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

Hur man stoppar tiden

av Matt Haig • 2017

A 400-year-old history teacher is forbidden to love. His new colleague makes him break the rule.

3.82

200 000+

🧬 Ageless Protagonist 🕵️ Secret Society ⏳💕 Love Across Time 🔍👧 Search For Daughter 🏰 Elizabethan London

Hur man stoppar tiden

A 400-year-old history teacher is forbidden to love. His new colleague makes him break the rule.

av Matt Haig 2017 339 sidor

3.82

200 000+ betyg

🧬 Ageless Protagonist 🕵️ Secret Society ⏳💕 Love Across Time 🔍👧 Search For Daughter 🏰 Elizabethan London

The Spook Who Sat by the Door

av Sam Greenlee • 1969

A black CIA recruit secretly trains a Chicago street gang to fight a guerrilla war.

4.34

3 000+

🔥 Guerrilla Resistance 🎭 Double Life 💔 Friends To Enemies ✊🏿 Black Liberation 📜 Civil Rights Era

The Spook Who Sat by the Door

A black CIA recruit secretly trains a Chicago street gang to fight a guerrilla war.

av Sam Greenlee 1969 256 sidor

4.34

3 000+ betyg

🔥 Guerrilla Resistance 🎭 Double Life 💔 Friends To Enemies ✊🏿 Black Liberation 📜 Civil Rights Era

The Apothecary Diaries (Light Novel)

av Natsu Hyuuga • 2022

A palace apothecary tracks a missing friend into a rebel fortress where old betrayals spark war.

4.57

9 000+

🏯 Court Intrigue 🌿 Medical Mystery 🎭 Hidden Identities 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 💔 Generational Trauma

The Apothecary Diaries (Light Novel)

A palace apothecary tracks a missing friend into a rebel fortress where old betrayals spark war.

av Natsu Hyuuga 2022 295 sidor

4.57

9 000+ betyg

🏯 Court Intrigue 🌿 Medical Mystery 🎭 Hidden Identities 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 💔 Generational Trauma

Emma

av Jane Austen • 1815

She has money and charm, but the one heart she cannot match is her own.

4.05

900 000+

🎭 Comedy Of Manners 👑 Regency Romance 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 💛 Friends To Lovers 💬 Witty Banter

Immersiv

Emma

She has money and charm, but the one heart she cannot match is her own.

av Jane Austen 1815 474 sidor

4.05

900 000+ betyg

🎭 Comedy Of Manners 👑 Regency Romance 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 💛 Friends To Lovers 💬 Witty Banter

Biernas hemliga liv

av Sue Monk Kidd • 2001

When her caretaker is jailed, a guilt-ridden girl flees to beekeepers who knew her mother.

4.10

1 000 000+

🏠 Southern Fiction 🐝 Found Family ✊🏿 Civil Rights Era 👩‍👩‍👧 Sisterhood 💕 Interracial Romance

Immersiv

Biernas hemliga liv

When her caretaker is jailed, a guilt-ridden girl flees to beekeepers who knew her mother.

av Sue Monk Kidd 2001 352 sidor

4.10

1 000 000+ betyg

🏠 Southern Fiction 🐝 Found Family ✊🏿 Civil Rights Era 👩‍👩‍👧 Sisterhood 💕 Interracial Romance

Inferno

av Dan Brown • 2013

A symbologist with amnesia follows Dante's clues across Florence while a shadowy cabal hunts him.

3.90

500 000+

🎨 Art History Thriller 🔍 Symbology Puzzles 🧬 Biotech Conspiracy 🤕 Amnesiac Protagonist ⏳ Race Against Time

Inferno

A symbologist with amnesia follows Dante's clues across Florence while a shadowy cabal hunts him.

av Dan Brown 2013 463 sidor

3.90

500 000+ betyg

🎨 Art History Thriller 🔍 Symbology Puzzles 🧬 Biotech Conspiracy 🤕 Amnesiac Protagonist ⏳ Race Against Time

Öster om Eden

av John Steinbeck • 1952

Early 1900s California: a farmer's twin sons inherit a mother's malice and a father's fragile hope.

4.44

600 000+

🏠 Multigenerational Saga ✝️ Biblical Allegory 🏜️ American West ⚔️ Sibling Rivalry 💋 Femme Fatale

Öster om Eden

Early 1900s California: a farmer's twin sons inherit a mother's malice and a father's fragile hope.

av John Steinbeck 1952 601 sidor

4.44

600 000+ betyg

🏠 Multigenerational Saga ✝️ Biblical Allegory 🏜️ American West ⚔️ Sibling Rivalry 💋 Femme Fatale

Den stora ensamheten

av Kristin Hannah • 2018

1974 Alaska: a girl discovers the wilderness is less cruel than her father's love.

4.46

1 000 000+

🏔️ Alaskan Wilderness 🖤 Domestic Abuse 🪖 War Trauma 💔 Forbidden Love 🔄 Second Chance Romance

Den stora ensamheten

1974 Alaska: a girl discovers the wilderness is less cruel than her father's love.

av Kristin Hannah 2018 435 sidor

4.46

1 000 000+ betyg

🏔️ Alaskan Wilderness 🖤 Domestic Abuse 🪖 War Trauma 💔 Forbidden Love 🔄 Second Chance Romance

Berättelsen om det förlorade barnet

av Elena Ferrante • 2014

Elena and Lila: a friendship that outlasts marriage, infidelity, and every attempt to escape Naples.

4.46

100 000+

🖤 Female Friendship 🌋 Naples 👩‍👧‍👧 Motherhood And Ambition 💔 Infidelity 🏘️ Neighborhood Life

Berättelsen om det förlorade barnet

Elena and Lila: a friendship that outlasts marriage, infidelity, and every attempt to escape Naples.

av Elena Ferrante 2014 473 sidor

4.46

100 000+ betyg

🖤 Female Friendship 🌋 Naples 👩‍👧‍👧 Motherhood And Ambition 💔 Infidelity 🏘️ Neighborhood Life

Pompeii

av Robert Harris • 2003

Pompeii's water supply fails. A young engineer hunts the break as the mountain begins to stir.

3.88

54 000+

🏛️ Ancient Rome Setting 🌋 Volcanic Eruption 💰 Political Corruption ⚙️ Engineer Hero ⏳ Race Against Time

Pompeii

Pompeii's water supply fails. A young engineer hunts the break as the mountain begins to stir.

av Robert Harris 2003 274 sidor

3.88

54 000+ betyg

🏛️ Ancient Rome Setting 🌋 Volcanic Eruption 💰 Political Corruption ⚙️ Engineer Hero ⏳ Race Against Time

Slaughterhouse-Five

av Kurt Vonnegut Jr. • 1969

Billy Pilgrim drifts through time: the Dresden firebombing, an alien zoo, and his own murder.

4.10

1 000 000+

🪖 Anti-War Novel 🔄 Nonlinear Narrative 🎭 Postmodern Fiction 🖤 Darkly Comic 💔 War Trauma

Slaughterhouse-Five

Billy Pilgrim drifts through time: the Dresden firebombing, an alien zoo, and his own murder.

av Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 1969 275 sidor

4.10

1 000 000+ betyg

🪖 Anti-War Novel 🔄 Nonlinear Narrative 🎭 Postmodern Fiction 🖤 Darkly Comic 💔 War Trauma

Samhällets olycksbarn

av Victor Hugo • 1862

An ex-convict breaks parole to rebuild his life, but an obsessive inspector gives him no peace.

4.21

800 000+

🕊️ Redemption Arc 📖 Epic Historical Saga 🔍 Relentless Pursuer 🎭 Disguised Identity 💕 Found Family

Samhällets olycksbarn

An ex-convict breaks parole to rebuild his life, but an obsessive inspector gives him no peace.

av Victor Hugo 1862 1463 sidor

4.21

800 000+ betyg

🕊️ Redemption Arc 📖 Epic Historical Saga 🔍 Relentless Pursuer 🎭 Disguised Identity 💕 Found Family

Vindens skugga

av Carlos Ruiz Zafón • 2001

A boy discovers a forgotten novel; the author's past hides a love story someone is killing to bury.

4.31

700 000+

📚 Bibliomystery 🌫️ Gothic Mystery 💔 Doomed Lovers 🔄 Parallel Narratives 🕊️ Post-War Europe

Vindens skugga

A boy discovers a forgotten novel; the author's past hides a love story someone is killing to bury.

av Carlos Ruiz Zafón 2001 487 sidor

4.31

700 000+ betyg

📚 Bibliomystery 🌫️ Gothic Mystery 💔 Doomed Lovers 🔄 Parallel Narratives 🕊️ Post-War Europe

My Name Is Emilia del Valle

av Isabel Allende • 2025

She writes under a man's name, then covers Chile's civil war to find her lost father.

3.81

32 000+

🎤 Woman Journalist 🎭 Secret Identity 💔 War-Torn Lovers 👨‍👧 Absent Father 🫂 Found Family

My Name Is Emilia del Valle

She writes under a man's name, then covers Chile's civil war to find her lost father.

av Isabel Allende 2025 287 sidor

3.81

32 000+ betyg

🎤 Woman Journalist 🎭 Secret Identity 💔 War-Torn Lovers 👨‍👧 Absent Father 🫂 Found Family

Lila hibiskus

av Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie • 2003

Her father rules with prayers and fists. Her aunt's house offers a life beyond silence.

4.18

100 000+

📚 Postcolonial Fiction ⛪ Religious Fanaticism 🕊️ Quiet Resilience 🏚️ Domestic Dread 🤗 Found Family

Lila hibiskus

Her father rules with prayers and fists. Her aunt's house offers a life beyond silence.

av Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2003 336 sidor

4.18

100 000+ betyg

📚 Postcolonial Fiction ⛪ Religious Fanaticism 🕊️ Quiet Resilience 🏚️ Domestic Dread 🤗 Found Family

Samarkand

av Amin Maalouf • 1988

A manuscript of forbidden Persian verse travels from medieval Samarkand to the decks of the Titanic.

4.24

31 000+

🔄 Dual Timeline 📜 Persian History 📖 Lost Manuscript 💔 Forbidden Love 📚 Knowledge Under Threat

Samarkand

A manuscript of forbidden Persian verse travels from medieval Samarkand to the decks of the Titanic.

av Amin Maalouf 1988 304 sidor

4.24

31 000+ betyg

🔄 Dual Timeline 📜 Persian History 📖 Lost Manuscript 💔 Forbidden Love 📚 Knowledge Under Threat

Det de bar på

av Tim O'Brien • 1990

A Vietnam veteran retells his platoon's stories, bending truth to keep the dead alive.

4.15

300 000+

📚 Metafiction 💔 Survivor's Guilt 💀 Gallows Humor 🤝 Comrades In Arms 💌 Unrequited Love

Det de bar på

A Vietnam veteran retells his platoon's stories, bending truth to keep the dead alive.

av Tim O'Brien 1990 246 sidor

4.15

300 000+ betyg

📚 Metafiction 💔 Survivor's Guilt 💀 Gallows Humor 🤝 Comrades In Arms 💌 Unrequited Love

Havskvinnornas ö

av Lisa See • 2019

Two haenyeo divers share a bond deeper than the sea until a massacre tears them apart.

4.32

100 000+

🧜‍♀️ Haenyeo Divers 💔 Broken Friendship 🕯️ Political Massacre 👩‍👩‍👧 Matrifocal Culture 🌱 Generational Healing

Havskvinnornas ö

Two haenyeo divers share a bond deeper than the sea until a massacre tears them apart.

av Lisa See 2019 374 sidor

4.32

100 000+ betyg

🧜‍♀️ Haenyeo Divers 💔 Broken Friendship 🕯️ Political Massacre 👩‍👩‍👧 Matrifocal Culture 🌱 Generational Healing

Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

av Christopher Sergel • 1995

In 1930s Alabama, Scout's father defends a Black man, forcing her to see her town's hidden face.

4.51

24 000+

🏘️ Small Town South ⚖️ Courtroom Drama 👧 Child Narrator 🕊️ Unjustly Accused 🌱 Coming Of Age Classic

Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

In 1930s Alabama, Scout's father defends a Black man, forcing her to see her town's hidden face.

av Christopher Sergel 1995 128 sidor

4.51

24 000+ betyg

🏘️ Small Town South ⚖️ Courtroom Drama 👧 Child Narrator 🕊️ Unjustly Accused 🌱 Coming Of Age Classic

The Museum of Innocence

av Orhan Pamuk • 2008

An Istanbul bachelor's obsession with a lost love becomes a museum of the objects she touched.

3.78

39 000+

🇹🇷 Turkish Literature 💔 Obsessive Love 🔺 Love Triangle 🌧️ Melancholy 🌆 Istanbul Setting

The Museum of Innocence

An Istanbul bachelor's obsession with a lost love becomes a museum of the objects she touched.

av Orhan Pamuk 2008 536 sidor

3.78

39 000+ betyg

🇹🇷 Turkish Literature 💔 Obsessive Love 🔺 Love Triangle 🌧️ Melancholy 🌆 Istanbul Setting

Native Son

av Richard Wright • 1940

A Black chauffeur in segregated Chicago accidentally kills a white heiress and tries to hide it.

4.04

100 000+

🏙️ Urban Poverty 🏛️ Segregation Era 🔥 Accidental Killing 🏃 Fugitive On The Run ⚖️ Courtroom Drama

Native Son

A Black chauffeur in segregated Chicago accidentally kills a white heiress and tries to hide it.

av Richard Wright 1940 504 sidor

4.04

100 000+ betyg

🏙️ Urban Poverty 🏛️ Segregation Era 🔥 Accidental Killing 🏃 Fugitive On The Run ⚖️ Courtroom Drama

Mästaren och Margarita

av Michail Bulgakov • 1996

The devil visits Soviet Moscow and a woman wagers her soul to win back the writer she loves.

4.28

400 000+

🎭 Soviet Satire 😈 Devil Comes To Town 📜 Biblical Retelling 🤝 Deal With The Devil 🧹 Witch Transformation

Mästaren och Margarita

The devil visits Soviet Moscow and a woman wagers her soul to win back the writer she loves.

av Michail Bulgakov 1996 372 sidor

4.28

400 000+ betyg

🎭 Soviet Satire 😈 Devil Comes To Town 📜 Biblical Retelling 🤝 Deal With The Devil 🧹 Witch Transformation

Zorba the Greek

av Nikos Kazantzakis • 1946

A Greek intellectual hires a wild miner in Crete and learns what books could never teach.

4.02

59 000+

🏛️ Philosophical Fiction 🏝️ Greek Island Setting 🕺 Free Spirit Mentor ⚖️ Reason Versus Passion 😂 Earthy Humor

Zorba the Greek

A Greek intellectual hires a wild miner in Crete and learns what books could never teach.

av Nikos Kazantzakis 1946 335 sidor

4.02

59 000+ betyg

🏛️ Philosophical Fiction 🏝️ Greek Island Setting 🕺 Free Spirit Mentor ⚖️ Reason Versus Passion 😂 Earthy Humor

Journey to the River Sea

av Eva Ibbotson • 2001

An orphan arrives in the Amazon to cold guardians and a jungle boy fleeing his past.

4.19

17 000+

🌿 Amazon Adventure 🧒 Orphan Protagonist 🤝 Found Family 🎭 Identity Swap 🕰️ Edwardian Era

Journey to the River Sea

An orphan arrives in the Amazon to cold guardians and a jungle boy fleeing his past.

av Eva Ibbotson 2001 304 sidor

4.19

17 000+ betyg

🌿 Amazon Adventure 🧒 Orphan Protagonist 🤝 Found Family 🎭 Identity Swap 🕰️ Edwardian Era

Mässingsstaden

av S.A. Chakraborty • 2017

Her healing con accidentally summons a djinn, dragging her into a hidden city's magical civil war.

4.14

100 000+

🕌 Middle Eastern Fantasy 👑 Political Intrigue 🧬 Hidden Heir 💔 Forbidden Love 🔥 Elemental Magic

Mässingsstaden

Her healing con accidentally summons a djinn, dragging her into a hidden city's magical civil war.

av S.A. Chakraborty 2017 532 sidor

4.14

100 000+ betyg

🕌 Middle Eastern Fantasy 👑 Political Intrigue 🧬 Hidden Heir 💔 Forbidden Love 🔥 Elemental Magic

The Secret Book of Flora Lea

av Patti Callahan Henry • 2023

A bookshop clerk discovers her vanished sister's imaginary world inside a novel and follows it home.

4.05

89 000+

🔍 Missing Sister 💕 Childhood Sweethearts Reunited ⏳ Dual Timeline Mystery 🌌 Imaginary World 🎖️ WWII Britain

The Secret Book of Flora Lea

A bookshop clerk discovers her vanished sister's imaginary world inside a novel and follows it home.

av Patti Callahan Henry 2023 355 sidor

4.05

89 000+ betyg

🔍 Missing Sister 💕 Childhood Sweethearts Reunited ⏳ Dual Timeline Mystery 🌌 Imaginary World 🎖️ WWII Britain

Brooklyn

av Colm Tóibín • 2009

An Irish emigrant finds love in Brooklyn, then a death back home forces an impossible choice.

3.75

100 000+

🗽 Immigrant Experience 📚 Quiet Literary Realism 🌍 Between Two Worlds 🕯️ Quiet Melancholy 🇮🇪 Small-Town Ireland

Brooklyn

An Irish emigrant finds love in Brooklyn, then a death back home forces an impossible choice.

av Colm Tóibín 2009 262 sidor

3.75

100 000+ betyg

🗽 Immigrant Experience 📚 Quiet Literary Realism 🌍 Between Two Worlds 🕯️ Quiet Melancholy 🇮🇪 Small-Town Ireland

Kärlek i chilisåsens tid

av Laura Esquivel • 1989

Forbidden to marry, a young cook's passion seeps into her food, enchanting everyone who tastes it.

3.95

300 000+

🔥 Magical Cooking 💔 Forbidden Love 🇲🇽 Mexican Revolution 👑 Matriarchal Control 👻 Ghosts And Hauntings

Kärlek i chilisåsens tid

Forbidden to marry, a young cook's passion seeps into her food, enchanting everyone who tastes it.

av Laura Esquivel 1989 258 sidor

3.95

300 000+ betyg

🔥 Magical Cooking 💔 Forbidden Love 🇲🇽 Mexican Revolution 👑 Matriarchal Control 👻 Ghosts And Hauntings

The House of Eve

av Sadeqa Johnson • 2023

1940s America: two Black women, two unplanned pregnancies, one impossible choice: child or future.

4.25

100 000+

🫄 Unwed Pregnancy 💔 Coerced Adoption 💑 Interracial Romance 🎭 Class And Colorism 📻 1940s America

The House of Eve

1940s America: two Black women, two unplanned pregnancies, one impossible choice: child or future.

av Sadeqa Johnson 2023 384 sidor

4.25

100 000+ betyg

🫄 Unwed Pregnancy 💔 Coerced Adoption 💑 Interracial Romance 🎭 Class And Colorism 📻 1940s America

Moment 22

av Joseph Heller • 1961

A bombardier in wartime Italy discovers the finish line moves every time he gets close.

3.99

800 000+

🎭 Absurdist War Fiction 🪖 Military Satire 📋 Bureaucratic Nightmare ✊ Anti-War Protest 😈 Dark Comedy

Moment 22

A bombardier in wartime Italy discovers the finish line moves every time he gets close.

av Joseph Heller 1961 453 sidor

3.99

800 000+ betyg

🎭 Absurdist War Fiction 🪖 Military Satire 📋 Bureaucratic Nightmare ✊ Anti-War Protest 😈 Dark Comedy

The Outsiders

av S.E. Hinton • 1967

A sensitive greaser hides out after his friend kills a Soc, learning what innocence costs.

4.15

1 000 000+

🏭 Working Class Fiction 🔪 Gang Rivalry 🫂 Found Family 🍂 Loss Of Innocence ⚖️ Class Divide

The Outsiders

A sensitive greaser hides out after his friend kills a Soc, learning what innocence costs.

av S.E. Hinton 1967 208 sidor

4.15

1 000 000+ betyg

🏭 Working Class Fiction 🔪 Gang Rivalry 🫂 Found Family 🍂 Loss Of Innocence ⚖️ Class Divide

Orlando

av Virginia Woolf • 1928

An Elizabethan nobleman lives three centuries without aging, then wakes as a woman.

3.87

100 000+

🎭 Feminist Satire 🦋 Genderfluid Protagonist 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Classic ⏳ Immortal Narrator 👑 Elizabethan England

Orlando

An Elizabethan nobleman lives three centuries without aging, then wakes as a woman.

av Virginia Woolf 1928 336 sidor

3.87

100 000+ betyg

🎭 Feminist Satire 🦋 Genderfluid Protagonist 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Classic ⏳ Immortal Narrator 👑 Elizabethan England

Père Goriot

av Honoré de Balzac • 1997

In a Paris boarding house, a student learns ambition's cost from a ruined father and criminal.

3.85

68 000+

🎭 Realist Novel 🇫🇷 19th Century Paris 😈 Corrupt Mentor 📈 Social Climbing 💔 Ungrateful Children

Père Goriot

In a Paris boarding house, a student learns ambition's cost from a ruined father and criminal.

av Honoré de Balzac 1997 370 sidor

3.85

68 000+ betyg

🎭 Realist Novel 🇫🇷 19th Century Paris 😈 Corrupt Mentor 📈 Social Climbing 💔 Ungrateful Children

Den underjordiska järnvägen

av Colson Whitehead • 2016

On a literal railroad beneath the South, Cora flees captivity, hunted by a relentless slave catcher.

4.06

400 000+

🖤 Neo-Slave Narrative 🌾 Antebellum South 🕯️ Generational Trauma 👥 Found Family ⚠️ Unflinching Brutality

Den underjordiska järnvägen

On a literal railroad beneath the South, Cora flees captivity, hunted by a relentless slave catcher.

av Colson Whitehead 2016 306 sidor

4.06

400 000+ betyg

🖤 Neo-Slave Narrative 🌾 Antebellum South 🕯️ Generational Trauma 👥 Found Family ⚠️ Unflinching Brutality

Vita tänder

av Zadie Smith • 2000

Two wartime pals and their kids battle God, science, and identity in a chaotic London.

3.79

100 000+

🇬🇧 Multicultural London 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Saga 🌱 Children Of Immigrants ⚔️ Religious Radicalism 🧬 Genetic Engineering Ethics

Vita tänder

Two wartime pals and their kids battle God, science, and identity in a chaotic London.

av Zadie Smith 2000 448 sidor

3.79

100 000+ betyg

🇬🇧 Multicultural London 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Saga 🌱 Children Of Immigrants ⚔️ Religious Radicalism 🧬 Genetic Engineering Ethics

Den hemliga trädgården

av Frances Hodgson Burnett • 1911

A sour orphan, a locked garden, a sickly cousin: three things a Yorkshire manor keeps hidden.

4.17

1 000 000+

👧 Orphaned Protagonist 🪴 Hidden Garden 🌿 Nature Heals 🌧️ Yorkshire Moor 🤒 Sickly Child

Den hemliga trädgården

A sour orphan, a locked garden, a sickly cousin: three things a Yorkshire manor keeps hidden.

av Frances Hodgson Burnett 1911 331 sidor

4.17

1 000 000+ betyg

👧 Orphaned Protagonist 🪴 Hidden Garden 🌿 Nature Heals 🌧️ Yorkshire Moor 🤒 Sickly Child

Cryptonomicon

av Neal Stephenson • 1999

His grandfather's codebreaking saved the world. The treasure it protected could destroy his.

4.23

100 000+

🖥️ Techno-Thriller 🔐 WWII Codebreaking 💰 Treasure Hunt 🚀 Startup Adventure 🎖️ Soldier's Sacrifice

Cryptonomicon

His grandfather's codebreaking saved the world. The treasure it protected could destroy his.

av Neal Stephenson 1999 1152 sidor

4.23

100 000+ betyg

🖥️ Techno-Thriller 🔐 WWII Codebreaking 💰 Treasure Hunt 🚀 Startup Adventure 🎖️ Soldier's Sacrifice

The Lover

av Marguerite Duras • 1984

A French girl, a Chinese millionaire, and a colonial affair that becomes her lifelong wound.

3.70

75 000+

📖 Autofiction 🇫🇷 French Colonialism 💰 Transactional Desire 💔 Age Gap Romance 🌸 Sexual Awakening

The Lover

A French girl, a Chinese millionaire, and a colonial affair that becomes her lifelong wound.

av Marguerite Duras 1984 117 sidor

3.70

75 000+ betyg

📖 Autofiction 🇫🇷 French Colonialism 💰 Transactional Desire 💔 Age Gap Romance 🌸 Sexual Awakening

Carmilla

av J. Sheridan Le Fanu • 1872

A remote castle, a lonely girl, and the beautiful stranger whose love drains her of life.

3.87

200 000+

🧛 Vampire Gothic 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Gothic 🩸 Female Vampire 💔 Obsessive Love 😰 Atmospheric Dread

Carmilla

A remote castle, a lonely girl, and the beautiful stranger whose love drains her of life.

av J. Sheridan Le Fanu 1872 108 sidor

3.87

200 000+ betyg

🧛 Vampire Gothic 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Gothic 🩸 Female Vampire 💔 Obsessive Love 😰 Atmospheric Dread

Sula

av Toni Morrison • 1973

Two girlhood friends in Black Ohio are torn apart when one sleeps with the other's husband.

4.06

100 000+

👧🏿 Girlhood Friendship 💔 Friendship Betrayal 🕊️ Returned Outcast 🏘️ Community As Character 🖋️ Lyrical Prose

Sula

Two girlhood friends in Black Ohio are torn apart when one sleeps with the other's husband.

av Toni Morrison 1973 174 sidor

4.06

100 000+ betyg

👧🏿 Girlhood Friendship 💔 Friendship Betrayal 🕊️ Returned Outcast 🏘️ Community As Character 🖋️ Lyrical Prose

The Empusium

av Olga Tokarczuk • 2022

A frail student checks into a remote sanatorium where the men's circle hides a sacrificial rite.

3.75

25 000+

🏚️ Folk Horror ⛰️ Mountain Gothic 👗 Gender Disguise 🔪 Sacrificial Ritual 🍄 Unreliable Perception

The Empusium

A frail student checks into a remote sanatorium where the men's circle hides a sacrificial rite.

av Olga Tokarczuk 2022 305 sidor

3.75

25 000+ betyg

🏚️ Folk Horror ⛰️ Mountain Gothic 👗 Gender Disguise 🔪 Sacrificial Ritual 🍄 Unreliable Perception

Sex and Rage

av Eve Babitz • 2017

In Hollywood parties and New York salons, a surfer chases the person the glamour keeps hiding.

3.55

19 000+

🌴 Bohemian Los Angeles 🎬 Hollywood Facade 🖋️ Female Artist Journey 🖼️ Art World Satire 🥂 Elite Social Circles

Sex and Rage

In Hollywood parties and New York salons, a surfer chases the person the glamour keeps hiding.

av Eve Babitz 2017 256 sidor

3.55

19 000+ betyg

🌴 Bohemian Los Angeles 🎬 Hollywood Facade 🖋️ Female Artist Journey 🖼️ Art World Satire 🥂 Elite Social Circles

Gudfadern

av Mario Puzo • 1969

A mafia don is shot, and the son who stayed clean must now lead the family.

4.40

400 000+

🏠 Mafia Family Saga 🔫 Organized Crime 👑 Reluctant Crime Lord 🖤 Cold-Blooded Antihero 🔥 Revenge Saga

Gudfadern

A mafia don is shot, and the son who stayed clean must now lead the family.

av Mario Puzo 1969 428 sidor

4.40

400 000+ betyg

🏠 Mafia Family Saga 🔫 Organized Crime 👑 Reluctant Crime Lord 🖤 Cold-Blooded Antihero 🔥 Revenge Saga

Oil!

av Upton Sinclair • 1926

An oil baron's son inherits a fortune, then meets the workers who paid for it.

3.74

7 000+

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Oil!

An oil baron's son inherits a fortune, then meets the workers who paid for it.

av Upton Sinclair 1926 528 sidor

3.74

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Biodlaren från Aleppo

av Christy Lefteri • 2019

A Syrian beekeeper guides his blind wife across borders, fleeing the war that killed their son.

4.16

100 000+

🐝 Beekeeping Metaphor 🛶 Refugee Narrative ⚔️ Syrian Civil War 🖤 Survivor's Guilt 💔 Marriage Under Duress

Biodlaren från Aleppo

A Syrian beekeeper guides his blind wife across borders, fleeing the war that killed their son.

av Christy Lefteri 2019 317 sidor

4.16

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What the River Knows

av Isabel Ibañez • 2023

After her parents' deaths in Egypt, Argentine heiress inherits a magical ring and a deadly quest.

3.83

89 000+

🗝️ Magical Artifacts 🏛️ Archaeological Adventure 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 🤝 Reluctant Allies 🔍 Family Secrets

What the River Knows

After her parents' deaths in Egypt, Argentine heiress inherits a magical ring and a deadly quest.

av Isabel Ibañez 2023 404 sidor

3.83

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Horse

av Geraldine Brooks • 2022

An enslaved groom, a 1950s gallerist, and a scholar share a racehorse and a buried past.

4.24

200 000+

🕰️ Braided Timelines 🐎 Thoroughbred Racing 📖 Lost Black Histories 🎨 Art Provenance 🌾 Antebellum South

Horse

An enslaved groom, a 1950s gallerist, and a scholar share a racehorse and a buried past.

av Geraldine Brooks 2022 401 sidor

4.24

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Rich Man, Poor Man

av Irwin Shaw • 1970

Immigrant baker's three children chase success from a gritty Hudson town, but violence haunts them.

4.19

38 000+

📖 Family Saga 🧬 Generational Trauma 🗽 American Dream 🔄 Cycles Of Violence 💔 Dysfunctional Family

Rich Man, Poor Man

Immigrant baker's three children chase success from a gritty Hudson town, but violence haunts them.

av Irwin Shaw 1970 666 sidor

4.19

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📖 Family Saga 🧬 Generational Trauma 🗽 American Dream 🔄 Cycles Of Violence 💔 Dysfunctional Family

The Lost Year

av Katherine Marsh • 2023

Pandemic lockdown forces a boy to investigate his great-grandmother's hidden past in Soviet Ukraine.

4.46

5 000+

🇺🇦 Ukrainian Famine 🎭 Assumed Identity ⏳ Dual Timeline 🔍 Family Secrets 🦠 Covid Lockdown

The Lost Year

Pandemic lockdown forces a boy to investigate his great-grandmother's hidden past in Soviet Ukraine.

av Katherine Marsh 2023 368 sidor

4.46

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Damgambit

av Walter Tevis • 1983

An orphan discovers chess and tranquilizers. One makes her a champion, the other could destroy her.

4.18

100 000+

♟️ Chess Prodigy 🧠 Troubled Genius 💊 Substance Abuse 🌐 Cold War Setting 🚀 Female Trailblazer

Damgambit

An orphan discovers chess and tranquilizers. One makes her a champion, the other could destroy her.

av Walter Tevis 1983 258 sidor

4.18

100 000+ betyg

♟️ Chess Prodigy 🧠 Troubled Genius 💊 Substance Abuse 🌐 Cold War Setting 🚀 Female Trailblazer

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