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My favorite book recs
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items I read on average 100 books a year and these are some of my recommendations from throughout the year.
This was a chilling read! Set in Jim Crow era, a young boy named Robert is sent to a Reformatory after kicking a white landowners son. Robert has a special gift, he can see spirits. Upon his arrival at the reformatory he begins seeing spirits of boys...
The Reformatory: A Novel by Tananarive Due, Paperback
This is a historical horror based on the Donner Party. On their journey a strange illness begins to take them over one by one. The illness is an insatiable hunger.
The Hunger by Alma Katsu
This is a dystopian novel where humans become the new source of food. People are bred and raised for slaughter. It follows one character as he struggles with the morality of this life and his own personal struggles.
Tender Is the Flesh by Bazterrica, Agustina
This book was an emotional rollercoaster. It’s about a woman who’s trying to fight for her place in her partners life despite his seemingly overbearing mother trying to ruin things for her. The twist is amazing. Thriller/Suspense
The Other Woman: A Novel by Sandie Jones
Recent read. This one was a doozy to read because of how the characters speak but it shows how corporations participated in the decline in education to make people easier to control. They become mindless consumers, they don’t question what’s going on...
Feed: Dystopian Novel on Mind Control & Tech
This was a great read. A historian and an archaeologist are sent to a remote village to interview the people about an urban legend known as The Creeper. Is it just a tale meant to spook people or is there something sinister actually lurking in the sh...
The Creeper book by A.M. Shine
This is such a beautiful and heartbreaking story. A man of low intelligence, Charlie, undergoes an experimental surgery to increase his IQ after success in animal testing on a mouse named Algernon. All he wants is to be smart like others and believes...
Flowers for Algernon book by Daniel Keyes
If you love the movie, like me, you’ll love the book as well. I got this for Christmas and finished it already!
The Silence of the Lambs book by Thomas Harris
https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/his-black-tongue-a-medieval-horror/31608079/
His Black Tongue book by Mitchell Lüthi
From bestselling author Meagan Church comes a haunting exploration of identity, motherhood, and the suffocating grip of societal expectations that will leave you questioning the lives we build--and the lies we live.
The Mad Wife book by Meagan Church
A masterfully paced thriller about a reclusive ex-movie star and her famous friends whose spontaneous trip to a private Greek island is upended by a murder.
The Fury book by Alex Michaelides
The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman's act of violence against her husband--and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive.
The Silent Patient book by Alex Michaelides
Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mo...
Sharp Objects book by Gillian Flynn