Ever wonder what your favorite celebrities are reading — whether it’s a timeless classic or the buzzy bestseller they can’t put down? Welcome to Page-Turners, where stars reveal the books that keep them hooked, inspired and up all night. Warning: your TBR pile is about to get a lot longer.
Jeneva Rose loves books that are full of twists and turns that leaves her emotionally traumatized.
“I’ve always read for the same reason I write. I want to escape into a story and feel something while I’m there,” the bestselling author — whose new horror book, “Sometimes I Scare Myself,” is out now — told Page Six.
She added that she gravitates toward questionable characters and twists she doesn’t see coming.
“I want to be emotionally manipulated, lied to, and occasionally traumatized — and if a book leaves me thinking, ‘What the hell did I just read?’ even better. Apparently, that’s my idea of a good time,” she told us.
See below for Rose’s six must-read book recommendations.
“This is one of those books I wish I could erase from my memory just so I could experience it for the first time again. Peter Swanson fooled me, and there are few things I enjoy more than thinking I know exactly where a thriller is going only to have the rug pulled out from under me.”
“This is Stephen King at his bleakest and one of the few books that genuinely disturbed me. The horror isn’t just what comes back from the dead. It’s grief, desperation, and knowing exactly why someone is making a terrible decision while also knowing you might make the same one.”
“‘Pretty Girls’ shocked me with how dark Karin Slaughter was willing to go. I remember reading it and thinking, No way she’s actually going there—and then she did. There was something fearless about how far she pushed the story, and I’ve never forgotten it.”
“‘A Head Full of Ghosts’ leaves just enough room for doubt, which is my favorite kind of story. You’re constantly questioning what you’re witnessing. Is it possession, mental illness, manipulation, unreliable memory, or some combination of all of it? Even after you finish, the book refuses to give you the comfort of an easy answer.”
“‘Into the Darkest Corner’ made me feel like I was living inside the main character’s fear and paranoia, checking the locks and looking over my shoulder right along with her. It’s been years since I read it, and I still remember how anxious that book made me feel.”
“Am I allowed to recommend my own book? Because I’m doing it anyway. I wrote ‘Sometimes I Scare Myself’ postpartum, while experiencing postpartum anxiety, and I think some of what I was feeling found its way onto the page. Fear, isolation, the feeling that something terrible could happen at any moment — it’s all in there, alongside séances, haunted houses, curses, and plenty of dark humor. Sometimes I scare myself. Hopefully, I scare some readers too.”
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