books i have to read

The Great Gatsby

Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Catching Fire

Suzanne Collins · 2010

The Queen of Nothing

Holly Black · 2019

The Wicked King

Holly Black · 2019

The Cruel Prince

Holly Black · 2018

The Do-Over

Lynn Painter · 2022

Mocking Jay

Suzanne Collins · 2012

Sunrise on the Reaping

Suzanne Collins · 2025

The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh · 2003

The Idiot

Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 2004

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 2002

If We Were Villains

M. L. Rio

Oliver Marks has just served ten years for the murder of one of his closest friends - a murder he may or may not have committed. On the day he's released, he's greeted by the detective who put him in prison. Detective Colborne is retiring, but before he does, he wants to know what really happened ten years ago.As a young actor studying Shakespeare at an elite arts conservatory, Oliver noticed that his talented classmates seem to play the same roles onstage and off - villain, hero, tyrant, temptress - though Oliver felt doomed to always be a secondary character in someone else's story. But when the teachers change up the casting, a good-natured rivalry turns ugly, and the plays spill dangerously over into life.When tragedy strikes, one of the seven friends is found dead. The rest face their greatest acting challenge yet: convincing the police, and themselves, that they are blameless.

The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath · 2023

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë · 2003

Wuthering Heights

Emily Bronte · 2002

The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas · 2003

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky • 1880

1984

George Orwell • 1949

75th ANNIVERSARY EDITION “Orwell saw, to his credit, that the act of falsifying reality is only secondarily a way of changing perceptions. It is, above all, a way of asserting power.”—The New Yorker In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be. Lionel Trilling said of Orwell’s masterpiece “1984 is a profound, terrifying, and wholly fascinating book. It is a fantasy of the political future, and like any such fantasy, serves its author as a magnifying device for an examination of the present.” Though the year 1984 now exists in the past, Orwell’s dystopian classic remains an urgent call for the individual willing to speak truth to power.

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky • 1886

White Nights

Fyodor Dostoyevsky • 1848

The Trial

Franz Kafka • 1925

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott • 1868

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde • 1890

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.” ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray<br/><br/>The Picture of Dorian Gray is a 1891 gothic and philosophical novel by Irish writer and playwright Oscar Wilde. First published as a serial story in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, the editors feared the story was indecent, and without Wilde's knowledge, deleted five hundred words before publication.<br/><br/>Despite that censorship, The Picture of Dorian Gray offended the moral sensibilities of British book reviewers, some of whom said that Oscar Wilde merited prosecution for violating the laws guarding the public morality. In response, Wilde aggressively defended his novel and art in correspondence with the British press.<br/><br/>Wilde revised and expanded the magazine edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) for publication as a novel; the book edition (1891) featured an aphoristic preface — an apologia about the art of the novel and the reader. The content, style and presentation of the preface made it famous in its own literary right, as social and cultural criticism. In April 1891, the editorial house Ward, Lock and Company published the revised version of The Picture of Dorian Gray.<br/><br/>A True Classic that Belongs on Every Bookshelf!

The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka • 1915

Crooked Kingdom

Leigh Bardugo · 2016

Six of Crows

Leigh Bardugo · 2015

An Eye for an Eye

Jeffrey Archer · 2024

Dead Poets Society

N. H. Kleinbaum · 1989

The Secret History

Donna Tartt · 1993

Releasing 10

Chloe Walsh · 2025

Taming 7

Chloe Walsh · 2024

Redeeming 6

Chloe Walsh · 2023

Saving 6

Chloe Walsh · 2023

Keeping 13

Chloe Walsh · 2023

Binding 13

Chloe Walsh

Dungeons and Drama

Kristy Boyce · 2024

Dating and Dragons

Kristy Boyce · 2024

Betting on You

Lynn Painter · 2023

Bad Blood

Jennifer Lynn Barnes · 2023

All In

Jennifer Lynn Barnes · 2023

Killer Instinct

Jennifer Lynn Barnes · 2023

The Naturals

Jennifer Lynn Barnes · 2023

A Curse for True Love

Stephanie Garber · 2023

The Ballad of Never After

Stephanie Garber · 2022

Once Upon a Broken Heart

Stephanie Garber · 2023

Finale A Caraval Novel

Stephanie Garber · 2020

Legendary A Caraval Novel

Stephanie Garber · 2019

Caraval

Stephanie Garber · 2018