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A curated collection of every story that’s left a mark, from heartbreaking romances and twisted thrillers to magical worlds and powerful characters. This folder holds the fiction I live for, the plots I obsess over, and the genres I refuse to choose ...

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Romance/Drama

Dark Romance

Thrillers

Fiction

Romance/Drama

Where love gets complicated and emotions run deep. This folder is filled with passionate slow burns, messy relationships, forbidden love, second chances, and all the heartache in between. For the hopeless romantics who live for tension, tears, and un...

This book doesn't ease you in , it drags you through every emotional high and low of a love that was never meant to happen… yet somehow couldn’t be avoided. With a dual timeline and a beautifully broken male lead, Ugly Love is a haunting slow-burn wh...

Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover

More than just a love story, this is a deeply emotional journey of strength, survival, and choosing yourself. With a complex love triangle at its heart, It Ends With Us explores the painful cycles of abuse, the pull of past love, and the courage it t...

It Ends with Us

If you're a sucker for nostalgia, second chances, and childhood love that never really fades, this book will pull you right in. This is a story about forgiveness, timing, and the kind of love that lingers no matter how much time has passed. Think Lov...

Every Summer After

They were college sweethearts who lost each other in the chaos of life. Years later, a missed connection ad brings them back together. Told through flashbacks and letters, Before We Were Strangers is tender, nostalgic, and filled with the ache of los...

Before We Were Strangers

Imagine your brother’s best friend being forced to protect you, now add dark secrets, emotional wounds, and a sizzling enemies-to-lovers vibe. Twisted Love is steamy, angsty, and dangerously addictive. Alex and Ava’s chemistry is the kind that burns ...

Twisted Love

What if you met the love of your life, but only saw each other once a year? November 9 is a story about fate, forgiveness, and finding yourself through another person. As the years pass and secrets unfold, you’ll question everything you think you kno...

November 9

A summer romance turns into a year of heartbreak, healing, and unexpected love. This college romance blends love triangle tension, sports drama, and emotional vulnerability. You’ll go in thinking it’s a cliché and come out completely gutted, in the b...

Say You Swear

An age-gap romance that toes the line between wrong and irresistible. When Jordan ends up living with her boyfriend’s dad, everything spirals. Birthday Girl is tense, forbidden, and surprisingly tender. It's the kind of story you read in one sitting,...

Birthday Girl

This book shows what happens after the honeymoon phase. Following a couple through the crumbling stages of marriage, All Your Perfects is heartbreakingly honest. It explores infertility, resentment, and the desperation of trying to save something tha...

All Your Perfects: A Novel

This is not your typical romance. Long Shot dives deep into themes of abuse, survival, and inner strength. It's intense, emotional, and beautifully written. Be prepared to feel every ounce of pain and triumph that Iris fights through. Heavy, but so w...

Long Shot

This is a tearjerker from start to finish. A Thousand Boy Kisses follows a love story that starts in childhood and carries all the way into a devastating conclusion. It’s pure, emotional, and painfully beautiful. If you want a story that will make yo...

A Thousand Boy Kisses

Motherhood, trauma, and a child who might be… wrong. This one messes with your head and your heart.

The Push: A GMA Book Club Pick: A Novel

Dark Romance

This is where obsession replaces affection, and love blurs the line between pleasure and pain. These stories are raw, intense, and unapologetically messy, filled with morally grey characters, forbidden desires, psychological games, and chemistry that...

She’s a writer. He’s her stalker. And somehow, you're rooting for them both. A dark, obsessive love story that explores control, power, and taboo with disturbing intensity. Not for the faint of heart, this one goes deep and dark.

Haunting Adeline

Bodyguard x princess, but make it dominant, forbidden, and emotionally intense. Rhys and Bridget’s chemistry simmers, and the power dynamic only fuels the fire. Expect tension, heartbreak, and serious alpha energy.

Twisted Games

Elite secret society, dark initiation rites, and a girl who becomes a pawn in their twisted world. It’s hot, brutal, and completely addictive. Think dark academia meets power play romance.

The Ritual

A broken pianist. A dominant music teacher. A dangerous, addictive connection. Dark Notes is emotionally intense, filled with forbidden love, trauma healing, and seriously taboo vibes.

Dark Notes

A gut-wrenching, trauma-bonded love story that starts with kidnapping and ends in healing. It’s heartbreaking, raw, and surprisingly tender. If you can handle the dark setup, the emotional payoff is beautiful.

Still Beating

He’s cold, cruel, and completely irresistible. A high school bully who becomes a ruthless businessman, and she’s the girl he never forgot. Dark, angsty, and full of emotional warfare.

Vicious

Thrillers

For the readers who don’t trust anyone, not even the narrator
. This shelf is packed with psychological thrillers, domestic suspense, and crime fiction that’ll keep you guessing, gasping, and maybe sleeping with the light on. If you live for jaw-dropping twists, morally grey characters, and secrets that unravel...

A fast-paced domestic thriller where the perfect job turns sinister. Everyone’s hiding something in this house.

The Housemaid

A woman murders her husband and never speaks again. A therapist is determined to find out why. The twist? Chef’s kiss.

The Silent Patient

A struggling writer uncovers a twisted manuscript in a bestselling author’s home. It blurs the line between fiction and confession.

Verity

Jack and Grace seem like the perfect couple. But perfection comes at a chilling cost. A claustrophobic ride from start to finish.

Behind Closed Doors

A true-crime podcaster meets her next subject, but the woman’s life unravels into something far more dangerous than she imagined.

None of This Is True: A Novel

A missing baby, suspicious neighbors, and secrets in every corner. The pace? Relentless.

The Couple Next Door: A Novel

A mother haunted by the disappearance of her daughter finds new hope, but some coincidences are too eerie to ignore.

Then She Was Gone: A Novel

A woman inserts herself into a rich couple’s life to take what she thinks she deserves, but she doesn’t know what she’s stepping into.

The Last Mrs. Parrish: A Novel

A cold case, a journalist, and a hacker with a dark past. Complex, layered, and unforgettable.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: A Lisbeth Salander Novel

Fiction

This is where the quiet stories hit loudest.
From books that unravel the ache of growing up, to ones that capture how lonely (or lovely) it is to just exist, this shelf is for fiction that makes you think, makes you feel, and makes you pause. No dragons, no murderers, no love triangle drama, ju...

Two childhood friends build a gaming empire, but it’s really about creativity, grief, and the painful beauty of platonic love.

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel

Eleanor lives by routine, avoids emotion, and prefers isolation, until an act of kindness changes everything.

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine: Reese's Book Club: A Novel

A privileged young woman attempts to sleep for a year to escape reality. Dark, sarcastic, and weirdly compelling.

My Year of Rest and Relaxation: A Novel

A white writer steals an Asian writer’s manuscript and publishes it as her own. A scathing, sharp critique of publishing and identity.

Yellowface: A Reese's Book Club Pick

Conversations between friends, lovers, and emails full of existential dread. A slow burn of real life, millennial-style.

Beautiful World, Where Are You: A Novel

A messy, gorgeous tale of love, art, addiction, and age gaps in New York. It’s character-driven chaos you can’t look away from.

Cleopatra and Frankenstein

In 24 hours, a woman must decide between the life she built and the love she lost. Raw, nostalgic, and emotionally layered.

The Paper Palace (Reese's Book Club): A Novel

A grumpy old man finds unexpected community, and healing, after tragedy. Quietly powerful and full of heart.

A Man Called Ove: A Novel

Between life and death lies a library where every book is a different version of your life. What would you choose?

The Midnight Library: A GMA Book Club Pick: A Novel

Funny, chaotic, warm, a nostalgic reflection on growing up, heartbreak, and friendship.

Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir