Sylvia Plath
3.99 · 179 ratings
20th century · self harm · length-short · new adult · mental illness · angst · queer · abuse · mystery · christmas · suspense · dark · high-school · suicide · horror · audiobook · historical · death
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Jasmine Mas
3.98 · 2099 ratings
fantasy · forced proximity · from hate to love · paranormal · dark · tortured heroine · gifted heroine · queer · bisexual · menage · competent heroine · audiobook · alpha male · humor · tortured hero · past-child-abuse · possessive hero · fighters · warrior-heroine · non-human-hero
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Philip Pullman
4.06 · 587 ratings
mystery · fantasy · steampunk · audiobook · young adult · paranormal · war · witches · historical · magic · death · horror · high-school · length-medium · dark · high fantasy · dystopian · urban fantasy · found-family · strong heroine
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Delia Owens
4.07 · 354 ratings
standalone-first · new adult · north-america · rape · past-child-abuse · small town · class difference · friends to lovers · angst · abuse · sweet heroine · rape-non-mc · racism · young adult · strong heroine · third-person-pov · competent heroine · slow burn · suspense · dual-pov
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S.E. Hinton
4.01 · 336 ratings
m-f · bad boys · glimpses-kisses · male-pov · sunny hero · 20th century · mystery · tearjerkers · working class hero · high-school · abuse-non-mc · torture-mcs · usa · mental-trauma · graphic-violence · nerdy-hero · shy-hero · death · first-person-pov · historical
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Emily Brontë
3.67 · 335 ratings
independent heroine · super rich hero · hurt-comfort · dual-pov · male-pov · suicide · ableism · multicultural · strong heroine · racism · birth-control-non-con · dub-con · gambling · slow burn · friends to lovers · vengeance · angst · substance abuse · victim-blaming · rich heroine
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Julie Belfield
4.14 · 278 ratings
past-abuse · height-difference · new adult · gifted heroine · lgbtqia hate · religious-trauma · from hate to love · sassy heroine · royalty · fae · torture-scs · rape-non-mc · mental illness · political-intrigue · abuse · paranormal · suspense · found-family · slut-shaming · miscarriage
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Gail Honeyman
4.12 · 269 ratings
curvy-hero · standalone · friends to lovers · angst · working class heroine · abuse · mental illness · victim-blaming · rape · substance abuse · disabilities and marks · past-child-abuse · england · self harm · survival · neurodivergent · sweet-hero · found-family · fatphobia · suicide
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Mary Shelley
3.93 · 188 ratings
male-pov · length-short · urban fantasy · m-f · suicide · audiobook · contemporary · paranormal · third-person-pov · suspense · vengeance · dystopian · science fiction · angst · regency · tortured hero · historical · non-hea · death · magic
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Andrew Joseph White
4.30 · 148 ratings
horror · fantasy · audiobook · paranormal · young adult · queer · neurodivergent · death · length-medium · misogyny · mystery · found-family · suspense · mental illness · torture-scs · abuse · lgbtqia hate · m-f-x · dark · glimpses-kisses
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Gaston Leroux
4.00 · 137 ratings
dark · abduction · france · from hate to love · virgin hero · angst · working class heroine · sweet heroine · new adult · mental illness · mature couple · abuse · disabilities and marks · tortured hero · gifted heroine · mental-trauma · standalone · standalone-first · hurt-comfort · sweet-hero
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Julia Armfield
3.82 · 80 ratings
grumpy sunshine · mental illness · behind-doors · dark · suspense · mental-trauma · paranormal · death · dual-pov · non-hea · contemporary · terminal-illness · caretaking · horror · first-person-pov · audiobook · length-short · fantasy · mystery · f-f
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Alice Winn
4.66 · 76 ratings
slow burn · anal sex · third-person-pov · child-death · grumpy sunshine · western-central-europe · racism · audiobook · suicide · hurt-comfort · dual-pov · survival · sweet-hero · tortured hero · disabilities and marks · m-m · new adult · england · queer · mental illness
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Yevgeny Zamyatin
3.84 · 72 ratings
dark · suspense · length-medium · high-school · horror · contemporary · audiobook · historical · futuristic · 20th century · post-apocalyptic · new adult · dystopian · science fiction
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Johanna van Veen
3.95 · 69 ratings
queer · fantasy · f-f · historical · horror · length-medium · dark · mental illness · audiobook · suspense · paranormal · mystery · netherlands · non-trad-hea · europe · death · non-hea · magic · tortured heroine · open-door
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J.D. Frost
3.57 · 58 ratings
m-m · caretaking · cruel hero · standalone-first · first-person-pov · death · dark · abuse-mc · abuse-non-mc · mental-trauma · explicit-open-door · high-school · standalone · anal sex · grovel · super rich hero · possessive hero · alcoholism · alpha male · suicide
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William Golding
3.69 · 51 ratings
mystery · science fiction · dystopian · high-school · male-pov · historical · suspense · young adult · contemporary · abuse · war · death · dark · 20th century
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David Sodergren
4.26 · 49 ratings
non-human-hero · sweet heroine · vengeance · torture-scs · sassy heroine · angst · mental illness · small town · self harm · disabilities and marks · mature couple · shapeshifters · audiobook · contemporary · m-f · sweet-hero · survival · found-family · suspense · paranormal
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Wallis Kinney
3.90 · 49 ratings
north-america · small town · disabilities and marks · friends to lovers · secret-relationship · sweet heroine · angst · vengeance · strong heroine · slow burn · third-person-pov · sweet-hero · hurt-comfort · urban fantasy · suicide · massachusetts · sunny hero · 20th century · grovel · bodyguard-hero
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Micah Nemerever
3.93 · 47 ratings
mental illness · jewish · virgin hero · angst · lgbtqia hate · queer · behind-doors · secret-relationship · tortured hero · self harm · disabilities and marks · class difference · small town · new adult · standalone · m-m · suicide · contemporary · audiobook · neurodivergent
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Marcus Sedgwick
3.75 · 39 ratings
historical · magic · urban fantasy · europe · scandinavia · science fiction · vampires · time travel · fantasy · mystery · dystopian · vikings · dark · suspense · length-medium · paranormal · young adult · high-school · standalone · contemporary
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Joey Parker
3.66 · 38 ratings
child-sexual-abuse · friends to lovers · torture-mcs · lgbtqia hate · queer · substance abuse · bisexual · mental illness · m-m · angst · sports · rape · new adult · height-difference · past-child-abuse · self harm · hurt-comfort · disabilities and marks · college · found-family
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C.E. McGill
3.91 · 34 ratings
historical · urban fantasy · death · length-long · horror · audiobook · victorian · contemporary · paranormal · suspense · dark · f-f · mystery · fantasy · western · queer · monsters
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Reese Dante
3.36 · 30 ratings
non-human-hero · abuse · forbidden love · abuse-non-mc · sassy heroine · royalty · explicit-plentiful · religious-trauma · shapeshifters · new adult · audiobook · contemporary · m-f · alpha male · height-difference · betrayal · slut-shaming · non-human-heroine · suspense · paranormal
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Mia Darling
3.67 · 26 ratings
contemporary · bad boys · male-pov · forced proximity · cold hero · torture-mcs · abuse-non-mc · united-kingdom · mental-trauma · dark · graphic-violence · first-person-pov · death · open-door · first-in-series · standalone-first · russia · queer-awakening · new adult · m-m
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Akimi Yoshida
4.69 · 25 ratings
child-death · drug-abuse · human-trafficking · bad boys · glimpses-kisses · length-short · 20th century · death · non-hea · historical · abuse-non-mc · graphic-violence · fighters · child-sexual-abuse · lgbtqia hate · abuse · queer · angst · rape-non-mc · mental illness
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Michelle Wong
3.91 · 22 ratings
audiobook · child-death · monsters · possessive hero · independent heroine · sunny hero · glimpses-kisses · animal-abuse · animal-death · dangerous heroine · fantasy · mystery · forced proximity · bodyguard-hero · non-human-hero · warrior-heroine · dark · graphic-violence · first-person-pov · magic
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T.C. Anderson
4.65 · 21 ratings
f-f · human-trafficking · cheerful heroine · poor heroine · death · tortured heroine · tall-heroine · past-abuse · caretaking · past-sexual-abuse · high-school · abuse-non-mc · torture-mcs · dark · length-medium · usa · mental-trauma · child-sexual-abuse · graphic-violence · shy heroine
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Sarah Hollowell
3.97 · 21 ratings
fantasy · paranormal · mystery · abuse · queer · time travel · bisexual · mental illness · death · neurodivergent · survival · contemporary · audiobook · horror · young adult · dark · suspense · length-medium
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