Angst Books
Author | Title | Trope | Series/Stand Alone |
K.A. Linde | Avoiding Commitment | love triangle | series |
Off the Record | political | series | |
Cruel Money | second chance | series | |
Diamonds | football | duet | |
AL Jackson | A Stone in the Sea | rockstars | stand alone series |
Alessandra Torre | Undertow | stand alone | |
Ava Harrison | transference | forbidden | stand alone series |
Carian Cole | No Tomorrow | second chance | stand alone |
Corinne Michaels | Beloved | military | duet |
Consolation | military | duet | |
Say You’ll Stay | cowboys | stand alone series | |
Gail McHugh | Collide | love triangle | duet |
J. Sterling | The Perfect Game | baseball | series |
Jessica Hawkins | Violent Delights | mafia | series |
Something in the Way | love triangle | series | |
Slip of the Tongue | cheating | series | |
Jewel E. Ann | Undeniably You | love triangle | stand alone | Jill Santopolo | The Light We Lost | love triangle | stand alone |
Kandi Steiner | Weightless | stand alone | |
Love Letter to Whiskey | second chance | stand alone | |
What He Doesn’t Know | love triangle | duet | |
Karina Halle | Love, In English | stand alone | |
Kate Stewart | Drive | love triangle | stand alone |
KM Golland | Temptation | love triangle | series |
Lesley Jones | Carnage | series | |
Madeline Sheehan | Undeniable | Motorcycle Club (MC) | stand alone series |
Meghan March | Ruthless King | alpha | series |
Mia Asher | Arsen | love triangle | stand alone |
Easy Virtue | love triangle | duet | |
Molly McAdams | Taking Chances | love triangle | stand alone |
Penelope Douglas | Bully | stand aloneseries | |
Pepper Winters | The Boys and His Ribbon | series | |
RK Lilley | Arranged | arranged marriage | stand alone |
Breaking Him | love triangle | duet | |
SC Stephens | Thoughtless | love triangle/rockstar | series |
Shanora Williams | The Man I Can’t Have | love triangle | duet |
Sierra Simone | A Lesson in Thorns | erotic | series |
American Queen | King Arthur retelling | series | |
Tarryn Fisher | The Opportunist | love triangle | stand alone series |
My 5 Star Reads
Author | Title | Trope | Series/Stand Alone |
Alexandra Bracken | The Darkest Minds | dystopian | series |
Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff | Illuminae | epistolary scifi | series |
Angie Thomas | The Hate U Give | should be required reading/diverse | stand alone |
Bryn Greenwood | All the Ugly and Wonderful Things | literary romance | stand alone |
Carol Rifka Brunt | Tell the Wolves I’m Home | AIDS in the 80s | stand alone |
Celeste Ng | Little Fires Everywhere | literary family destruction | stand alone |
Jacqueline Carey | Kushiel’s Dart | sexy spy fantasy | series |
Jeff Wheeler | The Wretched of Muirwood | adult fantasy | series |
Jessica Shattuck | The Women in the Castle | WWII historical | stand alone |
Jillian Dodd | The Prince | sexy spies! | series |
Joe Hill | The Fireman | epidemic dystopian | stand alone |
Kate Quinn | The Alice Network | WWI historical/spies | stand alone |
Laurie Frankel | This Is How It Always Is | transgender boy | stand alone |
Leigh Bardugo | Shadow and Bone | Russian fantasy | series |
Mackenzi Lee | The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue | historical romp/LGBTQ | stand alone series |
Madeline Miller | Circe | Odyssey retelling | stand alone |
The Song of Achilles | Iliad retelling | stand alone | |
Marie Rutkoski | The Winner’s Curse | Peloponnesian war retelling | series |
Naomi Novak | Uprooted | adult literary fantasy | stand alone series |
Octavia Butler | Kindred | Southern slave/time travel | stand alone |
Orson Scott Card | Ender’s Game | my favorite book ever | stand alone |
Pierce Brown | Red Rising | scifi classist warfare | series |
Ruta Sepetys | Salt to the Sea | WWII historical | stand alone |
Between Shades of Grey | WWII historical | stand alone | |
SA Chakraborty | City of Brass | jinn fantasy | series |
Sarah J. Maas | Throne of Glass | fantasy/assassin | series |
A Court of Thorns and Roses | Beauty and the Beast retelling | series | |
Sierra Simone | A Lesson in Thorns | contemporary fantasy erotic | series |
VE Schwab | Vicious | villain superhero | stand alone series |
Vengeful | villain superhero | stand alone series | |
This Savage Song | Romeo & Juliet w/ monsters | duet | |
Yaa Gyasi | Homegoing | African slave trade | stand alone |