역사 소설

실존 인물과 역사의 결정적 순간들이 기록된 사실과 상상력 넘치는 이야기를 결합한 매력적인 스토리를 통해 생생하게 되살아납니다. 유명한 인물이든 평범한 사람들이든, 이 책들은 독자를 그 시대의 진정한 풍습, 갈등, 문화적 힘으로 형성된 풍부하고 세밀한 세계로 안내합니다.

역사 소설 도서 요약

1795

저자: Niklas Natt och Dag • 2021

1795. One woman's secret could topple Stockholm's rulers, if she lives long enough to use it.

3.46

4,000+

🖤 Scandinavian Noir 🏃‍♀️ Hunted Woman ⚖️ Systemic Corruption 🕵️ Damaged Investigator 🎭 Moral Ambiguity

1795

1795. One woman's secret could topple Stockholm's rulers, if she lives long enough to use it.

저자: Niklas Natt och Dag 2021 459 페이지

3.46

4,000+ 개의 평점

🖤 Scandinavian Noir 🏃‍♀️ Hunted Woman ⚖️ Systemic Corruption 🕵️ Damaged Investigator 🎭 Moral Ambiguity

The Heart Remembers

저자: Jan-Philipp Sendker • 2019

A scarred boy in Burma searches for his missing mother, guided by letters and fireside tales.

3.96

2,000+

🏔️ Family Saga 🔒 Hidden Family Secrets 👨‍👩‍👦 Found Family ✉️ Epistolary ✨ Lyrical Prose

The Heart Remembers

A scarred boy in Burma searches for his missing mother, guided by letters and fireside tales.

저자: Jan-Philipp Sendker 2019 400 페이지

3.96

2,000+ 개의 평점

🏔️ Family Saga 🔒 Hidden Family Secrets 👨‍👩‍👦 Found Family ✉️ Epistolary ✨ Lyrical Prose

L'amico ritrovato

저자: Fred Uhlman • 1971

Germany, 1932. A Jewish boy and an aristocratic classmate share a friendship the Reich will destroy.

4.04

39,000+

🥀 Doomed Friendship 🤝 Cross-Class Bond 🏛️ 1930s Germany 📖 Elegiac Novella 💔 Coming Of Age Tragedy

L'amico ritrovato

Germany, 1932. A Jewish boy and an aristocratic classmate share a friendship the Reich will destroy.

저자: Fred Uhlman 1971 92 페이지

4.04

39,000+ 개의 평점

🥀 Doomed Friendship 🤝 Cross-Class Bond 🏛️ 1930s Germany 📖 Elegiac Novella 💔 Coming Of Age Tragedy

The Final Problem

저자: Arturo Pérez-Reverte • 2023

An actor famous for playing a sleuth is stranded on an island with a locked-room killer.

3.65

9,000+

🧩 Locked-Room Mystery 🕵️ Holmesian Pastiche 🎭 Meta Fiction 👤 Identity Swap ⚖️ Ambiguous Justice

The Final Problem

An actor famous for playing a sleuth is stranded on an island with a locked-room killer.

저자: Arturo Pérez-Reverte 2023 320 페이지

3.65

9,000+ 개의 평점

🧩 Locked-Room Mystery 🕵️ Holmesian Pastiche 🎭 Meta Fiction 👤 Identity Swap ⚖️ Ambiguous Justice

A Master of Djinn

저자: P. Djèlí Clark • 2021

A Cairo investigator must unmask the djinn-fire killer claiming to be the city's mythic liberator.

3.99

36,000+

🕰️ Alternate History 🔍 Magical Investigation 🧞 Djinn Mythology 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Romance 🎭 Secret Identity

A Master of Djinn

A Cairo investigator must unmask the djinn-fire killer claiming to be the city's mythic liberator.

저자: P. Djèlí Clark 2021 438 페이지

3.99

36,000+ 개의 평점

🕰️ Alternate History 🔍 Magical Investigation 🧞 Djinn Mythology 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Romance 🎭 Secret Identity

The Saints of Swallow Hill

저자: Donna Everhart • 2022

Disguised as a man, a fugitive enters a turpentine camp where the sun is a coffin.

4.10

40,000+

🌾 Depression-Era South 🎭 Woman Disguised As Man 🔥 Slow-Burn Romance 😢 Mercy Killing 🏡 Found Family

The Saints of Swallow Hill

Disguised as a man, a fugitive enters a turpentine camp where the sun is a coffin.

저자: Donna Everhart 2022 372 페이지

4.10

40,000+ 개의 평점

🌾 Depression-Era South 🎭 Woman Disguised As Man 🔥 Slow-Burn Romance 😢 Mercy Killing 🏡 Found Family

The Thirty Names of Night

저자: Zeyn Joukhadar • 2020

A Syrian American trans man follows a ghost bird and a hidden diary toward becoming himself.

4.01

5,000+

🦋 Trans Self-Discovery 📜 Hidden Queer History 🫂 Chosen Family 🌍 Arab American Lives 🎨 Art And Healing

The Thirty Names of Night

A Syrian American trans man follows a ghost bird and a hidden diary toward becoming himself.

저자: Zeyn Joukhadar 2020 291 페이지

4.01

5,000+ 개의 평점

🦋 Trans Self-Discovery 📜 Hidden Queer History 🫂 Chosen Family 🌍 Arab American Lives 🎨 Art And Healing

The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh

저자: Amitav Ghosh • 2004

In the Sundarbans, a dolphin scientist must trust a fisherman who speaks no language she knows.

3.99

20,000+

🍃 Eco-Fiction 📜 Postcolonial Literature 🌏 Cross-Cultural Encounter 🫂 Found Family 🤝 Silent Partnership

The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh

In the Sundarbans, a dolphin scientist must trust a fisherman who speaks no language she knows.

저자: Amitav Ghosh 2004

3.99

20,000+ 개의 평점

🍃 Eco-Fiction 📜 Postcolonial Literature 🌏 Cross-Cultural Encounter 🫂 Found Family 🤝 Silent Partnership

English Passengers

저자: Matthew Kneale • 2000

A vicar sails to Tasmania seeking Eden; an Aboriginal boy fights to survive his people's extinction.

4.07

7,000+

💔 Indigenous Displacement 🗺️ Misguided Expedition 🗣️ Multiple Narrators 🎭 Dark Comedy 🏝️ Penal Colony

English Passengers

A vicar sails to Tasmania seeking Eden; an Aboriginal boy fights to survive his people's extinction.

저자: Matthew Kneale 2000 446 페이지

4.07

7,000+ 개의 평점

💔 Indigenous Displacement 🗺️ Misguided Expedition 🗣️ Multiple Narrators 🎭 Dark Comedy 🏝️ Penal Colony

Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote

저자: Truman Capote • 1948

At a decaying Southern mansion, an orphan finds silence and a cousin who mirrors his strangeness.

3.74

17,000+

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🌈 Queer Coming Of Age 🕯️ Decaying Mansion 👤 Absent Father ⚧️ Gender Nonconformity

Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote

At a decaying Southern mansion, an orphan finds silence and a cousin who mirrors his strangeness.

저자: Truman Capote 1948

3.74

17,000+ 개의 평점

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🌈 Queer Coming Of Age 🕯️ Decaying Mansion 👤 Absent Father ⚧️ Gender Nonconformity

The Fatal Flying Affair

저자: T.E. Kinsey • 2020

A fatal parachute test draws Lady Hardcastle and her maid into a world of aviation and espionage.

4.41

7,000+

🎩 Edwardian Cozy 👭 Female Sleuth Duo 🏡 English Village 😄 Witty Mystery 🕵️‍♀️ Historical Espionage

The Fatal Flying Affair

A fatal parachute test draws Lady Hardcastle and her maid into a world of aviation and espionage.

저자: T.E. Kinsey 2020 315 페이지

4.41

7,000+ 개의 평점

🎩 Edwardian Cozy 👭 Female Sleuth Duo 🏡 English Village 😄 Witty Mystery 🕵️‍♀️ Historical Espionage

Nemesis

저자: Philip Roth • 2010

In 1944 Newark, a rejected soldier channels his duty into protecting children from a polio epidemic.

3.86

18,000+

🎭 Literary Tragedy 🦠 Epidemic 🖤 Survivor's Guilt 🛡️ Failed Protector 🐐 Scapegoating

Nemesis

In 1944 Newark, a rejected soldier channels his duty into protecting children from a polio epidemic.

저자: Philip Roth 2010 280 페이지

3.86

18,000+ 개의 평점

🎭 Literary Tragedy 🦠 Epidemic 🖤 Survivor's Guilt 🛡️ Failed Protector 🐐 Scapegoating

El niño que perdió la guerra

저자: Julia Navarro • 2024

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

4.26

8,000+

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

El niño que perdió la guerra

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

저자: Julia Navarro 2024 471 페이지

4.26

8,000+ 개의 평점

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

The Tale of Gengi

저자: Murasaki Shikibu • 1000

A prince of exquisite feeling pursues love in Heian Japan, finding that all beauty is transient.

3.72

15,000+

🏯 Heian Courtly Life 🌸 Impermanence 💔 Love Triangles ✉️ Epistolary Romance 🍂 Melancholy Beauty

The Tale of Gengi

A prince of exquisite feeling pursues love in Heian Japan, finding that all beauty is transient.

저자: Murasaki Shikibu 1000 1090 페이지

3.72

15,000+ 개의 평점

🏯 Heian Courtly Life 🌸 Impermanence 💔 Love Triangles ✉️ Epistolary Romance 🍂 Melancholy Beauty

The Words in My Hand

저자: Guinevere Glasfurd • 2015

Descartes' maid lover learns to write; if found, the letters will reveal their hidden daughter.

3.99

2,000+

💔 Forbidden Love ⚖️ Class Divide 📖 Illiterate Protagonist 🧹 Maid Protagonist 🇳🇱 17th Century Netherlands

The Words in My Hand

Descartes' maid lover learns to write; if found, the letters will reveal their hidden daughter.

저자: Guinevere Glasfurd 2015 416 페이지

3.99

2,000+ 개의 평점

💔 Forbidden Love ⚖️ Class Divide 📖 Illiterate Protagonist 🧹 Maid Protagonist 🇳🇱 17th Century Netherlands

Moon Tiger

저자: Penelope Lively • 1987

On her deathbed, a brilliant historian reassembles her century, but the pieces refuse to add up.

3.91

19,000+

📖 Nonlinear Narrative 💔 WWII Love Story 👥 Intense Sibling Bond 💫 Difficult Woman Protagonist 🧩 Unconventional Motherhood

Moon Tiger

On her deathbed, a brilliant historian reassembles her century, but the pieces refuse to add up.

저자: Penelope Lively 1987 224 페이지

3.91

19,000+ 개의 평점

📖 Nonlinear Narrative 💔 WWII Love Story 👥 Intense Sibling Bond 💫 Difficult Woman Protagonist 🧩 Unconventional Motherhood

The Spirit Engineer

저자: A.J. West • 2021

A Belfast engineer tests a medium's séances, hunting the afterlife while his own mind unravels.

3.64

3,000+

🖤 Unreliable Narrator 🕯️ SéAnces And Mediums 😱 Descent Into Madness 🏚️ Historical Gothic 💔 Obsessive Grief

The Spirit Engineer

A Belfast engineer tests a medium's séances, hunting the afterlife while his own mind unravels.

저자: A.J. West 2021 299 페이지

3.64

3,000+ 개의 평점

🖤 Unreliable Narrator 🕯️ SéAnces And Mediums 😱 Descent Into Madness 🏚️ Historical Gothic 💔 Obsessive Grief

A Fortune of Sand

저자: Ruta Sepetys • 2026

Inside a Jazz Age arts retreat, a Detroit heiress discovers the mansion is a gilded asylum.

3.61

3,000+

🎷 Jazz Age 🖤 Gothic Mystery 🏚️ Decaying Dynasty 🏰 Gilded Cage 💎 Hidden Fortune

A Fortune of Sand

Inside a Jazz Age arts retreat, a Detroit heiress discovers the mansion is a gilded asylum.

저자: Ruta Sepetys 2026 304 페이지

3.61

3,000+ 개의 평점

🎷 Jazz Age 🖤 Gothic Mystery 🏚️ Decaying Dynasty 🏰 Gilded Cage 💎 Hidden Fortune

Between Earth and Sky

저자: Amanda Skenandore • 2018

A woman returns to her father's Indian boarding school to save a friend condemned for murder.

4.33

9,000+

⏳ Dual Timeline Narrative 💎 Gilded Age 🏫 Boarding School Trauma 🌾 Reservation Life 💔 Forbidden Interracial Romance

Between Earth and Sky

A woman returns to her father's Indian boarding school to save a friend condemned for murder.

저자: Amanda Skenandore 2018 336 페이지

4.33

9,000+ 개의 평점

⏳ Dual Timeline Narrative 💎 Gilded Age 🏫 Boarding School Trauma 🌾 Reservation Life 💔 Forbidden Interracial Romance

The Chambermaid's Key

저자: Genevieve Graham • 2026

Toronto's Dominion Hotel. A chambermaid finds a mob ledger. Then murder pins it on her.

4.21

1,000+

🕰️ Dual Timeline Narrative ☘️ Irish Diaspora 🌿 Generational Healing 💔 Sacrificial Motherhood 🌫️ Atmospheric Mystery

The Chambermaid's Key

Toronto's Dominion Hotel. A chambermaid finds a mob ledger. Then murder pins it on her.

저자: Genevieve Graham 2026 400 페이지

4.21

1,000+ 개의 평점

🕰️ Dual Timeline Narrative ☘️ Irish Diaspora 🌿 Generational Healing 💔 Sacrificial Motherhood 🌫️ Atmospheric Mystery

Old Filth

저자: Jane Gardam • 2004

Retired in Dorset, a judge faces his oldest rival and a childhood death he has never confessed.

3.95

20,000+

🧒 Raj Orphans ⚔️ Lifelong Rivalry 🖤 Repressed Grief 🫂 Found Family 🌅 Late-Life Reckoning

Old Filth

Retired in Dorset, a judge faces his oldest rival and a childhood death he has never confessed.

저자: Jane Gardam 2004 290 페이지

3.95

20,000+ 개의 평점

🧒 Raj Orphans ⚔️ Lifelong Rivalry 🖤 Repressed Grief 🫂 Found Family 🌅 Late-Life Reckoning

Wise Children by Angela Carter

저자: Angela Carter • 1991

Twin showgirls recount a century of Shakespearean scandal and the family they invented to survive.

3.89

9,000+

🎭 Shakespeare Retelling 🎪 Carnivalesque 👯 Twin Sisters 💕 Chosen Family 🎟️ Backstage Theater

Wise Children by Angela Carter

Twin showgirls recount a century of Shakespearean scandal and the family they invented to survive.

저자: Angela Carter 1991

3.89

9,000+ 개의 평점

🎭 Shakespeare Retelling 🎪 Carnivalesque 👯 Twin Sisters 💕 Chosen Family 🎟️ Backstage Theater

Three Day Road

저자: Joseph Boyden • 2005

A wounded Cree sniper battles morphine and guilt as his aunt paddles him north, telling stories.

4.28

26,000+

🪖 Wwi Fiction 🍁 Indigenous Canada 🤝 Battlefield Brotherhood 🌀 Descent Into Madness 🗣️ Oral Storytelling

Three Day Road

A wounded Cree sniper battles morphine and guilt as his aunt paddles him north, telling stories.

저자: Joseph Boyden 2005 384 페이지

4.28

26,000+ 개의 평점

🪖 Wwi Fiction 🍁 Indigenous Canada 🤝 Battlefield Brotherhood 🌀 Descent Into Madness 🗣️ Oral Storytelling

The Manuscript Found in Saragossa

저자: Jan Potocki • 1847

A young officer braves a haunted pass, where seductive sisters tempt him with hidden lineage.

4.09

4,000+

📖 Frame Narrative 📚 Stories Within Stories 👻 Supernatural Ambiguity 🎭 Enlightenment Satire ✡️ Religious Identity

The Manuscript Found in Saragossa

A young officer braves a haunted pass, where seductive sisters tempt him with hidden lineage.

저자: Jan Potocki 1847 631 페이지

4.09

4,000+ 개의 평점

📖 Frame Narrative 📚 Stories Within Stories 👻 Supernatural Ambiguity 🎭 Enlightenment Satire ✡️ Religious Identity

Ragtime

저자: E.L. Doctorow • 1975

A wealthy family shelters a black woman, then faces her lover's armed fight for dignity.

3.90

47,000+

🎭 Multiple Perspectives 🌟 Historical Cameos ⚖️ Racial Injustice 🧳 Immigrant Journey ⚒️ Class Conflict

Ragtime

A wealthy family shelters a black woman, then faces her lover's armed fight for dignity.

저자: E.L. Doctorow 1975 320 페이지

3.90

47,000+ 개의 평점

🎭 Multiple Perspectives 🌟 Historical Cameos ⚖️ Racial Injustice 🧳 Immigrant Journey ⚒️ Class Conflict

Making History

저자: Stephen Fry • 1996

A Cambridge student sends a pill to sterilize Hitler's father. The new world is even darker.

3.92

12,000+

🕰️ Alternate History 🎭 Dark Comedy 🏛️ Academic Setting 🦋 Butterfly Effect ⏳ Time Travel Paradox

Making History

A Cambridge student sends a pill to sterilize Hitler's father. The new world is even darker.

저자: Stephen Fry 1996 594 페이지

3.92

12,000+ 개의 평점

🕰️ Alternate History 🎭 Dark Comedy 🏛️ Academic Setting 🦋 Butterfly Effect ⏳ Time Travel Paradox

Arcadia

저자: Tom Stoppard • 1993

A Regency prodigy glimpses chaos. Two centuries later, rival scholars in her house chase her truth.

4.13

24,000+

📚 Dual Timeline Narrative 🎭 Comedy Of Manners 🏛️ Country House Drama 🍎 Tutor And Prodigy 📝 Academic Rivals

Arcadia

A Regency prodigy glimpses chaos. Two centuries later, rival scholars in her house chase her truth.

저자: Tom Stoppard 1993 144 페이지

4.13

24,000+ 개의 평점

📚 Dual Timeline Narrative 🎭 Comedy Of Manners 🏛️ Country House Drama 🍎 Tutor And Prodigy 📝 Academic Rivals

The Emigrants

저자: W.G. Sebald • 1992

A narrator traces four emigrant lives still unraveling decades after the war.

4.16

11,000+

🕯️ Holocaust Aftermath 📜 Fragmented Narrative 🩸 Intergenerational Trauma 🖤 Literary Mourning 🏚️ Postwar Europe

The Emigrants

A narrator traces four emigrant lives still unraveling decades after the war.

저자: W.G. Sebald 1992 237 페이지

4.16

11,000+ 개의 평점

🕯️ Holocaust Aftermath 📜 Fragmented Narrative 🩸 Intergenerational Trauma 🖤 Literary Mourning 🏚️ Postwar Europe

Blue Mountain

저자: Lisa Michelle • 2021

Her dying grandmother confesses to being a killer. The evidence is buried on Blue Mountain.

3.93

1,000+

🖊️ Literary Suspense 🏚️ Family Crime Saga 🛏️ Deathbed Confession 🫂 Found Family 🎭 Reinvented Identity

Blue Mountain

Her dying grandmother confesses to being a killer. The evidence is buried on Blue Mountain.

저자: Lisa Michelle 2021 280 페이지

3.93

1,000+ 개의 평점

🖊️ Literary Suspense 🏚️ Family Crime Saga 🛏️ Deathbed Confession 🫂 Found Family 🎭 Reinvented Identity

A Lady for All Seasons

저자: T.J. Alexander • 2026

She weds a tailor to survive, but a genderfluid poet threatens her scheme and her heart.

3.88

1,000+

🎩 Queer Regency Romance 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 Sapphic Historical 💍 Marriage Of Convenience 🎭 Secret Identity 🏡 Found Family

A Lady for All Seasons

She weds a tailor to survive, but a genderfluid poet threatens her scheme and her heart.

저자: T.J. Alexander 2026 304 페이지

3.88

1,000+ 개의 평점

🎩 Queer Regency Romance 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 Sapphic Historical 💍 Marriage Of Convenience 🎭 Secret Identity 🏡 Found Family

The Rain Before it Falls

저자: Jonathan Coe • 2007

A dead aunt's cassette tapes trace four generations of abandoned daughters to find a blind cousin.

3.71

7,000+

🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 👩‍👩‍👧 Chosen Family 🎙️ Oral History 🏘️ Wartime Evacuation 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 Lesbian Love Story

The Rain Before it Falls

A dead aunt's cassette tapes trace four generations of abandoned daughters to find a blind cousin.

저자: Jonathan Coe 2007 256 페이지

3.71

7,000+ 개의 평점

🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 👩‍👩‍👧 Chosen Family 🎙️ Oral History 🏘️ Wartime Evacuation 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 Lesbian Love Story

Esme Cahill Fails Spectacularly

저자: Marie Bostwick • 2023

She returns to the family lodge to save it; her grandmother's quilts save her.

4.06

3,000+

📖 Dual Timeline 🪖 WWII Home Front 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Healing ✍️ Struggling Writer 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family

Esme Cahill Fails Spectacularly

She returns to the family lodge to save it; her grandmother's quilts save her.

저자: Marie Bostwick 2023 358 페이지

4.06

3,000+ 개의 평점

📖 Dual Timeline 🪖 WWII Home Front 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Healing ✍️ Struggling Writer 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family

The Lost Book of Elizabeth Barton

저자: Jennifer N. Brown • 2026

A Tudor prophet's lost book draws a modern scholar into a manor where rivalry turns lethal.

3.62

1,000+

🕰️ Dual Timeline 📜 Academic Mystery 👑 Tudor England 🗝️ Hidden Treasure 📢 Erased Women

The Lost Book of Elizabeth Barton

A Tudor prophet's lost book draws a modern scholar into a manor where rivalry turns lethal.

저자: Jennifer N. Brown 2026 320 페이지

3.62

1,000+ 개의 평점

🕰️ Dual Timeline 📜 Academic Mystery 👑 Tudor England 🗝️ Hidden Treasure 📢 Erased Women

The Forgotten Village

저자: Lorna Cook • 2019

A woman in a Dorset ghost village finds a wartime photograph that unlocks the manor's dark secret.

4.19

10,000+

⏳ Dual Timeline 🏠 WWII Home Front 💔 Abusive Marriage 🎭 Identity Swap 💕 Forbidden Love

The Forgotten Village

A woman in a Dorset ghost village finds a wartime photograph that unlocks the manor's dark secret.

저자: Lorna Cook 2019 354 페이지

4.19

10,000+ 개의 평점

⏳ Dual Timeline 🏠 WWII Home Front 💔 Abusive Marriage 🎭 Identity Swap 💕 Forbidden Love

I'll Watch Your Baby

저자: Neena Viel • 2026

In 1970s Chicago, a woman steals and sells babies until the flies start following her home.

3.52

500+

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🩸 Generational Trauma 🏠 Haunted House 👁️ Possession 🌀 Unreliable Narrator

I'll Watch Your Baby

In 1970s Chicago, a woman steals and sells babies until the flies start following her home.

저자: Neena Viel 2026 336 페이지

3.52

500+ 개의 평점

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🩸 Generational Trauma 🏠 Haunted House 👁️ Possession 🌀 Unreliable Narrator

Spies of the Balkans

저자: Alan Furst • 2010

1940 Salonika: a police fixer smuggles Jewish refugees to safety as Nazi spies close in.

3.94

6,000+

🕵️ Espionage Noir 🚪 Escape Network 🛡️ Reluctant Hero 💔 Wartime Romance ✡️ Jewish Refugee

Spies of the Balkans

1940 Salonika: a police fixer smuggles Jewish refugees to safety as Nazi spies close in.

저자: Alan Furst 2010 268 페이지

3.94

6,000+ 개의 평점

🕵️ Espionage Noir 🚪 Escape Network 🛡️ Reluctant Hero 💔 Wartime Romance ✡️ Jewish Refugee

A Language of Limbs

저자: Dylin Hardcastle • 2024

Two girls caught loving each other in 1972: one exiled, one silent, both haunted for decades.

4.29

7,000+

🏳️‍🌈 Sapphic Historical 👥 Parallel Lives 🏠 Chosen Family 💔 First Love Forbidden 🕯️ Aids Crisis Fiction

A Language of Limbs

Two girls caught loving each other in 1972: one exiled, one silent, both haunted for decades.

저자: Dylin Hardcastle 2024 277 페이지

4.29

7,000+ 개의 평점

🏳️‍🌈 Sapphic Historical 👥 Parallel Lives 🏠 Chosen Family 💔 First Love Forbidden 🕯️ Aids Crisis Fiction

Home

저자: Toni Morrison • 2012

Escaping a psych ward, a veteran crosses the Jim Crow South to rescue his dying sister.

3.83

28,000+

🏚️ Jim Crow South 💔 Survivor's Guilt 🛡️ Sibling Protector 💉 Medical Exploitation 🌿 Communal Healing

Home

Escaping a psych ward, a veteran crosses the Jim Crow South to rescue his dying sister.

저자: Toni Morrison 2012 147 페이지

3.83

28,000+ 개의 평점

🏚️ Jim Crow South 💔 Survivor's Guilt 🛡️ Sibling Protector 💉 Medical Exploitation 🌿 Communal Healing

Mr. Bridge

저자: Evan S. Connell • 1969

A Kansas City attorney orders his family's life with quiet precision, mistaking provision for love.

4.00

2,000+

📖 Character Study 🎩 Novel Of Manners 👔 Repressed Patriarch 💔 Unspoken Love 🌉 Generational Divide

Mr. Bridge

A Kansas City attorney orders his family's life with quiet precision, mistaking provision for love.

저자: Evan S. Connell 1969 367 페이지

4.00

2,000+ 개의 평점

📖 Character Study 🎩 Novel Of Manners 👔 Repressed Patriarch 💔 Unspoken Love 🌉 Generational Divide

The Crown's Fate

저자: Evelyn Skye • 2017

An enchantress bound to the throne faces the shadow-cloaked rival who has returned for the crown.

3.66

10,000+

🕰️ Alternate History 👑 Imperial Russia 🗡️ Political Intrigue ⚔️ Rivals To Lovers 💔 Love Triangle

The Crown's Fate

An enchantress bound to the throne faces the shadow-cloaked rival who has returned for the crown.

저자: Evelyn Skye 2017 425 페이지

3.66

10,000+ 개의 평점

🕰️ Alternate History 👑 Imperial Russia 🗡️ Political Intrigue ⚔️ Rivals To Lovers 💔 Love Triangle

The Black Country

저자: Alex Grecian • 2013

A missing family. A sinking village. Two Scotland Yard detectives and a bogeyman locals believe in.

3.74

7,000+

🔍 Victorian Mystery 🌲 Folk Horror Atmosphere 🏘️ Village Secrets ⛏️ Mining Community 👧 Creepy Children

The Black Country

A missing family. A sinking village. Two Scotland Yard detectives and a bogeyman locals believe in.

저자: Alex Grecian 2013 384 페이지

3.74

7,000+ 개의 평점

🔍 Victorian Mystery 🌲 Folk Horror Atmosphere 🏘️ Village Secrets ⛏️ Mining Community 👧 Creepy Children

Pedra de tartera

저자: Maria Barbal • 1985

The aunt expected housework; the hills demanded everything, and the war took what remained.

3.90

1,000+

⚔️ Spanish Civil War Fiction 🏔️ Rural Catalonia 👩‍🌾 Rural Womanhood 🚶‍♀️ Displacement 🖤 Quiet Grief

Pedra de tartera

The aunt expected housework; the hills demanded everything, and the war took what remained.

저자: Maria Barbal 1985 123 페이지

3.90

1,000+ 개의 평점

⚔️ Spanish Civil War Fiction 🏔️ Rural Catalonia 👩‍🌾 Rural Womanhood 🚶‍♀️ Displacement 🖤 Quiet Grief

Tell It to the Bees

저자: Fiona Shaw • 2009

Through a boy's bees, his mother falls for a woman doctor, scandalizing a small postwar town.

4.10

4,000+

🏳️‍🌈 Sapphic Historical 💌 Clandestine Love 🐝 Beekeeping Metaphor ⚖️ Custody Battle 🏡 Small Town Scandal

Tell It to the Bees

Through a boy's bees, his mother falls for a woman doctor, scandalizing a small postwar town.

저자: Fiona Shaw 2009 354 페이지

4.10

4,000+ 개의 평점

🏳️‍🌈 Sapphic Historical 💌 Clandestine Love 🐝 Beekeeping Metaphor ⚖️ Custody Battle 🏡 Small Town Scandal

The Anubis Gates

저자: Tim Powers • 1983

Marooned in 1810 London, a scholar discovers a city of sorcerer-clowns, body thieves, and old gods.

3.90

18,000+

🕰️ Closed Time Loops 🫥 Body Theft 🏚️ Victorian Underworld 📚 Scholar In Peril 🩸 Grotesque Horror

The Anubis Gates

Marooned in 1810 London, a scholar discovers a city of sorcerer-clowns, body thieves, and old gods.

저자: Tim Powers 1983 387 페이지

3.90

18,000+ 개의 평점

🕰️ Closed Time Loops 🫥 Body Theft 🏚️ Victorian Underworld 📚 Scholar In Peril 🩸 Grotesque Horror

Tersias the Oracle

저자: G.P. Taylor • 2004

A blind prophet, a cursed box, and a doomsday comet set occult London ablaze.

3.18

500+

🔮 Occult London 💀 Cursed Artifact 👁️ Blind Prophet 🧠 Mind Control Cult 🤝 Found Family

Tersias the Oracle

A blind prophet, a cursed box, and a doomsday comet set occult London ablaze.

저자: G.P. Taylor 2004 262 페이지

3.18

500+ 개의 평점

🔮 Occult London 💀 Cursed Artifact 👁️ Blind Prophet 🧠 Mind Control Cult 🤝 Found Family

Maurice

저자: E.M. Forster • 1971

After his first love marries, an Edwardian gentleman finds a second chance with a bold gamekeeper.

4.08

60,000+

🏰 Edwardian England 📚 Queer Classic 🌱 Gay Coming Of Age 💔 Cross Class Romance 🤝 Platonic To Romantic

Maurice

After his first love marries, an Edwardian gentleman finds a second chance with a bold gamekeeper.

저자: E.M. Forster 1971 256 페이지

4.08

60,000+ 개의 평점

🏰 Edwardian England 📚 Queer Classic 🌱 Gay Coming Of Age 💔 Cross Class Romance 🤝 Platonic To Romantic

Regeneration

저자: Pat Barker • 1991

An officer's war protest is declared insanity. A psychiatrist must now return him to the front.

4.01

34,000+

🕊️ World War I 🏥 Psychiatric Hospital 💥 Shell Shock ✊ Anti War Protest 🩺 Doctor Patient Bond

Regeneration

An officer's war protest is declared insanity. A psychiatrist must now return him to the front.

저자: Pat Barker 1991 256 페이지

4.01

34,000+ 개의 평점

🕊️ World War I 🏥 Psychiatric Hospital 💥 Shell Shock ✊ Anti War Protest 🩺 Doctor Patient Bond

Love Is Blind

저자: William Boyd • 2018

When a piano tuner falls for a virtuoso's mistress, her husband pursues them across Europe.

3.98

8,000+

🎼 Classical Music World 💔 Forbidden Love 🧳 Exile And Displacement 🕰️ Belle éPoque 🎭 Artistic Obsession

Love Is Blind

When a piano tuner falls for a virtuoso's mistress, her husband pursues them across Europe.

저자: William Boyd 2018 384 페이지

3.98

8,000+ 개의 평점

🎼 Classical Music World 💔 Forbidden Love 🧳 Exile And Displacement 🕰️ Belle éPoque 🎭 Artistic Obsession

The Post-Office Girl

저자: Stefan Zweig • 1982

One week of borrowed luxury teaches a postal clerk that poverty is a slow death.

4.15

10,000+

📚 Post-War Literature 💰 Class Divide 😶 Quiet Desperation 📉 Downward Spiral 🔪 Crime Of Desperation

The Post-Office Girl

One week of borrowed luxury teaches a postal clerk that poverty is a slow death.

저자: Stefan Zweig 1982 257 페이지

4.15

10,000+ 개의 평점

📚 Post-War Literature 💰 Class Divide 😶 Quiet Desperation 📉 Downward Spiral 🔪 Crime Of Desperation

The Famished Road

저자: Ben Okri • 1991

A spirit child stays among mortals to witness poverty, uprising, and the spirit realm seeping in.

3.73

13,000+

👻 Spirit Child 🌍 Postcolonial Africa ✊ Women's Uprising 👥 Ancestral Spirits 🏛️ Political Corruption

The Famished Road

A spirit child stays among mortals to witness poverty, uprising, and the spirit realm seeping in.

저자: Ben Okri 1991 512 페이지

3.73

13,000+ 개의 평점

👻 Spirit Child 🌍 Postcolonial Africa ✊ Women's Uprising 👥 Ancestral Spirits 🏛️ Political Corruption

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