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Историческая проза Саммари книг

The Ladies of Rosings Park

— Shannon Winslow • 2018

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

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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.

— Shannon Winslow 2018 321 стр.

4.40

212 оценок

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

The Rotters' Club

— 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.

— Jonathan Coe 2001 415 стр.

3.96

16 000+ оценок

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

Tyll

— 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.

— Daniel Kehlmann 2017 474 стр.

3.95

15 000+ оценок

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

Wormwood

— 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.

— G.P. Taylor 2004 272 стр.

3.10

1 000+ оценок

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

Dunmoor

— 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.

— London Clarke 2021 355 стр.

4.00

252 оценок

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

A Time & Place for Every Laird

— 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.

— Angeline Fortin 2013 439 стр.

4.06

1 000+ оценок

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

The School for German Brides

— Aimie K. Runyan • 2022

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

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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.

— Aimie K. Runyan 2022 384 стр.

4.03

9 000+ оценок

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

One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

— 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.

— Agatha Christie 1940

3.78

46 000+ оценок

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

The Age of Light

— Whitney Scharer • 2019

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

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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.

— Whitney Scharer 2019 384 стр.

3.57

13 000+ оценок

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

The Unicorn Hunters

— Katherine Arden • 2026

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

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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.

— Katherine Arden 2026 354 стр.

3.96

4 000+ оценок

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

Forbidden Notebook

— Alba de Céspedes • 1952

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

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🖤 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.

— Alba de Céspedes 1952 288 стр.

4.25

18 000+ оценок

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

Nora Webster

— 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.

— Colm Tóibín 2014 373 стр.

3.63

24 000+ оценок

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

The Second Mrs. Astor

— 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.

— Shana Abe 2021 55 стр.

4.09

265 оценок

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

Wandering Souls

— 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.

— Cecile Pin 2023 240 стр.

4.12

19 000+ оценок

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

In the Distance

— Hernan Diaz • 2017

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

4.10

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🏜️ 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.

— Hernan Diaz 2017 256 стр.

4.10

26 000+ оценок

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

Six Wild Crowns

— Holly Race • 2025

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

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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.

— Holly Race 2025 395 стр.

3.62

1 000+ оценок

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

Last Night in Brooklyn

— Xóchitl González • 2026

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

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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.

— Xóchitl González 2026 256 стр.

3.65

4 000+ оценок

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

The Embroidered Book

— 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.

— Kate Heartfield 2022 655 стр.

3.65

2 000+ оценок

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

Tapestry

— 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.

— Belva Plain 1988 560 стр.

4.06

2 000+ оценок

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

The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams

— Daniel Nayeri • 2023

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

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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.

— Daniel Nayeri 2023 224 стр.

3.96

3 000+ оценок

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

Zoli

— 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.

— Colum McCann 2006 333 стр.

3.70

4 000+ оценок

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

These Heathens

— 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.

— Mia McKenzie 2025 272 стр.

4.16

6 000+ оценок

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

Shadows in the Moonlight

— Santa Montefiore • 2024

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

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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.

— Santa Montefiore 2024 356 стр.

4.30

5 000+ оценок

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

Doc

— 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.

— Mary Doria Russell 2011 394 стр.

4.00

17 000+ оценок

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

On Midnight Beach

— 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.

— Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick 2020 288 стр.

3.84

500+ оценок

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

Scandal in Babylon

— 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.

— Barbara Hambly 2021 240 стр.

3.77

469 оценок

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

The Pearl Diver

— 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.

— Jeff Talarigo 2005 237 стр.

3.75

1 000+ оценок

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

She Made Herself a Monster

— Anna Kovatcheva • 2026

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

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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.

— Anna Kovatcheva 2026 288 стр.

3.56

1 000+ оценок

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

Galway Bay

— 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.

— Mary Pat Kelly 2009 551 стр.

4.16

5 000+ оценок

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

How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder

— 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.

— Nina McConigley 2026 204 стр.

3.39

5 000+ оценок

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

Lake County

— Lori Roy • 2024

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

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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.

— Lori Roy 2024 311 стр.

3.81

4 000+ оценок

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

Queen Charlotte

— 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.

— Julia Quinn 2023 335 стр.

4.16

46 000+ оценок

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

Город воров

— Дэвид Бениофф • 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

Город воров

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

— Дэвид Бениофф 2008 258 стр.

4.30

100 000+ оценок

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

The Midnight Carousel

— Fiza Saeed McLynn • 2025

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

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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.

— Fiza Saeed McLynn 2025 368 стр.

3.72

1 000+ оценок

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

Bringing Down the Duke

— 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.

— Evie Dunmore 2019 335 стр.

3.92

95 000+ оценок

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

The Forgotten Midwife

— Laura Anthony • 2026

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

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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.

— Laura Anthony 2026 360 стр.

4.43

3 000+ оценок

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

The Inverts

— 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.

— Crystal Jeans 2021 400 стр.

3.22

500+ оценок

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

While Paris Slept

— Ruth Druart • 2021

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

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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.

— Ruth Druart 2021 464 стр.

4.27

12 000+ оценок

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

The Glass Palace

— 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.

— Amitav Ghosh 2000 486 стр.

4.00

28 000+ оценок

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

Etta and Otto and Russell and James

— Emma Hooper • 2015

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

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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.

— Emma Hooper 2015 277 стр.

3.67

15 000+ оценок

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

Evil Thing

— 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.

— Serena Valentino 2020 352 стр.

3.97

12 000+ оценок

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

صاحب الظل الطويل

— 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.

— Jean Webster 1912 233 стр.

4.13

76 000+ оценок

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

A prueba de fuego

— 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.

— Javier Moro 2020 400 стр.

4.19

2 000+ оценок

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

All That I Am

— 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.

— Anna Funder 2011 368 стр.

3.83

10 000+ оценок

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

After Alice

— 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.

— Gregory Maguire 2015 273 стр.

2.82

13 000+ оценок

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

The Unexpected Diva

— 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.

— Tiffany L. Warren 2025 1 стр.

4.11

500+ оценок

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

Through the Eyes of a Spy

— 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.

— Kenneth Winter 2020 336 стр.

4.79

72 оценок

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

The Witch's Daughter

— 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.

— Paula Brackston 2008 305 стр.

3.66

43 000+ оценок

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

Half Magic

— 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.

— Edward Eager 1954 192 стр.

3.95

38 000+ оценок

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

The End of the Affair

— 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.

— Graham Greene 1951 160 стр.

3.90

72 000+ оценок

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

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