Tbr list for this next year

The Secret History

Donna Tartt · 1992

<b><b><b><b>ONE OF <i>TIME MAGAZINE</i>'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • </b>INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A contemporary literary classic and "a<b>n accomplished psychological thriller ... absolutely chilling" (<i>Village Voice</i>)</b>, f<b>rom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of <i>The Goldfinch.<br><br></i></b></b></b>One of <i>The Atlantic</i>’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years</b><br><br>Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality.<br><br><b>“A remarkably powerful novel [and] a ferociously well-paced entertainment . . . Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled.” —<i>The New York Times</i></b>

If We Were Villains

M. L. Rio • 2017

Beasts

If We Were Villains A Novel

M. L. Rio · 2018

Bunny A Novel

Mona Awad · 2020

Boy Parts

Eliza Clark · 2020

The Maidens: A Novel

Alex Michaelides • 2021

The Mean Ones

Tatiana Schlote-Bonne · 2025

The Witch of Willow Sound A Novel

Vanessa F. Penney · 2025

Pet Sematary

Stephen King • 2002

Bad Cree A Novel

Jessica Johns · 2023

Smothermoss

Alisa Alering · 2024

Annihilation A Novel

Jeff VanderMeer · 2014

Weyward A Novel

Emilia Hart · 2023

Slewfoot A Tale of Bewitchery

Brom · 2023

Such a Pretty Smile A Novel

Kristi DeMeester · 2022

Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

Grady Hendrix · 2025

The Weight of Blood

Tiffany D. Jackson · 2022

Our Crooked Hearts

Melissa Albert · 2022

The Invocations

Krystal Sutherland · 2024

Wilder Girls

Rory Power · 2019

My Dearest Darkest

Kayla Cottingham · 2022

The Creeper

A.M. Shine · 2022

Diavola

Jennifer Thorne · 2024

The Winter People

Jennifer McMahon · 2014

The Honeys

Ryan La Sala · 2022

When the Wolf Comes Home

Nat Cassidy · 2025

House of Hollow

Krystal Sutherland · 2022

Little Darlings

Melanie Golding · 2020

My Heart Is a Chainsaw

Stephen Graham Jones · 2021

Blood on Her Tongue (Deluxe Edition) A Novel

Johanna van Veen · 2025

And Then There Were None

Agatha Christie • 2009

Vicious (Villains Book 1)

V. E. Schwab · 2013

An Ember in the Ashes

Sabaa Tahir · 2016

Cinder Book One of the Lunar Chronicles

Marissa Meyer · 2012

An Ethical Guide to Murder

Jenny Morris · 2025

How to Solve Your Own Murder A Novel

Kristen Perrin · 2025

Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone

Benjamin Stevenson · 2023

This Is Not a Game

Kelly Mullen · 2026

Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers

Jesse Q. Sutanto · 2023

The Girls I've Been

Tess Sharpe · 2021

Play it as it Lays

Joan Didion · 2011

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Ottessa Moshfegh · 2018

China Rich Girlfriend

Kevin Kwan · 2015

Death and Other Occupational Hazards A Novel

Veronika Dapunt · 2026

Bad Men

Julie Mae Cohen · 2023

Little White Lies

Jennifer Lynn Barnes · 2018

These Violent Delights

Chloe Gong · 2020

Such Sharp Teeth

Rachel Harrison · 2023

The Last Witch

C. J. Cooke · 2025

Jennifer the Damned

Karen Ullo · 2015

Guillotine

Delilah S. Dawson · 2024

Of Earthly Delights

Goldy Moldavsky · 2025

Here Lies a Vengeful Bitch

Codie Crowley · 2024

The Berry Pickers: A Novel

Amanda Peters • 2024

Almendra

Won-Pyung Sohn • 2020

I Who Have Never Known Men

Jacqueline Harpman · 2019

<p><b>SISTERHOOD. SECRETS. SURVIVAL.</b><br> <br> <b>Discover the haunting, heart-breaking post-apocalyptic TikTok sensation.</b><br> <br> Deep underground, thirty-nine women are kept in isolation in a cage. Above ground, a world awaits. Has it been abandoned? Devastated by a virus?<br> <br> Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only vague recollection of their lives before. But, as the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl - the fortieth prisoner - sits alone an outcast in the corner.<br> <br> Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others' escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above ground. The woman who will never know men.<br> <br> <b>WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SOPHIE MACKINTOSH, BOOKER PRIZE-LONGLISTED AUTHOR OF THE <i>WATER CURE</i><br> <br> **<i>Orlanda</i>, the next sensation from Jacquline Harpman, is available now**</b></p>

All's Well: A Novel

Mona Awad · 2022

Goddess Stories Discover Their Mythology

Alison Davies · 2023

Clytemnestra A Novel

Costanza Casati · 2023

The Penelopiad

Margaret Atwood · 2018

Astragal

Albertine Sarrazin · 2013

Bad Behavior Stories

Mary Gaitskill · 2009

Valley of the Dolls

Jacqueline Susann · 1997

Babel

R. F. Kuang · 2022

Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller from the author of The Poppy War   “Absolutely phenomenal. One of the most brilliant, razor-sharp books I've had the pleasure of reading that isn't just an alternative fantastical history, but an interrogative one; one that grabs colonial history and the Industrial Revolution, turns it over, and shakes it out.” -- Shannon Chakraborty, bestselling author of The City of Brass From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire. Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. 1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day he’ll enroll in Oxford University’s prestigious Royal Institute of Translation—also known as Babel. Babel is the world's center for translation and, more importantly, magic. Silver working—the art of manifesting the meaning lost in translation using enchanted silver bars—has made the British unparalleled in power, as its knowledge serves the Empire’s quest for colonization. For Robin, Oxford is a utopia dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge. But knowledge obeys power, and as a Chinese boy raised in Britain, Robin realizes serving Babel means betraying his motherland. As his studies progress, Robin finds himself caught between Babel and the shadowy Hermes Society, an organization dedicated to stopping imperial expansion. When Britain pursues an unjust war with China over silver and opium, Robin must decide… Can powerful institutions be changed from within, or does revolution always require violence?

Mongrels A Novel

Stephen Graham Jones · 2016

The Girls: A Novel

Emma Cline · 2017

The Vegetarian

Han Kang • 2016

<b>FROM HAN KANG, WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE</b><br><br><b>“[Han Kang’s] intense poetic prose . . . exposes the fragility of human life.”—The Nobel Committee for Literature, in the citation for the Nobel Prize</b><br><br><b><i>A NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER</b><br><b>WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE </b><br><b>ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY<br>A <i>KIRKUS REVIEWS </i>BEST FICTION BOOK OF THE CENTURY</b><br><br><b>“Ferocious.”—<i>The New York Times Book Review</i> (Ten Best Books of the Year)</b><br><b>“Both terrifying and terrific.”—Lauren Groff</b><br><b>“Provocative [and] shocking.”—<i>The Washington Post</i></b><br><br>Before the nightmares began, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary, controlled life. But the dreams—invasive images of blood and brutality—torture her, driving Yeong-hye to purge her mind and renounce eating meat altogether. It’s a small act of independence, but it interrupts her marriage and sets into motion an increasingly grotesque chain of events at home. As her husband, her brother-in-law and sister each fight to reassert their control, Yeong-hye obsessively defends the choice that’s become sacred to her. Soon their attempts turn desperate, subjecting first her mind, and then her body, to ever more intrusive and perverse violations, sending Yeong-hye spiraling into a dangerous, bizarre estrangement, not only from those closest to her, but also from herself. <br><br>Celebrated by critics around the world, <i>The Vegetarian</i> is a darkly allegorical, Kafka-esque tale of power, obsession, and one woman’s struggle to break free from the violence both without and within her.<br><b><br>A Best Book of the Year: <i>BuzzFeed, Entertainment Weekly, Wall Street Journal, Time, Elle, The Economist, HuffPost, Slate, Bustle, The St. Louis Dispatch, Electric Literature, Publishers Weekly</i></b>

The Archidamian War

Donald Kagan · 2013

The Complete Poems

Anne Sexton · 2016

If We Were Villains

M. L. Rio • 2017

Nausea

Jean-Paul Sartre · 2013

Deep Cuts

Holly Brickley • 2025

Literature and Evil (Penguin Modern Classics)

Georges Bataille · 2012

Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)

Jane Austen · 2002

Animal Farm

George Orwell · 1996

Madonna in a Fur Coat

Sabahattin Ali · 2021

Girl, Interrupted

Susanna Kaysen · 2013

30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. Her memoir of the next two years is a "poignant, honest ... triumphantly funny ... and heartbreaking story" (The New York Times Book Review). WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR The ward for teenage girls in the McLean psychiatric hospital was as renowned for its famous clientele—Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles—as for its progressive methods of treating those who could afford its sanctuary. Kaysen's memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perception while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers. It is a brilliant evocation of a "parallel universe" set within the kaleidoscopically shifting landscape of the late sixties. Girl, Interrupted is a clear-sighted, unflinching document that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery.

The Second Sex

Simone De Beauvoir · 2012

An American Tragedy

Theodore Dreiser

Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy · 2023

The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas · 2004

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 2001

The Master and Margarita

Mikhail Bulgakov · 1994

FARENHEIT 451

Ray Bradbury

The Wrath and the Dawn

Renée Ahdieh · 2015

Crooked Kingdom

Leigh Bardugo · 2016

The Raven Boys

Maggie Stiefvater · 2013

Anastasia

Sophie Lark · 2022

Renegades

Marissa Meyer · 2017

The Knight and the Moth

Rachel Gillig · 2025

The Death-Made Prince: A Dark Fantasy Romance

Lisette Marshall · 2025

The Second Death of Locke

V. L. Bovalino · 2026

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

Omar El Akkad · 2025

Erasing History How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future

Jason Stanley · 2026

Genocide Bad Notes on Palestine, Jewish History, and Collective Liberation

Sim Kern · 2025

Ghost Wall

Sarah Moss · 2018

Julie Chan Is Dead

Liann Zhang · 2025