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by Madeline Miller · 2011 · Historical / Mythology / LGBTQ+
A retelling of the Trojan War through Patroclus's eyes, tracing his bond with Achilles and their fated path.
by Jane Austen · 1813 · Classic / Romance
Elizabeth and Darcy move from misunderstanding to mutual respect — a cornerstone of romantic comedy.
by Osamu Dazai · 1948 · Japanese Literature / Literary
Three notebooks chronicle one man's self-destruction — Dazai's semi-autobiographical masterpiece.
by Haruki Murakami · 1987 · Japanese Literature / Coming-of-age
In late-60s Tokyo, Toru drifts between two women and the shadow of his friend's death.
by Kazuo Ishiguro · 1989 · Literary / Historical
An English butler retraces a life of service and realizes what love and judgment he missed.
by Lois Lowry · 1993 · Dystopia / YA
In a colorless 'perfect' community, young Jonas is chosen to receive its hidden memories.
by Emily Henry · 2020 · Romance / Contemporary
Two rival authors with opposite styles spend a summer next door and swap genres — and slowly fall.
by Sally Thorne · 2016 · Romance / Workplace Comedy
Two publishing-house enemies-across-the-desk grind it out — and discover they were wrong about each other.
by Casey McQuiston · 2019 · Romance / LGBTQ+ / Political
The First Son of the US and a British prince go from rivals to lovers across an ocean.
by Emily Henry · 2021 · Romance / Travel
Poppy and Alex vacation together every summer — until one trip wrecks everything.
by Helen Hoang · 2018 · Romance / Contemporary
An autistic econometrician hires an escort to practice dating — and falls in love.
by Jojo Moyes · 2012 · Romance / Contemporary
Lou is hired as carer for paralyzed Will; their bond reshapes both lives.
by John Green · 2012 · YA / Romance
Two teens with cancer meet at a support group and fall in love.
by Colleen Hoover · 2016 · Romance / Contemporary
Lily discovers a cycle of domestic violence in her marriage and must choose to end it.
by Audrey Niffenegger · 2003 · Romance / Speculative
Henry involuntarily time-travels; Clare waits her whole life for him.
by David Nicholls · 2009 · Romance / Literary
Em and Dex meet on the same date each year for two decades.
by Suzanne Collins · 2008 · YA / Dystopia
Katniss volunteers to take her sister's place in the deadly Games.
by Leigh Bardugo · 2015 · YA / Fantasy
Six outcasts attempt an impossible heist.
by Adam Silvera · 2017 · YA / LGBTQ+
Two teens meet on the last day before their predicted deaths.
by Jennifer Niven · 2015 · YA / Romance
Two teens meet on a bridge ledge and try to save each other.
by Jay Asher · 2007 · YA / Issue Novel
After her suicide, Hannah leaves behind 13 cassette tapes.
by E. Lockhart · 2014 · YA / Thriller
A wealthy heiress's summer on a private island hides a truth she doesn't remember.
by Benjamin Alire Sáenz · 2012 · YA / LGBTQ+ / Coming-of-age
Two Mexican-American teens in the late 80s form a friendship that becomes love.
by Patrick Rothfuss · 2007 · Fantasy
Legendary Kvothe narrates the story of his early life.
by Sarah J. Maas · 2015 · Fantasy / Romance
Feyre kills a wolf and is taken into the faerie realm.
by Brandon Sanderson · 2006 · Fantasy
Kelsier leads a heist crew to overthrow an immortal tyrant.
by Samantha Shannon · 2019 · Fantasy / LGBTQ+
Standalone epic with queens, assassins, dragons and an apocalyptic prophecy.
by Susanna Clarke · 2020 · Fantasy / Literary
Piranesi lives alone in an endless labyrinthine House, recording tides and statues.
by Erin Morgenstern · 2011 · Fantasy / Romance
Two magicians are bound to a duel staged inside a wandering circus.
by Madeline Miller · 2018 · Mythology / Historical
The witch Circe across a thousand years of exile.
by Hanya Yanagihara · 2015 · Literary / LGBTQ+
Four college friends in NYC across decades, centering one man's trauma.
by Kazuo Ishiguro · 2005 · Literary / Dystopia
Boarding school students slowly learn the purpose of their existence.
by Kazuo Ishiguro · 2021 · Literary / Sci-fi
Klara, an AI 'Artificial Friend', observes the family she serves.
by Cormac McCarthy · 2006 · Literary / Post-apocalyptic
A father and son walk the wasteland after an extinction event.
by George Orwell · 1949 · Dystopia / Classic
Winston tries to resist the Party in a totalitarian state.
by Aldous Huxley · 1932 · Dystopia / Classic
A future where chemical control and consumption replace freedom.
by Margaret Atwood · 1985 · Dystopia / Literary
Offred lives as a Handmaid in the theocratic Republic of Gilead.
by Khaled Hosseini · 2003 · Literary / Historical
Amir returns to Afghanistan to confront a childhood betrayal.
by Toni Morrison · 1987 · Literary / Historical
Sethe, an escaped slave, is haunted by the ghost of the daughter she killed.
by Gillian Flynn · 2012 · Thriller / Psychological
On their fifth anniversary, Amy disappears and Nick becomes the prime suspect.
by Alex Michaelides · 2019 · Thriller / Psychological
Painter Alicia goes silent after killing her husband; therapist Theo tries to make her speak.
by Colleen Hoover · 2018 · Thriller / Romance
Lowen ghostwrites for comatose author Verity and finds a hidden autobiographical manuscript.
by Paula Hawkins · 2015 · Thriller
Alcoholic Rachel watches a couple from her train every day — until the wife vanishes.
by Liane Moriarty · 2014 · Thriller / Contemporary
Three mothers in a primary-school parent circle become tangled in a death.
by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu · 2015 · Danmei / Xianxia / LGBTQ+
Wei Wuxian is reborn 13 years after being driven to his death.
by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu · 2017 · Danmei / Xianxia / LGBTQ+
Xie Lian, ascended thrice, meets ghost king Hua Cheng — bound across 800 years.
by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu · 2014 · Danmei / Transmigration / LGBTQ+
A reader transmigrates into the villain of a stallion novel he hated.
by Meng Xi Shi · 2017 · Danmei / Wuxia / LGBTQ+
A Daoist sect leader and a young demonic-sect heir cross paths in the Northern-Southern dynasties wuxia world.
by Priest · 2015 · Danmei / Steampunk / LGBTQ+
In a steampunk Da Liang empire, a general and a prince fight to save the realm together.
by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou · 2017 · Danmei / Xianxia / LGBTQ+
Mo Ran is reborn into his youth — back when his master was still alive.
by Isuna Hasekura · 2006 · Light Novel / Fantasy / Mercantile
Medieval traveling merchant Lawrence and the wise wolf Holo journey together.
by Hajime Kamoshida · 2014 · Light Novel / School / Supernatural
High-schooler Sakuta meets an upperclassman in a bunny-girl outfit whom no one else can see.
by Tappei Nagatsuki · 2014 · Light Novel / Isekai
Subaru is sent to another world where his death resets time.
by Yuyuko Takemiya · 2006 · Light Novel / School / Romance
Mean-looking Ryuuji and tiny Taiga team up to win their respective crushes.
by Makoto Shinkai · 2016 · Light Novel / Fantasy / Romance
A city boy and a country girl swap bodies and try to stop a comet disaster.
by Stephen Chbosky · 1999 · YA / Coming-of-age
High-school freshman Charlie writes letters about his year.
by J. D. Salinger · 1951 · Classic / Coming-of-age
Expelled Holden wanders New York for three days.
by Betty Smith · 1943 · Classic / Coming-of-age
Francie grows up in an immigrant family in early-1900s Brooklyn.
by Wilson Rawls · 1961 · Classic / Middle Grade
Young Billy and his two coonhounds, Old Dan and Little Ann.
by John Grogan · 2005 · Memoir / Pet
The Grogans adopt 'the world's worst dog', Marley.
by Garth Stein · 2008 · Contemporary / Pet
A racing driver and his dog Enzo — narrated by the dog.
by Gustave Flaubert · 1856 · Classic / Literary
Emma, a country doctor's wife, chases romantic fantasies through two affairs and slides into ruin.
by Leo Tolstoy · 1877 · Classic / Literary
Anna leaves her marriage for Count Vronsky as Tolstoy threads in Levin's parallel love story across imperial Russia.
by Robert James Waller · 1992 · Romance / Contemporary
Iowa farmwife Francesca shares four intense days with photographer Robert before choosing her family.
by F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925 · Classic / Literary
Jazz-Age Long Island: Gatsby tries to reclaim Daisy and is pulled into the betrayals around Tom's marriage.
by Graham Greene · 1951 · Literary / Postwar British
During the Blitz, novelist Bendrix's affair with his friend's wife Sarah ends abruptly; he investigates why.
by Celeste Ng · 2017 · Contemporary / Family
In 1990s Shaker Heights, a mysterious artist and her daughter collide with the Richardson family.
by Lauren Groff · 2015 · Literary / Marriage
Twenty-four years of Lotto and Mathilde's marriage told twice — his bright version, then her dark one.
by Miranda Cowley Heller · 2021 · Contemporary / Literary
Over 24 hours Elle must choose between her husband Peter and childhood love Jonas, with 50 years of memory in between.
by Sally Rooney · 2017 · Contemporary / Literary
Dublin student Frances begins an affair with married actor Nick, unsettling her bond with friend Bobbi.
by Taylor Jenkins Reid · 2019 · Music / Historical Fiction
Oral-history of a 1970s rock band: Daisy and lead singer Billy's chemistry strains Billy's marriage to Camila.
by Milan Kundera · 1984 · Literary / Philosophical
Around the Prague Spring, surgeon Tomas oscillates between wife Tereza and mistress Sabina against a political backdrop.
by Emily Henry · 2022 · Romance / Publishing
A sharp-edged literary agent keeps colliding with her editor-nemesis on a small-town vacation, and finds the softness behind both their armors.
by Emily Henry · 2023 · Romance / Fake Dating
A secretly broken-up couple fakes still-engaged through one last Maine vacation to spare their friend group.
by Bonnie Garmus · 2022 · Romance / Feminist / 1960s
A 1960s woman chemist pushed out of academia accidentally becomes a TV cooking-show host who teaches housewives via chemistry.
by Beth O'Leary · 2019 · Romance / Contemporary
Two strangers sharing one bed on opposite shifts fall for each other through Post-it notes.
by Graeme Simsion · 2013 · Romance / Comedy
A highly structured genetics professor designs a wife-finding questionnaire and meets the woman who breaks every rule on it.
by Ali Hazelwood · 2021 · Romance / Academia / STEM
A PhD student fake-kisses the department's grumpiest professor and accidentally launches a fake-dating arc.
by Taylor Jenkins Reid · 2017 · Romance / LGBTQ+ / Hollywood
A reclusive Hollywood icon picks an unknown journalist to tell the truth about her seven marriages — and the one love of her life.
by Elena Armas · 2021 · Romance / Fake Dating
To survive her sister's wedding alongside her ex, an engineer drags her American coworker to Spain as a fake boyfriend.
by Christina Lauren · 2019 · Romance / Fake Dating
After a wedding food-poisoning wipeout, two enemies inherit the bride's Hawaii honeymoon.
by Talia Hibbert · 2019 · Romance / Chronic Illness
A woman with fibromyalgia writes a 'get a life' list and recruits her tattooed superintendent as her partner-in-crime.
by Christina Lauren · 2021 · Romance / Sci-Lite
A statistician single mom is matched 98% by a DNA-based dating app — to the app's reclusive founder.
by Rebecca Serle · 2020 · Romance / Friendship / Magical Realism
On the night of her engagement Dannie has a vivid five-years-later dream — and her real life starts drifting off-script.
by Gayle Forman · 2009 · YA / Contemporary
After a car crash, 17-year-old cellist Mia hovers between life and death, replaying her family and first love.
by Rainbow Rowell · 2013 · YA / 1980s
Omaha, 1986. A bullied, abused Eleanor and a reluctant Park slowly find each other on the school bus.
by John Green · 2005 · YA / Boarding School
Miles transfers to an Alabama boarding school and meets the mercurial Alaska Young.
by Sabaa Tahir · 2015 · YA / Fantasy / Dystopia
Enslaved Laia infiltrates the Empire's brutal military academy to save her brother; cadet Elias plots to escape it.
by Leigh Bardugo · 2012 · YA / Fantasy
Orphan Alina discovers she's a rare Sun Summoner and is pulled into Ravka's factional politics.
by Marissa Meyer · 2012 · YA / Sci-fi / Fairy-tale Retelling
In New Beijing, cyborg mechanic Cinder repairs a prince's android and is pulled into a plague and lunar conspiracy.
by Neal Shusterman · 2016 · YA / Dystopia
In a post-mortal world, the only sanctioned killers — Scythes — take on two reluctant teen apprentices.
by Marie Lu · 2011 · YA / Dystopia
In a fractured future America, prodigy June is sent to hunt fugitive Day — and uncovers the regime's lies.
by N. K. Jemisin · 2015 · Fantasy / Apocalyptic
On the cataclysm-prone continent of the Stillness, orogenes who can quell earthquakes are oppressed and feared.
by R. F. Kuang · 2018 · Fantasy / Military / China-inspired
Orphan Rin enters a military academy, discovers shaman-fire powers, and is consumed by total war.
by Fonda Lee · 2017 · Fantasy / Urban / Mafia Family
In a city-state where jade grants martial powers, the Kaul family fights a rival clan for control.
by Scott Lynch · 2006 · Fantasy / Heist
Camorr's smartest grifter Locke pulls a con, only to crash into a far bigger conspiracy.
by Naomi Novik · 2015 · Fantasy / Fairy-tale
Every decade, the village must give a girl to the wizard called the Dragon — this time it's clumsy Agnieszka.
by Tamsyn Muir · 2019 · Fantasy / Space Gothic / LGBTQ+
Foul-mouthed swordswoman Gideon is forced to escort her detested necromancer to a gothic space trial.
by Katherine Arden · 2017 · Fantasy / Russian Folklore
Medieval rural Rus'; Vasya can see house-spirits and clashes with the new priest's purifying faith.
by M. L. Wang · 2019 · Fantasy / Military / Family
A mountain village of sword-mages, sheltered by imperial lies, faces real invasion and forced truths.
by Stieg Larsson · 2005 · Thriller / Nordic Noir
A disgraced journalist and a hacker investigate a 40-year-old disappearance and tear open a family's darkness.
by Tana French · 2007 · Thriller / Procedural
A Dublin detective investigates a girl's murder in the same woods where his childhood friends vanished 20 years ago.
by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen · 2018 · Thriller / Domestic
An ex-wife stalks her ex-husband's new fiancée — but the narrative keeps flipping.
by Shari Lapena · 2016 · Thriller / Domestic
A couple comes home from a dinner party next door to find their baby gone.
by B. A. Paris · 2016 · Thriller / Domestic Abuse
The perfect couple from the outside — and a wife held hostage on the inside.
by Liv Constantine · 2017 · Thriller / Domestic / Revenge
An ambitious woman targets a wealthy couple, aiming to replace the wife.
by Tang Jiuqing · 2019 · Danmei / Historical Politics / LGBTQ+
A frontier general and a fallen noble use — and shelter — each other through court intrigue.
by Fei Tian Ye Xiang · 2017 · Danmei / Xuanhuan / LGBTQ+
Late-Song China; demons rise. A young swordsman and an amnesiac demon king set out to subdue them.
by Shui Qian Cheng · 2017 · Danmei / Contemporary / LGBTQ+
An amnesiac returns and faces the obsessive man who once both loved and broke him.
by Priest · 2012 · Danmei / Urban Fantasy / LGBTQ+
A special-investigations chief and an envoy of the underworld span lifetimes together.
by Priest · 2015 · Danmei / Xianxia / LGBTQ+
In a fading-magic era, a young sect leader and four disciples solve cosmic puzzles.
by Wataru Watari · 2011 · Light Novel / School
A loner is dragged into the Service Club, dissecting the falseness of high-school youth one request at a time.
by Syougo Kinugasa · 2015 · Light Novel / School / Psychological
At a class-ranked elite school, the deceptively bland Ayanokouji manipulates classmates from the shadows.
by Kugane Maruyama · 2012 · Light Novel / Isekai
When the game shuts down, a guild master is transported to another world with his NPCs — and becomes its true overlord.
by Tappei Nagatsuki · 2014 · Light Novel / Isekai / Time Loop
Subaru has 'Return by Death' — every death rewinds him to a checkpoint to try again to save those around him.
by Min Jin Lee · 2017 · Literary / Family Saga
An early-20th-century Korean girl marries into Japan; four generations endure discrimination — an epic saga.
by Amor Towles · 2016 · Literary / Historical
After the Russian Revolution, Count Rostov is sentenced to house arrest in Moscow's Metropol Hotel and rebuilds a life within four walls.
by Emily St. John Mandel · 2014 · Literary / Post-apocalyptic
Twenty years after a flu pandemic, a traveling Shakespeare troupe wanders a depopulated North America.
by George Saunders · 2017 · Literary / Experimental
After Lincoln's son dies, he lingers in the bardo; the graveyard's ghosts narrate the father's grief.
by Fred Gipson · 1956 · Classic / Middle Grade
A 1860s Texas boy and the stray yellow dog who becomes his.
by W. Bruce Cameron · 2010 · Contemporary / Pet
A dog searches for its purpose across multiple reincarnations, narrating its own story.
by Richard Adams · 1972 · Classic / Animal Fable
A band of rabbits flees their warren on an epic search for a new home.
by Mark Haddon · 2003 · Contemporary / Literary
Christopher, an autistic teenager, investigates the killing of his neighbour's dog Wellington.
by Daniel Keyes · 1966 · Science Fiction / Literary
Charlie, an intellectually disabled adult, undergoes an experimental intelligence procedure first tested on a lab mouse, Algernon.
by Greg Kincaid · 2008 · Contemporary / Pet
A developmentally disabled young man fosters a shelter dog over the holidays.
by Jack London · 1903 · Classic / Animal
Buck, a domesticated dog from the south, is kidnapped to the Yukon and gradually returns to the wild.
by Willie Morris · 1995 · Memoir / Pet
A Southern American boy and his dog Skip — a coming-of-age memoir.
by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor · 1991 · Middle Grade / Pet
Young Marty takes in an abused beagle named Shiloh.
by Peter Heller · 2012 · Post-apocalyptic / Literary
After a pandemic collapses society, pilot Hig lives at a small airfield with his dog Jasper.