Fantasy
One of my favorite genres.
Time travel
- Kindred by Octavia Butler
- Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon (this could fall in many genres)
- River of Time series by Lisa Tawn Bergren (also fits under YA)
- Out of Time series by Monique Martin
General fantasy
- The Infernal Devices series by Cassandra Claire (also author of The Mortal Instruments but you probably know all about that already) (also YA)
- The Godsland series by Brian Rathbone
- The Last Apprentice series by Joseph Delaney
- Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
- A Court of Thorns and Roses series by Sarah J. Maas
- Landline by Rainbow Rowell
- Innkeeper Chronicles series by Llona Andrews
- Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
- The Trinity Saga by Ronnell D. Porter
Young Adult
- Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
- Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon
- Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
- I’ll Give You The Sun by Jandy Nelson
- The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth
Historical Fiction
- Cane River by Lalita Tademy
- An Extraordinary Union by Alyssa Cole
- Victorian San Francisco Mystery series by Louisa M. Locke
- Pluto’s Snitch series by Carolyn Haines
- The Alienist by Caleb Carr
- Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
- Whiplash by Yvie Towers
Mystery, Thrillers, & Intrigue
- Myron Bolitar series by Harlan Coben
- Hollywood Homicide by Kellye Garrett
- Agents Irish & Whiskey series by Layla Reyne
- Millennium by Stieg Larsson
- The Burden by Mary Westmacott
- Ape House by Sara Gruen
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
- The Alienist by Caleb Carr
- Sarah Booth Delaney Mysteries by Carolyn Haines
- Kate Shugak series by Dana Stabenow
- Rai Rahotep series by Nick Drake
- Liv Bergen Mysteries by Sandra Brannan
- The Dead Saint by Marilyn Brown Oden
- An Arsonist’s Guide To Writers’ Homes in New England by Brock Clarke
The Classics
- The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (actually a novella, completely love)
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (my all-time favorite)
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- The Trial by Franz Kafka
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Contemporary Lit & Romance
- One Day by David Nicholls
- Crossfire series by Sylvia Day
- He Say, She Say by Yolanda Joe
- Your Voice in My Head by Emma Forrest
- Dispatches from the Edge by Anderson Cooper
- Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel by Gary Shteyngart
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Cosmopolis: A Novel by DeLillo
New Adult
- On Dublin Street by Samantha Young
- Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover
- Point of Retreat (#2 of the Slammed Series) by Colleen Hoover
- Song of the Fireflies by J A Redmerski
