Books like Lost girls and love hotels by Catherine Hanrahan

The Bell Jar is the sole novel by Sylvia Plath, a psychologically intense and autobiographical look at a young woman’s decline into mental illness.

Jennifer Egan’s interlocking narratives weave the lives of Bennie Salazar, a former punk rocker turned record executive, and Sasha, a restless young woman, across decades and continents, exploring music, memory and the fragile threads that bind us.

Sookie Stackhouse must protect her brother Jason, who is transforming into a were‑panther, and uncover a sniper targeting the local changeling community before the next full moon.

Jonathan Tropper’s debut novel follows the Foxman family, united for the first time in a decade after the death of their father, exploring love, loss, and the quirks of sibling life with humor and depth.

A Tokyo tour guide confronts a weird American tourist who may be the city’s serial killer, forcing a chilling discovery that forever alters their lives.

After being adopted by a quirky Dublin couple who treat him only as a house‑guest, Cyril embarks on a life‑spanning quest to discover his origins, his place in Ireland, and the meaning of true belonging.

Reyna Grande’s middle‑grade retelling follows a Mexican‑American family as they struggle to cross borders, adopt a new life in the United States, and cope with separation and identity—all told in honest, touching prose.

A summer in the ancestral priory turns deadly when a murder exposes secrets beneath the family’s inherited home.

"With the smart suspense of Emma Donoghue's Room and the atmospheric claustrophobia of Grey Gardens, Catherine Burns's debut novel The Visitors explores the complex truths we are able to keep hidden from ourselves and the twisted realities that can lurk beneath even the most serene of surfaces. "Once you start Catherine Burns's dark, disturbing, and enthralling debut novel, it's hard to stop. The Visitors is bizarrely unsettling, yet compulsively readable." --Iain Reid, internationally bestselling author of I'm Thinking of Ending Things. Marion Zetland lives with her domineering older brother John in a crumbling mansion on the edge of a northern seaside resort. A timid spinster in her fifties who still sleeps with teddy bears, Marion does her best to live by John's rules, even if it means turning a blind eye to the noises she hears coming from behind the cellar door . . . and turning a blind eye to the women's laundry in the hamper that isn't hers. For years, she's buried the signs of John's devastating secret into the deep recesses of her mind -- until the day John is crippled by a heart attack, and Marion becomes the only one whose shoulders are fit to bear his secret. Forced to go down to the cellar and face what her brother has kept hidden, Marion discovers more about herself than she ever thought possible. As the truth is slowly unraveled, we finally begin to understand: maybe John isn't the only one with a dark side ..."--

Marine architect Hannah Bryson investigates a decommissioned Soviet submarine, Silent Thunder, and uncovers a deadly plot that kills her brother Connor, forcing her to confront the mastermind behind the attack.

A homicide detective in Sydney teams with a cold‑efficient partner and her brother to solve a gruesome harbor‑borne serial murder that echoes their own scarred pasts.

Julianne’s engagement ring vanishes, her love letters go missing, and her fiancé, the Earl of Featherstonhaugh, is embroiled in scandal. Determined to uncover the truth, she visits his London townhouse—only to discover a startling secret that may test their love.

A melancholy coming‑of‑age tale set in Tokyo, seen through the eyes of college student Toru Watanabe as he confronts love, loss, friendship, and mental health.