Recommendations

Neither genres nor books are listed in rank order. For example, a book listed higher than another does not mean I recommend it more strongly. Also, there is no YA or Adult section. I decided to stick to plot-related genres instead of basing it on age. If I recommend the first book in a series, I am recommending the whole series.

New Adult
Contemporary

• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky 

Crime/Suspense/Mystery/Thriller/Horror

• Anything by Gillian Flynn, but specifically Dark Places 
• The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins 
• Anything by Stephen King, but specifically The Stand 
• The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield 

Fantasy

• Eon by Alison Goodman 
• A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin 
• Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan 
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling 

Sci-Fi

• Timeline by Michael Crichton 

Paranormal

• City of Bones by Cassandra Clare 
• Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead  
• Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater 
• Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor 

Dystopian

• Angelfall by Susan Ee 
• Legend by Marie Lu 

Novel

• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini 
• The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht 

Historical Fiction
Non-fiction
Classic

• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 
• Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky 
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 
• 1984 by George Orwell 
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 
• Dracula by Bram Stoker