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last updated: 08/26/25

Top 5 Most Suggested

  • Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

  • Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi

  • Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross

  • Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

  • Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

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Top 5 Most Mentioned Authors

  • Colleen Hoover – Featured with multiple titles including It Ends with Us, It Starts with Us, Verity, and Ugly Love.

  • Sarah J. Maas – Known for A Court of Thorns and Roses, Crescent City, House of Sky and Breath, and Queen of Shadows.

  • Leigh Bardugo – Author of Shadow and Bone, Crooked Kingdom, and Ninth House.

  • Taylor Jenkins Reid – Recognized for Daisy Jones and the Six, Carrie Soto is Back, and Malibu Rising.

  • Rebecca Yarros – Known for Fourth Wing and Iron Flame.

These authors have made significant impacts in contemporary literature, particularly in the genres of romance, fantasy, and literary fiction.

A

  • A Court of Thorns and Roses – Sarah J. Maas

  • A Little Life – Hanya Yanagihara

  • A Million Kisses in Your Lifetime – Lurlene McDaniel

  • A Thousand Boy Kisses – Tillie Cole

  • Addicted Series – Krista & Becca Ritchie

  • After – Anna Todd

  • All Good People Here – Ashley Flowers

  • All Rhodes Lead Here – Taylor Jenkins Reid

  • An Absolutely Remarkable Thing – Hank Green

  • Anatomy: A Love Story – Dana Schwartz

  • Angel of Greenwood – Randi Pink

  • Archer’s Voice – Mia Sheridan

  • Ashes of You – Savannah Brown

  • Assistant to the Villain – Olivia Dade

  • Atlas Six – Olivie Blake

B

Baby Reindeer – Jennifer Knox

Ballad of Never After – Stephanie Garber

Beartown – Fredrik Backman

Beautiful Disaster – Jamie McGuire

Better Than the Movies – Lynn Painter

Beyond the Wand – Erica Ridley

Binding 13 – K.F. Breene

Birthday Girl – Penelope Douglas

Blacktop Wasteland – S.A. Cosby

Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy

Bloodmarked – Tracy Deonn

Book Lovers – Emily Henry

Book Thief – Markus Zusak

Boys in the Boat – Daniel James Brown

Bright Young Women – Annie Ward

Broken Bonds – Jessica Lemmon

Brutal Prince – Katee Robert

Bunny – Mona Awad

Burnham Wood – Adrian Tchaikovsky

 

C

Cain’s Jawbone – Edward Powys Mathers

Caraval – Stephanie Garber

Carrie Soto is Back – Taylor Jenkins Reid

Chain Gang All Stars – Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Chain of Thorns – Cassandra Clare

Chapters We Write, The – Ava Miles

Chava and the Golem, The – Zvi Kolitz

Cleopatra and Frankenstein – Coco Mellors

Cloud Cuckoo Land – Anthony Doerr

Come and Get It – Kristen Callihan

Crescent City – Sarah J. Maas

Crooked Kingdom – Leigh Bardugo

Cruel Prince – Holly Black

D

Daisy Jones and the Six – Taylor Jenkins Reid

Darling Venom – Parker S. Huntington

Dark Matter – Blake Crouch

Dead Romantics, The – Ashley Poston

Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller

Divine Rivals – Rebecca Ross

Do-over, The – Suzanne Park

Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes

Dracula – Bram Stoker

Dreamland – Nicholas Sparks

E

East of Eden – John Steinbeck

Empire of Pain – Patrick Radden Keefe

Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries – Heather Fawcett

Emma – Jane Austen

End of Drum Time, The – Hanna Pylväinen

Enders Game – Orson Scott Card

Everything I Know About Love – Dolly Alderton

Exorcist, The – William Peter Blatty

F

Fourth Wing – Rebecca Yarros

Frankenstein – Mary Shelley

From Blood and Ash – Jennifer L. Armentrout

Funny Story – Anjan Sundaram

 

G

Gallant – V.E. Schwab

Game of Thrones, A – George R.R. Martin

Garden of the Finzi Continis, The – Giorgio Bassani

Gentlemen in Moscow, A – Amor Towles

Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea, The – Axie Oh

Girls with Bright Futures – Tracy Dobmeier & Wendy Katzman

God of Endings, The – Jacqueline Holland

Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, A – Holly Jackson

Great Believers, The – Rebecca Makkai

Great Gatsby, The – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Green Dot – Linda Villarosa

Guest, The – Emma Cline

Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift

 

H

Haunting Adeline – H.D. Carlton

Heartless – Marissa Meyer

Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, The – James McBride

House of Flame and Shadow – Sarah J. Maas

House of Sky and Breath – Sarah J. Maas

Housemaid, The – Frieda McFadden

Housemaid’s Secret, The – Frieda McFadden

How to Sell a Haunted House – Grady Hendrix

Hunger Games, The – Suzanne Collins

I

Icebreaker – Hannah Grace

Idiot, The – Elif Batuman

If He Had Been with Me – Laura Nowlin

In Cold Blood – Truman Capote

In Memoriam – Alice Winn

In the Lives of Puppets – T.J. Klune

Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace

Iron Flame – Rebecca Yarros

It Starts with Us – Colleen Hoover

It’s Ends with Us – Colleen Hoover

J

Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë

Jesus’ Son – Denis Johnson

Just Kids – Patti Smith

Kingdom of the Wicked – Kerri Maniscalco

K

Kite Runner, The – Khaled Hosseini

 

L

Last House on Needless Street, The – Catriona Ward

Last Mrs. Parrish, The – Liv Constantine

Last Tale of the Flower Bride, The – Roshani Chokshi

Lessons in Chemistry – Bonnie Garmus

Light We Lost, The – Jill Santopolo

Little Women – Louisa May Alcott

Liveship Traders, The – Robin Hobb

London Seance Society, The – Sarah Penner

Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, The – Becky Chambers

Looking for Alaska – John Green

Love and Other Words – Christina Lauren

Love Hypothesis, The – Ali Hazelwood

Love, Theoretically – Ali Hazelwood

 

M

Magnolia Parks – Jessa Hastings

Malibu Rising – Taylor Jenkins Reid

Man Called Ove, A – Fredrik Backman

Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor E. Frankl

Many Lives of Mama Love, The – Lara Love Hardin

Marrow Thieves, The – Cherie Dimaline

Martian, The – Andy Weir

Mary Jane – Jessica Anya Blau

Maybe Next Time – Christina Lauren

Memory Police, The – Yoko Ogawa

Mexican Gothic – Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Middlegame – Seanan McGuire

Midnight Library, The – Matt Haig

Midsummer Night’s Dream, A – William Shakespeare

Misery – Stephen King

Mistborn – Brandon Sanderson

Monk and Robot Series, The – Becky Chambers

Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf

My Year of Rest and Relaxation – Ottessa Moshfegh

 

N

Name of the Wind, The – Patrick Rothfuss

Never Lie – Freida McFadden

Ninth House – Leigh Bardugo

Norwegian Wood – Haruki Murakami

Normal People – Sally Rooney

November 9 – Colleen Hoover

 

O

One Day – David Nicholls

Once Upon a Broken Heart – Stephanie Garber

One Dark Window – Rachel Gillig

One of Us is Dead – Jeneva Rose

One of Us is Lying – Karen M. McManus

Only One Left, The – Riley Sager

Only When It’s Us – Chloe Liese

Other Black Girl, The – Zakiya Dalila Harris

Our Wives Under the Sea – Julia Armfield

Outlander – Diana Gabaldon

 

 

P

Paradise, The – Abdulrazak Gurnah

Part of Your World – Abby Jimenez

People We Meet on Vacation – Emily Henry

Perfect Couple, The – Elin Hilderbrand

Perfect Marriage, The – Jeneva Rose

Pineapple Street – Jenny Jackson

Powerless – Tera Lynn Childs

Practice Makes Perfect – Julie James

Priory of the Orange Tree, The – Samantha Shannon

Prince of Thorns – Mark Lawrence

Prodigal Summer – Barbara Kingsolver

Pucking Wrong – Tessa Bailey

Push, The – Ashley Audrain

Q

Queen of Shadows – Sarah J. Maas

R

Rabbit Hutch, The – Tess Gunty

Rage of Dragons, The – Evan Winter

Rate, The – Matthew FitzSimmons

Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier

Red Rising – Pierce Brown

Red, White & Royal Blue – Casey McQuiston

Remarkably Bright Creatures – Shelby Van Pelt

Requiem for a Dream – Hubert Selby Jr.

Resurrection Walk – John W. Otte

Romantic Comedy – Curtis Sittenfeld

Rule of Wolves – Leigh Bardugo

Run Rose Run – Dolly Parton & James Patterson

S

Salt to the Sea – Ruta Sepetys

Scarlet Letter, The – Nathaniel Hawthorne

Secret History, The – Donna Tartt

Secrets of Hartwood Hall, The – Katie Lumsden

See You in Paradise – J. Robert Lennon

Self Care – Lee Mandelo

Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, The – Taylor Jenkins Reid

Shadow and Bone – Leigh Bardugo

Shatter Me – Tahereh Mafi

She Who Became the Sun – Shelley Parker-Chan

Shining, The – Stephen King

Silent Patient, The – Alex Michaelides

Sing, Unburied, Sing – Jesmyn Ward

Six of Crows – Leigh Bardugo

Song of Achilles, The – Madeline Miller

Spare – Prince Harry

Spite House, The – Johnny Compton

Spoiler Alert – Olivia Dade

Station Eleven – Emily St. John Mandel

Stone Maidens – Lloyd Devereux Richards

Storyteller, The – Dave Grohl

Strange Sally Diamond – Colm O’Regan

Stranger Beside Me, The – Ann Rule

Strega – John William Polidori

Summer I Turned Pretty, The – Jenny Han

Sunset Crowd – Michael R. Underwood

Swans of Fifth Avenue, The – Melanie Benjamin

Sword of Kaigen, The – M.L. Wang

Sylvia Plath Poems – Sylvia Plath

T

Things We Cannot Say, The – Kelly Rimmer

Things We Never Got Over – Lucy Score

Thousand Splendid Suns, A – Khaled Hosseini

Three-Body Problem, The – Liu Cixin

Throne of Glass – Sarah J. Maas

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow – Gabrielle Zevin

Too Late – Colleen Hoover

Trial, The – Franz Kafka

Trust – Hernan Diaz

Twisted Love – Ana Huang

U

Ugly Love – Colleen Hoover

Unbearable Lightness of Being, The – Milan Kundera

Under the Whispering Door – TJ Klune

V

Valley of the Dolls – Jacqueline Susann

Verity – Colleen Hoover

Villain, The – L.J. Shen

Villains Duology, The – V.E. Schwab

Violet Made of Thorns – Gina Chen

W

Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett

Wager, The – David Grann

Water Dancer, The – Ta-Nehisi Coates

We Hunt the Flame – Hafsah Faizal

West With Giraffes – Lynda Rutledge

Where the Crawdads Sing – Delia Owens

White Nights – Fyodor Dostoevsky

Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels, The – India Holton

Wives, The – Tarryn Fisher

Woman in Cabin 10, The – Ruth Ware

Woman in Me, The – Britney Spears

Women, The – T.C. Boyle

Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The – L. Frank Baum

Y

Yellowface – R.F. Kuang

You Could Make This Place Beautiful – Maggie Smith

C

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