50 Books like A Gentleman in Moscow

The Bronze Horseman

by Paullina Simons

She meets a soldier the day war begins, then learns he is her sister's lover.

4.29

97k+

🏚️ Siege Of Leningrad 💔 Forbidden Love 🎭 Secret Identity 👯 Sister Rivalry 💧 Devastating Love Story

The Bronze Horseman 90%

She meets a soldier the day war begins, then learns he is her sister's lover.

by Paullina Simons 2000

4.29

97k+ ratings

🏚️ Siege Of Leningrad 💔 Forbidden Love 🎭 Secret Identity 👯 Sister Rivalry 💧 Devastating Love Story

The Porcelain Doll

by Kristen Loesch • 2022

A porcelain doll's hidden key draws a woman to Russia to solve her family's murder.

3.78

13k+

🔄 Dual Timeline 🌳 Multigenerational Saga 🔐 Family Secrets 💔 Forbidden Love 🧬 Inherited Trauma

The Porcelain Doll 91%

A porcelain doll's hidden key draws a woman to Russia to solve her family's murder.

by Kristen Loesch 2022

3.78

13k+ ratings

🔄 Dual Timeline 🌳 Multigenerational Saga 🔐 Family Secrets 💔 Forbidden Love 🧬 Inherited Trauma

Fall of Giants

by Ken Follett • 2005

From Welsh pits to Russian palaces, five families face love and ruin as the world goes to war.

4.33

350k+

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Epic Family Saga ⚔️ World War I 🚩 Russian Revolution ✊ Workers' Rights 🗳️ Political Awakening

Fall of Giants 90%

From Welsh pits to Russian palaces, five families face love and ruin as the world goes to war.

by Ken Follett 2005

4.33

350k+ ratings

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Epic Family Saga ⚔️ World War I 🚩 Russian Revolution ✊ Workers' Rights 🗳️ Political Awakening

Between Shades of Gray

by Ruta Sepetys • 2011

A 15-year-old artist is sent to a Siberian gulag, where her drawings become her only defiance.

4.37

280k+

🏕️ Gulag Labor Camps ❄️ Siberian Exile 🎖️ Stalinist Russia 🖼️ Art As Witness 🕊️ Mother's Sacrifice

Between Shades of Gray 89%

A 15-year-old artist is sent to a Siberian gulag, where her drawings become her only defiance.

by Ruta Sepetys 2011

4.37

280k+ ratings

🏕️ Gulag Labor Camps ❄️ Siberian Exile 🎖️ Stalinist Russia 🖼️ Art As Witness 🕊️ Mother's Sacrifice

The Booklover's Library

by Madeline Martin • 2024

A young widow in 1939 Nottingham hides her motherhood to work in a subscription library.

3.97

25k+

🏠 Wartime Home Front 📚 Books About Libraries 👨‍👩‍👧 Found Family 👩‍👧 Mother Daughter Bond 🔥 Slow Burn Romance

The Booklover's Library 89%

A young widow in 1939 Nottingham hides her motherhood to work in a subscription library.

by Madeline Martin 2024

3.97

25k+ ratings

🏠 Wartime Home Front 📚 Books About Libraries 👨‍👩‍👧 Found Family 👩‍👧 Mother Daughter Bond 🔥 Slow Burn Romance

The Irish Boarding House

by Sandy Taylor • 2022

Mary Kate Ryan's inheritance becomes a Dublin boarding house where lost women find a home.

4.13

15k+

🏠 Found Family 🚪 Boarding House Fiction 💌 Unexpected Inheritance 💔 Childhood Abandonment 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Reconciliation

The Irish Boarding House 89%

Mary Kate Ryan's inheritance becomes a Dublin boarding house where lost women find a home.

by Sandy Taylor 2022

4.13

15k+ ratings

🏠 Found Family 🚪 Boarding House Fiction 💌 Unexpected Inheritance 💔 Childhood Abandonment 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Reconciliation

Child 44

by Tom Rob Smith • 2008

A Soviet officer tracks a child serial killer while his own state hunts him as a traitor.

4.11

91k+

🔍 Serial Killer Investigation 📁 State Cover-Up 🏃 Hunter Becomes Hunted 👬 Estranged Brothers 💡 Moral Awakening

Child 44 89%

A Soviet officer tracks a child serial killer while his own state hunts him as a traitor.

by Tom Rob Smith 2008

4.11

91k+ ratings

🔍 Serial Killer Investigation 📁 State Cover-Up 🏃 Hunter Becomes Hunted 👬 Estranged Brothers 💡 Moral Awakening

The Summer Before the War

by Helen Simonson • 2016

A Latin teacher finds purpose and impossible love in a Sussex town the summer the Great War begins.

3.79

45k+

🏘️ Edwardian Village 🏠 Home Front Drama 🕯️ Slow Burn Romance 💔 Duty Versus Heart 🧳 Wartime Refugees

The Summer Before the War 89%

A Latin teacher finds purpose and impossible love in a Sussex town the summer the Great War begins.

by Helen Simonson 2016

3.79

45k+ ratings

🏘️ Edwardian Village 🏠 Home Front Drama 🕯️ Slow Burn Romance 💔 Duty Versus Heart 🧳 Wartime Refugees

Hattie Big Sky

by Kirby Larson • 2006

An orphan inherits a Montana claim in 1918 and must survive brutal prairie and war prejudice.

4.03

20k+

🏡 Female Homesteader 🎖️ WWI Home Front 🔥 Wartime Hysteria 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 👧 Orphan Protagonist

Hattie Big Sky 89%

An orphan inherits a Montana claim in 1918 and must survive brutal prairie and war prejudice.

by Kirby Larson 2006

4.03

20k+ ratings

🏡 Female Homesteader 🎖️ WWI Home Front 🔥 Wartime Hysteria 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 👧 Orphan Protagonist

A Secret Garden Affair

by Erica James • 2023

Betrayed, Libby escapes to a Suffolk manor where garden plans expose her family's hidden secrets.

4.21

4k+

⏳ Dual Timeline 🔒 Family Secrets 🏡 Found Family 🌳 Generational Saga 🌸 Gardening And Healing

A Secret Garden Affair 89%

Betrayed, Libby escapes to a Suffolk manor where garden plans expose her family's hidden secrets.

by Erica James 2023

4.21

4k+ ratings

⏳ Dual Timeline 🔒 Family Secrets 🏡 Found Family 🌳 Generational Saga 🌸 Gardening And Healing

Foul Lady Fortune

by Chloe Gong • 2022

An immortal assassin and a spy pose as newlyweds to catch a killer in 1930s Shanghai.

4.20

32k+

🕵️ Spy Thriller 🕰️ Historical Fantasy 💍 Fake Marriage ❤️‍🔥 Enemies To Lovers 🎭 Double Agents

Foul Lady Fortune 89%

An immortal assassin and a spy pose as newlyweds to catch a killer in 1930s Shanghai.

by Chloe Gong 2022

4.20

32k+ ratings

🕵️ Spy Thriller 🕰️ Historical Fantasy 💍 Fake Marriage ❤️‍🔥 Enemies To Lovers 🎭 Double Agents

Sofia Petrovna

by Lydia Chukovskaya • 1965

When Stalin's purges take her son, a widowed typist learns loyalty offers no protection.

4.07

3k+

🏚️ Stalinist Russia ❤️ Mother Son Bond 👁️ Ordinary Witness 📋 Bureaucratic Terror 🎭 Political Purges

Sofia Petrovna 90%

When Stalin's purges take her son, a widowed typist learns loyalty offers no protection.

by Lydia Chukovskaya 1965

4.07

3k+ ratings

🏚️ Stalinist Russia ❤️ Mother Son Bond 👁️ Ordinary Witness 📋 Bureaucratic Terror 🎭 Political Purges

I Was Anastasia

by Ariel Lawhon • 2018

From an asylum, she claims to be Anastasia, the Romanov who survived. Proving it takes decades.

3.70

39k+

⏳ Dual Timeline 👑 Royal Impostor 🤥 Unreliable Narrator 🇷🇺 Imperial Russia 🧠 Trauma And Memory

I Was Anastasia 90%

From an asylum, she claims to be Anastasia, the Romanov who survived. Proving it takes decades.

by Ariel Lawhon 2018

3.70

39k+ ratings

⏳ Dual Timeline 👑 Royal Impostor 🤥 Unreliable Narrator 🇷🇺 Imperial Russia 🧠 Trauma And Memory

The Listeners

by Maggie Stiefvater

Her luxury hotel becomes a WWII internment camp. The water beneath it drinks in every sorrow.

3.70

18k+

🏠 WWII Home Front 🏨 Luxury Hotel Fiction 💕 Enemies To Lovers 👥 Found Family 🎭 Secret Identity

The Listeners 90%

Her luxury hotel becomes a WWII internment camp. The water beneath it drinks in every sorrow.

by Maggie Stiefvater 2025

3.70

18k+ ratings

🏠 WWII Home Front 🏨 Luxury Hotel Fiction 💕 Enemies To Lovers 👥 Found Family 🎭 Secret Identity

The Diamond Eye

by Kate Quinn • 2022

A legendary Soviet sniper lands in Washington on a goodwill tour, unaware an old enemy waits.

4.29

212k+

👩‍✈️ Women At War 🎓 Unlikely Soldier 🤝 Unexpected Bond 🥺 Lonely Hero 💔 Emotional Depth

The Diamond Eye 89%

A legendary Soviet sniper lands in Washington on a goodwill tour, unaware an old enemy waits.

by Kate Quinn 2022

4.29

212k+ ratings

👩‍✈️ Women At War 🎓 Unlikely Soldier 🤝 Unexpected Bond 🥺 Lonely Hero 💔 Emotional Depth

Maya & Natasha

by Elyse Durham • 2025

Twin sisters, one Kirov spot. The rivalry that shatters them spans a lifetime and a continent.

3.82

2k+

🩰 Ballet Fiction 👯 Twin Sisters ⚔️ Sibling Rivalry 🏙️ Siege Of Leningrad 🔴 Soviet Era

Maya & Natasha 89%

Twin sisters, one Kirov spot. The rivalry that shatters them spans a lifetime and a continent.

by Elyse Durham 2025

3.82

2k+ ratings

🩰 Ballet Fiction 👯 Twin Sisters ⚔️ Sibling Rivalry 🏙️ Siege Of Leningrad 🔴 Soviet Era

Life and Fate

by Vasily Grossman • 2006

At Stalingrad, a physicist discovers that mercy is the one thing no ideology can crush.

4.46

16k+

🗡️ Soviet Era ⚔️ Epic War Fiction 🏴 Totalitarianism 🏠 Family Saga ⚖️ Moral Compromise

Life and Fate 89%

At Stalingrad, a physicist discovers that mercy is the one thing no ideology can crush.

by Vasily Grossman 2006

4.46

16k+ ratings

🗡️ Soviet Era ⚔️ Epic War Fiction 🏴 Totalitarianism 🏠 Family Saga ⚖️ Moral Compromise

The Forest of Vanishing Stars

by Kristin Harmel • 2021

Stolen from Nazis and raised in the wild, she now hides hunted Jews in the forest.

4.25

98k+

🏕️ Raised In Isolation 🎭 Concealed Identity ⚔️ Wwii Resistance 🫂 Found Family 💔 Love After Loss

The Forest of Vanishing Stars 89%

Stolen from Nazis and raised in the wild, she now hides hunted Jews in the forest.

by Kristin Harmel 2021

4.25

98k+ ratings

🏕️ Raised In Isolation 🎭 Concealed Identity ⚔️ Wwii Resistance 🫂 Found Family 💔 Love After Loss

Words on Fire

by Jennifer A. Nielsen • 2019

A Lithuanian girl must smuggle banned books to save her culture after Cossacks arrest her parents.

4.28

15k+

📦 Book Smuggling 🚫 Forbidden Books 🇷🇺 Russian Occupation 🐛 Reluctant Hero 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family

Words on Fire 89%

A Lithuanian girl must smuggle banned books to save her culture after Cossacks arrest her parents.

by Jennifer A. Nielsen 2019

4.28

15k+ ratings

📦 Book Smuggling 🚫 Forbidden Books 🇷🇺 Russian Occupation 🐛 Reluctant Hero 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family

The Lacuna

by Barbara Kingsolver • 2009

He cooked for Kahlo, typed for Trotsky. In McCarthy's America, his past became his crime.

3.83

75k+

📝 Writers And Writing 🪞 Outsider Protagonist 📜 Archival Fiction 👁️ Witness To History 🎙️ Mccarthy Era

The Lacuna 89%

He cooked for Kahlo, typed for Trotsky. In McCarthy's America, his past became his crime.

by Barbara Kingsolver 2009

3.83

75k+ ratings

📝 Writers And Writing 🪞 Outsider Protagonist 📜 Archival Fiction 👁️ Witness To History 🎙️ Mccarthy Era

The Librarian of Crooked Lane

by C.J. Archer • 2022

A librarian seeking magical roots lands in an enchanted art heist beside a haunted war hero.

3.83

26k+

🏮 Gaslamp Fantasy 🧳 Orphaned Heroine 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 🫂 Found Family 📚 Magical Library

The Librarian of Crooked Lane 89%

A librarian seeking magical roots lands in an enchanted art heist beside a haunted war hero.

by C.J. Archer 2022

3.83

26k+ ratings

🏮 Gaslamp Fantasy 🧳 Orphaned Heroine 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 🫂 Found Family 📚 Magical Library

The Whistling Season

by Ivan Doig • 2006

A Montana widower hires a woman who can't cook. Her brother fills the one-room school with wonder.

4.07

22k+

🏫 One-Room Schoolhouse 🫂 Found Family 🎓 Eccentric Teacher 🏔️ Rural Montana 🤫 Small-Town Secrets

The Whistling Season 89%

A Montana widower hires a woman who can't cook. Her brother fills the one-room school with wonder.

by Ivan Doig 2006

4.07

22k+ ratings

🏫 One-Room Schoolhouse 🫂 Found Family 🎓 Eccentric Teacher 🏔️ Rural Montana 🤫 Small-Town Secrets

The Seven Sisters

by Lucinda Riley

A stone and coordinates send a woman to Rio, where a 1920s affair reveals her origin.

4.20

199k+

🕰️ Dual Timeline 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Saga 🔍 Adoption Mystery 💔 Forbidden Love 🎨 Artist Muse

The Seven Sisters 90%

A stone and coordinates send a woman to Rio, where a 1920s affair reveals her origin.

by Lucinda Riley 2014

4.20

199k+ ratings

🕰️ Dual Timeline 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Saga 🔍 Adoption Mystery 💔 Forbidden Love 🎨 Artist Muse

The Secrets We Kept

by Lara Prescott • 2019

A banned novel links a Moscow muse facing the Gulag to the CIA typists smuggling it home.

3.65

79k+

🕵️ Cold War Espionage 📚 Books About Books 🕶️ Secret Female Spies 💔 Forbidden Queer Romance 🎨 Muse And Artist

The Secrets We Kept 90%

A banned novel links a Moscow muse facing the Gulag to the CIA typists smuggling it home.

by Lara Prescott 2019

3.65

79k+ ratings

🕵️ Cold War Espionage 📚 Books About Books 🕶️ Secret Female Spies 💔 Forbidden Queer Romance 🎨 Muse And Artist

El niño que perdió la guerra

by Julia Navarro • 2024

Madrid, 1938: a mother exiles her son to save him. The Gulag takes everything else.

4.26

9k+

💥 Spanish Civil War 🛑 Stalinist Repression 🧳 Child Exile 🤝 Found Family 👩‍👦 Surrogate Mother

El niño que perdió la guerra 90%

Madrid, 1938: a mother exiles her son to save him. The Gulag takes everything else.

by Julia Navarro 2024

4.26

9k+ ratings

💥 Spanish Civil War 🛑 Stalinist Repression 🧳 Child Exile 🤝 Found Family 👩‍👦 Surrogate Mother

The Children's Book

by A.S. Byatt • 2009

An Edwardian novelist writes each child a private fairy tale. War comes for the final chapter.

3.69

19k+

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Multi-Generational Saga 🎩 Edwardian England 📖 Metafiction 🔐 Family Secrets 🫂 Found Family

The Children's Book 89%

An Edwardian novelist writes each child a private fairy tale. War comes for the final chapter.

by A.S. Byatt 2009

3.69

19k+ ratings

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Multi-Generational Saga 🎩 Edwardian England 📖 Metafiction 🔐 Family Secrets 🫂 Found Family

We the Living

by Ayn Rand • 1936

An engineer in Soviet Russia guards a forbidden love, defying the state that would crush her.

3.96

31k+

🇷🇺 Soviet Russia ⚖️ Individual Vs State 🔺 Love Triangle 💪 Defiant Woman 🏛️ Political Oppression

We the Living 89%

An engineer in Soviet Russia guards a forbidden love, defying the state that would crush her.

by Ayn Rand 1936

3.96

31k+ ratings

🇷🇺 Soviet Russia ⚖️ Individual Vs State 🔺 Love Triangle 💪 Defiant Woman 🏛️ Political Oppression

The Golden Cup

by Belva Plain • 1986

A tenement fire, a radical reformer. She marries him anyway, then spends a lifetime reckoning.

4.02

2k+

🏠 Multi-Generational Saga 🕍 Jewish American Family 💔 Marriage In Crisis 💰 Class Divide Romance 🪖 War Trauma

The Golden Cup 89%

A tenement fire, a radical reformer. She marries him anyway, then spends a lifetime reckoning.

by Belva Plain 1986

4.02

2k+ ratings

🏠 Multi-Generational Saga 🕍 Jewish American Family 💔 Marriage In Crisis 💰 Class Divide Romance 🪖 War Trauma

The Warm Hands of Ghosts

by Katherine Arden • 2024

Siblings separated by WWI find a fiddler whose hotel offers shelter at the cost of memory.

3.96

33k+

🏰 Historical Fantasy 🕊️ World War I Era 👫 Sibling Bond 🎖️ War Trauma 📜 Faustian Bargain

The Warm Hands of Ghosts 89%

Siblings separated by WWI find a fiddler whose hotel offers shelter at the cost of memory.

by Katherine Arden 2024

3.96

33k+ ratings

🏰 Historical Fantasy 🕊️ World War I Era 👫 Sibling Bond 🎖️ War Trauma 📜 Faustian Bargain

Strangers in Time

by David Baldacci • 2025

An orphan thief, a privileged girl, and a bookseller spy forge a family in the Blitz.

4.13

59k+

🫂 Found Family 💣 The Blitz 🧒 War Orphans 📚 Bookshop Sanctuary 🌉 Cross-Class Friendship

Strangers in Time 89%

An orphan thief, a privileged girl, and a bookseller spy forge a family in the Blitz.

by David Baldacci 2025

4.13

59k+ ratings

🫂 Found Family 💣 The Blitz 🧒 War Orphans 📚 Bookshop Sanctuary 🌉 Cross-Class Friendship

Now We Shall Be Entirely Free

by Andrew Miller • 2018

A traumatized officer returns from war, unaware that a tribunal has sent two men to execute him.

3.91

5k+

🪖 Haunted Soldier 🕯️ Slow-Burn Romance 🏠 Found Family 🏃 Dogged Pursuit 🌧️ Melancholy Redemption

Now We Shall Be Entirely Free 89%

A traumatized officer returns from war, unaware that a tribunal has sent two men to execute him.

by Andrew Miller 2018

3.91

5k+ ratings

🪖 Haunted Soldier 🕯️ Slow-Burn Romance 🏠 Found Family 🏃 Dogged Pursuit 🌧️ Melancholy Redemption

The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion

by Beth Brower • 2019

Banished to her own attic, a penniless heiress keeps a journal her scheming cousin should fear.

4.05

69k+

📖 Epistolary Novel 💪 Plucky Heroine ⚖️ Inheritance Battle 🫖 Cozy Historical 🕯️ Gothic Undertones

The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion Summary

The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion 89%

Banished to her own attic, a penniless heiress keeps a journal her scheming cousin should fear.

by Beth Brower 2019

4.05

69k+ ratings

📖 Epistolary Novel 💪 Plucky Heroine ⚖️ Inheritance Battle 🫖 Cozy Historical 🕯️ Gothic Undertones

Lázár

by Nelio Biedermann • 2025

A boy is born of a secret affair in a Hungarian castle. His mother's lie outlasts the empire.

3.79

10k+

🏰 Family Saga 🤫 Family Secrets 🖤 Intergenerational Trauma 🏚️ Aristocratic Decline 🇭🇺 Hungarian History

Lázár 89%

A boy is born of a secret affair in a Hungarian castle. His mother's lie outlasts the empire.

by Nelio Biedermann 2025

3.79

10k+ ratings

🏰 Family Saga 🤫 Family Secrets 🖤 Intergenerational Trauma 🏚️ Aristocratic Decline 🇭🇺 Hungarian History

The Safekeep

by Yael van der Wouden

She guards her mother's house like a fortress. Her brother's girlfriend slips through every wall.

4.06

138k+

🏳️‍🌈 Sapphic Historical 💕 Enemies To Lovers 🏠 Forced Proximity 🔥 Slow Burn 🇳🇱 Postwar Netherlands

The Safekeep 89%

She guards her mother's house like a fortress. Her brother's girlfriend slips through every wall.

by Yael van der Wouden 2024

4.06

138k+ ratings

🏳️‍🌈 Sapphic Historical 💕 Enemies To Lovers 🏠 Forced Proximity 🔥 Slow Burn 🇳🇱 Postwar Netherlands

Cancer Ward

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn • 1967

Cancer forces a Soviet official into a ward with the political exiles he once denounced.

4.26

18k+

📖 Medical Fiction ⛓️ Political Repression 🎗️ Terminal Illness ⚖️ Redemption Arc 🩺 Medical Ethics

Cancer Ward 89%

Cancer forces a Soviet official into a ward with the political exiles he once denounced.

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1967

4.26

18k+ ratings

📖 Medical Fiction ⛓️ Political Repression 🎗️ Terminal Illness ⚖️ Redemption Arc 🩺 Medical Ethics

The King's Messenger

by Susanna Kearsley • 2024

She loathes the king's messenger. A secret mission through Scotland forces them to ride together.

4.09

7k+

🖤 Enemies To Lovers 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 👑 Court Intrigue 🕵️ Secret Mission 🌫️ Atmospheric Historical

The King's Messenger 89%

She loathes the king's messenger. A secret mission through Scotland forces them to ride together.

by Susanna Kearsley 2024

4.09

7k+ ratings

🖤 Enemies To Lovers 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 👑 Court Intrigue 🕵️ Secret Mission 🌫️ Atmospheric Historical

We Could Be So Good

by Cat Sebastian • 2023

A guarded reporter and his boss's gentle son risk everything for love in 1950s New York.

4.26

21k+

🕯️ Slow-Burn Romance ☀️ Grumpy Meets Sunshine 🏠 Found Family 📰 Workplace Romance 🗽 1950s New York

We Could Be So Good 89%

A guarded reporter and his boss's gentle son risk everything for love in 1950s New York.

by Cat Sebastian 2023

4.26

21k+ ratings

🕯️ Slow-Burn Romance ☀️ Grumpy Meets Sunshine 🏠 Found Family 📰 Workplace Romance 🗽 1950s New York

Ada, or Ardor

by Vladimir Nabokov • 1969

At Ardis Hall, two cousins begin a forbidden affair of language, lust, and loss.

4.12

13k+

📚 Postmodern Literature 💔 Forbidden Love 🏡 Family Saga ✍️ Experimental Prose ⏳ Time And Memory

Ada, or Ardor 89%

At Ardis Hall, two cousins begin a forbidden affair of language, lust, and loss.

by Vladimir Nabokov 1969

4.12

13k+ ratings

📚 Postmodern Literature 💔 Forbidden Love 🏡 Family Saga ✍️ Experimental Prose ⏳ Time And Memory

The Girl You Left Behind

by Jojo Moyes • 2012

A portrait connects a Frenchwoman bargaining with the enemy and a modern widow fighting to keep it.

4.03

181k+

🕰️ Dual Timeline 💣 Wartime Occupation 🎨 Art Restitution 💔 Forbidden Attachment 🪖 Woman In Wartime

The Girl You Left Behind 89%

A portrait connects a Frenchwoman bargaining with the enemy and a modern widow fighting to keep it.

by Jojo Moyes 2012

4.03

181k+ ratings

🕰️ Dual Timeline 💣 Wartime Occupation 🎨 Art Restitution 💔 Forbidden Attachment 🪖 Woman In Wartime

In the First Circle

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn • 1968

A Soviet diplomat's call triggers a hunt as a prison for scientists hones the state's surveillance.

4.26

10k+

🕵️ Espionage And Betrayal 🇷🇺 Stalinist Russia ⚖️ Conscience Vs. State 🧠 Captive Intellectuals 🕯️ Moral Awakening

In the First Circle 88%

A Soviet diplomat's call triggers a hunt as a prison for scientists hones the state's surveillance.

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1968

4.26

10k+ ratings

🕵️ Espionage And Betrayal 🇷🇺 Stalinist Russia ⚖️ Conscience Vs. State 🧠 Captive Intellectuals 🕯️ Moral Awakening

The Briar Club

by Kate Quinn

Thanksgiving night, 1954: a body in a D.C. boarding house, and the house knows the killer.

4.28

306k+

🫂 Found Family 🇺🇸 1950s America 🚩 Soviet Defector 🏛️ Washington Dc 👩‍❤️‍👩 1950s Lesbian Romance

The Briar Club 89%

Thanksgiving night, 1954: a body in a D.C. boarding house, and the house knows the killer.

by Kate Quinn 2024

4.28

306k+ ratings

🫂 Found Family 🇺🇸 1950s America 🚩 Soviet Defector 🏛️ Washington Dc 👩‍❤️‍👩 1950s Lesbian Romance

A prueba de fuego

by Javier Moro • 2020

A Spanish father and son build fireproof landmarks in New York while their family fractures.

4.19

2k+

📖 Biographical Novel 🧳 Immigrant Saga 👨‍👦 Father-Son Legacy 🏛️ Architectural Obsession 🎩 Gilded Age

A prueba de fuego 89%

A Spanish father and son build fireproof landmarks in New York while their family fractures.

by Javier Moro 2020

4.19

2k+ ratings

📖 Biographical Novel 🧳 Immigrant Saga 👨‍👦 Father-Son Legacy 🏛️ Architectural Obsession 🎩 Gilded Age

Hotel Portofino

by J.P. O'Connell • 2022

An Englishwoman's Riviera hotel harbors guests with secrets as fascism rises in 1920s Italy.

3.31

5k+

📺 Ensemble Period Drama 🇮🇹 Italian Riviera 🖼️ Art Theft 🌍 Expatriate Community 🎖️ War Trauma

Hotel Portofino 89%

An Englishwoman's Riviera hotel harbors guests with secrets as fascism rises in 1920s Italy.

by J.P. O'Connell 2022

3.31

5k+ ratings

📺 Ensemble Period Drama 🇮🇹 Italian Riviera 🖼️ Art Theft 🌍 Expatriate Community 🎖️ War Trauma

The Given Day

by Dennis Lehane • 2008

An Irish cop and a Black fugitive collide in the Boston police strike of 1919.

4.08

29k+

📜 Historical Epic ✊ Labor Movement 🔀 Parallel Lives 💔 Cross Class Romance 🏛️ Political Corruption

The Given Day 88%

An Irish cop and a Black fugitive collide in the Boston police strike of 1919.

by Dennis Lehane 2008

4.08

29k+ ratings

📜 Historical Epic ✊ Labor Movement 🔀 Parallel Lives 💔 Cross Class Romance 🏛️ Political Corruption

A Rulebook for Restless Rogues

by Jess Everlee • 2023

Two childhood friends running a Victorian molly house face a raid and their unspoken love.

3.75

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🖤 Gay Historical Romance 💛 Friends To Lovers 🕰️ Second Chance Romance 🔥 Slow Burn 🏠 Found Family

A Rulebook for Restless Rogues 88%

Two childhood friends running a Victorian molly house face a raid and their unspoken love.

by Jess Everlee 2023

3.75

1k+ ratings

🖤 Gay Historical Romance 💛 Friends To Lovers 🕰️ Second Chance Romance 🔥 Slow Burn 🏠 Found Family

Beyond That, the Sea

by Laura Spence-Ash • 2023

An English girl evacuated to Boston during the Blitz spends a lifetime torn between two homes.

4.22

53k+

🧳 Wartime Evacuation 📜 Generational Saga 🫂 Found Family 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 🏝️ Maine Island

Beyond That, the Sea 88%

An English girl evacuated to Boston during the Blitz spends a lifetime torn between two homes.

by Laura Spence-Ash 2023

4.22

53k+ ratings

🧳 Wartime Evacuation 📜 Generational Saga 🫂 Found Family 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 🏝️ Maine Island

The Resistance Girl

by Mandy Robotham • 2022

A grieving Norwegian woman teams up with a British spy to sabotage Bergen's Nazi occupation.

4.10

3k+

🥷 Wwii Resistance 🇳🇴 Occupied Norway 🏠 Forced Proximity 💔 Second Chance Love 👨‍👩‍👧 Found Family

The Resistance Girl 88%

A grieving Norwegian woman teams up with a British spy to sabotage Bergen's Nazi occupation.

by Mandy Robotham 2022

4.10

3k+ ratings

🥷 Wwii Resistance 🇳🇴 Occupied Norway 🏠 Forced Proximity 💔 Second Chance Love 👨‍👩‍👧 Found Family

The Fountains of Silence

by Ruta Sepetys • 2019

An American photographer falls for a hotel maid in 1957 Madrid, where her silence hides a crime.

4.30

84k+

🕊️ Post-Civil War Spain 🏴 Franco's Dictatorship 🇺🇸 American Abroad 💔 Forbidden Romance 🏨 Hotel Setting

The Fountains of Silence 88%

An American photographer falls for a hotel maid in 1957 Madrid, where her silence hides a crime.

by Ruta Sepetys 2019

4.30

84k+ ratings

🕊️ Post-Civil War Spain 🏴 Franco's Dictatorship 🇺🇸 American Abroad 💔 Forbidden Romance 🏨 Hotel Setting

The Ragged Edge of Night

by Olivia Hawker • 2018

A former friar marries a widow and must deceive the Nazis to protect his new family.

4.16

48k+

✊ Wartime Resistance 💍 Marriage Of Convenience 🏠 Found Family 🇩🇪 Nazi Germany 🙏 Faith And Doubt

The Ragged Edge of Night 88%

A former friar marries a widow and must deceive the Nazis to protect his new family.

by Olivia Hawker 2018

4.16

48k+ ratings

✊ Wartime Resistance 💍 Marriage Of Convenience 🏠 Found Family 🇩🇪 Nazi Germany 🙏 Faith And Doubt

Still Life

by Sarah Winman • 2021

A Londoner inherits a flat in Florence and gathers the lonely souls who become his family.

4.15

97k+

🤲 Found Family 🍷 Postwar Italy 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Community 💕 Queer Love Story 🕰️ Intergenerational Bonds

Still Life 88%

A Londoner inherits a flat in Florence and gathers the lonely souls who become his family.

by Sarah Winman 2021

4.15

97k+ ratings

🤲 Found Family 🍷 Postwar Italy 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Community 💕 Queer Love Story 🕰️ Intergenerational Bonds

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