Hi there,
I love the trope where the MC has a massive secret, like supernatural powers, or a secret identity, that they have to conceal from the rest of the world, and where there is quite a bit of tension created by this dynamic. Lots of superhero and vampire media would have this trope for example.
Books with this trope I have read include:
Mistborn
forging haephestus
The Bridge Kingdom
The Blighted Stars
Shadow of the fox
Count of Monte Cristo
Defy the night
Serpent and dove
the legend of nightfall
red queen
she who became the sun
bastard (last life)
the rook
the will of the many
little thieves
the traitor baru cormorant
Ascension (trysmoon saga)
Garden of the cursed
along the razors edge
the diabolic
to sleep in a sea of stars
the thousand names
the one who eats monsters
the blood trials
sun eater
perilous waif
artifact space
the darkest minds
cracked (soul eaters)
a queen in hiding
troubled waters
Eon: Dragoneye Reborn
the immortal rules
age of assassins
cinder
drink slay love
black magician trilogy
blood heir
this savage song
not even bones
red sister
murderbot
the demon king (seven realms)
jumper series
kings dark tidings
firebird chronicles
young elites
the murder of crows series
poison study
ember in the ashes
scholomance
dire saga
the thorn of detonhill
kill the queen
mask of mirrors
renegades
worm
red rising
nevernight chronicles
farseer trilogy
six of crows
blood song
stormlight archive
legend
locke lamora
the goose girl
maximum ride
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by Gavtassimo
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*The Forgotten Door* by Alexander Key
The Twenty-Sided Sorceress series by Annie Bellet.
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His Dark Materials series by Philip Pullman
Song of the Lioness series by Tamora Pierce
Ascendance of a Bookworm. The protagonist dies on Earth and wakes up in the body of a child in medieval inspired world. Has to hide from her new family that she is not actually their kid, worried about potential witch hunts for being a body snatcher.