Book recommendations

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