*Heavily updated as of July 26, 2026… Happy Birthday to my 4th grade teacher.
Previously, I shared all the books I hope to buy to eventually read.
This is a list of all the books I currently own but have not started. However, I don’t have the heart to donate them or take them to McKay’s because I do genuinely want to read them.
As I start reading a book, I’ll remove it from this list and add a book I bought to take its place. I’ve created a little system to expand my library and my knowledge (and my love for hopeless romantic happy endings).
- Tied by Carian Cole
- Honey by Isabel Banta
- Till Summer Do Us Part by Meghan Quinn
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
- Deacon King Kong by James McBride
- When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors & Asha Bandele
- Making a Scene by Constance Wu
- Two Wrongs Make a Right by Chloe Liese
- The Maid by Nita Prose
- You Had Me at Hola by Alexis Daria
- Burning Daylight by Emily Mcintire
- The Happy Ever After Playlist by Abby Jimenez
- This Could Be Us by Kennedy Ryan
- Hell of a Book by Jason Mott
- She’s With Me by Jessica Cunsolo
- The Summer Girl by Elle Kennedy
- People Person by Candice Carty-Williams
- Feeding the Soul by Tabitha Brown
- Wildblood by Lauren Blackwood
- Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
- The Happiness Project: Or, Why I spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun by Gretchen Rubin
- You Deserve a Drink by Mamrie Hart
- Token by Beverley Kendall
- Life’s too Short by Abby Jimenez
- First Flight, Final Fall by C.W. Farnsworth
- Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
- This Is Just My Face by Gabourey Sidibe
- Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America by *multiple authors*
- Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
- Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin
- Rules for the Summer by Meghan Quinn
- Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn Solomon
- When Life Gives You Lemons by Fiona Gibson
- Slipstream by Madge Maril
- Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson
- She Memes Well by Quinta Brunson
- A Dance of Lies by Brittney Arena
- American Like Me by *multiple authors*
- Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir by Matthew Perry
- One Day in December by Josie Silver
- The Light Always Breaks by Angela Jackson-Brown
- Every Other Weekend by Abigail Johnson
- Can’t Get Enough by Kennedy Ryan
- Skye Falling by Mia McKenzie
- Violet by Brooke Harper
- Protecting What’s Mine by Lucy Score
- Take the Lead by Alexis Daria
- Vow of the Shadow King by Sylvia Mercedes
- Black Girls Must Be Magic by Jayne Allen
- Jackpot by Nic Stone
- Love Radio by Ebony LaDelle
- The Maidens by Alex Michaelides
- Bride by Ali Hazelwood
- Black AF History by Michael Harriot
- Sorry Not Sorry by Naya Rivera
- A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
- Then Again by Diane Keaton
- American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
- We Are the Brennans by Tracey Lange
- On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
- Mo’ Meta Blues by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson
- We All Love the Beautiful Girls by Joanne Proulx
- Matriarch by Tina Knowles
- After Burn/After Shock by Sylvia Day
- Save Me by Mona Kasten
- Save You by Mona Kasten
- Save Us by Mona Kasten
- Cursed by Marissa Meyer
- The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst
- The Close-Up by Kennedy Ryan
- How to Survive Your Childhood Now That You’re an Adult by Ira Israel
- Goodnight Punpun by Inio Asano
- They All Fall in Love at the End by Haili Blassingame
- Take What You Can by Naima Coster
