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Some Strange Music Draws Me In

de 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.

de Griffin Hansbury 2024 320 pagini

4.40

1.000+ evaluări

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

And the Land Lay Still

de 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.

de James Robertson 2010 673 pagini

4.25

1.000+ evaluări

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

The Dew Breaker

de 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.

de Edwidge Danticat 2004 256 pagini

3.81

8.000+ evaluări

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

The Grass is Singing

de 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.

de Doris Lessing 1950 208 pagini

3.83

15.000+ evaluări

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

We, the Drowned

de 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.

de Carsten Jensen 2006 678 pagini

4.24

12.000+ evaluări

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

In the Wilds of Derbyshire

de 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.

de Jann Rowland 2017 410 pagini

4.10

500+ evaluări

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

The Wind off the Small Isles

de 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.

de Mary Stewart 1968 96 pagini

3.76

500+ evaluări

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

The Last Song of Penelope

de 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.

de Claire North 2024 464 pagini

4.29

3.000+ evaluări

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

Elizabeth's Deception

de 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.

de Kate Speck 2020 169 pagini

3.84

286 evaluări

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

Mason & Dixon by Pynchon. Thomas ( 1998 ) Paperback

de 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.

de Thomas Pynchon 1997

4.15

12.000+ evaluări

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

Theft

de 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.

de Abdulrazak Gurnah 2025 296 pagini

3.93

5.000+ evaluări

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

Poor Things

de 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.

de Alasdair Gray 1992 317 pagini

3.92

43.000+ evaluări

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

In Another Time

de 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.

de Jillian Cantor 2019 336 pagini

3.79

7.000+ evaluări

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

Finding Mrs. Ford

de 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.

de Deborah Goodrich Royce 2019 416 pagini

3.68

3.000+ evaluări

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

The Other Typist

de 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.

de Suzanne Rindell 2013 384 pagini

3.55

19.000+ evaluări

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

Bridgerton Collection, Volume 1

de 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.

de Julia Quinn 2000 1053 pagini

4.29

22.000+ evaluări

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

Fractured Soul

de 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.

de Akira Mizubayashi 2019 224 pagini

4.02

3.000+ evaluări

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

Saints and Villains

de 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.

de Denise Giardina 1998 487 pagini

4.10

500+ evaluări

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

Hungerstone

de 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.

de Kat Dunn 2025 336 pagini

3.90

40.000+ evaluări

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

L'Orpheline du temple

de 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.

de Victoria Mas 2025 176 pagini

3.48

218 evaluări

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

The Atomic City Girls

de 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.

de Janet Beard 2018 353 pagini

3.54

26.000+ evaluări

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

The Borrowed

de 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.

de Chan Ho-Kei 2017 496 pagini

4.36

5.000+ evaluări

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

Sky Burial

de 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.

de Xinran 2004 210 pagini

4.09

7.000+ evaluări

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

The Secret Hours

de 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.

de Mick Herron 2023 384 pagini

4.25

22.000+ evaluări

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

White Chrysanthemum

de 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.

de Mary Lynn Bracht 2018 320 pagini

4.42

27.000+ evaluări

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

The Night Watchman

de 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.

de Louise Erdrich 2020 464 pagini

4.08

97.000+ evaluări

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

The First Man in Rome

de 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.

de Colleen McCullough 1990 1076 pagini

4.14

24.000+ evaluări

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

Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch

de 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.

de Rivka Galchen 2021 275 pagini

3.38

13.000+ evaluări

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

The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

de 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.

de Silvia Moreno-Garcia 2022 306 pagini

3.57

40.000+ evaluări

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

Beautiful Things

de 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.

de Emily Rath 2022 466 pagini

3.81

12.000+ evaluări

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

Ghost-Eye

de 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.

de Amitav Ghosh 2026 336 pagini

3.86

1.000+ evaluări

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

Les marins ne savent pas nager

de 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.

de Dominique Scali 2022 708 pagini

3.73

1.000+ evaluări

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

The Foundation Pit

de 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.

de Andrei Platonov 1994 141 pagini

3.78

6.000+ evaluări

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

The Devil's Playground

de 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.

de Craig Russell 2023 368 pagini

3.84

2.000+ evaluări

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

Sing Me Forgotten

de 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.

de Jessica S. Olson 2021 336 pagini

3.76

4.000+ evaluări

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

Lila

de 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.

de Marilynne Robinson 2014 261 pagini

3.95

36.000+ evaluări

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

Laws of Love and Logic

de 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.

de Debra Curtis 2026 320 pagini

3.78

7.000+ evaluări

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

L’efecte Frankenstein

de 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.

de Elia Barceló 2019 336 pagini

3.50

1.000+ evaluări

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

Swift River

de 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.

de Essie J. Chambers 2024 304 pagini

3.49

11.000+ evaluări

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

Egmont

de 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.

de Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1788 68 pagini

3.47

500+ evaluări

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

The Girl with the Suitcase

de 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.

de Lesley Pearse 2025 391 pagini

4.05

5.000+ evaluări

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

The King's Jewel

de 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.

de Elizabeth Chadwick 2023 456 pagini

4.35

1.000+ evaluări

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

Milkman

de 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.

de Anna Burns 2018 352 pagini

3.53

72.000+ evaluări

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

The London Séance Society

de 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+

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de S.G. MacLean 2022 416 pagini

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

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Father Sergius

de Leo Tolstoy • 1911

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

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Father Sergius

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

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