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The Sweet Far Thing

de Libba Bray • 2007

Bound to another world's magic, a Victorian schoolgirl faces a frozen darkness that wants it back.

3.97

73.000+

🕯️ Dark Academia 🔮 Secret Societies 💔 Forbidden Romance 👑 Power Corrupts 🏚️ Gothic Atmosphere

The Sweet Far Thing

Bound to another world's magic, a Victorian schoolgirl faces a frozen darkness that wants it back.

de Libba Bray 2007 819 pagini

3.97

73.000+ evaluări

🕯️ Dark Academia 🔮 Secret Societies 💔 Forbidden Romance 👑 Power Corrupts 🏚️ Gothic Atmosphere

The Children of Gods and Fighting Men

de Shauna Lawless • 2022

A Fomorian widow hides fire magic to scheme her son onto the throne of Viking Dublin.

4.08

6.000+

🍀 Celtic Mythology ⚔️ Viking Ireland 👑 Morally Grey Heroine 🏰 Political Intrigue 🔥 Hidden Magic

The Children of Gods and Fighting Men

A Fomorian widow hides fire magic to scheme her son onto the throne of Viking Dublin.

de Shauna Lawless 2022 416 pagini

4.08

6.000+ evaluări

🍀 Celtic Mythology ⚔️ Viking Ireland 👑 Morally Grey Heroine 🏰 Political Intrigue 🔥 Hidden Magic

Galateea

de Madeline Miller • 2013

A statue given life by a goddess discovers her sculptor-husband's devotion is just another cage.

3.93

100.000+

📜 Feminist Myth Retelling 🔒 Domestic Captivity 🗿 Created Being Rebels 👁️ Body As Object 😱 Claustrophobic Horror

Galateea

A statue given life by a goddess discovers her sculptor-husband's devotion is just another cage.

de Madeline Miller 2013 27 pagini

3.93

100.000+ evaluări

📜 Feminist Myth Retelling 🔒 Domestic Captivity 🗿 Created Being Rebels 👁️ Body As Object 😱 Claustrophobic Horror

Prokleta avlija

de Ivo Andrić • 1954

In an Ottoman prison, a monk encounters a young man convinced he is a dead sultan.

4.24

11.000+

🪆 Nested Stories 🔗 Prison Narrative 📜 Historical Obsession ✝️ Monk Narrator 🔒 Prison Warden

Prokleta avlija

In an Ottoman prison, a monk encounters a young man convinced he is a dead sultan.

de Ivo Andrić 1954 120 pagini

4.24

11.000+ evaluări

🪆 Nested Stories 🔗 Prison Narrative 📜 Historical Obsession ✝️ Monk Narrator 🔒 Prison Warden

There Are Rivers in the Sky

de Elif Shafak • 2024

A Thames mudlark with a perfect memory carries a raindrop's ancient secret into the British Museum.

4.34

94.000+

🕰️ Interwoven Timelines 📜 Gilgamesh Legacy 🤍 Cultural Erasure 🖤 Memory And Trauma 🏺 Ancient Mythology

There Are Rivers in the Sky

A Thames mudlark with a perfect memory carries a raindrop's ancient secret into the British Museum.

de Elif Shafak 2024 446 pagini

4.34

94.000+ evaluări

🕰️ Interwoven Timelines 📜 Gilgamesh Legacy 🤍 Cultural Erasure 🖤 Memory And Trauma 🏺 Ancient Mythology

Îngerul mecanic

de Cassandra Clare • 2010

Seized in Victorian London, Tessa Gray discovers a shapeshifting gift dark forces want to weaponize.

4.30

800.000+

🏮 Gaslamp Fantasy ⚔️ Demon Hunters 💔 Love Triangle 🎩 Victorian London ✨ Hidden Powers

Îngerul mecanic

Seized in Victorian London, Tessa Gray discovers a shapeshifting gift dark forces want to weaponize.

de Cassandra Clare 2010 479 pagini

4.30

800.000+ evaluări

🏮 Gaslamp Fantasy ⚔️ Demon Hunters 💔 Love Triangle 🎩 Victorian London ✨ Hidden Powers

The Gemini Contenders

de Robert Ludlum • 1976

A vault of documents could destroy Christianity. His family was massacred for it. He hunts them.

3.91

14.000+

🔍 WWII Espionage ✝️ Religious Conspiracy 👨‍👦‍👦 Generational Secrets ⚔️ Brothers In Conflict 🏛️ Secret Monastic Order

The Gemini Contenders

A vault of documents could destroy Christianity. His family was massacred for it. He hunts them.

de Robert Ludlum 1976 411 pagini

3.91

14.000+ evaluări

🔍 WWII Espionage ✝️ Religious Conspiracy 👨‍👦‍👦 Generational Secrets ⚔️ Brothers In Conflict 🏛️ Secret Monastic Order

Mercury

de Amy Jo Burns • 2024

She married into a roofing family. Now she's hiding a body in the church attic.

3.78

20.000+

🏘️ Small Town Drama 🔧 Family Business 🔐 Generational Secrets 💔 Marriage Under Strain 🌈 Queer Self-Discovery

Mercury

She married into a roofing family. Now she's hiding a body in the church attic.

de Amy Jo Burns 2024 336 pagini

3.78

20.000+ evaluări

🏘️ Small Town Drama 🔧 Family Business 🔐 Generational Secrets 💔 Marriage Under Strain 🌈 Queer Self-Discovery

Carrie Soto Is Back

de Taylor Jenkins Reid • 2022

Her Grand Slam record under threat, a tennis legend comes out of retirement at thirty-seven.

4.20

700.000+

🎾 Tennis Fiction 🏆 Sports Comeback 🏃‍♀️ Female Athlete Protagonist 🎭 Emotional Sports Drama ⚔️ Generational Rivalry

Carrie Soto Is Back

Her Grand Slam record under threat, a tennis legend comes out of retirement at thirty-seven.

de Taylor Jenkins Reid 2022 11 pagini

4.20

700.000+ evaluări

🎾 Tennis Fiction 🏆 Sports Comeback 🏃‍♀️ Female Athlete Protagonist 🎭 Emotional Sports Drama ⚔️ Generational Rivalry

Moon Over Manifest

de Clare Vanderpool • 2010

Sent to her father's Kansas town, a girl follows old letters into an unsolved spy mystery.

4.04

36.000+

🏘️ Small Town Secrets 📖 Story Within A Story 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 🔍 Child Sleuths 💔 Grief And Guilt

Moon Over Manifest

Sent to her father's Kansas town, a girl follows old letters into an unsolved spy mystery.

de Clare Vanderpool 2010 368 pagini

4.04

36.000+ evaluări

🏘️ Small Town Secrets 📖 Story Within A Story 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 🔍 Child Sleuths 💔 Grief And Guilt

Eva Luna

de Isabel Allende • 1989

Born among mummies, an orphan girl learns that her stories can reshape a world in chaos.

4.01

60.000+

🖋️ Storyteller Heroine ✨ Mythic Storytelling 🪖 Revolutionary Backdrop 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 🧒 Orphan Protagonist

Eva Luna

Born among mummies, an orphan girl learns that her stories can reshape a world in chaos.

de Isabel Allende 1989 307 pagini

4.01

60.000+ evaluări

🖋️ Storyteller Heroine ✨ Mythic Storytelling 🪖 Revolutionary Backdrop 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 🧒 Orphan Protagonist

Lies of Silence

de Brian Moore • 1990

IRA gunmen hold his wife. Her ransom: a car bomb delivered to his own hotel.

3.23

2.000+

⚔️ The Troubles 📚 Literary Thriller 🏠 Home Invasion 💔 Love Triangle ⚖️ Moral Ambiguity

Lies of Silence

IRA gunmen hold his wife. Her ransom: a car bomb delivered to his own hotel.

de Brian Moore 1990 192 pagini

3.23

2.000+ evaluări

⚔️ The Troubles 📚 Literary Thriller 🏠 Home Invasion 💔 Love Triangle ⚖️ Moral Ambiguity

Dracul

de Dacre Stoker • 2018

Before he wrote Dracula, Bram Stoker was saved by a nanny who slept in earth.

4.14

19.000+

🏚️ Irish Gothic 📜 Epistolary Horror 🩸 Tragic Vampire 🤝 Immortal Pact 🧬 Cursed Bloodline

Dracul

Before he wrote Dracula, Bram Stoker was saved by a nanny who slept in earth.

de Dacre Stoker 2018 497 pagini

4.14

19.000+ evaluări

🏚️ Irish Gothic 📜 Epistolary Horror 🩸 Tragic Vampire 🤝 Immortal Pact 🧬 Cursed Bloodline

How Do You Live?

de Genzaburo Yoshino • 2021

A Tokyo boy's uncle fills a notebook with life lessons; cowardice puts them to the test.

3.98

18.000+

🧠 Philosophical Fiction 🌱 Moral Growth 👦 Boyhood Friendship 💔 Schoolyard Bullying 🏚️ Class And Poverty

How Do You Live?

A Tokyo boy's uncle fills a notebook with life lessons; cowardice puts them to the test.

de Genzaburo Yoshino 2021 288 pagini

3.98

18.000+ evaluări

🧠 Philosophical Fiction 🌱 Moral Growth 👦 Boyhood Friendship 💔 Schoolyard Bullying 🏚️ Class And Poverty

The Empire of Gold

de S.A. Chakraborty • 2020

A healer and a disgraced prince gather outcasts to reclaim their magical city from a blood tyrant.

4.49

76.000+

🕌 Middle Eastern Fantasy 🏛️ Political Fantasy 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 🫂 Found Family ⚔️ Redemption Arc

The Empire of Gold

A healer and a disgraced prince gather outcasts to reclaim their magical city from a blood tyrant.

de S.A. Chakraborty 2020 766 pagini

4.49

76.000+ evaluări

🕌 Middle Eastern Fantasy 🏛️ Political Fantasy 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 🫂 Found Family ⚔️ Redemption Arc

Alex Cross's Trial

de James Patterson • 2009

Sent by Roosevelt to probe Mississippi lynchings, a lawyer learns his oldest friend leads the Klan.

4.01

32.000+

⚖️ Legal Thriller 🌾 Jim Crow South 🤝 Unlikely Allies ✊ Community Resistance 💔 Friend Turned Enemy

Alex Cross's Trial

Sent by Roosevelt to probe Mississippi lynchings, a lawyer learns his oldest friend leads the Klan.

de James Patterson 2009 380 pagini

4.01

32.000+ evaluări

⚖️ Legal Thriller 🌾 Jim Crow South 🤝 Unlikely Allies ✊ Community Resistance 💔 Friend Turned Enemy

Stranger Things

de Gwenda Bond • 2019

Terry Ives joins a paid drug trial and discovers stolen children being forged into psychic weapons.

3.59

16.000+

🕵️ Government Conspiracy 🧪 Psychic Experimentation 🫂 Found Family 👶 Stolen Child 👧 Psychic Children

Stranger Things

Terry Ives joins a paid drug trial and discovers stolen children being forged into psychic weapons.

de Gwenda Bond 2019 304 pagini

3.59

16.000+ evaluări

🕵️ Government Conspiracy 🧪 Psychic Experimentation 🫂 Found Family 👶 Stolen Child 👧 Psychic Children

The Chase

de Clive Cussler • 2007

A detective hunts a disguise artist whose bank heists kill without witnesses in the Old West.

4.00

20.000+

🔍 Cat And Mouse Pursuit 🎭 Master Of Disguise 🕵️ Wealthy Detective 👥 Sibling Accomplices 🔬 Early Forensics

The Chase

A detective hunts a disguise artist whose bank heists kill without witnesses in the Old West.

de Clive Cussler 2007 404 pagini

4.00

20.000+ evaluări

🔍 Cat And Mouse Pursuit 🎭 Master Of Disguise 🕵️ Wealthy Detective 👥 Sibling Accomplices 🔬 Early Forensics

Foucault’s Pendulum

de Umberto Eco • 1988

A mock conspiracy among editors turns real when believers decide the secret is worth killing for.

3.91

75.000+

🧠 Philosophical Thriller 🕵️ Conspiracy Fiction 🔍 Pattern Seeking 🗝️ Secret Societies 📜 Occult Scholars

Foucault’s Pendulum

A mock conspiracy among editors turns real when believers decide the secret is worth killing for.

de Umberto Eco 1988 623 pagini

3.91

75.000+ evaluări

🧠 Philosophical Thriller 🕵️ Conspiracy Fiction 🔍 Pattern Seeking 🗝️ Secret Societies 📜 Occult Scholars

The White Company

de Arthur Conan Doyle • 1891

A sheltered novice joins a legendary company of archers and follows an eccentric knight into war.

3.89

4.000+

🛡️ Band Of Brothers 🗺️ Medieval Quest ⚔️ Chivalric Code 🌱 Coming Of Age 🏴‍☠️ Swashbuckling

The White Company

A sheltered novice joins a legendary company of archers and follows an eccentric knight into war.

de Arthur Conan Doyle 1891 416 pagini

3.89

4.000+ evaluări

🛡️ Band Of Brothers 🗺️ Medieval Quest ⚔️ Chivalric Code 🌱 Coming Of Age 🏴‍☠️ Swashbuckling

The Old Capital

de Yasunari Kawabata • 2006

A Kyoto adopted daughter meets her mountain-dwelling twin, and their reunion redefines belonging.

3.72

8.000+

🏯 Postwar Japan 👯 Separated Twins 🍂 Elegiac Tone ⛩️ Old Kyoto 📖 Quiet Novel

The Old Capital

A Kyoto adopted daughter meets her mountain-dwelling twin, and their reunion redefines belonging.

de Yasunari Kawabata 2006 160 pagini

3.72

8.000+ evaluări

🏯 Postwar Japan 👯 Separated Twins 🍂 Elegiac Tone ⛩️ Old Kyoto 📖 Quiet Novel

The Human Scale

de Lawrence Wright • 2025

An FBI agent's Hebron homecoming collides with a beheading that threatens to ignite the city.

4.35

2.000+

🏛️ Political Whodunit 🚔 Police Procedural 🤝 Unlikely Partners ⚡ Religious Extremism 🏚️ Occupied Territory

The Human Scale

An FBI agent's Hebron homecoming collides with a beheading that threatens to ignite the city.

de Lawrence Wright 2025 448 pagini

4.35

2.000+ evaluări

🏛️ Political Whodunit 🚔 Police Procedural 🤝 Unlikely Partners ⚡ Religious Extremism 🏚️ Occupied Territory

The Promise

de Damon Galgut • 2021

A deathbed vow to a black maid shadows a white South African family, funeral after funeral.

3.84

50.000+

🏠 Multi-Generational Saga 🇿🇦 Apartheid South Africa 🕊️ Inherited Guilt 💔 Sibling Estrangement 🍂 Elegiac

The Promise

A deathbed vow to a black maid shadows a white South African family, funeral after funeral.

de Damon Galgut 2021 293 pagini

3.84

50.000+ evaluări

🏠 Multi-Generational Saga 🇿🇦 Apartheid South Africa 🕊️ Inherited Guilt 💔 Sibling Estrangement 🍂 Elegiac

In the Country of Others

de Leïla Slimani • 2021

A French bride follows her Moroccan husband to his farm. He is already married to the land.

3.78

21.000+

📜 Family Saga 💍 Intercultural Marriage 🇲🇦 Postwar Morocco 👧 Growing Up Mixed Race 🖋️ Lyrical Historical

In the Country of Others

A French bride follows her Moroccan husband to his farm. He is already married to the land.

de Leïla Slimani 2021 305 pagini

3.78

21.000+ evaluări

📜 Family Saga 💍 Intercultural Marriage 🇲🇦 Postwar Morocco 👧 Growing Up Mixed Race 🖋️ Lyrical Historical

Lapvona

de Ottessa Moshfegh • 2022

After killing the lord's son, a deformed boy is traded to a manor where cruelty wears silk.

3.54

100.000+

🏰 Medieval Horror 🤢 Body Horror 🍖 Cannibalism 🎭 Dark Fable 🏡 Gothic Manor

Lapvona

After killing the lord's son, a deformed boy is traded to a manor where cruelty wears silk.

de Ottessa Moshfegh 2022 313 pagini

3.54

100.000+ evaluări

🏰 Medieval Horror 🤢 Body Horror 🍖 Cannibalism 🎭 Dark Fable 🏡 Gothic Manor

Circe / The Song of Achilles

de Madeline Miller • 2020

A banished prince gives his heart to the golden Achilles. The Trojan War will take everything else.

4.54

2.000+

🏛️ Greek Myth Retelling 💕 Friends To Lovers 💔 Doomed Lovers 🏺 Ancient Greece ✍️ Lyrical Prose

Circe / The Song of Achilles

A banished prince gives his heart to the golden Achilles. The Trojan War will take everything else.

de Madeline Miller 2020

4.54

2.000+ evaluări

🏛️ Greek Myth Retelling 💕 Friends To Lovers 💔 Doomed Lovers 🏺 Ancient Greece ✍️ Lyrical Prose

Edge of Eternity

de Ken Follett • 2014

Three families fight the Cold War from their kitchens: East Berlin, Washington, and Moscow.

4.21

100.000+

🧱 Cold War Saga 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Multi-Generational Epic 🏛️ Political Intrigue 💞 Interracial Romance 👁️ Surveillance State

Edge of Eternity

Three families fight the Cold War from their kitchens: East Berlin, Washington, and Moscow.

de Ken Follett 2014 36 pagini

4.21

100.000+ evaluări

🧱 Cold War Saga 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Multi-Generational Epic 🏛️ Political Intrigue 💞 Interracial Romance 👁️ Surveillance State

Daisy Jones & The Six

de Taylor Jenkins Reid • 2019

A frontman, a singer, and the chemistry that produced a classic album and a legendary breakup.

4.20

1.000.000+

🎙️ Oral History Format 🎸 1970s Rock Scene 🎤 Fictional Band 💔 Will They Won't They 🌟 Fame And Excess

Daisy Jones & The Six

A frontman, a singer, and the chemistry that produced a classic album and a legendary breakup.

de Taylor Jenkins Reid 2019 10 pagini

4.20

1.000.000+ evaluări

🎙️ Oral History Format 🎸 1970s Rock Scene 🎤 Fictional Band 💔 Will They Won't They 🌟 Fame And Excess

Voyager

de Diana Gabaldon • 1993

Twenty years after leaving him for dead, a doctor steps through time to reclaim her Highlander.

4.39

300.000+

🕰️ Time Travel Romance 💞 Second Chance Romance 🏔️ Scottish Highlands ⛵ High Seas Adventure ⚔️ Jacobite Rebellion

Voyager

Twenty years after leaving him for dead, a doctor steps through time to reclaim her Highlander.

de Diana Gabaldon 1993 870 pagini

4.39

300.000+ evaluări

🕰️ Time Travel Romance 💞 Second Chance Romance 🏔️ Scottish Highlands ⛵ High Seas Adventure ⚔️ Jacobite Rebellion

Carol (Movie Tie-In)

de Claire Morgan • 1952

A shopgirl falls for an elegant older woman, but a custody battle threatens their stolen happiness.

4.02

85.000+

🏳️‍🌈 Sapphic Classic 💔 Forbidden Love 💫 Age Gap Romance 🌸 Sexual Awakening 🔥 Slow Burn Romance

Carol (Movie Tie-In)

A shopgirl falls for an elegant older woman, but a custody battle threatens their stolen happiness.

de Claire Morgan 1952 296 pagini

4.02

85.000+ evaluări

🏳️‍🌈 Sapphic Classic 💔 Forbidden Love 💫 Age Gap Romance 🌸 Sexual Awakening 🔥 Slow Burn Romance

Fires of Winter

de Johanna Lindsey • 1980

A captive Welshwoman meets her Viking captor's fire with a fury that rivals his own.

3.95

16.000+

🔥 Viking Romance ⛓️ Captive Romance ❤️‍🔥 Enemies To Lovers 🏠 Forced Proximity 💔 Angsty Romance

Fires of Winter

A captive Welshwoman meets her Viking captor's fire with a fury that rivals his own.

de Johanna Lindsey 1980 362 pagini

3.95

16.000+ evaluări

🔥 Viking Romance ⛓️ Captive Romance ❤️‍🔥 Enemies To Lovers 🏠 Forced Proximity 💔 Angsty Romance

Guns of the Dawn

de Adrian Tchaikovsky • 2015

A gentlewoman conscripted into a swamp war discovers her king may have started it.

4.17

5.000+

🔫 Flintlock Fantasy 🎖️ Women At War 📜 Conscripted Heroine 🤝 Enemies To Allies ⚖️ Morally Gray War

Guns of the Dawn

A gentlewoman conscripted into a swamp war discovers her king may have started it.

de Adrian Tchaikovsky 2015 658 pagini

4.17

5.000+ evaluări

🔫 Flintlock Fantasy 🎖️ Women At War 📜 Conscripted Heroine 🤝 Enemies To Allies ⚖️ Morally Gray War

The Promise of Tomorrow

de Mary Ellen Taylor • 2024

She returned to Virginia for a divorce. A mysterious stone and an old flame changed everything.

4.29

17.000+

🔄 Second Chance Romance 🏘️ Small Town Secrets 🖤 Grief And Healing ⏳ Dual Timelines 💔 Estranged Spouses

The Promise of Tomorrow

She returned to Virginia for a divorce. A mysterious stone and an old flame changed everything.

de Mary Ellen Taylor 2024 339 pagini

4.29

17.000+ evaluări

🔄 Second Chance Romance 🏘️ Small Town Secrets 🖤 Grief And Healing ⏳ Dual Timelines 💔 Estranged Spouses

Honour Among Thieves

de Jeffrey Archer • 1993

Two rival spies must steal back the Declaration of Independence before Saddam Hussein burns it.

3.88

18.000+

🌍 International Thriller 💰 Heist Thriller 💔 Star-Crossed Lovers 🎨 Forgery Plot ⏳ Race Against Time

Honour Among Thieves

Two rival spies must steal back the Declaration of Independence before Saddam Hussein burns it.

de Jeffrey Archer 1993 416 pagini

3.88

18.000+ evaluări

🌍 International Thriller 💰 Heist Thriller 💔 Star-Crossed Lovers 🎨 Forgery Plot ⏳ Race Against Time

Skin of the Sea

de Natasha Bowen • 2021

A Mami Wata defies the gods, saves a boy, races a trickster for sacred rings.

3.78

16.000+

🌍 West African Mythology 🧜🏾 Little Mermaid Retelling 💔 Forbidden Love ⚖️ Conflicted Loyalties 🎭 Trickster Villain

Skin of the Sea

A Mami Wata defies the gods, saves a boy, races a trickster for sacred rings.

de Natasha Bowen 2021 336 pagini

3.78

16.000+ evaluări

🌍 West African Mythology 🧜🏾 Little Mermaid Retelling 💔 Forbidden Love ⚖️ Conflicted Loyalties 🎭 Trickster Villain

Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales

de Heather Fawcett • 2025

A dryadologist enters her faerie king's dying realm, where old stories are the only cure.

4.08

65.000+

🏰 Faerie Court Intrigue 📚 Academic Fantasy 👑 Fae King Romance 🌑 Whimsical Dark 🕯️ Early 20th Century

Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales

A dryadologist enters her faerie king's dying realm, where old stories are the only cure.

de Heather Fawcett 2025 368 pagini

4.08

65.000+ evaluări

🏰 Faerie Court Intrigue 📚 Academic Fantasy 👑 Fae King Romance 🌑 Whimsical Dark 🕯️ Early 20th Century

The Women of Wild Hill

de Kirsten Miller • 2025

Estranged witch sisters return to Wild Hill, where a prophecy demands they end the world men built.

4.15

8.000+

🧙 Witch Family Saga 💔 Estranged Sisters 🕯️ Ancestral Magic 🗡️ Feminist Revenge 🖤 Gothic Atmosphere

The Women of Wild Hill

Estranged witch sisters return to Wild Hill, where a prophecy demands they end the world men built.

de Kirsten Miller 2025 368 pagini

4.15

8.000+ evaluări

🧙 Witch Family Saga 💔 Estranged Sisters 🕯️ Ancestral Magic 🗡️ Feminist Revenge 🖤 Gothic Atmosphere

City of Orphans

de Avi • 2011

With a homeless girl, a newsboy hunts the real thief who framed his sister.

3.97

3.000+

🏠 Found Family 🔍 Kid Detectives 🧳 Immigrant Experience 🗽 Street Kids 🏛️ Gilded Age

City of Orphans

With a homeless girl, a newsboy hunts the real thief who framed his sister.

de Avi 2011 368 pagini

3.97

3.000+ evaluări

🏠 Found Family 🔍 Kid Detectives 🧳 Immigrant Experience 🗽 Street Kids 🏛️ Gilded Age

Jocul îngerului

de Carlos Ruiz Zafón • 2008

Barcelona, 1920s: a dying novelist's patron wants a book that remakes the world, payable in blood.

4.02

100.000+

🎭 Faustian Bargain 📜 Cursed Manuscript 🏚️ Gothic Mystery 💔 Obsessive Love 🌫️ Unreliable Reality

Jocul îngerului

Barcelona, 1920s: a dying novelist's patron wants a book that remakes the world, payable in blood.

de Carlos Ruiz Zafón 2008 531 pagini

4.02

100.000+ evaluări

🎭 Faustian Bargain 📜 Cursed Manuscript 🏚️ Gothic Mystery 💔 Obsessive Love 🌫️ Unreliable Reality

Invenția lui Hugo Cabret

de Brian Selznick • 2007

A Paris station orphan repairs a broken automaton to unlock a message from his dead father.

4.22

100.000+

🎨 Illustrated Middle Grade ⚙️ Mechanical Invention 🕰️ Clockwork Mystery 🔑 Secret Orphan 👴 Reluctant Guardian

Invenția lui Hugo Cabret

A Paris station orphan repairs a broken automaton to unlock a message from his dead father.

de Brian Selznick 2007 534 pagini

4.22

100.000+ evaluări

🎨 Illustrated Middle Grade ⚙️ Mechanical Invention 🕰️ Clockwork Mystery 🔑 Secret Orphan 👴 Reluctant Guardian

Femeia în alb

de Wilkie Collins • 1859

A moonlit heath, a frantic stranger, a drawing master: snared in a plot to steal an heiress's life.

4.02

100.000+

🎭 Sensation Fiction 🏚️ Victorian Gothic 👥 DoppelgäNger 🏥 Unjust Asylum 🔍 Amateur Detective

Femeia în alb

A moonlit heath, a frantic stranger, a drawing master: snared in a plot to steal an heiress's life.

de Wilkie Collins 1859 672 pagini

4.02

100.000+ evaluări

🎭 Sensation Fiction 🏚️ Victorian Gothic 👥 DoppelgäNger 🏥 Unjust Asylum 🔍 Amateur Detective

What Is the What

de Dave Eggers • 2006

Robbed in Atlanta, a Sudanese refugee escapes into the war-torn villages and camps of his past.

4.15

87.000+

🎤 Fictionalized Memoir 🏃 Refugee Survival Story 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 🧳 Cultural Displacement 📖 Storytelling As Survival

What Is the What

Robbed in Atlanta, a Sudanese refugee escapes into the war-torn villages and camps of his past.

de Dave Eggers 2006 475 pagini

4.15

87.000+ evaluări

🎤 Fictionalized Memoir 🏃 Refugee Survival Story 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 🧳 Cultural Displacement 📖 Storytelling As Survival

A Keeper

de Graham Norton • 2018

Burying her mother in Ireland, a professor finds love letters from a courtship that imprisoned her.

3.99

31.000+

🕰️ Dual Timeline Mystery 👵 Controlling Matriarch ✉️ Letters From The Past 👶 Hidden Parentage 💔 Generational Trauma

A Keeper

Burying her mother in Ireland, a professor finds love letters from a courtship that imprisoned her.

de Graham Norton 2018 326 pagini

3.99

31.000+ evaluări

🕰️ Dual Timeline Mystery 👵 Controlling Matriarch ✉️ Letters From The Past 👶 Hidden Parentage 💔 Generational Trauma

Crucea de foc

de Diana Gabaldon • 2001

On the Carolina frontier, a governor's decree forces a Highland time-crossed family to take up arms.

4.26

200.000+

🌲 Colonial America 🕰️ Time Travel Romance 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Saga ⚔️ Revolutionary War 🏡 Found Family

Crucea de foc

On the Carolina frontier, a governor's decree forces a Highland time-crossed family to take up arms.

de Diana Gabaldon 2001 1443 pagini

4.26

200.000+ evaluări

🌲 Colonial America 🕰️ Time Travel Romance 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Saga ⚔️ Revolutionary War 🏡 Found Family

The Widow of the South

de Robert Hicks • 2005

A grieving widow buries 1,500 fallen soldiers in her garden, seeking purpose among the dead.

3.78

18.000+

🔥 Civil War Fiction 🏥 Field Hospital 🤕 Wounded Soldier ⚰️ War Cemetery 🌿 Quiet Resilience

The Widow of the South

A grieving widow buries 1,500 fallen soldiers in her garden, seeking purpose among the dead.

de Robert Hicks 2005 436 pagini

3.78

18.000+ evaluări

🔥 Civil War Fiction 🏥 Field Hospital 🤕 Wounded Soldier ⚰️ War Cemetery 🌿 Quiet Resilience

Front Lines

de Michael Grant • 2016

1942: women are drafted into combat. Three soldiers face the brutality of the North African front.

4.09

6.000+

🕰️ Alternate History 🪖 Women In Combat 🫂 Found Family 🏋️ Military Training 💥 Gritty War Story

Front Lines

1942: women are drafted into combat. Three soldiers face the brutality of the North African front.

de Michael Grant 2016 548 pagini

4.09

6.000+ evaluări

🕰️ Alternate History 🪖 Women In Combat 🫂 Found Family 🏋️ Military Training 💥 Gritty War Story

The Bridge on the Drina

de Ivo Andrić • 1945

One Bosnian bridge. Four centuries. Empires fall, wars rage, and a town's fate is written in stone.

4.33

25.000+

🏛️ Balkan History 👨‍👩‍👦 Generational Saga 🌉 Place As Protagonist 🕌 Multifaith Coexistence 🏰 Empire And Periphery

The Bridge on the Drina

One Bosnian bridge. Four centuries. Empires fall, wars rage, and a town's fate is written in stone.

de Ivo Andrić 1945 314 pagini

4.33

25.000+ evaluări

🏛️ Balkan History 👨‍👩‍👦 Generational Saga 🌉 Place As Protagonist 🕌 Multifaith Coexistence 🏰 Empire And Periphery

Absolute Friends

de John le Carré • 2003

A failed spy follows his oldest friend into a utopian academy built to bury them both.

3.69

9.000+

🕵️ Cold War Espionage 📚 Literary Spy Fiction 🔄 Double Agent 💀 Tragic Friendship 💔 Idealists Betrayed

Absolute Friends

A failed spy follows his oldest friend into a utopian academy built to bury them both.

de John le Carré 2003 456 pagini

3.69

9.000+ evaluări

🕵️ Cold War Espionage 📚 Literary Spy Fiction 🔄 Double Agent 💀 Tragic Friendship 💔 Idealists Betrayed

Romancing the Duke

de Tessa Dare • 2014

A penniless woman inherits a crumbling castle, but the blind, scarred duke inside refuses to leave.

3.88

53.000+

🖤 Enemies To Lovers 🏰 Forced Proximity 🩹 Wounded Hero 🌼 Plain Heroine ✍️ Writer Heroine

Romancing the Duke

A penniless woman inherits a crumbling castle, but the blind, scarred duke inside refuses to leave.

de Tessa Dare 2014 370 pagini

3.88

53.000+ evaluări

🖤 Enemies To Lovers 🏰 Forced Proximity 🩹 Wounded Hero 🌼 Plain Heroine ✍️ Writer Heroine

Prayers for Sale

de Sandra Dallas • 1997

A Colorado widow sells prayers for a penny. At her gate: a grieving young woman who cannot pay.

3.87

19.000+

🪡 Quilting Fiction 👵 Mentor And Mentee ⛏️ Mining Town 🍂 Bittersweet 🏠 Found Family

Prayers for Sale

A Colorado widow sells prayers for a penny. At her gate: a grieving young woman who cannot pay.

de Sandra Dallas 1997 305 pagini

3.87

19.000+ evaluări

🪡 Quilting Fiction 👵 Mentor And Mentee ⛏️ Mining Town 🍂 Bittersweet 🏠 Found Family

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