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