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

The Yacoubian Building

저자: Alaa Al Aswany • 2002

A fading Cairo building: three tenants test what dignity costs when the state is the landlord.

3.72

23,000+

🏙️ Social Realism 🎭 Ensemble Narrative 🕌 Cairo Fiction ⚖️ Class Conflict 💰 Political Corruption

The Yacoubian Building

A fading Cairo building: three tenants test what dignity costs when the state is the landlord.

저자: Alaa Al Aswany 2002 256 페이지

3.72

23,000+ 개의 평점

🏙️ Social Realism 🎭 Ensemble Narrative 🕌 Cairo Fiction ⚖️ Class Conflict 💰 Political Corruption

Monsignor Quixote

저자: Graham Greene • 1940

Mexico's last priest is a drunk with a child, on the run and still saying Mass.

3.98

44,000+

😔 Flawed Priest ⛓️ Religious Persecution 🕯️ Spiritual Despair 🔥 Reluctant Martyr 🔫 Police State

Monsignor Quixote

Mexico's last priest is a drunk with a child, on the run and still saying Mass.

저자: Graham Greene 1940

3.98

44,000+ 개의 평점

😔 Flawed Priest ⛓️ Religious Persecution 🕯️ Spiritual Despair 🔥 Reluctant Martyr 🔫 Police State

La Rivale

저자: Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt • 2012

Once Callas's rival, a forgotten opera singer shares her bitter past with a La Scala guide.

3.37

500+

🎼 Opera World 🎭 Backstage Rivalries 😡 Jealous Obsession 🌫️ Melancholic Nostalgia 🌟 Fading Fame

La Rivale

Once Callas's rival, a forgotten opera singer shares her bitter past with a La Scala guide.

저자: Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt 2012 133 페이지

3.37

500+ 개의 평점

🎼 Opera World 🎭 Backstage Rivalries 😡 Jealous Obsession 🌫️ Melancholic Nostalgia 🌟 Fading Fame

Porcupines

저자: Fran Fabriczki • 2026

Her Hungarian mother fled into reinvention. Her American daughter wants the woman she was before.

3.29

1,000+

🏠 Immigrant Family Saga 👩‍👧 Mothers And Daughters 👤 Absent Father ✡️ Jewish Diaspora 👯 Sisters Estranged

Porcupines

Her Hungarian mother fled into reinvention. Her American daughter wants the woman she was before.

저자: Fran Fabriczki 2026 320 페이지

3.29

1,000+ 개의 평점

🏠 Immigrant Family Saga 👩‍👧 Mothers And Daughters 👤 Absent Father ✡️ Jewish Diaspora 👯 Sisters Estranged

Blonde Roots

저자: Bernardine Evaristo • 2008

When Africans enslave Europeans, one woman receives a secret note offering escape at any cost.

3.60

9,000+

🕰️ Alternate History ⛓️ Chattel Slavery 🌾 Plantation Life 🫂 Found Family 💔 Generational Trauma

Blonde Roots

When Africans enslave Europeans, one woman receives a secret note offering escape at any cost.

저자: Bernardine Evaristo 2008 288 페이지

3.60

9,000+ 개의 평점

🕰️ Alternate History ⛓️ Chattel Slavery 🌾 Plantation Life 🫂 Found Family 💔 Generational Trauma

Bone of My Bone

저자: Johanna van Veen • 2026

Bavaria, 1635: a peasant and a nun flee war with a wish-granting skull. The dead pursue.

3.79

2,000+

🐐 Folk Horror 🖤 Sapphic Horror 😈 Deal With The Devil 🏚️ Gothic Horror ⚔️ Thirty Years War

Bone of My Bone

Bavaria, 1635: a peasant and a nun flee war with a wish-granting skull. The dead pursue.

저자: Johanna van Veen 2026 368 페이지

3.79

2,000+ 개의 평점

🐐 Folk Horror 🖤 Sapphic Horror 😈 Deal With The Devil 🏚️ Gothic Horror ⚔️ Thirty Years War

The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern

저자: Lynda Cohen Loigman • 2024

Sixty years after a love elixir failed, a retired pharmacist finds her first love next door.

4.05

28,000+

🌿 Folk Healing Traditions 🏥 Generational Healing 🔄 Second Chance Romance 💝 Late Life Love ✨ Cozy Magical Realism

The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern

Sixty years after a love elixir failed, a retired pharmacist finds her first love next door.

저자: Lynda Cohen Loigman 2024 313 페이지

4.05

28,000+ 개의 평점

🌿 Folk Healing Traditions 🏥 Generational Healing 🔄 Second Chance Romance 💝 Late Life Love ✨ Cozy Magical Realism

The Moon And Sixpence, By W. Somerset Maugham, Unabridged 6 Audio Cassettes, Narrated By Neil Hunt

저자: W. Somerset Maugham • 1919

A stockbroker walks out on everything to paint. No mistress. Only hunger, genius, and wreckage.

4.12

27,000+

🎨 Roman à Clef 🖼️ Obsessive Artist 🏚️ Bohemian Paris 🏝️ Tropical Exile 🔥 Art's Human Cost

The Moon And Sixpence, By W. Somerset Maugham, Unabridged 6 Audio Cassettes, Narrated By Neil Hunt

A stockbroker walks out on everything to paint. No mistress. Only hunger, genius, and wreckage.

저자: W. Somerset Maugham 1919 6 페이지

4.12

27,000+ 개의 평점

🎨 Roman à Clef 🖼️ Obsessive Artist 🏚️ Bohemian Paris 🏝️ Tropical Exile 🔥 Art's Human Cost

Pilgrims

저자: Matthew Kneale • 2020

A dozen pilgrims trek to Rome in 1289, each hiding a sin no shrine can cure.

3.80

500+

🚶 Pilgrimage Narrative 🫂 Found Family 🎭 Hidden Identity 🌱 Unlikely Hero ✡️ Jewish Persecution

Pilgrims

A dozen pilgrims trek to Rome in 1289, each hiding a sin no shrine can cure.

저자: Matthew Kneale 2020 340 페이지

3.80

500+ 개의 평점

🚶 Pilgrimage Narrative 🫂 Found Family 🎭 Hidden Identity 🌱 Unlikely Hero ✡️ Jewish Persecution

The Friends of Meager Fortune

저자: David Adams Richards • 2006

A Canadian lumber family is undone by prophecy, pride, and a town hungry for scandal.

3.84

500+

🪓 Lumber Camp Fiction 🔮 Family Curse ⚔️ Rival Brothers 💬 Small Town Gossip 💔 Doomed Love

The Friends of Meager Fortune

A Canadian lumber family is undone by prophecy, pride, and a town hungry for scandal.

저자: David Adams Richards 2006 384 페이지

3.84

500+ 개의 평점

🪓 Lumber Camp Fiction 🔮 Family Curse ⚔️ Rival Brothers 💬 Small Town Gossip 💔 Doomed Love

Le Fay

저자: Sophie Keetch • 2024

Morgan le Fay fled her husband. Now prophecy, law, and her brother demand she become the villain.

4.31

5,000+

🏰 Arthurian Retelling 🖤 Villain Origin Story 💔 Second Chance Romance 🔥 Women's Rage 🌿 Healer Protagonist

Le Fay

Morgan le Fay fled her husband. Now prophecy, law, and her brother demand she become the villain.

저자: Sophie Keetch 2024 433 페이지

4.31

5,000+ 개의 평점

🏰 Arthurian Retelling 🖤 Villain Origin Story 💔 Second Chance Romance 🔥 Women's Rage 🌿 Healer Protagonist

Psyche and Eros

저자: Luna McNamara • 2023

A warrior princess is given to the god of desire, cursed never to be seen.

3.76

21,000+

🏛️ Mythological Retelling 🔥 Feminist Mythology 👁️ Dual Pov 🎭 Hidden Identity 💔 Cursed Lovers

Psyche and Eros

A warrior princess is given to the god of desire, cursed never to be seen.

저자: Luna McNamara 2023 352 페이지

3.76

21,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Mythological Retelling 🔥 Feminist Mythology 👁️ Dual Pov 🎭 Hidden Identity 💔 Cursed Lovers

The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers

저자: Carson McCullers • 1946

A lonely twelve-year-old stakes her whole self on a wedding she's sure will make her belong.

3.81

20,000+

🏚️ Southern Gothic 💔 Adolescent Longing 👩‍👧 Surrogate Mother ☀️ Small Town Summer 🪑 Kitchen Table Wisdom

The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers

A lonely twelve-year-old stakes her whole self on a wedding she's sure will make her belong.

저자: Carson McCullers 1946

3.81

20,000+ 개의 평점

🏚️ Southern Gothic 💔 Adolescent Longing 👩‍👧 Surrogate Mother ☀️ Small Town Summer 🪑 Kitchen Table Wisdom

The Passenger

저자: Cormac McCarthy • 2022

Grieving his genius sister, a salvage diver finds a vanished passenger and his own life erased.

3.57

39,000+

🥀 Southern Gothic 🔍 Existential Mystery 💔 Forbidden Love 🧠 Genius And Madness 👥 Sibling Bond

The Passenger

Grieving his genius sister, a salvage diver finds a vanished passenger and his own life erased.

저자: Cormac McCarthy 2022 385 페이지

3.57

39,000+ 개의 평점

🥀 Southern Gothic 🔍 Existential Mystery 💔 Forbidden Love 🧠 Genius And Madness 👥 Sibling Bond

Birds Without Wings

저자: Louis de Bernières • 2004

Muslims and Christians share a town until war draws a border through every home.

4.16

16,000+

📍 Anatolian Village 🏛️ Ottoman Collapse 🌍 Multi-Ethnic Community 💔 Doomed Love 🧳 Forced Migration

Birds Without Wings

Muslims and Christians share a town until war draws a border through every home.

저자: Louis de Bernières 2004 554 페이지

4.16

16,000+ 개의 평점

📍 Anatolian Village 🏛️ Ottoman Collapse 🌍 Multi-Ethnic Community 💔 Doomed Love 🧳 Forced Migration

The Promise

저자: Emma Heatherington • 2021

After a bombing, a Catholic nurse and Protestant minister's son vow to find each other again.

3.97

449

🚫 Forbidden Love 🇮🇪 The Troubles 💔 Trauma Healing 💫 Second Chance Love 🩹 Survivor's Guilt

The Promise

After a bombing, a Catholic nurse and Protestant minister's son vow to find each other again.

저자: Emma Heatherington 2021 390 페이지

3.97

449 개의 평점

🚫 Forbidden Love 🇮🇪 The Troubles 💔 Trauma Healing 💫 Second Chance Love 🩹 Survivor's Guilt

How to Love a Duke in Ten Days

저자: Kerrigan Byrne • 2019

To escape blackmail, a scholar marries a scarred duke, trading her fortune for his protection.

4.12

8,000+

🤝 Marriage Of Convenience 🥀 Beauty And The Beast 💔 Trauma Recovery 👯 Found Family 🔥 Slow Burn

How to Love a Duke in Ten Days

To escape blackmail, a scholar marries a scarred duke, trading her fortune for his protection.

저자: Kerrigan Byrne 2019 440 페이지

4.12

8,000+ 개의 평점

🤝 Marriage Of Convenience 🥀 Beauty And The Beast 💔 Trauma Recovery 👯 Found Family 🔥 Slow Burn

Churchill's Secret Messenger

저자: Alan Hlad • 2021

A grieving typist spying in occupied Paris falls for a Jewish saboteur the Gestapo is hunting.

4.40

11,000+

🔥 French Resistance 🕵️ Female Spy 🗼 Occupied Paris 💔 Forbidden Wartime Love 😔 Survivor's Guilt

Churchill's Secret Messenger

A grieving typist spying in occupied Paris falls for a Jewish saboteur the Gestapo is hunting.

저자: Alan Hlad 2021 406 페이지

4.40

11,000+ 개의 평점

🔥 French Resistance 🕵️ Female Spy 🗼 Occupied Paris 💔 Forbidden Wartime Love 😔 Survivor's Guilt

The Gift of Rain

저자: Tan Twan Eng • 2007

A Eurasian outcast bonds with a Japanese diplomat in colonial Penang; occupation makes it a trap.

4.28

19,000+

🌴 Colonial Malaya 🪖 Japanese Occupation ⚔️ Mentor Student Bond 💔 Collaboration Guilt 🥋 Martial Arts Philosophy

The Gift of Rain

A Eurasian outcast bonds with a Japanese diplomat in colonial Penang; occupation makes it a trap.

저자: Tan Twan Eng 2007

4.28

19,000+ 개의 평점

🌴 Colonial Malaya 🪖 Japanese Occupation ⚔️ Mentor Student Bond 💔 Collaboration Guilt 🥋 Martial Arts Philosophy

The Help

저자: Kathryn Stockett • 2009

In 1962 Mississippi, a white debutante and two Black maids risk everything to tell the truth.

4.47

3,000,000+

🏚️ Jim Crow South 🧹 Domestic Workers 🤝 Cross-Racial Friendship 📖 Stories Of Resistance 🌸 Southern Women

The Help

In 1962 Mississippi, a white debutante and two Black maids risk everything to tell the truth.

저자: Kathryn Stockett 2009 451 페이지

4.47

3,000,000+ 개의 평점

🏚️ Jim Crow South 🧹 Domestic Workers 🤝 Cross-Racial Friendship 📖 Stories Of Resistance 🌸 Southern Women

Indigo

저자: Beverly Jenkins • 1996

An Underground Railroad agent hides a wounded legend. His arrogance asks for trust she cannot give.

4.30

6,000+

🕯️ Antebellum Romance 🚂 Underground Railroad 🖤 Black Romance 🩹 Wounded Hero 🌿 Healer Heroine

Indigo

An Underground Railroad agent hides a wounded legend. His arrogance asks for trust she cannot give.

저자: Beverly Jenkins 1996 370 페이지

4.30

6,000+ 개의 평점

🕯️ Antebellum Romance 🚂 Underground Railroad 🖤 Black Romance 🩹 Wounded Hero 🌿 Healer Heroine

Rebecca

저자: Shannon McNear • 2023

Stolen by Jamestown, a chief's daughter becomes Rebecca: Christian bride and living treaty.

4.12

170

🌍 Colonial Encounter 💞 Cross-Cultural Romance 🪶 Indigenous Perspectives ✝️ Christian Conversion 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Legacy

Rebecca

Stolen by Jamestown, a chief's daughter becomes Rebecca: Christian bride and living treaty.

저자: Shannon McNear 2023

4.12

170 개의 평점

🌍 Colonial Encounter 💞 Cross-Cultural Romance 🪶 Indigenous Perspectives ✝️ Christian Conversion 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Legacy

The Vicar of Wakefield

저자: Oliver Goldsmith • 1766

When fortune deserts a vicar, a rakish landlord's charm lures his daughters into peril.

3.46

10,000+

🕯️ Sentimental Novel 🌿 Rural Simplicity 🪜 Social Climbing 🎭 Disguised Identity 🎁 Secret Benefactor

The Vicar of Wakefield

When fortune deserts a vicar, a rakish landlord's charm lures his daughters into peril.

저자: Oliver Goldsmith 1766 197 페이지

3.46

10,000+ 개의 평점

🕯️ Sentimental Novel 🌿 Rural Simplicity 🪜 Social Climbing 🎭 Disguised Identity 🎁 Secret Benefactor

Siren Queen

저자: Nghi Vo • 2022

Hollywood is a faerie court. A Chinese-American girl trades pieces of herself to become its queen.

3.67

13,000+

🎬 Golden Age Hollywood 🧚 Faerie Bargains 💋 Sapphic Romance 🐉 Monstrous Women ⭐ Price Of Fame

Siren Queen

Hollywood is a faerie court. A Chinese-American girl trades pieces of herself to become its queen.

저자: Nghi Vo 2022 281 페이지

3.67

13,000+ 개의 평점

🎬 Golden Age Hollywood 🧚 Faerie Bargains 💋 Sapphic Romance 🐉 Monstrous Women ⭐ Price Of Fame

One Good Mama Bone

저자: Bren McClain • 2017

A poor widow raises her dead friend's boy, guided by a cow's fierce, wordless love.

4.33

1,000+

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🐄 Animal Human Bond 👩‍👦 Reluctant Motherhood 💔 Generational Trauma 🌾 Rural Poverty

One Good Mama Bone

A poor widow raises her dead friend's boy, guided by a cow's fierce, wordless love.

저자: Bren McClain 2017 280 페이지

4.33

1,000+ 개의 평점

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🐄 Animal Human Bond 👩‍👦 Reluctant Motherhood 💔 Generational Trauma 🌾 Rural Poverty

Paradise

저자: Abdulrazak Gurnah • 1994

Pawned for debt in colonial East Africa, a boy discovers that every refuge demands a price.

3.60

14,000+

📖 Postcolonial Literature 🌱 Coming Of Age 💔 Forbidden Desire 🌍 East Africa 🏛️ Colonial Africa

Paradise

Pawned for debt in colonial East Africa, a boy discovers that every refuge demands a price.

저자: Abdulrazak Gurnah 1994 256 페이지

3.60

14,000+ 개의 평점

📖 Postcolonial Literature 🌱 Coming Of Age 💔 Forbidden Desire 🌍 East Africa 🏛️ Colonial Africa

The Miniaturist

저자: Jessie Burton • 2014

Newly married in Amsterdam, she fills a dollhouse whose tiny figures predict the household's ruin.

3.62

100,000+

🏙️ Dutch Golden Age 🕯️ Gothic Domestic Suspense 💍 Arranged Marriage 💔 Forbidden Love 🔒 Family Secrets

The Miniaturist

Newly married in Amsterdam, she fills a dollhouse whose tiny figures predict the household's ruin.

저자: Jessie Burton 2014 416 페이지

3.62

100,000+ 개의 평점

🏙️ Dutch Golden Age 🕯️ Gothic Domestic Suspense 💍 Arranged Marriage 💔 Forbidden Love 🔒 Family Secrets

The Wolf and the Watchman

저자: Niklas Natt och Dag • 2017

A one-armed watchman and a dying lawyer pursue the fiend who dismembered a young man.

3.88

23,000+

🌑 Nordic Noir 🕵️ Odd Couple Detectives 🏚️ Gothic Atmosphere 🩸 Body Horror ⚖️ Corrupt Institutions

The Wolf and the Watchman

A one-armed watchman and a dying lawyer pursue the fiend who dismembered a young man.

저자: Niklas Natt och Dag 2017 384 페이지

3.88

23,000+ 개의 평점

🌑 Nordic Noir 🕵️ Odd Couple Detectives 🏚️ Gothic Atmosphere 🩸 Body Horror ⚖️ Corrupt Institutions

The Expert of Subtle Revisions

저자: Kirsten Menger-Anderson • 2025

Her father vanishes, leaving a time-shifting music box and a Wikipedia trail back to 1930s Vienna.

3.70

1,000+

🕰️ Literary Time Travel 🏛️ Interwar Vienna ⏳ Queer Love Across Time 📜 Erased Women's History 🫂 Found Family

The Expert of Subtle Revisions

Her father vanishes, leaving a time-shifting music box and a Wikipedia trail back to 1930s Vienna.

저자: Kirsten Menger-Anderson 2025 256 페이지

3.70

1,000+ 개의 평점

🕰️ Literary Time Travel 🏛️ Interwar Vienna ⏳ Queer Love Across Time 📜 Erased Women's History 🫂 Found Family

Mariah Mundi and the Ship of Fools

저자: G.P. Taylor • 2009

A teen agent boards a doomed steamship, hunted by assassins and haunted by the dead.

3.92

118

🎩 Steampunk Fantasy 🌊 Maritime Disaster 🎪 Circus Of Horrors 👻 Supernatural Suspense 🗡️ Assassin Aboard

Mariah Mundi and the Ship of Fools

A teen agent boards a doomed steamship, hunted by assassins and haunted by the dead.

저자: G.P. Taylor 2009 312 페이지

3.92

118 개의 평점

🎩 Steampunk Fantasy 🌊 Maritime Disaster 🎪 Circus Of Horrors 👻 Supernatural Suspense 🗡️ Assassin Aboard

Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson (6-Jul-2006) Paperback

저자: Per Petterson • 2003

He fled to the Norwegian woods to forget. A neighbor's face pulled him back to 1948.

3.81

38,000+

🏔️ Norwegian Fiction 🕰️ Dual Timeline 👨‍👦 Absent Father 👦 Boyhood Friendship 🤫 Trauma And Silence

Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson (6-Jul-2006) Paperback

He fled to the Norwegian woods to forget. A neighbor's face pulled him back to 1948.

저자: Per Petterson 2003

3.81

38,000+ 개의 평점

🏔️ Norwegian Fiction 🕰️ Dual Timeline 👨‍👦 Absent Father 👦 Boyhood Friendship 🤫 Trauma And Silence

Death Comes as the End

저자: Agatha Christie • 1944

When a concubine threatens an Egyptian family's inheritance, she is the first to die.

3.84

28,000+

🔒 Closed Circle Mystery 🏛️ Ancient Egypt 💰 Inheritance Murder Plot 👪 Family As Suspects 🕰️ Golden Age Mystery

Death Comes as the End

When a concubine threatens an Egyptian family's inheritance, she is the first to die.

저자: Agatha Christie 1944 267 페이지

3.84

28,000+ 개의 평점

🔒 Closed Circle Mystery 🏛️ Ancient Egypt 💰 Inheritance Murder Plot 👪 Family As Suspects 🕰️ Golden Age Mystery

Now Is the Hour

저자: Tom Spanbauer • 2006

A queer farm boy in 1960s Idaho hunts for one color worth believing in.

4.14

1,000+

🏳️‍🌈 Queer Coming Of Age 🤲 Found Family 💔 Forbidden Love 💑 Interracial Romance ⛪ Catholic Guilt

Now Is the Hour

A queer farm boy in 1960s Idaho hunts for one color worth believing in.

저자: Tom Spanbauer 2006 480 페이지

4.14

1,000+ 개의 평점

🏳️‍🌈 Queer Coming Of Age 🤲 Found Family 💔 Forbidden Love 💑 Interracial Romance ⛪ Catholic Guilt

The House with the Golden Door

저자: Elodie Harper • 2022

A Pompeii freedwoman risks everything to rescue the friend still trapped in the brothel she escaped.

4.19

22,000+

🏛️ Ancient Rome 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 🕊️ Fragile Freedom 🍂 Bittersweet 🔥 Female Rage

The House with the Golden Door

A Pompeii freedwoman risks everything to rescue the friend still trapped in the brothel she escaped.

저자: Elodie Harper 2022 472 페이지

4.19

22,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Ancient Rome 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 🕊️ Fragile Freedom 🍂 Bittersweet 🔥 Female Rage

Murder in Constantinople

저자: A.E. Goldin • 2024

A Jewish tailor finds his dead lover alive. Her trail ends at the Sultan’s palace.

3.44

500+

🕎 Jewish Historical Mystery 🕵️ Espionage Thriller 🎭 False Identity ✈️ Exile And Diaspora 🖤 Gothic Atmosphere

Murder in Constantinople

A Jewish tailor finds his dead lover alive. Her trail ends at the Sultan’s palace.

저자: A.E. Goldin 2024 331 페이지

3.44

500+ 개의 평점

🕎 Jewish Historical Mystery 🕵️ Espionage Thriller 🎭 False Identity ✈️ Exile And Diaspora 🖤 Gothic Atmosphere

The Trick to Time

저자: Kit de Waal • 2018

An Irish dollmaker crafts weighted babies for grieving mothers. Her own daughter was stillborn.

3.93

2,000+

🔀 Dual Timeline 👶 Infant Loss 💕 Late-Life Romance 🧵 Healing Through Craft 🍀 Irish Emigration

The Trick to Time

An Irish dollmaker crafts weighted babies for grieving mothers. Her own daughter was stillborn.

저자: Kit de Waal 2018 272 페이지

3.93

2,000+ 개의 평점

🔀 Dual Timeline 👶 Infant Loss 💕 Late-Life Romance 🧵 Healing Through Craft 🍀 Irish Emigration

The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

저자: Joanna Cannon • 2016

An English avenue, summer 1976: a woman vanishes, and two ten-year-old girls go searching for God.

3.64

30,000+

🔍 Small Town Secrets 👧 Child Narrator 🐐 Community Scapegoating ☀️ Sweltering Summer 🇬🇧 1970s England

The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

An English avenue, summer 1976: a woman vanishes, and two ten-year-old girls go searching for God.

저자: Joanna Cannon 2016 369 페이지

3.64

30,000+ 개의 평점

🔍 Small Town Secrets 👧 Child Narrator 🐐 Community Scapegoating ☀️ Sweltering Summer 🇬🇧 1970s England

Williwaw

저자: Gore Vidal • 1946

When a man vanishes in an Aleutian storm, a young skipper weighs truth against survival.

3.44

486

🚢 WWII At Sea 💔 Love Triangle 🪦 Buried Guilt 🛳️ Isolated Crew 😶 Quiet Desperation

Williwaw

When a man vanishes in an Aleutian storm, a young skipper weighs truth against survival.

저자: Gore Vidal 1946 119 페이지

3.44

486 개의 평점

🚢 WWII At Sea 💔 Love Triangle 🪦 Buried Guilt 🛳️ Isolated Crew 😶 Quiet Desperation

The Agency for Scandal

저자: Laura Wood • 2023

A Victorian wallflower spy falls for a duke who never notices her, until their missions collide.

4.23

5,000+

🔍 Women Spy Ring 🎭 Secret Identity ❤️ Slow Burn Romance 💍 Fake Relationship 👑 Class Differences

The Agency for Scandal

A Victorian wallflower spy falls for a duke who never notices her, until their missions collide.

저자: Laura Wood 2023 528 페이지

4.23

5,000+ 개의 평점

🔍 Women Spy Ring 🎭 Secret Identity ❤️ Slow Burn Romance 💍 Fake Relationship 👑 Class Differences

Arthur & George

저자: Julian Barnes • 2005

After a solicitor is wrongly imprisoned, the creator of Sherlock Holmes turns detective to free him.

3.73

19,000+

🏛️ Wrongful Conviction 📖 Biographical Fiction 📚 Literary Crime 🔍 Amateur Detective 👥 Parallel Lives

Arthur & George

After a solicitor is wrongly imprisoned, the creator of Sherlock Holmes turns detective to free him.

저자: Julian Barnes 2005 147 페이지

3.73

19,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Wrongful Conviction 📖 Biographical Fiction 📚 Literary Crime 🔍 Amateur Detective 👥 Parallel Lives

The Masterpiece

저자: Fiona Davis • 2018

A divorcée uncovers a lost painting in Grand Central and the forgotten woman who created it.

3.87

34,000+

🕰️ Dual Timeline 🎨 Art World Mystery 👩‍🎨 Forgotten Woman Artist 💕 Rivals To Lovers 🎭 Hidden Identity

The Masterpiece

A divorcée uncovers a lost painting in Grand Central and the forgotten woman who created it.

저자: Fiona Davis 2018 368 페이지

3.87

34,000+ 개의 평점

🕰️ Dual Timeline 🎨 Art World Mystery 👩‍🎨 Forgotten Woman Artist 💕 Rivals To Lovers 🎭 Hidden Identity

Princess Bari

저자: Hwang Sok-yong • 2007

Abandoned at birth, a seventh daughter carries a shaman's gift from famine to London's margins.

3.72

1,000+

📜 Mythic Retelling 🌀 Shamanic Journey 💔 Generational Trauma 👧 Abandoned Child 🤝 Found Family

Princess Bari

Abandoned at birth, a seventh daughter carries a shaman's gift from famine to London's margins.

저자: Hwang Sok-yong 2007 305 페이지

3.72

1,000+ 개의 평점

📜 Mythic Retelling 🌀 Shamanic Journey 💔 Generational Trauma 👧 Abandoned Child 🤝 Found Family

A Man of Some Repute

저자: Elizabeth Edmondson • 2015

A wounded spy moves to a crumbling castle just as the vanished Earl is unearthed.

3.77

12,000+

🏰 Country House Murder ❄️ Cold Case Investigation 🇬🇧 Postwar England 🕵️ Amateur Detective 🔒 Family Secrets

A Man of Some Repute

A wounded spy moves to a crumbling castle just as the vanished Earl is unearthed.

저자: Elizabeth Edmondson 2015 305 페이지

3.77

12,000+ 개의 평점

🏰 Country House Murder ❄️ Cold Case Investigation 🇬🇧 Postwar England 🕵️ Amateur Detective 🔒 Family Secrets

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc

저자: Mark Twain • 1896

Voices command a peasant girl to lead France's armies. She wins. The church calls it witchcraft.

4.13

10,000+

📜 Fictionalized Biography 🌾 Peasant Heroine 😇 Saintly Protagonist ✨ Divine Visions 👑 Court Intrigue

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc

Voices command a peasant girl to lead France's armies. She wins. The church calls it witchcraft.

저자: Mark Twain 1896

4.13

10,000+ 개의 평점

📜 Fictionalized Biography 🌾 Peasant Heroine 😇 Saintly Protagonist ✨ Divine Visions 👑 Court Intrigue

The Kashmir Shawl

저자: Rosie Thomas • 2011

After her father dies, a Kashmir shawl sends Mair to India to unravel her grandmother's hidden past.

4.00

10,000+

⏳ Dual Timeline Saga 🇮🇳 Wartime India 🫂 Found Family 💘 Forbidden Love 👯 Female Friendship

The Kashmir Shawl

After her father dies, a Kashmir shawl sends Mair to India to unravel her grandmother's hidden past.

저자: Rosie Thomas 2011 400 페이지

4.00

10,000+ 개의 평점

⏳ Dual Timeline Saga 🇮🇳 Wartime India 🫂 Found Family 💘 Forbidden Love 👯 Female Friendship

The Fire Agent

저자: David Baerwald • 2026

A German-Jewish scientist helped build Tokyo. Now he must help burn it to the ground.

4.39

433

🏠 Family Saga 🗾 Wartime Japan 🕵️ Spy Networks 💕 Cross-Cultural Love ⚖️ Moral Compromise

The Fire Agent

A German-Jewish scientist helped build Tokyo. Now he must help burn it to the ground.

저자: David Baerwald 2026 624 페이지

4.39

433 개의 평점

🏠 Family Saga 🗾 Wartime Japan 🕵️ Spy Networks 💕 Cross-Cultural Love ⚖️ Moral Compromise

The Wolf Den

저자: Elodie Harper • 2021

In Pompeii's most notorious brothel, an enslaved woman learns that freedom costs more than coin.

4.02

50,000+

🏛️ Ancient Pompeii 🖤 Gritty Historical ⛓️ Enslaved Protagonist 🤝 Female Solidarity ✊ Feminist Historical

The Wolf Den

In Pompeii's most notorious brothel, an enslaved woman learns that freedom costs more than coin.

저자: Elodie Harper 2021 464 페이지

4.02

50,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Ancient Pompeii 🖤 Gritty Historical ⛓️ Enslaved Protagonist 🤝 Female Solidarity ✊ Feminist Historical

Christmas at The Grange

저자: T.E. Kinsey • 2017

A country house Christmas turns odd when a theft leaves clues so abundant they feel like a prank.

4.15

9,000+

🏰 Country House Mystery 🕵️ Lady Detective 💝 Found Family 💬 Witty Banter 🎭 Meta Mystery

Christmas at The Grange

A country house Christmas turns odd when a theft leaves clues so abundant they feel like a prank.

저자: T.E. Kinsey 2017 76 페이지

4.15

9,000+ 개의 평점

🏰 Country House Mystery 🕵️ Lady Detective 💝 Found Family 💬 Witty Banter 🎭 Meta Mystery

Some Strange Music Draws Me In

저자: Griffin Hansbury • 2024

A girl's crush on a trans woman ends in arson, a lie that follows her into manhood.

4.40

1,000+

🦋 Trans Coming Of Age 🏚️ Small-Town Queerphobia 💔 Survivor Guilt 🔁 Generational Trauma 📼 1980s Nostalgia

Some Strange Music Draws Me In

A girl's crush on a trans woman ends in arson, a lie that follows her into manhood.

저자: Griffin Hansbury 2024 320 페이지

4.40

1,000+ 개의 평점

🦋 Trans Coming Of Age 🏚️ Small-Town Queerphobia 💔 Survivor Guilt 🔁 Generational Trauma 📼 1980s Nostalgia

A Shilling for Candles

저자: Josephine Tey • 1936

A film star drowns in Kent, a button accuses her friend, and Inspector Grant knows better.

3.92

9,000+

🕰️ Golden Age Mystery ⚖️ Wrongly Accused 🔍 Amateur Sleuth 🎭 Social Satire 🇬🇧 1930s England

A Shilling for Candles

A film star drowns in Kent, a button accuses her friend, and Inspector Grant knows better.

저자: Josephine Tey 1936 240 페이지

3.92

9,000+ 개의 평점

🕰️ Golden Age Mystery ⚖️ Wrongly Accused 🔍 Amateur Sleuth 🎭 Social Satire 🇬🇧 1930s England

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