Neither of these are technically books but they both tell a story.

Worm by wildbow is a finished web serial that follows a troubled teenage girl who can control bugs and how she becomes disillusioned with society. There’s so much more to it but I genuinely cannot describe the plot without spoilers in less than a few pages. It isn’t perfect but despite it’s extreme length (about 1.7mil words or about 4 ITs by Stephen King) this is my second time reading it and I still love it. Also super powers are semi-normal in this society but they are explicitly gained through incredibly traumatic “trigger events” and usually the people who get them are in situations where even suicide isn’t a viable escape option. Shit gets dark fast and many of the villains in the series are genuinely terrifying.

I’m also listening to an audio drama called the Magnus archives. You may have heard of Chekhov’s gun before; this is Chekhov’s firing squad. It follows the archivist, Johnathan Sims, and his readings of paranormal stories submitted to the archive by the public. He slowly starts to notice trends in the stories and connects them together bit by bit, completely changing his understanding of the world around him and himself. If you like horror and you like mystery this will be hard to put down. It feels as though the authors truly understand the base nature of fear.