World Book Day: Here are the five books from the best of Wattpad list

• As we observe World Book Day on April 23 amid Coronavirus lockdown this year, Business Insider brings you books from internet community Wattpad.
  
• Studies show that reading a book for merely six minutes can reduce stress by over half as it releases tension in the muscles.
  
• From user-generated fiction stories to poetry and humor, here are all the books to read, straight from the ‘Best of Wattpad’ list.

For book lovers, reading is always the favourite way to kill time. In fact, studies show that reading a book for merely six minutes can reduce stress by over half as it releases tension in the muscles.

As we observe World Book and Copyright Day on April 23 amid Coronavirus lockdown this year, Business Insider brings you the books from the internet community Wattpad.

From user-generated fiction stories to poetry and humor, here are all the books to read, straight from the ‘Best of wattpad’ list.

Confessions about Colton

Published by a 23-year-old author Olivia Harvard, Confessions about Colton is a suspense novel featuring a teen boy Elliot Parker who is trying to cope up with betrayal and loss.

Meanwhile, Colton Crest, his best friend, is brutally murdered. While Parker tries to get on with his life leaving behind his past, Crest’s death creates a mayhem. On the day of his funeral, Parker finds a letter that says “I killed Colton Crest”. But there are six more letters that unfold six clues as to why Crest was murdered. As Parker tries to put together the pieces, he wonders if he really knew Colton.

If I Fall

Written by Lauryn A Brooks, the book features characters from the LGBTQ+ community. It is a story of two girls who fall in love. On a dull September afternoon, when the protagonist meets Drew Wilder, her life changes forever.

The Numbered

Authored by MJ Gary, The Numbered is a Watty 2015 winner novel. The day Hannah is born, she undergoes a series of genetic and psychological tests. These scores decide her fate. Her birth parents leave her to be adopted by a ‘flawed’ family where she struggles to live.

However, one fine day she is told that the consultant got the scores wrong and she has to relocate to her birth parents for a ‘perfect’ life where she has important decisions to make. And these decisions influence everyone’s lives around her.

The Star and the Ocean

Authored by Maggie Derrick, The Star and the Ocean is a story of a young woman May Alana, who wishes on a star and finds a stranger on the remote island she lives. The book narrates how the pair survives all the odds to be together — including her secret that she is in possession of otherworldly powers.

Given

The book Given by Nandi Taylor narrates the story of an Island Princess Yenni, who is engaged to a prince of a neighbouring tribe. She wants to save her father’s life at any cost but ends up meeting a dragon who claims her to be his "Given", or destined mate.

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