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Book Recs 📚 (audiobooks too!)

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These are books that I give 5/5 stars! I read (listen) to mostly thriller, suspense, sci-fi, but you’ll find a few books mixed in that don’t fit my normal picks!
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Physical Books 📖

Do you like sitting down with a good book? Here are my book recommendations to purchase a physical copy.
 
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I LOVE this book. I have listened to the audiobook 3 times! It is a great mix of history and time travel. Plenty of twists and turns make you wonder what will change and happen next. It makes you think about the past, present, and future, wondering w...
11/22/63: A Novel by Stephen King
 
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This book is long, but does not disappoint (typical Stephen King). It is about survival, good versus evil, and how people can come together or fall apart during the end of times.
The Stand
 
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This is not a typical book I would choose, but the amazing reviews on it made me give it a chance. I am so glad I did because this book is so good! It is about an octopus who befriends an aquarium worker. I don’t even have words to properly describe ...
Remarkably Bright Creatures
 
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This is another book I typically wouldn’t pick, but it is an easy and short read. I am very happy I chose this book. It is a great story about a dog who fails his service dog training, and becomes his new family’s autistic son’s best friend. The book...
Chester and Gus
 
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This book kept me hooked the whole time. Addie LaRue is a woman from the 1700s who makes a deal to live forever. But the catch is that everyone forgets who she is once she is out of sight. One day, she meets someone who remembers her. The story goes ...
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
 
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This is a great sci-fi read about rewriting and re-experiencing past memories. People are starting to remember lives they have never lived…or have they? Memories, fiction, and truth start to collide.
Recursion
 
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This book is a mix of mystery and supernatural. A nanny helps the little boy she cares for navigate through the creepy and unsettling pictures he draws. Is the house haunted? Is the boy? Is it his imagination? Or is it the nanny? In the physical book...
Hidden Pictures
 
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This is another book I wasn’t sure about when I started it. But I ended up being pleasantly surprised. A crabby man, who has basically wasted away his life being selfish is now dead. He finds himself as a ghost, being taken to a tea shop where he is ...
Under the Whispering Door
 
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This book is a great mix of suspense and mystery. Rachel goes missing when her daughter is just a baby, and she reappears 16 years later while the family is filming a documentary about Rachel’s story. Leaving the family questioning Rachel about her d...
The Reappearance of Rachel Price
 
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Ten years after her daughter goes missing, Laurel starts dating a man whose young daughter looks suspiciously like her missing daughter. This is a great book of suspense and mystery, keeps you guessing and waiting right along with Laurel.
Then She Was Gone
 
Danielle Mangene profile picture
This book is so good. It’s a great mix of mystery, adventure, and thriller. Cassie gets her hands on a magic book that can turn any door into any door. Anywhere in the world and anywhere in time. But this book is part of a collection of magic books t...
The Book of Doors
 
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So so so good!! This book kept me guessing the whole time. Just when you thought you figured it out, another twist. Wealthy couples, trust funds, affairs, murder. Everyone seems to be lying…but about what? Who do you believe?
Look Closer
 

Audiobooks 🎧

Do you prefer to listen? Here you will find the same recommendations but in audiobook form!
 
Danielle Mangene profile picture
I LOVE this book. I have listened to the audiobook 3 times! It is a great mix of history and time travel. Plenty of twists and turns make you wonder what will change and happen next. It makes you think about the past, present, and future, wondering w...
11/22/63 Audiobook
 
Danielle Mangene profile picture
This book is long, but does not disappoint (typical Stephen King). It is about survival, good versus evil, and how people can come together or fall apart during the end of times.
The Stand Audiobook
 
Danielle Mangene profile picture
This is not a typical book I would choose, but the amazing reviews on it made me give it a chance. I am so glad I did because this book is so good! It is about an octopus who befriends an aquarium worker. I don’t even have words to properly describe ...
Remarkably Bright Creatures Audiobook
 
Danielle Mangene profile picture
This is another book I typically wouldn’t pick, but it is an easy and short read. I am very happy I chose this book. It is a great story about a dog who fails his service dog training, and becomes his new family’s autistic son’s best friend. The book...
Chester and Gus Audiobook
 
Danielle Mangene profile picture
This book kept me hooked the whole time. Addie LaRue is a woman from the 1700s who makes a deal to live forever. But the catch is that everyone forgets who she is once she is out of sight. One day, she meets someone who remembers her. The story goes ...
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue Audiobook
 
Danielle Mangene profile picture
This is a great sci-fi read about rewriting and re-experiencing past memories. People are starting to remember lives they have never lived…or have they? Memories, fiction, and truth start to collide.
Recursion Audiobook
 
Danielle Mangene profile picture
This book is a mix of mystery and supernatural. A nanny helps the little boy she cares for navigate through the creepy and unsettling pictures he draws. Is the house haunted? Is the boy? Is it his imagination? Or is it the nanny? The only downside to...
Hidden Pictures Audiobook
 
Danielle Mangene profile picture
This is another book I wasn’t sure about when I started it. But I ended up being pleasantly surprised. A crabby man, who has basically wasted away his life being selfish is now dead. He finds himself as a ghost, being taken to a tea shop where he is ...
Under the Whispering Door Audiobook
 
Danielle Mangene profile picture
This book is a great mix of suspense and mystery. Rachel goes missing when her daughter is just a baby, and she reappears 16 years later while the family is filming a documentary about Rachel’s story. Leaving the family questioning Rachel about her d...
The Reappearance of Rachel Price Audiobook
 
Danielle Mangene profile picture
Ten years after her daughter goes missing, Laurel starts dating a man whose young daughter looks suspiciously like her missing daughter. This is a great book of suspense and mystery, keeps you guessing and waiting right along with Laurel.
Then She Was Gone Audiobook
 
Danielle Mangene profile picture
This book is so good. It’s a great mix of mystery, adventure, and thriller. Cassie gets her hands on a magic book that can turn any door into any door. Anywhere in the world and anywhere in time. But this book is part of a collection of magic books t...
The Book of Doors Audiobook
 
Danielle Mangene profile picture
So so so good!! This book kept me guessing the whole time. Just when you thought you figured it out, another twist. Wealthy couples, trust funds, affairs, murder. Everyone seems to be lying…but about what? Who do you believe?
Look Closer Audiobook
 
Lightning Audiobook