If you’re the kind of reader who’s always chasing that next book to add to your ever-growing TBR, you’ll get this struggle: The Everygirl Book Club’s April pick, Weavingshaw by Heba Al-Wasity, totally left us in that “what do I read now?” spiral. Between its shadowy, gloomy atmosphere, the magic that’s woven into every corner of the world (five stars for immersive world-building), and that enemies-to-lovers tension that keeps you hooked, it’s the kind of story that’s hard to shake. You know the feeling—when you finish a book, and you can’t help but want more. If you’re craving another gothic romantasy world, you’re definitely not alone, and we’re here to help. The picks below are here to help fill that void, each book bringing its own version of the Weavingshaw atmosphere we’ve all been missing. Without further ado, here are the perfect books to cure your post-Weavingshaw hangover, including our May Book Club pick!
Start reading our May Book Club pick! In Y2K New York City, Lily Chen meets Matthew. Matthew is everything Lily is not: easygoing, effortlessly attractive, and, most notably, heir to a vast pharmaceutical empire. Lily couldn’t be more different. Despite all this, Lily and Matthew fall in love. In 2021, Nick Chen has never felt like he belonged on the isolated island where he lives with his single mother. When Nick sets out to find his biological father, the journey threatens to raise more questions than it provides answers.
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In Monte Carlo, our unnamed heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of marriage. Orphaned and working as a lady’s maid, she can barely believe her luck. It is only when they arrive at Manderley, her husband’s cavernous estate on the Cornish coast, that she realizes how vast a shadow his late wife, Rebecca, will cast over their lives—introducing a lingering evil that threatens to destroy their love from beyond the grave.
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Elspeth Spindle needs more than luck to stay safe in the eerie kingdom she calls home—she needs a monster. She calls him the Nightmare, an ancient spirit trapped in her head. When Elspeth meets a mysterious man on the forest road, her life takes a drastic turn as she joins a dangerous quest to cure the kingdom of the dark magic infecting it. But as the stakes heighten and their undeniable attraction intensifies, Elspeth is forced to face her darkest secret yet: the Nightmare is slowly, darkly, taking over her mind.
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At 15, Jude was exiled from the Abbey to the countryside, to maintain their control over his bourgeoning magic. Almost a decade later, he wants to live a normal life free from the Abbey’s oppressive gaze. When they send Maeve, an iconographer, to paint an updated icon of him, Jude discovers she holds the same tainted magic, and the icons she paints may be the key to destroying the Abbey’s power. As Jude and Maeve draw closer, the two of them face a choice—they can take on the Abbey and risk their lives for freedom or escape back to exile and make the most of their fading memories.
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Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before: of the intense passion between the foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, and her betrayal of him. As Heathcliff’s bitterness and vengeance is visited upon the next generation, their innocent heirs must struggle to escape the legacy of the past.
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Orphaned as a baby, Signa has been raised by a string of guardians—and each has met an untimely end. Her remaining relatives are the elusive Hawthornes. But when their late mother’s restless spirit appears claiming she was poisoned, Signa realizes that the family she depends on could be in grave danger. Signa’s best chance of uncovering the murderer is an alliance with Death himself. Though he’s made her life a living hell, Death shows Signa that their growing connection may be more irresistible than she ever dared imagine.
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In the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days. But when her mistress discovers her talent, she demands Luzia use those gifts to improve the family’s social position. Determined to seize this one chance to better her fortunes, Luzia plunges into a world where the lines between magic, science, and fraud are never certain. She will have to use every bit of her wit and will to survive—even if that means enlisting the help of an embittered immortal familiar whose own secrets could prove deadly for them both.
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Orphaned Jane Eyre endures an unhappy childhood, hated by her aunt and cousins and then sent to comfortless Lowood School. But life there improves and Jane stays on as a teacher, though she still longs for love and friendship. At Mr. Rochester’s house, where she goes to work as a governess, she hopes she might have found them—until she learns the terrible secret of the attic.
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Sybil Delling is a Diviner. In her dreams she receives visions from unearthly figures known as Omens. From them, she can predict terrible things before they occur. Just as she and her sister Diviners near the end of their service, a mysterious knight arrives at the cathedral. Rude and devilishly handsome, Rodrick has no respect for Sybil’s visions. But when Sybil’s fellow Diviners begin to vanish one by one, she has no choice but to seek his help in finding them.
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After a year away following the tragic death of her girlfriend, Felicity Morrow is back at Dalloway to finish high school. Witchcraft is woven into Dalloway’s past. And before her girlfriend died, Felicity was drawn to the dark. She’s determined to leave that behind now, but it’s hard when Dalloway’s occult history is everywhere. As a prodigy novelist at 17, Ellis Haley asks Felicity to help her research for her second book. Given her history, Felicity is the perfect resource. But when history begins to repeat itself, Felicity will have to face the darkness in Dalloway—and herself.
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In 1902, students Flo and Clara are obsessed with a young writer named Mary MacLane. To show their devotion, the girls establish their own private club and call it the Plain Bad Heroine Society. They meet in secret in a nearby apple orchard—where their bodies are later discovered with a copy of Mary’s book beside them. Over a century later, writer Merritt Emmons publishes a book surrounding the institution, which inspires a horror film adaptation. But as the modern heroines arrive on set to begin filming, past and present become entangled—and soon it’s impossible to tell where the curse leaves off and Hollywood begins.
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When Corvina arrives at the University of Verenmore, the last thing she expects is an old, secluded castle on top of a mountain, riddled with secrets, deceit, and death. As a part-time professor, Vad Deverell has been around long enough to know the dangers the castle possesses. And he knows Corvina is dangerous to everything that he is. But a century-old mystery forces them to collide. People have disappeared every five years over the past century, Corvina is getting clues to unraveling it all, and Vad needs to keep an eye on her. And so begins a tale of the mysterious, the macabre, and a deep love that blossoms in the unlikeliest of places.
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