Историческая проза

Реальные люди и переломные моменты нашего прошлого оживают в захватывающих историях, сочетающих документальные факты с художественным вымыслом. Будь то знаменитые личности или обычные люди, эти книги переносят читателей в детально воссозданные миры, сформированные подлинными обычаями, конфликтами и культурными силами своих эпох.

Историческая проза Саммари книг

The Only Woman in the Room

— Marie Benedict • 2019

A film star weds a munitions mogul, escapes, then invents a weapon the world dismisses.

3.87

100 000+

📖 Biographical Fiction 🎬 Golden Age Hollywood 🏰 1930s Vienna 🔒 Gilded Cage 🎭 Hidden Intellect

The Only Woman in the Room

A film star weds a munitions mogul, escapes, then invents a weapon the world dismisses.

— Marie Benedict 2019 312 стр.

3.87

100 000+ оценок

📖 Biographical Fiction 🎬 Golden Age Hollywood 🏰 1930s Vienna 🔒 Gilded Cage 🎭 Hidden Intellect

The Madman's Daughter

— Megan Shepherd • 2013

On a remote island, Juliet finds her father's unnatural creations alive, and one is a murderer.

3.68

25 000+

🫀 Victorian Body Horror 🔬 Human Experimentation 💔 Love Triangle 🏝️ Isolated Island 🖤 Gothic Romance

The Madman's Daughter

On a remote island, Juliet finds her father's unnatural creations alive, and one is a murderer.

— Megan Shepherd 2013 420 стр.

3.68

25 000+ оценок

🫀 Victorian Body Horror 🔬 Human Experimentation 💔 Love Triangle 🏝️ Isolated Island 🖤 Gothic Romance

Abundance

— Sena Jeter Naslund • 2006

At fourteen she enters Versailles craving love from a nation that will one day guillotine her.

3.75

10 000+

🇫🇷 Revolutionary France 👑 Tragic Queen 🎭 Court Intrigue ✊ Feminist Retelling 🖋️ Fictionalized Biography

Abundance

At fourteen she enters Versailles craving love from a nation that will one day guillotine her.

— Sena Jeter Naslund 2006 556 стр.

3.75

10 000+ оценок

🇫🇷 Revolutionary France 👑 Tragic Queen 🎭 Court Intrigue ✊ Feminist Retelling 🖋️ Fictionalized Biography

The Last Year of the War

— Susan Meissner • 2019

Her memory fading, an elderly woman searches for the childhood friend from a WWII internment camp.

4.21

23 000+

🏕️ Us Internment Camps ⏳ Dual Timeline 👭 Wartime Friendship 🧠 Memory Loss 🍂 Bittersweet

The Last Year of the War

Her memory fading, an elderly woman searches for the childhood friend from a WWII internment camp.

— Susan Meissner 2019 389 стр.

4.21

23 000+ оценок

🏕️ Us Internment Camps ⏳ Dual Timeline 👭 Wartime Friendship 🧠 Memory Loss 🍂 Bittersweet

Les Jours fragiles

— Philippe Besson • 2004

The poet Rimbaud returns from Africa to die, and his sister writes what their family silenced.

3.39

358

📖 Biographical Novel 🏠 Prodigal Son 🔒 Family Secrets 👤 Absent Father 🏡 Rural Isolation

Les Jours fragiles

The poet Rimbaud returns from Africa to die, and his sister writes what their family silenced.

— Philippe Besson 2004 188 стр.

3.39

358 оценок

📖 Biographical Novel 🏠 Prodigal Son 🔒 Family Secrets 👤 Absent Father 🏡 Rural Isolation

Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade

— Diana Gabaldon • 2007

Hunting his father's killer, a British major falls for his future stepbrother in 1758 London.

3.96

29 000+

🏛️ Georgian London 💔 Forbidden Gay Romance 💕 Stepbrothers To Lovers 🔍 Unsolved Family Death ⚔️ Regiment Brotherhood

Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade

Hunting his father's killer, a British major falls for his future stepbrother in 1758 London.

— Diana Gabaldon 2007 494 стр.

3.96

29 000+ оценок

🏛️ Georgian London 💔 Forbidden Gay Romance 💕 Stepbrothers To Lovers 🔍 Unsolved Family Death ⚔️ Regiment Brotherhood

A Good Animal

— Sara Maurer • 2026

First love on a Michigan sheep farm ends in a pregnancy with no safe way out.

3.56

8 000+

🏡 Rural Coming Of Age 🐏 Sheep Farming 💔 First Love 🤰 Teen Pregnancy ⚕️ Abortion Fiction

A Good Animal

First love on a Michigan sheep farm ends in a pregnancy with no safe way out.

— Sara Maurer 2026 288 стр.

3.56

8 000+ оценок

🏡 Rural Coming Of Age 🐏 Sheep Farming 💔 First Love 🤰 Teen Pregnancy ⚕️ Abortion Fiction

The Red Lion

— Mária Szepes • 1946

An alchemist murders his master for immortality. The stolen elixir becomes an unending curse.

4.47

1 000+

🧪 Alchemical Journey 🔄 Reincarnation Cycle ⏳ Curse Of Immortality 🎓 Master And Apprentice 👤 Shadow Self

The Red Lion

An alchemist murders his master for immortality. The stolen elixir becomes an unending curse.

— Mária Szepes 1946 390 стр.

4.47

1 000+ оценок

🧪 Alchemical Journey 🔄 Reincarnation Cycle ⏳ Curse Of Immortality 🎓 Master And Apprentice 👤 Shadow Self

The Lioness of Boston

— Emily Franklin • 2023

A New York heiress marries into Boston society and discovers every door is bolted shut.

3.64

10 000+

🏛️ Gilded Age Boston 🚪 Outsider In Society 🏗️ Woman Builds Legacy 🎨 Grief Into Art 👥 Chosen Family

The Lioness of Boston

A New York heiress marries into Boston society and discovers every door is bolted shut.

— Emily Franklin 2023 356 стр.

3.64

10 000+ оценок

🏛️ Gilded Age Boston 🚪 Outsider In Society 🏗️ Woman Builds Legacy 🎨 Grief Into Art 👥 Chosen Family

Ceremony

— Leslie Marmon Silko • 1977

To heal his mind and the land, a war-haunted Laguna veteran undertakes a ceremonial quest.

3.84

26 000+

🎖️ Post-War Trauma 🌌 Indigenous Cosmology 📣 Storytelling As Resistance 🕯️ Spiritual Healing 🌍 Reconnection To Land

Ceremony

To heal his mind and the land, a war-haunted Laguna veteran undertakes a ceremonial quest.

— Leslie Marmon Silko 1977 262 стр.

3.84

26 000+ оценок

🎖️ Post-War Trauma 🌌 Indigenous Cosmology 📣 Storytelling As Resistance 🕯️ Spiritual Healing 🌍 Reconnection To Land

Tread of Angels

— Rebecca Roanhorse • 2022

A half-blood dealer must defend her sister in a court of angels where guilt is predetermined.

3.47

6 000+

🏜️ Weird Western 🕵️ Fantasy Noir 👭 Sisterly Devotion 😈 Demon Lover 🌓 Torn Between Worlds

Tread of Angels

A half-blood dealer must defend her sister in a court of angels where guilt is predetermined.

— Rebecca Roanhorse 2022 201 стр.

3.47

6 000+ оценок

🏜️ Weird Western 🕵️ Fantasy Noir 👭 Sisterly Devotion 😈 Demon Lover 🌓 Torn Between Worlds

Seven Stones to Stand or Fall

— Diana Gabaldon • 2017

A dueling lord, a clever spy, a lost pilot: the Outlander world's untold turning points.

4.28

18 000+

🕰️ 18th Century 📖 Interlinked Novellas ⚔️ Military Brotherhood 💌 Epistolary Threads 🏝️ Colonial Caribbean

Seven Stones to Stand or Fall

A dueling lord, a clever spy, a lost pilot: the Outlander world's untold turning points.

— Diana Gabaldon 2017 526 стр.

4.28

18 000+ оценок

🕰️ 18th Century 📖 Interlinked Novellas ⚔️ Military Brotherhood 💌 Epistolary Threads 🏝️ Colonial Caribbean

The Vampire Armand

— Anne Rice • 1998

A vampire's five-century confession: from Renaissance slave to a relic that might bear God's face.

3.80

74 000+

🦇 Vampire Confession 🖤 Gothic Melodrama 🌹 Erotic Horror 🧛 Maker And Fledgling 🔥 Cult Indoctrination

The Vampire Armand

A vampire's five-century confession: from Renaissance slave to a relic that might bear God's face.

— Anne Rice 1998 457 стр.

3.80

74 000+ оценок

🦇 Vampire Confession 🖤 Gothic Melodrama 🌹 Erotic Horror 🧛 Maker And Fledgling 🔥 Cult Indoctrination

Disenchanted

— Brianna Sugalski • 2020

To escape the magic that brands her a monster, a princess falls for a cursed vampire.

3.85

500+

👑 Reluctant Queen 🗡️ Touch Her And Die 🦇 Cursed Vampire Hero 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 🧚 Faerie Court Intrigue

Disenchanted

To escape the magic that brands her a monster, a princess falls for a cursed vampire.

— Brianna Sugalski 2020 456 стр.

3.85

500+ оценок

👑 Reluctant Queen 🗡️ Touch Her And Die 🦇 Cursed Vampire Hero 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 🧚 Faerie Court Intrigue

The Bronzed Beasts

— Roshani Chokshi • 2021

A dying girl and her fractured crew race fanatics to an artifact that could unmake creation.

4.03

13 000+

🦊 Fantasy Heist 🕰️ 19th Century Fantasy 💛 Found Family 🖤 Survivor's Guilt 🥀 Tragic Romance

The Bronzed Beasts

A dying girl and her fractured crew race fanatics to an artifact that could unmake creation.

— Roshani Chokshi 2021 385 стр.

4.03

13 000+ оценок

🦊 Fantasy Heist 🕰️ 19th Century Fantasy 💛 Found Family 🖤 Survivor's Guilt 🥀 Tragic Romance

A Duke in Disguise

— Cat Sebastian • 2019

A radical bookseller's guarded heart is tested when her engraver best friend discovers he is a duke.

3.77

1 000+

🧵 Working Class Heroine 💜 Bisexual Heroine 🤝 Found Family 🎭 Hidden Identity 💔 Scarred Hero

A Duke in Disguise

A radical bookseller's guarded heart is tested when her engraver best friend discovers he is a duke.

— Cat Sebastian 2019 216 стр.

3.77

1 000+ оценок

🧵 Working Class Heroine 💜 Bisexual Heroine 🤝 Found Family 🎭 Hidden Identity 💔 Scarred Hero

Lily of the Nile

— Stephanie Dray • 2011

A captive in the emperor's house, Cleopatra's daughter hides divine powers she cannot yet control.

3.89

7 000+

🏛️ Mythic Historical 🌊 Ancient Mediterranean 🏠 Gilded Cage 🩸 Sacred Blood Magic 👑 Becoming A Queen

Lily of the Nile

A captive in the emperor's house, Cleopatra's daughter hides divine powers she cannot yet control.

— Stephanie Dray 2011 351 стр.

3.89

7 000+ оценок

🏛️ Mythic Historical 🌊 Ancient Mediterranean 🏠 Gilded Cage 🩸 Sacred Blood Magic 👑 Becoming A Queen

Enoch Primordial

— Brian Godawa • 2012

When angels fall and giants rule, a reluctant prophet must survive to warn of coming judgment.

4.27

1 000+

📖 Biblical Fantasy 👼 Fallen Angels 👨‍👦 Generational Saga ⚔️ Cosmic War 🔮 Reluctant Prophet

Enoch Primordial

When angels fall and giants rule, a reluctant prophet must survive to warn of coming judgment.

— Brian Godawa 2012 389 стр.

4.27

1 000+ оценок

📖 Biblical Fantasy 👼 Fallen Angels 👨‍👦 Generational Saga ⚔️ Cosmic War 🔮 Reluctant Prophet

The Orphan Collector

— Ellen Marie Wiseman • 2020

In 1918 Philadelphia, a girl's twin brothers vanish; she must hunt a woman who collects orphans.

4.24

60 000+

😷 1918 Flu Pandemic 🚂 Orphan Trains 👫 Lost Siblings 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 😢 Maternal Grief

The Orphan Collector

In 1918 Philadelphia, a girl's twin brothers vanish; she must hunt a woman who collects orphans.

— Ellen Marie Wiseman 2020 390 стр.

4.24

60 000+ оценок

😷 1918 Flu Pandemic 🚂 Orphan Trains 👫 Lost Siblings 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 😢 Maternal Grief

Noli Me Tángere

— José Rizal • 1887

Home from Europe: his father dead, his town crushed, his love a hostage of Spanish friars.

4.22

8 000+

🏛️ Colonial Society ⛪ Corrupt Clergy 💔 Star-Crossed Lovers 🌅 Doomed Idealism 🎭 Social Satire

Noli Me Tángere

Home from Europe: his father dead, his town crushed, his love a hostage of Spanish friars.

— José Rizal 1887 444 стр.

4.22

8 000+ оценок

🏛️ Colonial Society ⛪ Corrupt Clergy 💔 Star-Crossed Lovers 🌅 Doomed Idealism 🎭 Social Satire

The Heirloom Garden

— Viola Shipman • 2020

A botanist still grieving WWII meets a military family falling apart next door.

4.18

6 000+

🕰️ Dual Timeline 🌸 Gardening Fiction 🤝 Unlikely Friendship 🎖️ Veteran Ptsd 📜 WWII Home Front

The Heirloom Garden

A botanist still grieving WWII meets a military family falling apart next door.

— Viola Shipman 2020 407 стр.

4.18

6 000+ оценок

🕰️ Dual Timeline 🌸 Gardening Fiction 🤝 Unlikely Friendship 🎖️ Veteran Ptsd 📜 WWII Home Front

Berlin Game

— Len Deighton • 1983

A British spy returns to divided Berlin to extract a defector before the mole inside can strike.

4.07

14 000+

🕵️ Cold War Espionage 🔍 Mole Hunt 🧱 Divided Berlin 💍 Married Spies 🎭 Double Agent

Berlin Game

A British spy returns to divided Berlin to extract a defector before the mole inside can strike.

— Len Deighton 1983 352 стр.

4.07

14 000+ оценок

🕵️ Cold War Espionage 🔍 Mole Hunt 🧱 Divided Berlin 💍 Married Spies 🎭 Double Agent

Девушка с чаем из переулка Колибри

— Лиза Си • 2017

To survive her people's law, an Akha girl abandons her baby with only a tea cake.

4.29

100 000+

🏡 Multi Generational Saga 🌏 Chinese Diaspora 💔 Mother Daughter Separation 🌍 Transnational Adoption 🌄 Rural China

Девушка с чаем из переулка Колибри

To survive her people's law, an Akha girl abandons her baby with only a tea cake.

— Лиза Си 2017 384 стр.

4.29

100 000+ оценок

🏡 Multi Generational Saga 🌏 Chinese Diaspora 💔 Mother Daughter Separation 🌍 Transnational Adoption 🌄 Rural China

Lord John and the Hand of Devils

— Diana Gabaldon • 2007

A gay officer goes undercover in a secret society where every suspect has been his lover.

3.93

20 000+

🕵️ Historical Mystery 🏳️‍🌈 Closeted Protagonist 🕯️ Secret Society 🎩 Gentleman Detective 👻 Occult Rumors

Lord John and the Hand of Devils

A gay officer goes undercover in a secret society where every suspect has been his lover.

— Diana Gabaldon 2007 302 стр.

3.93

20 000+ оценок

🕵️ Historical Mystery 🏳️‍🌈 Closeted Protagonist 🕯️ Secret Society 🎩 Gentleman Detective 👻 Occult Rumors

Ibnebatuti । इब्नेबतूती

— Divya Prakash Dubey • 2020

A son leaving for America finds his mother's letters and a love cut by caste riots.

4.25

500+

📚 Hindi Literature 🧑‍🧒 Mother And Son 🗝️ Family Secrets ✉️ Hidden Letters 🎓 Campus Romance

Ibnebatuti । इब्नेबतूती

A son leaving for America finds his mother's letters and a love cut by caste riots.

— Divya Prakash Dubey 2020 160 стр.

4.25

500+ оценок

📚 Hindi Literature 🧑‍🧒 Mother And Son 🗝️ Family Secrets ✉️ Hidden Letters 🎓 Campus Romance

The Reformatory

— Tananarive Due • 2023

A Black boy's defiance sends him to a haunted Jim Crow reformatory where dead boys seek justice.

4.43

78 000+

🏚️ Haunted Institution 🔗 Jim Crow South 🛡️ Sibling Protector 👻 Ghosts As Witnesses 📜 Historical Horror

The Reformatory

A Black boy's defiance sends him to a haunted Jim Crow reformatory where dead boys seek justice.

— Tananarive Due 2023 570 стр.

4.43

78 000+ оценок

🏚️ Haunted Institution 🔗 Jim Crow South 🛡️ Sibling Protector 👻 Ghosts As Witnesses 📜 Historical Horror

Sharpe's Trafalgar

— Bernard Cornwell • 2002

An army officer sails for England, unaware his captain has sold them to the French.

4.15

15 000+

⚔️ Napoleonic Wars ⛵ Age Of Sail 💔 Forbidden Love 👑 Class Divide Romance 🗡️ Scarred Outsider

Sharpe's Trafalgar

An army officer sails for England, unaware his captain has sold them to the French.

— Bernard Cornwell 2002 320 стр.

4.15

15 000+ оценок

⚔️ Napoleonic Wars ⛵ Age Of Sail 💔 Forbidden Love 👑 Class Divide Romance 🗡️ Scarred Outsider

Bloomsbury Girls

— Natalie Jenner • 2022

Three bookshop women in postwar London hunt a lost novel to claim ownership of the shop.

3.85

18 000+

🏪 Bookshop Fiction 🇬🇧 Postwar London 👯 Female Friendship 🫂 Found Family ✊ Feminist Historical

Bloomsbury Girls

Three bookshop women in postwar London hunt a lost novel to claim ownership of the shop.

— Natalie Jenner 2022 353 стр.

3.85

18 000+ оценок

🏪 Bookshop Fiction 🇬🇧 Postwar London 👯 Female Friendship 🫂 Found Family ✊ Feminist Historical

The Bartender's Tale

— Ivan Doig • 2012

A bartender raises his son in a Montana saloon where stories matter more than whiskey.

4.07

10 000+

🍺 Saloon Life 🏘️ Eccentric Small Town 💔 Absent Mother 👨‍👦 Father-Son Bond 🎙️ Oral History

The Bartender's Tale

A bartender raises his son in a Montana saloon where stories matter more than whiskey.

— Ivan Doig 2012 387 стр.

4.07

10 000+ оценок

🍺 Saloon Life 🏘️ Eccentric Small Town 💔 Absent Mother 👨‍👦 Father-Son Bond 🎙️ Oral History

The Great Divide

— Cristina Henríquez • 2024

To save her sister, a teen stows away to the Panama Canal, where ambition carves through lives.

3.66

30 000+

🏛️ Historical Epic 👩‍👧 Mothers And Daughters ⚒️ Labor Exploitation 🥀 Quietly Devastating 🌊 Caribbean Diaspora

The Great Divide

To save her sister, a teen stows away to the Panama Canal, where ambition carves through lives.

— Cristina Henríquez 2024 321 стр.

3.66

30 000+ оценок

🏛️ Historical Epic 👩‍👧 Mothers And Daughters ⚒️ Labor Exploitation 🥀 Quietly Devastating 🌊 Caribbean Diaspora

Охотница

— Кейт Куинн • 2019

A photographer's new stepmother is a Nazi. Two war-scarred hunters and her camera are closing in.

4.30

200 000+

🕵️ Nazi Hunting ✈️ Night Witches 💍 Marriage Of Convenience 🖤 Dangerous Stepmother 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family

Охотница

A photographer's new stepmother is a Nazi. Two war-scarred hunters and her camera are closing in.

— Кейт Куинн 2019 560 стр.

4.30

200 000+ оценок

🕵️ Nazi Hunting ✈️ Night Witches 💍 Marriage Of Convenience 🖤 Dangerous Stepmother 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family

Two Old Women

— Velma Wallis • 1993

Abandoned in the Alaskan winter, two old women draw on forgotten skills to survive.

4.09

19 000+

❄️ Arctic Survival 👵 Elderly Protagonists 🫂 Found Family 💚 Community Healing 🔗 Intergenerational Bonds

Two Old Women

Abandoned in the Alaskan winter, two old women draw on forgotten skills to survive.

— Velma Wallis 1993 140 стр.

4.09

19 000+ оценок

❄️ Arctic Survival 👵 Elderly Protagonists 🫂 Found Family 💚 Community Healing 🔗 Intergenerational Bonds

Spartacus

— Ben Kane • 2012

Betrayed into slavery, a Thracian gladiator raises an army and challenges Rome for freedom.

4.08

3 000+

🏛️ Ancient Rome ⛓️ Slave Uprising 🤝 Found Family 👑 Reluctant Leader 💔 Love In Wartime

Spartacus

Betrayed into slavery, a Thracian gladiator raises an army and challenges Rome for freedom.

— Ben Kane 2012 448 стр.

4.08

3 000+ оценок

🏛️ Ancient Rome ⛓️ Slave Uprising 🤝 Found Family 👑 Reluctant Leader 💔 Love In Wartime

Alex and Eliza

— Melissa de la Cruz • 2017

To save her family, Eliza must marry money. Then a penniless officer walks into the ball.

3.69

21 000+

🏛️ Revolutionary Romance 💍 Arranged Marriage 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 👯 Sister Bonds 💎 Cross-Class Romance

Alex and Eliza

To save her family, Eliza must marry money. Then a penniless officer walks into the ball.

— Melissa de la Cruz 2017 368 стр.

3.69

21 000+ оценок

🏛️ Revolutionary Romance 💍 Arranged Marriage 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 👯 Sister Bonds 💎 Cross-Class Romance

House of Splinters

— Laura Purcell • 2025

A pregnant wife inherits a desolate manor where wooden figures creep, and an old curse stirs.

4.06

2 000+

🏚️ Haunted House 🩸 Family Curse 👻 Possessed Child 🔥 Witch Trials 🤥 Unreliable Narrator

House of Splinters

A pregnant wife inherits a desolate manor where wooden figures creep, and an old curse stirs.

— Laura Purcell 2025 368 стр.

4.06

2 000+ оценок

🏚️ Haunted House 🩸 Family Curse 👻 Possessed Child 🔥 Witch Trials 🤥 Unreliable Narrator

Cleopatra

— Saara El-Arifi • 2026

Cleopatra must outmaneuver Rome, her family's betrayal, and a curse of endless resurrection.

3.94

12 000+

📜 Mythic Retelling 🏛️ Historical Fantasy 🌸 Sapphic Romance 🎭 Double Life 🔄 Resurrection Curse

Cleopatra

Cleopatra must outmaneuver Rome, her family's betrayal, and a curse of endless resurrection.

— Saara El-Arifi 2026 352 стр.

3.94

12 000+ оценок

📜 Mythic Retelling 🏛️ Historical Fantasy 🌸 Sapphic Romance 🎭 Double Life 🔄 Resurrection Curse

Cabo Trafalgar

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte • 2004

Pressed peasants and weary officers sail a Spanish warship into Trafalgar, certain of their doom.

3.77

2 000+

🚢 Naval Historical Fiction ⚔️ Napoleonic Wars ⛵ Age Of Sail 🏴 Doomed Resistance 💀 Tragic Fatalism

Cabo Trafalgar

Pressed peasants and weary officers sail a Spanish warship into Trafalgar, certain of their doom.

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte 2004 304 стр.

3.77

2 000+ оценок

🚢 Naval Historical Fiction ⚔️ Napoleonic Wars ⛵ Age Of Sail 🏴 Doomed Resistance 💀 Tragic Fatalism

The Texan's Wager

— Jodi Thomas • 2002

Banished women enter a frontier wife lottery. Bailee draws a silent farmer who speaks in sign.

3.88

7 000+

🤠 Western Romance 💍 Marriage Of Convenience 🤫 Silent Hero 🔥 Slow Burn 🏠 Found Family

The Texan's Wager

Banished women enter a frontier wife lottery. Bailee draws a silent farmer who speaks in sign.

— Jodi Thomas 2002 336 стр.

3.88

7 000+ оценок

🤠 Western Romance 💍 Marriage Of Convenience 🤫 Silent Hero 🔥 Slow Burn 🏠 Found Family

My Darling Dreadful Thing

— Johanna van Veen • 2024

A medium escapes to a widow's decaying estate, where love and the dead both prove insatiable.

3.85

21 000+

🖤 Sapphic Gothic 🏚️ Haunted Estate 👻 Spirit Companion 🩸 Toxic Devotion ✍️ Lyrical Horror

My Darling Dreadful Thing

A medium escapes to a widow's decaying estate, where love and the dead both prove insatiable.

— Johanna van Veen 2024 375 стр.

3.85

21 000+ оценок

🖤 Sapphic Gothic 🏚️ Haunted Estate 👻 Spirit Companion 🩸 Toxic Devotion ✍️ Lyrical Horror

Flow Down Like Silver

— Ki Longfellow • 2009

Christian mobs burn Alexandria's libraries. The city's greatest philosopher, a woman, is next.

4.01

4 000+

🏛️ Ancient Alexandria 📚 Female Philosopher 👭 Sister Bonds ✝️ Religious Intolerance 📜 Lost Library

Flow Down Like Silver

Christian mobs burn Alexandria's libraries. The city's greatest philosopher, a woman, is next.

— Ki Longfellow 2009 301 стр.

4.01

4 000+ оценок

🏛️ Ancient Alexandria 📚 Female Philosopher 👭 Sister Bonds ✝️ Religious Intolerance 📜 Lost Library

The God of Endings

— Jacqueline Holland • 2023

An immortal teacher cages her hunger behind a preschool until a dying boy needs her darkest self.

3.81

12 000+

🧛 Literary Vampire 🩸 Reluctant Monster 👧 Immortal Guardian ⏳ Weight Of Immortality 🖤 Lyrical Gothic

The God of Endings

An immortal teacher cages her hunger behind a preschool until a dying boy needs her darkest self.

— Jacqueline Holland 2023 480 стр.

3.81

12 000+ оценок

🧛 Literary Vampire 🩸 Reluctant Monster 👧 Immortal Guardian ⏳ Weight Of Immortality 🖤 Lyrical Gothic

A Brief History of Montmaray

— Michelle Cooper • 2008

A teenage diarist chronicles her crumbling island kingdom as Nazi agents arrive hunting a relic.

3.68

6 000+

📖 Epistolary Novel 🏰 Crumbling Castle 🏝️ Remote Island 👑 Fading Aristocracy ⚔️ Pre-War Europe

A Brief History of Montmaray

A teenage diarist chronicles her crumbling island kingdom as Nazi agents arrive hunting a relic.

— Michelle Cooper 2008 304 стр.

3.68

6 000+ оценок

📖 Epistolary Novel 🏰 Crumbling Castle 🏝️ Remote Island 👑 Fading Aristocracy ⚔️ Pre-War Europe

King Henry IV, Part 1

— William Shakespeare • 2002

A prince drinks with a corrupt rogue while his father's stolen kingdom tumbles toward rebellion.

3.8

34 000+

📜 History Play 🎭 Elizabethan Drama 👑 Wayward Prince 💔 Father-Son Reckoning ⚔️ Doomed Rebellion

King Henry IV, Part 1

A prince drinks with a corrupt rogue while his father's stolen kingdom tumbles toward rebellion.

— William Shakespeare 2002 398 стр.

3.8

34 000+ оценок

📜 History Play 🎭 Elizabethan Drama 👑 Wayward Prince 💔 Father-Son Reckoning ⚔️ Doomed Rebellion

Dark Rise

— C.S. Pacat • 2021

A London dockworker discovers he is the Dark King reborn, with doomed knights his only pursuers.

4.15

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Dark Rise

A London dockworker discovers he is the Dark King reborn, with doomed knights his only pursuers.

— C.S. Pacat 2021 464 стр.

4.15

42 000+ оценок

🖤 Enemies To Lovers 🌑 Dark Chosen One 🛡️ Doomed Knightly Order 🎩 Regency London Docks 🕯️ Gothic Atmosphere

The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels

— India Holton • 2021

A lady pirate and her would-be assassin unite against the villain stealing their flying houses.

3.64

54 000+

⚔️ Enemies To Lovers 🫖 Fantasy Of Manners 🏠 Alternate Victorian 🎭 Satirical Fantasy 🏴‍☠️ Lady Pirates

The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels

A lady pirate and her would-be assassin unite against the villain stealing their flying houses.

— India Holton 2021 336 стр.

3.64

54 000+ оценок

⚔️ Enemies To Lovers 🫖 Fantasy Of Manners 🏠 Alternate Victorian 🎭 Satirical Fantasy 🏴‍☠️ Lady Pirates

The Secret

— Kathryn Hughes • 2016

Beth's son needs a kidney. A hidden letter names the father she never knew existed.

4.16

16 000+

🔄 Dual Timeline Drama 👶 Abandoned Baby 🔐 Family Secrets 🏠 Found Family 🔍 Birth Family Search

The Secret

Beth's son needs a kidney. A hidden letter names the father she never knew existed.

— Kathryn Hughes 2016

4.16

16 000+ оценок

🔄 Dual Timeline Drama 👶 Abandoned Baby 🔐 Family Secrets 🏠 Found Family 🔍 Birth Family Search

Bacchanal

— Veronica G. Henry • 2021

A young outcast who speaks with animals finds refuge in a traveling carnival that devours children.

3.83

11 000+

🌍 African Mythology 🎪 Traveling Carnival 🖤 Found Family 🦁 Animal Communication 😈 Demonic Bargain

Bacchanal

A young outcast who speaks with animals finds refuge in a traveling carnival that devours children.

— Veronica G. Henry 2021 347 стр.

3.83

11 000+ оценок

🌍 African Mythology 🎪 Traveling Carnival 🖤 Found Family 🦁 Animal Communication 😈 Demonic Bargain

Evil Genius

— Claire Oshetsky • 2026

Trapped in a controlling marriage, a phone operator cuts off a customer whose grief will find her.

3.62

3 000+

🧠 Psychological Horror 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 💀 Dark Humor 🌁 1970s San Francisco 🌈 Queer Awakening

Evil Genius

Trapped in a controlling marriage, a phone operator cuts off a customer whose grief will find her.

— Claire Oshetsky 2026 240 стр.

3.62

3 000+ оценок

🧠 Psychological Horror 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 💀 Dark Humor 🌁 1970s San Francisco 🌈 Queer Awakening

Copenhagen

— Michael Frayn • 1998

Ghosts relive Heisenberg's visit to Bohr in 1941 Copenhagen, hunting a motive that no one can fix.

3.92

6 000+

👻 Memory Play 🎭 Theatre Of Ideas 🧪 Science And Ethics 💣 Atomic Age 🤝 Fractured Friendship

Copenhagen

Ghosts relive Heisenberg's visit to Bohr in 1941 Copenhagen, hunting a motive that no one can fix.

— Michael Frayn 1998 132 стр.

3.92

6 000+ оценок

👻 Memory Play 🎭 Theatre Of Ideas 🧪 Science And Ethics 💣 Atomic Age 🤝 Fractured Friendship

Sisi

— Allison Pataki • 2016

A restless empress flees the gilded cage, chasing wild freedom across Europe, but tragedy follows.

4.00

12 000+

📖 Biographical Fiction 💔 Forbidden Love 💧 Estranged Marriage 🏰 Gilded Prison 🥀 Doomed Romance

Sisi

A restless empress flees the gilded cage, chasing wild freedom across Europe, but tragedy follows.

— Allison Pataki 2016 464 стр.

4.00

12 000+ оценок

📖 Biographical Fiction 💔 Forbidden Love 💧 Estranged Marriage 🏰 Gilded Prison 🥀 Doomed Romance

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