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Books I want to Read
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items My ever-growing TBR (To Be Read) list! From beach reads and romance to page-turning suspense and BookTok favorites — these are the books on my radar. Thumbs up if you think I should read it! Shop any book directly through bookshop.org and support ind...
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Vacation Reads
Romance/Spicy Reads
Suspense
Self Help
BookTok Recommendations
Vacation Reads
Books built for the beach, the porch, or the hotel pool — light enough to read with sunscreen on your hands, juicy enough to ignore the kids fighting over the last popsicle. Page-turners, light romances, breezy mysteries, and the occasional "literary...
When Katy’s mother dies, she is left reeling. Carol wasn’t just Katy’s mom, but her best friend and first phone call. She had all the answers and now, when Katy needs her the most, she is gone. To make matters worse, their planned mother-daughter tri...
One Italian Summer: Serle, Rebecca
The Kingsley family is American royalty, beloved for their military heroics, political service, and unmatched elegance. In 1967, after Joseph S. Kingsley, Jr. is killed in a tragic accident, his charismatic son inherits the weight of that legacy. But...
Meant to Be: Giffin, Emily
Macy Sorensen is settling into an ambitious if emotionally tepid routine: work hard as a new pediatrics resident, plan her wedding to an older, financially secure man, keep her head down and heart tucked away. But when she runs into Elliot Petropoulo...
Love and Other Words: Lauren, Christina
It’s been nearly a year since everything happened between Magnolia Parks and BJ Ballentine on the steps of the Mandarin Oriental, and since then it seems like everything has changed. Magnolia has a life in New York now and BJ appears to have finally ...
Magnolia Parks: Hastings, Jessa
Romance book connoisseur Tara Chen has had her heart broken ten times by ten different men—all of whom dumped her because of her “stage-five clinger” tendencies. Nevertheless, Tara is determined to find The One. The only problem? Classic meet-cutes a...
Exes and O's (The Influencer Series)
To the Green-eyed Lovebird: We met fifteen years ago, almost to the day, when I moved my stuff into the NYU dorm room next to yours at Senior House. You called us fast friends. I like to think it was more. We lived on nothing but the excitement of fi...
Before We Were Strangers: A Love Story
Charlotte has spent her twenties adrift, searching for a spark to jump-start her life and give her a sense of purpose. She’s had as many jobs as she’s had bad relationships, and now she’s feeling especially lost in her less-than-glamorous gig at a pi...
Wish You Were Here
Romance/Spicy Reads
The romance reads I keep meaning to get to — slow burns, friends-to-lovers, second chances, and yes, a few that earn the spicy label. Heat levels noted where I can find them, because there's a difference between "they finally kissed!" and "do not rea...
I wanted to lose myself in the small town of Pelion, Maine. To forget everything I had left behind. The sound of rain. The blood. The coldness of a gun against my skin. For six months, each breath has been a reminder that I survived -- and my dad did...
Archer's Voice
It’s senior-year spring break, and Noelle Meyer and Evan Sinclair have been kidnapped. Neither knows why they were chosen, only that they share a tragic past: Evan’s father got away with killing Noelle’s mother, effectively ruining her family when th...
All the Little Raindrops
Crystal learned long ago that love brings only pain. Feeling nothing at all is far better than being hurt again. She guards her wounded heart behind a hard exterior and carries within her a deep mistrust of men, who, in her experience, have only ever...
Most of All You: A Love Story
She’s got his back. Hannah Brooks looks more like a kindergarten teacher than somebody who could kill you with a wine bottle opener. Or a ballpoint pen. Or a dinner napkin. But the truth is, she’s an Executive Protection Agent (aka "bodyguard"), and ...
The Bodyguard: Center, Katherine
Three of them, one of her, and a remote cabin in the woods. Let the hot, winter nights ensue...Tiernan de Haas doesn’t care about anything anymore. The only child of a film producer and his starlet wife, she’s grown up with wealth and privilege but n...
Credence: Douglas, Penelope:
Left without a job and evicted from the house she so carefully turned into a home, Aria is offered two choices: move back in with her brother… or take the job her brother’s best friend offers her. Their lives weren’t meant to collide — but everything...
Until You (Off-Limits) by Maura, Catharina
Suspense
The kind of books that ruin your sleep schedule because you have to know what happens. Domestic thrillers, psychological suspense, twisty whodunits, and the rare slow-burn mystery that builds like a slow-motion car crash. I'm picky about endings (no,...
Two women. An office filled with secrets. One terrible crime that can't be taken back. Dawn Schiff is strange. At least, everyone thinks so at Vixed, the nutritional supplement company where Dawn works as an accountant. She never says the right thing...
The Coworker: McFadden, Freida - Books
Welcome to Stanhope. A safe neighborhood. A place for families. William Wooler is a family man, on the surface. But he’s been having an affair, an affair that ended horribly this afternoon at a motel up the road. So when he returns to his house, deva...
Everyone Here Is Lying: A Novel by Shari Lapena
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Twenty years after a baby is stolen from a stroller, a woman is murdered in a care home. The two crimes are somehow linked, and a good bad girl may be the key to discovering the truth. Edith may have been tricked into a nursing home, but at eighty-ye...
Good Bad Girl
Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summer crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins. A few...
None of This Is True: A Novel - Kindle by Jewell
Catherine Sterling thinks she knows her mother. Ruth Sterling is quiet, hardworking, and lives for her daughter. All her life, it's been just the two of them against the world. But now, Catherine is ready to spread her wings, move from home, and begi...
Gone Tonight: A Novel - Kindle by Sarah Pekkanen
Every day I clean the Winchesters’ beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny room on the top floor. I try to ignore how Nina makes a...
The Housemaid: An addictive psychological
It’s hard to find an employer who doesn’t ask too many questions about my past. So I thank my lucky stars that the Garricks miraculously give me a job, cleaning their stunning penthouse with views across the city and preparing fancy meals in their sh...
The Housemaid's Secret: A gripping psychological
Newlyweds Tricia and Ethan are searching for the house of their dreams. But when they visit the remote manor that once belonged to Dr. Adrienne Hale, a renowned psychiatrist who vanished without a trace four years earlier, a violent winter storm trap...
Never Lie: An addictive psychological thriller
When a bestselling debut novel from mysterious author J. Colby becomes the literary event of the year, Emiline reads it reluctantly. As an adjunct writing instructor at UC San Diego with her own stalled literary career and a bumpy long-term relations...
Swear on This Life: A Novel
Darby, Mary Beth, and Rhea are on personal quests to reclaim aspects of their identities subsumed by motherhood―their careers, their sex lives, their bodies. But their children disrupt their plans when an unsettling medical condition begins to go aro...
Cutting Teeth: A Novel - Kindle by Chandler Baker
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 4.5 out of 5 stars 📖 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A desperate manhunt ensues for a killer who preys upon his victims’ minds—just before he claims their lives—in this blockbuster novel from #1 bestselling author Lisa Gardner. What do you do when a killer targets the people...
The Next Accident: An FBI Profiler Novel
Marriage can be murder...
SOMETHING OLD
Marcie's affair with Jason Maddox catapulted her into the world of the elite.
Old money, old ties, old secrets. Marcie may have married into this world--
but she'll never be part of it.
SOMETHING NEW
Then...
Dead to Her by Sarah Pinborough
They say you should keep your friends close and your enemies closer, but when you're a teenage girl, it's hard to tell them apart.
Natasha doesn't remember how she ended up in the icy water that night, but she does know this--it wasn't an accident, a...
13 Minutes by Sarah Pinborough
Self Help
The self-help and personal development books I'm working through — the ones that don't feel preachy, formulaic, or like they could've been a TikTok. From productivity and habit change to faith-grounded growth and the occasional "this is more philosop...
World-Renowned Brain Specialist & Former NASA Scientist WARNED The Government About The Damaging Effects Of Isolation During The Pandemic
Defeating Pandemic Brain Ebook
In my book, you will meet a little girl named Viola who ran from her past until she made a life-changing decision to stop running forever.
This is my story, from a crumbling apartment in Central Falls, Rhode Island, to the stage in New York City, an...
Finding Me by Viola Davis
Are you tired of struggling financially and feeling like you'll never achieve your dreams? Do you want to learn how to create multiple streams of income, build wealth, and achieve financial freedom at a young age? Look no further than "The Young Mill...
The Young Millionaire by Daniel Butogwa
BookTok Recommendations
The viral books BookTok keeps shoving in my face — saved here so I can decide whether the hype is real. Some of these are genuinely great. Some are fine. A few are probably going to disappoint me. I'll update reviews as I read them, because I'd rathe...
Make a wish. . . . Lucy Hart knows better than anyone what it’s like to grow up without parents who loved her. In a childhood marked by neglect and loneliness, Lucy found her solace in books, namely the Clock Island series by Jack Masterson. Now a tw...
The Wishing Game: A Novel: Shaffer, Meg
Meet Winter Young–rookie backup dancer turned global pop phenomenon. His star power has smashed records, selling out stadiums from LA to London. Now he’s bringing his swoonworthy assets to a whole new arena... Infamous criminal tycoon Eli Morrison ha...
Stars and Smoke (A Stars and Smoke Novel, 1): ...
Suddenly unemployed and on the brink of eviction, Cassie Evans is left with two choices: get a new job (and fast) or fire up her long-untouched OnlyFans account. But the job market is terrible, and as for OnlyFans. . . . Well, there are reasons she c...
The Nanny eBook : Ferguson, Lana: Kindle Store
None of them would claim to be a particularly good person. But who among them is actually capable of murder? Jen Weinstein and Lauren Parker rule the town of Salcombe, Fire Island every summer. They hold sway on the beach and the tennis court, and ar...
Bad Summer People: A Novel - Rosenblum, Emma
Lucy is faced with a life-altering choice. But before she can make her decision, she must start her story—their story—at the very beginning. Lucy and Gabe meet as seniors at Columbia University on a day that changes both of their lives forever. Toget...
The Light We Lost: Santopolo, Jill
They used to joke about her “honey do” lists. He just never realized how much he would need one when she was gone. Being a widower is not something Joshua Park ever expected. Given his solitary job as a scientist, his small circle of friends and fami...
Pack Up the Moon: Higgins, Kristan
Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college—they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Except, now—for reasons they’re still not discussing—they don’t. They broke up five months ago. And still ...
Happy Place: Henry, Emily
Kit Darling is a maid with a snooping problem. She’s the “invisible girl,” compelled to poke into her wealthy clients’ closely guarded lives. It’s a harmless hobby until Kit sees something she can’t unsee in the home of her brand-new clients: a secre...
The Maid's Diary: A Novel - White, Loreth Anne
If you can’t trust yourself, who can you trust? Cass is having a hard time since the night she saw the car in the woods. It was on the winding rural road, in the middle of a downpour, and a woman was sitting inside―the woman who was killed. She’s bee...
The Breakdown by Paris, B.A.