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📚 Trending & Popular Books to Add to Your TBR

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Mae Rachel Ann Gasal

Looking for your next great read? This curated TBR collection brings together trending and popular books readers are talking about, from BookTok favorites and bestselling romance to romantasy, fantasy, dark fiction, literary fiction, and sci-fi. Whet...

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🐉 Romantasy & Fantasy

❤️ Trending Romance

🖤 Dark & Unusual Reads

📖 Literary & Emotional Fiction

🚀 Sci-Fi

🐉 Romantasy & Fantasy

For readers looking for dragons, magic, dangerous quests, mysterious worlds, and romance woven into the story. These are fantasy and romantasy picks to add to your TBR when you want high-stakes adventures, immersive worlds, and characters you’ll want...

If you’re looking for a romantasy that’s impossible to put down, I’d start with Fourth Wing. You get dragon riders, deadly military training, powerful magic, and an enemies-to-lovers romance between Violet and Xaden that keeps the tension high. I’d r...

Fourth Wing

If Fourth Wing and Iron Flame are already on your TBR, I’d add Onyx Storm next. Violet and Xaden face bigger threats, dangerous missions, new alliances, and secrets that could change everything in the Empyrean world. I’d recommend this for romantasy ...

Onyx Storm (Standard Edition)

If gothic romantasy is your thing, The Knave and the Moon deserves a spot on your list. With a mysterious amnesiac knave, dangerous magic, political intrigue, and a kingdom on the brink of collapse, this one has the dark fairytale atmosphere I look f...

The Knave and the Moon

If you want something completely chaotic but surprisingly addictive, I’d recommend Dungeon Crawler Carl. Carl and Princess Donut are thrown into an alien-run dungeon after Earth is destroyed, where surviving deadly levels becomes entertainment for a ...

Dungeon Crawler Carl

If you love magical mysteries with a glamorous setting, I’d put Alchemy of Secrets on your TBR. Holland St. James begins investigating the strange urban legends surrounding her world and discovers a hidden magical society beneath Los Angeles, along w...

Alchemy of Secrets

❤️ Trending Romance

For romance readers looking for complicated relationships, emotional tension, second chances, and chemistry that keeps the pages turning. These are romance picks worth adding to your TBR when you want popular, addictive, and emotionally engaging read...

If complicated relationships and unforgettable first loves are your thing, I’d add Heart the Lover to your TBR. Jordan’s college friendship with Sam and Yash develops into a complicated love triangle, and years later, the past comes back in a way tha...

Heart the Lover

If you want a romance with a Hollywood backdrop, I’d add Hollywood, Ending to your list. Kai Laramie and Juniper Castillo are rising actors whose breakout movie suddenly puts their careers and relationship under an intense public spotlight. I’d recom...

Hollywood, Ending (Standard Edition)

If second-chance romance and married-couple stories are your thing, I’d add Out of the Woods to your TBR. Sarah and Caleb have been together since they were nineteen, but after years of marriage, unresolved doubts and old frustrations leave their rel...

Out of the Woods

🖤 Dark & Unusual Reads

For readers who want something outside the usual romance and fantasy formula. These picks bring together darker, stranger, and more unpredictable stories with unsettling relationships, surreal situations, psychological tension, and unexpected twists.

If you’re specifically looking for dark romance, Haunting Adeline is one I’d put on your list. The gothic setting, obsessive relationship between Adeline and Zade, psychological suspense, and morally gray characters make this a much darker read than ...

Haunting Adeline

If you like books that take a familiar idea and completely turn it upside down, I’d add Yesteryear to your list. A successful tradwife influencer suddenly finds herself living in 1855 and has to experience firsthand the “perfect traditional life” she...

Yesteryear: A GMA Book Club Pick

If you like your dark academia with a surreal and unsettling twist, I’d add We Love You, Bunny. Sam publishes a novel inspired by a wealthy MFA clique, only to be kidnapped by the very women she wrote about—and forced to hear their version of the sto...

We Love You, Bunny

📖 Literary & Emotional Fiction

For readers who prefer character-driven stories that stay with you after the last page. These picks explore family, relationships, memory, forgiveness, friendship, and the complicated choices that shape a person’s life.

If you want a feel-good book with a genuinely unusual premise, I’d recommend Theo of Golden. Theo arrives in a small Southern town and begins buying portraits of local people in exchange for hearing their stories, slowly bringing the community togeth...

Theo of Golden

If you prefer character-driven fiction over fast-paced plots, I’d put Whistler on your reading list. Daphne reconnects with Eddie, her former stepfather, decades after a painful event changed their family forever, bringing old memories and unresolved...

Whistler

If you’re looking for a thoughtful, emotional read, I’d recommend The Correspondent. Retired lawyer Sybil Van Antwerp has always used letters to make sense of her life, but messages from someone in her past force her to revisit a painful chapter she ...

The Correspondent

🚀 Sci-Fi

For readers ready to dive into space, science, survival, and big mysteries. These sci-fi picks are great for anyone who enjoys high-stakes problems, unexpected discoveries, clever science, and stories that keep you turning the pages.

If you want sci-fi that feels clever without becoming difficult to follow, I’d absolutely recommend Project Hail Mary. Ryland Grace wakes up alone on a spaceship with no memory of how he got there, only to discover that he may be humanity’s last chan...

Project Hail Mary