A story about a failed robbery, a room full of strangers, and all the tiny heartbreaks we carry. Anxious People turns chaos into compassion, reminding us that even in our messiest moments, we’re not alone. Backman has crafted a novel that’s equally hilarious, tender, and quietly life-affirming.

Frankl’s powerful memoir and theory of logotherapy changed how I understand resilience, suffering, and what it means to live with intention. This book doesn’t just tell you there’s meaning in hardship—it makes you feel it. Deeply human, deeply necessary. A read I’ll carry with me for life.

In The Silent Patient, Alex Michaelides crafts a gripping psychological thriller built on one woman’s silence and one man’s obsession with breaking it. The result is haunting, layered, and impossible to forget—a story about truth, trauma, and the dangerous ways we try to heal from what we can’t explain

Steinbeck’s East of Eden is more than an American epic: it’s a meditation on choice, morality, and the human condition. With layered characters and haunting prose, it challenges the reader to confront the darkness we inherit and the light we choose. A book that grows with you each time you return.

Set in the haunting halls of Manderley, Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca is a slow-burning psychological masterpiece. It explores jealousy, identity, and memory with eerie precision; and will leave you questioning how much of the past ever really stays buried.