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If you’re looking for my favorite books, you’re in the right place! I’ll keep this page updated with books that absolutely blow me away.

YOUNG ADULT

• 172 Hours on the Moon by Johan Harstad
• Alex, Approximately by Jenn Bennett
• Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
• Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
• Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• Cress by Marissa Meyer
• Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choi
• Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
• Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo
• Lair of Dreams by Libba Bray
• Love Scene, Take Two by Alex Evansley
• Made You Up by Francesca Zappia
• My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, & Jodi Meadows
• Operation Prom Date by Cindi Madsen
• The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
• The Queen of Bright and Shiny Things by Ann Aguirre
• The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater
  • The Raven Boys
  • The Dream Thieves
  • Blue Lily, Lily Blue
  • The Raven King
  • Opal
• Sadie by Courtney Summers
• Saint Anything by Sarah Dessen
• Serious Moonlight by Jenn Bennett
• Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
• Since You’ve Been Gone by Morgan Matson
• Starry Eyes by Jenn Bennett
• The Story That Cannot Be Told by J. Kasper Kramer
• Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
• The Tyrant’s Daughter by J.C. Carleson
• The Unexpected Everything by Morgan Matson
• We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson
• What If It’s Us by Becky Albertalli & Adam Silvera
• What We Saw by Aaron Hartzler
• You Know Me Well by Nina LaCour & David Levithan

SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY

• The Evolutionary Void by Peter F. Hamilton
• The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
• Nevernight by Jay Kristoff
• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
• Red Rising by Pierce Brown
• The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman
• The Temporal Void by Peter F. Hamilton

ADULT ROMANCE

• Catch and Release by Laura Drewry
• The Hating Game by Sally Thorne
• The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
• Landline by Rainbow Rowell
• Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren
• The Lover’s Dictionary by David Levithan
• Lured In by Laura Drewry
• Madly by Ruthie Knox

NEW ADULT

• The Allure of Julian Lefray by R.S. Grey
• Anything You Can Do by R.S. Grey
• Arrogant Devil by R.S. Grey
• The Beau & The Belle by R.S. Grey
• Damaged Like Us by Krista & Becca Ritchie
• The Deal by Elle Kennedy
• The Foxe & the Hound by R.S. Grey
• Fuel the Fire by Krista & Becca Ritchie
• The Hook-Up Experiment by Emma Hart
• Infini by Krista & Becca Ritchie
• Long Way Down by Krista & Becca Ritchie
• Lovers Like Us by Krista & Becca Ritchie
• Roomies by Christina Lauren
• Some Kind of Perfect by Krista & Becca Ritchie
• The Virgin Romance Novelist by Meghan Quinn

GRAPHIC NOVELS

• Bloom by Kevin Panetta
• Everyone’s a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too by Jomny Sun
• Here by Richard McGuire
• Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh
• Kiss Number 8 by Colleen AF Venable
• Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me by Mariko Tamaki
• Lost At Sea by Bryan Lee O’Malley
• Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker & Wendy Xu
• The One Hundred Nights of Hero by Isabel Greenberg
• Saga by Brian K. Vaughan: Vol. 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9

NONFICTION

• Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
• Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch
• Becoming by Michelle Obama
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow
• Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
• We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates

HISTORICAL FICTION

• Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
• Necessary Lies by Diane Chamberlain

MYSTERY/THRILLER

• The Secret Place by Tana French
• You by Caroline Kepnes