The Best Underrated Books!
1. It is probably one of my all-time favorites. Taking place in a world where everyone can hear your thoughts, it’s a beautiful take on the classic coming-of-age story.
2. It is a beautiful and incredibly underrated book. It’s a mixture of the most heavy philosophical ideas I’ve ever read with a wonderful and heartbreaking love story.
3. I’ve thought about this book at least once a month since I read it. About a minister in Scotland who doubts God’s existence, it’s one of those books that sticks with you.
4. It’s a soul-crushing dissection of an abusive relationship within rape culture. Most of the novel lives in a morally gray area, forcing the reader to take sides in something utterly disgusting. It isn’t very uplifting, but it is absolutely essential because of the uniqueness of its style and the importance of its subject matter.
5. It’s one of my favorite books of all time, and I can’t believe it’s not super popular. About a magical circus open only at night, it offers a new take on magic and love, and it’s beautifully written. Plus, the plot and characters pull you in and beg you to read the entire book in one sitting.
6. One of the best, albeit strangest, books I’ve ever read, the novel has a highly unreliable narrator with a past not revealed until the very end.
7. It’s one of the best books I’ve ever read. It’s a twist on classic fairy tales — more specifically, the scary kind — but it’s really all about growing up and the loss of youth. Touching and poignant, but not overly sappy or sentimental, it’s just shy of 400 pages and an overall great read.
8. It’s a fascinating story told from the unreliable perspective of a delusional English farm boy with a proclivity for sexual violence.
9. It’s very different and definitely on the supernatural side, but it’s really, really good. Once I started reading it, I couldn’t stop.
10. It was my favorite novel of 2014. It is so compelling and beautifully written that I gave up highlighting my favorite lines. It also deals with important topics, like grief, family, and LGBTQ issues.
11. Everybody knows Zusak for The Book Thief, but this novel is just as beautiful and powerful. It reminds anyone who feels stranded in their twenties that you don’t need to be famous or anything special to make a huge difference in the world. All you need to be is kind.
12. The novel is a tightly wound, unnerving psychological thriller. It’s absolutely stunning and goes so far beyond what is being published in that genre right now. It’s the only book that’s actually given me nightmares.
13. Despite it’s significant contribution to modern sci-fi and mystery writing, it’s routinely omitted whenever influential books are mentioned.
14. Told from the perspective of a race car driver’s aging dog, the book is packed with so much heartfelt human insight. I still can’t reread it without tearing up. It’s a beautiful, wonderfully written book.
