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Found Family Books

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34 books
The House in the Cerulean Sea
Fantasy

The House in the Cerulean Sea

by TJ Klune

A case worker for magical children falls for the master of a peculiar orphanage and the children in his care.

A Man Called Ove
Literary Fiction

A Man Called Ove

by Fredrik Backman

Ove is a curmudgeon with a strict moral code and a profound sense of loss — whose plan to die is repeatedly interrupted by the noisy, needy neighbors who need him to live.

☕ Comfort Read😭 Tissue Warning💔 Ugly Cry
Little Women
Literary Fiction

Little Women

by Louisa May Alcott

The four March sisters — Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy — come of age during the Civil War, each discovering what she wants from life, from love, and from herself.

☕ Comfort Read😭 Tissue Warning💔 Ugly Cry
Percy Jackson and the Lost Hero
YA Fantasy

Percy Jackson and the Lost Hero

by Rick Riordan

Percy Jackson has disappeared. Nobody at Camp Half-Blood knows what happened. Annabeth and Grover face their worst fear: if Percy is dead, what does it mean for the world? The answer leads them into t…

🔥 Adrenaline Meter🦋 Butterflies Guaranteed🌀 Plot Twist Incoming
Six of Crows
Fantasy

Six of Crows

by Leigh Bardugo

A criminal mastermind assembles a crew of misfits to pull off an impossible heist from the world's most secure fortress.

🔥 Adrenaline Meter🌀 Plot Twist Incoming⏰ Sleep? What Sleep?
The Book Thief
Historical Fiction

The Book Thief

by Markus Zusak

Narrated by Death, this is the story of Liesel Meminger, who steals books in Nazi Germany and shares them with her foster father and the Jewish man hiding in their basement — a love letter to words an…

🕯️ Slow Burn Alert😭 Tissue Warning💔 Ugly Cry
The Lies of Locke Lamora
Fantasy

The Lies of Locke Lamora

by Scott Lynch

Locke Lamora is the most accomplished con artist in a city of thieves — until a mysterious criminal called the Gray King threatens everything his crew has built.

The Outsiders
YA Contemporary

The Outsiders

by S.E. Hinton

Fourteen-year-old Ponyboy Curtis navigates the violent divide between the working-class Greasers and the wealthy Socs, discovering that the world is more complex — and more cruel — than any label can …

A Little Life
Literary Fiction

A Little Life

by Hanya Yanagihara

Four college friends arrive in New York, and over decades the bonds between them are tested by love, success, and the escalating private horrors of Jude St. Francis — a man whose trauma runs so deep t…

💘 He Falls First🌀 Plot Twist Incoming😭 Tissue Warning💔 Ugly Cry
Anxious People
Literary Fiction

Anxious People

by Fredrik Backman

A failed bank robber takes hostages at an apartment viewing — and everyone's life changes.

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Literary Fiction

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

by Gail Honeyman

Eleanor Oliphant leads a rigid, solitary life governed by routines she cannot explain — until a small act of kindness begins to unravel the trauma she has been holding at arm's length for years.

Mistborn
Fantasy

Mistborn

by Brandon Sanderson

A street thief with an impossible power joins a band of rebels plotting to overthrow an immortal god-emperor — in a world where ash falls from the sky and the good guys lost a thousand years ago.

🔥 Adrenaline Meter🌀 Plot Twist Incoming⏰ Sleep? What Sleep?
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Literary Fiction

Remarkably Bright Creatures

by Shelby Van Pelt

Tova Sullivan volunteers at the Sowell Bay Aquarium and strikes up an unlikely friendship with Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus. Together they untangle the mystery of what happened to her son.

Sky in the Deep
YA Fantasy

Sky in the Deep

by Adrienne Young

Norse-inspired: Eelyn is a fierce warrior who discovers her brother — thought dead — has been fighting for the enemy clan. Captured and enslaved, she must find a way back to her people while questioni…

🔥 Adrenaline Meter🌑 Dark & Twisty😭 Tissue Warning
The Gilded Wolves
Historical Fantasy

The Gilded Wolves

by Roshani Chokshi

Paris 1889: a team of outsiders race to steal an artifact that could reshape the world's order.

They Both Die at the End
YA Contemporary

They Both Die at the End

by Adam Silvera

In a world where a service alerts you the day you''re going to die, two strangers meet on that day — Mateo and Rufus, both marked, both scared, both determined to make their last day matter. A story a…

🦋 Butterflies Guaranteed💘 He Falls First🌀 Plot Twist Incoming😭 Tissue Warning
10 Blind Dates
Contemporary Romance

10 Blind Dates

by Ashley Elston

When Poppy''s boyfriend春节期间 breaks up with her right before the trip to meet his family, her grandmother signs her up for 10 blind dates instead — each one more chaotic and charming than the last. Cou…

🦋 Butterflies Guaranteed☕ Comfort Read💘 He Falls First
Cinder
YA Sci-Fi Romance

Cinder

by Marissa Meyer

Cyborg mechanic Linh Cinder lives in a future where a plague is devastating Earth and the Moon has been colonized by a cruel Lunar queen who can control minds. When Prince Kai falls for her at a ball,…

🔥 Adrenaline Meter🦋 Butterflies Guaranteed💘 He Falls First🌀 Plot Twist Incoming
Clap When You Land
young-adult

Clap When You Land

by Elizabeth Acevedo

Two sisters — one in NYC, one in the Dominican Republic — discover each other only when their father dies in a plane crash. Told in alternating verse by two authors who made you feel every syllable. A…

🦋 Butterflies Guaranteed💔 Ugly Cry
Get a Life, Chloe Brown
Contemporary Romance

Get a Life, Chloe Brown

by Talia Hibbert

Chloe Brown is a chronically ill disabled artist who''s decided she needs more from life than work and worry. She makes a list. She starts crossing things off. And then a new artist moves in — and mak…

🦋 Butterflies Guaranteed☕ Comfort Read💘 He Falls First🕯️ Slow Burn Alert
Scarlet
YA Sci-Fi

Scarlet

by Marissa Meyer

Cinder is still missing, and in France, a street navigator named Scarlet Benoit is drawn into the hunt for her grandmother — last seen fleeing from a wolf-themed restaurant''s violent new owner, who h…

🔥 Adrenaline Meter🦋 Butterflies Guaranteed
The Fault in Our Stars
YA Contemporary

The Fault in Our Stars

by John Green

Hazel Grace Lancaster, a sixteen-year-old cancer patient, falls in love with Gus Waters at a support group. Together they travel to Amsterdam to meet a reclusive author — and reckon with what it means…

🕯️ Slow Burn Alert😭 Tissue Warning💔 Ugly Cry
The Girl Who Drank the Moon
young-adult

The Girl Who Drank the Moon

by Barbara O'Connor

A girl is thrown into the forest as a baby, raised by a kind witch, and grows up to accidentally consume the moon — setting off a chain of events that changes her world forever. Whimsical, dark, and d…

🦋 Butterflies Guaranteed🕯️ Slow Burn Alert
The Lightning Thief
YA Fantasy Adventure

The Lightning Thief

by Rick Riordan

Percy Jackson discovers he's the son of a Greek god — and is immediately blamed for stealing Zeus's master lightning bolt, launching a cross-country quest to prevent a war among the Olympians.

🔥 Adrenaline Meter🦋 Butterflies Guaranteed🌀 Plot Twist Incoming
The Night Watchman
Literary Fiction

The Night Watchman

by Louise Erdrich

Based on her grandfather''s experience as a Chippewa tribal police officer in North Dakota, Erdrich tells the story of Thomas Wazhashk — who fights to protect his community when the US government begi…

🔥 Adrenaline Meter🌀 Plot Twist Incoming💔 Ugly Cry
The Priory of the Orange Tree
Epic Fantasy

The Priory of the Orange Tree

by Samantha Shannon

A queen without an heir, a dragon-rider from the East, and a lady-in-waiting hiding a dangerous mission converge as an ancient evil stirs — in a standalone epic built on female power.

The Thursday Murder Club
Cozy Mystery

The Thursday Murder Club

by Richard Osman

Four retirees meet weekly to solve cold cases — until a real murder lands on their doorstep.

Watch Us Rise
young-adult

Watch Us Rise

by Namina Forrie

Two Black teen girls start a slam poetry club at their elite private school and become a voice for their generation. Fierce, intersectional, and impossible to put down.

🦋 Butterflies Guaranteed☕ Comfort Read
Piranesi
Fantasy

Piranesi

by Susanna Clarke

A man lives in a labyrinthine House full of tides and statues, piecing together a truth he cannot yet see.

😭 Tissue Warning
The Alchemyst
YA Fantasy Adventure

The Alchemyst

by Michael Scott

Twins Josh and Sophie Newman discover their employer is actually Nicholas Flamel — and are pulled into a centuries-old war between forces that could destroy humanity.

The Atlas Six
Dark Fantasy

The Atlas Six

by Olivie Blake

Six magicians compete for a place in a secret society — where one will not survive.

The Crossover
young-adult

The Crossover

by Kwame Alexander

Twin brothers who are basketball phenoms — until one falls in love and the other falls apart. Told in verse that moves like a crossover dribble: fast, fierce, and devastating. A novel in poems about b…

💘 He Falls First💔 Ugly Cry
A Gentleman in Moscow
fiction

A Gentleman in Moscow

by Amor Towles

A Russian count is placed under house arrest in a luxury Moscow hotel in 1922 — and it becomes the most beautiful, expansive setting for the story of his life. Historical fiction with thriller underto…

Such a Fun Age
Literary Fiction

Such a Fun Age

by Kiley Reid

When Alix Chamberlain''s Black babysitter, Emira, is confronted by a security guard at a high-end grocery store while watching the Chamberlain toddler, the incident triggers a chain of events that wil…

🦋 Butterflies Guaranteed☕ Comfort Read🌀 Plot Twist Incoming