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Toxicity and Obsession
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items Toxic friends and lovers- we can all relate the visceral and palpable tension of the emotions within these books.
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Toxic Friends
Toxic Love
Toxic Friends
We all have that one friend who is so bad for you but you simply cannot see this and still continue to want to bask in their light...
She's a perfect influencer who wants to be YOUR friend, but you soon see through the perfect filters to the reality she hides. Cults, toxic friendships and obsession. YOU WILL LOVE it!
"The Goldens" by Lauren Wilson
An intense lifelong friendship fuelled by competition, admiration, and resentment. Because we all have one of these, right?
"My Brilliant Friend" by Elena Ferrante
A lonely student is drawn into an exclusive group of wealthy young women whose unsettling rituals transform campus rivalry into a surreal psychological nightmare. You will be obsessed!
"Bunny" by Mona Awad
A lonely teenager becomes bewitched by a charismatic group of girls and is pulled into the orbit of a charismatic cult leader during one transformative summer.
"The Girls" by Emma Cline
A popular influencer's carefully curated online life begins to unravel when a relentless stalker turns her family's new-found fame into a terrifying nightmare.
"People Like Her" by Ellery Lloyd
A reality TV competition among ambitious women turns deadly when hidden rivalries, betrayals, and long-buried secrets come to light after a shocking murder.
"The Favorite Sister" by Jessica Knoll
A successful artist is forced to confront the long-lasting psychological scars of a childhood friendship marked by cruelty, power, and betrayal.
"Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
A group of Shakespearean theatre students find their intense on-stage rivalries bleed into real life when a fellow student is found dead.
If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio | Goodreads
A group of students at a college become embroiled in a suffocating intellectual circle and social and moral collapse.
The Secret History by Donna Tartt - Goodreads
Everybody secretly HATES each other but also desperately NEEDS each other. Wonderfully toxic depiction of skewed female friendships and loyalties.
Big Little Lies: Moriarty, Liane - Books
A teacher begins an affair with an underage pupil and is befriended by an older mentor figure who is loyal throughout this time. Things get territorial and obsessive pretty quickly…
"Notes On A Scandal" by Zoe Heller
A kooky and isolated bookseller becomes dangerously obsessed with a successful true-crime author, blurring the line between admiration, envy, and revenge. You will become as obsessed as our weirdly wonderful protagonist.
"Death of a Bookseller" by Alice Slater
Louise meets Lavinia after a chance encounter. They spiral into an intimate, intense, and consumingly toxic friendship. A Talented Mr. Ripley for the digital age, this seductive story takes a classic tale of obsession and makes it irresistibly new.
Social Creature: Ripleyesque Female Insecurity
Toxic Love
Toxic loverssss, yeah, that's what we are....
A young woman rebuilding her life and falling in love with a charismatic neurosurgeon is forced to confront the painful cycle of abusive relationships when her first love unexpectedly reappears.
"It Ends with Us" by Colleen Hoover
You have a silly thing with your boss. Its a bit of fun. Until he puts the brakes on. He doesn't know that you are meant to be together. Why can't he see that? You make sure he sees that you are the only ones for each other…. OBSESSEDDDDD
"If I Can't Have You" by Charlotte Levin
A woman is forced to reexamine the abusive relationship she had with her English teacher as a teenager when allegations against him emerge years later. VISCERAL.
"My Dark Vanessa"by Kate Elizabeth Russell
You and your husband have a conversation about who you would sleep with if you had a hall pass. He says your best friend. This leads to chaos, paranoia and toxic obsession. This will have you on the edge of your seat!
"Obsession" by Amanda Robson
A haunting tale of obsessive, messy, all-consuming love, where Heathcliff's smothering devotion to Catherine fuels a lifetime of passion, revenge, and downright destruction.
"Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte