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books— my MUST read bookshelf 📖
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items A guide to the most suspenseful and compelling stories that’ll elevate your personal library.
From romance to thriller, i’ve listed my favorite recs 😉
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mystery 🕵️
romance 💋
dystopian 🏙️
fantasy 🪄
life & thriller 🧟♀️
mystery 🕵️
to keep your brain spinning
Mystery & Romance — The ultimate duo
This smart page‑turner of a thriller brims with unexpected suspects and head‑spinning twists… addictive.
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder #1)
Mystery/ Suspense
A gripping, smart YA thriller with real emotional stakes and a powerful portrayal of strength in adversity.
Girl, Stolen #1 - April Henry
Don’t miss the #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling, addictive psychological thriller with a jaw—dropping twist that’s burning up Instagram and TikTok—Freida McFadden’s The Housemaid is perfect for fans of Ruth Ware, Lisa Jewell, and Verity.
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The Housemaid by Freida McFadden, Paperback | Barnes & Noble®
THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE GOODREADS AWARD FOR BEST CRIME AND THRILLER 2023
SEQUEL OF THE HOUSEMAID, SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
As he continues showing me their incredible penthouse apartment, I have a terrible...
The Housemaid's Secret
romance 💋
hopeless romantic
Historical Romance/ Drama/ Mystery
Slow‑burn queer romance meets space shuttle crisis—nail‑biting and heart‑wrenching.
Atmosphere is a couldn’t‑put‑down, tear‑jerker romance set amid the stars. Perfect for summer reading—or anytime you want your he...
Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The perfect romance & mystery link up
Perfect mix of banter, tension, and secrets—Henry proves once again she can deliver heart and intrigue in equal measure.
Great Big Beautiful Life: Reese's Book Club
Compelling Mystery/Romance/Drama to keep you wanting more.
A love story unlike any other—full of secrets, small-town grit, and forbidden romance.
Broken Country (Reese's Book Club)
#1 New York Times bestselling author Julie Soto crafts a lush and dark romantic fantasy that’s filled with intrigue, magic, and an irresistible enemies-to-lovers romance.
The war is over, the dark forces have won, and the hero who was supposed to s...
Rose in Chains (Deluxe Limited Edition)|Special
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW A #1 STREAMING SHOW
The epic enemies-to-lovers hockey romance from Rachel Reid, streaming on Crave in Canada and on HBO Max in the U.S.
"The book that got me into hockey romance." --NPR's Weekend Edition
Nothing i...
Heated Rivalry a book by Rachel Reid
NOW A NETFLIX FILM! • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Funny Story comes a sparkling novel that will leave you with the warm, hazy afterglow usually reserved for the best vacations.
Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance...
People We Meet on Vacation a book by Emily Henry
The book that started it all! USA TODAY bestselling author Rachel Reid's beloved Game Changers series starts here, with a secret-relationship romance set in the world of professional hockey.
New York Admirals captain Scott Hunter takes his pregame r...
Game Changer a book by Rachel Reid
dystopian 🏙️
compelling and action filled
The unforgettable fifth book in the Hunger Games series: Haymitch’s story. Feature film scheduled for November 2026.
#1 USA Today Bestseller • #1 New York Times Bestseller • #1 Indie Bestseller • #1 Publishers Weekly Bestseller • A New York Times Edi...
Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel) ...
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
Winston Smith toes the Party line, rewriting history to satisfy the demands of the Ministry of Truth. With each lie he writes, Winston gro...
1984 a book by George Orwell, Dolen Perkins-Valdez, and Sandra Newman
An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days following civilization's collapse, Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for a...
Station Eleven a book by Emily St. John Mandel
Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. Yet he spends his life wil...
Red Rising a book by Pierce Brown - Bookshop.org US
fantasy 🪄
all things magical
Dark fantasy + post-war setting. The protagonist is Helena Marino, once a promising alchemist, now imprisoned. She’s lost memories of key months before her capture, and nearly everyone she was fighting with in the Resistance is dead.
Alchemised by SenLinYu, Hardcover
This is the sequel to Fourth Wing, in the Empyrean series. Violet Sorrengail returns — she has discovered her brother Brennan is alive, working under a false name among rebels.
Romance, dragons, danger: there’s tension in personal relationships (...
Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros, Paperback
“What is it you think you’re protecting in that brain of yours? The war is over. Holdfast is dead. The Eternal Flame extinguished. There’s no one left for you to save.”
Once a promising alchemist, Helena Marino is now a prisoner—of war and of her ow...
Alchemised (B&N Exclusive Edition) by SenLinYu, Hardcover
When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a terrifying creature arrives to demand retribution. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she knows about only from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not truly a beast, but o...
A Court of Thorns and Roses a book by Sarah J. Maas - Bookshop.org
Feyre has undergone more trials than one human woman can carry in her heart. Though she's now been granted the powers and lifespan of the High Fae, she is haunted by her time Under the Mountain and the terrible deeds she performed to save the lives o...
A Court Of Mist And Fury by Sarah Maas - Bookshop.org
life & thriller 🧟♀️
you never know what’s coming next
A bighearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendships, and stories people tell themselves to survive. It touches on memory, history, work, loneliness—all things that build up around what it means to be American.
The Emperor of Gladness (Oprah's Book Club) by Ocean Vuong, Hardcover
LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE AND THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, The Washington Post, Boston Globe, Elle, Christian Science Monitor, She Reads
“Imagine, the letters one has sent out into the world...
The Correspondent: A Novel by Virginia Evans, Hardcover
Laura Dave continues Hannah Hall’s pulse-pounding journey in the riveting and deeply moving sequel to the #1 New York Times bestselling blockbuster and Apple TV+ show, The Last Thing He Told Me.
How far would you go for a second chance?
Five years ...
The First Time I Saw Him (A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick)
1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • John Grisham is the acclaimed master of the legal thriller. Now, he’s back with his first-ever whodunit, even more suspenseful than his courtroom dramas, as a small-time lawyer accused of murder races to find the real ki...
The Widow: A Novel by John Grisham, Hardcover
Ten—year—old Mona and her beloved grandfather have only fifty—two Wednesdays to visit fifty—two works of art and commit to memory “all that is beautiful in the world” before Mona loses her sight forever.
While the doctors can find no explanation for...
Mona's Eyes (2025 B&N Book of the Year) by Thomas Schlesser, Hardcover
There's someone at your front door – should you let them in? Find out in a riveting new thriller from global sensation and #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Housemaid, Freida McFadden!
Who knows what the storm will blow in…
Casey's cabin ...
The Intruder by Freida McFadden, Hardcover
THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“Told in rotating points of view, this Tilt-A-Whirl of a novel brims with jangly tension – an undeniably engrossing guessing game.” — Vogue
"[A] clever, cliff-hanger-filled thriller." — People
From the New York Times...
The Paris Apartment a book by Lucy Foley - A Novel
In this twisty thriller from New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover, a frustrated author looks for her muse in a remote hideaway, but what she finds defies all expectations…and reality.
Her words used to set the page on fire. But a viral ba...
Woman Down a book by Colleen Hoover