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VPL - Books Just For You - Gripping Tales and Spicy Romance

This list was prepared by VPL's reading experts for a reader interested in popular, award-winning fiction and erotica. Inspirations include Breaking Bad, Indian history, and a love of impactful stories.

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  • Sparks fly between a father and his son's girlfriend after she moves in with them in this steamy age-gap romance.
    Book, 2023New York : Berkley Romance, 2023.
  • Shortly after he commits a crime, Raskolnikov finds himself descending into paranoia as he grapples with severe guilt for what he has done. This classic of world literature captures brilliantly the sufferings of the human conscience.
    Book, 1993New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c1993.
  • Four strangers share a too-small apartment in 1975 India, a time of upheaval and change, and try to maintain a “fine balance between hope and despair” in troubled and cruel times.
    Book, 1995Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, 1995.
  • The first book in a series which follows protagonist Lakshmi, who escapes her abusive husband and becomes a successful henna artist in 1950s Jaipur.
    Book, 2020Toronto, Ontario : Mira, [2020]
  • A ghost hunter and the demon trying to steal her soul fall in love with a heavy dose of spice.
    Book, 2021[United States?] : Harley Laroux, [2021]
  • "Bestseller Rooney returns with a boldly experimental and emotionally devastating story of estrangement...her focus on Peter and Ivan’s complicated fraternal bond pays enormous dividends." — Publishers Weekly
    Book, 2024Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2024.
  • This gothic dark romance is a spicy mashup of "Beauty and the Beast" and "The Phantom of the Opera."
    Book, 2020[Place of publication not identified] : Keri Lake, [2020]
  • In this moody neo-western novel, moral ambiguity has displaced conventional treatments of good and evil. Brilliant character studies flesh out this violent border tale. A modern classic.
    Book, 2005New York : Knopf, 2005.
  • Prosecuting attorney Rusty Sabich is in the unenviable position of investigating the brutal murder of his colleague and former lover, when he becomes the accused. This classic of the legal thriller genre paved the way for writers like John Grisham.
    Book, 1987New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, c1987.
  • Charmed by the teachings of their Classics professor, a group of eccentric students decide to commit a murder, which sets off of a series of life-changing events. Donna Tartt creates a mystery with morally problematic characters that you can't help…
    Book, 1992New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1992.
  • The first of four novels in the The Original Sinners series, "The Siren" is "a haunting story of love and pain." A steamy erotic romance by an award-winning author of this genre.
    Book, 2012Don Mills, Ontario : Harlequin MIRA, [2012]
  • Jacob, the son of a meth-addicted mother and sociopathic drug-lord father dropped out of school to work for his father. He falls ever deeper into a world of violence, betrayal and murder.
    Book, 2015New York, New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, Published by the Penguin Group (USA) LLC, [2015]