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My Physical TBR Pile: Books I Can’t Wait to Read
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items This is my personal TBR pile—the books I actually own and am itching to read. From swoony romances to gripping thrillers, each title is waiting to sweep me off my feet. Expect heartfelt stories, unforgettable characters, and plenty of bookish magic a...
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Romance 💞
☀️ Summer Romance | Friends-to-Lovers | Heartfelt & Funny Poppy and Alex have spent a decade taking summer trips together, but one ruined vacation changed everything. Now, they have one last chance to fix the past and maybe discover that their pe...
People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
📚 Enemies-to-Lovers | Bookish Romance | Witty & Heartfelt Nora, a cutthroat literary agent, and Charlie, a brooding editor, keep colliding in a small-town summer that neither expected. Full of clever banter, slow-burn tension, and swoony moments...
Book Lovers by Emily Henry
🎸 Rock ‘n’ Roll Romance | Slow-Burn Drama | Unforgettable Voices Daisy and Billy are destined for fame, but love, ambition, and the pressures of the spotlight threaten to tear them apart. Told as an oral history of a legendary band, this story is fu...
Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
🎾 Sports Romance | Comeback Story | Fierce & Inspiring Carrie Soto is back on the court, determined to reclaim her record and prove that age and setbacks can’t stop greatness. With high stakes, intense rivalries, and a touch of romance, this sto...
Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
☀️ Summer Romance | Second-Chance Love | Emotional & Steamy Eva and Shane were teenage lovers whose paths diverged—until a fateful week in Brooklyn brings them back together. Full of sizzling chemistry, heartfelt reconnections, and keen observati...
Seven Days in June by Tia Williams
🏡 Small-Town Romance | Opposites Attract | Steamy & Fun Maggie is a house-flipping pro with no time for distractions, but Silas, the shirtless (and sometimes pants-less) landscaper, might just be the irresistible wrench in her plans. Full of siz...
Maggie Moves On by Lucy Score
🚗 Road Trip Romance | Second-Chance Love | Fun & Emotional Addie and her ex Dylan are forced to hit the road together after a fateful car crash, with three hundred miles of secrets, sparks, and unresolved feelings between them. Full of humor, te...
The Road Trip by Beth O'Leary
💔 Second-Chance Romance | Heartfelt & Emotional Sage Alexander and Belmont Clarkson share a love that’s impossible to ignore, but secrets from the past threaten to tear them apart. Full of longing, passion, and emotional stakes, this romance wil...
Too Beautiful to Break by Tessa Bailey
🏉 Slow-Burn Romance | College & Sports Shy newcomer Shannon Lynch and all-star rugby player Johnny Kavanagh clash, connect, and can’t ignore the undeniable chemistry between them. Full of heartfelt moments, slow-burn tension, and emotional stake...
Binding 13 by Chloe Walsh
💔 College Romance | Slow-Burn & Emotional The love story of Shannon Lynch and Johnny Kavanagh continues, but life after falling in love proves far from easy. As secrets resurface and challenges test them both, Johnny must pull Shannon from the s...
Keeping 13 by Chloe Walsh
🌊 Forbidden College Romance | Slow Burn | Sport Romance Scarlett is a focused Stanford diver determined to get into med school, while Lukas is a disciplined, world-champion swimmer with eyes on gold. When a well-guarded secret brings them together, ...
Deep End by Ali Hazelwood
🔪 Murder Mystery | Grumpy x Sunshine | Spicy Rom-Com Taylor just wanted a carefree Cape Cod vacation with her brother—but instead she finds a dead body in their rental. Enter Myles, the grumpy bounty hunter determined to crack the case and keep her ...
My Killer Vacation by Tessa Bailey
🏜️ Second Chance Romance | Adventure | Treasure Hunt Lily Wilder makes her living guiding tourists on fake treasure hunts through the Utah canyons—until her ex, Leo, shows up on one of her trips. What starts as a routine scam quickly spirals into a ...
Something Wilder by Christina Lauren
🏡 Small-Town Romance | Grumpy x Sunshine | Writer Heroine Hazel’s life in New York implodes when she loses her apartment and faces the end of her publishing career. On impulse, she buys a fixer-upper in rural Pennsylvania, hoping small-town charm wi...
Story of My Life by Lucy Score
🏡 Contemporary Romance | Single Guardian | Life in Progress Diana Casillas has almost everything she could want—a new home, two young nephews she’s suddenly responsible for after her brother’s passing, a giant dog, and a job she mostly enjoys—but lo...
Wait for It by Mariana Zapata
🏒 College Romance | Enemies-to-Lovers | Slow Burn Harlow Hayes has always avoided Conor Hart, the arrogant hockey captain whose charm hides a temper she knows all too well. But when past secrets and unresolved tension collide on and off the ice, the...
Famous Last Words by C.W. Farnsworth
Thriller 🩸
📖 Thriller | Literary Drama | Dark & Twisty When rising author June steals her late friend Athena’s masterpiece, ambition, deception, and secrets collide in a gripping tale of betrayal and identity. Full of sharp twists, moral dilemmas, and edge...
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
❄️ Thriller | Survival Drama | Tense & Gripping Anya, Sergey, and a chaotic group of family and neighbors must navigate a deadly flu epidemic in Russia, facing harsh winters, scarce resources, and desperate strangers. Full of suspense, danger, an...
To the Lake by Yana Vagner
⚖️ Thriller | Psychological Suspense | Twisty & Dark Alexandra and Sofia Avellino are sisters bound by a horrifying crime—and a web of lies. One of them is a murderer, but which one? With tension, secrets, and shocking twists, this gripping thril...
Fifty-Fifty (Eddie Flynn, #5) by Steve Cavanagh
🕵️♀️ Young Adult Thriller | Serial Killer Mystery | Suspenseful & Clever Seventeen-year-old profiler Cassie Hobbes and her elite FBI teen team are pulled into a chilling case when a copycat killer emerges, mirroring the crimes of an incarcerate...
Killer Instinct by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
🖤 Thriller | Small-Town Mystery | Secrets & Suspense | YA Mystery Ellery moves to Echo Ridge, a seemingly perfect town shadowed by disappearances and deadly secrets. As another girl vanishes, Ellery realizes that everyone is hiding something—and...
Two Can Keep a Secret by Karen M. McManus
🕵️♂️🕵️♀️ Mystery | Detective Duo | High-Stakes Thriller Steve Wheeler thought retirement meant quiet days, pub quizzes, and his cat—but when his daughter-in-law Amy finds herself targeted by a killer on a remote island, he’s pulled back into the ...
We Solve Murders by Richard Osman
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🎬 Memoir | Dark Humor | Empowering & Honest Jennette McCurdy pulls back the curtain on her life as a child star, navigating fame, addiction, and a toxic relationship with her mother. Honest, funny, and heartbreaking, this memoir is a story of re...
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy