Tiểu thuyết lịch sử

Những con người thật và những khoảnh khắc then chốt trong lịch sử được tái hiện sống động qua các câu chuyện hấp dẫn, kết hợp giữa sự kiện có thật và trí tưởng tượng phong phú. Dù theo chân những nhân vật nổi tiếng hay những con người bình thường, những cuốn sách này đưa người đọc vào những thế giới chi tiết đến từng góc cạnh, được định hình bởi phong tục, xung đột và các lực lượng văn hóa chân thực của từng thời kỳ.

Tiểu thuyết lịch sử Tóm tắt sách

The Professor Wore Prussian Blue

của Shelley Adina • 2022

Pirates take her fiancé. Daisy and her medium sister rally a found family to steal him back.

4.41

167

🚀 Steampunk Airships 👻 Mediumship 💣 Heist And Sabotage 🦸 Unlikely Heroes 🖤 Found Family

The Professor Wore Prussian Blue

Pirates take her fiancé. Daisy and her medium sister rally a found family to steal him back.

của Shelley Adina 2022 229 trang

4.41

167 đánh giá

🚀 Steampunk Airships 👻 Mediumship 💣 Heist And Sabotage 🦸 Unlikely Heroes 🖤 Found Family

Heroes by Cormier, Robert ( AUTHOR ) Mar-30-2007 Hardback

của Robert Cormier • 1998

A scarred veteran comes home hiding his face, carrying a gun, and hunting his former hero.

3.39

4.000+

🏘️ Postwar Small Town 👁️ Witness Guilt 💔 Fallen Mentor 🩹 Scarred Protagonist 🪖 Survivor's Guilt

Heroes by Cormier, Robert ( AUTHOR ) Mar-30-2007 Hardback

A scarred veteran comes home hiding his face, carrying a gun, and hunting his former hero.

của Robert Cormier 1998

3.39

4.000+ đánh giá

🏘️ Postwar Small Town 👁️ Witness Guilt 💔 Fallen Mentor 🩹 Scarred Protagonist 🪖 Survivor's Guilt

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

L’île haute

của Valentine Goby • 2022

Under a borrowed name in the Alps, a Jewish boy discovers mountains can shelter a childhood.

3.99

447

🕯️ Hidden Child 🏔️ Mountain Refuge 🫂 Found Family 🎭 False Identity 🌾 Pastoral Life

L’île haute

Under a borrowed name in the Alps, a Jewish boy discovers mountains can shelter a childhood.

của Valentine Goby 2022 288 trang

3.99

447 đánh giá

🕯️ Hidden Child 🏔️ Mountain Refuge 🫂 Found Family 🎭 False Identity 🌾 Pastoral Life

The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion

của Beth Brower • 2023

A sharp-tongued orphan and her scarred tenant dare to consider love, risking scandal and heartbreak.

4.72

31.000+

📖 Fictional Diary 🎭 Comedy Of Manners 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 🏠 Found Family 💬 Witty Banter

The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion

A sharp-tongued orphan and her scarred tenant dare to consider love, risking scandal and heartbreak.

của Beth Brower 2023 313 trang

4.72

31.000+ đánh giá

📖 Fictional Diary 🎭 Comedy Of Manners 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 🏠 Found Family 💬 Witty Banter

El ancho mundo

của Pierre Lemaitre • 2022

Four siblings, two continents, one deadly secret: a family saga of love, crime, and corruption.

4.08

6.000+

🏠 Family Saga 🌴 Colonial Indochina 💔 Forbidden Love 🏛️ Corrupt Institutions 🔥 Dysfunctional Family

El ancho mundo

Four siblings, two continents, one deadly secret: a family saga of love, crime, and corruption.

của Pierre Lemaitre 2022 592 trang

4.08

6.000+ đánh giá

🏠 Family Saga 🌴 Colonial Indochina 💔 Forbidden Love 🏛️ Corrupt Institutions 🔥 Dysfunctional Family

The 39 Steps

của John Buchan • 1915

When a spy dies in his flat, a Londoner runs for Scotland carrying secrets that could start a war.

3.59

47.000+

🕵️ Early Spy Thriller 🏃 Man On The Run ⚖️ Wrongly Accused 🎭 Disguise And Deception 🦸 Reluctant Hero

The 39 Steps

When a spy dies in his flat, a Londoner runs for Scotland carrying secrets that could start a war.

của John Buchan 1915 100 trang

3.59

47.000+ đánh giá

🕵️ Early Spy Thriller 🏃 Man On The Run ⚖️ Wrongly Accused 🎭 Disguise And Deception 🦸 Reluctant Hero

The Spies of Warsaw

của Alan Furst • 2008

A French attaché in 1937 Warsaw spies on Nazi Germany, but his own government refuses to listen.

3.90

8.000+

🕵️ Historical Espionage 📚 Literary Spy Fiction 😬 Reluctant Spy 💔 Doomed Affair 🏛️ Institutional Failure

The Spies of Warsaw

A French attaché in 1937 Warsaw spies on Nazi Germany, but his own government refuses to listen.

của Alan Furst 2008 266 trang

3.90

8.000+ đánh giá

🕵️ Historical Espionage 📚 Literary Spy Fiction 😬 Reluctant Spy 💔 Doomed Affair 🏛️ Institutional Failure

Betty

của Tiffany McDaniel • 2020

A Cherokee girl in rural Ohio learns that her family's darkest monsters live under her own roof.

4.39

61.000+

🩸 Generational Trauma ⛰️ Appalachian Fiction 👨‍👧 Father-Daughter Bond 👯 Sisterhood 📖 Storytelling As Refuge

Betty

A Cherokee girl in rural Ohio learns that her family's darkest monsters live under her own roof.

của Tiffany McDaniel 2020 480 trang

4.39

61.000+ đánh giá

🩸 Generational Trauma ⛰️ Appalachian Fiction 👨‍👧 Father-Daughter Bond 👯 Sisterhood 📖 Storytelling As Refuge

Wilhelm Tell

của Friedrich Schiller • 1804

A Swiss marksman defies a tyrant and must shoot an apple from his son's head.

3.21

9.000+

📜 Verse Drama 🏛️ German Classicism 🏔️ Foundation Myth 🏹 Marksman Hero 🤝 Sworn Brotherhood

Wilhelm Tell

A Swiss marksman defies a tyrant and must shoot an apple from his son's head.

của Friedrich Schiller 1804 144 trang

3.21

9.000+ đánh giá

📜 Verse Drama 🏛️ German Classicism 🏔️ Foundation Myth 🏹 Marksman Hero 🤝 Sworn Brotherhood

Timeline

của Michael Crichton • 1999

Four historians enter a quantum portal to rescue their professor from medieval France at war.

3.87

200.000+

🌀 Multiverse Travel ⚔️ Medieval Siege 🏢 Corporate Conspiracy 🏰 14th Century France 🎯 Rescue Mission

Timeline

Four historians enter a quantum portal to rescue their professor from medieval France at war.

của Michael Crichton 1999 489 trang

3.87

200.000+ đánh giá

🌀 Multiverse Travel ⚔️ Medieval Siege 🏢 Corporate Conspiracy 🏰 14th Century France 🎯 Rescue Mission

The Dancer Wore Opera Rose

của Shelley Adina • 2018

A dancer vanishes in steampunk Santa Fe as two sisters hunt their missing father.

4.20

242

🕰️ Steampunk Mystery 🤠 Alternative Western 👯 Sister Devotion 🏠 Found Family 🫂 Women Helping Women

The Dancer Wore Opera Rose

A dancer vanishes in steampunk Santa Fe as two sisters hunt their missing father.

của Shelley Adina 2018 290 trang

4.20

242 đánh giá

🕰️ Steampunk Mystery 🤠 Alternative Western 👯 Sister Devotion 🏠 Found Family 🫂 Women Helping Women

The Damned Utd

của David Peace • 2006

You are Brian Clough, football's brightest mind, walking into the job that will destroy you.

4.14

9.000+

⚽ British Football 📖 Biographical Fiction 🎭 Tragic Hubris ⚔️ Rivalry And Obsession 🗣️ Second Person Narration

The Damned Utd

You are Brian Clough, football's brightest mind, walking into the job that will destroy you.

của David Peace 2006 346 trang

4.14

9.000+ đánh giá

⚽ British Football 📖 Biographical Fiction 🎭 Tragic Hubris ⚔️ Rivalry And Obsession 🗣️ Second Person Narration

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

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

The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.

của Neal Stephenson • 2017

Magic died with the first photograph. A secret agency found a quantum loophole to restore it.

3.86

34.000+

✨ Quantum Time Travel 📋 Bureaucratic Magic 🧙‍♀️ Immortal Witch 🕵️ Temporal Espionage 📝 Epistolary Adventure

The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.

Magic died with the first photograph. A secret agency found a quantum loophole to restore it.

của Neal Stephenson 2017 752 trang

3.86

34.000+ đánh giá

✨ Quantum Time Travel 📋 Bureaucratic Magic 🧙‍♀️ Immortal Witch 🕵️ Temporal Espionage 📝 Epistolary Adventure

King's Fancy

của Sable Hunter • 2017

His men send for a beautiful mail-order bride. A plain orphan with a secret arrives instead.

3.89

1.000+

💌 Mail-Order Bride 🤠 Western Romance ⚔️ Post-Civil War 🌸 Plain Heroine 💔 Wounded Hero

King's Fancy

His men send for a beautiful mail-order bride. A plain orphan with a secret arrives instead.

của Sable Hunter 2017 338 trang

3.89

1.000+ đánh giá

💌 Mail-Order Bride 🤠 Western Romance ⚔️ Post-Civil War 🌸 Plain Heroine 💔 Wounded Hero

Grimm Curiosities

của Sharon Lynn Fisher • 2024

A baron's son and a curiosity shopkeeper hunt the curse that stole both their mothers' voices.

4.20

6.000+

🏮 Gaslamp Fantasy 🖤 Cozy Gothic 🗝️ Curiosity Shop 🚪 Hidden Portal 💕 Cross-Class Romance

Grimm Curiosities

A baron's son and a curiosity shopkeeper hunt the curse that stole both their mothers' voices.

của Sharon Lynn Fisher 2024 297 trang

4.20

6.000+ đánh giá

🏮 Gaslamp Fantasy 🖤 Cozy Gothic 🗝️ Curiosity Shop 🚪 Hidden Portal 💕 Cross-Class Romance

The Titanic Secret

của Clive Cussler • 2019

Isaac Bell finds dead miners alive, mining Arctic ore while killers close in.

4.13

6.000+

🕰️ Dual Timeline Adventure ⛏️ Secret Mining Expedition 💀 Doomed Expedition 🗡️ Traitor Among Friends 🕵️ High-Stakes Espionage

The Titanic Secret

Isaac Bell finds dead miners alive, mining Arctic ore while killers close in.

của Clive Cussler 2019 400 trang

4.13

6.000+ đánh giá

🕰️ Dual Timeline Adventure ⛏️ Secret Mining Expedition 💀 Doomed Expedition 🗡️ Traitor Among Friends 🕵️ High-Stakes Espionage

A House of Bells

của J.T. Croft • 2021

Disgraced, a governess saves a mute child from poison and ghosts in a manor of bells.

3.82

1.000+

🏚️ Gothic Haunted House 👩‍🏫 Traumatized Governess 👻 Ghostly Child Guide 💕 Found Family 😱 Atmospheric Dread

A House of Bells

Disgraced, a governess saves a mute child from poison and ghosts in a manor of bells.

của J.T. Croft 2021 300 trang

3.82

1.000+ đánh giá

🏚️ Gothic Haunted House 👩‍🏫 Traumatized Governess 👻 Ghostly Child Guide 💕 Found Family 😱 Atmospheric Dread

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

The Redbreast

của Jo Nesbø • 2000

A dying man's confession sends a troubled Oslo detective into the shadow of Norway's Nazi legacy.

3.95

100.000+

🖤 Scandinavian Noir 🔍 Police Procedural 🥃 Haunted Detective ⏳ Dual Timeline 💔 Generational Trauma

The Redbreast

A dying man's confession sends a troubled Oslo detective into the shadow of Norway's Nazi legacy.

của Jo Nesbø 2000 519 trang

3.95

100.000+ đánh giá

🖤 Scandinavian Noir 🔍 Police Procedural 🥃 Haunted Detective ⏳ Dual Timeline 💔 Generational Trauma

Ada's Room

của Sharon Dodua Otoo • 2021

Reborn across centuries, a woman is haunted by a golden bracelet stolen from her first life.

3.48

1.000+

🌀 Reincarnation Fiction 🗣️ Unusual Narrators 🌍 Colonial Legacy 🧬 Generational Trauma 💎 Stolen Artifact

Ada's Room

Reborn across centuries, a woman is haunted by a golden bracelet stolen from her first life.

của Sharon Dodua Otoo 2021 352 trang

3.48

1.000+ đánh giá

🌀 Reincarnation Fiction 🗣️ Unusual Narrators 🌍 Colonial Legacy 🧬 Generational Trauma 💎 Stolen Artifact

The Miracle of Love

của Montana Ross • 2021

Rejected for her infertility, she weds a Colorado widower who only needs a mother for his child.

4.48

329

🪪 Mail-Order Bride 🤝 Marriage Of Convenience 🏔️ Frontier Romance 💔 Widower Hero 🔥 Slow Burn Romance

The Miracle of Love

Rejected for her infertility, she weds a Colorado widower who only needs a mother for his child.

của Montana Ross 2021 83 trang

4.48

329 đánh giá

🪪 Mail-Order Bride 🤝 Marriage Of Convenience 🏔️ Frontier Romance 💔 Widower Hero 🔥 Slow Burn Romance

The Queen of the Night

của Alexander Chee • 2016

A Paris opera star's hidden past is made into a libretto. The source was someone she trusted.

3.43

12.000+

🏛️ 19th Century Paris 🎭 Opera World 👑 Courtesan Protagonist 🤫 Secret Past 💰 Rags To Riches

The Queen of the Night

A Paris opera star's hidden past is made into a libretto. The source was someone she trusted.

của Alexander Chee 2016 561 trang

3.43

12.000+ đánh giá

🏛️ 19th Century Paris 🎭 Opera World 👑 Courtesan Protagonist 🤫 Secret Past 💰 Rags To Riches

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

Sea of Roses

của Opal Reyne • 2021

He rescued a trembling captive from a sinking ship. She was the pirate who sank his.

3.80

1.000+

🗡️ Enemies To Lovers 🏴‍☠️ Pirate Romance 👑 Female Pirate Captain ⛓️ Captive Romance 🤝 Found Family

Sea of Roses

He rescued a trembling captive from a sinking ship. She was the pirate who sank his.

của Opal Reyne 2021 382 trang

3.80

1.000+ đánh giá

🗡️ Enemies To Lovers 🏴‍☠️ Pirate Romance 👑 Female Pirate Captain ⛓️ Captive Romance 🤝 Found Family

Rules for Ruin

của Mimi Matthews • 2025

An orphan spy must destroy a politician. The slum-born king she's falling for needs him alive.

3.95

6.000+

🗡️ Enemies To Lovers 🏙️ Victorian London ⚖️ Women's Rights 🏚️ Rookery Underworld 🕵️ Undercover Mission

Rules for Ruin

An orphan spy must destroy a politician. The slum-born king she's falling for needs him alive.

của Mimi Matthews 2025 400 trang

3.95

6.000+ đánh giá

🗡️ Enemies To Lovers 🏙️ Victorian London ⚖️ Women's Rights 🏚️ Rookery Underworld 🕵️ Undercover Mission

Mère à mère

của Sindiwe Magona • 1998

Her son murdered a white student. She writes the victim's mother, tracing the act to apartheid.

3.39

1.000+

📝 Epistolary Novel 🇿🇦 Apartheid Literature 👩‍👦 Mother And Son 🧬 Generational Trauma 🔄 Cycle Of Violence

Mère à mère

Her son murdered a white student. She writes the victim's mother, tracing the act to apartheid.

của Sindiwe Magona 1998 280 trang

3.39

1.000+ đánh giá

📝 Epistolary Novel 🇿🇦 Apartheid Literature 👩‍👦 Mother And Son 🧬 Generational Trauma 🔄 Cycle Of Violence

The Nature of Fragile Things

của Susan Meissner • 2021

An Irish immigrant marries a San Francisco widower by proxy. Then his second pregnant wife arrives.

4.26

85.000+

💌 Mail-Order Bride 🔍 Domestic Suspense 💔 Bigamist Husband 🎭 Stolen Identity 🏚️ Earthquake Survival

The Nature of Fragile Things

An Irish immigrant marries a San Francisco widower by proxy. Then his second pregnant wife arrives.

của Susan Meissner 2021 367 trang

4.26

85.000+ đánh giá

💌 Mail-Order Bride 🔍 Domestic Suspense 💔 Bigamist Husband 🎭 Stolen Identity 🏚️ Earthquake Survival

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

Peaches & Honey

của R. Raeta • 2023

A burned witch rises immortal, saved by a shapeshifting god whose love defies the creator.

4.24

13.000+

🕯️ Slow Burn Romance 🏠 Found Family 🌿 Healer Protagonist 📜 Witness To History 🎭 Hidden Identity

Peaches & Honey

A burned witch rises immortal, saved by a shapeshifting god whose love defies the creator.

của R. Raeta 2023 320 trang

4.24

13.000+ đánh giá

🕯️ Slow Burn Romance 🏠 Found Family 🌿 Healer Protagonist 📜 Witness To History 🎭 Hidden Identity

The Duke Undone

của Joanna Lowell • 2021

A struggling artist paints a naked duke; scandal binds them in a bargain neither can afford.

3.62

5.000+

🎨 Artist Heroine 💕 Enemies To Lovers 🏛️ Class Difference 🎭 Secret Identity 🔥 Slow Burn Romance

The Duke Undone

A struggling artist paints a naked duke; scandal binds them in a bargain neither can afford.

của Joanna Lowell 2021 363 trang

3.62

5.000+ đánh giá

🎨 Artist Heroine 💕 Enemies To Lovers 🏛️ Class Difference 🎭 Secret Identity 🔥 Slow Burn Romance

Mother Night

của Kurt Vonnegut Jr. • 1961

A Nazi propagandist awaits trial in Jerusalem, but his deadliest performance was convincing himself.

4.24

100.000+

🤥 Unreliable Narrator 🕵️ Double Agent 🖤 Darkly Comic 🎭 Performed Identity 🪖 Nazi Germany

Mother Night

A Nazi propagandist awaits trial in Jerusalem, but his deadliest performance was convincing himself.

của Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 1961 288 trang

4.24

100.000+ đánh giá

🤥 Unreliable Narrator 🕵️ Double Agent 🖤 Darkly Comic 🎭 Performed Identity 🪖 Nazi Germany

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

của Yukio Mishima • 1956

A stuttering acolyte finds the temple he serves so beautiful it suffocates every other desire.

3.97

25.000+

📚 Postwar Literature ✨ Obsession With Beauty 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator 💔 Destructive Idealism 🧘 Zen Buddhism

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

A stuttering acolyte finds the temple he serves so beautiful it suffocates every other desire.

của Yukio Mishima 1956 247 trang

3.97

25.000+ đánh giá

📚 Postwar Literature ✨ Obsession With Beauty 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator 💔 Destructive Idealism 🧘 Zen Buddhism

Cocaine Blues

của Kerry Greenwood • 1989

A poisoned heiress draws a detective into 1920s Melbourne, where high society hides a cocaine ring.

3.84

29.000+

🕵️ Amateur Sleuth 🤝 Found Family 🎩 High Society Crime 🧪 Poison Investigation 🥂 Roaring Twenties

Cocaine Blues

A poisoned heiress draws a detective into 1920s Melbourne, where high society hides a cocaine ring.

của Kerry Greenwood 1989 185 trang

3.84

29.000+ đánh giá

🕵️ Amateur Sleuth 🤝 Found Family 🎩 High Society Crime 🧪 Poison Investigation 🥂 Roaring Twenties

Blackwater I

của Michael McDowell • 1983

A flood strands a strange woman with an Alabama lumber family. She belongs to the river.

3.69

84.000+

🏚️ Southern Gothic 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Saga 🌊 Aquatic Horror 🕯️ Slow Burn Horror 🎭 Secret Identity

Blackwater I

A flood strands a strange woman with an Alabama lumber family. She belongs to the river.

của Michael McDowell 1983 154 trang

3.69

84.000+ đánh giá

🏚️ Southern Gothic 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Saga 🌊 Aquatic Horror 🕯️ Slow Burn Horror 🎭 Secret Identity

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 Cruel Sea

của Nicholas Monsarrat • 1951

On Atlantic convoy duty, a British corvette crew finds the sea more lethal than the war.

4.23

8.000+

🚢 Naval Warfare 🌊 Battle Of The Atlantic 🫡 Stoic Leadership 🤝 Comrades In Arms 😔 Survivor's Guilt

The Cruel Sea

On Atlantic convoy duty, a British corvette crew finds the sea more lethal than the war.

của Nicholas Monsarrat 1951 520 trang

4.23

8.000+ đánh giá

🚢 Naval Warfare 🌊 Battle Of The Atlantic 🫡 Stoic Leadership 🤝 Comrades In Arms 😔 Survivor's Guilt

Thousand Autumns

của Meng Xi Shi • 2023

After a betrayer's poison, a gentle sect leader becomes the prized experiment of a demonic master.

4.12

6.000+

🏔️ Xianxia Cultivation 📖 Danmei ⚔️ Enemies To Lovers 🖤 Morally Gray Love Interest 🏮 Ancient China

Thousand Autumns

After a betrayer's poison, a gentle sect leader becomes the prized experiment of a demonic master.

của Meng Xi Shi 2023 396 trang

4.12

6.000+ đánh giá

🏔️ Xianxia Cultivation 📖 Danmei ⚔️ Enemies To Lovers 🖤 Morally Gray Love Interest 🏮 Ancient China

Restless

của William Boyd • 2006

A woman discovers her mother was a spy. The man who betrayed her is now a lord.

3.95

24.000+

🕵️‍♀️ Female Spy 📡 Wwii Espionage 🎭 Double Agent 👩‍👧 Mother Daughter Secrets ⏳ Dual Timeline

Restless

A woman discovers her mother was a spy. The man who betrayed her is now a lord.

của William Boyd 2006 336 trang

3.95

24.000+ đánh giá

🕵️‍♀️ Female Spy 📡 Wwii Espionage 🎭 Double Agent 👩‍👧 Mother Daughter Secrets ⏳ Dual Timeline

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

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

The Painted Girls

của Cathy Marie Buchanan • 2012

Three sisters struggle for survival in the Paris Opéra's wings, while one poses for Degas.

3.61

36.000+

🩰 Ballet Fiction 🎨 Artist's Muse 👯 Sisterly Bonds 🪙 Poverty And Ambition 👁️ Predatory Patrons

The Painted Girls

Three sisters struggle for survival in the Paris Opéra's wings, while one poses for Degas.

của Cathy Marie Buchanan 2012 357 trang

3.61

36.000+ đánh giá

🩰 Ballet Fiction 🎨 Artist's Muse 👯 Sisterly Bonds 🪙 Poverty And Ambition 👁️ Predatory Patrons

The Porcelain Doll

của Kristen Loesch • 2022

A porcelain doll's hidden key draws a woman to Russia to solve her family's murder.

3.78

12.000+

🔄 Dual Timeline 🌳 Multigenerational Saga 🔐 Family Secrets 💔 Forbidden Love 🧬 Inherited Trauma

The Porcelain Doll

A porcelain doll's hidden key draws a woman to Russia to solve her family's murder.

của Kristen Loesch 2022 384 trang

3.78

12.000+ đánh giá

🔄 Dual Timeline 🌳 Multigenerational Saga 🔐 Family Secrets 💔 Forbidden Love 🧬 Inherited Trauma

The Irishman's Daughter

của V.S. Alexander • 2019

Famine forces an Irish woman to choose between her land and a man across the sea.

3.84

2.000+

🥀 Irish Famine ⛵ Emigrant Journey 👭 Sisters Divided 🏚️ Lost Homeland 🚢 Atlantic Crossing

The Irishman's Daughter

Famine forces an Irish woman to choose between her land and a man across the sea.

của V.S. Alexander 2019 402 trang

3.84

2.000+ đánh giá

🥀 Irish Famine ⛵ Emigrant Journey 👭 Sisters Divided 🏚️ Lost Homeland 🚢 Atlantic Crossing

Boudicca's Daughter

của Elodie Harper • 2025

Boudicca's revolt is crushed. Her daughter lives now as a captive in the Roman general's house.

4.18

4.000+

🏛️ Roman Britain 📖 Mythic Retelling 💔 Enemies To Lovers 🩹 Generational Trauma ⚔️ Warrior Women

Boudicca's Daughter

Boudicca's revolt is crushed. Her daughter lives now as a captive in the Roman general's house.

của Elodie Harper 2025 440 trang

4.18

4.000+ đánh giá

🏛️ Roman Britain 📖 Mythic Retelling 💔 Enemies To Lovers 🩹 Generational Trauma ⚔️ Warrior Women

The Portrait of a Lady, Volume 1

của Henry James • 1881

Her inheritance bought her Europe and a season of suitors. She intends to refuse them all.

3.93

500+

🧠 Psychological Realism 🎭 Novel Of Manners 💪 Independent Heroine 💍 Marriage As Trap 💰 Inheritance Plot

The Portrait of a Lady, Volume 1

Her inheritance bought her Europe and a season of suitors. She intends to refuse them all.

của Henry James 1881 649 trang

3.93

500+ đánh giá

🧠 Psychological Realism 🎭 Novel Of Manners 💪 Independent Heroine 💍 Marriage As Trap 💰 Inheritance Plot

The Crescent Moon Tearoom

của Stacy Sivinski • 2024

A witch council tasks three sisters with saving their tearoom, but a hidden curse could sever them.

3.60

12.000+

🧙‍♀️ Cozy Witch Fantasy 👯‍♀️ Sister Witches 🏮 Gaslamp Fantasy 🫖 Tea Magic 😢 Bittersweet Sisterhood

The Crescent Moon Tearoom

A witch council tasks three sisters with saving their tearoom, but a hidden curse could sever them.

của Stacy Sivinski 2024 336 trang

3.60

12.000+ đánh giá

🧙‍♀️ Cozy Witch Fantasy 👯‍♀️ Sister Witches 🏮 Gaslamp Fantasy 🫖 Tea Magic 😢 Bittersweet Sisterhood

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

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