These books are across genres, have different vibes, but they all have one thing in common. They're flawless. I'll accept absolutely ZERO criticism of any of these books. True literary masterpieces
Sections
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😍 If you love a good ROMANCE
👻 If you love a scary time HORROR
😎 If you love a little LITFIC
🙈 If you love a twisty THRILLER
🤯 If you love a weird SPECULATIVE book
😍 If you love a good ROMANCE
I'm pretty picky about romance books, these are the best of the best.
POV: you wish to be the protagonist in your favorite romance author's new book but *SURPRISE* she's now writing a crime thriller.
If Books Could Kill: A Novel
We all yearn for a magical apartment in New York City that brings the love of your life straight to your doorstep.
The Seven Year Slip
POV: the algorithm has glitched so hard that you're stuck in it and can't get out
Once in a Timeline: A Novel
👻 If you love a scary time HORROR
We've all been in a mental space where a corpse becomes our closest confidante
Decomposition Book: A Novel
What if a zombie apocalypse story was actually emotionally devastating and so realistic that it makes you feel ill
One Yellow Eye: A Novel
The venn diagram of romance and horror is a circle with this book
How to Kill a Guy in Ten Dates: A Novel
Childhood trauma sometimes manifests itself into a million ants crawling all over the corpse you find in the woods. Twice.
ITCH!: Darkly Feminist Horror Novel
Play Nice is a haunted house story that has a wildly annoying main character, but actually scared me at some points. Has a story within a story element that’s a lot of fun.
Play Nice
Rachel Harrison is that girl and this book is so fun. A silly werewolf book with a romance subplot that I loved. Harrison knows how to write a toxic friendship
Such Sharp Teeth
A subtle vampire story and a friendship that is toxically beautiful lowkey
So Thirsty
Just when you think you have this book figured out, it switches the game. If you don’t picture Jon Hamm as the character in this book you’re reading it wrong.
Black Sheep
Buy it, read it, obsess over it. The tension, the deaths, the underlying message, flawless. A truly fantastic time loop horror novel.
Kiss Slay Replay
😎 If you love a little LITFIC
These books can be a bit difficult to pin down a specific genre, but all of the vibes are impeccable.
Wait…this isn't the normal college experience?
200 Monas: A Novel
You haven't put a hex on your ex and then he dies and now you don't know what to do? Sure, Jan.
A Good Person
Wait, your nephew isn't inhabited by the spirit of a dead corgi?
The Hitch
We can all manifest our dream partner if we try hard enough. Even if that dream partner is made of metal and has wings and might crash to prove its love
Sky Daddy: A Novel
Do you want to be a part of a psychological experiment? You just need to put this black bag on and never say a word. A literary weirdo of a book, longlisted for the 2026 Booker Prize.
Black Bag: A Novel
I fear this is the book of 2026. If you like a hateable main character then read it immediately.
Yesteryear (GMA Book Club Pick)
The world is ending, what would you do? Tell someone something important? Make a wrong decision? Did you do it? Good. Oops! False alarm, the world is going to be fine 😎
Sometimes a thriller can be too popcorn-y, these are not and these are fantastic.
Trying to buy a home in this economy would do the same thing to me as, tbh.
Best Offer Wins: A Novel
Teenage friendship gone horribly wrong in a way that's way worse than almost any other groups. Maybe, some girls can be awful. Incredibly dark and twisty
What Lies in the Woods
Pretty Little Liars meets summer camp meets can't move on meets revenge meets calculated narcissism meets fun.
The Last Time I Lied: A Novel
How far would you go to get revenge on those you blame for the death of your daughter? Would you start a skincare line?
Cruelty Free: A Novel
🤯 If you love a weird SPECULATIVE book
Give me a weird book that does weird things in weird ways and tells me weird things any time of the day.
Jealousy meets the plot of Inception kind of but in the art world and with toxic female friendship in a way that's addicting to read
Immaculate Conception: A Novel
The beauty industry is totally natural, not weird stuff happening here whatsoever
Natural Beauty: A Novel
Absolutely perfectly flawless collection or short stories that you can reread over and over and over again
