zoe’s 2026 reading list!
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bunny
Mona Awad · 2020
the atlas six
Olivie Blake · 2021
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the beauty myth
Naomi Wolf · 2009
happy hour
Marlowe Granados · 2021
your utopia
Bora Chung · 2024
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>
thirst
Marina Yuszczuk · 2025
giovanni’s room
Baldwin, James
the love hypothesis
Ali Hazelwood · 2021
beach read
Emily Henry · 2020
great big beautiful life
Emily Henry · 2025
biography of x
Catherine Lacey · 2023
bellies
Nicola Dinan · 2024
<b>Discover the beautiful coming-of-age story about falling in-and-out of love, brimming with humour and heartbreak.</b><br> <br> '<b>Smart</b>, <b>hilarious</b> and <b>deeply moving</b>' Elliot Page, author of <i>Pageboy</i><br> <br> '<b>Thoughtful</b>, <b>seductive</b>, and entirely <b>engrossing</b> - Bellies is already <b>a classic</b>' Bryan Washington, author of <i>Memorial</i> and <i>Lot</i><br> <br> 'Bellies announces Nicola Dinan as <b>a genuine literary talent</b>, a gimlet-eyed cartographer of the human heart' Sharlene Teo, author of <i>Ponti</i><br> <br> <i>------------------</i><br> <br> It begins as your typical boy meets boy.<br> <br> Tom and Ming meet on a night out at university and fall hard for each other. It's not long before they are planning a future and building a life.<br> <br> Then Ming announces her intention to transition.<br> <br> As Tom and Ming both face shifts in their relationship and confront the vastly different shapes their lives have taken, they must both ask if it is worth losing a part of themselves - or each other - to become the people they want to be.<br> <br> <i>------------------</i><br> <br> <b>Praise for <i>Bellies</i>-</b><br> <br> 'Dinan's gift as a writer is her <b>ability to make us feel</b> - when her characters cry, we cry; when they laugh, we laugh; and everybody is changed by the end of this novel, including the reader. <b>A beautiful love story and an exceptional debut</b>.' - <i>Irish Times</i><br> <br> 'The most <b>hotly anticipated</b> novel of the summer' - <i>Harper's Bazaar</i><br> <br> 'A <b>tender</b>, <b>emotional</b> exploration of gender and sexual identity' - <i>Marie Claire</i><br> <br> <b>'Dizzyingly beautiful'</b> - <i>Grazia</i><br> <br> 'A <b>poignant</b> tale that explores the messy complexities of relationships, with recognisably imperfect characters at its core' - <i>Sunday Times Style</i><br> <br> 'Both <b>deeply touching</b> and <b>wickedly witty</b>' - Daily Mail
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1984
George Orwell · 2013
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.
we were liars
E. Lockhart · 2018
the secret history
Donna Tartt · 2004
<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>
pride and prejudice
Jane Austen · 1813
wuthering heights
Emily Bronte · 2026
