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Stories I’ll Never Shut Up About
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items Slow burns, second chances, and soulmates who fight their way back to each other—books that make me believe in love every time.
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The dynamic between Evangeline and Jacks has strong push‑and‑pull tension: they’re drawn to each other but also keep fighting it, which makes their scenes electric. The romance is slow-building rather than instant, with their relationship unfolding t...
Once Upon a Broken Heart Series
The Kings of Sin series by Ana Huang is a steamy billionaire romance collection where each book is inspired by one of the seven deadly sins. It follows powerful, morally gray men and the strong women who challenge them, mixing forced proximity, arran...
Kings of Sin Series by Ana Huang
This series is a YA dystopian romance about Juliette, a girl whose lethal touch has made her a prisoner, a weapon, and eventually a leader. Set in a crumbling world ruled by a brutal regime, the books follow her journey from terrified, isolated girl ...
Shatter Me Series by Tahereh Mafi
This series is amazing! It's a gritty, modern dark romance universe filled with morally gray characters, obsessive connections, and high‑stakes secrets. Each book follows different entangled couples—like a trauma nurse and a masked online persona, or...
Into Darkness Series by Navessa Allen
This series is by Brynne Weaver. It's a dark romantic comedy series about the Kane brothers and the dangerous, chaotic women who wreck their lives in the best way. Each book is an interconnected standalone that mixes serial killers and assassins with...
The Ruinous Love Trilogy (3 book series)
The If He Had Been with Me series by Laura Nowlin is a heartbreaking YA contemporary duology about Autumn and Finny, childhood best friends turned strangers whose almost-love story is shaped by timing, fate, and tragedy. It follows them through high ...
If He Had Been with Me Series by Laura Nowlin
A middle grade fantasy adventure about Percy, a modern boy who discovers he’s a demigod and the son of Poseidon. Across five books, he and his friends face quests involving Greek gods, monsters, and prophecies while navigating friendship, family, and...
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
This My Hero Academia Box Set 1 collects volumes 1–20 of Kohei Horikoshi’s manga, following Izuku Midoriya, a boy born without powers in a world where almost everyone has a Quirk. After a life-changing encounter with his idol All Might, he gains a ch...
My Hero Academia Box Set 1: Includes volumes 1-20 with premium
The Never After series by Emily McIntire is a dark, villain‑centric romance collection that reimagines classic fairytales in the modern world. Each book is a twisted standalone following morally gray ‘bad guys’ and the good girls who shouldn’t want t...
Never After Series (6 book series)
The A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder series is a YA mystery/thriller following Pip, a ‘good girl’ student who turns true‑crime investigator when she reopens a supposedly solved local murder case. Across the trilogy, her school project spirals into a dan...
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder Series Boxed Set
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a Jazz Age classic set in 1920s New York, narrated by Nick Carraway as he watches his mysterious, wealthy neighbor Jay Gatsby try to win back his lost love, Daisy Buchanan. Behind the glitter of Gatsby’s par...
The Great Gatsby: The Only Authorized Edition
Wings of Starlight by Allison Saft is a romantic fantasy about two very different people forced into an uneasy alliance in a world of magic, monsters, and political tension. As they uncover dangerous secrets and face growing threats, their reluctant ...
Wings of Starlight by Allison Saft, Hardcover
The Foxglove King by Hannah Whitten is a dark, political fantasy about Lore, a girl who can raise the dead and is dragged into the glittering, dangerous royal court to spy for the crown. Torn between a stoic monk and a charming prince, she’s forced t...
The Foxglove King (The Nightshade Crown, 1): Whitten, Hannah
Mona’s Eyes by Thomas Schlesser is a haunting graphic novel blending historical fiction and horror, following a reclusive artist in 1930s Paris who paints portraits so lifelike they seem to watch you back—until one painting reveals dark secrets tied ...
Mona's eyes
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a psychological classic about Raskolnikov, a poor ex‑student in St. Petersburg who convinces himself he has the right to commit a murder, then is slowly crushed by guilt and fear. Through police investigat...
Crime and Punishment: 9780486415871: Fyodor ...
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai is a raw, semi-autobiographical novel presented as the notebooks of Ōba Yōzō, a man who feels fundamentally detached from humanity and hides his despair behind a clownish mask of smiles. Spanning his descent from childh...
No longer human by Osamu Dazai(Yozo Oba)
The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai is a postwar Japanese novel following Kazuko, a once-wealthy young woman clinging to fading aristocratic ideals as her family crumbles amid poverty and societal change. Through her raw letters and inner turmoil, it trac...
The Setting Sun (New Directions Book)
Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice by Katie Cicatelli-Kuc is a cozy YA holiday romance about two high school rivals who get fake engaged to boost their families’ competing coffee shops during the fall season. Amid pumpkin spice lattes, festive chaos, ...
Pumpkin Spice & Everything Nice - Cicatelli-Kuc, Katie
Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood is a STEMinist chess romance where Mallory Greenleaf, who quit chess after facing her traumatizing father, faces off against world champion Nolan Sawyer at a national tournament when her sister tricks her into playin...
Check & Mate: Hazelwood, Ali
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas is the steamy fantasy romance kickoff to the ACOTAR series, where fierce human huntress Feyre accidentally kills a faerie wolf and is dragged to the fae realm as punishment. There, she navigates deadly tri...
A Court of Thorns and Roses
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Box Set (Vol. 1) collects the first 7 manga volumes by Koyoharu Gotouge, following Tanjiro Kamado, a kindhearted boy who joins the Demon Slayer Corps after his family is slaughtered by demons and his sister Nezuko is cu...
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Complete Box Set
Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun Box Set (Vol. 1) collects the first 7 manga volumes by AidaIro, following Nene Yashiro, a girl who summons Hanako-san—the ghost haunting her school’s third-floor bathroom—only to discover Hanako is a mischievous boy ghost name...
First Stall (Volume 1) (Toilet-bound Hanako-kun Boxed InSTALLments, 1)
Tokyo Ghoul Box Set (Vol. 1) collects the first 7 manga volumes by Sui Ishida, following Ken Kaneki, a shy bookworm who survives a date with a ghoul—flesh-eating monsters hiding among humans—only to awaken as a half-ghoul hybrid needing human flesh t...
Tokyo Ghoul Complete Box Set: Includes vols. 1-14 with premium
Attack on Titan: No Regrets manga Volume 1 is a gripping prequel origin story by Gun Snark and Hajime Isayama, diving into Levi Ackerman’s gritty past as a thug in the Underground City before joining the Survey Corps. Alongside his crew and the ambit...
Attack on Titan: No Regrets Complete Color Edition Vol. 1 eBook
The Lightlark Saga by Alex Aster is a lush YA fantasy romance series where Isla, cursed ruler of Wilds island, joins centennial Centennial games on cursed Lightlark island with six rival realm leaders seeking to break ancient curses. Amid deadly tria...
Lightlark (The Lightlark Series) - Alex Aster: Books
Grim and Oro: Dueling Crowns Edition is a deluxe Lightlark Saga companion with two romantasy novellas—one from Oro’s POV exploring his kingly burdens, brotherly bonds, and tender yearning for Isla, and one from Grim’s delving into his shadowy past, w...
Grim and Oro: Dueling Crowns Edition (A Lightlark Saga Deluxe Companion ...
Caraval by Stephanie Garber is the magical kickoff to a YA fantasy trilogy where Scarlett Dragna receives mysterious tickets to the once-a-year Caraval—a traveling performance where the stakes are real, the clues are hidden, and the line between game...
Caraval series
The Defender by Ana Huang is the final steamy standalone in the scorching Guards of Forever series, where ballerina Celine Anderson hires ex-Navy SEAL Remington ‘Rem’ Wilder as her bodyguard after receiving terrifying threats. As they dodge danger fr...
The Defender (Gods of the Game, #2) by Ana Huang
The Striker by Ana Huang is a steamy sports romance featuring soccer star Asher Donovan, whose playboy reputation hides deeper wounds, and sports agent Lara Chen, a fierce professional who swears off athletes after past heartbreak. When they’re force...
The Striker (Gods of the Game, #1) by Ana Huang
Before reading READ THE WARNINGS AT THE BEGINNING OF THE BOOK because this book isn't for everyone.
Haunting Adeline by H.D. Carlton is the dark, twisty first book in the Cat and Mouse duet, where horror author Adeline Reilly moves into her creepy an...
Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1) by H.D. Carlton
A professional memoir and analysis written by horror manga artist Junji Ito, revealing his creative process, childhood influences, and techniques for generating fear and designing characters, filled with behind-the-scenes stories from his career.
Uncanny: The Origins of Fear by Junji Ito
Tourist Season by Brynne Weaver is a darkly funny serial‑killer romance set in Cape Carnage, a cute seaside town with a seriously alarming body count. It follows Harper Starling, a sweet-looking gardener with lethal instincts, and Nolan Rhodes, a bro...
Tourist Season (The Seasons of Carnage Trilogy, #1) by Brynne Weaver
Starside is a adult romantasy set in a world split between immortal Starside and mortal Stormside, where challengers cross into a deadly realm every fifty years to fight for magic, power, and survival. Aris enters the competition not for glory, but f...
Starside by Alex Aster | Goodreads
Bleach 3‑in‑1 by Tite Kubo collects three volumes of the hit supernatural manga into one action‑packed edition. Follow Ichigo Kurosaki, a teen with the ability to see spirits, as he becomes a Soul Reaper and confronts deadly Hollows, hidden conspirac...
Bleach (3-in-1 Edition), Vol. 1: Includes vols. 1, 2 & 3