Five amazing must-reads that will blow your minds🤩

1) THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN - PAULA HAWKINS

Rachel Watson, a divorcee, and an alcoholic catches the same commuter train to London every day. She knows where it stops and where it slows down. She watches life unfold in the houses that zip past her, all filled with different people with different stories to tell. Even though she has never met any of the occupants, she feels like she knows them, especially the ones living in House number 15 i.e. Megan and Scott Hipwell. Megan and Scott are a happily married couple, at least in the eyes of Rachel. As she watches their seemingly perfect lives, she longs to feel that kind of happiness again. But then one day, she witnesses something shocking, something that flips her life upside down. Turns out, the oh-so-perfect couple isn't so perfect anymore.

A secret affair, a bloody murder, an estranged past, and a fearful present...what more can you want from a book?? With a series of chilling twists, this sensational murder mystery will keep you gripping the edge of the seat and flipping the pages at night because now they'll see: she's much more than just the girl on the train.

Eventually, I suppose, the nightmares will stop and I'll stop replaying it over and over and over in my head, but right now I know that there's a long night ahead. And I have to get up early tomorrow morning, to catch the train.

2) OUR CHEMICAL HEARTS - KRYSTAL SUTHERLAND

Henry Page is a hopeless romantic, waiting for the kind of slo-mo, can't sleep - can't breathe love that he sees in movies. So, the last person that he expects to fall for is Grace. Grace Town is not your normal teenage girl. For one, she only ever dresses in men's oversize clothing, she also smells as if she hasn't washed for days. On top of that, she walks with a cane. There is absolutely nothing attractive about her, yet Henry can't stop thinking about her. The chemistry between Henry and Grace is so beautiful, yet so unique that none of them truly understand what it means. Day by day as he gets to know her, he realizes that she too was once happy and a carefree person who wanted nothing else except to have fun and live her life. But Grace has a secret, a crack in her soul that Henry wants to mend more than anything. But the question is, does she want him to mend it?

With a completely bittersweet ending, you will find yourself laughing and crying at the same time, because this book tells us that 17 year-olds don't get happy endings, they get new beginnings.

I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

3) WE WERE LIARS - E. LOCKHART

It was romantic yet tragic, beautiful yet broken, everything yet nothing...the summer of our lives when everything changed. Cadence, Gat, Johnny, and Mirren. Mirren, Johnny, Gat, and Cadence. Every summer, the whole Sinclair family meets up on Beechwood island to, in a way, celebrate everything perfect about them, that makes them different from the rest of the world. Stand tall, chin up - that's their motto. For years the Sinclairs have gone on hiding their grief from the world by showing off their surplus wealth. But when tragedy strikes, how long will their net of lies hold before the truth finally comes out? When a single mistake ruins everything, endless variations of one story are formed...but which one is true and which one is not?

This beautifully written book will leave you questioning your senses and grappling for the truth because sometimes the truth is right in front of you...you just need to reach out and be brave enough to accept it.

Tragedy is ugly and tangled, stupid and confusing. This is what the children know. And they know that the stories about their family are both true and untrue. There are endless variations. And people will continue to tell them.

4) ONE OF US IS LYING - KAREN McMANUS

A geek, a jock, a criminal, a princess...and a murder. Five students walk into detention but only four leave alive. The victim is outsider Simon Kelleher, creator of the notorious gossip app at Bayview High, AboutTHAT. But he dies twenty-four hours before posting their deepest, darkest secrets online. Investigators think it's no accident. The suspects: Yale hopeful Bronwyn, sports star Cooper, bad boy Nate and prom queen Addy. Will Simon get the justice he deserves or rather...doesn't deserve? Is the victim really innocent this time? After all, no matter how good or bad or different you are, everyone has a secret, right? All that matters is how far you're willing to go to protect it.

If you're into novels that focus on the messed-up lives of cliché high-school students then this is the BEST novel for you. With an ending so utterly dramatic and unique, this book will never leave your mind and will keep you wondering and wanting more.

That's the kind of person you can get away with killing: someone everybody else wants dead. Let's face it: everyone at Bayview High hated Simon. I was just the only one with enough guts to do something about it. You're welcome.

5) AN ABUNDANCE OF KATHERINES - JOHN GREEN

When it comes to relationships, anagram-obsessed, washed-up child prodigy Colin Singleton's type is girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped, nineteen times to be exact. On a road trip miles from home, with ten-thousand dollars in his pocket and his Judge-Judy loving best friend, Colin is set to prove his Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability correct and achieve his own Eureka! moment. But little does he know that along the way he will learn some valuable lessons, make some new friends, fight off feral hogs and most importantly realize his mistake of overlooking the small, special moments in life in search of the big one.

Funny, quirky, and unpredictable, this book will make you laugh till you cry and cry till you laugh. Life's just like a road trip, it's fickle and unstable and adventurous at the same time. So just strap on the seatbelt and enjoy the ride.

"Not interesting," Hassan said. Hassan's not-interestings had helped Colin figure out what other people did and did not enjoy hearing about. Colin had never gotten that before Hassan, because everyone else either humored or ignored him.