Historisk fiktion

Verkliga personer och avgörande ögonblick från vårt förflutna väcks till liv genom fängslande berättelser som blandar dokumenterade fakta med fantasifullt berättande. Oavsett om de följer berömda gestalter eller vardagliga karaktärer, transporterar dessa böcker läsarna till rikt detaljerade världar formade av autentiska seder, konflikter och kulturella krafter från sina tidsperioder.

Historisk fiktion Boksammanfattningar

Alla mörkrets färger

av Chris Whitaker

A one-eyed boy saves a girl and vanishes. A beekeeper's daughter makes finding him her life.

4.23

500 000+

🏚️ Small Town Noir 🔍 Amateur Sleuth ⛓️ Kidnapped Protagonist 🎨 Art And Obsession ⚖️ Wrongful Conviction

Immersiv

Alla mörkrets färger

A one-eyed boy saves a girl and vanishes. A beekeeper's daughter makes finding him her life.

av Chris Whitaker 2024 595 sidor

4.23

500 000+ betyg

🏚️ Small Town Noir 🔍 Amateur Sleuth ⛓️ Kidnapped Protagonist 🎨 Art And Obsession ⚖️ Wrongful Conviction

The Briar Club

av Kate Quinn

Thanksgiving night, 1954: a body in a D.C. boarding house, and the house knows the killer.

4.28

300 000+

🫂 Found Family 🇺🇸 1950s America 🚩 Soviet Defector 🏛️ Washington Dc 👩‍❤️‍👩 1950s Lesbian Romance

Immersiv

The Briar Club

Thanksgiving night, 1954: a body in a D.C. boarding house, and the house knows the killer.

av Kate Quinn 2024 432 sidor

4.28

300 000+ betyg

🫂 Found Family 🇺🇸 1950s America 🚩 Soviet Defector 🏛️ Washington Dc 👩‍❤️‍👩 1950s Lesbian Romance

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

av Stephen Graham Jones

At a Montana church in 1912, a Blackfeet vampire arrives to confess forty years of revenge.

3.96

61 000+

🪶 Indigenous Horror 🏛️ Colonialism As Horror 🩸 Vampire Transformation 💔 Generational Trauma 🦴 Body Horror

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter Sammanfattning

Immersiv

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

At a Montana church in 1912, a Blackfeet vampire arrives to confess forty years of revenge.

av Stephen Graham Jones 2025 448 sidor

3.96

61 000+ betyg

🪶 Indigenous Horror 🏛️ Colonialism As Horror 🩸 Vampire Transformation 💔 Generational Trauma 🦴 Body Horror

गोदान [Godan]

av Munshi Premchand

A peasant's dream of owning a cow becomes the instrument of his destruction in colonial India.

4.43

9 000+

🏭 Social Realist Novel 📚 Hindi Literature 🇮🇳 Colonial India ⛓️ Systemic Oppression 💪 Strong Peasant Women

Immersiv

गोदान [Godan]

A peasant's dream of owning a cow becomes the instrument of his destruction in colonial India.

av Munshi Premchand 1936 456 sidor

4.43

9 000+ betyg

🏭 Social Realist Novel 📚 Hindi Literature 🇮🇳 Colonial India ⛓️ Systemic Oppression 💪 Strong Peasant Women

Namnen

av Florence Knapp

One mother, one name to choose: three parallel lives for her son unfold at once.

4.13

300 000+

🕰️ Multiple Timelines 🔮 What If Lives 🥀 Domestic Violence 🫂 Found Family 🖤 Generational Trauma

Immersiv

Namnen

One mother, one name to choose: three parallel lives for her son unfold at once.

av Florence Knapp 2025 328 sidor

4.13

300 000+ betyg

🕰️ Multiple Timelines 🔮 What If Lives 🥀 Domestic Violence 🫂 Found Family 🖤 Generational Trauma

Den store Gatsby

av F. Scott Fitzgerald

Gatsby's mansion teemed with strangers. The woman he loved was across the bay, married to another.

3.93

5 000 000+

🥂 Roaring Twenties 💔 Obsessive Love 👁️ Unreliable Narrator 💰 Old Money Vs New Money 🍂 Elegiac

Immersiv

Den store Gatsby

Gatsby's mansion teemed with strangers. The woman he loved was across the bay, married to another.

av F. Scott Fitzgerald 1925 180 sidor

3.93

5 000 000+ betyg

🥂 Roaring Twenties 💔 Obsessive Love 👁️ Unreliable Narrator 💰 Old Money Vs New Money 🍂 Elegiac

Stolthet och fördom

av Jane Austen

A gentleman's careless insult sparks a battle of wits that neither heart can afford to lose.

4.30

4 000 000+

🎩 Regency Romance ⚔️ Enemies To Lovers 💬 Witty Banter 🎭 Social Satire 🔥 Slow Burn Romance

Immersiv

Stolthet och fördom

A gentleman's careless insult sparks a battle of wits that neither heart can afford to lose.

av Jane Austen 1813 279 sidor

4.30

4 000 000+ betyg

🎩 Regency Romance ⚔️ Enemies To Lovers 💬 Witty Banter 🎭 Social Satire 🔥 Slow Burn Romance

The Frozen River

av Ariel Lawhon

1789 Maine: a midwife finds a frozen body. The judge says drowning. She says murder.

4.38

500 000+

🤰 Midwife Protagonist 🪶 Early America ⚖️ Corrupt Justice System 🗡️ Vigilante Justice 👩‍🦳 Older Female Lead

Immersiv

The Frozen River

1789 Maine: a midwife finds a frozen body. The judge says drowning. She says murder.

av Ariel Lawhon 2023 448 sidor

4.38

500 000+ betyg

🤰 Midwife Protagonist 🪶 Early America ⚖️ Corrupt Justice System 🗡️ Vigilante Justice 👩‍🦳 Older Female Lead

Atmosphere

av Taylor Jenkins Reid

Two women astronauts hide a love that could ground them forever in the 1980s space program.

4.32

900 000+

💕 Sapphic Romance 🚪 Closeted Love 🔬 Women In Stem 🏠 Found Family 🔥 Slow Burn Romance

Immersiv

Atmosphere

Two women astronauts hide a love that could ground them forever in the 1980s space program.

av Taylor Jenkins Reid 2025 337 sidor

4.32

900 000+ betyg

💕 Sapphic Romance 🚪 Closeted Love 🔬 Women In Stem 🏠 Found Family 🔥 Slow Burn Romance

Evelyn Hugos sju män

av Taylor Jenkins Reid

Reclusive screen legend Evelyn Hugo tells a journalist the love story she hid behind seven husbands.

4.39

4 000 000+

🎬 Old Hollywood 💋 Sapphic Romance 💍 Fake Marriage 🏠 Found Family 💔 Second Chance Romance

Immersiv

Evelyn Hugos sju män

Reclusive screen legend Evelyn Hugo tells a journalist the love story she hid behind seven husbands.

av Taylor Jenkins Reid 2017 389 sidor

4.39

4 000 000+ betyg

🎬 Old Hollywood 💋 Sapphic Romance 💍 Fake Marriage 🏠 Found Family 💔 Second Chance Romance

The Devils

av Joe Abercrombie

A fake princess, five monsters, and an empire that devours anyone who reaches for its throne.

4.20

78 000+

🗡️ Grimdark Fantasy 👹 Monster Squad 🎭 Fake Identity ⛪ Corrupt Church 😈 Dark Humor

Immersiv

The Devils

A fake princess, five monsters, and an empire that devours anyone who reaches for its throne.

av Joe Abercrombie 2025 565 sidor

4.20

78 000+ betyg

🗡️ Grimdark Fantasy 👹 Monster Squad 🎭 Fake Identity ⛪ Corrupt Church 😈 Dark Humor

Broken Country

av Clare Leslie Hall

A farmer's wife loved another man. Her husband is dead. The police demand the truth.

4.27

600 000+

🏞️ Pastoral Tragedy 💔 Love Triangle 🔄 First Love Returns 🏰 Class Divide Romance 🤫 Hidden Paternity

Immersiv

Broken Country

A farmer's wife loved another man. Her husband is dead. The police demand the truth.

av Clare Leslie Hall 2025 319 sidor

4.27

600 000+ betyg

🏞️ Pastoral Tragedy 💔 Love Triangle 🔄 First Love Returns 🏰 Class Divide Romance 🤫 Hidden Paternity

El Filibusterismo

av José Rizal

A disguised jeweler plots to bomb Manila's colonial rulers and reclaim his lost love.

4.26

6 000+

✊ Colonial Resistance ⛪️ Corrupt Clergy 💥 Failed Revolution 🎭 Revenge Tragedy 🥀 Tragic Sacrifice

Immersiv

El Filibusterismo

A disguised jeweler plots to bomb Manila's colonial rulers and reclaim his lost love.

av José Rizal 1891 360 sidor

4.26

6 000+ betyg

✊ Colonial Resistance ⛪️ Corrupt Clergy 💥 Failed Revolution 🎭 Revenge Tragedy 🥀 Tragic Sacrifice

As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

av Zoulfa Katouh

A teen surgeon haunted by Fear falls for the boy filming Syria's dying city.

4.45

100 000+

🏚️ Syrian Civil War 💔 Wartime Romance 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🩺 Survivor's Guilt 🌊 Refugee Journey

As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow Sammanfattning

Immersiv

As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

A teen surgeon haunted by Fear falls for the boy filming Syria's dying city.

av Zoulfa Katouh 2022 417 sidor

4.45

100 000+ betyg

🏚️ Syrian Civil War 💔 Wartime Romance 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🩺 Survivor's Guilt 🌊 Refugee Journey

The Apothecary Diaries (Light Novel)

av Natsu Hyuuga

an apothecary hides her poison knowledge in the harem, but a beautiful eunuch sees everything

4.48

17 000+

🩺 Medical Mystery 👑 Court Intrigue 🔥 Slow Burn Romance ⚖️ Class Divide 🎭 Hidden Identity

The Apothecary Diaries (Light Novel) Sammanfattning

Immersiv

The Apothecary Diaries (Light Novel)

an apothecary hides her poison knowledge in the harem, but a beautiful eunuch sees everything

av Natsu Hyuuga 2014 226 sidor

4.48

17 000+ betyg

🩺 Medical Mystery 👑 Court Intrigue 🔥 Slow Burn Romance ⚖️ Class Divide 🎭 Hidden Identity

The Lion Women of Tehran

av Marjan Kamali

A childhood bond in 1950s Tehran must weather revolution, betrayal, and decades of separation.

4.47

200 000+

🇮🇷 Iranian Revolution 👭 Childhood Friends 💔 Betrayal 🌊 Epic Friendship Saga ✊ Women's Resistance

Immersiv

The Lion Women of Tehran

A childhood bond in 1950s Tehran must weather revolution, betrayal, and decades of separation.

av Marjan Kamali 2024 327 sidor

4.47

200 000+ betyg

🇮🇷 Iranian Revolution 👭 Childhood Friends 💔 Betrayal 🌊 Epic Friendship Saga ✊ Women's Resistance

De sju systrarna

av Lucinda Riley

A stone and coordinates send a woman to Rio, where a 1920s affair reveals her origin.

4.20

100 000+

🕰️ Dual Timeline 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Saga 🔍 Adoption Mystery 💔 Forbidden Love 🎨 Artist Muse

Immersiv

De sju systrarna

A stone and coordinates send a woman to Rio, where a 1920s affair reveals her origin.

av Lucinda Riley 2014 460 sidor

4.20

100 000+ betyg

🕰️ Dual Timeline 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Saga 🔍 Adoption Mystery 💔 Forbidden Love 🎨 Artist Muse

To Live

av Yu Hua

A Chinese heir loses the family fortune to crooked dice, then outlives everyone he loves.

4.32

26 000+

📜 Modern Chinese History 🌾 Rural China 💔 Quiet Devastation 📚 Family Saga 👴 Old Man Narrator

Immersiv

To Live

A Chinese heir loses the family fortune to crooked dice, then outlives everyone he loves.

av Yu Hua 1992 250 sidor

4.32

26 000+ betyg

📜 Modern Chinese History 🌾 Rural China 💔 Quiet Devastation 📚 Family Saga 👴 Old Man Narrator

Heaven Official's Blessing

av Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù

A disgraced god crosses paths with a Ghost King who has loved him for eight centuries.

4.58

47 000+

✨ Xianxia 📚 Danmei 🌧️ Fallen God 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 💫 Devotion Across Lifetimes

Heaven Official's Blessing Sammanfattning

Immersiv

Heaven Official's Blessing

A disgraced god crosses paths with a Ghost King who has loved him for eight centuries.

av Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù 2020 372 sidor

4.58

47 000+ betyg

✨ Xianxia 📚 Danmei 🌧️ Fallen God 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 💫 Devotion Across Lifetimes

Bokjuven

av Markus Zusak

Death watches a German foster girl steal books, lose loved ones, and discover what words are worth.

4.39

2 000 000+

🏚️ Wwii Germany 🤍 Found Family 💀 Death As Narrator 🕯️ Hidden Jew 🧳 Foster Child

Immersiv

Bokjuven

Death watches a German foster girl steal books, lose loved ones, and discover what words are worth.

av Markus Zusak 2005 592 sidor

4.39

2 000 000+ betyg

🏚️ Wwii Germany 🤍 Found Family 💀 Death As Narrator 🕯️ Hidden Jew 🧳 Foster Child

The Book Club for Troublesome Women

av Marie Bostwick

In 1962, four suburban women read The Feminine Mystique and find the courage to want more.

4.07

100 000+

🏘️ Suburban Discontent 📚 Book Club Fiction 👭 Female Friendship 🏠 Found Family ✊ 1960s Feminism

The Book Club for Troublesome Women Sammanfattning

Immersiv

The Book Club for Troublesome Women

In 1962, four suburban women read The Feminine Mystique and find the courage to want more.

av Marie Bostwick 2025 372 sidor

4.07

100 000+ betyg

🏘️ Suburban Discontent 📚 Book Club Fiction 👭 Female Friendship 🏠 Found Family ✊ 1960s Feminism

The Apothecary Diaries (Light Novel)

av Natsu Hyuuga

To stop a famine, Maomao travels west, where lion attack, poisoner, and hidden birthright converge.

4.39

9 000+

🏯 Court Intrigue 🩺 Medical Mystery 🐢 Slow Burn Romance 👑 Class Divide Romance 🔍 Observant Female Lead

Immersiv

The Apothecary Diaries (Light Novel)

To stop a famine, Maomao travels west, where lion attack, poisoner, and hidden birthright converge.

av Natsu Hyuuga 2016 293 sidor

4.39

9 000+ betyg

🏯 Court Intrigue 🩺 Medical Mystery 🐢 Slow Burn Romance 👑 Class Divide Romance 🔍 Observant Female Lead

Kvinnorna

av Kristin Hannah

A Navy daughter enlists as a combat nurse in Vietnam for honor her family denies women.

4.58

1 000 000+

🪖 Vietnam War 🩺 Combat Nursing 👩‍⚕️ Women In Wartime 🎖️ Military Family 🏠 Veteran Homecoming

Immersiv

Kvinnorna

A Navy daughter enlists as a combat nurse in Vietnam for honor her family denies women.

av Kristin Hannah 2024 471 sidor

4.58

1 000 000+ betyg

🪖 Vietnam War 🩺 Combat Nursing 👩‍⚕️ Women In Wartime 🎖️ Military Family 🏠 Veteran Homecoming

Isola

av Allegra Goodman

Her guardian stole her inheritance and left her on a granite island to die.

4.00

100 000+

📜 Feminist Historical 🏝️ Island Survival 🙏 Faith Tested 🖤 Bleak Beauty 🌿 Quiet Resilience

Immersiv

Isola

Her guardian stole her inheritance and left her on a granite island to die.

av Allegra Goodman 2025 346 sidor

4.00

100 000+ betyg

📜 Feminist Historical 🏝️ Island Survival 🙏 Faith Tested 🖤 Bleak Beauty 🌿 Quiet Resilience

Between Two Fires

av Christopher Buehlman

A knight, a girl, and a priest cross plague-ravaged France toward Avignon, where a devil rules.

4.21

65 000+

🏰 Medieval Horror ✝️ Religious Horror 👨‍👧‍👦 Found Family ⚔️ Disgraced Knight 🦴 Body Horror

Immersiv

Between Two Fires

A knight, a girl, and a priest cross plague-ravaged France toward Avignon, where a devil rules.

av Christopher Buehlman 2012 432 sidor

4.21

65 000+ betyg

🏰 Medieval Horror ✝️ Religious Horror 👨‍👧‍👦 Found Family ⚔️ Disgraced Knight 🦴 Body Horror

The Berry Pickers

av Amanda Peters

A Mi'kmaw child disappears from a Maine berry field and grows up not knowing she was stolen.

4.08

300 000+

🍂 Indigenous Family Saga 👧 Stolen Child 💔 Intergenerational Trauma 🌫️ Quiet Devastation ⏳ Dual Timeline

Immersiv

The Berry Pickers

A Mi'kmaw child disappears from a Maine berry field and grows up not knowing she was stolen.

av Amanda Peters 2023 307 sidor

4.08

300 000+ betyg

🍂 Indigenous Family Saga 👧 Stolen Child 💔 Intergenerational Trauma 🌫️ Quiet Devastation ⏳ Dual Timeline

Den försvunna bokhandeln

av Evie Woods

A vanished bookshop leaves a lost Brontë novel for the bruised woman hiding in its basement.

3.98

300 000+

⏳ Dual Timeline Narrative 📜 Lost Manuscripts 🩸 Generational Trauma 🌿 Healing After Abuse 🔒 Asylum Narrative

Immersiv

Den försvunna bokhandeln

A vanished bookshop leaves a lost Brontë novel for the bruised woman hiding in its basement.

av Evie Woods 2023 444 sidor

3.98

300 000+ betyg

⏳ Dual Timeline Narrative 📜 Lost Manuscripts 🩸 Generational Trauma 🌿 Healing After Abuse 🔒 Asylum Narrative

Hundra år av ensamhet

av Gabriel García Márquez

A jungle town, seven generations, and a prophecy the last survivor reads only as everything ends.

4.12

1 000 000+

🏠 Multi-Generational Saga 🌎 Latin American Boom 🔄 Circular Time 🔮 Prophecy Fulfilled 💀 Doomed Family Line

Immersiv

Hundra år av ensamhet

A jungle town, seven generations, and a prophecy the last survivor reads only as everything ends.

av Gabriel García Márquez 1967 417 sidor

4.12

1 000 000+ betyg

🏠 Multi-Generational Saga 🌎 Latin American Boom 🔄 Circular Time 🔮 Prophecy Fulfilled 💀 Doomed Family Line

Stormsystern

av Lucinda Riley

A sailor's inheritance leads to Norway, where music, scandal, and a hidden twin rewrite her past.

4.24

100 000+

🕰️ Dual Timeline 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Generational Saga 👯 Hidden Twin 🎭 Unsung Artist 🔍 Adoption Quest

Immersiv

Stormsystern

A sailor's inheritance leads to Norway, where music, scandal, and a hidden twin rewrite her past.

av Lucinda Riley 2015 513 sidor

4.24

100 000+ betyg

🕰️ Dual Timeline 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Generational Saga 👯 Hidden Twin 🎭 Unsung Artist 🔍 Adoption Quest

The Sirens

av Emilia Hart

She wakes mid-strangle, flees to a coast where violent men drown and her sister's trail ends.

3.70

72 000+

🧜‍♀️ Feminist Myth 🏚️ Coastal Gothic 🩸 Ancestral Memory 🔥 Female Rage ☘️ Irish Folklore

Immersiv

The Sirens

She wakes mid-strangle, flees to a coast where violent men drown and her sister's trail ends.

av Emilia Hart 2025 337 sidor

3.70

72 000+ betyg

🧜‍♀️ Feminist Myth 🏚️ Coastal Gothic 🩸 Ancestral Memory 🔥 Female Rage ☘️ Irish Folklore

Brott och straff

av Fjodor Dostojevskij

He kills a pawnbroker to prove some men stand beyond conscience. Then his own mind arrests him.

4.29

1 000 000+

🧠 Intellectual Hubris 💔 Tormented Conscience ✝️ Redemptive Suffering ⚔️ Psychological Duel 📉 Moral Descent

Immersiv

Brott och straff

He kills a pawnbroker to prove some men stand beyond conscience. Then his own mind arrests him.

av Fjodor Dostojevskij 1866 671 sidor

4.29

1 000 000+ betyg

🧠 Intellectual Hubris 💔 Tormented Conscience ✝️ Redemptive Suffering ⚔️ Psychological Duel 📉 Moral Descent

Vinterträdgården

av Kristin Hannah

A mother's fairy tale conceals the siege of Leningrad and the secret that froze her heart.

4.28

400 000+

🔥 Siege Of Leningrad 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Rift ⏳ Dual Timeline 🔍 Family Secrets 💔 Generational Trauma

Immersiv

Vinterträdgården

A mother's fairy tale conceals the siege of Leningrad and the secret that froze her heart.

av Kristin Hannah 2010 394 sidor

4.28

400 000+ betyg

🔥 Siege Of Leningrad 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Rift ⏳ Dual Timeline 🔍 Family Secrets 💔 Generational Trauma

The Pearl Sister

av Lucinda Riley

Her father's last clue sends a dyslexic artist to Australia to uncover the family she never knew.

4.31

100 000+

🕰️ Dual Timeline 🔒 Family Secrets 💔 Forbidden Love 🎨 Artistic Awakening 🌏 Mixed-Race Identity

Immersiv

The Pearl Sister

Her father's last clue sends a dyslexic artist to Australia to uncover the family she never knew.

av Lucinda Riley 2017 702 sidor

4.31

100 000+ betyg

🕰️ Dual Timeline 🔒 Family Secrets 💔 Forbidden Love 🎨 Artistic Awakening 🌏 Mixed-Race Identity

The Little Liar

av Mitch Albom

A boy who never lies becomes the Nazi voice promising safe passage to the death camps.

4.56

100 000+

🕍 Sephardic Jewish Life 🚂 Holocaust Survival 🙏 Atonement 👥 Sibling Rivalry 🎯 Nazi Hunter

Immersiv

The Little Liar

A boy who never lies becomes the Nazi voice promising safe passage to the death camps.

av Mitch Albom 2023 333 sidor

4.56

100 000+ betyg

🕍 Sephardic Jewish Life 🚂 Holocaust Survival 🙏 Atonement 👥 Sibling Rivalry 🎯 Nazi Hunter

22/11/63

av Stephen King

A diner's pantry opens onto 1958. A teacher walks in with five years to stop an assassin.

4.35

600 000+

📜 Kennedy Assassination ⏰ Changing The Past 💕 Small Town Romance ⚔️ History Fights Back 🌅 Bittersweet Ending

Immersiv

22/11/63

A diner's pantry opens onto 1958. A teacher walks in with five years to stop an assassin.

av Stephen King 2011 849 sidor

4.35

600 000+ betyg

📜 Kennedy Assassination ⏰ Changing The Past 💕 Small Town Romance ⚔️ History Fights Back 🌅 Bittersweet Ending

Näktergalen

av Kristin Hannah

When Nazis occupy France, two sisters resist in opposite ways, but history remembers only one.

4.65

2 000 000+

🗡️ French Resistance 👭 Estranged Sisters 👩 Women In Wartime 🧒 Hidden Children 📖 Epic Family Saga

Immersiv

Näktergalen

When Nazis occupy France, two sisters resist in opposite ways, but history remembers only one.

av Kristin Hannah 2015 564 sidor

4.65

2 000 000+ betyg

🗡️ French Resistance 👭 Estranged Sisters 👩 Women In Wartime 🧒 Hidden Children 📖 Epic Family Saga

The Shadow Sister

av Lucinda Riley

From her sister's shadow, Star follows a dead father's clue into a bookshop and her own past.

4.31

100 000+

🕰️ Dual Timeline Saga 💔 Forbidden Love 🔍 Hidden Parentage 🏡 Found Family 📚 Cozy Bookshop

Immersiv

The Shadow Sister

From her sister's shadow, Star follows a dead father's clue into a bookshop and her own past.

av Lucinda Riley 2016 491 sidor

4.31

100 000+ betyg

🕰️ Dual Timeline Saga 💔 Forbidden Love 🔍 Hidden Parentage 🏡 Found Family 📚 Cozy Bookshop

The Song of Achilles

av Madeline Miller

An exile loves the warrior destined to die at Troy, their bond defying gods and fate.

4.30

2 000 000+

🏛️ Mythological Retelling ⚔️ Trojan War 💛 Friends To Lovers 💔 Doomed Love 🩹 Healer And Warrior

Immersiv

The Song of Achilles

An exile loves the warrior destined to die at Troy, their bond defying gods and fate.

av Madeline Miller 2011 408 sidor

4.30

2 000 000+ betyg

🏛️ Mythological Retelling ⚔️ Trojan War 💛 Friends To Lovers 💔 Doomed Love 🩹 Healer And Warrior

De odödliga i Meluha

av Amish Tripathi

A blue throat makes a chief a god to an empire that hides his true enemy.

4.14

100 000+

🏛️ Mythological Fantasy 🕌 Ancient India ⚡ Mortal Becomes God 💔 Forbidden Romance 🔮 Prophecy Subversion

Immersiv

De odödliga i Meluha

A blue throat makes a chief a god to an empire that hides his true enemy.

av Amish Tripathi 2010 436 sidor

4.14

100 000+ betyg

🏛️ Mythological Fantasy 🕌 Ancient India ⚡ Mortal Becomes God 💔 Forbidden Romance 🔮 Prophecy Subversion

The Unmaking of June Farrow

av Adrienne Young

June Farrow steps through a door into 1951, into a marriage, and into a murder charge.

4.11

100 000+

🧬 Inherited Magic ⏳ Time Travel Romance 💍 Second Chance Romance 🔍 Small Town Mystery 🌫️ Southern Gothic

The Unmaking of June Farrow Sammanfattning

Immersiv

The Unmaking of June Farrow

June Farrow steps through a door into 1951, into a marriage, and into a murder charge.

av Adrienne Young 2023 320 sidor

4.11

100 000+ betyg

🧬 Inherited Magic ⏳ Time Travel Romance 💍 Second Chance Romance 🔍 Small Town Mystery 🌫️ Southern Gothic

Victorian Psycho

av Virginia Feito

A governess arrives at a Gothic manor with her father's razor and a family to destroy.

3.53

55 000+

🕰️ Historical Horror 👻 Gothic Governess 🔪 Female Serial Killer ⚔️ Class Revenge 🎭 Satirical Horror

Immersiv

Victorian Psycho

A governess arrives at a Gothic manor with her father's razor and a family to destroy.

av Virginia Feito 2025 208 sidor

3.53

55 000+ betyg

🕰️ Historical Horror 👻 Gothic Governess 🔪 Female Serial Killer ⚔️ Class Revenge 🎭 Satirical Horror

The Mad Wife

av Meagan Church

She found her neighbor's lobotomy records. Now her husband carries the same doctor's phone number.

3.86

100 000+

🏚️ Domestic Suspense 🏘️ 1950s Suburbia 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 💊 Medical Gaslighting 🔒 Coercive Control

Immersiv

The Mad Wife

She found her neighbor's lobotomy records. Now her husband carries the same doctor's phone number.

av Meagan Church 2025 352 sidor

3.86

100 000+ betyg

🏚️ Domestic Suspense 🏘️ 1950s Suburbia 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 💊 Medical Gaslighting 🔒 Coercive Control

Sunburn

av Chloe Michelle Howarth

Her first love is another girl. 1990s Ireland demands she hide behind the boy next door.

4.28

61 000+

🏳️‍🌈 Queer Coming Of Age 🤫 Secret Relationship 💕 Best Friends To Lovers 📜 Compulsory Heterosexuality ✝️ Catholic Guilt

Immersiv

Sunburn

Her first love is another girl. 1990s Ireland demands she hide behind the boy next door.

av Chloe Michelle Howarth 2023 288 sidor

4.28

61 000+ betyg

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