Bookworms, we are back again with another list. Well, we were wondering, is there even any book reader alive on this planet that doesn’t have a huge pile of books stacked up against their wall? To be very brutally honest, we have over a hundred books in our physical TBR pile and even more than hundred books added to our Goodreads TBR shelf.
So, you can only wonder how much we obsess over books. Yet, we miss out on such good books daily that it’s a shame, for real. We will read books from centuries ago, but we can still somehow manage to not know about a book that is going to be released soon.
But not anymore. We like lists, and nothing makes our to-be-read pile easier than having a list of books that we must not miss out on. So, here are the books from the previous year that should be on your radar in case you missed out on any. We are surely adding them right now, and make sure you do the same too.
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People We Meet On Vacation
Poppy and Alex, the two best friends, have been going on a week-long summer trip together for a decade now. They might be different and live far away from each other, but this one week of vacation is their time to be with each other and enjoy each other’s company. Until something happens, ruining their friendship.
They haven’t been on one single vacation together for the past two years. So when someone asks Poppy when the last time she felt truly happy was, she knows without a doubt it was with Alex, taking those trips with him. They go on one final vacation together. But will this one week be enough to fix everything that’s wrong between them?
The Love Hypothesis
Olive Smith is a third-year Ph.D. candidate. Her best friend Anh, a hopeless romantic, worries about her dating life and wants her to get her Happily Ever After too. Sadly, Olive doesn’t believe in romantic relationships, yet somehow, she finds herself kissing Adam Carlsen. Adam is a young, hotshot professor who is also a well-known ass. So, she is fully shocked when the guy suggests keeping their charade a secret.
Moreover, he even suggests being her fake boyfriend! If she was shocked before, Olive’s jaw is on the floor now. Then when her career goes haywire, Adam surprises her again with his support. Olive has always liked hypotheses and experiments but will this experiment scare her, or will she take a leap of faith?
Malibu Rising
Four famous siblings and one epic party, what could possibly go wrong? In August 1983, Nina Riva’s annual end-of-the-summer party in Malibu was about to begin. The anticipation is at a fever pitch because everyone craves to be around these famous off-springs of the legendary singer Mick Riva.
By midnight their party will be out of control, and come morning, the magnificent Riva mansion will have gone up in flames. But, before that, the music will play, alcohol will flow, and secrets will be spilled. The Riva siblings, Nina, Kit, Jay, and Hud, will throw one epic party, a night when they choose what they will hide and what they must leave behind.
The Last Thing He Told Me
Hannah Hall’s beloved husband of one year, Owen has disappeared suddenly. He seems to have disappeared out of nowhere, leaving behind only a single note that says “protect her”. Of course, Hannah knows the “her” he is talking about is his 16-year-old daughter, Bailey. Hannah is Bailey’s new stepmother, and Bailey doesn’t like her very much.
But that won’t stop her from protecting the girl. When things become more confusing, Bailey and Hannah will set out to discover the truth about Owen’s past, soon realizing that the man might not be who he said to be. Along with the truth, the duo also realizes that they are building a new future that neither could have anticipated.
The Spanish Love Deception
When Catalina Martin lied about having an American boyfriend, she had no clue her little white lie would land her in trouble. Now, she desperately needs a date for her sister’s wedding which mind you, is in four weeks. She must find a handsome, young American guy willing to cross the Atlantic and aid in her deception quickly.
Aaron Blackford might be tall, handsome, and also the willing guy, ready to help her, but he is also her condescending colleague. He is aggravating, blood-boiling, and an insufferable man, but as the date to leave nears, she might accept that he is her last and only option.
The Four Winds
Set in Texas in 1934, Elsa Martinelli must make a tough decision for herself: fight for the land she loves or go west in search of a better life. It’s the time of the era that defined America.
The darkest periods of the Great Depression were when millions were unemployed, a drought had broken the Great Plains, and farmers were struggling to keep their land when Elsa must do something to survive. Her future is uncertain, but she must sacrifice and be courageous right now, or else there’s nothing left in the world for her.
Project Hail Mary
Ryland Grace, the sole survivor on a mission, has been asleep for a long time. He has only two corpses to keep him company. As his memories fuzzily return, he realizes a huge task confronts him. With his crewmates dead, it’s up to only him to solve a scientific mystery and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species. But with the clock ticking down, will he be able to finish his task, or will he fail humanity?
It Happened One Summer
Piper Bellinger is a fashionable, influential, and wild woman. To the whole world, she’s just an airhead, but Piper is more than that. When a bad breakup leads to a spontaneous rooftop party leading her ultimately to the slammer, her stepfather decides that he has had enough of her wild acts. He sends her to Westport, tasking her to run their late father’s dive bar.
Piper and her sister haven’t been in Westport for five minutes when she meets the grumpiest man alive, Brendan. From the moment he lays his eyes on her, he knows she doesn’t belong in his small town.
But, this time Piper is determined to prove that she can very well be a responsible adult and that she is more than just a pretty face. But, the question is will Brendan be able to resist her when he sees that side of Piper?
The Lost Apothecary
On a cold February evening in 1791, Nella, once a respected healer, awaits her newest customer at the hidden apothecary shop. She has been using her knowledge to sell well-disguised poisons to desperate women who want to be free of the men in their lives. Her rules are simple: the poison mustn’t be used to harm another woman, and the names of the murderer and their victims, must be recorded in her register.
liza Fanning, a 12-year-old girl steps in Nella’s apothecary, and an unlikely friendship blossoms between the two. Caroline Parcewell, in present-day London, finds an old apothecary vial near the river Thames. On investigating, all of their fates will collide, and not everyone will survive this time.
One Last Stop
August doesn’t believe in love. Let us rephrase that real quick: August thinks that magic and cinematic love don’t exist in real life. The 23-year-old cynical woman also believes that it’s better to go through life alone.
But then she sees this gorgeous girl on the train that she uses to commute. She thinks that Jane looks like an old-school punk rocker. And she is right, for the most part, at least. She soon learns that Jane is displaced in time from the 1970s. August will do anything to help her but will she be able to save the girl lost in time?
Apples Never Fall
The Delaney family loves one another deeply, although sometimes they want to murder each other. The Delaneys have been a fixture in their community and Stan and Joy are the envy of all of their friends.
They have four children, Amy, Logan, Troy, and Brooke. After fifty years of marriage, Stan and Joy are ready to begin the golden years of their lives except, they still look miserable. One night, a bleeding stranger knocks on their door.
The family extends a hand to help her because she clearly needs it. But, soon Joy goes missing and the stranger has disappeared as well. Police and two of the Delaney children begin to suspect Stan while the remaining two children think he is innocent. Everyone is hiding their own secrets, but who could be hiding the real truth behind this mess?
Under The Whispering Door
When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his funeral, he suspects that he might be dead. Later, when a tea shop owner, Hugo, promises to help him “cross over,” he’s sure that he is certainly dead. But Wallace isn’t ready to give up his barely-lived at all life. So, when he is given a week to “cross over”, he decides to spend those days living the life he never could.
The Rose Code
In 1940, England prepared to fight the Nazis while in Bletchley Park, the country estate, the best and the sharpest minds in the country train to break the German military codes. Osla, the girl who has everything hides a fire inside her.
She wants to prove that she isn’t just a society girl, so she puts her fluent German to use. She becomes a translator of decoded enemy secrets. Mab works the legendary code-breaking machine. Beth has a brilliant facility with puzzles and she becomes one of the Park’s few female cryptanalysts.
They come together to work until real-life tears them apart. Years later, in 1947, these three friends turned enemies are reunited by a mysterious encrypted letter. A mysterious traitor has emerged, and now these women must come together once again to defeat this last, true enemy.
The Ex Hex
Vivienne Jones knows she shouldn’t use magic but when her boyfriend breaks her heart; she is too broken hearted to care. So with an “orchard hayride” scented candle in her hands, she puts a curse on him. Nine years ago, she was a young witch who didn’t know her curse could be effective in any way.
Until Rhys Penhallow, the ex-boyfriend returns to Graves Glen, Georgia. Vivi quickly realizes that her little Ex Hex stunt may not have been as harmless as she believed. Forced to work together to save the little town, will Vivi manage to break the curse on him or will she fall harder this time?
The Fine Print
Rowan creates fairy tales. Not quite literally, but he owns theme parks, production companies, and the like. He could have everything if he just renovated Dreamland but that might not be easy for him with the rules he must follow. Zahra, who works at Dreamland, tired and drunk one night, submits a proposal criticizing Dreamland’s most expensive ride.
Although her reasons were spot on, she expected to get fired from her job. Except, something magical happens. Rowan offers Zahra her dream job but she must work for him, a.k.a the most difficult boss to ever exist. When these two are forced to spend their working hours together, they might get to know each other and fall in love, or fall apart.
You’ve Reached Sam
Julie’s plans for her future go wrong when one unexpected thing happens. The 17-year-old girl wanted to move out of her small town with her boyfriend Sam. She also wanted to attend college in the city and spend an amazing summer in Japan. It was perfect until Sam died. She is heartbroken to the point that she couldn’t even attend his funeral.
On one bad day, she calls him, desperate to hear his voice. Unexpectedly, Sam picks up his phone. It’s Julie’s chance to say goodbye to him but how do you let the person you love go away?
The Soulmate Equation
Jess Davis is a data and statistics wizard along with being a single mom. All her life, she has seen people leaving her. She tries to keep her few loved ones close to her but nothing can convince her to get back into the dating world.
One day, she hears about a new DNA-based matchmaking company, GeneticAlly. The company claims to find a soulmate through DNA. She takes the test and is dumbfounded when her result shows a 98 percent match with the founder of the said company.
She knows the founder of GeneticAlly and she knows he couldn’t be her perfect match in a billion years. But, when they are asked to “get to know each other”, they see each other’s side that they haven’t shown to no one. Soon these two will learn that sometimes, there’s more to love than just science or numbers.
The Cheat Sheet
Bree Camden is in love with her best friend Nathan Donelson but he doesn’t know that. Nathan is the star quarterback and half of America loves the guy, NBD if she is another person to get in this long line. But, it’s a big deal because she doesn’t want to lose this friendship.
Their relationship is perfectly fine until one night; Bree gets a little too drunk and spills her guts to a reporter, unknowingly. Following the “interview” both Nathan and Bree are asked to date publicly but is it really faking when she wants their relationship to be real? And oh, did we forget to mention that Nathan might also be the one who wants it to be real?
Better Than The Movies
Liz Buxbaum is in her senior year and her forever crush has moved back to town just in time. It’s prom year which means she can ask Michael, her long-time crush to be her prom date. Except, from the moment he has returned, he is hitting it off with Wes Bennett, the guy Liz can’t tolerate.
But if she wants Michael, she will have to put her feelings aside and ask Wes for his help, seeing as how he’s her only way in. However, as she starts spending time with Wes, she realizes that she actually likes spending time with him. Liz will relearn the meaning of love and what HEA for her looks like in real life.
Once Upon A Broken Heart
Evangeline Fox has always believed in true love and happy endings. Unfortunately, her happy ending is destroyed when the love of her life marries another. She is desperate to stop the wedding so much that she strikes a deal with the wicked Prince of Hearts.
She only has to give him three kisses in return for his help; it shouldn’t be much for her. But, she has no clue what she is getting herself into and soon, she will learn that bargaining with an immortal is a rather dangerous game. The wicked prince has plans for her that might end in the greatest HEA or the best tragedy that was ever written.
The Heart Principle
Anna Sun, a violinist, achieves her career success when one of her YouTube videos goes viral. She has been trying her best to replicate that moment since then but she has been burned out from all the failed attempts.
To add further to her problems, Anna’s boyfriend suddenly announces he wants an open relationship. Hurt and angry, she decides that if he wants something, then he must get it. But, Anna is going to do the same as well.
Hence, begins her quest to find all sorts of men for herself. She meets Quan Diep, a tattooed, motorcycle-riding guy. Something is happening between them but Anna won’t accept it. And when tragedy strikes Anna’s family, she will find herself fighting for a chance at love and at saving herself as well.
The Jasmine Project
Jasmine Yap, a teen Korean American, lives the perfect life, mostly. She can’t wait to move in with her long-time boyfriend until she finds him cheating on her. Her stable world is disrupted. But, this is also the time her overprotective family uses to show Jasmine that she deserves much more than she is settling for.
She can’t know about their wishes so the family begins a secret Jasmine Project to help her find guys who are better than her cheating boyfriend. But, as the family begins to fight for their favorite, the bachelors go rogue and her boyfriend fights to win her back, this project might fail, ending in a total, heartbreaking disaster.
The Reading List
After losing his beloved wife, Mukesh spends his time shopping every Wednesday, going to the temple, and worrying about his granddaughter who hides in her room with her books. Aleisha, a bright but anxious teenager works at the local library.
One day she discovers a list of novels she has never heard of in the back of a book. She is intrigued and also a little bored with her slow job so she decides to read every book from the list. Mukesh arrives at the library in the hopes to forge a connection with his granddaughter. Aleisha happily passes along this reading list to him which soon forms a connection between these two.
Hooked
James wants to destroy his enemy Peter Michaels. When Peter’s daughter Wendy shows up at his bar, he seizes this opportunity to seduce her and seek revenge. But things in his organization are starting to crumble and he needs to find the traitor while planning his revenge. It doesn’t help that he has also started to see Wendy as more than just a pawn in his games.
Meanwhile, Wendy can’t seem to shake her desire for him. As their relationship continues to deepen, she learns more about him, until she is asking herself whether she is falling for James or the monster known as Hook.
Finlay Donovan Is Killing It
Finlay Donovan, a mother of two and a struggling novelist is killing it… except she’s really not and it’s stressing her out. When she is overheard discussing her new suspense novel, she is mistaken for a contract killer. So it’s not surprising when she is offered to dispose of a problem husband; an offer she accepts to make ends meet. However, the novelist will soon learn that crimes in real life are nothing like the fictional crimes she is so comfortable with.
Ace Of Spades
At the prestigious Niveus Private Academy, money paves the hallways and the students attending the academy are nothing if not stellar. Until now, at least. An anonymous texter called Aces is determined to expose the darkest secrets of two students.
Devon is a talented musician but when his private photos leak in public, he won’t be able to escape the spotlight. On the other hand, Chiamaka, the Head Girl is relentless when it comes to getting what she wants.
But, when everyone gets to know the price she has paid to reach there, she won’t be able to hold her head up high. Someone is determined to get them both, who holds all the aces and they are not looking for a mediocre high school game.
We have reached the end so tell us how many books did you add to your TBR list? Have you read any of these books? We have read quite a few books from this list yet we found a few new books that we want to read right now. We were rather intrigued by the Hooked blurb, and it’s not a proper retelling but we still want to binge-read the series straight away. What book did you find interesting, do tell us!
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