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Good Girl, Bad Blood

Good Girl, Bad Blood

Holly Jackson · YA Mystery

Pip is back — the series our Holly Jackson deep-dive is built on.

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The Girl on the Train

The Girl on the Train

Paula Hawkins · Thriller

The commuter thriller that made unreliable narrators a genre of their own.

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Beautiful Disaster

Beautiful Disaster

Jamie McGuire · Romance

A stormy campus romance — messy, magnetic, impossible to put down.

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The Silent Patient

The Silent Patient

Alex Michaelides · Psychological Thriller

One patient, one therapist, one of the best final twists in modern thrillers.

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Atomic Habits

Atomic Habits

James Clear · Self-Help

Tiny changes, remarkable results — the habits book everything else borrows from.

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Thinking, Fast and Slow

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman · Psychology

A Nobel laureate's tour of the two systems running your every decision.

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Dream Soil

Dream Soil

Forrest Webber · Dreams & Psychology

A field guide to deep dreaming — journal your nights before they fade.

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Can't Hurt Me

Can't Hurt Me

David Goggins · Memoir

Goggins' brutal, galvanizing memoir of remaking yourself from nothing.

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