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Absolute 5-star books 📕📖
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items I’m talking inject in your veins, tattoo it on your body, gut wrenching, utterly mind consuming, take over your life and personality 5 star reads
Sections
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Gut punching emotion & existential crisis
Mind bending and thought provoking 📎
Epic escapes & rich world-building 📰
Classics that deserve the hype 💎
Sharp, short and unshakable 🕯️
Romance that breaks the mold 🌹
Gut punching emotion & existential crisis
For when you feel everything or nothing, all at once
Deeply emotional and lyrical telling of the Achilles and Patroclus myth centered on love and fate. The romance is absolutely tragic, this book will crush you into pieces. A love story that feels both timeless and personal, soulmates that found themse...
The Song of Achilles | Madeline Miller
An elegant dive into depression and identity. A modern classic for sure. Stings !
The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath
Intimate and harrowing. A book that people never recover from. A group of friends in NYC but one of them is carrying an unthinkable trauma. Sometimes very painful to read
A little life | Hanya Yanagihara
A professor lives a small, quiet life that turns out to be epic in its own tragic way. Understated brilliance
Stoner | John Williams
Mind bending and thought provoking 📎
Books that challenge your worldview, twist your brain and linger for days. Perfect for thought daughters and late night thinkers, deep feelers and anyone seeking questions and thoughts 💭
The Devil comes to the Soviet Moscow and things spiral into beautiful, chaotic madness. A wild philosophical fever dream
The Master and Margarita | Mikhail Bulgakov
Boarding school kids with a haunting secret. Heartbreakingly human
Never Let Me Go | Kazuo Ishiguro
A girl gets mysterious letters that teach her philosophy. Detective novel for the brain. Also everything you need to get you into philosophical reads
Sophie's World | Jostein Gaarder
Epic escapes & rich world-building 📰
When reality feels dull, these stories transport you somewhere completely. Ee. Think immersive worlds, big lore, unforgettable characters
A gifted orphan becomes a legendary wizard. Part memoir, part myth, all magic
The Name of the Wind | Patrick Rothfuss
A group of elite students commit a crime - and this is not a whodunit, but a why-the-hell-did-they-do-it. Dark academia at its best
The Secret History | Donna Tartt
Classics that deserve the hype 💎
Not just required reading, these are timeless for a reason
A magical town lives and dies over generations. Everything is beautiful, weird and destined
One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel García Márquez
Two families battle with sin, legacy and choice in Steinbeck’s modern Bible. Claim and Abel, but make it California
East of Eden | John Steinbeck
A fierce woman, a brooding man, a locked door. Bought this book on Barnes and Noble web and it is very cheap but gives off such dark academia vibes and is actually such a good read
Jane Eyre | Charlotte Brontë
Sharp, short and unshakable 🕯️
Books you can finish in a day basically and will never forget. Minimal page count and max impact haha!
A man wakes up as a bug, and his life falls apart. Absurd, tragic and disturbingly real. Also, got this one from Barnes and Nobles for about 5 euros.
The Metamorphosis | Franz Kafka
A Holocaust survivor tells you what it was like. Short, cold, necessary
Night | Elie Wiesel
Romance that breaks the mold 🌹
Longing, power, identity and heartbreak with serious emotional weight
A summer romance that burns slow. Obsessive, lyrical. Explores soulmate relationships that fate had separated
Call Me By Your Name | André Aciman
They love each other but never at the same time. Explores the right love but the wrong time. Stings! Modern miscommunication as a tragic art form
Normal People | Sally Rooney
Unforgettable
You might forget the plot but never how these books made you feel. They changed me
Death is the narrator. He tells the story of a girl stealing books in Nazi Germany. Devastating and makes you question your life, full of beautiful moments. Must read before you die
The Book Thief | Markus Zusak
A man returns to his childhood home / and uncovers forgotten magic and quiet trauma. A fairy tale for grown up’s with a shadowy pulse
The Ocean at the End of the Lane | Neil Gaiman