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Hotel Portofino

av J.P. O'Connell • 2022

An Englishwoman's Riviera hotel harbors guests with secrets as fascism rises in 1920s Italy.

3.31

5 000+

📺 Ensemble Period Drama 🇮🇹 Italian Riviera 🖼️ Art Theft 🌍 Expatriate Community 🎖️ War Trauma

Hotel Portofino

An Englishwoman's Riviera hotel harbors guests with secrets as fascism rises in 1920s Italy.

av J.P. O'Connell 2022 330 sidor

3.31

5 000+ betyg

📺 Ensemble Period Drama 🇮🇹 Italian Riviera 🖼️ Art Theft 🌍 Expatriate Community 🎖️ War Trauma

Ljuset vi förlorade

av Jill Santopolo • 2017

They met on 9/11. He chased war zones; she built a life without him.

3.84

200 000+

🖤 Love Triangle 💌 First Love 🔄 Second Chance Romance 🥀 Bittersweet 🗽 New York City

Ljuset vi förlorade

They met on 9/11. He chased war zones; she built a life without him.

av Jill Santopolo 2017 328 sidor

3.84

200 000+ betyg

🖤 Love Triangle 💌 First Love 🔄 Second Chance Romance 🥀 Bittersweet 🗽 New York City

I morgon vid den här tiden

av Emma Straub • 2022

Alice turns 40 and wakes in 1996, a teenager again, with her father alive and vibrant.

3.80

100 000+

🖤 Father-Daughter Bond 🕰️ Time Travel To Youth 😢 Bittersweet Nostalgia 🧓 Aging Parent 🎂 Midlife Reflection

I morgon vid den här tiden

Alice turns 40 and wakes in 1996, a teenager again, with her father alive and vibrant.

av Emma Straub 2022 310 sidor

3.80

100 000+ betyg

🖤 Father-Daughter Bond 🕰️ Time Travel To Youth 😢 Bittersweet Nostalgia 🧓 Aging Parent 🎂 Midlife Reflection

Potiki

av Patricia Grace • 1995

A Māori family's ancestral coastline is threatened by a developer who sees land, not legacy.

3.87

2 000+

🗣️ MāOri Storytelling 🌊 Coastal New Zealand 📖 Oral Tradition ✊ Indigenous Resistance 🏘️ Community Vs Developer

Potiki

A Māori family's ancestral coastline is threatened by a developer who sees land, not legacy.

av Patricia Grace 1995 185 sidor

3.87

2 000+ betyg

🗣️ MāOri Storytelling 🌊 Coastal New Zealand 📖 Oral Tradition ✊ Indigenous Resistance 🏘️ Community Vs Developer

Ditt livs historia och andra berättelser

av Ted Chiang • 2002

Eight stories where language reshapes time, math comes undone, and a tower scrapes heaven.

4.25

100 000+

🗣️ Linguistic Sci-Fi 🤔 Philosophical Sci-Fi ⏳ Nonlinear Time 📐 Mathematical Fiction 🙏 Theological Sci-Fi

Ditt livs historia och andra berättelser

Eight stories where language reshapes time, math comes undone, and a tower scrapes heaven.

av Ted Chiang 2002 281 sidor

4.25

100 000+ betyg

🗣️ Linguistic Sci-Fi 🤔 Philosophical Sci-Fi ⏳ Nonlinear Time 📐 Mathematical Fiction 🙏 Theological Sci-Fi

Run

av Ann Patchett • 2007

A snowy night rescue reunites two adopted brothers with the birth mother they never knew.

3.69

58 000+

🏃 Adoption Reunion 🏠 Found Family 💔 Grief And Healing 🕊️ Maternal Sacrifice 🌆 Boston Setting

Run

A snowy night rescue reunites two adopted brothers with the birth mother they never knew.

av Ann Patchett 2007 295 sidor

3.69

58 000+ betyg

🏃 Adoption Reunion 🏠 Found Family 💔 Grief And Healing 🕊️ Maternal Sacrifice 🌆 Boston Setting

Molnkuckuckland

av Anthony Doerr • 2021

A fable about a fool chasing utopia outlasts war, fire, and centuries to connect five dreamers.

4.25

200 000+

📖 Story Within A Story 📚 Books About Books 🤝 Found Family 🦸 Unlikely Hero 🌿 Eco-Grief

Molnkuckuckland

A fable about a fool chasing utopia outlasts war, fire, and centuries to connect five dreamers.

av Anthony Doerr 2021 626 sidor

4.25

200 000+ betyg

📖 Story Within A Story 📚 Books About Books 🤝 Found Family 🦸 Unlikely Hero 🌿 Eco-Grief

Anita de Monte Laughs Last

av Xóchitl González • 2024

A Brown student unearths a murdered Cuban artist's work, and awakens her vengeful ghost.

3.78

49 000+

🎨 Art World Satire ⏳ Dual Timeline 🏛️ Campus Novel 🔥 Feminist Rage 👻 Ghostly Haunting

Anita de Monte Laughs Last

A Brown student unearths a murdered Cuban artist's work, and awakens her vengeful ghost.

av Xóchitl González 2024 342 sidor

3.78

49 000+ betyg

🎨 Art World Satire ⏳ Dual Timeline 🏛️ Campus Novel 🔥 Feminist Rage 👻 Ghostly Haunting

Längtans bok

av Sue Monk Kidd • 2020

In ancient Galilee, a scribe's daughter with a forbidden voice marries a radical carpenter, Jesus.

4.23

100 000+

📜 Biblical Reimagining 🏺 Ancient World Feminism ✍️ Woman As Writer 💍 Marriage To A Prophet 🤝 Found Family In Exile

Längtans bok

In ancient Galilee, a scribe's daughter with a forbidden voice marries a radical carpenter, Jesus.

av Sue Monk Kidd 2020 416 sidor

4.23

100 000+ betyg

📜 Biblical Reimagining 🏺 Ancient World Feminism ✍️ Woman As Writer 💍 Marriage To A Prophet 🤝 Found Family In Exile

The World Played Chess

av Robert Dugoni • 2021

A Vietnam vet's journal links a father and son to a war that never ended.

4.44

40 000+

🎖️ Vietnam War 🏖️ 1970s California 👨‍👦 Fathers And Sons 😔 Survivor's Guilt 🤝 Male Friendship

The World Played Chess

A Vietnam vet's journal links a father and son to a war that never ended.

av Robert Dugoni 2021 400 sidor

4.44

40 000+ betyg

🎖️ Vietnam War 🏖️ 1970s California 👨‍👦 Fathers And Sons 😔 Survivor's Guilt 🤝 Male Friendship

Revolutionary Road

av Richard Yates • 1961

Frank and April Wheeler are sure they're exceptional. Their suburban marriage says otherwise.

3.93

94 000+

📚 Midcentury American Fiction 🏡 Suburban Disillusionment 💔 Marriage As Prison 🎭 Performative Domesticity 🔒 Claustrophobic Atmosphere

Revolutionary Road

Frank and April Wheeler are sure they're exceptional. Their suburban marriage says otherwise.

av Richard Yates 1961 355 sidor

3.93

94 000+ betyg

📚 Midcentury American Fiction 🏡 Suburban Disillusionment 💔 Marriage As Prison 🎭 Performative Domesticity 🔒 Claustrophobic Atmosphere

Unaccustomed Earth

av Jhumpa Lahiri • 2008

Eight tales of Bengali immigrants and their American children, bound by love, divided by silence.

4.14

97 000+

🖇️ Linked Story Collection 🇮🇳 Indian Diaspora 🌱 Immigrant Children 🤫 Unspoken Grief 👥 Troubled Sibling Bond

Unaccustomed Earth

Eight tales of Bengali immigrants and their American children, bound by love, divided by silence.

av Jhumpa Lahiri 2008 352 sidor

4.14

97 000+ betyg

🖇️ Linked Story Collection 🇮🇳 Indian Diaspora 🌱 Immigrant Children 🤫 Unspoken Grief 👥 Troubled Sibling Bond

Rules of Civility

av Amor Towles • 2011

A sharp Brooklyn secretary navigates 1938 Manhattan high society after one New Year's encounter.

4.09

200 000+

🪜 Social Climbing 💔 Love Triangle 💪 Self-Made Woman 🎩 Manners And Society 🕰️ Bittersweet Nostalgia

Rules of Civility

A sharp Brooklyn secretary navigates 1938 Manhattan high society after one New Year's encounter.

av Amor Towles 2011 335 sidor

4.09

200 000+ betyg

🪜 Social Climbing 💔 Love Triangle 💪 Self-Made Woman 🎩 Manners And Society 🕰️ Bittersweet Nostalgia

Tre kvinnor

av Lisa Taddeo • 2019

Eight years inside three lives. What female desire actually looks like, and what it costs.

3.71

100 000+

🔥 Female Desire 💔 Sexual Trauma 💍 Marriage And Desire ⚖️ Power And Consent 😶 Desire And Shame

Tre kvinnor

Eight years inside three lives. What female desire actually looks like, and what it costs.

av Lisa Taddeo 2019 306 sidor

3.71

100 000+ betyg

🔥 Female Desire 💔 Sexual Trauma 💍 Marriage And Desire ⚖️ Power And Consent 😶 Desire And Shame

Tre kvinnor

av Lisa Taddeo • 2019

Female desire without the performance: eight years inside three ordinary women's most private lives.

3.71

100 000+

🔥 Female Desire 📋 Immersive Journalism 💔 Sexual Trauma ⚠️ Grooming And Abuse 🔄 Consensual Non-Monogamy

Tre kvinnor

Female desire without the performance: eight years inside three ordinary women's most private lives.

av Lisa Taddeo 2019 12 sidor

3.71

100 000+ betyg

🔥 Female Desire 📋 Immersive Journalism 💔 Sexual Trauma ⚠️ Grooming And Abuse 🔄 Consensual Non-Monogamy

Sju dagar i juni

av Tia Williams • 2021

A romance novelist faces her first love, now a reclusive literary star, at a Brooklyn panel.

3.98

200 000+

🕰️ Second Chance Romance ✍️ Writers In Love 👩‍👧 Single Mother 💞 Childhood Sweethearts ⏳ Dual Timeline

Sju dagar i juni

A romance novelist faces her first love, now a reclusive literary star, at a Brooklyn panel.

av Tia Williams 2021 336 sidor

3.98

200 000+ betyg

🕰️ Second Chance Romance ✍️ Writers In Love 👩‍👧 Single Mother 💞 Childhood Sweethearts ⏳ Dual Timeline

Wahala

av Nikki May • 2022

A glamorous old friend inserts herself into a London trio, trailing secrets that could destroy them.

3.61

18 000+

🕵️‍♀️ Domestic Noir ☠️ Toxic Female Friendship 🕷️ Manipulative Outsider ⚔️ Family Vendetta 🔥 Slow-Burn Suspense

Wahala

A glamorous old friend inserts herself into a London trio, trailing secrets that could destroy them.

av Nikki May 2022 384 sidor

3.61

18 000+ betyg

🕵️‍♀️ Domestic Noir ☠️ Toxic Female Friendship 🕷️ Manipulative Outsider ⚔️ Family Vendetta 🔥 Slow-Burn Suspense

The Housekeeper's Secret

av Sandra Schnakenburg • 2024

Beloved housekeeper's secret past: lost family, abusive asylum, promise kept for 50 years.

4.21

500+

🕵️‍♀️ Investigative Memoir 🔑 Family Secrets 🏚️ Institutional Abuse 🏥 Mental Institutions 🧠 Trauma And Memory

The Housekeeper's Secret

Beloved housekeeper's secret past: lost family, abusive asylum, promise kept for 50 years.

av Sandra Schnakenburg 2024 290 sidor

4.21

500+ betyg

🕵️‍♀️ Investigative Memoir 🔑 Family Secrets 🏚️ Institutional Abuse 🏥 Mental Institutions 🧠 Trauma And Memory

All the Forgivenesses

av Elizabeth Hardinger • 2019

After her brother's drowning, a Kentucky farm girl grows up raising everyone but herself.

4.25

20 000+

🌾 Rural Historical 🇺🇸 Early 1900s America 👩‍👧‍👦 Eldest Daughter Burden 😔 Childhood Guilt 🏚️ Hardscrabble Life

All the Forgivenesses

After her brother's drowning, a Kentucky farm girl grows up raising everyone but herself.

av Elizabeth Hardinger 2019 371 sidor

4.25

20 000+ betyg

🌾 Rural Historical 🇺🇸 Early 1900s America 👩‍👧‍👦 Eldest Daughter Burden 😔 Childhood Guilt 🏚️ Hardscrabble Life

Sweet Tooth

av Ian McEwan • 2012

In 1970s London, an MI5 recruit falls for the writer she was sent to secretly fund.

3.44

52 000+

🕵️ Literary Espionage 📖 Metafiction 💔 Spy Falls In Love 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 📝 Novel Within A Novel

Sweet Tooth

In 1970s London, an MI5 recruit falls for the writer she was sent to secretly fund.

av Ian McEwan 2012 320 sidor

3.44

52 000+ betyg

🕵️ Literary Espionage 📖 Metafiction 💔 Spy Falls In Love 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 📝 Novel Within A Novel

How Not to Die Alone

av Richard Roper • 2019

He arranges funerals for the forgotten dead. He invented a family. Now there's Peggy.

3.68

22 000+

🌤️ Uplit 🎭 Fabricated Identity 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 🫂 Found Family 🚶 Loner Protagonist

How Not to Die Alone

He arranges funerals for the forgotten dead. He invented a family. Now there's Peggy.

av Richard Roper 2019 321 sidor

3.68

22 000+ betyg

🌤️ Uplit 🎭 Fabricated Identity 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 🫂 Found Family 🚶 Loner Protagonist

True Grit

av Charles Portis • 1968

A fourteen-year-old hires a one-eyed marshal to hunt her father's killer into the Indian Territory.

4.17

74 000+

⚖️ Frontier Justice 🔍 Manhunt 👥 Unlikely Duo 😐 Deadpan Narrator 🏜️ Frontier Odyssey

True Grit

A fourteen-year-old hires a one-eyed marshal to hunt her father's killer into the Indian Territory.

av Charles Portis 1968 224 sidor

4.17

74 000+ betyg

⚖️ Frontier Justice 🔍 Manhunt 👥 Unlikely Duo 😐 Deadpan Narrator 🏜️ Frontier Odyssey

Good in Bed

av Jennifer Weiner • 2002

Her ex publishes a magazine essay about her body, and a journalist's private shame becomes public.

3.76

300 000+

🧡 Plus Size Heroine 🌱 Self-Acceptance Journey 😳 Public Humiliation 👶 Single Motherhood 💕 Found Family

Good in Bed

Her ex publishes a magazine essay about her body, and a journalist's private shame becomes public.

av Jennifer Weiner 2002 376 sidor

3.76

300 000+ betyg

🧡 Plus Size Heroine 🌱 Self-Acceptance Journey 😳 Public Humiliation 👶 Single Motherhood 💕 Found Family

Counterfeit

av Kirstin Chen • 2022

A stalled lawyer, a glamorous roommate, and a counterfeit handbag scheme too lucrative to refuse.

3.48

100 000+

🎭 Con Artist Fiction 💎 Luxury Crime ✨ Glamorous Deception 💔 Betrayed Friendship ⚖️ Moral Compromise

Counterfeit

A stalled lawyer, a glamorous roommate, and a counterfeit handbag scheme too lucrative to refuse.

av Kirstin Chen 2022 288 sidor

3.48

100 000+ betyg

🎭 Con Artist Fiction 💎 Luxury Crime ✨ Glamorous Deception 💔 Betrayed Friendship ⚖️ Moral Compromise

My Mother's Secret

av J.L. Witterick • 2013

Poland, 1942: a mother and daughter hide Jewish families underground while Nazi officers dine above.

4.2

20 000+

🕯️ Holocaust Fiction 🏚️ Hidden Refuge 🌟 Everyday Courage ✨ Hope In Darkness 🇵🇱 Occupied Poland

My Mother's Secret

Poland, 1942: a mother and daughter hide Jewish families underground while Nazi officers dine above.

av J.L. Witterick 2013 208 sidor

4.2

20 000+ betyg

🕯️ Holocaust Fiction 🏚️ Hidden Refuge 🌟 Everyday Courage ✨ Hope In Darkness 🇵🇱 Occupied Poland

The Lost Letters of Aisling

av Cynthia Ellingsen • 2024

Her Irish grandmother's letters reveal a wartime love and a child the family never named.

4.31

24 000+

🍀 Irish Historical Fiction 🔄 Dual Timeline Narrative 💌 Hidden Love Letters 🔍 Lost Child Search 🤝 Ride Or Die Friendship

The Lost Letters of Aisling

Her Irish grandmother's letters reveal a wartime love and a child the family never named.

av Cynthia Ellingsen 2024 302 sidor

4.31

24 000+ betyg

🍀 Irish Historical Fiction 🔄 Dual Timeline Narrative 💌 Hidden Love Letters 🔍 Lost Child Search 🤝 Ride Or Die Friendship

Öden och furier

av Lauren Groff • 2015

Lotto thinks their marriage is destiny. Mathilde knows what she paid to keep it that way.

3.59

100 000+

🖼️ Marriage Portrait 👥 Dual Perspective 🔐 Secret Past 🎭 Muse And Artist 💔 Tragic Romance

Öden och furier

Lotto thinks their marriage is destiny. Mathilde knows what she paid to keep it that way.

av Lauren Groff 2015 390 sidor

3.59

100 000+ betyg

🖼️ Marriage Portrait 👥 Dual Perspective 🔐 Secret Past 🎭 Muse And Artist 💔 Tragic Romance

När vi trodde på sjöjungfrur

av Barbara O'Neal • 2019

An ER doctor spots her dead sister on TV and chases the truth to New Zealand.

4.17

200 000+

👯 Estranged Sisters 🎭 Hidden Identity ⏳ Dual Timeline 💔 Childhood Trauma 🤫 Family Secrets

När vi trodde på sjöjungfrur

An ER doctor spots her dead sister on TV and chases the truth to New Zealand.

av Barbara O'Neal 2019 348 sidor

4.17

200 000+ betyg

👯 Estranged Sisters 🎭 Hidden Identity ⏳ Dual Timeline 💔 Childhood Trauma 🤫 Family Secrets

Maame

av Jessica George • 2023

A London caretaker daughter leaves home; then her father dies and she must discover herself.

4.05

100 000+

🌍 Diaspora Fiction 🏠 Caregiver Daughter 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Rift 🫂 Chosen Family 🌸 Late Bloomer

Maame

A London caretaker daughter leaves home; then her father dies and she must discover herself.

av Jessica George 2023 320 sidor

4.05

100 000+ betyg

🌍 Diaspora Fiction 🏠 Caregiver Daughter 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Rift 🫂 Chosen Family 🌸 Late Bloomer

Snö som faller på cedrar

av David Guterson • 1994

Amid snow and prejudice, a Japanese American's murder trial hinges on his wife's first love.

3.86

100 000+

⚖️ Courtroom Drama ⛩️ Japanese Internment 💔 Forbidden Love 🔒 Wrongfully Accused 🌲 Pacific Northwest

Snö som faller på cedrar

Amid snow and prejudice, a Japanese American's murder trial hinges on his wife's first love.

av David Guterson 1994 460 sidor

3.86

100 000+ betyg

⚖️ Courtroom Drama ⛩️ Japanese Internment 💔 Forbidden Love 🔒 Wrongfully Accused 🌲 Pacific Northwest

Bye, Baby

av Carola Lovering • 2024

A baby disappears during an influencer's party. Her estranged friend knows more than she's telling.

3.74

53 000+

🧠 Psychological Suspense 💔 Toxic Friendship 🏠 Domestic Suspense 📱 Social Media Facade 🕳️ Buried Secrets

Bye, Baby

A baby disappears during an influencer's party. Her estranged friend knows more than she's telling.

av Carola Lovering 2024 352 sidor

3.74

53 000+ betyg

🧠 Psychological Suspense 💔 Toxic Friendship 🏠 Domestic Suspense 📱 Social Media Facade 🕳️ Buried Secrets

The Secret Life of Sunflowers

av Marta Molnar • 2022

A struggling auctioneer inherits a diary from the woman who saved Van Gogh from obscurity.

4.08

50 000+

🕰️ Dual Timeline Fiction 🎨 Art World Fiction 📜 Lost Women's Stories 🔍 Hidden Family Secrets 🖼️ Artistic Legacy

The Secret Life of Sunflowers

A struggling auctioneer inherits a diary from the woman who saved Van Gogh from obscurity.

av Marta Molnar 2022 356 sidor

4.08

50 000+ betyg

🕰️ Dual Timeline Fiction 🎨 Art World Fiction 📜 Lost Women's Stories 🔍 Hidden Family Secrets 🖼️ Artistic Legacy

I Think You're Wrong (But I'm Listening)

av Sarah Stewart Holland • 2019

A path to disagreeing about politics without destroying relationships.

4.07

4 000+

🤝 Political Depolarization 🗣️ Civil Discourse 💬 Difficult Conversations ⛪ Faith And Politics 🔄 Echo Chambers

I Think You're Wrong (But I'm Listening)

A path to disagreeing about politics without destroying relationships.

av Sarah Stewart Holland 2019 205 sidor

4.07

4 000+ betyg

🤝 Political Depolarization 🗣️ Civil Discourse 💬 Difficult Conversations ⛪ Faith And Politics 🔄 Echo Chambers

Det runda huset

av Louise Erdrich • 2012

His mother assaulted and the law powerless, a thirteen-year-old Ojibwe boy pursues his own justice.

3.98

100 000+

🏘️ Reservation Life ⚖️ Tribal Justice 🔍 Boy Sleuths ⚔️ Vigilante Justice 🫂 Family After Violence

Det runda huset

His mother assaulted and the law powerless, a thirteen-year-old Ojibwe boy pursues his own justice.

av Louise Erdrich 2012 323 sidor

3.98

100 000+ betyg

🏘️ Reservation Life ⚖️ Tribal Justice 🔍 Boy Sleuths ⚔️ Vigilante Justice 🫂 Family After Violence

Ett träd växer i Brooklyn

av Betty Smith • 1943

A bookish tenement girl clings to reading while her charming father drinks and her mother scrubs.

4.30

500 000+

🗽 Immigrant Family Saga 🍺 Alcoholic Father 📚 Bookish Heroine 💪 Resilient Mother 💔 First Heartbreak

Ett träd växer i Brooklyn

A bookish tenement girl clings to reading while her charming father drinks and her mother scrubs.

av Betty Smith 1943 496 sidor

4.30

500 000+ betyg

🗽 Immigrant Family Saga 🍺 Alcoholic Father 📚 Bookish Heroine 💪 Resilient Mother 💔 First Heartbreak

Finding Grace

av Loretta Rothschild • 2025

A widower falls for a woman who doesn't know she is his son's egg donor.

3.83

44 000+

🖤 Grief Romance 📚 Book Club Fiction 💔 Love After Loss 🔍 Secret Parentage 👨‍👩‍👦 Blended Family

Finding Grace

A widower falls for a woman who doesn't know she is his son's egg donor.

av Loretta Rothschild 2025 336 sidor

3.83

44 000+ betyg

🖤 Grief Romance 📚 Book Club Fiction 💔 Love After Loss 🔍 Secret Parentage 👨‍👩‍👦 Blended Family

The Woman in the Library

av Sulari Gentill • 2022

A scream in the Boston Public Library turns four strangers into friends, then suspects.

3.50

88 000+

🖋️ Metafictional Mystery 🔪 Killer Among Friends ⚖️ Wrongfully Accused 🤝 Strangers Bonded By Crime 📚 Literary Suspense

The Woman in the Library

A scream in the Boston Public Library turns four strangers into friends, then suspects.

av Sulari Gentill 2022 292 sidor

3.50

88 000+ betyg

🖋️ Metafictional Mystery 🔪 Killer Among Friends ⚖️ Wrongfully Accused 🤝 Strangers Bonded By Crime 📚 Literary Suspense

How Starbucks Saved My Life

av Michael Gates Gill • 2007

He lost everything at 63. A Starbucks job taught him what privilege never could.

3.48

11 000+

📉 Downward Mobility 🧹 Service Work ✨ Dignity Of Work 👔 Privilege Examined 🔄 Midlife Career Change

How Starbucks Saved My Life

He lost everything at 63. A Starbucks job taught him what privilege never could.

av Michael Gates Gill 2007 284 sidor

3.48

11 000+ betyg

📉 Downward Mobility 🧹 Service Work ✨ Dignity Of Work 👔 Privilege Examined 🔄 Midlife Career Change

Chemistry

av Weike Wang • 2017

A Chinese-American PhD student freezes when her boyfriend proposes. Her silence corrodes everything.

3.73

26 000+

🏛️ Campus Novel 🧳 Immigrant Experience 🔬 Women In Science 💔 Mental Health Crisis 👪 Parental Pressure

Chemistry

A Chinese-American PhD student freezes when her boyfriend proposes. Her silence corrodes everything.

av Weike Wang 2017 224 sidor

3.73

26 000+ betyg

🏛️ Campus Novel 🧳 Immigrant Experience 🔬 Women In Science 💔 Mental Health Crisis 👪 Parental Pressure

The Kitchen Front

av Jennifer Ryan • 2021

A WWII cooking contest brings four women together, each hiding a private hunger behind her recipes.

3.98

35 000+

🏠 WWII Home Front 🍳 Cooking Competition 💕 Found Family 👭 Sister Rivalry 💔 Forbidden Romance

The Kitchen Front

A WWII cooking contest brings four women together, each hiding a private hunger behind her recipes.

av Jennifer Ryan 2021 408 sidor

3.98

35 000+ betyg

🏠 WWII Home Front 🍳 Cooking Competition 💕 Found Family 👭 Sister Rivalry 💔 Forbidden Romance

De förlorade ordens ordbok

av Pip Williams • 2020

Raised in the shadow of the great dictionary, a girl collects the words it leaves out.

4.01

100 000+

📖 Dictionary Making 🗳️ Women's Suffrage 🫂 Found Family 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Legacy 🏛️ Academic Setting

De förlorade ordens ordbok

Raised in the shadow of the great dictionary, a girl collects the words it leaves out.

av Pip Williams 2020 384 sidor

4.01

100 000+ betyg

📖 Dictionary Making 🗳️ Women's Suffrage 🫂 Found Family 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Legacy 🏛️ Academic Setting

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

av David Mitchell • 2010

A Dutch clerk in 1799 Japan loves a scarred midwife, but a mountain cult has claimed her.

4.03

68 000+

🏯 Edo Period Japan ⚓ Colonial Trading Post 💕 Cross-Cultural Romance ⛩️ Secret Religious Order 👩‍⚕️ Midwife Protagonist

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

A Dutch clerk in 1799 Japan loves a scarred midwife, but a mountain cult has claimed her.

av David Mitchell 2010 479 sidor

4.03

68 000+ betyg

🏯 Edo Period Japan ⚓ Colonial Trading Post 💕 Cross-Cultural Romance ⛩️ Secret Religious Order 👩‍⚕️ Midwife Protagonist

Finding Dorothy

av Elizabeth Letts • 2019

In 1938, Frank Baum's widow enters MGM's dream factory to protect Dorothy and finds Judy Garland.

4.17

35 000+

🎬 Golden Age Hollywood ⏳ Dual Timeline Novel 💍 Artist's Wife 🎥 Book To Film Adaptation 🌈 Wizard Of Oz Legacy

Finding Dorothy

In 1938, Frank Baum's widow enters MGM's dream factory to protect Dorothy and finds Judy Garland.

av Elizabeth Letts 2019 351 sidor

4.17

35 000+ betyg

🎬 Golden Age Hollywood ⏳ Dual Timeline Novel 💍 Artist's Wife 🎥 Book To Film Adaptation 🌈 Wizard Of Oz Legacy

The Guest

av Emma Cline • 2023

A grifter drifts through a wealthy beach town, trading charm for safety as the past stalks her.

3.27

100 000+

🧠 Psychological Suspense 🃏 Grifter Protagonist 💋 Femme Fatale ⚖️ Class Divide 💰 Transactional Relationships

The Guest

A grifter drifts through a wealthy beach town, trading charm for safety as the past stalks her.

av Emma Cline 2023 304 sidor

3.27

100 000+ betyg

🧠 Psychological Suspense 🃏 Grifter Protagonist 💋 Femme Fatale ⚖️ Class Divide 💰 Transactional Relationships

The Love of My Life

av Rosie Walsh • 2022

He drafts his wife's obituary during her cancer remission and finds a stranger in the details.

3.87

97 000+

🏚️ Domestic Suspense 🎭 Hidden Identity 💔 Marriage In Crisis 🤱 Postpartum Psychosis 🔍 Husband Investigates

The Love of My Life

He drafts his wife's obituary during her cancer remission and finds a stranger in the details.

av Rosie Walsh 2022 372 sidor

3.87

97 000+ betyg

🏚️ Domestic Suspense 🎭 Hidden Identity 💔 Marriage In Crisis 🤱 Postpartum Psychosis 🔍 Husband Investigates

Sky Daddy

av Kate Folk • 2025

A content moderator's secret fantasy of a fatal plane crash collides with a vision board brunch.

3.80

24 000+

🖤 Unconventional Desires 🫂 Female Friendship 💼 Workplace Satire 😈 Darkly Comic 🧘 Wellness Culture

Sky Daddy

A content moderator's secret fantasy of a fatal plane crash collides with a vision board brunch.

av Kate Folk 2025 368 sidor

3.80

24 000+ betyg

🖤 Unconventional Desires 🫂 Female Friendship 💼 Workplace Satire 😈 Darkly Comic 🧘 Wellness Culture

Strangers Drowning

av Larissa MacFarquhar • 2015

They give kidneys and fortunes to strangers. Why their goodness is more unsettling than inspiring.

3.91

2 000+

🤲 Extreme Altruism ⚖️ Moral Demandingness 💡 Effective Altruism 🧠 Moral Psychology 🐾 Animal Rights

Strangers Drowning

They give kidneys and fortunes to strangers. Why their goodness is more unsettling than inspiring.

av Larissa MacFarquhar 2015 336 sidor

3.91

2 000+ betyg

🤲 Extreme Altruism ⚖️ Moral Demandingness 💡 Effective Altruism 🧠 Moral Psychology 🐾 Animal Rights

My Beloved World

av Sonia Sotomayor • 2013

Age seven: insulin injections in the Bronx. Age fifty-five: first Latina Supreme Court justice.

4.09

34 000+

🏛️ Legal Memoirs 📈 Poverty To Power 💉 Chronic Illness 🌎 Cultural Identity 🎓 First-Generation

My Beloved World

Age seven: insulin injections in the Bronx. Age fifty-five: first Latina Supreme Court justice.

av Sonia Sotomayor 2013 336 sidor

4.09

34 000+ betyg

🏛️ Legal Memoirs 📈 Poverty To Power 💉 Chronic Illness 🌎 Cultural Identity 🎓 First-Generation

The Parrot's Perch

av Karen Keilt • 2019

Forty-five days in a Brazilian torture cell. Freedom was only the beginning of the fight.

4.23

334

🏛️ Political Imprisonment 🦋 Survivor Memoirs 🩹 Trauma Recovery 🧊 Addiction Recovery 💔 Childhood Abuse

The Parrot's Perch

Forty-five days in a Brazilian torture cell. Freedom was only the beginning of the fight.

av Karen Keilt 2019 290 sidor

4.23

334 betyg

🏛️ Political Imprisonment 🦋 Survivor Memoirs 🩹 Trauma Recovery 🧊 Addiction Recovery 💔 Childhood Abuse

Midnight at the Blackbird Café

av Heather Webber • 2019

Anna Kate must run her dead grandmother's café, where the pies deliver messages from the grave.

4.04

64 000+

🏘️ Small Town Magic 🥧 Culinary Magic 🕊️ Generational Healing ⚔️ Family Feud 💛 Found Family

Midnight at the Blackbird Café

Anna Kate must run her dead grandmother's café, where the pies deliver messages from the grave.

av Heather Webber 2019 336 sidor

4.04

64 000+ betyg

🏘️ Small Town Magic 🥧 Culinary Magic 🕊️ Generational Healing ⚔️ Family Feud 💛 Found Family

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