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Namnen

av Jhumpa Lahiri • 2003

He was named after a Russian author, a decision that shapes his entire American life.

4.02

200 000+

🕉️ Bengali American Life 🪪 Dual Identity 🌍 Cultural Assimilation 🍂 Melancholic 🛕 Calcutta Connection

Namnen

He was named after a Russian author, a decision that shapes his entire American life.

av Jhumpa Lahiri 2003 304 sidor

4.02

200 000+ betyg

🕉️ Bengali American Life 🪪 Dual Identity 🌍 Cultural Assimilation 🍂 Melancholic 🛕 Calcutta Connection

Three Days in June

av Anne Tyler • 2025

At her daughter's wedding, Gail faces the ex-husband she betrayed and a secret she buried.

3.59

100 000+

🏡 Domestic Fiction 💒 Wedding Weekend 💕 Second Chance Romance 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Tension 🌱 Late-Life Renewal

Three Days in June

At her daughter's wedding, Gail faces the ex-husband she betrayed and a secret she buried.

av Anne Tyler 2025 165 sidor

3.59

100 000+ betyg

🏡 Domestic Fiction 💒 Wedding Weekend 💕 Second Chance Romance 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Tension 🌱 Late-Life Renewal

Tre önskningar

av Liane Moriarty • 2003

One birthday dinner, a fondue fork, and three sisters whose secrets are about to destroy them.

3.78

100 000+

⚔️ Sibling Rivalry 🔐 Family Secrets 💔 Infidelity Fallout 💍 Marriage In Crisis 🤰 Unexpected Pregnancy

Tre önskningar

One birthday dinner, a fondue fork, and three sisters whose secrets are about to destroy them.

av Liane Moriarty 2003 384 sidor

3.78

100 000+ betyg

⚔️ Sibling Rivalry 🔐 Family Secrets 💔 Infidelity Fallout 💍 Marriage In Crisis 🤰 Unexpected Pregnancy

Extremt högt och otroligt nära

av Jonathan Safran Foer • 2005

When his father dies on 9/11, a boy scours New York to find the lock a mysterious key opens.

3.97

400 000+

📜 Post 9/11 Fiction 📄 Unusual Formatting 👦 Precocious Child Narrator 🖤 Grief Exploration 🗺️ Urban Quest

Extremt högt och otroligt nära

When his father dies on 9/11, a boy scours New York to find the lock a mysterious key opens.

av Jonathan Safran Foer 2005 326 sidor

3.97

400 000+ betyg

📜 Post 9/11 Fiction 📄 Unusual Formatting 👦 Precocious Child Narrator 🖤 Grief Exploration 🗺️ Urban Quest

Vinter i paradiset

av Elin Hilderbrand • 2018

A widow uncovers her husband's secret Caribbean life: a villa, a lover, and a daughter.

4.08

100 000+

🌴 Tropical Mystery 🕵️ Secret Double Life 🔍 Domestic Suspense 💔 Love Triangle 🏝️ Caribbean Island

Vinter i paradiset

A widow uncovers her husband's secret Caribbean life: a villa, a lover, and a daughter.

av Elin Hilderbrand 2018 310 sidor

4.08

100 000+ betyg

🌴 Tropical Mystery 🕵️ Secret Double Life 🔍 Domestic Suspense 💔 Love Triangle 🏝️ Caribbean Island

Adultery

av Paulo Coelho • 2014

Her life looks perfect: wealthy husband, children, career. So why does she feel nothing at all?

3.1

61 000+

🏠 Dissatisfied Wife 💔 Marital Infidelity 🌅 Midlife Awakening 📚 Philosophical Fiction ✨ Spiritual Journey

Adultery

Her life looks perfect: wealthy husband, children, career. So why does she feel nothing at all?

av Paulo Coelho 2014 272 sidor

3.1

61 000+ betyg

🏠 Dissatisfied Wife 💔 Marital Infidelity 🌅 Midlife Awakening 📚 Philosophical Fiction ✨ Spiritual Journey

The Back of the Turtle

av Thomas King • 2014

An Indigenous scientist returns to the reserve his work destroyed, meaning to die among its ghosts.

4.06

3 000+

🌊 Magical Realism 📖 Indigenous Storytelling 🏠 Prodigal Return 💼 Corporate Greed 🌿 Environmental Disaster

The Back of the Turtle

An Indigenous scientist returns to the reserve his work destroyed, meaning to die among its ghosts.

av Thomas King 2014 518 sidor

4.06

3 000+ betyg

🌊 Magical Realism 📖 Indigenous Storytelling 🏠 Prodigal Return 💼 Corporate Greed 🌿 Environmental Disaster

The Year of Magical Thinking

av Joan Didion • 2005

Sudden death shatters reason. The irrational rituals grief demands, observed by a master stylist.

3.93

300 000+

🪦 Grief Memoir 📖 Literary Memoir 💔 Sudden Loss 🧠 Coping Mechanisms 🔙 Memory Triggers

The Year of Magical Thinking

Sudden death shatters reason. The irrational rituals grief demands, observed by a master stylist.

av Joan Didion 2005 227 sidor

3.93

300 000+ betyg

🪦 Grief Memoir 📖 Literary Memoir 💔 Sudden Loss 🧠 Coping Mechanisms 🔙 Memory Triggers

Love Your Enemies

av Arthur C. Brooks • 2019

Contempt destroys marriages and countries alike. The way out is not what you'd expect.

4.29

3 000+

🏛️ Political Polarization 💬 Civil Discourse 🧠 Emotional Regulation 🤝 Conflict Resolution 🙏 Gratitude Practice

Love Your Enemies

Contempt destroys marriages and countries alike. The way out is not what you'd expect.

av Arthur C. Brooks 2019 256 sidor

4.29

3 000+ betyg

🏛️ Political Polarization 💬 Civil Discourse 🧠 Emotional Regulation 🤝 Conflict Resolution 🙏 Gratitude Practice

Självmordssystrarna

av Jeffrey Eugenides • 2002

One sister's suicide. Four girls locked away. The boys next door will spend lifetimes wondering why.

3.78

400 000+

🏚️ Suburban Gothic 👁️ Collective Narrator 💔 Teenage Suicide 👀 Male Gaze 🏘️ Small Town Secrets

Självmordssystrarna

One sister's suicide. Four girls locked away. The boys next door will spend lifetimes wondering why.

av Jeffrey Eugenides 2002 250 sidor

3.78

400 000+ betyg

🏚️ Suburban Gothic 👁️ Collective Narrator 💔 Teenage Suicide 👀 Male Gaze 🏘️ Small Town Secrets

Bokkvinnan från Troublesome Creek

av Kim Michele Richardson • 2019

A blue-skinned packhorse librarian in 1930s Kentucky delivers books while a preacher plots her ruin.

4.21

200 000+

🏔️ 1930s Appalachia 📚 Pack Horse Librarian 🏠 Found Family 👁️ Small-Town Prejudice 📖 Books As Refuge

Bokkvinnan från Troublesome Creek

A blue-skinned packhorse librarian in 1930s Kentucky delivers books while a preacher plots her ruin.

av Kim Michele Richardson 2019 309 sidor

4.21

200 000+ betyg

🏔️ 1930s Appalachia 📚 Pack Horse Librarian 🏠 Found Family 👁️ Small-Town Prejudice 📖 Books As Refuge

Middlesex

av Jeffrey Eugenides • 2002

In 1970s Detroit, teenage Calliope discovers her body's secret is her immigrant family's secret too.

4.04

600 000+

🏛️ Immigrant Family Saga 🦋 Gender Identity 🔒 Family Secrets 💔 Forbidden Love 🌙 Adolescent Desire

Middlesex

In 1970s Detroit, teenage Calliope discovers her body's secret is her immigrant family's secret too.

av Jeffrey Eugenides 2002 529 sidor

4.04

600 000+ betyg

🏛️ Immigrant Family Saga 🦋 Gender Identity 🔒 Family Secrets 💔 Forbidden Love 🌙 Adolescent Desire

Magins regler

av Alice Hoffman • 2017

Three siblings forbidden from magic discover their witch heritage and a curse dooms their lovers.

4.01

100 000+

🧙 Magical Family Saga 🧹 Witchy Historical 💀 Cursed Bloodline 💔 Forbidden Romance 👥 Sibling Bonds

Magins regler

Three siblings forbidden from magic discover their witch heritage and a curse dooms their lovers.

av Alice Hoffman 2017 369 sidor

4.01

100 000+ betyg

🧙 Magical Family Saga 🧹 Witchy Historical 💀 Cursed Bloodline 💔 Forbidden Romance 👥 Sibling Bonds

Det sista han sa till mig

av Laura Dave • 2021

Her husband disappears. To protect his hostile daughter, she must uncover the past he invented.

3.83

1 000 000+

🏠 Domestic Suspense 🛡️ Witness Protection 🎭 Hidden Identity 🤝 Found Family 💔 Parental Sacrifice

Det sista han sa till mig

Her husband disappears. To protect his hostile daughter, she must uncover the past he invented.

av Laura Dave 2021 307 sidor

3.83

1 000 000+ betyg

🏠 Domestic Suspense 🛡️ Witness Protection 🎭 Hidden Identity 🤝 Found Family 💔 Parental Sacrifice

Gilead

av Marilynne Robinson • 2004

Facing death, an aging Iowa preacher writes his young son the story of his soul.

3.85

100 000+

✉️ Epistolary Novel ✝️ Theological Fiction 🌾 Small Town Midwest 🏠 Prodigal Son 🕯️ Quiet Literary

Gilead

Facing death, an aging Iowa preacher writes his young son the story of his soul.

av Marilynne Robinson 2004 247 sidor

3.85

100 000+ betyg

✉️ Epistolary Novel ✝️ Theological Fiction 🌾 Small Town Midwest 🏠 Prodigal Son 🕯️ Quiet Literary

The Phoenix Crown

av Kate Quinn • 2024

In 1906 San Francisco, three women track a vanished artist into a charming patron's private asylum.

3.86

51 000+

🔍 Historical Mystery 💕 Sapphic Romance 🎭 Hidden Identity 👯 Female Friendship 🕰️ Edwardian Era

The Phoenix Crown

In 1906 San Francisco, three women track a vanished artist into a charming patron's private asylum.

av Kate Quinn 2024 384 sidor

3.86

51 000+ betyg

🔍 Historical Mystery 💕 Sapphic Romance 🎭 Hidden Identity 👯 Female Friendship 🕰️ Edwardian Era

The Little Paris Bookshop

av Nina George • 2013

A Paris bookseller heals heartache with novels. His own waited twenty years in an unopened letter.

3.50

100 000+

📚 Bibliotherapy 📖 Bookish Fiction 🚢 River Journey 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 💕 Second Chance Love

The Little Paris Bookshop

A Paris bookseller heals heartache with novels. His own waited twenty years in an unopened letter.

av Nina George 2013 392 sidor

3.50

100 000+ betyg

📚 Bibliotherapy 📖 Bookish Fiction 🚢 River Journey 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 💕 Second Chance Love

Tjänarinnans berättelse

av Margaret Atwood • 1985

The Republic of Gilead took her name, her family, and her freedom. Now it demands her womb.

4.15

2 000 000+

⛪ Theocratic Patriarchy 🤰 Reproductive Control 🕯️ Secret Defiance 😰 Claustrophobic Dread 👁️ Surveillance State

Tjänarinnans berättelse

The Republic of Gilead took her name, her family, and her freedom. Now it demands her womb.

av Margaret Atwood 1985 311 sidor

4.15

2 000 000+ betyg

⛪ Theocratic Patriarchy 🤰 Reproductive Control 🕯️ Secret Defiance 😰 Claustrophobic Dread 👁️ Surveillance State

On Beauty

av Zadie Smith • 2005

An academic feud turns intimate when two rival professors' families fall into each other's lives.

3.78

91 000+

🏛️ Campus Novel 🎭 Academic Satire 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Drama 💔 Marriage In Crisis 🌍 Culture Clash

On Beauty

An academic feud turns intimate when two rival professors' families fall into each other's lives.

av Zadie Smith 2005 445 sidor

3.78

91 000+ betyg

🏛️ Campus Novel 🎭 Academic Satire 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Drama 💔 Marriage In Crisis 🌍 Culture Clash

Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn

av Mark Dunn • 2001

Letters are outlawed one by one on an island of language. A young woman writes back.

3.94

59 000+

🖋️ Epistolary Novel 🎭 Satirical Fable 🔇 Censorship 🧩 Wordplay And Language 📐 Experimental Fiction

Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn

Letters are outlawed one by one on an island of language. A young woman writes back.

av Mark Dunn 2001

3.94

59 000+ betyg

🖋️ Epistolary Novel 🎭 Satirical Fable 🔇 Censorship 🧩 Wordplay And Language 📐 Experimental Fiction

The Unwedding

av Ally Condie • 2024

A canceled wedding, a drowned groom, a resort cut off by a storm. A woman investigates.

3.19

73 000+

🔒 Locked Room Mystery ⛈️ Trapped By Storm 💍 Wedding Gone Wrong 🔍 Amateur Sleuth 🤝 Found Family

The Unwedding

A canceled wedding, a drowned groom, a resort cut off by a storm. A woman investigates.

av Ally Condie 2024 339 sidor

3.19

73 000+ betyg

🔒 Locked Room Mystery ⛈️ Trapped By Storm 💍 Wedding Gone Wrong 🔍 Amateur Sleuth 🤝 Found Family

Framed

av John Grisham • 2024

The innocent confess. Eyewitnesses err. Science is fudged. The system buries its mistakes.

4.10

27 000+

🏛️ Wrongful Convictions ⚖️ Criminal Justice Reform 🔍 Innocence Movement 🗣️ False Confessions 🧬 Forensic Flaws

Framed

The innocent confess. Eyewitnesses err. Science is fudged. The system buries its mistakes.

av John Grisham 2024 368 sidor

4.10

27 000+ betyg

🏛️ Wrongful Convictions ⚖️ Criminal Justice Reform 🔍 Innocence Movement 🗣️ False Confessions 🧬 Forensic Flaws

Föräldralösa på tåget

av Christina Baker Kline • 2013

An elderly woman shares her orphan-train past with the foster teen assigned to clean her attic.

4.20

400 000+

📜 Dual Timeline 🚂 Orphan Train History 👵 Intergenerational Friendship 🏡 Found Family 🧑‍⚖️ Foster Care System

Föräldralösa på tåget

An elderly woman shares her orphan-train past with the foster teen assigned to clean her attic.

av Christina Baker Kline 2013 278 sidor

4.20

400 000+ betyg

📜 Dual Timeline 🚂 Orphan Train History 👵 Intergenerational Friendship 🏡 Found Family 🧑‍⚖️ Foster Care System

Hang the Moon

av Jeannette Walls • 2023

Banished as a child, a bootlegger's daughter returns to claim his empire from a pious half-sister.

3.81

83 000+

🥃 Prohibition Era 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Saga 🏠 Prodigal Daughter 🚗 Whiskey Running 🤝 Found Family

Hang the Moon

Banished as a child, a bootlegger's daughter returns to claim his empire from a pious half-sister.

av Jeannette Walls 2023 368 sidor

3.81

83 000+ betyg

🥃 Prohibition Era 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Saga 🏠 Prodigal Daughter 🚗 Whiskey Running 🤝 Found Family

Hector and the Search for Happiness

av François Lelord • 2002

A psychiatrist who cannot make his patients happy travels the world to learn what does.

3.48

17 000+

🦊 Philosophical Fable 🧭 Quest For Wisdom 🌍 World Journey 😏 Gentle Satire 🌤️ Feel-Good Philosophy

Hector and the Search for Happiness

A psychiatrist who cannot make his patients happy travels the world to learn what does.

av François Lelord 2002 135 sidor

3.48

17 000+ betyg

🦊 Philosophical Fable 🧭 Quest For Wisdom 🌍 World Journey 😏 Gentle Satire 🌤️ Feel-Good Philosophy

Stora små lögner

av Liane Moriarty • 2017

A trivia night death, a playground feud, and three mothers guarding their secrets.

4.31

1 000 000+

🖤 Domestic Thriller 🏫 Schoolyard Politics 💔 Domestic Abuse 🌊 Coastal Community 👭 Female Friendship

Stora små lögner

A trivia night death, a playground feud, and three mothers guarding their secrets.

av Liane Moriarty 2017 460 sidor

4.31

1 000 000+ betyg

🖤 Domestic Thriller 🏫 Schoolyard Politics 💔 Domestic Abuse 🌊 Coastal Community 👭 Female Friendship

Den goda jorden

av Pearl S. Buck • 1931

Famine drives a farmer to the city, where a courtesan threatens his bond with the land.

4.01

200 000+

🏮 Pre-Communist China 🌾 Farming Life 💰 Rags To Riches 🏞️ Land As Legacy 🌆 Country Vs City

Den goda jorden

Famine drives a farmer to the city, where a courtesan threatens his bond with the land.

av Pearl S. Buck 1931 418 sidor

4.01

200 000+ betyg

🏮 Pre-Communist China 🌾 Farming Life 💰 Rags To Riches 🏞️ Land As Legacy 🌆 Country Vs City

Bortom trollstaven

av Tom Felton • 2022

Draco Malfoy taught him to sneer. Three strangers taught him how to live.

4.28

100 000+

🎬 Celebrity Memoir 🌟 Child Stardom 🩹 Addiction Recovery 🎥 Behind The Scenes 🎭 Fame And Identity

Bortom trollstaven

Draco Malfoy taught him to sneer. Three strangers taught him how to live.

av Tom Felton 2022 288 sidor

4.28

100 000+ betyg

🎬 Celebrity Memoir 🌟 Child Stardom 🩹 Addiction Recovery 🎥 Behind The Scenes 🎭 Fame And Identity

The Hotel Nantucket

av Elin Hilderbrand • 2022

She takes over a haunted Nantucket hotel. The ghost isn't the hardest guest to please.

4.05

300 000+

🏖️ Nantucket Island 🏨 Historic Hotel 🎭 Ensemble Cast 🌱 Starting Over 📱 Influencer Culture

The Hotel Nantucket

She takes over a haunted Nantucket hotel. The ghost isn't the hardest guest to please.

av Elin Hilderbrand 2022 416 sidor

4.05

300 000+ betyg

🏖️ Nantucket Island 🏨 Historic Hotel 🎭 Ensemble Cast 🌱 Starting Over 📱 Influencer Culture

Jitterbug Perfume

av Tom Robbins • 1984

A waitress chasing the perfect scent collides with a centuries-old quest to bottle immortality.

4.23

81 000+

🔮 Immortality Quest 🌸 Perfume As Magic 🏛️ Myth Meets Modernity ⏳ Parallel Timelines 🎭 Whimsical Philosophy

Jitterbug Perfume

A waitress chasing the perfect scent collides with a centuries-old quest to bottle immortality.

av Tom Robbins 1984 342 sidor

4.23

81 000+ betyg

🔮 Immortality Quest 🌸 Perfume As Magic 🏛️ Myth Meets Modernity ⏳ Parallel Timelines 🎭 Whimsical Philosophy

Mitt år av vila och avkoppling

av Ottessa Moshfegh • 2018

She's young, rich, and so empty she plans to drug herself into a year-long hibernation.

3.60

500 000+

👤 Female Misanthrope 🗣️ Toxic Friendship 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 😐 Deadpan Satire 🌫️ Eerie Calm

Mitt år av vila och avkoppling

She's young, rich, and so empty she plans to drug herself into a year-long hibernation.

av Ottessa Moshfegh 2018 289 sidor

3.60

500 000+ betyg

👤 Female Misanthrope 🗣️ Toxic Friendship 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 😐 Deadpan Satire 🌫️ Eerie Calm

Anna O

av Matthew Blake • 2024

A murder suspect has slept four years. One sleep psychologist is determined to wake her.

3.43

31 000+

😴 Sleep Disorder 🔍 Psychologist Sleuth 🏠 Family Secrets ⚖️ Medical Ethics 📺 Trial By Media

Anna O

A murder suspect has slept four years. One sleep psychologist is determined to wake her.

av Matthew Blake 2024 421 sidor

3.43

31 000+ betyg

😴 Sleep Disorder 🔍 Psychologist Sleuth 🏠 Family Secrets ⚖️ Medical Ethics 📺 Trial By Media

Kindred

av Octavia E. Butler • 1979

A Black woman is ripped through time to save her white ancestor: a slaveholder's son.

4.31

200 000+

⛓️ Neo-Slave Narrative ⏳ Time Slip 🏚️ Antebellum South 🔗 Forced Complicity 🎭 Toxic Dependency

Kindred

A Black woman is ripped through time to save her white ancestor: a slaveholder's son.

av Octavia E. Butler 1979 288 sidor

4.31

200 000+ betyg

⛓️ Neo-Slave Narrative ⏳ Time Slip 🏚️ Antebellum South 🔗 Forced Complicity 🎭 Toxic Dependency

Daisy Jones & The Six

av Taylor Jenkins Reid • 2019

A magnetic singer joins a rising band. The frontman is married. Their creative fire makes history.

4.20

1 000 000+

🎙️ Oral History Format 🎸 1970s Rock Scene 💔 Forbidden Chemistry 🎵 Band Dysfunction 🎧 Creative Collaboration

Daisy Jones & The Six

A magnetic singer joins a rising band. The frontman is married. Their creative fire makes history.

av Taylor Jenkins Reid 2019 10 sidor

4.20

1 000 000+ betyg

🎙️ Oral History Format 🎸 1970s Rock Scene 💔 Forbidden Chemistry 🎵 Band Dysfunction 🎧 Creative Collaboration

Expecting Adam

av Martha N. Beck • 1999

A Harvard scholar, a Down syndrome diagnosis, and the spiritual visions that saved her pregnancy.

3.85

10 000+

🧬 Down Syndrome ✨ Spiritual Awakening 🎓 Academic Pressure 🧸 Special Needs Parenting ♿ Disability Rights

Expecting Adam

A Harvard scholar, a Down syndrome diagnosis, and the spiritual visions that saved her pregnancy.

av Martha N. Beck 1999 248 sidor

3.85

10 000+ betyg

🧬 Down Syndrome ✨ Spiritual Awakening 🎓 Academic Pressure 🧸 Special Needs Parenting ♿ Disability Rights

In the Garden of Beasts

av Erik Larson • 2011

A professor becomes ambassador to Hitler's Berlin. His daughter falls in love with the Nazis.

3.90

200 000+

🏴 Nazi Germany 📜 Diplomatic History ⚠️ Rise Of Totalitarianism 👁️ Eyewitness Accounts 🕊️ Appeasement

In the Garden of Beasts

A professor becomes ambassador to Hitler's Berlin. His daughter falls in love with the Nazis.

av Erik Larson 2011 448 sidor

3.90

200 000+ betyg

🏴 Nazi Germany 📜 Diplomatic History ⚠️ Rise Of Totalitarianism 👁️ Eyewitness Accounts 🕊️ Appeasement

Il cerchio dei giorni

av Ken Follett • 2025

Fire destroys the sacred circle. A priestess and a builder vow to raise one that endures.

3.87

38 000+

🏛️ Ancient Britain 🪨 Monument Building 🫂 Found Family 🌟 Visionary Outcast 📜 Sweeping Epic

Il cerchio dei giorni

Fire destroys the sacred circle. A priestess and a builder vow to raise one that endures.

av Ken Follett 2025 704 sidor

3.87

38 000+ betyg

🏛️ Ancient Britain 🪨 Monument Building 🫂 Found Family 🌟 Visionary Outcast 📜 Sweeping Epic

Saturday

av Ian McEwan • 2005

A neurosurgeon's unease over war and a volatile stranger threaten his family's Saturday dinner.

3.64

74 000+

🕰️ Day In The Life 🏚️ Home Invasion 🌐 Post-9/11 Anxiety 📜 Poetry As Solace ⚕️ Medical Ethics

Saturday

A neurosurgeon's unease over war and a volatile stranger threaten his family's Saturday dinner.

av Ian McEwan 2005 289 sidor

3.64

74 000+ betyg

🕰️ Day In The Life 🏚️ Home Invasion 🌐 Post-9/11 Anxiety 📜 Poetry As Solace ⚕️ Medical Ethics

A Girl Returned

av Donatella Di Pietrantonio • 2017

Returned to her struggling birth family at thirteen, an unexpected sister becomes her anchor.

4.09

29 000+

🍋 Italian Coming-Of-Age 📵 Maternal Absence 🏘 Dual Families 🔐 Family Secrets 👯 Sisterly Bond

A Girl Returned

Returned to her struggling birth family at thirteen, an unexpected sister becomes her anchor.

av Donatella Di Pietrantonio 2017 167 sidor

4.09

29 000+ betyg

🍋 Italian Coming-Of-Age 📵 Maternal Absence 🏘 Dual Families 🔐 Family Secrets 👯 Sisterly Bond

Om fem år

av Rebecca Serle • 2020

A Manhattan lawyer's perfect plan shatters after a vision reveals a different man in her future.

3.78

600 000+

👭 Female Friendship 🎗️ Terminal Illness 💔 Bittersweet 🔮 Premonition 💫 Fated Meeting

Om fem år

A Manhattan lawyer's perfect plan shatters after a vision reveals a different man in her future.

av Rebecca Serle 2020 272 sidor

3.78

600 000+ betyg

👭 Female Friendship 🎗️ Terminal Illness 💔 Bittersweet 🔮 Premonition 💫 Fated Meeting

The Last Lecture

av Randy Pausch • 2008

A man with months to live gave one last lecture. The subject: how to live.

4.26

300 000+

🏥 Cancer Memoir 🌟 Dream Pursuit 🧗 Grit And Perseverance ⏱️ Time Management ☀️ Choosing Optimism

The Last Lecture

A man with months to live gave one last lecture. The subject: how to live.

av Randy Pausch 2008 224 sidor

4.26

300 000+ betyg

🏥 Cancer Memoir 🌟 Dream Pursuit 🧗 Grit And Perseverance ⏱️ Time Management ☀️ Choosing Optimism

The Villa

av Rachel Hawkins • 2023

An Italian villa's dark past consumes two writers whose friendship is already on the edge.

3.62

100 000+

🕰️ Dual Timeline Mystery 🔪 Toxic Friendship 🎨 Creative Rivalry 🏚️ Gothic Villa 🤥 Unreliable Narrator

The Villa

An Italian villa's dark past consumes two writers whose friendship is already on the edge.

av Rachel Hawkins 2023 276 sidor

3.62

100 000+ betyg

🕰️ Dual Timeline Mystery 🔪 Toxic Friendship 🎨 Creative Rivalry 🏚️ Gothic Villa 🤥 Unreliable Narrator

The Tortilla Curtain

av T. Coraghessan Boyle • 1995

A nature writer hits an undocumented man. His gated community builds walls. Two families collide.

3.66

34 000+

🎭 Social Satire 🏚️ Undocumented Lives 🎪 Liberal Hypocrisy 💰 Class Divide 📖 Dual Narratives

The Tortilla Curtain

A nature writer hits an undocumented man. His gated community builds walls. Two families collide.

av T. Coraghessan Boyle 1995 355 sidor

3.66

34 000+ betyg

🎭 Social Satire 🏚️ Undocumented Lives 🎪 Liberal Hypocrisy 💰 Class Divide 📖 Dual Narratives

Take My Hand

av Dolen Perkins-Valdez • 2022

A Black nurse in 1970s Alabama discovers her clinic is sterilizing the young sisters she serves.

4.36

100 000+

⚖️ Reproductive Injustice 🩺 Medical Racism 🌾 Rural South 👯‍♀️ Sisterly Devotion 🫂 Found Family

Take My Hand

A Black nurse in 1970s Alabama discovers her clinic is sterilizing the young sisters she serves.

av Dolen Perkins-Valdez 2022 368 sidor

4.36

100 000+ betyg

⚖️ Reproductive Injustice 🩺 Medical Racism 🌾 Rural South 👯‍♀️ Sisterly Devotion 🫂 Found Family

Oskuldens tid

av Edith Wharton • 1920

An engaged New York lawyer falls for his fiancée's cousin, a countess who fled her marriage.

3.97

100 000+

🏙️ Gilded Age New York 💔 Forbidden Love ⚖️ Duty Versus Desire 🎭 Unconventional Woman 🥀 Restrained Longing

Oskuldens tid

An engaged New York lawyer falls for his fiancée's cousin, a countess who fled her marriage.

av Edith Wharton 1920 293 sidor

3.97

100 000+ betyg

🏙️ Gilded Age New York 💔 Forbidden Love ⚖️ Duty Versus Desire 🎭 Unconventional Woman 🥀 Restrained Longing

March

av Geraldine Brooks • 2005

The father of Little Women writes home from war, hiding the brutality eroding his faith.

3.82

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