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The Ladies of Rosings Park

de Shannon Winslow • 2018

Anne de Bourgh was raised to marry Darcy. He chose another; she chose herself.

4.40

212

📖 Austen Sequel 👑 Regency England 💕 Quiet Romance 💔 Duty Versus Love ⚖️ Unequal Match

The Ladies of Rosings Park

Anne de Bourgh was raised to marry Darcy. He chose another; she chose herself.

de Shannon Winslow 2018 321 pagini

4.40

212 evaluări

📖 Austen Sequel 👑 Regency England 💕 Quiet Romance 💔 Duty Versus Love ⚖️ Unequal Match

The Rotters' Club

de Jonathan Coe • 2001

Birmingham, 1973: four school friends, their rock band, and the IRA bomb that ends a world.

3.96

16.000+

🎭 Ensemble Coming-Of-Age 🇬🇧 1970s England 💔 Unrequited First Love 🔐 Family Secrets 🎸 Music Obsession

The Rotters' Club

Birmingham, 1973: four school friends, their rock band, and the IRA bomb that ends a world.

de Jonathan Coe 2001 415 pagini

3.96

16.000+ evaluări

🎭 Ensemble Coming-Of-Age 🇬🇧 1970s England 💔 Unrequited First Love 🔐 Family Secrets 🎸 Music Obsession

Tyll

de Daniel Kehlmann • 2017

A jester dances through the Thirty Years' War, outwitting witch-hunters, kings, and death itself.

3.95

15.000+

🃏 Picaresque 🎭 Trickster Antihero ✨ Magical Realism ⚔️ Thirty Years War 🎪 Art As Survival

Tyll

A jester dances through the Thirty Years' War, outwitting witch-hunters, kings, and death itself.

de Daniel Kehlmann 2017 474 pagini

3.95

15.000+ evaluări

🃏 Picaresque 🎭 Trickster Antihero ✨ Magical Realism ⚔️ Thirty Years War 🎪 Art As Survival

Wormwood

de G.P. Taylor • 2004

When a comet fractures London, a servant's stolen prophecy book may be the city's only salvation.

3.10

1.000+

🏛️ Biblical Fantasy ⚔️ Angelic Warfare 🌫️ Gothic London 😇 Fallen Angel 📖 Forbidden Tome

Wormwood

When a comet fractures London, a servant's stolen prophecy book may be the city's only salvation.

de G.P. Taylor 2004 272 pagini

3.10

1.000+ evaluări

🏛️ Biblical Fantasy ⚔️ Angelic Warfare 🌫️ Gothic London 😇 Fallen Angel 📖 Forbidden Tome

Dunmoor

de London Clarke • 2021

He turned a cursed manor into an orphanage, but an ancient evil now stalks the children.

4.00

252

🕯️ Gothic Suspense 👻 Haunted Orphanage 🩸 Family Curse ⚜️ Secret Society 🗡️ Ritual Sacrifice

Dunmoor

He turned a cursed manor into an orphanage, but an ancient evil now stalks the children.

de London Clarke 2021 355 pagini

4.00

252 evaluări

🕯️ Gothic Suspense 👻 Haunted Orphanage 🩸 Family Curse ⚜️ Secret Society 🗡️ Ritual Sacrifice

A Time & Place for Every Laird

de Angeline Fortin • 2013

He fell through time into a cage. She opened the door and never looked back.

4.06

1.000+

🗡️ Highland Warrior ⏳ Man Out Of Time 🐟 Fish Out Of Water 💔 Grieving Widow 🏃 On The Run

A Time & Place for Every Laird

He fell through time into a cage. She opened the door and never looked back.

de Angeline Fortin 2013 439 pagini

4.06

1.000+ evaluări

🗡️ Highland Warrior ⏳ Man Out Of Time 🐟 Fish Out Of Water 💔 Grieving Widow 🏃 On The Run

The School for German Brides

de Aimie K. Runyan • 2022

An SS bride and a hidden Jewish seamstress form a forbidden alliance in 1939 Berlin.

4.03

9.000+

🏙️ 1930s Berlin 🕶️ Passing As Aryan 👭 Unlikely Sisterhood 💍 Coerced Marriage 🤰 Hidden Pregnancy

The School for German Brides

An SS bride and a hidden Jewish seamstress form a forbidden alliance in 1939 Berlin.

de Aimie K. Runyan 2022 384 pagini

4.03

9.000+ evaluări

🏙️ 1930s Berlin 🕶️ Passing As Aryan 👭 Unlikely Sisterhood 💍 Coerced Marriage 🤰 Hidden Pregnancy

One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

de Agatha Christie • 1940

His dentist dead and patients poisoned, Poirot hunts a killer who calls murder a public service.

3.78

46.000+

🕰️ Golden Age Mystery 🎭 Identity Swap 👤 Double Life 🏛️ Political Conspiracy 🤔 Philosophical Mystery

One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

His dentist dead and patients poisoned, Poirot hunts a killer who calls murder a public service.

de Agatha Christie 1940

3.78

46.000+ evaluări

🕰️ Golden Age Mystery 🎭 Identity Swap 👤 Double Life 🏛️ Political Conspiracy 🤔 Philosophical Mystery

The Age of Light

de Whitney Scharer • 2019

A Vogue model enters Man Ray's studio, determined to become the photographer, not the photographed.

3.57

13.000+

🎨 Art Historical Fiction 📖 Biographical Fiction 💋 Artist And Muse 🗼 1920s Paris 🥂 Lost Generation

The Age of Light

A Vogue model enters Man Ray's studio, determined to become the photographer, not the photographed.

de Whitney Scharer 2019 384 pagini

3.57

13.000+ evaluări

🎨 Art Historical Fiction 📖 Biographical Fiction 💋 Artist And Muse 🗼 1920s Paris 🥂 Lost Generation

The Unicorn Hunters

de Katherine Arden • 2026

A duchess fakes a unicorn hunt to escape a forced marriage. The forest has other plans.

3.96

4.000+

👑 Reluctant Queen 🧚 Faerie Bargains 👯 Sisterly Bond 💍 Political Marriage 📜 Mythic Retelling

The Unicorn Hunters

A duchess fakes a unicorn hunt to escape a forced marriage. The forest has other plans.

de Katherine Arden 2026 354 pagini

3.96

4.000+ evaluări

👑 Reluctant Queen 🧚 Faerie Bargains 👯 Sisterly Bond 💍 Political Marriage 📜 Mythic Retelling

Forbidden Notebook

de Alba de Céspedes • 1952

A middle-aged Roman housewife buys a secret diary and discovers the woman her family has never seen.

4.25

18.000+

🖤 Secret Diary 🇮🇹 Postwar Italy 🏠 Domestic Confinement 👩‍👧 Mother Daughter Conflict 🪞 Interior Life

Forbidden Notebook

A middle-aged Roman housewife buys a secret diary and discovers the woman her family has never seen.

de Alba de Céspedes 1952 288 pagini

4.25

18.000+ evaluări

🖤 Secret Diary 🇮🇹 Postwar Italy 🏠 Domestic Confinement 👩‍👧 Mother Daughter Conflict 🪞 Interior Life

Nora Webster

de Colm Tóibín • 2014

A widow in 1960s Ireland finds that silence, properly tended, begins to sound like music.

3.63

24.000+

🧠 Psychological Realism 🖤 Widowhood 🏘️ Small Town Ireland 🕯️ Elegiac 🤫 Private Grief

Nora Webster

A widow in 1960s Ireland finds that silence, properly tended, begins to sound like music.

de Colm Tóibín 2014 373 pagini

3.63

24.000+ evaluări

🧠 Psychological Realism 🖤 Widowhood 🏘️ Small Town Ireland 🕯️ Elegiac 🤫 Private Grief

The Second Mrs. Astor

de Shana Abe • 2021

At eighteen she married a scandal-ridden tycoon. Their honeymoon escape ended on the Titanic.

4.09

265

📜 Biographical Fiction 💞 Age Gap Romance 🕰️ Edwardian Era 🚢 Titanic Sinking 👁️ Public Eye

The Second Mrs. Astor

At eighteen she married a scandal-ridden tycoon. Their honeymoon escape ended on the Titanic.

de Shana Abe 2021 55 pagini

4.09

265 evaluări

📜 Biographical Fiction 💞 Age Gap Romance 🕰️ Edwardian Era 🚢 Titanic Sinking 👁️ Public Eye

Wandering Souls

de Cecile Pin • 2023

After their family drowns fleeing Vietnam, three siblings reach England haunted by a dead brother.

4.12

19.000+

🌊 Vietnamese Diaspora 📜 Multigenerational Saga 🤲 Parentified Sibling 👻 Ghost Narrator 💔 Survivor Guilt

Wandering Souls

After their family drowns fleeing Vietnam, three siblings reach England haunted by a dead brother.

de Cecile Pin 2023 240 pagini

4.12

19.000+ evaluări

🌊 Vietnamese Diaspora 📜 Multigenerational Saga 🤲 Parentified Sibling 👻 Ghost Narrator 💔 Survivor Guilt

In the Distance

de Hernan Diaz • 2017

A Swedish immigrant, severed from his brother, becomes an unwilling legend crossing the frontier.

4.10

26.000+

🏜️ Revisionist Western 🧳 Immigrant Experience 🐻 Gentle Giant 🎭 Myth Versus Man 🌫️ Melancholy

In the Distance

A Swedish immigrant, severed from his brother, becomes an unwilling legend crossing the frontier.

de Hernan Diaz 2017 256 pagini

4.10

26.000+ evaluări

🏜️ Revisionist Western 🧳 Immigrant Experience 🐻 Gentle Giant 🎭 Myth Versus Man 🌫️ Melancholy

Six Wild Crowns

de Holly Race • 2025

A new queen's rebellion against stolen magic hinges on the spy sent to poison her.

3.62

1.000+

👑 Tudor Fantasy ✊ Feminist Retelling ⚔️ Enemies To Lovers 🏳️‍🌈 Sapphic Court Intrigue ⚡ Stolen Divine Power

Six Wild Crowns

A new queen's rebellion against stolen magic hinges on the spy sent to poison her.

de Holly Race 2025 395 pagini

3.62

1.000+ evaluări

👑 Tudor Fantasy ✊ Feminist Retelling ⚔️ Enemies To Lovers 🏳️‍🌈 Sapphic Court Intrigue ⚡ Stolen Divine Power

Last Night in Brooklyn

de Xóchitl González • 2026

A woman caught between old Brooklyn and new follows a fashion designer's IPO into glamour and ruin.

3.65

4.000+

🏗️ Gentrifying Brooklyn 🔥 Ambitious Women 👯 Found Family 📉 Tragic Rise And Fall 💔 Love Triangle

Last Night in Brooklyn

A woman caught between old Brooklyn and new follows a fashion designer's IPO into glamour and ruin.

de Xóchitl González 2026 256 pagini

3.65

4.000+ evaluări

🏗️ Gentrifying Brooklyn 🔥 Ambitious Women 👯 Found Family 📉 Tragic Rise And Fall 💔 Love Triangle

The Embroidered Book

de Kate Heartfield • 2022

A spellbook of sacrifice crowns two Habsburg sisters in France and Naples while revolution brews.

3.65

2.000+

🕯️ Secret History 🩸 Magic With A Cost 👑 Royal Intrigue 💍 Arranged Royal Marriage 🏴 Revolutionary France

The Embroidered Book

A spellbook of sacrifice crowns two Habsburg sisters in France and Naples while revolution brews.

de Kate Heartfield 2022 655 pagini

3.65

2.000+ evaluări

🕯️ Secret History 🩸 Magic With A Cost 👑 Royal Intrigue 💍 Arranged Royal Marriage 🏴 Revolutionary France

Tapestry

de Belva Plain • 1988

A secret affair and a hidden child haunt a wealthy Jewish dynasty from WWI to the Holocaust.

4.06

2.000+

💔 Forbidden Love 🤫 Secret Child 🏗️ Self-Made Man 🌱 Women's Awakening 📜 Sweeping Family Saga

Tapestry

A secret affair and a hidden child haunt a wealthy Jewish dynasty from WWI to the Holocaust.

de Belva Plain 1988 560 pagini

4.06

2.000+ evaluări

💔 Forbidden Love 🤫 Secret Child 🏗️ Self-Made Man 🌱 Women's Awakening 📜 Sweeping Family Saga

The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams

de Daniel Nayeri • 2023

On the Silk Road, an orphan must outlast the killers chasing the storytelling merchant he loves.

3.96

3.000+

🐪 Silk Road Adventure 🫂 Found Family 👦 Orphan Protagonist 🎭 Darkly Comic Quest 🏜️ Desert Survival

The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams

On the Silk Road, an orphan must outlast the killers chasing the storytelling merchant he loves.

de Daniel Nayeri 2023 224 pagini

3.96

3.000+ evaluări

🐪 Silk Road Adventure 🫂 Found Family 👦 Orphan Protagonist 🎭 Darkly Comic Quest 🏜️ Desert Survival

Zoli

de Colum McCann • 2006

Symbol to the state, outcast to her people, a Roma poet walks into exile.

3.70

4.000+

🏕️ Roma Culture ✍️ Poet Protagonist 🔴 Communist Era Europe 🚶 Life In Exile 📜 Cultural Erasure

Zoli

Symbol to the state, outcast to her people, a Roma poet walks into exile.

de Colum McCann 2006 333 pagini

3.70

4.000+ evaluări

🏕️ Roma Culture ✍️ Poet Protagonist 🔴 Communist Era Europe 🚶 Life In Exile 📜 Cultural Erasure

These Heathens

de Mia McKenzie • 2025

Pregnant in rural Georgia, a Black girl seeks an abortion among Atlanta's queer women and activists.

4.16

6.000+

⚖️ Reproductive Justice 🌈 Queer Awakening 🤝 Women's Solidarity 🫂 Found Family 🌱 Quiet Rebellion

These Heathens

Pregnant in rural Georgia, a Black girl seeks an abortion among Atlanta's queer women and activists.

de Mia McKenzie 2025 272 pagini

4.16

6.000+ evaluări

⚖️ Reproductive Justice 🌈 Queer Awakening 🤝 Women's Solidarity 🫂 Found Family 🌱 Quiet Rebellion

Shadows in the Moonlight

de Santa Montefiore • 2024

A psychic relives a Victorian tragedy to free a mother's ghost from a Cornish manor.

4.30

5.000+

🖤 Modern Gothic 👻 Haunted Manor ⏳ Timeslip Romance 🔮 Psychic Investigator 📜 Governess Gothic

Shadows in the Moonlight

A psychic relives a Victorian tragedy to free a mother's ghost from a Cornish manor.

de Santa Montefiore 2024 356 pagini

4.30

5.000+ evaluări

🖤 Modern Gothic 👻 Haunted Manor ⏳ Timeslip Romance 🔮 Psychic Investigator 📜 Governess Gothic

Doc

de Mary Doria Russell • 2011

A dying dentist gambles his way through Dodge City, holding to music and hope of belonging.

4.00

17.000+

🏜️ Revisionist Western 🫂 Found Family 💔 Doomed Friendship 🔥 Volatile Love Affair 🌅 Elegiac Tone

Doc

A dying dentist gambles his way through Dodge City, holding to music and hope of belonging.

de Mary Doria Russell 2011 394 pagini

4.00

17.000+ evaluări

🏜️ Revisionist Western 🫂 Found Family 💔 Doomed Friendship 🔥 Volatile Love Affair 🌅 Elegiac Tone

On Midnight Beach

de Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick • 2020

A dolphin unites teenagers in a 1970s Irish town, where love ignites and old hatreds wait.

3.84

500+

📖 Irish Myth Retelling ⚔️ Small Town Rivalry 💔 Tragic First Love 🌿 Rural Ireland 🕊️ Grief And Healing

On Midnight Beach

A dolphin unites teenagers in a 1970s Irish town, where love ignites and old hatreds wait.

de Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick 2020 288 pagini

3.84

500+ evaluări

📖 Irish Myth Retelling ⚔️ Small Town Rivalry 💔 Tragic First Love 🌿 Rural Ireland 🕊️ Grief And Healing

Scandal in Babylon

de Barbara Hambly • 2021

A British scholar in 1920s Hollywood must find the killer who framed her movie-star sister-in-law.

3.77

469

🎬 Golden Age Hollywood 🕵️ Amateur Sleuth ⚖️ Frame Up Plot 👪 Found Family 🎷 Jazz Age

Scandal in Babylon

A British scholar in 1920s Hollywood must find the killer who framed her movie-star sister-in-law.

de Barbara Hambly 2021 240 pagini

3.77

469 evaluări

🎬 Golden Age Hollywood 🕵️ Amateur Sleuth ⚖️ Frame Up Plot 👪 Found Family 🎷 Jazz Age

The Pearl Diver

de Jeff Talarigo • 2005

Exiled to a leprosarium, a pearl diver learns that even a stolen name can be rebuilt.

3.75

1.000+

🏯 Postwar Japan 🦪 Pearl Diving 🏥 Sanatorium Life 🤝 Found Family 📛 Identity Erasure

The Pearl Diver

Exiled to a leprosarium, a pearl diver learns that even a stolen name can be rebuilt.

de Jeff Talarigo 2005 237 pagini

3.75

1.000+ evaluări

🏯 Postwar Japan 🦪 Pearl Diving 🏥 Sanatorium Life 🤝 Found Family 📛 Identity Erasure

She Made Herself a Monster

de Anna Kovatcheva • 2026

A cursed orphan allies with a vampire slayer to fake her death and flee her abuser.

3.56

1.000+

✊ Feminist Horror 🧛‍♀️ Vampire Hunter 💀 Fake Death 👭 Female Alliance 🔗 Patriarchal Abuse

She Made Herself a Monster

A cursed orphan allies with a vampire slayer to fake her death and flee her abuser.

de Anna Kovatcheva 2026 288 pagini

3.56

1.000+ evaluări

✊ Feminist Horror 🧛‍♀️ Vampire Hunter 💀 Fake Death 👭 Female Alliance 🔗 Patriarchal Abuse

Galway Bay

de Mary Pat Kelly • 2009

Galway Bay starves. Honora sails to Chicago, where a fisherman's daughter must become a dynasty.

4.16

5.000+

🍀 Irish Family Saga 🚢 Immigrant Epic 🥔 Famine Survival 👯 Sisterly Bond 💪 Matriarchal Resilience

Galway Bay

Galway Bay starves. Honora sails to Chicago, where a fisherman's daughter must become a dynasty.

de Mary Pat Kelly 2009 551 pagini

4.16

5.000+ evaluări

🍀 Irish Family Saga 🚢 Immigrant Epic 🥔 Famine Survival 👯 Sisterly Bond 💪 Matriarchal Resilience

How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder

de Nina McConigley • 2026

Two sisters in 1980s Wyoming take slow, deadly revenge on the uncle who abused them.

3.39

5.000+

🌍 Postcolonial Fiction 🔪 Literary Crime 👯‍♀️ Sisterhood 🐢 Slow-Burn Revenge 🧬 Generational Trauma

How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder

Two sisters in 1980s Wyoming take slow, deadly revenge on the uncle who abused them.

de Nina McConigley 2026 204 pagini

3.39

5.000+ evaluări

🌍 Postcolonial Fiction 🔪 Literary Crime 👯‍♀️ Sisterhood 🐢 Slow-Burn Revenge 🧬 Generational Trauma

Lake County

de Lori Roy • 2024

Her aunt is Marilyn Monroe. Her boyfriend killed a gangster. Now 1955 Florida wants blood.

3.81

4.000+

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🤫 Small Town Secrets 🎬 Hollywood Dreams 🎲 Gambling And Gangsters 🏠 Found Family

Lake County

Her aunt is Marilyn Monroe. Her boyfriend killed a gangster. Now 1955 Florida wants blood.

de Lori Roy 2024 311 pagini

3.81

4.000+ evaluări

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🤫 Small Town Secrets 🎬 Hollywood Dreams 🎲 Gambling And Gangsters 🏠 Found Family

Queen Charlotte

de Julia Quinn • 2023

She marries the king. He vanishes. His hidden madness holds the monarchy hostage and her heart.

4.16

46.000+

🎩 Regency Romance 💍 Arranged Marriage 🖤 Hidden Illness ⏳ Dual Timeline 💋 Witty Banter

Queen Charlotte

She marries the king. He vanishes. His hidden madness holds the monarchy hostage and her heart.

de Julia Quinn 2023 335 pagini

4.16

46.000+ evaluări

🎩 Regency Romance 💍 Arranged Marriage 🖤 Hidden Illness ⏳ Dual Timeline 💋 Witty Banter

Orașul hoților

de David Benioff • 2008

A Jewish boy and a deserter hunt wedding-cake eggs through starving Leningrad to stay alive.

4.30

100.000+

🏚️ Besieged Leningrad 🎭 Darkly Comic War 🤝 Unlikely Wartime Duo 🪖 Siege Survival 🏔️ Partisan Resistance

Orașul hoților

A Jewish boy and a deserter hunt wedding-cake eggs through starving Leningrad to stay alive.

de David Benioff 2008 258 pagini

4.30

100.000+ evaluări

🏚️ Besieged Leningrad 🎭 Darkly Comic War 🤝 Unlikely Wartime Duo 🪖 Siege Survival 🏔️ Partisan Resistance

The Midnight Carousel

de Fiza Saeed McLynn • 2025

An orphan, a carousel, and its finest horse: children who ride it vanish without a trace.

3.72

1.000+

🎠 Cursed Object 🌑 Dark Fairy Tale 👧 Orphan Protagonist 🔍 Obsessed Detective 🎪 Dark Carnival

The Midnight Carousel

An orphan, a carousel, and its finest horse: children who ride it vanish without a trace.

de Fiza Saeed McLynn 2025 368 pagini

3.72

1.000+ evaluări

🎠 Cursed Object 🌑 Dark Fairy Tale 👧 Orphan Protagonist 🔍 Obsessed Detective 🎪 Dark Carnival

Bringing Down the Duke

de Evie Dunmore • 2019

England's coldest duke. Her scholarship depends on changing his mind. He wants more than politics.

3.92

95.000+

🥀 Enemies To Lovers ❄️ Ice Cold Duke 🕯️ Victorian Romance 📚 Bluestocking Heroine ⚖️ Class Difference

Bringing Down the Duke

England's coldest duke. Her scholarship depends on changing his mind. He wants more than politics.

de Evie Dunmore 2019 335 pagini

3.92

95.000+ evaluări

🥀 Enemies To Lovers ❄️ Ice Cold Duke 🕯️ Victorian Romance 📚 Bluestocking Heroine ⚖️ Class Difference

The Forgotten Midwife

de Laura Anthony • 2026

A hidden birth certificate pulls a bride-to-be toward Ireland and a family she never knew existed.

4.43

3.000+

🏚️ Magdalene Laundries ⏳ Dual Timeline Saga ⛪ Forced Convent Life 🤱 Midwife Fiction 📜 Secret Family History

The Forgotten Midwife

A hidden birth certificate pulls a bride-to-be toward Ireland and a family she never knew existed.

de Laura Anthony 2026 360 pagini

4.43

3.000+ evaluări

🏚️ Magdalene Laundries ⏳ Dual Timeline Saga ⛪ Forced Convent Life 🤱 Midwife Fiction 📜 Secret Family History

The Inverts

de Crystal Jeans • 2021

Childhood friends, both queer, seal a marriage pact in the 1920s that will cost them everything.

3.22

500+

📜 Queer Historical Fiction 💍 Lavender Marriage 🌸 Sapphic Awakening 🤝 Platonic Soulmates 🖤 Dark Humor

The Inverts

Childhood friends, both queer, seal a marriage pact in the 1920s that will cost them everything.

de Crystal Jeans 2021 400 pagini

3.22

500+ evaluări

📜 Queer Historical Fiction 💍 Lavender Marriage 🌸 Sapphic Awakening 🤝 Platonic Soulmates 🖤 Dark Humor

While Paris Slept

de Ruth Druart • 2021

They saved a Jewish baby from the Nazis. Nine years later, his parents appeared alive.

4.27

12.000+

🇫🇷 Occupied France ⏳ Dual Timeline 👶 Hidden Child 💔 Wartime Romance 🫂 Found Family

While Paris Slept

They saved a Jewish baby from the Nazis. Nine years later, his parents appeared alive.

de Ruth Druart 2021 464 pagini

4.27

12.000+ evaluări

🇫🇷 Occupied France ⏳ Dual Timeline 👶 Hidden Child 💔 Wartime Romance 🫂 Found Family

The Glass Palace

de Amitav Ghosh • 2000

At Mandalay's fall, an orphan glimpses a palace maid and pursues her across shattered empires.

4.00

28.000+

🏠 Multi-Generational Saga 🛕 Colonial Burma 🧳 Exile And Displacement 💔 Forbidden Love 🪜 Ambition And Survival

The Glass Palace

At Mandalay's fall, an orphan glimpses a palace maid and pursues her across shattered empires.

de Amitav Ghosh 2000 486 pagini

4.00

28.000+ evaluări

🏠 Multi-Generational Saga 🛕 Colonial Burma 🧳 Exile And Displacement 💔 Forbidden Love 🪜 Ambition And Survival

Etta and Otto and Russell and James

de Emma Hooper • 2015

An elderly woman with fading memory walks from Saskatchewan to the ocean she has never seen.

3.67

15.000+

🧠 Memory Loss 👵 Late-Life Quest 🐺 Talking Animal 💔 Unrequited Love 💌 Epistolary Romance

Etta and Otto and Russell and James

An elderly woman with fading memory walks from Saskatchewan to the ocean she has never seen.

de Emma Hooper 2015 277 pagini

3.67

15.000+ evaluări

🧠 Memory Loss 👵 Late-Life Quest 🐺 Talking Animal 💔 Unrequited Love 💌 Epistolary Romance

Evil Thing

de Serena Valentino • 2020

Before the puppies, Cruella De Vil was just a girl who wanted her mother's love.

3.97

12.000+

🖤 Villain Origin Story 📖 Fairy Tale Retelling 💔 Toxic Mother Wound 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 🏚️ Gothic Atmosphere

Evil Thing

Before the puppies, Cruella De Vil was just a girl who wanted her mother's love.

de Serena Valentino 2020 352 pagini

3.97

12.000+ evaluări

🖤 Villain Origin Story 📖 Fairy Tale Retelling 💔 Toxic Mother Wound 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 🏚️ Gothic Atmosphere

صاحب الظل الطويل

de Jean Webster • 1912

An orphan writes letters to her anonymous benefactor, never guessing he is closer than she knows.

4.13

76.000+

📝 Epistolary Novel 🎓 College Life 🎭 Anonymous Benefactor 🏠 Orphan Protagonist 🕵️ Secret Identity

صاحب الظل الطويل

An orphan writes letters to her anonymous benefactor, never guessing he is closer than she knows.

de Jean Webster 1912 233 pagini

4.13

76.000+ evaluări

📝 Epistolary Novel 🎓 College Life 🎭 Anonymous Benefactor 🏠 Orphan Protagonist 🕵️ Secret Identity

A prueba de fuego

de Javier Moro • 2020

A Spanish father and son build fireproof landmarks in New York while their family fractures.

4.19

2.000+

📖 Biographical Novel 🧳 Immigrant Saga 👨‍👦 Father-Son Legacy 🏛️ Architectural Obsession 🎩 Gilded Age

A prueba de fuego

A Spanish father and son build fireproof landmarks in New York while their family fractures.

de Javier Moro 2020 400 pagini

4.19

2.000+ evaluări

📖 Biographical Novel 🧳 Immigrant Saga 👨‍👦 Father-Son Legacy 🏛️ Architectural Obsession 🎩 Gilded Age

All That I Am

de Anna Funder • 2011

An aging exile in Sydney sifts memory for the truth of her cousin's locked-room death.

3.83

10.000+

🎭 Weimar Berlin 🧳 Exile And Displacement ✊ Political Resistance 💔 Survivor's Guilt 🤲 Found Family In Exile

All That I Am

An aging exile in Sydney sifts memory for the truth of her cousin's locked-room death.

de Anna Funder 2011 368 pagini

3.83

10.000+ evaluări

🎭 Weimar Berlin 🧳 Exile And Displacement ✊ Political Resistance 💔 Survivor's Guilt 🤲 Found Family In Exile

After Alice

de Gregory Maguire • 2015

Bound in an iron corset, a Victorian girl pursues Alice into a Wonderland rotting from within.

2.82

13.000+

🐇 Wonderland Retelling 🎩 Victorian Fantasy ♿ Disabled Protagonist 🪞 Parallel Worlds 🔍 Side Character Story

After Alice

Bound in an iron corset, a Victorian girl pursues Alice into a Wonderland rotting from within.

de Gregory Maguire 2015 273 pagini

2.82

13.000+ evaluări

🐇 Wonderland Retelling 🎩 Victorian Fantasy ♿ Disabled Protagonist 🪞 Parallel Worlds 🔍 Side Character Story

The Unexpected Diva

de Tiffany L. Warren • 2025

Robbed of home and protector, a Black singer in 1850s America stakes survival on her voice.

4.11

500+

📖 Biographical Novel 🏛️ Antebellum America ✊ Abolitionist Fiction 🎵 Women In Music 📜 Contested Inheritance

The Unexpected Diva

Robbed of home and protector, a Black singer in 1850s America stakes survival on her voice.

de Tiffany L. Warren 2025 1 pagini

4.11

500+ evaluări

📖 Biographical Novel 🏛️ Antebellum America ✊ Abolitionist Fiction 🎵 Women In Music 📜 Contested Inheritance

Through the Eyes of a Spy

de Kenneth Winter • 2020

Out of twelve spies, one man's faith defies the giants who terrify his people.

4.79

✝️ Biblical Retelling 🏛️ Ancient Near East 👴👶 Generational Saga 🤝 Cross-Cultural Bonds 🏜️ Wilderness Journey

Through the Eyes of a Spy

Out of twelve spies, one man's faith defies the giants who terrify his people.

de Kenneth Winter 2020 336 pagini

4.79

72 evaluări

✝️ Biblical Retelling 🏛️ Ancient Near East 👴👶 Generational Saga 🤝 Cross-Cultural Bonds 🏜️ Wilderness Journey

The Witch's Daughter

de Paula Brackston • 2008

Her neighbor is a four-hundred-year-old witch. And the warlock who made her has returned.

3.66

43.000+

🖤 Immortal Witch 🪵 Witch Trials 🌿 Healing Magic 💫 Mother Daughter Bond 🕯️ Gothic Atmosphere

The Witch's Daughter

Her neighbor is a four-hundred-year-old witch. And the warlock who made her has returned.

de Paula Brackston 2008 305 pagini

3.66

43.000+ evaluări

🖤 Immortal Witch 🪵 Witch Trials 🌿 Healing Magic 💫 Mother Daughter Bond 🕯️ Gothic Atmosphere

Half Magic

de Edward Eager • 1954

A coin grants exactly half of every wish, and four siblings must outsmart their own desires.

3.95

38.000+

🪙 Ironic Wishes 📚 Old-Fashioned Fantasy 👫 Sibling Adventure Squad 🏠 Found Family 💔 Grief And Healing

Half Magic

A coin grants exactly half of every wish, and four siblings must outsmart their own desires.

de Edward Eager 1954 192 pagini

3.95

38.000+ evaluări

🪙 Ironic Wishes 📚 Old-Fashioned Fantasy 👫 Sibling Adventure Squad 🏠 Found Family 💔 Grief And Healing

The End of the Affair

de Graham Greene • 1951

A jealous novelist in postwar London hires a detective to learn why his lover walked away.

3.90

72.000+

🕯️ Catholic Novel 💔 Literary Love Triangle 🔥 Obsessive Jealousy 💋 Adulterous Affair ✨ Spiritual Awakening

The End of the Affair

A jealous novelist in postwar London hires a detective to learn why his lover walked away.

de Graham Greene 1951 160 pagini

3.90

72.000+ evaluări

🕯️ Catholic Novel 💔 Literary Love Triangle 🔥 Obsessive Jealousy 💋 Adulterous Affair ✨ Spiritual Awakening

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