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Romances

Hot and steamy reads for by the pool, beach or the comfort of your own garden

 
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Steamy romance series
Dreamland Billionaires Series: 3 Book Bundle
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Part epistolary romance, part mind-blowing science fiction adventure, this dazzling story unfolds bit by bit, revealing layers of meaning as it plays with cause and effect, wildly imaginative technologies, and increasingly intricate wordplay.
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
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What happens when America's First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales?
Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
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Sally Milz is a sketch writer for The Night Owls, a late-night live comedy show that airs every Saturday. With her keen observations and trademark ability to bring complex women to life on the page, Curtis Sittenfeld explores the neurosis-inducing an...
Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld
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Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college, they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Except, now--for reasons they're still not discussing, they don't.They broke up five months ago. And stil...
Happy Place by Emily Henry
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Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one is more astounded than Monique herself. ...
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
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In the summer of 1977, Victoria Leonard's world changes forever when Caitlin Somers chooses her as a friend. Dazzling, reckless Caitlin welcomes Vix into the heart of her sprawling, eccentric family, opening doors to a world of unimaginable privilege...
Summer Sisters by Judy Blume
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The many lives of theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway have finally caught up with her. By day, she's an adjunct professor, toiling away at grading labs and teaching thermodynamics in the hopes of landing tenure. By other day, Elsie makes up for her ...
Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood
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Lea Mortimer has everything under control. As a highly sought-after consultant specializing in transforming dilapidated French country estates into boutique hotels, she relishes her freedom as a single, childfree woman.
As affairs bloom in the idyllic chateau, wars of inheritance play out between the family, and betrayals threaten even the most solid relationships. Lea realizes that it's not just a broken heart she's risking, but her entire, meticulously-construct...
A Perfect Vintage by Chelsea Fagan
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Feyi Adekola wants to learn how to be alive again. It's been five years since the accident that killed the love of her life and she's almost a new person now--an artist with her own studio and sharing a brownstone apartment with her ride-or-die best ...
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
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Seven days to fall in love, fifteen years to forget, and seven days to get it all back again...Eva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer who is feeling pressed from all sides. Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic, award-winning novelis...
Seven Days in June by Tia Williams
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On Jess's first day at Goldman Sachs, she's less than thrilled to learn she'll be on the same team as Josh, her white, conservative sparring partner from college. Josh loves playing the devil's advocate and is just...the worst. But when Jess finds he...
Everything's Fine by Cecilia Rabess
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It's the middle of the night in the middle of Paris and a woman just woke up with no memory. She only knows three things for certain: 1. She has a splitting headache. 2. The hottest guy she has (probably) ever seen is standing over her, telling her...
The Blonde Identity by Ally Carter
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Six summers to fall in love. One moment to fall apart. A weekend to get it right. They say you can never go home again, and for Persephone Fraser, ever since she made the biggest mistake of her life a decade ago, that has felt too true. Instead of gl...
Every Summer After by Carley Fortune
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A random connection sends two strangers on a daylong adventure where they make a promise one keeps and the other breaks, with life-changing effects.
Meet Me at the Lake a book by Carley Fortune
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Contemporary Fiction📚

Old school literature that makes you swoon

 
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A group of gifted teenagers form friendships at summer camp. Their bond appears to be unbreakable, despite their lives heading in different directions. The Interestings is an insightful, observant look at what happens to friendships when each person ...
The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer.
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The Delaney family appears, on the surface, to be perfect. Four grown-up kids, incredible talent on the tennis court, a happy fifty-year marriage, a beautiful home in the suburbs – life couldn’t be better. That is, until the family matriarch, Joy, go...
Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
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Beautiful, bold Daisy has a rollercoaster life as a rockstar, with all that entails. Sex, drugs, and fame quickly come her way, and at the age of twenty, she achieves a level of fame that many people would dream of. With a fast-paced plot, Daisy Jone...
Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
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It follows multiple generations of the same family, and it explores several themes, including family dynamics, grief, identity, and the experience of being a black woman in modern Britain. Written in an experimental form, it’s a sensitive, nuanced, a...
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo.
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Mia, an artist and single mother to her quiet teenage daughter Pearl, stirs up the status quo and ruffles the feathers of her landlady Elena Richardson, an upstanding Shaker Heights citizen. It’s a rollercoaster of a story that will pull you, irresis...
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
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Ruth and Hannah are sisters, and they are incredibly close, despite their differences. Vivacious, outgoing Hannah persuades Ruth to go on a holiday that changes Ruth’s life forever. How do you put your life back together when everything has fallen ap...
Sunset by Jessie Cave
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Following a messy split from her boyfriend, Queenie looks for comfort. She just happens to be searching in all the wrong places. Queenie is honest, witty, and heartfelt. With a pace that rockets along, especially in the second half, you won’t be able...
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
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In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world in which everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
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Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She's a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they a...
People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
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Reeling from a broken heart, Annie Lord revisits the past - from the moment she first fell in love, the shared in-jokes and intertwining of a long-term relationship, to the months that saw the slow erosion of a bond five years in the making. This stu...
Notes on Heartbreak by Annie Lord
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Ingrid Yang is desperate to finish her PhD dissertation on the much-lauded poet Xiao-Wen Chou and never read about ‘Chinese-y’ things again, when she accidentally stumbles upon a strange note in the Chou archives that she thinks may be her ticket out...
Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou
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I'M A FAN tells the story of an unnamed narrator's involvement in a seemingly unequal romantic relationship. With a clear and unforgiving eye, Sheena Patel makes startling connections between power struggles at the heart of human relationships to tho...
I'm a Fan by Sheena Patel
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From one of Italy’s most acclaimed authors, comes this ravishing and generous-hearted novel about a friendship that lasts a lifetime. The story of Elena and Lila begins in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighbourhood on the outskirts of Naples. Grow...
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante and Ann Goldstein
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When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. Stranded at boarding school, his vulnerability attracts his piano teacher, Miriam Cornell, leaving...
Lessons by Ian McEwan
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Young Adult Thrillers ⏳

For those who enjoy the twists and turns from within mysteries and spell binding stories

 
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Ominous, thrilling, and supernatural. Rae Winter survives a car crash, miraculously. This puts Matt Watts on notice since his one mission has always been; hunting anyone who has the mark. But what is he to do when he gets to know Rae, a kind, sweet, ...
A Crooked Mark by Linda Kao
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In this summer adventure, Casey goes on a quest with the help of new friends to save her future. Popular, affluent, and on her way to an Ivy League school, Casey has a bright future ahead of her. But when her dad loses his job, her future is at stake...
Good as Gold by Candace Buford
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Secrets, lies, and murder collide at a summer camp where Goldie works as a counselor. Her best friend goes to the lake one night, and the following day, a dead body turns up in the water. Goldie gets caught between wanting the truth about that night ...
The Counselors by Jessica Goodman
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A high school drama with a twist, this novel follows four teens through breakups, new love, and dark secrets. With plenty of surprises and disturbing elements, this book will keep you flying through the pages.
Lies You Never Told Me by Jennifer Donaldson
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If you read and loved the bestselling TikTok sensation, We Were Liars, you won’t want to miss the prequel. Return to the Sinclair family’s private island at an earlier time for another mind-blowing mystery. Secrets and betrayal mixed with wealth and ...
Family of Liars: The Prequel to We Were Liars a book by E. Lockhart
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Head to Texas for a thrilling murder mystery that tackles racial inequality in the justice system. When her older brother gets accused of murdering a white girl, Tracy decides to find out what happened. As she investigates the crime, she digs up secr...
This Is My America by Kim Johnson
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Journey deep into the Bayou to a small town with an overabundance of psychics, a killer on the loose, and more secrets than the swamp itself. Grey’s best friend went missing, and now Grey wants answers. But as she digs into the mystery, she only find...
Dark and Shallow Lies by Ginny Myers Sain
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Pip is a true-crime podcaster, keeping her audience updated as she looks into the murder of a teenage girl five years earlier. As she uncovers secrets about the case, she realizes the wrong person is in prison. The actual killer is on the loose, and ...
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
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When Tina was a child, she and her mother fled the Congo as refugees. They tried to make a new life for themselves in Sangui City, Kenya. Tina’s mom gets a job as a maid in the prominent Greyhill family home, whose fortunes were made from corruption ...
City of Saints & Thieves by Natalie C. Anderson
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Alice disappeared, then reappeared, and refuses to say what happened. So, when Brooke Donovan goes missing for good, Iris and Alice team up to find out what happened. With a significant payday from Brooke’s grandmother on the line and a killer on the...
The Agathas by Kathleen Glasgow and Liz Lawson
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Luca Laine Thomas lives on a cursed island. To the outside world, Parris is an exclusive, idyllic escape accessible only to the one percent. There's nothing idyllic about its history, though, scattered with the unsolved deaths of young women--deaths ...
Bad Things Happen Here by Rebecca Barrow
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At turns tender and vicious, Limberlost is a tale of the masculinities we inherit, the limits of ownership and understanding, and the teeming, vibrant wonders of growing up. Told in spellbinding, folkloric spirit, this is an unforgettable love letter...
Limberlost by Robbie Arnott.
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Taylor Songs As Books 🪩🧣

From love triangles, distant lovers or acts of trying. Here are the tales of fighting dragons, guitar string scars and being magnificently cursed.

 
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'22'. To sum it up, it's about being happy, free, confused and lonely at the same time. In Alderton’s book, she reflects on her twenties – the relationships, jobs and friendships that have shaped her, and how she learned to love herself. Swift’s song...
Dear Dolly: On Love, Life and Friendship…
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'This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things'. OK, yes, Swift directly mentions Gatsby in the lyric: “feeling like Gatsby for that whole year”. But this song also paints a vivid picture of lavish parties that evokes F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel about an eni...
The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald
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In ‘Our Song’, Swift asks her boyfriend why they don’t have a song and he says they do: it’s the slam of screen doors, sneaking out late, and tapping on each other’s windows. It might sound like a cop-out, but Swift thought it was romantic. Daniel an...
Mix Tape by Jane Sanderson
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'You Belong With Me'. Poppy and Alex are best friends – in the same ‘will-they-won’t-they’ way that Ross and Rachel or Harry and Sally are best friends. Every year, they go on holiday together but on the 12th year of this tradition, things have chang...
You and Me on Vacation by Emily Henry
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In ‘Champagne Problems’, a woman can’t give a reason for why she turned down her partner’s proposal. Likewise, in Truman Capote’s iconic novel, the magnetic Holly Golightly quite literally runs away from commitment due to trauma from her past. When B...
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote.
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In The Paper Palace, Elle loves her husband Peter. But while staying at her family’s holiday home, she has an affair with Jonas, her childhood sweetheart. The choice between a stable partner and screaming and fighting and kissing in the rain with you...
The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller.
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'Fifteen'. Swift’s heart-breaking song about a loss of innocence, growing up, and the casual cruelty of teenage boys is a fan favourite for a reason. While the trio of best friends at the heart of Girls in Love are not quite 15 (they’re 13), they lea...
Girls In Love by Jacqueline Wilson and Nick Sharratt
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'Anti-hero'. Career-driven Nora, believes she is the “Evil Villainess in [her] own life” – defining herself in a manner similar to Swift in ‘Anti-Hero’, when she sings that she is the problem. Henry’s novel, however, takes a turn when Nora goes to a ...
Book Lovers by Emily Henry.
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'Blank Space'. Victoria Mas’ novel, about women who have been confined to an asylum in 1885 and must attend a ball to entertain the Parisian elite, raises the same question: who gets to decide if a woman is “mad”?
The Mad Women's Ball by Victoria Mas and Frank Wynne
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‘Cruel Summer’ is many things but at its heart it’s about a new relationship that feels so fragile that one wrong move could break it. This fragility, combined with a strong sexual attraction, could easily be describing the main characters of Sally R...
Normal People by Sally Rooney
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'The Man'. Swift’s song imagines what would happen if she were able to enjoy the success of a male artist, away from the hypocritical criticism she receives as a woman. Naomi Alderman’s novel takes this power-reversal theme a step further, and imagin...
The Power by Naomi Alderman
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'No Body, No Crime'. In this retelling of a Greek myth, Clytemnestra is a warrior princess whose life is turned upside down when Agamemnon murders her husband and son and takes her as his wife. His numerous other cruelties transform Clytemnestra into...
Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati
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‘You’re On Your Own Kid’. In Acts of Desperation, the unnamed protagonist embarks on a relationship with an older man who is not right for her, leading her down a path of obsession and self-destructive behaviour. It’s a similar narrative to what we s...
Acts of Desperation by Megan Nolan
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'All Too Well'. This beautifully written novel, which deals with the complex, all-consuming and sometimes dark nature of love, shares Swift’s retrospective from ‘All Too Well (10-minute version)’. We can particularly imagine Maurice claiming that Sar...
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
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'The Lucky Ones'. Everyone wants to be Daisy Jones — she is young, beautiful, and has a voice like no other. When she joins the famous rock ‘n roll band, The Six, they’re destined to become music legends. It doesn’t take long for Daisy and the rest o...
Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
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'This Love'. It’s been two years since Dylan and Addie last saw each other. When Dylan’s car breaks down on the way to their friend’s wedding, his only transportation option is a road trip with Addie’s crew. Forced into close proximity, Dylan and Add...
The Road Trip a book by Beth O'Leary
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'London Boy'. Anthony Philby, Duke of Weston is determined to redeem his family’s reputation after becoming Lucy Coover’s scandalous muse. After agreeing to help the struggling artist regain her foreclosed home, the two set out to set clean up the du...
The Duke Undone by Joanna Lowell
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'Cruel Summer'. January Andrews and Augustus Everett have been rivals since college. When January realizes that their beach houses are next to each other, she’s less than thrilled. But as the weeks pass, Augustus lets his mask fall, and January reali...
Beach Read by Emily Henry
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'The Last Great American Dynasty'. As the only child of C. W. Post, Marjorie could’ve settled for a simple life of luxury after her father’s cereal company hit it big. But Marjorie was never one to settle. Her life story starts humbly in Battle Creek...
The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post by Allison Pataki
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'Vigilante Shit'. When Lovett High School’s very first Black homecoming queen ends up dead the night of her coronation, it’s left up to her best friend to find out who did it. If that wasn’t enough, the top suspect is Tinsley McArthur, the beautiful,...
The Black Queen by Jumata Emill
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'Glitch'. Sharlot and George were set up to meet at one of the most romantic places in the world by two unlikely people — their parents. When they start to get to know each other, they can’t help the affections that grow. Could it be that they’re a p...
Well, That Was Unexpected by Jesse Q. Sutanto
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'Blank Space'. Scarlett is a beautiful southern belle stressed and struggling with the Civil War that rages around her. On top of that, her love life is not going her way, and gossip is rife — but that never stops her from going after what she wants.
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell and Pat Conroy
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‘Out of The Woods’. Both the song and the book discuss seemingly treacherous love stories that teeter on the edge of disaster. Both also conjure strikingly beautiful images of love and relationships.
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
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'All You Had To Do Was Stay'.
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
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'Shake It Off', is a song about living your life the way YOU want. Lena Dunham’s Not that Kind of Girl, is full of autobiographical stories, brimming with the nitty gritty stuff most people wouldn’t even tell their very best friend.
Not That Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham
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'I Wish You Would'. In The Post-Birthday World, Irina discovers herself torn between two men: The serious, responsible guy vs. the charming self-absorbed guy. In alternating chapters we see Irina embark on two different versions of her life with two ...
The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver
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'Wildest Dreams'. Both 'Wildest Dreams' and The Virgin Suicides obsess over ideas of memory, desire, and loss. The book is narrated by a group of young men who as teenagers, and still as adults, obsess over a group of sisters in the neighborhood. The...
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
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'This Love'. I’ll Give You the Sun isn’t just about romantic relationships it’s also about the love between siblings and how tumultuous, meaningful, and heartbreaking they can be.
I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
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'I Know Places'. Orwell’s 1984 is all about intrusion and control and matches the sense of urgency Swift has created in her song. At the heart of both is a love story which ultimately seems doomed.
1984 by George Orwell
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'Clean'. Both Wild and Clean look at the ways we heal ourselves after some kind of traumatic situation or life stage. Both start out quite sad, and then they get really sad BUT then the ultimate transition happens and from all the bad stuff comes the...
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
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'Fearless'. It’s a tender, coming-of-age story about first loves, heartbreak, and summer romance. Belly Conklin is a 15-year-old teen who spends every summer at Cousins Beach with her brother, her mother, her mother’s best friend, Susannah, and Susan...
The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han
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'Speak Now'. A romance between two people who get stuck in an elevator together only to leave the unideal situation agreeing to a date. Well, a fake date. Drew needs a plus one to his ex’s wedding, and Alexa, who finds him charismatic and charming, s...
The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory
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‘Red’. Begin Again touches on topics of friendship, family, love, and letting go of bad relationships. Andie has transferred to Blue Ridge State to major in psychology, but it doesn’t hurt that her long-term boyfriend Connor also attends. Her attempt...
Begin Again by Emma Lord
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'Delicate'. In The People We Keep, we first meet April in 1994 where she’s dealing with an absent father and a town that doesn’t feel like home. Playing open mic nights is the only thing that awakens her soul, so when things take a turn for the worst...
The People We Keep by Allison Larkin
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'Lover'. This electrifying, heart-fluttering dual-POV romance follows Eliza and Graham as they head to a resort in Northern California in celebration of their five-year wedding anniversary. The two haven’t been connecting lately, and Eliza worries th...
Do I Know You? by Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka
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Horror

 
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Everyone loses something to the Tox; Hetty lost her eye, Reese's hand has changed, and Byatt just disappeared completely.
It’s been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put in quarantine. The Tox turned the students strange and savage, the teachers died off one by one. Cut off from the mainland, the girls don’t dare wander past the school’s fence wher...
But when Byatt goes missing, Hetty will do anything to find her best friend, even if it means breaking quarantine and braving the horrors that lie in the wilderness past the fence. As she digs deeper, she learns disturbing truths about her school a...
Wilder Girls by Rory Power
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In the early 1900’s, Brookhants students Flo and Clara fell madly in love, brought together by their obsession for a scandalous memoir.
A few months later they were found dead in the woods, after a horrific wasp attack, the book lying next to their intertwined bodies.
Three more grisly deaths followed before the school was forced to close.
Now, the school’s doors are open once more. But as the crew of glamorous young actresses assemble to start filming, past and present begin to blur. And soon it’s impossible to tell quite where the curse ends and Hollywood begins…
Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth
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Beth and Fran spend their days traveling the ravaged New England coast, hunting feral men and harvesting their organs in a gruesome effort to ensure they'll never face the same fate.
Robbie lives by his gun and one hard-learned motto: other people aren't safe.
After a brutal accident entwines the three of them, this found family of survivors must navigate murderous TERFs, a sociopathic billionaire bunker brat, and awkward relationship dynamics-all while outrunning packs of feral men, and their own demons...
Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin
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Alone in a remote house in Iceland a woman is unnerved by her isolation; another can only find respite from the clinging ghost that follows her by submerging herself in an overgrown pool. Couples wrestle with a lack of connection to their children; a...
Things We Say in the Dark by Kirsty Logan
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When glamorous socialite Noemí Taboada receives a frantic letter from her newlywed cousin begging to be rescued from a mysterious doom, it's clear something is desperately amiss. Catalina has always had a flair for the dramatic, but her claims that h...
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
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Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant Parks keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don't like her. She jokes that she won't b...
The Girl With All The Gifts by M. R. Carey
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Ben Mears, a moderately successful writer, returns to the Lot to write a novel based on his early years, and to exorcise the terrors that have haunted him since childhood. The event he witnessed in the house now rented by a new resident. A newcomer w...
'Salem's Lot by Stephen King
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The worst thing possible has happened. Richard and Juliette Willoughby's son, Ewan, has died suddenly at the age of five. Starve Acre, their house by the moors, was to be full of life, but is now a haunted place.
Juliette, convinced Ewan still lives there in some form, seeks the help of the Beacons, a seemingly benevolent group of occultists. Richard, to try and keep the boy out of his mind, has turned his attention to the field opposite the house, where he...
Starve Acre by Andrew Michael Hurley
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Alone in the world, Eleanor is delighted to take up Dr Montague's invitation to spend a summer in the mysterious Hill House. Joining them are Theodora, an artistic 'sensitive', and Luke, heir to the house. But what begins as a light-hearted experimen...
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
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New England is locked down, a strict curfew the only way to stem the wildfire spread of a rabies-like virus. The hospitals cannot cope with the infected, as the pathogen’s ferociously quick incubation period overwhelms the state. The veneer of civili...
But paediatrician Ramola Sherman can’t stay safe, when her friend Natalie calls – her husband is dead, she’s eight months pregnant, and she’s been bitten. She is thrust into a desperate race to bring Natalie and her unborn child to a hospital, to t...
Their once familiar home has becoming a violent and strange place, twisted in to a barely recognisable landscape. What should have been a simple, joyous journey becomes a brutal trial.
Survivor Song by Paul Tremblay
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Arthur Kipps, a junior solicitor, is summoned to attend the funeral of Mrs Alice Drablow, the sole inhabitant of Eel Marsh House. The house stands at the end of a causeway, wreathed in fog and mystery, but it is not until he glimpses a wasted young w...
The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
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H.P. Lovecraft's tales of the tentacled Elder God Cthulhu and his pantheon of alien deities were initially written for the pulp magazines of the 1920s and '30s. These astonishing tales blend elements of horror, science fiction and cosmic terror that ...
Necronomicon by H.P. Lovecraft
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