Book/literature recommendations, because diving into the world of a book can sometimes be exactly what you need on a hard day.

For the fellow college student majoring in English:

• Dracula by Bram Stoker (The Norton Critical Edition)
• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Shadow over Innsmouth by H.P. Lovecraft
• The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Leather Funnel by Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Mortal Immortal by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
• The Storm by Kate Chopin
• The Open Boat by Stephen Crane

Historical Fiction:

• Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
• The Indigo Girl by Natasha Boyd
• The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimmer
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
• The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris

Fiction:

• The Road by Cormac McCarthy (or anything written by McCarthy)
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• The Queen’s Gambit by Walter Tevis
• The Giver by Lois Lowry

Self-Help:

• The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D.
• Don’t Believe Everything You Think by Joseph Nguyen
• The Mountain is You by Brianna Wiest
• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
• Stop Letting Everything Affect You: How to Break Free from Overthinking, Emotional Chaos, and Self-Sabotage by Daniel Chidiac

Poetry, LGBTQ, and/or Lovey-Dovey/Smut (we don’t judge here):

• The Truth about Magic by Atticus (poetry)
• Sea Glass Secrets by Julia Reesor (poetry)
• All That You Deserve by Jacqueline Whitney (poetry)
• Home by Whitney Hanson (poetry)
• Climate by Whitney Hanson (poetry)
• Harmony by Whitney Hanson (poetry)
• Coming Home to Her by Emily Juniper (poetry, LGBTQ)
• Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo (LGBTQ, Lovey-Dovey)
• A Scatter of Light by Malinda Lo (LGBTQ, Lovey-Dovey)
• The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang (Lovey-Dovey)
• Eversea by Natasha Boyd (Lovey-Dovey, Smut)
• Forever, Jack by Natasha Boyd (Lovey-Dovey, Smut)
• Things We Never Got Over by Lucy Score (Lovey-Dovey, Smut)
• Things We Hide from the Light by Lucy Score (Lovey-Dovey, Smut)
• Things We Left Behind by Lucy Score (Lovey-Dovey, Smut)