- When the Moon Hatched
- Illad (Wilson)
- Sha po lang vol 1 (chinese)
- Lout of Count’s Family vol. 2
- Fire from Heaven
- The Houskeeper and the Professor
- The Infinite Moment (poems)

One of my all-time favorites!! Though the experience does somewhat depend on how much you like Shakespeare's tragedies haha. Have you read "The Secret History" by any chance? They are often compared together for similar themes and story setup.

Honorable Mentions:

- Oryx and Crake
- The Three-Body Problem
- All Quiet on the Western Front

16. I who have never known men (though I think this one is decently popular at the moment?), Oryx and Crake
17. By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, Kokoro
18. Rose and Renaissance
19. literary fiction and danmei
20. I don't watch a lot of book adaptations but I think Three-Body Problem

14. I think all the popular romantasy books I've read from TikTok or Instagram have disappointed me immensely. To name a few: Powerless, Voyage of the Damned, Divine Rivals
15. Powerless, Voyage of the Damned, Everneath, The Night Ends with Fire

12. Many books made me feel sad, but the only book that made me cry this year was Till Death Do Us Part
13. I don't have any books that I think need more banging but I can list plenty that need LESS

4. Alice Winn, Hanya Yanagihara
5. Cui Buqu (from Peerless)
6. The Foxhole Court, Liu Yao, In Memoriam (none of these books are even romance haha)
7. Murder on the Orient Express
8. The Redemption of Time or Peerless
10. Liu Yao
11. The Silence of the Girls

Ooo thanks for the recommendations, putting them on my tbr

On that note, does anyone have any good recommendations?

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