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 Yacoubian Building

của Alaa Al Aswany • 2002

A fading Cairo building: three tenants test what dignity costs when the state is the landlord.

3.72

23.000+

🏙️ Social Realism 🎭 Ensemble Narrative 🕌 Cairo Fiction ⚖️ Class Conflict 💰 Political Corruption

The Yacoubian Building

A fading Cairo building: three tenants test what dignity costs when the state is the landlord.

của Alaa Al Aswany 2002 256 trang

3.72

23.000+ đánh giá

🏙️ Social Realism 🎭 Ensemble Narrative 🕌 Cairo Fiction ⚖️ Class Conflict 💰 Political Corruption

Monsignor Quixote

của Graham Greene • 1940

Mexico's last priest is a drunk with a child, on the run and still saying Mass.

3.98

44.000+

😔 Flawed Priest ⛓️ Religious Persecution 🕯️ Spiritual Despair 🔥 Reluctant Martyr 🔫 Police State

Monsignor Quixote

Mexico's last priest is a drunk with a child, on the run and still saying Mass.

của Graham Greene 1940

3.98

44.000+ đánh giá

😔 Flawed Priest ⛓️ Religious Persecution 🕯️ Spiritual Despair 🔥 Reluctant Martyr 🔫 Police State

La Rivale

của Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt • 2012

Once Callas's rival, a forgotten opera singer shares her bitter past with a La Scala guide.

3.37

500+

🎼 Opera World 🎭 Backstage Rivalries 😡 Jealous Obsession 🌫️ Melancholic Nostalgia 🌟 Fading Fame

La Rivale

Once Callas's rival, a forgotten opera singer shares her bitter past with a La Scala guide.

của Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt 2012 133 trang

3.37

500+ đánh giá

🎼 Opera World 🎭 Backstage Rivalries 😡 Jealous Obsession 🌫️ Melancholic Nostalgia 🌟 Fading Fame

Porcupines

của Fran Fabriczki • 2026

Her Hungarian mother fled into reinvention. Her American daughter wants the woman she was before.

3.29

1.000+

🏠 Immigrant Family Saga 👩‍👧 Mothers And Daughters 👤 Absent Father ✡️ Jewish Diaspora 👯 Sisters Estranged

Porcupines

Her Hungarian mother fled into reinvention. Her American daughter wants the woman she was before.

của Fran Fabriczki 2026 320 trang

3.29

1.000+ đánh giá

🏠 Immigrant Family Saga 👩‍👧 Mothers And Daughters 👤 Absent Father ✡️ Jewish Diaspora 👯 Sisters Estranged

Blonde Roots

của Bernardine Evaristo • 2008

When Africans enslave Europeans, one woman receives a secret note offering escape at any cost.

3.60

9.000+

🕰️ Alternate History ⛓️ Chattel Slavery 🌾 Plantation Life 🫂 Found Family 💔 Generational Trauma

Blonde Roots

When Africans enslave Europeans, one woman receives a secret note offering escape at any cost.

của Bernardine Evaristo 2008 288 trang

3.60

9.000+ đánh giá

🕰️ Alternate History ⛓️ Chattel Slavery 🌾 Plantation Life 🫂 Found Family 💔 Generational Trauma

Bone of My Bone

của Johanna van Veen • 2026

Bavaria, 1635: a peasant and a nun flee war with a wish-granting skull. The dead pursue.

3.79

2.000+

🐐 Folk Horror 🖤 Sapphic Horror 😈 Deal With The Devil 🏚️ Gothic Horror ⚔️ Thirty Years War

Bone of My Bone

Bavaria, 1635: a peasant and a nun flee war with a wish-granting skull. The dead pursue.

của Johanna van Veen 2026 368 trang

3.79

2.000+ đánh giá

🐐 Folk Horror 🖤 Sapphic Horror 😈 Deal With The Devil 🏚️ Gothic Horror ⚔️ Thirty Years War

The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern

của Lynda Cohen Loigman • 2024

Sixty years after a love elixir failed, a retired pharmacist finds her first love next door.

4.05

28.000+

🌿 Folk Healing Traditions 🏥 Generational Healing 🔄 Second Chance Romance 💝 Late Life Love ✨ Cozy Magical Realism

The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern

Sixty years after a love elixir failed, a retired pharmacist finds her first love next door.

của Lynda Cohen Loigman 2024 313 trang

4.05

28.000+ đánh giá

🌿 Folk Healing Traditions 🏥 Generational Healing 🔄 Second Chance Romance 💝 Late Life Love ✨ Cozy Magical Realism

The Moon And Sixpence, By W. Somerset Maugham, Unabridged 6 Audio Cassettes, Narrated By Neil Hunt

của W. Somerset Maugham • 1919

A stockbroker walks out on everything to paint. No mistress. Only hunger, genius, and wreckage.

4.12

27.000+

🎨 Roman à Clef 🖼️ Obsessive Artist 🏚️ Bohemian Paris 🏝️ Tropical Exile 🔥 Art's Human Cost

The Moon And Sixpence, By W. Somerset Maugham, Unabridged 6 Audio Cassettes, Narrated By Neil Hunt

A stockbroker walks out on everything to paint. No mistress. Only hunger, genius, and wreckage.

của W. Somerset Maugham 1919 6 trang

4.12

27.000+ đánh giá

🎨 Roman à Clef 🖼️ Obsessive Artist 🏚️ Bohemian Paris 🏝️ Tropical Exile 🔥 Art's Human Cost

Pilgrims

của Matthew Kneale • 2020

A dozen pilgrims trek to Rome in 1289, each hiding a sin no shrine can cure.

3.80

500+

🚶 Pilgrimage Narrative 🫂 Found Family 🎭 Hidden Identity 🌱 Unlikely Hero ✡️ Jewish Persecution

Pilgrims

A dozen pilgrims trek to Rome in 1289, each hiding a sin no shrine can cure.

của Matthew Kneale 2020 340 trang

3.80

500+ đánh giá

🚶 Pilgrimage Narrative 🫂 Found Family 🎭 Hidden Identity 🌱 Unlikely Hero ✡️ Jewish Persecution

The Friends of Meager Fortune

của David Adams Richards • 2006

A Canadian lumber family is undone by prophecy, pride, and a town hungry for scandal.

3.84

500+

🪓 Lumber Camp Fiction 🔮 Family Curse ⚔️ Rival Brothers 💬 Small Town Gossip 💔 Doomed Love

The Friends of Meager Fortune

A Canadian lumber family is undone by prophecy, pride, and a town hungry for scandal.

của David Adams Richards 2006 384 trang

3.84

500+ đánh giá

🪓 Lumber Camp Fiction 🔮 Family Curse ⚔️ Rival Brothers 💬 Small Town Gossip 💔 Doomed Love

Le Fay

của Sophie Keetch • 2024

Morgan le Fay fled her husband. Now prophecy, law, and her brother demand she become the villain.

4.31

5.000+

🏰 Arthurian Retelling 🖤 Villain Origin Story 💔 Second Chance Romance 🔥 Women's Rage 🌿 Healer Protagonist

Le Fay

Morgan le Fay fled her husband. Now prophecy, law, and her brother demand she become the villain.

của Sophie Keetch 2024 433 trang

4.31

5.000+ đánh giá

🏰 Arthurian Retelling 🖤 Villain Origin Story 💔 Second Chance Romance 🔥 Women's Rage 🌿 Healer Protagonist

Psyche and Eros

của Luna McNamara • 2023

A warrior princess is given to the god of desire, cursed never to be seen.

3.76

21.000+

🏛️ Mythological Retelling 🔥 Feminist Mythology 👁️ Dual Pov 🎭 Hidden Identity 💔 Cursed Lovers

Psyche and Eros

A warrior princess is given to the god of desire, cursed never to be seen.

của Luna McNamara 2023 352 trang

3.76

21.000+ đánh giá

🏛️ Mythological Retelling 🔥 Feminist Mythology 👁️ Dual Pov 🎭 Hidden Identity 💔 Cursed Lovers

The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers

của Carson McCullers • 1946

A lonely twelve-year-old stakes her whole self on a wedding she's sure will make her belong.

3.81

20.000+

🏚️ Southern Gothic 💔 Adolescent Longing 👩‍👧 Surrogate Mother ☀️ Small Town Summer 🪑 Kitchen Table Wisdom

The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers

A lonely twelve-year-old stakes her whole self on a wedding she's sure will make her belong.

của Carson McCullers 1946

3.81

20.000+ đánh giá

🏚️ Southern Gothic 💔 Adolescent Longing 👩‍👧 Surrogate Mother ☀️ Small Town Summer 🪑 Kitchen Table Wisdom

The Passenger

của Cormac McCarthy • 2022

Grieving his genius sister, a salvage diver finds a vanished passenger and his own life erased.

3.57

39.000+

🥀 Southern Gothic 🔍 Existential Mystery 💔 Forbidden Love 🧠 Genius And Madness 👥 Sibling Bond

The Passenger

Grieving his genius sister, a salvage diver finds a vanished passenger and his own life erased.

của Cormac McCarthy 2022 385 trang

3.57

39.000+ đánh giá

🥀 Southern Gothic 🔍 Existential Mystery 💔 Forbidden Love 🧠 Genius And Madness 👥 Sibling Bond

Birds Without Wings

của Louis de Bernières • 2004

Muslims and Christians share a town until war draws a border through every home.

4.16

16.000+

📍 Anatolian Village 🏛️ Ottoman Collapse 🌍 Multi-Ethnic Community 💔 Doomed Love 🧳 Forced Migration

Birds Without Wings

Muslims and Christians share a town until war draws a border through every home.

của Louis de Bernières 2004 554 trang

4.16

16.000+ đánh giá

📍 Anatolian Village 🏛️ Ottoman Collapse 🌍 Multi-Ethnic Community 💔 Doomed Love 🧳 Forced Migration

The Promise

của Emma Heatherington • 2021

After a bombing, a Catholic nurse and Protestant minister's son vow to find each other again.

3.97

449

🚫 Forbidden Love 🇮🇪 The Troubles 💔 Trauma Healing 💫 Second Chance Love 🩹 Survivor's Guilt

The Promise

After a bombing, a Catholic nurse and Protestant minister's son vow to find each other again.

của Emma Heatherington 2021 390 trang

3.97

449 đánh giá

🚫 Forbidden Love 🇮🇪 The Troubles 💔 Trauma Healing 💫 Second Chance Love 🩹 Survivor's Guilt

How to Love a Duke in Ten Days

của Kerrigan Byrne • 2019

To escape blackmail, a scholar marries a scarred duke, trading her fortune for his protection.

4.12

8.000+

🤝 Marriage Of Convenience 🥀 Beauty And The Beast 💔 Trauma Recovery 👯 Found Family 🔥 Slow Burn

How to Love a Duke in Ten Days

To escape blackmail, a scholar marries a scarred duke, trading her fortune for his protection.

của Kerrigan Byrne 2019 440 trang

4.12

8.000+ đánh giá

🤝 Marriage Of Convenience 🥀 Beauty And The Beast 💔 Trauma Recovery 👯 Found Family 🔥 Slow Burn

Churchill's Secret Messenger

của Alan Hlad • 2021

A grieving typist spying in occupied Paris falls for a Jewish saboteur the Gestapo is hunting.

4.40

11.000+

🔥 French Resistance 🕵️ Female Spy 🗼 Occupied Paris 💔 Forbidden Wartime Love 😔 Survivor's Guilt

Churchill's Secret Messenger

A grieving typist spying in occupied Paris falls for a Jewish saboteur the Gestapo is hunting.

của Alan Hlad 2021 406 trang

4.40

11.000+ đánh giá

🔥 French Resistance 🕵️ Female Spy 🗼 Occupied Paris 💔 Forbidden Wartime Love 😔 Survivor's Guilt

The Gift of Rain

của Tan Twan Eng • 2007

A Eurasian outcast bonds with a Japanese diplomat in colonial Penang; occupation makes it a trap.

4.28

19.000+

🌴 Colonial Malaya 🪖 Japanese Occupation ⚔️ Mentor Student Bond 💔 Collaboration Guilt 🥋 Martial Arts Philosophy

The Gift of Rain

A Eurasian outcast bonds with a Japanese diplomat in colonial Penang; occupation makes it a trap.

của Tan Twan Eng 2007

4.28

19.000+ đánh giá

🌴 Colonial Malaya 🪖 Japanese Occupation ⚔️ Mentor Student Bond 💔 Collaboration Guilt 🥋 Martial Arts Philosophy

The Help

của Kathryn Stockett • 2009

In 1962 Mississippi, a white debutante and two Black maids risk everything to tell the truth.

4.47

3.000.000+

🏚️ Jim Crow South 🧹 Domestic Workers 🤝 Cross-Racial Friendship 📖 Stories Of Resistance 🌸 Southern Women

The Help

In 1962 Mississippi, a white debutante and two Black maids risk everything to tell the truth.

của Kathryn Stockett 2009 451 trang

4.47

3.000.000+ đánh giá

🏚️ Jim Crow South 🧹 Domestic Workers 🤝 Cross-Racial Friendship 📖 Stories Of Resistance 🌸 Southern Women

Indigo

của Beverly Jenkins • 1996

An Underground Railroad agent hides a wounded legend. His arrogance asks for trust she cannot give.

4.30

6.000+

🕯️ Antebellum Romance 🚂 Underground Railroad 🖤 Black Romance 🩹 Wounded Hero 🌿 Healer Heroine

Indigo

An Underground Railroad agent hides a wounded legend. His arrogance asks for trust she cannot give.

của Beverly Jenkins 1996 370 trang

4.30

6.000+ đánh giá

🕯️ Antebellum Romance 🚂 Underground Railroad 🖤 Black Romance 🩹 Wounded Hero 🌿 Healer Heroine

Rebecca

của Shannon McNear • 2023

Stolen by Jamestown, a chief's daughter becomes Rebecca: Christian bride and living treaty.

4.12

170

🌍 Colonial Encounter 💞 Cross-Cultural Romance 🪶 Indigenous Perspectives ✝️ Christian Conversion 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Legacy

Rebecca

Stolen by Jamestown, a chief's daughter becomes Rebecca: Christian bride and living treaty.

của Shannon McNear 2023

4.12

170 đánh giá

🌍 Colonial Encounter 💞 Cross-Cultural Romance 🪶 Indigenous Perspectives ✝️ Christian Conversion 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Legacy

The Vicar of Wakefield

của Oliver Goldsmith • 1766

When fortune deserts a vicar, a rakish landlord's charm lures his daughters into peril.

3.46

10.000+

🕯️ Sentimental Novel 🌿 Rural Simplicity 🪜 Social Climbing 🎭 Disguised Identity 🎁 Secret Benefactor

The Vicar of Wakefield

When fortune deserts a vicar, a rakish landlord's charm lures his daughters into peril.

của Oliver Goldsmith 1766 197 trang

3.46

10.000+ đánh giá

🕯️ Sentimental Novel 🌿 Rural Simplicity 🪜 Social Climbing 🎭 Disguised Identity 🎁 Secret Benefactor

Siren Queen

của Nghi Vo • 2022

Hollywood is a faerie court. A Chinese-American girl trades pieces of herself to become its queen.

3.67

13.000+

🎬 Golden Age Hollywood 🧚 Faerie Bargains 💋 Sapphic Romance 🐉 Monstrous Women ⭐ Price Of Fame

Siren Queen

Hollywood is a faerie court. A Chinese-American girl trades pieces of herself to become its queen.

của Nghi Vo 2022 281 trang

3.67

13.000+ đánh giá

🎬 Golden Age Hollywood 🧚 Faerie Bargains 💋 Sapphic Romance 🐉 Monstrous Women ⭐ Price Of Fame

One Good Mama Bone

của Bren McClain • 2017

A poor widow raises her dead friend's boy, guided by a cow's fierce, wordless love.

4.33

1.000+

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🐄 Animal Human Bond 👩‍👦 Reluctant Motherhood 💔 Generational Trauma 🌾 Rural Poverty

One Good Mama Bone

A poor widow raises her dead friend's boy, guided by a cow's fierce, wordless love.

của Bren McClain 2017 280 trang

4.33

1.000+ đánh giá

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🐄 Animal Human Bond 👩‍👦 Reluctant Motherhood 💔 Generational Trauma 🌾 Rural Poverty

Paradise

của Abdulrazak Gurnah • 1994

Pawned for debt in colonial East Africa, a boy discovers that every refuge demands a price.

3.60

14.000+

📖 Postcolonial Literature 🌱 Coming Of Age 💔 Forbidden Desire 🌍 East Africa 🏛️ Colonial Africa

Paradise

Pawned for debt in colonial East Africa, a boy discovers that every refuge demands a price.

của Abdulrazak Gurnah 1994 256 trang

3.60

14.000+ đánh giá

📖 Postcolonial Literature 🌱 Coming Of Age 💔 Forbidden Desire 🌍 East Africa 🏛️ Colonial Africa

The Miniaturist

của Jessie Burton • 2014

Newly married in Amsterdam, she fills a dollhouse whose tiny figures predict the household's ruin.

3.62

100.000+

🏙️ Dutch Golden Age 🕯️ Gothic Domestic Suspense 💍 Arranged Marriage 💔 Forbidden Love 🔒 Family Secrets

The Miniaturist

Newly married in Amsterdam, she fills a dollhouse whose tiny figures predict the household's ruin.

của Jessie Burton 2014 416 trang

3.62

100.000+ đánh giá

🏙️ Dutch Golden Age 🕯️ Gothic Domestic Suspense 💍 Arranged Marriage 💔 Forbidden Love 🔒 Family Secrets

The Wolf and the Watchman

của Niklas Natt och Dag • 2017

A one-armed watchman and a dying lawyer pursue the fiend who dismembered a young man.

3.88

23.000+

🌑 Nordic Noir 🕵️ Odd Couple Detectives 🏚️ Gothic Atmosphere 🩸 Body Horror ⚖️ Corrupt Institutions

The Wolf and the Watchman

A one-armed watchman and a dying lawyer pursue the fiend who dismembered a young man.

của Niklas Natt och Dag 2017 384 trang

3.88

23.000+ đánh giá

🌑 Nordic Noir 🕵️ Odd Couple Detectives 🏚️ Gothic Atmosphere 🩸 Body Horror ⚖️ Corrupt Institutions

The Expert of Subtle Revisions

của Kirsten Menger-Anderson • 2025

Her father vanishes, leaving a time-shifting music box and a Wikipedia trail back to 1930s Vienna.

3.70

1.000+

🕰️ Literary Time Travel 🏛️ Interwar Vienna ⏳ Queer Love Across Time 📜 Erased Women's History 🫂 Found Family

The Expert of Subtle Revisions

Her father vanishes, leaving a time-shifting music box and a Wikipedia trail back to 1930s Vienna.

của Kirsten Menger-Anderson 2025 256 trang

3.70

1.000+ đánh giá

🕰️ Literary Time Travel 🏛️ Interwar Vienna ⏳ Queer Love Across Time 📜 Erased Women's History 🫂 Found Family

Mariah Mundi and the Ship of Fools

của G.P. Taylor • 2009

A teen agent boards a doomed steamship, hunted by assassins and haunted by the dead.

3.92

118

🎩 Steampunk Fantasy 🌊 Maritime Disaster 🎪 Circus Of Horrors 👻 Supernatural Suspense 🗡️ Assassin Aboard

Mariah Mundi and the Ship of Fools

A teen agent boards a doomed steamship, hunted by assassins and haunted by the dead.

của G.P. Taylor 2009 312 trang

3.92

118 đánh giá

🎩 Steampunk Fantasy 🌊 Maritime Disaster 🎪 Circus Of Horrors 👻 Supernatural Suspense 🗡️ Assassin Aboard

Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson (6-Jul-2006) Paperback

của Per Petterson • 2003

He fled to the Norwegian woods to forget. A neighbor's face pulled him back to 1948.

3.81

38.000+

🏔️ Norwegian Fiction 🕰️ Dual Timeline 👨‍👦 Absent Father 👦 Boyhood Friendship 🤫 Trauma And Silence

Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson (6-Jul-2006) Paperback

He fled to the Norwegian woods to forget. A neighbor's face pulled him back to 1948.

của Per Petterson 2003

3.81

38.000+ đánh giá

🏔️ Norwegian Fiction 🕰️ Dual Timeline 👨‍👦 Absent Father 👦 Boyhood Friendship 🤫 Trauma And Silence

Death Comes as the End

của Agatha Christie • 1944

When a concubine threatens an Egyptian family's inheritance, she is the first to die.

3.84

28.000+

🔒 Closed Circle Mystery 🏛️ Ancient Egypt 💰 Inheritance Murder Plot 👪 Family As Suspects 🕰️ Golden Age Mystery

Death Comes as the End

When a concubine threatens an Egyptian family's inheritance, she is the first to die.

của Agatha Christie 1944 267 trang

3.84

28.000+ đánh giá

🔒 Closed Circle Mystery 🏛️ Ancient Egypt 💰 Inheritance Murder Plot 👪 Family As Suspects 🕰️ Golden Age Mystery

Now Is the Hour

của Tom Spanbauer • 2006

A queer farm boy in 1960s Idaho hunts for one color worth believing in.

4.14

1.000+

🏳️‍🌈 Queer Coming Of Age 🤲 Found Family 💔 Forbidden Love 💑 Interracial Romance ⛪ Catholic Guilt

Now Is the Hour

A queer farm boy in 1960s Idaho hunts for one color worth believing in.

của Tom Spanbauer 2006 480 trang

4.14

1.000+ đánh giá

🏳️‍🌈 Queer Coming Of Age 🤲 Found Family 💔 Forbidden Love 💑 Interracial Romance ⛪ Catholic Guilt

The House with the Golden Door

của Elodie Harper • 2022

A Pompeii freedwoman risks everything to rescue the friend still trapped in the brothel she escaped.

4.19

22.000+

🏛️ Ancient Rome 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 🕊️ Fragile Freedom 🍂 Bittersweet 🔥 Female Rage

The House with the Golden Door

A Pompeii freedwoman risks everything to rescue the friend still trapped in the brothel she escaped.

của Elodie Harper 2022 472 trang

4.19

22.000+ đánh giá

🏛️ Ancient Rome 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 🕊️ Fragile Freedom 🍂 Bittersweet 🔥 Female Rage

Murder in Constantinople

của A.E. Goldin • 2024

A Jewish tailor finds his dead lover alive. Her trail ends at the Sultan’s palace.

3.44

500+

🕎 Jewish Historical Mystery 🕵️ Espionage Thriller 🎭 False Identity ✈️ Exile And Diaspora 🖤 Gothic Atmosphere

Murder in Constantinople

A Jewish tailor finds his dead lover alive. Her trail ends at the Sultan’s palace.

của A.E. Goldin 2024 331 trang

3.44

500+ đánh giá

🕎 Jewish Historical Mystery 🕵️ Espionage Thriller 🎭 False Identity ✈️ Exile And Diaspora 🖤 Gothic Atmosphere

The Trick to Time

của Kit de Waal • 2018

An Irish dollmaker crafts weighted babies for grieving mothers. Her own daughter was stillborn.

3.93

2.000+

🔀 Dual Timeline 👶 Infant Loss 💕 Late-Life Romance 🧵 Healing Through Craft 🍀 Irish Emigration

The Trick to Time

An Irish dollmaker crafts weighted babies for grieving mothers. Her own daughter was stillborn.

của Kit de Waal 2018 272 trang

3.93

2.000+ đánh giá

🔀 Dual Timeline 👶 Infant Loss 💕 Late-Life Romance 🧵 Healing Through Craft 🍀 Irish Emigration

The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

của Joanna Cannon • 2016

An English avenue, summer 1976: a woman vanishes, and two ten-year-old girls go searching for God.

3.64

30.000+

🔍 Small Town Secrets 👧 Child Narrator 🐐 Community Scapegoating ☀️ Sweltering Summer 🇬🇧 1970s England

The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

An English avenue, summer 1976: a woman vanishes, and two ten-year-old girls go searching for God.

của Joanna Cannon 2016 369 trang

3.64

30.000+ đánh giá

🔍 Small Town Secrets 👧 Child Narrator 🐐 Community Scapegoating ☀️ Sweltering Summer 🇬🇧 1970s England

Williwaw

của Gore Vidal • 1946

When a man vanishes in an Aleutian storm, a young skipper weighs truth against survival.

3.44

486

🚢 WWII At Sea 💔 Love Triangle 🪦 Buried Guilt 🛳️ Isolated Crew 😶 Quiet Desperation

Williwaw

When a man vanishes in an Aleutian storm, a young skipper weighs truth against survival.

của Gore Vidal 1946 119 trang

3.44

486 đánh giá

🚢 WWII At Sea 💔 Love Triangle 🪦 Buried Guilt 🛳️ Isolated Crew 😶 Quiet Desperation

The Agency for Scandal

của Laura Wood • 2023

A Victorian wallflower spy falls for a duke who never notices her, until their missions collide.

4.23

5.000+

🔍 Women Spy Ring 🎭 Secret Identity ❤️ Slow Burn Romance 💍 Fake Relationship 👑 Class Differences

The Agency for Scandal

A Victorian wallflower spy falls for a duke who never notices her, until their missions collide.

của Laura Wood 2023 528 trang

4.23

5.000+ đánh giá

🔍 Women Spy Ring 🎭 Secret Identity ❤️ Slow Burn Romance 💍 Fake Relationship 👑 Class Differences

Arthur & George

của Julian Barnes • 2005

After a solicitor is wrongly imprisoned, the creator of Sherlock Holmes turns detective to free him.

3.73

19.000+

🏛️ Wrongful Conviction 📖 Biographical Fiction 📚 Literary Crime 🔍 Amateur Detective 👥 Parallel Lives

Arthur & George

After a solicitor is wrongly imprisoned, the creator of Sherlock Holmes turns detective to free him.

của Julian Barnes 2005 147 trang

3.73

19.000+ đánh giá

🏛️ Wrongful Conviction 📖 Biographical Fiction 📚 Literary Crime 🔍 Amateur Detective 👥 Parallel Lives

The Masterpiece

của Fiona Davis • 2018

A divorcée uncovers a lost painting in Grand Central and the forgotten woman who created it.

3.87

34.000+

🕰️ Dual Timeline 🎨 Art World Mystery 👩‍🎨 Forgotten Woman Artist 💕 Rivals To Lovers 🎭 Hidden Identity

The Masterpiece

A divorcée uncovers a lost painting in Grand Central and the forgotten woman who created it.

của Fiona Davis 2018 368 trang

3.87

34.000+ đánh giá

🕰️ Dual Timeline 🎨 Art World Mystery 👩‍🎨 Forgotten Woman Artist 💕 Rivals To Lovers 🎭 Hidden Identity

Princess Bari

của Hwang Sok-yong • 2007

Abandoned at birth, a seventh daughter carries a shaman's gift from famine to London's margins.

3.72

1.000+

📜 Mythic Retelling 🌀 Shamanic Journey 💔 Generational Trauma 👧 Abandoned Child 🤝 Found Family

Princess Bari

Abandoned at birth, a seventh daughter carries a shaman's gift from famine to London's margins.

của Hwang Sok-yong 2007 305 trang

3.72

1.000+ đánh giá

📜 Mythic Retelling 🌀 Shamanic Journey 💔 Generational Trauma 👧 Abandoned Child 🤝 Found Family

A Man of Some Repute

của Elizabeth Edmondson • 2015

A wounded spy moves to a crumbling castle just as the vanished Earl is unearthed.

3.77

12.000+

🏰 Country House Murder ❄️ Cold Case Investigation 🇬🇧 Postwar England 🕵️ Amateur Detective 🔒 Family Secrets

A Man of Some Repute

A wounded spy moves to a crumbling castle just as the vanished Earl is unearthed.

của Elizabeth Edmondson 2015 305 trang

3.77

12.000+ đánh giá

🏰 Country House Murder ❄️ Cold Case Investigation 🇬🇧 Postwar England 🕵️ Amateur Detective 🔒 Family Secrets

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc

của Mark Twain • 1896

Voices command a peasant girl to lead France's armies. She wins. The church calls it witchcraft.

4.13

10.000+

📜 Fictionalized Biography 🌾 Peasant Heroine 😇 Saintly Protagonist ✨ Divine Visions 👑 Court Intrigue

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc

Voices command a peasant girl to lead France's armies. She wins. The church calls it witchcraft.

của Mark Twain 1896

4.13

10.000+ đánh giá

📜 Fictionalized Biography 🌾 Peasant Heroine 😇 Saintly Protagonist ✨ Divine Visions 👑 Court Intrigue

The Kashmir Shawl

của Rosie Thomas • 2011

After her father dies, a Kashmir shawl sends Mair to India to unravel her grandmother's hidden past.

4.00

10.000+

⏳ Dual Timeline Saga 🇮🇳 Wartime India 🫂 Found Family 💘 Forbidden Love 👯 Female Friendship

The Kashmir Shawl

After her father dies, a Kashmir shawl sends Mair to India to unravel her grandmother's hidden past.

của Rosie Thomas 2011 400 trang

4.00

10.000+ đánh giá

⏳ Dual Timeline Saga 🇮🇳 Wartime India 🫂 Found Family 💘 Forbidden Love 👯 Female Friendship

The Fire Agent

của David Baerwald • 2026

A German-Jewish scientist helped build Tokyo. Now he must help burn it to the ground.

4.39

433

🏠 Family Saga 🗾 Wartime Japan 🕵️ Spy Networks 💕 Cross-Cultural Love ⚖️ Moral Compromise

The Fire Agent

A German-Jewish scientist helped build Tokyo. Now he must help burn it to the ground.

của David Baerwald 2026 624 trang

4.39

433 đánh giá

🏠 Family Saga 🗾 Wartime Japan 🕵️ Spy Networks 💕 Cross-Cultural Love ⚖️ Moral Compromise

The Wolf Den

của Elodie Harper • 2021

In Pompeii's most notorious brothel, an enslaved woman learns that freedom costs more than coin.

4.02

50.000+

🏛️ Ancient Pompeii 🖤 Gritty Historical ⛓️ Enslaved Protagonist 🤝 Female Solidarity ✊ Feminist Historical

The Wolf Den

In Pompeii's most notorious brothel, an enslaved woman learns that freedom costs more than coin.

của Elodie Harper 2021 464 trang

4.02

50.000+ đánh giá

🏛️ Ancient Pompeii 🖤 Gritty Historical ⛓️ Enslaved Protagonist 🤝 Female Solidarity ✊ Feminist Historical

Christmas at The Grange

của T.E. Kinsey • 2017

A country house Christmas turns odd when a theft leaves clues so abundant they feel like a prank.

4.15

9.000+

🏰 Country House Mystery 🕵️ Lady Detective 💝 Found Family 💬 Witty Banter 🎭 Meta Mystery

Christmas at The Grange

A country house Christmas turns odd when a theft leaves clues so abundant they feel like a prank.

của T.E. Kinsey 2017 76 trang

4.15

9.000+ đánh giá

🏰 Country House Mystery 🕵️ Lady Detective 💝 Found Family 💬 Witty Banter 🎭 Meta Mystery

Some Strange Music Draws Me In

của Griffin Hansbury • 2024

A girl's crush on a trans woman ends in arson, a lie that follows her into manhood.

4.40

1.000+

🦋 Trans Coming Of Age 🏚️ Small-Town Queerphobia 💔 Survivor Guilt 🔁 Generational Trauma 📼 1980s Nostalgia

Some Strange Music Draws Me In

A girl's crush on a trans woman ends in arson, a lie that follows her into manhood.

của Griffin Hansbury 2024 320 trang

4.40

1.000+ đánh giá

🦋 Trans Coming Of Age 🏚️ Small-Town Queerphobia 💔 Survivor Guilt 🔁 Generational Trauma 📼 1980s Nostalgia

A Shilling for Candles

của Josephine Tey • 1936

A film star drowns in Kent, a button accuses her friend, and Inspector Grant knows better.

3.92

9.000+

🕰️ Golden Age Mystery ⚖️ Wrongly Accused 🔍 Amateur Sleuth 🎭 Social Satire 🇬🇧 1930s England

A Shilling for Candles

A film star drowns in Kent, a button accuses her friend, and Inspector Grant knows better.

của Josephine Tey 1936 240 trang

3.92

9.000+ đánh giá

🕰️ Golden Age Mystery ⚖️ Wrongly Accused 🔍 Amateur Sleuth 🎭 Social Satire 🇬🇧 1930s England

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