my 2026 tbr ★

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde · 2021

Giovannis Room

Baldwin, James

Vicious

V. E. Schwab · 2018

Captive Prince

C. S. Pacat · 2014

The Raven Boys

Maggie Stiefvater · 2012

The Foxhole Court

Nora Sakavic · 2016

Beartown

Fredrik Backman · 2017

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.