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Mary Jane

của Jessica Anya Blau • 2021

A sheltered Baltimore teen spends one summer nannying for a family hiding a famous rock star.

4.12

100.000+

📅 1970s Coming Of Age 🏠 Bohemian Household 🩷 Found Family 👶 Nanny Protagonist 🔒 Sheltered Protagonist

Mary Jane

A sheltered Baltimore teen spends one summer nannying for a family hiding a famous rock star.

của Jessica Anya Blau 2021 320 trang

4.12

100.000+ đánh giá

📅 1970s Coming Of Age 🏠 Bohemian Household 🩷 Found Family 👶 Nanny Protagonist 🔒 Sheltered Protagonist

Jane Austen's Bookshelf

của Rebecca Romney • 2025

The canon buried Jane Austen's favorite women writers. A rare book dealer digs them back up.

4.27

7.000+

🏛️ Literary Canon ✊ Feminist Recovery 📖 Rare Book Collecting 🖋️ Austen Studies 🎓 Bluestockings

Jane Austen's Bookshelf

The canon buried Jane Austen's favorite women writers. A rare book dealer digs them back up.

của Rebecca Romney 2025 455 trang

4.27

7.000+ đánh giá

🏛️ Literary Canon ✊ Feminist Recovery 📖 Rare Book Collecting 🖋️ Austen Studies 🎓 Bluestockings

Why the New Deal Matters

của Eric Rauchway • 2021

Democracies fell to fascism. America tried something different: paychecks and public works.

3.98

235

🏛️ New Deal 📜 Progressive Reform 🗳️ Democratic Resilience 🏗️ Public Works ⚖️ Racial Inequality

Why the New Deal Matters

Democracies fell to fascism. America tried something different: paychecks and public works.

của Eric Rauchway 2021 232 trang

3.98

235 đánh giá

🏛️ New Deal 📜 Progressive Reform 🗳️ Democratic Resilience 🏗️ Public Works ⚖️ Racial Inequality

The Paris Seamstress

của Natasha Lester • 2018

A seamstress flees Nazi-occupied Paris with a gold dress and discovers a twin in New York.

4.10

24.000+

🔄 Dual Timeline 🤫 Family Secrets 👯‍♀️ Twin Sisters 💋 Wartime Romance 🕰️ Generational Trauma

The Paris Seamstress

A seamstress flees Nazi-occupied Paris with a gold dress and discovers a twin in New York.

của Natasha Lester 2018 448 trang

4.10

24.000+ đánh giá

🔄 Dual Timeline 🤫 Family Secrets 👯‍♀️ Twin Sisters 💋 Wartime Romance 🕰️ Generational Trauma

Her Best Friend's Husband

của Alison Irving • 2024

A secret affair. A school reunion. Claire plans to punish the women who destroyed her youth.

4.00

1.000+

🏠 Domestic Drama 👭 Female Friendship Group 💔 Bullying Scars 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🤫 Secret Affair

Her Best Friend's Husband

A secret affair. A school reunion. Claire plans to punish the women who destroyed her youth.

của Alison Irving 2024 298 trang

4.00

1.000+ đánh giá

🏠 Domestic Drama 👭 Female Friendship Group 💔 Bullying Scars 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🤫 Secret Affair

At Loggerheads

của Kristen Ness • 2023

A marine biologist returns to her Southern island to find her mentor murdered and turtles poached.

4.01

500+

🌊 Coastal Mystery 🐢 Environmental Crime 🏘️ Small Town Secrets 💕 Rekindled Love 🏠 Homecoming

At Loggerheads

A marine biologist returns to her Southern island to find her mentor murdered and turtles poached.

của Kristen Ness 2023 358 trang

4.01

500+ đánh giá

🌊 Coastal Mystery 🐢 Environmental Crime 🏘️ Small Town Secrets 💕 Rekindled Love 🏠 Homecoming

Bournville

của Jonathan Coe • 2022

In a chocolate-maker's utopian village, one family mirrors Britain's long argument with itself.

3.78

8.000+

🏡 Multi-Generational Saga 🕰️ Postwar Britain 🏛️ State Of The Nation 🔑 Family Secrets 🇬🇧 English Identity

Bournville

In a chocolate-maker's utopian village, one family mirrors Britain's long argument with itself.

của Jonathan Coe 2022 354 trang

3.78

8.000+ đánh giá

🏡 Multi-Generational Saga 🕰️ Postwar Britain 🏛️ State Of The Nation 🔑 Family Secrets 🇬🇧 English Identity

When Women Were Dragons

của Kelly Barnhill • 2022

In 1955, hundreds of thousands of women become dragons and disappear. One girl refuses to forget.

3.81

74.000+

🗡️ Feminist Fantasy 🇺🇸 Midcentury America 🌈 Sapphic Romance 🏡 Found Family 🔥 Women's Rage

When Women Were Dragons

In 1955, hundreds of thousands of women become dragons and disappear. One girl refuses to forget.

của Kelly Barnhill 2022 367 trang

3.81

74.000+ đánh giá

🗡️ Feminist Fantasy 🇺🇸 Midcentury America 🌈 Sapphic Romance 🏡 Found Family 🔥 Women's Rage

The Irish Boarding House

của Sandy Taylor • 2022

Mary Kate Ryan's inheritance becomes a Dublin boarding house where lost women find a home.

4.13

14.000+

🏠 Found Family 🚪 Boarding House Fiction 💌 Unexpected Inheritance 💔 Childhood Abandonment 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Reconciliation

The Irish Boarding House

Mary Kate Ryan's inheritance becomes a Dublin boarding house where lost women find a home.

của Sandy Taylor 2022 330 trang

4.13

14.000+ đánh giá

🏠 Found Family 🚪 Boarding House Fiction 💌 Unexpected Inheritance 💔 Childhood Abandonment 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Reconciliation

Mothers and Other Strangers

của Corey Ann Haydu • 2026

Best friends since preschool, Mae and Sydney are torn apart by an affair between their parents.

3.61

1.000+

📜 Generational Trauma 💔 Toxic Female Friendship 🎨 Art Born From Grief 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bonds 🏘️ Suburban Secrets

Mothers and Other Strangers

Best friends since preschool, Mae and Sydney are torn apart by an affair between their parents.

của Corey Ann Haydu 2026 416 trang

3.61

1.000+ đánh giá

📜 Generational Trauma 💔 Toxic Female Friendship 🎨 Art Born From Grief 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bonds 🏘️ Suburban Secrets

Fifty Words for Rain

của Asha Lemmie • 2020

Abandoned at a Kyoto estate, a mixed-race girl learns that survival means becoming invisible.

3.87

47.000+

🗾 Postwar Japan 📜 Family Saga 🌏 Mixed Race Identity 🤝 Sibling Bond 👤 Illegitimate Child

Fifty Words for Rain

Abandoned at a Kyoto estate, a mixed-race girl learns that survival means becoming invisible.

của Asha Lemmie 2020 449 trang

3.87

47.000+ đánh giá

🗾 Postwar Japan 📜 Family Saga 🌏 Mixed Race Identity 🤝 Sibling Bond 👤 Illegitimate Child

Hag-Seed

của Margaret Atwood • 2016

A grieving director turns a prison Tempest into an elaborate trap for his old enemies.

3.79

41.000+

📖 Shakespeare Retelling 🎭 Play Within A Play 👻 Grief-Haunted Protagonist ⚔️ Revenge Plot 🤝 Found Family

Hag-Seed

A grieving director turns a prison Tempest into an elaborate trap for his old enemies.

của Margaret Atwood 2016 301 trang

3.79

41.000+ đánh giá

📖 Shakespeare Retelling 🎭 Play Within A Play 👻 Grief-Haunted Protagonist ⚔️ Revenge Plot 🤝 Found Family

A Voice in the Wind

của Francine Rivers • 1993

A Christian slave hides her faith in a decadent Roman house, where loving her master courts ruin.

4.57

100.000+

🕊️ Early Church Fiction 🏛️ Ancient Rome 💔 Forbidden Romance ⛓️ Enslaved Protagonist ✝️ Martyrdom Sacrifice

A Voice in the Wind

A Christian slave hides her faith in a decadent Roman house, where loving her master courts ruin.

của Francine Rivers 1993 520 trang

4.57

100.000+ đánh giá

🕊️ Early Church Fiction 🏛️ Ancient Rome 💔 Forbidden Romance ⛓️ Enslaved Protagonist ✝️ Martyrdom Sacrifice

Olive

của Emma Gannon • 2020

A journalist questioning motherhood faces a broken engagement and drifting friendships.

3.67

22.000+

🤱 Motherhood Choice 👪 Chosen Family 🤝 Friendship Evolution 🏙️ London Life 🍂 Bittersweet

Olive

A journalist questioning motherhood faces a broken engagement and drifting friendships.

của Emma Gannon 2020 410 trang

3.67

22.000+ đánh giá

🤱 Motherhood Choice 👪 Chosen Family 🤝 Friendship Evolution 🏙️ London Life 🍂 Bittersweet

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

Hiệu sách 24 giờ của ngài Penumbra

của Robin Sloan • 2012

A night job at a strange bookstore pulls a designer into a secret society's hunt for immortality.

3.72

200.000+

🕯️ Secret Society 📚 Bookstore Setting 🔐 Codebreaking 🤝 Found Family 💻 Geeky Romance

Hiệu sách 24 giờ của ngài Penumbra

A night job at a strange bookstore pulls a designer into a secret society's hunt for immortality.

của Robin Sloan 2012 288 trang

3.72

200.000+ đánh giá

🕯️ Secret Society 📚 Bookstore Setting 🔐 Codebreaking 🤝 Found Family 💻 Geeky Romance

Three Weeks with My Brother

của Nicholas Sparks • 2004

Two brothers tour the world's ancient wonders while sifting through a lifetime of shared loss.

4.05

50.000+

🏠 Family Memoir 💔 Grief Memoir 👬 Brotherhood 🔗 Childhood Trauma 🍂 Bittersweet

Three Weeks with My Brother

Two brothers tour the world's ancient wonders while sifting through a lifetime of shared loss.

của Nicholas Sparks 2004 368 trang

4.05

50.000+ đánh giá

🏠 Family Memoir 💔 Grief Memoir 👬 Brotherhood 🔗 Childhood Trauma 🍂 Bittersweet

The Collected Regrets of Clover

của Mikki Brammer • 2023

A death doula collects the dying's final regrets. A new neighbor asks what hers are.

4.16

100.000+

🔒 Emotionally Guarded 🫂 Found Family 👯 Unlikely Friendship ☠️ Death Positive 💌 Lost Love Letters

The Collected Regrets of Clover

A death doula collects the dying's final regrets. A new neighbor asks what hers are.

của Mikki Brammer 2023 320 trang

4.16

100.000+ đánh giá

🔒 Emotionally Guarded 🫂 Found Family 👯 Unlikely Friendship ☠️ Death Positive 💌 Lost Love Letters

The Five Wishes of Mr. Murray McBride

của Joe Siple • 2018

A hundred-year-old widower ready to die meets a dying boy clutching five impossible last wishes.

4.61

48.000+

🧓 Intergenerational Bond 👦 Childhood Illness 🪣 Bucket List Quest 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family ⚾ Baseball Backdrop

The Five Wishes of Mr. Murray McBride

A hundred-year-old widower ready to die meets a dying boy clutching five impossible last wishes.

của Joe Siple 2018 234 trang

4.61

48.000+ đánh giá

🧓 Intergenerational Bond 👦 Childhood Illness 🪣 Bucket List Quest 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family ⚾ Baseball Backdrop

My Name Is Asher Lev

của Chaim Potok • 1972

A Hasidic boy in Brooklyn is born to draw, a gift his father calls sin.

4.24

43.000+

🎨 Artistic Bildungsroman ✡️ Hasidic Community 🏙️ Postwar Brooklyn 👨‍🎨 Mentor Apprentice ⚖️ Artist Vs Faith

My Name Is Asher Lev

A Hasidic boy in Brooklyn is born to draw, a gift his father calls sin.

của Chaim Potok 1972 369 trang

4.24

43.000+ đánh giá

🎨 Artistic Bildungsroman ✡️ Hasidic Community 🏙️ Postwar Brooklyn 👨‍🎨 Mentor Apprentice ⚖️ Artist Vs Faith

Enormous Wings

của Laurie Frankel • 2026

Retired, in love, and pregnant at seventy-seven: her miracle is a crime in Texas.

3.88

7.000+

⚖️ Reproductive Rights 🚗 Abortion Road Trip 🏡 Retirement Community 💘 Late-Life Romance 🔗 Intergenerational Bond

Enormous Wings

Retired, in love, and pregnant at seventy-seven: her miracle is a crime in Texas.

của Laurie Frankel 2026 304 trang

3.88

7.000+ đánh giá

⚖️ Reproductive Rights 🚗 Abortion Road Trip 🏡 Retirement Community 💘 Late-Life Romance 🔗 Intergenerational Bond

The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper

của Phaedra Patrick • 2016

His wife's hidden charm bracelet upends a widower's quiet life, launching a quest to know her.

3.93

57.000+

✨ Uplifting Fiction 🧓 Widower's Journey 📝 Hidden Letters 💔 Bittersweet 🏘️ English Village

The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper

His wife's hidden charm bracelet upends a widower's quiet life, launching a quest to know her.

của Phaedra Patrick 2016 331 trang

3.93

57.000+ đánh giá

✨ Uplifting Fiction 🧓 Widower's Journey 📝 Hidden Letters 💔 Bittersweet 🏘️ English Village

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

Far and Away

của Amy Poeppel • 2025

A viral scandal drives a mother to swap her Dallas home for a stranger's Berlin apartment.

3.96

9.000+

🏠 House Swap 📱 Social Media Scandal 🌱 Starting Over 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 💔 Marriage In Crisis

Far and Away

A viral scandal drives a mother to swap her Dallas home for a stranger's Berlin apartment.

của Amy Poeppel 2025 388 trang

3.96

9.000+ đánh giá

🏠 House Swap 📱 Social Media Scandal 🌱 Starting Over 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 💔 Marriage In Crisis

Wandering Souls

của Cecile Pin • 2023

After their family drowns fleeing Vietnam, three siblings reach England haunted by a dead brother.

4.12

19.000+

🌊 Vietnamese Diaspora 📜 Multigenerational Saga 🤲 Parentified Sibling 👻 Ghost Narrator 💔 Survivor Guilt

Wandering Souls

After their family drowns fleeing Vietnam, three siblings reach England haunted by a dead brother.

của Cecile Pin 2023 240 trang

4.12

19.000+ đánh giá

🌊 Vietnamese Diaspora 📜 Multigenerational Saga 🤲 Parentified Sibling 👻 Ghost Narrator 💔 Survivor Guilt

In the Distance

của Hernan Diaz • 2017

A Swedish immigrant, severed from his brother, becomes an unwilling legend crossing the frontier.

4.10

26.000+

🏜️ Revisionist Western 🧳 Immigrant Experience 🐻 Gentle Giant 🎭 Myth Versus Man 🌫️ Melancholy

In the Distance

A Swedish immigrant, severed from his brother, becomes an unwilling legend crossing the frontier.

của Hernan Diaz 2017 256 trang

4.10

26.000+ đánh giá

🏜️ Revisionist Western 🧳 Immigrant Experience 🐻 Gentle Giant 🎭 Myth Versus Man 🌫️ Melancholy

Summerwater

của Sarah Moss • 2020

Torrential rain traps families in a Scottish holiday park; petty grievances build toward disaster.

3.49

16.000+

🎙️ Polyphonic Narrative 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scottish Literature 🌧️ Relentless Rain 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Pressure 👧 Childhood Cruelty

Summerwater

Torrential rain traps families in a Scottish holiday park; petty grievances build toward disaster.

của Sarah Moss 2020 208 trang

3.49

16.000+ đánh giá

🎙️ Polyphonic Narrative 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scottish Literature 🌧️ Relentless Rain 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Pressure 👧 Childhood Cruelty

Galway Bay

của Mary Pat Kelly • 2009

Galway Bay starves. Honora sails to Chicago, where a fisherman's daughter must become a dynasty.

4.16

5.000+

🍀 Irish Family Saga 🚢 Immigrant Epic 🥔 Famine Survival 👯 Sisterly Bond 💪 Matriarchal Resilience

Galway Bay

Galway Bay starves. Honora sails to Chicago, where a fisherman's daughter must become a dynasty.

của Mary Pat Kelly 2009 551 trang

4.16

5.000+ đánh giá

🍀 Irish Family Saga 🚢 Immigrant Epic 🥔 Famine Survival 👯 Sisterly Bond 💪 Matriarchal Resilience

The Pearl Diver

của Jeff Talarigo • 2005

Exiled to a leprosarium, a pearl diver learns that even a stolen name can be rebuilt.

3.75

1.000+

🏯 Postwar Japan 🦪 Pearl Diving 🏥 Sanatorium Life 🤝 Found Family 📛 Identity Erasure

The Pearl Diver

Exiled to a leprosarium, a pearl diver learns that even a stolen name can be rebuilt.

của Jeff Talarigo 2005 237 trang

3.75

1.000+ đánh giá

🏯 Postwar Japan 🦪 Pearl Diving 🏥 Sanatorium Life 🤝 Found Family 📛 Identity Erasure

Etta and Otto and Russell and James

của Emma Hooper • 2015

An elderly woman with fading memory walks from Saskatchewan to the ocean she has never seen.

3.67

15.000+

🧠 Memory Loss 👵 Late-Life Quest 🐺 Talking Animal 💔 Unrequited Love 💌 Epistolary Romance

Etta and Otto and Russell and James

An elderly woman with fading memory walks from Saskatchewan to the ocean she has never seen.

của Emma Hooper 2015 277 trang

3.67

15.000+ đánh giá

🧠 Memory Loss 👵 Late-Life Quest 🐺 Talking Animal 💔 Unrequited Love 💌 Epistolary Romance

Thành phố của những tên trộm

của David Benioff • 2008

A Jewish boy and a deserter hunt wedding-cake eggs through starving Leningrad to stay alive.

4.30

100.000+

🏚️ Besieged Leningrad 🎭 Darkly Comic War 🤝 Unlikely Wartime Duo 🪖 Siege Survival 🏔️ Partisan Resistance

Thành phố của những tên trộm

A Jewish boy and a deserter hunt wedding-cake eggs through starving Leningrad to stay alive.

của David Benioff 2008 258 trang

4.30

100.000+ đánh giá

🏚️ Besieged Leningrad 🎭 Darkly Comic War 🤝 Unlikely Wartime Duo 🪖 Siege Survival 🏔️ Partisan Resistance

The Topeka School

của Ben Lerner • 2019

A debate prodigy's weaponized words fail him when violence erupts in his 1990s Kansas community.

3.51

28.000+

🖋️ Autofiction 🏘️ Midwestern Suburbia 🎤 High School Debate 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🛋️ Therapists In Fiction

The Topeka School

A debate prodigy's weaponized words fail him when violence erupts in his 1990s Kansas community.

của Ben Lerner 2019 282 trang

3.51

28.000+ đánh giá

🖋️ Autofiction 🏘️ Midwestern Suburbia 🎤 High School Debate 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🛋️ Therapists In Fiction

All That I Am

của Anna Funder • 2011

An aging exile in Sydney sifts memory for the truth of her cousin's locked-room death.

3.83

10.000+

🎭 Weimar Berlin 🧳 Exile And Displacement ✊ Political Resistance 💔 Survivor's Guilt 🤲 Found Family In Exile

All That I Am

An aging exile in Sydney sifts memory for the truth of her cousin's locked-room death.

của Anna Funder 2011 368 trang

3.83

10.000+ đánh giá

🎭 Weimar Berlin 🧳 Exile And Displacement ✊ Political Resistance 💔 Survivor's Guilt 🤲 Found Family In Exile

The Authenticity Project

của Clare Pooley • 2020

An artist's notebook confession sparks a chain of honesty among six lonely strangers in London.

3.93

100.000+

🫂 Found Family 📓 Anonymous Confessions 💔 Hidden Loneliness 🩹 Addiction Recovery ☕ Cozy Café Setting

The Authenticity Project

An artist's notebook confession sparks a chain of honesty among six lonely strangers in London.

của Clare Pooley 2020 400 trang

3.93

100.000+ đánh giá

🫂 Found Family 📓 Anonymous Confessions 💔 Hidden Loneliness 🩹 Addiction Recovery ☕ Cozy Café Setting

The Fine Art of Lying

của Alexandra Andrews • 2026

An art historian's affair with a charismatic dealer ends with him dead and her covered in blood.

3.68

10.000+

🎨 Art World Thriller 💔 Illicit Affair 👁️ Unreliable Narrator 🖼️ Forgery Plot 💰 Class Divide

The Fine Art of Lying

An art historian's affair with a charismatic dealer ends with him dead and her covered in blood.

của Alexandra Andrews 2026 301 trang

3.68

10.000+ đánh giá

🎨 Art World Thriller 💔 Illicit Affair 👁️ Unreliable Narrator 🖼️ Forgery Plot 💰 Class Divide

The Burning Side

của Sarah Damoff • 2026

Her husband asks for a divorce. A fire burns their house. They must now salvage what remains.

4.27

37.000+

💔 Marriage In Crisis 🔥 Second Chance Romance 🧬 Generational Trauma 🧠 Alzheimer's Caregiver 🤠 Rural Texas

The Burning Side

Her husband asks for a divorce. A fire burns their house. They must now salvage what remains.

của Sarah Damoff 2026 336 trang

4.27

37.000+ đánh giá

💔 Marriage In Crisis 🔥 Second Chance Romance 🧬 Generational Trauma 🧠 Alzheimer's Caregiver 🤠 Rural Texas

Catfish and Mandala

của Andrew X. Pham • 1999

After his sister's suicide, a Vietnamese American cycles home to Vietnam, searching for belonging.

3.99

6.000+

🧳 Refugee Memoir 🚲 Bicycle Journey 🇻🇳 Vietnamese Diaspora 🩹 Generational Trauma 👨‍👦 Father-Son Conflict

Catfish and Mandala

After his sister's suicide, a Vietnamese American cycles home to Vietnam, searching for belonging.

của Andrew X. Pham 1999 344 trang

3.99

6.000+ đánh giá

🧳 Refugee Memoir 🚲 Bicycle Journey 🇻🇳 Vietnamese Diaspora 🩹 Generational Trauma 👨‍👦 Father-Son Conflict

About Grace

của Anthony Doerr • 2004

A hydrologist foresees his daughter drowning, abandons his family, and spends decades seeking home.

3.45

27.000+

🔮 Prophetic Dreams ✍️ Lyrical Prose 🚶 Absent Father 🫂 Found Family 🌫️ Melancholy Atmosphere

About Grace

A hydrologist foresees his daughter drowning, abandons his family, and spends decades seeking home.

của Anthony Doerr 2004 402 trang

3.45

27.000+ đánh giá

🔮 Prophetic Dreams ✍️ Lyrical Prose 🚶 Absent Father 🫂 Found Family 🌫️ Melancholy Atmosphere

The Romantic

của William Boyd • 2022

An orphan's false name propels a life of war, romance, exploration, exile across the 19th century.

4.14

9.000+

📖 Picaresque Novel 🎭 False Identity 🏝️ Exile 🖋️ Romantic Poets 💔 Doomed Romance

The Romantic

An orphan's false name propels a life of war, romance, exploration, exile across the 19th century.

của William Boyd 2022 451 trang

4.14

9.000+ đánh giá

📖 Picaresque Novel 🎭 False Identity 🏝️ Exile 🖋️ Romantic Poets 💔 Doomed Romance

The Painted Veil

của W. Somerset Maugham • 1925

An unfaithful colonial wife follows her betrayed husband into a cholera epidemic in rural China.

3.98

52.000+

🏛️ Colonial Expat Life 💔 Loveless Marriage 📖 Literary Infidelity 🌅 Moral Awakening 🦠 Epidemic Journey

The Painted Veil

An unfaithful colonial wife follows her betrayed husband into a cholera epidemic in rural China.

của W. Somerset Maugham 1925 190 trang

3.98

52.000+ đánh giá

🏛️ Colonial Expat Life 💔 Loveless Marriage 📖 Literary Infidelity 🌅 Moral Awakening 🦠 Epidemic Journey

Mùa Hè Lớn

của Jennifer Weiner • 2020

A plus-size influencer returns to her toxic ex-friend's Cape Cod wedding as maid of honor.

3.59

100.000+

🎂 Murder At A Wedding 💔 Toxic Female Friendship ✨ Body Positivity 👗 Plus-Size Heroine 🌊 Cape Cod

Mùa Hè Lớn

A plus-size influencer returns to her toxic ex-friend's Cape Cod wedding as maid of honor.

của Jennifer Weiner 2020 368 trang

3.59

100.000+ đánh giá

🎂 Murder At A Wedding 💔 Toxic Female Friendship ✨ Body Positivity 👗 Plus-Size Heroine 🌊 Cape Cod

A Horse Walks into a Bar

của David Grossman • 2014

A comic's set becomes confession, witnessed by a boyhood friend who once stood by and watched.

3.51

15.000+

📖 Confessional Fiction 🕯️ Holocaust Legacy 😔 Childhood Guilt 👁️ Reluctant Witness 💔 Mother Loss

A Horse Walks into a Bar

A comic's set becomes confession, witnessed by a boyhood friend who once stood by and watched.

của David Grossman 2014 208 trang

3.51

15.000+ đánh giá

📖 Confessional Fiction 🕯️ Holocaust Legacy 😔 Childhood Guilt 👁️ Reluctant Witness 💔 Mother Loss

Big in Sweden

của Sally Franson • 2024

A drifting Minneapolis woman joins a Swedish genealogy show, chasing the family she never had.

3.22

2.000+

🎥 Reality Tv Satire 🇸🇪 Scandinavian Setting 🫂 Found Family 🌳 Ancestral Discovery 🐟 Fish Out Of Water

Big in Sweden

A drifting Minneapolis woman joins a Swedish genealogy show, chasing the family she never had.

của Sally Franson 2024 320 trang

3.22

2.000+ đánh giá

🎥 Reality Tv Satire 🇸🇪 Scandinavian Setting 🫂 Found Family 🌳 Ancestral Discovery 🐟 Fish Out Of Water

The Moviegoer by Walker Percy

của Walker Percy • 1961

A New Orleans stockbroker drifts through pleasure and routine, searching for a life that feels true.

3.64

31.000+

🎭 Southern Gothic 🤔 Existential Novel 🎬 Disaffected Narrator 🌊 Melancholy 🏙️ Mid-Century America

The Moviegoer by Walker Percy

A New Orleans stockbroker drifts through pleasure and routine, searching for a life that feels true.

của Walker Percy 1961

3.64

31.000+ đánh giá

🎭 Southern Gothic 🤔 Existential Novel 🎬 Disaffected Narrator 🌊 Melancholy 🏙️ Mid-Century America

Skippy Dies

của Paul Murray • 2010

One schoolboy's death in a doughnut shop exposes the rot beneath a revered Dublin boarding school.

3.81

29.000+

🏫 Boarding School Drama 🤫 Institutional Cover-Up 👥 Adolescent Friendship 💔 Abuse Survivor 🖤 Black Comedy

Skippy Dies

One schoolboy's death in a doughnut shop exposes the rot beneath a revered Dublin boarding school.

của Paul Murray 2010 661 trang

3.81

29.000+ đánh giá

🏫 Boarding School Drama 🤫 Institutional Cover-Up 👥 Adolescent Friendship 💔 Abuse Survivor 🖤 Black Comedy

The Accidental

của Ali Smith • 2005

A family's summer unravels when a stranger walks in and refuses to leave.

3.37

13.000+

📚 Metafiction 🚪 Mysterious Stranger ☀️ Summer Upheaval 🕊️ Guilt And Redemption 🔐 Family Secrets

The Accidental

A family's summer unravels when a stranger walks in and refuses to leave.

của Ali Smith 2005 306 trang

3.37

13.000+ đánh giá

📚 Metafiction 🚪 Mysterious Stranger ☀️ Summer Upheaval 🕊️ Guilt And Redemption 🔐 Family Secrets

Once Upon a Wardrobe

của Patti Callahan Henry • 2021

A dying boy's question about Narnia sends his logical sister to C. S. Lewis's door.

4.33

32.000+

🖋️ Biographical Fiction 📚 Stories Within Stories 👦 Terminal Illness 👫 Sibling Bond 🌌 Reason And Imagination

Once Upon a Wardrobe

A dying boy's question about Narnia sends his logical sister to C. S. Lewis's door.

của Patti Callahan Henry 2021 320 trang

4.33

32.000+ đánh giá

🖋️ Biographical Fiction 📚 Stories Within Stories 👦 Terminal Illness 👫 Sibling Bond 🌌 Reason And Imagination

Song of a Captive Bird

của Jasmin Darznik • 2018

A colonel's daughter in Tehran trades obedience for poetry and becomes Iran's most dangerous woman.

4.21

6.000+

📖 Fictionalized Biography 🖋️ Poet Protagonist 🕌 Mid-Century Iran 💔 Forced Marriage 🎨 Art As Rebellion

Song of a Captive Bird

A colonel's daughter in Tehran trades obedience for poetry and becomes Iran's most dangerous woman.

của Jasmin Darznik 2018 401 trang

4.21

6.000+ đánh giá

📖 Fictionalized Biography 🖋️ Poet Protagonist 🕌 Mid-Century Iran 💔 Forced Marriage 🎨 Art As Rebellion

The Unseen World

của Liz Moore • 2016

A twelve-year-old girl's only clue to her father's vanishing mind is a cryptic floppy disk.

4.12

27.000+

🔐 Codebreaking 🔍 Family Secrets 💔 Early-Onset Dementia 🏳️‍🌈 Queer History 📼 1980s Childhood

The Unseen World

A twelve-year-old girl's only clue to her father's vanishing mind is a cryptic floppy disk.

của Liz Moore 2016 451 trang

4.12

27.000+ đánh giá

🔐 Codebreaking 🔍 Family Secrets 💔 Early-Onset Dementia 🏳️‍🌈 Queer History 📼 1980s Childhood

People of the Book

của Geraldine Brooks • 2008

A conservator opens an ancient Jewish manuscript and its stains unlock centuries of secret lives.

4.04

100.000+

📜 Manuscript Mystery 🎨 Hidden Artist 🔬 Art Conservation 🏙️ Wartime Sarajevo 🤲 Religious Coexistence

People of the Book

A conservator opens an ancient Jewish manuscript and its stains unlock centuries of secret lives.

của Geraldine Brooks 2008 372 trang

4.04

100.000+ đánh giá

📜 Manuscript Mystery 🎨 Hidden Artist 🔬 Art Conservation 🏙️ Wartime Sarajevo 🤲 Religious Coexistence

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