Reading list for 2026 because I hate reading and I am trying to get into reading aaaaa꧂

What Hunger

Catherine Dang • 2025

"It's the summer before high school, and Ronny Nguyen finds herself too young for work, too old for cartoons. Her days are spent in a small backyard, dozing off to trashy magazines on a plastic lawn chair. In stark contrast stands her brother Tommy, the pride and joy of their immigrant parents: a popular honor student destined to be the first in the family to attend college. The thought of Tommy leaving for college fills Ronny with dread, as she contemplates the quiet house she will be left alone in with her parents, Me and Ba. Their parents rarely speak of their past in Vietnam, except through the lens of food. The family's meals are a tapestry of cultural memory: thick spring rolls with slim and salty nem chua, and steaming bowls of pho tái with thin, delicate slices of blood-red beef. In the aftermath of the war, Me and Ba taught Ronny and Tommy that meat was a dangerous luxury, a symbol of survival that should never be taken for granted. But when tragedy strikes, Ronny's world is upended. Her sense of self and her understanding of her family are shattered. A few nights later, at her first high school party, a boy crosses the line, and Ronny is overtaken by a force larger than herself. This newfound power comes with an insatiable hunger for raw meat, a craving that is both a saving grace and a potential destroyer"--Provided by publisher.

If I Had Your Face A Novel

Frances Cha • 2020

Everybody Rise - Sneak Peek

Stephanie Clifford • 2015

Heart the Lover

Lily King • 2025

<p><b>"Lily King has written another masterpiece. This book overflows with her brilliance and her heart. We are so lucky." --Emma Straub, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>This Time Tomorrow</i></b></p> <p><b>From the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Writers & Lovers</i> comes a magnificent and intimate new novel of desire, friendship, and the lasting impact of first love</b></p> <p><i>You knew I'd write a book about you someday.</i></p> <p>Our narrator understands good love stories--their secrets and subtext, their highs and free falls. But her greatest love story, the one she lived, never followed the simple rules.</p> <p>In the fall of her senior year of college, she meets two star students from her 17th-Century Lit class: Sam and Yash. Best friends living off campus in the elegant house of a professor on sabbatical, the boys invite her into their intoxicating world of academic fervor, rapid-fire banter and raucous card games. They nickname her Jordan, and she quickly discovers the pleasures of friendship, love and her own intellectual ambition. But youthful passion is unpredictable, and soon she finds herself at the center of a charged and intricate triangle. As graduation comes and goes, choices made will alter these three lives forever.</p> <p>Decades later, the vulnerable days of Jordan's youth seem comfortably behind her. But when a surprise visit and unexpected news bring the past crashing into the present, she returns to a world she left behind and must confront the decisions and deceptions of her younger self.</p> <p>Written with the superb wit and emotional sensitivity fans and critics of Lily King have come to adore, <i>Heart the Lover</i> is a deeply moving love story that celebrates literature, forgiveness, and the transformative bonds that shape our lives. Wise, unforgettable, and with a delightful connective thread to <i>Writers & Lovers</i>, this is King at her very best, affirming her as a masterful chronicler of the human experience and one of the finest novelists at work today.</p>

Bad Feminist Essays

Roxane Gay • 2014

The Gilded Life of Matilda Duplaine

Alex Brunkhorst • 2015

L.A. Candy - L.A. Candy

Lauren Conrad • 2011

All I Ever Wanted Was To Be Hot

Lucinda 'Froomes' Price · 2024