Thế kỷ 20

Thế kỷ 20 đầy biến động đã sinh ra những tư tưởng cách mạng và các phong trào nghệ thuật cấp tiến, mãi mãi thay đổi cách chúng ta nhìn nhận bản thân và xã hội. Giữa hai cuộc chiến tranh thế giới và những biến động xã hội, các nhà văn đã vật lộn với chủ nghĩa hiện sinh, dòng ý thức và bóng tối ngày càng lan rộng của chủ nghĩa toàn trị qua những tác phẩm đột phá định hình nền văn học hiện đại.

Thế kỷ 20 Tóm tắt sách

The Fierce Urgency of Now

của Julian E. Zelizer • 2015

Ruthless legislator, landslide, movement: how the Great Society passed, and the war that killed it.

4.00

292

🏛️ Legislative History 🇺🇸 1960s America ✊🏿 Civil Rights Movement 🗳️ Voting Rights 💰 War On Poverty

The Fierce Urgency of Now

Ruthless legislator, landslide, movement: how the Great Society passed, and the war that killed it.

của Julian E. Zelizer 2015 384 trang

4.00

292 đánh giá

🏛️ Legislative History 🇺🇸 1960s America ✊🏿 Civil Rights Movement 🗳️ Voting Rights 💰 War On Poverty

Inharmonious

của Tammye Huf • 2025

A Black soldier passes as white while his sister builds the home America denies them.

4.41

500+

🎭 Racial Passing 🏚️ Jim Crow South 🪖 WWII Black Soldiers 💍 Marriage Of Convenience 🏡 Housing Discrimination

Inharmonious

A Black soldier passes as white while his sister builds the home America denies them.

của Tammye Huf 2025 360 trang

4.41

500+ đánh giá

🎭 Racial Passing 🏚️ Jim Crow South 🪖 WWII Black Soldiers 💍 Marriage Of Convenience 🏡 Housing Discrimination

El camino

của Miguel Delibes • 1950

Last night in the valley, a boy relives the pranks and losses of his childhood.

4.13

14.000+

🏡 Rural Childhood 👫 Boyhood Adventures 💔 First Crush 🕊️ Death Of Innocence 🤫 Small-Town Gossip

El camino

Last night in the valley, a boy relives the pranks and losses of his childhood.

của Miguel Delibes 1950 224 trang

4.13

14.000+ đánh giá

🏡 Rural Childhood 👫 Boyhood Adventures 💔 First Crush 🕊️ Death Of Innocence 🤫 Small-Town Gossip

The Transformation of Corporate Control

của Neil Fligstein • 1990

Antitrust, not markets, built the modern firm: four legal pivots that remade American business.

4.09

🏢 Corporate History 📊 Economic Sociology ⚖️ Antitrust Law 🤝 Mergers And Acquisitions 🏛️ Corporate Governance

The Transformation of Corporate Control

Antitrust, not markets, built the modern firm: four legal pivots that remade American business.

của Neil Fligstein 1990 408 trang

4.09

11 đánh giá

🏢 Corporate History 📊 Economic Sociology ⚖️ Antitrust Law 🤝 Mergers And Acquisitions 🏛️ Corporate Governance

NATO's Secret Armies

của Daniele Ganser • 2004

NATO's hidden armies were built for the Soviets. They turned on Western democracy instead.

4.01

421

🥶 Cold War History 🕵️ Covert Operations 💣 State-Sponsored Terror 🔍 CIA History ☭ Anti-Communism

NATO's Secret Armies

NATO's hidden armies were built for the Soviets. They turned on Western democracy instead.

của Daniele Ganser 2004 336 trang

4.01

421 đánh giá

🥶 Cold War History 🕵️ Covert Operations 💣 State-Sponsored Terror 🔍 CIA History ☭ Anti-Communism

Lord Edgware Dies

của Agatha Christie • 1933

An actress wishes her husband dead. He is murdered that night, and her alibi is unbreakable.

3.95

64.000+

🔍 Golden Age Mystery 🧐 Witty Whodunit 👸 Beautiful Sociopath 🔄 Identity Swap Murder 🪤 Frame Job

Lord Edgware Dies

An actress wishes her husband dead. He is murdered that night, and her alibi is unbreakable.

của Agatha Christie 1933 219 trang

3.95

64.000+ đánh giá

🔍 Golden Age Mystery 🧐 Witty Whodunit 👸 Beautiful Sociopath 🔄 Identity Swap Murder 🪤 Frame Job

Eisenhower

của Stephen E. Ambrose • 1990

A Kansas tantrum taught Eisenhower the restraint that held allies together and kept the peace.

4.03

12.000+

🏛️ Presidential Biography 🥶 Cold War History 🫡 Military Leadership 🤝 Alliance Diplomacy ☢️ Nuclear Deterrence

Eisenhower

A Kansas tantrum taught Eisenhower the restraint that held allies together and kept the peace.

của Stephen E. Ambrose 1990 635 trang

4.03

12.000+ đánh giá

🏛️ Presidential Biography 🥶 Cold War History 🫡 Military Leadership 🤝 Alliance Diplomacy ☢️ Nuclear Deterrence

"Mau Mau" detainee

của Josiah Mwangi Kariuki • 1976

They called it rehabilitation. He survived fourteen camps to tell what it really was.

3.81

🇰🇪 Kenyan History 🌍 Decolonization ✊ Colonial Resistance 🔗 Camp Narratives 🗣️ First-Person Testimony

"Mau Mau" detainee

They called it rehabilitation. He survived fourteen camps to tell what it really was.

của Josiah Mwangi Kariuki 1976 188 trang

3.81

16 đánh giá

🇰🇪 Kenyan History 🌍 Decolonization ✊ Colonial Resistance 🔗 Camp Narratives 🗣️ First-Person Testimony

The Populist Vision

của Charles Postel • 2007

Populists weren't anti-modern. They demanded public railroads, corporate-scale farms, and Jim Crow.

3.65

201

💰 Gilded Age 🌾 American Populism 🚜 Rural History 🤝 Cooperative Economics 🔗 White Supremacy

The Populist Vision

Populists weren't anti-modern. They demanded public railroads, corporate-scale farms, and Jim Crow.

của Charles Postel 2007 397 trang

3.65

201 đánh giá

💰 Gilded Age 🌾 American Populism 🚜 Rural History 🤝 Cooperative Economics 🔗 White Supremacy

Three Act Tragedy

của Agatha Christie • 1935

A vicar dies mid-toast at a party. Poirot finds no poison until a second guest dies identically.

3.84

50.000+

🕰️ Golden Age Mystery 🏡 Country House Murder 🧩 Serial Killer 🎭 Theatrical Setting 💔 Love Triangle

Three Act Tragedy

A vicar dies mid-toast at a party. Poirot finds no poison until a second guest dies identically.

của Agatha Christie 1935 336 trang

3.84

50.000+ đánh giá

🕰️ Golden Age Mystery 🏡 Country House Murder 🧩 Serial Killer 🎭 Theatrical Setting 💔 Love Triangle

O Pioneers!

của Willa Cather • 1913

A Swedish immigrant's daughter inherits the Nebraska farm and bets on land the neighbors abandon.

3.90

59.000+

🏡 Pioneer Fiction 👩‍🌾 Female Pioneer 🧳 Immigrant Saga 💔 Forbidden Love 🔥 Slow Burn Romance

O Pioneers!

A Swedish immigrant's daughter inherits the Nebraska farm and bets on land the neighbors abandon.

của Willa Cather 1913 159 trang

3.90

59.000+ đánh giá

🏡 Pioneer Fiction 👩‍🌾 Female Pioneer 🧳 Immigrant Saga 💔 Forbidden Love 🔥 Slow Burn Romance

J R

của William Gaddis • 1975

From a payphone, a sixth-grader builds a paper empire that consumes a struggling composer.

4.32

3.000+

📡 Postmodern Satire 🎨 Art Vs Commerce 🤝 Reluctant Accomplice 🏚️ Failing Institutions 🖤 Dark Satire

J R

From a payphone, a sixth-grader builds a paper empire that consumes a struggling composer.

của William Gaddis 1975 752 trang

4.32

3.000+ đánh giá

📡 Postmodern Satire 🎨 Art Vs Commerce 🤝 Reluctant Accomplice 🏚️ Failing Institutions 🖤 Dark Satire

The Living and the Lost

của Ellen Feldman • 2021

A Jewish emigre returns to Berlin to judge Nazis, haunted by the escape that saved her.

3.83

1.000+

🏚️ Postwar Berlin 🪞 Survivor Guilt ⚖️ Denazification ✡️ Jewish Diaspora 👧 Hidden Child

The Living and the Lost

A Jewish emigre returns to Berlin to judge Nazis, haunted by the escape that saved her.

của Ellen Feldman 2021 352 trang

3.83

1.000+ đánh giá

🏚️ Postwar Berlin 🪞 Survivor Guilt ⚖️ Denazification ✡️ Jewish Diaspora 👧 Hidden Child

Grease

của Ron De Christoforo • 1978

When a greaser's summer fling transfers to his high school, his heart collides with his rep.

4.05

1.000+

🕰️ 1950s Americana 💕 Good Girl Bad Boy 👥 Tight-Knit Gang ☀️ Summer Romance 💄 Makeover Romance

Grease

When a greaser's summer fling transfers to his high school, his heart collides with his rep.

của Ron De Christoforo 1978 224 trang

4.05

1.000+ đánh giá

🕰️ 1950s Americana 💕 Good Girl Bad Boy 👥 Tight-Knit Gang ☀️ Summer Romance 💄 Makeover Romance

The Red and the Blue

của Steve Kornacki • 2018

The prosperous 1990s: two men broke American politics, and we are still living in the wreckage.

4.20

3.000+

🏛️ Political Polarization 🗳️ Electoral History ⏳ Clinton Era 💥 Anti-Establishment 🔒 Congressional Gridlock

The Red and the Blue

The prosperous 1990s: two men broke American politics, and we are still living in the wreckage.

của Steve Kornacki 2018

4.20

3.000+ đánh giá

🏛️ Political Polarization 🗳️ Electoral History ⏳ Clinton Era 💥 Anti-Establishment 🔒 Congressional Gridlock

Beneath the Lion's Gaze

của Maaza Mengiste • 2010

Addis Ababa, 1974: a physician's mercy and his son's rebellion collide, shattering their family.

3.96

3.000+

🇪🇹 Ethiopian Revolution 🏚️ Family Under Tyranny ✊ Student Uprising 💔 Moral Injury 🕰️ Generational Trauma

Beneath the Lion's Gaze

Addis Ababa, 1974: a physician's mercy and his son's rebellion collide, shattering their family.

của Maaza Mengiste 2010 308 trang

3.96

3.000+ đánh giá

🇪🇹 Ethiopian Revolution 🏚️ Family Under Tyranny ✊ Student Uprising 💔 Moral Injury 🕰️ Generational Trauma

The Murder on the Links

của Agatha Christie • 1923

Summoned to France, Poirot finds his client murdered on a golf course, every clue a deception.

3.86

100.000+

🔍 Golden Age Mystery 🕵️ Rival Detectives 🕰️ Hidden Past 💔 False Confession 💋 Femme Fatale

The Murder on the Links

Summoned to France, Poirot finds his client murdered on a golf course, every clue a deception.

của Agatha Christie 1923 240 trang

3.86

100.000+ đánh giá

🔍 Golden Age Mystery 🕵️ Rival Detectives 🕰️ Hidden Past 💔 False Confession 💋 Femme Fatale

Working Toward Whiteness

của David R. Roediger • 2005

Southern and Eastern Europeans were not white when they arrived. The journey that changed that.

3.83

370

🧳 Immigration History 👥 Whiteness Studies 🏭 Racialized Labor 🏡 Housing Segregation ✊ Labor Unions And Race

Working Toward Whiteness

Southern and Eastern Europeans were not white when they arrived. The journey that changed that.

của David R. Roediger 2005 339 trang

3.83

370 đánh giá

🧳 Immigration History 👥 Whiteness Studies 🏭 Racialized Labor 🏡 Housing Segregation ✊ Labor Unions And Race

One Nation Under God

của Kevin M. Kruse • 2015

The 'Christian nation' was invented in the 1930s by corporations fighting the New Deal.

3.96

2.000+

🏛️ Church And State 🕰️ American Religious History 🔍 Invented Tradition 🇺🇸 Religious Nationalism 💼 Corporate Influence

One Nation Under God

The 'Christian nation' was invented in the 1930s by corporations fighting the New Deal.

của Kevin M. Kruse 2015 384 trang

3.96

2.000+ đánh giá

🏛️ Church And State 🕰️ American Religious History 🔍 Invented Tradition 🇺🇸 Religious Nationalism 💼 Corporate Influence

The Populist Persuasion

của Michael Kazin • 1995

Anti-elite language once belonged to labor and farmers. A history of how conservatives captured it.

3.75

134

🇺🇸 American Populism 🗣️ Political Rhetoric 🏗️ Class Politics 🔨 Labor History 🐘 Conservative Movement

The Populist Persuasion

Anti-elite language once belonged to labor and farmers. A history of how conservatives captured it.

của Michael Kazin 1995 387 trang

3.75

134 đánh giá

🇺🇸 American Populism 🗣️ Political Rhetoric 🏗️ Class Politics 🔨 Labor History 🐘 Conservative Movement

Lucky Jim

của Kingsley Amis • 1954

A reluctant lecturer loathes his boss's madrigals and clingy girlfriend, praying for a lucky break.

3.74

32.000+

📚 Campus Novel 🎭 Academic Satire 🐟 Fish Out Of Water 💔 Love Triangle 🤡 Farcical Comedy

Lucky Jim

A reluctant lecturer loathes his boss's madrigals and clingy girlfriend, praying for a lucky break.

của Kingsley Amis 1954 296 trang

3.74

32.000+ đánh giá

📚 Campus Novel 🎭 Academic Satire 🐟 Fish Out Of Water 💔 Love Triangle 🤡 Farcical Comedy

Bedingt dienstbereit. Im Herzen des BND - die Abrechnung eines Aussteigers

của Norbert Juretzko • 2004

The inside story of an intelligence agency so inept the Americans bought their agents a Winnebago.

3.67

🕵️ German Intelligence 📋 Bureaucratic Failure 📢 Whistleblowing 🔎 Espionage Tradecraft 💼 Institutional Corruption

Bedingt dienstbereit. Im Herzen des BND - die Abrechnung eines Aussteigers

The inside story of an intelligence agency so inept the Americans bought their agents a Winnebago.

của Norbert Juretzko 2004 382 trang

3.67

21 đánh giá

🕵️ German Intelligence 📋 Bureaucratic Failure 📢 Whistleblowing 🔎 Espionage Tradecraft 💼 Institutional Corruption

A Single Man

của Christopher Isherwood • 1964

Bereaved, a gay professor teaches, drinks, and searches for connection across one day in 1960s LA.

4.05

38.000+

🌊 Stream Of Consciousness 🎓 Campus Novel 💔 Age Gap Desire 🖤 Partner Grief 🎭 Performance Of Self

A Single Man

Bereaved, a gay professor teaches, drinks, and searches for connection across one day in 1960s LA.

của Christopher Isherwood 1964 186 trang

4.05

38.000+ đánh giá

🌊 Stream Of Consciousness 🎓 Campus Novel 💔 Age Gap Desire 🖤 Partner Grief 🎭 Performance Of Self

Racial Realignment

của Eric Schickler • 2016

Labor unions and state parties, not presidents, drove the Democratic turn toward civil rights.

4.24

🗳️ Party Realignment ✊ Civil Rights History 🇺🇸 American Political History 🤝 Coalition Politics ⚒️ Labor And Civil Rights

Racial Realignment

Labor unions and state parties, not presidents, drove the Democratic turn toward civil rights.

của Eric Schickler 2016 384 trang

4.24

46 đánh giá

🗳️ Party Realignment ✊ Civil Rights History 🇺🇸 American Political History 🤝 Coalition Politics ⚒️ Labor And Civil Rights

In the Shadow of the Poorhouse

của Michael B. Katz • 1986

American welfare was designed to deter, not to help. The poorhouse closed; the logic stayed.

3.74

138

📜 Welfare History 🏚️ Poverty Studies 🔗 Structural Inequality 🏭 Racial Capitalism 💰 Political Economy

In the Shadow of the Poorhouse

American welfare was designed to deter, not to help. The poorhouse closed; the logic stayed.

của Michael B. Katz 1986 410 trang

3.74

138 đánh giá

📜 Welfare History 🏚️ Poverty Studies 🔗 Structural Inequality 🏭 Racial Capitalism 💰 Political Economy

Last Exit to Brooklyn

của Hubert Selby Jr. • 1964

Drag queens and dockworkers in 1950s Brooklyn seek a tenderness their world is built to crush.

3.95

33.000+

🚬 Transgressive Fiction 🌃 1950s Brooklyn 🥀 Doomed Queer Longing 🔁 Cyclical Despair 💪 Toxic Masculinity

Last Exit to Brooklyn

Drag queens and dockworkers in 1950s Brooklyn seek a tenderness their world is built to crush.

của Hubert Selby Jr. 1964 290 trang

3.95

33.000+ đánh giá

🚬 Transgressive Fiction 🌃 1950s Brooklyn 🥀 Doomed Queer Longing 🔁 Cyclical Despair 💪 Toxic Masculinity

Dumb Witness

của Agatha Christie • 1937

A matriarch's fatal fall and a long-lost letter send Poirot hunting a killer among her heirs.

3.92

50.000+

🕰️ Golden Age Mystery 🏠 Country House Mystery 📜 Contested Will 💔 Dysfunctional Family 🔍 Slow Burn Mystery

Dumb Witness

A matriarch's fatal fall and a long-lost letter send Poirot hunting a killer among her heirs.

của Agatha Christie 1937 317 trang

3.92

50.000+ đánh giá

🕰️ Golden Age Mystery 🏠 Country House Mystery 📜 Contested Will 💔 Dysfunctional Family 🔍 Slow Burn Mystery

Bonheur d'occasion

của Gabrielle Roy • 1945

WWII Montreal: a waitress craves escape from poverty, but love, family, and war pull her back.

3.71

5.000+

🎨 Social Realism 🏠 War On The Home Front 🔄 Generational Poverty 🤰 Unwed Pregnancy 💔 Family Sacrifice

Bonheur d'occasion

WWII Montreal: a waitress craves escape from poverty, but love, family, and war pull her back.

của Gabrielle Roy 1945 464 trang

3.71

5.000+ đánh giá

🎨 Social Realism 🏠 War On The Home Front 🔄 Generational Poverty 🤰 Unwed Pregnancy 💔 Family Sacrifice

The Most Dangerous Man In Detroit

của Nelson Lichtenstein • 1995

The labor leader who could have reshaped American capitalism settled for a cost-of-living clause.

4.04

🏭 Labor History 🚗 Auto Industry 🌹 Social Democracy 🤝 Collective Bargaining ✊ Labor Militancy

The Most Dangerous Man In Detroit

The labor leader who could have reshaped American capitalism settled for a cost-of-living clause.

của Nelson Lichtenstein 1995 592 trang

4.04

96 đánh giá

🏭 Labor History 🚗 Auto Industry 🌹 Social Democracy 🤝 Collective Bargaining ✊ Labor Militancy

The Devil's Castle

của Susanne Paola Antonetta • 2025

Diagnostic categories created by eugenicists to justify Nazi euthanasia still live inside the DSM.

3.28

🧠 Psychiatric History ☠️ Nazi Eugenics 🧬 Biological Psychiatry 📋 Psychiatric Diagnosis 🗣️ Critical Psychiatry

The Devil's Castle

Diagnostic categories created by eugenicists to justify Nazi euthanasia still live inside the DSM.

của Susanne Paola Antonetta 2025 336 trang

3.28

72 đánh giá

🧠 Psychiatric History ☠️ Nazi Eugenics 🧬 Biological Psychiatry 📋 Psychiatric Diagnosis 🗣️ Critical Psychiatry

The Great Betrayal

của Fawaz A. Gerges • 2025

Arab Spring didn't cause chaos; its brutal suppression did, continuing a century of betrayal.

4.24

🌍 Middle Eastern Politics 🏛️ Colonial Legacies 👤 Authoritarian Rule 🛡️ Foreign Intervention 🗺️ Geopolitical History

The Great Betrayal

Arab Spring didn't cause chaos; its brutal suppression did, continuing a century of betrayal.

của Fawaz A. Gerges 2025 384 trang

4.24

37 đánh giá

🌍 Middle Eastern Politics 🏛️ Colonial Legacies 👤 Authoritarian Rule 🛡️ Foreign Intervention 🗺️ Geopolitical History

Flash

của Charles Duchaussois • 1971

A scarred Frenchman rides the hippie trail into opium and addiction's abyss.

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2.000+

💉 Drug Memoir 🛤️ Hippie Trail 🌀 Addiction Spiral 🚬 Outsider Antihero ☮️ 1960s Counterculture

Flash

A scarred Frenchman rides the hippie trail into opium and addiction's abyss.

của Charles Duchaussois 1971 704 trang

4.31

2.000+ đánh giá

💉 Drug Memoir 🛤️ Hippie Trail 🌀 Addiction Spiral 🚬 Outsider Antihero ☮️ 1960s Counterculture

State of the Union

của Nelson Lichtenstein • 2002

Why American law expanded individual rights while dismantling the collective power of labor.

3.75

170

🏭 Labor History 🇺🇸 American Labor Movement 📜 New Deal Era 👷 Working Class History 📉 Political Economy

State of the Union

Why American law expanded individual rights while dismantling the collective power of labor.

của Nelson Lichtenstein 2002 352 trang

3.75

170 đánh giá

🏭 Labor History 🇺🇸 American Labor Movement 📜 New Deal Era 👷 Working Class History 📉 Political Economy

Last Train to Istanbul

của Ayşe Kulin • 2002

A forbidden marriage strands a Turkish Jew in Nazi France until one train car offers escape.

3.88

29.000+

🕰️ Historical Family Saga 💑 Interfaith Romance 👭 Estranged Sisters 🎖️ Quiet Heroism 🚂 Escape By Train

Last Train to Istanbul

A forbidden marriage strands a Turkish Jew in Nazi France until one train car offers escape.

của Ayşe Kulin 2002 417 trang

3.88

29.000+ đánh giá

🕰️ Historical Family Saga 💑 Interfaith Romance 👭 Estranged Sisters 🎖️ Quiet Heroism 🚂 Escape By Train

The Buddha of Suburbia

của Hanif Kureishi • 1990

A mixed-race teenager in 1970s London flees his father's guru act for the bohemian theatre world.

3.75

21.000+

🏙️ 1970s Britain 🎭 Suburban Satire 💜 Bisexual Awakening 💍 Arranged Marriage 🌏 Second Generation

The Buddha of Suburbia

A mixed-race teenager in 1970s London flees his father's guru act for the bohemian theatre world.

của Hanif Kureishi 1990 288 trang

3.75

21.000+ đánh giá

🏙️ 1970s Britain 🎭 Suburban Satire 💜 Bisexual Awakening 💍 Arranged Marriage 🌏 Second Generation

A Month in the Country

của J.L. Carr • 1980

In a Yorkshire village, a war-scarred restorer unearths a medieval painting and a summer of healing.

4.07

30.000+

🌾 Pastoral Elegy 🎖️ Shell-Shocked Veteran 💬 Unspoken Love 🏡 Outsider Finds Home 🌿 Yorkshire Dales

A Month in the Country

In a Yorkshire village, a war-scarred restorer unearths a medieval painting and a summer of healing.

của J.L. Carr 1980 160 trang

4.07

30.000+ đánh giá

🌾 Pastoral Elegy 🎖️ Shell-Shocked Veteran 💬 Unspoken Love 🏡 Outsider Finds Home 🌿 Yorkshire Dales

Workers on Arrival

của Joe William Trotter Jr. • 2019

America was built on Black labor, then spent four centuries finding new ways to steal it.

4.20

⛏️ Black Labor History 💰 Racial Capitalism ⛓️ Mass Incarceration 🏭 Deindustrialization 🧳 Great Migration

Workers on Arrival

America was built on Black labor, then spent four centuries finding new ways to steal it.

của Joe William Trotter Jr. 2019 328 trang

4.20

41 đánh giá

⛏️ Black Labor History 💰 Racial Capitalism ⛓️ Mass Incarceration 🏭 Deindustrialization 🧳 Great Migration

Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement

của William E. Forbath • 1989

American labor's early radicalism was crushed by a judge-made weapon, not conservative workers.

3.93

🏛️ Legal History ⚖️ American Labor Law 🎩 Gilded Age America 💼 Business Unionism 📝 Liberty Of Contract

Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement

American labor's early radicalism was crushed by a judge-made weapon, not conservative workers.

của William E. Forbath 1989 230 trang

3.93

46 đánh giá

🏛️ Legal History ⚖️ American Labor Law 🎩 Gilded Age America 💼 Business Unionism 📝 Liberty Of Contract

The Rotters' Club

của Jonathan Coe • 2001

Birmingham, 1973: four school friends, their rock band, and the IRA bomb that ends a world.

3.96

16.000+

🎭 Ensemble Coming-Of-Age 🇬🇧 1970s England 💔 Unrequited First Love 🔐 Family Secrets 🎸 Music Obsession

The Rotters' Club

Birmingham, 1973: four school friends, their rock band, and the IRA bomb that ends a world.

của Jonathan Coe 2001 415 trang

3.96

16.000+ đánh giá

🎭 Ensemble Coming-Of-Age 🇬🇧 1970s England 💔 Unrequited First Love 🔐 Family Secrets 🎸 Music Obsession

Mrs. McGinty's Dead

của Agatha Christie • 1952

Poirot comes out of retirement when a policeman's doubt has an awkward lodger facing the gallows.

3.86

41.000+

🕵️ Golden Age Mystery 🏘️ English Village 🎭 Hidden Identity ⚖️ Wrongly Accused 🔒 Family Secrets

Mrs. McGinty's Dead

Poirot comes out of retirement when a policeman's doubt has an awkward lodger facing the gallows.

của Agatha Christie 1952 244 trang

3.86

41.000+ đánh giá

🕵️ Golden Age Mystery 🏘️ English Village 🎭 Hidden Identity ⚖️ Wrongly Accused 🔒 Family Secrets

Forbidden Notebook

của Alba de Céspedes • 1952

A middle-aged Roman housewife buys a secret diary and discovers the woman her family has never seen.

4.25

18.000+

🖤 Secret Diary 🇮🇹 Postwar Italy 🏠 Domestic Confinement 👩‍👧 Mother Daughter Conflict 🪞 Interior Life

Forbidden Notebook

A middle-aged Roman housewife buys a secret diary and discovers the woman her family has never seen.

của Alba de Céspedes 1952 288 trang

4.25

18.000+ đánh giá

🖤 Secret Diary 🇮🇹 Postwar Italy 🏠 Domestic Confinement 👩‍👧 Mother Daughter Conflict 🪞 Interior Life

The Age of Light

của Whitney Scharer • 2019

A Vogue model enters Man Ray's studio, determined to become the photographer, not the photographed.

3.57

13.000+

🎨 Art Historical Fiction 📖 Biographical Fiction 💋 Artist And Muse 🗼 1920s Paris 🥂 Lost Generation

The Age of Light

A Vogue model enters Man Ray's studio, determined to become the photographer, not the photographed.

của Whitney Scharer 2019 384 trang

3.57

13.000+ đánh giá

🎨 Art Historical Fiction 📖 Biographical Fiction 💋 Artist And Muse 🗼 1920s Paris 🥂 Lost Generation

Nora Webster

của Colm Tóibín • 2014

A widow in 1960s Ireland finds that silence, properly tended, begins to sound like music.

3.63

24.000+

🧠 Psychological Realism 🖤 Widowhood 🏘️ Small Town Ireland 🕯️ Elegiac 🤫 Private Grief

Nora Webster

A widow in 1960s Ireland finds that silence, properly tended, begins to sound like music.

của Colm Tóibín 2014 373 trang

3.63

24.000+ đánh giá

🧠 Psychological Realism 🖤 Widowhood 🏘️ Small Town Ireland 🕯️ Elegiac 🤫 Private Grief

The School for German Brides

của Aimie K. Runyan • 2022

An SS bride and a hidden Jewish seamstress form a forbidden alliance in 1939 Berlin.

4.03

9.000+

🏙️ 1930s Berlin 🕶️ Passing As Aryan 👭 Unlikely Sisterhood 💍 Coerced Marriage 🤰 Hidden Pregnancy

The School for German Brides

An SS bride and a hidden Jewish seamstress form a forbidden alliance in 1939 Berlin.

của Aimie K. Runyan 2022 384 trang

4.03

9.000+ đánh giá

🏙️ 1930s Berlin 🕶️ Passing As Aryan 👭 Unlikely Sisterhood 💍 Coerced Marriage 🤰 Hidden Pregnancy

Tapestry

của Belva Plain • 1988

A secret affair and a hidden child haunt a wealthy Jewish dynasty from WWI to the Holocaust.

4.06

2.000+

💔 Forbidden Love 🤫 Secret Child 🏗️ Self-Made Man 🌱 Women's Awakening 📜 Sweeping Family Saga

Tapestry

A secret affair and a hidden child haunt a wealthy Jewish dynasty from WWI to the Holocaust.

của Belva Plain 1988 560 trang

4.06

2.000+ đánh giá

💔 Forbidden Love 🤫 Secret Child 🏗️ Self-Made Man 🌱 Women's Awakening 📜 Sweeping Family Saga

Eight Days at Yalta

của Diana Preston • 2020

Three ailing men, eight days, and the secret deals that mapped the Cold War.

4.21

500+

🏛️ Diplomatic History ❄️ Cold War Origins 🤝 Wartime Diplomacy 🌍 Great Power Politics 🏗️ Postwar Reconstruction

Eight Days at Yalta

Three ailing men, eight days, and the secret deals that mapped the Cold War.

của Diana Preston 2020 416 trang

4.21

500+ đánh giá

🏛️ Diplomatic History ❄️ Cold War Origins 🤝 Wartime Diplomacy 🌍 Great Power Politics 🏗️ Postwar Reconstruction

The Rhine Flows into the Tiber

của Ralph M. Wiltgen • 1966

How an alliance of Rhineland bishops steered Vatican II and reshaped modern Catholicism.

4.05

112

⛪ Vatican Ii 📜 Church History 🏛️ Vatican Politics 🎵 Liturgical Reform 🔄 Church Reform

The Rhine Flows into the Tiber

How an alliance of Rhineland bishops steered Vatican II and reshaped modern Catholicism.

của Ralph M. Wiltgen 1966

4.05

112 đánh giá

⛪ Vatican Ii 📜 Church History 🏛️ Vatican Politics 🎵 Liturgical Reform 🔄 Church Reform

The Second Mrs. Astor

của Shana Abe • 2021

At eighteen she married a scandal-ridden tycoon. Their honeymoon escape ended on the Titanic.

4.09

265

📜 Biographical Fiction 💞 Age Gap Romance 🕰️ Edwardian Era 🚢 Titanic Sinking 👁️ Public Eye

The Second Mrs. Astor

At eighteen she married a scandal-ridden tycoon. Their honeymoon escape ended on the Titanic.

của Shana Abe 2021 55 trang

4.09

265 đánh giá

📜 Biographical Fiction 💞 Age Gap Romance 🕰️ Edwardian Era 🚢 Titanic Sinking 👁️ Public Eye

Southern Politics In State and Nation

của V.O. Key Jr. • 1949

One party masks a hundred factions; the only unity is Black voter suppression.

4.32

100

🏛️ Southern Politics 🗳️ One-Party Rule ✋ Voter Suppression ⚖️ Racial Politics 🏙️ Machine Politics

Southern Politics In State and Nation

One party masks a hundred factions; the only unity is Black voter suppression.

của V.O. Key Jr. 1949 752 trang

4.32

100 đánh giá

🏛️ Southern Politics 🗳️ One-Party Rule ✋ Voter Suppression ⚖️ Racial Politics 🏙️ Machine Politics

Zoli

của Colum McCann • 2006

Symbol to the state, outcast to her people, a Roma poet walks into exile.

3.70

4.000+

🏕️ Roma Culture ✍️ Poet Protagonist 🔴 Communist Era Europe 🚶 Life In Exile 📜 Cultural Erasure

Zoli

Symbol to the state, outcast to her people, a Roma poet walks into exile.

của Colum McCann 2006 333 trang

3.70

4.000+ đánh giá

🏕️ Roma Culture ✍️ Poet Protagonist 🔴 Communist Era Europe 🚶 Life In Exile 📜 Cultural Erasure

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