역사

철저한 연구와 매력적인 스토리텔링을 통해 실존 인물과 역사적 전환점이 이 시간 여행 속에서 생생하게 살아납니다. 미국 독립혁명 시기의 스파이를 따라가든, 뛰어난 여성들의 숨겨진 삶을 탐구하든, 이 책들은 우리 세계를 형성한 매혹적인 진실과 알려지지 않은 이야기들을 조명합니다.

역사 도서 요약

The Journey to the West, Volume 1

저자: Wu Cheng'en • 1980

A stone-born monkey rebels against heaven, then guards a monk journeying west for sacred scriptures.

4.26

2,000+

🐒 Trickster Hero 🌩️ Celestial Rebellion 🛕 Buddhist Pilgrimage 🦋 Transformation Magic 🏯 Ancient China

The Journey to the West, Volume 1

A stone-born monkey rebels against heaven, then guards a monk journeying west for sacred scriptures.

저자: Wu Cheng'en 1980 544 페이지

4.26

2,000+ 개의 평점

🐒 Trickster Hero 🌩️ Celestial Rebellion 🛕 Buddhist Pilgrimage 🦋 Transformation Magic 🏯 Ancient China

네가 두고 온 소녀

저자: 조조 모예스 • 2012

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

4.03

100,000+

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

네가 두고 온 소녀

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

저자: 조조 모예스 2012 480 페이지

4.03

100,000+ 개의 평점

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

대지의 기둥

저자: 켄 폴릿 • 1989

A cathedral rises stone by stone while kings and bishops tear England apart around it.

4.35

800,000+

⛪ Church Politics 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Generational Saga 💔 Star-Crossed Lovers ⚔️ Grim Medieval Realism 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 12th Century England

대지의 기둥

A cathedral rises stone by stone while kings and bishops tear England apart around it.

저자: 켄 폴릿 1989 976 페이지

4.35

800,000+ 개의 평점

⛪ Church Politics 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Generational Saga 💔 Star-Crossed Lovers ⚔️ Grim Medieval Realism 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 12th Century England

Alexander Hamilton

저자: Ron Chernow • 2004

From Caribbean orphan to architect of American capitalism: the scandal and duel that ended him.

4.22

200,000+

🏛️ American Revolution 🇺🇸 Founding Fathers 📜 Political Biography 💰 Financial Systems 🏗️ Self-Made Man

Alexander Hamilton

From Caribbean orphan to architect of American capitalism: the scandal and duel that ended him.

저자: Ron Chernow 2004 818 페이지

4.22

200,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ American Revolution 🇺🇸 Founding Fathers 📜 Political Biography 💰 Financial Systems 🏗️ Self-Made Man

별을 헤아리며

저자: 로이스 로리 • 1989

When Nazis target Jews in Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie hides her Jewish friend to save her.

4.20

600,000+

🕯️ Holocaust Resistance 🎭 Hidden Identity 👭 Wartime Friendship 🌱 Coming Of Age In War 🇩🇰 Danish Solidarity

별을 헤아리며

When Nazis target Jews in Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie hides her Jewish friend to save her.

저자: 로이스 로리 1989 137 페이지

4.20

600,000+ 개의 평점

🕯️ Holocaust Resistance 🎭 Hidden Identity 👭 Wartime Friendship 🌱 Coming Of Age In War 🇩🇰 Danish Solidarity

마음의 보이지 않는 분노

저자: 존 보인 • 2017

Adopted into a family that calls him stranger, a gay man searches a lifetime for belonging.

4.51

200,000+

🕰️ Epic Historical Saga ☘️ Mid-Century Ireland ✝️ Catholic Guilt 🏠 Found Family 👶 Adoption Story

마음의 보이지 않는 분노

Adopted into a family that calls him stranger, a gay man searches a lifetime for belonging.

저자: 존 보인 2017 582 페이지

4.51

200,000+ 개의 평점

🕰️ Epic Historical Saga ☘️ Mid-Century Ireland ✝️ Catholic Guilt 🏠 Found Family 👶 Adoption Story

All the Broken Places

저자: John Boyne • 2022

Daughter of a Nazi commandant, eighty years silent. Then a battered boy moves downstairs.

4.49

100,000+

🏚️ Postwar Reckoning 🩸 Generational Trauma 👻 Haunted By The Past ⏳ Dual Timeline 👵 Elderly Protagonist

All the Broken Places

Daughter of a Nazi commandant, eighty years silent. Then a battered boy moves downstairs.

저자: John Boyne 2022 400 페이지

4.49

100,000+ 개의 평점

🏚️ Postwar Reckoning 🩸 Generational Trauma 👻 Haunted By The Past ⏳ Dual Timeline 👵 Elderly Protagonist

엠마

저자: 제인 오스틴 • 1815

She has money and charm, but the one heart she cannot match is her own.

4.05

900,000+

🎭 Comedy Of Manners 👑 Regency Romance 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 💛 Friends To Lovers 💬 Witty Banter

몰입형

엠마

She has money and charm, but the one heart she cannot match is her own.

저자: 제인 오스틴 1815 474 페이지

4.05

900,000+ 개의 평점

🎭 Comedy Of Manners 👑 Regency Romance 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 💛 Friends To Lovers 💬 Witty Banter

벌들의 비밀 생활

저자: 수 몽크 키드 • 2001

When her caretaker is jailed, a guilt-ridden girl flees to beekeepers who knew her mother.

4.10

1,000,000+

🏠 Southern Fiction 🐝 Found Family ✊🏿 Civil Rights Era 👩‍👩‍👧 Sisterhood 💕 Interracial Romance

몰입형

벌들의 비밀 생활

When her caretaker is jailed, a guilt-ridden girl flees to beekeepers who knew her mother.

저자: 수 몽크 키드 2001 352 페이지

4.10

1,000,000+ 개의 평점

🏠 Southern Fiction 🐝 Found Family ✊🏿 Civil Rights Era 👩‍👩‍👧 Sisterhood 💕 Interracial Romance

Pompeii

저자: Robert Harris • 2003

Pompeii's water supply fails. A young engineer hunts the break as the mountain begins to stir.

3.88

54,000+

🏛️ Ancient Rome Setting 🌋 Volcanic Eruption 💰 Political Corruption ⚙️ Engineer Hero ⏳ Race Against Time

Pompeii

Pompeii's water supply fails. A young engineer hunts the break as the mountain begins to stir.

저자: Robert Harris 2003 274 페이지

3.88

54,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Ancient Rome Setting 🌋 Volcanic Eruption 💰 Political Corruption ⚙️ Engineer Hero ⏳ Race Against Time

바람의 그림자

저자: 카를로스 루이스 사폰 • 2001

A boy discovers a forgotten novel; the author's past hides a love story someone is killing to bury.

4.31

700,000+

📚 Bibliomystery 🌫️ Gothic Mystery 💔 Doomed Lovers 🔄 Parallel Narratives 🕊️ Post-War Europe

바람의 그림자

A boy discovers a forgotten novel; the author's past hides a love story someone is killing to bury.

저자: 카를로스 루이스 사폰 2001 487 페이지

4.31

700,000+ 개의 평점

📚 Bibliomystery 🌫️ Gothic Mystery 💔 Doomed Lovers 🔄 Parallel Narratives 🕊️ Post-War Europe

레 미제라블

저자: 빅토르 위고 • 1862

An ex-convict breaks parole to rebuild his life, but an obsessive inspector gives him no peace.

4.21

800,000+

🕊️ Redemption Arc 📖 Epic Historical Saga 🔍 Relentless Pursuer 🎭 Disguised Identity 💕 Found Family

레 미제라블

An ex-convict breaks parole to rebuild his life, but an obsessive inspector gives him no peace.

저자: 빅토르 위고 1862 1463 페이지

4.21

800,000+ 개의 평점

🕊️ Redemption Arc 📖 Epic Historical Saga 🔍 Relentless Pursuer 🎭 Disguised Identity 💕 Found Family

Samarkand

저자: Amin Maalouf • 1988

A manuscript of forbidden Persian verse travels from medieval Samarkand to the decks of the Titanic.

4.24

31,000+

🔄 Dual Timeline 📜 Persian History 📖 Lost Manuscript 💔 Forbidden Love 📚 Knowledge Under Threat

Samarkand

A manuscript of forbidden Persian verse travels from medieval Samarkand to the decks of the Titanic.

저자: Amin Maalouf 1988 304 페이지

4.24

31,000+ 개의 평점

🔄 Dual Timeline 📜 Persian History 📖 Lost Manuscript 💔 Forbidden Love 📚 Knowledge Under Threat

해녀의 섬

저자: 리사 시 • 2019

Two haenyeo divers share a bond deeper than the sea until a massacre tears them apart.

4.32

100,000+

🧜‍♀️ Haenyeo Divers 💔 Broken Friendship 🕯️ Political Massacre 👩‍👩‍👧 Matrifocal Culture 🌱 Generational Healing

해녀의 섬

Two haenyeo divers share a bond deeper than the sea until a massacre tears them apart.

저자: 리사 시 2019 374 페이지

4.32

100,000+ 개의 평점

🧜‍♀️ Haenyeo Divers 💔 Broken Friendship 🕯️ Political Massacre 👩‍👩‍👧 Matrifocal Culture 🌱 Generational Healing

Journey to the River Sea

저자: Eva Ibbotson • 2001

An orphan arrives in the Amazon to cold guardians and a jungle boy fleeing his past.

4.19

17,000+

🌿 Amazon Adventure 🧒 Orphan Protagonist 🤝 Found Family 🎭 Identity Swap 🕰️ Edwardian Era

Journey to the River Sea

An orphan arrives in the Amazon to cold guardians and a jungle boy fleeing his past.

저자: Eva Ibbotson 2001 304 페이지

4.19

17,000+ 개의 평점

🌿 Amazon Adventure 🧒 Orphan Protagonist 🤝 Found Family 🎭 Identity Swap 🕰️ Edwardian Era

The Secret Book of Flora Lea

저자: Patti Callahan Henry • 2023

A bookshop clerk discovers her vanished sister's imaginary world inside a novel and follows it home.

4.05

89,000+

🔍 Missing Sister 💕 Childhood Sweethearts Reunited ⏳ Dual Timeline Mystery 🌌 Imaginary World 🎖️ WWII Britain

The Secret Book of Flora Lea

A bookshop clerk discovers her vanished sister's imaginary world inside a novel and follows it home.

저자: Patti Callahan Henry 2023 355 페이지

4.05

89,000+ 개의 평점

🔍 Missing Sister 💕 Childhood Sweethearts Reunited ⏳ Dual Timeline Mystery 🌌 Imaginary World 🎖️ WWII Britain

하우스 오브 이브

저자: 사데카 존슨 • 2023

1940s America: two Black women, two unplanned pregnancies, one impossible choice: child or future.

4.25

100,000+

🫄 Unwed Pregnancy 💔 Coerced Adoption 💑 Interracial Romance 🎭 Class And Colorism 📻 1940s America

하우스 오브 이브

1940s America: two Black women, two unplanned pregnancies, one impossible choice: child or future.

저자: 사데카 존슨 2023 384 페이지

4.25

100,000+ 개의 평점

🫄 Unwed Pregnancy 💔 Coerced Adoption 💑 Interracial Romance 🎭 Class And Colorism 📻 1940s America

언더그라운드 레일로드

저자: 콜슨 화이트헤드 • 2016

On a literal railroad beneath the South, Cora flees captivity, hunted by a relentless slave catcher.

4.06

400,000+

🖤 Neo-Slave Narrative 🌾 Antebellum South 🕯️ Generational Trauma 👥 Found Family ⚠️ Unflinching Brutality

언더그라운드 레일로드

On a literal railroad beneath the South, Cora flees captivity, hunted by a relentless slave catcher.

저자: 콜슨 화이트헤드 2016 306 페이지

4.06

400,000+ 개의 평점

🖤 Neo-Slave Narrative 🌾 Antebellum South 🕯️ Generational Trauma 👥 Found Family ⚠️ Unflinching Brutality

The Empusium

저자: Olga Tokarczuk • 2022

A frail student checks into a remote sanatorium where the men's circle hides a sacrificial rite.

3.75

25,000+

🏚️ Folk Horror ⛰️ Mountain Gothic 👗 Gender Disguise 🔪 Sacrificial Ritual 🍄 Unreliable Perception

The Empusium

A frail student checks into a remote sanatorium where the men's circle hides a sacrificial rite.

저자: Olga Tokarczuk 2022 305 페이지

3.75

25,000+ 개의 평점

🏚️ Folk Horror ⛰️ Mountain Gothic 👗 Gender Disguise 🔪 Sacrificial Ritual 🍄 Unreliable Perception

Oil!

저자: Upton Sinclair • 1926

An oil baron's son inherits a fortune, then meets the workers who paid for it.

3.74

7,000+

📰 Muckraking Fiction ✊ Labor Struggle 👨‍👦 Father And Son ⛪ Charismatic Preacher 🌴 Southern California

Oil!

An oil baron's son inherits a fortune, then meets the workers who paid for it.

저자: Upton Sinclair 1926 528 페이지

3.74

7,000+ 개의 평점

📰 Muckraking Fiction ✊ Labor Struggle 👨‍👦 Father And Son ⛪ Charismatic Preacher 🌴 Southern California

호스

저자: 제럴딘 브룩스 • 2022

An enslaved groom, a 1950s gallerist, and a scholar share a racehorse and a buried past.

4.24

200,000+

🕰️ Braided Timelines 🐎 Thoroughbred Racing 📖 Lost Black Histories 🎨 Art Provenance 🌾 Antebellum South

호스

An enslaved groom, a 1950s gallerist, and a scholar share a racehorse and a buried past.

저자: 제럴딘 브룩스 2022 401 페이지

4.24

200,000+ 개의 평점

🕰️ Braided Timelines 🐎 Thoroughbred Racing 📖 Lost Black Histories 🎨 Art Provenance 🌾 Antebellum South

The Lost Year

저자: Katherine Marsh • 2023

Pandemic lockdown forces a boy to investigate his great-grandmother's hidden past in Soviet Ukraine.

4.46

5,000+

🇺🇦 Ukrainian Famine 🎭 Assumed Identity ⏳ Dual Timeline 🔍 Family Secrets 🦠 Covid Lockdown

The Lost Year

Pandemic lockdown forces a boy to investigate his great-grandmother's hidden past in Soviet Ukraine.

저자: Katherine Marsh 2023 368 페이지

4.46

5,000+ 개의 평점

🇺🇦 Ukrainian Famine 🎭 Assumed Identity ⏳ Dual Timeline 🔍 Family Secrets 🦠 Covid Lockdown

웨이워드

저자: 에밀리아 하트 • 2023

One family. Three centuries. Three women who discover the natural world is on their side.

4.05

400,000+

🕯️ Witch Trials 🌿 Nature Magic ⏳ Triple Timeline 💔 Domestic Abuse Survival 📜 Hidden Family History

웨이워드

One family. Three centuries. Three women who discover the natural world is on their side.

저자: 에밀리아 하트 2023 392 페이지

4.05

400,000+ 개의 평점

🕯️ Witch Trials 🌿 Nature Magic ⏳ Triple Timeline 💔 Domestic Abuse Survival 📜 Hidden Family History

سمفونی مردگان

저자: عباس معروفی • 1989

A domineering father in frozen Ardabil breeds rebellion and a shattering family betrayal.

4.27

21,000+

🏠 Iranian Family Saga 📖 Persian Literature 👪 Patriarchal Family 🔪 Sibling Betrayal 🌹 Forbidden Love

سمفونی مردگان

A domineering father in frozen Ardabil breeds rebellion and a shattering family betrayal.

저자: عباس معروفی 1989 352 페이지

4.27

21,000+ 개의 평점

🏠 Iranian Family Saga 📖 Persian Literature 👪 Patriarchal Family 🔪 Sibling Betrayal 🌹 Forbidden Love

The Dreamer

저자: Pam Muñoz Ryan • 2010

Neftalí collects beetles and scribbles poems in secret. His father demands a practical son.

3.98

7,000+

🎵 Lyrical Middle Grade ✍️ Childhood Of A Poet 👨 Stern Father Figure 🌿 Nature As Refuge 🌙 Quiet And Introspective

The Dreamer

Neftalí collects beetles and scribbles poems in secret. His father demands a practical son.

저자: Pam Muñoz Ryan 2010 384 페이지

3.98

7,000+ 개의 평점

🎵 Lyrical Middle Grade ✍️ Childhood Of A Poet 👨 Stern Father Figure 🌿 Nature As Refuge 🌙 Quiet And Introspective

Roots

저자: Alex Haley • 1976

One stolen African refuses to forget his name. Seven generations on, his family still speaks it.

4.45

100,000+

🌳 Multi-Generational Saga ⛓️ Neo-Slave Narrative 🌍 African Diaspora 🪪 Cultural Identity 🌾 American South

Roots

One stolen African refuses to forget his name. Seven generations on, his family still speaks it.

저자: Alex Haley 1976 729 페이지

4.45

100,000+ 개의 평점

🌳 Multi-Generational Saga ⛓️ Neo-Slave Narrative 🌍 African Diaspora 🪪 Cultural Identity 🌾 American South

나를 보내지 마 남아 있는 나날

저자: 가즈오 이시구로 • 1989

An English butler's countryside trip finally asks what a life of perfect service has cost him.

4.14

300,000+

🖤 Emotional Repression 💔 Duty Over Love 🫢 Unspoken Longing 🎭 Self-Deception 🌧️ Melancholy

나를 보내지 마 남아 있는 나날

An English butler's countryside trip finally asks what a life of perfect service has cost him.

저자: 가즈오 이시구로 1989 258 페이지

4.14

300,000+ 개의 평점

🖤 Emotional Repression 💔 Duty Over Love 🫢 Unspoken Longing 🎭 Self-Deception 🌧️ Melancholy

주홍빛 하늘 아래

저자: 마크 T. 설리번 • 2017

A Milan teen pressed into Nazi service spies from the driver's seat of a general's car.

4.43

300,000+

🇮🇹 Italian Resistance 📖 Based On True Story 🕵️ Reluctant Spy 👦 Teenage Hero 💔 War Romance

주홍빛 하늘 아래

A Milan teen pressed into Nazi service spies from the driver's seat of a general's car.

저자: 마크 T. 설리번 2017 509 페이지

4.43

300,000+ 개의 평점

🇮🇹 Italian Resistance 📖 Based On True Story 🕵️ Reluctant Spy 👦 Teenage Hero 💔 War Romance

Kokoro

저자: Natsume Sōseki • 1914

A Tokyo student obsesses over a reclusive older man whose silence guards a confession of betrayal.

4.04

43,000+

🧠 Psychological Novel 📜 Japanese Classic 🎓 Mentor Student Bond 💔 Love Triangle ✍️ Confessional Narrative

Kokoro

A Tokyo student obsesses over a reclusive older man whose silence guards a confession of betrayal.

저자: Natsume Sōseki 1914 256 페이지

4.04

43,000+ 개의 평점

🧠 Psychological Novel 📜 Japanese Classic 🎓 Mentor Student Bond 💔 Love Triangle ✍️ Confessional Narrative

The Feast of the Goat

저자: Mario Vargas Llosa • 2000

Armed conspirators wait on a dark highway to kill the Dominican Republic's aging tyrant.

4.35

43,000+

🏛️ Dictatorship Fiction 🔫 Assassination Plot 💔 Sexual Trauma 👨‍👧 Father's Betrayal ⏳ Dual Timeline

The Feast of the Goat

Armed conspirators wait on a dark highway to kill the Dominican Republic's aging tyrant.

저자: Mario Vargas Llosa 2000 475 페이지

4.35

43,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Dictatorship Fiction 🔫 Assassination Plot 💔 Sexual Trauma 👨‍👧 Father's Betrayal ⏳ Dual Timeline

키친 하우스

저자: 캐슬린 그리솜 • 2010

An Irish orphan, raised by enslaved women on a Virginia plantation, belongs to no world entirely.

4.24

300,000+

🏚️ Antebellum South 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 👧 Orphan Protagonist 🤝 Cross-Racial Bonds 👥 Dual Perspectives

키친 하우스

An Irish orphan, raised by enslaved women on a Virginia plantation, belongs to no world entirely.

저자: 캐슬린 그리솜 2010 369 페이지

4.24

300,000+ 개의 평점

🏚️ Antebellum South 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 👧 Orphan Protagonist 🤝 Cross-Racial Bonds 👥 Dual Perspectives

At Home

저자: Bill Bryson • 2010

Every room in your house conceals a history of bloodshed, invention, and empire.

3.99

99,000+

🏠 Domestic History 🏺 Material Culture 🏛️ Architectural History 🔍 Microhistory 👥 Social History

At Home

Every room in your house conceals a history of bloodshed, invention, and empire.

저자: Bill Bryson 2010 512 페이지

3.99

99,000+ 개의 평점

🏠 Domestic History 🏺 Material Culture 🏛️ Architectural History 🔍 Microhistory 👥 Social History

필립 경에게, 사랑을 담아

저자: 줄리아 퀸 • 2003

A spinster accepts a proposal by letter, then finds a gruff widower with unruly children.

3.69

300,000+

🏠 Marriage Of Convenience 🖤 Widower Hero ✉️ Epistolary Courtship ☀️ Grumpy Sunshine 👨‍👧‍👦 Single Father

필립 경에게, 사랑을 담아

A spinster accepts a proposal by letter, then finds a gruff widower with unruly children.

저자: 줄리아 퀸 2003 372 페이지

3.69

300,000+ 개의 평점

🏠 Marriage Of Convenience 🖤 Widower Hero ✉️ Epistolary Courtship ☀️ Grumpy Sunshine 👨‍👧‍👦 Single Father

트러스트

저자: 에르난 디아스 • 2022

A ghostwriter for a Jazz Age financier uncovers the story he paid to keep hidden.

3.80

100,000+

📜 Competing Narratives 🖊️ Ghostwriting 🎺 Jazz Age New York 🧠 Introspective 👨‍👧 Father Daughter Tension

트러스트

A ghostwriter for a Jazz Age financier uncovers the story he paid to keep hidden.

저자: 에르난 디아스 2022 402 페이지

3.80

100,000+ 개의 평점

📜 Competing Narratives 🖊️ Ghostwriting 🎺 Jazz Age New York 🧠 Introspective 👨‍👧 Father Daughter Tension

라이프 애프터 라이프

저자: 케이트 앳킨슨 • 2013

Repeatedly reborn, Ursula Todd endures two world wars, each life a chance to save her family.

3.79

200,000+

🌀 Literary Time Loop 📜 Alternate History 🦋 Butterfly Effect 🏡 Family Saga 🏠 WWII Home Front

라이프 애프터 라이프

Repeatedly reborn, Ursula Todd endures two world wars, each life a chance to save her family.

저자: 케이트 앳킨슨 2013 544 페이지

3.79

200,000+ 개의 평점

🌀 Literary Time Loop 📜 Alternate History 🦋 Butterfly Effect 🏡 Family Saga 🏠 WWII Home Front

Chinese Cinderella

저자: Adeline Yen Mah • 1999

Blamed from birth for her mother's death, a girl in 1940s China discovers her one way out.

4.08

41,000+

🏮 Chinese Family 💔 Childhood Abuse 🥀 Emotional Neglect 📚 Academic Refuge 👧 Motherless Daughters

Chinese Cinderella

Blamed from birth for her mother's death, a girl in 1940s China discovers her one way out.

저자: Adeline Yen Mah 1999 205 페이지

4.08

41,000+ 개의 평점

🏮 Chinese Family 💔 Childhood Abuse 🥀 Emotional Neglect 📚 Academic Refuge 👧 Motherless Daughters

When the World Was Ours

저자: Liz Kessler • 2021

Three best friends in 1936 Vienna. A photograph on the Ferris wheel. Then the Nazis come.

4.51

6,000+

😢 Holocaust Fiction 💔 War-Torn Friendship 🧠 Indoctrination ✈️ Escape And Exile 💭 Survivor Guilt

When the World Was Ours

Three best friends in 1936 Vienna. A photograph on the Ferris wheel. Then the Nazis come.

저자: Liz Kessler 2021 352 페이지

4.51

6,000+ 개의 평점

😢 Holocaust Fiction 💔 War-Torn Friendship 🧠 Indoctrination ✈️ Escape And Exile 💭 Survivor Guilt

모든 것이 산산이 부서지다

저자: 치누아 아체베 • 1958

A fierce Igbo leader returns from exile to find missionaries have unmade his world.

3.75

400,000+

📚 Postcolonial Literature 🎭 Literary Tragedy ⚔️ Tragic Hero 🌍 Colonial Africa 💔 Father-Son Conflict

모든 것이 산산이 부서지다

A fierce Igbo leader returns from exile to find missionaries have unmade his world.

저자: 치누아 아체베 1958 215 페이지

3.75

400,000+ 개의 평점

📚 Postcolonial Literature 🎭 Literary Tragedy ⚔️ Tragic Hero 🌍 Colonial Africa 💔 Father-Son Conflict

나일강의 죽음

저자: 애거서 크리스티 • 1937

Shot dead on her Nile honeymoon: a bride who stole her best friend's fiancé. Poirot investigates.

4.12

300,000+

🕵️ Golden Age Mystery 🔒 Closed Circle Mystery 💔 Love Triangle 🧩 Clever Whodunit 📻 1930s Setting

나일강의 죽음

Shot dead on her Nile honeymoon: a bride who stole her best friend's fiancé. Poirot investigates.

저자: 애거서 크리스티 1937 352 페이지

4.12

300,000+ 개의 평점

🕵️ Golden Age Mystery 🔒 Closed Circle Mystery 💔 Love Triangle 🧩 Clever Whodunit 📻 1930s Setting

Wide Sargasso Sea

저자: Jean Rhys • 1966

A Creole heiress marries an English stranger only to watch her name and her sanity dissolve.

3.59

100,000+

🏚️ Caribbean Gothic 📖 Literary Retelling 💍 Arranged Marriage 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🔒 Forced Confinement

Wide Sargasso Sea

A Creole heiress marries an English stranger only to watch her name and her sanity dissolve.

저자: Jean Rhys 1966 176 페이지

3.59

100,000+ 개의 평점

🏚️ Caribbean Gothic 📖 Literary Retelling 💍 Arranged Marriage 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🔒 Forced Confinement

Two Hundred Years Together

저자: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn • 2001

Solzhenitsyn dissects two centuries of Russian-Jewish coexistence, looking beyond mutual blame.

4.17

181

🕎 Russian Jewry 👑 Imperial Russia 🤝 Ethnic Coexistence 💰 Economic Conflict 📜 Legal Segregation

Two Hundred Years Together

Solzhenitsyn dissects two centuries of Russian-Jewish coexistence, looking beyond mutual blame.

저자: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 2001 539 페이지

4.17

181 개의 평점

🕎 Russian Jewry 👑 Imperial Russia 🤝 Ethnic Coexistence 💰 Economic Conflict 📜 Legal Segregation

두 도시 이야기

저자: 찰스 디킨스 • 1859

An ex-aristocrat faces the guillotine; his look-alike lawyer holds the key to rescue.

3.88

1,000,000+

⚔️ French Revolution 🕊️ Sacrificial Love 🎭 Mistaken Identity 💔 Unrequited Love 🩸 Revolutionary Terror

몰입형

두 도시 이야기

An ex-aristocrat faces the guillotine; his look-alike lawyer holds the key to rescue.

저자: 찰스 디킨스 1859 489 페이지

3.88

1,000,000+ 개의 평점

⚔️ French Revolution 🕊️ Sacrificial Love 🎭 Mistaken Identity 💔 Unrequited Love 🩸 Revolutionary Terror

또 다른 볼린 걸

저자: 필리파 그레고리 • 2001

Pushed into the king's bed, Mary Boleyn watches her sister Anne scheme for the crown.

4.09

500,000+

🏛️ Tudor Court Drama 👑 King's Mistress 🎭 Court Intrigue ⚔️ Sister Vs Sister 🩸 Tragic Ambition

또 다른 볼린 걸

Pushed into the king's bed, Mary Boleyn watches her sister Anne scheme for the crown.

저자: 필리파 그레고리 2001 661 페이지

4.09

500,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Tudor Court Drama 👑 King's Mistress 🎭 Court Intrigue ⚔️ Sister Vs Sister 🩸 Tragic Ambition

The Sicilian

저자: Mario Puzo • 1984

Michael Corleone must extract a bandit king from Sicily before the Mafia silences him forever.

4.04

31,000+

🖤 Mafia Crime Saga 🏹 Outlaw Hero 🌅 Postwar Sicily 💔 Familial Betrayal 🕯️ Doomed Idealism

The Sicilian

Michael Corleone must extract a bandit king from Sicily before the Mafia silences him forever.

저자: Mario Puzo 1984 416 페이지

4.04

31,000+ 개의 평점

🖤 Mafia Crime Saga 🏹 Outlaw Hero 🌅 Postwar Sicily 💔 Familial Betrayal 🕯️ Doomed Idealism

Malinche

저자: Laura Esquivel • 2006

Born under omens, sold into slavery, a Nahua woman becomes the voice that remakes a world.

3.36

7,000+

🖋️ Feminist Retelling ✨ Magical Realism ⚔️ Colonial Encounter 🙏 Syncretic Faith 🗣️ Language As Power

Malinche

Born under omens, sold into slavery, a Nahua woman becomes the voice that remakes a world.

저자: Laura Esquivel 2006 191 페이지

3.36

7,000+ 개의 평점

🖋️ Feminist Retelling ✨ Magical Realism ⚔️ Colonial Encounter 🙏 Syncretic Faith 🗣️ Language As Power

The Story She Left Behind

저자: Patti Callahan Henry • 2025

An American illustrator hunts her vanished mother's dictionary in a London paralyzed by deadly smog.

4.02

33,000+

📜 Dual Timeline Mystery 🔐 Family Secrets 💔 Missing Mother 📖 Invented Language 🎨 Artist Protagonist

The Story She Left Behind

An American illustrator hunts her vanished mother's dictionary in a London paralyzed by deadly smog.

저자: Patti Callahan Henry 2025 352 페이지

4.02

33,000+ 개의 평점

📜 Dual Timeline Mystery 🔐 Family Secrets 💔 Missing Mother 📖 Invented Language 🎨 Artist Protagonist

The Terror

저자: Dan Simmons • 2007

A doomed Arctic expedition. A predator on the ice. The long, dark winter has only begun.

4.09

75,000+

🧊 Arctic Horror ⚓ Historical Horror 🩸 Survival Horror 💀 Doomed Expedition 👹 Monster In The Ice

The Terror

A doomed Arctic expedition. A predator on the ice. The long, dark winter has only begun.

저자: Dan Simmons 2007 835 페이지

4.09

75,000+ 개의 평점

🧊 Arctic Horror ⚓ Historical Horror 🩸 Survival Horror 💀 Doomed Expedition 👹 Monster In The Ice

River God

저자: Wilbur Smith • 1993

A eunuch slave leads Egypt's last hope south when the kingdom falls to foreign invaders.

4.23

44,000+

📜 Ancient Egypt Epic 👑 Pharaonic Court 💔 Forbidden Love 🖤 Loyal Servant Narrator 😢 Tragic Romance

River God

A eunuch slave leads Egypt's last hope south when the kingdom falls to foreign invaders.

저자: Wilbur Smith 1993 664 페이지

4.23

44,000+ 개의 평점

📜 Ancient Egypt Epic 👑 Pharaonic Court 💔 Forbidden Love 🖤 Loyal Servant Narrator 😢 Tragic Romance

Making Bombs for Hitler

저자: Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch • 2012

A Ukrainian girl builds bombs for the Nazis while searching for the sister torn from her.

4.33

13,000+

🏭 Forced Labor Camp 🧒 Child Survivor 🤝 Found Family 🕯️ Quiet Resistance 🧳 Postwar Displacement

Making Bombs for Hitler

A Ukrainian girl builds bombs for the Nazis while searching for the sister torn from her.

저자: Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch 2012 240 페이지

4.33

13,000+ 개의 평점

🏭 Forced Labor Camp 🧒 Child Survivor 🤝 Found Family 🕯️ Quiet Resistance 🧳 Postwar Displacement

우리가 볼 수 없는 모든 빛

저자: 앤서니 도어 • 2014

A blind girl reads on the radio as Saint-Malo burns; a German soldier buried in rubble listens.

4.31

2,000,000+

🇫🇷 Occupied France 🦯 Blind Protagonist 📖 Dual Narrative 🌱 Coming Of Age In War ✊ Wartime Resistance

우리가 볼 수 없는 모든 빛

A blind girl reads on the radio as Saint-Malo burns; a German soldier buried in rubble listens.

저자: 앤서니 도어 2014 531 페이지

4.31

2,000,000+ 개의 평점

🇫🇷 Occupied France 🦯 Blind Protagonist 📖 Dual Narrative 🌱 Coming Of Age In War ✊ Wartime Resistance

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