Историческая проза

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Историческая проза Саммари книг

Murder at Kensington Palace

— Andrea Penrose • 2019

Cousin murdered, twin accused. A satirist and a chemist hunt the real killer in Regency London.

4.15

10 000+

🧪 Scientific Murder Mystery 🎭 Aristocrat In Hiding ⚖️ Falsely Accused 🫂 Found Family 💕 Slow Burn Romance

Murder at Kensington Palace

Cousin murdered, twin accused. A satirist and a chemist hunt the real killer in Regency London.

— Andrea Penrose 2019 359 стр.

4.15

10 000+ оценок

🧪 Scientific Murder Mystery 🎭 Aristocrat In Hiding ⚖️ Falsely Accused 🫂 Found Family 💕 Slow Burn Romance

Small World

— Jonathan Evison • 2022

Four American bloodlines, 170 years, and one train heading west where their stories finally meet.

4.07

4 000+

🏛️ Generational Epic 🔗 Interwoven Lives 🧳 Immigrant Families 👥 Separated Siblings 💔 Generational Trauma

Small World

Four American bloodlines, 170 years, and one train heading west where their stories finally meet.

— Jonathan Evison 2022 480 стр.

4.07

4 000+ оценок

🏛️ Generational Epic 🔗 Interwoven Lives 🧳 Immigrant Families 👥 Separated Siblings 💔 Generational Trauma

Arcane Entanglement

— Ava Marie Salinger • 2024

A secret archmage and a magic-resistant Brute must solve a murder without falling in love.

4.08

500+

🕯️ Gaslamp Fantasy 💔 Forbidden Romance 🔥 Enemies To Lovers 🤝 Found Family 🌫️ Gothic Atmosphere

Arcane Entanglement

A secret archmage and a magic-resistant Brute must solve a murder without falling in love.

— Ava Marie Salinger 2024 422 стр.

4.08

500+ оценок

🕯️ Gaslamp Fantasy 💔 Forbidden Romance 🔥 Enemies To Lovers 🤝 Found Family 🌫️ Gothic Atmosphere

Turn Off the Light

— Jacquie Walters • 2026

A single mother moves home with her daughter. The cellar remembers a witch trial from 1630.

3.87

1 000+

🕰️ Dual Timeline Horror 🏚️ Colonial Gothic 🔥 Witch Trial Horror 🏠 Haunted Family Home 👯 Estranged Sisters

Turn Off the Light

A single mother moves home with her daughter. The cellar remembers a witch trial from 1630.

— Jacquie Walters 2026 336 стр.

3.87

1 000+ оценок

🕰️ Dual Timeline Horror 🏚️ Colonial Gothic 🔥 Witch Trial Horror 🏠 Haunted Family Home 👯 Estranged Sisters

The News from Dublin

— Colm Tóibín • 2026

Nine stories of Irish exile and scandal, where survival means burying the truth.

3.76

2 000+

🍀 Irish Diaspora 📖 Irish Short Stories ✈️ Exile And Belonging 🤫 Quiet Survival 🏛️ Political Disillusionment

The News from Dublin

Nine stories of Irish exile and scandal, where survival means burying the truth.

— Colm Tóibín 2026 304 стр.

3.76

2 000+ оценок

🍀 Irish Diaspora 📖 Irish Short Stories ✈️ Exile And Belonging 🤫 Quiet Survival 🏛️ Political Disillusionment

The Medicine Woman of Galveston

— Amanda Skenandore • 2024

A disgraced doctor joins a traveling medicine show to save her disabled son from the poorhouse.

4.03

27 000+

🎪 Traveling Medicine Show 👩‍⚕️ Women In Medicine 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family ❤️‍🔥 Slow Burn Romance 🩹 Trauma Recovery

The Medicine Woman of Galveston

A disgraced doctor joins a traveling medicine show to save her disabled son from the poorhouse.

— Amanda Skenandore 2024 384 стр.

4.03

27 000+ оценок

🎪 Traveling Medicine Show 👩‍⚕️ Women In Medicine 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family ❤️‍🔥 Slow Burn Romance 🩹 Trauma Recovery

Anil's Ghost

— Michael Ondaatje • 2000

A forensic anthropologist returns to war-torn Sri Lanka to name a skeleton exposing state killings.

3.59

19 000+

📖 Postcolonial Literature 🌏 Exile And Return 🕯️ The Disappeared 👥 Sibling Estrangement 🎨 Artist As Witness

Anil's Ghost

A forensic anthropologist returns to war-torn Sri Lanka to name a skeleton exposing state killings.

— Michael Ondaatje 2000 311 стр.

3.59

19 000+ оценок

📖 Postcolonial Literature 🌏 Exile And Return 🕯️ The Disappeared 👥 Sibling Estrangement 🎨 Artist As Witness

Arrow of Fortune

— Jacquelyn Benson • 2025

A stolen manuscript. A mythic weapon. Four friends race the British Empire across colonial India.

4.29

2 000+

🇮🇳 Colonial India 🕉️ Indian Mythology 💕 Enemies To Lovers 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Chosen Family 🗺️ Artifact Quest

Arrow of Fortune

A stolen manuscript. A mythic weapon. Four friends race the British Empire across colonial India.

— Jacquelyn Benson 2025 436 стр.

4.29

2 000+ оценок

🇮🇳 Colonial India 🕉️ Indian Mythology 💕 Enemies To Lovers 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Chosen Family 🗺️ Artifact Quest

Our Hideous Progeny

— C.E. McGill • 2023

Frankenstein's great-niece stitches life from fossils, but rivals will kill to steal her creation.

3.90

9 000+

🧟 Frankenstein Retelling 🔬 Victorian Women In Science ⚡ Scientific Hubris 🦴 Monstrous Creation 🏠 Found Family

Our Hideous Progeny

Frankenstein's great-niece stitches life from fossils, but rivals will kill to steal her creation.

— C.E. McGill 2023 400 стр.

3.90

9 000+ оценок

🧟 Frankenstein Retelling 🔬 Victorian Women In Science ⚡ Scientific Hubris 🦴 Monstrous Creation 🏠 Found Family

Cold Sassy Tree

— Olive Ann Burns • 1984

A Georgia patriarch's hasty remarriage scandalizes the town, forcing his grandson to grow up fast.

4.02

100 000+

⏳ Early 1900s 🍑 Georgia Fiction 📖 Adolescent Narrator 🗣️ Small Town Gossip 💍 Age Gap Romance

Cold Sassy Tree

A Georgia patriarch's hasty remarriage scandalizes the town, forcing his grandson to grow up fast.

— Olive Ann Burns 1984 405 стр.

4.02

100 000+ оценок

⏳ Early 1900s 🍑 Georgia Fiction 📖 Adolescent Narrator 🗣️ Small Town Gossip 💍 Age Gap Romance

The Queen's Lady

— Barbara Kyle • 1994

A Tudor lady-in-waiting must survive the King's divorce, the fires of heresy, and a forbidden love.

3.80

2 000+

🏰 Tudor England 👑 Lady-In-Waiting 📜 Historical Figures 😈 Rogue Hero ✝️ Religious Persecution

The Queen's Lady

A Tudor lady-in-waiting must survive the King's divorce, the fires of heresy, and a forbidden love.

— Barbara Kyle 1994 597 стр.

3.80

2 000+ оценок

🏰 Tudor England 👑 Lady-In-Waiting 📜 Historical Figures 😈 Rogue Hero ✝️ Religious Persecution

French Braid

— Anne Tyler • 2022

A mother drifts out of her marriage in small steps. Her family looks away.

3.63

57 000+

📜 Multi-Generational Saga 🏠 Domestic Realism 🤫 Family Secrets 🚪 Quiet Rebellion 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bond

French Braid

A mother drifts out of her marriage in small steps. Her family looks away.

— Anne Tyler 2022 244 стр.

3.63

57 000+ оценок

📜 Multi-Generational Saga 🏠 Domestic Realism 🤫 Family Secrets 🚪 Quiet Rebellion 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bond

El libro maldito de los templarios

— Francisco Díaz Valladares • 2008

The Templars never died. They hid the formula for eternal life under a Spanish ghost town.

3.67

🏰 Templar Fiction 🕵️ Conspiracy Thrillers 📜 Ancient Manuscripts ⛪ Religious Mysteries 🇪🇸 Spanish Thrillers

El libro maldito de los templarios

The Templars never died. They hid the formula for eternal life under a Spanish ghost town.

— Francisco Díaz Valladares 2008 128 стр.

3.67

24 оценок

🏰 Templar Fiction 🕵️ Conspiracy Thrillers 📜 Ancient Manuscripts ⛪ Religious Mysteries 🇪🇸 Spanish Thrillers

Billy Budd, Sailor

— Herman Melville • 1924

A guileless sailor is pressed onto a warship where his innocence becomes a capital offense.

3.20

20 000+

🎭 Moral Allegory ⛵ Age Of Sail ✝️ Christ-Like Figure ⚖️ False Accusation ⚔️ Military Justice

Billy Budd, Sailor

A guileless sailor is pressed onto a warship where his innocence becomes a capital offense.

— Herman Melville 1924 166 стр.

3.20

20 000+ оценок

🎭 Moral Allegory ⛵ Age Of Sail ✝️ Christ-Like Figure ⚖️ False Accusation ⚔️ Military Justice

Familiaris

— David Wroblewski • 2024

Stranded on an abandoned farm, a restless couple builds a life around uncanny dogs and found family.

4.19

8 000+

📜 Multigenerational Saga 🏡 Rural Americana 🐕 Dogs As Family 🤝 Found Family ✨ Mystical Realism

Familiaris

Stranded on an abandoned farm, a restless couple builds a life around uncanny dogs and found family.

— David Wroblewski 2024 979 стр.

4.19

8 000+ оценок

📜 Multigenerational Saga 🏡 Rural Americana 🐕 Dogs As Family 🤝 Found Family ✨ Mystical Realism

One More Secret

— Stina Lindenblatt • 2023

A woman hiding from a murder conviction collides with a veteran who recognizes her trauma.

4.19

500+

🕰️ Dual Timeline Romance 🏡 Small Town Romance 🩹 Trauma Healing 🎭 Hidden Identity 💜 Domestic Abuse Survivor

One More Secret

A woman hiding from a murder conviction collides with a veteran who recognizes her trauma.

— Stina Lindenblatt 2023

4.19

500+ оценок

🕰️ Dual Timeline Romance 🏡 Small Town Romance 🩹 Trauma Healing 🎭 Hidden Identity 💜 Domestic Abuse Survivor

One More Truth

— Stina Lindenblatt • 2024

A wrongly convicted woman's new life shatters when her town uncovers the past she fled.

4.48

500+

🕰️ Dual Timeline Romance 🩹 Trauma Recovery 💘 He Falls First ⚖️ Wrongful Conviction 🗝️ WWII Resistance

One More Truth

A wrongly convicted woman's new life shatters when her town uncovers the past she fled.

— Stina Lindenblatt 2024

4.48

500+ оценок

🕰️ Dual Timeline Romance 🩹 Trauma Recovery 💘 He Falls First ⚖️ Wrongful Conviction 🗝️ WWII Resistance

Make Your Way Home

— Carrie R. Moore • 2025

From Florida marshes to Appalachia, Black lives searching for a home that trauma can't touch.

3.94

274

🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 👩🏿 Black Womanhood 🫀 Embodied Trauma 🏚️ American South ⚫ Racial Violence

Make Your Way Home

From Florida marshes to Appalachia, Black lives searching for a home that trauma can't touch.

— Carrie R. Moore 2025 336 стр.

3.94

274 оценок

🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 👩🏿 Black Womanhood 🫀 Embodied Trauma 🏚️ American South ⚫ Racial Violence

Behold the Thief

— Laura Landon • 2019

Her double life protects women. His art shop hides a family conspiracy. Love could expose both.

4.39

170

🎭 Secret Identity 🏙️ Victorian London 💔 Class Divide Romance 🎨 Art Forgery 🫂 Found Family

Behold the Thief

Her double life protects women. His art shop hides a family conspiracy. Love could expose both.

— Laura Landon 2019 175 стр.

4.39

170 оценок

🎭 Secret Identity 🏙️ Victorian London 💔 Class Divide Romance 🎨 Art Forgery 🫂 Found Family

One More Betrayal

— Stina Lindenblatt • 2024

A Marine veteran fell in love with her alias. Now her real past is closing in.

4.35

500+

🕰️ Dual Timeline 💘 He Falls First 🛡️ Domestic Abuse Survivor 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 💔 Wounded Hero

One More Betrayal

A Marine veteran fell in love with her alias. Now her real past is closing in.

— Stina Lindenblatt 2024 456 стр.

4.35

500+ оценок

🕰️ Dual Timeline 💘 He Falls First 🛡️ Domestic Abuse Survivor 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 💔 Wounded Hero

There's Only One Sin in Hollywood

— Rasheed Newson • 2026

A Black fixer in 1950s Hollywood falls for a rising star, risking the studio's deadliest secrets.

4.04

1 000+

🎬 Golden Age Hollywood 🎥 Behind The Scenes 💔 Forbidden Love 🥀 Tragic Gay Romance 🕵️ Noir Atmosphere

There's Only One Sin in Hollywood

A Black fixer in 1950s Hollywood falls for a rising star, risking the studio's deadliest secrets.

— Rasheed Newson 2026 304 стр.

4.04

1 000+ оценок

🎬 Golden Age Hollywood 🎥 Behind The Scenes 💔 Forbidden Love 🥀 Tragic Gay Romance 🕵️ Noir Atmosphere

Mayluna

— Kelley McNeil • 2024

A music journalist collides with Mayluna's guarded frontman: a secret love, two decades of silence.

4.42

26 000+

🎸 Second Chance Romance 🎤 Rock Star Romance 🤫 Secret Pregnancy ⏳ Dual Timeline 🫂 Found Family

Mayluna

A music journalist collides with Mayluna's guarded frontman: a secret love, two decades of silence.

— Kelley McNeil 2024 391 стр.

4.42

26 000+ оценок

🎸 Second Chance Romance 🎤 Rock Star Romance 🤫 Secret Pregnancy ⏳ Dual Timeline 🫂 Found Family

I Died at Fallow Hall

— Bonnie Burke-Patel • 2024

Bones found beneath the roses force an English village to unearth a murder buried for decades.

3.72

500+

🏚️ Gothic Mystery ⏳ Dual Timelines 🔍 Cold Case 🏛️ Country House Secrets 🕵️ Outsider Detective

I Died at Fallow Hall

Bones found beneath the roses force an English village to unearth a murder buried for decades.

— Bonnie Burke-Patel 2024 256 стр.

3.72

500+ оценок

🏚️ Gothic Mystery ⏳ Dual Timelines 🔍 Cold Case 🏛️ Country House Secrets 🕵️ Outsider Detective

Targets of Opportunity

— Joe Weber • 1993

His identity erased, a Marine pilot flies a captured MiG into combat, hunted by both sides.

3.78

197

🛩️ Aviation Thriller 🪖 Vietnam War Era 🕶️ Covert Operations 🤝 Pilot Camaraderie ⚖️ Moral Ambiguity

Targets of Opportunity

His identity erased, a Marine pilot flies a captured MiG into combat, hunted by both sides.

— Joe Weber 1993 10 стр.

3.78

197 оценок

🛩️ Aviation Thriller 🪖 Vietnam War Era 🕶️ Covert Operations 🤝 Pilot Camaraderie ⚖️ Moral Ambiguity

We Burn Daylight

— Bret Anthony Johnston • 2024

Trapped inside a doomsday cult, she falls for the sheriff's son just as the siege begins.

3.83

2 000+

🏚️ Cult Fiction 💔 Star-Crossed Lovers 🩹 Cult Survivor 🫂 Survivor's Guilt 🔥 Slow Burn Tension

We Burn Daylight

Trapped inside a doomsday cult, she falls for the sheriff's son just as the siege begins.

— Bret Anthony Johnston 2024 352 стр.

3.83

2 000+ оценок

🏚️ Cult Fiction 💔 Star-Crossed Lovers 🩹 Cult Survivor 🫂 Survivor's Guilt 🔥 Slow Burn Tension

The Young Will Remember

— Eve J. Chung • 2026

A reporter shot down in Korea is claimed as the lost daughter of a grieving mother.

4.29

500+

⚔️ Korean War 🪷 Comfort Women ⏳ Dual Timelines 🔎 Lost Child 🫂 Found Family

The Young Will Remember

A reporter shot down in Korea is claimed as the lost daughter of a grieving mother.

— Eve J. Chung 2026 448 стр.

4.29

500+ оценок

⚔️ Korean War 🪷 Comfort Women ⏳ Dual Timelines 🔎 Lost Child 🫂 Found Family

Summer of the Smoke

— Luke Short • 1958

Wounded and broke, a scout stranded at a frontier post uncovers a trader's murderous double game.

4.18

101

🏜️ Frontier Justice 🌵 Gritty Western 🏘️ Small-Town Western 🔍 Corruption Exposed 🃏 Double-Cross Plot

Summer of the Smoke

Wounded and broke, a scout stranded at a frontier post uncovers a trader's murderous double game.

— Luke Short 1958 152 стр.

4.18

101 оценок

🏜️ Frontier Justice 🌵 Gritty Western 🏘️ Small-Town Western 🔍 Corruption Exposed 🃏 Double-Cross Plot

The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1 by Howard, Robert E.. (Del Rey,2007) [Paperback]

— Robert E. Howard • 2007

Cimmerian steel, cosmic dread, and frontier comedy: the essential Howard collected in one volume.

4.23

500+

🗡️ Sword And Sorcery 🌌 Cosmic Horror 🐙 Lovecraftian 📖 Pulp Adventure 👻 Ancient Evils

The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1 by Howard, Robert E.. (Del Rey,2007) [Paperback]

Cimmerian steel, cosmic dread, and frontier comedy: the essential Howard collected in one volume.

— Robert E. Howard 2007

4.23

500+ оценок

🗡️ Sword And Sorcery 🌌 Cosmic Horror 🐙 Lovecraftian 📖 Pulp Adventure 👻 Ancient Evils

Dominion

— Addie E. Citchens • 2025

In Dominion, Mississippi, a preacher's family unravels as their youngest son's secrets turn deadly.

3.80

13 000+

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🌳 Family Saga ⛪ Pastor's Family 👩‍👧 Mothers And Daughters 💔 Tragic Romance

Dominion

In Dominion, Mississippi, a preacher's family unravels as their youngest son's secrets turn deadly.

— Addie E. Citchens 2025 240 стр.

3.80

13 000+ оценок

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🌳 Family Saga ⛪ Pastor's Family 👩‍👧 Mothers And Daughters 💔 Tragic Romance

Lady Violet Says I Do

— Grace Burrowes • 2023

Wed to a childhood friend for convenience, she's a stranger in his castle longing for more.

4.38

1 000+

📜 Marriage Of Convenience 🌸 Childhood Friends To Lovers 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Blended Family 🔥 Emotional Slow Burn 🎭 Regency House Party

Lady Violet Says I Do

Wed to a childhood friend for convenience, she's a stranger in his castle longing for more.

— Grace Burrowes 2023 301 стр.

4.38

1 000+ оценок

📜 Marriage Of Convenience 🌸 Childhood Friends To Lovers 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Blended Family 🔥 Emotional Slow Burn 🎭 Regency House Party

Rotten to the Core

— T.E. Kinsey • 2022

A murdered cider warden, an apple in his mouth, and a secret brotherhood's twenty-year-old crime.

4.43

7 000+

🕵️ Amateur Sleuth Duo 🔐 Secret Society 💀 Cold Case Revenge 👑 Aristocrat And Servant 🎩 Edwardian England

Rotten to the Core

A murdered cider warden, an apple in his mouth, and a secret brotherhood's twenty-year-old crime.

— T.E. Kinsey 2022 333 стр.

4.43

7 000+ оценок

🕵️ Amateur Sleuth Duo 🔐 Secret Society 💀 Cold Case Revenge 👑 Aristocrat And Servant 🎩 Edwardian England

Bloom Town

— Ally North • 2024

A schoolteacher abducted by a female outlaw finds forbidden desire in a hidden ghost town refuge.

4.49

11 000+

📚 Sapphic Western ⚔️ Enemies To Lovers 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 🔗 Captivity Narrative ⛪ Religious Trauma

Bloom Town

A schoolteacher abducted by a female outlaw finds forbidden desire in a hidden ghost town refuge.

— Ally North 2024 516 стр.

4.49

11 000+ оценок

📚 Sapphic Western ⚔️ Enemies To Lovers 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 🔗 Captivity Narrative ⛪ Religious Trauma

The Hamilton Affair

— Elizabeth Cobbs • 2016

He wins a nation and a general's daughter, then risks it all for another woman.

3.87

14 000+

🏛️ American Revolution 👩 Woman Behind The Man 💔 Scandal And Redemption 🎩 Political Ambition 💕 Epic Love Story

The Hamilton Affair

He wins a nation and a general's daughter, then risks it all for another woman.

— Elizabeth Cobbs 2016 408 стр.

3.87

14 000+ оценок

🏛️ American Revolution 👩 Woman Behind The Man 💔 Scandal And Redemption 🎩 Political Ambition 💕 Epic Love Story

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