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🔞 Every Book I've Ever Read
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items 📚 = Series | 📕 = Single Book
📖 I've read every single one of these books. Some I loved, some I didn't, some I laughed, some I cried, and some I've completely lost the plot 🤗 I'm sure you'll find a new favorite here
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Contemporary Romance
Dark Romance 🌶️🥵
Dystopian
Romantasy 🫦
All Time Literary Favorites
Contemporary Romance
Sometimes I want danger and chaos. Other times? I just want swoony kisses, slow-burn tension, and happy endings that make me forget about my laundry pile. This is for those times.
Twisted Love by Ana Huang
📖 A scorching romance where loyalty, danger, and an unbreakable bond spark between two people who were never meant to fall in love.
Reading Order: Twisted Love – Twisted Games – Twisted Hate – Twisted Lies
📚 Forbidden Protector
Dark Romance 🌶️🥵
Like some really dark romance? Yeah, me too. I should probably go back to therapy but instead I'll read another dark romance book…
Liars Like Us by JT Geissinger
📖 A struggling bookstore owner reluctantly agrees to a marriage of convenience with a charismatic billionaire to save her business. However, as sparks fly, his obsession deepens into control and deceit — a morally gray...
📚 Obsessive Billionaire
Lights Out by Navessa Allen
📖 A trauma nurse accidentally messages her favorite masked TikTok cosplayer with a risqué fantasy - and wakes up to find him in her house. What starts as a playful encounter turns into a twisted, steamy romance with stalk...
📚 Stalker Comedy
The L.O.R.D.S. Series by Shantel Tessier
📖 Dark romance series centered around a powerful secret society where love, loyalty, and revenge intertwine at an elite university.
Reading Order: The Ritual - The Sinner - The Sacrifice - Sabotage - Carnage...
📚 Possessive Society
Crossfire Series by Sylvia Day
📖 Two emotionally scarred people find intense passion and face their pasts while learning to love deeply and honestly. (Individual Books available at the link)
Reading Order: Bared to You - Reflected in You - Entwined...
📚 Trauma Bonding
Cat & Mouse Duet by HD Carlton
📖 A gothic dark romance about a reclusive writer, a mysterious stalker, and the blurred line between obsession and love.
Reading Order: Haunting Adeline - Hunting Adeline
Reading Order with optional additions: Sa...
📚 Stalker Romance
Heartless Heathens by Santana Knox
📚 Locked away in the bell tower of a religious school, a young woman known only through legend is discovered by three dark and dangerous men. What begins as a rescue turns into a twisted game of power, obsession, a...
📕 Ruthless Reverse-Harem
Hooked by Emily McIntire
📖 (Peter Pan inspired)
A dark, seductive retelling where the villain takes center stage, turning Neverland into a world of obsession, power, and dangerous attraction.
This is a standalone novel in a dark fairytale retelling...
📕 Twisted Fairytale
Scarred by Emily McIntite
📖 (The Lion King inspired)
A royal reimagining filled with betrayal, power plays, and a dangerous romance that challenges the crown.
This is a standalone novel in a dark fairytale retelling series "Never After", which incl...
📕 Twisted Fairytale
Twisted by Emily McIntite
📖 (Aladdin inspired)
An edgy, pulse-pounding retelling where temptation and revenge blur the lines between justice and sin.
This is a standalone novel in a dark fairytale retelling series "Never After", which includes Hook...
📕 Twisted Fairytale
Satan's Affair by H.D. Carlton
📖 A deliciously deranged heroine who turns lust and bloodshed into an intoxicating game you’ll never want to end.
Can be read as a standalone or as part of the Cat and Mouse Duet
📕 Psychotic Depravity
That Sik Luv by Jessa Kane
📖 A raw, obsessive romance where passion burns hot, boundaries blur, and desire becomes dangerously addictive.
Reading Order: Standalone
I almost DNF - I just wasn't really a fan of the storytelling
📕 Toxic Addiction
A Touch of Darkness by Scarlett St. Clair (Hades & Persephone inspired)
📖 A captivating romance where the goddess of spring is drawn into the dangerous, intoxicating world of the god of the dead.
Reading Order: A Touch of Darkness – A Touch of ...
📚 Underworld Desire
Neon Gods by Katee Robert (Hades & Persephone inspired)
📖 A modern, steamy retelling where ancient gods rule a city of secrets, and one bargain sparks irresistible temptation.
Reading Order: Neon Gods – Electric Idol – Wicked Beauty – Radiant S...
📚 Mythical Seduction
Dystopian
🫶 Want to escape to different reality for a bit? I don't blame ya
💕As you can see by all the YA titles, this genre has long been a favorite of mine. I long to re-read these, but there are so many new titles vying for my attention!
4 Book Series. Reading Order: Uglies - Pretties - Specials - Extras
Synopsis: In a future where everyone gets surgically made “pretty” at sixteen, one girl challenges the system and uncovers the dark truth behind perfection.
Synopsis: In a future where everyone gets surgically made “pretty” at sixteen, one girl challenges the system and uncovers the dark truth behind perfection.
Uglies (Uglies Trilogy, Book 1) Scott Westerfeld
4 Book Series. Reading Order: Uglies - Pretties - Specials - Extras
Synopsis: In a future where everyone gets surgically made “pretty” at sixteen, one girl challenges the system and uncovers the dark truth behind perfection.
Synopsis: In a future where everyone gets surgically made “pretty” at sixteen, one girl challenges the system and uncovers the dark truth behind perfection.
Pretties (Uglies Trilogy, Book 2) Scott Westerfeld
4 Book Series. Reading Order: Uglies - Pretties - Specials - Extras
Synopsis: In a future where everyone gets surgically made “pretty” at sixteen, one girl challenges the system and uncovers the dark truth behind perfection.
Synopsis: In a future where everyone gets surgically made “pretty” at sixteen, one girl challenges the system and uncovers the dark truth behind perfection.
Specials (The Uglies) Scott Westerfeld
4 Book Series. Reading Order: Uglies - Pretties - Specials - Extras
Synopsis: In a future where everyone gets surgically made “pretty” at sixteen, one girl challenges the system and uncovers the dark truth behind perfection.
Synopsis: In a future where everyone gets surgically made “pretty” at sixteen, one girl challenges the system and uncovers the dark truth behind perfection.
Extras (The Uglies) Scott Westerfeld
Reading Order: Delirium - Pandemonium - Requiem
Synopsis: In a dystopian world where love is seen as a disease, one girl starts to feel and must decide whether to accept the cure or follow her heart
Synopsis: In a dystopian world where love is seen as a disease, one girl starts to feel and must decide whether to accept the cure or follow her heart
Delirium (Delirium Series #1) by Lauren Oliver
Reading Order: Delirium - Pandemonium - Requiem
Synopsis: In a dystopian world where love is seen as a disease, one girl starts to feel and must decide whether to accept the cure or follow her heart
Synopsis: In a dystopian world where love is seen as a disease, one girl starts to feel and must decide whether to accept the cure or follow her heart
Pandemonium (Delirium Series #2) by Lauren Oliver
Reading Order: Delirium - Pandemonium - Requiem
Synopsis: In a dystopian world where love is seen as a disease, one girl starts to feel and must decide whether to accept the cure or follow her heart
Synopsis: In a dystopian world where love is seen as a disease, one girl starts to feel and must decide whether to accept the cure or follow her heart
Requiem (Delirium Series #3) by Lauren Oliver
Individual Books available at the link. Reading Order: Divergent - Insurgent - Allegiant - Four: A Divergent Collection (optional prequel)
Synopsis: In a society divided by traits, one girl’s divergence puts her in danger and sparks a revolution that challenges everything.
Synopsis: In a society divided by traits, one girl’s divergence puts her in danger and sparks a revolution that challenges everything.
Divergent Series by Veronica Roth
Individual Books available at the link. Reading Order: Matched - Crossed - Reached
Synopsis: In a world where choices are made for you, including who you love, one girl questions the system and sets out to make her own path.
Synopsis: In a world where choices are made for you, including who you love, one girl questions the system and sets out to make her own path.
Matched Trilogy by Ally Condie
Romantasy 🫦
📚 = Series | 📕 = Single Book
🤗 FAE & DRAGONS & VAMPIRES, OH MY! Sprinkle in some "who hurt you" and I'm done for
📖 A steamy fantasy romance series featuring dangerous FAE rulers and the women who challenge their power, passion, and fate.
Reading Order: The Dark King - The Rebel King - The Vicious King
📚 The Dark King by Gina L Maxwell
📖 A steamy fantasy romance series featuring dangerous FAE rulers and the women who challenge their power, passion, and fate.
Reading Order: The Dark King - The Rebel King - The Vicious King
📚 The Rebel King by Gina L. Maxwell
📖 A steamy fantasy romance series featuring dangerous FAE rulers and the women who challenge their power, passion, and fate.
Reading Order: The Dark King - The Rebel King - The Vicious King
📚 The Vicious King by Gina L. Maxwell
📖 A deadly assassin is drawn into a world of magic, war, and ancient secrets as she fights for freedom and discovers her true destiny. (Individual Books available at the link.)
Not to be dramatic or anything, but this series changed my life.
Readi...
📚 Throne Of Glass Series by Sarah J. Maas
📖 A mortal girl enters the fae world after killing a wolf and becomes entangled in magical politics, ancient curses, and powerful romance. (Individual Books available at the link)
Reading Order: A Court of Thorns and Roses - A Court of Mist and Fur...
📚 A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
📖 Half-FAE party girl Bryce Quinlan investigates a murder in a futuristic city and discovers powers, secrets, and allies that could change her world forever. (Individual Books available at the link)
Reading Order: House of Earth and Blood - House o...
📚 Crescent City Series by Sarah J. Maas
📖 Twin sisters discover they are the heirs to a powerful celestial throne and are thrust into a brutal magical academy where they must master elemental powers and survive deadly rivalries. Romance, betrayal, and destiny collide in this dark paranorm...
📚 Zodiac Academy Series by Peckham & Valenti
📖 A young woman is forced into a deadly dragon-rider academy where survival depends on grit, alliances, and uncovering secrets that could change everything.(Individual Books available at the link)
Reading Order: Fourth Wing - Iron Flame - Onyx Stor...
📚 The Empyrean Series by Rebecca Yarros
📖 Every hundred years, an island called Lightlark reappears, and six rulers must compete in a deadly game to break the curses on their realms. One of them must die to succeed. Isla Crown enters the Centennial with secrets of her own, navigating betr...
📚 Lightlark Saga by Alex Aster
All Time Literary Favorites
I've included personal notes for each. These are old classics that I hold near and dear.
So good they've made it onto my book tattoo sleeve
Available on Kindle, Hardcover, Paperback, and Audiobook! I felt so seen in this book. The outcast. The weirdo. My favorite passage:
“We wanted to define her, to wrap her up as we did each other, but we could not seem to get past ”weird" and “strange” and “goofy." A single word seemed to hover in the cloudless sky over the school: HUH? Everything she did seemed to echo Hillari Kim...
About the book: “Stargirl. From the day she arrives at quiet Mica High in a burst of color and sound, the hallways hum with the murmur of “Stargirl, Stargirl.” She captures Leo Borlock’ s heart with just one smile. She sparks a school-spirit revoluti...
“We wanted to define her, to wrap her up as we did each other, but we could not seem to get past ”weird" and “strange” and “goofy." A single word seemed to hover in the cloudless sky over the school: HUH? Everything she did seemed to echo Hillari Kim...
About the book: “Stargirl. From the day she arrives at quiet Mica High in a burst of color and sound, the hallways hum with the murmur of “Stargirl, Stargirl.” She captures Leo Borlock’ s heart with just one smile. She sparks a school-spirit revoluti...
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
Available on Kindle, Hardcover, Paperback, and Audiobook!
“A pilot crashes in the Sahara Desert and encounters a strange young boy who calls himself the Little Prince. The Little Prince has traveled there from his home on a lonely, distant asteroid with a single rose. The story that follows is a beautiful a...
“A pilot crashes in the Sahara Desert and encounters a strange young boy who calls himself the Little Prince. The Little Prince has traveled there from his home on a lonely, distant asteroid with a single rose. The story that follows is a beautiful a...
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Author), Richard Howard (Translator)