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

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

And the Land Lay Still

저자: James Robertson • 2010

A son unearths his dead father's photo archive: a hidden Scotland of outcasts and ghosts emerges.

4.25

1,000+

🗺️ State Of The Nation 📸 Archive And Memory ❤️ Found Family 💔 Intergenerational Trauma 🌈 Queer Loneliness

And the Land Lay Still

A son unearths his dead father's photo archive: a hidden Scotland of outcasts and ghosts emerges.

저자: James Robertson 2010 673 페이지

4.25

1,000+ 개의 평점

🗺️ State Of The Nation 📸 Archive And Memory ❤️ Found Family 💔 Intergenerational Trauma 🌈 Queer Loneliness

The Dew Breaker

저자: Edwidge Danticat • 2004

A Haitian-American sculptor learns her gentle barber father was once a prison torturer in Haiti.

3.81

8,000+

🖇️ Linked Story Cycle 🩸 Intergenerational Trauma 🇭🇹 Haitian Diaspora 🤐 Hidden Family Secrets 🌊 Exile And Belonging

The Dew Breaker

A Haitian-American sculptor learns her gentle barber father was once a prison torturer in Haiti.

저자: Edwidge Danticat 2004 256 페이지

3.81

8,000+ 개의 평점

🖇️ Linked Story Cycle 🩸 Intergenerational Trauma 🇭🇹 Haitian Diaspora 🤐 Hidden Family Secrets 🌊 Exile And Belonging

The Grass is Singing

저자: Doris Lessing • 1950

On a failing Rhodesian farm, a white woman's unraveling becomes a fatal bond with her houseboy.

3.83

15,000+

🏛️ Colonial Critique 💔 Deteriorating Marriage ⛓️ Racial Power Dynamics 🧠 Mental Breakdown 🌾 Isolated Farm Life

The Grass is Singing

On a failing Rhodesian farm, a white woman's unraveling becomes a fatal bond with her houseboy.

저자: Doris Lessing 1950 208 페이지

3.83

15,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Colonial Critique 💔 Deteriorating Marriage ⛓️ Racial Power Dynamics 🧠 Mental Breakdown 🌾 Isolated Farm Life

We, the Drowned

저자: Carsten Jensen • 2006

Generations of Danish sailors vanish into the sea, leaving widows to steer the town.

4.24

12,000+

🚢 Maritime Saga 🏚️ Generational Saga 👤 Absent Fathers 🔄 Cycles Of Violence ⚓ Rites Of Passage

We, the Drowned

Generations of Danish sailors vanish into the sea, leaving widows to steer the town.

저자: Carsten Jensen 2006 678 페이지

4.24

12,000+ 개의 평점

🚢 Maritime Saga 🏚️ Generational Saga 👤 Absent Fathers 🔄 Cycles Of Violence ⚓ Rites Of Passage

In the Wilds of Derbyshire

저자: Jann Rowland • 2017

Cut off from her sister, Elizabeth Bennet seeks solace in Derbyshire and discovers an unlikely love.

4.10

500+

📖 Austen Variation 🕯️ Slow-Burn Courtship 💕 Sister Reconciliation 👯 Female Friendship 🌿 Derbyshire Countryside

In the Wilds of Derbyshire

Cut off from her sister, Elizabeth Bennet seeks solace in Derbyshire and discovers an unlikely love.

저자: Jann Rowland 2017 410 페이지

4.10

500+ 개의 평점

📖 Austen Variation 🕯️ Slow-Burn Courtship 💕 Sister Reconciliation 👯 Female Friendship 🌿 Derbyshire Countryside

The Wind off the Small Isles

저자: Mary Stewart • 1968

On a volcanic island, a young assistant discovers two lovers preserved in ash for a century.

3.76

500+

🕰️ Dual Timeline Romance 🌊 Gothic Seaside 🌋 Volcanic Island Setting 💕 Slow-Burn Romance ✍️ Creative Renewal

The Wind off the Small Isles

On a volcanic island, a young assistant discovers two lovers preserved in ash for a century.

저자: Mary Stewart 1968 96 페이지

3.76

500+ 개의 평점

🕰️ Dual Timeline Romance 🌊 Gothic Seaside 🌋 Volcanic Island Setting 💕 Slow-Burn Romance ✍️ Creative Renewal

The Last Song of Penelope

저자: Claire North • 2024

Penelope ruled Ithaca in secret for twenty years. Odysseus returns with blood on his mind.

4.29

3,000+

🏺 Mythological Retelling 🏛️ Ancient Greece 👁️ Divine Narrator 🕸️ Women's Secret Council ⚔️ Cycle Of Revenge

The Last Song of Penelope

Penelope ruled Ithaca in secret for twenty years. Odysseus returns with blood on his mind.

저자: Claire North 2024 464 페이지

4.29

3,000+ 개의 평점

🏺 Mythological Retelling 🏛️ Ancient Greece 👁️ Divine Narrator 🕸️ Women's Secret Council ⚔️ Cycle Of Revenge

Elizabeth's Deception

저자: Kate Speck • 2020

Hiding as a bastard daughter to escape assassination, Elizabeth Bennet never counted on Mr. Darcy.

3.84

286

🖋️ Austen Retelling 💕 Regency Romance 👑 Secret Heiress ⚡ Enemies To Lovers 🔐 Codebreaker Heroine

Elizabeth's Deception

Hiding as a bastard daughter to escape assassination, Elizabeth Bennet never counted on Mr. Darcy.

저자: Kate Speck 2020 169 페이지

3.84

286 개의 평점

🖋️ Austen Retelling 💕 Regency Romance 👑 Secret Heiress ⚡ Enemies To Lovers 🔐 Codebreaker Heroine

Mason & Dixon by Pynchon. Thomas ( 1998 ) Paperback

저자: Thomas Pynchon • 1997

Two surveyors draw a line across colonial America: the wilderness refuses to be measured.

4.15

12,000+

🚶 Picaresque Journey 🤝 Odd Couple Partners 🔭 Science And Empire 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 🗺️ Colonial America

Mason & Dixon by Pynchon. Thomas ( 1998 ) Paperback

Two surveyors draw a line across colonial America: the wilderness refuses to be measured.

저자: Thomas Pynchon 1997

4.15

12,000+ 개의 평점

🚶 Picaresque Journey 🤝 Odd Couple Partners 🔭 Science And Empire 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 🗺️ Colonial America

Theft

저자: Abdulrazak Gurnah • 2025

A servant, a scholar, and a teacher are drawn together by a false theft accusation in Tanzania.

3.93

5,000+

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Multigenerational Saga 🌍 Postcolonial Africa 🤫 Family Secrets 💍 Arranged Marriage 🧹 Domestic Servitude

Theft

A servant, a scholar, and a teacher are drawn together by a false theft accusation in Tanzania.

저자: Abdulrazak Gurnah 2025 296 페이지

3.93

5,000+ 개의 평점

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Multigenerational Saga 🌍 Postcolonial Africa 🤫 Family Secrets 💍 Arranged Marriage 🧹 Domestic Servitude

Poor Things

저자: Alasdair Gray • 1992

A drowned woman, rebuilt with an infant's brain, awakens to a world trying to own her.

3.92

43,000+

📜 Victorian Pastiche ✊ Feminist Revision 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 📖 Competing Narratives ⚗️ Scientific Hubris

Poor Things

A drowned woman, rebuilt with an infant's brain, awakens to a world trying to own her.

저자: Alasdair Gray 1992 317 페이지

3.92

43,000+ 개의 평점

📜 Victorian Pastiche ✊ Feminist Revision 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 📖 Competing Narratives ⚗️ Scientific Hubris

In Another Time

저자: Jillian Cantor • 2019

A violinist awakens in 1946 with amnesia; a bookseller's time-bending closet holds the key.

3.79

7,000+

⏳ Time Travel Romance 📅 Dual Timeline 🧠 Amnesia 💔 Forbidden Love 🕯️ Holocaust Survival

In Another Time

A violinist awakens in 1946 with amnesia; a bookseller's time-bending closet holds the key.

저자: Jillian Cantor 2019 336 페이지

3.79

7,000+ 개의 평점

⏳ Time Travel Romance 📅 Dual Timeline 🧠 Amnesia 💔 Forbidden Love 🕯️ Holocaust Survival

Finding Mrs. Ford

저자: Deborah Goodrich Royce • 2019

A wealthy widow's secret past resurfaces when FBI agents question her about a man from Iraq.

3.68

3,000+

🎭 Stolen Identity 💔 Dark Female Friendship ⏳ Dual Timeline Mystery 🕵️ 1970s Noir 🌊 Coastal New England

Finding Mrs. Ford

A wealthy widow's secret past resurfaces when FBI agents question her about a man from Iraq.

저자: Deborah Goodrich Royce 2019 416 페이지

3.68

3,000+ 개의 평점

🎭 Stolen Identity 💔 Dark Female Friendship ⏳ Dual Timeline Mystery 🕵️ 1970s Noir 🌊 Coastal New England

The Other Typist

저자: Suzanne Rindell • 2013

A prim typist's obsession with a glamorous coworker draws her into 1920s New York's underworld.

3.55

19,000+

🎭 Unreliable Narrator 🖤 Dangerous Obsession 💋 Femme Fatale 🍸 Jazz Age 👤 Stolen Identity

The Other Typist

A prim typist's obsession with a glamorous coworker draws her into 1920s New York's underworld.

저자: Suzanne Rindell 2013 384 페이지

3.55

19,000+ 개의 평점

🎭 Unreliable Narrator 🖤 Dangerous Obsession 💋 Femme Fatale 🍸 Jazz Age 👤 Stolen Identity

Bridgerton Collection, Volume 1

저자: Julia Quinn • 2000

A duke who will not marry. A debutante who must. One fake courtship, two real hearts.

4.29

22,000+

🤝 Marriage Of Convenience 👠 Cinderella Retelling 🎭 Fake Relationship 😈 Reformed Rake 💔 Wounded Hero

Bridgerton Collection, Volume 1

A duke who will not marry. A debutante who must. One fake courtship, two real hearts.

저자: Julia Quinn 2000 1053 페이지

4.29

22,000+ 개의 평점

🤝 Marriage Of Convenience 👠 Cinderella Retelling 🎭 Fake Relationship 😈 Reformed Rake 💔 Wounded Hero

Fractured Soul

저자: Akira Mizubayashi • 2019

After soldiers destroy his father's violin, a hidden boy becomes the luthier who restores it.

4.02

3,000+

🎵 Music And Memory 🫂 Found Family 💫 Intergenerational Healing 🌏 Bicultural Identity ✉️ Epistolary Fiction

Fractured Soul

After soldiers destroy his father's violin, a hidden boy becomes the luthier who restores it.

저자: Akira Mizubayashi 2019 224 페이지

4.02

3,000+ 개의 평점

🎵 Music And Memory 🫂 Found Family 💫 Intergenerational Healing 🌏 Bicultural Identity ✉️ Epistolary Fiction

Saints and Villains

저자: Denise Giardina • 1998

A German pastor discovers resisting Hitler will cost him his purity, his love, and his life.

4.10

500+

✝️ Theological Fiction 🏴 Nazi Germany 🔥 Faith Under Fire 👯 Twin Bond 🕵️ Double Agent

Saints and Villains

A German pastor discovers resisting Hitler will cost him his purity, his love, and his life.

저자: Denise Giardina 1998 487 페이지

4.10

500+ 개의 평점

✝️ Theological Fiction 🏴 Nazi Germany 🔥 Faith Under Fire 👯 Twin Bond 🕵️ Double Agent

Hungerstone

저자: Kat Dunn • 2025

Her husband is poisoning her. The stranger from the moor offers a darker hunger.

3.90

40,000+

🩸 Sapphic Vampires 🗡️ Feminist Horror 🕯️ Victorian Gothic 🦴 Body Horror 💍 Toxic Marriage

Hungerstone

Her husband is poisoning her. The stranger from the moor offers a darker hunger.

저자: Kat Dunn 2025 336 페이지

3.90

40,000+ 개의 평점

🩸 Sapphic Vampires 🗡️ Feminist Horror 🕯️ Victorian Gothic 🦴 Body Horror 💍 Toxic Marriage

L'Orpheline du temple

저자: Victoria Mas • 2025

A revolutionary guard falls in love with the Bourbon princess he keeps prisoner.

3.48

218

🇫🇷 French Revolution 📜 Epistolary Novel 💔 Forbidden Love 🤫 Family Secrets 🔗 Captivity

L'Orpheline du temple

A revolutionary guard falls in love with the Bourbon princess he keeps prisoner.

저자: Victoria Mas 2025 176 페이지

3.48

218 개의 평점

🇫🇷 French Revolution 📜 Epistolary Novel 💔 Forbidden Love 🤫 Family Secrets 🔗 Captivity

The Atomic City Girls

저자: Janet Beard • 2018

Young women monitor machines in a secret city, never told they're building the atomic bomb.

3.54

26,000+

🏭 Home Front WWII 💔 Secret Romance 👥 Multiple Perspectives 🤝 Found Family 🎭 Social Climbing

The Atomic City Girls

Young women monitor machines in a secret city, never told they're building the atomic bomb.

저자: Janet Beard 2018 353 페이지

3.54

26,000+ 개의 평점

🏭 Home Front WWII 💔 Secret Romance 👥 Multiple Perspectives 🤝 Found Family 🎭 Social Climbing

The Borrowed

저자: Chan Ho-Kei • 2017

A dying detective answers only yes or no. His protege must solve a tycoon's murder.

4.36

5,000+

🔄 Reverse Chronology 👮 Police Procedural 🔍 Master Detective 🤝 Mentor And Protege 🔐 Family Secrets

The Borrowed

A dying detective answers only yes or no. His protege must solve a tycoon's murder.

저자: Chan Ho-Kei 2017 496 페이지

4.36

5,000+ 개의 평점

🔄 Reverse Chronology 👮 Police Procedural 🔍 Master Detective 🤝 Mentor And Protege 🔐 Family Secrets

Sky Burial

저자: Xinran • 2004

Love sent a Chinese doctor into Tibet; the plateau took thirty years to return her.

4.09

7,000+

🏔️ Epic Love Quest 🌏 Cultural Immersion 🕉️ Tibetan Buddhism 🏕️ Nomadic Survival 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family

Sky Burial

Love sent a Chinese doctor into Tibet; the plateau took thirty years to return her.

저자: Xinran 2004 210 페이지

4.09

7,000+ 개의 평점

🏔️ Epic Love Quest 🌏 Cultural Immersion 🕉️ Tibetan Buddhism 🏕️ Nomadic Survival 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family

The Secret Hours

저자: Mick Herron • 2023

A retired spy is ambushed in Devon while a bumbling inquiry unearths his lethal Berlin secret.

4.25

22,000+

🥶 Cold War Espionage 📋 Bureaucratic Intrigue 🔫 Retired Spy Pulled Back 📚 Secrets In The Archive 🏛️ Political Cover-Up

The Secret Hours

A retired spy is ambushed in Devon while a bumbling inquiry unearths his lethal Berlin secret.

저자: Mick Herron 2023 384 페이지

4.25

22,000+ 개의 평점

🥶 Cold War Espionage 📋 Bureaucratic Intrigue 🔫 Retired Spy Pulled Back 📚 Secrets In The Archive 🏛️ Political Cover-Up

White Chrysanthemum

저자: Mary Lynn Bracht • 2018

A haenyeo sacrifices herself to save her sister from a soldier, vanishing into a military brothel.

4.42

27,000+

🥀 Comfort Women 🇰🇷 Korean Occupation 👯‍♀️ Separated Sisters 😔 Survivor's Guilt ⏳ Dual Timelines

White Chrysanthemum

A haenyeo sacrifices herself to save her sister from a soldier, vanishing into a military brothel.

저자: Mary Lynn Bracht 2018 320 페이지

4.42

27,000+ 개의 평점

🥀 Comfort Women 🇰🇷 Korean Occupation 👯‍♀️ Separated Sisters 😔 Survivor's Guilt ⏳ Dual Timelines

The Night Watchman

저자: Louise Erdrich • 2020

A Chippewa night watchman learns Congress intends to dissolve his tribe and rallies his community.

4.08

97,000+

🏛️ Tribal Sovereignty 🏠 Reservation Life 🔍 Missing Indigenous Women 🏫 Boarding School Trauma 👩‍👧 Mothers And Daughters

The Night Watchman

A Chippewa night watchman learns Congress intends to dissolve his tribe and rallies his community.

저자: Louise Erdrich 2020 464 페이지

4.08

97,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Tribal Sovereignty 🏠 Reservation Life 🔍 Missing Indigenous Women 🏫 Boarding School Trauma 👩‍👧 Mothers And Daughters

The First Man in Rome

저자: Colleen McCullough • 1990

A common-born general's rise threatens Rome's patrician families as much as any foreign foe.

4.14

24,000+

🏛️ Roman Republic 🕵️ Senatorial Intrigue 🗣️ Populist Politics 🤝 Mentor ProtéGé 👤 Political Outsider

The First Man in Rome

A common-born general's rise threatens Rome's patrician families as much as any foreign foe.

저자: Colleen McCullough 1990 1076 페이지

4.14

24,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Roman Republic 🕵️ Senatorial Intrigue 🗣️ Populist Politics 🤝 Mentor ProtéGé 👤 Political Outsider

Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch

저자: Rivka Galchen • 2021

Seventy years of herbal wisdom and blunt opinions have made her a witch to her neighbors.

3.38

13,000+

🧹 Witch Trial Fiction 📜 Based On True Events 🏘️ Small Village Secrets 🌿 Herbalist Healer 📋 Bureaucratic Nightmare

Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch

Seventy years of herbal wisdom and blunt opinions have made her a witch to her neighbors.

저자: Rivka Galchen 2021 275 페이지

3.38

13,000+ 개의 평점

🧹 Witch Trial Fiction 📜 Based On True Events 🏘️ Small Village Secrets 🌿 Herbalist Healer 📋 Bureaucratic Nightmare

The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

저자: Silvia Moreno-Garcia • 2022

Carlota Moreau grew up among animal hybrids in the jungle. She never knew she was one.

3.57

40,000+

🧬 Gothic Science Fiction ✨ Feminist Retelling 🧪 Mad Scientist 💚 Chosen Family 🐆 Animal-Human Hybrids

The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

Carlota Moreau grew up among animal hybrids in the jungle. She never knew she was one.

저자: Silvia Moreno-Garcia 2022 306 페이지

3.57

40,000+ 개의 평점

🧬 Gothic Science Fiction ✨ Feminist Retelling 🧪 Mad Scientist 💚 Chosen Family 🐆 Animal-Human Hybrids

Beautiful Things

저자: Emily Rath • 2022

Penniless at a duke's house party, she draws three suitors and refuses to choose.

3.81

12,000+

🏰 Regency House Party 💕 Polyamorous Romance ⚡ Bastard Hero 👑 Scheming Dowager 🎨 Artist Heroine

Beautiful Things

Penniless at a duke's house party, she draws three suitors and refuses to choose.

저자: Emily Rath 2022 466 페이지

3.81

12,000+ 개의 평점

🏰 Regency House Party 💕 Polyamorous Romance ⚡ Bastard Hero 👑 Scheming Dowager 🎨 Artist Heroine

Ghost-Eye

저자: Amitav Ghosh • 2026

In 1969 Calcutta, a vegetarian child demands fish and claims another mother by the river.

3.86

1,000+

🌟 Magical Realism 🌍 Postcolonial Fiction 🔁 Past Lives 🍲 Taste And Memory 🌿 Eco-Activism

Ghost-Eye

In 1969 Calcutta, a vegetarian child demands fish and claims another mother by the river.

저자: Amitav Ghosh 2026 336 페이지

3.86

1,000+ 개의 평점

🌟 Magical Realism 🌍 Postcolonial Fiction 🔁 Past Lives 🍲 Taste And Memory 🌿 Eco-Activism

Les marins ne savent pas nager

저자: Dominique Scali • 2022

An orphan who can swim defies a rigged citizenship lottery on the walled island of Ys.

3.73

1,000+

🏝️ Fictional Island 🫂 Found Family 👨‍🏫 Reluctant Mentor 📜 Generational Saga 🗣️ Polyphonic Voices

Les marins ne savent pas nager

An orphan who can swim defies a rigged citizenship lottery on the walled island of Ys.

저자: Dominique Scali 2022 708 페이지

3.73

1,000+ 개의 평점

🏝️ Fictional Island 🫂 Found Family 👨‍🏫 Reluctant Mentor 📜 Generational Saga 🗣️ Polyphonic Voices

The Foundation Pit

저자: Andrei Platonov • 1994

A fired thinker digs a bottomless pit for a Soviet utopia that devours its builders.

3.78

6,000+

🏭 Soviet Dystopia 🌀 Absurdist Fiction ⛏️ Futile Labor 📋 Bureaucratic Nightmare 🥀 Doomed Innocence

The Foundation Pit

A fired thinker digs a bottomless pit for a Soviet utopia that devours its builders.

저자: Andrei Platonov 1994 141 페이지

3.78

6,000+ 개의 평점

🏭 Soviet Dystopia 🌀 Absurdist Fiction ⛏️ Futile Labor 📋 Bureaucratic Nightmare 🥀 Doomed Innocence

The Devil's Playground

저자: Craig Russell • 2023

A Hollywood fixer buries a star's scandalous death, then unearths the ritual murder behind it.

3.84

2,000+

🎬 Hollywood Gothic 🎥 Cursed Film 🩸 Generational Curse 🕯️ Secret Society 💋 Femme Fatale

The Devil's Playground

A Hollywood fixer buries a star's scandalous death, then unearths the ritual murder behind it.

저자: Craig Russell 2023 368 페이지

3.84

2,000+ 개의 평점

🎬 Hollywood Gothic 🎥 Cursed Film 🩸 Generational Curse 🕯️ Secret Society 💋 Femme Fatale

Sing Me Forgotten

저자: Jessica S. Olson • 2021

A masked memory-witch hides in an opera house, until a janitor's voice lures her toward ruin.

3.76

4,000+

🎭 Phantom Retelling 🧠 Memory Magic 🔮 Forbidden Magic 👤 Hidden Identity 💔 Tragic Lovers

Sing Me Forgotten

A masked memory-witch hides in an opera house, until a janitor's voice lures her toward ruin.

저자: Jessica S. Olson 2021 336 페이지

3.76

4,000+ 개의 평점

🎭 Phantom Retelling 🧠 Memory Magic 🔮 Forbidden Magic 👤 Hidden Identity 💔 Tragic Lovers

Lila

저자: Marilynne Robinson • 2014

A stolen child, a wary drifter, walks into an Iowa church and a widowed preacher's life.

3.95

36,000+

🕊️ Theological Fiction 🌾 Midwestern Gothic 💛 Found Family 💍 Unlikely Marriage 🙏 Hard Won Grace

Lila

A stolen child, a wary drifter, walks into an Iowa church and a widowed preacher's life.

저자: Marilynne Robinson 2014 261 페이지

3.95

36,000+ 개의 평점

🕊️ Theological Fiction 🌾 Midwestern Gothic 💛 Found Family 💍 Unlikely Marriage 🙏 Hard Won Grace

Laws of Love and Logic

저자: Debra Curtis • 2026

Raised on saints and science, she loved a wounded boy. One Rhode Island night stole their tomorrow.

3.78

7,000+

💘 First Love ⏳ Decades-Spanning Romance 👭 Sister Bond 💰 Class Divide 🏘️ Small Town New England

Laws of Love and Logic

Raised on saints and science, she loved a wounded boy. One Rhode Island night stole their tomorrow.

저자: Debra Curtis 2026 320 페이지

3.78

7,000+ 개의 평점

💘 First Love ⏳ Decades-Spanning Romance 👭 Sister Bond 💰 Class Divide 🏘️ Small Town New England

L’efecte Frankenstein

저자: Elia Barceló • 2019

Trapped in 1790, a medical student falls for the man Victor Frankenstein stitched back to life.

3.50

1,000+

🧟 Frankenstein Retelling ⏳ Time Travel Romance 🏰 Gothic Romance 🎭 Girl Disguised As Boy 📚 Dark Academia

L’efecte Frankenstein

Trapped in 1790, a medical student falls for the man Victor Frankenstein stitched back to life.

저자: Elia Barceló 2019 336 페이지

3.50

1,000+ 개의 평점

🧟 Frankenstein Retelling ⏳ Time Travel Romance 🏰 Gothic Romance 🎭 Girl Disguised As Boy 📚 Dark Academia

Swift River

저자: Essie J. Chambers • 2024

Her father vanished. A mixed-race girl in a sundown town finds her family's past through letters.

3.49

11,000+

🏚️ Sundown Towns ✉️ Family Letters 🏡 Small Town Isolation 💔 Missing Father 🪞 Body And Belonging

Swift River

Her father vanished. A mixed-race girl in a sundown town finds her family's past through letters.

저자: Essie J. Chambers 2024 304 페이지

3.49

11,000+ 개의 평점

🏚️ Sundown Towns ✉️ Family Letters 🏡 Small Town Isolation 💔 Missing Father 🪞 Body And Belonging

Egmont

저자: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • 1788

Count Egmont's trust in his Spanish king makes him a hero to the Dutch and a target.

3.47

500+

⚰️ Political Martyrdom ⛓️ Tyranny And Resistance 💔 Star-Crossed Lovers 🥀 Tragic Idealism 🕯️ Self-Sacrifice

Egmont

Count Egmont's trust in his Spanish king makes him a hero to the Dutch and a target.

저자: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1788 68 페이지

3.47

500+ 개의 평점

⚰️ Political Martyrdom ⛓️ Tyranny And Resistance 💔 Star-Crossed Lovers 🥀 Tragic Idealism 🕯️ Self-Sacrifice

The Girl with the Suitcase

저자: Lesley Pearse • 2025

After a London bombing, a maid takes a dead woman's name and her cottage in Ireland.

4.05

5,000+

🎭 Stolen Identity 👥 Found Family 💔 Survivor's Guilt 💌 Love Letters Romance 🏠 Home Front Drama

The Girl with the Suitcase

After a London bombing, a maid takes a dead woman's name and her cottage in Ireland.

저자: Lesley Pearse 2025 391 페이지

4.05

5,000+ 개의 평점

🎭 Stolen Identity 👥 Found Family 💔 Survivor's Guilt 💌 Love Letters Romance 🏠 Home Front Drama

The King's Jewel

저자: Elizabeth Chadwick • 2023

A Welsh princess, stripped of home and name, survives a king's bed and a stranger's marriage.

4.35

1,000+

🏰 Welsh Marches 💍 Political Marriage ⚔️ Norman Conquest 👑 Royal Mistress 📜 Medieval Saga

The King's Jewel

A Welsh princess, stripped of home and name, survives a king's bed and a stranger's marriage.

저자: Elizabeth Chadwick 2023 456 페이지

4.35

1,000+ 개의 평점

🏰 Welsh Marches 💍 Political Marriage ⚔️ Norman Conquest 👑 Royal Mistress 📜 Medieval Saga

Milkman

저자: Anna Burns • 2018

A young woman is stalked by a paramilitary man, and neighbors blame her for the attention.

3.53

72,000+

🕊️ The Troubles 🧠 Stream Of Consciousness 👀 Obsessive Stalker 🗣️ Toxic Gossip 🎭 Unnamed Narrator

Milkman

A young woman is stalked by a paramilitary man, and neighbors blame her for the attention.

저자: Anna Burns 2018 352 페이지

3.53

72,000+ 개의 평점

🕊️ The Troubles 🧠 Stream Of Consciousness 👀 Obsessive Stalker 🗣️ Toxic Gossip 🎭 Unnamed Narrator

The London Séance Society

저자: Sarah Penner • 2023

A skeptic joins a medium, hunting her sister's killer through a gentlemen's club of dark séances.

3.49

73,000+

🕯️ Victorian Spiritualism 🏚️ Gothic Mystery 🎭 Secret Society 👻 Reluctant Medium 💕 Sapphic Romance

The London Séance Society

A skeptic joins a medium, hunting her sister's killer through a gentlemen's club of dark séances.

저자: Sarah Penner 2023 352 페이지

3.49

73,000+ 개의 평점

🕯️ Victorian Spiritualism 🏚️ Gothic Mystery 🎭 Secret Society 👻 Reluctant Medium 💕 Sapphic Romance

Where the Girls Were

저자: Kate Schatz • 2026

Pregnant at seventeen, she's sent to a home where unwed mothers disappear into silence.

4.01

3,000+

🫄 Secret Pregnancy 🌉 1960s California 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Secrets 📋 Forced Adoption 🏠 Found Family

Where the Girls Were

Pregnant at seventeen, she's sent to a home where unwed mothers disappear into silence.

저자: Kate Schatz 2026 368 페이지

4.01

3,000+ 개의 평점

🫄 Secret Pregnancy 🌉 1960s California 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Secrets 📋 Forced Adoption 🏠 Found Family

All the Glimmering Stars

저자: Mark T. Sullivan • 2024

Two Ugandan children are kidnapped by a warlord's army and forced to become soldier and bride.

4.59

23,000+

🔫 Child Soldiers 💔 Love In Wartime 🕊️ Forgiveness And Healing 🔗 Forced Marriage 🧠 Psychological Trauma

All the Glimmering Stars

Two Ugandan children are kidnapped by a warlord's army and forced to become soldier and bride.

저자: Mark T. Sullivan 2024 475 페이지

4.59

23,000+ 개의 평점

🔫 Child Soldiers 💔 Love In Wartime 🕊️ Forgiveness And Healing 🔗 Forced Marriage 🧠 Psychological Trauma

The Bookseller of Inverness

저자: S.G. MacLean • 2022

A scarred bookseller's quiet life shatters when a murder links to a Jacobite revenge list.

4.06

10,000+

⚔️ Post-Culloden Scotland 🔍 Historical Whodunit 📜 Coded Manuscript 🔁 Cycle Of Revenge 📚 Bookshop As Refuge

The Bookseller of Inverness

A scarred bookseller's quiet life shatters when a murder links to a Jacobite revenge list.

저자: S.G. MacLean 2022 416 페이지

4.06

10,000+ 개의 평점

⚔️ Post-Culloden Scotland 🔍 Historical Whodunit 📜 Coded Manuscript 🔁 Cycle Of Revenge 📚 Bookshop As Refuge

We Don't Talk About Carol

저자: Kristen L. Berry • 2025

A forbidden photograph. Six vanished Black girls. A woman who will unearth what her family buried.

4.02

20,000+

🔍 Cold Case Mystery 🖤 Generational Trauma 👭 Estranged Sisters 🕵️ Reluctant Detective 👩🏾 Black Women Sleuths

We Don't Talk About Carol

A forbidden photograph. Six vanished Black girls. A woman who will unearth what her family buried.

저자: Kristen L. Berry 2025 336 페이지

4.02

20,000+ 개의 평점

🔍 Cold Case Mystery 🖤 Generational Trauma 👭 Estranged Sisters 🕵️ Reluctant Detective 👩🏾 Black Women Sleuths

The White Octopus Hotel

저자: Alexandra Bell • 2025

When a guilt-ridden woman finds a time-bending hotel, one letter could undo her sister's death.

3.92

4,000+

🏨 Magical Hotel ⏳ Time-Crossed Romance 💔 Sibling Loss 🎨 Art As Healing 🥀 Bittersweet Romance

The White Octopus Hotel

When a guilt-ridden woman finds a time-bending hotel, one letter could undo her sister's death.

저자: Alexandra Bell 2025 368 페이지

3.92

4,000+ 개의 평점

🏨 Magical Hotel ⏳ Time-Crossed Romance 💔 Sibling Loss 🎨 Art As Healing 🥀 Bittersweet Romance

Father Sergius

저자: Leo Tolstoy • 1911

To escape humiliation, a proud prince chases sainthood. But pride follows him into the cell.

3.86

6,000+

🕯️ Crisis Of Faith ⛪ Monastic Life 🌑 Fall Of A Saint 🌿 Quiet Goodness ☦️ Russian Orthodoxy

Father Sergius

To escape humiliation, a proud prince chases sainthood. But pride follows him into the cell.

저자: Leo Tolstoy 1911 58 페이지

3.86

6,000+ 개의 평점

🕯️ Crisis Of Faith ⛪ Monastic Life 🌑 Fall Of A Saint 🌿 Quiet Goodness ☦️ Russian Orthodoxy

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