Văn học hư cấu

Những tác phẩm văn học thách thức sự hiểu biết của chúng ta về trải nghiệm con người thông qua ngôn ngữ được chau chuốt tinh tế, các nhân vật phức tạp và những chủ đề sâu sắc. Những câu chuyện và suy tư được viết một cách tài hoa này khám phá những câu hỏi sâu thẳm nhất của cuộc sống, đồng thời mở rộng ranh giới của chính nghệ thuật kể chuyện.

Văn học hư cấu Tóm tắt sách

Drowning in Paper Flowers

của E.L. Westbury • 2024

Her husband's mistress came from the Southern town she fled, bringing the past into her kitchen.

4.15

33.000+

🥀 Southern Gothic 🏠 Domestic Thriller 🔒 Family Secrets 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🔗 Generational Trauma

Drowning in Paper Flowers

Her husband's mistress came from the Southern town she fled, bringing the past into her kitchen.

của E.L. Westbury 2024 434 trang

4.15

33.000+ đánh giá

🥀 Southern Gothic 🏠 Domestic Thriller 🔒 Family Secrets 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🔗 Generational Trauma

The Fathers

của John Niven • 2025

Two Glasgow fathers, opposite lives. When one man's world breaks, the other's becomes his to take.

4.20

1.000+

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Contemporary Glasgow ⚖️ Class Divide 🪦 Grieving Parent 👨‍👦 Fatherhood 🖤 Dark Comedy

The Fathers

Two Glasgow fathers, opposite lives. When one man's world breaks, the other's becomes his to take.

của John Niven 2025 363 trang

4.20

1.000+ đánh giá

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Contemporary Glasgow ⚖️ Class Divide 🪦 Grieving Parent 👨‍👦 Fatherhood 🖤 Dark Comedy

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

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

White Is for Witching

của Helen Oyeyemi • 2009

The house Miranda Silver grew up in is alive, hungry, and it has never released a daughter.

3.54

13.000+

🖤 Literary Horror 🏚️ Gothic Haunted House 🕯️ Generational Curse 👯 Twins 💕 Sapphic Love Story

White Is for Witching

The house Miranda Silver grew up in is alive, hungry, and it has never released a daughter.

của Helen Oyeyemi 2009 256 trang

3.54

13.000+ đánh giá

🖤 Literary Horror 🏚️ Gothic Haunted House 🕯️ Generational Curse 👯 Twins 💕 Sapphic Love Story

Tyll

của Daniel Kehlmann • 2017

A jester dances through the Thirty Years' War, outwitting witch-hunters, kings, and death itself.

3.95

15.000+

🃏 Picaresque 🎭 Trickster Antihero ✨ Magical Realism ⚔️ Thirty Years War 🎪 Art As Survival

Tyll

A jester dances through the Thirty Years' War, outwitting witch-hunters, kings, and death itself.

của Daniel Kehlmann 2017 474 trang

3.95

15.000+ đánh giá

🃏 Picaresque 🎭 Trickster Antihero ✨ Magical Realism ⚔️ Thirty Years War 🎪 Art As Survival

Song of Ancient Lovers

của Laura Restrepo • 2025

Chasing the Queen of Sheba into Yemen's war, a scholar finds her brutal myth still breathing.

3.60

500+

🏛️ Mythic Retelling 🕰️ Dual Timeline 👑 Feminist Mythology 💔 Obsessive Love 🏚️ War-Torn Yemen

Song of Ancient Lovers

Chasing the Queen of Sheba into Yemen's war, a scholar finds her brutal myth still breathing.

của Laura Restrepo 2025 368 trang

3.60

500+ đánh giá

🏛️ Mythic Retelling 🕰️ Dual Timeline 👑 Feminist Mythology 💔 Obsessive Love 🏚️ War-Torn Yemen

Pine

của Francine Toon • 2020

A woman in white haunts the pines, and a grieving girl hopes the dead return.

3.37

16.000+

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scottish Gothic 🌲 Folk Horror 👻 Grief And Ghosts 🤫 Small Town Secrets 🔮 Protective Rituals

Pine

A woman in white haunts the pines, and a grieving girl hopes the dead return.

của Francine Toon 2020 288 trang

3.37

16.000+ đánh giá

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scottish Gothic 🌲 Folk Horror 👻 Grief And Ghosts 🤫 Small Town Secrets 🔮 Protective Rituals

Ripe

của Sarah Rose Etter • 2023

Her only constant is a black hole. At a Silicon Valley startup, it begins to feed.

3.58

34.000+

🖥️ Tech Dystopia 🏢 Corporate Alienation 👩‍👧 Mother Daughter Trauma 🩺 Bodily Autonomy 💼 Toxic Workplace

Ripe

Her only constant is a black hole. At a Silicon Valley startup, it begins to feed.

của Sarah Rose Etter 2023 288 trang

3.58

34.000+ đánh giá

🖥️ Tech Dystopia 🏢 Corporate Alienation 👩‍👧 Mother Daughter Trauma 🩺 Bodily Autonomy 💼 Toxic Workplace

Toda la felicidad del universo

của César Brandon Ndjocu • 2018

A son pieces together a childhood of violence, searching poetry for the words his family buried.

3.82

411

🖋️ Prose Poetry 🔀 Fragmentary Narrative 💔 Family Trauma 🫂 Chosen Family 🩹 Healing Journey

Toda la felicidad del universo

A son pieces together a childhood of violence, searching poetry for the words his family buried.

của César Brandon Ndjocu 2018 190 trang

3.82

411 đánh giá

🖋️ Prose Poetry 🔀 Fragmentary Narrative 💔 Family Trauma 🫂 Chosen Family 🩹 Healing Journey

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

The Kings of Cool

của Don Winslow • 2012

A surf-town marijuana empire faces a shakedown from the violent men who run the drug trade.

4.00

8.000+

🏄 Surf Noir 💊 Drug War Saga 🖤 Found Family 💔 Love Triangle 👨‍👦 Generational Crime

The Kings of Cool

A surf-town marijuana empire faces a shakedown from the violent men who run the drug trade.

của Don Winslow 2012 336 trang

4.00

8.000+ đánh giá

🏄 Surf Noir 💊 Drug War Saga 🖤 Found Family 💔 Love Triangle 👨‍👦 Generational Crime

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

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

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

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

If You're Happy

của Fiona Robertson • 2022

Sixteen stories of ordinary people who keep choosing happiness after life has broken their hearts.

4.27

138

🔗 Interconnected Stories 📖 Literary Realism 💔 Grief And Healing 🌱 Quiet Resilience 🍂 Bittersweet

If You're Happy

Sixteen stories of ordinary people who keep choosing happiness after life has broken their hearts.

của Fiona Robertson 2022 288 trang

4.27

138 đánh giá

🔗 Interconnected Stories 📖 Literary Realism 💔 Grief And Healing 🌱 Quiet Resilience 🍂 Bittersweet

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

Motherhood

của Sheila Heti • 2018

A writer pushes forty, flipping coins: her art, or the child she might have.

3.64

21.000+

🖋️ Autofiction 🕯️ Generational Trauma 🤰 Motherhood Ambivalence 🤔 Philosophical Fiction 🍂 Elegiac

Motherhood

A writer pushes forty, flipping coins: her art, or the child she might have.

của Sheila Heti 2018 304 trang

3.64

21.000+ đánh giá

🖋️ Autofiction 🕯️ Generational Trauma 🤰 Motherhood Ambivalence 🤔 Philosophical Fiction 🍂 Elegiac

Last Night in Brooklyn

của Xóchitl González • 2026

A woman caught between old Brooklyn and new follows a fashion designer's IPO into glamour and ruin.

3.65

4.000+

🏗️ Gentrifying Brooklyn 🔥 Ambitious Women 👯 Found Family 📉 Tragic Rise And Fall 💔 Love Triangle

Last Night in Brooklyn

A woman caught between old Brooklyn and new follows a fashion designer's IPO into glamour and ruin.

của Xóchitl González 2026 256 trang

3.65

4.000+ đánh giá

🏗️ Gentrifying Brooklyn 🔥 Ambitious Women 👯 Found Family 📉 Tragic Rise And Fall 💔 Love Triangle

Clock Dance

của Anne Tyler • 2018

A reserved woman flies to Baltimore on a stranger's plea to care for a wounded woman's child.

3.59

44.000+

📆 Spanning Decades 🧐 Character Study 🌅 Late-Life Awakening 🫂 Found Family 💔 Absent Mother

Clock Dance

A reserved woman flies to Baltimore on a stranger's plea to care for a wounded woman's child.

của Anne Tyler 2018 292 trang

3.59

44.000+ đánh giá

📆 Spanning Decades 🧐 Character Study 🌅 Late-Life Awakening 🫂 Found Family 💔 Absent Mother

The Pledge

của Friedrich Dürrenmatt • 1957

To comfort a murdered girl's mother, a detective makes a promise that consumes him.

3.90

11.000+

📚 Literary Crime Fiction 🔍 Obsessed Detective ⚖️ Mob Justice 🌑 Existential Despair 🕰️ Postwar Europe

The Pledge

To comfort a murdered girl's mother, a detective makes a promise that consumes him.

của Friedrich Dürrenmatt 1957 176 trang

3.90

11.000+ đánh giá

📚 Literary Crime Fiction 🔍 Obsessed Detective ⚖️ Mob Justice 🌑 Existential Despair 🕰️ Postwar Europe

Et tu trouveras le trésor qui dort en toi

của Laurent Gounelle • 2016

A consultant bets a struggling priest she can fill his church, upending both their worlds.

3.84

2.000+

🕊️ Spiritual Fiction 📚 Philosophical Novel ⛪ Priest In Crisis 🌸 Woman's Spiritual Quest 🏘️ Small Town France

Et tu trouveras le trésor qui dort en toi

A consultant bets a struggling priest she can fill his church, upending both their worlds.

của Laurent Gounelle 2016 303 trang

3.84

2.000+ đánh giá

🕊️ Spiritual Fiction 📚 Philosophical Novel ⛪ Priest In Crisis 🌸 Woman's Spiritual Quest 🏘️ Small Town France

The Ghostwriter

của A.R. Torre • 2017

Dying, a novelist hires her rival ghostwriter to write the one story she can't face alone.

4.21

52.000+

📖 Literary Thriller ✍️ Confession Narrative 🖤 Dying Protagonist 🤝 Unlikely Friendship 🔒 Dark Family Secrets

The Ghostwriter

Dying, a novelist hires her rival ghostwriter to write the one story she can't face alone.

của A.R. Torre 2017 321 trang

4.21

52.000+ đánh giá

📖 Literary Thriller ✍️ Confession Narrative 🖤 Dying Protagonist 🤝 Unlikely Friendship 🔒 Dark Family Secrets

The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau

của Graeme Macrae Burnet • 2014

A waitress vanishes in Alsace, and a reclusive banker falls under an old detective's gaze.

3.79

5.000+

🖤 Psychological Noir 🏚️ Repressed Outsider 🏘️ Small-Town Secrets 🔎 Haunted Detective 😰 Simmering Dread

The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau

A waitress vanishes in Alsace, and a reclusive banker falls under an old detective's gaze.

của Graeme Macrae Burnet 2014 252 trang

3.79

5.000+ đánh giá

🖤 Psychological Noir 🏚️ Repressed Outsider 🏘️ Small-Town Secrets 🔎 Haunted Detective 😰 Simmering Dread

The Thinning

của Inga Simpson • 2024

An off-grid teen rescues an altered child, forcing her and her mother to flee near-future Australia.

3.56

500+

🌍 Climate Fiction 📖 Literary Dystopia 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bond 🧬 Engineered Children 🌿 Ecological Resistance

The Thinning

An off-grid teen rescues an altered child, forcing her and her mother to flee near-future Australia.

của Inga Simpson 2024 235 trang

3.56

500+ đánh giá

🌍 Climate Fiction 📖 Literary Dystopia 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bond 🧬 Engineered Children 🌿 Ecological Resistance

Doc

của Mary Doria Russell • 2011

A dying dentist gambles his way through Dodge City, holding to music and hope of belonging.

4.00

17.000+

🏜️ Revisionist Western 🫂 Found Family 💔 Doomed Friendship 🔥 Volatile Love Affair 🌅 Elegiac Tone

Doc

A dying dentist gambles his way through Dodge City, holding to music and hope of belonging.

của Mary Doria Russell 2011 394 trang

4.00

17.000+ đánh giá

🏜️ Revisionist Western 🫂 Found Family 💔 Doomed Friendship 🔥 Volatile Love Affair 🌅 Elegiac Tone

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

These Heathens

của Mia McKenzie • 2025

Pregnant in rural Georgia, a Black girl seeks an abortion among Atlanta's queer women and activists.

4.16

6.000+

⚖️ Reproductive Justice 🌈 Queer Awakening 🤝 Women's Solidarity 🫂 Found Family 🌱 Quiet Rebellion

These Heathens

Pregnant in rural Georgia, a Black girl seeks an abortion among Atlanta's queer women and activists.

của Mia McKenzie 2025 272 trang

4.16

6.000+ đánh giá

⚖️ Reproductive Justice 🌈 Queer Awakening 🤝 Women's Solidarity 🫂 Found Family 🌱 Quiet Rebellion

Dandelion Is Dead

của Rosie Storey • 2026

A grieving woman steals her dead sister's dating app and falls for the divorced father who answers.

3.48

3.000+

🪦 Grief Lit 📖 Book Club Fiction 👯 Sibling Loss 🎭 Mistaken Identity 💞 Dual Pov Romance

Dandelion Is Dead

A grieving woman steals her dead sister's dating app and falls for the divorced father who answers.

của Rosie Storey 2026 368 trang

3.48

3.000+ đánh giá

🪦 Grief Lit 📖 Book Club Fiction 👯 Sibling Loss 🎭 Mistaken Identity 💞 Dual Pov Romance

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

On Midnight Beach

của Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick • 2020

A dolphin unites teenagers in a 1970s Irish town, where love ignites and old hatreds wait.

3.84

500+

📖 Irish Myth Retelling ⚔️ Small Town Rivalry 💔 Tragic First Love 🌿 Rural Ireland 🕊️ Grief And Healing

On Midnight Beach

A dolphin unites teenagers in a 1970s Irish town, where love ignites and old hatreds wait.

của Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick 2020 288 trang

3.84

500+ đánh giá

📖 Irish Myth Retelling ⚔️ Small Town Rivalry 💔 Tragic First Love 🌿 Rural Ireland 🕊️ Grief And Healing

The Friend

của Sigrid Nunez • 2018

Her mentor's suicide leaves a solitary writer with his grieving Great Dane and a no-dogs lease.

3.71

61.000+

📖 Essayistic Fiction 🐕 Human Animal Bond 🗽 Literary New York ✍️ Writer's Life 🕯️ Suicide Grief

The Friend

Her mentor's suicide leaves a solitary writer with his grieving Great Dane and a no-dogs lease.

của Sigrid Nunez 2018 212 trang

3.71

61.000+ đánh giá

📖 Essayistic Fiction 🐕 Human Animal Bond 🗽 Literary New York ✍️ Writer's Life 🕯️ Suicide Grief

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

How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder

của Nina McConigley • 2026

Two sisters in 1980s Wyoming take slow, deadly revenge on the uncle who abused them.

3.39

5.000+

🌍 Postcolonial Fiction 🔪 Literary Crime 👯‍♀️ Sisterhood 🐢 Slow-Burn Revenge 🧬 Generational Trauma

How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder

Two sisters in 1980s Wyoming take slow, deadly revenge on the uncle who abused them.

của Nina McConigley 2026 204 trang

3.39

5.000+ đánh giá

🌍 Postcolonial Fiction 🔪 Literary Crime 👯‍♀️ Sisterhood 🐢 Slow-Burn Revenge 🧬 Generational Trauma

Someday, Maybe

của Onyi Nwabineli • 2022

After her husband's suicide, Eve must endure his mother's blame and an unexpected pregnancy.

3.88

15.000+

💔 Suicide Aftermath 🖤 Sudden Widowhood ⚔️ Mother-In-Law Tension ❤️ Chosen Family 🎨 Healing Through Art

Someday, Maybe

After her husband's suicide, Eve must endure his mother's blame and an unexpected pregnancy.

của Onyi Nwabineli 2022 342 trang

3.88

15.000+ đánh giá

💔 Suicide Aftermath 🖤 Sudden Widowhood ⚔️ Mother-In-Law Tension ❤️ Chosen Family 🎨 Healing Through Art

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

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

Lake County

của Lori Roy • 2024

Her aunt is Marilyn Monroe. Her boyfriend killed a gangster. Now 1955 Florida wants blood.

3.81

4.000+

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🤫 Small Town Secrets 🎬 Hollywood Dreams 🎲 Gambling And Gangsters 🏠 Found Family

Lake County

Her aunt is Marilyn Monroe. Her boyfriend killed a gangster. Now 1955 Florida wants blood.

của Lori Roy 2024 311 trang

3.81

4.000+ đánh giá

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🤫 Small Town Secrets 🎬 Hollywood Dreams 🎲 Gambling And Gangsters 🏠 Found Family

Pick a Colour

của Souvankham Thammavongsa • 2025

A former boxer runs a nail salon. Every worker is Susan. No one gets too close.

3.26

11.000+

🧳 Immigrant Women 💅 Workplace Bonds 👁️ Wry And Observant 🕯️ Elegiac 💼 Service Industry

Pick a Colour

A former boxer runs a nail salon. Every worker is Susan. No one gets too close.

của Souvankham Thammavongsa 2025 188 trang

3.26

11.000+ đánh giá

🧳 Immigrant Women 💅 Workplace Bonds 👁️ Wry And Observant 🕯️ Elegiac 💼 Service Industry

The Last Romantics

của Tara Conklin • 2019

After their father dies and their mother retreats, four siblings raise themselves in feral freedom.

3.70

48.000+

💔 Parental Neglect ⭐ Golden Boy Downfall ✍️ Writer Narrator 🤫 Family Secrets 👵 Elderly Narrator

The Last Romantics

After their father dies and their mother retreats, four siblings raise themselves in feral freedom.

của Tara Conklin 2019 384 trang

3.70

48.000+ đánh giá

💔 Parental Neglect ⭐ Golden Boy Downfall ✍️ Writer Narrator 🤫 Family Secrets 👵 Elderly Narrator

Too Good to Be True

của Carola Lovering • 2021

A woman with OCD accepts a proposal from a man whose wife planned the entire seduction.

3.84

47.000+

🔍 Psychological Suspense 💔 Love Built On Lies 🔪 Revenge Plot 👁️ Multiple Povs 🧠 Ocd Protagonist

Too Good to Be True

A woman with OCD accepts a proposal from a man whose wife planned the entire seduction.

của Carola Lovering 2021 342 trang

3.84

47.000+ đánh giá

🔍 Psychological Suspense 💔 Love Built On Lies 🔪 Revenge Plot 👁️ Multiple Povs 🧠 Ocd Protagonist

Panenka

của Ronan Hession • 2021

Nicknamed for a missed penalty, a terminally ill man tries to earn back his daughter's love.

3.97

8.000+

🌅 Late Life Love 💝 Family Reconciliation 🍺 Male Camaraderie 🌫️ Quiet Melancholy 🇮🇪 Small Town Ireland

Panenka

Nicknamed for a missed penalty, a terminally ill man tries to earn back his daughter's love.

của Ronan Hession 2021 164 trang

3.97

8.000+ đánh giá

🌅 Late Life Love 💝 Family Reconciliation 🍺 Male Camaraderie 🌫️ Quiet Melancholy 🇮🇪 Small Town Ireland

The Inverts

của Crystal Jeans • 2021

Childhood friends, both queer, seal a marriage pact in the 1920s that will cost them everything.

3.22

500+

📜 Queer Historical Fiction 💍 Lavender Marriage 🌸 Sapphic Awakening 🤝 Platonic Soulmates 🖤 Dark Humor

The Inverts

Childhood friends, both queer, seal a marriage pact in the 1920s that will cost them everything.

của Crystal Jeans 2021 400 trang

3.22

500+ đánh giá

📜 Queer Historical Fiction 💍 Lavender Marriage 🌸 Sapphic Awakening 🤝 Platonic Soulmates 🖤 Dark Humor

The Witch Elm

của Tana French • 2018

An assault fractures his memory. A skull in his uncle's garden. The prime suspect: himself.

3.58

100.000+

🖋️ Literary Crime 🔍 Psychological Suspense 🤥 Unreliable Narrator 🔐 Family Secrets 💭 Fragmented Memory

The Witch Elm

An assault fractures his memory. A skull in his uncle's garden. The prime suspect: himself.

của Tana French 2018 528 trang

3.58

100.000+ đánh giá

🖋️ Literary Crime 🔍 Psychological Suspense 🤥 Unreliable Narrator 🔐 Family Secrets 💭 Fragmented Memory

Beyond Black

của Hilary Mantel • 2005

Her spirit guide is her childhood abuser. She tours England's motorways with her assistant.

3.43

10.000+

🖤 Literary Horror 🔮 Psychic Mediums 🏘️ Gothic Suburbia 💔 Haunted By Trauma 😈 Darkly Comic

Beyond Black

Her spirit guide is her childhood abuser. She tours England's motorways with her assistant.

của Hilary Mantel 2005 432 trang

3.43

10.000+ đánh giá

🖤 Literary Horror 🔮 Psychic Mediums 🏘️ Gothic Suburbia 💔 Haunted By Trauma 😈 Darkly Comic

Void Star

của Zachary Mason • 2017

A translator's perfect memory makes her a target in a near-future city of favelas and rogue AI.

3.67

2.000+

🌃 Literary Cyberpunk 🌆 Near-Future Dystopia 💾 Commodified Memory 🤖 AI Consciousness 👾 Rogue AI

Void Star

A translator's perfect memory makes her a target in a near-future city of favelas and rogue AI.

của Zachary Mason 2017 385 trang

3.67

2.000+ đánh giá

🌃 Literary Cyberpunk 🌆 Near-Future Dystopia 💾 Commodified Memory 🤖 AI Consciousness 👾 Rogue AI

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

What a Carve Up!

của Jonathan Coe • 1994

A lonely biographer uncovers how one family's greed poisoned Britain, then the murders start.

4.11

13.000+

🎭 Political Satire 🏚️ Country House Mystery 😈 Family Of Villains 📖 Metafiction ⚖️ Karmic Retribution

What a Carve Up!

A lonely biographer uncovers how one family's greed poisoned Britain, then the murders start.

của Jonathan Coe 1994 501 trang

4.11

13.000+ đánh giá

🎭 Political Satire 🏚️ Country House Mystery 😈 Family Of Villains 📖 Metafiction ⚖️ Karmic Retribution

Startup

của Doree Shafrir • 2017

A New York startup journalist discovers the CEO's harassment, and the story could destroy them all.

3.34

10.000+

🚀 Startup Satire 💼 Workplace Novel 👁️ Multiple Perspectives 🏢 Office Politics 🤝 Female Solidarity

Startup

A New York startup journalist discovers the CEO's harassment, and the story could destroy them all.

của Doree Shafrir 2017 304 trang

3.34

10.000+ đánh giá

🚀 Startup Satire 💼 Workplace Novel 👁️ Multiple Perspectives 🏢 Office Politics 🤝 Female Solidarity

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