These are, in my opinion, the best books out there! They range in genre and theme, and address real social issues. Quite a few of them are coming-of-age stories as well. A lot of them are older stories, though there are some newer releases in there t...
gothic, mysterious, beautiful writing
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
gothic, funny, eerie
The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
introspective, illuminating, inquisitive
Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro
eerie, mysterious, introspective
The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
heartbreaking, magical, childhood favourite
Bridge To Terabithia - Katherine Paterson
introspective, fascinating, heartbreaking
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
funny, childhood favourite, sweet
Since You've Been Gone - Morgan Matson
introspective, fascinating, eerie
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
funny, mysterious, exciting
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie
introspective, childhood favourite, empowering
You Know I'm No Good - Jessie Ann Foley
childhood favourite, empowering, introspective
The Grace Year - Kim Liggett
fascinating, eerie, mysterious
The Tell-Tale Heart - Edgar Allen Poe
introspective, gothic, eerie
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
introspective, heartbreaking, mysterious
Heaven - Mieko Kawakami
fascinating, funny, heartbreaking
Hungry Hill - Daphne du Maurier
introspective, fascinating, mysterious
If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English - Noor Naga
fascinating, heartbreaking, short story
The Pearl - John Steinbeck
fascinating, introspective, all too real
Y/N - Esther Yi
fascinating, funny, eerie
Yellowface - R. F. Kuang
childhood favourite, beautiful, heartbreaking
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
exciting, funny, romantic
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
eerie, play, fascinating
A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams
funny, cruel, play
Othello - William Shakespeare
funny, groundbreaking, tongue-in-cheek
Frenchman's Creek - Daphne du Maurier
play, funny, cruel
Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
heartbreaking, what is the meaning of life?, funny
Before I Fall - Lauren Oliver
heartbreaking, groundbreaking, real life
The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas
funny, real, romantic
Anything But Fine - Tobias Madden
heartbreaking, fascinating, multi-layered
A Study in Drowning - Ava Reid
heartbreaking, funny, real life
Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog - John Grogan
funny, absolutely ridiculous, gothic
The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole
funny, heartbreaking, groundbreaking
Hedwig and the Angry Inch - John Cameron Mitchell
funny, childhood fave, tongue-in-cheek
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks - e. lockhart
