We’ve officially made it halfway through the year! Weird, right? I feel like I just started working on my TBR list, and now I’ve made it through, like, 20 books. A lot of them were great, but it still wasn’t hard to narrow the list down to my top three. 

These three books weren’t just the best fiction books I read this year – they definitely make my list of All-Time Favorites, too! I can’t wait to share them with you. 

Read on for the best three works of fiction I’ve read in the past six months:

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Hemlock Grove by Brian McGreevy

I’ve been screaming at my friends to read Hemlock Grove since I found it at a secondhand store a couple months ago. It’s one of those books that I simply couldn’t put down. 

This horror/thriller novel was originally released five years ago and has even led to a Netflix series that is currently three seasons long (including a full two seasons of material that wasn’t part of the original book). 

The story takes place in a small town in Pennsylvania, where teenage girls start to show up inexplicably murdered. Newcomer Peter (gypsy, werewolf, suspicious to the rest of the town, but not the killer) forms an unlikely friendship with local rich-boy Roman (who is hiding some secrets of his own) in order to find the killer.

On the way, the two characters unearth a plethora of mysteries about the supernatural forces at work in the town of Hemlock Grove. You’ll be hooked right away; trust me.

The best way I can explain how much I loved this book is that I was so into it, I completely forgot to guess who the killer was. Read it! (But seriously, don’t watch the Netflix show. Despite following the book’s plot to a near-T, something about the translation to screen made the eerie elements I loved in the book feel hokey, unbelievable, and over-the-top on TV.)