vampire named Vale with a proposition to try to save her town. An unexplainable co...
Six Scorched Roses - by Carissa Broadbent (Hardcover)