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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
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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
A 13 year old girl named Alice claims she’s being haunted by a witch. A child psychologist, Mina, is brought in to interview her in order to see if these hauntings are a figment of her imagination or something more sinister. As Alice’s condition wors...
Something in the Walls book by Daisy Pearce
This is a historical fiction that follows the story of Frankie, a young woman who enlists as a nurse in the US Army during the Vietnam war in an effort to make her family proud. It talks about the unsung heroes of war time, the nurses who saved men’s...
The Women book by Kristin Hannah
This follows the story of Anna, as she goes on a vacation in Italy with her dysfunctional family. Anna is always the black sheep, the problem child, fighting to fit in. Anna has learned to tread lightly in order to survive the family gatherings. The ...
Diavola book by Jennifer Marie Thorne
Jasmine Bashara never signed up to be a hero. She just wanted to get rich.
Not crazy, eccentric-billionaire rich, like many of the visitors to her hometown of Artemis, humanity’s first and only lunar colony. Just rich enough to move out of her coffi...
Artemis
Weird girl reading rec. A desperate daughter in law concocts a plan to rid her family of her vengeful mother in laws evil spirit.
Motherthing
This follows the stories of three women across centuries who face life altering choices involving immortality, forbidden love, and revenge.
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
As a young, queer couple who flip houses, Charlie and Eve can't believe the killer deal they've just gotten on an old house in a picturesque neighborhood. As they're working in the house one day, there's a knock on the door. A man stands there with h...
We Used to Live Here book by Marcus Kliewer
"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
Nineteen Eighty-Four book by George Orwell
When Mouse is asked by her dad to clean out her deceased grandmother’s North Carolina home, she agrees without hesitation thinking it won’t be a difficult task. However, grandma was a hoarder, and her home is packed to the gills with decades of garba...
The Twisted Ones book by T. Kingfisher
Pray they are hungry.
Kara finds the words in the mysterious bunker that she's discovered behind a hole in the wall of her uncle's house. Freshly divorced and living back at home, Kara now becomes obsessed with these cryptic words and starts explorin...
The Hollow Places book by T. Kingfisher