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 |
